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Future of Farmer’s Turnpike in doubt

House, Senate reach budget deal ——

Bill would restrict KU spending

By Peter Hancock Twitter: @LJWpqhancock

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A TRACTOR PASSES THROUGH THE INTERSECTION of Douglas County Route 438, commonly known as the Farmer’s Turnpike, and East 800 Road on Monday near Heritage Baptist Church. The Kansas Department of Transportation has announced its preference for a new Kansas Highway 10/Interstate 70 interchange that would abandon the current short link north of the freeway connecting to the Farmer’s Turnpike. Area residents have raised numerous objections to the proposal, starting with the need to pay a toll for regular commutes to Lawrence.

Area residents concerned about closing county route access from K-10

By Elvyn Jones Twitter: @ElvynJ

Having persuaded the Kansas Department of Transportation to schedule a public meeting on future options for a Kansas Highway 10/Interstate 70 interchange,

Scott Hanks is now hoping for a large turnout.

“Nobody I’ve talked to wants Farmer’s Turnpike closed off from K-10,” he said. “I’m hoping for a big turnout to show that is not what the area wants.”

The threat to future access

to Douglas County Route 438, commonly known as the Farmer’s Turnpike, is from KDOT’s announced preference for a future K-10/I-70 interchange that is to be part of the South Lawrence Trafficway’s west leg improvements. Should that option be

constructed, the interchange would be the northern terminus of K-10, and the current short link north of the freeway connecting to the Farmer’s Turnpike would be abandoned.

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Debate brewing over potential Kasold Curve closure Town Talk

Chad Lawhorn clawhorn@ljworld.com

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he Kasold Curve — that stretch of road in southern Lawrence where Kasold turns into 31st Street — has produced plenty of arguments inside my Ford Taurus. They mainly have been related to how many g-forces my body can withstand as a passenger in the car. But get ready for a different type of argument.

A debate is brewing about whether a portion of the Kasold Curve should be closed.

For those of you not familiar with the Kasold Curve, there is a small county road just to the south of the curve that connects with the busy South Lawrence Trafficway. As we’ve previously reported, the Kansas Department of Transportation is in the early stages

of creating a design that would expand that portion of the trafficway from two lanes to four.

KDOT has long said it would want to close that at-grade intersection at the Kasold Curve at that point. But for most motorists, that possibility was some far-off event. The earliest that four-lane project could Please see KASOLD, page 2A

Topeka — House and Senate negotiators struck a deal Monday on a budget bill for next year that does not include language that would have effectively shut down Kansas University’s Central District development project.

Instead, they agreed to language originally proposed by the House that would restrict how much money KU can spend next year from “special revenue” funds such as tuition, LEGISLATURE campus fees, student housing and parking fees.

Both provisions were inserted into the respective bills to reflect lawmakers’ anger at KU for forming a separate nonprofit corporation that issued $327 million in bonds for the project before the full Legislature was able to review and approve the project.

Lawmakers have been critical of the bond issue, arguing that if the project defaults, the state of Kansas will be asked to bail it out.

But Senate budget committee chairman Ty Masterson, R-Andover, said the Senate’s language, Please see BUDGET, page 2A l Lawmakers tie hospital

problems to privatization push.

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Wilt Chamberlain’s writing among Black History Month events at KU

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ere’s something I for one did not previously know about Wilt Chamberlain: He wrote books.

The 7-foot-1 former Kansas University and NBA basketball Hall of Famer’s 1991 book “A View from Above” — in which he discusses race relations and other issues he faced during his basketball career — will be displayed starting this week along with written works by former KU track star Ernie Shelby, former KU basketball star Lynette Woodard and other Kansas athletes. “Black Literary Suite: Sports Figures with a Kansas Connection,” presented by

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KU’s Project on the History of Black Writing, will be on view in Watson Library through March. A public program and reception with special guest

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“Many of the athletes and authors featured in the suite found their voice using writing,” added English graduate student Matthew Broussard, the project’s digital coordinator. “KU rightfully gets a lot of attention for our long tradition of athletic excellence, but we also want to shed some light on another side of some of these athletes.”

The Project on the History of Black Writing, within KU’s department of English, is the only AP File Photo archive of its kind and has been in the forefront of black literary WILT CHAMBERLAIN is pictured with copies of his book “A View Please see WILT, page 2A from Above” in 1991.

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Kevin Powell is planned for 2 to 5 p.m. Thursday at the library.

“Athletes aren’t generally recognized for their writing.

You’ve got those stereotypes, and we want to push against any form of stereotype,” said Maryemma Graham, a KU distinguished professor of English who founded and directs the Project on the History of Black Writing. “Our focus is always on writing. These athletes have published their stories, and they are involved in helping sports to become highly visible and important to our culture.”

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Journal-World obituary policy: For information about running obituaries, call 832-7151. Obituaries run as submitted by funeral homes or the families of the deceased.

John Darran Johannes Services for John Johannes, 52, Lawrence, are pending and will be announced by Rumsey-Yost Funeral Home. He died at his home. rumsey-yost.com

Bill Snead Services are pending for Bill Snead, 78, Lawrence and will be announced by Warren-McElwain Mortuary.

He passed away at his home Sun., Feb. 14th.

Michael lee “Mike” Scott Mike L. Scott died February 8, 2016. Cremation is planned. Private Family Inurnment at Oak Ridge Cemetery, Perry. www.barnettfamilyfh.com

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which was added onto the bill by Sen. Tom Arpke, R-Salina, almost certainly would have forced a default on those bonds, because it would have prohibited KU from using state funds or special revenue funds to make any payments toward the project for the next two years.

The House’s language, while still punitive toward KU, would only cap how much KU can spend out of special revenue funds at the amount the university originally estimated when it submitted its budget proposal last fall.

The budget conference committee began meeting Monday afternoon and reached agreement on a final package after only four meetings.

The bill incudes adjustments to both the current and next fiscal year budgets. It will now be sent to the full House, which will vote on the plan first, probably later this week.

One issue the bill does not address is increased funding for public schools. The Kansas Supreme Court last week struck down the new block grant funding system that lawmakers enacted last year, saying it does not treat districts equitably.

But House budget chairman Ron Ryckman Jr., R-Olathe, said lawmakers will revisit that issue later in the session.

“There’s no reason to hold the rest of the state budgets hostage on one issue,” he said.

Deputy Education Commissioner Dale Dennis estimated it would cost the state about $70 million in the current fiscal year, and about $39 million in the fiscal year that begins July 1, to comply with the court’s ruling.

The two chambers also agreed to temporarily pause any attempt to establish a new Sales Tax Revenue, or STAR bond district in Wyandotte County, which the American Royal horse and livestock show is said to be eyeing as a possible new location to replace its current site in the West Bottoms area of Kansas City, Mo. Those districts allow the new sales taxes generated in the district to be used to pay for the cost of infrastructure in the district.

Sen. Jim Denning, ROverland Park, originally proposed halting any new STAR bond districts from forming through the end of the next fiscal year. He argued that the program has grown too large and is now being abused by retail developers.

But in the conference committee, he offered a compromise to only stall the one in Wyandotte County while allowing another proposed district in Salina to proceed.

Meanwhile, he said, the House is working on a bill to reform the state’s STAR bond program, and Denning said if that bill is passed, the stay on the Wyandotte County project would be lifted.

The two chambers also agreed on language that would allow Gov. Sam Brownback to delay an estimated $100 million payment into the Kansas Public Employees Retirement System fund at the end of this fiscal year, if doing so is necessary to prevent the state from ending the year with a negative balance. But that payment would have to be repaid in full by Sept.

30, plus 8 percent annual interest, and the KPERS fund would be off limits for any more delayed payments for the next year.

If payments into the fund are delayed, KPERS officials insist it would have no impact on benefits being paid out of the fund to retired KPERS members.

Other provisions of the bill include: l $2.4 million to provide a 2.5 percent pay raise to all adult and juvenile corrections officers next year. l $2 million to the budget of Osawatomie State Hospital next year to address staffing and recertification with the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to help it requalify for Medicare reimbursements. l $50,000 to hire an outside lawyer to advise the Legislature during the school finance litigation. l $100,000 for the Kansas Geological Survey to continue monitoring seismic activity in southcentral Kansas for the next year. l Language preventing the administration from privatizing or outsourcing the functions of the Osawatomie and Larned state psychiatric hospitals without legislative approval.

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That (plan) would put a lot more traffic to Highway 40, and CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1A it is already a death Alarmed by what that trap.”

would mean to the Heritage Baptist Church he pastors at 1781 East 800 Road, as well as residents and businesses of northwest Douglas County and southwest Jefferson County, Hanks succeeded in getting KDOT to schedule an informational meeting on the northern section of the SLT’s west leg. The meeting will be from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. March 3 at the Heritage Baptist Church.

KDOT spokeswoman Kimberly Qualls said the meeting would focus on the north end of the proposed K-10 improvements, but it would be structured the same and include materials identical to those shared with the public at an October meeting on the SLT west end upgrades at Southwest Middle School in Lawrence.

KDOT officials and consultants would also be at the March 3 meeting to “answer questions and listen to concerns,” Qualls said.

At the October meeting, KDOT officials shared plans to add two lanes to K-10 west of U.S. Highway 59 to I-70. The lanes would help that section of K-10 handle increased traffic volume expected with the completion this year of the SLT’s east leg. KDOT has also made clear there is no money now available for west leg construction and work would not start

— Scott Hanks, pastor at Heritage Baptist Church until at least 2020.

Qualls said the study phase of the SLT’s west leg improvements is wrapping up and the design phase will start this spring or summer.

But Hanks said many area residents, including him, did not know of the October meeting and were unaware of the plan to close access from the new K-10/I-70 interchange to the Farmer’s Turnpike.

“They didn’t know about the plan, and when they do hear about it, they get mad,” he said.

To increase awareness of the coming meeting, he and volunteers have left door hangers with meeting information on all homes in Lecompton, Perry and elsewhere in the area, Hanks said.

The city of Lawrence and Douglas County have recommended the SLT west leg improvements maintain free access from K-10 to the Farmer’s Turnpike. Hanks said area residents have numerous objections with KDOT’s preferred option, starting with the need to pay a toll for regular commutes to Lawrence. If they wished to avoid the toll, residents would be forced to take U.S. Highway 40 or the gravel East 800 Road,

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the closing of the Kasold intersection will cause some residents who live southwest of the city to CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1A begin taking the road that goes across the Clinhappen would be 2020. ton Lake Dam to access But now, KDOT ofwest Lawrence. He said ficials are proposing to the dam road isn’t built close the intersection to handle that type of this year. Some residents traffic. and at least one business In addition to the petiare gearing up to oppose tion drive, the group is the move. A new website urging people to attend a called savethekasoldmeeting later this week. curve.com has been creThe city-county’s Metropolitan Planning Orgaated, and a petition that nization Policy Board is aims to persuade KDOT meeting at 3 p.m. Thursofficials to change their day at Lawrence City minds is circulating.

Hall to offer a recom“There is no doubt in my mind that the current mendation on whether the Kasold/SLT intersecintersection is dangerous,” said Rodger Henry, tion should be closed.

Officials from KDOT who lives south of Lawrence and is an organizer will be at the meeting to of the petition. “But they make the case. They are need to spend the money recommending that access to Kasold be closed to fix the Kasold Curve intersection, not close it.” later this year when the eastern leg of the South Henry said closing Lawrence Trafficway is the intersection will open to traffic. eliminate a key access KDOT officials are point for hundreds of predicting a large increase residents southwest of in traffic on the western Lawrence. He said the leg of the SLT once the Kasold intersection is a portion of the trafficway convenient way to get access to west Lawrence. east of Iowa Street opens.

Current projections are Henry has been joined traffic at the Kasold interby Lawrence Landscape section will increase to in creating the petition. about 18,000 vehicles per Lawrence Landscape day, up from about 11,000 operates a tree farm just vehicles currently. KDOT south of the Kasold and engineers are forecasting SLT intersection. the number of accidents at Henry said he thinks

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studies and inclusion efforts in higher education since its founding at the University of Mississippi in 1983 and subsequent move to the KU in 1998, according to KU. “Sports Figures with — Statehouse reporter Peter Hancock a Kansas Connection” can be reached at 354-4222 or is one of several Black phancock@ljworld.com. History Month events

planned at KU. Here are several more that are coming up, according to KU’s Langston Hughes Center. All are free and open to the public. l “The Education of Kevin Powell: A Boy’s Journey To Manhood,” featuring author and activist Kevin Powell, 5 p.m. Wednesday, 110 Budig Hall. l “Black Lives Matter,” featuring Opal Tometi, co-founder of the hashtag #BlackLivesMatter, 7

L awrence J ournal -W orld Hanks said.

“That would put a lot more traffic to Highway 40, and it is already a death trap,” Hanks said. “I can tell you parents don’t want their children driving on the interstate to get back and forth to school.”

The proposed interchange would also force those living on or near Farmer’s Turnpike east of Douglas County Route 1029 to drive out-of-route miles or travel on gravel roads to get to their homes, Hanks said. Those driving to the Heritage Baptist Church would face the same choices.

“Emergency response would be prolonged,” he said. “I can guarantee property values would go down in the area.”

A KDOT flier, which will be available at the March 3 meeting, identifies as Alternative A the interchange that eliminates access to Farmer’s Turnpike and as Alternative B the plan that would make use of the current interchange, which would retain that access. It states Alternative A is preferred because of its lower cost, safer design from a reduction in the number of “traffic points,” less right of way required and its single toll plaza. It is also stated the interchange at Route 1029 provides direct access to Lecompton.

“It’s going to take a miracle to get them to go with Plan B instead of Plan A,” Hanks said. “That’s why we need as many people as possible to turn out.”

— County reporter Elvyn Jones can be reached at 832-7166 and ejones@ljworld.com.

the intersection will grow to about three crashes per year, up from a little more than one crash per year currently. They note that because of the high speeds on the trafficway, crashes at the intersection can be very serious.

KDOT engineers also are estimating it would cost about $1.6 million to improve the intersection with some acceleration and deceleration lanes, and other features. Those improvements would have to be removed when the SLT is expanded to four lanes.

KDOT officials also are reminding leaders that if the western leg of the SLT ultimately is expanded to four lanes, plans call for a new interchange a couple of miles to the west of the current Kasold interchange. It would be in between the existing Kasold intersection and the existing at-grade Wakarusa Drive/YSI Sports complex intersection.

But as Henry notes, that interchange is years in the making, if it ever develops.

“You know it is going to be at least 10 years before any of that every comes to fruition,” Henry predicted.

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

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Program helps more students take AP classes

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kids who aren’t typically the ones who a teacher would go to and say, ‘You A Lawrence school should really be in this district program to help AP class,’ or they aren’t more kids take and pass students who would say, advanced placement ‘I think I should go take classes has expandthat AP class,’” said ed nearly tenfold Leah Wisdom, the since it began about district coordinator four years ago. of student support Leaders of the services and AVID program, called (Advancement Via AVID, said it is SCHOOLS Individual Determiaimed at students nation). “in the academic middle” Nationally, AP classes who might not otherwise have often been criticized take an AP class.

Please see AVID, page 4A “A lot of times they are

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Restaurant inspection roundup kicks off Republican eyes

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ince I was 14, I’ve held a number of jobs. I’ve delivered and repaired treadmills, poured concrete, shingled houses, cleaned carpets and sold shoes.

But the one thing that brought in the most money and fed me best was serving in a restaurant and tending bar.

During my time workConrad Swanson ing in restaurants, I cswanson@ljworld.com learned a few things. It’s just as much about the l Newly opened resatmosphere as it is about taurants the food — a good smile l Complaints received goes a long way and you’ll never really regret by the department l Follow-ups on past asking for someone’s ID. violations (For the uninformed, 20 percent is a pretty standard tip these days.)

Above all these things, however, stood the golden rule: Cleanliness is king. It doesn’t matter how friendly a server is if there’s a band aid in your plate of spaghetti.

And now that I’m starting to get used to this whole column business we thought it might be nice to bring back the results of some local restaurant inspections and offer folks who like to dine out an idea of what’s going on behind the scenes at a few local eateries.

There are many different types of restaurants and food establishments, Lansdowne said. A gas station serving refrigerated sandwiches is not inspected on the same schedule as a family diner. For the most part, however, restaurants can be regularly inspected once or twice a year.

If violations are found, the inspector will follow up within five to 15 days to ensure the problems are corrected.

The three main types of violations an inspector will note: l Priority violations involve issues most likely

Big rates equal big money.

How it works Restaurant inspections are conducted by the Kansas Department of Agriculture, said Heather Lansdowne, the department’s communications director. When fully staffed, the department employs 49 inspectors statewide and they will visit a restaurant for four main reasons, which include: l Routine inspections

to cause food-borne illnesses. l Priority foundation violations involve issues that could lead to priority violations. l Core violations are the least-serious types of violations, but could eventually become more substantial.

At the end of each inspection, any possible violations are then counted and plugged into a formula that weighs the seriousness of each issue and determines whether the restaurant is considered to be in compliance

county seat; Flory plans to retire

By Conrad Swanson Twitter: @Conrad_Swanson

A Wakarusa Township resident on Monday announced her plans to run for a seat on the Douglas County Commission.

Michelle Derusseau, 52, is running as a Republican for Jim Flory’s Third District seat on the County Commission. Flory’s term expires this year.

When asked whether he Please see RESULTS, page 4A plans to run for re-election, Flory replied: “Absolutely,

unequivocally and without question, no. When I finish this term, I’ll have been there eight Derusseau years. I’ve enjoyed it, but it’s about time for a change and to get some new thoughts and views on the commission from somebody else.

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As of Monday afternoon, nobody had officially filed their candidacy for county commissioner, Lampe said.

Derusseau, a Kansas University Endowment Asso- Flory ciation employee, attended KU and holds a certificate of human resources from the University of Missouri at St. Louis.

Over the past 26 years,

she has worked as president of the Lawrence Police Foundation, campaign coordinator for the United Way of Douglas County and as part of the Douglas County Community Emergency Response

Team.

A Kansas City area native, Derusseau began her political career early, working on mayoral and

United States representative campaigns.

“I actually worked on my first political campaign when I was in sixth grade and a couple in high school,” she said. “I kind of felt that this was my next step or my civic duty. And now that Jim Flory’s retiring, I thought this was my opportunity to give back and do some good things.”

In recent months, Derusseau said she’s been taking a larger interest in local

politics, actively attending weekly county commission meetings and board meetings for area townships.

Derusseau said she plans to focus on infrastructure, public safety and working in unison with local municipalities.

“It’s going to be really important that we grow our tax base,” she said.

“We keep getting more and more requests for services, and the state and federal government

are passing things to local governments. We can’t keep putting that burden on our taxpayers.”

Among other things, growing the county’s tax base will allow local government to “keep people safe and make sure our first responders are well equipped to take care of our citizens,” Derusseau said.

Douglas County primary elections will take place Aug. 2. The general election will be held Nov. 8.

into compliance and work with them and their staff to understand the rules and regulations and CONTINUED FROM PAGE 3A to do everything they can to be brought back into with state regulations, compliance,” she said.

Lansdowne said. The de“We would like to see partment then works with them back in compliout-of-compliance restau- ance and back in business rants to get them back into because that’s what’s best a satisfactory position. for everyone,” she added.

It is rare for the de“That’s what’s best for the partment to shut down owners, the employees, a restaurant, Lansdowne the customers, the citizens said, primarily because ev- and the taxpayers.” erybody involved generally After each inspection, wants to keep the estabthe results are posted onlishment open for business. line for the public to see.

“Our goal is to have Full reports can be found safe and healthy food at agriculture.ks.gov. establishments, and so Here’s how we are gowe want to bring places ing to do this: About every

two weeks or so, Lights & Sirens will run the most recent list of restaurant inspections conducted in Douglas County. We will list any establishments that were found to be out of compliance. We also will list any establishments found to be in compliance but that had 10 or more violations. We won’t get into trying to describe every violation because that gets to be quite a chore, and at times an exercise in technical language. l Johnny’s North Lawrence, 401 N. Second St., was last inspected for a regular inspection on Feb. 10 and 14 violations were found. The

restaurant is currently listed as in compliance. l Wheel Pizza Co., 507 W. 14th St., was last inspected for a regular inspection on Feb. 10 and 12 violations were found.

The restaurant is currently listed as in compliance. l Tokyo Sushi Bar, 619 Massachusetts St., was last inspected for its first operational inspection and 20 violations were found. The restaurant is currently listed as out of compliance. l Baan Thai Restaurant, 741 Massachusetts St., was last inspected for a regular inspection on Feb. 4 and 16 violations were found.

The restaurant is currently

listed as out of compliance. l Crepes & Taters, 925 Iowa St., was last inspected for a first operational inspection on Feb. 4 and 15 violations were found. The restaurant is currently listed as out of compliance. l El Sol, 1520 Wakarusa Drive, was last inspected for a regular inspection and 19 violations were found. The restaurant is currently listed as out of compliance. l Dickey’s Barbecue Pit, 721 Wakarusa Drive, was last inspected for a regular inspection on Feb. 2 and 10 violations were found. The

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even D students; average to high reading and math test scores; and students capable of completing rigorous curriculum but who may be falling short of their potential. The application process also requires teacher recommendations, a student essay and an interview.

“AVID is really about taking students that fall into that academic middle and supporting them in accessing the most rigorous content that they’re comfortable with and then preparing them for that college experience that they might otherwise not feel as prepared for,” Wisdom said.

Priority is given to students who come from low socioeconomic status,

would be first-generation college students or are of a race that’s underrepresented in higher education. Wisdom said that so far the program has been able to accommodate the eligible students who apply, and those priorities would only be a factor in

a decision if there were more applicants than openings in the program.

“We want to give priority in that case to students who we know, statistically, don’t get through the whole four years or don’t ever make it to college,” Wisdom said.

Deadlines for applications vary by school, but many are this month. The application is available on the district’s website, www.usd497.org.

“I’m enjoying my semiretirement, but I’m ready to enjoy my full retirement,” he added.

Although Derusseau has announced her plans to run for county commissioner, Ben Lampe, deputy Douglas County clerk, said she has not yet officially filed her candidacy. The deadline to

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for consisting mostly of students who are white and of higher socioeconomic status. For instance, black and Latino students make up 37 percent of students in high schools, but only 27 percent of students enrolled AP courses and 18 percent of students who pass AP Exams, according to the U.S. Department of Education.

Since it began in the fall of 2012, enrollment in the district’s AVID elective class has approximately doubled with each school year, growing from about 30 students to more than 250, according to a recent district report. The AVID program aims to better represent the district’s population by matching enrollment in the program to each school’s demographics, and in that way, it does ensure some diversification of AP enrollment, Wisdom said.

“We like the AVID elective classes to be representative of the student population,” she said.

“Typically, whatever percentage of students you have that represent various racial or ethnic groups, you want to have at least that same percentage in your AVID elective class, so you’re not focusing on one over the other.”

Districtwide, 69 percent of students are white and 40 percent are economically disadvantaged, according to the Kansas State Department of Education.

KSDE does not currently track the demographics of AP enrollment.

The AVID program

operates schoolwide, but it also has an elective class that provides tutoring and academic support for students who want to pursue AP classes and college. Wisdom said that the program teaches practical skills such as organization, effective note-taking and study skills, but that more importantly it teaches inquiry skills that help students formulate questions to aid their learning and understanding.

“They are very different from traditional tutoring,” Wisdom said. “…

They help kids ask questions; it’s different from tutoring that’s saying, ‘Here’s how you do this.’”

The profile for applicants to the elective program includes B, C and

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If You Paid for the Antibiotic Drug Cipro in Kansas You Could Get Money from a Class Action Settlement.

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A partial Settlement has been reached in a class action lawsuit involving the antibiotic drug Cipro. The lawsuit claims that Bayer Corporation, Barr Laboratories, Inc., Hoechst Marion Roussel, Inc., Watson Pharmaceuticals, Inc., and The Rugby Group, Inc. (the “Defendants”) violated antitrust and consumer protection laws by agreeing not to compete with each other and keeping lower cost generic versions of Cipro off the market. The Defendants deny this. No one is claiming that Cipro is unsafe or ineffective.

WHAT DOES THE SETTLEMENT PROVIDE? The Rugby Group, Inc., Watson Pharmaceuticals, Inc., and Hoechst Marion Roussel, Inc. (collectively the “Generic Defendants”) have agreed to pay $4,500,000 into a Settlement Fund (the “Fund”). After deducting attorneys’ fees, costs, and other fees and expenses, the Fund will be distributed to Class Members who file valid claims.

Payments will be based on the number of valid claims filed and how much you paid for Cipro. It is estimated that consumers will receive at least $25 each. The Settlement Agreement, available at the website www.KSCiproSettlement.com, contains more details. This settlement is in addition to the $4,500,000 settlement with Defendants Bayer Corporation and Bayer AG, which was finally approved on November 23, 2015.

WHO IS INCLUDED? Generally you are included if you paid a pharmacy, doctor’s office, or hospital for some or all of a Cipro prescription in Kansas between January 8, 1997 and October 31, 2004.

Excluded from the Class are all persons who purchased Cipro in order to resell it, government entities, the Defendants and their related entities, and all purchasers of Cipro who paid a flat co-payment and who would have paid the same co-payment for a generic version under the terms of their health insurance policy.

HOW TO GET A PAYMENT Class Members must submit a Claim Form to get a payment. The Claim Form, and instructions on how to submit it, are available at www.KSCiproSettlement.com or by calling (800) 804-7167. The deadline to submit a Claim Form is July 31, 2016.

YOUR OTHER RIGHTS AND OPTIONS You may comment on or object to the proposed Settlement. To do so, you must act by May 2, 2016. Details on how to comment or object are at www.KSCiproSettlement.com.

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Topeka — The chairmen of the House and Senate committees that deal with utilities and the environment sent a letter last week urging the Kansas Corporation Commission to cease any efforts to develop a plan for complying with new federal requirements to reduce carbon emissions from electric-generating plans.

The letter from Rep. Dennis Hedke, R-Wichita, and Sen. Rob Olson, R-Olathe, was written shortly after the U.S. Supreme Court put a hold on enforcement of the Obama administration’s Clean Power Plan until legal challenges filed by several states, including Kansas, are resolved.

And although it was phrased in the form of a request, not a directive,

BRIEFLY Senators question lease-purchase deal Topeka (ap) — A Kansas Senate committee on Monday approved the nomination of the acting secretary of the Department of Administration to become the full secretary, but not before questioning her about a $20 million lease-purchase deal for a new state power plant.

The Senate Ways and Means Committee heard 20 minutes of testimony from acting secretary Sarah Shipman, who signed the lease agreement Dec. 29, The Topeka Capital Journal reported.

The agreement has drawn criticism from legislators concerned about the cost of the project and about perceived attempts to sidestep a legislative committee that approves state construction. The project is currently on hold.

“I would be much more impressed if you just took ownership of this rather than try to spread the blame for this mess,” said Sen. Laura Kelly, a Topeka Democrat and outspoken critic of the power plant deal. “Somebody didn’t tell you what you needed to know. Will there be any sanctions for that?”

Shipman acknowledged miscommunication and promised better coordination with the Legislature.

She also said she will attend future meetings at the Statehouse regarding the power plant.

“We did not present what was expected of us,” she said.

The committee approved of Shipman’s appointment, sending her nomination to the full Senate.

it still raised eyebrows in the House Energy and Environment Committee on Monday because lawmakers last year passed a bill requiring KCC and the Department of Health and Environment to develop such a plan.

“Maybe I misunderstood your remarks, but I’d like clarification, but what gives the chair, Highberger and the chair of the Senate committee, the authority to direct a state agency to either perform an act or not perform an act?” asked Rep. Boog Highberger, D-Lawrence.

“I don’t have an answer for you on that, other than the fact that I was called upon to participate in a meeting, and so a request was made in that meeting

to do that, so we agreed to do it,” Hedke said.

Hedke brought up the subject of the letter during a hearing in which the Kansas Attorney General’s office briefed the committee on the basis behind its challenge to the Clean Power Plan.

During that hearing, Rep. John Whitmer, RWichita, asked whether the Legislature needed to pass another bill to supersede the one passed last year.

Hedke said that issue had been discussed during a private meeting he attended last week in which the Supreme Court’s action was discussed.

“One of the results of that meeting was that we — we being the Senate Utilities chair and myself — forwarded a letter and delivered it to KDHE and KCC to halt any further activity with respect to planning for the (State Implementation Plan)

until the stay would be lifted,” Hedke said. “So, that has happened.”

In fact, the letter was directed only to the KCC Director of Utilities Jeff McClanahan.

Copies were distributed to Gov. Sam Brownback, Senate President Susan Wagle, House Speaker Ray Merrick and all three KCC commissioners.

Later Thursday, the Senate passed a utilities bill that included an amendment from Olson directing the KCC to put its planning on hold until the litigation is settled.

That bill has not yet been considered by the House, although Hedke said it would be in the near future.

Jeff Cheney, chief deputy attorney general, said his office believes EPA overstepped its authority by enacting the rules.

“Based upon an obscure and rarely used provision of the Clean

Lawmakers tie hospital woes to privatization push Topeka (ap) — Two Kansas legislators from different parties suggested Monday that Republican Gov. Sam Brownback’s administration has mismanaged the state’s two mental hospitals in order to justify turning their operations over to private companies.

But Tim Keck, secretary of the Department for Aging and Disability Services, said there’s nothing to the allegations from Republican Rep. Scott Schwab, of Olathe, and Democratic Rep. Jim Ward, of Wichita.

Keck said the department is working to improve staffing at both hospitals and to regain the federal certification that one of them lost in December.

Keck told the House Health and Human Services Committee that his department has no plans to consider turning over the operations of Larned State Hospital in western Kansas to a private company.

But he said the department wants to keep privatization open as an option for Osawatomie State Hospital, about 45 miles southwest of the Kansas City area. The federal government decertified Osawatomie in December, which is costing the state between $500,000 and $1 million a month in federal funds.

Dozens of staff positions at each hospital remain open, and KDADS officials have said recruiting is difficult, particularly for nurses, because of both pay and the hospitals’ rural locations.

But a critical federal survey of Osawatomie in November found a “systemic failure” to protect

suicidal patients, adequately supervise care and perform required safety checks. The survey noted that an employee reported being raped in October by a patient.

Keck said during his testimony that the department solicited information from parties outside the department last year about how the mentally ill should be treated.

He said the department is hoping this year to solicit proposals for operating Osawatomie privately, to see what the options are.

Ward ran through a list of deficiencies found in the November survey of Osawatomie and said, “The intention has been for over a year to privatize these hospitals.”

Keck replied: “I would

disagree with that. I don’t believe that would be true.”

The secretary said he also hopes the federal government will recertify the Osawatomie hospital later this year, perhaps as early as this summer.

Both the House and Senate added provisions to budget-balancing plans each approved last week to block the department from privatizing Osawatomie without prior approval from the Legislature. Negotiators for the two chambers agreed Monday to include such a provision in the final version of the measure, which would eliminate a projected deficit of nearly $200 million in the state’s $16.1 billion budget for the fiscal year beginning July 1.

Air Act, (the Clean Power Plan) was designed to transform the domestic energy industry,” he said.

“And the rule manifested EPA’s policy judgment, that was never enacted or authorized by Congress, that coal-fired electric power generation should be systematically disfavored in this country.”

Zack Pistora, a lobbyist for the Kansas Sierra Club, said after the meeting that the attorney general and the Legislature are moving in the wrong direction regarding carbon emissions.

“The costs and risks of climate change continue to threaten our economy and quality of life,” he said. “In a time where leaders across the world are taking action to address one of the greatest challenges and responsibilities of our time, Kansas leaders are suggesting we don’t address climate change.”

Oral arguments in the multistate challenge to the Clean Power Plan are scheduled for June 2 before the U.S. Court of Appeals in Washington, D.C., Cheney said.

He said a decision is expected in the early fall, but no matter how the appellate court rules, the case is almost certain to be appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court.

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

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Kansas University on Monday announced this year’s Men of Merit honorees.

The award goes to students, faculty and staff for “positively defining masculinity through challenging cultural norms, taking action and leading by example while making contributions to the university and/or community,” according to an announcement from KU. The 16 Men of Merit will be honored at a reception planned for 5 to 6:30 p.m. today in the Big 12 Room at the Kansas Union, 1301 Jayhawk Blvd. A short ceremony will take place at 5:15 p.m.

This year’s student honorees are: l Anh Nhat Le, a Hanoi, Vietnam, senior in finance and information systems. l John Michael Handley, an Onaga junior in chemical engineering. l Tomas W. Green, a

Lynnwood, Wash., junior in chemical engineering. l Ramiro Sarmiento, a Wichita senior in political science and international studies. l Roze Brooks, a St. Louis graduate student in higher education administration and a graduate assistant with KU’s Center for Sexuality and Gender Diversity. l Tyler James Treptow, a Wonewoc, Wisc., graduate student in higher education administration, and Scholarship Hall director. l Yueqi Yan, a Baoji, Shaanxi Province, doctoral student in social welfare. l 2nd Lt. Cody Johnson, a Larned graduate student in the School of Public Affairs and Administration, and a social science research analyst with the Kansas Department of Health and Human Services, Office of the Inspector General.

This year’s faculty and staff honorees are: l Clarence Lang, associate professor of African

and African-American studies. l Kevin Willmott, associate professor of film and media studies. l Capt. James Anguiano, KU Public Safety Office. l John Augusto, assistant vice provost for experiential learning, and director of KU’s Center for Civic and Social Responsibility and Center for Undergraduate Research. l Alan J.C. Jones, complex director for GSPCorbin with KU Student Housing. l Joshua Jones, interim director of KU’s Office of Institutional Opportunity and Access. l Tim Schlosser, assistant athletics director, Student Athlete Development and Leadership. l John Wilson, Kansas state representative and a KU graduate.

The Men of Merit are featured on a poster, which will be available at the reception or by contacting KU’s Emily Taylor Center for Women and Gender Equity offices.

KU confirms student has tuberculosis Health officials have confirmed a case of tuberculosis at Kansas University.

A KU student with pulmonary tuberculosis was confirmed and quarantined last week, and the Kansas Department of Health and Environment has screened other students who potentially were exposed to the disease, said Dr. Douglas Dechairo, director and chief of staff at Watkins Health Services.

The student — who contracted the disease in his home country, outside of the United States — currently lives alone off campus, Dechairo said.

“There was limited exposure,” Dechairo said.

The student began therapy right away and will remain quarantined until he tests free of the disease, as monitored by KDHE, Dechairo said. Other students who were potentially exposed will be screened again in eight weeks.

Tuberculosis is only contagious when symptoms are present, Dechairo said.

It is spread primarily by its best-known symptom, coughing, he said. Other symptoms may include fever and weight loss.

Dechairo said the last confirmed tuberculosis

case at KU was about two years ago. Of about 50 people tested for possible exposure in that case, none developed any symptoms, he said.

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Sri Srinivasan is No. 1 on Born in Lawrence, several national media Shanmugam graduated outlets’ shortlists of Pres- from Lawrence High ident Barack Obama’s School in 1989. possible nominees to reHis father, Sam Shanplace the late U.S. mugam, is a distinSupreme Court guished professor Justice Antonin emeritus of elecScalia. trical engineering At least one of and computer scithose lists includes ences at KU. another former Kannon ShanLawrencian as a mugam has bachpossible nominee: elor’s and law Kannon Shanmudegrees from HarShanmugam gam. vard University Shanmugam, 44, and a master’s deis one of a handful of pos- gree in classics from Oxsible nominees who is ford University. not currently a judge, acIn 2004, when a magacording to a Sunday NPR zine article called him report. He is partner at one of the fastest rising the law firm of Williams “legal stars” in Washing& Connolly, a member ton, D.C., Shanmugam of the conservative Fed- told the Journal-World: eralist Society and has “I can’t imagine a better clerked for conservative judges, including Scalia himself, according to NPR. Shanmugam heads the Washington, D.C., law firm’s Supreme Court and appellate litigation practice, according to his company bio. He has argued 17 cases before the Supreme Court, breaking the record for the most Supreme Court

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place to grow up than Lawrence, Kan. I had a wonderful childhood and a terrific education.

I feel I owe a lot to my teachers because without them, I wouldn’t have had the opportunities I’ve had.”

Obama has said he plans to nominate a new justice before the end of his presidency. Scalia, 79, died on Saturday at a Texas hunting resort, apparently of natural causes.

Srinivasan, 48, a 1985 LHS graduate, is currently seated on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. He also is the son of a former KU faculty member, T.P. Srinivasan, professor of math.

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

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Mature choice Delaying a decision to start smoking could give teens a chance to reconsider a choice that will have long-term impacts on their health.

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aising the legal age to buy cigarettes to 21 won’t eliminate smoking among younger people, but any move in that direction would be a positive trend.

The Tobacco-Free Living work group, which is part of the LiveWell Lawrence community health coalition, has decided to focus its efforts on passing a city ordinance that would raise the legal age for cigarette purchases from 18 to 21. Kansas City, Kan., passed such an ordinance in November, and Wyandotte County, Olathe and Iola have since passed similar laws. Local organizers haven’t decided whether to seek a countywide change or pursue proposals in individual cities.

Charlie Bryan, a community health planner at the Lawrence-Douglas County Health Department, indicated that the new ordinance would include other smoking projects such as hookahs and electronic cigarettes as well as smokeless tobacco. The main goal of the ordinance is to reduce access to smoking products by high school students. With 18-yearolds able to legally buy cigarettes, it’s relatively easy for younger students to obtain cigarettes through their friends.

Raising the age to 21, Bryan said, will help cut off that “social supply chain.”

According to the national Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids, national data indicates that 95 percent of adult smokers started smoking before they turned 21.

A 2015 report by the national Institute of Medicine report cited on the campaign’s website indicates people who start smoking at a younger age develop higher levels of nicotine dependence that extends into adulthood. The younger someone is when he or she starts to smoke, the greater the long-term health consequences of that action are likely to be.

A group representing convenience stores in Kansas has raised several arguments against raising the age: the probability those stores would see reduced tobacco sales and the difficulty of enforcing the age limit. Neither of those objections is particularly compelling. It’s hard to see how enforcing an age limit of 21 is harder than enforcing the current age limit of 18, and reduced sales — for any reason — would be a desirable trend. A representative of the group also raises the issue of government “stepping too far trying to protect people from themselves.”

It’s important to remember that the proposal places no additional restrictions on adults; it’s aimed at young people who should be encouraged to wait to make a more reasoned decision on smoking when they are older and less susceptible to peer pressure.

Like drinking alcoholic beverages, smoking is a personal choice, but those choices have consequences that young people are more equipped to evaluate at 21 than at 18. Again, raising the age requirement to purchase cigarettes won’t stop teens from smoking, but it may make it a little harder for them to start a habit they likely will regret later on.

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Washington — Antonin Scalia, who combined a zest for intellectual combat with a vast talent for friendship, was a Roman candle of sparkling jurisprudential theories leavened by acerbic witticisms. The serrated edges of his most passionate dissents sometimes strained the court’s comity and occasionally limited his ability to proclaim what the late Justice William Brennan called the most important word in the court’s lexicon: “Five.”

Scalia was, however, one of the most formidable thinkers among the 112 justices who have served on the

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Democracy’s drama derives from the tension between the natural rights of individuals and the constructed right of the majority to have its way. Natural rights are affirmed by the Declaration of Independence; majority rule, circumscribed and modulated, is constructed by the Constitution.” court, and he often dissented in the hope of shaping a future replete with majorities steeped in principles he honed while in the minority.

Those principles include textualism and originalism: A justice’s job is to construe the text of the Constitution or of statutes by discerning and accepting the original meaning the words had to those who ratified or wrote them. These principles of judicial modesty were embraced by a generation of conservatives who recoiled from what they considered the unprincipled creation of rights by results-oriented Supreme Court justices and other jurists pursuing their

preferred policy outcomes.

Today, however, America’s most interesting and potentially consequential argument about governance is not between conservatives and progressives but among conservatives. It concerns the proper scope of the judicial supervision of democracy.

Scalia worried more than some other conservatives do about the “counter-majoritarian dilemma” supposedly posed by judicial review — the power of appointed justices to overturn the work of elected legislators. Many Scalia-style conservatives distill their admiration into a familiar phrase of praise: “judicial restraint.” Increasing numbers of conservatives, however, reason as follows: Democracy’s drama derives from the tension between the natural rights of individuals and the constructed right of the majority to have its way. Natural rights are affirmed by the Declaration of Independence; majority rule, circumscribed and modulated, is constructed by the Constitution. But as the Goldwater Institute’s Timothy Sandefur argues, the Declaration is logically as well as chronologically prior to the Constitution. The latter enables majority rule. It is, however, the judiciary’s duty to prevent majorities from abridging natural rights. After all, it is for the securing of such rights, the Declaration declares, that “governments

are instituted among men.”

Scalia’s death will enkindle a debate missing from this year’s presidential campaign, a debate discomfiting for some conservatives: Do they want a passive court that is deferential to legislative majorities and to presidents who claim untrammeled powers deriving from national majorities?

Or do they want a court actively engaged in defending liberty’s borders against unjustified encroachments by majorities?

This is an overdue argument that conservatism is now prepared for because of Scalia’s elegant mind. He was crucial to the creation of an alternative intellectual infrastructure for conservative law students. The Federalist Society, founded in 1982, has leavened the often monochrome liberalism of law schools, and Scalia was the jurisprudential lodestar for tens of thousands of students in society chapters coast to coast.

Students of the court understand that, given Harry Reid’s demonstrated disdain for Senate rules, if Republicans had not won Senate control in the 2014 elections, he as majority leader would very likely now extend the institutional vandalism he committed in 2013.

Then he changed Senate rules, by a simple majority vote and in the middle of a session, to prevent filibusters of judicial nominees other than Supreme Court nominees. This enabled

Obama to pack the nation’s second-most important court, that of the U.S. Circuit for the District of Columbia. Were Reid still majority leader, the Senate’s only rule would be the whim of the majority of the moment, and his caucus would promptly proscribe filibusters of Supreme Court nominees.

One consequence would be this: America today is one Supreme Court vote away from a radical truncation of the First Amendment’s protection of freedom of speech. A Democratic president in 2017 will nominate to replace Scalia someone pledged to construe the amendment as permitting Congress to regulate political campaign speech, which would put First Amendment jurisprudence on a slippery slope to regarding all speech as eligible for regulation by the administrative state.

Scalia lived 27 years after the person who nominated him left office, thereby extending the reach of Ronald Reagan’s presidency and reminding voters of the long-lasting ripples that radiate from their presidential choices. A teacher, wrote Henry Adams, attains a kind of immortality because one never knows where a teacher’s influence ends. Scalia, always a teacher, will live on in the law and in the lives of unnumbered generations who will write, teach and construe it.

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

PUBLIC FORUM

Public education

Safe environment

Threat to KPERS

To the editor: Most conspiracy theories are for wingnuts, but this one is gathering documentation, namely that ideologues are bent on destroying free public education in Kansas.

Last year, despite anemic resources, the Legislature voted to divert up to $10 million to direct tax rebates for corporations funding students to transfer to private or parochial schools, which can hire unlicensed teachers and ignore accreditation requirements and state assessment tests (Rep. Boldra, R-Hays). The response was less than 8 percent of anticipated, so now the diversion would be extended to individuals and to all public schools, and taxpayers will reimburse 90 percent of contributions, up from 70 percent. Boldra stated, “All of the money … went to … parochial schools,” apparently violating the First Amendment.

Kansas courts have held for over a decade that the Legislature is violating the Kansas Constitution by repeatedly underfunding public schools. Gov. Sam Brownback tried to duck those verdicts with his block-grant plan, further cutting funding to most districts for two years.

The Supreme Court found this unconstitutional and noted that it discriminated against poorer districts. Senate President Susan Wagle is trying to wiggle out of the responsibility to fix school funding, saying that one legislative session isn’t enough time. This ignores the fact that this is the second session since the Brownback blockbuster that was supposed to provide time to fix the system. One begins to suspect what “fix” means in this context.

How to save public schools? Vote the rascals out!

Paul Enos, Lawrence

To the editor: This letter is in response to John Bodle’s letter to the editor published on Feb. 2.

It is Free State High School’s first duty to protect its students and ensure a safe learning environment. To quote the petition, “we are speaking of the very flag flown in a war on the side committed to the subjugation and eternal slavery of African-American people.” When that hateful symbol flew at Free State, it caused an uproar that disturbed several classrooms and hundreds of students.

The removal of the Confederate flag from school property does not “send an un-American message … of censorship” but a message that hurtful symbols are unacceptable in a school that is proud to bear the name Free State.

Using the discomfort of minority students to teach a lesson in tolerance and racism before banning the flag devalues the feelings of those students.

Also, no action was taken against the offending student; he was kindly directed to not fly his flag again. When a racist speaks, it is neither the school nor the student body’s duty to change their mind; the school’s duty is to take action to ensure that no student feels unsafe. Aside from this, pitting students against each other and encouraging them to “shame, ridicule and ostracize” their classmates is morally wrong and counterproductive to the school handbook’s demand that “all members of the community will treat each other with mutual respect, consideration, and acceptance.”

Congratulations to the administration on making the school a better place for its students.

Meredith Shaheed, Lawrence

To the editor: Regarding the Journal-World article about the legislative proposal to “borrow” hard-earned retirement money from state worker’s KPERS, I have a message: You have jerked around underpaid, overworked, faithful staff in virtually every branch of state government (education, enforcement, judiciary, administrative, transportation, etc.) with condescending, manipulative legislative threats against the sole reason for putting up with their jobs in the first place: their pensions.

You now appear fully intent on balancing a contrived deficit on the backs of teachers and street workers, stenographers and janitors by spending their retirement nest eggs ever closer to bankruptcy. At this point, what does any state employee eligible for KPERS have left to lose by such dishonesty and disrespect?

The governor and the Legislature need to hear from their employees, their families and friends. I encourage unions to take every action they can to clarify why this will not solve the contrived fiscal deficit Kansas now has, and to explore legal class-action if legislators proceed.

Deborah Snyder, Lawrence

Letters Policy

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Letters should be 250 words or less, be of public interest and avoid name-calling and libelous language. The Journal-World reserves the right to edit letters, as long as viewpoints are not altered. By submitting letters, you grant the Journal-World a nonexclusive license to publish, copy and distribute your work, while acknowledging that you are the author of the work.

Letters must bear the name, address and telephone number of the writer. Letters may be submitted by mail to Box 888, Lawrence, KS, 66044 or by email to: letters@ljworld.com.

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NO INJURIES WERE REPORTED IN AN EARLY MONDAY MORNING HOUSE FIRE in west Lawrence, first responders said. At 1:47 a.m., firefighters responded to a fire at a two-story home at 4612 Woodridge Drive, said Lawrence-Douglas County Fire Medical Division Chief Eve Tolefree. Those first on the scene reported heavy flames in an attached garage and attic area, and a second-alarm response was requested. The fire was extinguished by 2:28 a.m., Tolefree said. All of the home’s occupants, including one pet, were able to safely exit the building. The cause of the fire is currently under investigation, and no damage estimates are currently available, Tolefree said.

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Roediger is an international expert on race, labor and class, according to KU. He was the first Foundation Distinguished Professor to be hired by KU, in 2014.

Roediger previously has taught working-class history, Southern history, American studies and African-American studies at the University of Missouri, the University of Illinois and the University of Minnesota, and also worked as an editor of the Frederick Douglass Papers at Yale University.

Red Dog’s Dog Days, 6 a.m., Allen Fieldhouse, 1651 Naismith Drive.

KU Chamber Ensemble, Veronique Mathieu, director, noon, Kansas State Capitol Rotunda, 300 SW 10th Ave., Topeka.

Lawrence Parkinson’s Support Group, 2 p.m., First Presbyterian Church, 2415 Clinton Parkway.

Lawrence Transit System annual meetings on service changes, 5-6 p.m., Lawrence Public Library, 707 Vermont St. Stull UMC Community Meal: Chicken and Biscuits, 5-7 p.m., Stull United Methodist Church, 251 North 1600 Road.

Big Brothers Big Sisters of Douglas County volunteer information, 5:15 p.m., United Way Building, 2518 Ridge Court.

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Science on Tap: A Lot of Smoke, but No Fire, 7:30 p.m., Free State Brewing Co., 636 Massachusetts St. Gamer Night, 8 p.m., Burger Stand at the Casbah, 803 Massachusetts St., free.

Slideshow photography group, 8 p.m., Gaslight Gardens, 317 N. Second St. Local History Trivia Night, 8-10 p.m., 23rd Street Brewery, 3512 Clinton Parkway.

Calamity Cubes / Monzie Leo & The Big Sky, 10 p.m., Replay Lounge, 946 Massachusetts St.

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Maker Meet-Up, 6:30 p.m., Lawrence Creates Makerspace, 512 E. Ninth St. League of Women Voters voter registration drive, 6:30-8:30 p.m., Lawrence Public Library, 707 Vermont St. Educate Lawrence: Legislation affecting public schools, 7 p.m., Lawrence Public Library Auditorium, 707 Vermont St. Lawrence Huntington’s Disease Support Group, 7-9 p.m., Conference Room D South, Lawrence Memorial Hospital, 325 Maine St.

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the history of the word, the music at its core, and what public monuments to solidarity — includRoediger ing one in Lawrence — express and obscure,” according to a lecture announcement from KU. “Reflections on solidarity and its limits in the recent Black Lives Matter movement will frame his presentation.”

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One of Kansas University’s Foundation Distinguished Professors will give his inaugural distinguished professor lecture next week.

David Roediger, professor of history and American Studies, will present “Making ‘Solidarity’ Uneasy: A Keyword and Its Discontents” at 5:30 p.m.

Feb. 23 in Alderson Auditorium at the Kansas Union, 1301 Jayhawk Blvd.

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CALLS TO VA SUICIDE LINE GOT VOICEMAIL Lack of training, overload at backup crisis centers cited Gregg Zoroya @greggzoroya USA TODAY

A VA suicide hotline movingly portrayed in an Oscar-winning documentary has allowed crisis calls to go into voicemail and has struggled with adequate staff training, according to an inspector general investigation.

Inspectors found problems oc-

curred when calls were routed to backup crisis centers after staff at the Department of Veterans Affairs suicide hotline center in Canandaigua, N.Y., (800-2738255) were taking all the calls they could handle.

“We substantiated allegations that some calls routed to backup crisis centers were answered by voicemail, and callers did not always receive immediate assistance,” said the VA Inspector General report.

The VA, which has highlighted veteran suicides as a crucial area of concern, said that since the hotline was created in 2007, about 2 million calls have been

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answered and emergency efforts made to intervene and save lives in more than 53,000 cases.

Crisis Hotline: Veterans Press 1, an HBO documentary highlighting the life-and-death drama of the hotline efforts, won an Oscar last year.

The inspector general report did not document how many calls go to voicemail. It said calls going to backup crisis centers increased dramatically in recent years, from 36,261 in 2013 to 76,887 in 2014.

About every sixth call goes to a backup center, the report said.

In response to the findings, the VA concurred with all recommendations for taking steps to

ensure calls no longer go to voicemail and that staff training be improved. Steps to increase staffing at the Canandaigua center were announced by the VA almost a year ago, said Victoria Dillon, a department spokesperson.

A comprehensive training initiative is underway, and a quality assurance surveillance plan to monitor backup centers is being developed, she said.

Calls routed to the backup centers can be placed in a queue where callers hear music while they wait. The VA had no process for learning how long these people wait or how many of them finally hang up, the report said.

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All states to audit teacher data More than 1,000 discipline cases were missing Steve Reilly USA TODAY

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VIOLENCE IN SYRIA RAGES ON

Days before a proposed truce is to begin, missile strikes on hospitals and schools in Syria killed dozens of civilians Monday, officials said. The U.S. blamed the Syrian government and Russian allies, though neither had claimed responsibility.

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A state-by-state audit of the nation’s only database for tracking teacher misconduct is being ordered in the wake of a USA TODAY NETWORK investigation that found thousands of missing names in the listing of troublesome educators.

DIS HONOR Education ROLL agencies in every state voluntarily report to a privately run database operated by the non-profit National Association of State Directors of Teacher Education and Certification when they take a disciplinary action against a teacher for anything from minor infractions to serious cases of physical or sexual abuse.

The USA TODAY NETWORK’s examination of records about teachers disciplined in all 50 states found more than 1,400 cases in which a teacher permanently lost his or her license but was not listed in the NASDTEC database — potentially allowing teachers to flee instances of misconduct by moving to new states.

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More than a dozen countries ensnared in Syrian war Alliances shift in 5-year-old conflict Oren Dorell USA TODAY

Armies and militias from more than a dozen countries have joined the Syria conflict, making for a mind-boggling and dangerous stew of shifting and competing alliances.

Even as a proposed cease-fire is scheduled to begin as early as this week, more nations are escalating their roles in the nearly 5-

year-old civil war: Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Turkey said they may send ground troops to fight.

Here’s how different countries are currently aligned:

lamic State and what Russia says are other “terrorist” groups. The U.S. says most Russian airstrikes are aimed at opposition groups threatening Assad’s forces.

PRO-SYRIAN GOVERNMENT

ANTI-SYRIAN GOVERNMENT

Forces loyal to Syrian President Bashar Assad are backed by two nations, Russia and Iran, and many Shiite militias from across the region organized by Iran.

The combatants include: Syrian government troops; Iran; Afghan Shiite militia; Hezbollah, the Lebanese Shiite militia; Iraqi Shiite militia; Russia.

Russian airstrikes target the Is-

Many rebel forces fighting to overthrow the Syrian government are backed by arms, funds and airstrikes by a U.S.-led coalition. The CIA vetted Syrian rebel groups and helped train them in Jordan to use advanced anti-tank weapons against Assad’s forces.

Saudi Arabia and Qatar supplied the weaponry and funds.

These rebels are being sup-

ported by: Jordan; Saudi Arabia; Turkey; Qatar; United Arab Emirates; the U.S. Israel, on Syria’s southern border, provides some assistance to rebels fighting Syrian forces and has launched airstrikes against Syria and Hezbollah to prevent the transfer of “game changing” technology to Hezbollah, a U.S.designated terrorist group.

ANTI-ISLAMIC STATE

The U.S.-led coalition conducting airstrikes against Islamic State forces in Syria and Iraq includes: Australia; Bahrain; Canada; France; Jordan; Saudi Arabia;

Turkey; United Arab Emirates United Kingdom.

Russia is not part of the U.S.led coalition, though it has also hit Islamic State positions.

OTHER FIGHTERS

Kurdish militia from Turkey, Iraq and Syria are fighting the Islamic State. But the Kurds are sometimes aligned with the Syrian government and seen as a threat by Turkey, which has fought for years against a Kurdish separatist movement threatening its territorial sovereignty. Syrian Kurds are backed by Russia, the U.S. and Iraqi Kurdish groups.

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VOICES

In Honduras, violence is never far away Alan Gomez @alangomez USA TODAY

TEGUCIGALPA , HONDURAS

As I approached a youth outreach center on the outskirts of this capital city, I didn’t notice the man behind us.

Officials from the U.S. Agency for International Development were escorting me to this center in San Martin, one of the city’s most dangerous hotbeds of gang violence, to show the progress that’s been made there. USAID has helped convert an old building into a safe zone for children to do their homework, learn job skills and unwind in an indoor, fenced-in soccer field. Police presence is on the rise and violent crime is down.

As we neared the area, surrounded by a half-dozen local police officers, an official from the Alliance for Honduran Youth stopped short.

“We should switch to English,” said Salvador Stadthagen, as his eyes quickly darted over his shoulder. “The walls have ears.”

Confused, I looked behind him and realized a man was leaning against a railing about 50 feet away. He wasn’t hiding, he wasn’t trying to be sneaky. He was just there, following us, staring straight at us. The officials weren’t sure which gang he belonged to, but his message was clear: You’re being watched.

As the U.S. braces for another surge in children from Honduras, Guatemala and El Salvador, the debate is on over why they’re coming and how to stop them.

ALAN GOMEZ, USA TODAY

Honduran National Police officers conduct a sweep of the San Miguel neighborhood in Tegucigalpa on Feb. 9. The country once had the highest homicide rate in the world.

That’s why I’m visiting Central America: to better understand the raging violence that’s gripping the region and to learn about the programs that will receive some of the $750 million Congress has approved for those three countries in 2016.

Some in the U.S. argue that the nearly 100,000 unaccompanied minors who’ve crossed the Southwest border since 2014 are coming simply to take advantage of laws that allow them to stay in the country while their refugee claims are processed. But after landing here last week, it didn’t take long for me to realize that the threat of violence is very real and never far away.

As our friend stood outside, I entered the community center

in San Martin and sat down with the director and nine teenagers from the neighborhood. They were all nice and cheerful as they introduced themselves, teasing each other and giggling over the adults who had come to visit them.

And then, one by one, they explained the horrors they had seen and asked to remain anonymous to protect their safety.

When asked how many of them had a relative killed by gang members, six raised their hands. One said he had lost an uncle and two cousins. Another said he’d lost six uncles.

When asked how many of them had seen a dead body, seven raised their hands. Their teacher asked what kinds of guns

Advocates push for shared info on teachers’ records Steve Reilly USA TODAY

In 1997, West Virginia fifthgrade student Jeremy Bell died of what was believed to be a head injury while on a camping trip with the principal of his school, Edgar Friedrichs Jr. Nearly eight years later, investigators DIS HONOR determined L ROL it was not a head injury. Bell had been sexually abused and killed by his principal, according to state criminal records and documents filed in a subsequent federal lawsuit.

Probing deeper, officials realized Friedrichs had been dismissed by a Pennsylvania school for sexual misconduct allegations years earlier, but the school helped him get his job in West Virginia.

The story of Jeremy Bell, and others like it, helped provide the impetus for federal changes proposed over the past decade that would mandate background checks for teachers, require states and districts to share data about disciplined teachers and prohibit school districts from facilitating the transfer of a teacher accused of sexual misconduct to another jurisdiction.

Among the proposals have been efforts to require that names of teachers disciplined for sexual misconduct be reliably and consistently submitted to a national, government-run database and to make the information more readily available to the public.

Many states’ discipline records are not online. Those that are can be difficult to find, hard to search

Gomez reports for USA TODAY from Miami.

Database demands improved accuracy

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Schools left in dark on staff misdeeds

were used, and the kids started calling out bullet sizes like they were seasoned gun aficionados: .22-caliber, 9-millimeter, .257-caliber.

They talked about the usual places where they take cover in their homes whenever gunshots ring out nearby. “Under the bed.” “Under the crib.”

Despite all that they’ve endured, some of the teens said the security situation had started to improve since U.S. and Honduran officials teamed up two years ago to target crime in their neighborhood. The shootouts are a little less frequent, the dead bodies a little less numerous.

That, according to James Watson, is the slow, gradual process that needs to start happening

throughout this crime-ridden country.

When Watson became USAID’s Honduras director four years ago, he said the security situation was so bad that he had to ride in Red Cross vehicles and wear a Red Cross jacket just to visit La Ceiba, a port city on the country’s Caribbean coast. The Red Cross had helped there in the past after natural disasters, so they were welcome while U.S. officials — and many Honduran ones — were not.

Ever since, he’s been focusing on some of the most dangerous parts of the country. That’s the only way he believes they can figure out what programs and practices can truly help the Hondurans get themselves on a sustainable road to building a more secure country.

“The atmosphere has improved,” he says. “It’s not that the work is done. It’s not that we’re declaring success and moving on. But what we’re trying to do is show what can work.”

The numbers are starting to show it. Honduras recently had the world’s highest homicide rate for four straight years, peaking at 92 homicides per 100,000 people in 2011, according to data from the United Nations. (El Salvador now has that dubious honor.) By 2015, Honduras’ murder rate had dropped to 61 homicides per 100,000.

That shows significant progress, but that’s still far above the world average and still 15 times higher than the U.S. homicide rate. In other words, the threat of gang violence here is still lingering right over your shoulder.

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Sen. Pat Toomey, R-Pa., says schools should be safe.

Database operator A closer look at the National Association of State Departments of Teacher Education and Certification (NASDTEC) Founded: 1928 Location: Scottsville, Ky. Members: Educator credentialing agencies in all 50 states and some U.S. territories, Canadian provinces and foreign jurisdictions.

Membership fees: $4,000 annually Annual expenses: $353,370 (according to 2014 U.S. tax return) Purpose: The non-profit organization promotes high standards for educators, teacher mobility across state lines and comprehensive personnel screening, according to its website. It operates the NASDTEC Clearinghouse, the nation’s only centralized database of disciplined educators.

and lead to incomplete or redacted documentation obscuring what the teacher did.

A bill introduced by then-representative Adam Putnam, RFla., in 2007 would have required the U.S. Department of Education to develop a database of teachers found to have engaged in sexual misconduct and make that information available to the public.

“Without adopting systematic policies and procedures at the national level,” Putnam said of this Student Protection Act, “all states remain vulnerable when hiring school employees from states with mediocre reporting procedures and lackluster reporting standards.” Putnam’s legislation failed to grain traction, but advocacy and education policy groups have continued to push for a more reliable way to share information between states.

Terri Miller, president of the advocacy group Stop Educator Sexual Abuse Misconduct & Exploitation, said there should be a

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Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., pushes background checks.

How the NASDTEC Clearinghouse works Member states report basic information on teacher discipline to the NASDTEC Clearinghouse including the educator’s name, date of birth. uThe database does not include the severity of disciplinary action or the reason the discipline was imposed. uEach state has its own policies and practices regarding which disciplinary actions should be submitted to the database and when. uMonthly, the NASDTEC organizes the disciplinary records it receives into a report that it distributes to members. uWhen a state credentialing agency finds a match, it must contact the state that imposed the discipline to find details on the action.

federal requirement that states report teacher misconduct into an official, national database.

Children are mandated to attend school, she said. “We want to make sure that the federal government is doing everything they can to make sure that our children are being protected while they’re in these schools.”

More recently, the Protecting Students from Sexual and Violent Predators Act was championed

by U.S. Sens. Pat Toomey, R-Pa., and Joe Manchin, D-W.Va. It included provisions that would require states to conduct background checks on school employees and prohibit school officials from facilitating the transfer of teachers accused of sexual misconduct to a new district.

Opponents included Sen. Lamar Alexander, R-Tenn., who said in April 2014 that he opposed the bill because responsibility for checking teachers’ backgrounds should be local. “If we want safe schools, that is the job of parents, communities, school boards and states,” Alexander said.

education agencies in every state will be required to audit all their submissions to the data since they joined the system to ensure their submissions are accurate and complete.

The state-by-state audits, Rogers said, are required in the interest of “trying to address what you guys (the USA TODAY NETWORK) found on the number of cases that were not entered that should have been entered.”

Rogers said the directive for the state audits is expected within the next 10 days, and several states have already undertaken reviews of their data on their own accord.

As part of the changes, he said, states will be required to validate that submissions are accurate and complete before sending them to the national database.

“The purpose for that is (to verify) that they are checking the spelling, checking the numbers, checking all of the information as being accurate,” Rogers said. “I guess people get in a hurry or whatever. So we’ll have to make sure.”

Measures are being taken at the state and local level to address problems identified by the USA TODAY NETWORK investigation. uIn Iowa, the Board of Educational Examiners ordered a full internal audit and a third-party external audit of NASDTEC submissions. “What I can tell you is, we are focused on protecting students,” Board of Educational Examiners director Duane Magee told The Des Moines Register.

“Our procedures call for us to put licensed sanctions in (the national database), and we want 100% compliance.”

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A story Monday about Obamacare enrollment misstated the number of insurers on the federal exchange for Alaska. There will still be two through 2016.

uIn Georgia, state officials said a layer of oversight has been added to its NASDTEC submission process. uTeachers in North Carolina and Louisiana who moved to new states after losing their teaching credentials as a result of misconduct in states where they previously worked have been removed from classrooms after inquiries by the USA TODAY NETWORK. uA Delaware state lawmaker said he will propose legislation to require the state’s Department of Education to fully disclose details to the public when an educator’s teaching license is removed.

“This is simple,” Republican Sen. Ernesto Lopez said in a statement Monday. “Parents have a right to know. ... It is critical that we remove these teachers from the classroom but equally critical that we are fully transparent with the parents of children who interacted with these teachers.”

Contributing: Matthew Albright and Sarnac Hale Spence at The News Journal in Wilmington, Del.; Jason Clayworth at The Des Moines Register; Rebecca Lindstrom at WXIA in Atlanta.

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EX-PRESIDENT BUSH SEEKS TO TRUMP RESCUE BROTHER JEB IN S.C. SAYS HE

MAY SUE CRUZ

Says ‘integrity,’ not ‘bluster,’ needed in White House David Jackson USA TODAY

NORTH CHARLESTON, S . C. South Carolina saved George W. Bush in 2000. Now the former president looks to save his brother Jeb 16 years later.

“There’s no doubt in my mind Jeb Bush has the experience and the character to be a great president,” the former president told more than 1,000 backers during a rare political appearance Monday, further joking that South Carolina should support the candidate with “the most opinionated mother” in Saturday’s primary.

Jeb Bush told the crowd that half-filled the convention center space that he was “so honored that my brother is here.” Jeb said he would emulate George’s “steady hand to keep us safe” when it came to the nation’s economic and national security challenges.

The former Florida governor defended his older brother against attacks by Republican front-runner Donald Trump, saying it was “weird” that the New York businessman once suggested impeachment of President Bush over the Iraq War. In his speech, George W. Bush did not mention other Republican candidates — or President Obama for that matter — but did say, “We do not need someone in the Oval Office who mirrors our anger and frustration.”

The former president said strength is not “bluster” or having the loudest voice in the room but rather the “integrity and character” of people such as Jeb Bush.

While extolling his brother’s experience as governor and busi-

Tries to upstage Bush event

“We rescued his campaign back in 2000.

We have ownership — he’s our guy.”

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Hogan Gidley, Republican political adviser in South Carolina

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Jeb Bush, right, waves at a campaign event with his brother George in North Charleston, S.C. Inset: Elliana Brown, 4, waits with her parents for a rally. nessman, the former president told stories about his past political life.

He recited “fond memories” of South Carolina that include visits to military bases, the “okra strut” in Irmo and breakfast at Tommy’s Country Ham House in Greenville — the latter an event at which a PETA protester poured manure into the parking lot.

“It was kind of a sign of things to come,” he said.

The ex-president repeated old jokes — “I’ve been mis-underestimated most of my life” — and trotted out new ones about his pastimes as writer and painter. Of the latter pursuit, Bush said he knows that “the signature is worth more than the painting.”

Jeb Bush, who enlisted mother Barbara to campaign for him in

New Hampshire, defended his brother’s legacy in the face of continued attacks by Trump.

As Trump assailed the former president over 9/11 and Iraq, Jeb Bush repeated his line from last weekend’s debate that “while Donald Trump was building a reality TV show,” his brother was “building a security apparatus to keep us safe” after the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, 2001.

Trump, who held a news conference near North Charleston hours before the Bush event, questioned whether George W. Bush kept the nation safe.

He echoed his debate statements that the 9/11 attacks happened and “the World Trade Center came down during his reign.” Trump also criticized Bush’s decision to launch the invasion of Iraq in 2003, saying it destabilized the Middle East.

George W. Bush may never have been president if not for South Carolina, or at least its Republican primary.

On Feb. 19, 2000 — 18 days after his blowout loss to John McCain in the New Hampshire primary — the then-Texas governor defeated McCain in the Palmetto State. The win stabilized Bush’s campaign and sent him on to the Republican nomination.

Hogan Gidley, a Republican political adviser based in South Carolina, said state party members feel as if George W. Bush is one of them nearly two decades after the primary that bound them together.

“We rescued his campaign back in 2000,” Gidley said. “We have ownership — he’s our guy.”

Whether that translates into actual votes for Jeb Bush remains to be seen, he said.

HANAHAN, S . C. Donald Trump looked to step on a Jeb and George W. Bush rally Monday — and went after Ted Cruz while he was at it.

Trump called a news conference just hours before — and a few miles away from — the Bush event.

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He also renewed threats that he could run as a third-party candidate for president.

“I have never ever met a person who lies more than Ted Cruz,” Trump told reporters.

In the written statement, Trump said: “One of the ways I can fight back is to bring a lawsuit against him relative to the fact that he was born in Canada and therefore cannot be President. If he doesn’t take down his false ads and retract his lies, I will do so immediately.”

Cruz, a senator from Texas, was born in Canada, but his mother was a U.S. citizen.

Eliot Spitzer is subject of assault probe in NYC

IN BRIEF MARCH OF REMEMBRANCE

Detectives are investigating woman’s claim about incident at the Plaza hotel, reports say John Bacon USA TODAY

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Kyrgyz soldiers march Monday during a commemorative ceremony in Bishkek at a war memorial to Kyrgyzstan-born Soviet soldiers killed in Afghanistan in the 1980s.

WHITE HOUSE: PROCESS TO REPLACE SCALIA UNDERWAY

President Obama could nominate a successor to Justice Antonin Scalia as soon as next week when the Senate returns from a week-long recess, the White House said Monday.

And while the White House is not engaging in the parlor game of short-listing candidates, the process is already moving forward.

The White House has already had discussions with senators from both parties, “a signal that we plan on conducting robust engagement in this process,” White House spokesman Eric Schultz told reporters traveling with the president in Rancho Mirage, Calif.

Scalia, a conservative bulwark, was the longest-serving justice on the court when he died Saturday at age 79.

— Gregory Korte FOUR AMERICANS ARRESTED DURING BAHRAIN PROTESTS

Four Americans were being detained in Bahrain after their arrests during weekend protests marking the five-year anniversary of the Gulf state’s pro-democracy uprising.

The three men and a woman

are accused of offenses that include entering Bahrain illegally, having submitted false information to border staff and participating in an unlawful gathering, the Bahrain Interior Ministry said in a statement Monday. The statement said the Americans had claimed to be tourists but were protesting and possibly work as journalists.

One is also accused of participating in an attack on security officers, said officials in Bahrain, home to the U.S. Navy’s Fifth Fleet. The names of the suspects were not immediately released.

— John Bacon

Commercial airliners crashed at a rate of one for every 3.1 million flights worldwide in 2015 — making last year one of the safest on record, industry officials said Monday.

The four fatal crashes counted in the statistics all involved turboprop aircraft and taken together killed 136 people, according to the report by the International Air Transport Association. None of the crashes occurred in the U.S., where the last fatal crash of a U.S. passenger airliner was in February 2009.

— Bart Jansen

MASSIVE $14M DIAMOND FOUND IN SOUTHERN AFRICA

WINTER STORM WALLOPS EAST COAST WITH SNOW, ICE

An Australian company unearthed a massive 404-carat diamond in Angola valued at as much as $14 million, according to ABC. The Lucapa Diamond Company, based in Perth, said it discovered the diamond in its Lulo mine about 300 miles east of Angola’s capital, Luanda.

The company claimed the diamond was the largest found on record in the southern African nation as well as the biggest diamond found by an Australian miner.

— Josh Hafner

A winter storm delivered a snowy, icy mess from Georgia to Maine on Monday, canceling flights, snarling road travel and threatening power outages across the region.

In the Deep South, where heavy rain brought the risk of flash floods, a few tornadoes were also reported.

Nearly 1,050 flights had been canceled nationwide as of 2 p.m.

ET, with the heaviest disruptions so far coming in the mid-Atlantic and Northeast, according to flighttracking service Flight-Aware.

— Doyle Rice

2015 ONE OF THE SAFEST ON RECORD FOR AIRLINERS

Former New York governor Eliot Spitzer, whose political career collapsed following a 2008 prostitution scandal, is the subject of an assault investigation involving a young woman, New York City police said Monday.

Manhattan detectives are investigating allegations of an assault and “the victim has indicated the suspect was Eliot Spitzer,” Detective Adam Navarro told USA TODAY. Navarro said no arrest had been made “at this time” and would provide no further details.

“There is no truth to the allegation,” Lisa Linden, spokeswoman for Spitzer, said in an email.

Local media report that police rushed to The Plaza hotel after a woman in her 20s used her cellphone to call 911 at about 8 p.m.

Saturday, saying she was having a breakdown and had cut her wrist.

The New York Post, citing police sources it did not identify, reported that when officers responded to the $1,000-a-night suite, Spitzer answered the door and said there was no problem.

The officers returned a short time later.

“After Spitzer opened the door a second time, the cops spied broken glass, bloodstains and clothing on the floor and started a search inside,” the Post reported.

The newspaper said the woman reappeared and was taken to a hospital where she told staffers Spitzer had attacked her.

The New York Daily News and CNN.com published a similar description of events.

The media outlets cited police sources saying the woman, who claimed to be Spitzer’s girlfriend, was not cooperating with the investigation and did not want to

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A spokeswoman for Eliot Spitzer said in an email that “there is no truth to the allegation” of assault.

“After Spitzer opened the door a second time, the cops spied broken glass, bloodstains and clothing on the floor and started a search inside.”

The New York Post

press charges.

Spitzer, 56, developed a national reputation for being tough on white-collar, Wall Street crime while serving as the state’s attorney general from 1999 until 2006.

He became governor in 2007, but his political fortunes imploded after he was ensnared in an investigation of a prostitution ring in which he infamously was referred to in court papers as “client 9.”

Spitzer resigned as governor but was not criminally charged.

He tried to resurrect his political career in 2013 but lost a race for city comptroller. He split with his wife of 26 years later that year.

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STATE-BY-STATE News from across the USA

HIGHLIGHT: KENTUCKY

185-year-old general store goes up in flames Patrick Brennan and Cameron Knight The Cincinnati Enquirer

ALABAMA Decatur: Coyote

sightings have increased during the breeding season. Cats are a main food source for the predators, especially at this time of year, the Decatur Daily reported.

ALASKA Fairbanks: Residents have shown support for a U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service proposal that would ban some bear, wolf and coyote hunts on federal wildlife refuges, The Fairbanks Daily News-Miner reported.

ARIZONA Phoenix: Honor-

Health John C. Lincoln Medical Center offered free hepatitis and HIV testing to patients after discovering a former employee was accused of stealing pain medication at a Colorado facility, The Arizona Republic reported.

ARKANSAS Fayetteville: State Rep. Micah Neal wants to levy property taxes on public colleges and universities for property they rent to commercial businesses or use for a “non-public purpose,” the Northwest Arkansas Democrat-Gazette reported.

RABBIT HASH , KY. The residents of this small Kentucky town who worked for decades to preserve the historic buildings of this river town are already planning to rebuild their iconic Rabbit Hash General Store after it burned to the ground Saturday.

In its approximately 185 years in existence, the clapboard store on Lower River Road in Boone County, Ky., withstood all manner of threats — multiple floods, landslides and the Great Depression, to name a few. Through it all, the store and its recognizable front facade remained an unmistakable landmark in Northern Kentucky culture.

The fire that began inside the building was too much for the old, mostly wooden structure, however. It burned throughout a nearly five-hour firefight in near-sub-zero temperatures and was destroyed.

The store had been in continual operation since 1831, according to the Rabbit Hash Historical Society — a span in which 38 U.S. presidents took office. It was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.

As the building burned late Saturday, residents gathered

SOUTH DAKOTA Rapid City: A new long-range plan for the local school district calls for the closure of some schools, the Rapid City Journal reported. District officials cautioned that the facilities improvement report commissioned by the school board, which includes an estimated $333 million cost over 10 years, is not a firm blueprint for the district’s future.

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The iconic Rabbit Hash General Store, in operation since 1831, is engulfed in flames Saturday. nearby, some crying and one group singing Amazing Grace.

Firefighters were able to pull some merchandise from the store, but only a few larger pieces. Many of the pieces were charred or damaged by smoke.

The front sign of the store was salvaged from the wreckage and stored in a nearby barn.

“The only way I can describe it is I feel like my mom died,” said Don Clare, vice president of the Rabbit Hash Historical Society. “It’s a devastation. I’ve always used the word ‘devastating,’ but you don’t realize what

the word means until something like this happens.”

The historical society owns the general store and leases the building to Terry Markesbery, who runs the business inside.

Clare said everyone in the historical society, Markesbery, and everyone he’s spoken to that make Rabbit Hash a destination are in agreement: The Rabbit Hash General Store will be rebuilt.

By Monday morning, a GoFundMe campaign had already raised more than $34,000 toward rebuilding efforts.

CALIFORNIA San Diego: Wit-

nesses rescued three men after a car plunged into Mission Bay, the San Diego Union-Tribune reported.

the roughly 20-minute journey, which is half the time it takes for the city’s Blue Line “L’’ trains.

COLORADO Denver: The police

INDIANA West Lafayette: A

officer memorial at Denver police headquarters was vandalized, authorities said. The memorial was previously vandalized a year ago, KUSA-TV reported.

CONNECTICUT Sprague: Federal

officials will inspect wastewater lagoons at a former cardboard recycling plant here, The Day reported. The Environmental Protection Agency will assess the former site of Fusion Paperboard this spring.

DELAWARE Wilmington: Delaware gun purchases surged in December and January — an increase fueled by non-traditional gun owners seeking protection, firearm sellers and advocates say.

A total of 12,556 federal background checks were conducted for people buying guns in the state during the previous two months, according to data from the FBI — a 26% jump over December 2014 to January 2015, The News Journal reported.

DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA: Charles

Young, a former assistant track coach at Dunbar Senior High School, pleaded guilty to sexually abusing seven male students.

FLORIDA Palm Bay: The Space

Coast Country music festival, planned for Feb. 19-21 to replace the Runaway Country Music Festival, has been canceled, Florida Today reported.

staffer at Purdue University submitted his resignation after coming under fire for social media comments that groups that oppose abortion took as rape threats, the Journal and Courier reported. Students, parents and alumni had been pressing the university to sanction Jamie Newman, an accompanist at Purdue’s Division of Dance, for his comments.

IOWA Iowa City: City staff is nearing completion of a draft ordinance intended to shape future growth and create more affordable housing stock in the growing Riverfront Crossings District, the Iowa City PressCitizen reported.

KANSAS Bonner Springs: Two

Oklahoma men died in a singlevehicle crash here, The Kansas City Star reported.

KENTUCKY Louisville: The

“International Honor Quilt,” a collaborative feminist art project initiated by artist Judy Chicago, is on display at the University of Louisville through March 19, The Courier-Journal reported.

LOUISIANA Norco: A train tres-

tle fire west of New Orleans disrupted Amtrak passenger train service.

GEORGIA College Park: A man died after being ejected from his truck during a police pursuit.

Deputies with the Fulton County Sheriff’s Office attempted to pull Jonathan Fowler, 32, over for speeding.

ian monk seals are doing better than researchers had previously thought, HawaiiNewsNow reported. Thanks to increased efforts by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration researchers, the estimated population of monk seals in the main Hawaiian Islands is 1,272. It was previously thought to be around 1,100.

IDAHO Pocatello: Bones from

three types of meat-eating dinosaurs are coming to the Idaho State University Museum of Natural History, the Idaho State Journal reported.

ILLINOIS Chicago: Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s administration resurrected the idea of an express train to whisk business travelers and tourists between downtown and O’Hare International Airport, the Chicago Tribune reported. Fares would range from $25 to $35 for

aged in a June tornado, the Lansing State Journal reported.

MINNESOTA St. Paul: Chris

Lollie, 30, settled his lawsuit that he filed after police used a stun gun while arresting him in St. Paul’s skyway system in 2014, the Star Tribune reported.

MONTANA Columbia Falls: Shareholders approved the merger of timber companies Weyerhaeuser and Plum Creek, the Flathead Beacon reported. The Plum Creek company is based here.

NEBRASKA Lincoln: A couple received a $641 water bill from the city because of the 100,000 gallons used by a running toilet.

NEVADA Las Vegas: Police dog Nicky was hospitalized with stab wounds after she helped end a 12-hour standoff between authorities and a potentially armed man, KLAS-TV reported.

MARYLAND Edgewater: Anne

Arundel County police say a husband and wife are dead following a three-vehicle crash on Valentine’s Day south of here.

MASSACHUSETTS Lowell: A 15-year-old bicyclist was sent to the hospital with serious injuries after being hit by a vehicle that then fled the scene, authorities say.

MICHIGAN Portland: Portland

United Methodist Church will have services Sunday after its 102-year-old building was dam-

NEW JERSEY Rumson: Shannon Corsi’s song, the sprite and tuneful piano ballad Trailblazer, was awarded third place in the MusiCares and Grammy Foundation’s Teens Make Music songwriting competition, the Asbury Park Press reported. The competition called for musicians between 14 and 18 to submit a song that celebrates life “above the influence,” or brings attention to the real-life consequences of substance abuse. Shannon is 17.

NEW MEXICO Ohkay Owingeh: U.S. Sen. Martin Heinrich will tour area heroin treatment centers on Wednesday.

NEW YORK Putnam County: A

county legislator wants the former first lady of the state to resign her tourism board post, The Journal News reported. Lawmakers in the county were un-

TEXAS Austin: University of

Texas researchers Lucy Hunt and Paul Eastwick say speed dating or video interaction is much more effective than posting a photo to an online profile when looking for love, the Austin AmericanStatesman reported.

UTAH Salt Lake City: Utah’s public schools need more teachers to fill their classrooms, but state colleges say young students are showing hardly any interest in the profession. Though undergraduate degrees from Utah colleges have grown 25% in the past decade, teaching diplomas have shown only a 5% increase in the same period, the Salt Lake Tribune reported.

Fournier, 23, was found dead on an iced-over Lake Champlain about 100 to 150 yards from his truck, which had sunk through the ice, Burlington Free Press reported. Police believe Fournier, who had been ice fishing with friends in the Campbell’s Bay area Saturday, may have succumbed to hypothermia, but an autopsy will determine cause and manner of death, Swanton Sgt. Eugene Rich said.

MISSOURI Kansas City: Anna

Kurzweil, who died at the age of 100, donated $2 million to the Society of Jesus, a Catholic order known as Jesuits upon her death in September 2012, The Kansas City Star reported. She worked as a teacher and lived on a pension.

TENNESSEE Lebanon: Cumberland University launched a major online project Monday — in time for Presidents Day — on the papers of Martin Van Buren at VanBurenPapers.org, university officials said. Van Buren, whose handwriting was notoriously illegible, was the eighth U.S. president, serving from 1837 to 1841.

VERMONT Swanton: William

thorities say a wildfire has burned more than 3,000 acres in a national wildlife refuge in south Mississippi, The Sun Herald reported. The fire began near a few homes in a remote area of south Jackson County, then moved into the Grand Bay National Wildlife Refuge.

The state House killed a bill that would’ve legalized marijuana to those at least 21 years old and imposed a $15-per-ounce tax, the New Hampshire Union Leader reported.

MAINE Augusta: State officials are offering scholarship grants to students pursuing an education in farming. The deadline for applications is March 1.

aware Libby Pataki was working for the taxpayer-financed nonprofit Putnam County Visitors’ Bureau and the private nonprofit Putnam Tourism Corp.

MISSISSIPPI Moss Point: Au-

NEW HAMPSHIRE Concord:

HAWAII Pearl Harbor: Hawai-

slaughter after killing Brandon Spencer, 17, on his property.

Methe claimed the teen was stealing items from his truck, WLTX-TV reported. Officials said another person who fled the scene has not been identified.

Investigators recovered items from the truck and found a gas can and hose they believe was used to siphon gas from Methe’s truck.

NORTH CAROLINA Raleigh: A North Carolina State University student spent 30 straight hours at a Waffle House after losing a bet.

WTVD-TV reported that Mike Fuller spent 30 hours inside the restaurant after he came in last in his fantasy football league.

VIRGINIA Richmond: A man rescued a driver from a burning car after a serious wreck on Interstate 64 in Henrico County, the Richmond Times-Dispatch reported.

NORTH DAKOTA Minot: A mental evaluation was ordered for Timothy Blowers, 21, who was accused of stealing an ambulance and crashing it near Carrington, KXMC-TV reported.

OHIO Dayton: The driver who drove the wrong way on Interstate 75 downtown and killed five, including himself, was jailed just over a day earlier on suspicion of drunken driving, the Dayton Daily News reported. Driver James Pohlabeln slammed into an SUV, and three members of local hard-rock band CounterFlux were among the deaths.

OKLAHOMA Chickasha: Grady

County voters overwhelmingly approved a new quarter-cent sales tax that will go toward the construction of a new surgery center at Grady Memorial Hospital, The Oklahoman reported.

OREGON Pendleton: Local

health officials say a virus spread by rodents has been diagnosed for the first time in a Umatilla County resident, the East Oregonian reported.

PENNSYLVANIA Collegeville:

Officials say the number of students at Ursinus College reporting symptoms of a stomach illness has now topped 200, according to The Philadelphia Inquirer.

RHODE ISLAND Providence: State municipalities were awarded about $12.9 million in federal funding for the upkeep and preservation of public housing.

SOUTH CAROLINA Camden:

The Kershaw County Sheriff’s Department charged Jimmy Joe Methe, 49, with voluntary man-

WASHINGTON Spokane: The

Spokesman-Review reported that Avista is asking state regulators to approve a pilot program that would see 265 charging stations for electric cars in eastern Washington state. The company in a request filed last month with the Washington Utilities and Transportation Commission cites environmental benefits, fuel cost savings and vehicle performance as benefits of the plan.

WEST VIRGINIA Fayetteville: Two people were killed in a house fire, The Register-Herald reported.

WISCONSIN Madison: Poor

water clarity led to a slow start for the 2016 sturgeon spearing season, as spearers harvested less than 350 fish on the Winnebago system over the weekend, the state Department of Natural Resources said.

WYOMING Cheyenne: A House

committee advanced a bill that would require legislative approval before Wyoming could set up a refugee resettlement program, the Wyoming Tribune Eagle reported. The bill blocks the governor from unilaterally setting up a state program that would help refugees who arrive directly or indirectly in Wyoming.

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SHELL COMPLETES $53B DEAL FOR BG GROUP Royal Dutch Shell is now the world’s second-largest energy company after completing its $53 billion acquisition of British giant BG Group. Shell’s purchase of BG Group puts the company behind only ExxonMobil on the list of largest energy companies by market capitalization. “This is an important moment for Shell,” CEO Ben van Beurden said in a statement. “It significantly boosts our reserves and production and will bring a large injection to our cash flow.” The company projected annual pretax combined cost cuts and revenue improvements of $3.5 billion.

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U.S. MARKETS CLOSED; JAPANESE STOCKS SURGE 7% U.S. markets were closed Monday for Presidents Day, but Asian markets rallied on hopes that more economic stimulus measures from global central banks would be forthcoming. Japanese stocks surged after dismal growth data spurred talk of extra stimulus from Tokyo. Japan’s Nikkei 225 index rebounded from a 5% dive last week to surge 7.2% to close at 16,022.58, its second-biggest one-day gain in three years. Hong Kong’s Hang Seng rose 3.3% to 18,918.14.

TREADMILL MEETING? IT’S BECOMING A THING Five years after treadmills began showing up in workstations, they’re about to expand into conference rooms as companies seek more ways to keep employees active during the day.

InMovement, a subsidiary of Chicago-based Brunswick Co., is preparing to launch the BiStride, a duo of treadmill desks that turn toward each other to facilitate conversations and collaboration.

A 2013 study found that treadmill desk users increased their productivity while burning an additional 74 calories a day.

Some workers say they love walking while making calls or using a computer, but others say it’s impossible to concentrate.

OHIO GAS STATION GLITCH CUTS PRICE TO JUST PENNIES A computer glitch led to a brief price war between two gas stations in northwest Ohio, allowing some drivers to fill their tanks for pennies per gallon. WTOL-TV reports that a computer malfunction dropped prices at one north Toledo gas station, and another across the street lowered its prices to stay competitive early Sunday. Customer Taylor Kline told the station he filled his empty tank for just 26 cents. The extra-low pricing lasted at least three hours before returning to normal. The national average Monday for regular was $1.70.

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With farm gear designed specifically for island, company aims to hire Cubans and sow goodwill

Alan Gomez

@alangomez USA TODAY

MIAMI The Obama administration approved the first U.S. factory to be built and operated in Cuba in more than 50 years, in the latest sign of the rapidly changing relationship between the United States and the communist nation.

Cleber, an Alabama-based company that builds tractors for small farms, was notified by the Treasury Department that it could open a facility in Cuba. Cofounder Saul Berenthal said the company’s attorney was in Havana on Monday to start the lengthy process of finalizing the agreement with the Cuban government and hopes to start production by early 2017.

Berenthal said he was proud to get the approval, but it means even more for the future relationship between the Cold War foes.

“Being first is great,” he said.

“But for certain, we should not be the only ones. We’re hoping and expecting many more will follow.”

A U.S. business operating “Cuba doesn’t in Cuba is poswant to just sible because of sweeping import; Cuba changes made wants to do by President Obama since his production.”

Dec. 17, 2014, Saul Berenthal, Cleber co-founder announcement that the longtime enemies would re-establish diplomatic relations. Since then, embassies have reopened in Washington and Havana, and diplomats and business people have flooded Cuba.

Starting Tuesday, U.S. airlines can apply for more air routes to the Caribbean destination.

The U.S. maintains an economic embargo on Cuba that restricts most trade and tourism-related travel to the island. The Obama administration, through the Commerce and Treasury departments, has been working around

the edges of that embargo to allow more U.S. exports and cooperation with Cuba. One change allowed U.S. companies to sell products and services directly to private entrepreneurs on the island, including those who work in private farming cooperatives.

That opened the door for Cleber, formed by Berenthal and partner Horace Clemmons weeks after Obama’s historic announcement. The longtime business associates designed tractors for the island’s small farmers, which they estimate account for 70% of Cuba’s agricultural production.

CLEBER LLC

Many American companies have been interested in selling agricultural equipment to Cuba, including Caterpillar, which recently announced that it reached a deal to sell earth-moving equipment to the island through a Puerto Rican distributor. What set Cleber’s proposal apart was its plan to build in Cuba and employ Cuban workers.

The company will make a small, red tractor it calls the “Oggún” in homage to the Afro-Cuban Santeria spirit of metal work.

American workers initially will build the pieces in Paint Rock, Ala., and assemble them in a facility at the port of Mariel, a special economic zone about 30 miles west of Havana.

“Cuba doesn’t want to just import; Cuba wants to do production,” Berenthal said.

The proposed facility will be able to build about 1,000 tractors a year to be sold in Cuba and to other Latin American countries.

Cleber designed a small, red tractor named Oggún in homage to the AfroCuban Santeria spirit of metal work.

YORK The debate over Deutsche Bank’s financial health continued Monday with a major ratings agency weighing in to say that the bank can repay its debts — at least through 2017.

Deutsche Bank’s ability to make interest payments on its riskiest debt through next year “appear secure, barring a major, unforeseen event,” Moody’s analyst Peter Nerby said in a research note.

The vote of confidence comes as investors have sent the bank’s stock down close to 30% this year amid growing fears of a default.

At issue is Deutsche Bank’s ability to make good on a newfangled debt instrument known as Addition Tier 1 notes (AT1), a type of contingent convertible, or CoCo for short.

CoCos are bonds that convert into stock when a bank’s capital levels fall too low. They were hot following the financial crisis as a way to prevent against another banking bailout, and yield-hungry investors bought them up when market conditions were rosier.

Now that energy prices are plummeting and fears of an economic downturn are rising, investors are fleeing CoCo out of fear that banks could stop making interest payments if losses start to accumulate. The selling has especially plagued Deutsche Bank, which reported poor fourth-quarter earnings and which warned that litigation costs could be a drag on 2016 results.

Deutsche Bank is also going through a costly restructuring, further fueling fears about its cash flow.

In an effort to boost investors’ confidence, Deutsche Bank on Friday said that it would buy back $5.4 billion in secured, non-CoCo debt to prove it has a “strong liquidity position.” The move pushed the bank’s stock up 12%.

Deutsche Bank’s recently announced tender offer is “a modest adjustment to the capital structure that does not have any direct bearing in our credit assessment of the firm,” Moody’s Nerby said.

Last week, Moody’s competitor Standard & Poor’s downgraded the bank’s AT1s to B+ from BBon concerns that future losses could restrict its ability to make good on the non-investment grade debt.

And this month, research firm CredSights warned that Deutsche Bank’s ability to make payments in 2017 could face trouble due to any number of unforeseen financial burdens, including increased litigation expenses.

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‘SI’ turns to VR with swimsuit issue Magazine to engage readers with high-tech Marco della Cava @marcodellacava USA TODAY

FRANCISCO In the mid1800s, showman P.T. Barnum decided to drum up crowds for his circus by blanketing cities with advertisements and posters.

Fast-forward 150 years, and media outlets are starting to do the same with virtual reality.

Sports Illustrated announced Monday its annual swimsuit edition — which claims a readership of 60 million and has raked in $1 billion in revenue over its 52year history — is bringing readers to its photo shoots courtesy of virtual reality.

The Time Inc. magazine’s new Swimsuit app includes 11 VR clips shot by Venice Beach, Calif.based content creators Wevr SAN

while on location last November at the Dominican Republic beach resort of Casa de Campo. The women featured in the Sports Illustrated VR videos are former cover models Hannah Davis, Irina Shayk and Nina Agdal.

(For the first time, the magazine itself will feature three separate covers, featuring Hailey Clauson, plus-size model Ashley Graham and a body-painted Ronda Rousey, as well as spotlight 56year-old Nicola Griffin, magazine editors said Saturday.)

Consumers have the option of viewing the VR videos either on their smartphones (with or without goggles such as Google Cardboard or Samsung Gear VR) or on coming high-end units such as Oculus Rift and HTC Vive. Some videos are free and other clips will be accessible to subscribers through special codes.

“We want to get out ahead in this space,” says Chris Hercik, creative director at SI, noting the magazine aims to roll out more

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Sports Illustrated’s new Swimsuit app gives readers access to a variety of virtual reality videos, some free.

VR content this year. “Sure it’s nice to be courtside at a game (in VR), but we can take you to a practice or inside a locker room.”

Hercik says Time is determined to use VR across its dozens of properties, which include People, Fortune and InStyle. He is convinced VR will prove invaluable in engaging an increasingly fickle audience.

Media giants are racing to leverage virtual-reality content in their efforts to both stay with the times and engender consumer loyalty. Gannett, which owns USA TODAY and a network of nearly 100 publications across the country, has brought readers to the streets of Havana and inside a Blue Angels jet via VR. The United Nations has taken advantage of VR’s ability to generate empathy. Its 2015 short film Clouds Over Sidra, about a young Syrian refugee’s life in a camp, has won a number of awards and put a spotlight on the transportive nature of VR content.

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MIZZOU PROF: ONE MISTAKE SHOULDN’T END MY CAREER Rem Rieder @remrieder USA TODAY

On Nov. 9, Melissa Click’s life changed irrevocably.

Click became an instant national celebrity, and not in a good way, when video of her calling for “some muscle” to remove a journalist trying to cover student protests at the University of Missouri went viral.

The communications professor, who had a courtesy appointment at Missouri’s J-school at the time, became a vivid symbol of hostility toward the First Amendment.

Since then, Click has been suspended from teaching pending an investigation by the University of Missouri System Board of Curators.

She has been hit with criminal charges; she was charged with third-degree assault, a misdemeanor, although she can avoid prosecution if she performs community service and stays out of trouble for a year. More than 100 Missouri lawmakers have demanded she be fired. And she has been the target of numerous threats and insults.

After three months of silence, Click has launched a public relations offensive, orchestrated by the Texas public relations firm Status Labs.

She has granted a number of interviews, including this one to USA TODAY. Click acknowledges that her behavior that day was out of line.

“The words that came out of my mouth came out of the dark crevices of my brain,” she says. “I didn’t mean to be the cause of violence.”

But she urges people to judge her by her body of work, by her 12 years teaching at Missouri, not by a single ugly episode.

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A frame grab shows Melissa Click, an assistant professor in the University of Missouri’s communications department, during a run-in with student journalists at a campus protest that followed the resignations of university officials Jan. 25.

A letter signed by more than 100 faculty members expresses support for the embattled professor.

“I can’t defend the way I handled that encounter,” she says.

“I’m embarrassed by it. I was very flustered. But it was one moment in 12 years at Missouri. It was one moment in a full day in an historic moment at our campus,” when the president and chancellor both resigned in the face of protests about the way black students were treated at Missouri.

“I hope my critics will be willing to place my actions in context and not judge me just on one action,” she says. “I don’t think one mistake should be the end of a career.”

But Click’s case is complicated by the surfacing of another video that shows her cursing at a police officer during an earlier student protest when the officer touched her. Click had interposed herself between students and police who were trying to move them to the sidewalk during the university’s Homecoming Parade on Oct. 10.

The new video, first published

by Columbia’s Missourian, angered interim Chancellor Hank Foley, who said he would discuss it with the Board of Curators as it investigates Click’s behavior.

“Her conduct and behavior are appalling, and I am not only disappointed, I am angry, that a member of our faculty acted this way,” Foley said Sunday in a statement. “Her actions caught on camera last October, are just another example of a pattern of misconduct by Dr. Click — most notably, her assault on one of our

STATUS LABS

After three months of silence, Click has launched a public relations offensive, orchestrated by a Texas public relations firm. This is the new photo of her it released.

“Her conduct and behavior are appalling, and I am not only disappointed, I am angry, that a member of our faculty acted this way.”

Interim Chancellor Hank Foley, University of Missouri

students while seeking ‘muscle’ during a highly volatile situation on Carnahan Quadrangle in November.”

Click, who says she was on the scene to view the parade, defends her actions that day.

“I’m sorry for the language I used, but I’m also sorry I felt I needed to put myself between the students and the officers to keep the students safe.”

She adds, “I took a stand because the crowd was hostile (to the student protesters). The police reaction was out of line. My reaction to being pushed was not uncommon.”

She says the incident “shows my purpose was to protect the students.”

As for the Nov. 9 events, Click says that after the two officials resigned the student protesters wanted to take time out to prepare for a press conference later in the day.

Other students formed a circle around them to keep the media away. The protesters “weren’t anti-media; they needed a little bit of quiet.”

Her fateful confrontation with student photographer Mark Schierbecker came after protesters and their supporters blocked Tim Tai, a Missouri student trying to photograph the scene for ESPN. “Someone put a camera in my face and didn’t identify himself,” Click says.

She says racial tensions were high at the time, and the night before a truck sporting a Confederate battle flag materialized, an apparent attempt to intimidate

the protesters.

“I responded quickly, without a lot of thought,” Click says. “I didn’t represent myself well. I made mistakes.”

As for calling for “muscle,” she says, “I’m 5-foot-1, not very tall. I was calling for someone better equipped. I didn’t know how to handle the situation I was in.”

That may well be true, but Click’s behavior on the video goes well beyond the “muscle” remark.

She is very aggressive and strident, and outright mocking of the notion that the First Amendment should come into play.

Click says she’s still trying to figure out “why my moment became the sound bite for what happened that day.”

One possibility: “People were mad about what happened that day. My mistakes made me an easy target for expressing that anger.”

As for her decision to go public, she says, “It was hard to stay silent while everyone debated my actions.” Status Labs President Darius Maxwell Fisher says his firm, which specializes in crisis management and online reputations, got involved because it believes Click “has been unfairly cast by public figures and the media to date. Melissa has supported the right side of a cause (equal treatment of minorities on campus), but she unfortunately let her emotions get in the way of better judgment during a protest.”

Looking ahead, Click says she’s eager to get back into the classroom and remains “hopeful” that that will happen.

Offshore oil driller Fed minutes could shed owes $1.1B, files for light on rate hike thoughts Chapter 11 bankruptcy THE WEEK AHEAD

Paul Davidson @PDavidsonusat USA TODAY

Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen signaled last week the central bank will be reluctant to raise interest rates next month if global economic troubles and the punishing slide in markets don’t let up. Minutes of the Fed’s January meeting should provide a clearer snapshot of policymakers’ thinking. This week’s economic news also features reports on industrial production and inflation.

Housing has been an economic pillar. Housing starts have been supported by solid job and income growth, low mortgage rates and skimpy home supplies, Nomura economist Lewis Alexander says. New construction, he says, also got a bump late last year from unseasonably high temperatures, but the weather turned colder and snowier in January. As a result, economists surveyed by Action Economics expect the Commerce Department on Wednesday to report that housing starts rose a modest 1.6% last month to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 1.17 million.

Industrial production, by contrast, has been hindered by the plunge in oil-sector investment, weak overseas demand and a rising dollar. A measure of manufacturing activity has shown contraction four consecutive months, and factory output likely remained sluggish in January, Alexander says. But PNC Financial Services Group says the colder weather lifted heating demand

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DAVID PAUL MORRIS, BLOOMBERG NEWS

Contractors install a window on a home in San Ramon, Calif., last month. Housing starts are set for release on Wednesday.

Housing has been an economic pillar, helping offset the effects of the global turmoil, strong dollar and oil industry crash. and utility output. Economists figure the Fed will record a 0.3% gain in industrial production.

The Fed sent a mixed message in a statement after its Jan. 26-27 meeting. It removed its upbeat view of the risks to its outlook as “balanced” and said it’s monitoring the overseas and market strains and “assessing their impli-

cations.” Yet policymakers emphasized the fourth quarter’s strong job growth over the weak rise in GDP and reiterated plans to raise its benchmark interest rate gradually after boosting it in December for the first time in nine years. Meeting minutes could spell out what Fed officials need to see to raise rates at a March 15-16 meeting, a move markets now deem unlikely.

One thing policymakers would like to see before acting is a pickup in weak inflation. Consumer prices fell in December on cheap gasoline, but a core measure that strips out food and energy and that the Fed watches more closely edged up. Economists reckon the Labor Department will report Friday that a similar dynamic played out in January.

Oil driller Paragon Offshore tumbled into Chapter 11 bankruptcy Sunday, becoming the latest victim of rock-bottom oil prices in a year likely to see more energy companies face insolvency.

Paragon said it had won support from a large majority of its unsecured and secured creditors to slash $1.1 billion in debt through bankruptcy, giving the rig operator a good shot at reemerging with a sustainable balance sheet.

But the bankruptcy reflects what analysts say is the latest in a string of energy bankruptcies.

Drillers are particularly susceptible as oil companies cut back considerably on production amid a global glut of crude.

“Paragon has acted proactively to strengthen the company’s balance sheet in this challenging environment,” Paragon CEO Randall Stilley said in a statement.

“We look forward to moving as quickly as possible through this process while maintaining our focus on delivering safe, reliable, and efficient operations,” the statement said.

The company said 77% of its unsecured bondholders had agreed to support its restructuring plan, in addition to 96% of its secured credit line bondholders.

As part of the deal, shareholders would own 65% of the compa-

CHRIS CARLSON, AP

An offshore oil-drilling platform sits off the coast of California, near Santa Barbara.

ny after bankruptcy, while bondholders would own 35%.

Paragon said the bankruptcy would have “very little impact” on employees, with no effect on compensation or benefits.

The United Kingdom-based company filed for bankruptcy in Delaware, which is legally allowable because it has U.S.-based legal entities.

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THAT GOLDEN TOUCH The Weeknd, Chris Stapleton, Alabama Shakes also shine

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Winning song of the year was a highlight for Ed Sheeran at Monday night’s Grammy Awards.

Picking it up from Stevie Wonder was the cherry on top.

Sheeran took the big song prize as well as pop solo performance for Thinking Out Loud at the 58th annual Grammys, and he said he’d have been amazed by being handed an award by Wonder “at 11 years old, at 5 years old, at any age, really.” Sheeran also thanked his parents for coming to the show for the fourth time he has been nominated: “Every time I lose they go, ‘Maybe next year!’ ” Kendrick Lamar won best rap album for To Pimp a Butterfly, one of four honors for the artist that also included best rap performance and best rap song for Alright, and best rap/sung collaboration for These Walls with Bilal, Anna Wise and Thundercat.

“This is for hip-hop. This is for Ice Cube. This is for Snoop Dogg.

This is for Nas,” Lamar said when accepting his rap album award Monday night at the Staples Center in Los Angeles. “We will live forever, believe that.”

Taylor Swift struck early with two awards in a pre-show ceremony: best pop vocal album for 1989 and best music video for Bad Blood. She also started off the night’s main ceremony with a rendition of her hit Out of the Woods.

During the early announcements, Swift was in the middle of rehearsals for her performance in the night show televised live, so 1989 producer Jack Antonoff, also frontman of Bleachers, accepted the pop vocal award and rang her on her cellphone onstage.

Ed Sheeran wins song of the year and pop solo performance for Thinking Out Loud.

AMONG THE WINNERS Here’s who won what at the 58th Grammy Awards.

SONG OF THE YEAR

‘Thinking Out Loud,’ Ed Sheeran

BEST NEW ARTIST Meghan Trainor

BEST POP SOLO PERFORMANCE

Ed Sheeran, ‘Thinking Out Loud’

BEST POP VOCAL ALBUM ‘1989,’ Taylor Swift

BEST ALTERNATIVE MUSIC ALBUM ‘Sound & Color,’ Alabama Shakes

BEST URBAN CONTEMPORARY ALBUM The Weeknd, ‘Beauty Behind the Madness’

This is for hip-hop. This is for Ice Cube.

This is for Snoop Dogg.

This is for Nas”

BEST RAP ALBUM

Kendrick Lamar, ‘To Pimp a Butterfly’

BEST COUNTRY ALBUM Chris Stapleton, ‘Traveller’

BEST R&B ALBUM

D’Angelo and the Vanguard, ‘Black Messiah’

Kendrick Lamar, accepting the rap album Grammy

“What? We won!” Swift said via speakerphone while also acknowledging a fellow nominee.

“Is James Taylor there? Can you tell James Taylor I love him? Can someone who knows James Taylor tell him I love him?”

Other artists and groups who won multiple honors: The Weeknd with best urban contemporary album for Beauty Behind the Madness and R&B performance for Earned It; Skrillex and Diplo won dance recording for Where Are Ü Now, a collaboration with Justin Bieber, and top dance/electronic album for Skrillex And Diplo Present Jack Ü.

Alabama Shakes took home alternative music album for Sound & Color and rock song and rock performance for Don’t Wanna Fight. Chris Stapleton took country album and solo performance for Traveller.

Little Big Town won best country duo/group performance for Girl Crush, which won best country song.

Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy, a track from a cappella group Pentatonix’s That’s Christmas to Me, won a best-arrangement award, and best album notes went to Joni Mitchell’s Love Has Many Faces: A Quartet, A Ballet, Waiting to Be Danced.

Jason Isbell captured a couple of Grammys — best American roots song for 24 Frames and Americana album for Something More Than Free — and made sure to thank his wife each time.

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Brittany Howard of Alabama Shakes accepts the award for best rock performance for Don’t Wanna Fight. It was the band’s third trophy of the night so far. pregnant, we decided we should finally make a record together,” Washburn said.

The Amy Winehouse documentary Amy won for best music film, the soundtrack for the documentary Glen Campbell: I’ll Be There garnered a compilation Grammy and the Selma track Glory captured best song.

Birdman composer Antonio Sanchez made up for being disqualified from last year’s Academy Awards by winning the best-soundtrack Grammy. “I want to thank this academy for

the recognition,” he said Broadway’s Hamilton won in the musical theater album category.

Louis CK’s Live at Madison Square Garden took best comedy album, Jimmy Carter became the first U.S. president to win two spoken-word Grammys with a prize for A Full Life: Reflections at Ninety.

And The Steeldrivers’ The Muscle Shoals Recordings finally garnered a bluegrass album trophy for the group after four nominations.

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Buddy Guy’s Born to Play Guitar won best blues album. “At least I know the blues is not dead yet,” Guy said.

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And up for album of the year was Swift’s 1989, The Weeknd’s Beauty Behind the Madness, Alabama Shakes’ Sound & Color and Lamar’s To Pimp a Butterfly.

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$4M renovation of rehab unit nears completion

By Janice Early Lawrence Memorial Hospital

When the renovated Center for Rehabilitation unit reopens on the fourth floor of Lawrence Memorial Hospital next week, patients and visitors will be greeted with a fresh new look highlighted by private rooms, open dining, a home-like family gathering area, a therapy gym and even an apartment to practice daily living skills.

The design continues

the patient-friendly setting LMH is known for with a special emphasis on family involvement and convenience.

Program Director Jaye Cole said although she is looking forward to the physical enhancements brought about by the renovation, the philosophy of the unit will not change.

“Our goal is to prepare patients to return home,” she said.

Patients affected by stroke, hip fractures and other debilitating

illnesses or injuries can find follow-up care after an acute inpatient hospitalization stay by being admitted to the hospital’s fourth floor, which includes 12 acute rehabilitation beds and 14 skilled nursing beds. Both the acute rehabilitation and transitional care unit programs offer services to help patients return to the

highest level of independence possible, although the types and intensity of services vary based on condition and level of rehabilitation required.

“The goal is to return the patient home as functionally independent as possible,” Cole said. “We work intensively on the essentials, such as walking, dressing, bathing, feeding, even swallowing.”

Staffed by physical therapists, physical therapy assistants, occupational therapists, occupational

therapy assistants, speech pathologists, social workers and round-the-clock nurses trained in rehabilitation, the unit relies on a strong interdisciplinary team approach to recovery. Physicians work closely with the staff through daily updates and weekly team meetings to devise a plan of treatment and a plan of discharge for each patient.

The team approach not only applies to the staff, Please see REHAB, page 2C

THE UNBEARABLE CUTENESS OF KIDS Parents’ obsession with their own is only natural

By Dan Coleman Special to the Journal-World

“See my trick?” asks my toddler daughter, Zia. She hops, then tosses a Jell-O box into the air with each hand. The boxes arc wildly in opposite directions and land with a smack on the grocery store floor.

She and her older brother Ray giggle hysterically. I can’t help but chuckle.

“See my trick?” she repeats. Apparently saying this is part of the trick.

Another hop, and the Jell-O flies again. She and Ray laugh harder, I laugh less, and now I notice passersby aren’t laughing at all. Or even smiling.

I put a stop to it after the third demonstration, but Zia’s trick amused me.

To innocent bystanders, though, this little scene was probably never cute. And when I think about it, they

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Dan Coleman’s son, Ray, with food coloring all over his head are right.

Cute or not cute? Zia putters around the front yard one breezy spring morning,

maple seeds helicoptering past. I’ve been washing tree pollen off my windshield all week, and everyone in

the house has seasonal allergies, especially her. She sneezes abruptly and I give chase, hankie in hand, only to discover a windblown dandelion seed stuck in the river of snot on her top lip.

I thought it was precious. But I’m her dad. Still entranced by the memory, I mention it to a friend later that morning and get a reality check. He doesn’t have to say a word; his grossedout facial expression says it all.

It’s not a milestone the so-called experts on parenting ever mention, but I’ve finally reached the point when I realize not everything my kids do is cute to other people. Unfortunately, most of it is still cute to me. So to save myself from gagging anyone else with stories about my darling kids, I’ve devised a simple Please see KIDS, page 2C

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Therapy dogs bring joy to Kansas City hospital patients

By Donald Bradley

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When a child comes to the hospital, they miss their toys, they miss their sibs — a little, but they really miss City, Mo. — Hunter their dogs and cats.”

Kansas City Star

Kansas makes daily rounds at Children’s Mercy Hospital.

Sort of like a doctor — until he jumps into a kid’s bed and gets his tummy rubbed. Doctors can’t do that.

Another difference: When Hunter, a 2-year-old golden retriever, walks into a patient’s hospital room, that child — sometimes a very sick child — usually breaks into smile.

The Kansas City Star reports

— Dr. Maxine Hetherington, Children’s Mercy Hospital oncologist that Aimee Hoflander sees it often. She is a patient activity coordinator at the hospital and Hunter’s handler. She takes him around to visit the kids on 4 Henson, the oncology and hematology floor at Children’s Mercy.

These are the really sick kids.

Bad news, surgeries, isolation,

chemotherapy, long stays.

Then Hunter comes through the door, bright eyes, tail wagging. Plop — right up on the bed.

“I’ve heard parents say it’s the first time they’ve seen their child smile in weeks,” Hoflander said.

Hunter arrived at Children’s Mercy on Hospital Hill last

summer as part of a new facility dog program. His colleague, Hope, arrived a couple of months later at the Children’s Mercy Kansas location in Overland Park. They both live with their handlers and travel back and forth to work. Daily commuters, with business cards.

The therapeutic value of dogs on sick children has been known for years, and other hospitals, including Kansas University Hospital, use them. Dogs cheer up kids, and emotional health Please see DOGS, page 2C

Double Take

Dr. Wes Crenshaw and Gabe Magee

Who gets to decide how you dress?

Dear Dr. Wes & Gabe: I don’t have a problem with the focus of your article on sexism in the adult world (Feb. 2, Journal-World), but I’m not clear on what you’re asking parents to tell their daughters. Do you think young men do not have raging hormones and therefore it is OK to dress however you like? And if you dress immodestly and have a conversation with a man that has a hard time looking you in the eye, then is it his fault? Maybe you could also explain why women dress immodestly in the first place?

Maybe to get attention from men?

Wes: So much to say, so little space. While your point goes well beyond the scope of our original column, it takes us in an important direction. The critical issues here are consent and context. The policy in the Kansas Legislative Ethics Committee defining how women should dress was so far out of context that it was bizarre. If women or men showed up in G-string swimsuits to testify, any modicum of propriety would be violated and everyone would agree that the goal might be sexual distraction. But that never happened, and insinuating that the cut of a woman’s neck- or hemline is only intended to provoke men’s interest ignores fashion trends and good taste.

Further, I would argue that since men are not animals, we have the ability to select what we look at and to respond as we choose, not as our bodies demand of us. Might we notice someone in our attraction profile? Of course.

Where would our species be without sexual desire?

Are we biologically mandated to stare, offer up a goofy smile and drool?

We are not. Arguing otherwise has implications well beyond what we can cover today.

Moreover, a legislative committee — or a classroom, as mentioned in the longer version of your letter — is not a singles bar or frat party, and thus it is not a plausible context for sexual intrigue. The idea that “women dress to get attention from men” in such settings will not be well received by women, nor is it by these columnists. In fact, in most contexts, women dress for themselves first and, sometimes, for each other. Men’s opinions on this topic just aren’t as important as we like to think they are.

These are the foundations for lessons we might want to teach our daughters: A) They do in fact have a right to Please see DRESS, page 2C

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dress as they please and that decision should not diminish them as people; B) Each of us, male or female, should consider context and consent and what we’re marketing in our presentation to make sure we fit both; C) One sex does not get veto power over the other in this regard.

Gabe: Parents should not be unrealistic with their daughters. Some people out there will see them only as sexual

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but to the patients, as well. Patients work together during therapy sessions, and all patients dine together at a structured mealtime.

Cole said the group format offers countless benefits.

“We try to simulate the home environment and make the unit not so institutionalized,” she said. “It really helps patients to see others at a higher level of recovery than themselves. And the social interaction actually helps some patients heal faster.”

There’s even a dedicated “apartment” on the unit for patients to practice activities of daily living. Although no one will actually stay in the apartment, it includes a kitchenette with a stove and refrigerator, a washer and dryer and a

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objects, and there will be nothing they can do about it. But why should the responsibility be on women to police themselves if they’ve done nothing wrong? If someone insults you for who you are, it would not be your fault. The person doing the insulting should be held accountable instead.

Although I agree with Dr. Wes that there are limits, I personally disagree with the notion that young women should be told how to act, how to dress and who to be. They should discover that on their own, as they become their own persons.

Of course parents should raise their children with values in mind, offering a basis from which they can make good decisions. But imposing unwarranted restrictions on your children will instead drive them away from those restrictions.

It’s not mysterious why women dress the way that they do. They do it because they feel like it. Certainly there are instances where they dress to attract attention from potential partners, but I think most just want to wear what they like and what they feel they look good in.

Every woman has a

bathroom with a tub/ shower to give patients the opportunity to work on the skills they need to master once they return home.

Cole believes the program can improve the quality of life in Lawrence and its surrounding communities. With an expected average length of stay of 10 to 12 days for acute rehabilitation patients and even longer for skilled nursing patients, the goal is to return patients home so they can resume a somewhat normal routine. That is an accomplishment Cole finds very rewarding. She said the rehabilitative approach has an important dimension to the continuum of services available.

Medical Director Shari Quick, MD, agreed, stating that the acute rehab unit does more than just correct an underlying medical problem; it creates strategies and techniques to help patients

deal with their medical problems. Dr. Quick is board certified in physical medicine and rehabilitation and serves as attending physician for patients on the unit.

“The Center for Rehabilitation enhances the continuum of care here in Lawrence,” Quick says. “Even if patients have to be transferred to Topeka or Kansas City for acute services we don’t offer at LMH, they don’t have to stay there for their rehabilitation. They can return here and recover close to home knowing they will be receiving excellent care.”

Terrie Kaiser, nursing director of the fourth floor units, noted that staff workflow and accessibility also will improve with updated nursing stations, physicians’ work space, renovated storage areas, ADAcompliant bathrooms in patient rooms, and spacious patient room

different sense of propriety, and any decision about their appearance should not be up to the whims of others — especially since they are disproportionately more targeted by these rules than men.

— Wes Crenshaw, Ph.D., ABPP, is author of “I Always Want to Be Where I’m Not: Successful Living with ADD & ADHD.” Learn about his writing and practice at dr-wes. com. Gabe Magee is a Bishop Seabury Academy senior. Send your confidential 200-word question to ask@dr-wes.com.

Double Take opinions and advice are not a substitute for psychological services.

entryways that allow for easy assisted movement and wheelchair transfers. The original unit was built in 1977.

The renovation cost about $4 million, and nearly half of the cost was funded through contributions to the LMH Endowment Association. The community is invited to get a sneak peek of what that community support built at a public open house from 4:30 to 6 p.m. Feb. 24.

There will be a ribbon cutting and program at 4:30 p.m., followed by tours and refreshments.

For more information about the Center for Rehabilitation at LMH, visit lmh.org/ acuterehab or call 785505-6470.

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test all parents can use.

Next time you’re not sure if your kids are being cute, just ask an imaginary third party, preferably a figure well-known for level-headed fairness —Judge Judy, say, or the ghost of Walter Cronkite.

I’ve had good luck with Yoda, from whom I sought an opinion on this recent case. Chilly from guzzling an entire bottle of chocolate milk on the coldest morning of the year, Ray hunkered down on the couch with a favorite stuffed animal. There he lay, a 5-year-old boy in a red ball cap with a supersoft white kitty beneath his fuzzy blue blanket, a writhing mass of cuteness so all-American it could only have been completed by the presence of a bald eagle feeding him regurgitated fish. Then he blurted out: “Take a picture so Mama can see how cute this is!”

His utter self-absorption should have killed the moment, but, amazingly, I fetched the camera and shared the photo, along with our son’s oh-so-cutely self-conscious comment, with my wife.

What is the matter with me? I’m bewitched.

Bothered and bewildered, too, but that goes without saying. Ella Fitzgerald had romance in mind when she sang those words, but enchantment with one’s

— Janice Early, MBA, is vice president of marketing and communications at Lawrence Memorial Hospital, which is a major sponsor of WellCommons.

She can be reached at janice.early@lmh.org.

children is an emotional spell just as powerful, and crucial to the survival of the human species. It may even be the bedrock of the whole parenting enterprise, for how else could anyone endure it?

Skeptics need only put this question to parents of young kids: After you battle through bedtime, tidy up your devastated living space and retire to some dark corner for a few minutes of rocking back and forth in a ball, do you ever find yourself, on a device offering countless other worthy distractions, clicking inexplicably on photos of those same brutes who just mopped the floor with you all day?

My wife and I, who have wasted so many priceless hours of adult free time doing just this, can only plead temporary insanity.

What better word is there to describe waiting hours for someone to fall asleep, then gazing at their picture as soon as they do? Speaking of, I need to take another look at that photo Audrey put up earlier of Ray right after he emptied the food coloring bottles all over his head.

When is Facebook going to let us “love” stuff, anyway?

— Dan Coleman is secretary on the board of Dads of Douglas County. He is a part-time stay-at-home dad, but in his other life he is a librarian at the Lawrence Public Library, where he selects children’s and parenting books for the Children’s Room. He can be reached at danielfcoleman@yahoo.com.

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plays a factor in physical health. Reduces stress, calms, improve spirits.

So Children’s Mercy began bringing in dogs long ago through volunteer organizations like Pet Pals, said Missy Stover, the system’s child life volunteer and therapeutic programs supervisor who manages the new dog program.

But those visits mostly came one day a week or so.

Stover and others wanted more. They wanted the hospital to have its own fulltime dogs and finally got them last year with Hunter and Hope, who were trained, beginning when they were pups, at Canine Assistants, an Atlanta-based organization that provides service dogs to individuals and facility dogs to pediatric hospitals across the country.

Dr. Maxine Hetherington, an oncologist and hematologist at Children’s Mercy, sees the value every day.

“When a child comes to the hospital, they miss their toys, they miss their sibs — a little, but they really miss their dogs and cats,” Hetherington said. “Having Hunter here has made Children’s Mercy a little more like home.

“He brings a calming influence to a frightened child, and that’s really important.”

At Children’s Mercy Kansas, Kenzie Nelson, 7, of Hiawatha, put it this way about Hope.

“She makes me happy.”

Hope can read a room, said handler Allison Bowring. When a child or even a parent seems sad, the dog will go over and put her head on their lap.

“She can tell what’s going on,” Bowring said.

“When she’s at work — she’s on, and it’s amazing to watch.”

Bowring paused.

“She knows why she’s here.”

Hoflander tells a story about a teenage boy being asked by a schoolteacher about some celebrities who had visited the hospital.

Yeah, yeah, they were cool, the boy said. But mainly he wanted to talk about somebody else he got to see: Hunter.

“You know, the dog?” he said. “Aimee had to give him a treat to leave because he wanted to sleep in here with me.”

A morning last week at the main hospital, Hunter walked the hallway through Henson 4. Heads turned, people smiled. Everybody knows Hunter.

He’s happy, smart. He knows where to stand when the automatic doors swing open.

Want to pet him?

Wait! Got to get hands sprayed first. The kids all know that. When the dog enters their room, the kids hold up their hands for Hoflander’s spray bottle.

First visit was Tyler Regier of Overland

Park. He’s 3. He recently spent time in isolation, and when he got out he said, “Now I can see Hunter!”

Tyler’s mom, Tina, said the dog always cheers up Tyler no matter what’s going on.

On this visit, Tyler thought a Captain America book would be the way to go. Hoflander started reading and when she got to the part about defeating Hydra, Hunter laid his head on the floor and closed his eyes.

He must have already heard this story.

Next up was Jacob Schuetz, 15, from Olathe. Hunter jumped on his bed. Jacob smiled and leaned forward to scratch his ears. The dog sprawled on his back across the bed. Tummy time.

“You’re really enjoying this, aren’t you?” Jacob said in a near whisper.

His mother, Melody Schuetz, watched from across the room. Jacob misses his dog at home, she said. Stress isn’t good for her son, and Hunter seems to relax him.

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After a few minutes, Hoflander had to shake the treat package to get Hunter to climb down from Jacob’s bed.

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Dear Annie: For 10 years, I have had an unwritten business partnership with a woman 26 years my senior.

It has mostly worked well, until “Doris” crashed her car into a tree two years ago and had her license suspended.

Though no one was hurt, and the tree survived, the car was totaled, and Doris isn’t allowed to drive anymore.

Since then, her many friends have provided transportation for her. Her children, two of whom are within an hour’s drive, have helped shuttle her around, but not as much as the rest of us.

Worse, they don’t acknowledge their mother’s shortcomings. They don’t know what her schedule is

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Lately, Doris has become a liability regarding our real estate business. She forgets details about contracts, inspections and disclosure. I end up doing all of the work and still splitting the commission with her. My broker, who is Doris’ partner of 40 years, won’t

A timely ‘Panthers’ profile History arrives, jangling with reverberations, in the form of the 2015 documentary “The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution,” an “Independent Lens” (8 p.m., PBS, check local listings) presentation.

Seven years in the making, “Vanguard” recalls the audacious organization that emerged on the streets of Oakland, California, in the mid-1960s and quickly spread to urban centers around America.

It does not strive for lofty objectivity.

“Vanguard” includes first-person accounts from dozens of former Panthers, some true believers, others who grew disenfranchised, and a number who were turned into FBI informants.

We also hear from retired policemen and federal agents who had been targets of the Panthers’ rhetoric and more.

Fifty years on, the Panthers’ origins still seem startling. To confront perceived police brutality, the organization’s founders used a loophole in the city’s “open carry” gun laws. Brandishing weapons, they would descend on reports of authorities arresting black citizens.

Alarmed at the prospect of militants wielding rifles, the California legislature pushed through gun-control laws. Viewers accustomed to contemporary cable-news conversation may do a double take when they see left-wing militants extolling their second amendment rights and then-Gov. Ronald Reagan explaining the common sense of gun control.

“Vanguard” is rich with period footage, and clips of Panther leaders being interviewed on “Face the Nation” and other TV talk and news shows.

Much is also made of Panther style, and how the defiant look of black beret-wearing men and women clad in leather and sporting exotic Afros became catnip to news photographers, film producers, musicians and other image- makers.

It’s a style that was re-invoked at Beyonce’s performance during the recent Super Bowl halftime show. A mere glimpse of this Panther style set off gales of outrage by some, who claimed the pop singer was “attacking” police.

These critics should watch this documentary to see how William F. Buckley, founder of the modern conservative movement, often engaged with Panthers on his “Firing Line” program. If he could debate Eldridge Cleaver, today’s talking heads might learn to deal with Beyonce’s beret.

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on your present course. Tonight: Time to celebrate!

Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) HHHH You are more than willing to take the lead, but you feel as if someone is holding you back.

Tonight: Out till the wee hours.

Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) HHHH Reach out to an older friend who always presents a different perspective. Tonight: Time to detach.

Scorpio (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) HHHHH You might have difficulty letting go of some habits and certain types of behavior. Tonight: Accept a special invitation.

Sagittarius (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) HHH You might feel as if you can’t reveal the whole story about a personal situation. Tonight: Go along with a suggestion.

Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) HHH You still have your hands full. Don’t question what is happening behind the scenes. Tonight: Walk off some stress.

Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) HHHH Some people don’t seem to understand your mischievous and somewhat sarcastic side. Tonight: Someone’s mood delights you.

Pisces (Feb. 19-March 20) HHH Pressure builds on the homefront. There is little you can do to change the flow of events.

Tonight: Head home.

— The astrological forecast should be read for entertainment only.

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KANSAS UNIVERSITY GUARD FRANK MASON III (0) THROWS A PASS between Oklahoma State forward Mitchell Solomon (41) and guard Jeffrey Carroll during the second half of KU’s 94-67 victory Monday at Allen Fieldhouse. At left is KU’s Landen Lucas.

Self not thrilled despite revenge

By Gary Bedore gbedore@ljworld.com

Kansas University’s No. 2-ranked basketball team did enact its revenge on the Big 12’s ninth-place team — Oklahoma State — on Monday night, winning by 27 points in Allen Fieldhouse after losing to the Cowboys by 19 on Jan. 19 in Stillwater, Okla.

The 94-67 Jayhawk beatdown didn’t seem all that satisfying to coach Bill Self, however. His Jayhawks were coming off Saturday’s emotional 76-72 victory over Oklahoma in Norman.

Lucas learns from bench time

KU (22-4, 10-3) saw an 18-point lead dip to six over the Cowboys (12-14, 3-10) with 11:18 to play, courtesy of an unsightly 17-5 OSU run.

“It didn’t hurt us (KU players) tonight when the KANSAS BIG MAN LANDEN LUCAS (33) SWATS a other team scored. Against shot by Oklahoma State guard Joe Burton.

OU, it hurt us when they scored on us. It was a breakdown when they (Sooners) MUCH MORE ONLINE scored,” Self said of the Jayhawk players almost taking n For more pictures from KU’s victory over it as a personal affront when Oklahoma State, visit www.kusports.com/kubthe Sooners (20-4, 8-4) ball21516, and check out our YouTube page at cashed a basket. www.kusports.com/kusportsonyoutube for video highlights and other hoops videos.

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Some bench warmers pout. Others shout, lending support to teammates.

Some check out the scenery in the stands. Others sit on their hands, draining the energy out of that section of the building.

Fourth-year junior Landen Lucas, a barge when running next to a speed boat like Perry Ellis, knows how to watch basketball. So he watched and put himself in the position of the players on the floor. It worked.

His father, Richard Lucas, played at the University of Oregon (1987-91) and is a

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CITY SHOWDOWN • BOWLING

LHS girls, FSHS boys split crowns

By Bobby Nightengale bnightengale@ljworld.com

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LAWRENCE HIGH SENIOR MIRANDA KROM ROLLS on her way to winning the girls individual title at the bowling City Showdown on Monday at Royal Crest Lanes. Krom rolled a 628 series to pace the Lions to the girls team title. Free State won the boys title.

Lawrence High senior Miranda Krom admitted she was frustrated by the ups and downs of her bowling season.

Until Monday.

Krom posted her best three-game series of the season, leading the LHS girls bowling team to a victory in the City Showdown on Senior Night at Royal Crest Lanes. The Lions won by 179 pins over Free State (2,267-2,088).

For the past three seasons, Krom has been one of the most consistent bowlers for the Lions. Last week, she

rolled a season-low 444 series before rebounding by knocking down 200-plus pins in each game Monday, finishing with a 628 series.

“The time went by so fast,” Krom said. “I almost started crying because it was Senior Night. It sounds pathetic. But it was really good. It turned out great.”

Along with Krom’s big day, Morgan Daniels rolled a 557, Holly Evans finished with a 508, and Diamonique Vann had a 505. Senior Izzy Schmidtberger struggled to find her rhythm before rolling a 208 in her third and final game.

Krom said bowling on Senior Night was “more

happy and fun than emotional.” For a few bowlers, including Krom, competing for bragging rights against crosstown rivals brought out their best.

“I hit my mark more, and my arm didn’t go across my body,” Krom said. “I actually focused more on that today.”

Free State was led by seniors Gentry Jordan (538 pins) and Hailey Jump (520), which included a 212 in the third game by Jump.

“There were some ups and downs,” Free State coach Burton Gepford said.

“Our goal for the ladies is a 2100, and they fell a little short of that. Knowing that

they were so close, and they have so much room to grow, they have a lot to look forward to in the Sunflower (League) tournament this week.”

Free State’s boys team, which has won seven of its eight meets, won by 35 pins over Lawrence (2,5752,540). In the second game of the series, FSHS seniors Matthew Eagle and Avery Allen, and juniors Alex Jimenez and Alex Craig all posted scores higher than 210.

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There is a number in front of Duke again. After two weeks of being one of the unranked, the Blue Devils are finally back in the Associated Press Top 25.

One of the longest streaks of consecutive poll appearances ended two weeks ago when Duke dropped out of the rankings. Its run of 167 consecutive polls started with the preseason Top 25 of 2006-07. A run of four losses in five games knocked the Blue Devils from the ranks of the ranked.

A four-game winning streak has Duke (19-6) at No. 20 and if the Blue Devils go on a run similar to their last one they will be ranked until sometime in the 2024-25 season.

On top again Villanova is starting its second week at No. 1. The Wildcats no longer have to worry about being one of those eight schools that were No. 1 for just one week.

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before dropping out last week.

The Hoosiers come back to the rankings having lost two of their last three games — the win was over No. 4 Iowa. Before that they had won six of seven.

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UConn continued its dominant run through the regular season.

The Huskies remained No. 1 in the Associated Press women’s basketball poll Monday for the 20th consecutive week after beating then-No. 2 South Carolina and Temple last week. The Huskies have won 61 straight games and six consecutive victories in matchups between the top two teams in the AP poll.

They play Cincinnati and East Carolina this week having won their first 24 games by an average of nearly 40 points.

The Gamecocks dropped one spot to third, switching places with Notre Dame. South Carolina faces No. 24 Tennessee on Monday night.

The Lady Vols won their lone game last week against Vanderbilt to stay in the Top 25 for a 565th consecutive week.

They have a busy week hosting the Gamecocks and Mississippi on Thursday before visiting LSU on Sunday.

Baylor and Ohio State were fourth and fifth. Maryland, Oregon State, Texas, Arizona State and Florida State round out the first 10 teams in the Top 25.

Syracuse re-entered the poll at No. 23 after dropping out of the rankings in early December. The Orange have won a season-best six straight games to get back into the poll.

“We’re healthy and rested and ready,” Syracuse coach Quentin Hillsman said. “As you get towards the end of the season, the kids understand what you’re trying to do. The system’s clicking a little bit and we’ve been able to keep our players on the floor. We had Notre Dame and Louisville back to back in a short turnaround. They are two of the top 10 teams in the country.”

The Orange are led by a strong group of seniors who will be playing their final home game on Thursday against No. 10 Florida State. They have the best winning percentage in school history.

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MARYLAND CENTER DIAMOND STONE, RIGHT, speaks with teammate Melo Trimble in the first half of a game against Wisconsin on Saturday in College Park, Md. Maryland coach Mark Turgeon suspended Stone one game on Monday after the player committed a flagrant foul during the game

Maryland suspends Stone over flagrant foul College Park, Md. — Maryland freshman center Diamond Stone has been suspended for a game by coach Mark Turgeon for his behavior Saturday against Wisconsin.

Stone was issued a dead-ball technical foul late in the first half. After Stone and Wisconsin’s Vitto Brown went to the floor underneath the basket, Stone pushed Brown’s face onto the court after they became untangled.

Turgeon said Monday that Stone will miss Thursday’s game at Minnesota.

The Big Ten office backed up the suspension with a public reprimand of Stone for “violating the Big Ten Sportsmanship Policy.”

Turgeon issued an apology to Brown and Wisconsin coach Greg Gard, calling Stone’s conduct “a poor representation of the standards” set at Maryland.

“I have talked with Diamond and he realizes he made a mistake,” Turgeon said. “He felt very badly about what happened and will learn from this experience.”

Referees called Stone for a flagrant foul but did not eject him from the game, which thensecond ranked Maryland lost 70-57.

In a statement, Stone called his behavior “unacceptable” and apologized to Brown.

“I regret that I let the emotions of the game get the best of me,” Stone said. “I let my team down and I accept full responsibility for my actions.”

Stone is averaging 13 points and 5.6 rebounds a game for the Terrapins (22-4), who fell to No. 6 in the rankings released Monday.

TENNIS

Nadal not afraid of Zika virus Rio de Janeiro — Former No. 1 Rafael Nadal says he’s “not scared” of the Zika virus as he prepares in Brazil — the center of the viral outbreak — for this week’s Rio Open tennis tournament and the city’s Olympics in less than six months.

Nadal won Olympic gold in the Beijing Olympics, but missed London because of an injury.

He is the top-seeded man in the tournament and fellow Spaniard David Ferrer is No. 2, and both on Monday said they were confident the tournament was doing all it could to control the mosquitoes that spread the virus.

Ferrer says he’ll be wearing long sleeves and long trousers when he goes out socially in the morning and evening. He says “I’ll try to take those precautions, but I’m not obsessed about it.”

TV

NBA All-Star ratings up Toronto — The NBA All-Star Game averaged 7.6 million viewers, up 6 percent over 2015, according to Nielsen’s ratings.

The West’s 196-173 victory saw a peak audience of 8.7 million for a 15-minute segment from 8:45-9 p.m. EST. The game was the most-viewed program on cable television Sunday night.

It was the first NBA All-Star game held outside the United States, so host city Toronto is not reflected in Nielsen ratings.

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VIRGINIA GUARD DEVON HALL (0) SHOOTS during the Cavaliers’ 73-53 victory over North Carolina State on Monday in Charlottesville, Va.

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Virginia blasts NC State Charlottesville, Va. (ap) — Malcolm Brogdon might not have a tougher defensive assignment for the rest of the season than he had on Monday night, and No. 7 Virginia’s fifthyear senior would do well to repeat what he managed against Cat Barber should a similar opportunity ever arise.

“I love playing against great players. He’s a great player, a great scorer,” Brogdon said of Barber (24.1 ppg), who leads the ACC in scoring by a wide margin. “I don’t know if I was extra juiced up. I’m juiced up every night, but I definitely looked forward to playing him.”

Brogdon scored 22 points, helped limit Barber to 14, and the Cavaliers

took command with a 13-2 run in a 73-53 victory.

The game, coming on a the heels of a controversial, last-second loss at Duke on Saturday, was the perfect tonic for the Cavaliers, point guard London Perrantes said.

Brogdon had seven points in the first five minutes and 12 by halftime.

“Malcolm especially takes stuff like that personal,” Perrantes said of the matchup with Barber. “I think we all took this game pretty personal, especially coming after that loss.”

Any question that the Cavaliers had moved on was answered as the second half began with the scored tied at 31.

Isaiah Wilkins hit a jumper, Anthony Gill

scored his first points of the night on a dunk, and Brogdon hit an 18-footer.

Brogdon missed a driving layup off a steal, but Gill was there for a putback dunk, and after Caleb Martin’s three-pointer, Brogdon hit a three, and Wilkins had a dunk.

NC STATE (13-13) Abu 0-0 1-2 1, Freeman 4-5 1-2 9, Barber 4-11 5-6 14, Co. Martin 6-10 0-0 12, Rowan 1-10 0-0 3, Ca. Martin 1-7 3-6 6, Anya 3-4 2-2 8. Totals 19-47 12-18 53.

VIRGINIA (21-5) Gill 3-8 0-0 6, Wilkins 3-6 0-0 6, Hall 3-5 0-0 6, Brogdon 9-13 0-0 22, Perrantes 6-11 2-2 19, Shayok 1-2 1-2 4, Tobey 3-4 1-1 7, Nolte 0-1 0-0 0, Kirven 0-0 0-0 0, Reuter 1-2 1-1 3, Salt 0-1 0-0 0, Thompson 0-1 0-0 0. Totals 29-54 5-6 73.

Halftime-Tied 31-31. Three-Point Goals-NC State 3-16 (Barber 1-3, Rowan 1-6, Ca. Martin 1-6, Co. Martin 0-1), Virginia 10-18 (Perrantes 5-8, Brogdon 4-7, Shayok 1-1, Nolte 0-1, Thompson 0-1). Rebounds-NC State 27 (Co. Martin 6), Virginia 27 (Wilkins 13).

Assists-NC State 5 (Barber 2), Virginia 21 (Brogdon, Perrantes 5). Total FoulsNC State 11, Virginia 14. A-14,016.

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finished with a 671. Meanwhile, Lawrence senior Morgan Sisson and sophomore Javier Lemmons each bowled a 670.

“This is fun. I love bowling,” Sisson said. “Free State, I have friends there.

It’s fun bowling with my friends. I’m just here for a good time and a little bit of competition. It’s really about enjoying the sport.”

Speaking of the competition, several bowlers posted long strings of strikes. Allen rolled six straight strikes in his second game, finishing with a 255 — the highest game among all competitors. Eagle and LHS sophomore Hunter Krom also bowled six straight strikes in a game.

“It was a great day for the team and my personal self,” said Allen, who was fifth overall with a 638 series.

Said Gepford: “There was definitely a lot of emotions and a lot of things that have been going on this last week with our team members and different things. They do really well coming together as a team and working hard and achieving their goal.”

Despite the loss, the Lions were encouraged by their narrow loss against the Firebirds. Hunter Krom bowled a 626, and Adonis Stanwix and Montez Sanchez each had games above 200.

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Both schools will compete in the league meet Thursday at Olathe Lanes East. Lawrence’s girls bowlers and Free State’s boys won titles last year.

City Showdown dual Monday at Royal Crest Lanes BOYS Varsity team scores: Free State 2575, Lawrence 2540.

FSHS varsity: Alex Jimenez, 214-226232 — 672; Matthew Eagle, 231-226214 — 671; Avery Allen, 182-255-201 — 638; Alex Craig, 179-214-182 — 575; Cameron Edens, 181-201-178 — 560; Matt Meseke, 170-183-199 — 552.

LHS varsity: Morgan Sisson, 189-245236 — 670; Javier Lemmons, 203-224243 — 670; Hunter Krom, 232-190-204 — 626; Montez Sanchez, 210-171-175 — 556; Adonis Stanwix, 202-173-151 — 526; Triston Decker, 178-168-178 — 524.

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FSHS JV: Dylan Edwinson, 191-127187 — 505; Zach Lockwood, 130-184165 — 479; Sam Fanshier, 138-168-162 — 468; Cody Thompson, 150-193-110 — 453; Austin Petefish, 182-145-118 — 445; Cam Edgecomb, 127-126-166 — 419.

LHS JV: Cameron Stussie, 174-176183 — 533; Jared Radford, 176-168148 — 492; Quinton Cress, 133-181-159 — 473; Noah Goepfert, 160-151-159 — 470; Pride Leggins, 134-153-118 — 405; Canten Ambrose, 136-120-126 — 382.

GIRLS Varsity team scores: Lawrence 2267, Free State 2088.

LHS varsity: Miranda Krom, 202-214212 — 628; Morgan Daniels, 225-160172 — 557; Holly Evans, 169-179-160 — 508; Diamonique Vann, 138-190-177 — 505; Izzy Schmidtberger, 159-127208 — 494; Renea McNemee, 110-132129 — 371.

FSHS varsity: Gentry Jordan, 176192-170 — 538; Hailey Jump, 157-151212 — 520; Sapphie Knight, 149-181162 — 492; Jamie Souders, 171-147-174 — 492; Sydney Jordan, 191-108-131 — 430; Brianna Burenheide, 133-128166 — 427.

Junior varsity team scores: Lawrence 1714, Free State 1566.

LHS JV: Hannah Reed, 161-147-171 — 479; Carli Stellwagon, 177-125-132 — 434; Ashley Dykes, 102-141-167 — 410; Sofia Rommel, 142-121-120 — 383; Kira Auchenbach, 110-79-108 — 297; Sierra Magdaleno, 81-107-86 — 274.

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KANSAS PLAYERS, FROM LEFT, SVI MYKHAILIUK, Lagerald Vick, Hunter Mickelson, Evan Manning and Tyler Self celebrate a bucket by Landen Lucas.

KU pounces on OSU errors

By Matt Tait mtait@ljworld.com

It’s hard enough for a coach to live with mistakes by his team on any given night against any opponent. When that opponent is the No. 2-ranked team in the country, which was the challenge Oklahoma State faced Monday night in Allen Fieldhouse against Kansas University, living with mistakes is not an option.

“They made us pay,” OSU coach Travis Ford a 94-67 loss to KU. “Every mistake (we made), they made us pay.”

The final score does not illustrate the two stretches of Monday’s game controlled by the Cowboys. Ford, who twice described his bunch as the “walking wounded,” said he was pleased by the way his team started the game but disappointed by how it finished each half.

He did, of course, concede that the Jayhawks had something to do with that.

“You just can’t come in here and give up 94 points,” Ford said. “Our defense doesn’t usually do that, so give Kansas credit. ... That’s why Kansas is Kansas.”

According to the Cowboys (12-14, 3-10), Monday’s game plan was to limit KU’s transition buckets, keep Kansas from getting second shots and execute sound threepoint defense.

“And we weren’t successfully in any of the three,” Ford said.

OSU guard Jeff Newberry said attention to detail, on both ends of the floor, was the biggest killer for the Cowboys. And he cited

everything from not boxing out and missing an assignment to not executing the proper plays at the proper times.

“We had some things we thought were gonna work, and they did work,” Ford said. “We just had some guys that completely lost it and didn’t run it. We just didn’t have enough guys on the same page.”

Added Newberry, before trailing off while shrugging his shoulders: “If you’re not paying attention to detail ... they’re the No. 2 team in the country.”

And, really, that was the extent of it for an Oklahoma State team playing without freshman sensation Jawun Evans, whom KU coach Bill Self said completely controlled the first meeting, a 19-point OSU win in Stillwater, Okla., a few weeks ago.

“When they’re rollin’ ...

I haven’t seen any team better,” Ford said. “OU’s really, really good in our league. And Iowa State’s really good. And Baylor.

We’ve got some really good teams. And Kansas, when I just look at the make-up of their team, I don’t know that there’s much missing. They’ve got great guards, they’ve got great big men, they’ve got a great bench, they’ve got experience. I don’t know what they really don’t have.

“I’m sure every team in America would love to be a little bit better at something. But, man, I really like their team. They’re obviously extremely well coached, and I think they’re playing great basNick Krug/Journal-World Photos ketball right now, when you want to play really KANSAS UNIVERSITY FRESHMAN FORWARD CHEICK DIALLO (13) BLOCKS A SHOT by Oklahoma State forward Chris Olivier during the first half of the Jayhawks’ 94-67 victory on Monday at Allen Fieldhouse. good basketball.”

Kansas

BOX SCORE OKLAHOMA STATE (67)

MIN FG FT REB PF TP m-a m-a o-t L. Hammonds 19 0-2 2-2 1-2 3 2 Jeffrey Carroll 36 4-12 2-2 1-4 2 13 Mitchell Solomon 28 4-8 0-3 1-2 3 9 Tyree Griffin 38 1-4 0-0 0-3 1 2 Jeff Newberry 25 6-10 6-6 1-4 4 19 Tavarius Shine 21 3-7 3-3 0-3 4 11 Joe Burton 14 0-2 1-2 0-1 0 1 Chris Olivier 14 4-8 1-3 2-5 0 9 Anthony Allen 4 0-1 1-2 0-1 1 1 Igor Ibaka 1 0-0 0-0 0-0 0 0 Davon Dillard 1 0-0 0-0 0-0 0 0 team 1-2 Totals 22-54 16-23 7-27 18 67 Three-point goals: 7-20 (Carroll 3-7, Shine 2-4, Newberrry 1-2, Solomon 1-3, Burton 0-1, Griffin 0-1, Hammonds 0-2).

Assists: 15 (Griffin 12, Hammonds, Carroll, Newberry). Turnovers: 8 (Griffin 3, Burton 2, Carroll, Solomon, team). Blocked shots: 5 (Solomon 3, Carroll, Olivier). Steals: 4 (Griffin, Burton, Shine, Olivier).

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“Today it was, ‘OK, well, we’ll be all right.’

We’ve got to get rid of that attitude, but it was good to see the ball go in the hole,” Self added after six of his players scored in double figures and hit 50 percent of their shots, including 11 of 21 threes.

Landen Lucas scored a career-high 14 points and grabbed 10 rebounds as the Jayhawks showed fight on the glass by outboarding OSU, 45-27.

Meanwhile, Wayne Selden Jr. had 18 points, Perry Ellis 15 points and Frank Mason III 14 points, six assists and five rebounds.

Brannen Greene added 11 points and five boards, Devonté Graham 10 points and Carlton Bragg Jr. six points.

“We weren’t near as focused. I anticipated it,” Self said of a KU team that moved to No. 1 in overall RPI after Saturday’s victory against the powerful Sooners. “I think we played a little tired. The thing is, our guys play better when they are nervous about it. Tonight we had inner confidence, which is good. I don’t think we had

KANSAS GUARD WAYNE SELDEN JR. (1) PUTS UP A SHOT against Oklahoma State guard Tyree Griffin (2), guard Leyton Hammonds and forward Mitchell Solomon during the second half. At left are Kansas forward Perry Ellis (34) and Oklahoma State guard Tavarius Shine (5). the intensity level we had in Norman.”

KU junior guard Greene, who cashed three threes in three tries and had his third straight solid performance since his one-minute outing at TCU, agreed the team didn’t quite have the energy defensively Monday night.

“I don’t think we stopped them like we should have,” Greene said

of OSU, which hit 40.7 percent of its shots and seven of 20 threes. The Pokes led by as many as nine points the first half.

“They were getting shots off their actions. I think we were a little bit tired. It was a quick turnaround from Saturday,” Greene added. “Obviously, knowing what was at stake from the Oklahoma game (first place in league) ... we might have

been a little more turned up. I think we were. I still think we did our job and got it done (vs. OSU).”

Greene is out of the coach’s doghouse, so to speak, after dunking the basketball right before the final buzzer sounded in KU’s 77-59 victory over K-State on Feb. 3.

“To me, it was kind of meaningless. I didn’t really mean much out of it,” Greene said. “I looked

KANSAS (94)

MIN FG FT REB PF TP m-a m-a o-t Landen Lucas 26 5-8 4-5 5-10 3 14 Pery Ellis 25 6-13 2-2 1-4 2 15 Frank Mason III 33 4-9 5-7 2-5 0 14 Wayne Selden Jr. 29 5-12 4-7 0-5 2 18 Devonté Graham 30 4-7 0-0 0-3 2 10 Brannen Greene 18 4-5 0-0 1-5 2 11 Jamari Traylor 13 1-2 0-0 1-1 1 2 Cheick Diallo 7 0-2 0-0 1-5 2 0 Carlton Bragg Jr. 7 1-2 4-4 0-1 2 6 Lagerald Vick 3 0-1 0-0 0-0 0 0 Svi Mykhailiuk 3 0-1 0-0 0-0 0 0 Hunter Mickelson 3 1-2 0-0 1-1 2 2 Tyler Self 2 0-0 0-0 0-0 0 0 Evan Manning 1 0-0 0-0 0-0 1 0 team 4-4 Totals 32-64 19-25 16-45 19 94 Three-point goals: 11-21 (Selden 4-7, Greene 3-3, Graham 2-5, Mason 1-2, Ellis 1-3, Vick 0-1). Assists: 12 (Mason 6, Graham 3, Bragg 2, Ellis). Turnovers: 7 (Diallo 2, Lucas, Ellis, Mykhailiuk, Greene, team). Blocked shots: 5 (Diallo 3, Lucas, Traylor). Steals: 2 (Graham, Bragg).

Oklahoma State 34 33 — 67 Kansas 47 47 — 94 Officials: Joe DeRosa, Gary Maxwell, Ray Natili. Attendance: 16,300.

forward. I kept working, kept trying to get better.

That’s all it was. I kind of tuned it out. I do apologize and am sorry for it.

I’m just ready to play.

It’s about the basketball game.”

Greene has grabbed 12 rebounds the last three games while playing double-digit minutes against West Virginia, Oklahoma and OSU. He played 18 minutes Monday night, hitting four of five shots overall.

“Coach has been emphasizing it,” Greene said of attacking the glass.

“That’s what I’ve been trying to do.

“Playing better is what gets you on the court,” Greene added. “And trying to do better on defense. If you do what coach wants, he’ll play you. The main thing is, we’re winning right now, and I’m very happy.

“I think everybody wants the same goal on our team. We want to win the Big 12 title for sure. We also know in the postseason there are things we want to take care of, too. Our focus is continuing to win.”

Next attempt will be 5 p.m. Saturday at Kansas State. Greene figures to be booed heavily by Wildcat fans following that dunk in Lawrence.

“It is what it is. Probably so,” he said of fans getting on him in Bramlage Coliseum. “It won’t faze me much. I don’t really care too much about that.”

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KANSAS UNIVERSITY GUARD WAYNE SELDEN JR. (1) DRIVES against Oklahoma State’s Jeffrey Carroll (30) during the second half of KU’s 94-67 rout Monday at Allen Fieldhouse.

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KU’s Selden busts shooting slump

By Gary Bedore gbedore@ljworld.com

Kansas University basketball coach Bill Self had an inkling Wayne Selden Jr. would have a productive performance against Oklahoma State on Monday night in Allen Fieldhouse.

“I could tell his shot was on today at shootaround. He was shooting with confidence,” Self said after 6-foot-5 junior Selden busted a slump by scoring 18 points off 4-of7 three-point shooting in KU’s 94-67 victory. Overall, he hit five of 12 shots and four of seven free throws.

“He had a chance to have a better line than what he did,” Self added.

Selden had scored 22 points total the last four games since his 33-point outing versus Kentucky.

He had hit nine of 28 shots in that span.

“It felt good to see it

KANSAS SCHEDULE Nov. 4 — Pittsburg State (exhibition), W 89-66 Nov. 10 — Fort Hays State (exhibition), W 95-59 Nov. 13 — Northern Colorado, W 109-72 (1-0) Nov. 17 — Michigan State at Chicago United Center, L 73-79 (1-1) Nov. 23 — Chaminade at Maui Invitational, W 123-72 (2-1) Nov. 24 — UCLA at Maui Invitational, W 92-73 (3-1) Nov. 25 — Vanderbilt at Maui Invitational, W 70-63 (4-1) Dec. 1 — Loyola (Md.), W 94-61 (5-1) Dec. 5 — Harvard, W 75-69 (6-1) Dec. 9 — Holy Cross, W 92-59 (7-1) Dec. 12 — Oregon State at Kansas City Shootout, Sprint Center, W 82-67 (8-1) Dec. 19 — Montana, W 88-46 (9-1) Dec. 22 — at San Diego State, W 70-57 (10-1) Dec. 29 — UC Irvine, W 78-53 (11-1) Jan. 2 — Baylor, W 102-74 (121, 1-0) Jan. 4 — Oklahoma, W 109-106, 3 OT (13-1, 2-0) Jan. 9 — at Texas Tech, W 69-59 (14-1, 3-0) Jan. 12 — at West Virginia, L 63-74 (14-2, 3-1) Jan. 16 — TCU, W 70-63 (15-2, 4-1) Jan. 19 — at Oklahoma State, L 67-86 (15-3, 4-2) Jan. 23 — Texas, W 76-67 (163, 5-2) Jan. 25 —at Iowa State, L 72-85 (16-4, 5-3) Jan. 30 — Kentucky in Big 12/ SEC Challenge, W 90-84, OT (17-4) Feb. 3 — Kansas State, W 77-59 (18-4, 6-3) Feb. 6 — at TCU, W 75-56 (194, 7-3) Feb. 9 — West Virginia, W 75-65 (20-4, 8-3) Feb. 13 — at Oklahoma, W 76-62 (21-4, 9-3) Feb. 15 — Oklahoma State, W 94-67 (22-4, 10-3) Feb. 20 — at Kansas State, 5 p.m.

Feb. 23 —at Baylor, 7 p.m.

Feb. 27 — Texas Tech, 11 a.m. or 1 p.m.

Feb. 29 — at Texas, 8 p.m.

March 5 — Iowa State, TBA March 9-12 — Big 12 tournament at Kansas City, Mo.

go in the hoop. I’ve been shooting like I’ve always been, waiting for it to go in,” Selden said. “My teammates kept telling me to shoot.”

Of KU’s play, Selden said: “For the most part, I think we can push the tempo a little more. It’s all about that initial getting the rebound and pushing the ball the first few dribbles to set the tone.” l

Big O in house: Former KU center Greg Ostertag attended the game with his son, Cody, and was introduced to the fans during a timeout. l

Graham honored: KU sophomore guard Devonté Graham on Monday was named Big 12 player of the week following his 27-point outing against Oklahoma.

The 6-2 native of Raleigh, N.C., scored 16 points in the final eight

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game of his young career,” Self said on the Big 12 coaches teleconference. “He has really played well against OU. He had 22 the first game (in win in Lawrence).

This game he totally gave himself up defensively trying to guard Buddy and still had enough in the tank to be aggressive offensively especially in late-game situations when we had kind of a make-shift lineup. He was terrific. We would have had no chance to win without him.”

Self called Hield “One of the top players (in country) and certainly is deserving of all the acFORMER KANSAS CENTER GREG OSTERTAG LAUGHS as he colades he’s received and watches Monday’s game from behind the Jayhawks’ bench. will be our national player of the year.” minutes of Saturday’s vic- 3.5 rebounds while conDeonte Burton of Iowa tory in Norman and also verting 57.9 percent of State was named newguarded OU standout his shots, including 61.5 comer of the week. l Buddy Hield. percent of his threes. He Prep time: Playing on In wins over OU and hit 87.5 percent of his free Saturday, KU did not West Virginia, Graham throws. averaged 18.5 points and “Devonté had the best have a lot of time to pre-

pare for Oklahoma State.

“We only practiced about 40 minutes yesterday,” Self said. “We watched a lot of tape on Oklahoma State going back to our first game (Cowboys’ 86-67 victory on Jan. 19 in Stillwater), showing some things we did that were not very good at all, some things they did to hurt us. It wasn’t a revenge-type message at all, but it was one, ‘we haven’t had a chance to obviously play well against the Cowboys. They handled us quite easily, probably easier than anybody has handled us this year the first time.” l

RPI talk: KU is No. 1 in the NCAA’s men’s basketball RPI rankings, released on Monday. Oklahoma is No. 2, followed

by Villanova, Oregon, Virginia, Maryland, Xavier, North Carolina, Miami Florida and Iowa.

of him deserved to be on the floor more than he did. And he watched more than his teamCONTINUED FROM PAGE 1D mates.

“There are fast “My dad was a bigpeople out there, and time rebounder,” Lucas there are strong peosaid. “He always told ple,” Lucas said. “I’ve me that if I wanted to always looked at other play at the next level, people around the Big whether that be middle 12 and saw how they school to high school or could get theirs, and I high school to college, always thought that I I need to rebound the could do the same thing ball. That is something that they do. There are that every team needs, great bigs like Ryan so that is something that Spangler (Oklahoma), I have been focusing on (West Virginia’s Devin) because this team needed Williams and (Baylor’s a rebounder. I’m happy Rico) Gathers that I I can be that guy for this watched. And I was team.” like, ‘OK, I can do the Lucas was that guy same type of stuff that again Monday night in they do.’ Now that I’m a 94-67 rout of injurygetting the opportunity, weakened Oklahoma I’m able to do it.”

State in Allen Fieldhouse.

And how does he do He scored a career-high it?

14 points, to go with 10 “Just position, underrebounds for his first standing of the game and double-double of the just strength,” Lucas said. season and second of his Lucas isn’t missing as KANSAS FORWARD LANDEN LUCAS (33) GETS IN THE FACE of Oklahoma State guard Jeff career. Five of his boards many shots as earlier in Newberry on a shot during the second half. came off the offensive the season, and he vows he eventually will hit glass on a night he jumpers. reached double figures to get to the opposite tion skills have played a able to adjust to them.

“With myself and my in rebounds for the third side very often, so it’s part in that.

They’ve been great at game in a row. just the small things like “I’m trying to make doing that, and I’ve been teammates getting me the ball, it’s going to “It’s something that I that that allow me to get friends with the refs, first trying to play physical enjoy doing,” Lucas said the rebound.” of all,” Lucas said, only without getting too many continue to grow,” he said of his offensive skill of rebounding. “Really, if Kansas rebounded half joking. “I’m being fouls.” you just go after the ball, more of its misses (16 of- friendly with them, and Lucas’ realistic attitude set. “Tonight there were things I could do a lot that is more than what fensive boards) than the it’s paying off, so I’m just helped him to make the most other players are Cowboys (13 defensive going to continue to do most out of practice time better. I’ve been trying to get in the gym to get my doing. If the ball is shot rebounds) did and won that. It’s nice because and weight-room workjump shot better. In due on one side of the basket, the battle of the boards, they talk to me, and there outs. time, it will start going then it is probably going 45-27. are a lot of things I do, When Lucas watched in.” to come off the other Lucas is beginning to they’ll let me know, ‘Ease from the bench, nobody As long as he rebounds side. It is really basic, but curtail his foul troubles, up off of this,’ or, ‘Watch had to tell him the teamhis misses, who cares? most people don’t fight as well. His communica- this or that,’ and then I’m mates playing in front

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Private dinner among Bryant’s highlights

By Tim Reynolds AP Basketball Writer

Toronto — The moment Kobe Bryant will savor most from his final All-Star weekend was one the world never saw.

There were plenty of highlights to cherish, actually. The way his daughters beamed when they got to meet and take a picture with Stephen Curry after the game. A conversation with Michael Jordan.

Getting sought out by Magic Johnson for a talk about legacy. Private chats with teammates in the locker room, which he enjoyed tremendously.

But the quintessential one to Bryant came in the wee hours of Sunday morning inside a rentedout restaurant, where he was the guest of honor at a celebration arranged

by Chris Paul, Carmelo Anthony and Dwyane Wade.

Bryant was publicly serenaded all weekend, and having 20,000 fans chant his name left him beaming. Having three longtime rivals quietly pay tribute meant even more.

“It was really special,” Bryant told The Associated Press on Sunday night after scoring 10 points in his last All-Star appearance, a 196-173 win for the West over the East.

“Those are the things you don’t get a chance to hear when you’re competing against each other. To hear those stories now, you have such a deep sense of appreciation and such a brotherhood from all the years of competing against each other. It just felt good.”

They gave him some silly gifts. They presented him with a giant bottle of wine, a 1996 vintage in a nod to his rookie season.

And they told Bryant what he meant to their lives.

The dinner was secret, super-exclusive, invitation-only. It’s something the trio started doing last season at All-Star weekend, calling the gathering the Gentleman’s Supper Club. This year, the group wanted Bryant to be tied into it somehow.

So after All-Star Saturday festivities ended, the group headed out to the party that mattered most to them. Dinner was a fish dish, and it wasn’t served until after 2 a.m. The wine and spirits were flowing long before that, and for a little while afterward as well.

By the time everything had wound down, sunrise wasn’t far away.

But to those who were there, it was most memorable.

“Respect,” Wade said.

“That’s what it was. It was about respect, ours for him and the respect he’s given us. I just wanted to tell him that his respect meant a lot, means a lot, to my career. I went down a list of moments, gave people insight on Kobe and the way he thinks. It was just appreciation, man. His drive, his competitiveness, it helped me early in my career because I wanted to be on his level.”

Bryant hasn’t always had the tightest relationships with NBA peers.

He’s never been the sort that needs tons of friends, and his competitive juices sometimes kept him from allowing himself to get close with too many people.

But now that his career is winding down, many close to Bryant are seeing some changes.

He has thoroughly enjoyed the tributes he’s received in every city the Lakers have visited since his retirement announcement. He made his peace long ago with Los Angeles not being in position right now to compete for the postseason.

AP Basketball Writer

Toronto — The Golden State Warriors are chasing history. Everyone else in the NBA is chasing the Warriors.

The defending champions have been so dominant that they could already be a 50-win team this weekend. And unless opponents start figuring out a way to slow Stephen Curry and the league’s most potent offense, they could be the best team ever by the time they’re done.

Curry and fellow AllStars Klay Thompson and Draymond Green took time out for fun in the first All-Star Game held outside the U.S., where Curry tossed in the final points in the highestscoring game ever with a 42-footer to give the West a 196-173 victory.

It won’t be long before they get serious again.

“Yeah, obviously, Thursday, Friday, when games start up, put our game face back on and figure out how we’re going to try to finish out the season strong and go after another championship,” Curry said.

They are 48-4 and will bring an 11-game winning streak into Portland on Friday when their season resumes. Golden State could reach 50 wins — for many clubs, the mark of a very good regular season — with a victory Satur-

day against the Los Angeles Clippers in what’s become perhaps the league’s testiest rivalry.

The NBA record of 72 wins, set 20 years ago by Michael Jordan’s Chicago Bulls, could be in reach.

“If it’s there for us we want to get it, but at the end of the day we’re trying to win a championship,” Thompson said.

There are a couple of teams in the West, and a front-runner in the East that could pose the toughest challenges to the Warriors.

San Antonio, Oklahoma City and Cleveland seem to have the best chances to prevent Golden State from repeating, though the Warriors blew out the Spurs and Cavaliers last time they met.

Business comes before basketball this week, as the trade deadline is Thursday afternoon, a few hours before the season resumes. Contenders will try to load up and disappointments can break up.

From there, there’s less than two months before the playoffs begin.

LeBron James dismissed a report this week that the Cavaliers were discussing trading Kevin Love, saying they had enough to win after a turbulent first half that included the firing of coach David Blatt not long after Kyrie Irving had returned from knee surgery.

“Every piece that we

SCOREBOARD Big 12 Women AP Top 25 Men

The top 25 teams in The Associated Press’ college basketball poll, with first-place votes in parentheses, records through Feb. 14, total points based on 25 points for a first-place vote through one point for a 25thplace vote and previous ranking:

Rec Pts Prv 1. Villanova (44) 22-3 1,601 1 2. Kansas (21) 21-4 1,578 6 3. Oklahoma 20-4 1,471 3 4. Iowa 20-5 1,349 4 5. North Carolina 21-4 1,343 9 6. Maryland 22-4 1,248 2 7. Virginia 20-5 1,188 7 8. Michigan St. 21-5 1,174 8 8. Xavier 22-3 1,174 5 10. West Virginia 20-5 1,094 10 11. Miami 20-4 1,036 12 12. Arizona 21-5 823 17 13. Iowa St. 18-7 742 14 14. Kentucky 19-6 692 22 15. Dayton 21-3 681 19 16. Oregon 20-6 529 11 17. Purdue 20-6 497 18 18. Louisville 19-6 494 13 19. Notre Dame 18-7 489 — 20. Duke 19-6 462 — 21. SMU 21-3 441 16 22. Indiana 20-6 232 — 23. Providence 19-7 125 20 24. Texas 16-9 123 24 25. Baylor 18-7 97 21 Others receiving votes: Texas A&M 90, Utah 75, Saint Joseph’s 57, Wisconsin 47, South Carolina 39, Southern Cal 38, Michigan 17, Syracuse 17, Wichita St. 14, Stony Brook 13, Monmouth (NJ) 10, California 8, Hawaii 5, UNC Wilmington 4, San Diego St. 3, Yale 3, Cincinnati 2.

Ballots Online: http://collegebasketball.ap.org/poll

Big 12 Overall

W L W L Baylor 12 1 25 1 Texas 11 2 22 2 Oklahoma State 9 4 19 5 West Virginia 8 5 19 7 Oklahoma 8 5 17 7 Kansas State 6 7 16 8 TCU 5 8 13 11 Iowa State 4 9 12 12 Texas Tech 2 11 11 13 Kansas 0 13 5 19 Saturday’s Games Kansas State 81, Kansas 67 TCU 79, Iowa State 69 Baylor 66, Texas Tech 36 Oklahoma State 63, West Virginia 51 Sunday’s Game Oklahoma 74, Texas 56 Wednesday’s Games Oklahoma at West Virginia, 6 p.m.

TCU at Kansas, 7 p.m. (TWCSC) Kansas State at Texas, 7 p.m. (LHN) Oklahoma State at Baylor, 7 p.m.

(FSSW+) Texas Tech at Iowa State, 7 p.m.

(Cyclones.tv)

SOUTH B 29, SOUTHWEST 28 South leaders: Demarcus Dreiling 14 points; Kaleb Gardner 5 points; Nas Hunt hit winning tip-in at buzzer.

Southwest leaders: Max Northrop 7 points; Nathan Williams 6 points; Porter Neidow 5 points; Mitchell Spriggs 4 points; Jordan Ott 4 points; Hudson Hack 2 points.

South final record: 6-4.

Southwest final record: 9-3.

“This is amazing,” Bryant said at the restaurant, glass in hand. “I’m not the most social person, so to World Company Cup get this from you guys Here are the standings for the means absolutely everyWorld Company Cup, which tallies head-to-head meetings between the thing to me.” city’s two large-class high schools Wade gave him a cusover the course of a school year. For tomized robe and some sports that do not meet head-to-head, the point is awarded to the team that other clothes bearing places higher in the first postseason his logo — along with a meeting.

FSHS LHS one-year subscription to Football 0 1 Netflix, because Bryant is Girls tennis 1 0 about to have a lot of time Boys soccer .5 .5 Kansas Women Gymnastics 0 1 on his hands. Paul gave Nov. 1 — Pittsburg State (exhibiBoys cross country 1 0 tion), W 80-54 him a bunch of presents 1 0 Nov. 8 — Emporia State (exhibition), Girls cross country Volleyball 1 0 that he said would propW 68-57 Boys basketball 0 1 Nov. 15 — Texas Southern, W 72-65 erly prepare Bryant for Girls basketball 0 1 (1-0) retirement, such as dental Wrestling 1 0 Nov. 19 — Memphis, W 72-63 (2-0) Boys bowling 1 0 adhesive, reading glasses, Nov. 23 — at Arizona, L 67-52 (2-1) Girls bowling 0 1 Nov. 27 — N. Illinois at SMU compression socks and Totals 6.5 5.5 Thanksgiving Classic, W 66-58 (3-1) a cane. Anthony offered Nov. 28 — SMU at SMU Thanksgiving Classic, L 64-73 (3-2) a magnum of Gaja BarDec. 2 — Creighton, W 67-54 (4-2) baresco, Italian wine for Dec. 6 — St. John’s, L 71-86 (4-3) Dec. 10 — UMKC, L 44-47 (4-4) the player who grew up NASCAR-Sprint Cup Dec. 13 — Navy, W 61-54, OT (5-4) in Italy and says much Dec. 20 — Washington State, L 53-66 Daytona 500 Qualifying After Sunday qualifying; race Sunday like vino itself he got bet(5-5) Dec. 22 — Oral Roberts, L 63-70 (5-6) At Daytona International Speedway USA Today Top 25 Men ter with age.

Dec. 30 — at Oklahoma, L 44-67 Daytona Beach, Fla. The top 25 teams in the USA Today But there was also men’s college basketball poll, with (5-7, 0-1) Lap length: 2.5 miles Jan. 3 — West Virginia, L 45-65 (5-8, (Car number in parentheses) a serious tone, as Bry- first-place votes in parentheses, 1. (24) Chase Elliott, Chevrolet, through Feb. 14, points based 0-2) ant nodded during his records 196.314.

Jan. 6 — Baylor, L 40-58 (5-9, 0-3) on 25 points for a first-place vote 2. (20) Matt Kenseth, Toyota, Jan. 9 — at Iowa State, L 49-65 (5-10, speech toward his wife, through one point for a 25th-place 0-4) 196.036. vote and previous ranking: Vanessa.

Jan. 13 — Texas, L 38-75 (5-11, 0-5) Failed to Qualify

Rec Pts Prv Jan. 16 — at West Virginia, L 35-72 “The thing that I’ll miss 1. Villanova (25) (88) Dale Earnhardt Jr., Chevrolet, 22-3 785 1 (5-12, 0-6) 195.682.

2.

Kansas (7) 21-4 764 6 is matching up with you 3. Oklahoma Jan. 20 — Kansas State, L 46-59 (5-13, (18) Kyle Busch, Toyota, 195.207.

20-4 680 3 guys,” Bryant told Wade, 4. North Carolina 0-7) 21-4 674 8 (17) Ricky Stenhouse Jr., Ford, Jan. 24 — Oklahoma State, L 46-74 22-4 636 2 195.118.

Anthony and Paul. “Van- 5. Maryland (5-14, 0-8) 6. Iowa 20-5 624 5 (48) Jimmie Johnson, Chevrolet, essa will tell you: I’ll be 7. Xavier Jan. 27 — at Texas, L 46-70 (5-15, 0-9) 194.839.

22-3 615 4 Jan. 30 — at Texas Tech, L 44-54 20-5 579 7 in the bed for hours — 8. Virginia (21) Ryan Blaney, Ford, 194.746.

(5-16, 0-10) Michigan State 21-5 560 9 (3) Austin Dillon, Chevrolet, 194.675. hours, man — not sleep- 9.

Feb. 2 — Iowa State, L 53-63 (5-17, 10. Miami 20-4 558 11 (19) Carl Edwards, Toyota, 194.662.

0-11) ing, watching film on you 11. West Virginia 20-5 488 10 (11) Denny Hamlin, Toyota, 194.523.

Feb. 6 — at Baylor, L 49-81 (5-18, 12.

Arizona 21-5 425 14 (41) Kurt Busch, Chevrolet, 194.51. guys because you are 0-12) 13. Dayton 21-3 382 17 (22) Joey Logano, Ford, 194.46. driving me (expletive) 14. Kentucky Feb. 13 — at Kansas State, L 67-81 19-6 346 21 (13) Casey Mears, Chevrolet, 194.25.

(5-19, 0-13) 15.

Iowa State 18-7 319 15 crazy.”

(5) Kasey Kahne, Chevrolet, 194.104.

Feb. 17 — TCU, 7 p.m.

16. Purdue 20-6 298 16 (31) Ryan Newman, Chevrolet, He can start sleeping 17. Oregon Feb. 20 — Oklahoma, 2 p.m.

20-6 259 12 194.099.

Feb. 24 — at Oklahoma State, 7 p.m.

18. Notre Dame 18-7 203 — soon, if he isn’t already.

(95) Ty Dillon, Chevrolet, 193.936.

Feb. 27 — Texas Tech, 7 p.m.

Duke 19-6 183 — (27) Paul Menard, Chevrolet, The last All-Star Game 19.

Feb. 29 — at TCU, 6 p.m.

20. Providence 19-7 161 17 March 4-7 — Big 12 tournament at 193.936. is in the books. The NBA 21. Indiana 20-6 154 22 (2) Brad Keselowski, Ford, 193.878.

Oklahoma City 18-7 109 19 journey is almost over. 22. Baylor (43) Aric Almirola, Ford, 193.753.

23. South Carolina 21-4 108 20 (16) Greg Biffle, Ford, 193.665.

He may have participat- 24. Texas A&M 18-7 106 13 College Women (1) Jamie McMurray, Chevrolet, 16-9 73 25 EAST ed in his last practice on 25. Texas 193.399.

Others receiving votes: Utah CCSU 65, LIU Brooklyn 57 (44) Brian Scott, Ford, 193.332.

Saturday. The legendary 60, Wisconsin 32, Wichita State 30, Mount St. Mary’s 71, Fairleigh (42) Kyle Larson, Chevrolet, 192.938. ride has 27 games left, at Michigan 29, Gonzaga 26, Southern Dickinson 55 (93) Matt DiBenedetto, Toyota, Cal 26, Saint Joseph’s 17, Pittsburgh Sacred Heart 62, Robert Morris 52 the most. And before he 16, California 15, LSU 13, Saint Mary’s 192.686.

St. Francis (Pa.) 87, Wagner 74 (59) Michael McDowell, Chevrolet, left Toronto for a quick 13, Seton Hall 11, Hawaii 7, Florida 5, St. Francis Brooklyn 58, Bryant 57 192.604.

Stetson 74, NJIT 56 family vacation before Texas Tech 5, Syracuse 3, Monmouth (7) Regan Smith, Chevrolet, 192.542.

SOUTH (83) Michael Waltrip, Toyota, the season resumes later (N.J.) 1, Stony Brook 1, Valparaiso 1.

Alcorn St. 81, Ark.-Pine Bluff 53 192.406.

Coppin St. 84, Delaware St. 79 this week, Bryant took Big 12 Men (34) Chris Buescher, Ford, 192.365.

Florida A&M 69, NC Central 54 Big 12 Overall one final moment to re- (10) Danica Patrick, Chevrolet, Florida Gulf Coast 56, SC-Upstate 44

W L W L 192.291. flect.

Hampton 60, Morgan St. 47 Kansas 10 3 22 4 (32) Bobby Labonte, Ford, 191.808.

Jacksonville 76, Lipscomb 55 “It has hit me,” Bryant West Virginia 9 3 20 5 (47) AJ Allmendinger, Chevrolet, Kennesaw St. 76, North Florida 54 8 4 20 4 191.583. said. “I feel very thankful. Oklahoma Louisville 67, South Florida 50 Baylor 7 5 18 7 (6) Trevor Bayne, Ford, 191.436.

NC A&T 68, Bethune-Cookman 55 I feel very thankful. It’s Iowa State 7 5 18 7 (46) Michael Annett, Chevrolet, South Carolina 62, Tennessee 56 7 5 16 9 not an exciting thing. It’s Texas 191.302.

Southern U. 78, MVSU 26 Tech 5 7 15 9 (15) Clint Bowyer, Chevrolet, Texas A&M 62, Mississippi 48 not a sad thing. It’s just, Texas Kansas State 3 9 14 11 191.249.

UT Martin 81, Belmont 79 I feel very thankful to be Oklahoma State 3 10 12 14 MIDWEST (38) Landon Cassill, Ford, 191.192.

2 10 11 14 (26) Robert Richardson Jr., Toyota, Minnesota 78, Iowa 76 able to have had the ca- TCU Monday’s Game 190.496.

Saint Louis 88, Davidson 51 reer I’ve had.”

Kansas 94, Oklahoma State 67 (98) Cole Whitt, Toyota, 190.375.

SOUTHWEST

Warriors chasing history while others chase Warriors

By Brian Mahoney

L awrence J ournal -W orld

Today’s Games West Virginia at Texas, 6 p.m.

(ESPN2) Kansas State at TCU, 7 p.m. (ESPNN) Iowa State at Baylor, 8 p.m. (ESPN2) Wednesday’s Game Oklahoma at Texas Tech, 8 p.m.

(ESPNU)

College Men

EAST Fairfield 76, Marist 73 Iona 78, Quinnipiac 59 LIU Brooklyn 82, St. Francis Brooklyn 67 Lehigh 64, Holy Cross 59 Monmouth (NJ) 79, Manhattan 70 SOUTH Alcorn St. 79, Ark.-Pine Bluff 60 Bethune-Cookman 83, NC A&T 77, OT Delaware St. 71, Coppin St. 67 ETSU 83, W. Carolina 77 Hampton 87, Morgan St. 79 NC Central 79, Florida A&M 74 SE Louisiana 79, McNeese St. 76, OT Southern U. 97, MVSU 64 Texas A&M-CC 65, New Orleans 57 UNC Greensboro 65, Wofford 61 Virginia 73, NC State 53 MIDWEST Green Bay 70, Milwaukee 68 Kansas 94, Oklahoma St. 67 Oakland 89, Wright St. 73 Wichita St. 71, New Mexico St. 41 SOUTHWEST Cent. Arkansas 107, Northwestern St. 94 Houston Baptist 79, Lamar 78 Jackson St. 80, Prairie View 66 Sam Houston St. 84, Abilene Christian 71 Stephen F. Austin 84, Incarnate Word 46 Texas Southern 79, Grambling St. 72

Grambling St. 49, Texas Southern 46 Jackson St. 77, Prairie View 67

NBA

EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division

W Toronto 35 Boston 32 New York 23 Brooklyn 14 Philadelphia 8 Southeast Division

W Atlanta 31 Miami 29 Charlotte 27 Washington 23 Orlando 23 Central Division

W Cleveland 38 Indiana 28 Chicago 27 Detroit 27 Milwaukee 22 WESTERN CONFERENCE Southwest Division

W San Antonio 45 Memphis 31 Dallas 29 Houston 27 New Orleans 20 Northwest Division

W Oklahoma City 40 Portland 27 Utah 26 Denver 22 Minnesota 17 Pacific Division

W Golden State 48 L.A. Clippers 35 Sacramento 22 Phoenix 14 L.A. Lakers 11 Sunday’s Games West 196, East 173 Today’s Games No games scheduled

L 17 23 32 40 45

Pct GB .673 — .582 4½ .418 13½ .259 22 .151 27½

L 24 24 26 28 29

Pct GB .564 — .547 1 .509 3 .451 6 .442 6½

have means a lot to the process,” James said.

“Obviously with myself, Kyrie and Kev, we spearL Pct GB head the whole thing.

14 .731 — 25 .528 10½ We’re focused on the 25 .519 11 main thing and knowing 27 .500 12 32 .407 17 what the main thing is every day, we’re going to L Pct GB have a great chance.”

8 .849 — So will the Spurs, who 22 .585 14 26 .527 17 are just 31⁄2 games behind 28 .491 19 Golden State at 45-8, and 33 .377 25 like the Warriors are unL Pct GB beaten at home. They 14 .741 — have won six in a row 27 .500 13 26 .500 13 even while Manu Gino32 .407 18 bili is recovering from 37 .315 23 surgery, as star offseason L Pct GB acquisition LaMarcus Al4 .923 — dridge looks more com18 .660 13½ 31 .415 26½ fortable playing for his 40 .259 35 AP Top 25 Women new team.

44 .200 38½ The top 25 teams in The Associated “We’ve been winning Press’ women’s college basketball and we’re putting our- poll, with first-place votes in parenrecords through Feb. 14, total selves in a position to be theses, points based on 25 points for a firstspecial,” Aldridge said. place vote through one point for a vote and previous ranking: High School Boys “So that’s what it’s about.” 25th-place

Rec Pts Prv SOPHOMORES Monday at LHS There’s plenty more to 1. UConn (32) 24-0 800 1 LAWRENCE 64, SM NORTH 44 Notre Dame 24-1 755 3 watch down the stretch, 2.

Lawrence leaders: Jackson Hoy 19 3. South Carolina 23-1 748 2 from Kobe Bryant’s final 4. Baylor points, Chris Conway 12 points.

25-1 703 4 Lawrence record: 6-8. Next for 21-4 662 7 games before retirement 5. Ohio St. Lawrence: Thursday vs. Olathe North.

Maryland 23-3 614 5 to the rookie of the year 6.

FRESHMEN 7. Oregon St. 22-3 604 8 Monday at LHS 22-2 569 6 race between Minneso- 8. Texas LAWRENCE 50, SM NORTH 36 Arizona St. 22-4 558 9 ta’s Karl-Anthony Towns 9.

Lawrence leaders: Bryant Graham 10. Florida St. 21-4 532 10 14 points, Jaxon Malone 11 points. and New York’s Kristaps 11. Louisville 19-6 465 12 Lawrence record: 11-3. Next for 12. Texas A&M 17-7 416 15 Porzingis.

Lawrence: Thursday vs. Olathe North.

12. UCLA 19-6 416 14 But the focus will nev- 14. Mississippi St. 21-5 398 11 20-6 371 13 er be too far from the 15. Stanford Middle School Boys Kentucky 17-6 272 18 EIGHTH GRADE Warriors and Curry, who 16.

17. Oklahoma St. 19-5 226 20 Monday at Southwest seems headed for a sec- 18. Miami 21-5 215 19 SOUTHWEST 41, SOUTH 32 19.

South Florida 18-6 174 22 Southwest leaders: Turner Corcoran ond straight MVP award. 20. Oklahoma 17-7 173 21 12 points, Mayson Quartlebaum Their record-setting start 21. DePaul 21-7 147 23 10 points, Nick Ray 6 points, Wyatt 19-6 136 16 Durland 5 points, Ethan Bentzinger 3 to the season brought un- 22. Florida Syracuse 20-6 74 — points, Max Northrop 2 points. usually high attention to 23.

24. Tennessee 15-9 63 25 South leaders: Devin Stark 10 points, 18-7 58 17 Chris McGee 7, Deshon Lewis 5. the NBA’s pre-Christmas 25. Michigan St. Others receiving votes: Missouri 55, Southwest record: 10-2. Next for schedule, and a strong West Virginia 47, Colorado St. 40, BYU Southwest: Thursday vs. Leavenworth finish and a chance at 73 31, Duquesne 22, Georgia 17, Auburn 9, Patton at Atchison Invitational.

8, Oregon 7, Minnesota 6, Green South record: 7-5. Next for South: wins would do the same UTEP Bay 3, Arkansas St. 2, Army 1, Florida 7:15 p.m. Thursday vs. Atchison at during March Madness.

Gulf Coast 1, Indiana 1, Washington 1. Atchison Invitational.

(35) David Gilliland, Ford, 189.35.

(23) David Ragan, Toyota, 189.068.

(30) Josh Wise, Chevrolet, 187.282.

(40) Reed Sorenson, Chevrolet, 181.163.

(14) Brian Vickers, Chevrolet.

(4) Kevin Harvick, Chevrolet.

(78) Martin Truex Jr., Toyota.

BASEBALL American League TEXAS RANGERS — Agreed to terms with 1B Ike Davis on a minor league contract.

National League MIAMI MARLINS — Agreed to terms with LHP Craig Breslow on a minor league contract.

NEW YORK MERTS — Named Marc Valdes pitching coach, Valentino Pascucci hitting coach and Kory Wan strength and conditioning coach for St. Lucie (FSL) and Joel Fuentes hitting coach Columbia (SAL).

WASHINGTON NATIONALS — Agreed to terms with RHP Paolo Espino and OF Logan Schafer on minor league contracts.

American Association LINCOLN SALTDOGS — Signed RHP Shairon Martis, C Luis Alen and INF Christian Ibarra.

Can-Am League OTTAWA CHAMPIONS — Released LHP Mark Hardy.

FOOTBALL National Football League ATLANTA FALCONS-Waived CB Travis Howard and FB Collin Mooney.

CHICAGO BEARS — Named Curtis Johnson wide receivers coach and Ben McDaniels offensive assistant coach. Promoted Pierre Ngo to assistant strength and conditioning coach.

DETROIT LIONS — Named Brian Callahan quarterbacks coach.

Arena Football League ORLANDO PREDATORS — Agreed to terms with DB Paul Stephens.

HOCKEY ECHL ELMIRA JACKALS — Announced F Allan McPherson and D Spiro Goulakos have been assigned to the team by Rochester (AHL).

SOCCER Major League Soccer D.C. UNITED — Signed M Luciano Acosta.

North American Soccer League JACKSONVILLE ARMADA FC — Announced owner and CEO Mark Frisch will assume oversight of dayto-day operations of the club.

United Soccer League SAN ANTONIO FC — Named Andy Thomson assistant coach. Signed M Miguel Salazar and D Sam McBride.

COLLEGE MARYLAND — Suspended men’s freshman basketball C Diamond Stone one game for his behavior during a Feb. 13 game against Wisconsin.

RUTGERS — Announced mem’s freshman basketball G Corey Sanders was suspended from basketball activities for two weeks (four games) due to a violation of team rules. Sanders will not compete in the next four games as a result of the suspension.

THIEL — Named Jeff Stephens defensive line coach.

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$20,995

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BIGGEST SALES!

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Lincoln Cars

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Toyota Vans

2005 Toyota Sienna LE

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2015 Nissan Pathfinder SL

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Nissan 2009 Murano LE

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Nissan Cars

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Nissan Trucks

2012 Honda Pilot EX 4WD

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Leather, Roof, SLE Stk#1PL2070 Volkswagen 2015 Passat

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2007 Honda Rebel 250 Rebel -Cheap Transportation!

Toyota SUVs

Stk#215T1113B

$1,000

Certified Pre-Owned, 4WD, 78K miles, 7 year/100K mile warranty, 8 Passenger, 182-pt. Inspection. Stk# F053A

2013 Hyundai Veloster

2015 Lincoln MKX

2013 Nissan Altima 2.5 SV

2014 Nissan Frontier PRO

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2012 Volkswagen Beetle 2.0TSi

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Plumbing

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Downsizing - Moving?

We’ve got a Custom Solution for You! Estate Tag Sales and Cleanup Services Armstrong Family Estate Services, LLC 785-383-0820 www.kansasestatesales.com

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Decks & Fences

Over 25 yrs. exp.

Licensed & Insured. Decks, deck covers, pergolas, screened porches, & all types of repairs. Call 913-209-4055 for Free estimates or go to prodeckanddesign.com

Rich Black Top Soil No Chemicals Machine Pulverized Pickup or Delivery Serving KC over 40 years 913-962-0798 Fast Service

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Seamless aluminum guttering.

Many colors to choose from. Install, repair, screen, clean-out. Locally owned. Insured. Free estimates.

785-842-0094

Home Improvements Foundation Repair

FOUNDATION REPAIR

New York Housekeeping Accepting clients for weekly, bi-weekly, seasonal or special occasion cleaning.

Excellent References.

Beth - 785-766-6762

JAYHAWK GUTTERING

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House Cleaner 12 years experience.

Reasonable rates.

References available Call 785-393-1647

RETIRED MASTER PLUMBER & Handyman needs small work.

Bill Morgan 816-523-5703

Higgins Handyman

DECK BUILDER

Cleaning Auctioneers

Dirt-Manure-Mulch

Mudjacking, Waterproofing.

We specialize in Basement Repair & Pressure Grouting.

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Full Remodels & Odd Jobs, Interior/Exterior Painting, Installation & Repair of:

Interior/exterior painting, roofing, roof repairs, fence work, deck work, lawn care, siding, windows & doors. For 11+ years serving Douglas County & surrounding areas. Insured.

785-312-1917 Retired Carpenter, Deck Repairs, Home Repairs, Interior Wall Repair & House Painting, Doors, Wood Rot, Power wash 785-766-5285

Painting

YARDBIRDS LANDSCAPING Father (retired) & Son Operation W/Experience & Top of the Line Machinery Snow Removal Call 785-766-1280

Fully Insured 22 yrs. experience

Lawn, Garden & Nursery Golden Rule Lawncare Mowing & lawn cleanup Snow Removal Family owned & operated Call for Free Est. Insured.

Eugene Yoder 785-224-9436

Tree/Stump Removal Fredyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Tree Service :LK;FNE T KI@DD<; T KFGG<; T JKLDG I<DFM8C Licensed & Insured.

20 yrs experience.

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Ins. & Lic. visit online 785-843-TREE (8733)

Landscaping

Deck Drywall Siding Replacement Gutters Privacy Fencing Doors & Trim Commercial Build-out Build-to-suit services

913-488-7320

Kill Creek Trucking LLC Construction & Farm Equipment Hauling 7 & 8 axle lowboy 53â&#x20AC;&#x2122; Stepdeck Small Loads & (I8EF<M8 (I8EJ8<:;G %B47F Russ Duncan 913-205-9249 killcreektrucking@gmail.com

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A P P LY N O W

920 AREA JOB OPENINGS! A HELPING HAND HOME CARE ............. 20

HILLSIDE VILLAGE OF DESOTO ............. 15

MV TRANSPORTATION ......................... 20

BALDWIN HEALTH CARE (GENESIS) ....... 10

HOME INSTEAD SENIOR CARE .............. 15

PINNACLE TECHNOLOGY, INC. ................5

BRANDON WOODS ...............................5

HOME OXYGEN 2-U ............................ 10

THE SHELTER, INC. ............................ 10

CITY OF LAWRENCE ............................ 37

LAWRENCE PUBLIC SCHOOLS .............. 35

UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS ................... 268

CLO ................................................ 10

MAXIMUS ......................................... 15

USA800, INC. ................................. 120

COTTONWOOD................................... 20

McDONALD’S ......................................8

WELLSVILLE/BROOKSIDE RETIREMENT ....7

FIRST STUDENT, INC. ......................... 20

MISCELLANEOUS ............................. 245

WESTAFF .......................................... 25

L E A R N M O R E AT J O B S . L AW R E N C E . C O M

AT T E N T I O N E M P L OY E R S !

Email your number of job openings to Peter at psteimle@ljworld.com. *Approximate number of job openings at the time of this printing.

Join Our Team at Reser’s Fine Foods, Inc.!

All Shifts Available!

Tuesday, February 16, 2016 11:30 AM - 3:00 PM Peaslee Tech

29th & Haskell Avenue, Lawrence, KS

SOIL CONSERVATION TECHNICIAN

Journeyman Lineman Under the supervision of the Lead Journeyman Lineman, the Journeyman Lineman is a non-exempt position under FLSA. This position is responsible for maintaining, building, and repairing the electric distribution system. This position operates equipment, digs holes and sets poles, strings wire and other duties related to maintenance of the electric distribution system.

Working with underground and overhead electrical lines is required. The employee should have a strong mechanical aptitude, an understanding of electric distribution systems and willingness to learn. Excellent beneifts, retirement and a salary range of $25.00/hr to $27.00/hr. For additional information on this position, contact Chris Croucher at 785-594-6907 or email ccroucher@baldwincity.org Apply no later than 2/26/2016.

Application available at City Hall and on our website: www.baldwincity.org

LAWRENCE Deliver Newspapers!

It’s Fun! Outstanding pay Part-time work Be an independent contractor, Deliver every day, between 2-6 a.m.

Reliable vehicle, driver’s license, insurance in your own name, and a phone required.

To apply, visit http://www.douglasccd.com/ and follow the link on our Home Page for more information and application. To obtain information on the application process contact Douglas County Conservation District, 4920 Bob Billings Pkwy, Suite A, Lawrence, KS 66049 785-843-4260 x 1129. EOE

Come in & Apply!

645 New Hampshire 816-805-6780 jinsco@ljworld.com

Submit applications to Laura Hartman at City Hall or at: lhartman@baldwincity.org EOE

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Position involves working outdoors, visiting landowners, traversing uneven terrain, evaluating and designing conservation and agricultural practices, and more. Employee will work with traditional agriculture producers a majority of the time. MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS: High school diploma or GED. Requires familiarity with agricultural practices or farming, and an interest in conservation (Two year degree with agriculture classes would substitute for farm/agriculture experience), ability to communicate effectively and work well with people, valid Kansas state driver’s license, and pass a security background investigation, as required by the U.S. Dept. of Agriculture.

Salary $33,686 plus benefits.

Closing date for the position is March 1, 2016.

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at the La wrence Job F 2/16, 11 air :3 at Peasle 0-3:00 e Tech!

2016 SEASONAL & SUMMER POSITIONS

NOTE: Applications may continue to be taken after deadline until positions are filled.

APPLICATION DEADLINE FOR BELOW POSITIONS IS: TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 2016:

APPLICATION DEADLINE FOR BELOW POSITIONS IS FRIDAY, MARCH 11, 2016:

MAINTENANCE

AQUATIC CENTER

• Park Maintenance • Horticulture Laborer • Horticulture/Forestry Intern • Golf Course Maintenance I • Golf Course Maintenance II • Forestry Laborer • Building & Aquatic Maintenance

RECREATION CENTER • Recreation Center Leader I

SPORTS OFFICIALS: Adult Softball Umpires

RECREATION INSTRUCTION

• Gymnastics Instructor • Fitness Instructor • Dance Instructor

• Sports Complex Supervisor

PLICATION DEADLINE FOR BELOW POSITIONS IS FRIDAY, APRIL 15, 2016:

PLAYGROUND PROGRAM PRAIRIE PARK • Playground/Program Counselors NATURE CENTER • Playground Head Counselors • Playground Assistant Counselors

SPORTS OFFICIALS

• Adventure Camp Counselors • Naturalist

• Water Safety/Fitness Instructors • Lifeguards • Head Lifeguard • Pool Cashiers • Wading Pool Attendant

APPLICATION DEADLINE FOR BELOW POSITION IS FRIDAY, APRIL 29, 2016

MARKETING: Nutrition Education Program Assistant APPLICATION DEADLINE FOR BELOW POSITIONS IS FRIDAY, AUGUST 12, 2016

SPORTS OFFICIALS PUBLIC WORKS • Adult Basketball Officials • Adult Volleyball Officials • Youth Volleyball Officials • Youth Soccer Officials

To apply for these positions, submit application online at

Administrative Assistant Watkins Health Services at the KU Lawrence campus has an immediate opening for an Administrative Assistant to work part time in the Business Office with a high level of detail work on a computer.

Application deadline is 2/24/16.

For more information, a complete position description with required qualifications, and to apply, please visit: http://employment.ku.edu/staff/5357BR

KU is an EO/AAE. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy), age, national origin, disability, genetic information or protected Veteran status.

Network Engineer

Local company, Seamless Data Systems, is looking to add a member to their Team!

Job responsibilities would include but are not limited to:

• Perform network maintenance and system upgrades • Technical Support for people using the network • Setting up user accounts, permissions and passwords • Configure and install various network hardware, devices, and services (e.g. servers, printers, computer workstations, routers, switches, firewalls, load balancers, VPN)

Qualities Desired:

• Outside Service Golf Attendant • Snack Bar Attendants

RECREATION CENTER: Recreation Center Leader SPECIAL POPULATIONS: Unified Day Camp Counselor MARKETING: Marketing Program Assistant

• Youth Baseball/Softball Umpires • Youth Basketball Officials

The University of Kansas is committed to providing our employees with an enriching and dynamic work environment that encourages innovation, research, creativity and equal opportunity for learning, development and professional growth.

KU strives to recruit, develop, retain and reward a dynamic workforce that shares our mission and core strategic values in research, teaching and service. Learn more at http://provost.ku.edu/strategic-plan

EAGLE BEND GOLF COURSE

Compost Facility Gate Staff

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ACCOUNTING SPECIALIST The World Company, based in Lawrence, Kansas, has an opening for an Accounting Specialist in our Business Office. Specialist performs the accounts payable activity for multiple companies; directs invoice processing and verification, expense coding, and drafts payment checks or vouchers; oversees maintenance of supporting records to ensure compliance with policies and procedures; generates required reports; and interacts with internal and external auditors as assigned. Will accurately process payroll for several locations and ensure payroll is processed in compliance with federal and state laws, including reporting requirements.

ACCOUNT EXECUTIVE Shawnee Dispatch, a division of The World Company, is seeking individuals who want to help companies grow their business. Our Account Executive’s will develop sales and marketing strategies with clients utilizing print and digital advertising primarily for the Shawnee Dispatch, but will also include Lawrence Journal-World, LJWorld.com, KUsports.com and Lawrence.com, and our websites and digital products.

Position will be located in Shawnee, Kansas.

The World Company offers an excellent benefits package including health, dental and vision insurance, 401k, paid time off, employee discounts, tuition reimbursement, career opportunities and more! Background check and pre-employment drug screen required. EOE

MEET US AT THE LAWRENCE JOB FAIR ON 2/16 AT PEASLEE TECH! 11:30 - 3:00

• Proven hands-on network engineering experience • Deep understanding of networking protocols • Hand-on experience with monitoring, network diagnostic and network analytics tools • Ability to work well in a Team environment • University degree in Computer Science or a related subject is helpful

Company Benefits available.

Interested parties email cover letter and resume to: kbelford@seamlessdata.com Attn: Human Resources jobs.lawrence.com

Apply online at jobs.the-worldco.com classifieds@ljworld.com

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Bookkeeper

General

COF Training Services, Inc., a non-profit organization providing services to individuals with disabilities, is seeking a full time bookkeeper in our Ottawa office.

A bachelor’s degree in business from a four-year college/university or two years bookkeeping experience and/or training, or equivalent combination of education and experience is required. Supervisor experience preferred. Applicants must be able to pass background checks and drug/alcohol testing (pre-employment and random testing required).

HIRING IMMEDIATELY! Drive for KU on Wheels or Lawrence Transit System.

Flexible part-time schedules, 80% company paid employee health insurance for full time.

Career opportunities. $11.50/hr after paid training. Must be 21+ w. good driving record.

Apply online: lawrencetransit.org/ employment Or come to: MV Transportation, Inc. 1260 Timberedge Road Lawrence, KS. EOE

COF offers competitive wages and excellent benefits including medical, dental, and life insurance, paid time off and KPERS.

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Receptionist Family Practice office looking for a receptionist. Medical experience helpful but would train proper person. This is a full time position which would require working every 3rd or 4th weekend.

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Custodian The Lawrence Arts Center seeks a part time Custodian for the weekend shift.

Hours vary. Prior experience preferred.

Send resume by February 17, 2015 to 940 New Hampshire, Lawrence KS 66044 or business@lawrence artscenter.org

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Hours vary. Prior experience preferred.

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Apply in Person Tonganoxie Nursing & Rehab Center 1010 East St. Tonganoxie, KS 66086

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Dental Hygienist Respected dental office in Lawrence. Must be energetic, friendly and team oriented.

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(First published in the and all other concerned Lawrence Daily Journal persons: -World February 16, 2016) You are hereby notified that a Petition for Name IN THE DISTRICT COURT Change has been filed in OF DOUGLAS COUNTY, the District Court of DougKANSAS las County, Kansas by MatIn the Matter of the Estate thew James Whaley to change his name from of BRUNO TAGLIAFERRI Matthew James Whaley to Deceased Matthew James Hull, and that this petition will be Case No. 2016-PR-20 heard in Division 5 of the Div. 1 District Court of Douglas Petition Pursuant to K.S.A. County, Kansas on the 4th day of March, 2016 at 4:00 Chapter 59 p.m. You are required to plead in response to the NOTICE TO CREDITORS petition on or before that THE STATE OF KANSAS TO time in the District Court of Douglas County, Kansas at ALL PERSONS CONCERNED: 111 E. 11th Street, LawYou are hereby notified rence, Kansas 66044. If you that on February 9, 2016, a fail to plead, judgment and Petition for Appointment decree will be entered in of Administrator under the due course upon the petiKansas Simplified Estates tion.

Act was filed in this Court

by ALISON GABRIELE, sur- Jennifer A. Thomas #25634 viving spouse and heir of Thomas Law, LLC the Estate of BRUNO TA- 708 W. 9th Street, Suite 107 Lawrence, Kansas 66044 GLIAFERRI, deceased.

(785) 856-5151 All creditors are notified to (785) 856-5160 Fax exhibit their demands jenniferthomas.law@gmail.com against the Estate within Attorney for Petitioner ________ four months from the date of the first publication of this notice, as provided by (First published in the law, and if their demands Lawrence Daily Journalare not thus exhibited, World February 16, 2016) they shall be forever barred.

IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF DOUGLAS COUNTY, ALISON GABRIELE, KANSAS Petitioner CIVIL DEPARTMENT PREPARED AND APPROVED BY: STEVENS & BRAND, L.L.P. 900 Massachusetts, Ste. 500 PO Box 189 Lawrence KS 66044-0189 (785) 843-0811 Attorneys for Petitioners ________ (First published in the Lawrence Daily JournalWorld February 2, 2016)

Ditech Financial LLC Plaintiff, vs.

Calvin A. Boylan (Deceased), Jane Doe, John Doe, and Unknown Heirs of Calvin A. Boylan et al., Defendants Case No. 16CV53 Court No. 4

IN THE DISTRICT COURT DOUGLAS COUNTY, KANSAS

Title to Real Estate Involved Pursuant to K.S.A. §60

IN THE MATTER OF THE PETITION OF MATTHEW JAMES WHALEY To Change His Name to: MATTHEW JAMES HULL

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STATE OF KANSAS to the above named Defendants and The Unknown Heirs, executors, devisees, trusCase No.:2015-CV-17 tees, creditors, and asDiv.: 5 signs of any deceased dePursuant to K.S.A. fendants; the unknown Chapter 60 spouses of any defendants; the unknown officNOTICE OF SUIT ers, successors, trustees, creditors and assigns of TO: The State of Kansas any defendants that are

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existing, dissolved or dormant corporations; the unknown executors, administrators, devisees, trustees, creditors, successors and assigns of any defendants that are or were partners or in partnership; and the unknown guardians, conservators and trustees of any defendants that are minors or are under any legal disability and all other person who are or may be concerned: YOU ARE HEREBY NOTIFIED that a Petition for Mortgage Foreclosure has been filed in the District Court of Douglas County, Kansas by Ditech Financial LLC, praying for foreclosure of certain real property legally described as follows: A PARCEL OF LAND LOCATED IN THE NORTHEAST QUARTER (NE 1/4) OF SECTION THIRTEEN (13), TOWNSHIP TWELVE SOUTH (T12S), RANGE SEVENTEEN EAST (R17E) OF THE 6TH P.M., DOUGLAS COUNTY, KANSAS, MORE PARTICULARLY DESCRIBED AS FOLLOWS: COMMENCING AT THE NORTHWEST CORNER OF THE NORTHEAST QUARTER (NE 1/4); THENCE SOUTH 88 DEGREES 42 MINUTES 06 SECONDS WEST A DISTANCE OF 1,067.23 FEET TO THE POINT OF BEGINNING, SAID POINT BEING ON THE NORTH LINE OF THE NORTHEAST QUARTER (NE 1/4); THENCE CONTINUING SOUTH 88 DEGREES 42 MINUTES 06 SECONDS EAST A DISTANCE OF 255.00 FEET, SAID POINT BEING THE NORTHWEST CORNER OF THE NORTHEAST QUARTER (NE 1/4), OF THE NORTHEAST QUARTER (NE 1/4); THENCE SOUTH 88 DEGREES 42 MINUTES 27 SECONDS EAST A DISTANCE OF 1,045.24 FEET, SAID POINT BEING ON THE NORTH LINE OF THE NORTHEAST QUARTER (NE 1/4); THENCE SOUTH 00 DEGREES 05 MINUTES 14 SECONDS WEST A DISTANCE OF 1,052.41 FEET, SAID POINT BEING ON THE NORTHERLY RIGHT OF WAY LINE OF THE KANSAS TURNPIKE; THENCE ALONG SAID LINE NORTH 69 DEGREES 21 MINUTES 33 SECONDS WEST A DISTANCE OF 137.00 FEET; THENCE NORTH 61 DEGREES 52 MINUTES 33 SECONDS WEST A DISTANCE OF 432.48 FEET; THENCE NORTH 70 DEGREES 27 MINUTES 38 SECONDS WEST A DISTANCE OF 50.46

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FEET; THENCE NORTH 80 DEGREES 38 MINUTES 01 SECONDS WEST A DISTANCE OF 357.77 FEET; THENCE AROUND A RADIAL CURVE TO THE LEFT HAVING A DELTA ANGLE OF 00 DEGREES 49 MINUTES 56 SECONDS A RADIUS OF 23,218.32 FEET, A CHORD LENGTH OF 337.24 FEET WITH A BEARING OF NORTH 71 DEGREES 48 MINUTES 24 SECONDS WEST AND AN ARC LENGTH OF 337.25 FEET, SAID POINT BEING ON THE NORTHERLY RIGHT OF WAY LINE OF THE KANSAS TURNPIKE; THENCE NORTH 05 DEGREES 57 MINUTES 29 SECONDS WEST A DISTANCE OF 652.74 FEET TO THE POINT OF BEGINNING, SUBJECT TO ANY PART IN ROADS. BEING KNOWN AS LOT 2A ON THE PLAT OF SURVEY FILED JULY 25, 2007 IN BOOK 1025 AT PAGE 5488 TAX ID NO. 500069-02B Commonly known as 177 N 1900 Road, Lecompton, KS 66050 (“the Property”) MS172352 for a judgment against defendants and any other interested parties and, unless otherwise served by personal or mail service of summons, the time in which you have to plead to the Petition for Foreclosure in the District Court of Douglas County Kansas will expire on March 28, 2016. If you fail to plead, judgment and decree will be entered in due course upon the request of plaintiff.

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2 DAY AUCTION Sat 2/27 @ 10am & Sun 2/28 @1pm VFW Hall @ 2806 N 155th St. Basehor, KS Coins, Sports Memorabilia, Baseball cards & more, Vintage Fishing Lures, Antiques & Collectibles, Tools, Guns, Boat Trailer & Motor. See web for color pics & full list: kansasauctions.net/sebree Sebree Auction LLC 816-223-9235 FARM AUCTION Sat., Feb. 27, 11:00 am 310 E. 800 Rd. Baldwin City, KS Tractors, Trucks, & 4 Wheeler, Heavy Equip, Hay & Silage Equip, Cattle Equip & Misc Farm Supplies, Fence posts, & more.

Seller: Roger & Susie Taul *equipment well maintened & shed kept! See web for pics!

Auctioneers: Jason Flory: 785-979-2183 Mark Elston: 785-218-7851 www.FloryAndAssociates.com Kansasauctions.net/elston RJ’s Mid-Winter Coin & Currency Auction Friday, Feb.19th, 6:00 PM 15767 S. Topeka Avenue Scranton, Kansas Over 300 LOTS! Bid online at www.proxibid.com or see www.rjsauctionservice.com Call 785-793-2500 for questions. Preview at 4:30.

RJ’s Auction Service located 11 miles S. of Topeka at Hwy 75 & 56 Former Deems John Deere Dealership Commercial Real Estate Auction Thursday March 17, 1 PM Public Showing: Wed., 2/17, 1:00- 3:00 PM SALE TO BE HELD ON-SITE: 805 ORANGE ST. BUTLER, MO Info: Sullivan Auctioneers Terry Reynolds (660) 341-1092 www.sullivanauctioneers.com

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PUBLIC AUCTION Saturday, Feb. 21, 10:30 AM Held at Wischropp Auction Facility 930 Laing St., Osage City,KS Quality Antique Glassware, THOUSANDS of ALBUMS, Crystal, Fenton, Schmid, Antiques, Vintage, Collectibles Listing & Pictures at: www.wischroppauctions.com Wayne Wischropp 785-828-4212 PUBLIC AUCTION: Saturday, February 27, 10 AM Wischropp Auction Facility 930 Laing St., Osage City, KS Quilts, Shaker Boxes, Trunks, Zane Grey and other books, Antiques, Vintage, Collectibles.

Listing & Pictures at: www.wischroppauctions.com Wayne Wischropp 785-828-4212 FARM AUCTION: Saturday, Feb 20, 9:30 AM 8758 W. 293rd Osage City, KS J.D. Tractors & Equipment, Pickups, Trailers, Planters, Sprayers, Baler, Daycabs & more! Tools, Shop Items, Farm Collectibles & Misc.

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