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First bill would end reporting requirement for forfeitures Program, which lets police seize assets from suspects, is under fire

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Topeka — The first bill to be money and other asintroduced in the 2017 session sets they seize from of the Kansas Legislature calls LEGISLATURE criminal suspects for repealing a law that requires and what they do local law enforcement agencies with those assets. to file annual reports about the The bill was pre-filed in both

the House and Senate by the Legislative Committee on Post Audit, which held hearings and received a report over the summer that criticized the state’s civil asset forfeiture program.

But it also comes at a time when the state is coming under criticism for that program from people who say it allows law enforcement officials to seize money and property from peo-

ple they suspect of committing crimes, even though many of the suspects are never charged or convicted of any crime.

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A PEDESTRIAN HEADS NORTH ON MASSACHUSETTS STREET ON WEDNESDAY IN DOWNTOWN LAWRENCE. Ed Forman, who recently closed the TCBY frozen yogurt shop in the 900 block of Massachusetts Street, believes that downtown Lawrence businesses are lacking the support needed from Lawrence residents.

d Forman had been warned about downtown Lawrence.

It was about 2005 when Forman began looking for a spot in an idyllic downtown where he and his wife could work together in a sweet shop, share some smiles and maybe create a few too.

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confirmed and suspected mumps cases on Wednesday.

The contagious disease — known for causing salivary glands to become painful and swollen — is caused by a virus that spreads through saliva and mucus.

As long as he can stay out of trouble, there will be no criminal trial for a Lawrence man accused of sexually harassing an overseas blogger.

In late December, the Douglas County District Attorney’s Office accepted a diversion application from Kalim Akeba Lloyd Dowdell, 20, his attorney, Keith White, said Wednes- Dowdell day morning.

Dowdell was arrested in August 2015, and faced a single, misdemeanor charge of harassment by telecommunications device.

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Like many news organizations around the country, the JournalWorld began calling and emailing the offices of its local delegation with what ought to have been a simple question: How did you vote on that issue?

Mumps has reached the University of Kansas.

Health officials have confirmed one case in a KU student and investigated nine other students with mumps-like symptoms since midDecember, though

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THIS IMAGE DEPICTS PARTICLES OF THE MUMPS VIRUS. One case of mumps, which causes salivary glands to become painful and swollen, has been confirmed at the University of Kansas, and nine other people at KU are suspected of having the disease.

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t probably comes as no surprise to anyone that getting direct answers to direct questions out of politicians can be difficult, and at times even excruciating.

And that was the case earlier this week when Republicans in the U.S. House found themselves on the receiving end of a public backlash after they voted in a closeddoor caucus meeting to back a rules change that would have stripped the Office of Congressional Ethics of its independence.

The backlash, which came not only from the public but also from President-elect Donald Trump, was harsh enough that, less than 24 hours later, the GOP caucus met again and reversed its decision.

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“I think it’s a terrible idea,” said David Smith, an attorney in Alexandria, Va., who practices in the area of civil asset forfeiture law.

Smith represents Salvador Franco Jr., a Las Vegas man who has alleged that the Kansas Highway Patrol seized $32,000 in cash from him during a traffic stop on Interstate 70 in March 2016, even though he has never been charged with a crime.

Franco’s case was first reported earlier this week by the Topeka CapitalJournal and was picked up

by The Associated Press for publication in other news outlets, including

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Federal prosecutors in Kansas are asking a federal court to declare Franco’s money forfeited, in which case it would be divided between the federal government and the Kansas Highway Patrol.

But Smith is asking that the money be returned to his client.

The bill grew out of a Post Audit report that was issued in July, as well as an earlier audit in 2000, both of which found, among other things, that virtually no local law enforcement agencies were complying with reporting requirements.

The Lawrence Police Department is one local agency that has filed annual reports, although the most recent one offers little detail about how the money was used.

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Forman, who has a business in Branson, Mo., and has owned businesses in more than a CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1A half-dozen other cities, said Lawrence City Hall But those in the was among the best he regional business comhas worked with. He also munity had cautioned had no complaints with Forman about downtown the rent or his landlord, Lawrence. They told him the late George Paley and two factors consistently his family. drove businesses out of When Forman spoke business in downtown: to me, he was insistent high rents and a City Hall that people understand that was terrible to work those old, familiar with. reasons weren’t behind By 2012, Forman and this closure. Instead, he his wife took the leap. thinks it is important for They opened the TCBY Lawrence residents to frozen yogurt shop at hear something that he Ninth and Massachusetts. knows several merchants In the last few days, they in downtown think but closed it. The couple no aren’t always comfortlonger could make the able saying.

TCBY franchise work.

“The people of LawForman said he had a rence,” Forman said plan to open a business when asked about what called Free State Frozen needs to change with Coffee and Desserts, but downtown. “The westa noncompete clause siders need to reinvest in with TCBY won’t allow downtown Lawrence.” it. For the moment, the Forman said he building sits empty while believes downtown is Forman works to find a becoming a bit like The new idea or someone to Strip in Las Vegas. He take over his lease. said the last place resiAnother downtown dents of Las Vegas want business out of business. to go on a regular basis is Remember the warnThe Strip. They go when ing? Come to find out, it they have visitors from wasn’t accurate. Yes, the out of town or when result was the same — a there is a special event, closed business — but but many other times the reasons behind the they avoid it. closure weren’t high Forman said it always rents and a difficult city was surprising how many government. of his shop’s customers

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KU students currently are on winter break. The last day of fall finals was Dec. 16; the first day of spring classes is Jan. 17.

Mary Beverly, the health department’s director of epidemiology, said officials don’t know where all the cases were contracted but that some are thought to have been spread prior to KU’s winter break. She said some of the students who became ill lived in group housing and others did not. Beverly declined to share more details, citing patient privacy.

The mumps, measles and rubella (MMR) vaccine is recommended for children to receive around their first birthday, with a second dose between ages 4 and 6, Beverly said. In

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He applied for a diversion in September.

White said he believed Dowdell had no prior criminal history in Douglas County District Court, which is often a factor in whether a diversion agreement is approved.

Though White said Dowdell’s diversion application was accepted, Cheryl Wright-Kunard, assistant to Douglas County District Attorney Charles Branson, said the agreement has not

The Lawrence department provided a copy of its most recent report, dated Feb. 23, 2016, showing the department had received $20,771 from one case over the prior year and that “All proceeds were used for educational purposes.”

The Douglas County Sheriff’s Office did not immediately respond to questions about its reporting practices.

Under current law, local law enforcement agencies are required to submit annual reports to their governing bodies detailing the type and approximate value of forfeited assets it received and how those proceeds were spent.

The committee looked again at the issue on Sept.

21, when it considered legislation to recommend

were from out of town — many Johnson County residents coming over for a weekend outing.

That’s good. Lawrence will take all the Johnson County money it can get.

But unlike Las Vegas, Lawrence doesn’t yet have a tourism industry large enough to entirely support the downtown that we want to have.

A bit of perspective is probably important here.

There has been a lot of new building in downtown in the last several years. Vacancy rates are not particularly high in the district. Downtown is not in crisis. And there probably are a multitude of reasons why the TCBY shop didn’t work, including the fact that a Kansas winter doesn’t always put a fellow in the mood for frozen yogurt.

But I’ve certainly heard the concerns whispered before that Lawrence consumers don’t support their downtown businesses like they used to. Worse yet, Forman thinks Lawrence residents have become a bit blasé about it.

“I think too many Lawrence people are content with the idea that businesses come and go in downtown, but that is not how you build a strong downtown,” Forman said.

Certainly there are Lawrence residents con-

in the 2017 session. According to the minutes of that meeting, the committee was asked to look at two options: strengthening the reporting requirement or doing away with it altogether.

Those minutes reflect that Sen. Laura Kelly, DTopeka, offered a motion to recommend a bill repealing the requirement and that her motion carried.

During an interview Wednesday, however, Kelly said the recent scrutiny and criticism of civil asset forfeitures may prompt lawmakers to take a different approach.

“I think that story may make people rethink this,” Kelly said. “That had not happened when we met. I don’t think (the issue) was as clear as the article made it, where the

cerned about the longterm health of downtown. A certain subset of that group likely have a predictable response to this issue: Don’t allow frozen yogurt shops to locate anywhere but downtown. One possible strategy has always been to protect downtown at the expense of all other areas of town. Going that path, however, puts the community at odds with perhaps the most prevalent trend in America: the need for everything to be convenient. For that reason, the strategy might not work. If a frozen yogurt place wasn’t allowed to open at Sixth and Wakarusa, for instance, I’m not sure whether TCBY would have sold more frozen yogurt or whether Lawrence would have just eaten less frozen yogurt.

Another option is to embrace the idea of downtown Lawrence retail being supported primarily by visitors. If that is the case, though, Lawrence’s tourism industry is likely going to have to grow substantially.

The strategy that it seemed like the city had settled on was to encourage more people to live downtown, which in turn would be good for downtown retailers.

The most convenient place for people who live

Preventing mumps Mumps is a contagious disease caused by a virus. It spreads through saliva or mucus from the mouth, nose or throat.

An infected person can spread the virus by: l coughing or sneezing l kissing l sharing items such as drinks, cigarettes, lip balm or eating utensils l touching objects or surfaces with unwashed

hands.

Symptoms of mumps typically are a few days of fever, headache, muscle aches, fatigue and loss of appetite, followed by swollen and tender salivary glands. People infected with mumps are usually contagious from three days before the swelling to five days after.

There is no treatment for mumps.

If you suspect you have mumps, call your doctor or the Lawrence-Douglas County Health Department at 843-3060. Practice good hand washing, stay home from school, work and social activities, and limit close contact with others for five days after the onset of symptoms.

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order to enroll, KU students are required to show proof of two MMR vaccinations, according to the KU Immunization Compliance Policy.

MMR vaccination is lifelong but does not prevent all cases of mumps, Beverly said. In cases where the vaccine does not prevent mumps, it may lessen the

severity of symptoms.

A large outbreak of mumps at the University of Missouri reached more than 220 cases in mid-December, according to The Associated Press. Most cases there were linked to fraternities and sororities, and the university urged student groups to cancel or postpone end-of-semester

social events.

Additional large outbreaks have been reported across the country, including on other college campuses.

Mumps is no longer very common in the United States, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

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yet been filed with the court so it is not technically in effect just yet.

Once attorneys examine the document to ensure its accuracy and then file it with the court, the prosecution must be stayed by an order from the case’s judge, WrightKunard said.

“It is not until the court signs the order to stay prosecution that the defendant is on diversion for that case,” she said.

If Dowdell is able to complete the terms of his diversion agreement, he will not be convicted of the harassment charge.

However, the diversion

will remain on his record unless he later files for an expungement.

According to an arrest affidavit filed in district court, Dowdell sent sexually explicit messages to several people using a number of different social media accounts.

One of his reported victims, Rachel Gronback, of New Zealand, said Dowdell sent her unwanted and inappropriate pictures. When she asked for an apology, she received what she considered a half-hearted response, so she filed a police report and sent investigators a packet documenting the messages.

Before Dowdell’s diversion process began, Gronback had committed to coming to the United States in the event of a criminal trial. She could not be reached for comment Wednesday morning.

In late November, Dowdell published a written statement on his public Facebook page saying that White, his parents and his school — he attended Lawrence’s Veritas Christian School at the time of the incident — told him not to speak out.

“Around a year ago I made a very big mistake and I knew that from the beginning,” he wrote. “I

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(USPS 306-520) Periodicals postBut Forman — who age paid at Lawrence, Kan. Member of Alliance said he still loves downfor Audited Media town and may open a Member of The Associated Press future business in the district — contends that Lawrence residents could make the situation better by doing WEDNESDAY’S POWERBALL something very simple: 16 17 29 41 42 (4) Find more reasons to go TUESDAY’S MEGA MILLIONS downtown and spend.

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cases can range from roughly a couple hundred to a couple thousand.

With 4,258 cases of mumps nationwide reported as of early December, 2016 saw the largest outbreak of mumps since 2006, according to the CDC. Beverly urged anyone with mumps symptoms to contact a physician and isolate themselves immediately because the disease can be dangerous if spread to certain people.

“Most of the time, it is not a terribly serious disease,” she said. “However, there are vulnerable populations out there, such as infants who are too young to be vaccinated, the immunocompromised who cannot be vaccinated because of their condition and pregnant women.”

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Republican U.S. Rep. Kevin Yoder voted in favor of a proposal Monday to overhaul the Office of Congressional Ethics and remove much of its independent authority. A story — KU and higher ed reporter Sara in Wednesday’s paper Shepherd can be reached at 832-7187. misinterpreted a statement Follow her on Twitter: @saramarieshep issued by Yoder’s office.

wasn’t at the best place in my life but that’s not an excuse; I didn’t handle it the right way (at) all. I apologized for my wrong doings to her but she did not feel it was good enough.”

Among other things, Dowdell said he was suspended from school — Veritas previously declined to comment on the incident — and that he visited a therapist for months.

“I’m a funny, kind, out going guy and my actions didn’t show that which made me very disappointed in myself,” he wrote. “I always took full responsibility for my actions and

I truly am sorry. I made a mistake and I learned from it, that’s truly what life’s about is it not?”

Dowdell also thanked his family and friends for supporting him over the past months. Dozens of people “liked” the message and others commented, offering their support.

Through a written message, Gronback offered only two words regarding Dowdell’s statement: “Not impressed.”

If Dowdell had been convicted of the misdemeanor, he could have faced up to 12 months in jail and/or a fine of up to $2,500.

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This week, the University of Kansas Hospital and Hays Medical Center are operating under a new partnership officials say will improve health care for Kansans living far from Kansas City.

Since the planned partnership was first announced in September, details have been finalized and the agreement took effect Sunday.

The partnership — a first for the hospital — represents a long-awaited milestone from the Kansas Legislature’s charge

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We’re the only academic medical center in the state of Kansas, and we have a responsibility to Kansans.”

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that created the hospital authority, KU Hospital president and CEO Bob Page said. That charge, in part, says KU Hospital should “provide patient care and specialized services not widely available elsewhere in the state” and other public services to all citizens of the state of Kansas.

It took years for KU Hospital to get its own act together and

find sound footing, Page said.

Now it’s situated to meet the charge by expanding its reach.

“Now that we’ve righted the ship and are moving in the right direction ... we’re in a better position to provide that support,” Page said. “We’re the only academic medical center in the state of Kansas, and we have a responsibility to Kansans.”

The KU-Hays partnership won’t result in many day-today changes that employees and staff will notice, Page said.

He said it’s not a merger or acquisition; rather, it’s based on relationships and collaboration to standardize patient care.

“We have spent months preparing to begin this partnership,” Page said. “Now the hospitals can truly work as one to improve the health of Kansans.”

John Jeter, who will continue to serve as CEO of Hays Medical Center, said the final negotiations went smoothly.

“When both parties share the

same patient-care philosophy and vision, final agreements flow naturally,” Jeter said in a news release from KU Hospital. “Our staff is excited now that the partnership agreement is complete and we can begin realizing our goals for this partnership.”

According to the KU Hospital announcement, the basic elements of the newly enacted agreement remain unchanged from the earlier letter of intent: l Staff will continue to be employed by their current organizations.

Ex-student sentenced for lying on visa application

By Conrad Swanson cswanson@ljworld.com

A former University of Kansas graduate student will spend time in prison for lying on an immigrant visa application, according to a news release from Tom Beall, U.S. attorney in the District of Kansas.

Goran Sabah Ghafour, 35, was sentenced on Wednesday to serve two years in prison after he pleaded guilty to one felony count each of visa fraud and aggravated identity theft, the release said. As a part of his plea, Ghafour admitted to falsely claiming he worked as a translator for the U.S. Army in Iraq.

In addition, Ghafour submitted a falsified letter from an Army officer, the release said.

“In fact, the officer whose name was on the letter did not know Ghafour and did not consent to Ghafour writing the letter,” the release said.

Ghafour submitted the falsified application while he was

working as a teaching assistant in KU’s journalism school, Beall had said previously.

Ghafour graduated from KU last May and is no longer a student at the university.

— Public safety reporter Conrad Swanson can be reached at 832-7284. Follow him on Twitter: @ Conrad_Swanson

New library club gives old video games an extra life

By Joanna Hlavacek jhlavacek@ljworld.com

Ian Stepp remembers visiting his aunt’s house as a kid, where he’d play classic games like Duck Hunt and iterations of the Mario Brothers saga on the family’s trusty old Nintendo Entertainment System.

Now pushing 30, Stepp is still a fan of the nowclassic video games that in recent years have spawned a thriving industry capitalizing on the nostalgia of grownups who coveted Nintendo game systems as kids in the 1980s and ’90s.

“It’s tough to deny video games are here to stay,” he says, and the Lawrence Public Library, where Stepp works as an information services assistant, is on board.

On Wednesday evening at the library, Stepp and his colleague Sean Wilson will host their first-ever assembly of the Retro Gaming Club. Slated for 7 to 8:30 p.m., the meeting will start off with a little video game his-

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tory lesson and perhaps some trivia, followed by — what else? — plenty of gaming, both on a big projector screen and several televisions stationed around the library auditorium.

The goal, Stepp says, is to cultivate an “allages community of video game enthusiasts” centered around now-quaint, kid-friendly games like Pac Man, The Legend of Zelda, Donkey Kong and, of course, Mario.

Several of these nowclassics are “older than me” by a couple years, points out Stepp, who says he and Wilson were inspired to launch the Retro Gaming Club after hosting a few gaming-related events at the library last year. Stepp remembers one in particular that celebrated the 30th anniversary of Nintendo’s

Metroid game.

A father, presumably in his 40s, had attended with his young son in tow. “He walked in and was like, ‘I played this as a kid,’” Stepp says. It didn’t take long before father and son grabbed a pair of controllers and began playing the game together.

Watching the whole thing unfold, Stepp says, was a fun experience — one he’d like to see replicated, at least from the standpoint of sharing a hobby that spans generations, with the library’s new club.

“For me, at least with Nintendo, there’s a sense of whimsy and fun that you kind of lose with some of the more melodramatic video game series today. It seems that most of the time, when video games make the headlines, it’s for vio-

lent content or treating women terribly,” Stepp says. “But there is another aspect to video gaming. That’s what really called me to it — just an easy, innocent, fun way to pass your time. And I think Nintendo in particular has been able to hold onto that throughout the years.”

Retro Gaming Club members will be using a miniature replica of the old Nintendo NES, which recently generated headlines for still remaining in scarce supply (much to the dismay of holiday shoppers) more than a month after its much-hyped release in November. The console is preloaded with 30 classic games, all of which are accessible to gamers of varying ages and skill levels, Stepp says.

Folks can even bring their own gaming system if they so choose, but Stepp hopes the classic NES will serve as an “entry point,” perhaps, for those looking to revisit the video games of their youth.

‘Hike Through History’ project wins grant

By Joanna Hlavacek jhlavacek@ljworld.com

The Lawrence Public Library’s “Hike Through History” project is on its way to becoming a permanent exhibit on Lawrence’s Burroughs Creek Trail.

Freedom’s Frontier National Heritage Area has awarded the Lawrence Public Library Foundation a $5,000 grant to support the development, design and fabrication of outdoor installations tracing “key historical points” along the Burroughs Creek Trail and Linear Park, the library announced Wednesday.

The nine permanent panels will be stationed throughout the 1.7-mile trail, which follows the route of a former rail line once operated by the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway.

The signage panels (which document historical topics such as the Oregon Trail, Quantrill’s Raid and Beat Generation icon/one-time Lawrencian/trail namesake William S. Burroughs) will be adapted from an original traveling exhibit that premiered at the library last

For now, he and Wilson plan to host larger club events (they’re aiming for an attendance of about 30 to start) on the second Wednesday of each month in the library auditorium, as well as smaller, “nitty gritty” gatherings in the library’s downstairs rooms on the fourth Wednesday of the month. Visitors are free to come and go as they please, Stepp says.

“We’re not going to make you swear on a controller or anything,” he jokes of the club’s loosely structured membership.

“Our goal is to have everyone be on a first name basis and just recognize each other.”

Well, that and a little fun, too. For more information on the Retro Gaming Club, visit lawrence.lib.ks.us.

— Reporter Joanna Hlavacek can be reached at 832-6388. Follow her on Twitter: @HlavacekJoanna

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BRIEFLY Comedy special shot in Lawrence honored “Whatever Threatens You,” the Barry Crimmins stand-up comedy special filmed in Lawrence last year, has been chosen by The Interrobang readers as the Best Comedy Special of 2016.

More than 10,000 people voted in the comedy news outlet’s 2016 Readers Poll, which spanned seven categories ranging from Stand Up Comedian of the Year to Best Comedy TV Show or Series. “Barry has one of the strongest points of view you’ll find on a stage this year and he proved that comedy truly matters,” Interrobang Crimmins wrote in praise of the political satirist and veteran stand-up performer who chose to film his special at the Lawrence Arts Center last summer after appearing at Lawrence’s Free State Festival in 2015.

Crimmins told the Journal-World at the time that staging “Whatever Threatens You” in Lawrence and keeping ticket prices low (at $10 for general admission) was his way of saying “thank you” to the Kansas town and the people who have embraced him over the years. Crimmins recently expressed interest in revisiting Lawrence, tweeting last week that he was “working on” scheduling a 2017 appearance here.

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THESE THREE PANELS, PICTURED ON JULY 15, 2016, are part of the “Hike Through History” exhibit. The project has received a grant from the Freedom’s Frontier National Heritage Area that will allow it to become a permanent installation on the Burroughs Creek Trail. summer and is currently on display at Lawrence Memorial Hospital.

Scholars and experts developed the exhibit’s content under the direction of Henry Fortunato, a visiting fellow at the Hall Center for the Humanities at the University of Kansas. Lawrence historian Katie Armitage

served as project advisor.

In addition to the Freedom’s Frontier grant, the project has received financial support from former Journal-World owner Dolph Simons Jr. through the Douglas County Community Foundation.

The Lawrence Parks

and Recreation Department is slated to install the “Hike Through History” panels in the spring as in in-kind donation to the project. A public unveiling event will be held at that time.

— Reporter Joanna Hlavacek can be reached at 832-6388. Follow her on Twitter: @HlavacekJoanna

Your ‘trash day’ the week of January 3rd-6th for tree-cycling collection.

Crews will run through all City neighborhoods on Monday, January 9th collecting all remaining trees.

Trees will become wildlife habitat. Remove all decorations, tinsel, and tree stands.

No plastic overwraps.

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Best course of action for snoring: visit a doctor Dear Annie: I used to get by on six hours of sleep a night, but as I’ve gotten older, I really like to sleep for a full eight or nine hours every night. But the problem is that it is not always easy to sleep that long, especially if I am snoring a lot.

I snore so loudly that my wife sometimes asks me to sleep on the couch, or she will sleep there herself. But even if I am alone, my snoring is so bad that sometimes it wakes me up. I know that sounds funny, but it’s true.

I am really looking for any suggestions you have for more restful sleep. I do know that when I try to get by on less than eight hours of sleep, I am much more susceptible to colds and the flu. When I manage to sleep eight or nine hours a night, I always

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feel much better and almost never get sick.

My wife would also appreciate your help with this. She knows I can’t control the snoring, but her patience is wearing thin. — Snoring in Slumberland Dear Snoring: Everyone has a favorite ‘’stop snoring’’ remedy. Ask around and you’re likely to hear dozens: Take a hot shower before bedtime; use a saline rinse to clear the nasal passages; don’t drink

‘Nashville’ enters its fifth season ‘‘Nashville’’ (8 p.m., CMT, TV-PG) enters its fifth season on cable after having survived cancellation by ABC. Part of the problem of salvaging a show that’s been canceled is keeping talent on board. Much has been made of star Connie Britton’s future on the series and the fact that she won’t appear in all of this season’s episodes.

Among the new faces arriving is Joseph David-Jones (’’DC’s Legends of Tomorrow’’), who plays Clay, a young AfricanAmerican musician on the cusp of Music City stardom. Cameron Scoggins has been cast as Zach Welles, a Silicon Valley gazillionaire who just happens to be a huge fan of Rayna James.

We’ll have to see how many regulars return or stick around for any duration. The GunnarScarlett on-and-off romance saga has been written into this season opener, but Sam Palladio, who plays Gunnar, has been added to the cast of AMC’s ‘‘Humans,’’ returning in February. He’s also had a recurring role on Showtime’s ‘‘Episodes.’’ l I’ve always thought that makers and viewers of cable’s many paranormal series must have confused ‘‘Ghostbusters’’ for a documentary. The new docuseries ‘‘Ghosts in the Hood’’ (9 p.m., WE, TV-14) returns to comedy with a spoof of the genre. Wisecracking ‘‘experts’’ go through the motions of watching through night vision cameras and employing the newest gadgetry as they investigate reported specters in a funeral parlor in Compton and in a haunted pinata shop, as well as tales of a succubus residing in an old Korean brothel. l Fred and Carrie meet a storytelling consultant on the seventh season premiere of ‘‘Portlandia’’ (9 p.m., IFC, TV-14).

Tonight’s other highlights

l Tales of a terrible road trip

on ‘‘The Big Bang Theory’’ (7 p.m., CBS, TV-PG). l Cooking for charity on ‘‘Hell’s Kitchen’’ (7 p.m., Fox, TV-14). l French pastry methods set the standard on ‘‘The Great American Baking Show’’ (7 p.m., ABC, TV-PG). l Actress Viola Davis appears on ‘‘Inside the Actors Studio’’ (7 p.m., Bravo, TV-PG). l Sizing up a heart transplant recipient on ‘‘Chicago Med’’ (8 p.m., NBC, TV-14). l ‘‘Bringing Up Bates’’ (8 p.m., UP) enters its fifth season. l James uncovers a flaw in his tech hero on ‘‘Pure Genius’’ (9 p.m., CBS, TV-14). l Revelations spark dissension in the ranks on ‘‘The Blacklist’’ (9 p.m., NBC, TV-14).

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alcohol; lose weight; tape tennis balls to your back so you sleep on your side, etc.

All of those are worth trying, but the best thing for you to do is visit your doctor. He or she can review your symptoms and refer you to a sleep specialist for evaluation, as it’s possible you’re suffering from sleep apnea.

Dear Annie: After reading the letter from ‘’Confused Young Life in California,’’ the young man who is incarcerated, I am begging you to please stop telling millennials, ‘’You can still be whoever you want.’’ This is how we parents have messed up our children.

We have told them all their lives that they can do whatever they want to do in life if they simply work hard enough. It is just not true, and intellectually, you know that. We all do.

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For Thursday, Jan. 5: This year you open up to a new sense of well-being, though often you experience an internal conflict between what you want and what you know you’ll get. Perhaps this is a learned habit from childhood.

Regardless, accept yourself as you are. If you are single, you could meet someone who seems to send mixed signals. If you are attached, you and your sweetie will manifest one of your long-term dreams.

The stars show the kind of day you’ll have: 5-Dynamic; 4-Positive; 3-Average; 2-So-so; 1-Difficult Aries (March 21-April 19) HHH You will need to deal with a personal matter, in which someone might be willful and manipulative. Tonight: As you like it.

Taurus (April 20-May 20) HHHHH You could be pushing hard to achieve your goals and get through several difficult tasks.

Tonight: Get some extra sleep, if you can.

Gemini (May 21-June 20) HHHHH Set limits and support yourself in maintaining them. Only then will a situation stabilize. Tonight: Get into weekend mode.

Cancer (June 21-July 22) HHHH Someone in control could become quite pushy. Clearly, the other party is in a foul mood.

Tonight: Live in the here and now.

Leo (July 23-Aug. 22) HHHH Relax and get into the moment. Your priorities could be

This is particularly true for someone coming out of prison. Such a person has the deck stacked against him because he is a former criminal. Period.

Words of encouragement are powerful, but they need to be used in a realistic way. Before this young man can achieve a meaningful life, he needs to have an arsenal of truth. — DBS Dear DBS: Notice that I said this young man can be ‘’whoever,’’ not ‘’whatever,’’ he wants — a matter of heart, not aptitude.

Every morning, we open our eyes and get to decide what type of person we want to be that day. What I want is for this young man to see that there’s a light within — Send your questions for Annie Lane to dearannie@ creators.com.

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subject to change. Tonight: Take off with friends.

Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) HHHH Relate to someone directly. You could clear up a lot of problems. Tonight: Opt for togetherness.

Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) HHHH Sometimes you just can’t sit on your playfulness any longer. Tonight: Let it all hang out.

Scorpio (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) HHH Pace yourself, and don’t try to squeeze in too much at one time. Tonight: Know when to call it a night.

Sagittarius (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) HHHH You are flying high right now as you watch what is happening around you. Tonight: Be a little naughty.

Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) HHH Focus on what is positive, as opposed to what cannot be corrected. Tonight: You probably won’t be disappointed.

Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) HHHHH Your observations are well-received, as are your lighthearted comments. Tonight: Visit with friends.

Pisces (Feb. 19-March 20) HHH You could be overwhelmed by what is happening around you. Tonight: Do some shopping on the way home.

— The astrological forecast should be read for entertainment only.

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ACROSS 1 Dark gray rain clouds 6 Foot-inmouth act 11 Saget or Hoskins 14 State of hate 15 “Once more” 16 Geller of mind play 17 Smoothed, as a wooden surface 19 Cookie jar part 20 Neon, argon and butane 21 Was a bowler 23 Be agreeable 26 Sourly 27 Talk on and on 28 California raisin city 29 Simpson trial judge 30 Highway features 32 ___ on (incited) 35 Persian’s sound 37 Divulge 39 Any creature like Shrek 40 Form a line?

42 Accumulate, as a debt 44 Roth, for one 45 States one’s case 47 Filet ___ 49 Alligatorlike reptiles 1/5

51 Snoopy is one 52 Right of a government to seize property 53 Begin 55 Fish eggs 56 Parts of locomotives 61 Rite answer in a church?

62 Something to lend or bend 63 Like a haunted house 64 “Big” landmark in London 65 11th graders 66 Hang in folds DOWN 1 Negative answers 2 First lady McKinley 3 Hr. fragment 4 Financial plan for a household 5 Select a jury 6 Stare slack-jawed 7 Becomes dated 8 “___ From the Madding Crowd” 9 Like tigers 10 Sign the back of a check 11 Rodeo activity 12 Built-out window type

13 Fussy cackler?

18 From the stars 22 Specialized shop talk 23 Feminine side, to Jung 24 Filled to satisfaction 25 Snitch in a police station 26 Fire that’s not accidental 28 Womb inhabitant 31 Stereotypical pocket protector wearers 33 Film star Flynn 34 Patriot Silas of the Revolutionary War 36 Mrs. Flintstone

38 Ant-eating Australian 41 Stutz classic car 43 Like some decorated ears 46 Whomever 48 Stockpile or collect 49 West Indian native 50 Battery terminal 53 Read bar codes 54 Surfaces a road, in a way 57 Pee-___ Herman 58 Pitching stat 59 Kind of tide 60 Check out visually

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Better numbers The state is in financial trouble, but revisions in estimating revenue may help lawmakers do their job.

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ive the state of Kansas credit for revising the way it estimates tax revenues. For two consecutive months, the state has exceeded projections, a dramatic improvement over what has been experienced of late.

The Kansas Department of Revenue reported this week that total tax collections in December came in $6.2 million, or 1 percent, higher than the new estimates.

Similarly, state revenues came in 0.3 percent higher than estimated in November.

After seeing revenue fall short of expectations for six consecutive months, state budget officials met in November and dramatically lowered the forecast of state revenues. That move resulted in a shortfall of nearly $350 million for the current fiscal year, which began June 30.

The budget shortfall grows to $583 million for the fiscal year that begins July 1.

There’s no genius in revising revenue estimates downward, but at least state officials now can have confidence in the projections. The previous revenue estimates were wildly short of reality. Through October, the fourth month of the fiscal year, revenues had already fallen short of the original estimates by $70 million.

The problem with such inaccurate forecasting is that it makes legislators’ work nearly impossible. It’s hard to craft a workable budget without reasonably accurate revenue expectations.

The results from the past two months show legislators can be somewhat confident in the state’s revised forecast.

The state of Kansas’ financial issues are well documented. The state’s reserves are depleted and the economy remains lackluster compared with the rest of the nation. Trickle-down tax policies implemented by the Republican-controlled statehouse during Gov. Sam Brownback’s tenure have driven tax collections downward but haven’t spurred the economic growth advocates promised.

With a pending ruling expected soon on a school funding lawsuit that could require the state to spend hundreds of millions more on K-12 education, lawmakers need to have a good handle on state revenue expectations like never before.

The November and December revenue reports should make lawmakers more comfortable as the 2017 legislative session gets underway. Make no mistake, the revenue challenges haven’t changed, but at least lawmakers have an accurate idea of how much revenue the state will have this year and next.

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Obama transformation unfortunate Washington — Any summation of Barack Obama’s impact on domestic policy and politics should begin with this: In 2008, he assured supporters, “We are the ones we’ve been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.” Soon he will be replaced by someone who says, “I alone can fix it.” So, Americans have paid Obama the compliment of choosing continuity, if only in presidential narcissism.

The nation has now had, for only the second time, three consecutive two-term presidencies. (The other was “the Virginia dynasty” of Thomas Jefferson, James Madison and James Monroe.) The first trio culminated in an “era of good feelings” (Monroe was reelected unopposed). The second not so much.

Obama, who called health insurance reform the “defining struggle of this generation,” was semi-right, in two senses. Because Obamacare demonstrates the perils of trying to micromanage 18 percent of the economy (America’s health care sector is larger than all but four national economies), it might be the last gasp of New Deal/Great Societystyle government hubris.

On Jan. 16, 2008, Obama told the Reno Gazette-Journal, “I want to make government cool again.” His paragraph in our national epic did not do that. On the other hand, Obama might have catalyzed a conviction already forming in the

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If power is the ability to achieve intended effects, his rhetoric has been powerless to produce anything but an empty, inconsequential reputation for speaking well.”

American mind, but in any case he leaves a nation that now believes public policy should enable everyone to have access to insurance.

Obama has been among the most loquacious of our presidents, but can you call to mind from his Niagara of rhetoric a memorable sentence or even phrase?

If power is the ability to achieve intended effects, his rhetoric has been powerless to produce anything but an empty, inconsequential reputation for speaking well.

He assured congressional Democrats that they could safely vote for Obamacare because “you’ve got me.” He would demonstrate his magic when campaigning for it and for them. Seven years after he said this, it remains unpopular, and they are

fewer than they were. There are 11 fewer senators and 62 fewer representatives than on Jan. 20, 2009.

Three presidents — George Washington, Ulysses Grant and Dwight Eisenhower — were world figures before becoming president and are remembered primarily for what they did before. Eisenhower rebuffed his aides’ requests that he make more use of a new medium for marketing himself: “I can think of nothing more boring, for the American public, than to have to sit in their living rooms for a whole half-hour looking at my face on their television screens.” Eisenhower left office very popular.

A former colleague of Obama’s on the faculty of the University of Chicago Law School described him as someone who never learned anything from anyone with whom he disagreed. He also never learned anything from anyone about constitutional etiquette.

He combined progressivism’s oldest tradition and central tenet — hostility to the separation of powers — with a breezy indifference to the Take Care Clause (the president “shall take care that the laws be faithfully executed”) and to the first sentence of the Constitution’s first article (“All legislative powers herein granted shall be vested in a Congress”).

He began pioneering new dimensions in presiden-

tial lawlessness when, taking over George W. Bush’s bailout of the automobile industry, he shredded the rights of secured Chrysler bondholders. He seemed to believe there is an article in the Constitution that says presidents may make or amend laws that Congress will not make or amend.

Perhaps this is the mysterious Article XII that his successor has referred to.

Obama’s adventures in green energy produced the $535 million bankruptcy of Solyndra and 60 percent fewer electric cars on the road in 2015 than he had predicted. Gulliver on his travels met someone like Obama: “He has been eight years upon a project for extracting sunbeams out of cucumbers, which were to be put in phials hermetically sealed, and let out to warm the air in raw inclement summers. He told me, he did not doubt, that, in eight years more, he should be able to supply the governor’s gardens with sunshine, at a reasonable rate: but he complained that his stock was low, and entreated me to give him something as an encouragement to ingenuity, especially since this had been a very dear season for cucumbers.”

In 2008, Obama said, “Let us transform this nation.”

Judging by the nature of his successor, Obama somewhat succeeded.

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

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From the Lawrence Daily Journal-World for Jan. 5, 1917: l “A protest against the years nature of the show advertising ago exhibited on the bill boards of IN 1917 Lawrence was presented to the mayor and city commissioners today by the executive committee of the Federation of Women’s Clubs. Other organizations signing the protests are the Missionary Union and the W. C. T. U. The letter protested against the advertisements which have been posted for the ‘World of Pleasure,’ which is to appear at the Bowersock Monday night, and against the posters for the ‘Whirl of Life.’… The protest says that the descriptions of these plays would indicate that they are such as would corrupt the morals of the community and asks that such plays be prevented from appearing here in the future. ‘“A World of Pleasure” has been recommended to me as a clean show,’ said Sherman Wiggins, manager of the Bowersock, this afternoon, ‘and that there was not a thing in it that would be offensive to the most sensitive persons.’” l “The number of licensed cars in Douglas County is now 1157, excluding twentyfour dealers’ cars, which make a total of 1181. This is 198 more licensed cars than the total of last year’s registration, from July to July…. The license for the entire year is $5 and the tags are changed each July.”

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

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Ivanka Trump is not going to save us

By James Kirchick Los Angeles Times

Ivanka Trump wants you to know she cares. She cares about the environment. She cares about children. She cares about women. Ivanka is smooth, composed and in control. Sure, Daddy might be a little rough around the edges. But how bad could Donald Trump really be if he produced such a visibly self-possessed and accomplished young woman?

That seems to be the message emerging from Trump Tower as Ivanka assumes an unprecedented role in her father’s administration.

Within days of Trump’s stunning upset victory, there was his second (and, by most accounts, favorite) child at a meeting between him and the Japanese prime minister.

Next, she was listening in on a phone call with Argentina’s president. Later, it was reported that Ivanka might assume White House office space normally reserved for the first lady (Melania Trump having decided to spend most of her time in New York). Showing off her environmentalist bona fides, Ivanka arranged an improbable meeting between Trump and former Vice President Al Gore. Throughout the campaign, she spearheaded her father’s initiatives on childcare policy and stoutly defended his record as a “great

advocate for the women in the workforce.”

It’s easy to be seduced

by Ivanka — she really is smooth — but keep your guard up: This is a trap.

Ivanka is nothing more than pretty window dressing to the explicitly authoritarian, racially divisive, conflict-ofinterest-laden presidential campaign (soon-to-be administration) of her father.

For all the talk about how she’s so much classier and more dignified than Dad, the avaricious apple doesn’t fall far from the Trump tree. Ivanka, too, is using the American presidency for influence peddling and buck making. Just a day after appearing with the rest of her family on “60 Minutes,” Ivanka’s jewelry brand sent out an email to fashion writers hawking the $10,800 gold bracelet she had worn on air. As part of a charity auction, she offered a 45-minute “coffee date” to the highest bidder. Only after critics accused the Trump camp of creating a “pay to play” conflict of interest was the item — which had earned a top bid of $70,000 — scrapped. If the first daughter serves a role in government while simultaneously overseeing the Trump Organization, as has been rumored, that will edge this country closer to resembling a post-Soviet, family-run kleptocracy like Azerbaijan.

Good luck challenging Ivanka about the propriety

of her self-dealing, or anything else. When a reporter for Cosmopolitan, not a publication exactly known for its hard-hitting political coverage, asked if her father’s family leave program would apply to same-sex couples, Ivanka suddenly transformed from Princess Grace to Cruella de Vil. “I think you have a lot of negativity in these questions,” she snapped. “I don’t know how useful it is to spend too much time with you on this if you’re going to make a comment like that.” In other words, let them eat cake.

It’s easy to feel sympathy for Ivanka. Try to imagine the emotional damage wrought by a father like Donald Trump, an admitted sexual predator who publicly boasted that he’d date you if you weren’t his offspring, and giddily consented when a radio shock jock asked if he could call you a “piece of (expletive).” Children, after all, cannot choose their parents.

They can, however, choose whether to support their parents’ irresponsible and dangerous behavior.

Like a spouse who quietly condones her partner’s drink-fueled binges, Ivanka is an enabler. She’s actually worse than that, providing feminine cover and a bogus veil of responsibility for the most crudely misogynistic and immature man ever to occupy the Oval Office.

In this sense, Ivanka resembles not so much any previous member of the first family than she does the scion of another obscenely rich, quasi-royal dynasty: Mariela Castro. Daughter of Cuban president Raul Castro and niece of the recently departed Fidel, Mariela has in recent years adopted LGBT rights as a pet cause — in a country that once herded gay men into concentration camps and quarantined AIDS victims.

Who could have a problem with that? But a wealthy, wellconnected straight woman like Mariela can only claim the mantle of gay rights because the Cuban Communist Party muffles grass-roots LGBT activists, just as it suppresses labor unions, nongovernment newspapers and all forms of political activity independent of the regime. “Gay rights,” such as they are, will be meaningless as long as Cuba remains a totalitarian society.

Mariela’s purpose is not improving the livelihood of her LGBT countrymen so much as it’s fooling credulous Western progressives into thinking that Cuba is anything other than a one-party state run by a mafia clan.

Mariela Castro and Ivanka Trump are what happens when privileged entitlement meets political depravity.

— James Kirchick’s book, “The End of Europe: Dictators, Demagogues and the Coming Dark Age,” is forthcoming from Yale University Press.

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TODAY

FRIDAY

SATURDAY

SUNDAY

MONDAY

Mostly cloudy and cold

Mostly sunny

Plenty of sunshine, but cold

Partly sunny

Partly sunny, breezy and milder

High 20° Low 2° POP: 15%

High 20° Low 7° POP: 0%

High 30° Low 8° POP: 0%

High 34° Low 26° POP: 0%

High 45° Low 34° POP: 5%

Wind NNW 7-14 mph

Wind W 4-8 mph

Wind N 4-8 mph

Wind SSE 7-14 mph

Wind SSW 12-25 mph

POP: Probability of Precipitation

McCook 15/-5

Kearney 14/-5

Oberlin 16/-5

Clarinda 16/-3

Lincoln 16/-3

Grand Island 14/-4

Beatrice 16/-3

Concordia 18/0

Centerville 17/-1

St. Joseph 17/-3 Chillicothe 19/1

Sabetha 16/-2

Kansas City Marshall Manhattan 19/4 20/5 Goodland Salina 20/-1 Oakley Kansas City Topeka 14/-3 23/4 16/0 20/2 Lawrence 18/-1 Sedalia 20/2 Emporia Great Bend 20/6 20/2 22/3 Nevada Dodge City Chanute 24/8 22/5 Hutchinson 23/9 Garden City 22/2 19/2 Springfield Wichita Pratt Liberal Coffeyville Joplin 24/9 24/6 20/5 22/8 25/9 26/9 Hays Russell 20/-1 20/1

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

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Through 8 p.m. Wednesday.

Temperature High/low 24°/9° Normal high/low today 38°/19° Record high today 67° in 2012 Record low today -16° in 1924

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

Month to date Normal month to date Year to date Normal year to date

0.00 0.11 0.14 0.11 0.14

REGIONAL CITIES

Today Fri. Today Fri. Cities Hi Lo W Hi Lo W Cities Hi Lo W Hi Lo W Holton 19 1 c 22 8 s Atchison 18 -2 c 19 5 s Independence 19 4 c 19 10 s Belton 18 4 sf 18 9 s Olathe 17 1 c 18 8 s Burlington 22 4 sn 22 8 s Osage Beach 23 8 sn 22 8 s Coffeyville 26 9 sf 24 9 s Osage City 21 2 c 22 9 s Concordia 18 0 c 24 7 s Ottawa 21 3 sn 21 8 s Dodge City 22 5 sf 27 8 s Wichita 24 6 sn 26 8 s Fort Riley 20 0 c 24 8 s Weather (W): s-sunny, pc-partly cloudy, c-cloudy, sh-showers, t-thunderstorms, r-rain, sf-snow flurries, sn-snow, i-ice.

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SUN & MOON

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Jan 19

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LAKE LEVELS

As of 7 a.m. Wednesday Lake

Clinton Perry Pomona

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874.46 889.45 974.90

Discharge (cfs)

70 25 100

Shown are today’s noon positions of weather systems and precipitation.

Temperature bands are highs for today.

Fronts Cold

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INTERNATIONAL CITIES

Today Cities Hi Lo W Acapulco 84 74 s Amsterdam 38 23 s Athens 60 49 t Baghdad 58 41 s Bangkok 88 73 c Beijing 39 22 c Berlin 28 16 sf Brussels 38 23 s Buenos Aires 82 62 s Cairo 65 48 pc Calgary 24 8 sn Dublin 47 43 pc Geneva 35 22 s Hong Kong 75 67 pc Jerusalem 55 41 pc Kabul 45 28 pc London 41 29 s Madrid 54 27 pc Mexico City 78 48 pc Montreal 22 11 s Moscow 21 -4 sn New Delhi 73 52 c Oslo 18 13 pc Paris 42 24 s Rio de Janeiro 95 80 pc Rome 51 26 s Seoul 50 30 pc Singapore 88 77 c Stockholm 18 5 sn Sydney 77 67 sh Tokyo 50 35 s Toronto 22 10 pc Vancouver 33 24 c Vienna 29 18 c Warsaw 21 7 pc Winnipeg -10 -17 pc

Fri. Hi Lo W 84 73 pc 32 31 c 54 32 c 61 41 s 84 76 sh 42 25 c 26 16 pc 31 28 pc 82 68 s 68 49 s 11 -3 c 54 44 r 28 17 s 76 68 s 58 41 s 42 13 pc 44 42 r 52 27 s 78 49 pc 18 1 s -1 -10 sn 72 52 c 33 28 sn 33 27 pc 92 80 t 40 25 s 48 30 pc 89 76 pc 23 20 c 78 67 pc 46 37 s 21 10 pc 37 27 sn 22 13 sf 13 1 s -4 -14 pc

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-10s -0s 0s 10s 20s 30s 40s 50s 60s 70s 80s 90s 100s 110s National Summary: As lake-effect snow continues to the lee of the Great Lakes, a stripe of snow will extend from the central Rockies to the central Plains and the Ohio Valley today. Rain showers will slowly leave California.

Today Fri. Today Cities Hi Lo W Hi Lo W Cities Hi Lo W Hi 39 24 c 28 Albuquerque 55 34 r 43 20 sf Memphis Miami 81 61 s 81 Anchorage 23 6 s 12 5 s Milwaukee 13 1 c 12 Atlanta 55 34 pc 41 27 c Minneapolis 2 -6 c 8 Austin 70 30 c 43 24 c 36 21 c 28 Baltimore 36 27 pc 37 19 pc Nashville New Orleans 65 50 pc 50 Birmingham 53 31 pc 36 23 c 35 28 pc 34 Boise 14 -7 pc 8 -7 pc New York 15 0 c 22 Boston 36 27 pc 32 22 sn Omaha Orlando 76 51 pc 75 Buffalo 24 14 sn 20 13 c Philadelphia 36 28 pc 37 Cheyenne 8 -10 sf 20 8 s 66 51 s 66 Chicago 15 2 c 13 7 pc Phoenix 25 15 sn 21 Cincinnati 25 11 sn 20 8 pc Pittsburgh Portland, ME 33 18 s 30 Cleveland 24 16 sn 21 12 c Portland, OR 33 18 s 35 Dallas 42 25 pc 34 19 c Reno 36 16 sn 32 Denver 7 -1 sn 22 0 s Richmond 43 31 pc 40 Des Moines 17 0 c 18 9 s 51 30 pc 49 Detroit 22 13 sf 20 11 pc Sacramento 21 10 sn 21 El Paso 65 43 s 62 32 pc St. Louis Salt Lake City 19 6 c 15 Fairbanks 21 -23 sn -17 -25 s San Diego 63 56 sh 64 Honolulu 78 62 s 79 63 s San Francisco 52 38 pc 50 Houston 67 41 c 45 31 c 32 24 pc 39 Indianapolis 22 9 sn 17 7 pc Seattle Spokane 13 1 pc 16 Kansas City 18 -1 c 18 8 s Tucson 68 47 s 65 Las Vegas 65 42 pc 52 37 s 29 16 c 28 Little Rock 38 23 c 30 17 sn Tulsa 40 31 pc 38 Los Angeles 61 53 sh 63 53 pc Wash., DC National extremes yesterday for the 48 contiguous states High: Marathon, FL 86° Low: Fosston, MN -26°

WEATHER HISTORY Freezing rain on Jan. 5, 1983, tied up morning traffic from North Carolina to eastern Pennsylvania.

Fri. Lo W 18 sn 69 c 7c -3 c 16 c 33 sh 24 sn 7s 61 c 23 pc 47 s 11 pc 10 c 23 pc 24 s 22 c 40 pc 11 s 4s 52 pc 46 pc 27 c 2 pc 42 pc 11 pc 23 pc

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What does socked in mean?

An airport closed because of poor visibility.

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12:10 p.m. 12:46 p.m. none 1:00 a.m.

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And that’s all fair enough, but it leaves open two other questions. First, if Rep. Yoder CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1A wanted to convey the message that he voted It’s a question that yes, why didn’t he just typically lends itself to say, “I voted yes?” And three possible answers: second, if he thinks “I voted yes”; “I voted handling such an issue no”; or “I did not partici- behind closed doors is pate in the vote.” inappropriate, then why Only two of Kansas’ did he consent to it and four House members, vote yes? all Republicans, even As to the first question, responded to the quesYoder’s communications tion, and neither of the director C.J. Grover said two who did respond simply that Tuesday was gave any such clear-cut a “hectic day” because it answer. In particular, 3rd was the first day of the District Rep. Kevin Yonew Congress and all der’s office sent this writ- 435 members had to be ten statement, attributed sworn in. And as to the to the congressman: second question, he said: “In order to ‘drain the “He supported the swamp’ we must serious- reforms in conference ly revise the ineffective (which has no binding ethics laws passed during authority and frankly the Pelosi Congress. doesn’t affect any policy, While I supported the the votes on the House reforms offered, I believe floor does that) and that any changes should would support them if go through a full and they come back to the open bipartisan process. floor for a vote like he Not a closed meeting says in the statement. He where votes were not has always favored openrecorded.” ness and transparency in In retrospect, it’s a re- Congress and this issue sponse that can be inter- is no different. Typically preted a number of ways, these votes happen at the depending on how much beginning of each new emphasis the reader congress with no fanfare, places on key words and but as the situation dephrases. Read one way, veloped it became clear it can sound like Yoder the best way to tackle supported the ideas or that particular portion of concepts behind the the rules package would proposal, “the reforms,” be in the committee but that he objected to process. It’s not contrathe way it was presented dictory.” in a closed-door meetIt’s worth noting that ing where there are no getting a direct answer recorded votes. out of Rep. Lynn Jenkins’ That’s how we first office was no easier. interpreted the response Their initial response to and that’s what we report- the question “How did ed online Tuesday and Rep. Jenkins vote?” was in print Wednesday. We this: were wrong, and we were “There is no question told so the next day. The that the Office of Constory has been corrected gressional Ethics needs online, and a print correc- to be reformed. After eight years, we must tion has been issued.

Hospital CONTINUED FROM PAGE 3A l Both hospitals will keep their respective boards, the Hays Medical Center Board of Directors and the KU Hospital Authority Board. l A new operations council, made up of members from both organizations, has been formed and is tasked with directing the partnership.

The letter of intent also said the two hospitals would produce a consolidated financial report.

Page said the operations council would have not a governing role but a management role. He said the council will include leadership team members from both hospitals who would communicate and discuss operations and share best practices.

The partnership will provide for easier transitions for patients who exhaust the level of care Hays can provide, Page

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ensure that our resources are being used responsibly as we eliminate government corruption in Washington. Though, I believe such reforms should be done in a more transparent and bipartisan fashion. Nevertheless, it is imperative that we hold members of Congress to the highest standard and stop any forms of government corruption.”

Which led to the obvious followup question: OK, but how did she vote? To which her communications director, Michael Byerly, wrote: “Today, the amendment was stripped out of the rules package by unanimous consent. I would have to refer you to our quote.”

It was only after the third attempt at a direct answer did Byerly offer the following explanation: “The Congresswoman’s flight got in late for the 115th Organizing Conference to Discuss the Proposed Rules of the House of Representatives.”

That, apparently, was something that couldn’t have been said the first time he was asked.

Still, Yoder and Jenkins deserve some credit because they did actually give responses, such as they were, to legitimate questions from a newspaper in their home state.

Such could not be said for the other two House members from Kansas.

Neither Rep. Mike Pompeo of Wichita, who is Trump’s pick to be the next CIA director, nor newly-elected Rep. Roger Marshall of Great Bend gave any response.

— This is an excerpt from Peter Hancock’s Statehouse Live column, which appears on LJWorld.com.

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If you look across the country, academic medical centers are all getting larger, and they’re all forming relationships with community hospitals within their state or within their region.”

— Bob Page, president and CEO of the University of Kansas Hospital

said. It also will probably eventually see the expansion of telemedicine, something that has been shown to work through the Kansas Heart and Stroke Collaborative, a separate and ongoing initiative that puts into place more prevention, consistent emergency protocols, telemedicine, follow-up care and teamwork between KU Hospital and more than a dozen small hospitals in Western Kansas, including Hays.

“It’s all about relationships,” Page said. “These things work or don’t work based on relationships.”

Page said the KU-Hays Medical Center partnership is new for Kansas but that it mirrors a national trend.

“If you look across the

country, academic medical centers are all getting larger, and they’re all forming relationships with community hospitals within their state or within their region,” Page said. “For us, this just makes perfect sense.”

— KU and higher ed reporter Sara Shepherd can be reached at 832-7187.

Follow her on Twitter: @saramarieshep

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A CDC microbiologist wears an airtight, full-body pressurized suit to work with viruses.

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Small business jet that crashed a week ago in Lake Erie still not found

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WASHINGTON Whatever President Obama had planned for life after the presidency, the election of Donald Trump will probably change those plans.

Instead of building on his legacy, he’ll be defending it. Instead of helping to nurture his Democratic Party as an elder statesman, he’ll be helping to rebuild it — finding new generational leaders who can carry the banner in future elections.

And instead of providing friendly counsel to President Hillary Clinton, he’ll have a more complicated relationship with President Donald Trump.

CDC lost contagious specimens, violated safety protocols, USA TODAY investigation finds Alison Young

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Federal scientists in charge of guarding the nation against infectious diseases apparently lost a box of deadly and highly regulated influenza specimens.

And safety equipment failed multiple times in recent years during work with some of the world’s most dangerous pathogens.

In one case, a scientist wearing full-body gear had a purified air hose suddenly disconnect — “again” — in one the world’s most advanced biosafety level 4 labs. Such suits are used to protect against lethal viruses, including Ebola.

These incidents and others occurred at labs operated by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta and Fort Collins, Colo., over about a two-year period, according to reports obtained by USA TODAY under the Freedom of Information Act.

CDC

The CDC created a safety office after an anthrax incident.

The CDC blacked out from its records many details, including the types of viruses and bacteria involved.

The reports, released nearly two years after they were first requested, reveal ongoing safety lapses shrouded in secrecy at one of the world’s premier public health labs of the type revealed in USA TODAY’s “Biolabs in Your Backyard” investigation published in 2015.

That investigation exposed hundreds of safety incidents at university, government and military research facilities nationwide.

The full scope and danger posed by the CDC’s recent lab incidents is unclear because the agency keeps secret large swaths of information about dozens of them.

The CDC blacked out from its records many details, including the types of viruses and bacteria involved in the mishaps and often the entire descriptions of what happened.

In several cases, clues about the seriousness of incidents were revealed because CDC staff failed to consistently black out words repeated throughout

“Obama’s post-presidency just got exponentially more interesting,” said Cody Foster, a University of Kentucky historian who has studied the postpresidential lives of former presidents.

“Whereas he might have focused on building upon policies created during his administration, he must now defend his administration’s legacy,” Foster said. “Every policy, every veto, every word must now be carefully defended against an incoming leader eager to blindly press ‘undo’ on everything that Obama created. And President Trump can do that because he has a Republican Congress and is likely to have a more conservative Supreme Court.”

It’s Obama’s relationship with Trump that will probably be most scrutinized. Presidents have often relied on their predecessors for advice, support and

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Acer throws a curve: Slick Predator laptop runs $9,000 It’s eye-catching, as well as eye-tracking Brett Molina @brettmolina23 USA TODAY

Think Apple’s new MacBook is expensive? It’s got nothing on the latest laptop from Acer.

At the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, the computer maker unveiled the Predator 21 X, which its makers say is the first notebook computer with a curved screen. Forget about the features,

the real jaw dropper here is its price: $8,999.

What does $9,000 get you?

That curved screen is a 21-inch display with a 2560 x 1080 resolution, top-of-the-line Intel Core processors and a Nvidia GeForce GTX graphics processing unit. It boasts five system fans to prevent overheating, 64 GB of DDR42400 memory and up to four 512 GB solid state drives. Basically, it’s the laptop equivalent of owning a Ferrari.

Perhaps the most interesting feature on the Predator is eyetracking technology through a partnership with company Tobii.

Players can use the tech in games,

ACER

The Predator 21 X notebook computer boasts a curved screen.

identifying enemies or aiming by just looking at a spot on the screen. Acer says 45 games will support eye tracking.

The Predator will include an ultra-durable hard-shell carrying case, because breaking a $9,000 laptop would really be the worst.

The Predator 21 X launches in North America next month.

Acer’s approach to the PC gaming market differs from other companies introducing devices aimed at gamers, particularly those on a budget. This week, Dell introduced an Inspiron laptop starting at a more modest $799. Lenovo unveiled its Legion gaming laptops starting at $900.

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The hunt for a missing jet can be daunting When a plane goes down in water, debris can be hard to find Bart Jansen @ganjansen USA TODAY

The search of Lake Erie for a small jet that took off from Cleveland a week ago is a reminder of the difficulty finding aircraft that crashed in water — more than a half-century after a larger, fourpropeller airliner disappeared over the Great Lakes.

City, state and federal officials have been searching since Dec. 29 for a Cessna 525 Citation busi-

ness jet that took off from Cleveland Burke Lakefront Airport with six people aboard.

The Coast Guard suspended its search Dec. 30 after helicopters spent 20 hours scanning 128 square miles of water. More than 120 pieces of debris have been recovered, some linked to the plane, according to city and airport officials. The search continues for major items, such as the cockpit voice recorder.

Seven boats with four dive teams were searching 12 square miles of Lake Erie’s nearly 10,000 square miles Tuesday. Divers descended to check suspicious items as small as a soda bottle.

But high winds and waves hindered the effort Wednesday.

“We’re going to continue

TONY DEJAK, AP

Members of the Cleveland Police Mounted Unit ride the Lake Erie shoreline searching for a missing private jet.

searching until we find something,” said Khalid Bahhur, airport commissioner.

While rare, scores of airliners have gone missing despite the advent of sophisticated technology.

The Aviation Safety Network counts 84 planes, each with at least 14 people aboard, that have gone missing since 1948.

Fred Szabo, interim director at the Cleveland airport, said searchers have heard some signals that could be from the Citation’s emergency beacon. The NTSB is sending equipment expected to arrive Thursday to detect the cockpit-voice recorder.

“You have to understand that there are a lot of objects on the bottom,” Szabo said. “If it looks suspicious, we’ll dive on it.”

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a string of emails.

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which occurred during 2013 through early 2015.

“None of the incidents described in these documents resulted in reported illness among CDC staff or the public,” the CDC said in a brief emailed statement.

When incidents involved “inventory discrepancies,” the agency said, generally the problems were addressed without posing a risk.

The CDC said incident reports cover a time period before the Atlanta-based agency created a labsafety office in the wake of three high-profile incidents during 2014 with anthrax, Ebola and a deadly strain of bird flu.

The 503 pages of records the CDC released to USA TODAY look in many cases like Swiss cheese when an incident involves any pathogen that is on a federal list of potential bioterror pathogens, called “select agents.” The list includes pathogens such as those that cause anthrax, Ebola, plague or certain avian or reconstructed flu virus strains. The CDC cites a 2002 bioterrorism law to justify its redactions.

In several reports, the CDC redacted every word about what happened.

In an email from August 2014 with a subject line of “Lab Incident,” the CDC blacked out the name and title of the writer. The author started the note “When I came in this morning.” Then the agency blacked out about 10 lines of text, citing the bioterrorism law. The agency did disclose the writer’s final sentence: “Please let me know if you have any questions.”

The CDC redacted every word in a lab accident report from December 2013 that apparently involved a dangerous strain of influenza virus. Several CDC staff copied on the email were involved in the agency’s controversial work in 2005 using reverse genetics to reconstruct the flu pandemic virus of 1918, which killed as many as 50 million people worldwide. The only types of flu designated as select agents are specimens of the 1918 influenza virus and certain deadly strains of avian influenza.

Some records contain more clues than others about what went wrong.

u“The air hose connector on my suit came off while I was working in (redacted) again,” a CDC scientist wrote in an email in May 2013 to other agency staff, who other records show have a history of being part of the agency’s special pathogens branch, which works with deadly viruses such as Ebola. The scientist wrote that a colleague helped the person “get out safely, reattaching my hose as best he could … I live to work another day!”

The CDC sought to conceal that the incident occurred in a biosafety level 4 lab, blacking out a checkbox from the form that corresponds to a BSL-4 lab. It failed to redact the same information in some other reports. uIn a string of emails from February 2015 that involves multiple members of the CDC’s influenza division, the agency cited the bioterrorism law in blacking out the entire subject line. In one email, the first word in the subject line remained. It says “Missing” and is followed by a short redaction that is probably the name of a pathogen.

The emails discuss whether a report needs to be filed with federal select agent lab regulators and says, “I will need a detailed summary of the search for this box from everyone involved in the search.” The only types of influenza viruses that would require reporting to select agent regulators are deadly strains of avian influenza and specimens of the resurrected 1918 flu virus.

The CDC wouldn’t answer USA TODAY’s questions about what was in the missing box or whether it was ever found. uThere was a “possible biological exposure” at a CDC lab in Fort Collins, Colo., in May 2013, according to a report. The CDC blacked out all words contained in the “Long Description (What Happened),” citing the bioterrorism law. According to limited information on the form, the primary source of the injury was “Insects arachnids (spiders, ticks, scorpions etc.),” and the secondary source was “Select Agent.”

For full coverage of USA TODAY’s investigation of safety incidents nationwide, go to biolabs.usatoday.com.

even some sensitive diplomacy.

In return, modern presidents have avoided public criticism of their successors — although they’ve sometimes conducted freelance foreign policy in a way that’s flummoxed the incumbent, as Jimmy Carter has in his outspoken work on human rights.

“I don’t see him immediately becoming a Jimmy Carter-like thorn in the new president’s side,” said Anthony Clark, author of The Last Campaign: How Presidents Rewrite History, Run for Posterity & Enshrine Their Legacies. “But I also think he’s going to be more critical than previous presidents have been. He’s going to have to find a way to be anti-Trump without appearing to be anti-Trump.”

In recent weeks, Obama has begun to talk specifically about the role he’ll play in partisan politics after the election. At his endof-the-year news conference, Obama said he sees a role in giving “counsel and advice” to the Democratic Party in an effort to reach areas of the country where Democrats have not performed well — places where he said “Democrats are characterized as coastal, liberal, latte-sipping, politically correct, out-of-touch folks.”

Obama said he’ll work to rebuild a Democratic Party that’s been decimated over the course of his presidency. Democrats have won the popular vote in six of the past seven presidential elections. But since 2010, Democrats have lost thousands of down-ballot races — the congressional seats, governor’s mansions, state legislative districts and local offices that form a kind of bench for a political party.

“With respect to my priorities when I leave, it is to build that next generation of leadership; organizers, journalists, politicians. I see them in America, I see them around the world, 20-year-olds, 30-year-olds who are just full of talent, full of idealism,” he said.

“And the question is how do we link them up? How do we give them the tools for them to bring about progressive change? And I want to use my presidential center as a mechanism for developing that next generation of talent.

“But the day-to-day scrum, not only is it contrary to tradition for the ex-president to be involved in that, but I also think it would inhibit the development of those new voices,” Obama said.

That’s not a departure from past presidents, Clark said, but Obama may be a bit more upfront about using his foundation as a party-building tool.

“Prior to the election, my thought was that both the library and the foundation would be more in line with Jimmy Carter, who spent more time on his foundation and less on his library,” Clark said. “Now, I see it more like the Reagan Presidential Center, which is the altar on which rising conservative stars must go to become baptized.”

In one signal of how Obama intends to use his Chicago presidential center, he appointed David Simas to be the CEO of the Obama Foundation last month.

Simas rose through Massachusetts politics, working for Gov. Deval Patrick before becoming Obama’s campaign pollster and the director of the White House Office of Political Strategy and Outreach. Patrick is on the board of the Obama Foundation, as is Obama’s 2008 campaign manager, David Plouffe.

Obama’s plans for a presidential library in Chicago have come a long way since the beginning of his presidency. In the 2011 book The Promise, journalist Jonathan Alter wrote that Obama dismissed the idea of a brick-andmortar library entirely, musing to a friend that perhaps it should be entirely online.

Now, he has a foundation raising millions to build his library and endow his foundation. The foundation won’t discuss specific fundraising goals, but the cost of a president’s library has doubled for each of the past three presidencies. President George W. Bush’s foundation raised $500 million. (According to the Obama Foundation’s most recent tax filing, it’s raised $7.3 million in 2014 and 2015.)

Through the latter part of his presidency, Obama has talked about a litany of places he wants to return to and issues he wants to be involved in: the minority mentoring program My Brother’s

EVAN VUCCI, AP

President-elect Donald Trump vowed to target some of President Obama’s policies.

Obama is “going to have to find a way to be anti-Trump without appearing to be anti-Trump.”

Author Anthony Clark

Keeper, his various global youth development programs, criminal justice, gun control and nuclear non-proliferation.

Foster sees Obama settling into a role as a sort of citizen-diplomat — a position pioneered by former president Herbert Hoover and exemplified by Carter and Bill Clinton. Those former presidents were most ambitious on foreign affairs. The question for Obama, Foster said, is whether he can find an appropriate role as a citizenactivist at home.

“Look, I have to be quiet for a while,” Obama told David Axelrod, strategist for his presidential campaigns. “I don’t mean politically, I mean internally. I have to still myself. You have to get back in tune with your center and process what’s happened before you make a bunch of good decisions.

“My intention on Jan. 21 is to sleep, take my wife on a nice vacation — and she has said it better be nice,” he said. They’ll stay in Washington until their younger daughter graduates from high school, and Obama is under contract to write a book that’s been on hold during his presidency.

After a year or two, he said, there may be an issue that compels him to weigh in. “You know, I’m still a citizen, and that carries with it duties and obligations,” he said.

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A: The market-linked CD blends the potential upside of stock market returns with the stability of a certificate of deposit.

These are somewhat unusual savings vehicles created by banks, hamstrung with offering low savings rates, to lure savers looking for more upside. As with a standard CD, consumers deposit their money in a market-linked CD with the understanding the cash cannot be accessed for some time without paying an early withdrawal fee. Both market-linked

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CDs and traditional CDs promise the saver will at least get their original principal back. Both market-linked and traditional CDs are guaranteed by the FDIC. But that’s where the similarities end. Most market-linked CDs have much longer terms than some traditional CDs, usually spanning many years. Returns on market-linked CDs rise or fall based on the performance of a benchmark, such as a broad market index like the Standard & Poor’s 500.

Some market-linked CDs offer a minimum return, others don’t.

Traditional CDs, on the other hand, promise a set interest rate.

Market-linked CDs can be an option for investors who are riskaverse, don’t need current liquidity and want higher returns offered by CDs.

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Low unemployment, stimulus could speed rate hikes Fed minutes forecast three rate increases instead of two in 2017 Paul Davidson @Pdavidsonusat USA TODAY

Federal Reserve policymakers said last month they might have to raise interest rates faster than anticipated to prevent rapidly falling unemployWASHINGTON

ment from fueling excessive inflation, according to minutes of the Fed’s Dec. 13-14 meeting.

Fed officials also said it was too early to judge the effects of President-elect Donald Trump’s proposed fiscal stimulus, but that it carried “upside risks” for stronger economic growth and inflation.

Their remarks at the meeting help explain why the Fed, in addition to raising its benchmark interest rate for the first time in a year as anticipated, ratcheted up its forecast to three rate hikes in 2017 from a projected two moves

in their previous estimate.

That surprised investors and helped temper a market rally.

“Many participants judged that the risk of a sizable undershooting of the longer-run normal unemployment rate had increased somewhat and that the Committee might need to raise the federal funds rate more quickly than anticipated to limit the degree of undershooting and stem a potential buildup of inflationary pressures,” the minutes said.

The 4.6% jobless rate is already at the long-run rate the Fed had

CLIFF OWEN, AP

Fed Chair Janet Yellen led the mid-December meeting. The Fed raised its forecast to three hikes in 2017.

projected.

That’s expected to force employers to bid up wages to attract a smaller pool of available workers, potentially spurring inflation that eventually exceeds the Fed’s annual 2% target.

Annual wage gains have picked up recently but, at 2.5%, remain measured.

Still, “a couple” of Fed officials voiced concerns that the Fed’s vow to boost rates gradually “might be misunderstood as “a commitment to only one or two rate hikes per year.”

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LIFELINE MAKING WAVES Janet Jackson is officially a mom. The pop star welcomed her first child, Eissa, with her husband, Qatari businessman Wissam Al Mana, on Tuesday.

Jackson first acknowledged her pregnancy in October, showcasing her baby bump on the cover of ‘People,’ six months after announcing she was putting her world tour on hold.

Jackson, 50, and Al Mana, 42, married in 2012.

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STYLE STAR ‘Loving’ star Ruth Negga has made a splash this awards season with her redcarpet style. Her latest winning ensemble was an Erdem bell-sleeve top and sequined skirt at Variety’s Creative Impact Awards.

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Something’s eating at Sheila (Drew Barrymore) — but for the actress, Santa Clarita Diet is just what the doctor ordered.

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THEY SAID WHAT? THE STARS’ BEST QUOTES “I feel like I’ve loved George Michael as long as I’ve loved music, and I know so many of his fans feel the same. I can remember so many specific times in my life where I might have felt on my own, and George’s music would feel like ... he would reach his hand out and tell you that you weren’t on your own, and that these feelings were not particular to you.” — James Corden shared a tearful remembrance to George Michael on ‘The Late Late Show.’ Corden hosted his first iteration of ‘Carpool Karaoke’ with the late singer, before the segment turned into a viral sensation.

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Drew Barrymore digs in on the ‘Santa Clarita Diet’ Actress finds Netflix show is the perfect recipe for living Gary Levin @garymlevin USA TODAY

So what exactly is the Santa Clarita Diet?

Netflix has been coy about its newest comedy, due Feb. 3, that stars Drew Barrymore and Timothy Olyphant (Justified) as Sheila and Joel Hammond, married Realtors in the mountainous and placid Los Angeles suburb.

But we can reveal that the “dramatic change” Sheila undergoes in the series opener is, in fact, death. And while they tend to their open houses and teenage daughter, the couple must sate Sheila’s unbridled id and undead hunger, first with raw animal meat and, eventually, the human kind.

Chirps Barrymore: “If you ate nothing but protein every day, you’d really thin out!”

(Fake diet ads are part of Netflix’s marketing campaign, to be unveiled during Sunday’s Golden Globe Awards.)

The show was created by Victor Fresco, whose quirky humor

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Despite the messy situations caused by Sheila’s hunger pangs, Barrymore says “there’s a real optimism to the show.” in shows such as ABC’s Better Off Ted and Fox’s Andy Richter Controls the Universe didn’t find a bigenough broadcast audience. But last year, Fresco’s timing was impeccable, even though at first Barrymore thought otherwise.

She hasn’t worked much since her daughters, Olive, 4, and Frankie, 2, were born, and was going through a tough divorce, her third: “My whole personal life was falling apart,” she says.

But the actress was intrigued

by a darker turn and some strange parallels with Sheila, and asked Fresco whether her character’s death could mark a dual transformation.

“What if she finds herself, and we do this sort of Cro-Magnon type of evolution with her over the course of the 10 episodes. No gimmicks, no prosthetics, just an awakening,” Barrymore says. “I just really enjoyed just shedding a snakeskin with her, so it became a really fun obstacle that I wasn’t

even planning for but seemed so conducive and fun and healthy for my own life.”

Exactly how she became undead is uncertain. When we meet her in the series opener, she’s just not feeling well. “Presumably, she has been exposed to something — although we don’t know what — which is making her feel a bit off,” Fresco says.

In spite of their newfound challenge, which involves guest stars such as Nathan Fillion, who plays a rival agent, Sheila and potsmoking Joel are happily married and supportive in their tract house. (The show was filmed almost entirely in Santa Clarita.)

Sure, there are obstacles involving their teenage daughter, Abby (Liv Hewson), neighboring cops and their wives, but “there’s a real optimism to the show,” Barrymore says. “I don’t want to watch a show about a couple fighting and falling apart, I can’t handle it right now. It’s not heavy, but it’s not lacking in a sort of sweetness, if you will. But it’s also got bite and backbone and balls.”

And limbs and entrails, too. “I think it’s a very perfect recipe for 2017, and I had no idea in early 2016 when I was trying to figure out if this was even possible that it would be so right for my life,” she says.

“I like things that are easy to digest. Pun intended.”

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Like people, art is changed by time and events.

Certainly, your reaction to HBO’s Bright Lights: Starring Carrie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds (Saturday, 8 ET/PT, eeeE TV out of four), simply PREVIEW ROBERT can’t be the same BIANCO now as it might have been had you seen the film at one of its earlier festival showings. Suddenly and tragically, Reynolds and Fisher are gone — mother and daughter dying within a day of each other — a macabre twist that alters how we see the art and, in turn, the art itself.

One effect is that this loss turns a film that would otherwise have been pleasant but not exactly required viewing into a mandatory appointment for any fan of either woman. Another is that our own sense of loss adds a layer of melancholy to even the most humorous moments, and a new depth to the film’s exploration of the appeal and the dangers of celebrity.

Directed by Alexis Bloom and

Fisher Stevens, Bright Lights is almost unbearably poignant from the first words spoken by Fisher: “Hello. We’re here with a woman who alleges to be my mother. I don’t buy it for a minute.”

Well, obviously, she does and we do — and not just because Bright Lights is filled with home movies proving the connection.

These women are clearly bound together in ways that go beyond simply living next door in a shared Beverly Hills compound, and in ways that may surprise those who know their relationship only from the fictional spin Fisher put on it in Postcards From the Edge. (A brilliant, underrated movie — go rent it.)

Indeed, if you’re looking for a revelation from Bright Lights, that’s it: However tumultuous their relationship may have been, the maternal link won out. There are no scandals unearthed in Bright Lights, no breaking celebrity news. Instead, what you’ll learn from this warm portrait is how dependent Reynolds was on Fisher, and how frightened Fisher was by her mother’s declining health. If you hadn’t thought of

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Debbie Reynolds and baby Carrie Fisher are featured in HBO’s Bright Lights.

Fisher as a dedicated daughter, prepare to rethink.

“If my mother’s unhappy,” Fisher says, “it lives on my grid.

So I both have to and want to help my mother.”

And so she does, sometimes despite her better judgment. One of the film’s driving themes is Fisher’s certainty that Reynolds’ determination to keep working is

damaging her health. And yet when her mother needs her help to keep working, Fisher is there at her side.

Through interviews, home movies, cinéma vérité passages and clips from Reynolds’ old movies, Bright Lights seeks to explain that dynamic. Reynolds is a performer; it’s all she knows. And as Fisher concisely and insightfully explains, “Everything in me demands that my mother be the way she always was, even if that way is irritating.”

There are moments in Bright Lights when our knowledge of what’s to come may add more weight to lines than they deserve, as we risk substituting foreshadowing for what was merely coincidence. And there are moments where you may justifiably wonder what the film would have looked like had one woman survived the other and been able to ask for changes. But that didn’t happen, and this is the film we have — one that is likely to leave those who loved Reynolds or Fisher loving them even more.

And that, time is unlikely to change.

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Commissioner Flory presides over farewell county meeting

By Elvyn Jones ejones@ljworld.com

Douglas County Commissioner Chairman Jim Flory had to ask twice for a motion to adjourn Wednesday’s Commission meeting before a reluctant Mike Gaughan complied.

The tardy motion was a sign of Gaughan’s and Commissioner Nancy Thellman’s reluctance to let the man who has sat with them the last eight years in the

commission meeting room step away from his county service. Just minutes earlier, Thellman put those feelings into words.

“It was a pleasure Flory and honor to work with you,” she said.

“You were always such wise counsel and a tremendous gentleman.”

Gaughan lightened the mood with his goodbye, threatening to name any future Interstate 70/ Farmer’s Turnpike intersection for Flory. He, too, said it was an honor to serve with Flory and expressed his appreciation for the retiring commissioner’s willingness to take on tasks that were not always well publicized but that moved the county forward. His work of a few years ago

to revise the county’s pay scale and make it competitive was such an example, Gaughan said.

In the only business on the agenda, the commission authorized county staff to continue to use the current commission signature set for county business until a new commission chairman and new signature set are available.

Flory’s successor, fellow Republican Michelle

Derusseau, will be sworn in as 3rd District county commissioner at 9 a.m.

Monday at the Douglas County Courthouse. She will attend her first meeting as a commissioner on Jan. 11. At that meeting, she, Gaughan and Thellman will elect the new commission chair and vice chair.

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

Court rules city’s interests outweigh worker’s speech rights

By Roxana Hegeman Associated Press

Wichita (ap) — The “operational interests” of a city as a public employer outweigh the free speech rights of a former secretary who provided an affidavit in support of a fired police officer’s lawsuit, a federal appeals court ruled Wednesday in a case involving the city of Hays.

The 10th Circuit Court of Appeals sided with the western Kansas city, along with its City Manager Toby Dougherty and Police Chief Donald Scheibler. The three-judge panel found that Firma Helget’s disclosure of confidences in the voluntary affidavit caused her superiors to lose trust in her, undermining the Hays

Police Department’s operations.

Helget, who worked as the Police Department’s administrative secretary for 10 years, was fired in 2012 after her affidavit in which she stated she had been instructed in December 2010 to remove Officer Blaine Dryden from a list of officers who were due for new ballistic vests in the coming year.

Dryden, who was known for his union organizing activities, contended in a separate wrongful termination lawsuit that the city decided not to order the vest before the incident that was used to justify his termination.

Helget claimed the city violated her free speech rights under the U.S.

Constitution.

“Unfortunately, the way I read the case, it would be near impossible for a police department employee to blow the whistle and be protected under the First Amendment,” said Helget’s attorney, Matthew Hoppock.

But Jessica Skladzien, who represents the city officials, called the ruling a “great decision” that preserves employees’ First Amendment rights while acknowledging government employers have certain rights to regulate the speech of their employees.

“And that right of employers is especially strong for police departments who have a particular interest in avoiding

disruption and having a department that runs efficiently,” Skladzien said.

The appeals court noted Helget did not consult with anyone at the city before disclosing the information, and her affidavit was later used in the police officer’s lawsuit.

Scheibler testified he no longer trusted Helget with confidential information, saying her actions deteriorated “any hope for any trust between the person she was supposed to help run the Police Department.”

She sued after she was fired, and a lower court summarily ruled in favor of the city. Helget appealed.

The appeals court panel wrote that courts have “long recognized that

loyalty and confidence among employees is especially important in a law enforcement setting.”

It noted that Helget’s affidavit placed into question the city’s stated reason for terminating Dryden.

But Helget acknowledged she did not know at the time she signed the affidavit why officials removed Dryden from the vest ordering list, and the affidavit does not reveal any improprieties or misconduct by the city, according to the ruling.

The appeals judges also noted that Helget did not raise the issue with her superiors or inform them after executing the affidavit. The appeals court concluded her chosen form of speech was “disruptive.”

decision-making process, board members conduct personal interviews with the applicants in addition to a review of their written applications, grade-point averages and standardized test scores.

Once nominated, applicants must also meet the individual admission requirements of each academy, which will then determine appointments of admission. Harms and Mathis, along with nominees from across

the country, will have to wait until spring, when the academies announce appointments for the class entering in July 2017, the news release notes.

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POLICE BLOTTER Here is a list of recent Lawrence Police Department calls requiring the response of four or more officers. This list spans from 6:18 a.m. Tuesday to 4:32 a.m. Wednesday.

A full list of department calls is available in the Lights & Sirens blog, which can be found online at LJWorld.com.

Each incident listed only bears a short description and may not capture the entirety of what took place. Not every call results in citations or arrests, and the information is subject to change as police investigations move forward.

Tuesday, 8:48 a.m., six officers, suicide attempt, 200 block of N. Michigan Street.

Tuesday, 1:36 p.m., four officers, theft, 3200 block of Iowa Street.

Tuesday, 3:36 p.m., five officers, auto accident, intersection of 11th and Tennessee streets.

Tuesday, 7 p.m., four officers, disturbance, 700 block of Vermont Street.

Tuesday, 10:50 p.m., four officers, trespassing, 900 block of Mississippi Street.

Tuesday, 11:49 p.m., four officers, theft, 1100 block of N. Third Street.

Wednesday, 2:09 a.m., four officers, disturbance, 1500 block of Powers Street.

Wednesday, 2:21 a.m., four officers, unknown emergency, 1700 block of Massachusetts Street.

BRIEFLY High School, for a spot at the U.S. Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, Colo., while Camryn Mathis, of Bishop Seabury Academy, was recommended to the U.S. Military Academy at Two Lawrence teens West Point. are among the 40 Kansas “I’m pleased to nomistudents nominated by nate this outstanding U.S. Sen. Pat Roberts for group of young men and appointments to U.S. Serwomen to our nation’s vice Academies’ class of service academies,” 2021, the senator’s office Roberts said in a news reannounced Wednesday. lease. “As a Marine, I am Roberts recommended especially proud to see Joseph Harms, of Lawrence so many young Kansans

Two Lawrence teens nominated for U.S. Service Academies

seeking to serve in our nation’s military, and I am grateful for all those who applied.”

This year’s nominations are based on the recommendations of Roberts’ Academy Screening Board, which the news release describes as a nonpartisan board comprising seven volunteers from across Kansas and overseen

by Gilda Lintz, Roberts’ district director and military academy director in Topeka. As part of the

DEATHS DORTHY "DOT" A. BECKNER

ELEANOR RUTH JANOUSEK

Services for Dot, 63, Lawrence are pending and will be announced by Warren­McElwain Mortuary. She died Tues., Jan. 3, 2017 at Lawrence Memorial Hospital. warrenmcelwain.com.

Services for Eleanor Janousek, 82, DeSoto, will be 10 am, Sat. Jan. 14, at Rumsey­Yost Funeral Home. Ms. Janousek died Jan. 3, 2017, at her residence. Full obituary at rumsey­yost.com.

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CHARLYN HAWKINS OREL

Rosary for Teresa will be held at 1 p.m., Funeral at 2 p.m., and VISO to follow until 6 p.m. all @ Warren­McElwain Mortuary ~ Lawrence Sat., Jan. 7th. For full obituary go to warrenmcelwain.com.

Private inurnment for Charlyn, 87, Lawrence will be held at Pioneer Cemetery. She passed away Sun., Jan. 1st at Brandon Woods at Alvamar.

For full obituary go to warrenmcelwain.com.

MADGE ARLENE COMPTON

PATRICIA "PAT" SCHAMLE

Services for Madge, 92, Lawrence will be held at 10:30 a.m. Mon., Jan. 9th at West Side Presbyterian Church. Viewing will begin at 10 a.m.

For Madge's full obituary go to warrenmcelwain.com.

Mass for Pat will be held at 10 a.m. Sat., Jan. 7th at St. John's Catholic Church. Rosary will be 6:30 p.m. Fri. at church with VISO following until 8 p.m. For full obituary go to warrenmcelwain.com.

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TreeCycling Collection, before 6 a.m., regularly scheduled trash day, Lawrence.

Red Dog’s Dog Days workout, 6 a.m., Community Building, 115 W. 11th St. Toddler Storytime, 9:30-10 a.m. and 10:3011 a.m., Lawrence Public Library, 707 Vermont St. Tech Drop-in, 11noon, Lawrence Public Library meeting room C, 707 Vermont St. Cottin’s Hardware Farmers Market indoors, 4-6 p.m., Cottin’s Hardware and Rental, 1832 Massachusetts St. Dinner and Junkyard Jazz, 5:30 p.m., American Legion Post No. 14, 3408 W. Sixth St. Lawrence Stamp Club Meeting, 6-8 p.m., Watkins Museum of History,

1047 Massachusetts St. Lawrence Board of Zoning Appeals meeting, 6:30-8:30 p.m., Lawrence City Hall, 6 E. Sixth St. Douglas County Heritage Conservation Council Meeting, 7 p.m., Commission Meeting Room, Douglas County Courthouse, 1100 Massachusetts St. Weekly Tango Lessons and Dancing, 7:30-10:30 p.m., English Room, Kansas Union, 1301 Jayhawk Blvd.

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TreeCycling Collection, before 6 a.m., regularly scheduled trash day, Lawrence.

Career Clinic, 1-2 p.m., Lawrence Public Library Health Spot, 707 Vermont St. Teen Zone Cafe,

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4-5:30 p.m., Lawrence Public Library, 707 Vermont St. Bingo night, doors 5:30 p.m., refreshments 6 p.m., bingo starts 7 p.m., Eagles Lodge, 1803 W. Sixth St.

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Red Dog’s Fun Run, 7:30 a.m., parking lot behind Kizer-Cummings Jewelers, 833 Massachusetts St. American Legion Bingo, doors open 4:30 p.m., first games 6:45 p.m., American Legion Post No. 14, 3408 W. Sixth St. Arnie Johnson & The Midnight Special, 7-10 p.m., Eagles Lodge, 1803 W. Sixth St.

8 SUNDAY

Kansas Environmental Legislation Review with Zack Pistora, Kansas lobbyist for Sierra Club, 9:40-10:45 a.m., First Presbyterian Church, 2415 Clinton Parkway.

Lawrence Cultural Arts Commission Annual Retreat, 1-4 p.m., Spencer Museum of Art, University of Kansas, 1301 Mississippi St.

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Take Off Pounds Sensibly (TOPS), 5:30 p.m., 2712 Pebble Lane.

Lawrence City Commission work session, 5:45 p.m., City Commission Room, City Hall, 6 E. Sixth St. Run for the HILL of it: A women’s running group, 6 p.m., Ad Astra 9 MONDAY Running, 734 MassachuTreeCycling Colsetts St. lection, before 6 a.m., “Light” Reading: Searemaining tree collection, sonal Affective Disorder Lawrence.

(SAD) lamps available, Affordable Housing 6-8 p.m., Lawrence Advisory Board MeetPublic Library Auditorium, ing, 11 a.m.-1 p.m., City 707 Vermont St. Commission Meeting Eudora City CommisRoom, City Hall, 6 E. Sixth sion meeting, 7 p.m., St. Eudora City Hall, 4 E.

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Red Dog’s Dog Days workout, 6 a.m., Community Building, 115 W. 11th St. Books & Babies, 6-6:30 p.m., Lawrence Public Library Readers’ Theater, 707 Vermont St. Lawrence Breakfast Optimists, 7-8 a.m., Brandon Woods Smith Center, 4730 Brandon Woods Terrace.

City of Lawrence Homeless Issues Advisory Committee, 8:30 a.m., City Commission Meeting Room, City Hall, 6 E. Sixth St. Parks & Recreation Advisory Board Meeting, noon-1 p.m., Lawrence Parks and Recreation Administrative Office, 1141 Massachusetts St. “Light” Reading: Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD) lamps available, noon-2 p.m., Lawrence Public Library Auditorium, 707 Vermont St. Coalition for Homeless Concerns, 3:30 p.m.-5 p.m., Lawrence Community Shelter, 3655 E. 25th St. Tech Drop-in, 5-6 p.m., Lawrence Public Library meeting room C,

707 Vermont St. Maker Meet-Up, 6:30 p.m., Lawrence Creates Makerspace, 512 E. Ninth St.

11 WEDNESDAY

Red Dog’s Dog Days workout, 6 a.m., Rock Chalk Sports Pavilion, 100 Rock Chalk Lane.

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Texas tops Kansas, 66-54

By Shane Jackson sjackson@ljworld.com

Tom Keegan tkeegan@ljworld.com

Jackson’s future NBA position: point guard

G

ive me one reason Kansas freshman Josh Jackson can’t spend most of his NBA career as a point guard.

Hello? Anybody out there?

Crickets.

That’s OK. Your speechlessness makes you a reasonable human being who lives in reality and prefers not to deal in fantasy.

Sure, the Tuesday highlight that will get the most play will be the one that has Jackson soaring way above the rim and coming down so hard on it for two points early in Tuesday night’s 90-88 victory over Kansas State.

Yet, as entertaining as his gravity-defying slams are, a highlight of the best passes of his quick college career would make for even more interesting viewing.

Such as ones from Tuesday alone: Pinpoint over-the-top passes to Landen Lucas and Carlton Bragg; a wraparound bounce pass from one side of the lane to the other, perfectly threaded through two defenders to Bragg; the extra pass from right in front of the basket to his left to wide-open Lucas for an easy bucket after fumbling the ball a cross-court pass from the left wing to the right corner and an open shooter.

By halftime, Jackson had 16 points, five rebounds and five assists and had led the Jayhawks from a deficit to a 10-point lead at the half.

As amazing as Jackson looks speeding up with the ball, he’s even more impressive slowing down to avoid charges and he handles the ball every bit as well with his left hand as his right.

Long range, point guard is the best position for the 6-foot-8 freshman from Detroit. His height, which allows him to look over the defense, is one of many factors in him having such great vision as a passer.

Jackson’s passing skills are especially impressive considering that until he arrived at Kansas, passing the ball was doing the defense a favor.

Jackson pointed to “my decision-making and my IQ,” as his biggest areas of improvement since the beginning of the season. “Just trying to make the right plays at the right time. I’ve

For much of the first half and even parts of the second, Kansas was right there within arm’s reach of pulling off the ugly upset over No. 15 Texas.

But the Jayhawks (6-8, 0-3) were unable to consistently hit shots down the stretch and ultimately couldn’t match the Long-

horns’ (9-4, 0-3) superior size and athleticism, in Wednesday’s 66-54 loss at Allen Fieldhouse.

Normally it would have been considered a feat, as KU matched one of the elite teams in the nation for long stretches of the game. However, second-year coach Brandon Schneider wasn’t interested in moral victories.

“For the most part, yes,

I was pleased,” Schneider said. “But we are not trying to be in games, we are trying to win games. We are going to have an opportunity to win some games in this league but you have to put it together in all three phases of the game.”

The Jayhawks excelled in Carter Gaskins/Journal-World Photo the defensive phase of the game, creating 31 turnovers KANSAS JESSICA WASHINGTON (3) goes up for the layup over Texas Lashann Higgs (10) and Brooke > KANSAS, 3C McCarty (11) Wednesday at Allen Fieldhouse.

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KANSAS GUARD DEVONTÉ GRAHAM (4) and Kansas State guard Kamau Stokes (3) compete for a loose ball during the second half of a game Tuesday at Allen Fieldhouse.

Defensive struggles a real concern for third-ranked Kansas

By Matt Tait mtait@ljworld.com

Tuesday night, in thrilling fashion, a second consecutive Kansas basketball victory was overshadowed, at least to those within the program, by serious concerns about the Jayhawks’ defense.

“We’ve never had a team this poor on that end,” said KU coach Bill Self of his 14

seasons at Kansas. “This is without question the poorest defensive team we’ve ever had, and I thought we would be probably one of the better defensive teams we’ve had because we have quickness.

But we don’t do anything to disrupt anybody. You play small, (you’re usually) scrappy, but we’re not very scrappy.”

For Self, KU’s defensive

struggles are about a lot more than the numbers that show up on the stat sheet. But following Tuesday night’s 9088 victory over Kansas State, even those left the KU leader lamenting his team’s defensive production.

Kansas State, which nearly won the game on a breakdown by the KU defense, shot .508 from the floor, .333 from three-point range (in-

cluding 50 percent in the first half) and .826 from the free throw line.

Until Tuesday, the highest shooting percentage against the Jayhawks this season came from Duke, which shot .489 in the second game of the season. After that, only two of KU’s 12 other 2016-17 opponents had even topped

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Wycoff’s season-high 40 points lift Seahawks over Raiders

By Bobby Nightengale bnightengale@ljworld.com

In the final four minutes of Wednesday’s 83-65 victory over Pembroke Hill (Mo.), Bishop Seabury boys basketball coach Ashley Battles instructed his team to hold the ball to drain the clock with a 20-point lead.

That might’ve been the only time that Seabury senior guard Mikey Wycoff wasn’t putting the ball through the basket.

Wycoff scored a seasonhigh 40 points, leading the Seahawks to their first win over the Raiders in the last five years.

“It just felt like a normal

day for me,” said Wycoff, who shot 15-of-25 from the field and made all nine free throws. “Ever since the Shawnee Mission East tournament (in December), I’ve just been telling myself to stay aggressive and just put up any shot that you’re comfortable with.”

It was the first game back

from winter break for the Seahawks (4-2, ranked No. 5 in Class 2A) and they only played at two speeds: fast and faster.

The track meet on Seabury’s home court was tied 44-all at halftime, which included 26 points from Wycoff.

After a three-plus minute scoring drought in the first quarter, the 6-foot-1 Wycoff

decided to take over one possession at a time. He scored 13 points in the final four minutes of the period, driving to the rim with both hands, finishing an alley-oop pass from junior guard Zach McDermott and simply racing past defenders in transition.

‘‘

... I’ve just been telling myself to stay aggressive and just put up any shot that you’re comfortable with.”

— Mikey Wycoff,

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Chris Jones has solidified AMERICAN FOOTBALL CONFERENCE Chiefs’ defense

By Samuel Petrequin

AP Sports Writer

By Dave Skretta AP Sports Writer

Kansas City, Mo. (ap) — The moment Chiefs defensive end Chris Jones first made a statement to the NFL, and certainly to AFC West rival Oakland, came in the second quarter of their matchup earlier this season.

Up to that point, he was merely a goofy, affable secondround draft pick from Mississippi State rotating among the defensive linemen.

He hadn’t stood out like fellow rookie Tyreek Hill, and had Jones yet to break into the starting lineup the way he now forces his way into the backfield.

It started with the Raiders’ Jalen Richard taking a handoff. It ended with the massive Jones hitting him so hard it was surprising the running back’s helmet stayed buckled.

Oh, and it came after Jones screwed up.

“I spiked the gap. I was supposed to contain,” he said a few days later, while chatting with a small group of reporters. “Thank God, I was blessed enough to make the play.”

That brutal, hilarious bit of honesty coupled with that brutal, efficient play pretty much sums up Jones, who has become one of the league’s standout rookies and a big reason why Kansas City (12-4) has won its first division title since 2010 and earned a first-round playoff bye.

He is witty. He is enthusiastic. And he’s become an unstoppable force on the defensive line.

Everything seems to come back to his infamous “mistake” in Oakland, too.

His performance that day against the Raiders earned him a starting assignment for the first time the following week against New Orleans. The week after that, the 22-year-old Jones brought down the Colts’ Andrew Luck for his first career sack. A couple weeks later, he corralled Panthers quarterback Cam Newton — one of the toughest in the league to bring down — for his second career sack.

Suddenly, he had become a burgeoning star.

“Chris is really starting to come along,” Chiefs defensive coordinator Bob Sutton said. “He’s doing a great job of pushing the pocket — that’s huge. Some of those don’t go as sacks, but when you put a guard right back into the quarterback, hopefully that effects them a little bit.”

In selecting Jones, the Chiefs made a calculated gamble during the draft.

They were high on him throughout the scouting process, even though some teams questioned his desire to compete every play. But they also lost a draft pick to tampering charges, so to recoup that pick and address other needs, they wound up trading their lone first-round selection.

Their hope was Jones would

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Saint-Quentin-En-Yvelines, FRIDAY EAST NORTH France (ap) — Nearly a century • Girls/boys basketball at Olathe ago, Robert Marchand was told North, 5:30 p.m. by a coach that he should give up cycling because he would never LAWRENCE HIGH achieve anything on a bike.

SOUTH WEST FRIDAY He proved that prediction wrong again on Wednesday.

• Girls/boys basketball at Olathe In a skin-tight yellow and violet AL EAST South, 5:30 p.m. jersey, the 105-year-old Frenchman set a world record in the 105SEABURY ACADEMY plus age category -- created espeFRIDAY cially for the tireless veteran -- by AL CENTRAL • Girls/boys basketball vs. Veritas riding 22.547 kilometers (14.010 Christian, 6 p.m. miles) in one hour.

“I’m now waiting for a rival,” he said.

VERITAS CHRISTIAN AL WEST Marchand had ridden faster FRIDAY in the past on the boards of the • Girls/boys basketball at Seabury, SOUTH WEST Velodrome National, a state of 6 p.m. the art venue used to host the elite of track cycling. But he AL EAST HASKELL had warned before his latest FRIDAY attempt thatAFC hisTEAM current form LOGOS 081312: Helmet and team logos for the AFC teams; various sizes; stand-alone; staff; ETA 5 p.m.

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“I did not see the sign warn- FRENCH CYCLIST ROBERT MARCHAND, 105, is cheered after setting a record Emmaus Bible College, 5 p.m.

AL CENTRAL Wednesday at the velodrome of Sainting me I had 10 minutes left,” for distance cycled in one hour Marchand said after his effort. Quentin en Yvelines, outside Paris. The Frenchman set a world record in the “Otherwise I would have gone 105-plus age category -- created especially for the tireless veteran -- by riding SPORTS ON TV faster, I would have posted 22.547 kilometers in one hour.

TODAY a better time. I’m not tired. I AL WEST thought my legs would hurt, leading track cycling equipment, when he was 68 years old and be- College Basketball Time Net Cable but they don’t. My arms hurt, is now retired. gan a series of cycling feats.

6 p.m. KSMO 3, 203 you have to hurt somewhere.”

Marchand, who lives in a The diminutive Marchand N.M. St. at UMKC Purdue at Ohio St. 6 p.m. ESPN 33, 233 Three years ago at the same small flat in a Parisian suburb — he is 1.52 meters (5-foot) tall venue, Marchand covered 26.927 with a meager pension of about and weighs 52 kilograms (115 UConn at Memphis 6 p.m. ESPN2 34, 234 kilometers (16.731 miles) in one 900 euros ($940), keeps pedal- pounds) — rode from Bordeaux Davidson at Geo. Wash. 6 p.m. ESPNU 35, 235 Charlotte v. W.Ky. 7 p.m. FCSA 144 hour toAFC better hisLOGOS own world re-Helmet ing and andteam stretching every day. various to Paris, and Paris tostaff; Roubaix TEAM 081312: logos for the AFC teams; sizes; stand-alone; ETA 5 p.m. cord in the over-100s category.

As if time had no effect on him. several times. He also cycled N. Ariz. v. N. Dakota 7 p.m. FCS 146 Still, impressed fans and “He’s got two essential quali- to Moscow from Paris in 1992 California at UCLA 8 p.m. ESPN 33, 233 chanted “Robert, Robert” dur- ties. A big heart that pumps a and set the record for someone Gonzaga at San Fran. 8 p.m. ESPN2 34, 234 ing the last minutes of his ride. lot of blood, and he can reach over the age of 100 riding 100 Minn. at N’western 8 p.m. ESPNU 35, 235 Marchand received a standing high heart beat values that are kilometers (62 miles).

Iowa at Nebraska 8 p.m. BTN 147,237 ovation once he completed the exceptional for his age,” said “If the president of his teenage Utah at Arizona 9 p.m. FS1 150,227 last of his 92 laps and was then Billat, a university professor. club who told him he was not BYU at St. Mary’s 10 p.m. ESPNU 35, 235 mobbed by dozens of camera- “If he starts eating meat again made for cycling because he was men and TV crews. and builds more muscle, he can too small could see him today, “He could have been faster better this mark.” he would kick himself,” March- Women’s Basketball Time Net Cable but he made a big mistake. He Marchand, a former firefight- and’s coach and good friend Ge- Texas at KU replay midn’t TWCSC 37, 226 Texas at KU replay 6 a.m. TWCSC 37, 226 has stopped eating meat over er who was born in 1911 in the rard Mistler told the AP. the past month after being northern town of Amiens, has According to Mistler, the se- Texas at KU replay noon TWCSC 37, 226 shocked by recent reports on lived through two world wars. cret behind Marchand’s longev- Tenn.-Martin at Belmont 4 p.m. ESPNU 35, 235 how animals are subjected to He led an eventful life that took ity relates to his healthy lifestyle: Missouri at Kentucky 6 p.m. SEC 157 cruel treatment,” Marchand’s him to Venezuela, where he eating a lot of fruits and vegeta- Tennessee at Vanderbilt 8 p.m. SEC 157 physiologist, Veronique Billat, worked as a truck driver near bles, no smoking, just the occatold The Associated Press. the end of the 1940s. He then sional glass of wine and exercis- Pro Basketball Time Net Cable By way of comparison, the moved to Canada and became ing on a daily basis.

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5-12 0-0 10, Kennard 6-7 0-0 16, Allen 3-5 7-7 The Associated Press

VILLANOVA (14-1) Jenkins 4-11 0-0 11, Reynolds 2-2 1-2 5, Hart 3-11 6-7 13, Brunson 9-16 4-4 23, Bridges 0-3 0-0 0, Paschall 0-4 0-0 0, DiVincenzo 1-4 3-4 6.

Totals 19-51 14-17 58.

BUTLER (13-2) Wideman 2-4 0-0 4, Martin 4-10 2-2 12, Chrabascz 5-7 2-2 13, Lewis 0-3 2-2 2, Baldwin 4-10 2-2 10, Fowler 1-3 2-2 4, Savage 4-6 5-5 13, Woodson 3-7 0-0 8, McDermott 0-1 0-0 0. Totals 23-51 15-15 66.

Halftime-Villanova 31-27. 3-Point GoalsVillanova 6-26 (Jenkins 3-9, DiVincenzo 1-4, Brunson 1-4, Hart 1-5, Bridges 0-1, Paschall 0-3), Butler 5-20 (Woodson 2-5, Martin 2-7, Chrabascz 1-2, Savage 0-1, Wideman 0-1, McDermott 0-1, Baldwin 0-1, Lewis 0-2). Fouled Out-Savage. Rebounds-Villanova 22 (Hart 8), Butler 27 (Chrabascz 7). Assists-Villanova 7 (Hart 3), Butler 8 (Lewis, Chrabascz 3). Total Fouls-Villanova 14, Butler 17. TechnicalsVillanova coach Jay Wright. A-9,206 (9,100).

15, White 1-1 0-0 3, Robinson 0-0 0-0 0, Bolden 2-4 0-0 4, Vrankovic 0-0 0-0 0, Pagliuca 0-0 0-0 0, Jones 5-9 0-0 14, F.Jackson 5-9 1-1 15. Totals 39-70 16-19 110.

Halftime-Duke 61-30. 3-Point Goals-Georgia Tech 2-14 (Stephens 1-3, T.Jackson 1-5, Matthews 0-1, Moore 0-1, Price 0-1, Okogie 0-1, McCormick 0-2), Duke 16-31 (Kennard 4-5, Jones 4-7, F.Jackson 4-7, Allen 2-4, White 1-1, Tatum 1-7). Fouled Out-None. ReboundsGeorgia Tech 29 (Lammers 8), Duke 47 (Giles 12). Assists-Georgia Tech 10 (Lammers 3), Duke 24 (Allen 7). Total Fouls-Georgia Tech 16, Duke 15.

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No. 2 Baylor 65, Iowa State 63 Waco, Texas — Manu Lecomte made a short higharching jumper over a defender with 8 seconds left and No. 2 No. 8 Duke 110, Baylor remained undefeated Georgia Tech 57 Durham, N.C. — Grayson with a victory over Iowa State Allen had 15 points and seven in the Bears’ Big 12 home opener.

TORONTO......................5 1/2 (202)............................. Utah DETROIT...........................4 (204.5).....................Charlotte HOUSTON......................8 1/2 (224)......... Oklahoma City NEW ORLEANS................ 3 (206)...........................Atlanta DALLAS............................5 (204.5)........................Phoenix PORTLAND........................4 (215).......................LA Lakers San Antonio.....................7 (213)...........................DENVER College Basketball Favorite Points Underdog MEMPHIS................................ 6....................... Connecticut NC Wilmington.................10 1/2.............................DREXEL NORTHEASTERN................11 1/2..........................Delaware HOFSTRA.............................7 1/2............. James Madison COLL OF CHARLESTON...... 8................................ Towson MARSHALL..........................4 1/2..................Old Dominion Purdue.................................3 1/2.............................OHIO ST WILLIAM & MARY..............5 1/2....................................Elon LOUISIANA TECH.................16..................................... Utep GEORGE WASHINGTON........1.............................. Davidson

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COLLEGE BASKETBALL ROUNDUP IOWA ST. (9-4) Bowie 2-4 1-4 5, Burton 5-13 0-0 11, Thomas 2-8 0-0 6, Morris 4-18 3-4 12, Mitrou-Long 7-11 0-0 17, Young 2-3 0-0 5, Holden 0-0 0-0 0, Jackson 0-2 0-0 0, Weiler-Babb 2-2 1-3 7. Totals 24-61 5-11 63.

BAYLOR (14-0) Motley 6-9 1-2 13, Lual-Acuil 6-10 3-5 15, McClure 3-4 0-0 7, Lecomte 3-10 1-2 7, Wainright 1-8 0-0 2, Maston 3-5 1-2 7, Mitchell 0-1 0-0 0, Lindsey 4-7 0-0 10, Freeman 0-5 4-4 4.

Totals 26-59 10-15 65.

Halftime_Baylor 37-36. 3-Point Goals_Iowa St. 10-22 (Mitrou-Long 3-6, Weiler-Babb 2-2, Thomas 2-6, Burton 1-1, Young 1-1, Morris 1-4, Jackson 0-1, Bowie 0-1), Baylor 3-17 (Lindsey 2-3, McClure 1-2, Mitchell 0-1, Lual-Acuil 0-1, Freeman 0-2, Lecomte 0-4, Wainright 0-4).

Fouled Out_None. Rebounds_Iowa St. 26 (Morris 7), Baylor 43 (Motley 12). Assists_Iowa St. 16 (Morris 5), Baylor 15 (Wainright 8). Total Fouls_Iowa St. 16, Baylor 14. A_7,582 (10,284).

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TEXAS (7-7) Cleare 2-5 4-4 8, Allen 2-7 4-4 8, Jones 2-11 6-10 10, Roach 3-3 5-6 11, Mack 10-17 3-5 27, Banks 0-2 0-0 0, Young 1-4 0-0 2, Davis 5-8 3-4 16. Totals 25-57 25-33 82.

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Assists-Oklahoma St. 12 (Evans 4), Texas 11 (Roach 6). Total Fouls-Oklahoma St. 28, Texas 21.

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Seabury girls routed by Raiders, 53-20

By Bobby Nightengale bnightengale@ljworld.com

Back on the court for the first time in nearly a month, it took more than seven minutes for Bishop Seabury’s girls basketball team to make its first shot Wednesday.

Playing against Pembroke Hill’s active zone defense, the Seahawks never found it much easier to score or find a rhythm in a 53-20 loss at Seabury. There was a running clock throughout the fourth quarter.

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Seabury senior forward Kayleigh Boos scored 15 points, including a buzzer-beating 3-pointer to end the contest.

“I told the girls after the game,” Seabury coach Nick Taylor said, “that’s on me. I’ve got to get these girls reppin’ our offense to where when we step into a game-like situation, we’ve got to be able to run our offense.”

The 5-foot-11 Boos earned a couple of trips to the free-throw line and muscled her way inside of the paint for a few layups.

But there was no Seabury freshman chance for the Seahawks Emily Heinz added five (1-3) to pick up much points. momentum. During the HILL (53) first three quarters, each PEMBROKE Carrie Hughes 6-12 0-0 14, Michaela and every time Sea- Tinoco 2-6 1-3 6, Victoria Wall 4-8 0-0 8, Ervin 5-16 0-1 11, Gina Pepitone bury scored, the Raiders Jalynn 3-5 2-2 8, Alexandra Copaken 2-4 1-2 scored on the next pos- 6, Anika Sanchez-Piotrowski 0-2 0-0 0, Abby Long 0-2 0-0 0, Lucia Wolfe 0-2 session.

0. Totals 22-57 4-10 53.

After Seabury held 0-2 SEABURY (20) Sami Dennon 0-1 0-0 0, Celia TaylorPembroke Hill to only 0-10 0-2 0, Emily Heinz 2-5 1-2 two points in the first Puckett 5, Allison Eckert 0-0 0-0 0, Kayleigh six minutes, the Raiders Boos 5-17 4-6 15, Hilary Griggs 0-0 0-0 Maria Ruiz 0-0 0-0 0, Camryn Mathis went on 16-2 run over the 0, 0-0 0-0 0. Totals 7-33 5-10 20. last 5:25 of the first half Pembroke 9 23 18 3 — 53 2 6 4 8 — 20 for a 24-point halftime Seabury Three-point goals: Pembroke advantage.

Sophomore Hill 5-17 (Hughes 2, Tinoco, Ervin, guard Carrie Hughes led Copaken); Seabury 1-9 (Boos).

Turnovers: Pembroke Hill 10, Seabury with 14 points.

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TEXAS (66) MIN FG FT REB PF TP

m-a m-a o-t Joyner Holmes 22 6-18 1-1 4-9 4 13 Kelsey Lang 30 3-7 0-0 1-9 3 6 Brooke McCarty 31 4-10 4-4 0-6 2 15 Brianna Taylor 21 2-5 2-2 0-7 1 6 Ariel Atkins 21 4-5 3-4 2-5 3 12 Alecia Sutton 15 1-3 1-2 0-1 5 3 Jordan Hosey 9 1-3 0-0 1-4 2 2 Lashann Higgs 12 1-4 0-0 0-2 3 2 Jada Underwood 15 2-4 0-0 2-2 2 4 O. Aborowa 3 0-0 0-2 1-1 0 0 Tasia Foman 13 1-5 0-0 1-5 1 3 K. C.-Goudreau 8 0-0 0-0 1-1 0 0 team

6-9 Totals 25-64 11-15 19-61 26 66 3-point goals: 5-11 (McCarty 3-5, Atkins 1-2, Sutton 0-1, Foman 1-3).

Assists: 13 (Holmes 2, Lang 2, McCarty 3, Taylor 1, Sutton 1, Higgs 1, Underwood 1, Foman 2). Turnovers: 31 (Holmes 4, Lang 3, Taylor 3, Atkins 1, Sutton 3, Hosey 1, Higgs 3, Underwood 7, Aborowa 2, Foman 3, team 1). Blocked shots: 6 (Holmes 3, Lang 2, Foman 1). Steals: 7 (Holmes 1, Lang 2, McCarty 1,Taylor 2, Atkins 1).

KANSAS (54)

MIN FG FT REB PF TP m-a m-a o-t Sydney Umeri 22 0-2 0-0 0-1 3 0 M. Calvert 23 3-14 0-2 0-3 1 6 J. Washington 34 7-26 9-11 6-10 3 23 Chayla Cheadle 17 0-4 2-2 0-3 4 2 Kylee Kopatich 32 5-13 2-2 1-3 1 14 Chelsea Lott 2 0-0 0-0 1-1 1 0 Jada Brown 16 1-4 0-0 1-1 3 2 Timeka O’Neal 14 0-1 0-0 0-1 2 0 Aisia Robertson 15 2-6 1-2 0-2 1 5 J. Christopher 9 0-0 0-1 0-0 0 0 C. ManningAllen 16 1-2 0-0 2-5 3 2 team

2-5 Totals 19-72 14-20 13-35 22 54 3-point goals: 2-18 (Calvert 0-5, Washington 0-3, Cheadle 0-2, Kopatich 2-6, Brown 0-1, O’Neal 0-1). Assists: 5 (Washington 3, Kopatich 1, ManningAllen 1). Turnovers: 17 (Umeri 3, Calvert 3, Washington 5, Cheadle 1, Robertson 2, Christopher 1, ManningAllen 2). Blocked shots: 7 (Calvert 1, Washington 1, Kopatich 2, ManningAllen 3). Steals: 13 (Umeri 1, Cheadle 2, Kopatich 4, Brown 3, Robertson 2, ManningAllen 1).

Texas 17 18 19 12 — 66 Kansas 9 21 8 16 — 54

their respective teams in assists with three.

Washington’s impact on the game was perhaps the greatest, which was most surprising considering the talent on Texas’ roster. The Longhorns have seven McDonald’s All-Americans, which is

the second most in the nation behind Notre Dame.

Washington first got going with 3:24 to go in the first quarter, netting a jumper from just inside the top of the key. It was the team’s first made basket of the game, while Texas jumped out to a

double-digit lead out of the gate.

Once the first shot fell, the rest began to pour in.

Washington opened the second period with the team’s first nine points, pulling her team back within a single possession.

In fact, Kansas pulled within three points on three different occasions in the second quarter.

But Texas had an answer every single time, to go into the intermission up 35-30.

“I thought we played well enough defensively to give ourselves a chance to win,” Schneider said. “But you can’t have a quarter, the first and the third, where we shoot as poorly as we did. We have to continue to strive to get more easy baskets and knock down more open shots.”

Kansas will travel to Iowa State at 1 p.m. Sunday.

bad overnight, (and) it’s gonna take us a while to get better defensively, too.

“It’s hard to get better in two days ... Maybe I don’t understand the game well enough (and) you can just wave a magic wand and all of a sudden you get better. You get better by practicing the right way and paying attention to detail and putting yourself in gamelike situations and taking pride in everything you’re doing. And you don’t just do that in one day and automatically get better. It takes a long time for things to become a habit.”

One of the first steps toward fixing any problem is admitting there is one. Self is clearly there.

And his players seem to be, too. Although they all were thrilled to leave the floor with another victo-

ry over their in-state rival on Tuesday night, no one in the KU locker room let the outcome mask the issues this team is facing.

“It was terrible,” said KU senior Landen Lucas of the Jayhawks’ defense.

“We know that. We know that we can only get so lucky night in and night out. We’ve gotta guard.

We can’t leave it up to luck. We’ve gotta get better, and obviously you’d rather get better while winning. But we definitely know we’ve gotta guard better.”

Added Tuesday hero Sviatoslav Mykhailiuk: “I don’t think we played really good defense. We stole the ball like two times the whole game, we let them score a lot of easy baskets, they scored 88 points. I think that’s terrible. ... We know we played bad and we know we need to get better, be-

cause it’s not gonna go that we’re winning without playing defense.”

While the players and coaches have tried to pinpoint exactly what is causing the Jayhawks (13-1 overall, 2-0 Big 12) to struggle on defense — from ball screens and transition to the absence of a true shot blocker in the lane — the whole epidemic really comes down to one thing for Self.

“It’s something where you’ve gotta have some pride in wanting to get better and, right now, we’re not a real prideful team on that end,” he said. “I’d like to see some marginal improvement, no question, from a competitive standpoint and a pride standpoint. I don’t know if we can change who we are in two days.

But I do think we’ve got a lot more than we’re giving right now.”

“I was definitely supposed to switch,” Jackson said afterward. “That was my fault. It was. We CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1C got lucky.”

But even on a night always been on teams when he sprinkles in a where I was the first op- freshman mistake here or tion and second option. there, he showcases such Playing with these guys a sophisticated game and makes me a better team- a great enthusiasm for mate, I think.” playing it. Jackson fed off Jackson was far from the energy of the crowd, perfect Tuesday, hoisting and it showed from the a pair of ill-advised shots, start. and he nearly cost Kan“With a lot of students sas the game by failing to gone, I didn’t really exswitch onto Dean Wade, pect it to be as loud and leaving him wide-open as energetic as it was, but for a 3-point shot that it was amazing tonight,” would have given K-State Jackson said. a three-point lead with His second half didn’t six seconds left. go as well and included

his third technical foul of the season, his account of which begs the question as to whether he has been targeted by refs as a hot-head to be watched. “‘That’s a foul,’ that’s all I said,” Jackson said.

He added that he does not think refs are targeting him for technical fouls, but he might as well be going into games with the belief that they are because there is no downside to looking at it that way.

Jackson’s pleasant, polite off-court demeanor suggests he would be the last player to rack up technicals, but he takes on a different persona

once he walks onto the court.

“We play for Kansas and we know that we’re going to get everybody’s best shot,” Jackson said.

“I know the guys on the other side of that court are going to come at me and not let up, so I’ve got to do the same to them.”

Ideally, he can dial down his intensity once the whistle blows, and pick it right back up when the ball is put back in play. If that’s a tough juggling act and he continues to get slapped with a ‘T’ here and there, that’s better than if he played with a kinder, gentler edge.

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in the building studying,” Chiefs coach Andy Reid said this week. “He does everything right — not right now — but he’s sure getting there.”

It helps that the Chiefs have a group of veterans.

Defensive tackle Dontari Poe has become one of his closest friends, and Allen Bailey and others have provided pointers.

Even longtime outside linebacker Tamba Hali has been impressed, saying recently, “We’ve never had such a dominant player at the three-technique.”

“He kind of stays in Poe’s hip pocket there and

makes sure he’s not missing anything from that standpoint,” Reid said. “He watches a ton of tape. He’s getting better as he goes.”

That’s a scary thought for whomever the Chiefs play in the divisional round of the playoffs.

For everyone they face farther down the road, too.

“He’s one of the leaders of quarterback hits, negative plays, in the league right now,” Reid said, “as a rookie. So he’s got production there and he’s gotten better every week, and that’s a tribute to him and the hard work that he’s put in.”

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by the Longhorns. They were able to camp in the passing lanes and caused stress on the opposition with their aggressive style of play.

All throughout the game, Schneider called out different defensive sets to create confusion.

The Longhorns finished with three double-digit scorers, as junior Brooke McCarty led with 15. Junior Ariel Atkins, a preseason All-American, was held to 12 points.

Meanwhile, junior guard Jessica Washington did her part to keep her team within reach.

Washington netted a game-high 23 points, including 16 in the first half.

She hauled in the most rebounds (10) for either team as well. Washington and McCarty both paced

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43 percent in a game.

But it’s not so much the percentages as it is the way the baskets are being scored. Too often, the Kansas defenders let their man drive right by them to the rim. Add to those the missed assignments or trouble following the points of emphasis on the scouting report, and you’ve got arguably the angriest leader of a thirdranked team on a 13-game winning streak in college basketball history.

“It took us a while to get this poor,” said Self when asked what he would emphasize between now and Saturday, when the Jayhawks play host to Texas Tech at Allen Fieldhouse.

“You don’t just get this

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still be available on Day 2.

When he was still sitting there, the Chiefs snapped him up with the 37th overall selection — and he promptly told the world that he was deserving of not only that pick but one much higher. Asked for a self-scout, he replied on draft day: “A very dominant player. Has the ability to be a Pro Bowler. Needs to work on a few things.

Could be one of the best of

all time. It’s up to him.”

That assessment has turned out to be fairly accurate.

Jones has wreaked havoc in offensive backfields throughout the back half of the season, and has played at a Pro Bowl level even if he didn’t receive the recognition. He has also spent extra time working on his footwork, hands and all the other nuances that come with playing the position.

In other words, Jones is doing everything that is “up to him.”

“I like what he’s done.

He spends a lot of time

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Svi’s game winner vs. Kansas State might not have happened a couple months ago

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uesday night, following KU’s thrilling, 90-88 victory over Sunflower State rival Kansas State at Allen Fieldhouse, one thing rattled around inside my brain about junior guard Sviatoslav Mykhailiuk’s gamewinning shot at the buzzer.

Yes, Svi traveled.

Nobody’s disputing that. The closest anybody even came to doing so on Tuesday night were those who said they hadn’t seen it yet.

So, we know Svi traveled. We know, travel or not, that it was still a pretty impressive play to get a layup despite having to go the length of the floor in five seconds.

And we know that, again, travel or not, Svi’s hanging scoop shot was no easy play, especially with the game on the line.

But none of that was what stuck with me following Tuesday’s game.

What stuck with me was the fact that, for the last time, travel or not, the shot was probably one Svi would not even have attempted a couple of months ago.

That’s how much confidence can help a player, and few players are playing with as much confidence right now as KU’s Sviatoslav Mykhailiuk, who, on Tuesday, reached double digits in scoring for the eighth consecutive game and 10th time overall this season.

Let’s take another quick look at the play and see what route a less-confident Svi could have taken instead of the one he chose, which won the game.

There’s a point, just across halfcourt, when K-State’s Wesley Iwundu is closing in and, under different circumstances, easily could’ve been enough of a bother to coerce Svi into getting rid of the ball, especially when you consider that his only option from this position would’ve been to toss it back and to his right to Frank Mason III, who was crossing the mid-court stripe at about the same time and has a recent history of hitting game winners.

Mason even put his hand up briefly, calling for the ball. But Svi either never saw it or disregarded it because he felt good enough about his own ability to go win the game.

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Let’s keep moving.

Once Svi reached the free throw line, where two KSU defenders greeted him and two others trailed closely, it would have been easy for him to (a) decide to throw a lob to Landen Lucas on his left or (b) zip a pass to Josh Jackson on the right for a baseline jumper to win the game.

A pass to Lucas would have made sense given the fact that the Jayhawks love lobs and Lucas delivered a career-high 18 points against the Wildcats. But it also might have taken too much time and there’s a chance Svi sensed that, with his internal clock surely a halfsecond or so ahead of the actual game clock thanks to adrenaline and the chaotic nature of those final few seconds.

Finding Jackson, who was more in Svi’s line of sight, also would have made sense because the KU freshman is known as a terrific scorer and has a knack for getting to the rim. That, too, might have taken a tad too long and such a decision could’ve cost the Jayhawks their shot to win it in regulation.

That’s three separate options — all of which would have made sense — that Svi passed up in order to put the game on his shoulders.

Again, there’s littleto-no chance he makes that decision a couple of months ago.

And the fact that he made it (both the shot and the decision) on Tuesday night should be viewed as perhaps the best news of all to come out of a game that people will be talking about for quite some time.

Sviatoslav Mykhailiuk has finally become a player. And I can’t help but get the feeling that the best is yet to come for KU’s most recent hero.

Azubuike’s surgery successful

By Matt Tait mtait@ljworld.com

Kansas freshman center Udoka Azubuike won’t be returning to the court any time soon, but the 7-footer and his coaches received some good news about his injured left wrist.

Azubuike, who tore ligaments in his wrist during a late-December practice, had successful surgery Wednesday morning, according to KU head coach Bill Self.

“The doctors informed us the procedure on Udo-

ka was a complete success and we expect a full recovery by mid-summer,” Self said in a release.

Azubuike traveled to Akron, Ohio, for the procedure, where Dr. Thomas Graham of Northwell Health of New York served as the lead surgeon.

Azubuike played in just 11 games for Kansas before suffering the season-ending injury.

The 17-year-old big man from Nigeria averaged 5.0 points and 4.4 rebounds in 12.9 minutes, and started his final six games for the Jayhawks (13-1).

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Bucks 105, Knicks 104 New York — Giannis Antetokounmpo made a turnaround jumper at the buzzer to give Milwaukee Bucks a victory over New York on Wednesday night.

MILWAUKEE (105) Snell 1-5 0-0 3, Antetokounmpo 10-18 6-7 27, Henson 1-1 0-0 2, Parker 4-10 6-8 15, Brogdon 5-14 2-2 12, Beasley 2-3 2-2 7, Teletovic 4-10 2-2 13, Mi.Plumlee 0-2 0-0 0, Monroe 7-10 4-10 18, Terry 3-5 0-0 8. Totals 37-78 22-31 105.

NEW YORK (104) Thomas 3-8 0-0 7, Anthony 10-23 6-8 30, Noah 4-7 0-2 8, Rose 7-18 0-0 15, Lee 4-9 0-0 11, Kuzminskas 6-10 1-2 15, O’Quinn 4-8 0-0 8, Hernangomez 0-1 0-0 0, Jennings 1-4 0-0 3, Holiday 3-6 0-0 7. Totals 42-94 7-12 104.

Milwaukee 27 25 21 32 — 105 New York 25 27 35 17 — 104 3-Point Goals-Milwaukee 9-28 (Teletovic 3-8, Terry 2-4, Beasley 1-1, Parker 1-3, Antetokounmpo 1-4, Snell 1-5, Brogdon 0-3), New York 13-28 (Anthony 4-10, Lee 3-5, Kuzminskas 2-5, Holiday 1-2, Jennings 1-2, Thomas 1-2, Rose 1-2). Fouled Out-None.

Rebounds-Milwaukee 42 (Antetokounmpo 13), New York 46 (Noah 16). Assists-Milwaukee 20 (Brogdon 8), New York 26 (Anthony 7).

Total Fouls-Milwaukee 15, New York 19. A-19,812 (19,812).

Hornets 123, Thunder 112 Charlotte, N.C. — Nicolas Batum had a season-high 28 points, and

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Wycoff, who crossed the 1,000-point milestone in his career Wednesday, didn’t have any time to ease off of the gas pedal. The Raiders (6-2) made six straight shots in the first quarter and started the second period by making eight of their first nine attempts.

“Playing loose and fast

Nick Collison, Oklahoma City Did not play (coach’s decision).

Ben McLemore, Sacramento Late game.

3-Point Goals-Oklahoma City 9-30 (Oladipo 3-8, Abrines 2-5, Westbrook 2-12, Kanter 1-2, Morrow 1-2, Roberson 0-1), Charlotte 9-24 (Hawes 2-3, Kaminsky 2-5, Lamb 1-1, Sessions 1-2, Williams 1-3, Walker 1-4, Batum 1-5, Belinelli 0-1). Fouled Out-None.

Rebounds-Oklahoma City 51 (Westbrook 15), Charlotte 43 (Kidd-Gilchrist 11). AssistsOklahoma City 22 (Westbrook 8), Charlotte 25 (Walker 9). Total Fouls-Oklahoma City 31, Charlotte 21. Technicals-Westbrook, Hibbert.

A-18,418 (19,077).

Hawks 111, Magic 92 Orlando, Fla. — Dennis Schroder scored 18 Paul Pierce, points, Dwight HowL.A. Clippers ard had 13 points and 12 Late game. rebounds and Atlanta pulled away late in a victory over Orlando for its Charlotte beat Oklahoma fourth straight win.

City to snap a two-game losing streak.

ATLANTA (111)

3-Point Goals-Atlanta 10-19 (Bazemore 3-3, Muscala 2-2, Millsap 2-4, Hardaway Jr. 2-4, Delaney 1-1, Sefolosha 0-1, Schroder 0-1, Humphries 0-1, Korver 0-2), Orlando 9-28 (Gordon 2-4, Augustin 2-4, Fournier 2-6, Green 1-1, Hezonja 1-2, Payton 1-3, Meeks 0-1, Rudez 0-1, Watson 0-1, Vucevic 0-1, Ibaka 0-4).

Fouled Out-None. Rebounds-Atlanta 39 (Howard 12), Orlando 40 (Ibaka 11).

Assists-Atlanta 27 (Korver, Schroder 7), Orlando 19 (Payton, Vucevic 6).

Total Fouls-Atlanta 12, Orlando 17.

Technicals-Ibaka 2. Ejected-Ibaka.

A-18,846 (18,846).

Bulls 106, Bulls 94 Cleveland — Jimmy Butler scored 10 straight points during a critical stretch, leading Chicago to a win over Cleveland.

OKLAHOMA CITY (112) Sabonis 1-4 0-0 2, Adams 8-10 2-2 18, Westbrook 10-31 11-13 33, Roberson 1-3 0-0 2, Oladipo 7-20 1-2 18, Grant 1-2 0-0 2, Kanter 8-13 5-6 22, Christon 2-3 0-0 4, Abrines 2-6 0-0 6, Morrow 2-4 0-0 5. Totals 42-96 19-23 112.

CHARLOTTE (123) Kidd-Gilchrist 7-9 0-2 14, Williams 3-9 1-1 8, Hibbert 0-1 3-4 3, Walker 5-13 9-9 20, Batum 7-18 13-15 28, Hawes 2-6 2-2 8, Kaminsky 6-11 3-4 17, Sessions 3-5 2-3 9, Graham 0-0 0-0 0, Belinelli 1-4 5-6 7, Lamb 3-4 2-3 9. Totals 37-80 40-49 123.

Oklahoma City 22 33 33 24 — 112 Charlotte 27 33 27 36 — 123

Sefolosha 4-9 0-0 8, Bazemore 6-9 2-2 17, Millsap 6-12 2-5 16, Howard 5-9 3-3 13, Schroder 7-13 4-6 18, Bembry 0-0 0-0 0, Muscala 3-3 0-0 8, Humphries 2-5 2-2 6, Delaney 5-7 0-0 11, Korver 1-5 0-0 2, Hardaway Jr. 5-9 0-0 12. Totals 44-81 13-18 111.

ORLANDO (92) Gordon 6-11 1-1 15, Ibaka 4-13 1-1 9, Biyombo 0-2 2-2 2, Payton 6-13 2-2 15, Meeks 4-8 0-0 8, Fournier 6-14 0-0 14, Green 3-4 3-4 10, Rudez 0-1 0-0 0, Onuaku 0-0 0-0 0, Vucevic 5-13 0-0 10, Watson 0-1 0-0 0, Augustin 2-4 0-0 6, Hezonja 1-2 0-0 3. Totals 37-86 9-10 92.

Atlanta 23 29 26 33 — 111 Orlando 26 21 18 27 — 92

CHICAGO (106) Gibson 9-10 0-0 18, Lopez 3-5 0-0 6, Carter-Williams 6-13 1-2 13, Butler 7-20 3-4 20, Wade 3-9 1-2 10, McDermott 6-9 2-2 17, Felicio 0-2 1-2 1, Mirotic 6-12 1-1 16, Grant 1-5 2-2 5. Totals 41-85 11-15 106.

CLEVELAND (94) James 12-21 6-9 31, Frye 6-11 0-0 15, Thompson 1-5 0-0 2, Liggins 1-5 0-0 2, McRae 7-15 6-7 21, Jefferson 2-7 1-2 7, Felder 3-11 3-3 9, Jones 1-3 0-0 3, Shumpert 1-5 2-3 4. Totals 34-83 18-24 94.

Chicago 16 36 31 23 — 106 Cleveland 23 23 28 20 — 94 3-Point Goals-Chicago 13-30 (McDermott 3-4, Wade 3-4, Mirotic 3-7, Butler 3-8, Grant 1-4, CarterWilliams 0-3), Cleveland 8-25 (Frye 3-6, Jefferson 2-5, James 1-2, Jones 1-2, McRae 1-5, Shumpert 0-1, Liggins 0-2, Felder 0-2). Fouled Out-None. Rebounds-Chicago 43 (Gibson 7), Cleveland 44 (Thompson 11). Assists-Chicago 23 (Butler 8), Cleveland 13 (James 7). Total FoulsChicago 18, Cleveland 16. TechnicalsMcDermott.

is actually really fun for me. I like it,” said Wycoff, who had three slams and a couple of missed dunks.

“That’s my favorite style of play. It’s really easy to score off of. I like to get out and go. We were just out there having fun.”

McDermott added: “That was definitely the perfect image of what we want do every game.”

In the second half, the Seahawks tightened up their variety of zone defenses, deflecting passes

and putting hands in front of shooters. They don’t have a rim protector, so they try to frustrate ball handlers. The Raiders only shot 5-of-30 (17 percent) from the floor in the last two quarters.

Pembroke Hill senior point guard Curtis Lewis, who beat Seabury at the buzzer last year, led with 34 points by speeding into the paint on drives and using every inch of the backboard on his acrobatic layups.

“Listen, that Curtis Lewis is probably a Div. II point guard. He is really good,” Battles said. “And I’m not bragging, but Zach and Mikey are just better.”

Midway through the fourth quarter, McDermott (16 points, five rebounds and seven assists) sealed the victory with a one-handed slam in transition after a steal and pass from senior Austin Gaumer. McDermott burst into a wide smile and admitted he “spaced

SCOREBOARD Perry-Lecompton — Baker 12, Daniels 9, I. Christman 5, Mallonee 4, Spreer 4, C. Christman 3.

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BOYS Tuesday at Eudora EUDORA 57, TONGANOXIE 48 Tonganoxie 9 15 10 14 — 48 Eudora 26 14 14 9 — 57 Tonganoxie — Chandler Caldwell 18, Mac Thompson 11, Dakota Grey 8, Dylan Kleidosty 6, Keaton Rickard 3, Isaiah Frese 2.

Eudora — Mitchell Ballock 20, Hayden Brown 11, Rock Jerome 9, Ryan Verbanic 7, David Hornberger 6, Noah Katzenmeier 2, Jayden Pierce 2.

Tuesday at Holton HOLTON 45, PERRY-LECOMPTON 37 (OT) P-Lecompton 10 12 4 7 4 — 37 Holton 8 5 7 13 12 — 45

Freshman Wednesday at Free State FREE STATE 49, SHAWNEE MISSION EAST 44 FSHS scoring: Tate Fanshier 13, Hayden Robinson 4, Cohen Honeywell 2, Olin Yoder 12, Nathan Williams 6, DK Middleton 9, Lovette Epelle 3.

FSHS record: 3-0. Next for FSHS: 5:30 p.m. today at Olathe North.

GIRLS Tuesday at Holton HOLTON 64, PERRY-LECOMPTON 27 P-Lecompton 6 7 5 9 — 27 Holton 12 32 12 8 — 64 Perry-Lecompton — Jamison 8, Robertson 7, A. Folks 6, Keller 3, Fast 2, G. Folks 1.

BRIEFLY Frantz named to All-Bowl team Kansas State left tackle Scott Frantz, from Free State High, was named to the Associated Press 2016 all-bowl team Wednesday.

Frantz, a redshirt freshman, helped the

Wildcats to a 33-28 win in the Texas Bowl over Texas A & M. He helped shut down All-America defensive end Myles Garrett, a potential top pick in the upcoming NFL draft, to only one assisted tackle and zero sacks.

out” throughout the next host to Veritas Christian few possessions because at 7:30 p.m. Friday. of the excitement of his PEMBROKE HILL (65) biggest in-game dunk.

Curtis Lewis 10-18 12-13 34, Spencer With plenty of atten- Allen 4-7 0-0 9, Jason Cobb 1-4 1-2 4, Will Powell 1-7 0-0 2, Derrick Kagwanja tion on Wycoff in the 1-5 1-3 3, Nazr El-Scari 4-11 0-0 10, Jack second half, he was more Ramza 1-5 0-0 3, Graham Cranshaw than happy to help set 0-0 0-0 0. Totals 22-57 14-18 65.

(83) up his teammates. Bansi SEABURY Mikey Wycoff 15-25 9-9 40, Zach King finished with 14 McDermott 6-15 3-5 16, Thomas 2-4 3-4 7, Bansi King 5-9 points and 11 rebounds, DiZerega 1-4 14, Austin Gaumer 1-4 0-0 3, Max Thomas DiZerega ran Easter 1-3 0-0 3. Totals 30-60 16-22 83.

20 24 12 9 — 65 across the baseline on his Pembroke Seabury 23 21 21 18 — 83 way to seven second-half Three-point goals: Pembroke Hill 7-26 points and Max Easter (Lewis 2, El-Scari 2, Allen, Cobb, Ramza); Seabury 7-24 (King 3, Wycoff, McDermott, drilled a 3-pointer.

Gaumer, Easter). Fouled out: Lewis.

The Seahawks will play Turnovers: Pembroke Hill 10, Seabury 7.

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