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Community members find ‘spirit of Thanksgiving’ at annual dinner Rochelle Valverde/JournalWorld Photo

By Rochelle Valverde rvalverde@ljworld.com

FRANK YBARRA SERVES A MAN during the annual LINK Thanksgiving dinner on Thursday. Mary Olson, Janet Buie, Ybarra and Samantha Hauber were among about 150 volunteers who helped prepare, serve and deliver meals for about 800 people.

For more than 30 years, people in Lawrence have been able to count on a Thanksgiving meal no matter their circumstances.

Donated turkeys and volunteered time come together in a church basement, and those on both sides of the serving spoon seem to benefit.

Ivy Wagner and her family were among the first to sit down among the fold-out tables Thursday in the basement of the First Christian Church, 1000 Kentucky St. Wagner recently moved to back to Lawrence with her husband, Julius Ssemanda, who is originally from Uganda.

“We just didn’t have other people to celebrate with because we are

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newly relocated back here,” Wagner said. “To make everything at home, just two of us, would have been a lot of work, a lot of money and a lot of time.”

Instead, Wagner, Ssemanda and their 9-month-old son were in the company of about 150 others at the annual Lawrence Interdenominational Nutrition

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November sex crime reports far exceed average —

No arrests made

By Conrad Swanson cswanson@ljworld.com

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THE DOUGLAS COUNTY WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANT IS HALFWAY THROUGH ITS CONSTRUCTION and is set to open in January of 2018. The total cost for the project is about $74 million and it will serve western and southern Lawrence.

$74M wastewater plant expected to boost efficiency

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new sewage treatment plant south of the Wakarusa River is taking shape, and city engineers say the multimillion-dollar project is now more than half complete.

At more than $74 million for the plant and related infrastructure, the project is one of the largest the city has recently undertaken.

“What this plant can treat is almost half of town, area

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What this plant can treat is almost half of town, area wise.”

— Melinda Harger, utilities engineer for the city wise,” said Melinda Harger, utilities engineer for the city.

The Wakarusa Wastewater Treatment Plant will give the city greater capacity to handle growth and meet new treatment regulations by the Environmental Protection Agency. Harger said the new plant, at 2300 E. 41st St., will increase the capacity of the

city by 2.5 million gallons per day, or by about 20 percent.

The plant will treat sewage from West and South Lawrence that is currently following a long track through city infrastructure to be treated at the city’s lone plant on the northeastern edge of town.

Harger said the new plant will bring more efficiency to

the process.

“Everything right now goes to our existing plant,” she said. “So what happens is that water is being pumped, or flowing by gravity, around the south side of town and then it goes over to some pump stations by Burroughs Creek and then is pumped north to the existing wastewater plant.”

The plant’s main site is about 25 acres and will include four basins and six

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The number of sex crimes reported before November’s close has far exceeded the monthly average reported for all of 2015.

So far, nobody has been arrested for any of November’s reported sex crimes, some of which police said involved minors.

As of Nov. 22, a total of 17 sex crimes were reported for the month. Police have declined to comment on the reported crimes, in part due to their sensitive nature.

Technically, 19 sex crimes were reported as of Nov. 22. However, investigators learned no crime took place for one report and the other took place outside of the Lawrence Police Department’s jurisdiction.

Lawrence Police Officer Drew Fennelly said the report was forwarded to the proper law enforcement agency.

Data collected by the department and submitted to the Overland Park Police Department’s annual Benchmark Cities Survey show the average number of sex crimes reported per month over the past five years.

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Kansas’ economic ‘experiment’ creates gaping budget hole million in public educaToday, the state’s budtion funding. By get hole is $345 April of this year, million and threatwith the hole ens the foundation at $290 million, of this state, which Brownback took was supposed to highway money to be the setting for plug it. A month a grand economic later, state money expansion but for Medicaid covnow more closely erage went into Brownback resembles a batthe hole, but the tleground, with gap continued to grow. accusations and lawsuits

By Nigel Duara Los Angeles Times

Columbus — In February 2015, three years into the supply-side economics experiment that would upend a once steady Midwestern economy, a hole appeared in Kansas’ finances.

To fill it, Gov. Sam Brownback took $45

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flying over how to get the state’s finances in order.

The yawning deficits were caused by huge tax cuts, championed by Brownback and the Republican-dominated Legislature, that were supposed to set the economy roaring. They didn’t.

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public schools, and have embroiled the Kansas Supreme Court along with state lawmakers and the governor.

Through it all, Brownback has repeatedly pledged his faith in the free market.

“We’re going to continue to grow the economy,” Brownback has said in response to questions

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about each new revenue shortfall.

His opponents in the Legislature say Brownback’s mantra has failed the state and carries a stern lesson in theory versus reality to other states contemplating the same free-market ideas.

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on the income taxes,” said state Sen. Laura Kelly, ranking Democrat on the Ways and Means Committee. “Even with significant changes, we won’t see personal income receipts (increase) until 2019.”

An ideological war over the way Kansas collects and spends money has Kelly erupted in the capital of Topeka and spilled into every corner of the state. After five years of an economic crusade that has left its originator, Brownback, as the least popular governor in the nation, Kansas has been forced to use the settlement from a national tobacco lawsuit to cover the hole in its general fund budget — money that was supposed to go to an early childhood education endowment.

It was a risk Brownback ran when he overhauled the state budget based on an interpretation of fiscal conservatism that dramatically cut personal income taxes.

The state would thrive, he pledged, because the tax cuts would help keep businesses and smart, young Kansans in the state, not fleeing “to Houston, or Dallas, or Chicago or somewhere else.”

“It will pave the way to the creation of tens of thousands of new jobs, bring tens of thousands of people to Kansas, and help make our state the best place in America to start and grow a small business,” Brownback wrote in 2012.

“It will leave more than a billion dollars in the hands of Kansans. An expanding economy and growing population will directly benefit our schools and local governments.”

It hasn’t worked out that way.

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tax collections plummeted 22 percent. A separate repeal of taxes on partnerships and limited liability companies meant the surrender of 30 percent of state revenue.

A projection issued Nov. 11 puts Kansas in a bind next fiscal year, when state revenue estimators project receipts to amount to $5.5 billion, down 7.4 percent from this year’s estimate.

Unwilling to scale back the income tax cuts, the state did increase the sales tax. Now Kansas has the second-highest sales tax in the nation, and such reliance on sales taxes has saddled the state with additional problems: Deflation is dropping the prices of goods and the taxes the state collects on them.

Tired of the bleating horn of bad news, in September Brownback silenced a quarterly economic evaluation of the state that counted employment, unemployment, personal income and energy production, and consistently illustrated the state’s plunging revenues. He had done so before, in August 2015, when he ordered a halt to a semiannual economic report.

“A lot of people were confused” by the reports, said Nicole Randall, a spokeswoman for the Kansas Department of Commerce.

Brownback’s ultraconservative allies in the Legislature paid the price for their loyalty in the August primaries — when moderate Republicans won while running against Brownback and for increases in school funding — and again on election day, when Democrats picked up 12 seats in the House.

“It’s been disastrous,” said Bur- Loomis dett Loomis, professor of political science

LAWRENCE • STATE at the University of Kansas. “Brownback has said he will work with (new, moderate) legislators, but I don’t know if anyone believes him.”

The budget battles have also brought in the state Supreme Court. In 2014, the court ruled that disparities in public funding of education violated the state constitution and ordered a lower court to evaluate how much the state should invest in public schools.

Conservative groups supporting Brownback responded by pushing five Supreme Court justices into brutal, expensive retention races to keep their seats. The targeted justices were retained by voters and are expected to rule this month on the adequacy and fairness of the public education system in a landmark case, Gannon v. Kansas, filed by four of the state’s poorest school districts.

Should the Supreme Court rule against the state and the adequacy of its $6 billion yearly expenditures on education, it will force Kansas to pay $500 million or more for school upgrades across the state, including in economically depressed areas.

Places like Columbus.

Here in the state’s southeast corner, the poorest area in Kansas, coal mines died and gave way to paper mills, which shuttered as American business went paperless. Today, nearly 30 percent of families with children in the region receive food stamps.

In Pittsburg, the largest city in the area, with about 20,000 residents, the downtown is pocked by shuttered storefronts.

In Columbus, population 3,300, clean, manicured lawns front onestory ranch houses built when the area was still prosperous, or at least on

its feet. Red-and-yellow flags of Pittsburg State University, located in the nearby town, dot the onestreet downtown. Greenery abounds.

“We’re a little bit — what’s the word I want to use — I’m a little bit backwoods. We’re a little rough around the edges,” said Steve Jameson in his seat in the principal’s office at Columbus’ Park Elementary. “We’re hard workers, and it’s high poverty. Sometimes, in poverty, you have that sense of helplessness.”

Jameson believes wholeheartedly in the importance of pre-K education, especially for the summer before kindergarten. His pre-K funding is frozen at 2013 levels because of the cuts, meaning he can enroll 30 children in summer preK. He has a waiting list every year.

He has been told that next year, summer’s preK program will be cut.

Jameson knows what to expect next fall.

It means kindergartners from at-risk backgrounds never before introduced to a school environment, or children with behavioral issues that have not yet been modified in a classroom setting — all of those issues and inexperience exploding in a class of 12 to 15 other children.

But such a disruption is just the beginning, experts say, because it slows down the rest of the class, which drags down their development entering school.

Jameson has tried to keep the cuts away from the classroom. He let one teacher’s assistant go, and has been unable to send his teachers to professional development conferences — admittedly smaller cuts, but ones he said would compound over time.

“In the long run, teachers won’t have that energy if you don’t provide professional development, and they’ll go elsewhere,” Jameson said.

L awrence J ournal -W orld Public education in Kansas is coming apart at the seams, and Jameson can no longer recommend to others what is his family’s vocation.

So it was with a wavering voice that he told one of his favorite onetime high school students, now a college graduate, that she should seek work as a teacher 12 miles east, in rival Missouri, because cutbacks to the education system in Kansas leave him unable to promise the future of his investment to her.

“It was hard. I wanted her to make the best choice for her,” Jameson said. “I was always proud of Kansas education. I can’t be as strong about that conviction anymore.

“The finances are making it hard to meet the needs of our kids,” he said. “The climate makes it hard to recruit good teachers. If you hear the legislators bashing you all the time, the governor bashing you all the time, you can choose to go to another state.”

Changes to the Legislature could reverse course, but the process will not be easy, Loomis said. Even with repeals of the tax exemptions of LLCs and partnerships, which could amount to several hundred million dollars, the changes will be “a drop in the bucket.”

Other than sunny repetitions of Brownback’s mantra that the economy will indeed reverse course once his economic experiment has a chance to work, there are no short-term plans to save the state.

Even if the Legislature raises personal income taxes and repeals the exemption on business taxes, the state will not see its first receipts until 2018.

In the meantime, the hole grows and grows.

“It demonstrates the pickle that Brownback and the Legislature have gotten this state in,” Loomis said. “There’s no easy way out.”

LINK’s member congregations donate other components of the meal. The dinners are cooked and prepared at Maceli’s, 1031 New Hampshire St. Frank Ybarra was one of the volunteers serving food at the church as people passed through the buffet-style Thanksgiving lineup of turkey, mashed potatoes, stuffing and pie.

It was Ybarra’s first year volunteering at LINK, and he said that with the current political climate in the country, he wanted to do something positive.

“There has been a lot of divisive talk in the country and a lot of focus on differences,” Ybarra said.

“And it seems like the air is charged with a lot

of negativity, and for me personally this is a way to clear that air and bring positivity to the situation.”

In the dining area, Mary Louise Taylor greeted people passing by her table as she sat eating dessert. Taylor, 64, said her husband died two years ago and that she often comes to LINK — which serves four community meals per week — to be around others.

“I just come here to enjoy my- Taylor self and eat dinner,” said Taylor, who said she lives a few blocks from the church. “I just visit with a lot of friends.”

Wagner noted that

communal aspect as well.

She said she served at LINK when she was in high school, and one of the reasons she wanted to bring her family was to show her husband what she called a Lawrence tradition.

“It’s a place where people can be part of the community instead of just eating alone,” Wagner said. “There’s a place to go, and a lot of people know each other here. It’s not just a once-ayear thing.”

The tradition takes a lot of volunteers to pull off — Engstrom said about 150 helped throughout the process. Tasks include receiving the food

donations, packing up meals and delivering them.

At the church, volunteers help set up, serve and clean up the dinner.

Ybarra’s day started alongside other volunteers prepping meals Thursday morning at Maceli’s. As the lines at the buffet began to thin out, Ybarra said the experience had been a good one, filled with lots of friendly interactions.

“This is certainly one of the best Thanksgivings I’ve ever had,” Ybarra said. “…I can really feel the spirit of Thanksgiving in this kitchen and out there in the dining area.”

from the water. One of the basins will be used for biological nutrient removal, so that nutriCONTINUED FROM PAGE 1A ents such as phosphorus and nitrogen that can be buildings, according to disruptive to the ecosysHarger. Each facility tem are removed before contributes to a step in the water is released cleaning the water — into the Wakarusa River, trash and grit screens, Harger said. chemical cleansers, ultra“If you want a healthy violet disinfection — as stream ecosystem, you well as an administration want to limit some of building that will house a those nutrients,” Harger control room and labs. said. “Basically what The plant will be we’re putting back into equipped to follow tight- the river, it’s a lot cleaner ened state and federal than the river that’s environmental regulaalready there.” tions to clear pollutants Harger said the

existing wastewater treatment plant, at 1400 E. Eighth St., will have to be updated to perform nutrient removal in the next five to 10 years. The Wakarusa plant is also designed so that it can be expanded in the future for additional nutrient removal capacity.

The new plant is being paid for through previously approved rate increases for water and wastewater. In 2013, city commissioners approved a new five-year rate plan that increases water and sewer rates by 5 to 7 percent each year. The

most recent rate increase under that plan went into effect this month. Commissioners are in the process of drafting a new three-tiered rate plan that will increase rates based on level of use, and will help pay for additional infrastructure needs of the city’s utilities department.

The “peak flow” storage basin makes up another large part of the site. The vast concrete basin has a 5 million gallon capacity and will help with stormwater runoff during heavy rain, specifically on the 31st street corridor, Harger said.

“During wet weather events a big surge of water is going to our existing plant and our system can get close to being overloaded,” she said. “And the more development that takes place, the more water is going down those sewers, so this will help mitigate that.”

The Wakarusa Wastewater Treatment Plant is scheduled to begin operating in January 2018 and will require a staff of two to five people.

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However, until November, the number of reported crimes hasn’t risen above the 2015 average.

The number of sex crimes reported over the past four months are as follows: l October — 12 l September — 10 l August — 6 l July — 12 Data on sex crimes reported to LPD is not available before July

because the department did not send the JournalWorld its activity logs before that month. Benchmark Cities Survey data, which was also used for this article, is only available after a given year is over and the information is collected, submitted to the survey for review and eventually published.

In mid-November the Journal-World reached out to the Lawrence Police

Department for comment.

When asked for additional details on the reported sex crimes, whether the reports involved the same suspect or whether the high number of reports in November was concerning, Lawrence Police Sgt. Amy Rhoads said the department would need between seven to 10 business days to analyze their numbers and form a response. At the soonest,

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Kitchen Thanksgiving dinner. LINK began serving free community meals in 1984, and each year serves a Thanksgiving dinner of turkey and all its traditional accompaniments to up to 200 people. Volunteers also help prepare and deliver meals to the homes of hundreds more.

This year, LINK board secretary Deb Engstrom said they delivered 600 meals and expected to serve at least 150 at the church. A donor who prefers to stay anonymous provides the turkeys, and

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the following averages: l 2015 — 12 sex crimes reported per month. l 2014 — 12 sex crimes reported per month. l 2013 — 10 sex crimes reported per month. l 2012 — 11 sex crimes reported per month.

l 2011 — Nine sex crimes reported per month.

Alongside the increasing monthly average of reported sex crimes over the past five years, the number of sex crimes reported over past months has also increased.

Over the past four months, the number of sex crimes reported has fluctuated, according to Lawrence Police Department activity logs.

— Reporter Rochelle Valverde can be reached at 832-6314. Follow her on Twitter: @RochelleVerde

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that answer would come after Thanksgiving. Three additional sex crimes have been reported since then.

As of Tuesday, no recent arrests in the Douglas County Jail booking logs bear an incident number matching any of the sex crimes reported in November.

— Public safety reporter Conrad Swanson can be reached at 832-7284.

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Incoming lawmaker undecided in upcoming House speaker contest

By Peter Hancock phancock@ljworld.com

Topeka — Newly elected Rep. Jim Karleskint, of Tonganoxie, said Tuesday that he has met with all three people vying to be the next speaker of the Kansas House, but so far has not made a commitment about which one he’ll support.

He did say, however, that the No. 1 factor in his decision will be how the candidate plans Karleskint to handle the task of writing a new school finance formula.

“One of the things that

concerns me the most about the upcoming legislative session — in 1992 when they wrote the last formula, it took two years to get it passed. We’ve got three months,” he said.

In 2015, at Republican Gov. Sam Brownback’s urging, lawmakers repealed that 1992 school finance formula and replaced it for two years with

now expected to write a new formula during the 2017 session, and Brownback has indicated he will Jennings Ryckman Vickrey not support a system of block grants continuing the block grant that effectively froze K-12 system for another year. funding in place. They are But Karleskint said that

so far none of the three speaker candidates has said how he plans to manage the school finance debate, or even which committee, or group of committees, will be in charge of writing the new formula.

The three people actively campaigning for the job

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Navy warship named for first black Marine Corps aviator

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LAWRENCE ARTIST STACEY LAMB shows off some of the countdown cards she had for sale at a recent craft show.

The cards, which count down to events such as birthdays, retirements or holidays, started with a set she made for a friend who was recovering from a bone marrow transplant.

Effort to cheer recovering friend opens business possibilities for Lawrence artist

By Elvyn Jones ejones@ljworld.com

Art has been Stacey Lamb’s refuge since childhood, but she thought two years ago her days as an artist were over.

“I was laid off from a greeting card company after 30 years,” she said. “I didn’t know what

I’d do. I thought I’d never draw again.”

Lamb said art has been central to her identity since she retreated to her bedroom as a fourth-grader for a four-day drawing marathon as a way to deal with bullying and abuse at school. The bullying ended when a drawing of Snoopy she

made on her notebook during her home retreat caught the eye of her chief abuser, who pronounced it and her “cool.”

“I’ve been an artist ever since,” she said. “My art has always been there for me.”

Lamb earned a degree in fine

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Topeka (ap) — A U.S. Navy destroyer warship has been named in honor of a Topeka three-star general who became the first black aviator, first black general and first black base commander in the Marine Corps.

Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus announced that the destroyer, which is under construction, would bear the name of Lt. Gen. Frank E. Petersen Jr., according to the Topeka Capital-Journal.

Petersen enlisted in the Navy in 1950, and left in 1952 to accept a commission as a second lieutenant and become the first black pilot in the Marine Corps. He flew over 350 combat missions and more than 4,000 military aircraft hours throughout the Korean and Vietnam Wars.

“The courage and perseverance of Lt. Gen. Petersen throughout his distinguished and groundbreaking career make him especially deserving of this honor,” Mabus said when he announced the honor Nov. 9. “Those who serve aboard DDG 121 will,

for decades, carry on the storied legacy of this Marine Corps hero.”

Petersen retired in 1988 as the senior aviator on active duty in the U.S. military, and died in 2015 at the age of 83. He received multiple awards for his service including the Purple Heart, the Distinguished Flying Cross, the Meritorious Service Medal, the Navy Distinguished Service Medal, the Defense Superior Service Medal and the Legion of Merit with Valor Device.

The Purple Heart resulted from a mission into North Vietnam, where Petersen suffered multiple serious injuries. He continued to fly about 240 missions with those injuries.

In 2010, President Barack Obama appointed Petersen to the Board of Visitors to the U.S. Naval Academy. The board monitors morale and instruction.

Construction of the USS Frank E. Petersen Jr. began April 27 in Mississippi. It is expected to enter the Navy fleet in 2020.

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Vandalized mural restored

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THE “EAST LAWRENCE WALTZ” MURAL on the stadium at Hobbs Park on East 11th Street, pictured Thursday, has been restored to its original condition. Earlier this month a vandal had altered the “Save the Tree” sign at right to read “Stop Trump.” The Lawrence Parks and Recreation Department last week said it would pursue the matter as an act of vandalism. The department could not be reached for comment on Thursday regarding how the mural restoration came about. Lawrence artist Dave Loewenstein painted the mural in 2004 with a group of community helpers. He has not responded to Journal-World inquiries about the vandalism.

City of Nowata, Okla., water service shut off after explosion in Neodesha Nowata, Okla. (ap) — Water service was turned off to residents of a northeastern Oklahoma city early Thursday due to possible contamination of its water supply following a chemical plant explosion in southeastern Kansas.

Water service was discontinued shortly after midnight in the city of Nowata, a city of about 3,700 people about 20 miles south of the Kansas state line and 150 miles northeast of Oklahoma City, said Stacy Guffey, a dispatcher at the Nowata County Sheriff’s Office.

The Oklahoma Department of

Environmental Quality is conducting tests to see what chemicals may be contaminating the water following an explosion and fire on Tuesday at the Airosol, Inc., chemical plant in Neodesha, Kan., The Tulsa World reported.

Erin Hatfield, spokeswoman for the agency, says Nowata stopped pulling water from the Verdigris River on Wednesday afternoon as a precaution.

She said emergency management officials and the Oklahoma National Guard will provide bottled water and water tanks as needed.

U.S. Environmental

Protection Agency officials were also responding to the situation, Hatfield said.

The river runs through parts of southeastern Kansas and northeastern Oklahoma, through Lake Oologah and into the Arkansas River near Muskogee.

The explosion and fire sent a male employee to a hospital with burns that weren’t considered life-threatening.

The plant manufactures and packages aerosol, liquid and other specialty chemicals.

The Occupational Safety and Health Administration says it has begun an investigation.

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The Kansas Department of Health and Environment issued a do-not-drink order for Wilson County, Kan., on Tuesday, saying “raw, untreated water is being pumped into the distribution system for fire suppression at the Airosol Company, Inc. plant.” The City of Coffeyville declared a Stage 3 Water Emergency effective at 8 p.m.

Wednesday.

Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback has issued a disaster declaration allowing the National Guard to help respond to the explosion in the town of about 2,500 people.

tem, as well as the majority and minority leader positions.

It is unclear, however, CONTINUED FROM PAGE 3A how much of a majorare Reps. Ron Ryckman, ity, if any, conservatives R-Olathe, who currently still have within the GOP chairs the Appropriations caucus because so many Committee; Jene Vickrey, either decided not to run R-Louisburg, the current this year or were defeatmajority leader; and Russ ed for re-election.

Jennings, R-Lakin, who has Karleskint campaigned been in the House just two as a moderate on school terms and is running as the finance and tax policy. “moderate” alternative to But he has expressed the two conservatives. decidedly conservative When the 2017 session views on some social isconvenes, Karleskint will sues, including abortion be one of 39 freshman and gun rights. members of the House Besides pressing the and one of 27 freshman speaker candidates on Republicans. He was how they plan to tackle elected after defeating the school finance issue, incumbent Rep. Connie Karleskint said he is also O’Brien in the Aug. 2 pri- expressing his own prefmary and winning a gen- erences for committee aseral election signments. race against “A lot of D e m o c r a t Republicans times, freshsuffered a net Kara Reed. men do not get He will loss of 12 House placed on the represent the good commit42nd House seats in the Nov. tees like apDistrict, which 8 elections. propriations, includes the and I undercity of Eustand that,” he dora, much of said. “I’d like eastern Douglas County to be on the Education and part of Leavenworth Committee and I shared County. that with all of them. I Republicans suffered a taught school finance at net loss of 12 House seats the doctorate level. And in the Nov. 8 elections, I’d like to be on the Vettaking their total down erans Committee.” to 85 seats. That means But as far as the speakthose freshmen will make er’s race goes, Karleskint up nearly one-third of the said he is still uncommitnew House GOP caucus. ted.

Members of the new “I haven’t made a comLegislature will gather at mitment; I haven’t made the Statehouse to elect a choice,” Karleskint said new leadership on Dec. 5, Tuesday. “We’ve got una few days after the State til Dec. 5. I want to read Board of Canvassers more about their backmeets Nov. 30 to certify grounds and what they’ve the election results. done in the past.”

Because Republicans Rep. Tom Sloan, of hold the majority in the Lawrence, the only other House, the GOP cau- Republican in the Lawcus will nominate a new rence-area delegation, was speaker, although techni- unavailable Monday and cally the speaker must be Tuesday this week to comformally elected by the ment on the speaker’s race. full House. Other lead— Statehouse reporter Peter Hancock ership jobs are chosen can be reached at 354-4222. Follow directly by the caucuses, him on Twitter: @LJWpqhancock including speaker pro

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arts from the University of Kansas and went to work as a greeting card illustrator before getting let go about two years ago. It was a bad time made worse when her close friend Cheryl Wonnell, of Lawrence, was diagnosed with leukemia, but Lamb once again looked to art to deal with her emotions and help her friend.

Two years ago this month, Wonnell received a bone marrow transplant at KU Hospital. The procedure required Wonnell to stay in a germ-free environment for 100 days, first in the hospital’s Johnson County transplant center and then in a room her friends prepared for her in Gladstone, Mo. “That was a long time for her to be away from her family, home and beloved dog,” Lamb said.

“I wanted to give her something that would make the time go by faster, brighten her room and give her something to look forward to every day. I made her 100 little drawings on index cards.

A 13-year-old boy told police he and the 15-year-old were in the parking lot of Lost Sock Wednesday when three men approached them.

A release Wichita Officer Charley Davidson sent Thursday says the 13-year-old says one of the men shot the 15-year-old

I put them in a box with some clothesline and clothespins, so she could take one out every day and hang it up.”

Wonnell said the gift had the intended effect of giving her something to look forward to daily, while reminding her she was one day closer to going home.

“They were absolutely therapeutic,” said Wonnell, who has been cancer free since the transplant.

“Mine had a lot of Bible verses. That was great for me. My doctors and nurse practitioners loved them so much, I would let them pick out a card for the day.”

Wonnell’s surgeon was also impressed, seeing in the countdown cards something that meshed with his research into the effects of a positive attitude on patient healing.

“He said, ‘This is exactly what I’m looking for,’” Lamb said. “I managed to find a Lawrence printer and make up boxes of cards, rope and pins for his hospital.”

Since then, some area cancer facilities and children’s hospitals have seen the benefit of the cards and have bought Lamb’s boxes for their

with a handgun.

Police say the teenagers ran across the street to a Burger King parking lot. The 15-year-old then collapsed and was taken to a hospital, where he died.

Wichita police are searching for three black men and a silver fourdoor car.

patients. Most are of the and inspired me. I’m same countdown concept working more hours that she created for Won- than I ever have.” nell, but a therapist from Georgetown University — County reporter Elvyn Jones can be reached at 832-7166. Follow him Hospital in Washington, on Twitter: @ElvynJ D.C., asked her to create cards to teach hospitalized children to count from 1 to 10 forward and backward and from 1 to 100, she said.

“It feels good we are helping lift these little children’s spirits a little higher,” Lamb said. “It makes us feel a little better, too.”

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Lawrence Journal-World l LJWorld.com l Friday, November 25, 2016

EDITORIALS

Kansans in D.C. Several officials from our state are in contention for top jobs in the new Trump administration.

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he state of Kansas could wield heavy influence in President-elect Donald Trump’s administration.

At least three high profile Kansans are up for jobs in the new administration: Congressman Mike Pompeo, Secretary of State Kris Kobach and Gov. Sam Brownback. If all three appointments come to pass, that would certainly reflect well on the state.

Pompeo already has been chosen to lead the Central Intelligence Agency. The congressman from Wichita has served three terms in Congress representing Kansas’ 4th District. He has served on the House Select Committee on Intelligence where he has been an outspoken critic of President Barack Obama’s policies in Libya and Iran. Pompeo graduated from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, N.Y. in 1986 and received his law degree from Harvard.

“He has served our country with honor and spent his life fighting for the security of our citizens,” Trump said in selecting Pompeo as his CIA director. “He will be a brilliant and unrelenting leader for our intelligence community to ensure the safety of Americans and our allies.”

Kobach, who has served as Kansas secretary of state since 2010, is reportedly being considered for the role of head of Homeland Security. That’s not surprising given Kobach’s somewhat controversial immigration background. In the wake of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, Kobach helped lead a team that helped establish the National Security Entry-Exit Registration System. As secretary of state, he has championed strict voter registration laws. The laws took specific aim at preventing immigrants living in the country illegally from gaining access to the ballot box.

Throughout the campaign, Kobach has been a vocal Trump supporter and is serving on Trump’s transition team. This week, he was photographed with Trump after meeting with the president-elect. In the photo, Kobach is holding a document that appeared to lay out Kobach’s plans for leading the Department of Homeland Security.

Brownback reportedly is a candidate to serve as Trump’s secretary of agriculture.

Brownback has refused to comment on such speculation. Brownback was elected Kansas’ governor in 2010 after serving one term in Congress followed by two terms in the Senate.

It has been a sometimes controversial and often bumpy road for Brownback as governor, but there is no question that he would be a capable secretary of agriculture and a strong advocate of the country’s farmers and ranchers.

To have three veteran lawmakers from a small state up for cabinet posts in the administration is a rarity. If it comes to pass, it bodes well for Kansas.

Be thankful for Trump’s insincerity Washington — Perhaps we should be thankful this week for Donald Trump’s insincerity. In a breathtaking fortnight of flip-flopping, he has reversed many of his most reckless and damaging campaign positions.

The new Trump professes sympathy for people and ideas he disdained during the “vicious” campaign.

He now admires President Obama, doesn’t want to harm (let alone lock up) Hillary Clinton, is waffling on climate change, and thinks waterboarding might not work. Maybe he’ll even decide that the Trans-Pacific Partnership is a great trade deal. I hope so.

In advertising, this approach is known as “bait and switch.” You hook the prospective buyer with claims that can’t (and in Trump’s case, shouldn’t) be delivered. Then you substitute something more realistic. A scriptural version of a belated conversion (after the wild rumpus is over) is the prayer of the wastrel young St. Augustine: “Lord, make me pure, but not yet.”

Will these changes of position hurt Trump? I doubt it. Moderates will be relieved that he has softened his line on key issues. And true believers probably always knew that Trump’s views were pliable. So much about Trump is like the professional wrestling matches he adores: Everyone knows they’re fake, but fans love the noisy showmanship and phony gut

David Ignatius

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With Trump, you’re grateful for every decision and appointment that’s less bad than you feared.” punches all the more.

Some of his reported and rumored Cabinet picks are reassuring, too. South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley will bring the richness of her Indian-American immigrant experience to the job of U.N. ambassador. Retired Gen. James Mattis would be a fine secretary of defense and the first in memory who keeps Roman emperor and philosopher Marcus Aurelius for bedside reading. Mitt Romney would be a strong exponent of American interests as secretary of state.

With Trump, you’re grateful for every decision and appointment that’s less bad than you feared.

Trump’s interview Tuesday with The New York Times offered a head-spinning summary of the president-elect’s revisionism.

Of Obama, whom he had castigated and sought to

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undermine for years, he said, “I really liked him a lot” after a White House visit. Of Hillary Clinton, for whom his campaign prescription had been a special prosecutor and imprisonment, he said, “She went through a lot. And suffered greatly in many different ways. And I am not looking to hurt them at all.”

On the Paris agreement to reduce climate change, which he had threatened to tear up, Trump said he now has an “open mind” and sees “some connectivity” between climate change and human activity. About waterboarding, which he had advocated, he suddenly discovered Mattis’s wisdom that “a pack of cigarettes and a couple of beers” work better in getting information.

We know what’s going on here: Trump took inflammatory positions during the campaign, which appealed to people’s basest instincts and fears, because he thought they would help him get elected. He’s hardly the first modern politician to discover the utility of lying. Lyndon Johnson was a master at it. Bill Clinton wasn’t bad at it, either, even in front of a grand jury. Hillary Clinton could bend the truth, too, though hardly by Trumpian proportions.

Maybe there’s even something “American” about this form of upbeat dishonesty.

River City believed in the ability of “Professor” Harold Hill, “the music man,” to

lead a marching band even though he couldn’t read music. Herman Melville, perhaps our greatest novelist, painted a dark picture in “The Confidence Man” of a gambler who boards a riverboat on April Fool’s Day and fleeces his fellow passengers.

What’s jarring here is that Trump’s wildly polarizing rhetoric put the nation through a nightmare campaign. He took raw wounds of race, class and gender and tore at them until they bled. He created the equivalent of a national panic attack. America is a strong country, but it’s a fragile one, too. Trump says he wants to put it back together, but the job will be harder because of the damage he did himself.

We’re watching a new season of the Trump reality TV show — the one in which he realizes that the job he wanted is much bigger than he imagined, and that he needs to heal wounds, rather than keep them festering.

The job is bigger than the man, even this one, with his oversized ego.

What should he do?

Trump put it just right in his comments to the Times.

“We want to bring the country together, because the country is very, very divided.” If he means that, he needs to be a wise, careful steward — two qualities we’d all love to see more of from our next president.

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

TODAY IN HISTORY On Nov. 25, 1920, radio station WTAW of College Station, Texas, broadcast the first play-by-play description of a football game, between Texas University and the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas. (Texas won, 7-3.) l In 1940, the cartoon character Woody Woodpecker made his debut in the animated short “Knock Knock” produced by Walter Lantz. l In 1947, movie studio executives meeting in New York agreed to blacklist the “Hollywood Ten” who’d been cited for contempt of Congress the day before. l In 1957, President Dwight D. Eisenhower suffered a slight stroke. l In 1999, 5-year-old Elian Gonzalez was rescued by a pair of sport fishermen off the coast of Florida, setting off an international custody battle.

OLD HOME TOWN From the Kansas Daily Tribune for Nov. 25, 1866: l “The new woolen factory years near the bridge is being put in ago running order. We don’t know IN 1866 the names of the proprietors, but we welcome all such enterprises to our city. To build a town, especially in the interior of a State, we need manufactories as well as railroads, and every encouragement should be given to them.”

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Priceless show To the editor: Sunday night’s concert at the Lied Center was priceless and free. Great music unites all.

Amid all the activity and turmoil of these days, this was a great gift to all of us — priceless and free.

Thanks, KU and musicians!

Don Conrad, Lawrence

Rural vs. urban To the editor: Why did rural U.S.A. vote for Donald Trump? It was not racism — the Democrats’ automatic default accusation.

Rural residents enjoy and want freedom: “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.” Our Constitution and our capitalist economy have and will provide us with that freedom, not socialism or globalization.

Socialism in its various forms takes away freedom. We rural people (small-town America) like to choose our own light bulbs, toilets, cars, schools, bathrooms, locker rooms, and even our own mates. Therefore, we are greatly concerned about the composition of the U.S. Supreme Court, the strength of the military, our foreign policy, the future of Israel, taxes, the economy, our energy policy, health care and, yes, equal treatment under the law of the land.

In short, the Constitution of the United States with a capitalist economic system has and will continue to provide the best

system for our country. As a survivor of Pearl Harbor and of World War II (due to the atomic bomb), I can attest to my generation’s desire to enjoy the fruits of our wonderful Constitution and our economic system — the best economic system in history.

Vincent U. Muirhead, Lawrence

Basketball thanks To the editor: To Bill Self and his coaching staff and our beloved Jayhawk basketball team: It’s obvious that gratification envelops the team after a big win, but I just want all in the basketball program to know what it means to a fan.

I’m not someone who jumped on the bandwagon a few years ago. I became a lifelong KU fan after listening to games on the radio in the kitchen with my mom of the 1964-65 team that included the likes of Walt Wesley, Al Lopes, Del Lewis and Ron Franz.

I just want to thank all the coaches, staff and players for all their hard work. Included is practice, watching video, weight training workouts, travel and more, all the while keeping up on their college school work.

As fans all we have to do is maybe take a seat in Allen Fieldhouse or find a television screen for viewing.

The bottom line is the fans get to revel in the thrills of the season with not that much investment, only the love of Kansas basketball.

In a season of giving thanks this is just a huge thank you all for that hard work and determination. Have a Happy Thanksgiving and many more victories.

Stu Butcher, Chanute

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We will publish only the name and city of the writer, but the newspaper will use the address and telephone number to verify the identity of the author. l By submitting a letter, writers acknowledge that the Journal-World reserves the right to edit letters, as long as viewpoints are not altered. l Letters can be submitted via mail to P.O. Box 888, Lawrence KS 66044 or via email at letters@ljworld.com.

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Once they complete a training program, certified therapy dogs typically make visits to places like hospitals and rehabilitation centers. The dogs need to be mild-mannered and comfortable around people in order to be certified.

On a recent Tuesday afternoon at the veterans center — a room with a few tables, couches and computer desk areas in Lindquist Hall — Riley went from person to person, burrowing in for a snuggle or requesting to be petted.

“Riley is so goofy,” said Erin Rust, a Wichita State junior who also works part time at the center.

“She’s a nice distraction from your day. People can come in here upset about something that’s going on in their life and after about 10 minutes around Riley, they feel better.

“You can’t be mean when you look at Riley’s face.”

Sell said the university has about 800 militaryaffiliated students that it knows of. On a typical day, she said, about 100 will come through the center.

“Primarily, Riley is here to support our veterans on campus,” Sell said. “Students sometimes come into my office and just curl up and cuddle with her before a big test. She helps people calm down a little bit.

She’s really had a positive impact.”

Sell, who got Riley in May from Caring Hands Humane Society in

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Wichta (ap) — For those who frequent the Riley Leroy Pitts Military and Veteran Student Center at Wichita State University, there’s a new therapist who has become quite a hit.

The therapist doesn’t charge a fee, ask about childhood memories or give advice. She does, however, offer free cuddles and a respite from the pressures of college life, according to The Wichita Eagle.

She is also at times preoccupied with the sight of a squirrel and likes to play fetch.

The therapist — actually a therapy dog in training — is a friendly rescue pooch named Riley.

A 3-year-old Rhodesian ridgeback/Labrador, Riley lives with Sarah Sell, director of veteran student services at Wichita State, but spends much of her week at the veterans center.

The official mascot of the center, which some students have dubbed her, is named after U.S. Army Capt. Riley Leroy Pitts, who was the first black commissioned officer to receive the Medal of Honor.

“I think some of the draw to dogs and therapy dogs is that they don’t care what kind of day you had — they love you no matter what,” Sell said.

“They don’t care if you said something nasty to someone about the election, they just love that you’re there to pet them.

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Newton, hopes to have her fully certified as a therapy dog early next year. She said she takes Riley to training once per week and works with her extensively at home.

A more spacious veterans center inside Grace Wilkie Hall at Wichita State is also in the works, Sell said, and could be open in time for the start of the spring semester.

Sell, who is still active in the Air National Guard, praised the university’s leadership — specifically president John Bardo — for the support that has been provided to the campus military-affiliated community.

“Wichita State has worked to improve services overall for our military and veteran students, and this includes innovative approaches, such as having a therapy dog available to help ease anxiety and stress,” Bardo said in a statement.

The university’s commitment appears to have been noticed. On Wednesday, Wichita State announced that two organizations — Victory Media and Military Advanced Education & Transition magazine — recently dubbed the university as a top school for military members and veterans.

“I’ve had yellow Labs all my life, so I love having Riley around,” said Bryan Casey, a Navy veteran and marketing major at Wichita State. “She makes campus feel more like home. You can come (to the veterans center) and just exhale, and she’s a big part of that.”

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In the war year of 1943, with many of the world’s democracies conquered or besieged, E.B. White of The New Yorker was asked to write something on “the meaning of democracy.’’

The result was a 200-word classic. Democracy “is the line that forms on the right,” White wrote. “It is the hole in the stuffed shirt through which the sawdust slowly trickles; it is the dent in the high hat.’’

Above all: “Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time.’’

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Donald Trump’s election has sparked shock, revulsion and protests around much of the world. But in Russia, the president-elect is being embraced with widespread approval.

In fact, many here think he’ll be one of the best American presidents ever.

Just less than half of those surveyed after the U.S. election by VTSIOM, a state-run research center, said that if given the opportunity, they would have voted for the billionaire New York businessman. Only 4% said they would have backed Democrat Hillary Clinton, who took a hard line against Russia during her tenure as secretary of State.

The survey found that about a third of Russians think Trump will likely go on to become one of the best presidents in U.S. history.

“Trump is a huge advantage for Russia,” said Muscovite Gleb Samorukov. “It’s clear Trump’s willing to figure out some of the problems we have between our two countries.”

Samorukov said he believes Russia is doing its best to resolve differences with the U.S. over Russia’s annexation of Crimea and its backing of separatists in eastern Ukraine, as well as disagreements about how to deal with the civil war in Syria and President Bashar Assad.

President Obama has had tense

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relations with Russian President Vladimir Putin since Russia’s intervention in neighboring Ukraine in 2014, a move that prompted Western sanctions against Russia.

The two men also have clashed over Syria’s war: Russia’s military is supporting Assad against rebel groups, while Obama is supporting some of those rebels and

In a year when, if half the people are right, someone else should be our next president; when a record 77% of Americans say the nation is divided on fundamental values; when even one’s posture during the national anthem is contentious; it seems fair again to ask, What does democracy mean today?

White may not be our best guide. His ode to democracy 73 years ago made no mention of the thousands of Japanese-Americans the government had just thrown into concentration camps, or millions of AfricanAmericans denied the right to vote.

Better to heed Barack Obama on Election Night four years ago: “Democracy, in a nation of 300 million, can be noisy and messy and complicated.’’

He couldn’t have known just how noisy, messy or complicated; democracy at Thanksgiving 2016 requires less an ode than a prayer.

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The highest-ranking officer implicated in last year’s scandal involving the Pentagon’s botched handling of anthrax has received career-killing discipline from the Army, USA TODAY has learned.

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oratories at Dugway Proving Ground in Utah. A reprimand prevents an officer from receiving another assignment, effectively ending his career, according to a Defense official familiar with King’s case but not authorized to speak publicly about it.

“Brig. Gen. King was reprimanded for failing to take appropriate action to respond to and mitigate lapses in safety and protocol while serving as commander of Dugway Proving Ground,” said Lt. Col. Jennifer Johnson, an Army spokeswoman.

Command of Dugway was also transferred to the Edgewood Biological Center at Aberdeen, Md.

Personnel from Edgewood have been destroying Dugway’s toxins, ensuring decontamination of its labs and that future use of deadly agents follows new safety protocols, Johnson said.

The moves are likely the final steps in the Army’s attempt to sweep clean the anthrax mess and hold accountable the officials responsible for it. Nine civilians were demoted, suspended or lost supervisory responsibilities following an investigation. Another soldier, whose name was not disclosed, was also disciplined.

The Army’s actions stem from problems with what Pentagon refers to as the “high-risk, zero-de-

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The samples were sent to labs to help them calibrate detection equipment and devise countermeasures to the toxin. If inhaled, live anthrax spores can be lethal.

The Army blasted the poor lab practices and a “culture of complacency” at Dugway. It recommended that the soldiers and civilians involved be held “accountable for their failures.”

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wants the Syrian leader to step down because of brutal attacks on civilians.

In another flash point, U.S. intelligence agencies allege that the Russian government tried to interfere in the U.S. election by hacking into the email accounts of the Clinton campaign and the Democratic National Committee, a charge Putin denies.

By contrast, candidate Trump praised Putin’s strong leadership style and promised after his election to improve relations with a country that had been the United State’s longtime Cold War rival.

“It’s definitely changed the atmosphere for the good,” said Ian Artemey, an economics student from St. Petersburg. “I like him.”

“It’s clear Trump’s willing to figure out some of the problems we have between our two countries.”

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Russians also like Putin — a lot, if state-run media and polls can be believed. His approval ratings have soared amid the increase in tensions with the U.S., reaching an all-time high of nearly 90% in October, VTSIOM found.

Mark Galeotti, an expert on Russia at the Institute of International Relations in Prague, said Putin appears more comfortable with a Trump presidency, at least for now.

“There is inevitably a degree of delight at seeing the obvious dismay (about Trump’s election) among U.S. allies, especially in Europe,” Galeotti said. “There are some prospects economic sanctions might be lifted or moderated, and on this issue, where Washington leads, the Europeans will certainly follow.”

Long term, though, Trump is not necessarily what Russia’s government would have wanted and could worry the Kremlin, Galeotti said. “Putin has capitalized on his ability to break the rules and get in the West’s face, relying on our willingness to broker compromise. With Trump, there is much less certainty this will be the case,” he said.

Trump’s “evident dislike of entangling alliances, his half-heartedness toward NATO, may well worry Europe enough that it takes its security much more seriously,” Galeotti added. “We could see European defense budgets growing and the European Union becoming more directly involved in defense coordination.”

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Deputizing local police officers from around the country to enforce the nation’s immigration laws is one plan being proposed to President-elect Donald Trump to fulfill his pledge to crack down on undocumented immigrants.

The idea was on a sheet of proposals for the Department of Homeland Security that was photographed when a member of Trump’s immigration transition team met with him Sunday. The list of proposals carried by Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach also addressed Trump’s campaign pledge to cut off the program that accepts Syrian refugees and to enhance screening of people from countries with ties to terrorism.

Kobach, who has authored Kansas laws that are models for other states to crack down on illegal immigration, did not respond to requests for comments about the proposals.

The so-called 287(g) program on the list allows the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency to train local police

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officers and sheriffs deputies to locate and catch undocumented immigrants living in their communities.

The program was created by Congress in 1996 and used by President George W. Bush. By 2010, local officers in 24 states were trained and empowered by ICE to respond to crime scenes, make traffic stops and check local jails to determine the immigration status of suspects.

The program was largely phased out by President Obama.

Local officers now work only in lo-

cal jails, not on the street.

Kobach’s proposal suggests the program be ratcheted back up to “at least 70 cities and counties” when Trump enters the White House in January. Trump said in a post-election interview that a top priority will be deporting an estimated 2 million to 3 million undocumented immigrants with criminal records.

Expanding local enforcement would be a quick, cheap “force multiplier” for a Trump administration intent on increasing deportations, said Jessica Vaughan, director of policy studies at the Center for Immigration Studies, a group that favors steps to curb illegal immigration. She said federal agents already are stretched thin, and adding local officers to do immigration work would help expand their reach.

“I would expect ICE to be inundated with applications” from local agencies interested in taking part, Vaughan said. “It’s a great thing for public safety and our immigration enforcement. You’re going to have fewer criminal aliens falling through the cracks and more sent home rather than being allowed to stay in those communities.”

Opponents counter that expanding local enforcement would alienate communities with significant Hispanic populations. Lake County (Ill.) Sheriff Mark Curran,

a former prosecutor, said he looked into the program when it was created, but changed his mind once he thought through the downside of such a step.

Curran said solving crimes requires witnesses to step forward and talk to police, something the Hispanic community would not do if the officers were also acting as immigration agents.

“As soon as your police car pulls up, all the doors are going to shut,” Curran said. “All they know is you dragged some relative of theirs out of the house a week ago who hadn’t done anything but try to provide for his family. They’re not going to want to cooperate with you.”

Curran, a Republican who voted for Trump, supports many aspects of the president-elect’s plan to crack down on illegal immigration and said his office regularly cooperates with federal immigration investigations. But he was disappointed to hear that Trump is considering the 287(g) program.

“My position is the same as most sheriffs in the country,” he said. “We’re not going to flip our nose at the Constitution. We’re not going to become sanctuary counties. But we don’t want to be federal agents running around going into homes and grabbing people based on their immigration status.”

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Democracy today is the cast of a hit Broadway musical confronting the vice president-elect in the audience. It is the vice presidentelect turning to his daughter and saying, “That’s the sound of democracy.’’

And it is an audience member complaining to a reporter after the show that she didn’t come to Hamilton to hear about politics.

Democracy is fourth-generation New Englanders gathering for the annual town meeting to vote on whether to buy a new fire engine.

It is first-generation alt-righters gathered in Washington to shout “Heil!” and listen to their leader quote Nazi propaganda in the original German.

And it’s what the current German chancellor says must be a basis for her country’s working relationship with the president-elect.

Democracy is a public handshake between the presidentelect, who’d called Mitt Romney a “choke artist,’’ and Romney, who once called the president-elect a “con man.’’ It is some anonymous creep on the internet calling Hillary Clinton the c-word.

Democracy is voters waiting patiently on Election Day in lines that sometimes spilled out the door, through the schoolyard, around the corner and down the block. It is also the eventual winner complaining for months beforehand than the system was rigged.

Democracy is Democrats in the street, chanting “Not my president!’’ and Democrats in church, praying together aloud for “Donald, our president-elect.’’

Democracy is the Ventura County, Calif., registrar of voters not getting a single request for police assistance on Election Day from any of his 365 precincts.

And it is the sea of 20,000 pink “provisional’’ ballots, many cast by people apparently unregistered in the place where they voted.

Democracy is an “I voted’’ sticker on your chest.

It is Colin Kaepernick, the NFL quarterback famous for taking a knee during the national anthem, saying he’s never voted because “I’m not going to show support for that system. … The oppressor isn’t going to allow you to vote your way out of your oppression.”

Democracy after Election Day is some students waving the Confederate flag at LeMoyne College in upstate New York, and the administration first lowering and then removing the U.S. flag after protests at Hampshire College in western Massachusetts.

Democracy is the mere 100,000 voters in three states who, by the reckoning of Eric Sasson in the New Republic, made the difference between a second President Clinton and a first

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President Trump.

Democracy is Black Lives Matter, and the blue stripe painted inside the double yellow lines down Main Street. Democracy is a magnet, witness Little Saigon in Houston, Texas, Little Odessa in Brighton Beach, New York, and Little Managua in Sweetwater, Florida.

There is democracy and there is in Russia what Vladimir Putin’s supporters call “managed democracy.’’ The distinction was explained to the Financial Times by an anonymous political consultant: “Democracy is where the authorities arrange elections.

Managed democracy is where the authorities arrange the elections and the result.”

E.B. White’s feelings about democracy resonate still. Some of his images and metaphors do not.

Democracy, he wrote, is “the feeling of privacy in the voting booths, the feeling of communion in the libraries …’’

Yet today, in at least 20 states,

it is legal to take a selfie inside the voting booth and post it online, as many voters proudly do. And it is their constitutional right, as several court just this fall have ruled.

As for the libraries, Americans say they love them, but the percentage who visited one in previous 12 months dropped from 53% in 2014 to 44% last year, according to a Pew study.

White also called democracy “the mustard on the hot dog.’’ It’s a dated metaphor that, as Seth Lerer of UCal-San Diego — a scholar of White’s children’s literature (Charlotte’s Web, Stuart Little) — says would get him laughed out of his classroom if he used it with his students.

At least one of White’s symbolic trappings of democracy — “a letter to the editor’’ — is still in ready supply. Some recent examples are on point: u“Our democratic principles and values are at risk like never before. Canada is looking ever more appealing...’’ — Elizabeth

A volunteer prepares to hand out stickers to voters at an early polling station in Towson, Md., on Nov. 1.

Wallen, Springfield, Ky. u“Democracy is a fragile process that cannot be taken for granted.’’ — Bill Dayton, Sevierville, Tenn.

Democracy goes back about 25 centuries, to Athenians casting colored pebbles into clay jars. Its Anglo-American variant is the word’s envy, yet still a delicate flower that, Ronald Reagan once told the British Parliament, “needs cultivating.’’

What does democracy mean today? As much or as little as we want it to mean; we get the one we deserve, Sen. John F. Kennedy wrote in Profiles in Courage.

JFK’s predecessor in the Oval Office agreed. In 1942, the year before White took up the issue, Lt. Gen. Dwight Eisenhower wrote a letter from London to his wife Mamie. If we believe in democracy, he told her, to justify that faith “we must work like dogs.’’

And, Ike’s pious mother would have added, pray like saints.

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MONEYLINE TWITTER CEO HAS OWN ACCOUNT SUSPENDED A social media faux pas: Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey had his own Twitter account suspended late Tuesday. The Twitter co-founder posted an embarrassing tweet: “just setting up my twttr...again (account suspension was an internal mistake).” It was a play on his own first tweet in March 2006: “just setting up AFP/GETTY IMAGES my twttr.” The Twitter CEO event is ironic in Jack Dorsey that Twitter has blamed it on suspended an “internal” many accounts glitch. associated with the alt-right movement, and just last week Dorsey apologized when an ad for a white supremacist group appeared on the service. It was quickly removed. The tech media had a field day at Dorsey’s expense. “#Awkward” read a headline on CNET, while Digital Trends weighed in with “Twitter fail.”

NEW-HOME SALES DECLINE; MANUFACTURING ORDERS UP Sales of new homes fell 1.9% in October, the Commerce Department reports, but the seasonally adjusted annual rate of 563,000 units are still up 12.7% compared to the same 10-month period a year ago. New-home sales are still below their historic averages and trying to recover from 2007’s Great Recession. Demand has surged because of a stable job market and low mortgage rates.

The median sales price rose 1.9% from a year ago to $304,500. The Commerce Department also reported that orders for durable goods rose 4.8% in October, the best showing in two years.

ELI LILLY SHARES FALL ON FAILED ALZHEIMER’S TEST Eli Lilly said testing showed that its trial drug solanezumab “did not experience a statistically significant showing in cognitive decline compared to patients treated with a placebo.” The failed test was the latest in a string of trial medications that did not lead to a potential breakthrough in treating Alzheimer’s, a disease that has stricken about 47 million people.

Eli Lilly’s shares plunged 10.51%, closing at $68 Wednesday.

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The days could be numbered for Net neutrality under the Trump administration.

Net neutrality rules, passed in February 2015 by the Federal Communications Commission and supported by Netflix, Google and other big websites, prevent Internet service providers (ISPs) from blocking and slowing the transmission of content and from the practice of “paid prioritization,” paying an ISP for faster delivery of content. The contentious issue triggered lawsuits from the GETTY IMAGES/ISTOCKPHOTO

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nvestors eyeing the $1 trillion in cash companies have stashed overseas away from the long arm of Uncle Sam might grab a piece for themselves soon.

Companies are expected to spend $780 million buying back their stock next year, a 30% jump from 2016, as investors predict President-elect Donald Trump will pass tax breaks allowing companies to “repatriate” or bring back cash to U.S. shores, according to a report this week from Goldman Sachs. Stock buybacks are expected to be the largest way companies will spend the $2.6 trillion in excess cash they’ll have next year, says the report coauthored by Goldman’s Chief U.S. Equity Strategist David Kostin.

Buybacks would rise just 5% without the expected tax breaks.

Understanding how companies will use their massive and growing pile of cash, much of which is overseas, is of utmost importance to investors and workers. Companies in the Standard & Poor’s 500 will likely boost their cash spending by 12% next year. That’s largely due to an expectation Republicans will approve a onetime tax break that will allow U.S. companies to bring foreign profits back home. But much of the cash won’t go to new investments in plant and equipment, but find its way back into the pockets of investors, Goldman says. Of the $200 billion expected to be brought back to the U.S., $150 billion will likely go back to investors as stock buybacks.

Additionally, Goldman estimates U.S. companies will leave $800 billion overseas even after the tax holiday.

Stock buybacks, where companies use cash to buy their own

CASH ON HAND Largest cash and investment balances of S&P 500 companies (in billions): Company Cash, investments Apple $237.6 Microsoft $147.3 Alphabet $88.8 Cisco Systems $71.0 Oracle $68.5 General Electric $57.0 Yahoo $51.5 Coca-Cola $45.1 Aetna $43.3 Johnson & Johnson $41.0 NOTE AS OF LATEST BALANCE SHEET, EXCLUDING FINANCIALS. SOURCE S&P GLOBAL MARKET INTELLIGENCE, USA TODAY

Spending on improvements to companies’ plants and equipment is seen rising 6% to $710B, and R&D is expected to rise 7% to $290B. stock to reduce the number of shares outstanding, can drive values higher by spreading profits over fewer shares. Companies, though, have other competing demands for cash including paying bigger dividends, investing in their operations or buying other firms.

Given the track record of companies in recent years and their behavior during a previous tax holiday in 2004 that allowed them to bring cash back to the U.S. without triggering a big tax, buybacks will win out, Goldman says. “For only the second time in 20 years, buybacks will account for the largest share of total (Standard & Poor’s) 500 cash use,” the report says. Specifically, Goldman estimates tax reform under President Trump to encourage companies to bring $200

billion of the $1 trillion they have stored overseas back home. Much of the increase hinges on wide speculation the Republican-controlled White House and Congress will move quickly to give U.S. companies a temporary tax holiday in the second half of 2017, forecasts Goldman Sachs’ economist Alec Phillips.

Buybacks will grow much faster than the other uses of cash, Goldman says, if the tax holiday rules pass. Spending on capital improvements to companies’ plants and equipment is seen rising just 6% to $710 billion, and research and development is expected to rise just 7% to $290 billion. Goldman sees cash spent on mergers and acquisitions rising a relatively meager 5% to $335 billion and dividends to rise just 6% to $460 billion.

Proposed tax breaks for cash stored overseas is potentially a major shift in policy. Currently, profits of U.S. companies stored overseas are taxed at 35% minus a credit to offset the foreign taxes paid when brought back. Tax rates of countries where U.S. companies stuff cash range from 12.5% in the popular haven of Ireland to 34% in France, Goldman says.

In proposals so far, House Republicans have suggested a deeply discounted 8.75% tax on cash brought back to the U.S. Several major U.S. corporations — and their investors — could be large winners from a proposed tax break. Companies, excluding financials, in the S&P 500 have $2.3 trillion in cash and investments currently. Three technology firms, Apple (AAPL), Microsoft (MSFT) and Google parent Alphabet (GOOGL), are sitting on more cash than anyone measured at $238 billion, $147 billion and $89 billion, respectively. Investors’ wait to get their hands on some of this money could be nearing an end.

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Protesters hold a rally at the Federal Communications Commission in Washington in May 2014.

ISPs and drew an unprecedented outpouring of public comments.

Though Net neutrality wasn’t a constant topic for Donald Trump as a candidate, he has been an opponent of the regulations, calling the FCC’s adoption “a power grab” by President Obama in a tweet in 2014.

The president-elect’s latest appointments suggest he’ll try to bolster that view, supported by telecommunication companies such as Verizon and others, by reversing the rules.

Jeffrey Eisenach, who joined Trump’s transition team in October, and Mark Jamison, a former lobbyist for Sprint, were named Monday as members of the “Agency Landing” team focusing on the FCC. Both advisers opposed Net neutrality. Net neutrality “is not about protecting consumers from rapacious Internet service providers. ... Net neutrality is crony capitalism pure and simple — an effort by one group of private interests to enrich itself at the expense of another group by using the power of the state,” Eisenach wrote in 2014 in an article on the website of the American Enterprise Institute, a free enterprise think-tank where Eisenach was once a visiting scholar.

Eisenach, who is the managing director and co-chair of communication, media and Internet practice at NERA Economic Consulting, declined to comment on the administration’s plans.

Holiday shopping gets off to a frenzied start Thanksgiving Day online sales could hit $2B for the first time, a 16% bump from last year Ed Baig

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Thanksgiving has traditionally boiled down to three “Fs”: food, football and family.

Many Americans can now add a fourth F to the mix, the “frenzy” that comes with holiday shopping.

We’re not just talking Black Friday. More and more folks are shopping in person on Thanksgiving Day, with major retailers such as Best Buy, Macy’s, Sears, Target and Toys R Us all opening their doors even before the last of the turkey has gotten cold.

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And online shopping is off to a brisk early start. Shoppers spent $336 million between the hours of midnight and 11 a.m. ET on Thanksgiving, according to Adobe Digital Insights. And Adobe is forecasting Thanksgiving Day online sales to hit $2 billion for the first time, a 15.6% year-over-year growth increase. A record $820 million is coming from mobile devices.

Adobe added that half the people it surveyed expect to shop after 5 p.m. on Thanksgiving.

In all, an estimated 137.4 million consumers plan to or are considering shopping during the holiday weekend, according to the annual survey released by the National Retail Federation and Prosper Insights & Analytics.

Twenty-one percent of the weekend shoppers plan to shop on

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Thanksgiving Day itself, nearly the same as the 22% who did so last year.

Still, not every retailer is comfortable with the idea. There’s been a recent tug of war over whether retailers should be open on Thanksgiving Day, with some deciding to close their doors this year to boost employee morale, score points with consumers who dislike the practice and preserve

the dwindling sales power of Black Friday.

Tom Alberty told The (Clarksville, Tenn.) Leaf-Chronicle last week that he doesn’t like shopping on the holiday because it takes away from family time.

“You have 300 days to shop throughout the year. Why do you pick Thanksgiving?”

The Mall of America stayed shuttered this holiday. CBL & As-

sociates Properties Inc. planned to close 72 of its 89 malls this Thanksgiving after keeping them open the past three years, and electronics chain hhgregg closed all of its 220 stores.

But most major retailers decided to continue this newest tradition of kicking off the holiday shopping marathon right after — or even before — the Thanksgiving feast. Toys R Us, for instance, opened its doors at 5 p.m. on the holiday and will keep its stores open for 30 hours straight.

Jon Hart of Asheville, N.C., has been a holiday shopping “door buster” for a decade. This year he headed to a Best Buy before the store opened. Hart points to a positive shift in customer service.

“The management comes out and takes care of you better than they used to,” Hart said. “They bring you a flier, ask what you want. They make you feel welcome. Before, they used to have cops out here,” he said.

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The Accountant

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Director: Gavin O’Connor

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Rating: R Upside: Affleck nicely captures the physicality and emotions of an action hero with autism.

Downside: The movie carries a load of secrets, and the revelations are frustratingly backloaded.

Plot: An out-of-town magizoologist (Eddie Redmayne) has to round up his fantastical critters when they get loose in New York City.

Director: David Yates

Rating: PG-13 Upside: J.K. Rowling crafts an enchanting retro adventure in her magical mythology.

Downside: Like other franchise starters, it tries to do way too much in a twohour run time.

2 hours, 4 minutes

Hacksaw Ridge

Rating: R Upside: Zemeckis captures an authentic look and the paranoia of the early 1940s.

Downside: The movie’s two leads don’t have the needed heat for a real romantic spark.

Plot: A devout young man (Andrew Garfield) enlists in the Army during World War II yet won’t touch a gun.

Director: Mel Gibson

1 hour, 56 minutes

Moana

Rating: PG-13 Upside: It’s a supremely crafted, well-acted and thought-provoking exploration of humanity.

Downside: Most every other recent sci-fi movie looks pedestrian in comparison.

Plot: A teenage adventurer (voiced by Auli‘i Cravalho) hits the high seas to return a mystical gem and save her island.

Directors: John Musker and Ron Clements

1 hour, 32 minutes

Nocturnal Animals

Rating: R Upside: Moronic kid sidekick Thurman Merman (again played by Brett Kelly) steals scenes as an even dumber adult.

Downside: The searing image of Thornton and a charity worker (Christina Hendricks) having a quickie in a tree lot.

Plot: An art gallery owner (Amy Adams) receives a manuscript from her writer ex-husband (Jake Gyllenhaal) that captures her imagination.

Director: Tom Ford

1 hour, 55 minutes

Rules Don’t Apply

Rating: PG-13 Upside: Cumberbatch adds enchanting spirit to Strange, giving comic-book movies another goateed icon who can hang with the likes of Iron Man. Downside: The movie is overly packed with various dimensions and lore, and the goofier gags fall flat.

Plot: A driver (Alden Ehrenreich) falls for a young actress (Lily Collins) under contract to Howard Hughes (Warren Beatty).

Director: Warren Beatty

1 hour, 38 minutes

Trolls

Rating: R Upside: It’s a movie filled with standout performances, including a raw, yet hilarious Steinfeld.

Downside: There are times when Nadine really needs to be grounded.

Plot: An unlikely pair of Trolls (voiced by Anna Kendrick and Justin Timberlake) go on a rescue mission to save their friends from the ogre-like Bergens.

Directors: Mike Mitchell, Walt Dohrn

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Arrival

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Director: Denis Villeneuve

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Director: Mark Waters

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After his career is derailed by an accident, a neurosurgeon (Benedict Cumberbatch) goes on a mystical journey to become a superhero sorcerer.

Director: Scott Derrickson

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Plot: High school becomes intolerable for angst-filled Nadine (Hailee Steinfeld) when her only friend (Haley Lu Richardson) starts dating her too-perfect brother (Blake Jenner).

Director: Kelly Fremon Craig

STYLE STAR When Duchess Kate likes a dress, you can tell: Appearing at a charity event Tuesday in London, she wore a Preen satin midi-dress in black with an asymmetrical neckline and a crystal-embellished belt at the waist. It looked familiar because she wore a scarlet version of the $1,100 dress during her tour of western Canada in September.

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THEY SAID WHAT? THE STARS’ BEST QUOTES “I support & love u brother, I see in you bravery & courage to stop this tour & take care of YOU. You are a GREAT artist.” —– Lady Gaga’s tweet Wednesday to Kanye West after he canceled the rest of his tour and was hospitalized in Los Angeles for exhaustion.

women have missed the end of a movie because they needed to use the restroom.

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1 hour, 56 minutes Rating: R Upside: Michael Shannon steals the movie as an enigmatic Texas cop out for justice.

Downside: The multi-part storytelling confuses the narrative at times.

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2 hours, 7 minutes Rating: PG-13 Upside: Beatty has surrounded himself with attractive young up-andcomers and Hollywood mainstays.

Downside: The solid if unspectacular effort struggles with tonal inconsistencies.

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1 hour, 33 minutes Rating: PG Upside: The jukebox musical is filled with fun covers and original songs.

Downside: Style trumps substance in this sweet cinematic confection.

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Rating: PG Upside: The charming seafaring epic is buoyed by a bevy of Lin-Manuel Miranda tunes.

Downside: The plot drifts away at times.

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HOW WAS YOUR DAY? GOOD DAY H.G. WELLS FANS Dead 70 years, the master of multiple sci-fi classics (‘The War of the Worlds’) is in print again with a new story: a ghost tale/ detective story hybrid called ‘The Haunted Ceiling’ from about 1895. Previously unknown even to scholars, the story is being published in literary quarterly ‘The Strand Magazine’ this week after it was found in a Wells archive at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

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The Edge of Seventeen

2 hours, 18 minutes Rating: R Upside: Gibson’s latest is a brutally intense and elegantly crafted war drama.

Downside: The film wrestles with overt preachiness and military-movie clichés.

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You’ll laugh and cry, again, at the new ‘Gilmore Girls’ It’s not often you get a second chance to make a last impression.

Well, if you assume this Netflix revival is the last we see of Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life (Nov. 25, TV REVIEW eeeg out of four), ROBERT which these days in BIANCO general — and with this show in particular — is probably unwise.

When WB’s cult hit ended in 2007, after one last, unsatisfying season on CW produced without creator Amy Sherman-Palladino and writer Daniel Palladino, most fans feared they’d seen the last of Lauren Graham and Alexis Bledel as Lorelai and Rory Gilmore.

Compounding the agony was a predominant — though hardly universal — feeling that the ending was unsatisfactory, a belief that has hardened with time into immutable truth.

Now the show is back with four 90-minute episodes, each named for one of the seasons, and all of them written by the Palladinos.

You get the same stars (for the most part) and the same rapidfire, pop-culture-infused dialogue, in a more concise package that actually serves the show well.

The pace and the arch theatricality of all that chatter could grow exhausting over 22 hours.

Brevity, however, is not the only advantage Girls has this time around. It benefits from having been gone long enough for many of us to miss it. And it returns, in all its dreamy, slightly loopy, generally optimistic lightness, at a time when many of us could use an escape.

Once again, you’re following the Gilmores and their extended

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Kelly Bishop, left, Lauren Graham and Alexis Bledel bring back three generations of Gilmore women for A Year in the Life. family — led by Lorelai’s onagain/off-again lover Luke (Scott Patterson) and her mother, Emily (the always fabulous Kelly Bishop) — as they talk their way around the tourist trap that is Stars Hollow. Time has passed and relationships have changed, but there’s nothing or no one fans won’t recognize and newcomers won’t be able to figure out.

Not everyone was able to return, of course: The late Edward Herrmann is much missed, though his character, Richard, remains a heartwarming presence. A few other actors are either under- or overused: You get much less of Melissa McCarthy’s Sookie than most would like and much more of Sean Gunn’s Kirk than some will like.

As always, Gilmore is not without its frustrations, which means that those who always found the constant babble and the flights of

fancy unbearably twee will continue to do so. There are plots that just peter out, abruptly change course or get lost in some eye-roll-inducing diversion. Even the combined gifts of Christian Borle and Sutton Foster can’t quite excuse a musical sequence that defies belief and owes far too much to Christopher Guest’s parody Waiting for Guffman and Borle’s own Something Rotten.

Yet for every misstep, there’s a moment from Graham or Bledel that makes you laugh or breaks your heart, or that cuts through the cuteness to ring true. And even at its most exasperating (as with those infamous “final four words”), there is so much talent and charm on display, you’re likely to be in a forgiving mood.

So welcome back, Girls. Here’s hoping the wait for the next last episode is a shorter one.

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me, too, and has never cheated on me. But he won’t stay off those sites, and it’s very disrespectful. I’m getting so depressed. What can I do to get him to stop? Help.

— Depressed and Lonely Dear Depressed: This is supposed to be the honeymoon phase, not the honey-nightmare. If he’s acting like this four months into your marriage, I shudder to think how he would act in 40 years.

Although I normally

‘Gilmore Girls’ returns on Netflix Streaming today, “Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life” (Netflix) offers four 90-minute episodes, each named for a season.

“Year” marks a return for the beloved WB/CW series that ran from 2000 to 2007.

“Gilmore” was dominated by the hyper-caffeinated chatter between feisty single mom Lorelai (Lauren Graham) and her impossibly precocious daughter, Rory (Alexis Bledel).

The small town of Stars Hollow was equally derivative, a picturesque backdrop for buskers and bookshops, bed and breakfasts and quirky characters — just like nearly every town in a Hallmark movie.

After Rory’s wealthy grandparents began bankrolling her education and insinuating themselves into Lorelai’s life, the series lost what little edge it had and the wealthy white smugness became suffocating.

In the very last episode of “Gilmore Girls” from 2007, Rory has just graduated from Yale (where else?), spends a few moments schmoozing with CNN’s Christiane Amanpour and quickly secures a job on the press tour following presidential candidate Barack Obama. I guess Bono was too busy to visit Rory that day!

“Gilmore” is neither the first nor last television show to depict small-town life without mention of double-wides, pickup trucks, Wal-Marts and dollar stores. Few series besides “The Middle,” “King of the Hill” and “Roseanne” have even tried to depict the lives of the hundreds of millions of non-glamorous people tucked between the Hudson River and San Bernardino Valley.

Tonight’s holiday specials O Bounce airs the 2016 adaptation of “Roots” (10 a.m. to 9 p.m., TV-14) in marathon fashion.

O “Once Upon a Sesame Street Christmas” (6 p.m., HBO, TV-Y), features appearances by Zosia Mamet, Audra McDonald and Jim Gaffigan.

O The voice of Fred Astaire animates the 1970 special “Santa Claus Is Coming to Town” (7 p.m., ABC, TV-G).

O Jimmy Durante narrates the 1969 favorite “Frosty the Snowman” (7 p.m., CBS, TVG). Jonathan Winters and John Goodman can be heard in the 1995 sequel “Frosty Returns” (7:30 p.m., CBS, TV-G).

O Boris Karloff narrates the 1966 special “How the Grinch Stole Christmas” (7 p.m., NBC).

O A grumpy deli owner takes over the sleigh in the 2014 special “How Murray Saved Christmas” (7:35 p.m., NBC, TV-G).

O A novelty song inspired the 2000 special “Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer” (7 p.m., CW, TV-PG).

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For Friday, Nov. 25: This year you nearly always get the results you desire, as long as you follow your instincts. If you are single, a friendship might develop into something more. If you are attached, the two of you often want to hide out together.

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) ++++ A loved one might be getting up unusually early to participate in Black Friday shopping. Tonight: And the party goes on and on.

Taurus (April 20-May 20) +++ Listen to news more openly. One-on-one relating is favored. Tonight: The unexpected throws a surprise your way.

Gemini (May 21-June 20) ++++ Your imagination mixes well with excitement. Others enjoy your whimsical nature.

Tonight: Go with the moment.

Cancer (June 21-July 22) ++++ You already might be deep into cookie making and other such holiday activities. Take time to visit with someone. Tonight: As you wish.

Leo (July 23-Aug. 22) ++++ You know how to charm the socks off someone.

Honor a friend’s change of mood.

Tonight: Be as free as you can be.

Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) ++++ You might have planned on catching the holiday

fence. I believe that my brother has a sexual addiction and needs help through counseling.

What’s the best way to deal with this mess my brother has created? — Younger Brother Dear Younger: If you and your wife want to help out the young woman, by all means, please do, and encourage your mom to get off the fence and help out, too. Clearly, your brother is not stable, and his compulsive sexual behavior is unhealthy and destroying lives. Encourage him to seek the help of a licensed therapist, but ultimately, he must want to help himself.

Changing him is not a burden you could bear, even if you wanted to.

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

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sales, but you also will want to get some private time with a loved one. Tonight: Wind down with a close loved one.

Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) ++++ No matter which direction you turn, someone seems to want something. You might decide to distance yourself. Tonight: Make the most of the moment.

Scorpio (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) ++++ Others might already be tired of the eggnog routine.

You will like being less in demand.

Tonight: You might want to be in a quiet and calm environment.

Sagittarius (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) ++++ You are busy, with a lot of friends to visit and see. Just catching up on news could take a full day. Tonight: Meet up with a family member for dinner.

Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) ++++ Take care of your responsibilities early. Clear out any errands as well. Afterward, you will feel free. Tonight: Put your best foot forward.

Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) ++++ You have a unique style that makes a big difference to many people around you. Tonight: Try a new trendy restaurant.

Pisces (Feb. 19-March 20) ++++ You could be handling a matter much differently from how you originally had intended.

Tonight: Enjoy the moment.

ACROSS 1 “Buona ___” (Italian greeting) 5 Machu Picchu builder 9 First vice president of America 14 It has a place for a pupil 15 Plane or saw, e.g.

16 Shakespeare’s balcony climber 17 What conceited Jill gives for two 20s and a 10?

20 “Four” before a word 21 Boat stabilizer 22 “What are the ___?”

23 Cobblers’ tools 25 Certain conifers 27 Interweave 30 Amazing server, in tennis 31 Feminine pronoun 34 Ancient 35 Enveloping, invisible glow 37 Middle ear bone 39 Where conceited Jill gets her gas?

42 Type of wrench 43 Defeat 44 Leaf cultivated in the Andes 45 All males

46 Dilute 48 Burnout consequence 50 Bread amount 51 Mimicker 52 It’s heard in an opera 55 Group of two 57 Sam the Muppet is one 61 What Conceited Jill will do when listening?

64 Needing nourishment 65 Responses that sometimes disappoint 66 Arm bone 67 Blue and new things 68 Hypochondriac’s fear 69 Combines DOWN 1 Make fine, as flour 2 City or lake near Buffalo 3 Friendship destroyer, sometimes 4 With legs stretched widely on each side of 5 “___ be an honor” 6 Recesses 7 Nat or Natalie 8 City scavengers 9 Airport info (abbr.)

10 Judo sites 11 Between 12 Rummy laydown

13 Music scale’s fifth notes 18 Two-masted sailing vessel 19 Wind-related nautical adverb 24 Edible for Jack Sprat 26 Judicial directive 27 Prince in India 28 Like 8-Down 29 Many PCs 30 Crime that involves lighting?

31 Dart 32 Gut feeling 33 Lengthy writing assignment 36 Making unattractive 38 Central American republic 40 “What’s gotten ___ you?”

41 “Immedately,” in office memos 47 Muslim pilgrimage 49 Ball-___ hammer 50 Bearing a heavy load 51 Freud contemporary 52 Astringent 53 Place for gambling 54 Data 56 Common cosmetics ingredient 58 Fix once and for all?

59 Complete a flight 60 Significant parts of history 62 Infomercials, e.g.

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encourage couples to put in the work to save a marriage, I think you’d be better off cutting and running now, before your lives are further intertwined or children enter the picture. You deserve better.

Dear Annie: My brother and I used to be very close. He has been married five times and has one son from his second marriage.

Rarely has he been in his son’s life. He dates different women all the time and always cheats on them. He lied to a former co-worker who was 19 and got her pregnant. He told her it was physically impossible for him to have kids, and she believed him. My wife and I feel bad for her and are trying to help her out. My dad said to stay out of my brother’s business, and my mom is on the

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Dear Annie: My husband has been talking to other women online.

He’s been on numerous dating sites, and every time I catch him, he changes his account name or goes on a different one. I think it’s cheating. He says it’s not — that he’s just talking to them. But he says very inappropriate things to them and sends explicit photos of himself. They send him pictures, too. I think he’s going to go meet them eventually if he hasn’t already, though he swears he hasn’t ever cheated.

He doesn’t ever want to be intimate with me anymore. We’ve been married for only four months, so I really think he’s cheating on me.

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DATEBOOK Opening for the season, 1-7:30 p.m. Lawrence Public Nov. 25, 2016 — 5-9 p.m., Library, 707 Vermont St. unless otherwise noted Bingo night, doors 5:30 p.m., refreshments 6 p.m., bingo starts 7 p.m., Eagles DOWNTOWN: Lodge, 1803 W. Sixth St. The Bourgeois Pig, 6 E. Holiday Lighting Ceremony Ninth St. City Moon, a littleand Santa Rescue, 5:30 p.m., known faux newspaper from US Bank Plaza, 900 MassachuLawrence, 1973-1985. setts St. Essential Goods, 825 MasMr. Mojo Risin’: A Celebrasachusetts St. Artist Jodi Ray, EAST LAWRENCE: tion of The Doors, doors at local musician Tyler Gregory.

Art Emergency, 721 E. Ninth 8 p.m., show at 9 p.m., The Extra Virgin Olive Oil and St. Open studio, live music.

Bottleneck, 737 New HampBalsamic Vinegar Tasting Cider Gallery, 810 Pennsyl- shire St. Shop, 937 Massachusetts St. vania St. Stephen T. Johnson: Leta Strom Backdoor Photos.

Visualizing Ideas from A to Z. Head Rush Salon, 1401 26 SATURDAY Lawrence Creates MakerMassachusetts St. Vendors Red Dog’s Fun Run, 7:30 space, 512 E. Ninth St. Micky include Keek’s Korner, Bilbo’s a.m., parking lot behind KizerMaddux, Corbie Lynn & Karl Package Deal, Nicole Lopez, Cummings Jewelers, 833 MasDean, 5:30-9 p.m.

Ian Stand and Vintage Van. sachusetts St. SeedCo Studios, 720 E. Henry’s Coffee Shop and John Jervis, classical and Ninth St. Featuring Felt show, Bar, 11 E. Eighth St. NOLA, NO Spanish guitar, 8-11 a.m., Jess Gray, Erok Johanssen, LIE | Street Photography by WilPanera, 520 W. 23rd St. Cassie Jones, Maria Martin, low Garcia, 6-9 p.m.

Holiday Open House, 9 Brandon, Mateer, Jeromy MorLove Garden Sounds, 822 a.m.-5 p.m., Pendleton’s Country ris, Javy Ortiz, Rolf Petermann, Massachusetts St. New Yorker Market, 1446 East 1850 Road.

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Van Go’s Adornment Art Copt: Illustrations, John SebeThe Levee Cafe, 239 Elm St. Show and Sale, 7-10 p.m., Van lius: Cupcakes (small, colorful Katy Claggett opening “EnGo Arts, 715 New Jersey St. & glazed pieces); Frank and chanted City,” a collection of Beautiful Brother, 7:30 Jayni Carey’s new cookbook, 75-plus photos of Lawrence. p.m., The Granada, 1020 Mas“The Kansas Cookbook, Rural sachusetts St. Roots, Modern Table.”

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American Legion Bingo, doors open at 2 p.m., first games at 3 p.m., American Legion Post No. 14, 3408 W. Sixth St. Footprints Film Series: Now, Voyager & Saboteur, 4 p.m., Lawrence Arts Center, 940 New Hampshire St. Irish Traditional Music Session, 5:30-9 p.m., upstairs Henry’s on Eighth, 11 E. Eighth St.

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once tried to buy my wife a new house for Christmas, but I ran out of wrapping paper and called the whole thing off. Well, if you are in the market for a holiday home purchase this year, you will need more than a large supply of gift wrap. You’ll also need more money, as prices have taken a significant

jump in 2016, according to a new report.

The latest report from the Lawrence Board of Realtors shows the Lawrence market continues to be defined by a shortage of homes for sale, which is resulting in an increase in prices for those properties on the market.

The board’s latest report,

which tracks activity through October, shows the median selling price for Lawrence homes is now $177,700, which is up nearly 6 percent from the $168,000 mark of a year ago.

A figure from the Douglas County Appraiser’s office is more striking, and shows some types of homes have seen more

than a 6 percent increase.

In his October report, the Douglas County appraiser notes that through August, the average selling price for a three-bedroom, two-bath house with 1300 to 1800 square feet of space is now $184,987. That’s up from $168,295 during the same

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to struggle to meet past sales totals. For the year, home sales total 1,048, which is down by CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1C just less than 1 percent period a year ago, which compared with the same is an increase of nearly 10 period in 2015. A bright percent. spot, however, has Numbers from the been the sale of newly Board of Realtors constructed homes. Real suggest a shortage of estate agents have sold homes on the market is 79 newly constructed contributing to the uphomes, which is an ward pricing pressure. increase of 8.2 percent.

The number of active If that trend continlistings on the market ues, this would be the in October stood at 275, second straight year down from 317 during that the sales of newly the same period a year constructed homes have ago, and down from 373 increased. in October 2014. Local Whether those numreal estate leaders are bers will spur an increase now expecting such in new home construcinventory shortages to tion in Lawrence, continue throughout however, is still an open 2017, board president question. The report Carl Cline said in the includes one figure that most recent report. suggests not: The LawThe low supply of rence market still has 53 homes on the market unsold newly constructhas caused the market ed homes on the market.

With sales averaging a little less than eight per month, that is still more than a six-month supply of homes.

But the report also includes a figure that is heading in the right direction for home builders: The price difference between a new home and an existing home is shrinking.

One theory holds that as the price difference between a newly constructed home and an existing home shrinks, buyers will start favoring newly constructed homes. That difference in price has started to occur in the Lawrence market. The median price of existing homes has increased by 5.8 percent in 2016, while the price for new homes has increased by just 1.8 percent. For the year, the median price spread

between new and existing homes is about $137,000, which is down from about $141,000 in 2015. The spread also is probably a bit inflated, as the median price for existing homes is brought down by smaller, older two-bedroom homes, while most new homes are considerably larger. But whether that spread has dwindled enough to cause builders to pick up their pace of new construction is uncertain.

Here’s a look at some other real estate statistics from Lawrence and the region: l Lawrence home sales for the month of October were basically unchanged from a year ago. For the month 81 homes were sold compared with 83 in October 2015. l Although the total

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That’s down from 24 at the same point in 2015 and down from 33 in 2014. l The real estate market looks a bit different just outside of the Lawrence city limits.

The Lawrence Board of Realtors also puts together a report that shows total for Douglas County home sales outside of the Lawrence city limits. Year-to-date numbers show 201 sales have closed, an increase of about 14 percent over the same time period a year ago. Prices are on

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

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Washington (ap) — Fewer Americans purchased new homes in October, but sales are still much stronger this year than in 2015 — a positive sign for the housing market.

The Commerce Department said Wednesday that new-home sales fell 1.9 percent last month to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 563,000 units. Still, sales through the first 10 months of this year are 12.7 percent higher than during the same period in 2015.

Demand for new homes has surged because of a stable job market and low mortgage rates. That has strained supplies as builders have failed to keep pace with homebuyers. Yet new-home sales are running below their historic averages as housing continues to heal from the foreclosures and disruptions that led to the Great Recession at the end of 2007.

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and South, while improving in the West. Just 5.2 months’ supply of new homes are available on the market, down from 5.6 months a year ago.

The limited selection of new homes has prompted higher prices. The median sales price increased 1.9 percent from a year ago to $304,500.

Separate reports point to strong demand as the market heals and more members of the millennial generation, ages 18 to 34, begin to purchase homes.

“The large millennial generation is expected to provide further demand for single-family housing as older millennials form

families at an increasing rate,” said David Berson, chief economist at the insurance company Nationwide. “Historically, there is a significant uptick in homeownership at the age of 35 — an age that the oldest millennials are reaching now.”

The National Association of Realtors said Tuesday that sales of existing homes rose 2 percent to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 5.6 million.

The rising sales levels have yet to coax more sellers into the market. Sales listings for existing homes have fallen 4.3 percent over the past year to 2.02 million homes. The shortage has pushed up

the median sales price of existing homes 6 percent from a year ago to $232,200.

One uncertainty in the housing market will be mortgage rates, which helped fuel sales gains this year.

Mortgage rates have also leapt upward in the weeks after Donald Trump won the presidential election. The average 30-year, fixedrate mortgage surpassed 4 percent this week, after staying below 3.5 percent during the end of October. Investors expect the budget deficit to increase under Trump, prompting the interest rate increase.

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REAL ESTATE AUCTION WEDNESDAY DEC. 7TH, 2016 @ 6:30 PM

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(First published in the of Sale.

Lawrence Daily JournalWorld November 11, 2016) Kenneth M. McGovern Sheriff of Douglas IN THE DISTRICT COURT County, Kansas OF DOUGLAS COUNTY, KANSAS SUBMITTED BY: CIVIL COURT PITTENGER LAW DEPARTMENT GROUP, LLC Brandon T. Pittenger BOKF, N.A., A NATIONAL #20296 BANKING ASSOCIATION Teri L. Westbrook #23578 D/B/A BANK OF Gabe Hinkebein #27044 OKLAHOMA, AS SUCCES6900 College Blvd., SOR IN INTEREST BY Suite 325 MERGER TO BANK OF Overland Park, KS 66211 KANSAS CITY, N.A., P.O. Box 7410 Plaintiff, Overland Park, KS 66207 (913) 323-4595, Ext. 176 vs FAX (913) 661-1747 Email: foreclosure@ CHRISTOPHER J. SCAFE pittengerlawgroup.com AND SHARON J. SCAFE, ATTORNEY FOR PLAINTIFF et al., NOTICE Defendants.

Case No. 2016-CV-000239 K.S.A. Chapter 60 TITLE TO REAL ESTATE INVOLVED NOTICE OF SHERIFF’S SALE By virtue of an Order of Sale issued to me out of the said District Court in the above-entitled action, I will on Thursday, the 8th day of December, 2016 at 10:00AM of said date at the inside the jury assembly room of the district court of the Courthouse in Douglas County, Kansas, in the City of Lawrence, Kansas, offer at public sale and sell to the highest and best bidder for cash in hand, the following described real property, to-wit: Lot 3, Block 1, in Haller Addition, in the City of Lawrence, Douglas County, Kansas

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Commonly known as 765 Lincoln St., Lawrence, KS 66044.

The above-described real estate is taken as the property of the defendants Christopher J. Scafe and Sharon J. Scafe, et al. and is directed by said Order of Sale to be sold, and will be sold without appraisement to satisfy said Order

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You are hereby notified that on October 20, 2016, a Motion was filed in this Court by Joshua Saunders, requesting an Order nunc pro tunc to modify the Journal Entry Granting Informal Administration filed herein on February 19, 2015, to clarify the total debts, costs, and expenses to be satisfied by the estate, and the specific property to be used to satisfy the same. You are hereby required to file your written defenses thereto on or before December 15, 2016, at 10:00 o’clock a.m., on such day, in such Court, in the City in the District Court, in Lawrence, Douglas County, Kansas, at which time and place the cause will be heard.

Should you fail therein, Pursuant to the Fair Debt judgment and decree will Collection Practices Act, 15 be entered in due course U.S.C. Section 1692c(b), no upon the Motion. information concerning the collection of this debt JOSHUA SAUNDERS, may be given without the Petitioner prior consent of the consumer given directly to the /s/ Wesley F. Smith debt collector or the ex- WESLEY F. SMITH, #18517 press permission of a 900 Massachusetts, court of competent juris- Suite 500 diction. The debt collector P.O. Box 189 is attempting to collect a Lawrence, Kansas 66044 debt and any information Telephone: (785) 843-0811 obtained will be used for Facsimile: (785) 843-0341 E-Mail: ~ WSmith@ that purpose.

StevensBrand.com _______ Counsel for the Estate (First published in the _______ Lawrence Daily JournalWorld November 18, 2016) (First published in the

Lawrence A Minor Child, Y.O.B. 2016 Case No 2016-AD-157 NOTICE OF HEARING ON ADOPTION AND TO TERMINATE PARENTAL RIGHTS THE STATE OF KANSAS TO CODY JOEL SIMPSON AND ALL PERSONS CONCERNED:

You are hereby notified that a Petition has been filed in the above-named Court praying for an order and decree of said Court that the Petitioner, Stephen and Kimberly Lanterman, be permitted and authorized to adopt BABY GIRL VOTH, a minor child, as their own child, that an order and decree of adoption of the said child by the Petitioners be made and entered by said Court; for an order terminating the parental rights of the natural father of said child; that the name of the child upon the adoption by these Petitioners be changed; and that they have all other proper relief. If you claim an interest in this child, you are hereby required to file your written defenses thereto on or before the 16th day of December, 2016, at 9:00 a.m. of said day, in said Court, at the Shawnee County Courthouse in the City of Topeka, Kansas, at which Lawrence Daily Journal- time and place said cause IN THE DISTRICT COURT will be heard. Should you World November 11, 2016) OF DOUGLAS COUNTY, fail thereof, judgment and KANSAS decree will be entered in ALLISON H. MAXWELL, due course upon said Peti#25608 In the Matter of the tion.

SLOAN, EISENBARTH, Estate of GLASSMAN, FREDRICK MARK INYARD, SLOAN, EISENBARTH, McENTIRE & JARBOE, L.L.C. Deceased GLASSMAN, 534 Kansas Ave., Suite 1000 McENTIRE & JARBOE, L.L.C. Topeka, KS 66603 Case No. 15-PR-000002 534 S. Kansas Avenue (785) 357-6311 Division No. 1 Suite 1000 amaxwell@ Pursuant to K.S.A. Topeka, KS 66603 sloanlawfirm.com Chapter 59 (785) 357-6311 Title to Real Estate IN THE DISTRICT COURT amaxwell@ Involved OF SHAWNEE COUNTY, sloanlawfirm.com By: KANSAS NOTICE OF HEARING DIVISION 8 By: /s/Allison H. Maxwell ON MOTION FOR ORDER ALLISON H. MAXWELL, NUNC PRO TUNC In the Matter of the #25608 Adoption of Attorneys for Petitioner THE STATE OF KANSAS TO _______ BABY GIRL VOTH ALL PERSONS CONCERNED:

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By Benton Smith

Tom Keegan tkeegan@ljworld.com

Returners and QBs judged by work in games, not practice Keeping players from hanging their heads on a team with such a lopsided losing record counts as David Beaty’s greatest strength as a coach.

As evidenced this week by his landing two huge, non-binding verbal commitments from the junior-college ranks — quarterback Peyton Bender and cornerback Hasan Defense — Beaty recruiting counts as another Beaty strength.

As Beaty is the first to acknowledge, he does have areas to fine-tune, one game shy of two full seasons into his college career as a head coach.

Clock-management issues have cropped up here and there, and he has to do a better job of having a play ready to send in when in fourth-down situations so that he doesn’t burn timeouts. He got away with burning a precious one Saturday, but it could have become a major issue had Kansas not pulled off the victory in overtime.

Hiring an offensive coordinator or promoting one from within his staff will help with some of those issues.

Beaty has shown another tendency that isn’t necessarily all that unusual for young football head coaches. He gets so wrapped up in what he sees in practice that he puts too little emphasis on what the rest of us see in games. That’s a particularly dangerous habit to fall into when evaluating players’ ability to perform the two most difficult jobs in football, punt returner and quarterback, in that order.

Nothing in practice can simulate processing a ton of information quickly while on the brink of potentially getting rocked into next week or next season. Both positions require that either-you-have-it-or-youdon’t skill.

Thinking a problem is “fixed” in practice can delude a coach into thinking it’s fixed in a game.

LaQuvionte Gonzalez has fumbled four punts, losing three of them. He fumbled two in one early season game, one vs. Iowa State,

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At no point Saturday in Manhattan will Dorance Armstrong Jr. and Jordan Willis — arguably the two best defensive ends in the Big 12 — take the field at the same time and line up against each other to go

one-on-one in the Sunflower Showdown.

But Armstrong, Kansas football’s star end, knows the name and game of Kansas State’s Willis as well as some of the offensive linemen he figures out ways to rush past in pursuit of quarterbacks.

His unofficial introduction

came earlier this season, when family and friends began sharing social media posts with the KU sophomore about Armstrong’s statistical production. As his name hovered near the top of the Big 12’s sack and tackles for loss leaders, Willis’ name was always right there with his.

“Stat-wise, I feel like I look it up every week to see who’s on top, me or him,” Armstrong said, “’cause I know we’ve been goin’ back and forth for a good while.”

Armstrong took on a greater appreciation for the Wildcats’ senior pass rusher

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KANSAS FORWARD DWIGHT COLEBY (22) GIVES SOME LOVE TO TEAMMATE Josh Jackson after a dunk by Jackson during the Jayhawks’ exhibition victory over Washburn on Nov. 1 in Allen Fieldhouse.

KU’s Coleby hopes to keep it going

By Matt Tait mtait@ljworld.com

In the time that passed between first checking into KU’s victory over Georgia on Tuesday night and another gameday morning, Kansas junior Dwight Coleby made his first real contribution to the KU lineup, spent an entire night

smiling about it with his father, who was in from the Bahamas to see it, and counting down the minutes until he could get out there and do it again.

Now that the moment has arrived — the Jayhawks (4-1) are slated to play host to UNC Asheville (3-2) at 7 p.m. tonight at Allen Fieldhouse — Coleby is hoping

his next trip to the scorer’s table will lead to something close to the two-point, fourrebound, four-block effort he turned in against Georgia, which earned him the unofficial honor of Big Man of the Game from KU coach Bill Self.

“Yeah, of course,” Coleby said following the Georgia

victory when asked if he wished he could play again immediately. “I want to get back out there and try to prove myself some more and do better.”

In the same breath, the big man who spent the first few games of the

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Havili leads Kansas volleyball in many ways

By Bobby Nightengale bnightengale@ljworld.com

The Kansas volleyball program continues to reach new heights, clinching its first-ever Big 12 title Saturday.

One of the biggest reasons for the Jayhawks’ success is their do-it-all, All-American setter Ainise Havili.

Kansas coach Ray Bechard called Havili “the heart and soul of our team,” leading the Jayhawks to a 25-2 record and No. 4 ranking into Saturday’s regular-season finale at Baylor.

The 5-foot-10 junior Havili plays arguably the toughest position on the court, placing the ball in the right

spot for each hitter and making sure everyone is on the same page.

Nobody appreciates Havili more than the teammates who benefit from her skills. Earlier this season, several of her teammates were asked to identify which attribute of Havili’s they most admire.

“Oh my gosh, everything,”

libero Cassie Wait said.

“Just her understanding of what needs to be done when it’s done. She just has a great volleyball knowledge and she runs the court so well.

You’d consider it the quarterback style.”

Wait couldn’t stop there.

“Her ability to be a leader, and it’s not always through verbal communication,”

Wait said. “More times than not, she throws the team on her back and she runs that offense and she can still do everything else and it’s pretty awesome.”

Outside hitter Madison Rigdon pointed to Havili’s intensity and competitive nature.

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No. 21 Iowa State 73, Indiana State 71 Lake Buena Vista, Fla. — No. 21 Iowa State kept firing away until some of its shots finally began to drop.

Monte Morris scored 20 points and Matt Thomas shrugged off a cold shooting performance to make a 3-pointer that put his team ahead for good, and the Cyclones held off Indiana State in the opening game of the AdvoCare Invitational at Disney World on Thursday.

“We know we can make shots. Just have to adapt to the atmosphere,” Morris said after Iowa State (4-0) remained unbeaten despite shooting 34.2 percent from the field and barely making half its free throws.

“Nobody on the sideline was out of the game. Everyone was engaged,” Morris added. “I think we all stayed together.

We always had confidence.”

Thomas was just 2 of 10 from the field. He put the Cyclones ahead with his second 3-pointer with 54 seconds remaining.

Nazareth Mitrou-Long made one of two free throws with 7.6 seconds left, and Indiana State’s hopes for an upset ended when Brenton Scott’s 3-pointer rimmed out at the buzzer.

“Obviously very disappointed. ... We had a chance to be beat an awful good team,” Indiana State coach Greg Lansing said.

“We were right there. Coach drew up a play for us to execute the last second. Unfortunately my shot didn’t go in,” Scott said. “It’s a salty loss. It’s a salty taste. ... It’s going to hurt me for a while.”

Iowa State (4-0) advanced to the tournament semifinals, despite going 5 for 15 from the foul line over the final 10 minutes. The Cyclones trailed for most of the first half before using an 11-0 run to wipe out a nine-point deficit.

Morris, who also had nine rebounds, was joined in double figures by Mitrou-Long and Darrell Bowie with 13 apiece.

INDIANA ST. (2-2) Van Scyoc 1-3 1-2 4, Murphy 0-0 0-2 0, Scott 6-17 2-2 17, Clemons 3-6 0-0 6, Franklin 0-2 0-0 0, Bunschoten 1-2 1-2 4, Kessinger 1-4 0-0 2, Rickman 0-0 0-0 0, Bell 5-7 1-3 11, Barnes 2-4 2-2 7, Paige 8-12 1-1 20. Totals 27-57 8-14 71.

IOWA ST. (4-0) Holden 0-1 0-0 0, Mitrou-Long 3-12 5-6 13, Morris 8-17 1-3 20, Burton 4-15 2-4 10, Thomas 2-10 4-4 10, Bowie 5-9 3-12 13, Jackson 0-1 0-0 0, Weiler-Babb 3-8 0-0 7. Totals 25-73 15-29 73.

Halftime-Iowa St. 41-40. 3-Point GoalsIndiana St. 9-22 (Paige 3-4, Scott 3-9, Bunschoten 1-2, Barnes 1-3, Van Scyoc 1-3, Franklin 0-1), Iowa St. 8-25 (Morris 3-6, Thomas 2-5, Mitrou-Long 2-7, Weiler-Babb 1-2, Bowie 0-1, Burton 0-4). Fouled Out-Bunschoten, Van Scyoc. Rebounds-Indiana St. 41 (Bell 10), Iowa St. 40 (Bowie 11). Assists-Indiana St. 13 (Clemons 4), Iowa St. 5 (Mitrou-Long, Morris, Weiler-Babb, Burton, Thomas 1). Total FoulsIndiana St. 26, Iowa St. 13.

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ILLINOIS (4-2) Finke 5-10 1-2 13, Morgan 1-3 0-0 2, Abrams 2-6 0-0 4, Hill 2-8 2-4 7, Tate 1-5 1-2 3, Black 2-4 2-2 6, Thorne 6-6 0-1 12, Williams 0-6 0-0 0, Coleman-Lands 1-5 0-1 2, Jordan 1-2 1-2 4, Lucas 1-1 2-3 4. Totals 22-56 9-17 57.

WEST VIRGINIA (4-0) Ahmad 3-6 3-7 9, Konate 2-6 1-4 5, Adrian 4-7 5-8 13, Phillip 3-9 1-2 7, Carter 4-8 0-0 10, West 2-5 2-2 7, Routt 0-0 0-0 0, Bender 2-4 0-0 4, Macon 3-4 3-3 9, Watkins 3-3 0-0 6, Myers 3-9 2-4 8, Harler 0-2 0-0 0, Bolden 1-3 0-0 3, Long 0-0 0-0 0, Miles 3-6 0-0 8. Totals 33-72 17-30 89.

Halftime-West Virginia 48-29. 3-Point GoalsIllinois 4-17 (Finke 2-4, Jordan 1-2, Hill 1-5, Williams 0-1, Abrams 0-2, Coleman-Lands 0-3), West Virginia 6-19 (Miles 2-5, Carter 2-5, Bolden 1-3, West 1-4, Phillip 0-2). Fouled Out-None.

Rebounds-Illinois 38 (Black 9), West Virginia 43 (Adrian 8). Assists-Illinois 10 (Tate 4), West Virginia 15 (Carter 5). Total Fouls-Illinois 24, West Virginia 19. Technicals-Abrams.

No. 20 Baylor 73, No. 24 Michigan State 58 Paradise Island, Bahamas — Johnathan Motley scored 20 of his 26 points in the first half, and Baylor dominated after halftime to beat Michigan State to reach the Battle 4 Atlantis championship game.

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nearly all in the second half — for the Bears (5-0), who sprinted out of the break with a 12-2 run on the way to shooting 55 percent in the second half. That quickly turned a 33-30 halftime deficit into a double-digit lead against the cold-shooting Spartans (3-3).

Michigan State went 7 minutes between baskets spanning halftime as Baylor made its push, while the Spartans’ thin front line was no match for the 7-foot Lual-Acuil and 6-foot-10inch Motley.

BAYLOR (5-0) Motley 12-22 1-1 26, Lual-Acuil 6-7 2-2 14, Freeman 3-11 1-2 9, Lecomte 3-10 1-2 8, Wainright 2-3 2-2 7, Davis 0-1 0-0 0, Maston 3-6 1-2 7, Mitchell 1-2 0-0 2, Lindsey 0-1 0-0 0, McClure 0-1 0-0 0. Totals 30-64 8-11 73.

MICHIGAN ST. (3-3) Bridges 7-11 0-0 15, Goins 0-1 4-4 4, Harris 1-9 0-0 3, Nairn 2-3 0-2 5, Langford 3-6 0-0 6, Ward 2-5 3-3 7, Van Dyk 1-1 0-0 2, Ahrens 1-2 0-0 3, McQuaid 3-6 0-0 8, Winston 2-5 0-0 5, Ellis 0-2 0-0 0. Totals 22-51 7-9 58.

Halftime-Michigan St. 33-30. 3-Point GoalsBaylor 5-16 (Freeman 2-4, Motley 1-1, Wainright 1-2, Lecomte 1-6, Mitchell 0-1, Lindsey 0-1, McClure 0-1), Michigan St. 7-23 (McQuaid 2-4, Nairn 1-1, Ahrens 1-2, Winston 1-3, Bridges 1-4, Harris 1-5, Langford 0-2, Ellis 0-2). Fouled Out-Ward. Rebounds-Baylor 31 (Lual-Acuil, Wainright 8), Michigan St. 27 (Nairn 6). AssistsBaylor 24 (Lecomte, Wainright 8), Michigan St. 17 (Harris 4). Total Fouls-Baylor 8, Michigan St. 15. Technicals-Michigan St. coach Tom Izzo.

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Top 25 No. 10 Louisville 62, Wichita State 52 Paradise Island, Bahamas — Donovan Mitchell scored 14 points, including two critical 3-pointers in the final 4 1/2 minutes, to help No. 10 Louisville beat Wichita State 62-52 on Thursday, earning a trip to the Battle 4 Atlantis championship game.

Quentin Snider also scored 14 for the Cardinals (5-0), who locked down defensively in the first half, then turned away the Shockers’ second-half comeback.

No. 11 Gonzaga 82, Quinnipiac 62 Lake Buena Vista, Fla. — Jonathan Williams and Zach Collins led a balanced offense with 13 points apiece, helping Gonzaga pull away from Quinnipiac in the first round of the AdvoCare Invitational at Disney World.

The Bulldogs (5-0) also got 10 points each from Jordan Mathews and Josh Perkins.

GONZAGA (4-0) Williams 6-7 1-2 13, Karnowski 4-10 0-0 8, Mathews 2-9 4-4 10, Williams-Goss 3-7 2-2 8, Perkins 4-10 0-0 10, Collins 3-4 7-9 13, Tillie 3-7 2-2 9, Hachimura 0-1 0-0 0, Edwards 1-1 0-0 2, Alberts 0-2 0-0 0, Bakamus 0-0 0-0 0, Triano 0-0 0-0 0, Melson 3-8 2-2 9. Totals 29-66 18-21 82.

QUINNIPIAC (0-3) Daniels 3-8 3-4 9, Bundu 0-3 0-0 0, Oliver 4-14 1-2 9, Winston 1-1 0-3 2, Harris 3-6 2-2 10, Smith 2-4 1-2 6, Ja.Jones 0-0 0-0 0, Chigha 0-1 0-0 0, Kiss 8-13 1-3 18, Dixon 1-5 0-0 2, Tarca 0-1 0-0 0, An.Robinson 2-3 0-0 6. Totals 24-59 8-16 62.

Halftime-Gonzaga 37-29. 3-Point GoalsGonzaga 6-22 (Perkins 2-5, Mathews 2-6, Tillie 1-3, Melson 1-4, Alberts 0-1, Hachimura 0-1, Williams-Goss 0-2), Quinnipiac 6-19 (An. Robinson 2-2, Harris 2-4, Smith 1-2, Kiss 1-3, Bundu 0-1, Chigha 0-1, Oliver 0-3, Dixon 0-3). Fouled Out-Smith. Rebounds-Gonzaga 42 (Karnowski 8), Quinnipiac 27 (Daniels 10). Assists-Gonzaga 16 (Williams-Goss 8), Quinnipiac 10 (Harris 3). Total Fouls-Gonzaga 15, Quinnipiac 19.

Temple 89, No. 25 Florida State New York — Quinton Rose scored 26 points, including two free throws with 2 seconds left, to lead Temple to a win over Florida State in the first game of the NIT Season Tip-Off. TEMPLE (3-2) Williams 2-3 0-0 5, Enechionyia 7-13 0-0 16, A.Moore 3-5 0-0 8, Alston 7-15 4-4 22, Dingle 2-6 1-2 5, Aflakpui 2-4 3-5 7, Rose 6-16 12-15 26, Robbins 0-0 0-1 0. Totals 29-62 20-27 89.

FLORIDA ST. (4-1) Isaac 7-12 3-4 19, Ojo 2-2 2-2 6, Mann 4-8 2-2 10, Bacon 9-12 1-3 22, Rathan-Mayes 4-10 2-3 11, Smith 0-1 0-0 0, Cofer 2-6 0-0 5, Koumadje 1-1 0-0 2, Forrest 1-2 2-4 4, Angola-Rodas 0-1 0-0 0, Walker 3-5 0-0 7. Totals 33-60 12-18 86.

Halftime-Florida St. 41-31. 3-Point GoalsTemple 11-21 (Alston 4-8, A.Moore 2-3, Enechionyia 2-3, Rose 2-5, Williams 1-2), Florida St. 8-18 (Bacon 3-4, Isaac 2-5, Cofer 1-1, Walker 1-2, Rathan-Mayes 1-5, Angola-Rodas 0-1). Fouled Out-Mann. Rebounds-Temple 32 (Enechionyia 8), Florida St. 25 (Isaac 7).

Assists-Temple 12 (Alston, Rose 4), Florida St. 17 (Rathan-Mayes 6). Total Fouls-Temple 18, Florida St. 22.

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4 p.m. ESPNU 35, 235 Baylor v. Texas Tech 5 p.m. ESPN 33, 233 Cincinnati at Tulsa 7:30 p.m. ESPNU 35, 235 Arizona St. at Arizona 8:30 p.m. ESPN 33, 233 College Basketball

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171, 237 Tenn. (Martin) at Kentucky 6 p.m. SECN 157 Maryland v. Richmond 8:30 p.m. KMCI 15, 215 Wooden Legacy 11 p.m. ESPN2 34, 234 N.C. (Ashe.) at Kan. replay 11 p.m. TWCSC 37, 226 Pro Hockey Rangers at Flyers

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IOWA STATE GUARD NAZARETH MITROU-LONG State guard Brenton Scott. The Cyclones won, 73-71, at the AdvoCare Invitational on Thursday in Lake Buena Vista, Fla. No. 19 West Virginia 89, Illinois 57 New York — Nathan Adrian had 13 points and eight rebounds in West Virginia’s victory over Illinois in the first round of the NIT Season TipOff at the Barclays Center.

Jevon Carter added 10 points, six rebounds, six steals and five assists for the Mountaineers (4-0). They will face Temple in the title game Friday. The Owls beat No. 25 Florida State 89-86.

Esa Ahmad and Elijah Macon each had nine points, and Teyvon Myers and Daxter Miles Jr. added eight each.

Michael Finke led Illinois (42) with 13 points, and Mike Thorne Jr. had 12.

West Virginia finished the half on a 41-20 run for a 48-29 lead. The biggest advantage was 39 points with 4:42 left.

Trailing 33-17 at the half and by 16 with about 14 minutes left, Wichita State (5-1) hit three straight 3-pointers to get back in it and twice got within six. But the Cardinals repeatedly came up with timely offensive rebounds or baskets to keep control.

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IUPUI at S. Ill. (Edwardsville) 1 p.m.

Loyola (Md.) at Creighton 3:30 p.m.

Barclays Center Classic 5 p.m.

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7 p.m.

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7 p.m.

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Net Cable

36, 236

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Wisconsin at Minn.

Net Cable

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DETROIT CORNERBACK DARIUS SLAY (23) INTERCEPTS A PASS against Minnesota late in the Lions’ 16-13 victory Thursday in Detroit.

NFL Roundup The Associated Press

Lions 16, Vikings 13 Detroit — Darius Slay dropped into coverage as if he was going to cover a deep route and pounced on an opportunity to help Detroit come back to win another game.

Slay intercepted Sam Bradford’s pass from the left hash across the field to help send the Lions into sole possession of first place in the NFC North.

Slay returned the interception 13 yards with 30 seconds left to set up Matt Prater’s 40-yard field goal as time expired, lifting the Lions over Minnesota on Thursday.

Minnesota could have stuck with the conservative approach it took on offense for much of the game and played for overtime on its last drive, but coach Mike Zimmer allowed Bradford to pass and Slay made him regret it.

“I knew they were going to throw,” Slay said.

“They didn’t want overtime. They know what happened last time.”

Earlier this month, Prater made a game-tying 58-yard field goal at the end of regulation at Minnesota and the Lions won in overtime.

Slay, a standout cornerback, who calls himself “Big Play Slay,” fooled Bradford by coming up and stepping in front of Adam Thielen to pick off the pass.

“I wish I could have seen him fall off the outside route and come back in,” Bradford said.

The Lions (7-4) have won six of seven, including two against Minnesota this month and four of the wins have come on Prater’s field goals, despite trailing in the fourth quarter of every game this season.

Slay sealed the first victory during the successful stretch with an interception late in the game on Oct. 9 against Philadelphia.

“He’s as good as they come in those situations,” Lions coach Jim Caldwell said. “He’s kind of got a knack for it. He’s a bit of a riverboat gambler.”

Detroit extended its NFL record of having its first 11 games decided by seven or fewer points.

“They come from behind every week, so when we took the lead in the fourth quarter, we knew the game wasn’t

over,” Minnesota tight end Kyle Rudolph said.

“We had to keep playing, but we didn’t make enough plays.”

The Vikings (6-5) have lost five of six, plummeting out of first place after surging to the top of the division by winning their first five games.

Minnesota 7 0 3 3 — 13 Detroit 7 3 0 6 — 16 First Quarter Det-Boldin 2 pass from Stafford (Prater kick), 7:14.

Min-Asiata 5 run (Forbath kick), :40.

Second Quarter Det-FG Prater 29, 6:45.

Third Quarter Min-FG Forbath 30, 7:03.

Fourth Quarter Min-FG Forbath 28, 12:38.

Det-FG Prater 48, 1:45.

Det-FG Prater 40, :00.

A-63,793.

INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS RUSHING-Minnesota, McKinnon 9-31, Asiata 5-27, Patterson 1-22, Line 1-2. Detroit, Riddick 9-45, Stafford 4-30, Washington 5-19, Zenner 1-0.

PASSING-Minnesota, Bradford 31-37-1-224. Detroit, Stafford 23-40-0232.

RECEIVING-Minnesota, Rudolph 9-64, Thielen 8-53, Patterson 5-15, McKinnon 3-45, Asiata 3-14, C.Johnson 2-12, Ellison 1-21. Detroit, Boldin 7-69, Tate 5-77, Riddick 5-13, Jones 4-54, Roberts 2-19.

MISSED FIELD GOALS-None.

Cowboys 31, Redskins 26 Arlington, Texas — Rookies Dak Prescott and Ezekiel Elliott keep winning for Dallas, even with Kirk Cousins setting records for Washington.

Prescott accounted for two touchdowns, Elliott ran for a pair of scores and the Cowboys extended their franchise regular-season record with a 10th straight victory, beating the Redskins 3126 on Thursday.

Prescott tied Don Meredith’s club quarterback record from 50 years ago with his fifth rushing TD and the NFL-leading Cowboys (10-1) won despite 449 yards passing and three touchdowns from Cousins, the first Redskins quarterback with two 400-yard games in a season.

“Over and over and over again, at critical moments, he came up with a big play, whether it was a third down, down in the red zone, again and again and again he just played winning football for us,” Dallas coach Jason Garrett said about Prescott.

“He did the things that winning quarterbacks do.”

The Redskins (6-4-1) got swept by their NFC East rival, and the defending division champions fell 3 1/2 games behind Dallas with five games left. It was their seventh loss in eight tries on Thanksgiving against

the Cowboys, who had never won more than eight straight in the regular season.

Washington 0 6 0 20 — 26 Dallas 7 10 0 14 — 31 First Quarter Dal-Elliott 4 run (Bailey kick), 11:09.

Second Quarter Was-FG Hopkins 24, 14:04.

Dal-FG Bailey 46, 7:57.

Dal-Williams 10 pass from Prescott (Bailey kick), 1:45.

Was-FG Hopkins 20, :03.

Fourth Quarter Was-Reed 5 pass from Cousins (pass failed), 14:54.

Dal-Prescott 6 run (Bailey kick), 10:49.

Was-De.Jackson 67 pass from Cousins (Hopkins kick), 9:22.

Dal-Elliott 1 run (Bailey kick), 6:29.

Was-Reed 8 pass from Cousins (Hopkins kick), 1:53.

A-93,099.

INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS RUSHING-Washington, Kelley 14-37, Thompson 4-17, Cousins 1-2. Dallas, Elliott 20-97, Prescott 8-39, Whitehead 1-15, Morris 1-12.

PASSING-Washington, Cousins 41-53-0-449. Dallas, Prescott 17-24-0195.

RECEIVING-Washington, Reed 10-95, Crowder 8-88, V.Davis 5-68, Thompson 5-17, De.Jackson 4-118, Garcon 4-43, Harris 2-11, Kelley 2-5, Carrier 1-4.

Dallas, Bryant 5-72, Beasley 5-56, Witten 3-33, Elliott 2-23, Williams 1-10, L.Dunbar 1-1.

MISSED FIELD GOALS-Washington, Hopkins 43, Hopkins 55.

Steelers 28, Colts 7 Indianapolis — Ben Roethlisberger and Antonio Brown hooked up for three touchdowns Thursday night and the Pittsburgh defense shut down Indianapolis.

The Steelers (6-5) helped their playoff chances with a second straight win and snapped a four-game losing streak on Thanksgiving. Colts quarterback Andrew Luck sat out with a concussion, and his absence showed as Indy’s first winning streak of the season ended at two games. While his replacement, Scott Tolzien, hung tough most of the night, the performance wasn’t good enough to extend the Colts’ 10-game winning streak on Thursday nights.

Pittsburgh 14 7 0 7 — 28 Indianapolis 0 7 0 0 — 7 First Quarter Pit-Bell 5 run (Boswell kick), 9:10.

Pit-Brown 25 pass from Roethlisberger (Boswell kick), 1:06.

Second Quarter Ind-Moncrief 5 pass from Tolzien (Vinatieri kick), 13:02.

Pit-Brown 33 pass from Roethlisberger (Boswell kick), 9:00.

Fourth Quarter Pit-Brown 22 pass from Roethlisberger (Boswell kick), 5:30.

A-66,583.

INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS RUSHING-Pittsburgh, Bell 23-120, Toussaint 6-28. Indianapolis, Todman 3-37, Gore 15-28, Turbin 2-20, Tolzien 3-6.

PASSING-Pittsburgh, Roethlisberger 14-20-0-221, L.Jones 0-1-0-0.

Indianapolis, Tolzien 22-36-2-205, McAfee 1-1-0-35.

RECEIVING-Pittsburgh, Brown 5-91, Bell 4-22, L.Green 2-67, E.Rogers 2-36, Hamilton 1-5. Indianapolis, Moncrief 6-45, Allen 5-49, Hilton 3-54, Dorsett 3-31, Doyle 2-25, Turbin 2-(minus 2), Swoope 1-35, Gore 1-3.

MISSED FIELD GOALS-Indianapolis, Vinatieri 52.

LSU outlasts Texas A&M, 54-39 College Station, Texas (ap) — Derrius Guice ran for a school-record 285 yards with four touchdowns and Danny Etling threw for 324 yards and two scores to give shorthanded No. 25 LSU a

54-39 victory over No. 22 Texas A&M on Thursday night.

The Tigers were playing without running back Leonard Fournette and leading tackler Kendell Beckwith because of

injuries. But Guice and Etling did plenty to allow LSU (7-4, 5-3 SEC) to handle Texas A&M, and gave the Tigers a 300-yard passer and a 200-yard rusher in the same game for the first time in school history.

League Overall 5-0 Baylor 0-0 Iowa State 0-0 4-0 Kansas State 0-0 4-0 TCU 0-0 4-0 West Virginia 0-0 4-0 Oklahoma State 0-0 5-1 Kansas 0-0 4-1 Texas Tech 0-0 4-1 Oklahoma 0-0 3-1 3-2 Texas 0-0 Thursday’s Games Iowa State 73, Indiana State 71 West Virginia 89, Illinois 57 Baylor 73, Michigan State 58 Today’s Games Kansas vs. UNC Asheville, 7 p.m.

Iowa State vs. Miami at Orlando, Fla., 10 a.m.

Idaho State at Texas Tech, 2 p.m.

Abilene Christian at Oklahoma, 2 p.m.

West Virginia vs. Temple at New York, 2 p.m.

Baylor vs. Louisville at Paradise Island, Bahamas, 2:30 p.m.

Kansas State vs. Boston College at New York, 5 p.m.

TCU at UNLV, 9:30 p.m.

Saturday’s Game TCU vs. TBA at Las Vegas, TBA Sunday’s Game Iowa State vs. TBA at Orlando, Fla., TBA Monday’s Game Manhattan at West Virginia, 6 p.m.

College Men

EAST Binghamton 72, Long Beach St. 64 Bucknell 84, Norfolk St. 58 Gonzaga 82, Quinnipiac 62 N. Colorado 81, Sacred Heart 59 West Virginia 89, Illinois 57 SOUTH Louisville 62, Wichita St. 52 Miami 67, Stanford 53 Mississippi 86, Montana 81 Temple 89, Florida St. 86 Virginia Tech 92, New Mexico 72 MIDWEST Baylor 73, Michigan St. 58 Iowa St. 73, Indiana St. 71 FAR WEST Nevada 82, Oakland 78 Texas A&M 95, CS Northridge 73 Valparaiso 92, BYU 89

College Women

EAST Penn St. 69, Georgia St. 42 Troy 93, Villanova 85 West Virginia 56, Auburn 52 SOUTH Clemson 61, Loyola of Chicago 40 East Carolina 82, Ball St. 69 Florida St. 98, Winthrop 35 Georgetown 67, Wright St. 60 Georgia 70, Minnesota 58 Kansas St. 67, NC State 50 LSU 78, UTEP 45 Marist 69, NC AandT 64 North Carolina 83, South Florida 55 VCU 68, American U. 62 MIDWEST Michigan 78, Gonzaga 66 SOUTHWEST Purdue 86, Wichita St. 49 Stanford 74, Northeastern 45 FAR WEST UCLA 78, Iowa 65

NBA

EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division

W L Pct GB Toronto 9 6 .600 — Boston 9 6 .600 — New York 7 7 .500 1½ Brooklyn 4 10 .286 4½ Philadelphia 4 11 .267 5 Southeast Division

W L Pct GB Atlanta 10 5 .667 — Charlotte 8 6 .571 1½ Orlando 6 9 .400 4 Washington 4 9 .308 5 Miami 4 10 .286 5½ Central Division

W L Pct GB Cleveland 11 2 .846 — Chicago 9 6 .600 3 Milwaukee 6 7 .462 5 Detroit 7 9 .438 5½ Indiana 7 9 .438 5½ WESTERN CONFERENCE Southwest Division

W L Pct GB San Antonio 12 3 .800 — Memphis 10 5 .667 2 Houston 9 6 .600 3 New Orleans 6 10 .375 6½ Dallas 2 12 .143 9½ Northwest Division

W L Pct GB Oklahoma City 8 8 .500 — Utah 8 8 .500 — Portland 8 9 .471 ½ Denver 6 9 .400 1½ Minnesota 4 10 .286 3 Pacific Division

W L Pct GB L.A. Clippers 14 2 .875 — Golden State 13 2 .867 ½ L.A. Lakers 8 8 .500 6 Sacramento 6 9 .400 7½ Phoenix 5 11 .313 9 Today’s Games San Antonio at Boston, noon Washington at Orlando, 6 p.m.

Charlotte at New York, 6:30 p.m.

Chicago at Philadelphia, 6:30 p.m.

Dallas at Cleveland, 6:30 p.m.

Havili CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1D

“She brings up the energy on the court and wants people to play hard for her,” Rigdon said.

“A really good quality to have is bringing your teammates with you and having that intensity to bring everybody along. I think that’s a really good quality.”

Setter Maggie Anderson and middle blocker Tayler Soucie both cited Havili’s confidence.

“Even when she’s having a so-called bad game, you would never notice it on her posture or anything,” Anderson said.

“She’s always going for the hard, good points. If she’s down, she doesn’t slump her shoulders, she doesn’t do eye-rolls, she’s always fighting.”

Said Soucie: “Ainise has confidence like no other. She stays calm, cool and collected.

Through the struggle and

L.A. Clippers at Detroit, 6:30 p.m.

Atlanta at Utah, 7 p.m.

Brooklyn at Indiana, 7 p.m.

Miami at Memphis, 7 p.m.

Toronto at Milwaukee, 7 p.m.

Minnesota at Phoenix, 8 p.m.

Oklahoma City at Denver, 8 p.m.

New Orleans at Portland, 9 p.m.

Golden State at L.A. Lakers, 9:30 p.m.

Houston at Sacramento, 9:30 p.m.

Saturday’s Games New York at Charlotte, 6 p.m.

San Antonio at Washington, 6 p.m.

Detroit at Oklahoma City, 7 p.m.

Memphis at Miami, 7 p.m.

Minnesota at Golden State, 9:30 p.m.

Sunday’s Games Cleveland at Philadelphia, noon Denver at Phoenix, 2:30 p.m.

L.A. Clippers at Indiana, 5 p.m.

Milwaukee at Orlando, 5 p.m.

Sacramento at Brooklyn, 5 p.m.

New Orleans at Dallas, 6 p.m.

Houston at Portland, 8 p.m.

Atlanta at L.A. Lakers, 8:30 p.m.

Monday’s Games Sacramento at Washington, 6 p.m.

Boston at Miami, 6:30 p.m.

Oklahoma City at New York, 6:30 p.m.

Philadelphia at Toronto, 6:30 p.m.

Charlotte at Memphis, 7 p.m.

Utah at Minnesota, 7 p.m.

Atlanta at Golden State, 9:30 p.m.

Thursday’s Games Detroit 16, Minnesota 13 Dallas 31, Washington 26 Pittsburgh 28, Indianapolis 7 Sunday’s Games San Diego at Houston, noon Arizona at Atlanta, noon Cincinnati at Baltimore, noon San Francisco at Miami, noon Jacksonville at Buffalo, noon Tennessee at Chicago, noon Los Angeles at New Orleans, noon N.Y. Giants at Cleveland, noon Seattle at Tampa Bay, 3:05 p.m.

Carolina at Oakland, 3:25 p.m.

New England at N.Y. Jets, 3:25 p.m.

Kansas City at Denver, 7:30 p.m.

Monday’s Games Green Bay at Philadelphia, 7:30 p.m.

Thursday, Dec. 1 Dallas at Minnesota, 7:25 p.m.

Sunday, Dec. 4 Kansas City at Atlanta, noon Los Angeles at New England, noon Philadelphia at Cincinnati, noon Miami at Baltimore, noon Denver at Jacksonville, noon Detroit at New Orleans, noon San Francisco at Chicago, noon Houston at Green Bay, noon Buffalo at Oakland, 3:05 p.m.

Washington at Arizona, 3:25 p.m.

Tampa Bay at San Diego, 3:25 p.m.

N.Y. Giants at Pittsburgh, 3:25 p.m.

Carolina at Seattle, 7:30 p.m.

Open: Tennessee, Cleveland Monday, Dec. 5 Indianapolis at N.Y. Jets, 7:30 p.m.

Big 12

Kansas City Chiefs

League Overall Oklahoma 8-0 9-2 Oklahoma State 7-1 9-2 West Virginia 5-2 8-2 Kansas State 4-3 6-4 Baylor 3-4 6-4 5-5 TCU 3-4 5-6 Texas 3-5 Texas Tech 2-6 4-7 Iowa State 2-6 3-8 Kansas 1-7 2-9 Today Texas at TCU, 2:30 p.m. (FS1) Texas Tech at Baylor, 5 p.m. (ESPN) Saturday, Nov. 26 Kansas at Kansas State, 11 a.m.

(FS1) West Virginia at Iowa State, 2:30 p.m. (FS1) Saturday, Dec. 3 Kansas State at TCU, 11 a.m. (FS1) Oklahoma State at Oklahoma, 11:30 a.m. (FOX) Baylor at West Virginia, 2:30 p.m.

(FS1)

Sept. 11 — vs. San Diego, W 33-27 OT (1-0) Sept. 18 — at Houston, L 19-12 (1-1) Sept. 25 — N.Y. Jets, W 24-3 (2-1) Oct. 2 — at Pittsburgh, L 43-14 (2-2) Oct. 9 — Bye week Oct. 16 — at Oakland, W 26-10 (3-2) Oct. 23 — vs. New Orleans, W 27-21 (4-2) Oct. 30 — at Indianapolis, W 30-14 (5-2) Nov. 6 — vs. Jacksonville, W 19-14 (6-2) Nov. 13 — at Carolina, W 20-17 (7-2) Nov. 20 — vs. Tampa Bay, L 19-17 (7-3) Nov. 27 — at Denver, 7:30 p.m.

Dec. 4 — at Atlanta, noon Dec. 8 — vs. Oakland, 7:25 p.m.

Dec. 18 — vs. Tennessee, noon Dec. 25 — vs. Denver, 7:30 p.m.

Jan. 1 — at San Diego, 3:25 p.m.

Kansas

NHL

Sept. 3 — Rhode Island, W 55-6 (1-0) Sept. 10 — Ohio, L 37-21 (1-1) Sept. 17 — at Memphis, L 43-7 (1-2) Sept. 29 — at Texas Tech, L 55-19 (1-3, 0-1) Oct. 8 — TCU, L 24-23 (1-4, 0-2) Oct. 15 — at Baylor, L 49-7 (1-5, 0-3) Oct. 22 — Oklahoma State, L 44-20 (1-6, 0-4) Oct. 29 — at Oklahoma, L 56-3 (1-7, 0-5) Nov. 5 — at West Virginia, L 48-21 (1-8, 0-6) Nov. 12 — Iowa State, L 31-24 (1-9, 0-7) Nov. 19 — Texas, W 24-21, OT (2-9, 1-7) Nov. 26 — at Kansas State, 11 a.m.

NFL

AMERICAN CONFERENCE East

W L T New England 8 2 0 Miami 6 4 0 Buffalo 5 5 0 N.Y. Jets 3 7 0 South

W L T Houston 6 4 0 Indianapolis 5 6 0 Tennessee 5 6 0 Jacksonville 2 8 0 North

W L T Pittsburgh 6 5 0 Baltimore 5 5 0 Cincinnati 3 6 1 Cleveland 0 11 0 West

W L T Oakland 8 2 0 Kansas City 7 3 0 Denver 7 3 0 San Diego 4 6 0 NATIONAL CONFERENCE East

W L T Dallas 10 1 0 N.Y. Giants 7 3 0 Washington 6 4 1 Philadelphia 5 5 0 South

W L T Atlanta 6 4 0 Tampa Bay 5 5 0 New Orleans 4 6 0 Carolina 4 6 0 North

W L T Detroit 7 4 0 Minnesota 6 5 0 Green Bay 4 6 0 Chicago 2 8 0 West

W L T Seattle 7 2 1 Arizona 4 5 1 Los Angeles 4 6 0 San Francisco 1 9 0

Pct PF PA .800 271 180 .600 218 216 .500 253 215 .300 179 244 Pct PF PA .600 181 215 .455 270 301 .455 281 275 .200 193 265 Pct PF PA .545 266 222 .500 199 187 .350 199 226 .000 184 325 Pct PF PA .800 272 243 .700 222 187 .700 239 189 .400 292 278 Pct PF PA .909 316 213 .700 204 200 .591 280 264 .500 241 186 Pct PF PA .600 320 283 .500 235 259 .400 285 286 .400 244 246 Pct PF PA .636 247 238 .545 218 192 .400 247 276 .200 157 237

EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division

GP W L OT Pts GF GA Montreal 21 15 4 2 32 65 47 Tampa Bay 21 13 7 1 27 66 51 Ottawa 20 12 7 1 25 47 50 Boston 20 11 9 0 22 48 47 Florida 20 10 9 1 21 53 54 Toronto 20 8 8 4 20 62 67 Detroit 20 9 10 1 19 48 52 Buffalo 20 7 8 5 19 38 50 Metropolitan Division

GP W L OT Pts GF GA N.Y. Rangers 21 14 6 1 29 82 53 Pittsburgh 20 12 5 3 27 60 56 Washington 19 12 5 2 26 52 43 Columbus 18 10 5 3 23 56 42 New Jersey 19 10 6 3 23 46 46 Philadelphia 21 9 9 3 21 67 72 Carolina 19 8 7 4 20 48 52 N.Y. Islanders 19 6 9 4 16 47 60 WESTERN CONFERENCE Central Division

GP W L OT Pts GF GA Chicago 21 13 6 2 28 62 55 St. Louis 21 11 7 3 25 54 57 Minnesota 19 10 7 2 22 49 36 Nashville 19 9 7 3 21 55 50 Dallas 21 8 8 5 21 55 71 Winnipeg 22 9 11 2 20 59 65 Colorado 19 9 10 0 18 42 55 Pacific Division

GP W L OT Pts GF GA Edmonton 21 12 8 1 25 65 54 San Jose 20 11 8 1 23 47 43 Los Angeles 21 11 9 1 23 55 53 Anaheim 20 9 7 4 22 52 49 Calgary 22 9 12 1 19 51 69 Vancouver 20 8 10 2 18 45 62 Arizona 18 6 10 2 14 45 60 NOTE: Two points for a win, one point for overtime loss.

Thursday’s Games Montreal 2, Carolina 1 Ottawa 3, Boston 1 Today’s Games N.Y. Rangers at Philadelphia, noon N.Y. Islanders at San Jose, 3 p.m.

Chicago at Anaheim, 3 p.m.

Pittsburgh at Minnesota, 3 p.m.

Buffalo at Washington, 4 p.m.

Winnipeg at Nashville, 5 p.m.

Detroit at New Jersey, 6:30 p.m.

Columbus at Tampa Bay, 6:30 p.m.

Calgary at Boston, 6:30 p.m.

Vancouver at Dallas, 7:30 p.m.

Edmonton at Arizona, 8 p.m.

Pct PF PA .750 219 173 .450 226 190 .400 149 187 .100 204 313

BASEBALL American League NEW YORK YANKEES — Released LHP Joe Mantiply and RHPs Nick Rumbelow and Nathan Eovaldi.

National League ARIZONA DIAMONDBACKS — Released 1B Kyle Jensen.

PHILADELPHIA PHILLIES — Released RHP David Buchanan.

through frustration, you can’t really tell it on her face. She also has the confidence that she’s going to choose the right people to set at the right time, or she’ll make her dump at the right time.”

Defensive specialist Tori Miller pointed to Havili’s physical ability and how she can find a hitter’s pocket from anywhere on the court.

“All of us are naturally athletic here, I mean we wouldn’t be here if we weren’t,” Miller said.

“But she’s just so natural and fluid on the court. ...

She could set from the back corner, all the way over there (pointing) and it could be a perfect ball.”

Junior middle blocker Kayla Cheadle brought the Havili conversation to a different part of the court.

“At the net, she’s super aggressive,” Cheadle said.

“When she jousts at other players, she never loses those. That’s something I definitely admire about her and would definitely

steal that aggressiveness.”

Then there’s her serve.

Havili ranks seventh in the Big 12 with 24 aces this season.

“She has a bomb serve,” defensive specialist Addison Barry said. “Her serve is lights out coming at you, intimidation factor, the whole nine. If I could take anything from Ainise and put it into my own game, it would definitely be her aggressive, consistent serve.”

With her teammates pointing to several different attributes of her game, it proves why Havili is regarded as one of the best setters in the country.

“She amazes me every day,” junior All-American outside hitter Kelsie Payne said. “Sometimes she’ll go up with one hand and just throw the ball across the court. I can’t even do that with two hands and she makes it look so easy with one hand. We’re lucky to have her, for sure.”

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one in the Texas game.

The footsteps in games are so much louder, but not loud enough to drown out over-coaching on the sideline, which it looked as if Beaty might have been guilty of Saturday when Gonzalez fumbled. It looked as if the head coach might have been hollering, even positioning Quiv while the punt was in the air.

Beaty finally is moving on from Gonzalez as a punt returner, a good move, albeit one that took far too long to form.

“It’s hard to fix something that you don’t see in practice,” Beaty said.

“Man, that guy is — Quiv, at practice, he is by far the most solid, steady, he’s done a terrific job.”

He’s moving on, but not necessarily properly prioritizing the search for a replacement.

“We’re going to have to continue to work to find explosive returners,” Beaty said.

The coach is getting ahead of himself in trying to find an explosive punt returner. The search should be for an efficient return man, and if he happens to be explosive, all the better.

Connor Embree did not pass the explosive test, but he was a darn good punt returner for the Jayhawks. In 2013, Embree returned 16 punts for 182 yards, an average of 11.4 yards per return.

Gonzalez has returned six for negative-10 yards, an average of -1.7 yards.

Asking him for too long to do a tough task that doesn’t match his skills might even have hurt him as a receiver, where he has produced 57 catches and two touchdowns with an average of 10.6 yards per catch.

His kick return work has been solid with an average of 21.2 yards and a touchdown.

At quarterback, Montell Cozart and Ryan Willis were more impressive in practice, Carter Stanley better at moving an offense in games, limitations and all.

Beaty still is in the growing-pains stage, still putting his hands in too many places, but the huge triumph over Texas, KU’s first since 1938, should fuel him with the confidence to let his coaches coach and to turn the offense over to someone else. A big part of a head coach’s job is to put his players in a confident, aggressive state of mind. Beaty appears to have done an impressive job of that under trying circumstances.

BRIEFLY KU baseball splits in tour Boca Chica, Dominican Republic — Kansas’ baseball team went 1-1 in splitsquad games Thursday in a tour of the Dominican Republic.

KU lost to a San Francisco Giants-affiliated team, 4-1, and defeated a local youth all-star team, 2-0.

Both games ended in the eighth inning. At the Giants complex, heavy rains hit the area and left the field unplayable. KU had the bases loaded with no outs, trailing 4-1. In the city ballpark an hour away, the youth squad ran out of pitching, and the game was called in KU’s favor.

“I thought we performed better as the game went on,” head coach Ritch Price said of his team against the Giants. “Some of the guys that had really bad at-bats earlier in the game came back and had really good at-bats there in the eighth inning, and I really believe that if the rain didn’t come, we had a chance to win it.”

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Guard your man

Rest, anyone?

Limit second-chance points

In their last outing, the Jayhawks played nearly 30 minutes of a 2-3 zone defense that they had worked on in practice for a total of 5-10 minutes all season. Switching to the zone was a survival method and an incredibly intelligent move by KU coach Bill Self, who watched the zone completely fluster the cold-shooting Bulldogs Tuesday night at Sprint Center. But just because the zone worked so well does not mean the Jayhawks are going to make it a regular part of their approach. For one, multiple players after the game mentioned that they take great pride in playing tough, man-to-man defense and don’t like the feeling of having to switch out of it to play zone. For two, Self has never been the kind of coach to use the crutch of zone defenses to bail out his teams. Instead, he preaches to them the importance of guarding the ball and making it a personal thing — either you guard you man or you get punked. With that in mind, expect the Jayhawks to come out with great intensity and defensive focus in this one, both to prove to themselves and their head coach that they’re a team capable of playing the kind of lockdown man defense we heard about all preseason.

Self has talked plenty already about wanting to find a way to give Frank Mason III and Devonté Graham more rest than a couple of minutes per game — if that — in order to keep those two fresh and also help speed up the development, confidence and impact of the reserves playing behind them. And one of these games it’s going to happen. Common sense suggests there will be a time when Mason or Graham are only asked to play 2830 minutes instead of nearly going the full 40. Or will there? Self said after the Georgia victory on Tuesday night that as much as he’d love to sit his two top guards for longer spells of each game, the poor play of his big men has made that next to impossible thus far. “I don’t want him to play 35 minutes,” Self said of Mason. “But if you have to play four guards all the time then he and Devonté are gonna have to play 35 minutes. But that hasn’t been our intent going into the season at all, so that could change.”

UNC Asheville is not a good shooting team, as just three members of the Bulldogs’ regular rotation are above 50 percent for the year and three other rotation guys are below 40 percent. That has forced Asheville’s players to scrap for extra possessions to stay in games. Even though the Bulldogs have been out-rebounded by an average of seven boards per game so far, they have performed much better on the offensive glass, playing nearly even in that category through the first five games. With Kansas struggling to keep its bigs on the floor, the opportunity for Asheville to crash the glass could be there. That elevates the importance of the rebounding efforts of players like Jackson, Vick and, of course, Graham and Mason. If the KU big men can stay on the floor, though, that would go a long way toward taking the rebounding category out of the equation altogether. Asheville’s season-high of 33 rebounds came earlier this week while KU has not been below 38 rebounds in a game this season. And, no, Asheville’s number is not low because of terrific field goal percentages. The Bulldogs enter tonight shooting just .445 from the floor and are holding opponents to .466 shooting.

— Matt Tait

MEGA MATCHUP

JAYHAWK PULSE

UNC Asheville guard MaCio Teague vs. KU’s Devonté Graham

With their big men struggling and their guards living up to the billing of best backcourt in the nation, the Jayhawks are, at least at the moment, a bit of a one-dimensional team. Now, that one dimension has many parts that make it effective, from getting to the basket and shooting from distance to creating opportunities with defense and setting up teammates for easy buckets, KU’s trio of Mason, Graham and freshman Josh Jackson are and certainly have been enough to push the Jayhawks past just about any opponent. But that can’t and won’t last. And now is the time that the Jayhawks need to find out how to get their big guys back into the flow so they will be there when this team needs them in Big 12 play and beyond. Self and his perimeter players remain optimistic that the issues currently plaguing starting forwards Landen Lucas and Carlton Bragg Jr., are temporary and can be worked through with things like effort and intensity and heart. The stats may suggest otherwise, though, as that duo has produced little more than a high foul count during the past couple of outings and Self already may have reached the point where he’s not going to waste much time letting them play through their struggles and instead quickly will turn to reserve guards Lagerald Vick and Sviatoslav Mykhailiuk and employ the much-talked-about four-guard lineup that has worked well for the Jayhawks thus far.

Playing just the fifth game of his college career, the 6-foot-3, 185-pound Teague exploded for a career-high 22 points on 7-of16 shooting, including 4-of-9 from three-point range, to help the Bulldogs get by Furman on Tuesday night. Riding that kind of confidence and getting the opportunity to play in a venue like Allen Fieldhouse, the freshman from Cincinnati seems to be set up for a feast-or-famine type of night when he faces the Jayhawks. Assuming Graham draws the defensive assignment, Teague will be staring at a night of famine if the Kansas junior plays the kind of suffocating defense he played on Georgia star J.J. Frazier on Tuesday night.

Frazier entered that game averaging 19 points per game but was limited to just two on 1-of-10 shooting in 33 minutes. Teague enters tonight’s game as the Bulldogs’ second leading scorer (14.8 ppg) and shooting .440 from behind the three-point line.

— Matt Tait

— Matt Tait

PROBABLE STARTERS No. 5 KANSAS (4-1) G – Frank Mason III, 5-11, 190, Sr. G – Devonté Graham, 6-2, 185, Jr. G – Josh Jackson, 6-8, 207, Fr. F – Carlton Bragg Jr., 6-10, 240, Soph.

F – Landen Lucas, 6-10, 250, Sr.

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season watching from the bench while still fighting to recover — mentally and physically — from an ACL tear he suffered in 2015 admitted that it’s not a given that he’ll perform quite as well the next time out.

“Yep. I’ll probably be too excited and probably

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when Willis kept popping up during KU’s video preparation.

“Every time we watch film on a team that we’re playin’ I feel like they’ve already played ’em, so I kind of watch him and see what he’s doing against a tackle or whatever,” Armstrong said.

Entering this weekend’s rivalry game at Bill Snyder Family Stadium (11 a.m. kickoff, FOX Sports 1), the 6-foot-5, 258-pound Willis has 9.0 sacks and 13.5 tackles for loss.

Both numbers rank second in the conference

UNC ASHEVILLE (3-2) G – Ahmad Thomas, 6-3, 200, Jr. G – Kevin Vannatta, 6-2, 215, Jr. G – David Robertson, 6-3, 195, Sr. F – Will Weeks, 6-6, 215, Fr. F – Giacomo Zilli, 6-8, 255, Sr.

mess up and people will be like, ‘What you doing,’” he joked.

Regardless of what Coleby’s role becomes from here, the Bahamas native with the soft smile and easy-going personality impressed his teammates and coaches by being ready when he was needed.

Even if that is the extent of his role this season, the rest of the Jayhawks clearly value it and appreciate Coleby’s will-

ingness to fill it.

“All of them was happy about it, telling me it’s good that I stayed ready and all that,” Coleby said of his teammates. “I’ve been doing this, I feel like, forever in college.

And I always stay ready, just staying relaxed and staying focused and doing what coach wants me to do.”

Added KU coach Bill Self: “He’s never gonna score a lot of points. But at least he was able to

plug the middle some for us and be a little bit of a presence down there.”

Whether Coleby will get another chance against Asheville tonight remains to be seen, but the Bulldogs (3-2) enter tonight’s game with a hint of familiarity to them.

Kansas and UNCAsheville already have two common opponents on their schedule, with the Jayhawks defeating both Siena and Georgia

and the Bulldogs splitting with those two foes.

Asheville fell to Georgia, 60-46, on Nov. 14, and knocked off Siena, 92-80, last Sunday at home.

Kansas junior Devonté Graham, who hails from Raleigh, N.C., said he did not know anyone on the UNCA roster and added that it would not have mattered even if he did.

“Every game means just as much as the next game,” Graham said.

to Armstrong — 10.0 sacks and 17.0 tackles for loss.

Kansas head coach David Beaty characterized Willis and Armstrong as different types of defensive ends but thinks it should be fun for college football fans to watch them both.

“Man, I tell you what, that’s going to be a display of two of the better players in the league, in the entire league on any side of the ball. I mean, those two guys are really good players,” Beaty said.

“I’ll tell you what, I love watching Willis until I have to play him. But he is a good football player.

He is really a good football player. One of the best guys I’ve seen with his hands in my time

coaching. He’s really, really good.”

A 6-foot-4, 246-pound lineman from Houston, Armstrong’s unique combination of athleticism and size has allowed Kansas (2-9 overall, 1-7 Big 12) to utilize him a number of ways within coordinator Clint Bowen’s scheme. That’s why, Bowen shared, Armstrong racked up 11 total tackles — a number generally associated with linebackers or safeties — in KU’s victory over Texas.

At times this past week, Armstrong basically played as a linebacker, starting from a standing position in the middle of the field and/or dropping into coverage. Bowen said

opposing teams are increasingly aware of Armstrong’s potential impact.

“Centers are pointing him out and sliding protection to him and all that stuff,” Bowen said. “To be able to move him helps us make it a little bit more difficult on them to find him.”

While Willis and KState (6-4, 4-3) still have a Dec. 3 date at TCU remaining on the regularseason schedule, this is the finale for the Jayhawks, and Armstrong’s last chance to showcase himself as a Big 12 Defensive Player of the Year candidate. Bowen said the standout sophomore’s team-first approach has put him in position to be considered one of the

conference’s top talents.

“Dorance is 100 percent tied in to just doing his job and doing what we ask him to do. And that’s really what makes him special,” Bowen said. “It’s not really about him, it’s about him doing his little part on each defensive call and he takes great pride in doing that.”

This week, seeing Willis compete on the same field against his KU teammates could provide Armstrong with even more incentive to cap an exceptional season with one final exclamation point.

“This is the last game,” Armstrong said of his statistical competition with the Wildcats’ top end, “so we’re gonna see who comes out on top.”