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Obama scraps federal immigrant registry program Kobach has advocated for renewing post-9/11 system

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Washington — The Obama administration said Thursday adviser to Presiit is officially scrapping a postdent-elect Don9/11 requirement for immigrant ald Trump has men from predominantly Mus- Kobach spoken of renewlim countries to register with ing it. the federal government. The The decision to end the NaU.S. hasn’t used the program tional Security Entry-Exit Regsince 2011, but a top immigration istration System, or NSEERs,

comes amid growing international terror fears and Trump’s suggestions that he could ban Muslim immigrants from the United States. After a truck attack killed 12 in a Christmas market in Berlin this week, Trump told reporters, “You

know my plans.”

The program’s elimination could make it more complicated for Trump’s administration to launch its own registration system for Muslims.

Trump never publicly spoke about introducing such a

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program. But a close adviser, Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach, said last month he was in favor of launching an updated system for all foreigners from “high-risk” areas.

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Schmidt to Trump: Repeal EPA rules —

AG seeks rollback of Clean Power Plan

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KANSAS FANS LINE THE STANDS TO SLAP HANDS WITH THE JAYHAWKS AS THEY EXIT THE FLOOR following their 71-53 win over UNLV Thursday at Thomas & Mack Center in Las Vegas. See game coverage in Sports, 1D.

Cheerleaders involved in ‘Kkk’ post no longer on team

By Sara Shepherd sshepherd@ljworld.com

Four University of Kansas cheerleaders linked to a Snapchat post bearing the message “Kkk go trump” are no longer on the squad.

KU’s semester ended last week, and one of the three male cheerleaders in the photo graduated, said Jim Marchiony, KU associate athletic director for public affairs. The other two men and the female cheer-

leader on whose Snapchat account the image appeared chose to resign from the squad, Marchiony said.

The cheerleaders had been Gagin suspended from performing since a few days before Thanksgiving.

The photo shows three white men standing side-by-side in sweaters with the letter “K”

for Kansas on the front; the socalled KU ugly holiday sweaters featuring Jayhawks on the arms and championship rings around the middle were sold en masse in the KU Bookstore in December 2015. The photo was posted with the text “Kkk go trump” on the Snapchat account of Lili Gagin, a white woman who was listed on the KU Spirit Squads roster as a sophomore from Grayslake, Ill.

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Topeka — Kansas Attorney General Derek Schmidt has joined his counterparts in more than 20 states urging President-elect Donald Trump’s administration to immediately repeal new regulations dealing with climate change and water quality, claiming those regulations are “illegal.”

In separate letters to Trump’s tran- Schmidt sition team, Schmidt and other attorneys general urged the new administration to repeal President Barack Obama’s Clean Power Plan, which requires every state to reduce carbon emissions coming from power plants that burn fossil fuels, along with new definitions under the Clean Water Act that extend protection to small streams and tributaries.

“These major regulatory initiatives by federal agencies exceed the authority granted by Congress and are plainly illegal,” Schmidt said in a statement released Thursday. “We are challenging them, and the courts have sided with Kansas and the other states. At this point, we think the best course of action is for the new administration to withdraw the illegal rules and address the environmental issues involved in a lawful manner.”

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Man gets 27-month suspended sentence in Tinder beating

By Sara Shepherd sshepherd@ljworld.com

A man convicted of hurting a college student he met on Tinder will serve probation, with possible prison time in the event of violating it, and must write an L A W R E NC E

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Douglas County District Court Judge Sally Pokorny on Thursday sentenced Shane Allen, 31, to a suspended sentence of 27 months in prison but granted him two years of probation, meaning he’ll go to

prison if he violates his probation and has it revoked.

Pokorny also ordered Allen to think about his actions for a couple of weeks then write a letter apologizing to the victim, who said he held her against her will and beat her repeatedly

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The 20-year-old victim, who is still a student at the University of Kansas, read an impact statement at Allen’s sentencing.

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2 central Kan. wind farms operating Kingman (ap) — Two wind farms in central Kansas are now online and supplying electricity to Westar Energy.

The farms came online within the last two weeks, even though a civil lawsuit seeking an injunction against one of them is still pending, the Hutchinson News reported.

Westar Energy said the 120-turbine Kingman

and 121-turbine Ninnescah Wind Energy Centers, owned by NextEra Energy Resources, are supplying the state’s largest electric utility with about 400 megawatts of new power. The company said the facilities are bringing about $800 million in investment and local payments to the area, as well as 23 jobs in Kingman and Pratt counties.

A federal lawsuit

seeking restraining orders against the Ninnescah wind farm is awaiting completion of a 60-day notification period before proceeding. Former Pratt County Zoning Commission member Edwin Petrowsky filed the suit in November, saying the farm poses a risk to endangered whooping cranes and the failure of NextEra to obtain

a special permit would allow it to kill a certain number of birds in a given time.

Although the wind farms are in the cranes’ flyway, company officials said the cranes fly higher than the towers, which stand at 135 feet. NextEra said it will monitor the birds flying through the site for one year, as a condition of its permit.

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from a variety of mostly Middle Eastern countries to register with the federal government upon their arrival in the United States.

Such people already in the country had to register with immigration authorities inside the U.S. Registration, which also applied to immigrants from North Korea, included fingerprints and photographs. People also were required to notify the government if they changed addresses.

The administration will publish its decision in the Federal Register today. It had been widely derided by civil libertarians as an

effort to profile people based on race and religion.

The program is “not only obsolete,” said Neema Hakim, spokesman for the Department of Homeland Security, “its use would divert limited personnel and resources from more effective measures.”

The American Civil Liberties Union, which has opposed the program since its inception, described it as a “failed counterterrorism tool and massive profiling program that didn’t yield a single terrorism conviction in nearly a decade.”

“With this action, the

U.S. is on the right path to protect Muslim and Arab immigrants from discrimination,” said Joanne Lin, the organization’s senior legislative counsel.

The program never prohibited travel for men and boys from the more than 20 affected countries, including Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan.

When the Obama administration abandoned the system in April 2011, it said a newer data collection program would be sufficient to collect biometric information for all foreigners coming into the country. At the time, more than 80,000 foreigners were registered.

(who was not cheering at that game) pending further investigation. The three men were suspended the next day.

Gagin told KU Athletics someone else took her unlocked phone at a party a few days earlier and posted the image on her Snapchat profile. Gagin also posted on her own Twitter account: “I’m appalled that a snapchat was put out on my snapchat and posted on my account. I would never of done that & I apologize that it happened.”

It’s unclear whether the incident led to any

discipline of the students at the university level.

Marchiony did not share more details about the cheerleaders’ resignations, and KU spokeswoman Erinn Barcomb-Peterson has declined to share any information on the university’s investigation of the incident. Gagin has not responded to emails from the Journal-World, including one sent Thursday.

KU has not formally released any of the cheerleaders’ names. Gagin’s name is on the Snapchat account and was included in a Twitter post by another user that KU Athletics

and KU both shared the night she was suspended.

KU Athletics tweeted, “Unacceptable. She is suspended from cheering pending formal investigation. This behavior won’t be tolerated. Will be dealt w/ appropriately.” KU retweeted that post, adding, “There is no place for this in our community.

These types of messages are unacceptable.”

KU Athletics and KU both deleted those tweets the following day.

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Meeting Trump in New York, Kobach carried a document labeled “Department of Homeland Security Kobach Strategic Plan for First 365 Days.” It listed an NSEERS reboot as the top priority. Kobach helped draft the program while working at the Justice Department under President George W. Bush.

The registration system started about a year after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, requiring men and boys

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The photo was shared widely online, where some social media users said they interpreted it as racist speech indicating support for the Ku Klux Klan, while others said it looked like a political joke against Presidentelect Donald Trump.

KU Athletics learned of the photo via social media during the Nov. 21 KU men’s basketball game and quickly suspended Gagin

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

Follow her on Twitter: @saramarieshep

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New state senators to wield influence in budget process

By Peter Hancock phancock@ljworld.com

Topeka — Voters in Kansas elected 14 new members to the Kansas Senate in November, and those freshman senators will have considerable influence in writing the next state budget.

Senate President Susan Wagle, R-Wichita, released the full list of committee assignments for the upcoming session.

It shows Wagle has expanded the Ways and Means Wagle Committee, which handles spending bills, from 11 members to 13, with freshman senators getting six of those seats.

And because the committee is being expanded, Democrats will have three seats on the committee instead of two.

That may be a telling sign of what kind of budget the group is likely to produce next year because most of those new senators, including Sen.-elect Rick Billinger, of Goodland, who will Billinger serve as vice chairman, are moderate Republicans who campaigned against the tax and budget policies that conservatives have pushed through in the last four years.

Wagle had already announced earlier that moderate Sen. Carolyn McGinn, R-Sedgwick, would replace conservative Sen. Ty Masterson, of Andover, as chair of the committee.

Traditionally, lawmakers are expected to work their way up the ladder before getting such powerful committee posts, but Billinger said he’s not reading too much into it.

“I think she’s just trying to put people in the right positions,” he said Thursday.

Others, however, say the budget committee assignments show that Wagle wants the Senate to move in a different direction on tax and budget issues.

“I personally take it as a positive development,” said Sen. Tom Holland, D-Baldwin City, who will continue as the ranking Democrat on the Senate tax committee. “Senator Wagle talks

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repeatedly about how she got unloaded on when she was campaigning on people’s doorsteps.”

Holland B i l l inger may be new to the Senate, but he has served three terms in the House. He ran for the Senate this year after the incumbent in the 40th District, Ralph Ostmeyer, of Grinnell, announced he was stepping down.

In the House last year, Billinger said he voted against the final budget bill because it was out of balance, and he voted in favor of repealing one of Gov. Sam Brownback’s signature tax cuts, the socalled LLC loophole that exempts income from certain pass-through business entities.

“First and foremost, we need to make sure we come out with a balanced budget,” Billinger said when asked about his top budget priority. “We have to figure out where we can generate enough revenue and balance the budget.”

Other new senators on the budget panel include Larry Alley, R-Winfield; Ed Berger, R-Hutchinson; former House member John Doll, R-Garden City; Dan Goddard, R-Parsons; and John Skubal, R-Overland Park.

Senate Minority Leader Anthony Hensley, DTopeka, named the three Democrats who will serve on the panel. He reappointed Sen. Laura Kelly, of Topeka, to serve as the ranking minority memFrancisco ber.

But he did not reappoint Sen. Marci Francisco, of Lawrence. Instead, he named himself and Sen.

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CHILDREN BUILD “STAR WARS”-INSPIRED PROJECTS during a Lawrence Parks and Recreation Department Lego Camp, Dec. 22, 2015 at Sports Pavilion Lawrence. This year’s camp will be held next week.

Parks and Rec Department’s Lego camp to kick off Monday

By Joanna Hlavacek jhlavacek@ljworld.com

School may be out, but the folks at Lawrence’s Parks and Recreation Department aren’t letting students off the hook this winter break.

At Parks and Rec’s Lego camp, slated for Monday through Friday next week at Sports Pavilion Lawrence, local kids are encouraged to dream big and get creative. It’s fun messing around with the colorful toy bricks, sure, but there’s also a hidden (at least to a child’s eye) element of learning that keeps young minds active while on break from the classroom, says Jo Ellis, Parks and Rec’s recreation programs supervisor.

“The big thing is parents, of course, are working, and kids need something to do,” Ellis says.

“We feel this is educational, although they’re still playing. They don’t think they’re really learning.”

The camps, which have proved popular with local families in their summer and spring iterations over the past few years, offer a “fun outlet” for kids, she says. This season’s offering is intended for children ages 5 to 12 and will focus on Lego pre-engineering fundamentals.

That means introducing concepts such as bridges, boats, mazes and other structures, integrating

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We feel this is educational, although they’re still playing. They don’t think they’re really learning.”

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basics of physics, engineering and architecture in the process, while also letting kids be kids.

Imagination and whimsy are a big part of the camp, too, says Ellis. Instructors (Parks and Rec contracts with Play-Well TEKnologies for the job) try to “mix it up” each time with themes, she says, whether Batman or Minecraft or, notably, “Star Wars.”

Every so often, Ellis will stop by the workstations to catch a glimpse of campers’ Lego creations.

And she’s consistently “amazed,” she says, by what she sees.

“Their brains all think differently about what they want to do and how they want to build it,” Ellis says. “All the kids love

putting Legos together — it’s the hand-eye coordination, too, that helps them.”

And, she says, it’s not just the campers having fun.

“When we had the ‘Star Wars’ Lego camp, the instructor dressed up as a Wookiee,” she adds. “So, they get into it as well.”

Next week’s Lego camp will be held Monday through Friday, 9 a.m. to noon, at Sports Pavilion Lawrence, 100 Rock Chalk Lane. The cost is $185 per child. To register, visit lprd.org or stop by any Lawrence Parks and Recreation facility.

— K-12 education reporter Joanna Hlavacek can be reached at 832-6388.

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Wichita (ap) — Lucky motorists are being pulled over by Wichita police officers and handed $50 gift cards instead of citations.

The gift giving is part of a community-relations project launched by the city’s police department, according to the Wichita Eagle.

The giveaway started Wednesday. Over the next couple of days, 29 traffic violators will be given a gift card and a warning to drive safely, instead of a fine and a court date.

The gift cards are being handed out to drivers with minor violations because it is illegal for police to randomly stop a motorist without probable cause that a violation has occurred.

Officer Eric Piotrowski said he’s never done anything like the giveaway in his 29 years on the force, but it was fun to give people something they wanted for a change.

“It’s always good to make people feel good, especially when they think something negative is going to happen,” he said.

Steven Casey, a floor technician at Wesley Medical Center, was pulled over

by Piotrowski and handed a gift card.

“I appreciate him, I mean, I wasn’t expecting this,” Casey said. “I thought a citation and ticket would be coming, but he actually gave me a gift card. It was a wonderful day for me.”

Police spokesman Charley Davdison said the idea was to show holiday forgiveness and thank the community for their supporting the police.

Davidson and Police Chief Gordon Ramsay recruited Kwik Shop and QuikTrip as sponsors of the giveaway.

“It’s through the relationships we have with our community we’re able to solve crimes from misdemeanor to violent crimes,” Davidson said.

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New incentives policy is risky City commissioners may find they went too far in making a one-sizefits-all kind of requirement.

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he Lawrence City Commission is taking a risk with its new economic development incentives policy, most notably that it could stymie development projects that would benefit the city in the long run, particularly downtown.

If that proves to be the case, let’s hope city leaders are open to amending the policy in the future.

On a unanimous vote, city commissioners made wholesale changes to the policy on Tuesday. Among other things, the new policy requires: l Developers requesting incentives to specify the public benefit of the project, including affordable housing, sustainability, primary job creation, promotion of downtown density, tax base growth among a list of acceptable public benefits. l Developers to disclose all owners in a company that applies for incentives and to make sure each of those owners, as an individual or as a stakeholder in a business entity, is free and clear of delinquent taxes or debts to the city. l Developers to keep records related to the incentives for three years and allow the city to audit those records. l Developers of residential projects seeking incentives to set aside 10 to 15 percent of the units as affordable housing. l Developers to demonstrate that the project, in certain cases, could not move forward without incentives.

On the surface, the requirements may seem reasonable. But taken collectively, they could prove onerous, difficult to enforce and as a major obstacle to beneficial development.

The ownership requirements, for example, are extremely complicated and could unfairly punish minority stakeholders in development projects involved in disputes over city taxes. The affordable housing requirement doesn’t make sense for every residential project, particularly those built downtown.

Downtown development in particular is most threatened by the city’s new policy. Development — especially residential projects with parking — is still needed to achieve the vision of a pedestrian friendly, vibrant downtown where people live, work and shop. But the new incentive policy likely puts development projects needed to achieve that vision in jeopardy.

Commissioners felt they had a mandate to make changes to the economic development incentives policy. Leslie Soden, Matthew Herbert and Stuart Boley were elected on a promise to address the policy after problems with some projects that were heavily incentivized.

But in trying to fix the problem, the city may have thrown out the baby with the bath water.

It’s difficult to place uniform standards on every development project because every development project offers a unique set of benefits and risks to the city. An argument can be made that city commissioners were elected to make exactly these kinds of judgments, to assess benefits and risks on behalf of the city’s residents and make decisions.

But rather than take a pragmatic approach and address each project on an individual basis, commissioners are attempting to legislate subjectivity out of the decision-making process. Not only is such an approach impractical, the impact of the new policy could be the shelving of development that would help Lawrence.

That wouldn’t be good for economic development — which is also a platform all commissioners campaigned upon.

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Gates’ words of wisdom for Trump Washington — Bob Gates has worked in senior national-security positions for the last five presidents, Republican and Democratic. So it’s noteworthy — and to me, encouraging — that he is advising President-elect Donald Trump, too.

Gates, a former defense secretary, CIA director and deputy national security adviser, spoke with me by telephone Wednesday about the advice he’s giving Trump and his team — and the opportunities and pitfalls ahead.

At the top of Gates’ to-do list is striking the right balance between improving relations with Russia and appearing too cooperative with a belligerent President Vladimir Putin.

“I think the challenge for any new administration would have been how to thread the needle — between stopping the downward spiral in U.S.-Russian relations, which had real dangers, and pushing back on Putin’s aggressiveness and general thuggery,” Gates explained.

“If you only want to stop the downward spiral, you empower Putin to feel that he can do whatever he wants. I worry that if you don’t have pushback — let him know there are limits, and that the U.S. will react, militarily, if necessary — then the chance of being taken advantage of is larger.”

Gates explained that if he had been secretary of defense when Russian jets made “dangerously close passes” over U.S. warships in the Baltic Sea in April, “I’d have recommended that we

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At the top of Gates’ to-do list is striking the right balance between improving relations with Russia and appearing too cooperative with a belligerent President Vladimir Putin.” send a message to Moscow that the next time you do it, I’ll ‘paint’ you [with targeting radar], and I may shoot.”

If Trump is seen as too eager to cooperate with Russia, Gates cautioned, it will create perceptions in Europe, China, North Korea and Iran that “this guy isn’t prepared to back up his words with the tough action that’s necessary.”

Trump made a surprising, and somewhat ominous, pushback against Moscow Thursday. After Putin said he planned to “strengthen the military potential of strategic nuclear forces,” Trump tweeted: “The United States must greatly strengthen and expand its nuclear capability until such time as the world comes to its senses regarding nukes.”

Gates told me Thursday that he wished Trump had

used the word “modernize,” rather than “expand,” but that “what he said is OK given Putin’s recent comments.”

Gates has shared the role of informal counsellor to the Trump transition team with two other veterans of the Bush administration, former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, who talks regularly with Vice President-elect Mike Pence, and former national security adviser Stephen Hadley. The three have a consulting firm, RiceHadleyGates, which has proposed candidates for Cabinet and sub-Cabinet jobs, including recommendations of Rex Tillerson and retired Gen. James Mattis, the choices for State and Defense, respectively.

Gates, Hadley and Rice have also talked with foreign governments that are puzzled about how to approach Trump. In an interview this week, Hadley summarized his basic advice: “We’ve never had a populist movement or political insurgency quite like this — that actually captured the White House. That means there will be more discontinuities in our foreign policy.

I’m telling people: ‘Give us some space here and have some strategic patience.

And don’t overreact — even to Trump’s tweets.’”

One issue that worries Gates is the multiplicity of people surrounding Trump in the White House, seeking to influence an undisciplined chief executive.

“What happens when someone tries to get in to see the president with a proposal or initiative and is rebuffed by

one gatekeeper — and simply goes through another door? It’s a formula for a disjointed process.”

“There will be a rough break-in period,” predicts Gates. Part of the challenge is that Trump believes his success stems from his freewheeling, undisciplined style, and personal messaging through Twitter — which makes him resist limits.

Gates credits Trump for choosing strong personalities for the key national security posts: Tillerson, Mattis and retired Gen. John Kelly at Homeland Security.

“He’s willing to surround himself with very strong figures who ... will tell the president what he needs to hear.”

Trump’s insurgent, populist style has worried many foreign governments. But Gates argues that “there is some value in a disruptive approach — in the U.S. not being so reliably passive” in responding to events as it seemed during the Obama administration.

Trump, by accident or design, has created a hint of the triangular dynamic among the U.S., Russia and China that was a hallmark of Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger’s diplomacy.

Ideally, said Gates, the U.S. could play off Russia and China so “they’re both uncertain about where we’re headed.”

But this subtle play requires a strategic vision and disciplined follow-through — two qualities that Trump has yet to demonstrate.

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

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From the Lawrence Daily Journal-World years for Dec. 23, 1916: ago l “County AtIN 1916 torney J. S. Amick and Solon Emery drove across the new Kaw River bridge in their cars today, the first motor car drivers to cross the new structure.” l “Christmas cheer prevailing over the land will not be lacking in the Douglas County jail. An appropriate dinner for the occasion will be prepared and served the prisoners.

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

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We can do much better on mental health

By Bill Wood

When a person living in Lawrence experiences a heart attack, a stroke, or a car wreck that leaves the person in critical condition, we call 911, the ambulance arrives and takes the person to the emergency department at Lawrence Memorial Hospital. The emergency department’s staff provides prompt and excellent treatment to keep the person alive.

If needed, the injured is passed on to a doctor who specializes in treating the injury or condition. If needed, the patient stays in the hospital until well enough to be released. If physical therapy is needed, the patient is connected with a physical therapist and receives that care.

How does this compare with the care provided to someone who’s experiencing a mental health crisis?

If it is during normal business hours, Monday through Friday, the person can visit our Bert Nash Community Mental Health Center. Bert Nash also has a phone number that can be called anytime, day or night.

But what if the crisis affects a person who’s living alone and unable to help himself or herself? Or someone whose illness is so severe that his or her loved ones can’t intervene? We call 911 and the police department is sent to help.

They do their best, but they may have

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to use force to take the person in crisis to a safe environment. They have two choices: LMH emergency department or the Douglas County Jail. Neither facility is staffed with doctors trained to treat people who find themselves in mental

health crises.

If your loved one had a car accident and were in critical condition, would you be content to have police take that person to a holding room until that person could be moved — hours or days later — to another community that had staff and resources to deal with the injuries?

Lawrence is truly blessed to have a Top 100 Hospital for the past four years running. LMH provides excellent care for our physical healing. And I thank God every day that we have a top-notch community mental health center. But we can do better.

The proposed Mental Health Crisis Center would meet this challenge. It would basically be an emergency department for mental illness emergencies, just like the LMH emergency department is for physical emergencies.

It would be available 24/7 with trained staff and doctors.

In San Antonio, they call their crisis center a “Restoration Center.” It provides restoration services to both those with mental and/or substance abuse health issues. It has lowered the number of people in their emergency departments and jails.

To finance the Restoration Center, the hospitals, police departments, courts, county, city, and mental health center all collaborated, pooling the money they saved by reducing demand. These monies, in turn, are used to offset the center’s operational costs.

In Lawrence, if we can find $18 million to remodel a library that has since received national recognition for the architectural design, $25 million for the Rock Chalk Park, and have a nationally recognized, community-owned hospital, what is holding us back from a Mental Health Crisis Center?

Is it because we have to wait until we can include the proposed jail expansion with the crisis center in a combined public vote? If LMH builds a new addition to the hospital, it is done on its own merits. Why can’t the Mental Health Crisis Center and the jail expansion each stand on its own merits?

Lawrence, we can do better than this.

— Bill Wood is the chair of the NAMI (National Alliance on Mental Illness) Douglas County Leadership Team.

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The Court of Appeals heard oral arguments in the case in September and has not yet issued a ruling.

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Agriculture is still one of our biggest industries, and climate change affects agriculture.”

— Zack Pistora, lobbyist for the Kansas chapter of the Sierra Club

Clean Water Act. Several states, including Kansas, with backing from agricultural interests, have challenged the new definition, saying it extends EPA’s reach into even the smallest creeks, drainage ditches and farm ponds, something they say is beyond the original intent of the Clean Water Act. EPA officials, however, deny that the rules expand the agency’s authority.

They say the new definitions were based on existing law as well as scientific reviews of data that show the nation’s watersheds in greater detail.

Zack Pistora, who lobbies for the Kansas chapter of the Sierra Club, said he believes Schmidt is taking the wrong approach on both issues.

“Agriculture is still one of our biggest industries, and climate change

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affects agriculture,” he said. “We’re undergoing our warmest year yet. It would be illogical for our Kansas leadership to ignore climate change or to not do anything about it.”

Regarding the expanded water regulations, he said the new rules help protect larger bodies of water downstream from the impact of farming practices upstream.

“Phosphorous and nitrogen runoff from fields and feedlots is causing major problems downstream and in the Gulf of Mexico, where you have algae blooms and dead zones,” he said. “It’s also feeding into lakes in Kansas, where we’re having more toxic blue-green algae in our reservoirs.”

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

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Tom Hawk, of Manhattan.

Francisco said that was largely the result of juggling that had to be done because Democrats gained one seat in the Senate this year, but that was not enough to give them additional seats on most standing committees.

Besides McGinn, the other veteran GOP senators on the panel will be Jim Denning, of Overland Park; Dan Kerschen, of Garden Plain; and Vicki Schmidt, of Topeka.

PAY-GO rule Holland said one of the first votes in the 2017 session will be a key indicator of whether there will be a major shift in direction of the Senate, and that will be the vote to adopt the rules of the Senate.

For the last several years, both the House and Senate have had what lawmakers call a “pay as you go” rule, commonly shortened to “PAY-GO.” Under that rule, when a budget bill comes out of the Ways and Means Committee for full debate on the Senate floor, no amendments can be

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The experience made her see the “evils” around her, she has nightmares about the attack, and family and friends now regard her as a victim instead of the person she was before, she said. She said she struggles, emotionally, to get out of bed each morning.

“When I wake up I have to remind myself that he won’t be able to find me and hurt me again,” she said.

She added, “I also desperately want my life back.”

Allen pleaded no contest earlier this month to two counts of aggravated battery, which is a felony. As a part of a plea agreement, prosecutors dismissed other charges; previously Allen faced one felony charge of kidnapping, four felony charges of battery and one charge of possession of drug paraphernalia.

The charges stemmed from an incident in April of this year. According to an arrest affidavit filed at the time, the woman told police: She met Allen on Tinder, a social media dating application, and they had spent time together once before the attack. On a Tuesday afternoon, Allen picked her up at her sorority house and took her to his trailer home, where she worked on a school assignment. Two of Allen’s male friends came over, and the woman and one friend smoked marijuana.

Later, Allen accused the woman of flirting

offered to increase spending in any part of the bill unless the amendment includes an equal or greater amount of cuts somewhere else.

Conservatives in the Senate adopted that rule in 2013, right after they won control of the Senate in the 2012 elections. The House adopted a similar rule in 2011.

It was intended to block Democrats and moderates from offering amendments that would be politically difficult to oppose, but which might also result in the need for tax increases or cut off the ability to pass tax cuts.

Critics of the rule, however, argue that it puts too much power in the hands of only a few lawmakers because it allows as few as seven senators — a simple majority on the Ways and Means Committee — to decide how much the state will spend, depriving other senators of the ability to represent the interests of their constituents.

“I think that if you really want to try to develop consensus on budget and tax policies going forward, it’s imperative that everybody be able weigh in on the budget and not be hamstrung by the PAY-GO rule,” Holland said.

Both chambers typically vote on their respective

rules during the first week of the session.

Local delegation Although Francisco was not reappointed to the Senate’s Ways and Means Committee, she was assigned to the Assessments and Taxation Committee where Holland will remain as the ranking Democrat.

Ranking members represent the minority party in conference committee negotiations.

Francisco also will be the ranking member on the Agriculture and Natural Resources Committee. That panel had been two separate committees, and Francisco had been the ranking Democrat on both. And she will serve on the Senate Utilities Committee, although she will not continue as ranking Democrat there.

Holland will also continue as ranking member on the Senate Commerce Committee.

Hensley, whose district includes part of western Douglas County, will continue as the ranking Democrat on the Education Committee and will sit on the Financial Institutions and Insurance Committee.

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

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When I wake up I have to remind myself that he won’t be able to find me and hurt me again.”

— Statement from the victim of the attack

with the friend, punched her in the eye, knocked her to the ground and beat her. When she asked him to take her home, he refused, saying she could not return until her face healed. He choked, struck and kicked her over the course of nearly a week and at one point pointed a knife at her and also threatened to kill himself. Several times Allen forced her to message her friends on Facebook, telling them she was OK and would be home in a few days.

On the following Sunday, Allen agreed to take her home, after she assured him she would not contact police.

She immediately went to the hospital, where investigators said she had two black eyes, bruises and swelling on her head, face, neck and body, scrapes and abrasions to her legs and feet, according to the arrest affidavit in the case. Allen was arrested four days later.

Senior assistant district attorney Eve Kemple said Thursday that Allen’s sentence was per the Kansas Sentencing Guidelines for the combination of his criminal history, the severity of the victim’s injuries and the charges he ultimately was convicted of after the plea agreement.

She said the victim understood and approved of the agreement and the sentencing.

Allen has not been in prison in Kansas and has not been convicted of

any felonies in Douglas County, according to Department of Corrections and court records.

Pokorny told Allen he had the right to have his conviction expunged five years after serving his sentence.

As terms of his probation, Allen must receive substance abuse treatment, refrain from drugs and alcohol, submit to random drug tests, take all medications as prescribed and have no contact with the victim, Pokorny said. He also must follow through with the treatment plan developed as part of his mental health evaluation.

Kemple did not state any diagnoses Allen may have been given, but asked the judge to order the mental health treatment plan instead of a domestic violence treatment plan.

“The defendant obtained a very thorough mental health evaluation,” Kemple said. “The parties believe that this is going to be more important to deal with the underlying issues than the domestic violence plan.”

The judge declared Allen indigent and waived his court fees. Allen’s attorney, Julia Butler, noted that he had been in jail since April, had no savings and would be moving in with family once released.

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

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Blocked sweat glands turn into searingly painful growths that send Brittany Young back to the emergency room at Upson Regional Medical Center.

Young also has the chronic intestinal disease Crohn’s to contend with. Without a job or health insurance, the single mother can’t get the treatment needed to keep her Crohn’s from progressing. She’s visited the ER six times since losing her Medicaid coverage after her baby was born in June.

Young says she has no money, so she pays nothing.

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As a result, schoolchildren across the nation continue to be beaten, raped and harassed by their teachers while government officials at every level stand by and do nothing.

In the most comprehensive national review of teacher discipline to date, USA TODAY examined educator misconduct and licensure databases from every state, reviewed thousands of pages of court filings and employment records and surveyed state education officials to determine how teachers who engage in misconduct remain in the education system.

Among the findings: uState education agencies across the country have ignored a federal ban on “passing the trash” intended to prevent secrecy deals with those suspected of abusing

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students. These contracts hide details of sexual behavior and sometimes pay teachers to quit their jobs quietly. uThe secrecy makes it easier for troubled teachers to find new jobs working with children.

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Brittany Young, 23, talks to Anthony Marchetti in the emergency room at Upson Regional Medical Center.

“I guess someone ran the numbers and figured out it saves money to do it this way,” says Anthony Marchetti, an Upson emergency physician.

If they have, they haven’t quantified the pain faced by people including Young or the plight of rural hospitals such as Upson that are required to at least stabilize everyone who walks in the door, regardless of their ability to pay. Republican Georgia Gov. Nathan Deal’s decision not to expand Medicaid coverage to those under 138% of the federal poverty limit — as allowed and funded almost entirely by the Affordable Care Act (ACA) — left patients and hospitals in this and 18 other states in precarious situations.

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A potent storm will put a lump of coal in the stockings of travelers and residents alike in much of the western and central USA this Christmas weekend.

The system is forecast to bring everything from a wintry mix and a blizzard to drenching rain and severe thunderstorms to a large

swath of the USA from Friday through Sunday. Only the eastern part of the country will remain relatively tranquil.

The storm will first move into the West Coast on Friday, bringing heavy rain and the potential for flash flooding in California.

Heavy snowfall is expected in the higher terrain of the Sierra Nevada, the National Weather Service said. Snow will also fall over the Cascades, northern Great Basin and northern Rockies.

As the system pushes eastward, conditions should begin to dry out by the weekend along the West Coast, the weather service predicts.

By Christmas Eve, the Rockies will see additional snow, which will spread into the Plains by Saturday evening. On Christmas Day, howling winds of up to 60 mph and heavy snow totaling up to 9 inches will probably lead to a full-fledged blizzard in portions of the Rockies and the Dakotas.

Travel may become “impossible” in those areas Christmas Day, lingering into early Monday, and numerous roads, including major interstates, are likely to be shut down, the Weather Channel said. “This has the potential to become a widespread and significant winter storm across the northern Plains,” the National

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Rory Woods clears snow outside his business, Main Street Barber Shop, in Hutchinson, Kan., on Sunday.

Weather Service in Bismarck, N.D., warned.

Farther east, in the Midwest, milder air will mean rain and wet travel conditions for cities such as Chicago, Detroit, Indianapolis, Des Moines and Omaha on Christmas Day. In the central and southern Plains, thunderstorms will “bring the potential for large hail and isolated tornadoes” on Christmas afternoon, AccuWeather meteorologist Brett Rossio said.

Most of the eastern USA will enjoy a calm, mild holiday weekend, though some wintry weather is possible in northern New England by Monday.

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On Thursday evening, Eric Heinrich and five of his closest friends did what they have done every year for the past 15 years: They met at Breitscheidplatz Christmas market in central Berlin to drink mugs of warm, spiced German wine.

“This attack is not going to change my life. I will still go to work, soccer games, clubs, meet my friends,” Heinrich, 34, an aeronautical engineer, said as the festive market reopened three days after a truck rampage that killed 12 people and injured 48.

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“These attacks always try to divide us but they always bring people closer together not farther apart.”

Berliners like Heinrich and his friends braved cold, light rain to show their defiance at Monday night’s attack, even as the hunt goes on for Anis Amri, 24, a Tunisian national whose identity papers and fingerprints were found inside the truck.

“We weren’t sure whether it was the right thing to do at first, to come down here,” said Karsten Mueller, one of Heinrich’s friends.

Except for some makeshift memorials laden with candles, flowers and homemade signs, all evidence of the truck and the havoc it unleashed had been cleared

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Memorial candles and signs at Breitscheidplatz Christmas market in Berlin on Dec. 22.

away. The paths between the wooden booths and stalls may not have been as busy as would usually be expected just a few days before Christmas, but visitors were

trying to get on with the business of being as merry as possible under the circumstances.

“No, no, no — not scared or nervous. Appreciative,” said Ansaldi Bartolo, 68, a retired cook who was examining some of the notes left for the victims at the market. Bartolo lives nearby. He had been at the market on Saturday and Sunday with his family.

They had considered coming Monday as well but decided against it.

To emphasize his point that Berliners would not be intimidated, Bartolo clenched both his fists and raised them toward the sky.

Across the road, about half a dozen large police vans idled and concrete barriers now line the market’s entire road-facing perimeter. Inside the market, some of the customary bright lights were dimmed and there was no evidence of the party music that

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Republican control of the White House and Congress next year opens the door to new approaches to health care financing that could turn states into the “laboratories of democracy” the liberal Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis wrote they should be in 1932. Congressional leaders and President-elect Donald Trump vowed to repeal the ACA early next year, which would probably remove funding for Medicaid expansion and the financial assistance others need to buy Obamacare plans. That could leave about 20 million people without health coverage.

If the ACA repeal legislation includes the expected built-in delay, Kaiser Family Foundation Executive Vice President Diane Rowland predicts states will propose more waivers from Medicaid expansion’s requirements in advance of the fixed “block grants” likely to be proposed by the new administration.

ACA supporters worry that could expose hospitals and patients to erratic funding and dangerous lapses in care. The patchwork quilt effect of Medicaid expansion has already meant people with the same health conditions across state borders may get good care or no care.

When it comes to the block grants, “some claim it creates flexibility,” Health and Human Services Secretary Sylvia Burwell said Wednesday. “The downside ... is when it limits the money that can go to the state.” That can leave states with three choices, she said: kicking people off Medicaid, cutting benefits and finding Corrections & Clarifications USA TODAY is committed to accuracy. To reach us, contact Standards Editor Brent Jones at 800-8727073 or e-mail accuracy@usatoday.com.

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the money in their own budgets.

Many Republican ACA opponents say the funding and decisions about what to do with it needs to be further distanced from Washington.

“It’s important to just not jam a specific idea down a community’s throat,” says Geoff Duncan, a Republican state representative from an Atlanta suburb. “You’ve got to have a more communityfocused approach to solving health care problems.”

Duncan, who may run for governor in 2018, sponsored a potential solution that takes effect Jan. 1.

The new law will allow businesses and residents to make donations to eligible rural hospitals and claim a state tax credit equal to 70% of the donation. It’s part of the alternative to big government that Duncan likes to call the four C’s — churches, charities, corporations and citizens.

To longtime rural hospital lobbyist Lewis, the law is a godsend.

The day after Duncan introduced his bill, Lewis introduced himself to the 41-year-old legislator and said, “I’ve been waiting for an idea like this to show up at the Capitol for the last 30 years,” Duncan recalled.

Former HHS official Hilary Haycock isn’t so hopeful.

“It’s an incredibly unstable way to fund health care for low-income populations,” says Haycock, president of Harbage Consulting.

“The whole challenge of the economic cycle is that during periods of economic recession, there’s the greatest need to support the most vulnerable.”

It may not be the “perfect fix,” but Duncan says his plan “creates a much needed conversation.”

The next step, he says, may be to bolster and link the network of community health centers to hospitals, so low-income patients get more regular care and the burden on hospitals is eased.

JAYNE O’DONNELL, USA TODAY

Republican State Rep. Geoff Duncan, left, meets with Todd Shiflett, CEO of Georgia Highlands Medical Services.

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It’s the kind of thinking likely to appeal to states if Medicaid block grants or per-person expenditures become the Trump administration’s approach.

Seema Verma, Trump’s nominee to head the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, designed Indiana’s tough-minded variation on Medicaid expansion.

Haycock says, “We’ll certainly have the opportunity to experiment.”

What Americans will probably see more of: uCost sharing. Those eligi-

ble for Medicaid through the ACA expansion in Indiana owe 2% of their incomes or $1 in monthly premiums if they earn less than $50 a month. The money goes into a type of “health savings account” like those offered by employers. Some other states also require small premiums and copayments. In addition, Indiana requires Medicaid to share more of the costs of non-emergency visits to the ER to discourage the trips. Also popular: premium breaks if patients meet certain healthy behavior goals such as those offered by many employers. uWork requirements. No state is allowed to require people to work to get Medicaid benefits under the ACA’s expansion of the program, but Indiana can refer recipients to resources to help them find and train for jobs.

Kentucky Gov. Matt Bevin proposed a Medicaid alternative in August that would require recipients to work or perform community service.

More than half of the people who would be eligible for Medicaid if their state expanded the program already work, the group Families USA reported last year. uFewer rides. Covered transportation for non-emergencies could be eliminated, as it has been in several states with waivers. Those who make under the federal poverty limit — about

can usually be heard.

Instead, a band quietly played a rendition of Amazing Grace.

Still, the slightly somber mood did not diminish the seasonal smells: Obviously, there was sausage. There is at every German Christmas market. There also was deep-fried potato pancakes topped with applesauce, creamcovered waffles with a snowdrift of sugar, gingerbread, fruitcake and chocolate-covered marzipan.

Many of the workers did not want to talk about where they were when the attack occurred or how they were feeling now.

One vendor, who was manning a booth that sold bratwurst, said he wasn’t at the market Monday because he wasn’t scheduled to work. His stall was in the immediate area where the truck violently slammed into wooden cabins and tore down a Christmas tree before coming to a halt.

$15,000 for a family of two like Young’s — often have the biggest challenges with transportation, especially in rural areas where public options are minimal. uMore care coordination.

Obamacare may get a lot of flak from its namesake’s opponents, but its broad mission of lowering health care costs by improving quality over quantity is likely to survive. Sliding-scale community health clinics were supposed to be largely unnecessary once the ACA got everyone signed up for insurance, but that’s not the case while millions are still uninsured.

Duncan and Todd Shifflet, CEO of a chain of Georgia health centers, are discussing how to link their preventive and primary care services with hospital ERs. Duncan had never been to a rural hospital when he pulled up, tears in his eyes, to the one here this month.

Seeing the full parking lot, the state representative was emotional because of what could happen to everyone’s health if a hospital such as Upson were to close.

He says, “I can’t go a single day without getting a call” from someone in another state inquiring about the new way of funding health care.

Duncan didn’t know much about the quality of community health centers. Or that people with “real insurance” could use them, he says. Soon they will have 11 “real doctors,” Shifflet laughs.

“We could expand the footprint in a way that doesn’t compete with the hospitals but helps to reinforce them and open up access,” Duncan said.

“Maybe you could incentivize those kinds of partnerships to jump-start it,” Shifflet said.

Back in Upson, hospital CEO Tripp Penn won’t comment on Medicaid eligibility in his state but says he’s in favor of “expanded access” to health care.

Though Brittany Young has visited the ER an average of once a month since June, Penn has uninsured patients who have visited an average of nearly once a week.

“They don’t have the very basic primary care that’s much less expensive and a much more appropriate level of care,” he says.

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physical or sexual misconduct still work with children or young adults. uPrivate schools and youth organizations are especially at risk. They are left on their own to perform background checks of new hires and generally have no access to the one tracking system of teachers who were disciplined by state authorities. uDespite the risks, schools of all kinds regularly fail to do the most basic of background checks.

A private high school in Louisiana hired a teacher who was a registered sex offender in Texas.

Students using a simple Web search uncovered his past. uSchool administrators are rarely penalized for failing to report resignations of problem teachers to state licensing officials. Although 41 states have laws requiring public school administrators to report the firing or resignation of a teacher to state education officials, violations of those laws rarely have consequences.

This isn’t supposed to be happening.

A series of high-profile abuse cases and news media investigations in the 1990s and 2000s put a spotlight on lax regulations by

BOB KARP, USA TODAY NETWORK

In Montville, N.J., Jason Fennes pleaded guilty in September to molesting four female pupils and having sex with a 15-year-old. government officials at every level and led to changes in a few states.

Congress passed a law in December 2015 requiring states to ban school districts from secretly passing problem teachers to other jurisdictions.

None of those changes closed the gaping holes plaguing the nation’s teacher screening system.

“I’m not against what’s been

put into law,” said Charol Shakeshaft, a professor of educational leadership at Virginia Commonwealth University who has studied teacher misconduct. “It just isn’t much of a solution.”

Although abusive teachers make up only a fraction of 1% of the nation’s teaching corps, USA TODAY found dozens of teachers who lost one job after being accused of abusive behavior and

had no trouble getting hired somewhere else.

They include a New Jersey teacher who molested five elementary school students, an Oregon substitute teacher who reached under a table to touch a student’s genitals and an Illinois teacher who forced elementary students to eat food off his crotch.

In each instance, the teacher had been disciplined for sexual misbehavior in a prior school district.

USA TODAY found examples in nearly every state, and the secrecy was often cemented in legally binding contracts. USA TODAY identified more than 100 educators whose public school teaching credentials were revoked or surrendered for serious misconduct, yet they continued to work with youth in different environments.

“It’s enraging when I read these cases about a teacher who has been well-known for abusing little children for over 20 years,” said Charles Hobson, a professor of business management at Indiana University Northwest who studies teacher misconduct. “And nobody — nobody — has picked the phone up and called child protective services or the police.

That’s crushing.”

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Q: Can I give stock as a gift?

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The Chinese e-commerce company’s online marketplace Taobao added itself back on the list of “notorious” marketplaces by the trade representatives for sales of counterfeit goods. It removed itself from the list in 2012. Shares reached month’s low.

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A: The holidays are a time for spending for many. Rather than buying yet another gift card, there are ways to make it more of a time of investing.

Most major brokerages will help you give stock as a gift. If you’re giving stock to a child, you’ll most likely need to set it up as a custodial account. After creating the account, you can then purchase an investment using the dollars you want to spend. Buying shares of a company that makes

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products the child likes — for example, Walt Disney or Hasbro — is one way to go. Remember buying individual stocks will incur a commission.

You might also buy an exchange traded fund or mutual fund, which owns these popular stocks long with many others.

Many of these can be bought at no commission. That way more of your money goes to the gift, not the brokerage, and you can teach the value of diversification.

You can buy a few of the items made by companies in the portfolio and put those under the tree.

There are other options. Some services will frame and mail a paper certificate, but the fees are high. You might also consider funding the child’s education account or even setting one up if they haven’t already.

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Weight Watchers International

$12

Shares of the weight loss/maintenance services company surged after Oprah Winfrey dropped 40 pounds and invested another $100 million. Winfrey bought a 10% stake in the company in October 2015.

$11.08

$10

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Company (ticker symbol)

Alexion Pharmaceuticals (ALXN) Downgrades, investors remain bullish.

CF Industries (CF) Expansion finished, spending to fall.

Price

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+2.61

+12.7 +63.8

125.85 +6.86

+5.8

-34.0

30.11

+1.21

+4.2

-26.2

+1.29

+3.4

+19.8

Marathon Petroleum (MPC) Shares climb in solid sector.

50.34

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372.38

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Red Hat (RHT) Falls on weak sales forecast.

68.71

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-13.9

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Bed Bath & Beyond (BBBY) Drops after weak quarterly results.

41.38

-4.18

-9.2

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Nordstrom (JWN) Holiday retail traffic plunges.

48.24

-2.97

-5.8

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Dollar Tree Stores (DLTR) Dips along with peers in retail.

79.31

-4.75

-5.7

+2.7

Gap (GPS) Negative note, weak retail traffic.

22.48

-1.27

-5.3

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Kohl’s (KSS) Declines on sluggish traffic trends.

49.94

-2.61

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Urban Outfitters (URBN) Rating downgraded, sector weak.

28.58

-1.34

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Target (TGT) Weak traffic, weak stock price.

73.74

-3.39

-4.4

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LKQ (LKQ) Dips amid import tax concern in sector.

30.94

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

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NAV 208.53 56.56 207.62 56.54 207.64 14.61 56.57 42.50 99.69 69.45

Chg. -0.36 -0.15 -0.36 -0.16 -0.36 -0.04 -0.15 -0.13 -0.39 -0.04

4wk 1 +2.8% +2.6% +2.8% +2.6% +2.8% +1.3% +2.6% +1.6% +0.9% +2.7%

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0.4%

26.7%

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-0.2%

18.7%

Materials

-0.4%

15.5%

Technology

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Utilities

0.4%

12.3%

Consumers discret.

-1.1%

5.7%

Consumer staples -0.2%

2.9%

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Ticker GDX DGAZ SPY EEM XLF NUGT IWM JNUG UNG VXX

Close 19.07 3.61 225.38 34.08 23.54 5.98 135.32 4.14 8.88 24.27

Chg. -0.02 +0.14 -0.39 -0.41 -0.06 -0.03 -1.74 +0.01 -0.12 +0.44

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INTEREST RATES

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

Close 6 mo ago 3.50% 3.50% 0.66% 0.38% 0.46% 0.26% 2.04% 1.20% 2.55% 1.69%

Close 6 mo ago 4.17% 3.73% 3.32% 2.71% 3.05% 2.82% 3.46% 2.90%

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9.26

2,260.96

1,900

June

-31.4

+.57

Humana (HUM) 202.93 Climbs as it gains more time to get Aetna deal done.

Staples (SPLS) Weak retail traffic data pushes shares down.

2,300

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Mosaic (MOS) 29.35 Reduces costs to balance lower prices, shares up.

Frontier Communications (FTR) Rises as it continues to negotiate with Sinclair.

5,400

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39.29

Celgene (CELG) Otezla receives final recommendation of use.

STANDARD & POOR’S 500

4,400

ConAgra Brands (CAG) Misses sales but shows confidence in future.

Regeneron Pharmaceuticals (REGN) Teamwork with Geisinger brings results.

Dec.

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NASDAQ COMPOSITE

CLOSE: 1,362.66 CHANGE: -.9% PREV. CLOSE: 1,375.19 YTD: +226.77 YTD % CHG: +20.0% RANGE: 1,360.25-1,375.45

Micron Technology (MU) Shares rise on optimistic sales outlook.

LOSERS

$35

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RUSSELL

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Shares of the generic drug maker climbed early after the conclusion of a Foreign Corrupt Practices Act probe for possible bribes paid to foreign governments. It will pay $519 million for the settlement.

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COMPOSITE

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Teva Pharmaceutical Industries

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Price: $11.08 Change $0.56

$80

$86.80

Commodities Close Prev.

Cattle (lb.)

1.14 1.13 Corn (bushel) 3.47 3.47 Gold (troy oz.)

1,128.80 1,131.10 Hogs, lean (lb.) .65 .65 Natural Gas (Btu.) 3.54 3.54 Oil, heating (gal.)

1.66 1.64 Oil, lt. swt. crude (bar.)

52.95 52.49 Silver (troy oz.)

15.82 15.92 Soybeans (bushel) 9.95 10.07 Wheat (bushel) 3.97 4.00

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% YTD -16.1% -3.2% +6.5% +8.2% +51.4% +50.9% +43.0% +14.8% +14.2% -15.5%

Close .8141 1.3492 6.9467 .9585 117.60 20.7680

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

11.43

Close 11,456.10 21,636.20 19,427.67 7,063.68 45,008.08

Prev. .8098 1.3405 6.9513 .9590 117.54 20.5682

Prev.

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6 mo. ago .6807 1.2829 6.5870 .8844 104.47 18.4926

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Change -12.54 -173.60 -16.82 +22.26 +25.05

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Health care

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‘Super Mario Run’ speeds past App Store records More than 40 million downloads in four days termed ‘incredible’ Brett Molina

@brettmolina23 USA TODAY

This might be best speed run yet for Super Mario.

Nintendo’s first smartphone game set an App Store record for fastest downloads, topping the 40 million mark in just four days,

barely skipping a beat after disappointment over the game’s pricing resulted in poor reviews.

It’s the top app in 140 regions and countries and the top grossing app in more than 100 countries.

“More than 40 million downloads in just four days is incredible,” Phil Schiller, Apple’s senior vice president of worldwide marketing, said in a statement.

Super Mario Run topped App Store records set last summer by Pokémon Go, a viral hit launching on both iOS and Android devices.

Mario is only available on iOS

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Super Mario Run became the top app in 140 regions and countries, and the top grossing app in more than 100 countries.

devices.

The game features a Super Mario experience similar to what’s available on Nintendo’s platforms, only it automatically runs, leaving players to control his jumping by tapping the touchscreen.

Shares of Nintendo were hit hard early in the week following a series of mixed reviews, some of which criticized the game’s payment model.

The game is free to download, but players get access to sampling of levels in each game mode. Accessing the full game costs $9.99.

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MOVIES

Arrival

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Plot: A linguistics expert (Amy Adams) is tasked with deciphering messages from alien visitors.

Director: Denis Villeneuve

Compiled from reviews by USA TODAY film critics

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, 36 minutes

Office Christmas Party

Rating: PG-13 Upside: Smith’s magnetism carries through a mostly charmless role.

Downside: The plot is unseasonably cynical and emotionally manipulative to a fault.

Plot: Bullish co-workers (T.J. Miller, Jason Bateman, Olivia Munn) throw a wild holiday blowout to save their tech company from an uptight CEO (Jennifer Aniston).

Directors: Josh Gordon, Will Speck

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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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Collateral Beauty

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Plot: A grieving father (Will Smith) is confronted by Love, Time and Death after writing letters to them.

Director: David Frankel

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

Passengers

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Plot: A Pittsburgh garbage man (Denzel Washington) finds success at work but increasing tension at home.

Director: Denzel Washington

JAIMIE TRUEBLOOD

2 hours, 19 minutes Rating: PG-13 Upside: Both Washington and co-star Viola Davis give powerhouse, award-ready performances.

Downside: It’s more filmed play than movie, so it doesn’t feel cinematic in scope.

Rogue One: A Star Wars Story

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Plot: An aspiring actress (Emma Stone) and a jazz pianist (Ryan Gosling) fall in love while trying to make their dreams come true.

Director: Damien Chazelle

Manchester by the Sea

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2 hours, 8 minutes

Sing

Rating: PG-13 Upside: The movie revisits the Hollywood musical in joyous and dazzling fashion.

Downside: Not for Grinches who don’t like good tunes and Broadway-style showstoppers.

Plot: A showman koala (voiced by Matthew McConaughey) tries to save his theater with a singing competition.

Director: Garth Jennings

2 hours, 17 minutes

Why Him?

DALE ROBINETTE

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Rating: R Upside: Affleck and Hedges are tops among an all-around extraordinary cast.

Downside: Parents will find one scene hard to watch because of the subject matter.

Plot: A handyman (Casey Affleck) is forced to confront a past tragedy when he’s named sole guardian of his nephew (Lucas Hedges).

Director: Kenneth Lonergan

MAKING WAVES Oprah Winfrey sent Weight Watchers stocks surging Thursday after the 62-year-old appeared in a new ad where she proclaimed she has lost more than 40 pounds since starting the diet program that includes pasta and tacos.

HOW WAS YOUR DAY? GOOD DAY QUEEN ELIZABETH Queen Elizabeth II, 90, and her husband Prince Phillip, 95, will be spending Christmas in their beloved Norfolk estate, Sandringham after all. The couple, who had canceled their trip due to “heavy colds” on Wednesday, traveled via royal helicopter Thursday morning.

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Holiday faux paws

52%

say their dog has torn into a holiday gift prematurely.

NOTE 64% say it chewed on forbidden fruit, such as a decoration or holiday dish.

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GOOD DAY CHANCE THE RAPPER FANS Just in time for Christmas, Chance the Rapper and Jeremih released ‘Merry Christmas Lil’ Mama.’

INVISION/AP Dedicated to their hometown of Chicago, the mixtape features nine tracks including holiday themed ‘Snowed In,’ ‘I’m Your Santa’ and ‘Chi Town Christmas.’

Compiled by Mary Cadden

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1 hour, 48 minutes Rating: PG Upside: The musical sequences are done well, plus there are hilariously quirky moments.

Downside: It’s not a very deep story, and on the whole can’t compare in a strong year of talking-animal fare.

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1 hour, 51 minutes Rating: R Upside: If ‘Bad Santa’ is your favorite flavor of holiday comedy, this expletive-laden tale is for you.

Downside: Megan Mullally, who steals the screen as Ned’s wife Barb, should have gotten more screen time.

Plot: Traditional Midwestern dad Ned (Bryan Cranston) watches Christmas go to the dogs in Palo Alto, where his daughter (Zoey Deutch) insists that he give Laird (James Franco), her tattooed billionaire boyfriend, a chance.

Director: John Hamburg

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LIFELINE

2 hours, 14 minutes Rating: PG-13 Upside: Edwards has a strong handle on what makes ‘Star Wars’-ready spectacle.

Downside: The spinoff is upended by a glut of fan service and a lack of strong characterization.

Plot: A group of Rebel spies embark on a mission to steal the secret plans for the Empire’s Death Star.

Director: Gareth Edwards

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La La Land

1 hour, 56 minutes Rating: PG-13 Upside: Lawrence and Pratt have chemistry, but android bartender Arthur (Michael Sheen) steals the show.

Downside: Events spin madly out of control and crash into a sappy ending.

Plot: Two beautiful passengers (Jennifer Lawrence and Chris Pratt) are awakened 90 years early on a journey to a distant space colony when their sleeping pods malfunction.

Director: Morten Tyldum

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1 hour, 45 minutes Rating: R Upside: ‘Saturday Night Live’ regulars (Kate McKinnon, Vanessa Bayer) and unexpected scene-stealers all get a chance to shine.

Downside: Raunchy one-liners are more amusing than laugh-out-loud funny.

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Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them 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

1 hour, 53 minutes

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MOVIES

Denzel Washington and Viola Davis build strong ‘Fences’ Bryan Alexander @BryAlexand USA TODAY

LOS ANGELES Vin Diesel helped prove to Denzel Washington that great Fences need good neighbors.

Washington invited the office next door on the Paramount lot — occupied by Diesel and his producer sister Samantha Vincent — in to show them his editing work on August Wilson’s Fences, in a scene featuring Viola Davis’ Rose talking about standing by her husband for 18 years.

Washington could hear murmurs of “That’s right” from the two as Davis spoke Wilson’s words.

“It was (Davis’) power and her honesty. And his words. It had some kind of effect,” says Washington. “For a man to write that for a woman, about how she feels about a man, it’s very interesting.”

Make that utterly compelling, as Washington, 61, unveils his directorial effort and starring turn as former Negro League baseball player Troy Maxson alongside his devoted Rose in the film adaptation of Fences (in theaters Christmas Day). The actors reprise their Tony Award-winning roles from the 2010 Broadway revival of Wilson’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play.

Two-time Oscar nominee Davis, 51, star of TV’s How to Get Away With Murder, waited pa-

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Denzel Washington and Viola Davis star in Fences.

tiently, but expectantly, to speak Wilson’s words again for film.

“How often do you get great material? I don’t. I always say I have to make a filet mignon out of a fried chicken dinner,” says Davis, causing Washington to laugh.

“Seriously. That’s what you do as an actor. It’s a job. But when it’s a great narrative, a complete journey and character — it’s a no-brainer.”

Two-time Oscar winner Washington gets animated talking about Wilson, standing up in a crowded L.A. restaurant to demonstrate scenes. (“I get excited, don’t I?” he grins.) The actor, who has signed on to produce nine Wilson plays for HBO (Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom is in development now), craved a movie part

where he didn’t have to “massage the material.”

“The best pieces of material I had from ‘go,’ before we had to get in there and make filet mignon, were A Soldier’s Story (1984), from a Pulitzer Prize-winning play, and Fences,” says Washington. “This is rare air. This is August Wilson, this is Tennessee Williams, Arthur Miller, Eugene O’Neill.”

After two weeks of rehearsals, the movie cast plumbed the relentless emotional depths of the dialogue, making Washington and Davis front-runners in the race for best actor and supporting actress Oscars. Davis’ pivotal “18 years” scene required 23 wrenching takes.

“I counted,” Davis says. “And then I thought, ‘OK, now I can relax, I’ll have my Painkiller,’ ” a Caribbean drink.

“It’s literally called a Painkiller?” says Washington, coughlaughing on his fresh grapefruit juice.

“Yes, and it’s delicious by the way,” says Davis, adding that the intense scenes picked right back up. “It started all over again the next day. It did not end.”

It did close with a final dramatic scene and what seemed like a supernatural sign of support from Pittsburgh native Wilson, who died in 2005.

“We had this wide shot, and the gate behind everyone in the shot just closed. And I just felt, ‘Wow!’ ” says Washington. “People were like, ‘Did you put a string on it?’ No, it was just August wanting to be here. He came in for the last scene.”

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here are reasons unrelated to a Jayhawk to show your Kansas pride: It is a natural segue to talk about the Wizard of Oz, it gives people from the coasts an opportunity to tell us how beautiful the state was when they flew over it, and, of course, it is affirmation that we don’t live in Missouri. If Kansas pride is your thing — or even better, Lawrence pride — there is a new downtown shop for you.

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A NEW STORE called Mass. St. Mercantile has opened at 738 Massachusetts St.

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Mass St. Mercantile has opened at 738 Massachusetts, in the spot that formerly housed Kieu’s clothing boutique. Mass St. Mercantile also has a lot of clothes, but of a different nature than Kieu’s. Mass St. carries lots of T-shirts and hats that have a Kansas slogan or something about Lawrence. Yes, there will be some Jayhawk apparel too, but mostly the shop will focus on items that promote Kansas but not necessarily the Jayhawks.

Lawrence businessman Matt Lomshek, a co-owner of the mercantile, said the shop also will have plenty of Lawrence High and Free State High apparel. Lomshek is in a good position to produce shirts, apparel and other branded merchandise of about any kind. He is an owner of Varsity Team Apparel and Destinations Apparel,

a pair of businesses that serve as a wholesaler to a variety of boutiques and retailers across the country, and also provide merchandise for resorts.

Lomshek said he had been interested in figuring out a way to sell some of his company’s merchandise closer to home, then was approached by the owners of Junque Drawer Boutique, an Olathe-based retailer that long has been looking for an opportunity to expand into Lawrence.

Junque Drawer provides some of its merchandise for Mass St. Mercantile. When you add it all up, the store has T-shirts, hats and a lot of novelties ranging from wall hangings to decorative wine bottle stoppers to more wall hangings.

“We try to have fun with it,” Lomshek said of the novelty items. “There’s a lot of stuff to laugh at.”

To wit: a postcard that says “We’ll always be friends, you know too much,” or a can koozie that

says “If you can read this, bring me another beer.”

(My experience tells me you perhaps should be prepared to catch it, or at least be prepared to duck.)

New art gallery Maybe you want to show your Kansas pride in a slightly different way.

There is a somewhat new art gallery in downtown that may be able to help. I say somewhat new because The Phoenix Underground has opened in the downstairs space beneath the longtime downtown occupant The Phoenix Gallery at 825 Massachusetts St. The underground space will be operated by the same folks who operate The Phoenix Gallery.

The Underground may be a good spot for you Kansas lovers because it is now carrying work by Louis Copt, the noted Lawrence artist who specializes in Kansas landscapes. Lawrence artist John Sebelius also has his work at the Underground.

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But the space also is allowing The Phoenix Gallery to expand its presence in the craft market. Part of the downstairs space is devoted to work produced by artists in the Lawrence Craft Collective.

“We’re really calling it (the) handmade market,” said Sue Shea, director/manager of The Phoenix Gallery.

That part of the store carries items such as candles, soaps, gloves, jewelry and other items made by craftsmen and women selected by Craft Collective leader Jill Stueve, said Shea.

“The space gives people a lot more places to explore for art and crafts,” Shea said.

Sandwich shop opens We have mentioned a few times before that the chain Potbelly Sandwich Shop has plans to open in Lawrence. Well, those plans have become reality. The store opened for business Tuesday morning at 1618 W. 23rd St., in the spot that previously housed

Dunn Brothers Coffee.

The business on Monday held a special pre-opening event where it served food and raised money for the PTA at Schwegler Elementary, which is right around the corner from the restaurant. As far as the restaurant goes, it serves a large menu of toasted sandwiches, and hand-dipped shakes also are a big deal.

The restaurant also is touting that it will have lots of live, local music. It sounds like they have musicians playing during many of the lunch and dinner hours.

A press release said local musicians interested in a gig should stop by the store to arrange for an audition.

The company, which got its start in a Chicago antique store in the 1970s, now has about 400 restaurants across the country. A press release said the Lawrence store employs about 20 people.

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

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REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS Following are real estate transfers filed at the Douglas County Clerk’s Office from Dec. 13 to Dec. 19:

Tuesday, Dec. 13 Glenn R. Skulborstad to Classical Developments, LLC, 1208 Mississippi St., Lawrence.

Estate of Rose Denton to Lawrenz Construction, Inc, 1000 E 28th Ter., Lawrence.

Wednesday, Dec. 14 Steven R. Tate and Susan R. Tate to Glenn D. Capistrant and Kwei T. K. Capistrant, 1881 E. 964 Rd., Rural.

Deutsche Bank Nation Trust Company, Trustee to 2 H Farms, LLC, 1616 E. 19th St., Lawrence.

Wiley T. Scott and Caryn L. Scott to Kim M. Wampler, 2040 Ohio St., Lawrence and .

Barbra S. Bartz to Richard W. Kennett and Sally C. Kennett, 1405 Lawrence Ave. B, Lawrence.

Ashley B. Henkelman and Erik Henkelman and Raymond Bechard and Pamela E. Bechard to Zhaowen Duan and Min Xia, 1416 Anthony Michael Dr., Lawrence.

Landstar Development, LC to Abnjali H. Doshi and Jay B. Jani, 1303 Kanza Dr., Lawrence.

Secretary of Veterans Affairs to Alexander Hemme and Danielle Hemme, 2714 N. Stratton Cir., Eudora.

New Legacy, LLC to Joshua L. Wolfe and Kaitlyn R. Wolfe, 2702 Rawhide Ln., Lawrence.

Kirsten M. Judd and Billy E. Cowgill, 524 N. Blazing Star Dr., Lawrence.

Salb Construction, Inc to Merwan A. Abdelmajeed, 3018 Harper St., Lawrence.

Kristopher J. Davis and Erin M. Kennedy to Sarah E. Rexroad and Michael A. Lucas, 1630 Barker Ave., Lawrence.

Grand Builders, Inc to Paul Boone and Melissa Boone, 753 Lincoln St., Lawrence.

Patrick K. Seelye and Tammy A. Seelye to Cameron W. Baumchen and Kayon Baumchen, 946 N. 750 Rd., Rural.

Charles C. Hemphill, Jr. and Penny L. Hemphill to Chaudry I. Wahla and Fadila Boumaza, 1741 Kentucky St., Lawrence.

Kevin K. Herd and Deborah M. Herd and Gordon A. Herd and Allison Herd and Marston James and Sean P. Herd and Christine J. Herd and James E. Herd to Robbie D. Gattis and Rhonda R. Gattis, 1816 Sweetwater Ct., Lawrence.

Debra R. Hamilton and Greg D. Hamilton and Loraine N. Hamilton to Gregory A. Boyle and Jennifer K. Boyle, 3624 West Timber Ct., Lawrence.

Harold E. Quick Jr. and Colleen M. Quick to Benjamin D. Brassart and Kristin D. Brassart, 503 Arizona St., Lawrence.

Chase F. Coburn and April M. Coburn to Sharon L. Svendsen and John F. Coburn, 1034 Firetree Ave., Baldwin City.

Lawrence CoHousing Group, LC to Patricia McCoy, 1220 Delaware St., Lawrence.

Garber Enterprises, Inc to Michael C. Urish, Vacant Land, Rural.

Ian Rowell and Rhonda Rowell to Michael Sypher and Sarah Sypher, 1083 E. 1200 Rd., Rural.

Steven J. Blomquist to Luke A. Bradford and Emily L. Bradford, 717 Prescott Ct., Lawrence and .

Bonnie L. Bond, Trustee to Jason Cole and Mark A. Griffith, 2252, 2254, 2264, 2276, 2280, 2296 N. 1300 Rd., 1317, 1319, 1323, 1327, 1329 E. 2300 Rd., and 1301 W. 2300 Rd. and, Lawrence.

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LEFT TO RIGHT ARE LT. MARISA MCCLUER of the Salvation Army and coordinator of the Christmas Joy Shop; Rose Cantrell and Camille Olcese, members of the Kaw Valley Quilt Guild. Members of the KVQG donated 154 doll quilts to the Joy Shop. This is the third year they have made doll quilts for the Joy Shop.

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Monday, Dec. 19 David Hemberg and Cynthia Hemberg to Daniel J. Connelly and Sara M. Connelly, 1134 E. 2100 Rd., Rural.

Chavez II Development, LLC to Jayhawk AcquisiFriday, Dec. 16 tions, LLC, 3215 Ousdahl Peggy Schreiber Trust to Rd., Lawrence.

Wiley T. Scott and Caryn Lula N. Hunt Trust to L. Scott, 2760 Chipperfield David M. Haynes and Jyl J. Rd., Lawrence.

Haynes, 2801 Winterbrook Fannie Mae to Stephen Dr., Lawrence.

Jones, 2115 Quail Creek Dr., Charles P. Garzillo to NaLawrence. than R. Cooper and Charlie Deutsche Bank National M. Cooper, 2637 Rawhide Trust Company to Charles Ln., Lawrence.

Soules and Cheri L. Soules, L. Allen Robertson and Thursday, Dec. 15 3313 Glacier Dr., Lawrence. Lee A. Robertson to Anne Anna M. Thelen and Hutton Farms West, LC T. Nguyen, 2201 W. 25th Austen J. Thelen to Aaron to Olivia Homes, LLC, 418 St. J, Lawrence.

M. Urban, 631 N. Daylily N. Olivia Ave., Lawrence.

Janice Beem and Donald Dr., Lawrence.

Jay R. Breyne and Sara J. E. Beem to Brent W. WhitPaul D. Boone and Breyne to Kelly D. Langseth ten and Brandy M. Whitten, Melissa D. Boone to John P. and Travis K. Langseth, 613 1429 Elm St., Eudora.

Holtz and Jamie Holtz, 304 Durham Ct., Lawrence.

Rodney G. Nitz, Trustee Jeffrey O. Chaney to Sharon Dr., Lawrence. and Barbara A. Nitz, TrustTanner N. Chaney, 1813 Nuzum Homes, LLC ee to Randall E. Tedrow, Almira Ave., Lawrence. to Justin D. Healy and M. 2212 Riviera Dr., Lawrence.

Reylan Properties, LC Camille Healy, 1323 Kanza Oregon Trail Holdings to Castle Rock, LC, Vacant to JAL, LLC, 5851 Overland Dr., Lawrence.

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Rude leaf-blowing neighbor could get fined Dear Annie: My mother has been dealing with her jerk of a neighbor for too long, and I’m fed up. Every year, the leaves fall from his trees, and rather than mulch them like the rest of the homeowners in the neighborhood, he gets out his leaf blower and blows them into the road and beyond, to my mother’s yard.

Leaves cover the road lines. It’s slippery and dangerous. My sister called Highway Patrol and reported this ignorant neighbor, but the person who answered simply replied, “Some people are just jerks.”

He’s going to cause an accident, and I’m ready to give him a piece of my mind. — Annoyed Daughter Dear Annoyed: I assume you’ve already tried talking to this

Dear Annie

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man and he refuses to stop, leaving you with no other choice than to contact authorities.

Record videos of him blowing leaves onto public property and your mother’s lawn so you have some proof.

Depending on where you live, he could be fined up to $450. Call your department of sanitation for more information.

Sure, “some people are just jerks” — but it’s fair for this one to get

2 sci-fi debuts on Netflix We’re from the future and we’re here to help! Boy, where have we heard that before? Netflix begins streaming the Canadian sci-fi fantasy “Travelers.”

The 11-episode series follows characters from an advanced but threatened society who project their individual consciousness into the minds (and bodies) of present-day humans, all to save the world from a dreadful fate — even at the risk that they may never be born.

Look for Eric McCormack (“Will & Grace”) in a starring role. The Canadianborn actor is no stranger to such mind-bending material, having starred in the TNT drama ‘‘Perception’’ as a troubled neuropsychiatrist whose schizophrenia gives him added insight.

On a similar note, also streaming on Netflix, “Sense8: A Christmas Special” furthers the story created by Lana and Lilly Wachowski of a group of deeply ‘‘special’’ humans whose thoughts and feelings are linked, despite vast differences.

A 10-episode second season will stream beginning in May 2017.

O The voices of Kelsey Grammer and Ron Perlman help animate “Trollhunters,” created

by Guillermo del Toro. This new 26-episode children’s series begins streaming today on Netflix.

O Miranda Lambert hosts and performs on the 18th annual “A Home for the Holidays” (7 p.m., CBS) special. Between songs by Lambert, Alessia Cara and Rachel Platten, ‘‘Home’’ offers stories of adoption from foster care and raises awareness of this important social issue and of children still looking for stable homes and families.

O Christmas marathons are already upon us. The “MythBusters Mega Marathon” begins tonight at 11 p.m. on the Science Channel and just won’t quit until Jan. 3 at 5 a.m.!

“Mythbusters” concluded its 14-year run on the Discovery Channel earlier in 2016. The marathon will include the fans’ favorite ‘‘experiments,’’ including the penny drop; the ‘‘Simpsons’’ special; the president’s challenge featuring Barack Obama; the Diet Coke and Mentos challenge; the ‘‘Star Wars’’ special; the James Bond special; and ‘‘bullet baloney’’ among the nearly 260 episodes airing into 2017.

Tonight’s other highlights O Abbie and Crane happen upon an unlikely strategy on the repeat season three finale of “Sleepy Hollow” (8 p.m., Fox, TV-14). Season four kicks off on Jan. 6.

O A famous Amos revisits his cookie kingdom on “Shark Tank” (8 p.m., ABC, r, TV-PG).

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some blowback.

Dear Annie: The letter from “Heartbroken Again,” whose son has Asperger’s syndrome, could be about my son, except he received a traumatic brain injury nine years ago, when he was 16. He lost a lot of his people skills. He, too, has had women at the college he is attending report him as a stalker.

It culminated in his being charged with attempted kidnapping.

He saw a girl crying while walking down the street and asked her what the matter was.

He asked whether she needed a ride, and she declined.

She called her exboyfriend afterward, looking for some sympathy, and told him she had been accosted.

He told her to call the police. She said my son

JACQUELINE BIGAR’S STARS

For Friday, Dec. 23 This year you interact well with friends, in groups, at work or in the community. If you are single, you might note that you start attracting a different type of person. If you are attached, the two of you often go out together with friends and have a great time.

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) ++++ One-on-one relating elicits strong results. Your words will awaken a key person in your life. Tonight: Be with a favorite person.

Taurus (April 20-May 20) +++++ Defer to a loved one. Be as clear as possible when dealing with a demanding friend.

Tonight: Listen to others share their holiday shopping stories.

Gemini (May 21-June 20) +++ Mellow out, and know that you can do only so much. Be concerned about how a loved one feels. Tonight: Make a last-minute push.

Cancer (June 21-July 22) ++++ Remain sensitive, first to your immediate priorities and then to your inner circle. Tonight: Find the mistletoe.

Leo (July 23-Aug. 22) ++++ Stay anchored. You seem to be able to tap into others’ energy quickly and effectively.

Tonight: Stay close to home.

had tried to pull her into his car.

Fortunately, a nearby pedestrian thought it was unusual for a guy to stop and talk to a crying girl, so he videoed the entire encounter. Once the state attorney’s office saw the video, all charges were dropped. It took about a week for the video to surface, and in the meantime, the rush to judgment on social media was unbelievable.

He was called a rapist and worse, and his picture was plastered all over the evening news.

I agree with “Heartbroken Again” about how society treats people who are different.

Thank goodness for the man who took the video. — William C. — Send your questions for Annie Lane to dearannie@ creators.com.

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Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) ++++ You seem unusually demonstrative right now. Others are clearly thrilled to see you. Tonight: Be open to a new tradition.

Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) +++++ Follow through on a last-minute decision, and you will be delighted. Tonight: Play the role of Santa, and deliver a package or two.

Scorpio (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) +++++ Your energy draws many people toward you. You are unusually magnetic, as you clearly can see. Tonight: Be yourself.

Sagittarius (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) +++ A roommate or loved one could be moving quickly in an attempt to complete what he or she must. Tonight: At home.

Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) +++++ You could have some last-minute errands to run.

A group of pals might opt to get together. Tonight: Some of you will combine TGIF with a holiday bash.

Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) ++++ Pressure builds, especially if you work. You will notice that quite a few people took today off. Tonight: Eggnog, friends and mistletoe.

Pisces (Feb. 19-March 20) ++++ Your mind could be drifting to some people you have not visited in a while. Tonight: Join friends at a holiday concert, or go caroling.

— The astrological forecast should be read for entertainment only.

UNIVERSAL CROSSWORD Universal Crossword Edited by Timothy Parker December 23, 2016 ACROSS 1 Part of some tricky billiard shots 6 Business abbr.

10 Is a thespian 14 Certain Gulf State resident 15 Confidently affirm 16 Put on a sulky face 17 Model alert!

(Part 1) 19 Sport played on horseback or in water 20 Exaggerator’s suffix 21 Weaver’s apparatus 22 Saffronflavored rice dish 24 It may be represented by a rooster 25 Computerized records 26 Bowling sites 29 Feeling more achy 30 Not mine or theirs 31 Melody 32 Part of a rose 36 Touchy or sensitive 37 Weeped buckets 38 Drink heavily 39 Calls, in poker 40 Abhor 41 Large portion of the population 42 “The gift that ___ on giving”

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11 Goes from hot to warm 12 Prom dress material, sometimes 13 Ermine in its brown summer coat 18 Many, many moons 23 Buffeted?

24 Model alert!

(Part 4) 25 Endowment receiver 26 Yeses on the high seas 27 Rich deposit in a mine 28 Winter Olympics sport 29 Business attire 31 Ensnares 33 Burial chamber 34 Weapon used on a piste 35 Repair 37 Optimistic

44 Wasn’t exactly truthful 45 Watts’ relatives 48 Be genuinely concerned 49 With less slack 50 Great Lakes city 51 Extremely dangerous snake 54 Match up, as watches 55 Model alert!

(Part 2) 58 “To ___ His Own” 59 Some servers at banquets 60 AKA, to a criminal 61 Covered with smoky cinders 62 It can be more 63 Any flower or cactus, e.g.

DOWN 1 Dove shelter 2 Andy’s partner of old radio 3 Absorbed 4 Lennon’s bride 5 Loses temporarily 6 Dugout on the lake 7 Embryo, once 8 Like some blood cells 9 Ready for the job 10 Model alert!

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41 Put bugs in someone’s home 43 “... ___ I saw Elba” 44 What a judge should be 45 On an ocean liner 46 American pyramid builders 47 Word after sucker or rabbit 48 Needing refinement 50 Suffixes for “West” 51 Major continent 52 Paul Simon’s “make a new plan” guy 53 Secretive “over here” 56 Rock with value 57 One way to be at ease?

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Unscramble these four Jumbles, one letter to each square, to form four ordinary words.

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(Answers tomorrow) Jumbles: VIRUS TITLE CABANA MIRROR Answer: When fans from opposing teams got off the plane, it was — “A-RIVAL” TIME

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(First published in the Lawrence Daily JournalWorld December 23, 2016) IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF DOUGLAS COUNTY, KANSAS CIVIL DEPARTMENT Green Tree Servicing LLC Plaintiff, vs.

Brian S. Chilcoat and Kelley Renee Chilcoat, et al.

Lawrence

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to the highest bidder for cash in hand, at the Lower Level of the Judicial and Law Enforcement Center of the Courthouse at Lawrence, Douglas County, Kansas, on January 19, NOTICE OF SALE 2017, at 10:00 AM, the folUnder and by virtue of an lowing real estate: Order of Sale issued to me by the Clerk of the District Lot 2, Block 2, in Longleaf Court of Douglas County, No. 2, an addition in the Kansas, the undersigned City of Lawrence, Douglas Kansas, comSheriff of Douglas County, County, Kansas, will offer for sale monly known as 1406 at public auction and sell Redleaf Place, Lawrence, Defendants.

Case No. 13CV456 Court Number: Pursuant to K.S.A. Chapter 60

Lawrence KS 66049 (the “Property”) to satisfy the judgment in the above-entitled case.

The sale is to be made without appraisement and subject to the redemption period as provided by law, and further subject to the approval of the Court. For more information, visit

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PUBLIC NOTICE CONTINUED FROM 5C www.Southlaw.com Kenneth M McGovern, Sheriff Douglas County, Kansas Prepared By: SouthLaw, P.C. Kristen G. Stroehmann (KS #10551) 13160 Foster, Suite 100 Overland Park, KS 66213-2660 (913) 663-7600 (913) 663-7899 (Fax) Attorneys for Plaintiff (102527) ________

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You are further advised if written objections to simplified administration are filed with the Court, the Court may order that supervised administration ensue.

You are required to file your written defenses to (First published in the the Petition on or before Lawrence Daily Journal- January 19, 2017, at 10:00 a.m. in the Douglas County World December 23, 2016) District Court, in Lawrence, Kansas, at which time and IN THE DISTRICT COURT place the cause will be OF DOUGLAS COUNTY, heard. Should you fail to KANSAS file your written defenses, judgment and decree will IN THE MATTER OF be entered in due course THE ESTATE OF upon the Petition.

All creditors are notiJAMES N. STAUS, fied to exhibit their deDECEASED mands against the Estate within four months from Case No.: 2016-PR-000227 the date of the first publiDivision No.: 4 cation of this notice, as provided by law, and if NOTICE OF HEARING their demands are not thus AND FOR NOTICE exhibited, they shall be TO CREDITORS forever barred.

PURSUANT TO THE KANSAS SIMPLIFIED /a/Kelly Sorem ESTATES ACT KELLY SOREM, (Pursuant to K.S.A. Petitioner Chapter 59) THE STATE OF KANSAS TO /a/Ronald Schneider #10386 ALL PERSONS CONCERNED: Ronald Schneider, You are notified that on Attorney at Law, P.A. December 14, 2016, a Peti- 900 Massachusetts, tion was filed in this Court Suite 600

by Kelly Sorem, daughter Lawrence, Kansas 66044 and Co-Executor named in Ph: (785) 841-2040 the “Last Will and Testa- Fax: (785) 856-0243 ment of James N. Staus,” rxschneider@gmail.com deceased, dated January Attorney for Petitioner ________ 24, 2014, requesting that the instrument attached thereto be admitted to probate and recorded as the Last Will and Testament of the decedent and; Letters Testamentary under the Kansas Simplified Estates Act be issued to Co-Executors to serve without bond

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THE STATE OF KANSAS TO ALL PERSONS CONCERNED: You are notified that on December 12, 2016 a petition for Probate of will and issuance of letters Testamentary was filed in this Court by Rita Fisher, an heir, devisee and legatee, and executor named in the “Last Will and Testament of Ernest E Smith ,” deceased, dated April 14, 2015, requesting the will filed with the petition be admitted to probate and record: petitioner be appointed as executor,:and the petitioner be granted Letters Testamentary.

You are required to file your written defenses to the petition on or before Jamy5,2017 at 9:30 a.m. in the District Court, Division 4, Lawrence Douglas County, Kansas, at which time and place the cause will be heard. Should you fail to file your written defenses, judgment and decree will be entered in due course upon the petition.

All creditors are notified to exhibit their demands against the Estate within the latter of four months from the date of first publication of notice under /s/Sherri Riedemann K.S.A. 59-2236 and amendSherri Riedemann ments thereto, or if the City Clerk identity of the creditor is _______ known or reasonably ascertainable, 30 days after (First published in the actual notice was given as Lawrence Daily Journal- provided by law, and if their demands are not thus World December 16, 2016) exhibited, they shall be forever barred.

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KANSAS GUARD JOSH JACKSON (11) CHASES DOWN A BALL between UNLV forward Tyrell Green (3) and UNLV guard Kris Clyburn (1) during the second half Thursday at Thomas & Mack Center in Las Vegas.

Jackson gives Jayhawks ‘spark’ in 71-53 win

By Matt Tait mtait@ljworld.com

Las Vegas — In a city known for hosting world-class shows, Kansas freshman Josh Jackson put on one of his own during a dominant first half that led the third-ranked Jayhawks to a 71-53, runaway victory over the UNLV Runnin’ Rebels on Thursday night at Thomas and Mack Center.

Equal parts Cirque du Soleil, Blue Man Group and David Copperfield, Jackson was masterful all over the floor during the Jayhawks’ 11th consecutive victory of the season.

The only thing missing was the live animals used by Siegfried and Roy and feathered costumes of the classic Vegas showgirls. Of course, the way things went for the KU freshman in just 12 first half minutes, he may still have been too much for UNLV to handle even if he played with either strapped to his back.

“It seems like he’s been doing that a lot more in games, where he’ll kind of spark us,” KU senior Landen Lucas, who finished with a dozen rebounds in 27 minutes. “And that’s big. We need him to do that and be that kind of presence for us to put us ahead, to extend our lead and he definitely did that tonight.”

KU coach Bill Self agreed.

“He’s been good early in games for us,” Self said. “It’s nice. I could care less who does it, but he was the best player early in the game and then after he got his second foul it kind of neutralized him, he sat too long.”

After a quiet start, Jackson got going with a couple of drives to the basket. One produced a free throw and the other two points off of a nice drive from the wing and kiss off the glass. That opened up the outside and Jackson took advantage, drilling a topof-the-key 3-pointer for six straight points and a 15-5 Kansas lead.

With just under 11 minutes to play, Jackson unleashed the full array of his vast skill set on a single play. After a missed three-pointer by junior guard Devonté Graham — on a would-be assist from Jackson — the KU freshman battled for the rebound, dished to Lagerald Vick in the corner for another would-be assist and scooped up Vick’s miss for an easy put-back.

One possession later, Jackson kept his strong half going by providing a made-for-television highlight, pump-faking to get his man in the air and then driving baseline for a monster jam and a 25-9 Kansas lead.

“Teammates found me when I was open,” said Jackson, downplaying his 21-point, nine-rebound night.

“Just crashing the boards on the offensive end, trying to get some easy buckets. Missed a couple easy shots, easy free throws.”

Jackson’s signature moment may have come on the opening possession of the second half, when the 6-foot-8 guard took a lob pass from Frank Mason III, hung in the air, Jay cocked his right arm and hammered

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JACKSON GETS A HIGH FIVE from Kansas guard Devonté Graham (4) after a dunk during the first half. Visit kusports.com/kubball122216 for more photos from the game.

Running Rebels out of own gym no great feat these days

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Las Vegas — Chris Beard stayed all of seven days before leaving the entertainment capital of the world for the South Plains of Texas.

Anyone who thinks trading Las Vegas for Lubbock bumps the Red Sox trading Babe Ruth to the Yankees for the $100,000 Sox owner Harry Frazee used to finance a Broadway show

into second place in the worsttrade-in-sports history standings obviously didn’t watch the telecast of Thursday night’s basketball game in Thomas and Mack Center.

Before jumping to conclusions about Beard’s sanity, understand that in order to stay in Las Vegas he would have had to coach UNLV’s basketball

team, no way to make yourself look good.

The Runnin’ Rebels didn’t quit, but they didn’t stand a chance either, losing to Kansas, 71-53, in front of 14,116 inside Thomas and Mack Center.

Strangely, the fans who stayed until the end seemed extremely stressed out, as if the game were close or something.

Oh, wait, never mind. In Vegas, some of the spectators pay more attention to the betting line than the numbers on the scoreboard, and in that respect, UNLV fared much better by the end of the game than at the half, by which time the Jayhawks had taken a 42-20

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KANSAS FORWARD CARLTON BRAGG JR., FRONT, GUARD LAGERALD VICK (2) AND GUARD JOSH JACKSON, BACK, wrestle for a ball on the floor with UNLV forward Christian Jones (20) during the first half Thursday at Thomas & Mack Center in Las Vegas.

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Self: Azubuike’s injury ‘a freak deal’ in practice

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Las Vegas — With his left wrist in a soft cast and a sad stare on his face, Kansas freshman Udoka Azubuike watched Thursday’s 71-53 Kansas victory over UNLV in street clothes from the end of the KU bench.

It was a much different position than the one the KU big man had enjoyed during the six previous games, when he became a starter on the No. 3-ranked team in the nation and seemed to take one step after another in his development as a college basketball player.

Injured Tuesday during KU’s final practice before leaving town, the 7-foot freshman will miss the rest of the season with damaged ligaments in his injured wrist.

“No. Not at all,” said KU coach Bill Self after Thursday’s game when asked if he knew at the time of the injury that Azubuike’s season could be in jeopardy. “We just knew he hurt his wrist.

He finished practice. And then after practice (trainer) Bill (Cowgill) said we needed to get it looked at ... It’s in a bad spot and the MRI confirmed it was torn.”

Asked how the injury happened, Self called it “kind of a freak deal.”

“It wasn’t a play,” he said. “I think he was just banging on somebody and got his hand kind of caught in a shirt and somebody hit his hand in an awkward position.”

With KU’s big man rotation trimmed to starting forward Landen Lucas (four points, 12 rebounds in 27 minutes), sophomore Carlton Bragg Jr. (two points, six rebounds in 15 minutes) and freshman Mitch Lightfoot (two points, two fouls in six minutes) — No. 4 forward Dwight Coleby played just one minute against the Runnin’ Rebels — the Jayhawks move forward a bit short-handed up front, but nobody in crimson and blue was feeling sorry for the team following Thursday’s victory.

“We miss his presence,” freshman Josh Jackson said of Azubuike.

“It’s sad that we don’t have him, but the next guy’s gotta step up and guys have to help fill that

ABOVE LEFT: KANSAS CENTER UDOKA AZUBUIKE watches warmups.

throws, UNLV never would have been able to climb as close as a dozen in the second half. But it did not seem to matter who was at the line, the Jayhawks missed the second half of several trips to the free-throw line throughout the game, causing Self to throw his hands up and his head back on the bench, much the way he has done throughout the season.

Josh Jackson (2-of-5) and Frank Mason III (4of-10) accounted for all of KU’s misses from the free-throw line on Thursday. Lucas, the only other KU player who attempted a free throw, made both of his foul shots.

ABOVE RIGHT: Kansas guard Frank Mason III (0) pulls back for a shot over UNLV forward Cheickna Dembele (11) during the first half.

RIGHT: Kansas guard Sviatoslav Mykhailiuk (10) puts a 3 over UNLV guard Kris Clyburn (1) during the first half.

big hole.”

Added junior guard Sviatoslav Mykhailiuk: “We just all have to step up and get together and be us.”

Road game, really?

Although there were more UNLV fans at Thomas and Mack Center than Kansas fans, the visiting team had a pretty loud and proud backing from a number of Jayhawk fans who made the trip to KU’s final nonconference game of the season.

“By now, I’m used to

it,” Lucas said with a smile. “It seems like the farther we go we have a bigger crowd. It was awesome to see all those KU fans. We really do appreciate it and it helps us get the wins in tough situations.”

Postgame hustle Although it likely will not fly as a good excuse with the KU coaching staff, a couple of Kansas players said Thursday’s sluggish second half may have been the product of guys thinking about getting home for the holidays.

Because so many Kansas players were hustling out of the Thomas and Mack Center to catch flights home immediately after the game, that 22-point halftime lead might have been a trigger to start vacation early.

“One hundred percent,” Lucas said.

“We’ve got guys thinking about flights, thinking about being home with family, which is OK, but you want to push that off until after the game. This game could be kind of a trap game, going home for

Christmas and stuff and we knew we needed to come out here and handle business, and we did that in the first half.”

Free throw woes continue The Jayhawks, who entered Thursday’s game shooting 60 percent from the free-throw line, knocked that number back into the 50s with an 8-of-17 showing (47.1 percent) from the charity stripe in the win over UNLV. Had the Jayhawks connected on more free

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Kansas remained perfect all-time against UNLV and extended its lead in the series to 6-0 ...

Thursday marked the Jayhawks’ first win over the Runnin’ Rebels in Vegas ... Josh Jackson’s 21-point showing was one away from tying his career-high ... Sviatoslav Mykhailiuk’s 20-point night put him three points shy of tying his career-high ... KU’s 11 consecutive victories marks the 12th time in the Self era that KU has enjoyed a winning streak of 11 wins or more ... Kansas is now 5-1 in games played outside of Allen Fieldhouse this season.

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KANSAS GUARD SVIATOSLAV MYKHAILIUK (10) AND UNLV GUARD ZION MORGAN (10) VIE FOR A BALL during the first half Thursday at Thomas & Mack Center in Las Vegas.

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KANSAS GUARD FRANK MASON III (0) IS FOULED on the shot by UNLV guard Jovan Mooring (30) during the first half.

the finish, complete with a little stare after the flush.

Jackson said he knew the lob was coming and laughed when a reporter suggested that it was a huge highlight only because the pass was a little off.

“It was awesome,” Lucas said of Jackson’s alley-oop. “He caught it with one hand. I think coach wished he would’ve caught the second one (a miss, later in the half) with two hands, but it looked nice.”

When Jackson was bottled up or on the bench, KU junior Sviatoslav Mykhailiuk (20 points, six rebounds on 8-of-14 shooting) carried the load for Kansas (11-1).

“He was amazing tonight,” Jackson said of his teammate. “We expect a lot out of Svi, not just with his shooting ability but with his ability to drive and create open shots for teammates and he did a great job of that tonight.”

Perhaps doing his own Jackson impersonation, Mykhailiuk also

downplayed his performance.

“Ah, I just took open shots,” he said. “With nobody guarding me, I will always take the shot.”

Choosing Thursday night to combine for 58 percent of KU’s offense came at the perfect time for Kansas as the Jayhawks’ other two starting guards, Graham and Mason, combined to shoot 6-of-20 from the floor for 17 points, including 1-of-9 from 3-point range.

“Svi was good tonight,” Self said. “Josh got us off to a good start in the first half and Svi was our best player in the second half.

Frank and Devonté, they both had probably the worst games they’ve had so far this year.”

Their struggles allowed UNLV to outscore the Jayhawks 33-29 in the second half and turned a 22-point halftime laugher into a somewhat competitive game in the final 20 minutes.

UNLV staged a couple of strong charges in the second half, trimming KU’s lead to as low as 13 at one point early in the half and later to 12 with just under four minutes to play. But the Jayhawks regrouped, got Jackson involved again and out-executed the Rebels (7-6) to the finish line.

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lead. At that point, the Rebels didn’t look as if they could cover anyone or anything, least of all a spread.

When last I ventured into Thomas and Mack, roughly 30 years ago, the final scoreboard meant everything because colorful coach Jerry Tarkanian led one of the most entertaining shows college basketball ever has known.

The arena has great history. The grand opening in 1983 starred Frank Sinatra, Diana Ross and Dean Martin. Mostly though, the stage belonged to towel-chewing, sad-eyed, raspy-voiced Tark the Shark and his players, Freddie Banks and Armen Gilliam, then Larry Johnson, Stacey Augmon and Greg Anthony.

Tarkanian demanded defensive effort and rewarded those who complied with offensive freedom.

Tark would have loved coaching the players Bill Self sent to the court Thursday night, even if most of them in the final 20 minutes had one foot on the floor, one on their flights home for Christmas.

That’s understandable. The game was in the bag and the bad news on the personnel

KANSAS GUARD JOSH JACKSON (11) converses with an official during the second half. front was just settling in.

Losing freshman center Udoka Azubuike for the season to a wrist surgery meant a lot to the players because they’re a close bunch and he’s a popular teammate.

Azubuike sat on the end of the bench, his wrist in a brace, and one of the players who will be counted on to

absorb some of his minutes, Carlton Bragg, was on the bench with two fouls after playing six minutes. Not good. He’s going to have to figure out how to do better than that.

Landen Lucas can’t play 40 minutes, so even when Kansas uses four guards, which will be most of the

time, Bragg must be ready for extended minutes.

“The four-guard look, especially now with Udoka out, it ends up being a really good thing that we were playing it so often because we’re going to need to do it a lot,” Lucas said. “Carlton’s going to have to adjust a little with the plays, learning the five,

BOX SCORE Kansas (71)

MIN FG FT REB PF TP m-a m-a o-t Landen Lucas 27 1-3 2-2 4-12 4 4 F. Mason III 35 4-11 4-10 1-5 3 13 D. Graham 30 2-9 0-0 0-2 2 4 Svi Mykhailiuk 31 8-14 0-0 1-6 2 20 Josh Jackson 31 9-16 2-5 2-9 2 21 Lagerald Vick 24 2-5 0-0 0-2 1 5 C. Bragg Jr. 15 1-3 0-0 1-6 2 2 Dwight Coleby 1 0-1 0-0 0-1 2 0 Mitch Lightfoot 6 1-1 0-0 0-0 2 2 Team 2-2 Totals 28-63 8-17 11-45 20 71 3-point goals: 7-20 (Mason 1-4, Graham 0-5, Mykhailiuk 4-6, Jackson 1-2, Vick 1-3).

Assists: 18 (Lucas 2, Mason 8, Graham 3, Mykhailiuk 2, Vick 1, Bragg 2).

Turnovers: 11 (Lucas 1, Mason 3, Graham 1, Jackson 2, Vick 3, Bragg 1).

Blocked shots: 4 (Jackson 2, Vick 2). Steals: 7 (Lucas 1, Mason 2, Graham 2, Mykhailiuk 2).

UNLV (53)

MIN FG FT REB PF TP m-a m-a o-t Tyrell Green 34 5-9 0-2 0-7 4 12 C. Dembele 13 0-0 1-4 0-1 2 1 Kris Clyburn 29 3-10 3-6 3-10 0 10 Uche Ofoegbu 22 2-6 1-2 1-5 1 6 Jalen Poyser 31 3-10 3-4 0-6 1 10 Zion Morgan 10 0-1 1-2 0-0 0 1 C. Jones 27 4-7 0-2 4-7 2 8 J. Mooring 25 2-11 1-2 0-1 4 5 Troy Baxter Jr. 9 0-1 0-0 0-1 0 0 Team 2-2 Totals 19-55 10-24 10-40 14 53 3-point goals: 5-24 (Green 2-5, Clyburn 1-4, Ofoegbu 1-3, Poyser 1-5, Morgan 0-1, Mooring 0-5, Baxter 0-1). Assists: 11 (Green 1, Ofoegbu 1, Poyser 4, Mooring 5). Turnovers: 13 (Green 2, Dembele 2, Clyburn 1, Ofoegbu 2, Poyser 3, Jones 2, Mooring 1). Blocked shots: 3 (Dembele 1, Morgan 1, Jones 1).

Steals: 6 (Clyburn 2, Ofoegbu 1, Jones 2, Mooring 1).

Kansas 42 29 — 71 UNLV 20 33 — 53 Technical fouls: None. Officials: Tony Padilla, John Higgins, Steve Olson. Attendance: 14116.

but he’s smart and we all have confidence he’ll do that.”

It’s no time for Bragg to feel as if he’s playing out of position. Your position is where your team needs you and this team needs Bragg at center, where physical play is a must.

“I don’t think Josh (Jackson) came here to play the four either, but everybody understands that while you’re out there, you’re just a basketball player, you have to do whatever coach asks,” Lucas said. “If that’s what it takes to win, I’m sure everybody will buy in.”

Kansas made it through its pre-conference portion of the schedule with an 11-1 record and heads into conference play with nine scholarship players. Nobody would have guessed that when Azubuike got his hand caught in a jersey in practice Tuesday that it would spell the end to his season.

“We had no idea,” Lucas said. “It didn’t seem too serious at all. Then when we got the report, we were all shocked.”

It makes winning a 13thconsecutive Big 12 title tougher to accomplish, but when Kansas resumes its schedule next Thursday in Fort Worth against an improved TCU, it will do so as nearly everybody’s pick to win the league.

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Big 12 Oklahoma State 92, Texas A&M-Corpus-Christi 70 Stillwater, Okla. — Phil Forte scored 19 points to help Oklahoma State defeat Texas A&M-Corpus-Christi on Thursday.

Forte, who had been in a shooting slump, made 5 of 10 3-pointers for the Cowboys. Jeffrey Carroll scored 13 points, Lindy Waters had 12 and Mitchell Solomon added eight points and a career-high 14 rebounds off the bench for Oklahoma State (10-2). He had 11 boards in 12 minutes in the first half to set the career high by the break. Top scorer Jawun Evans scored just six points in 17 minutes and was limited because of foul trouble.

Ehab Amin scored 23 points and Rashawn Thomas added 15 for the Islanders (7-4).

The Cowboys outscored the Islanders 18-5 from the free-throw line and forced 21 turnovers in their final non-conference game.

TEXAS A&M-CC (7-4) Thomas 7-14 1-3 15, Amin 10-19 3-4 23, South 2-6 1-2 6, Kilgore 2-8 0-0 5, Martinez 0-0 0-0 0, Schmidt 1-3 0-0 2, Francois 4-7 0-3 8, Holcombe 0-1 0-0 0, Bloom 2-3 0-0 4, Hale 0-1 0-0 0, Brown 0-0 0-0 0, Kocher 3-7 0-2 7. Totals 31-69 5-14 70.

OKLAHOMA ST. (10-2) Hammonds 1-5 0-0 2, Evans 1-6 4-4 6, Forte 6-13 2-2 19, Waters 5-8 1-1 12, N’Guessan 1-2 0-0 2, Reeves 0-1 0-0 0, Solomon 4-5 0-0 8, Lienhard 0-0 0-0 0, Dziagwa 4-8 0-0 11, Underwood 0-0 0-0 0, Averette 4-9 2-2 11, Dillard 3-8 2-3 8, Carroll 3-10 7-9 13. Totals 32-75 18-21 92.

Halftime-Oklahoma St. 52-33. 3-Point GoalsTexas A&M-CC 3-13 (South 1-2, Kilgore 1-3, Kocher 1-3, Thomas 0-1, Amin 0-4), Oklahoma St. 10-28 (Forte 5-10, Dziagwa 3-7, Averette 1-2, Waters 1-3, Hammonds 0-1, Reeves 0-1, Carroll 0-4). Fouled Out-None. Rebounds-Texas A&MCC 38 (Thomas 10), Oklahoma St. 48 (Solomon 14). Assists-Texas A&M-CC 9 (South 4), Oklahoma St. 18 (Evans, Carroll 4). Total FoulsTexas A&M-CC 20, Oklahoma St. 18.

Top 25 No. 24 Cincinnati 93, Marshall 91, OT Cincinnati — Troy Caupain rebounded his missed shot and made a short jumper with 0.7 seconds left in overtime, rallying Cincinnati to a victory over Marshall.

The Bearcats (10-2) trailed by as many as 15 points in regulation and held the lead only briefly, 75-74 on Tre Scott’s free throw with 2:49 left. A 3-pointer by Jacob Evans III off a Marshall turnover tied it at 80 and sent it to overtime.

Gary Clark led Cincinnati with 26 points and 10 rebounds.

Stevie Browning scored 28 points for Marshall (7-5) and made a career-high six 3s, leading a perimeter attack that took control at the outset. Marshall made 5 of its first 6 shots from

beyond the arc — each by a difCenter Thomas Bryferent player — while pulling ant started a flurry of three ahead 19-4. straight 3s that extended Indiana’s 17-15 lead to 26-18 midMARSHALL (7-5) way through the first half.

Taylor 4-10 4-4 14, Penava 3-8 2-2 9, Browning 11-22 0-0 28, J.Elmore 6-16 4-4 20, Loop 2-4 0-0 6, The Hoosiers pulled away by Thieneman 0-0 0-0 0, Mijovic 0-0 0-0 0, Nikolic making 11 of 18 3s in the half 0-2 0-0 0, Burks 5-9 2-2 14. Totals 31-71 12-12 91. including a half-court buzzer CINCINNATI (10-2) Clark 12-15 1-4 26, Washington 4-9 0-0 8, beater.

Johnson 5-9 0-0 12, Caupain 3-14 1-5 7, Evans They finished 15 of 26 from 9-15 3-5 25, Scott 3-6 2-5 8, Brooks 1-2 0-0 2, Cumberland 0-2 2-2 2, Jenifer 1-3 1-2 3. Totals beyond the arc.

38-75 10-23 93.

Johnson’s first 10 shots all Halftime-Marshall 50-38. End Of RegulationTied 80. 3-Point Goals-Marshall 17-30 were 3s and he wound up (Browning 6-8, J.Elmore 4-10, Burks 2-2, Taylor 2-3, Loop 2-4, Penava 1-3), Cincinnati 7-16 making a career high six. Josh (Evans 4-5, Johnson 2-5, Clark 1-1, Jenifer 0-1, Newkirk had 11 points and a caCumberland 0-2, Caupain 0-2). Fouled Outreer-high 11 assists for Indiana.

Taylor. Rebounds-Marshall 33 (Penava 8), John Murry had 18 points for Cincinnati 39 (Caupain 12). Assists-Marshall 18 (J.Elmore 6), Cincinnati 21 (Caupain 6). Austin Peay, which trailed 48Total Fouls-Marshall 16, Cincinnati 12. A-10,540 31 at halftime and never got any (13,176). closer in the second half.

No. 16 Indiana 97, AUSTIN PEAY (4-9) Austin Peay 62 6-10 4-6 16, Porter-Bunton 0-1 0-0 Bloomington, Ind. — James 0, K.Jones Robinson 5-18 9-10 21, Murry 7-12 3-4 18, Blackmon Jr. scored 24 points Savage 1-7 0-0 3, Clayton 0-0 0-0 0, Diop 0-2 0, Ivory 2-2 0-0 4, Glotta 0-1 0-0 0. Totals and Robert Johnson added 20 0-0 21-53 16-20 62. as Indiana blew out Austin INDIANA (10-2) Anunoby 3-4 0-0 7, Bryant 2-3 3-6 8, Johnson Peay.

7-14 0-0 20, Newkirk 5-9 0-0 11, Blackmon Indiana (10-2) extended its 9-12 2-2 24, Davis 1-1 2-2 4, Morgan 3-3 0-0 6, home-court winning streak to McSwain 1-1 0-0 2, McRoberts 1-1 2-2 4, C.Jones 0-0 3, Green 2-2 3-4 8, Gelon 0-0 0-0 0. Totals 26 games — the fifth-longest in 1-6 35-56 12-16 97. school history.

Halftime-Indiana 48-31. 3-Point GoalsPeay 4-17 (Robinson 2-9, Murry Josh Robinson had 21 points Austin 1-3, Savage 1-4, Glotta 0-1), Indiana 15-26 for the Governors (4-9), who (Johnson 6-10, Blackmon 4-5, Green 1-1, Bryant 1-1, Anunoby 1-2, Newkirk 1-3, have lost seven straight.

1-4). Fouled Out-None. ReboundsAustin Peay kept the score C.Jones Austin Peay 22 (K.Jones 7), Indiana 35 (Davis close — until the Hoosiers fig- 7). Assists-Austin Peay 4 (Savage, Robinson, K.Jones 1), Indiana 22 (Newkirk 11). ured out how to beat their zone Diop, Total Fouls-Austin Peay 16, Indiana 18. defense.

A-14,688 (17,472).

NBA Roundup The Associated Press

Heat 115, Lakers 107 Miami — Justise Winslow and Hassan Whiteside each finished with 23 points and 13 rebounds, and Miami rallied from 19 points down to beat Los Angeles on Thursday night.

Winslow set a career high for points and tied a career best in rebounds for the Heat, who raised Shaquille O’Neal’s No. 32 jersey to the rafters in a halftime ceremony.

L.A. LAKERS (107) Deng 5-10 0-0 13, Young 7-14 1-1 20, Ingram 2-7 0-2 4, Mozgov 6-11 2-2 14, Russell 7-16 0-0 17, World Peace 0-1 0-0 0, Robinson 3-4 2-2 8, L.Williams 8-17 8-8 27, Clarkson 2-10 0-0 4.

Totals 40-90 13-15 107.

MIAMI (115) Winslow 10-16 3-6 23, McRoberts 2-2 0-0 4, Whiteside 9-12 5-6 23, Dragic 6-15 6-7 21, Richardson 4-11 0-0 9, Babbitt 0-1 0-0 0, Reed 1-2 0-0 2, J.Johnson 8-11 0-2 19, T.Johnson 5-14 0-0 14. Totals 45-84 14-21 115.

L.A. Lakers 25 35 20 27 — 107 Miami 17 36 29 33 — 115 3-Point Goals-L.A. Lakers 14-38 (Young 5-11, Deng 3-6, L.Williams 3-7, Russell 3-8, World Peace 0-1, Ingram 0-2, Clarkson 0-3), Miami 11-22 (T.Johnson 4-6, J.Johnson 3-5, Dragic 3-6, Richardson 1-3, Winslow 0-1, Babbitt 0-1).

Fouled Out-None. Rebounds-L.A. Lakers 40 (Robinson 12), Miami 47 (Winslow, Whiteside 13). Assists-L.A. Lakers 18 (Russell 7), Miami 25 (Dragic 7). Total Fouls-L.A. Lakers 14, Miami 15. Technicals-Robinson, Whiteside. A-19,712 (19,600).

Warriors 117, Nets 101 New York — Kevin Durant had 26 points, nine rebounds and seven assists, and Golden State turned an ugly start into an easy finish.

Klay Thompson added 23 points for the Warriors, who opened a three-game road trip that leads into their NBA Finals rematch in Cleveland on Christmas. They didn’t look ready while falling behind by 16 at halftime, but were back to their sometimes unstoppable selves while outscoring the Nets by 32 points over the final

How former Jayhawks fared Tarik Black, L.A. Lakers Did not play (ankle injury).

Paul Pierce, L.A. Clippers Late game.

Thomas Robinson, L.A. Lakers Min: 18. Pts: 8. Reb: 12. Ast: 2.

24 minutes.

Stephen Curry and Zaza Pachulia each finished with 15 points for the Warriors, who played without Draymond Green, who returned to the Bay Area early Thursday after the birth of his son, Draymond Jamal Green Jr. Brook Lopez scored 28 points for Brooklyn, but just five in the second half as the Nets dropped their fourth straight.

GOLDEN STATE (117) Durant 10-23 5-6 26, Looney 2-5 0-0 4, Pachulia 6-9 3-4 15, Curry 6-19 0-0 15, Thompson 9-24 0-0 23, West 4-5 2-2 10, McAdoo 0-1 0-0 0, McGee 0-0 1-2 1, Varejao 0-0 0-0 0, Livingston 2-4 0-0 4, Iguodala 3-6 0-0 8, McCaw 1-2 0-0 3, Clark 4-6 0-0 8. Totals 47-104 11-14 117.

BROOKLYN (101) Booker 2-5 0-0 4, Lopez 9-16 6-6 28, Lin 4-12 0-0 10, Bogdanovic 5-10 0-0 12, Kilpatrick 4-11 5-7 14, Scola 1-1 0-0 2, Bennett 0-0 0-0 0, McCullough 0-0 0-0 0, Hamilton 1-3 0-0 2, Dinwiddie 1-3 0-0 2, Foye 0-0 0-0 0, Harris 3-4 0-0 9, LeVert 2-6 1-2 5, Hollis-Jefferson 6-15 0-1 13. Totals 38-86 12-16 101.

Golden State 33 16 39 29 — 117 Brooklyn 34 31 19 17 — 101 3-Point Goals-Golden State 12-37 (Thompson 5-10, Curry 3-13, Iguodala 2-5, McCaw 1-1, Durant 1-7, Clark 0-1), Brooklyn 13-35 (Lopez 4-9, Harris 3-3, Bogdanovic 2-5, Lin 2-7, HollisJefferson 1-3, Kilpatrick 1-5, LeVert 0-1, Hamilton 0-2). Fouled Out-None. ReboundsGolden State 51 (Pachulia 14), Brooklyn 46 (Lin, Lopez 8). Assists-Golden State 29 (Curry, Durant 7), Brooklyn 22 (Lin 11). Total FoulsGolden State 19, Brooklyn 15. TechnicalsDurant. A-17,732 (17,732).

NFL ROUNDUP The Associated Press

Eagles 24, Giants 19 Philadelphia — If the New York Giants continue to play this way, they won’t have much of an impact even if they make the playoffs.

Malcolm Jenkins had the second two-interception game of his eight-year career, returning one for a touchdown, and the Philadelphia Eagles snapped a five-game slide by beating the Giants 24-19 on Thursday night. The loss prevented New York from advancing to the playoffs and handed Dallas the NFC East title — and homefield advantage throughout the conference playoffs.

It also put the Giants (10-5) in a more difficult spot for ending their four-season playoff

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drought. They still own the top wild-card position heading into their finale at Washington.

“We’re disappointed right now in the way we played tonight,” said Eli Manning, who threw a career-high 63 times, completing 38 for 356 yards, but was picked off three times.

“We know we can bounce back next week and still get a win and get in the playoffs.”

New York can still get in this weekend if Detroit, Green Bay, Tampa Bay or Atlanta loses.

Carson Wentz threw a touchdown pass to Nelson Agholor, then returned from being examined for a concussion in the fourth quarter to guide a drive to Caleb Sturgis’ 41-yard field goal.

N.Y. Giants 3 10 3 Philadelphia 14 7 0

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Celtics 109, Pacers 102 Indianapolis — Isaiah Thomas had 28 points and nine assists, helping Boston to its fourth straight win.

Avery Bradley and Jae Crowder each scored 15 points for the Celtics, who led 51-40 at halftime. Marcus Smart had 12 points, and Amir Johnson and Kelly Olnyk finished with 11 apiece.

The Pacers pulled within four late in the game, but were unable to catch the Celtics down the stretch.

Jeff Teague led Indiana with 31 points and eight assists. Paul George and CJ Miles scored 19 points apiece, and Thaddeus Young had 15 points and 12 rebounds.

BOSTON (109) Crowder 5-9 2-2 15, Johnson 5-7 0-2 11, Horford 3-12 2-2 8, Thomas 9-21 8-9 28, Bradley 6-13 3-3 15, Brown 2-7 0-0 4, Jerebko 2-4 0-0 5, Olynyk 4-8 1-1 11, Smart 2-8 7-8 12, Rozier 0-3 0-0 0. Totals 38-92 23-27 109.

INDIANA (102) George 5-16 9-10 19, Robinson 1-9 0-0 2, T.Young 6-11 0-2 15, Turner 5-11 0-0 10, Teague 9-15 11-11 31, Miles 7-13 3-4 19, Allen 0-0 0-0 0, Seraphin 0-0 0-0 0, Jefferson 2-4 0-0 4, Brooks 0-3 2-2 2. Totals 35-82 25-29 102.

Boston 22 29 26 32 — 109 Indiana 31 9 27 35 — 102 3-Point Goals-Boston 10-39 (Crowder 3-5, Olynyk 2-5, Thomas 2-11, Johnson 1-2, Jerebko 1-3, Smart 1-4, Horford 0-3, Bradley 0-3, Rozier 0-3), Indiana 7-23 (T.Young 3-6, Teague 2-4, Miles 2-6, Turner 0-1, Brooks 0-1, Robinson 0-2, George 0-3). Fouled Out-None. ReboundsBoston 44 (Horford 11), Indiana 52 (T.Young 12). Assists-Boston 19 (Thomas 9), Indiana 20 (Teague 8). Total Fouls-Boston 27, Indiana 21. Technicals-Bradley, Indiana defensive three second, Indiana team, George. A-17,577 (18,165).

points for New York, which has won two in a row since a threegame losing streak. Kristaps Porzingis scored 12 points, and reserve Brandon Jennings had 12 assists in 22 minutes.

Serge Ibaka led the Magic with 23 points and 10 rebounds.

Evan Fournier scored 21 points.

Orlando closed to 104-95 on Jeff Green’s free throws with 1:29 left, but Rose scored with 1:08 remaining to help the Knicks close it out.

ORLANDO (95) Fournier 9-17 2-2 21, Ibaka 10-18 0-0 23, Gordon 3-8 0-0 6, Biyombo 3-6 3-4 9, Augustin 1-4 0-0 2, Green 3-8 4-4 10, Rudez 0-0 0-0 0, Vucevic 4-11 2-4 10, Zimmerman 0-2 0-0 0, Payton 4-11 1-2 10, Watson 2-5 0-0 4, Hezonja 0-0 0-0 0. Totals 39-90 12-16 95.

NEW YORK (106) Anthony 5-17 5-5 15, Porzingis 5-11 0-0 12, Noah 2-5 2-2 6, Rose 7-16 4-4 19, Lee 4-7 0-0 10, Kuzminskas 2-3 1-2 6, O’Quinn 6-12 2-2 14, Hernangomez 7-11 0-0 15, Jennings 1-5 1-2 4, Holiday 2-8 0-0 5, Baker 0-1 0-0 0, Vujacic 0-0 0-0 0. Totals 41-96 15-17 106.

Orlando 19 28 25 23 — 95 New York 27 30 24 25 — 106 3-Point Goals-Orlando 5-27 (Ibaka 3-7, Payton 1-4, Fournier 1-5, Vucevic 0-1, Green 0-2, Augustin 0-2, Gordon 0-3, Watson 0-3), New York 9-20 (Porzingis 2-2, Lee 2-3, Jennings 1-2, Kuzminskas 1-2, Holiday 1-2, Rose 1-2, Hernangomez 1-3, O’Quinn 0-1, Anthony 0-3).

Fouled Out-None. Rebounds-Orlando 41 (Ibaka 10), New York 52 (O’Quinn 16). Assists-Orlando 21 (Vucevic 6), New York 26 (Jennings 12).

Total Fouls-Orlando 14, New York 18. A-19,812 (19,812).

SCOREBOARD Big 12 Men

Knicks 106, Magic 95 New York — Derrick Rose scored 19 points, Kyle O’Quinn had 14 points and a career-high 16 rebounds, and the Knicks got the win at home.

Carmelo Anthony and Willy Hernangomez each had 15

COLLEGE FOOTBALL BOWL ROUNDUP The Associated Press

Famous Idaho Potato Bowl

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Idaho 61, Colorado State 50 Boise, Idaho — Matt Linehan threw for 381 yards and four touchdowns and ran for a another score to help Idaho beat Colorado State on Thursday night in the Famous Idaho Potato Bowl in the third-highest scoring game in bowl history.

Colorado State (7-6) finished with a bowl loss for the second straight year.

Idaho 0 Colorado St. 0

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League Overall Baylor 0-0 12-0 Kansas 0-0 11-1 Kansas State 0-0 11-1 TCU 0-0 11-1 Texas Tech 0-0 11-1 West Virginia 0-0 10-1 Oklahoma State 0-0 10-2 Iowa State 0-0 8-3 Oklahoma 0-0 6-5 Texas 0-0 6-5 Wednesday’s Games Texas Southern 63, Baylor 89 Longwood 60, Texas Tech 91 Gardner-Webb 54, Kansas State 67 Oklahoma 70, Auburn 74 Bradley 42, TCU 74 Thursday’s Games Texas A&M Corpus Christi 70, Oklahoma State 92 Kansas 71, UNLV 53 Today’s Games Northern Kentucky at West Virginia, 3 p.m.

Tuesday, Dec. 27 Kent State at Texas, 6 p.m.

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League Overall West Virginia 0-0 12-0 Baylor 0-0 11-1 Oklahoma State 0-0 10-1 Kansas State 0-0 10-2 Iowa State 0-0 9-2 Oklahoma 0-0 9-3 TCU 0-0 8-3 Texas Tech 0-0 8-3 Texas 0-0 6-4 Kansas 0-0 6-5 Thursday’s Games Texas Tech 79, UT Arlington 60 Northern Iowa 67, Kansas State 59 Thursday, Dec. 29 Iowa State at Oklahoma State, 5 p.m.

West Virginia at TCU, 6:30 p.m.

Texas Tech at Texas, 7 p.m.

Oklahoma at Kansas, 7 p.m.

Kansas State at Baylor, 7 p.m.

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