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DOWNTOWN LAWRENCE is pictured recently from above, looking north from the historic Douglas County Courthouse at 11th and Massachusetts streets.

‘Elves,’ trash collection staff give boy an unforgettable gift Young garbage truck fan was diagnosed with cancer in 2015 while playing with his 3-year-old brother, Grady, is a Christmas blessing for his mother. earing a Kansas Jay“This is the best he has felt in hawk basketball jera long time,” she said. “It’s great sey, 6-year-old Dagen to see him with so much energy Korynta showed his deadeye again.”

Thursday afternoon as he drained Dagen was diagnosed with neurepeated shots through a goal roblastoma in August 2015. Since suspended from a small backthen, he has had surgery to remove board above the family home’s a tumor in his abdomen, radiation front door. therapy to kill another tumor near He’s a big KU fan, his mother his spine doctors couldn’t remove, Heather Korynta said. A statetwo bone marrow transplants to ment Dagen proved by identifytreat the spread of the cancer in ing the last Jayhawk star to wear his bones and three regimes of chethe 34 on his jersey. motherapy.

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AS PART OF A CHRISTMAS EVE SURPRISE, Lawrence Solid Waste Operations Supervisor Craig Pruett dresses as an elf to show 6-year-old Dagen Korynta and his parents, Heather and Evan Korynta, a trash truck with the boy’s picture. Dagen, who was diagnosed with cancer in 2015, is a fan of trash trucks.

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are asked a long list of ejones@ljworld.com questions to help determine their mental states The cell blocks at the and level of chemical deDouglas County Jail are pendency, Brouwer said. not inviting places, but Inmates who are Douglas lll those who know the County residents and This story is part Improving mental jail say the third-floor arrested for nonviolent of a series exploring health care and access special-management unit crimes are eligible for the needs Douglas for inmates is one of is the most depressing. the Access, Identify and County Sheriff’s the motives behind the “We call it the special Divert program that Office officials say are estimated $30 million, management unit, but is offered by two Bert driving the proposed 120-bed expansion of the Nash Community Mental I maintain it is really a $30-million expansion Douglas County Jail once Health employees hired segregation unit,” said of the Douglas County it is formally proposed, Mike Brouwer, direcin January with a twoJail. most likely in 2017. The tor of the jail’s re-entry year federal grant, which The series will look project, though, will program. “It’s the unit continues through 2017. next at the plan to require public financing, The two AID evaluawith the least amount of add male and female and likely will require sunlight in the building. tors determine which pods, observe and some public convincing.

It’s the only unit that inmates should be placed classify the risk Already some groups has metal toilets and in appropriate alternative level of new inmates have expressed opposimetal sliding doors. It settings. entering the Douglas tion to the idea, instead has smaller day rooms; a Bert Nash’s involveCounty Jail. urging the county to smaller recreation area. ment continues through focus more on reducing It was never designed Zehr’s and Naff’s work inmate totals and to build with inmates with mental for special-needs popua crisis intervention lations.” illness. In addition to center, which the county individual and group To an outsider, it special-management therapies on a number also has proposed. might seem as if special- cells, hoping to engage The expansion would of topics, they work with population inmates in conversation with any the inmates on changbuild what Brouwer would be assigned to inmates or correctional and Bert Nash jail team ing criminal thinking a special-management officers who may be and addressing chemical leader Sharon Zehr say area, but they are two near, said Cindy Naff, a or alcohol dependency. would be a therapeutic distinct classifications at Bert Nash mental health That’s a big task because environment where the Douglas County Jail. clinician at the jail.

70 to 80 percent of ininmates could receive The special-management Women undergomates with mental illness treatment and prepare cells are meant to house ing a mental health are substance abusers, for success outside the inmates whose crimes crisis aren’t placed in a Zehr said. or disciplinary problems special-management unit jail’s walls. Among the Ziegler helps inmates require that they be because there is no such building program’s feasegregated from other thing at the jail. There is tures would be a 28-bed prepare for release and male mental-health pod aids them once they are inmates in the singleonly a single female pod and an adjoining female back in the community. bed units. Special-needs that houses all women That latter effort inpod with 14 beds. The populations are those from special managevolves connecting them pods’ designs include with mental illness or ment, special needs and with community resourcsuch calming features other medical or physical minimum, medium and es, reminding released conditions. maximum security. That as an abundance of natural light, a large day inmates of appointments Because there is no forced mixture of popuroom area and open-air or even giving them a pod for inmates with lations can create more ride to appointments, she courtyards. The pods mental illness at the problems. said. will also have offices county jail, male in“We have issues with Brouwer and the jail’s for staff and space for mates in crisis situatriggering,” said Kelli Bert Nash staff expect existing and expanded tions are placed in the Ziegler, Bert Nash jail the proposed mental programming. special-management re-entry specialist. “An health pods’ therapeutic Although the jail curarea where they remain inmate may be OK on the environments would rently lacks appropriate in their cells at least 22 women’s side, and we be an asset in helping space for inmates with hours a day with little bring in another inmate inmates recover, but mental illness, Douginteraction with corin crisis who is screamthey also see the value of rectional staff until they ing. That can put a lot of las County Sheriff Ken having the mental health stabilize. That forces in- trauma on someone who McGovern has made a target population and commitment to their mates in mental health may have been handling resources serving them needs through staffing crisis to spend a lot of it well and trigger a reand programming, Brou- in one place. The addiidle hours dealing with sponse.” tion would free clinicians their demons.

The jail currently has wer said. from working around the “The amount of staff “In reality, someone no mental health areas, we have per inmate I am daily schedules of the who is in crisis and or pods, for the 30 perjail’s pods, especially the actively symptomatic is cent of the jail’s popula- confident is the best in complex daily timetable not going to do a lot of tion with mental illness Kansas,” he said. “The in the catch-all female number of programs sleeping or any reading,” and 18 percent with pod, Zehr said. we have, I know, is the Brouwer said. “It’s tough. severe and persistent The jail would inmost.”

In the other jail I worked mental illness. Once male inmates are stabicrease its Bert Nash presat, the inmates were lll lized in the special-manence should the mental unlocked for as many Through its partneragement unit, they are health addition be built. hours a day as possible. ship with Bert Nash, the placed in the appropri“Right now with the We kept them out in the two grant positions, day room as much as we ate pod for their securi- jail has a continuum of ty-risk level where they mental-health programwe have one clinician possibly could.” get increased out-of-cell ming from booking to for every 60 inmates, At the Douglas time and access to more post-release. which is a pretty good County Jail, the inmates The effort starts at programming. Women ratio,” Brouwer said. in crisis tend to stand booking when inmates stay in the jail’s single “We look to continue by the doors of their

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female pod.

“We have folks with serious mental illness all over the facility,” Brouwer said.

the yard, he received a T-shirt signed by all the employees of the department. He didn’t know it CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1A at the time of his visit, but this keepsake would — Evan Korynta, Dagen’s father That diagnosis came later be a key component after a 4-year-old Dagen of Dagen’s memorable started complaining of Christmas Eve thanks what it is about garbage pain in his legs. to the efforts of Elves of problem is temporary. trucks he likes. He does “The doctor told us Christmas Present, a net“He threw up bile for a quietly admit he would it was ‘growing pains,’” work of good Samaritans month from a reaction to Heather Korynta said who work anonymously medicine,” his mother said. like to drive one when he grows up. His mother to provide Christmas “He would wake up in The chemotherapy relates that he likes the the night crying. When “miracles” for families isn’t over. Dagen has he curled up in a ball cry- completed four rounds of idea working on or in the and individuals who have trucks in the morning ing from the pain, I called a once-a-month regime had a tough year. The and having afternoons the doctor and said, ‘I miracles, such as using of a new treatment. He off, a schedule he thinks know there is something is having some adverse snow machines to give a sanitation workers keep. sick child a white Christseriously wrong with my reactions, but his parHe has a more straight- mas or giving a gravely son.’” ents, encouraged by his forward reason for liking ill girl a helicopter ride It was then that tests progress, hope he can the profession, too. provided the neuroblasto a hangar decorated as complete the remaining “I like that they help keep Santa’s North Pole worktoma diagnosis. six rounds of the chemothe world clean,” he said.

Since that time, Dagen therapy. shop, require a good deal has spent a good deal of logistical planning. lll lll of time, including his The Elves decided When Dagen felt like Word of Dagen’s inter- this year to extend opsixth birthday, at Chilest spread to the city dren’s Mercy Hospital in playing during the bad erations into Lawrence Kansas City, Mo. Heather times the past 17 months, solid waste department, for the first time with a he didn’t flash his bassaid Craig Pruett, opKorynta resigned from miracle for Dagen, said ketball skills. Rather, he erations manager for the the group’s lead orgaher position as a firstwould sit on the floor city’s solid-waste divigrade teacher in Topeka nizer, who identified playing with his toy garsion. The division has to care for her son and himself only as “The bage trucks. a lot of young fans who homeschool him during Chief Elf.” He credited Dagen first developed are obsessed with trucks the city of Lawrence his kindergarten year. his fondness for the garthat visit their neighbor- and especially the When home, Dagen bage trucks that visited hoods, but staff took a battled the disease and solid-waste division for the Koryntas’ southwest special interest in Dagen. its assistance in makthe side effects of his Lawrence neighborhood “All the crews know treatments. He suffered ing Dagen’s elaborate him,” he said. “He’s been Christmas Eve surprise a partial hearing loss as a at the age of 2, but he’s a bigger fan now. By his able to get down there result of chemotherapy, possible. count, he has 15 toy gar(the solid waste yard), and another reaction The miracle started bage trucks. and we’ve been following Saturday morning when required him to start The shy Dagen doesn’t his progress.” wearing glasses, although Santa Claus and an elf share with strangers When Dagen visited there is hope the vision visited the Korynta

(Dagen) didn’t say much in front of everybody, but I guarantee he’s going to talk about (the surprise) the rest of the day.”

those positions and add one more clinician with the expansion with the option of adding another should the jail population increase. We would also increase the number of hours we provide psychiatry. We now provide five hours of psychiatry a week. We’re thinking about increasing that to eight to 10 hours.” lll

Continued and better mental health programs will be needed at the jail even if a mental health crisis intervention center is built, the behavioral health court is completely developed and other diversionary programs being explored are fully implemented, Brouwer and the Bert Nash team insist.

“I’ve heard people say the crisis center would divert 30 people from the jail a day,” he said. “I’m not sure where that’s coming from because we’re not seeing those kinds of numbers anywhere in the state with the other three crisis centers.

Johnson County with a population of 500,000 is diverting an average of two people a day from the county jail to their crisis center. With 17,000 bookings a year, that’s not a significant portion.”

As for the behavioral health court, it would be important to get the right people into the program, and those are high-needs inmates, requiring intensive supervision, Brouwer said. They would be few in number, but would make a noticeable difference at the jail because those inmates place a great demand on the facility’s resources, he said.

“We visited the mental health court in Topeka, and at that time they were serving 12 people,” he said. “This last month, they were serving five people. So it’s not having a huge impact on the jail population. Those programs are not about reducing the jail population but about doing the right thing for those people.”

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

home, where they spent time with Dagen, his brother and their visiting cousins. Santa then gave Dagen a toy garbage truck, which, through magic (and the use of blankets over covered young heads), he transformed into an actual truck adorned with a large picture of Dagen wearing the T-shirt signed by solid-waste employees.

Wearing an elf costume, Pruett then drove Dagen and his mother to the Southwest Middle School parking lot, where the boy sat in the garbage truck’s cab as it picked up a series of trash bins.

The picture of Dagen will remain on the truck as it services Lawrence neighborhoods.

A wide-eyed Dagen took in the miracle with few words, but his father said he wouldn’t need to see the garbage truck with his photo to remember the day.

“He’s so shy,” his father, Evan Korynta, said.

“He didn’t say much in front of everybody, but I guarantee he’s going to talk about it the rest of the day.”

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Two people were transported to Lawrence Memorial Hospital on Friday night after a driver attempting to outrun a Kansas Highway Patrol officer lost control of his vehicle in southwest Douglas County, the Highway Patrol said.

According to the Kansas Highway Patrol, Trey Patterson, 26, of Topeka, lost control at 11:47 p.m. of a 1998 Mercedes-Benz on North 175 Road, about 1.5 miles southeast of Globe.

According to the Kansas Highway Patrol crash logs, the driver and a passenger, Amber Heidinger, 24, of Scranton, were taken to Lawrence Memorial Hospital by Lawrence-Douglas — County reporter Elvyn Jones can be County Fire Medical. reached at 832-7166. Follow him Additional details were on Twitter: @ElvynJ not immediately available.

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RIC AVERILL, ARTISTIC DIRECTOR OF THE LAWRENCE ARTS CENTER, WILL SOON BE LEAVING HIS POSITION where he has served for 16 years, but isn’t exactly falling into retirement. The Lawrence actor, playwright and educator says that he will be working on projects with friends across the country and plans to stay involved in the arts scene locally.

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After dangerously high levels of toxic lead were discovered in a public recreation building, a nearly $40,000 cleanup will soon be underway.

Since the lead contamination was discovered earlier this year, the primarily concrete room in the basement of the Community Building, 115 W. 11th St., has been locked up. After temporary walls are put up around the area, professional decontamination is set to begin on Monday.

The room will be almost entirely stripped down as part of the

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ent gear, Ric Averill says with this new year he’ll probably only work between 40 and 60 hours a week. He is retiring, after all.

At the end of this month, Averill, 66, said he’ll step down from his position as the artistic director of the Lawrence Arts Center, where he’s worked for more than 16 years.

“I’m retiring from the Lawrence Arts Center, but I won’t be retiring from the arts,” Averill said. “I’m looking forward to doing a few projects with some of my friends across the country.”

“It’s not like I won’t be doing a lot of things around here,” he added.

Born in San Francisco but raised in Topeka, Averill was a part of a cultural rebirth in Lawrence

— Mary Doveton, executive director of Theatre Lawrence starting in the mid-1970s.

Marilyn Dobski, former board president for the Lawrence Arts Center, said it’s hard to imagine the facility without Averill, especially with his contributions to the theater.

“He was instrumental when we built the new building, helping us decide what we needed with the theater,” she said. “He was a big help when it came to that building or planning.”

Not only did Averill have significant impact on the Arts Center’s new building at 940 New Hampshire St., Dobski said, but his touch

can be traced all the way back to its beginnings.

“When I think of the theater portion of the arts center and all the drama programs, I think of Ric,” she said.

In the mid-’70s, just as the Arts Center was coming into its own — originally housed in the Carnegie Building, 200 W. Ninth St. — Averill helped found the Seem-To-Be Players, a community theater troupe.

The two organizations worked together early and often, growing in tandem. And in the early 2000s, the Arts Center moved to its current location, absorbing the SeemTo-Be Players in the process and naming Averill the director of performing arts.

Averill said his position with the Arts Center afforded him a great deal of flexibility to work both

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cleanup, said Mark A. Hecker, assistant director of the Lawrence Parks and Recreation Department.

“So it’ll be everything from removing all the surfaces in there — from carpet to wood to the traps — then cleaning it and repainting it if needed for sealing purposes,” Hecker said. “It’ll basically leave us with a bare-naked room.”

The city has hired Titan Environmental Services to decontaminate the room. In addition to lead decontamination, the company does cleanup of other hazards such as asbestos, black mold

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Library offering light therapy to combat seasonal depression auditorium, along with comfy chairs and plenty of reading material.

The Lawrence Public And so far, the reLibrary is offering pa- sponse has been positrons a bit of sun — in tive, says Kate Gramthe form of lamps de- lich, a readers’ services signed to combat assistant at the Seasonal Affective library who first Disorder — inside approached adits doors this winministrators with ter. the idea earlier Visitors this this year. week may have Gramlich, who HEALTH noticed the lights, has suffered from which effectively rep- seasonal depression in licate sunshine and the the past, recognized a Vitamin D our bodies need for a welcoming, produce after spend- nonintimidating outlet ing time outdoors, stationed in the library’s > LIGHTS, 4A

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and methamphetamine labs. The process will cost the city about $39,000 and the cleanup portion of the process is expected to take about week, Hecker said.

Since 1940, the approximately 1,400-square-foot space in the basement of the building — which was originally an armory — housed a gun range that has left behind extremely high levels of lead contamination. The lead contamination built up as bits from lead bullets accumulated as patrons at the range fired their weapons.

“It’s been there forever, since it was a National Guard Armory,” Hecker said. “That activity in that space is what causes that lead contamination.”

Most recently, the Douglas County Rifle and

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for others who may be struggling with the feelings of hopelessness and decreased motivation that often accompany the shorter, darker days of winter. Light therapy (i.e., sitting near one of the special lamps for roughly a half-hour each day) has helped her before, she said, and could help others, if given the chance.

“People can come in, and maybe just being around people would be helpful,” Gramlich says of the lamp area, which library staffers are also stocking with literature on preventing and treating seasonal depression from Lawrence’s Bert Nash Community Mental Health Center. “Or maybe if you’re sitting and reading quietly by yourself, you might feel like you accomplished something that day by going and

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Pistol Club leased the space from the city and operated the gun range. In February, the club was ordered to cease operations after city leaders realized its location violated the federal Gun Free School Zones Act, enacted in 1990.

In May, tests found the presence of lead in some areas that was 17,000 times greater than what is considered safe by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. The shooting range did not have a filtration system, and used only a vent that led to the building’s parking lot as a means of air circulation. After the lead levels were discovered, those involved with the club have either declined or not responded to requests from the Journal-World to comment on the operations.

Lead is toxic if ingested, and is especially harmful for infants and children. Even low levels of lead in blood have been shown to affect trying something.”

In the winter, Gramlich says, when folks often leave for work in the morning while it’s still dark out and head home in the evening when it’s even darker, feelings of isolation and sluggishness can easily begin to creep in.

“The prospect of bundling up and going out in the world is more exhausting when it’s cold and then also when you are feeling depressed,” she says.

The National Mental Health Disorders Association estimates that 10 to 20 percent of the population suffers from mild winter Seasonal Affective Disorder, with nearly 5 percent experiencing a more severe form of the disorder. Many of us, even those without a diagnosis or even an awareness of the condition, may still experience winter blues on some level, Gramlich says.

She hopes the lamps, which retail for about $50

IQ, ability to pay attention and academic achievement, according to the Centers for Disease Control. The effects of lead exposure cannot be corrected.

Hecker said once the decontamination is complete, the city will test the former shooting range and adjacent areas to make sure the space is safe. He said, at that point, conversations about what the room could be used for — perhaps a golf range or stationary cycling spin room — will begin.

“We’ve discussed a number of programming ideas in there,” Hecker said. “You turn the programmers loose with an empty space, they come up with all kinds of cool stuff.

A lot of it, we’ll have to put some additional money into it to make it publicly usable for something else.”

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

on Amazon, will offer some comfort to anyone who may need it this season.

The message of the library, Gramlich says, is a simple one: You’re not alone. Acquiring and installing the lamps has been a “community effort” in itself, she says, with several library staffers lending their personal lamps to the cause.

“As soon as I brought it up, a lot of people were like, ‘Oh, I’ve got one of those,’” Gramlich says, referring to the lamps.

“It’s not something that anybody talks about. So maybe if a patron comes in and sits down and realizes they’re by a few other people, they might think, ‘I’m not the only one feeling this way.’”

In the meantime, Gramlich and her fellow staffers are hoping to keep the lamps stationed around the library until at least Jan. 31.

THE INCOMPARABLE CHRIST More than nineteen hundred years ago there was a Man born contrary to the laws of life. This Man lived in poverty and was reared in obscurity.

He did not travel extensively. Only once did He cross the boundary of the country in which He lived; that was during His exile in childhood.

He possessed neither wealth nor influence. His relatives were inconspicuous, and had neither training nor formal education.

In infancy He startled a king; in childhood He puzzled doctors; in manhood He ruled the course of nature, walked upon the billows as if pavements, and hushed the sea to sleep.

He healed the multitudes without medicine and made no charge for His service.

He never wrote a book, and yet all the libraries of the country could not hold the books that have been written about Him. He never wrote a song and yet He has furnished the theme for more than all songwriters combined.

He never founded a college, but all the schools put together cannot boast of having as many students.

He never marshaled any army, nor drafted a soldier, nor fired a gun; and yet no leader ever had more volunteers who have, under his orders, made more rebels stack arms and surrender without a shot fired.

He never practiced medicine, and yet He has healed more broken hearts than all doctors far and near.

Every seventh day of the week the wheels of commerce cease their turning and multitudes wend their way to worshipping assemblies to pay homage and respect to Him. The names of the past proud statesmen of Greece and Rome have come and gone. The names of the past scientists, philosophers, and theologians have come and gone; but the name of this Man abounds more and more. Though time has spread nineteen hundred years between the people of this generation and the scene of His crucifixion, He still lives. Herod could not destroy Him, and the grave could not hold Him. He stands forth upon the highest pinnacle of heavenly glory, proclaimed of God, acknowledged by angels, adored by saints, and feared by devils, as the living, personal Christ, our Lord and Saviour.

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We wish you a Blessed Holiday Season!

For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life.

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inside and outside of the organization. He’s traveled to nearly all 50 states, directed shows in different countries and even lived in Russia for a month.

Throughout his career, Averill said he’s published nearly two dozen plays, about one a year since he was first published in 1994.

He was honored twice at the Kennedy Center, once where his rendition of “Alice in Wonderland” graced the stage.

The story of how that show came to be still makes Averill chuckle, he said. “(The show’s director) calls me up and says, ‘Do you have an Alice in Wonderland sitting around?’”

Averill recalls.

He didn’t.

“I said, in true theater fashion, ‘Sure I do, just gimme a week to pull it together.’ And over that week I wrote an 80-page Alice in Wonderland and faxed it to Washington D.C. on a Sunday.”

The show was a rousing success, he said.

And though he’s been here and there, Averill kept Lawrence as his home base.

Mary Doveton, executive director for Theatre Lawrence, said she’s known Averill for about 40 years. Often, their careers ran parallel. During his tenure with the Arts Center, Doveton said, Averill has touched so many lives it’s difficult to keep count.

“He’s brought such joy to so many,” she said. “You can’t think about Ric without smiling.”

With the Arts Center, Averill worked with community partners like the Lawrence School District and Big Brothers Big Sisters of Douglas County, offering a window into the artistic community for those who might not otherwise have the opportunity.

Averill said he’s produced, presented, directed and more. His productions have used professional actors, students, volunteers and complete amateurs.

“I’m very proud of the style of theater we’ve developed. It’s unique, combining professional actors and musicians and directors and designers with a community of the same members, actors, musicians and members along with students,” he said.

“The most important thing is the art,” he added.

“That’s where you learn by doing, by experiencing it.”

Among Averill’s many projects at the Arts Center include the annual Kansas Nutcracker, which revamps the classic script each year with history and popular figures from the area. The piece is one of many ways to gauge the Arts Center’s progress over the years.

“You can see it in the current Kansas Nutcracker,” Averill said. “It keeps getting stronger and

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stronger and more and more magical.”

Though he’s worked with all kinds of talent before, it’s clear Averill has a special place in his heart for children.

“He’s given the gift of laughter to generations,” Doveton said. “ He’s very young at heart, always has a smile.”

Former Arts Center Director Ann Evans said it’s a wonder to watch Averill work with children. In fact, he’s worked with both her own children and grandchildren.

“He is just a marvelous, marvelous teacher,” she said. “It’s such a joy to watch kids learning from him and responding to him.”

“It’s his personality,” she added. “It’s just who he is.”

In fact, Averill said getting to know his youthful cohorts has become a point of pride for him.

“I like the fact that for a show I’ll know all the kids’ names by the time we open,” he said. “I don’t always know the parents’ names, but I can usually tell who goes with who.”

Even Dobski’s own granddaughter had a part in the Kansas Nutcracker, she said. She quickly asked to participate again.

“She said ‘Grandma, I want to be in the Nutcracker next year. I really like Mr. Averill,’” Dobski said. “Even 9-year-olds understand the impact. They listen to him. And his enthusiasm is contagious.”

Another Arts Center institution which made an impact on so many is the Summer Youth Theater, Evans said.

“I know many, many young adults who met some of their best friends to this day at Summer Youth Theater, and Ric was the catalyst for that,” she said. “It was one of the ways, other than sports, to bring kids from all over town together.”

Can such a contagious

enthusiasm be replaced?

Dobski recalled the careers of Evans and another past Arts Center Director, Susan Tate, noting how they each had a style and each had an impact. Averill’s departure will be no different, she said.

“Each person that comes in just has a different thought and philosophy,” she said. “I’m sure it will survive, but the theater program will never have Ric’s influence.”

Evans agreed with Dobski, noting that Averill’s work will serve as a path for the Arts Center’s future.

“He will be missed, but it’s like other things, he’s built a fabulous legacy,” she said. “The Lawrence Arts Center will continue to have a strong drama program. Things will change, but they’ve got a strong foundation, so they can continue to grow and prosper.”

Looking forward to his retirement, Averill said he has a few pieces in the works.

“I’m working on a longterm opera. Something more for adults than kids.

It’s about Coronado’s exploration into the middle of the country,” he said. “It deals with a few darker issues, life or death; makes for great tragedy.”

He’s also working on a screenplay called “The Man She Was” about one of the many women who dressed as a man in order to fight in the Civil War, he said.

In addition to some traveling and some more work, Averill said he’ll have a bit more time to spend with his wife, daughter, son and four grandchildren.

“I wouldn’t expect me to slow down much,” he laughed. “I’m in great health and great spirits, too.”

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

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When a house is accused of a crime

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Christmas thoughts

“The thing that is in Room 101 is the worst thing in the world. ... The worst thing in the world varies from individual to individual.”

While we enjoy the holiday and all of its traditions, we need to keep in mind the less fortunate among us.

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— George Orwell, “1984”

here is nothing quite like the magic of Christmas morning.

Today, many of us will be all too happy to be awakened all too early by excited children to begin a day of celebration marked by exchanging gifts and sharing food with friends and family.

Many among us will celebrate at worship services, take in a movie or engage in any number of family holiday traditions.

However we choose to celebrate, please take a moment to think of those who for a variety of reasons won’t be able to celebrate in the same way today. May they have our blessings, our prayers and, in some cases, our thanks.

Take a moment to think of the young people whose circumstances require them, for perhaps the first time, to spend Christmas apart from their families.

Take a moment to think of those whose jobs require that they work on Christmas Day: police, firefighters, nurses, newspaper reporters and editors and the store clerks who make it possible to get the AA batteries we forgot but desperately need to make Christmas morning magic.

Take a moment to think about the members of the armed forces who are deployed around the world and will spend today not in celebration but in harm’s way in service to our country.

Take a moment to think of those suffering from illnesses that require them to spend Christmas not at home with family but being cared for in a hospital.

And take a moment to think of those struggling with poverty, for many of whom Christmas is just another day spent in search of food and shelter.

Today Christians celebrate the birth of Jesus, who spent his short time on earth helping others. In celebrating his birth, we should do so in a manner that honors what he taught.

So let us thank those who are giving their time today to make our lives safer, easier and fuller. And let us lift up in prayer those serving our country, battling illness or struggling with loss. Let us open our doors to those who have no place to celebrate today. And on this day of giving, let us find ways to give to those who most need help.

Merry Christmas to all. May your day be blessed.

Philadelphia — For Christos and Markela Sourovelis, for whom the worst thing was losing their home, “Room 101” was Courtroom 478 in City Hall. This “courtroom’s” name is Orwellian: There was neither judge nor jury in it. There the city government enriched itself — more than $64 million in a recent 11-year span — by disregarding due process requirements in order to seize and sell the property of people who have not been accused, never mind convicted, of a crime.

The Sourovelises’ son, who lived at home, was arrested for selling a small amount of drugs away from home. Soon there was a knock on their door by police who said, “We’re here to take your house” and “You’re going to be living on the street” and “We do this every day.” The Sourovelises’ doors were locked with screws and their utilities were cut off. They had paid off the mortgage on their $350,000 home, making it a tempting target for policing for profit.

Nationwide, proceeds from sales of seized property (homes, cars, etc.) go to the seizers. And under a federal program, state and local law enforcement can partner with federal authorities in forfeiture and reap up to

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There is no way of knowing how many forfeitures involve criminals because the government takes property without even charging anyone with a crime.”

80 percent of the proceeds.

This is called — more Orwellian newspeak — “equitable sharing.”

No crime had been committed in the Sourovelises’ house, but the title of the case against them was the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania v. 12011 Ferndale St. Somehow, a crime had been committed by the house. In civil forfeiture, it suffices that property is suspected of having been involved in a crime. Once seized, the property’s owners bear the burden of proving their property’s innocence. “Sentence first — verdict afterwards,” says the queen in “Alice in Wonderland.”

In Courtroom 478, the prosecutors usually assured people seeking to reclaim their property that they would not need lawyers.

The prosecutors practiced semi-extortion, suggesting how people could regain limited control of their property: They could sell it and give half the proceeds to the city. The “hearings” in Courtroom 478 were often protracted over months, and missing even one hearing could result in instant forfeiture.

The Sourovelises were allowed to return to their house only after waiving their rights to statutory or constitutional defenses in a future forfeiture action.

Such action was forestalled when their case came to the attention of the Institute for Justice, public interest litigators who never received the “You can’t fight city hall” memo. It disentangled the Sourovelises from the forfeiture machine, shut down Courtroom 478, and now is seeking a court ruling to tether this machine to constitutional standards.

There might somewhere be a second prominent American who endorses today’s civil forfeiture practices, but one such person is “very unhappy” with criticisms of it. At a 2015 Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on forfeiture abuses, one senator said “taking and seizing and forfeiting, through a government judicial process, illegal gains from criminal enterprises is not wrong,” and neither is law enforcement enriching itself from this. In the manner of the man for whom he soon will work, this senator asserted an unverifiable

number: “95 percent” of forfeitures involve people who have “done nothing in their lives but sell dope.” This senator said it should not be more difficult for “government to take money from a drug dealer than it is for a businessperson to defend themselves in a lawsuit.”

In seizing property suspected of involvement in a crime, government “should not have a burden of proof higher than in a normal civil case.”

IJ’s Robert Everett Johnson notes that this senator missed a few salient points: In civil forfeiture there usually is no proper “judicial process.” There is no way of knowing how many forfeitures involve criminals because the government takes property without even charging anyone with a crime. The government’s vast prosecutorial resources are one reason it properly bears the burden of proving criminal culpability “beyond a reasonable doubt.” A sued businessperson does not have assets taken until he or she has lost in a trial, whereas civil forfeiture takes property without a trial and the property owner must wage a protracted, complex and expensive fight to get it returned. The Senate Judiciary Committee might want to discuss all this when considering the nominee to be the next attorney general, Alabama Sen. Jeff Sessions.

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

TODAY IN HISTORY On Dec. 25, 1991, Soviet President Mikhail S. Gorbachev went on television to announce his resignation as the eighth and final leader of a communist superpower that had already gone out of existence. l In A.D. 336, the first known commemoration of Christmas on Dec. 25 took place in Rome. l In 1066, William the Conqueror was crowned King of England. l In 1776, Gen. George Washington and his troops crossed the Delaware River for a surprise attack against Hessian forces at Trenton, N.J. l In 1818, “Silent Night (Stille Nacht)” was publicly performed for the first time during the Christmas Midnight Mass at the Church of St. Nikolaus in Oberndorf, Austria.

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as they are presently constituted are the only force against skyrocketing health care costs. If we don’t resist Mr. Ryan’s To the editor: plan, the death rate is going to rise. Few My Medicare statement came today. of us will be able to afford health care.

I receive a biological infusion for rheuShirley Domer, matoid arthritis. It is administered in a Lawrence hospital. For my infusion, the hospital billed Medicare over $6,000. Medicare paid a bit over $2,000.

As part of the Medicare legislation, hospitals must accept Medicare, and Medicare sets what it will pay for vari- To the editor: The Carlton Bragg case is not an ous procedures. The difference in this case is $4,000. That’s how much Medi- anomaly. In college towns, in particular, there is a rush to judgement on uncare saved.

Now Mr. Ryan wants to change corroborated allegations, e.g., the Duke Medicare to a voucher system. Each lacrosse case and the University of VirMedicare recipient would get a voucher ginia case reported last year by Rolling to spend for health insurance. If medi- Stone. Unfortunately, in today’s camcal expenses exceed what the insur- pus climate young men are effectively ance company will pay, health care will presumed guilty. We only hear about come out of your pocket. After you have these injustices when the cases, like Mr. sold your home in order to get medical Bragg’s, receive media attention.

Mr. Bragg was arrested and charged treatment, you can live on the streets with battery based solely on the word and die. Tough luck, folks.

Do you suppose insurance com- of a woman with no apparent injuries. panies will negotiate lower medical In addition, his mug shot was plastered costs on our behalf? Medicare Part D, in the media and he was the subject of which covers (supposedly) prescrip- unfair speculation.

The police and prosecutor should tion drugs, is in the hands of insurance companies, and they, for certain, are have conducted a simple investigation not negotiating lower drug prices on before deciding whether to arrest and our behalf. There’s no reason to sup- charge Mr. Bragg. The reported facts of pose that insurance companies that this case did not mandate nor support take over Medicare Part A and Part B an immediate arrest and charge. Forwill do so. If Part D were administered tunately, the incident was captured on by the federal government, drug prices surveillance camera and Mr. Bragg was would come down dramatically, as they cleared. Without that video, Mr. Bragg may have been wrongly convicted and, have in Canada and other countries.

I believe that Medicare Parts A and B, even if acquitted, he would have been

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wrongly stigmatized.

Crimes against women should be taken very seriously, but not at the expense of due process. Moreover, when false allegations are discovered, it ultimately hurts other women who are actually victims. Due process benefits everyone.

Ed White, Lawrence

‘Park’ ill-advised To the editor: Though I doubt this letter will have any effect since developers seem to eventually get their way no matter what, the proposed “park” at Clinton Lake seems extremely ill-advised.

Robin Jennison, secretary of Kansas Department of Wildlife and Parks, says that “young people” don’t like to sit and fish and do quieter things as he would, that they need more “activity.” Actually, the opposite is true. Instead of altering the forest, we humans young and old alike should let the forest alter us.

Research by KU cognitive psychologist Ruth Atchley reveals improved mood, creativity and mental functioning from time spent in natural areas away from the artificial built environments and electronic over-stimulation of our everyday lives.

Clinton Lake doesn’t need “more” hiking trails. It has plenty. And the many of us who already hike them can tell you why we do. Aside from all the benefits Atchley’s research describes,

we want to see the lives of the more than human, the trees, birds, mammals, reptiles who make the forests around Clinton Lake their home — lives that would undoubtedly be disturbed and some even ended if Plei’s development were to move forward.

Kelly Barth, Lawrence

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Christmas Day’s weather will be more fitting for a visit from the Easter Bunny than from Santa Claus.

Audra Hennecke, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Topeka, said Douglas County residents can expect a springlike Christmas, with the afternoon high predicted to top out at 63 degrees and a chance for late afternoon scattered thunderstorms.

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Rain would be welcome, as Lawrence has recorded 32.34 inches of rainfall to date in 2016.

Hennecke said that is 5.82 inches below average.

Computer models show no strong trend for January, February or March in regards to temperatures or precipitation amounts being lower or higher than normal, Hennecke said.

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Cop videos: Public record or not?

Vexing questions linger about privacy, value of police footage Miranda S. Spivack Special for USA TODAY

It took more than a year for Chicago police — under pressure from the media and the public — to release video footage of the shooting in 2014 that left Laquan McDonald dead, 16 bullets in his body. When a judge finally insisted the video be released, it cast doubt on the police department’s version of events.

Witnesses and family members maintained that McDonald hadn’t lunged at police with a

knife. The 17-year-old did have a knife and slashed a tire on the police cruiser. The video, which was from a police dashboard camera, showed him walking away before he was fatally shot. Officer Jason Van Dyke was charged with firstdegree murder.

The long delay in the video’s public release points to questions that have vexed many police departments, civil liberties advocates and elected officials: Under what circumstances should footage from police body and dashboard cameras be made public, and how much should be released?

The purpose of body cameras is to “build upon efforts to mend the fabric of trust.”

Attorney General Loretta Lynch

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The issue has become more pressing after the Obama administration’s award of more than $41 million in the past two years to help law enforcement agencies

buy body cameras for officers.

The purpose, outgoing Attorney General Loretta Lynch said, is to “build upon efforts to mend the fabric of trust, respect and com-

mon purpose that all communities need to thrive.”

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Welcome to Barviha and your host, Roman Galimov. He posts racy pictures of himself and his model wife on Instagram. His hipster bar offers a moody, dimly lit atmosphere, sophisticated brioche-bun burgers and emotive electronic beats that pulse from an expensive-looking sound system.

Galimov’s dream is to open his next Barviha in Miami, but for now, you’ll have to visit him in this central Russian city. Ask Galimov, 28, about the Soviet Union, which collapsed a quarter-century ago this Christmas, and he’ll look surprised.

“Does anyone even care about that place any longer?” Galimov said. “The life I lead now would be unimaginable then. Soviet people had one task: to conform. For me and other young people, we just live however we choose.”

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Kobzarro, 19, who “train surfs,” is known as Moscow’s Batgirl. “It’s like a mystical experience,” she says.

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Some baby dinosaurs lost their teeth as they grew up Limusaurus probably became a vegetarian Traci Watson

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If the Tooth Fairy operated during the Jurassic, the dinosaur called Limusaurus would have kept her busy.

Scientists discovered that the pony-sized Limusaurus lost all its teeth as it grew from hatchling to adult, the first known reptile to do so. A Limusaurus hatchling came into the world armed with

at least 42 sharp little gnashers, but an adult had only a toothless beak, according to a new study.

One explanation for the tooth loss: The beaked adults were vegetarians, their toothy offspring omnivores.

The find is “fascinating,” says Gregory Erickson of Florida State University, who was not involved with the study. Most dinosaurs gained teeth as they got older, but “here we’re seeing it go the other way, where they start off with teeth and just abandon them.”

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As an animal that dispensed with all its teeth as it matured, Limusaurus was definitely the weird kid in class. Dinosaurs generally had more teeth as adults than as hatchlings, Erickson says.

And they didn’t just add teeth as they grew; many constantly swapped out their teeth for new teeth. Champion tooth-grower Nigersaurus, for example, replaced each tooth as often as every two to four weeks, according to a previous study, and Erickson has found a number of dinosaurs that replaced their teeth every month or two.

When the first Limusaurus skeletons were discovered in Chi-

na about 15 years ago, paleontologists were confused. Researchers thought at first that they’d found two very similar species, one with teeth and one without, says study author Shuo Wang of China’s Capital Normal University. They named the one with a beak Limusaurus inextricabilis, or inextricable mud lizard, because the little animals had died in mudholes that probably formed from the footsteps of bigger animals, such as giant dinosaurs.

A closer look at the fossils, which date to roughly 160 million years ago, showed they all belonged to just one species. “We couldn’t believe it,” Wang says.

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Many older Russians long for the old days. Fifty-eight percent of people surveyed said they would approve if the Soviet Union were restored, according to recent data by the LevadaCenter, an independent Russian research organization. The same survey found that nostalgia for the Soviet Union is higher than at any point since 2000, when Russian President Vladimir Putin came to power.

Younger people who may not have even been born in 1991 display a fascinating range of emotions from genuine disinterest to an emotional tug beckoning them to at least understand a time that, really, was not that long ago. Consider an adventurous teenager, a kickboxing champion and a tech entrepreneur: uKobzarro, 19, who never reveals her real name but is known as Russia’s Batgirl, used to be a quiet office worker. Now she puts on a mask and cape and balances on trains as they speed through Moscow and other parts of Russia. “It’s like a mystical experience for me,” Kobzarro said of her dangerous hobby. She pursued it initially to escape overbearing parents and an oppressive home life. It has evolved into a pastime that symbolizes, she said, her rejection of a stifling Soviet state — although one she never experienced. “I admire people who create their own rules, who live their lives according to their own internal ideas about freedom and what’s possible.”

“The life I lead now would be unimaginable then.”

Roman Galimov

In addition to train surfing, which has resulted in run-ins with the police and several fines, Kobzarro routinely, also illegally, explores abandoned Soviet-era hospitals, factories and other buildings. She does this, she said, to connect with a physical Soviet past.

“It helps me understand it better. That doesn’t mean I would prefer that time to now,” she said. uIsabelle Magkoeva, 25, spent her early teens campaigning for a return to a kinder, gentler form of socialism capable of addressing Russia’s income inequality and other societal ills. “I am not a fan of the Soviet Union. It was a horrible time, but the situation is not good in our country,” she said.

“I am against all the privatization in Russia,” Magkoeva said, referring to the period after the Soviet dissolution when the government auctioned off 1.5 trillion acres of arable land, as well as banks, factories, energy, minerals — about 200,000 inefficient stateowned enterprises in all — to private individuals. That led to the creation of instant billionaires, known as Russia’s oligarchs.

Magkoeva quit Russia’s political scene four years ago. Police had warned her she was in danger of being arrested for taking part in demonstrations that had erupted against Putin after he was elected to the presidency for a third time. Instead, she took up Thai boxing, eventually winning a major Russian title. uIlya Chekh, 27, a Belarussian who runs Motorica, a technology start-up based in Moscow that makes prosthetic devices, laughed dismissively when asked if Russia’s Soviet past has any persisting influence on what he does.

“The older generations in our medical institutes don’t know what 3-D printing is,” he said.

Andrey Sebrant, 62, a former Soviet physicist who is director of product marketing at Yandex, a large Russian consumer technology firm, understands why people who are young and people who were once young have such very different views of the Soviet Union.

“For people in their 70s, for example, the time of (former Soviet leader Leonid) Brezhnev is the time of their youth,” he said. “The best years of their life, where the memories are always good. Not everyone was suffering in the Soviet Union because of a lack of freedom. Lots of them were genuinely happy. It is normal they would dream about this time — that doesn’t mean they dream about communist rule. That’s different.”

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records that would be disclosed under most state public records laws?

How do agencies protect private information — such as bystanders’ identities — that in documents might be blacked out?

More than 60 jurisdictions in more than half the states and the District of Columbia have adopted body cameras, but many almost immediately restricted public access to the footage. The types of limits range widely, but some states — including Kansas, Missouri, North Carolina and South Carolina — make it nearly impossible to release footage.

Florida has enacted restrictions that give wide leeway to law enforcement agencies to withhold footage from the public, saying videos shot in private settings or those in which the subject has a “reasonable expectation of privacy” can be exempted from public disclosure. Other states are trying to craft similar exemptions.

ful to police, who can use them to prove that accusations against them are untrue, and, perhaps more significantly, as investigative tools.

In theory, though largely undocumented, the threat that video footage could be made public can affect, and possibly improve, both police and civilian behavior.

A study conducted over 12 months in 2012 and 2013 by the Rialto, Calif., police chief found that when police and civilians know they are being filmed, everyone behaves more calmly, and use of force is less common.

In 2015, the Center for Evidence-Based Crime Policy at George Mason University in Virginia did a survey of the state of research on body cameras’ impact on behavior and public disclosure of footage. The findings suggest that much more information is needed to measure the effectiveness of body-worn cameras and public disclosure.

The survey concluded, “The

“It raises knotty questions about the tensions between privacy and the values of public disclosure.”

Rachel Levinson-Waldman, New York University School of Law

“This is an area that is difficult,” said Rachel Levinson-Waldman, senior counsel at the Brennan Center for Justice at the New York University School of Law, which tracks police body camera use. “It raises knotty questions about the tensions between privacy and the values of public disclosure.”

In Baltimore, which is in the process of outfitting about 1,400 officers with body cameras, officials hope the devices will help explain police actions more clearly, even as the city has been roiled by an incident that was only partially caught on camera.

It was a civilian with a cellphone who shot video of police loading Freddie Gray, 25, into the back of a police van in April 2015.

Gray died of injuries while in police custody, prompting a series of failed prosecutions and citywide protests.

The pressure to place body cameras on law enforcement officers grew in part from the proliferation of civilian videos from smartphones documenting police conduct up close and in real time.

Civil liberties advocates say police abuse exposed by such videos is not new, but it had been almost impossible to document before everyone had the technology in their pockets.

CAMERAS’ PRESENCE MAY AFFECT BEHAVIOR

Police body and dashboard cameras may provide additional proof of abuse, overcoming ambiguities common in police-civilian disputes. The videos also can be use-

need for more research in this area is paramount, as the adoption of (body-worn cameras) will likely have important implications for police-citizen interactions, police management and budgets, safety and security, citizen privacy, citizen reporting and cooperation with police, and practices in the courts.”

One thing is certain: The body camera clipped to an officer’s clothing has vastly improved the quality and clarity of police videos.

Though many departments have had dashboard cameras for several years, the body camera, usually pointed at the person with whom the officer interacts, provides clearer images, more close-ups and better audio.

It’s unclear whether the Obama administration’s professed goal of using these cameras to provide greater transparency and police accountability will be realized. The incoming administration of President-elect Donald Trump and his attorney general nominee, Sen. Jeff Sessions, RAla., have staked out a distinctly pro-police platform in which local control is preferred over federal involvement, leaving it likely that decisions about publicly releasing body camera footage will be made by state legislatures, city councils, county officials, police chiefs and sheriffs.

During the campaign, Trump filled out a questionnaire from the Fraternal Order of Police. He was asked about body cameras and whether his administration would guarantee that footage

would not be used to discredit officers’ privacy or reputations, parduring contract ticularly negotiations with police unions.

Trump answered, “The federal law enforcement agencies that will be using Body-Worn Cameras will do so with the proper balance between good management and protection of privacy. Abuse of power is never tolerated, whether such actions are taken by individual officers in the performance of their duties or by supervisors following up on procedure and protocol.”

Carlton Mayers, policy counsel for the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, said the public should be able to get data that police can cull from the videos about who gets stopped by police, as well as where and why they are stopped, and that data should be sorted by race and gender. That way, he said, the public can assess whether there is any illegal profiling.

“We have been pushing to condition data collection … on having it be publicly reported,” he said.

“The data belong to the community.”

There is debate over whether the body-camera videos tell a complete story of what happened.

What is recorded can vary greatly, depending on the camera angle, lighting and sound quality and whether an officer narrates the video as it is recorded.

POLICIES ON CAMERA USE VARY — IF THEY EXIST AT ALL

A recent study done for the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights by Upturn, a Washington consulting firm, found a wide range of policies about when and for how long cameras should be turned on; whether officers can review footage before writing their reports, which could skew the results and limit the value of the footage as an accountability tool (most are allowed to see the video before a report is filed); whether they can use facial recognition technology in videos for other investigations (many can); and whether department policies about the use of body cameras are easily accessible by the public.

The report found that as of August, 43 of the 68 major city law enforcement departments used body cameras and had created written policies to guide their use.

Getting access to those policies — never mind viewing the footage — can be a challenge. The report said 24 agencies did not make their policies available on their websites, an omission that “hinders robust public debate about how body cameras should be used.”

Steve Tuttle, a spokesman for Taser, which has supplied more than 3,500 law enforcement agencies with its Axon body cameras, said the technology has advanced enough to diminish the

tension between those who push for more public release of videos and those who say it’s too onerous.

Now that a seek-and-find and redaction system are available, it’s far easier for law enforcement agencies to zero in on one object or figure, use an algorithm to search for it and black it out, he said.

“We make it very simple,” Tuttle said. Images in a one-minute video can be redacted “in seconds,” he said. Until recently, it took at least six times longer, he said.

Along with more cameras comes more video, which creates a “tsunami of digital information,” he said.

When someone requests a video of an officer’s entire shift, that creates an extreme burden on an agency.

Police work is “a lot of walking around. It’s like war. You can go for a week and have a five-minute battle,” Tuttle said.

Miranda S. Spivack, a former Washington Post editor and reporter, is the Pulliam Distinguished Visiting Professor of Journalism at DePauw University. This story was funded in part by the O’Brien Fellowship in Public Service Journalism at Marquette University.

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It’s the end of the year, a time for heartwarming images from marketers.

In 2016, brands are pouring it on but with a twist. Togetherness, after the heated presidential election, is pushed as well.

“The spots resonate more than they might in a less contentious year,” says Nat Ives, the executive editor of Advertising Age, a trade magazine for the ad industry.

Apple’s holiday ad, “Frankie’s Holiday,” shows an oddball Frankenstein monster type in a Dickens-like community town square, who finds acceptance. “Open your heart to everyone,” Apple urges viewers.

Microsoft’s tag on its holiday ad, which features a group of people the company says is “making a difference” in the world, is to “spread harmony.”

“For many, this has been a challenging year,” Microsoft Vice President Kathleen Hall says.

“Our objective with the Art of Harmony campaign was to offer a sense of hope and positivity.”

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A Frankenstein-monster-like character finds acceptance in an Apple ad titled “Frankie’s Holiday.”

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Ice cream maker Ben & Jerry’s says there’s room for more than one flavor in the world.

Ice cream maker Ben & Jerry’s proclaims it’s “one sweet world,” and we don’t “live in a one-flavor world,” in a spot that’s running in Europe, which saw in 2016 massive protests against immigration, plus a vote by the United Kingdom to leave the European Union.

“It’s sometimes easy to think the world is becoming increasingly divided,” the company says in a YouTube description for the ad. “So we’ve been thinking about how we can amplify a message of unity and love using the thing we know best ... ice cream!”

Beyond marketers, charities look to unite folks.

Donald Trump says thank you to his supporters Dec. 17 in Mobile, Ala. MARK WALLHEISER, GETTY IMAGES

“We must continue to seek new means of moving forward together,” the Polyphony Foundation, which works to bring together Jewish and Arab musicians, wrote in an appeal to donors.

Ives says that after the holidays, he’ll look to the Super Bowl to see whether the election will have an impact on how brands sell on what is traditionally the No. 1 day for showcasing advertising in the USA. The Super Bowl is TV’s most viewed event of the year, and 2016’s edition brought in 167 million viewers.

“Will the new administration and the campaign themes it won on be reflected in the ads?” Ives asks, mentioning patriotic and “Made in America” themes. “Or will they be lighthearted? Everyone’s looking to the Super Bowl to figure it out.”

Shipping containers could house homeless Silicon Valley mogul wants to use them as mini-apartments

It’s “time to turn my attention to creating a very cost-effective solution to housing the homeless and very low-income people.”

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A Silicon Valley real estate developer has a new fix for the region’s growing homeless problem: shipping containers.

Billionaire mogul John Sobrato wants to build 200 microapartments for the homeless and low-income families on a 2.5-acre plot of city-owned land in Santa Clara, Calif., 3 miles south of Levi’s Stadium, home to the NFL’s San Francisco 49ers.

Sobrato envisions 240- and 160-square-foot units made out of shipping containers large enough to house a kitchenette and bathroom with shower.

Sobrato declined comment.

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A homeless man sleeps on the street, covered by a large sign advertising a new development proposed for the site of the former Flax Art & Design store. The nine-story building in the Market and Octavia area of central San Francisco will contain about 160 apartments. tention to creating a very cost-effective solution to housing the homeless and very low-income people.”

Under the project, called Innovation Place, the Sobrato Organization would build and own the dwellings and lease them to Santa Clara County, which would provide homeless services and property management. The facility could open as early as 2018.

“The approved (Exclusive Negotiating Rights Agreement) with Sobrato simply allows them, as the developer, to complete the preliminary analysis of the property to determine capacity for a proposed development and to conduct extensive outreach to hear what the community would like to see designed,” Santa Clara Mayor Lisa Gillmor said in a statement. “Any proposed project must fit within the needs of the community first and foremost.”

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A sketch lays out a shipping container complex that could be used for affordable housing in Silicon Valley. for residential and commercial use in the USA. Los Angeles is the site of shopping centers, pop-up coffee shops

and hillside dwellings made of the material. A centrally located business park in downtown Las Vegas is composed primarily of

shipping containers. In St. Charles, Mo., city officials are weighing the regulation of shipping containers as homes.

Sobrato’s plan is the second in recent weeks to address a decades-old problem in the backyard of Silicon Valley billionaires. This month, Facebook said it was pumping $20 million into a community investment program.

Since 2010, 55,588 housing units have been built in the state despite the creation of 500,000 jobs in that time, according to the California Department of Finance and the Metropolitan Transportation Commission, a regional planning organization.

At the same time, it’s never been more expensive to live in the San Francisco Bay Area. The median price of a single-family home in San Jose-SunnyvaleSanta Clara, the heart of Silicon Valley, soared $780,000 in 2013 to $950,400 last year, according to the National Association of Realtors.

San Francisco, San Jose and Oakland are three of the four most-expensive U.S. cities to rent in, according to Zumper’s National Rent Report for December.

Silicon Valley workers, on average, earn $121,000 a year, compared with $118,000 last year and $108,000 in 2011, according to data compiled by market research PayScale for USA TODAY.

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Caring about your job is in your interest

Employee engagement contributes to financial wellness for company and you Peter Dunn Special for USA TODAY

You’re supposed to care about the success of your employer.

No, I didn’t just leave an underwhelming experience with a disgruntled retail worker. And I’m not just some middle-age man griping about a high school kid who mumbled to me at the electronics store.

I’ll air those grievances to the appropriate audience at the appropriate time (Christmas Eve with my family). Instead, I’m a person in the financial industry who sees the negative impact of not caring.

It’s in your best interest to truly care about your job and your employer. Personal pride is reason enough, but sadly it doesn’t have enough teeth these days. At the most elementary level, you should care about the success of your employer, so you can keep your job.

The basic employment construct illustrates this point. You, the worker, give your time and effort to your employer. Then your employer compensates you for your time and effort. As long as your efforts result in profits, you keep your job.

It’s almost always been this way.

But little do you know how much the importance of your caring has changed.

Before the 1980s, your retirement success was mostly dependent upon the company you worked for, primarily in the form of a defined benefit plan (pension).

You worked your entire life for the company, and when you hung up your work boots or your briefcase, the company kept paying you a significant portion of your work income until the day you died, and after you died, it paid your spouse until your spouse died. Because your employer made the contributions to the pension, your only role in the retirement equation was to keep your job and to stay interested in the success of the company.

In 1975, nearly 88% of workers in the private sector had a pension and the reality I just described.

The company needed you to care, so it could remain profitable and fund your retirement. Then along came the 1980s and the shift to defined contribution plans (401k, etc). The company still needed you to care, because it still needed to remain profitable, so it could continue to exist and you could continue to have a job. But the retirement onus completely shifted to the American worker.

Before this shift, you could successfully retire without having really done anything to contribute to a successful retirement.

You can’t get away with that today. It’s been nearly 40 years, but no one seems to have figured this out.

Retirement plan participation rates and contribution levels prove

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workers don’t understand their own role in their own retirement, don’t care or are simply masochists. Caring matters a lot more.

You need your employer to “hit their numbers” so you can retire.

But of course, it’s not nearly that simple.

The company wants you to care deeply about its financial goals.

But why would an employee care about his company’s goals when the company doesn’t care about his goals? I call this the circle of engagement. You want the company to care deeply about your financial goals. However, like millions of Americans, you haven’t accepted

MANTRA FOR 2017:

BE WARY OF BOND RISKS. BE WARY OF BOND RISKS. BE WARY OF BOND RISKS.

It’s good to rebalance your portfolio at year’s end, but take into account volatility predicted for bond market in 2017

Russ Wiles

The Arizona Republic

This is the time of year when investors like to tinker with their portfolios in an annual exercise known as rebalancing. The idea is to take some profits out of accounts that have performed well and redirect the proceeds into laggard investments.

This year, as in most years, that means skimming some profits from stocks and stock funds and reinvesting them in bonds and bond funds. That’s the usual scenario because equities typically outperform fixed-income investments. The pattern has held in 2016, too. In this sense, rebalancing helps to dampen the riskiness of a portfolio.

“If you’ve been taking a handsoff approach to your portfolio — and that’s usually a pretty good strategy — its contents are likely to have shifted ... stocks have likely grown in importance,” Christine Benz of Morningstar noted in a re-

cent commentary. “The net effect, especially of an enlarged stock position at the expense of bonds, is that your portfolio likely has more volatility than it did even a year ago.”

The problem with rebalancing into bonds this time around is that bonds could be more treacherous than normal. The bond market weakness of the past month or so could be the beginning of a prolonged move, making it worrisome to divert a lot more money to fixed-income investments. Most people need some bonds for stability, and interest rate movements are difficult to predict anyway. But if rates continue to increase and inflation bubbles higher, bond prices could get clobbered.

Stocks also could get clobbered, but everyone knows that. Not all investors are aware that bonds and bond funds can be volatile, too. Bond prices move inversely with the general level of interest rates, so if rates commence on a sustained upward trajectory, prices will drop.

That’s a fairly predictable mathematical relationship, unlike with stocks. Equity prices often appreciate even when rates are increas-

the fact that your chances at retirement success fall solely on you, thus you haven’t set specific financial goals to achieve retirement success.

At this point, the circle of engagement breaks down, because your employer can’t possibly care about goals you haven’t even defined for yourself.

Financial wellness fixes the broken circle of engagement. It helps employees define their financial goals, put together a plan to fund them, then shows employers how to rally around them. Your employer asks you to care about the company’s goals, you ask your em-

ing, especially when yields are below 5%, as they clearly are now, noted Larry Puglia, a stockfund manager at T. Rowe Price.

Stocks can advance despite rising rates because rates often increase when the economy is strengthening and corporate profits reflating.

Contrary to conventional wisdom, bonds actually fall more often than stocks if you focus on prices only and exclude stock dividends and bond interest payments. The reason stocks get such a bad rap is that their declines typically are much larger and much scarier.

Now could be the start of a precarious period for bonds.

While stocks as measured by the S&P 500 are up about 9% this year through November, including dividends, the broad U.S. bond market is only about 2% higher, including interest income.

Many types of bonds have lost ground in recent months on the assumption economic growth and possibly inflation will perk up next year.

If you are planning to rebalance by shifting money into bonds or bond funds, be careful — especially about securities with long maturities above 10 years or so. These are the fixedincome assets most vulnerable to rising rates. Here are some other tips: uDecide on a strategy.

Though some experts recommend balancing once a year, you also could do it when your mix gets out of alignment by a certain amount. uRecognize other benefits.

Along with bringing your allocation back into line, rebalancing can be viewed as a discipline for buying low and selling high.

That’s because you are selling a portion of your assets that have performed well while transferring the proceeds to underachievers. uFavor tax-sheltered accounts. Any selling of investments will trigger taxable transactions, presumably capital gains, in an unsheltered account. That’s why the strategy works especially well in Individual Retirement Accounts, workplace 401(k) programs and other plans where taxes aren’t an issue.

ployer to care about your goals, and everyone complies. The company cares because you care. Or you care because the company cares. It’s a circle, it’s beautiful, and it works.

As bold as it may be, the next time the company asks for you for buy-in on its goals, ask it for buy-in on your goals. You’ll both be better for it.

Peter Dunn is an author, speaker and radio host, and he has a free podcast: Million Dollar Plan. Have a question about money for Pete the Planner?

Email him at AskPete@petetheplanner.com

Make sure you ‘account’ for any changes Mark Grandstaff

Special for USA TODAY

If you “set and forget” your personal accounts, you could leave a lot of money on the table.

The terms of bank and credit card accounts and auto insurance often change. It pays to reread the fine print to make sure those accounts are still the best choices, said Brad Barber, associate dean for the Graduate School of Management at UC Davis.

Banks, credit card and insurance terms shift regularly

BANK ACCOUNTS

It sounds counterintuitive, but overdraft protection temporarily allows purchases even if they put the account in a negative balance. This “protection” incurs fees with every such transaction, and they can add up fast.

Consumers should stick to financial institutions that offer free checking accounts. A recent Bankrate study showed 76% of credit unions offer free checking, compared with 37% of banks.

AUTO INSURANCE

“Make sure you’re comparing apples to apples when you go to other companies,” said Paul Golden, spokesman for the National Endowment for Financial Education. “You’re very likely going to want to have comparable coverage.” If a consumer stays on top of car maintenance and enjoys a history of safe driving, he or she might look to lower costs by increasing the deductible, he said.

CREDIT CARDS

Consumers should make sure their accounts fit their spending patterns. A card’s annual percentage rate and list of rewards are more relevant to someone who makes frequent purchases and runs a balance than for someone who uses their card infrequently, Golden said.

“Make sure you’re comparing apples to apples when you go to other companies.”

Paul Golden, National Endowment for Financial Education

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Homesickness weighs heavy on the holiday season Dear Annie: Earlier this year, I moved to the East Coast for my first job out of college. My parents, siblings and entire extended family are all back on the West Coast.

Overall, I like it out here.

I’ve been keeping so busy with my new job that I’ve hardly had time to be homesick at all.

But now that it’s the holiday season, I find myself missing them a lot.

I get nostalgic thinking about all the Christmas mornings my sisters and I spent together. This year, I have to work a half day on Christmas, so I won’t be flying home. Originally, my roommate was also going to be around, so we were planning on having our own little celebration, with eggnog and a Christmas movie marathon.

But she just decided she’s going to drive home to spend the weekend with her family.

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I don’t want to complain about having to work on Christmas, because really, I should be grateful to have a job when millions of people are out of work. But I just can’t help feeling sad that I’m not going to get to hug my parents.

Any tips for cheering up? — Blue Christmas Dear Blue: It’s homesickness season, and when you’re away from loved ones on Christmas, there’s not a pill in the world that can fully

A tale as old as time on ABC tonight You can’t say the folks at ABC haven’t offered musicals for every generation. Since Thanksgiving they’ve broadcast ‘‘Mary Poppins,’’ ‘‘The Sound of Music’’ and ‘‘Frozen.’’ They celebrate Christmas evening with the 1991 animated hit “Beauty and the Beast” (7 p.m.), from the composing team of Howard Ashman and Alan Menken.

Renewed proof that imitation remains the sincerest form of television arrives with the one-hour Christmas afternoon special, “ M V P : Spor ts Stars and Their Most Valuable Pets” (3 p.m., CBS).

Hosted by former NFL quarterback and CBS football analyst Boomer Esiason, it features all-star athletes including NASCAR driver Kyle Busch, Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger, Olympic gold medalist Shaun White and golfer Michelle Wie discussing how pets fit into their lives and their families’ lives. Some of the athletes have even established pet-related charities.

Clearly inspired by the success of NBC’s Thanksgiving tradition of airing the National Dog Show, this pet-centric programming offers families shared uplift between the excitement of opening gifts and the return to the holiday groaning board.

O Travel Channel embarks on an end-of-year ‘‘Chill-cation’’ starting with “Alaska: Water and Ice” (8 p.m.), featuring such frigid delights as iceberg wakeboarding, glacier surfing and ice diving.

Tonight’s other highlights O Scheduled on “60 Minutes” (6 p.m., CBS, r): the Sistine Chapel Choir; Lin Manuel Miranda and Broadway’s ‘‘Hamilton.’’

O The staff pitches in to save a South African hospital threatened with closure on the “Call the Midwife Holiday Special” (6:30 p.m., PBS, TV-14, check local listings).

O The “I Love Lucy Christmas Special” (7 p.m., CBS) wraps up two 1950s episodes in a colorized ribbon.

O The Kansas City Chiefs host the Denver Broncos in “Sunday Night Football” (7 p.m., NBC).

O “The Dick Van Dyke Show: Now in Living Color!” (8 p.m., CBS) colorizes a beloved 1960s sitcom.

O Benedict Cumberbatch stars in “Richard III” in the conclusion of “The Hollow Crown” on “Great Performances” (8 p.m., PBS, TV-14, check local listings).

O Peter Capaldi resumes the title role in the “Doctor Who” Christmas special, “The Return of Doctor Mysterio” (8 p.m., BBC America), co-starring Charity Wakefield, Matt Lucas and Justin Chatwin.

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cure the heartache. But gratitude is the best antidote we’ve got. So keep counting those blessings.

Though you can’t see your family members in person today, you can still talk to them. That is a gift.

Consider stopping by a retirement home and visiting with patients for an hour or two, or visit VolunteerMatch. org for other ideas on how to give back during the holidays. Your mood will get an instant boost from helping others.

I hope you can make a trip home soon, but in the meantime, stay thankful.

Dear Annie: I think ‘‘Fed Up in Philly,’’ who has been doing all the holiday hosting and cooking for 30 years, should take charge and email the sister and brother. She needs to tell them that although Mom and Auntie have not complained, it’s

JACQUELINE BIGAR’S STARS

For Sunday, Dec. 25 This year you express more of what you want with the belief that others will listen. If you are single, meeting someone happens with ease come fall 2017. If you are attached, the two of you often can be found out watching a sports game.

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 proves to be the most rewarding, even if you are surrounded by lots of people. Tonight: Say “yes.”

Taurus (April 20-May 20) +++++ Enjoy being doted upon today. You can’t seem to get enough time with a loved one.

Tonight: Flow with the moment.

Gemini (May 21-June 20) ++++ How you let someone know that you like and appreciate his or her gift could have a great impact. Tonight: The later, the better.

Cancer (June 21-July 22) +++++ Being very emotional and adoring is natural for you; however, others could have a problem with your intensity. Tonight: An older person surprises you.

Leo (July 23-Aug. 22) +++++ Clearly, you are cared about. Hopefully, the feelings are mutual. Relax and enjoy your family. Tonight: Catch up on news.

Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) ++++ You’ll want to clarify a change of plans, but you might

time the three of them took over the holiday entertaining. Their generation needs to step up. She should ask them to decide who wants to take a turn this year. They’ll take advantage of her only if she lets them.

A side story: Many years ago, a co-worker with limited means was able to move from her teeny home (with her son and husband) to a slightly larger home. She was overjoyed to have room to host the family for Christmas Eve for the first time. When I spoke with her, I learned she had to work till 6 on Christmas Eve. Her solution to entertaining everyone was to order Chinese food and pick it up on her way home. It was her treat!

I often remember this.

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overexplain. Sometimes the less said, the better. Tonight: In the whirlwind of living.

Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) ++++ You might try several different approaches to make a key person feel better. Perhaps the best remedy is more moderation.

Tonight: Let spontaneity rule.

Scorpio (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) +++++ You seem impervious to the ups and downs of the moment. You decided a while ago to give more of yourself. Tonight: All smiles.

Sagittarius (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) ++++ Make an effort to stay more open. You could witness quite a few benefits as a result. Tonight: Out late.

Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) ++++ Be more open with a key person in your life about your discomfort with excessive doting.

Tonight: Why not act a little more off-beat than usual?

Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) +++++ You’ll want to make some time for a friend whom you don’t often get to see. Tonight: The more catching up you do, the better the night will be.

Pisces (Feb. 19-March 20) ++++ Finances could be involved with a gift and a friend.

Don’t allow this situation to become a problem. Tonight: A must show.

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Post-election, doctor-turned-lieutenant governor in focus

By John Hanna The Associated Press

Topeka (ap) — Jeff Colyer says his job description as Kansas lieutenant governor requires him to be ready to take over as governor at any time and he’s gotten more attention in recent weeks because “the context has changed.”

Legislative leaders in both parties said they’ve had more contact with Colyer recently than in the past. Senate President Susan Wagle, a Wichita Republican, told reporters this month that fellow legislators believe GOP Gov. Sam Brownback is “looking for a ticket to D.C.” — a job with President-elect Donald Trump’s administration.

Brownback, who is termlimited and cannot run again in 2018, isn’t commenting, and there’s no indication he’s talked to Trump or the businessman’s top aides about a job. But incoming House Majority Leader Don Hineman said Colyer’s visibility has “amped up a little bit,” including getting text messages from him.

“We all tend to read into that, that maybe he will be governor sometime within the next two years,” said Hineman, a Dighton Republican.

The 56-year-old Colyer is a plastic surgeon who has helped fellow GOP conservatives shape health care policy for nearly a decade and still makes time for international medical

relief missions in war or disaster zones. He discounts talk that he’s prepping to be elevated to governor, describing himself as the state’s chief operating officer to Brownback’s CEO — or maybe more like “Star Trek.”

“It’s kind of like Kirk and Spock. I’m his first officer,” he said during an Associated Press interview. “We’re working for the same goals, and he’s setting those goals.”

Colyer owns a plastic surgery practice in Overland Park that performs cosmetic procedures as well as reconstructive surgery, and Colyer said he remains on call at multiple Kansas City-area hospitals to help trauma victims.

He also continues to go overseas with the International Medical Corps, a group with which he’s been affiliated since the mid-1980s. He’s performed trauma and reconstructive surgery and trained local doctors in countries including Afghanistan, South Sudan, Rwanda and Iraq.

Colyer gained a reputation with the relief group for being adept at handling high-pressure, life-and-death situations. Following the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq in 2003, he worked in a hospital that still came under sniper fire, said Rabih Torby, the team leader there and a former IMC vice president. And in war-torn South Sudan in 2014, Colyer drove between hospitals for oxygen to save a pregnant woman, getting past hostile

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IN THIS PHOTO FROM MONDAY, DEC. 19, 2016, Kansas Lt. Gov. Jeff Colyer answers questions from The Associated Press during an interview in his Statehouse office in Topeka, Kan. Colyer is a plastic surgeon whose practice includes helping emergency trauma victims, and he’s continued to make time as lieutenant governor for relief international relief missions with the International Medical Corps. forces’ checkpoints with a calm demeanor, Torbay said.

“He’s a very pragmatic person, very logical,” Torbay said.

“He knows how to negotiate.”

Colyer, the father of three daughters, ran unsuccessfully for Congress in 2002, then

served in the Kansas House in 2007-08, where he helped draft health care legislation. He won a state Senate seat in 2008 and was elected lieutenant governor on Brownback’s ticket in 2010.

Colyer’s friendship with Brownback began more than

20 years ago, when both were White House fellows; they occasionally attend Mass together.

“You guys are just now noticing him,” Brownback said in a recent AP interview.

Brownback is known nationally for aggressive personal income tax cuts in 2012 and 2013 designed to stimulate the economy; Kansas has struggled to balance its budget since.

But Colyer’s tenure as lieutenant governor has seen its own waves of attention and controversy, including overseeing an initiative that in 2013 turned over the administration of the state’s Medicaid health coverage for the poor and disabled to three private companies.

He also made three $500,000 loans to Brownback’s and his re-election campaign in 2013 and 2014 that were highly unusual for their size and timing — two were paid back within days. Prosecutors ended a grand jury investigation last year with no plans for criminal charges. Colyer said this week, “That’s all behind us.”

As for the buzz surrounding a possible promotion, Colyer said Brownback always has kept him busy and brought him into budget meetings. He said he’s put 93,000 miles on his pickup in a little more than two years traveling the state for events and meetings.

“People are noticing the same things that we’ve always done,” Colyer said.

Southeast Kansas museum overcomes funding woes, reopens Pittsburg (ap) — A historical museum has reopened in southeast Kansas about a year after it closed amid concerns about how to fund it and whether it was even worth saving.

The Crawford County Historical Museum was shuttered after the museum struggled financially, drew few visitors, had only one unpaid staff member and no board. The keys and contents were turned over to the Crawford County Commission in May 2015, The Joplin Globe reported.

At the time, the $10,000 annual funding from the

commission to maintain the museum hadn’t increased since it opened.

Utilities and insurance for the building were about $1,000 per month, and the roof was in bad shape.

Word of the museum’s closure prompted an outcry until a task force, led

by B.J. Harris, who heads the Crawford County Convention and Visitors Bureau, worked on creating a funding proposal for the commission.

“We had to figure out what we needed to do to make it more sustainable, and our first hurdle was making sure people

believed it was an asset and needed in our community,” Harris said. “Once we discovered it was overwhelmingly ‘yes,’ then it became what does the role of it play in tourism and in the county.”

The CVB and the commission came to an agreement: To receive $25,000 — 55 percent coming from the county and 45 percent from the CVB — the museum must have 2,000 visitors per year, provide adequate parking and restroom facilities and maintain a consistent schedule. The museum previously had been open

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the same way.

“Its three major problems were volunteers, funding and getting people through the door, and we knew if we could tackle each of those, we’d be a success,” he said.

Minton, Lovelace and others leveraged community resources and won grants for roof repairs and tile replacement. They scrubbed away mold, organized clutter and carved a new education area out of existing space, with conference tables and a kitchen nook. Other additions include a new logo, a new website, a new Facebook

page and banners.

This summer, children were invited to free themed sessions. History enthusiasts staged a Civil War re-enactment. Crafting workshops, demonstrations and meetings for local organizations also pulled in visitors. More than 2,650 people have visited the museum since April 11.

“What they have achieved in being open in eight months has been pretty outstanding,” Harris said. “I think they’re just getting started — this is just the tip of the iceberg.”

Heritage trail planned to mark Topeka’s historic landmarks Topeka (ap) — A trail linking significant landmarks in Topeka’s history and combining public art and education is in the planning stages.

The Topeka CapitalJournal reports the Freedom’s Frontier group will partner with local students from elementary through high school to design interpretive sidewalk murals

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only on weekends.

Amanda Minton, an adjunct history teacher at Pittsburg State University, and Mason Lovelace, who holds a master’s degree in history from PSU and now serves as vice president of the museum board, stepped in to lead the effort to reopen the museum.

“I read about the museum’s plight, and it tugged at my heartstrings,” Lovelace said. “It’s an asset that was lost to the community, and I knew we ought to do something about it.”

Lovelace said he found that a lot of people felt

depicting the stories of at least 10 local sites for the Topeka Heritage Trail.

“We really want the students to see this through from start to finish,” she said.

The murals mark the first step in a permanent walking trail that will connect selected landmarks largely in Topeka’s urban neighborhoods.

Among the locations being considered for the trail include the Brown v.

Board of Education National Historic Site, the Great Overland Station, the Charles Curtis House and Constitution Hall.

The National Parks Foundation has given a $25,000 grant for the project.

Freedom’s Frontier executive director Jim Ogle

says the project will hopefully lead to a better understanding and appreciation of the city’s culture.

The group will seek input about the trail from the community, and more details will be revealed during the summer.

“This is another way to enhance and celebrate Topeka’s heritage for Topekans and visitors,” he said.

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An old one-liner among those in the coaching profession goes: The best thing about freshmen is they become sophomores.

While the idea of firstyear players making significant jumps in their impact and productivity is a popular one with the Kansas football program, too, head coach David Beaty and his staff enjoyed watching some freshmen perform ahead of schedule in 2016.

First-year safety Mike Lee played so well in the final weeks of the season, college football publications around the nation continue to Lee award him for his body of work, which included a critical overtime interception in the Jayhawks’ lone conference victory, against Texas.

Athlon Sports named Lee, a true freshman from New Orleans, and Hakeem Adeniji, another true freshman, from Garland, Texas, to its Big 12 All-Freshman Team.

Lee, a 5-foot-11, 176-pound defensive back who finished second on KU with 77 total tackles (trailing only senior safety Fish Smithton’s 93), and Adeniji, who started all 12 games on the offensive line, made Athlon’s first team.

Redshirt freshman Mesa Ribordy, from Louisburg, who started all 11 games in which he played on the Oline, made Athlon’s All-Big 12 Freshman second team.

Lee, who didn’t become a starter until the fifth game of his freshman year, also received a second-team spot on Athlon’s nationwide College Football All-Freshman Team.

Meanwhile, ESPN.com ranked the top true freshmen in the Big 12, and Lee came in at No. 4, behind Oklahoma State running back Justice Hill, Texas quarterback Shane Buechele and Longhorns linebacker Malcolm Roach.

“Lee emerged as a stalwart in the Kansas secondary,” Jake Trotter wrote at ESPN.com, “tying for the team lead with 70 solo tackles. Lee also forced two fumbles.”

Additional honors for Jayhawks Athlon’s recognition for KU’s most impressive players carried over to the sophomore class, too. The publication named consensus All-Big 12 defensive end Dorance Armstrong Jr. the league’s Breakout Player of the Year.

Likewise, ESPN ranked Armstrong among the Big 12’s top 25 players, placing the 6-foot-4, 246-pound lineman from Houston the 20th-best performer in the conference in 2016.

“An All-Big 12 selection, Armstrong finished with 20 tackles for the loss, the fourth-most in a season in Kansas history and the most by a Jayhawk since 2005,” Trotter wrote. “Armstrong was second in the Big 12

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KANSAS GUARD JOSH JACKSON, LEFT, JOKES AROUND WITH HEAD COACH Bill Self during a clinic at the Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam fitness center Nov. 9 in Honolulu.

Jackson, Self share winning ways

KANSAS’ JOSH JACKSON, LEFT, TURNS FOR A SHOT over Nebraska’s Michael Jacobson on Dec. 10 at Allen Fieldhouse.

Try this exercise at home: Step 1: Boil the myriad traits that make Bill Self a winner who works in the highest stratosphere of his chosen profession, that of college basketball coach, down to three and rank them in order. Write them on a piece of paper, fold it in half and store it in a location you will remember.

Step 2: Boil the myriad traits that make Josh Jackson a winner who works in the highest stratosphere of his chosen art form, that of college basketball player, down to three and rank them in order. Write them on a piece of paper, fold it in half and store it in a location you will remember.

Step 3: After finishing Steps 1 and 2, retrieve the two folded pieces of paper.

Step 4: Read the rest of this column.

My unfolded piece of paper on which Self’s three winning traits are ranked in order reads: Intelligence, aggressiveness, charisma.

Self’s intelligence starts with his ability to focus on his surroundings, absorb everything useful that he sees, hears, reads, senses in any way and then call on the precisely right piece of

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knowledge, sometimes without thinking, other times by first sorting through the possibilities, at just the right moment. In recruiting, his intelligence enables him to read the people around recruits and recruits themselves. His people-speedreading skills enable him to push the proper emotional button, often pride, in the athletes he coaches in such a way as to ultimately bring out the best in them, even if it means they become worse basketball players before they become better than anyone at first imagined them capable of becoming.

Self’s aggressiveness takes many forms, not the least being his stubbornness. He knows he knows more than the players he coaches about how to make them better, so he never retreats from them

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Kansas’ rotation remains intact Matt Tait mtait@ljworld.com

A little more than a week ago, Kansas basketball coach Bill Self during an appearance on the weekly Big 12 coaches teleconference shared his thoughts about his ideal rotation and how it related to this year’s team.

“I’ve always thought that eight or nine was the number, depending on your

particular team,” Self said then. “Five perimeter players, with the fifth one playing the least amount of minutes, and you need four big guys, with the fourth one playing the least amount of minutes.”

Because of strong recruiting, strategic depth and the team-first mentality of nearly all of the players he

has brought to Lawrence, Self, more often than not, has enjoyed the luxury of playing to that number while still having bodies on reserve in the break-glass-incase-of-emergency role.

Even with the recent season-ending injury to

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and television, reinforcing what other images and headlines have made all too apparGrayson Allen sure picked ent about the state of big-time a lousy week to take college college sports in the last few sports on a bad trip down weeks: memory lane.

It’s as out-of-control as ever.

The Duke junior has NBAIf you have doubts — and a caliber talent but the lingering strong stomach — go find the instincts of a playground bully. 2-year-old, but-just-released His nasty habit of taking down video of Oklahoma football opponents even as they’re player Joe Mixon punching going by him finally came full a woman in the face in 2014. circle.

Or read the stories about how After Allen was hit with a Minnesota’s football team technical foul and benched pledged to boycott an upcomfor tripping Elon guard Steven ing bowl game to protest the Santa Ana — the third time he suspensions of 10 players pulled the same stunt in a year in connection with a sexual — Duke coach Mike Krzyzeassault investigation; or how wski reluctantly did the right other players are voluntarily thing. He announced Thursday snubbing their teams’ bowl that Allen has been suspended games to prepare for next indefinitely. year’s NFL draft.

But even that small measure While we’re at it, let’s not of justice required Coach K forget the comically dubbed to do a little reflecting of his “Wakyleaks” scandal at Wake own. First, he put Allen back Forest. in Wednesday night’s game, To be fair, the incidents handily won by the Blue Devvary widely in consequence ils 72-61, then defiantly told and have only so much in comreporters in a postgame press mon. But at the core of each conference that he wouldn’t is a serious lapse in judgment be bullied into punishing Allen by college-age kids and the just to satisfy others’ expectagrown-ups who are supposed tions. to be in charge. Their sense of What Krzyzewski couldn’t entitlement has only swelled have known at either moment in proportion to the dollars was that Allen’s latest trip was flowing into the coffers of evlooping endlessly on Twitter ery big-time college program.

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In the Mixon case, Oklahoma coach Bob Stoops originally suspended the player for the entire 2014 season. But after the video was made public this week, Stoops said that had Mixon done what he did in 2016, he’d kick him off the team. Like NFL commissioner Roger Goodell’s similarly tortured mea culpa in the Ray Rice affair, it was too little, too late.

And while we’re on the topic of cluelessness, how about a shoutout for Alabama coach Nick Saban?

On hearing the news that LSU’s Leonard Fournette and Stanford’s Christian McCaffery were ditching their respective bowl games to begin preparations for the NFL draft, he blamed the decision on college football’s powers-thatbe to switch from an all-bowl format to a playoff.

To his credit, Saban accepted some of the blame for dismantling what had been a quaint-but-unruly tradition and turning it into a multibillion-dollar extravaganza. What he failed to mention, conveniently, was the lack of loyalty that mercenaries — Saban included — are now returning in spades at every level of the game.

To be fair, the kids are

plenty culpable. They know the rules, and the overwhelming majority abide by them.

Every big-time athletic program has at least one full-time compliance officer, and some employ as many as seven or eight. No one is telling them to abuse women, take envelopes stuffed with cash from agents, or even trip up opponents.

But let’s be honest. Money keeps flowing into big-time college sports and the pockets of coaches and administrators because they’ve effectively become a minor-league system for the NFL and NBA. And they’re doing it largely on the backs of kids whose “schoolwork” is so demanding that many will never be able to take advantage of the scholarship that gets thrown in with it.

If that no longer outrages the rest of us, at least those same coaches and administrators can spare us the lecture about how much they care.

Most of them genuinely care about their guys and would love to see them get through four years — or less — covered with nothing but glory.

Everybody stumbles. It’s how you handle the fall and get back up that college sports can’t seem to figure out.

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Early departures raise questions against the good of the whole?

The truth is college football — at least at the top-tier Stanford running back programs — is financial exChristian McCaffrey is skipploitation at this point. There ping his team’s bowl game to is too much money to suggest begin prepping for the NFL otherwise. draft. Maybe you’ve heard.

One of the ways we jusAnd maybe have a negatify this uneasy relationship tive opinion. Because, at first between student-athlete and glance, leaving when there’s academic institution is by still a game on the schedule highlighting the “student” part contradicts most of what of the bargain. Another way is you’ve been taught about beto buy into gauzy narratives ing part of a team. about “team” and “loyalty” Or maybe you applaud what and a lifetime of unadulterated McCaffrey is doing because camaraderie. you recognize he’s a running Yes, these things have real back, the most dangerous posi- meaning, which makes it hard tion on the field. And he has for some to fathom that Mcbeen dealing with injuries all Caffrey could leave his team season. And that it’s not unrea- so abruptly. But the noble pursonable to assume he could get suit of team won’t guarantee seriously injured in the Sun McCaffrey’s financial future.

Bowl, when the Cardinal takes Preparing for the draft could. on North Carolina in El Paso, McCaffrey and Fournette Texas, and cost himself milare betting on themselves. lions of dollars this spring.

Isn’t that what we want them McCaffrey, by the way, isn’t to do? the only player who is skipBack in the mid-1990s, we ping his team’s bowl game this faced a similar question when winter. LSU’s Leonard Fourhigh school seniors began nette is, too. He also is a runleapfrogging college basketball ning back. He also is fighting for the NBA. Kevin Garnett’s minor injuries. jump straight to the NBA draft Now, two players do not caused hand-wringing. make a trend. But some trends For some, it upset the way are easier to spot than oththings always had been. For ers, and this sure feels like the others, it was a matter of colbeginning of something. At its lege basketball losing potential heart is the essential American stars. question: How do we weigh That was selfish on our the good of the individual part. We weren’t thinking

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about the future of those topflight kids. We were thinking about our own viewing enjoyment. Just as some of us aren’t thinking about the futures of McCaffrey and Fournette now.

Both Stanford and LSU are playing in bowl games that have nothing to do with the College Football Playoff — LSU is slotted in the Citrus Bowl against Louisville. Nor does either bowl game mean much in terms of recruiting.

LSU isn’t going to sell recruits on a chance to play in the Citrus Bowl. Neither is Stanford going to tell its prospective players that coming to Palo Alto leads to El Paso.

The bowl games do, however, give the teams’ coaching staff an extra month to run practice.

This is invaluable for players who are coming back, something McCaffrey and Fournette obviously had no intention of doing. Playing in a midlevel bowl also is good ... for the bowls. Stars help sell tickets and boost ratings.

Yet that’s just more money McCaffrey and Fournette never were going to see. And they most assuredly are thinking about money. They’ve already helped their schools make plenty.

It’s true they were compensated — in part — with scholarships. But come on,

that’s a fraction of what their programs earned on the backs of their effort.

If Stanford or LSU were headed to the playoff or even to a New Year’s Six bowl, where reputations actually matter, you can bet they’d be with their teams until the end.

But the Sun Bowl? The Citrus Bowl?

Please. The risk of injury is not worth it.

You might say that both players faced potential injury every time they suited up — whether in practice or on Saturdays in the fall. And that’s true. Yet if the goal of college is to prepare us for the slice of the world we seek, well, consider them prepared.

McCaffrey leaves Stanford as one the most productive and decorated players in school history. He helped the team win and keep its national profile. Now it’s time for him to get true market value for all that service.

That’s the message of our times, right?

Let the free market be free.

Let us try to balance the good of the individual against the good of society. It’s the question that hangs over nearly every aspect of our public lives, and a good deal of our private lives, too.

Why should college football be exempt?

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with 10 sacks, as well.”

One member of KU’s 2017 recruiting class recently picked up some significant recognition, too. Running back Dominic Williams, a commit expected to sign with Kansas, was named to the Texas Class 5A All-State first team by the Associated Press Sports Editors. In his senior season at Independence High, in Frisco, Texas, the 5-foot9 Williams tallied 184 carries for 1,922 yards and 28 touchdowns.

Top games of 2016 While classifying the top Big 12 football contests of this past season, Athlon chose two matchups involving Beaty’s Jayhawks. In fact, one KU game topped the entire list.

The first Kansas clash to appear on the “best of” compilation was a 24-23 home loss to TCU on Oct. 8 — No. 9 on Athlon’s countdown.

“The past few years since TCU joined the Big 12, the Horned Frogs have gotten into some unexpected struggles whenever they have played lowly Kansas,” Bryan Fischer wrote. “That was the case once again in 2016 as the Jayhawks led 23-14 at home in the fourth quarter and appeared to be on the doorstep of their first conference win in ages. TCU came storming back though with two late scoring drives, including one where QB Kenny Hill picked up his own fumble

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KANSAS SAFETY MIKE LEE INTERCEPTS A PASS against Texas on Nov. 19 at Memorial Stadium. and ran 34 yards to set up a touchdown pass two plays later. KU unfortunately missed two field goal attempts in the final frame that could have won the game, but instead it was TCU’s Brandon Hatfield doing honors on a 34-yarder with less than 90 seconds remaining.”

KU’s 24-21 overtime victory in its home finale, on Nov. 19, turned out far more memorable for Beaty, who picked up his first Big 12 victory as

a head coach against Texas. The highlight of the Jayhawks’ season made it the No. 1 Big 12 game, according to Athlon. “(OK), maybe not the most well-played game in the Big 12 this season but it was one of the most interesting upsets in a variety of ways,” Fischer wrote. “Matthew Wyman kicked a late field goal to tie it and another to win it in overtime to snap a 19-game losing streak in conference play by the

Jayhawks and all but assuredly end the Charlie Strong era at Texas at the same time. It was KU’s first victory over UT since 1938 (!) and came as the result of a ton of missed chances down the stretch for both teams, including a late fumble, fourth-down try and interception in overtime by the Longhorns. And to think it made D’Onta Foreman’s 250 yards on 51 (!) carries just an entry in the box score.”

to win friends and influence people on his team, in the stands, in jobs at every level of the univerCONTINUED FROM PAGE 1C sity he represents.

Charisma is what as he sees players fightenables him to coach his ing him, even if it’s players so hard at times subconscious resistance without them turning on the part of the athlete. against him or tuning He coaches his players him out. His humor and hard because he firmly ability to make complibelieves that doing so ments stay with his playwill make them come ers every bit as deeply as around to his way of his criticisms do inspires doing things, which is to them to follow him. He do them with consistent makes it impossible for unselfishness, aggrespeople not to like him, siveness, toughness. He even if at times he makes intelligently and aggresthem wish they were sively reaches into the anywhere but on the minds of his players and receiving end of his voice twists them with the goal and irrepressible will. of making their minds Self’s intelligence and equate the gains of the charisma bubble to the team with the gratificasurface during press tion of their egos. It’s conferences. His ability an impossible task to to closely approximate execute to perfection, so the time, score and he never stops twisting situation of pretty much toward that end. every possession of a The coach’s aggresbasketball game reveals siveness never rests. a peek inside a mind that He remains in attack constantly takes mental mode against more than photographs and recalls the team from the other them on command. His bench. He attacks losing charisma enables him to traits of players, never field questions without letting one go unmenembarrassing the person tioned. He consistently asking, even when one attacks any sign of selfish- of the questions came ness, softness, laziness. from someone wonderHe never stops. He being if Self ever put Wilt lieves that if he stays true Chamberlain in touch to his principles, his play- with Andrew Wiggins to ers eventually will grow give him advice. weary of trying to do it The gap between Self’s their way and will cave personal charm and comto his will. He believes it petitive nastiness is rare. because he sees it happen Now that I’ve revealed over and over again. what I believe to be the That’s why it took blend that makes Self a someone not around him winner, I’ll unfold the every day to make a joke paper on which I wrote of Self riding a referee the Jackson amalgam of so hard at the end of the winning traits, ranked in first half of a blowout order: Intelligence, agvictory against Nebraska. gressiveness, charisma.

Cornhuskers coach Tim Jackson’s ability to Miles laughed at the idea store everything he of Self expressing such reads, hears, sees and outrage at an official senses in any way and when so far ahead in the apply it in such a way game. that he excels in just Few accustomed to about every aspect of seeing Self coach every the game of basketball possession as if a ticket speaks to a sponge-of-ato the Final Four depend- mind never at rest. ed on it thought anything He processes what he of him getting so worked sees so swiftly that the up during a game goright pass is being caught ing so well for his team. or dropped at an instant Self’s in the habit of that for most passers it valuing every possession just now would be seen with the same desire for by players with lesser everyone to do their jobs vision. Once, he received a pass in the short left well, be it his players or corner and hot-potatoed the referees.

Charisma enables Self a perfect lob to Udoka

Azubuike on the right block. Jackson knew he was going to make that pass, saw the dunk in his mind, before his hand touched the ball. Azubuike didn’t know it was even a possibility and wasn’t able to react to it in time. The box score showed nothing but a turnover for Jackson on one of his more remarkable plays made in a Kansas uniform.

Put Jackson just about anywhere on the court in any situation and he’ll figure out how to make a winning play. He picks apart zones from the high post with smart passes.

His back to the basket as he stands on the block, he throws a soft hook over his left shoulder off the glass for an easy bucket against a shorter defender. He drives angles efficiently from either side of the lane or from either corner.

Defensively, he simultaneously reads the basketball and moving bodies and positions himself in a way to give himself a chance to help off his man to stop a penetration, block a shot, deflect a pass. He figures out when opponents might let their guard down and pounces by stepping into a passing lane for a steal.

Jackson’s intelligence also allows him to know there is plenty he doesn’t know. Rare is the teenager who is able to block out the worship that comes his way so that he can stay laser-focused on becoming better at what spawned the worship in the first place. Jackson clearly has mastered that because he arrived at Kansas so sophisticated and fearless in the ways of making winning plays and so open to being shown a better way. His youth means he doesn’t always make smart plays and sometimes his shot selection can be questioned, but his intelligence ensures he’ll learn from mistakes.

Jackson’s aggressiveness doesn’t come equipped with an off switch. He approaches every possession as a battle to be won. He plays with a constant sense of urgency, engaged offensively,

defensively and in transition in both directions at an extremely high rate.

He is as relentless in the art of making himself a pest invading the space of his man by making him pick up his dribble, hurry a shot, rush a pass or become so distracted they take an extra step and draw a whistle.

Jackson plays as if he believes he eventually will break the spirit of his competitor and he often accomplishes that.

He can trash-talk an opponent with the best, but does so without accompanying body language that calls attention to it. He doesn’t do it in look-at-me fashion that welcomes the audience into the conversation, rather in listen-to-meand-watch-me-do-toyou-what-I-just-toldyou-I-would-do-to-you fashion. The message is directed to and intended for an audience of one.

Jackson’s charisma makes teammates want to follow him. Nothing about the way he walks or talks hints at him having been told he’s special, better than the rest, spoiled.

At press conferences, he treats all comers with respect and responds to each question as if being graded on his answers for originality, insight, spontaneity and friendly presentation, a tough balancing act he executes seemingly without effort.

Clearly, treating people well has become a habit for him.

The way he appears to treat people outside of the realm of competition in no way resembles the possession-by-possession nastiness he brings to the court, possession-byequally-valued possession.

In so many ways, Jackson is to college basketball players what Self is to college basketball coaches: the complete package, an intelligent, aggressive, charismatic winning machine.

Step 5: Compare your unfolded pieces of paper and see how many winning traits that you identified for Self also appeared on the paper listing Jackson’s winning traits in order.

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Kansas City, Mo. — The Chiefs could have their playoff berth assured before kickoff against the Broncos tonight, provided the Pittsburgh Steelers knock off the Baltimore Ravens earlier in the day.

That hardly diminishes the importance of the game.

Kansas City (10-4) would need to beat Denver (8-6) to clinch its postseason spot if the Ravens win.

“We have to win. It’s pretty much that simple,” Chiefs defensive tackle Dontari Poe said.

“They’re coming into our place and it’s the Broncos. It’s no more intense than that. We have to be ready.”

The Chiefs have won nine straight within the division, including their dramatic win in Denver last month. They scored on their final possession to force overtime that night, then got two field goals from Cairo Santos in overtime — the second ricocheting off the upright — to escape with a 30-27 victory that has proven to be massive in the playoff chase.

Without the win, the Chiefs would be in a much more dire situation tonight.

In other words, they would be in Denver’s situation.

The Broncos’ best chance of making the playoffs and defending their Super Bowl title is to beat Kansas City and Oakland in the final two weeks. If they split and finish 9-7, their chances of earning a wild card become slim, and would require help from a whole bunch of other teams.

“We have to win out,” Broncos wide receiver Emmanuel Sanders said.

“We have to win out.”

So, both teams believe their divisional showdown is a must-win game.

Here are some of the key points that will determine which team is successful: Win the second half: The Chiefs’ offense has become anemic in the second half the last three weeks, averaging 124 yards over that span.

They also haven’t scored an offensive touchdown in any of those games, and that proved to be debilitating in a 19-17 loss to Tennessee last Sunday.

Tight end Travis Kelce blamed overly conservative play calling afterward, though he later backtracked. But he may have been right: The Chiefs rarely push downfield in the second half of games.

“I look at all of that,” Chiefs coach Andy Reid said when asked whether he needs to be more aggressive. “I go through and look at all that.”

Locker room riff: The Broncos downplayed disharmony in their locker room this week, but that doesn’t mean it doesn’t exist. Their dynamics became a hot topic after last week’s 16-3 loss to New England when squabbling began between cornerback Aqib Talib and left tackle Russell Okung.

That led to a shouting match between defensive players who have held some of the NFL’s best offenses in check, and a line that’s been blamed for the Broncos’ ugly offense.

“There’s no division.

That’s battling and that’s part of football,” Broncos coach Gary Kubiak said. “Defensively, we should feel really good about ourselves and how we played. Offensively, we should look

CHIEFS CAPSULE DENVER (8-6) at KANSAS CITY (10-4) 7:30 p.m. today, NBC (Cable channels 14, 214) LINE — Chiefs by 3 RECORD VS. SPREAD — Kansas City 7-7, Denver 6-7-1 SERIES RECORD — Chiefs lead 58-55 LAST MEETING — Chiefs beat Broncos 30-27, OT, Nov. 27 LAST WEEK — Broncos lost to Patriots 16-3; Chiefs lost to Titans 19-17 AP PRO32 RANKING — Broncos No. 11 (tie), Chiefs No. 4 BRONCOS OFFENSE — OVERALL (24), RUSH (27), PASS (18) BRONCOS DEFENSE — OVERALL (2), RUSH (29), PASS (1) CHIEFS OFFENSE — OVERALL (23), RUSH (23), PASS (22) CHIEFS DEFENSE — OVERALL (29), RUSH (28), PASS (19) STREAKS, STATS AND NOTES — Forecast is for temperature in 50s today.

Temperature at kickoff was 1 degree last weekend at Arrowhead Stadium. ... Chiefs have won last two in series after seven-game skid. ...

Denver is 2-0 on Christmas, beating Detroit in 1999 and Tennessee in 2004. ... Broncos have lost three of four overall. ... Denver has scored leaguebest 103 points off turnovers and won 29 straight when winning turnover battle. ...

Broncos LB Von Miller has 13 1/2 sacks, second most in NFL. ... WR Demaryius Thomas needs four catches to tie Lionel Taylor (543) for third in Broncos history. ... Broncos S TJ Ward needs 13 tackles to reach 100 for season. ...

Denver LB DeMarcus Ware needs one sack to tie Jason Taylor (139 1-2) for seventh on NFL career list. ... Broncos QB Trevor Siemian threw for 368 yards and three TDs vs. Chiefs in November. ... Chiefs have won three of last four overall. ... Chiefs WR Tyreek Hill had TDs running, receiving and on kickoff return vs. Broncos in November.

at it and say, ‘We did some good things, but we should have scored some points.’”

Tyreek shines: The Broncos should remember well Tyreek Hill. The dynamic rookie wide receiver had touchdowns on the ground, through the air and on a kickoff return against them last month.

Turns out Hill has been at his best in three primetime games, scoring six touchdowns.

“I guess it just feels like ‘Friday Night Lights,’ going back to high school days,” Hill said. “I always think it’s fun to play under the lights because that’s when everyone is watching. It’s the last game on TV. I know my mom is watching, so I got to show out for her.”

Pro Bowl players: The Chiefs had four Pro Bowl selections in safety Eric Berry, wide receiver Tyreek Hill, cornerback Marcus Peters and tight end Travis Kelce. The Broncos had three selections in cornerbacks Chris Harris and Aqib Talib and pass rusher Von Miller.

Four Pro Bowl defensive backs in one game?

Good luck getting much going through the air.

Denver’s dive: The Broncos saw their fiveyear run as AFC West champs come to an end mainly because of problems along the offensive and defensive lines. They are 27th in the league running the ball and 29th against the run. But because their pass defense remains top-notch, the most glaring weakness is their O-line and its inability to bore holes or keep the QB upright.

“The same thing I wanted to see from Day 1: consistency,” Broncos offensive coordinator Rick Dennison said when asked what he wants to see down the stretch.

“We need to iron out a lot of things.”

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Christmas gift: Browns get first win of the season not have a turnover against a with 26 takeaways — including three interceptions of Brees in the clubs’ previous meeting two weeks earlier.

This time, it was New Orleans’ defense producing turnovers; Jairus Bryd intercepted Jameis Winston twice. The first takeaway set up Ingram’s second TD, and the second stalled a promising Bucs drive into Saints territory.

The Associated Press

Browns 20, Chargers 17 Cleveland — The Browns are winless no more.

Cleveland avoided that fate Saturday by beating San Diego for their first victory in more than a year. San Diego’s Josh Lambo missed a 45-yard field goal as time expired, giving the Browns (1-14) their first win in 377 days.

When the kick sailed right, Cleveland’s small crowd erupted in celebration and Browns players poured off their sideline as if they had just won the Super Bowl.

The Browns avoided becoming the second team to go 0-15, and no longer have to worry about joining the 2008 Detroit Lions as the only teams to lose all 16 games.

Cleveland built 10-point lead in the third quarter and hung on — defensive tackle Jamie Meder blocked a potential tying field goal with 3:49 left — to give coach Hue Jackson his first win with the Browns.

The win also snapped Cleveland’s 17-game losing streak dating to last season.

San Diego 10 0 7 0 — 17 Cleveland 7 10 3 0 — 20 First Quarter SD-Gates 1 pass from Rivers (Lambo kick), 10:49.

Cle-Crowell 8 run (Parkey kick), 5:12.

SD-FG Lambo 43, 1:49.

Second Quarter Cle-Crowell 4 run (Parkey kick), 12:39.

Cle-FG Parkey 49, 4:46.

Third Quarter Cle-FG Parkey 27, 10:58.

SD-Ty.Williams 1 pass from Rivers (Lambo kick), 6:04.

A-57,272.

Jaguars 38, Titans 17 Jacksonville, Fla. — Blake Bortles’ best game of the season helped the Jaguars end a nine-game losing streak.

Bortles threw for 325 yards and a touchdown, and was on the receiving end of a 20-yard trick play that sealed the win with 5:25 remaining. Rookie Jalen Ramsey returned an interception 30 yards on the ensuing play to set off a raucous — and longawaited — celebration in Jacksonville.

Bortles and the Jaguars (3-12) played inspired football and won for the first time this season at EverBank Field. Maybe they rallied around interim coach Doug Marrone.

Maybe they played for ultra-popular ex-coach Gus Bradley, who was fired six days earlier. Maybe they just wanted to avenge an embarrassing loss to the Titans (8-7) on national television in late October.

Tennessee 0 7 3 7 — 17 Jacksonville 10 9 6 13 — 38 First Quarter Jac-Lee 21 pass from Bortles (Myers kick), 11:03.

Jac-FG Myers 29, 4:03.

Second Quarter Ten-Matthews 3 pass from Mariota (Succop kick), 8:59.

Jac-Ivory 1 run (kick failed), 1:57.

Jac-FG Myers 48, :11.

Third Quarter Ten-FG Succop 42, 12:24.

Jac-FG Myers 56, 8:13.

Jac-FG Myers 50, 2:59.

Fourth Quarter Ten-Walker 14 pass from Cassel (Succop kick), 8:42.

Jac-Bortles 20 pass from Lee (kick failed), 5:25.

Jac-Ramsey 30 interception return (Myers kick), 5:17.

A-59,621.

Falcons 33, Panthers 16 Charlotte, N.C. — Matt Ryan threw for 277 yards and two touchdowns, Tevin Coleman had 135 yards from scrimmage, including a pivotal 55-yard fourth-quarter TD run, and the Falcons moved a step closer to wrapping up a postseason berth.

The Falcons (10-5) can clinch their first NFC South title since 2012 if Tampa Bay loses or ties New Orleans later Saturday. Atlanta can also clinch a playoff berth with a Detroit loss or tie against Dallas on Monday night.

Tampa Bay 0 7 14 3 — 24 New Orleans 7 6 15 3 — 31 First Quarter NO-Ingram 6 run (Lutz kick), :57.

Second Quarter TB-Brate 12 pass from Winston (Aguayo kick), 10:50.

NO-FG Lutz 42, 6:45.

NO-FG Lutz 34, :00.

Third Quarter NO-Ingram 14 run (Lutz kick), 14:01.

TB-Rodgers 3 run (Aguayo kick), 8:38.

NO-Cadet 11 pass from Brees (Ingram run), 6:20.

TB-M.Evans 34 pass from Winston (Aguayo kick), 1:52.

Fourth Quarter NO-FG Lutz 21, 11:55.

TB-FG Aguayo 35, 2:00.

A-73,177.

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CLEVELAND BROWNS RUNNING BACK GEORGE ATKINSON (25) CELEBRATES after the Browns defeated the San Diego Chargers in an NFL game Saturday in Cleveland.

NE-FG Gostkowski 22, 11:13.

A few straggling NE-Lengel 18 pass from Brady kick), 2:40.

Falcons fans chanted (Gostkowski NE-White 25 pass from Brady “MVP!” at Ryan in the (Gostkowski kick), :25. game’s closing minutes Third Quarter NE-Blount 1 run (Gostkowski kick), while most Panthers fans 3:22. had already headed for Fourth Quarter NE-Blount 1 run (Gostkowski kick), the exits.

12:24.

The Panthers (6-9) NYJ-FG Folk 29, 6:16.

A-66,829. were officially eliminated from playoff contention after making the Super Packers 38, Vikings 25 Green Bay, Wis. — Bowl last season.

Aaron Rodgers threw for Atlanta 13 7 3 10 — 33 347 yards and four touchCarolina 0 3 10 3 — 16 downs, WHILE Jordy First Quarter Atl-Perkins 26 pass from Ryan Nelson shredded Minne(Bryant kick), 10:57. sota’s secondary for 154 Atl-FG Bryant 51, 6:09.

Atl-FG Bryant 48, :35. yards and two scores.

Second Quarter The Packers’ fifth Car-FG Gano 31, 10:17.

Atl-Tialavea 1 pass from Ryan straight win set up a win(Bryant kick), 5:34. ner-take-all showdown Third Quarter next week with Detroit for Car-FG Gano 40, 9:23.

Atl-FG Bryant 29, 3:34. the NFC North title, while Car-Benjamin 26 pass from Newton extinguishing the Vikings’ (Gano kick), :00.

Fourth Quarter faint postseason hopes.

Atl-T.Coleman 55 run (Bryant kick), Green Bay (9-6) built a 13:19.

Car-FG Gano 31, 9:43.

28-13 lead at halftime, with Atl-FG Bryant 50, 1:55.

Rodgers accounting for all A-73,549. four scores. He finished 28 of 38, and shrugged off Patriots 41, Jets 3 his right calf injury after Foxborough, Mass. — scrambling for a 6-yard Tom Brady passed for 214 touchdown late in the secyards and three touchond quarter and making a downs, and New England rare Lambeau Leap. moved a step closer to seRodgers and Nelson concuring home-field advannected for scores from 21 tage throughout the AFC and 2 yards in the first half. playoffs.

A loss or tie by the Minnesota 3 10 0 12 — 25 14 14 0 10 — 38 Raiders against the Colts Green Bay First Quarter later Saturday would ofGB-Nelson 21 pass from A.Rodgers ficially give New England (Crosby kick), 7:13.

Min-FG Forbath 22, 3:37. the AFC’s top seed.

GB-Adams 20 pass from A.Rodgers Malcolm Butler added (Crosby kick), 1:49.

Quarter two interceptions and Second Min-FG Forbath 26, 12:30. a fumble recovery, and GB-Nelson 2 pass from A.Rodgers LeGarrette Blount had a (Crosby kick), 8:11.

Min-Thielen 71 pass from Bradford pair of 1-yard touchdown (Forbath kick), 7:24.

GB-A.Rodgers 6 run (Crosby kick), runs.

New England (13-2) :24.

Fourth Quarter GB-FG Crosby 48, 14:55. took advantage of New GB-R.Rodgers 13 pass from York miscues all day, A.Rodgers (Crosby kick), 9:02. scoring on three of its Min-Diggs 3 pass from Bradford (kick failed), 4:20. first four possessions.

Min-Thielen 8 pass from Bradford The Jets (4-11), who (run failed), :32.

A-77,856. have lost six of seven, had four turnovers.

The only really good Dolphins 34, piece of news for the Jets Bills 31, OT Orchard Park, N.Y. came before the game, when Todd Bowles re- — Jay Ajayi ran for 206 joined the team and yards and broke loose for coached from the side- a 57-yarder in overtime line a day after a medical to set up Andrew Franks’ scare sent him to the hos- 27-yard field goal.

In winning for the ninth pital. time in 10 games, the DolN.Y. Jets 0 0 0 3 — 3 phins (10-5) inched closer New England 10 17 7 7 — 41 to their first playoff berth First Quarter NE-FG Gostkowski 29, 8:16. since 2008. Miami can NE-Bennett 5 pass from Brady secure the AFC’s final (Gostkowski kick), 3:02.

Second Quarter wild-card berth as early

as today if Denver loses to Kansas City.

Denver needs to win its final two games to make the postseason, and Baltimore is eliminated from the wild-card race and can only make the playoffs as the AFC North champion.

Raiders 33, Colts 25 Oakland, Calif. — Derek Carr threw three touchdown passes in the second quarter before leaving the game in the fourth quarter with an injured right leg, putting a serious damper on the Oakland’s win over IndiaMiami 7 7 14 3 3 — 34 napolis.

Buffalo 0 7 14 10 0 — 31 Carr’s injury leaves a First Quarter Mia-Ajayi 2 run (Franks kick), 6:24. dark cloud over the best Second Quarter Mia-Drake 45 run (Franks kick), season for the Raiders 13:34.

(12-3) in 14 years.

Buf-Watkins 38 pass from Taylor Oakland clinched its (Carpenter kick), 5:06.

Third Quarter first playoff berth since Mia-Parker 56 pass from Moore 2002 last week and can (Franks kick), 12:05.

Buf-McCoy 19 run (Carpenter kick), win the AFC West and 6:46. earn a first-round bye Mia-Stills 6 pass from Moore by winning next week in (Franks kick), 3:14.

Buf-Clay 18 pass from Taylor Denver or if Kansas City (Carpenter kick), 1:12. loses one of its final two Fourth Quarter Buf-FG Carpenter 28, 5:51. games.

Buf-Clay 7 pass from Taylor But that is all second(Carpenter kick), 1:20.

Mia-FG Franks 55, :06. ary to Carr’s health right Overtime now. The third-year Mia-FG Franks 27, :47. quarterback has led a reA-64,690. surgence in Oakland with 28 TD passes and seven Redskins 41, Bears 21 fourth-quarter comeChicago — Kirk Cousbacks this season. ins threw for a touchdown and ran for two Indianapolis 0 7 7 11 — 25 0 19 14 0 — 33 more, and Washington Oakland Second Quarter gave its fading playoff Oak-Holmes 1 pass from Carr (Janikowski kick), 14:57. hopes a boost.

Ind-Moncrief 24 pass from Luck DeSean Jackson added (Vinatieri kick), 9:49.

114 yards receiving, and Oak-Walford 5 pass from Carr (kick 5:50.

Washington (8-6-1) inter- failed), Oak-Richard 4 pass from Carr (kick cepted Matt Barkley five blocked), :18.

Third Quarter times.

Oak-Washington 22 run (Janikowski Eighth in the NFC be- kick), 10:48.

Oak-Washington 22 run (Janikowski hind Green Bay and Tampa 8:40.

Bay coming in, Washing- kick), Ind-Turbin 3 pass from Luck ton scored 14 points in the (Vinatieri kick), 5:18.

Quarter first quarter after struggling Fourth Ind-Luck 11 run (Hilton pass from early in recent games, and Luck), 7:40.

Ind-FG Vinatieri 42, 2:33. never really was threatened A-54,896. by the Bears (3-12).

Cousins, shaky against Carolina, was 18 of 29 for Saints 31, Buccaneers 24 New Orleans — Mark 270 yards. He threw a 17yard touchdown to Chris Ingram rushed for twoThompson in the first touchdowns and a gamequarter and scored on a sealing first down in the 9-yard run in the second. final minutes, and New He also pushed in from Orleans put a considerthe 1 late in the third to able damper on Tampa Bay’s playoff aspirations make it 31-14. with a victory.

The Buccaneers (8San Diego 10 0 7 0 — 17 Cleveland 7 10 3 0 — 20 7) needed a win to keep First Quarter SD-Gates 1 pass from Rivers (Lambo pace with Green Bay (9kick), 10:49.

6) for the final NFC wildCle-Crowell 8 run (Parkey kick), 5:12. card spot, but couldn’t SD-FG Lambo 43, 1:49. keep up with the Saints’ Second Quarter Cle-Crowell 4 run (Parkey kick), explosive offense.

12:39.

Drew Brees was 23 of Cle-FG Parkey 49, 4:46.

Third Quarter 34 for 299 yards and a Cle-FG Parkey 27, 10:58.

SD-Ty.Williams 1 pass from Rivers touchdown for New Or(Lambo kick), 6:04. leans (7-8), which gained A-57,272.

417 total yards and did

Cardinals 34, Seahawks 31 Seattle — Arizona continues to give Seattle headaches at home. This time, it will likely end up costing Seattle a firstround bye in the playoffs.

Chandler Catanzaro hit a 43-yard field goal on the final play and the Cardinals beat the Seahawks.

Seattle rallied from a 31-18 deficit, scoring two touchdowns inside the final three minutes to pull even 31-31. Jimmy Graham had a 37-yard touchdown catch and Paul Richardson’s 5-yard TD with 1:06 left tied it.

Steven Hauschka missed the extra point that could have given Seattle the lead, but it didn’t matter in the end.

Arizona went 50 yards in the final minute and Catanzaro’s kick was good, delivering a huge blow to Seattle’s chances at the No. 2 seed in the NFC. It was the Seahawks’ first home loss this season; all NFL teams have now been beaten in a home game.

Arizona 7 7 0 20 — 34 Seattle 0 3 7 21 — 31 First Quarter Ari-D.Johnson 2 run (Catanzaro kick), 7:52.

Second Quarter Ari-Nelson 80 pass from Palmer (Catanzaro kick), 3:53.

Sea-FG Hauschka 27, :15.

Third Quarter Sea-Kearse 2 pass from Wilson (Hauschka kick), 8:20.

Fourth Quarter Ari-D.Johnson 1 run (Catanzaro kick), 13:32.

Sea-Baldwin 42 pass from Wilson (Reece pass from Wilson), 8:49.

Ari-D.Johnson 1 run (Catanzaro kick), 6:47.

Ari-FG Catanzaro 42, 4:10.

Sea-Graham 37 pass from Wilson (Hauschka kick), 2:48.

Sea-Richardson 5 pass from Wilson (kick failed), 1:00.

Ari-FG Catanzaro 43, :00.

A-69,050.

49ers 22, Rams 21 Los Angeles — Colin Kaepernick threw a 10-yard touchdown pass with 31 seconds remaining and scrambled for a go-ahead 2-point conversion and San Francisco overcame a 14-point deficit to end a 13-game losing streak with a win over Los Angeles.

Kaepernick rolled to his right while looking for a receiver before tucking the ball and barreling into the end zone to give the 49ers a sweep in the renewal of the instate rivalry with the Rams’ return to Los Angeles this season.

Kaepernick threw for 257 yards, two touchdowns and one interception and rushed for a touchdown for the 49ers (2-13).

San Francisco 7 0 0 15 — 22 Los Angeles 14 0 0 7 — 21 First Quarter SF-Hyde 19 pass from Kaepernick (Dawson kick), 9:01.

LA-Gurley 1 run (Zuerlein kick), 4:07.

LA-Austin 30 run (Zuerlein kick), 2:33.

Fourth Quarter LA-Higbee 2 pass from Goff (Zuerlein kick), 10:32.

SF-Kaepernick 13 run (Dawson kick), 5:06.

SF-Streater 10 pass from Kaepernick (Kaepernick run), :31.

A-83,656.

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Baseball must pick up pace

By Bob Klapisch The Record

Even baseball’s fiercest defenders will admit the sport went in the wrong direction in 2016 — the games ran too long, managers called on too many relievers who took forever. Sitting through nine innings, especially in the post-season, was a test of patience, if not one’s sanity.

Even the historic postseason came at a steep price. Game 2 of the World Series lasted 4:04 without going into extra innings. America fell in love with the Cubs, but the process was interminable. The average game in October took nearly 3 1/2 hours, which means you had to stick with the pitching changes and commercial breaks and instant replay huddles until almost midnight.

Rob Manfred isn’t blind to the trend line — he knows baseball’s pace-of-game initiative is failing and will continue to backslide unless radical measures are adopted. As the commissioner told ESPN earlier in the year, “this topic is like dandelions. The minute you look the other way, you’ve got them all over your lawn.”

To this point, baseball’s attempts to streamline have been too modest and ineffective. Batters were forced to keep one foot in the box starting in 2015 but the workarounds soon became obvious. Ask for time, or step back to avoid a close pitch, or question a borderline strike. Umpires eventually grew weary of enforcement.

The result? The average regular season game, which was trimmed to 2:56 in 2015, crept back to 3:04 last year. Manfred is right. The dandelions are winning.

We’re here to help, although not without a warning for purists: our changes are cataclysmic. We’re talking about pitch-clocks, banning mound visits, reining in those dreadfully slow instant-replay conferences.

The idea is to shake the game’s very foundation and bring it into the new millennium. The makeover would likely be too severe for Manfred, but he should learn why soccer is growing in popularity in the U.S. It’s the running clock.

With no breaks in the action, soccer enjoys constant tension, not to mention an identifiable starting and end point.

You can practically set your watch to the twohour match. Baseball, beautiful and subtle, can’t install the same timeboundaries, but there’s still a way to make it faster-paced. Here’s how.

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SCOREBOARD NBA Big 12 Men

League Overall 12-0 Baylor 0-0 11-1 Kansas 0-0 Kansas State 0-0 11-1 TCU 0-0 11-1 Texas Tech 0-0 11-1 West Virginia 0-0 11-1 Oklahoma State 0-0 10-2 Iowa State 0-0 8-3 Oklahoma 0-0 6-5 6-5 Texas 0-0 Friday’s Game West Virginia 92, Northern Kentucky 61 Tuesday, Dec. 27 Kent State at Texas, 6 p.m.

Limit pitching changes to two per inning Nothing has done more to slow the pace of game than the overBig 12 Women reliance on relievers,

League Overall West Virginia 0-0 12-0 especially in the late inBaylor 0-0 11-1 nings. Case in point was Oklahoma State 0-0 10-1 Game 5 of the National Kansas State 0-0 10-2 State 0-0 9-2 League Champion Series Iowa Oklahoma 0-0 9-3 between the Dodgers and TCU 8-3 0-0 Texas Tech 0-0 8-3 Nationals. The seventh Texas 0-0 6-4 inning alone took 66 6-5 Kansas 0-0 Thursday, Dec. 29 minutes, with WashingIowa State at Okla, State, 5 p.m. ton burning through six West Virginia at TCU, 6:30 p.m. pitchers.

Texas Tech at Texas, 7 p.m.

Oklahoma at Kansas, 7 p.m.

Not surprisingly it Kansas State at Baylor, 7 p.m. took 4:32 to finish the contest, the longest Kansas Men Nov. 11 — vs. Indiana, at Honolulu, L nine-inning game in 99-103 OT (0-1) postseason history and Nov. 15 — vs. Duke, at New York, W 77-75 (1-1) the longest nine-inning Nov. 18 — vs. Siena, W 86-65 (2-1) game of any kind in the Nov. 21 — vs. UAB, at Kansas City, Mo., W 83-63 (3-1) NL. The obsessive hunt Nov. 22 — vs. Georgia, at Kansas for the right match-up is City, Mo., W 65-54 (4-1) out of control, a monster Nov. 25 — vs. UNC Asheville, W 95-57 (5-1) created by the monsoon Nov. 29 — vs. Long Beach State, W of data that now runs the 91-61 (6-1) Dec. 3 — vs. Stanford, W 89-74, (7-1) sport. It’s hard to believe Dec. 6 — vs. UMKC, W 105-62, (8-1) this is what baseball is Dec. 10 — vs. Nebraska, W 89-72 (9-1) supposed to be.

Dec. 17 — vs. Davidson, at Kansas City, Mo., W 89-71 (10-1)

EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division

W L Pct GB Toronto 21 8 .724 — Boston 17 13 .567 4½ New York 16 13 .552 5 Philadelphia 7 22 .241 14 Brooklyn 7 22 .241 14 Southeast Division

W L Pct GB Charlotte 17 13 .567 — Atlanta 15 15 .500 2 Washington 13 16 .448 3½ Orlando 14 18 .438 4 Miami 10 21 .323 7½ Central Division

W L Pct GB Cleveland 22 6 .786 — Milwaukee 14 14 .500 8 Indiana 15 16 .484 8½ Chicago 14 15 .483 8½ Detroit 14 18 .438 10 WESTERN CONFERENCE Southwest Division

W L Pct GB San Antonio 24 6 .800 — Houston 22 9 .710 2½ Memphis 20 12 .625 5 New Orleans 11 21 .344 14 Dallas 9 21 .300 15 Northwest Division

W L Pct GB Oklahoma City 18 12 .600 — Utah 18 13 .581 ½ Portland 13 19 .406 6 Denver 12 18 .400 6 Minnesota 9 20 .310 8½ Pacific Division

W L Pct GB Golden State 27 4 .871 — L.A. Clippers 22 9 .710 5 Sacramento 13 17 .433 13½ L.A. Lakers 11 22 .333 17 Phoenix 9 21 .300 17½ Friday’s Games Charlotte 103, Chicago 91 Orlando 109, L.A. Lakers 90 Cleveland 119, Brooklyn 99 Golden State 119, Detroit 113 Oklahoma City 117, Boston 112 Memphis 115, Houston 109 Milwaukee 123, Washington 96 New Orleans 91, Miami 87 Sacramento 109, Minnesota 105 Atlanta 109, Denver 108 Phoenix 123, Philadelphia 116 Toronto 104, Utah 98 San Antonio 110, Portland 90 Dallas 90, L.A. Clippers 88 Today’s Games Boston at New York, 11 a.m.

Golden State at Cleveland, 1:30 p.m.

Chicago at San Antonio, 4 p.m.

Minnesota at Oklahoma City, 7 p.m.

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

Monday’s Games Memphis at Orlando, 6 p.m.

Milwaukee at Washington, 6 p.m.

Charlotte at Brooklyn, 6:30 p.m.

Cleveland at Detroit, 6:30 p.m.

Atlanta at Minnesota, 7 p.m.

Dallas at New Orleans, 7 p.m.

Indiana at Chicago, 7 p.m.

Phoenix at Houston, 7 p.m.

Toronto at Portland, 9 p.m.

Denver at L.A. Clippers, 9:30 p.m.

Philadelphia at Sacramento, 9:30 p.m.

Tuesday’s Games Memphis at Boston, 6:30 p.m.

Oklahoma City at Miami, 6:30 p.m.

Houston at Dallas, 7:30 p.m.

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

Wednesday’s Games Charlotte at Orlando, 6 p.m.

Indiana at Washington, 6 p.m.

Milwaukee at Detroit, 6:30 p.m.

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

Brooklyn at Chicago, 7 p.m.

L.A. Clippers at New Orleans, 7 p.m.

Phoenix at San Antonio, 7:30 p.m.

Minnesota at Denver, 8 p.m.

Sacramento at Portland, 9 p.m.

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

Implement a 10-second Dec. 22 — vs. UNLV, at Las Vegas, W 71-53 (11-1) pitch clock Dec. 30 — at TCU, 8 p.m.

Crazy, right? Not realJan. 3 — vs. Kansas State, 8 p.m.

Jan. 7 — vs. Texas Tech, 6:15 p.m. ly. The minor leagues beJan. 10 — at Oklahoma, 8 p.m. gan experimenting with Jan. 14 — vs. Oklahoma State, 1 p.m.

Jan. 16 — at Iowa State, 8 p.m. a 20-second clock in 2015 Jan. 21 — vs. Texas, 1 p.m. with pleasing results: the Jan. 24 — at West Virginia, 6 p.m.

Jan. 28 — at Kentucky, 5 p.m. average Class-AAA game Feb. 1 — vs. Baylor, 8 p.m. ended 16 minutes sooner Feb. 4 — vs. Iowa State, 5 or 7 p.m. because hurlers were no Feb. 6 — at Kansas State, 8 p.m.

Feb. 11 — at Texas Tech, 1 p.m. longer manicuring the Feb. 13 — vs. West Virginia, 8 p.m. mound between pitches Feb. 18 — at Baylor, noon Feb. 22 — vs. TCU, 6 p.m. or flipping the rosin bag Feb. 25 — at Texas, 5 or 7 p.m. to dry their hands.

Feb. 27 — vs. Oklahoma, 8 p.m.

March 4 — at Oklahoma State, 5 Yes, we get the rejoinp.m. der: pitching is as much Big 12 Championship, at Kansas City, about feel as execution.

Mo. March 8 — First Round Concentration is irreMarch 9 — Quarterfinals placeable. But there’s March 10 — Semifinals March 11 — Final something to be said about keeping a pitcher Kansas Women in a constant state of Nov. 13 — vs. Missouri State, L 64-87 (0-1) readiness, too. Those Nov. 16 — vs. SMU, L 63-75 (0-2) who are better at perfectNov. 20 — at Memphis, W 68-58 (1-2) Nov. 23 — vs. Oral Roberts, W 64-56, ing their grips in those 10 (2-2) seconds will have an ad- 2 OT Nov. 27 — vs. North Dakota, W 76-71, NBA Leaders Scoring vantage over those who OT (3-2) G FG FT PTS AVG Nov. 30 — at Creighton, L 49-69 (3-3) fumble with the ball.

Dec. 4 — at Alabama, L 65-71, OT Westbrook, OKC 30 313 269 953 31.8 Of course, the smart Davis, NOR 30 318 236 891 29.7 (3-4) Cousins, SAC 29 288 215 843 29.1 Dec. 7 — vs. Harvard, L 59-69 (3-5) hurlers will find a way to Dec. 11 — vs. Rhode Island, W 72-36 DeRozan, TOR 29 290 212 805 27.8 circumvent this proposal. (4-5) Harden, HOU 31 249 258 849 27.4 Lillard, POR 32 280 223 865 27.0 Dec. 17 — vs. Arizona, W 75-51 (5-5) Throwing over to first Dec. 21 — vs. U.C. Riverside, W 90-84 Thomas, BOS 26 217 205 701 27.0 would, theoretically, Durant, GOL 31 284 176 802 25.9 (6-5) James, CLE 26 243 125 657 25.3 Dec. 29 — vs. Oklahoma, 7 p.m. re-start the clock. But Butler, CHI 29 220 236 709 24.4 Jan. 1 — at Baylor, 2 p.m. there’ll be a limit on that, Curry, GOL 31 246 147 757 24.4 Jan. 4 — vs. Texas, 7 p.m. too — no more than two Leonard, SAN 30 240 194 730 24.3 Jan. 8 — at Iowa State, 1 p.m.

Irving, CLE 26 229 99 619 23.8 Jan. 11 — at Kansas State, 7 p.m. attempted pick-offs per Wall, WAS 27 229 144 634 23.5 Jan. 15 — vs. Baylor, 1 p.m. at-bat.

A’kounmpo, MIL 28 234 168 656 23.4 Jan. 18 — vs. West Virgina, 7 p.m.

Keep batters in the box This would’ve been a killer for David Ortiz, but the re-strapping of the batting gloves, tapping of the spikes and endless practice swings have to go. So too, do the face to face visits with the third base coach. Learn the signs; it’s not quantum physics. If a batter can’t figure them out, it shouldn’t be at the expense of the viewing public.

Keep commercial breaks to one minute Another revolutionary idea, because what’s more important to baseball than advertising revenue? But 2:30 is still too long of an interruption — a drop-dead momentum Eliminate all mound killer. Our solution? Invisits crease ad rates and start Yes, every single one, selling space on players’ which includes the point- helmets and jerseys. And less chat with the pitchlet’s go one step further ing coach that precedes and hawk space on Fox’s the unnecessary summit on-screen graphics, too. with the manager. This Everything would be up is a time-consuming for grabs for the smart ceremony just to sumsponsor, because fans mon a new arm from the will suddenly be paying bullpen. If a reliever is attention. needed, he has to run, Streamline instant not walk, to the mound.

The same edict applies replay challenges to five seconds to catchers; they stay That’s right — just put in The New Order. five. If umpires have Besides, they usually to make those nearhave nothing useful to impossible calls in an eye say on the mound, havblink, managers should ing been dispatched on be under the same conorders from the dugout.

It’s all about buying time straint. Make a decision for the reliever squeezing in real-time or lose the in a few extra warm-ups chance. Stopping the in the bullpen. In other game while someone in words, a colossal turn-off the clubhouse consults a to fans in the stands and video replay is a speedan invitation to switch bump that can be pared channels at home. down.

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Jan. 22 — at TCU, 6 p.m.

Jan. 25 — at Oklahoma State, 7 p.m.

Jan. 28 — vs. Texas Tech, 11 a.m.

Feb. 1 — at Oklahoma, 10:30 a.m.

Feb. 5 — vs. TCU, 1:30 p.m.

Feb. 8 — vs. Oklahoma State, 7 p.m.

Feb. 11 — at Texas, 1:30 p.m.

Feb. 18 — at Texas Tech, 2 p.m.

Feb. 21 — vs. Iowa State, 7 p.m.

Feb. 25 — vs. Kansas State, 2 p.m.

Feb. 27 — at West Virginia, 6 p.m.

Big 12 Championship, at Oklahoma City March 3 — First round March 4 — Quarterfinals March 5 — Semifinals March 6 — Final

Walker, CHA Anthony, NYK Beal, WAS Towns, MIN Hayward, UTA

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with the beginning of Big 12 play less than a week away.

Believe it or not, the Jayhawks have used four different starting lineups so far this season, with guards Frank Mason III, Devonté Graham and Josh Jackson being the only players to start all 12 games thus far.

After starting the season with the traditional two-big-man approach, Self went to the fourguard lineup in Game 6 and has played some version of his four-guard lineup the majority of the time since.

After tinkering with sophomore Lagerald Vick in the starting lineup for three games, Self has moved on to Sviatoslav Mykhailiuk in that fourth guard role and the junior from Ukraine who stayed in Lawrence for Christmas has responded with some of the best games of his career.

Because of that, at least right now, it seems as if Mykhailiuk has a hold on that fourth perimeter player spot and Vick sits at No. 5. Most years, that would put Vick on the

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freshman center Udoka Azubuike, nothing really has changed regarding Self’s rotation and the way he would like to use it. What is gone is the Jayhawks’ margin for error and any depth this team once appeared to have.

“Each situation’s different,” Self said. “When I was at Illinois, we had four really good bigs so I didn’t care about fouls.

We played extra aggressive and when a guy got two fouls in the first half he basically took himself out, which was great for team chemistry because it forced us to play everybody.”

The Azubuike injury very well may force Self to play “everybody” in the coming weeks, but the playing time tiers for each available Jayhawk seem to be clearly defined.

With that in mind, let’s take a look at where the Jayhawks’ rotation sits 12 games into the season

FG Percentage

Gobert, UTA Jordan, LAC Capela, HOU Howard, ATL Adams, OKC Zeller, CHA Gortat, WAS Jokic, DEN Plumlee, POR

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233 110 225 123 199 107 244 115 170 146 FG 134 138 151 146 139 114 146 124 145

654 22.6 630 22.5 577 22.2 640 22.1 528 22.0

FGA 192 210 236 231 238 196 253 215 258

PCT .698 .657 .640 .632 .584 .582 .577 .577 .562

Rebounds

Whiteside, MIA Drummond, DET Howard, ATL Jordan, LAC Gobert, UTA Gortat, WAS Chandler, PHX Davis, NOR Towns, MIN Love, CLE Assists

Harden, HOU Westbrook, OKC Wall, WAS Paul, LAC James, CLE Rondo, CHI Green, GOL Lowry, TOR Teague, IND Frazier, NOR

G OFF DEF TOT AVG 31 131 330 461 14.9 31 117 299 416 13.4 26 121 218 339 13.0 31 106 298 404 13.0 31 95 274 369 11.9 29 94 242 336 11.6 22 68 186 254 11.5 30 63 283 346 11.5 29 100 231 331 11.4 25 61 210 271 10.8 G 31 30 27 30 26 25 29 29 31 31

AST AVG 369 11.9 323 10.8 261 9.7 288 9.6 227 8.7 186 7.4 214 7.4 212 7.3 226 7.3 220 7.1

NFL

AMERICAN CONFERENCE East

W L T Pct PF PA y-New England 13 2 0 .867 406 236 Miami 10 5 0 .667 349 345 Buffalo 7 8 0 .467 389 348 N.Y. Jets 4 11 0 .267 245 399 South

W L T Pct PF PA Houston 8 6 0 .571 250 294 Tennessee 8 7 0 .533 357 361 Indianapolis 7 8 0 .467 387 372 Jacksonville 3 12 0 .200 298 376 North

W L T Pct PF PA Pittsburgh 9 5 0 .643 341 276 Baltimore 8 6 0 .571 306 263 Cincinnati 5 8 1 .393 288 293 Cleveland 1 14 0 .067 240 425 West

W L T Pct PF PA x-Oakland 12 3 0 .800 410 361 Kansas City 10 4 0 .714 319 274 Denver 8 6 0 .571 299 258 San Diego 5 10 0 .333 383 386 NATIONAL CONFERENCE East

W L T Pct PF PA y-Dallas 12 2 0 .857 366 258 N.Y. Giants 10 5 0 .667 291 274 Washington 8 6 1 .567 386 364 Philadelphia 6 9 0 .400 340 318 South

W L T Pct PF PA Atlanta 10 5 0 .667 502 374 Tampa Bay 8 7 0 .533 337 353 New Orleans 7 8 0 .467 437 416 Carolina 6 9 0 .400 353 385 North

W L T Pct PF PA Detroit 9 5 0 .643 301 285 Green Bay 9 6 0 .600 401 364 Minnesota 7 8 0 .467 289 297 Chicago 3 12 0 .200 269 361 West

W L T Pct PF PA y-Seattle 9 5 1 .633 329 269 Arizona 6 8 1 .433 374 356 Los Angeles 4 11 0 .267 218 350 San Francisco 2 13 0 .133 286 455 x-clinched playoff spot y-clinched division Thursday’s Games Philadelphia 24, N.Y. Giants 19 Saturday’s Games New England 41, N.Y. Jets 3 Jacksonville 38, Tennessee 17 Washington 41, Chicago 21 Green Bay 38, Minnesota 25 Cleveland 20, San Diego 17 Atlanta 33, Carolina 16 Miami 34, Buffalo 31, OT Oakland 33, Indianapolis 25 New Orleans 31, Tampa Bay 24 San Francisco 22, Los Angeles 21 Arizona 34, Seattle 31 Cincinnati at Houston, (n) Today’s Games Baltimore at Pittsburgh, 3:30 p.m.

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

Monday’s Game Detroit at Dallas, 7:30 p.m.

Sunday, Jan. 1 New England at Miami, noon Cleveland at Pittsburgh, noon Green Bay at Detroit, noon Carolina at Tampa Bay, noon Dallas at Philadelphia, noon Houston at Tennessee, noon Buffalo at N.Y. Jets, noon Chicago at Minnesota, noon Baltimore at Cincinnati, noon Jacksonville at Indianapolis, noon New Orleans at Atlanta, noon N.Y. Giants at Washington, noon Seattle at San Francisco, 3:25 p.m.

Kansas City at San Diego, 3:25 p.m.

Arizona at Los Angeles, 3:25 p.m.

Oakland at Denver, 3:25 p.m.

Oct. 16 — at Oakland, W 26-10 (3-2) Oct. 23 — vs. New Orleans, W 27-21 (4-2) Oct. 30 — at Indianapolis, W 30-14 (5-2) Nov. 6 — vs. Jacksonville, W 19-14 (6-2) Nov. 13 — at Carolina, W 20-17 (7-2) Nov. 20 — vs. Tampa Bay, L 19-17 (7-3) Nov. 27 — at Denver, W 30-27, OT (8-3) Dec. 4 — at Atlanta, W 29-28 (9-3) Dec. 8 — vs. Oakland, W 21-13 (10-3) Dec. 18 — vs. Tennessee, L 19-17 (10-4) Dec. 25 — vs. Denver, 7:30 p.m.

Jan. 1 — at San Diego, 3:25 p.m.

NHL

EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division

GP W L OT Pts GF GA Montreal 34 21 9 4 46 104 76 Ottawa 34 20 11 3 43 88 89 Boston 36 18 14 4 40 85 87 Tampa Bay 35 17 15 3 37 100 98 Florida 35 15 14 6 36 85 97 Toronto 33 14 12 7 35 97 95 Detroit 34 15 15 4 34 83 96 Buffalo 33 12 13 8 32 71 91 Metropolitan Division

GP W L OT Pts GF GA Columbus 32 23 5 4 50 110 65 Pittsburgh 35 22 8 5 49 121 100 N.Y. Rangers 36 23 12 1 47 119 89 Washington 32 20 8 4 44 87 69 Philadelphia 36 20 12 4 44 110 108 Carolina 33 15 11 7 37 88 90 New Jersey 34 13 14 7 33 80 102 N.Y. Islanders 33 13 14 6 32 90 102 WESTERN CONFERENCE Central Division

GP W L OT Pts GF GA Chicago 36 22 9 5 49 102 86 Minnesota 33 21 8 4 46 102 66 St. Louis 35 18 12 5 41 98 103 Nashville 33 15 13 5 35 94 94 Dallas 35 14 14 7 35 89 106 Winnipeg 36 16 17 3 35 95 105 Colorado 33 12 20 1 25 67 106 Pacific Division

GP W L OT Pts GF GA San Jose 34 21 12 1 43 87 75 Edmonton 36 18 12 6 42 105 97 Anaheim 35 17 12 6 40 96 99 Los Angeles 34 17 13 4 38 87 84 Calgary 36 18 16 2 38 94 103 Vancouver 35 14 18 3 31 86 109 Arizona 34 11 18 5 27 75 108 NOTE: Two points for a win, one point for overtime loss.

Friday’s Games Pittsburgh 4, New Jersey 1 N.Y. Islanders 5, Buffalo 1 Columbus 2, Montreal 1 Washington 4, Tampa Bay 0 Minnesota 7, N.Y. Rangers 4 Carolina 3, Boston 2, OT Detroit 4, Florida 3, SO Colorado 2, Chicago 1, OT Dallas 3, Los Angeles 2, OT Calgary 4, Vancouver 1 Toronto 4, Arizona 1 San Jose 3, Edmonton 2, OT Saturday’s Games No games scheduled Sunday’s Games No games scheduled Monday’s Games No games scheduled Tuesday’s Games Ottawa at N.Y. Rangers, 6 p.m.

Washington at N.Y. Islanders, 6 p.m.

Pittsburgh at New Jersey, 6 p.m.

Boston at Columbus, 6 p.m.

Buffalo at Detroit, 6:30 p.m.

Minnesota at Nashville, 7 p.m.

Winnipeg at Chicago, 7:30 p.m.

Dallas at Arizona, 8 p.m.

Calgary at Colorado, 8 p.m.

San Jose at Anaheim, 9 p.m.

Sept. 11 — vs. San Diego, W 33-27 OT (1-0) Sept. 18 — at Houston, L 19-12 (1-1) Sept. 25 — N.Y. Jets, W 24-3 (2-1) Oct. 2 — at Pittsburgh, L 43-14 (2-2) Oct. 9 — Bye week

BASEBALL American League LOS ANGELES ANGELS — Claimed RHP Blake Parker off waivers from Milwaukee.

National League ARIZONA DIAMONDBACKS — Designated OF Peter O’Brien for assignment. Claimed C Juan Graterol off waivers from Cincinnati.

FOOTBALL National Football League BALTIMORE RAVENS — Placed LB Kamalei Correa on injured reserve.

Signed LB Brennen Beyer from the practice squad.

DETROIT LIONS — Signed CB Alex Carter from the practice squad and WR Rashad Ross to the practice squad.

HOCKEY National Hockey League COLORADO AVALANCHE — Reassigned G Spencer Martin to San Antonio (AHL).

NEW JERSEY DEVILS — Assigned F Luke Gazdic and D Seth Helgeson to Albany (AHL).

outside looking in for minutes. But because of the four-guard approach, Vick still stands to get plenty of playing time and enters Big 12 play averaging 25 minutes per game, just 0.9 minutes per game less than Mykhailiuk.

Up front, things might be even clearer.

With Azubuike out, Lucas slides back into a starting role and, barring foul trouble, figures to play 30-plus minutes per night.

Sophomore Carlton Bragg Jr., who remains in search of some consistency and comfort, is the obvious No. 2 big man both because of his potential and experience and all of a sudden could be one of the most important players on the team, even while struggling. Self talked after the Jayhawks’ victory over UNLV about needing Bragg to play big because of the Jayhawks’ lack of depth in the front court.

Freshman Mitch Lightfoot, who opened the season strong before getting stuck on the bench, has returned to action of late and is KU’s clear No.

3 big with junior transfer Dwight Coleby working as the No. 4 forward.

Unlike Vick as the team’s fifth perimeter player, Coleby seems more likely to fit into Self’s ideal vision of what a fourth big man would be. Coleby is averaging just six minutes per game and has played just eight minutes combined in the last five games.

Although that nine is now set in stone — even if some shifting occurs — Self said the impending arrival of Big 12 play might tighten the rotation a little on its own, which, barring further injury or foul trouble, would give KU’s suddenly thin lineup the appearance of more depth.

“I don’t know if your bench shortens,” Self said of the start of conference play. “But I do think you probably play your most productive players a couple or three minutes more than what you would during nonconference play.”

The third-ranked Jayhawks (11-1) will open Big 12 play at 8 p.m. Friday at TCU in Fort Worth, Texas.

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By Derrick Niederman Puzzles Edited by Will Shortz ACROSS 1 One of the blanks in the cereal slogan “____ are for ____” 5 Tinker, for one, in olden days 14 Certain blade 19 Spread dirt, in a way 21 Legendary Egyptian queen 22 Run off 23 Stick together 24 Liberal-arts college in the Keystone State 25 Like many a lot 26 Hood lead-in 28 Caterpillar product 29 Dud 31 Historical period 32 One of Frank’s wives 33 Member of the cat family 35 Father, familiarly 36 Japanese auto make 38 Court concern 39 Big Australian export 40 One of five on a starfish 42 Set of clubs in a bag 44 These could amount to fortunes 48 Dead follower 50 Where to find grooms 53 Vingt-____ (multiple de trois) 54 This does not fly 56 Anagram of the letters O-N-D 58 State with part of I-81: Abbr.

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THIS PAINTING BY LAURETTA LOUISE FOX FISKE depicts Quantrill’s Raid on Lawrence, August 21, 1863.

By Matthew C. Hulbert

in the Trans-Mississippi.

So how is it that so many Americans (especially those who don’t live in l l l Special to the Journal-World Missouri or Kansas) with an interest in Civil War history can tell you that n August Pickett’s Charge failed 21, 1863, the or that the Confederate’s rumbling of riverine stronghold at equine feet ac- Vicksburg fell earlier in companied the the summer of ’63, but dawn in Lawrence, Kan- know next to nothing sas. Before a swarming about the Lawrence Masmass of pro-Confederate sacre? bushThe answer might whacksurprise you: It’s because ers rode historians, dating back to William the war generation, had Clarke a vested interest in keepQuantrill, ing guerrilla warfare out once a of mainstream Civil War resident memory. The answer of Lawto the next question — rence why? — requires a bit Hulbert himself. more backstory.

The From backroads and guerrilla chieftain let isolated fields to smokehis Missourians loose houses and front porch— hundreds of them es, guerrilla warfare — on the unsuspecting thrived on the Missouriabolitionist stronghold.

Kansas homefront. Far Quantrill watched apfrom the war departprovingly from atop ments in Richmond and Mount Oread as women Washington — and apart sobbed and pled for the from the traditional lives of their husbands, battlefields they strove as homes and businesses to control — entire famiwent up in smoke, and as lies stood in for regular the men of Lawrence — armies. Men and women young and old, white and alike, along with their black — met all manner children and the elderly, of ghastly ends. Senawere dragged into a vitor James Lane, himself cious domestic struggle. no stranger to guerrilla In a conflict such as this, raids, fled to safety in a waged from and upon nearby cornfield. Many the household, rules weren’t so fortunate. were understandably By the raid’s end, some few and far between.

180 buildings had been Ambush, arson, rape, reduced to rubble and murder, torture, and ash. Nearly 200 men even massacres replaced and boys lay dead, some Lieber’s Code, echelon charred beyond recogni- formations and interior tion. lines. For many residents The blitzing of Lawof Missouri and Kansas, rence afforded Quantrill irregular war was the and his men national regular wartime experience. Here there were no notoriety. And, in the form of General Thomas “civilians.” And to nearly everyone else, this was Ewing’s equally notothe epitome of “frontier” rious Order No. 11, it savagery. also triggered a drastic These characteristics change in Union counwere precisely what ter-guerrilla operations

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prompted the first architects of Civil War history and memory — the two notions being far less differentiated in the 1870s than today — to sanitize the Lawrence Massacre from renditions of the conflict.

They had two motives in mind.

On the one hand, when the war ended, for the sake of a quicker process of national reunion, a story was established that trumpeted the mutual valor, sacrifice, and honor of soldiers from both sides; it touted the chivalry and courage of Johnny Reb and Billy Yank alike and swept the root cause of the war, slavery, under the proverbial rug. Guerrillas, men like Quantrill, and their massacres, such as the raid on Lawrence, were anything but chivalrous or courageous to the Victorian eyes of easterners in the 1870s. The war of bushwhackers and jayhawkers had been intensely personal and localized; too much so to simply put aside in favor of collective backslapping. Nor could the more gruesome of their exploits be displayed on neatlymanicured battlefields, let alone recounted in respectable company.

On the other hand, the war, however chivalrous and honorable, had claimed 750,000 lives; it was a bloodletting unprecedented in American history. Never before

had so many American men been lined up and marched into increasingly efficient rifle fire; never before had so many been exposed to diseases; and never before had so many died far from home, alone on battlefields, bodies shattered and marred by slowmoving pieces of .50 caliber lead. But by painting the guerrilla war as uniquely barbaric and uncivilized, defenders of the regular war could preserve its glory by washing away some of its own true awfulness. That is, how bad was three-quarters-of-amillion honorably killed when you had maniacs like Quantrill, Jim Lane, Bloody Bill Anderson, or Charles Jennison running around doing the really, really bad stuff?

This process of “constructing” the way most Americans remembered, and continue to remember, the Civil War should not surprise us.

Neither should the idea that early historians actively participated in molding how we interact with and remember our national past. Collective memories are, after all, manmade affairs, as are our standards when it comes to acceptable forms of violence. And it’s no secret that we like to remember things — battles, commanders, entire wars — collectively. Our memories find strength in numbers, they become powerful agents of patriotism,

unity and civic belonging. There’s nothing wrong with this as long as we don’t lose sight of what was intentionally left out to make it all possible. Namely, we ought not to forget that to form a collective memory, the ugliness and inconsistencies must be smoothed over and the fringes cut away.

This becomes problematic for Missourians and Kansans because the story of the Civil War in the Missouri-Kansas borderlands hasn’t just been on the fringe — it is the fringe. And you can’t get uglier than the Lawrence Massacre.

But until we understand fully how and why the likes of Quantrill and Lane, and the events of August 21, 1863, have

been cleansed from the mainstream, we won’t be able to see how borderland guerrillas not only helped decide the outcome of the Civil War, but also how it should and would be remembered by millions of Americans for more than 150 years. Until we do that, the ghosts of guerrilla memory will have no rest.

— Matthew C. Hulbert teaches history at Texas A&M University at Kingsville. For the full story of how the MissouriKansas guerrilla war has been whitewashed from mainstream history and memory, see his new book, “The Ghosts of Guerrilla Memory: How Civil War Bushwhackers Became Gunslingers in the American West.”

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2 books to suss out your ‘truthiness’

F

irst, two definitions: Post-truth: “Relating to or denoting circumstances in which objective facts are less influential in shaping public opinion than appeals to emotion and personal belief.”

Truthiness: “Believing something that feels true, even if it isn’t supported by fact.”

Quick, conjure the zeitgeist with a single word. A decade ago, that word (according to Merriam-Webster) was “truthiness.” This year, the feeling of truthiness is back with a sequel: citing a 2000 percent increase in its use during the year, Oxford Dictionaries has proclaimed “post-truth” to be the word that best reflects the spirit

of the times. These two words are subtly different in meaning, but both point to a reliance on feeling rather than objective fact in decision-making.

But wait — aren’t we humans, with our big brains, inherently rational? Turns out that we are deeply influenced by thought processes that are largely automatic and unconscious, and even our “rational” thoughts are built on the shaky foundation of intuition. So how can we escape a post-truth world plagued by truthiness? Knowledge is power; there is always hope.

One of the occupational hazards of being a librarian is that you will always have on hand a

teetering stockpile made of books that randomly caught your eye while you were walking through the stacks. Daniel Kahneman’s “Thinking, Fast and Slow” was one such serendipitous find; it has been oddly soothing to delve into the quirks of human thought as I’ve grappled with the recent sea changes in our political landscape.

Kahneman, a psychologist, won the Nobel Prize in Economics in 2002; the impact of his wide-ranging research on judgment, decision making and intuitive prediction has been felt in fields as disparate as medicine and politics.

Kahneman’s best-selling work is a guidebook to the current research on human

rationality (and irrationality), and reading it will give you a better understanding of how to suss out instances of truthiness in your own thinking.

Using the conceit of “System 1” — the processes of unconscious perception and thought that provide gut reactions — and “System 2” — the slower, conscious (and easily exhausted) processes of thought that vet evidence and evaluate the snap judgments of System 1 — to organize his discussion of human thinking, he details the variety of ways in which the interplay between these two types of thinking lead to judgments muddied by an array of cognitive biases.

Key points among them are overconfidence in our own knowledge and understanding, susceptibility to the power of suggestion and an inclination towards the familiar.

While “Thinking” predates current events by five years, its content sheds light on how the constant avalanche of information that surrounds us, paired with the weaknesses of our System 2 thinking processes, lends credence to fake news and hyperbolic political rhetoric. Besides raising awareness of the tendencies to which we are inherently prone, Kahneman also offers practical suggestions for sidestepping those tendencies and building your internal

truthiness-fighting toolkit.

Kahneman’s work, while weighty (and humbling!) is leavened throughout by his clear empathy for the human condition and his ready acknowledgement of his own tendency to succumb to the biases his research has explored.

Also, “Thinking” provides a glimpse into the extraordinary partnership Kahneman shared with fellow researcher Amos Tversky, itself the subject of a fascinating new joint biography, Michael Lewis’s “The Undoing Project: A Friendship that Changed Our Minds.”

— Melissa Fisher Isaacs is the information services coordinator at the Lawrence Public Library.

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