Lawrence Journal-World 12-26-2015

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LAWRENCE’S ANNUAL COMMUNITY CHRISTMAS DINNER was held Friday at First United Methodist Church, 946 Vermont St. TOP PHOTO: Musicians, standing from left, Greg Pelligreen, Jessica Hawkins, and Jessica’s father, Stephen, all of Lawrence, play Christmas carols and entertain diners during the meal.

Volunteers spread cheer, food at Community Dinner

By Conrad Swanson Twitter: @conrad_swanson

Deb Engstrom had to eat and talk at the same time Friday afternoon. As she sat down with her plate in an office in Lawrence’s First United Methodist Church, 946 Vermont St., holiday volunteers kept poking their heads in to ask her questions.

“Deb, we’re low on pies,” one said.

“Well, just let them know and they’ll go get you more,” Engstrom said with a wave of her hand.

For the past 22 years, Engstrom has volunteered as a coordinator of Lawrence’s annual Community Christmas Dinner. And for the past 22 years she hasn’t minded juggling all the tasks the position entails on Christmas Day.

“We just plan around it,” she said.

“It’s just a part of what I do every year.

I expect to do it.”

Scores of volunteers and people looking for a warm meal or a friendly face filled the church’s halls and dining room throughout the afternoon.

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E. Lawrence rallies behind neighbor over property issue “

By Nikki Wentling

He has raised so many children; he’s done Twitter: @nikkiwentling handyman and carpentry work all over the city A longtime resident of and county, but especially in East Lawrence.

East Lawrence, known for having baby-sat many of the Know that we all care about Leon.” neighborhood’s children decades ago, is now under city mandate to fix up his Pennsylvania Street property, and he’s being offered the assistance of the community, including some of those kids — now grown — whom he helped raise there.

To his next-door neighbor, Lane Eisenbart, and East Lawrence Neighborhood Association board member KT Walsh, Leon Kimball is a beloved neighborhood fixture.

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“He’s from a huge and multigenerational Lawrence family,” Walsh told city commissioners last week. “He has raised so many children; he’s done handyman and carpentry work all over the city and county, but especially in East Lawrence. Know that

we all care about Leon.”

The city has been working on and off with Kimball for years to arrange property improvements, city staff said during a Lawrence City Commission meeting in April.

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Next fall, a small cohort of students with intellectual disabilities that normally would exclude them from college will attend Kansas University for the first time.

Their experience will look a lot like it does in K-12 education, where youths with disabilities such as Down syndrome or autism are mainstreamed.

“We want to make sure that they are fully included in all aspects KANSAS of KU life,” said Mary UNIVERSITY Morningstar, associate professor in KU’s department of special education. “They will be in general education, they will be in the regular academic classes as they relate to their career plans. They may not be in microbiology, but they could be in the career development class, and they’ll definitely be in the First Year Experience.”

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City looking to modernize meter reading

By Nikki Wentling Twitter: @nikkiwentling

The city is working to modernize the way it reads water meters, a change that would alter what water usage information it collects from residents and how it bills them.

Mike Lawless, deputy director of utilities, said his department is working to negotiate with a company that would assess the city’s current system and recommend how it could improve. The city currently employs a full-time staff to read meters. It is considering investing in advanced metering infrastructure, a system that would allow the utilities department to get data from the meters remotely through a wireless network.

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DEATHS Ruth M. MilleR Ruth Maxine Miller, 94, of Eudora, died on December 24, 2015 at Medicalodges of Eudora.

Ruth was born July 16, 1921, the third of four children born to Edward N. and Huldah (Swenson) Whitton, in Kansas City, MO. The family moved to Kansas City, KS where she would graduate from Wyandotte High School (at the age of 16) and also meet her future husband.

Ruth Whitton and Vincent Groff Miller were married in Kansas City, KS on May 16, 1942. Vincent enlisted in the army and as he went to various training programs around the country, Ruth would also relocate to be with him. She returned home when Vincent was sent to England to pilot a B-24 Liberator.

Following the war, the couple lived in Sunflower Village before settling in Eudora, KS in 1951.

Family life centered on the Millers strong devotion to our Lord Jesus Christ. The Millers joined the Eudora Methodist Church and were active in the church.

Ruth taught Sunday School for many years.

Ruth also helped Vincent in many Christian endeavors including Youth for Christ, Christian Business Men’s committee, Christian tape ministry and helping others establish a Baptist Church in Eudora.

Ruth worked at Kaw Valley State Bank for 20 years, retiring as a Vice President in 1982.

Ruth and Vincent served several terms as Republican Precinct Committee members for Eudora. Ruth was a lover of antiques – one

of her grandsons called her home the “museum” as it was filled with great antiques.

Three children were born to the Millers: April Bascom (Robert) of Marana, AZ; Karla Pierce (Randall) of Eudora; and David Groff Miller (Marjorie) of Eudora.

All survive.

Two grandsons also survive: Brett Skinner of Eudora and David Pierce (Cassandra) of Baldwin City, KS. Ruth’s parents, her brother, two sisters, as well as her husband of 73 years preceded her in death.

The family will greet friends at the WarrenMcElwain MortuaryEudora Chapel on Sunday, December 27, 2015 from 2-4 p.m.

Private interment will occur on Monday at the Eudora Cemetery.

M e m o r i a l contributions may be made in her name to the Eudora Methodist Church or to Youth Front and may be sent in care of Warren-McElwain Mortuary.

Online condolences may be sent to www. warrenmcelwain.com.

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Dennis Ray Dahl, MD Memorial services for Dennis Ray Dahl, MD, 85, Lawrence will be held at 3:00 p.m.

Monday, January 4, 2016 at Unitarian Fellowship Church in Lawrence.

Private inurnment will be at Pioneer Cemetery, Lawrence.

He passed away Monday, December 21, 2015 at his home.

Dennis was born February 20, 1930 in Colby, KS the son of Jacob Schulz and Marie (Harder) Dahl.

He had been a resident of Lawrence since 1949.

Dennis received a Ph.D. in Physiology at the University of Kansas.

He was a member of the Unitarian Fellowship, the Lawrence Civic Choir, and the Friends of Lieds.

He was a physician at Watkins Hospital until he retired in 1995.

He married Nancy Ann Fort on January 23, 1952. She preceded him in death on August 8, 2002.

Survivors include one son, Julian S. Dahl; one daughter, Kathleen R. Nuckolls, both of Lawrence; two grandchildren, Annaleah Nuckolls and Madeline

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at the university is the new KU Transition to Postsecondary Education for Youth with Intellectual Disabilities program, or KU-TPE. KU received and announced this fall a $1.5 million, five-year grant from the U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Postsecondary Education to develop and launch the program.

KU’s program appears to be the first of its kind in the state. Morningstar, principal investigator on the project, said three other Kansas colleges have programs for students with disabilities but that they are substantially different in that they’re not fully inclusive.

Morningstar said she expects five to eight KUTPE students to enroll in fall 2016, with more in ensuing years.

The ultimate goal — as for any KU student — is for participants to exit the program with paid jobs.

Morningstar said parents of young adults with disabilities have been asking her for a program like this for a decade.

“There is a drop-off when students graduate from (high) school,” she said. “If you have an intellectual disability, you don’t have a lot of options ... the expectation is that you don’t go to an adult center. The family’s expectation is that their young adult is going to continue to learn and grow and be a contributing member of society.”

Many logistical details of the KU-TPE program still must be worked out before the first students begin classes in August.

Here are points that are decided: l Students won’t be full-time or degree-seeking. Instead, the plan is for them to earn different recognition, possibly Experiential Learning certificates.

Morningstar said the

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Nuckolls. He was also preceded in death by his parents; a brother, Jay Roy Dahl, May 1996; and a son, James S. Dahl in 1964 and two sisters, Zelma A. Franz, and Ethel V. Franz.

Memorials may be made in his name to the Dennis R. and Nancy Ann Dahl Fund for Undergraduate Studies in Anthropology, the Dennis R. and Nancy Ann Dahl Fund for the Encouragement of the Biology Faculty, or the Dennis R. and Nancy Ann Dahl Fund for the Encouragement of the Humanitites Faculty, and may be sent in care of Warren-McElwain Mortuary.

Online condolences may be sent to www. warrenmcelwain.com.

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number nearly doubled in 2015, the Hutchinson News reported.

“Next year could be just as bad,” Hanzlicek said.

Skunks can carry the disease to domestic animals. Ranchers don’t often think about their cattle being carriers, he said, and should be more aware if they see their livestock foaming at the mouth.

“Cattle are curious” and can get bitten if they get too close to a rabid skunk, he said.

There have been no reports of rabies in humans this year, the Kansas Department of Health and Environment said.

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Skunks blamed for increase in rabid cattle Hutchinson (ap) — An increase in rabid skunks in Kansas is the likely reason why cattle have become the most common domestic animal diagnosed with rabies, a Kansas State University researcher says.

Gregg Hanzlicek, director of production animal field investigations for the university’s Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory, said 13 rabies cases in cattle were recorded this year, up from nine in 2014.

After having 69 positive rabies cases in animals last year — including four cats — a Kansas State diagnostic lab math shows that

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“Right now, it’s all very manual; we have meter routes and a person who walks to each meter,” Lawless said. “One of the advantages of the (advanced meter infrastructure) system is we don’t have to do that.”

Approximately $100,000 was set aside for the assessment from the department’s 2015 operations and maintenance fund, Lawless said. He said an agreement with Baton Rouge, La.-based utilities consulting firm UtiliWorks is likely to go before the Lawrence City Commission in early January.

The assessment is estimated to start in January and last four months.

Lawless said it would be years before a system would be in place, if the city decides to invest in one.

One addition the utility would like to make is an interface where customers can see data on their water usage, Lawless said. The advanced system would take multiple readings from each meter every day. One use of the additional data is identifying when and where

— Mary Morningstar, associate professor in KU’s department of special education

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goal is to fit into existing campus offerings as much as possible rather than creating new things. l In class, students will be expected to participate but may have modified assignments, such as listening to a book on tape instead of reading or preparing a PowerPoint presentation instead of writing a 10-page paper, Morningstar said.

They also may have personal adult support.

Morningstar said that might be a co-teacher that assists professors, or perhaps a KU student set up through a peer mentor program. Those helpers also could be paid with grant money. l Next year’s students won’t live in dorms, as they are all local students who will have dual enrollment at KU and public schools, which goes until age 21 for some students with intellectual disabilities.

However, the plan is to expand the program by fall 2017 to allow students who have exited the K-12 system. Morningstar said students who have the necessary skills may live in the dorms. l Unlike K-12 where the state must pay for all students’ education, including students with special needs, these KU students will pay their own way.

“It’s not special education, and it’s not free,” Morningstar said. “You do what you do when you’re planning for any one of your children to go to KU. You look at financial aid, and you look at out-of-pocket payment, and you look at getting a part-time job.” l In addition to educating and preparing the students with disabilities, Morningstar said, the

program is envisioned as a “learning laboratory” for education and social science students at KU, which boasts the No. 1 special education graduate program among public schools in the country, according to U.S. News and World Report.

Before KU learned it had been awarded the large federal grant, the KU Student Senate voiced its support.

A Student Senate resolution passed earlier in the fall lauded KU-TPE as a way to “build bridges across multiple student populations” and “increase access, opportunity and diversity on our campus.”

Student Senate’s director of diversity and inclusion, Omar Rana, excitedly announced at an October Senate meeting that KU won the grant.

In a statement, he said, “I had the privilege to work with some amazing individuals at the School of Special Education, including Dr. Mary Morningstar, over the summer and am ecstatic that KU has been granted this wonderful opportunity.”

Morningstar expects challenges, including navigating KU policies to work in the new students, and getting faculty members on board with involving the students in their classes.

She is optimistic, based on conversations she’s had so far.

“Nobody has said, ‘Absolutely not,’” Morningstar said. “People have raised concerns. To me all concerns are valid concerns, so we’re going to have to listen and reach some compromise.”

there are leaks, he said.

“When we have a system taking multiple reads per day, that’s a lot of information and a lot of things we can do with that,” Lawless said. “If it shows usage overnight and no one is using water, or maybe even during the day when the household is empty, it could help customers identify water leaks. And that’s certainly not something you can tell by reading once a month.”

According to a city memorandum from November, the utilities department employs five full-time meter readers and five full-time field representatives who handle meter turn-ons, turn-offs and meter replacement. A supervisor oversees the team.

When college students move in and out of their residences from May to August, the city hires four more temporary meter readers to help change about a third of the city’s meters to new accounts.

Lawless said the fulltime positions would be redistributed if an advanced system were installed.

“I think what they do changes,” he said. “It’s not necessarily that we don’t need them anymore; we just don’t need them walking a beat to

read the meter. You still have to have people service meters, and people who understand the technology that we’re installing, because — once it’s installed — you have to have somebody maintain it to keep it up. Some of that becomes a different use for the staff.”

The city will find out during the assessment how much the total project would cost, as well as whether it can use some of the infrastructure it already has. It will also learn how the utilities department and customers can use the extra data the system would collect.

Information from the assessment will help the city determine whether it wants to change to an automated meter infrastructure system or an older automated meter reading technology, in which meters could be read by driving past them through a device installed on city vehicles.

“I think the first step is to get the assessment done,” Lawless said.

“This gives us a picture of what the benefits are of doing it, monetarily as well as some of the soft benefits — the customer ease of use.”

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Students may face criminal charges for trespassing

By Conrad Swanson Twitter: @conrad_swanson

About a dozen PerryLecompton High School students accused of entering the school without permission will be interviewed by the Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office over their winter break.

Twice in late November, groups of students entered the school after hours, said Jefferson County Sheriff Jeffrey Herrig. The sheriff’s office was asked in mid-December to investigate the matter.

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LEFT: LAWRENCE RESIDENT CONRAD ALTENBERND III shows off an early 1900s Seneca No. 2 camera he purchased at a Lawrence garage sale. Unbeknownst to Altenbernd, within the various cases that accompanied the camera were several glass negatives of Lawrence along with a handful of old images of families, presumably taken by a previous owner from the early 1900s. TOP RIGHT: Altenbernd holds up a glass negative of the Kansas River and many buildings along the south bank that do not exist today. BOTTOM RIGHT: One photo shows a group of people in a horse-drawn buggy. See more of the photos at ljworld.com/antiquecamera2015.

Resident’s antique camera full of mysteries

By Karen Dillon Twitter: @karensdillon

At first glance, the picture on the yellowed postcard of a baby with chubby cheeks wearing a lacy white dress was probably taken in late 1800s, early 1900s.

A second photograph shows two men dressed in suits with vests, ties and hats, and a woman in a Victorian blouse and a long dark skirt. They are sitting in a

circa 1910 buggy that is hooked to a horse standing patiently with its ears drawn back.

As was typical of pictures of that time, no one is smiling.

Who are these people?

Conrad Altenbernd III, of Lawrence, said he has been asking that question since he bought an antique box camera for $25 at a garage sale on Rhode Island Street in the mid-1980s from a family who owned the former

Miller Printing Press.

He later found the collection of old photos inside the case for the camera.

Two glass slides — one of a wintry day depicting the old Bowersock plant and dam next to the bridge over the frozen Kansas River, the other of the South Park Gazebo — were still in the camera.

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Hi my name is Emerald! I am a sassy three-year-old lady with a ton of spunk. Even though I am not a kitten, I still love to play with my jingle balls and love to eat feathers. I have a ton of personality and I would love to get to know you! If you are interested in having a groovy feline like me, visit me at the Lawrence Humane Society!

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GrEEn BEan

Green Bean and Casserole are the sweetest little ladies in search of a forever home! These two are a bonded pair, and need to go home together. They enjoy each other’s company and need each other to rely on.

They are a little timid at first, but once they are comfortable with you, they quickly warm up to you and start purring away! Come meet them today at the Lawrence Humane Society!

louisE

Louise is a cute little Poodle mix and has 10 years of life lessons to share with you. She would love to have a friendly lap to cuddle on and someone to take her for walks, so she can show you off. She has a curly black and white coat and a smile worth a million dollars. She has a short list of wants, but a warm cozy bed would be appreciated.

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Elvis

Elvis, much like Champ, came from an outside residence where he enjoyed running around outside, but he has become quiet fond of staying inside; especially since he is older and it’s getting colder outside.

His little nub never stops wagging, and he is just as sweet as can be! Don’t you want to come meet him today? I guarantee you will fall in love. He is available at the Lawrence Humane Society.

TiTo

I mean come on! Just look at this beautiful boy!!! Mr. Tito is the most perfect dog for almost any household!

He gets along well with children; his previous place had six small human residents, and he also gets along with small dogs!

What more could you ask for?? A handsome young man, that is super friendly with humans (large and small) and small furkiddos! Come meet him today at the Lawrence Humane Society.

DExTEr

Dexter is such a handsome gent., in search of a home where he can sun bathe and relax all day, every day!

Dexter is around fourteen years old and definitely needs a quieter home where he is the center of attention; small children and a busy house will overwhelm him. Do you have a window you could spare for our boy Dexter? He is available for adoption at the Lawrence Humane Society.

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Hey everybody, my name is Chester and I’m a lanky, brindle boxer-mix. I would love a forever home along your side. Small children make me a little nervous, but I do fine with children older than 13. I love long walks and every kind of treat there is. I also would like to be the only animal in the house; I have so much love to give, you will only need me in your home! Come meet me today at Lawrence Humane Society!

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Come meet her today; I am sure you will fall in love!

from the Perry-Lecompton School District’s Dec. 14 meeting show that the school board directed Superintendent Denis Yoder to contact the Jefferson County attorney for an investigation.

The investigation should be finished in the coming weeks, Herrig said. All the information will be turned over to the county attorney, who will decide whether to bring any criminal charges against the students, all of whom are under 18.

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Elsa

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She is a young cat, only about one-year-old; waiting patiently to find her forever home! She is still very much a kitten, full of energy yet wants nothing more than to capture your attention and love. Elsa is ready to go home with you! Come meet her today at the Lawrence Humane Society!

Champ

Are you looking for a senior dog that wants to be right by your side but also enjoys running around outside for long periods of time? If so, then Champ (and Elvis) is the guy for you! Champ came from a place where he spent most of his time outdoors, so he knows the ropes. With that said, since he has been with us, he has become accustomed to the lavish lifestyle of living inside!

He loves attention from his human friends, and likes to play with his brother Elvis! Come meet him today at the Lawrence Humane Society.

CassErolE

Casserole and Green Bean are the sweetest little ladies in search of a forever home! These two are a bonded pair, and need to go home together. They enjoy each other’s company and need each other to rely on. They are a little timid at first, but once they are comfortable with you, they quickly warm up to you and start purring away! Come meet them today at the Lawrence Humane Society!

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Have you ever seen such a handsome boy before?

Jay is such a good lookin’ pup in search of his forever home! He gets along well with other dogs, and craves human attention. He is four years old, but he is still a typical lab and thinks he is still a puppy. Are you looking for a fun, energetic, lovable companion? If so, then Jay is definitely the guy for you!

Come meet him today at the Lawrence Humane Society.

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Altenbernd said he took the camera, a Seneca, to Wolfe’s Camera in Topeka, where a specialist said it was typical of cameras made in the late 1800s or early 1900s.

Such cameras were often used to make postcards. They are “traveling” cameras that fold down into a small case.

Altenbernd’s camera has a tripod and a hood that fits over a photographer’s head. A squeeze ball is used to snap the picture.

Altenbernd said he took the photographs he found to the Watkins

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campus in early January, according to the office’s website. Their names and resumes are expected to be posted two days prior to each person’s visit.

Here’s the schedule for their presentations, which are open to the KU community: l Candidate No. 1 — 10 to 11 a.m. Jan. 4 at the Kansas Room in the Kansas Union, 1301 Jayhawk Blvd. l Candidate No. 2 — 10 to 11 a.m. Jan. 6 at the Big 12 Room in the Union. l Candidate No. 3 — 10 to 11 a.m. Jan. 12 at Alderson Auditorium in the Union.

The Office of Institutional Opportunity and Access investigates reports of sexual harassment, sexual violence and other forms of discrimination on campus. The office’s sexual harassment caseload spiked in 2014, which leaders attributed to more awareness about sexual assault and where victims can report it.

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Museum of History in downtown Lawrence and asked the staff to try to identify what year they were taken.

A photo of a vintage car with four unsmiling people and a dog, as well as a photo of the Bowersock plant, was especially helpful in determining a date, Altenbernd said.

Many of the buildings lining the south bank of the Kansas River no longer exist today. A horse and buggy are crossing the bridge. And the bridge has concrete pilings, which is another indicator.

Then there is the photo of South Park Gazebo, which was built in 1906.

All are clues to the period of time the photos

bernd said, was on the back of the postcard of the baby in the lacy white dress.

On the back is a note: “Dear Grandma, the baby has the pneumonia. fever had the Doc yesterday. is some better today. if he gets worse will let you no. his fever was 104 yesterday and 101 1/2 today.”

The signature is not legible, but it is addressed to Mrs. Rose Glidewell of Nick Krug/Journal-World Photo Harris, Mo., Route 2. A FOUR OF THE IMAGES Conrad Altenbernd III found in boxes check of ancestry records that accompanied the antique camera he purchased at a at findagrave.com shows garage sale are pictured here. The images are believed to be that a woman named Rose from the early 1900s.

A. Reger Glidewell was born in 1860 in West Virwere taken, and the mu- said. ginia, moved to Harris, seum staff determined But who are the peo- then eventually died there that period to be in the ple? in 1945. A quick search for early 1900s, Altenbernd The only clue, Alten- grandchildren didn’t turn

It’s on my list to find out once numbers become available, but I predict the IOA’s racial discrimination caseload will see a bump after this semester, which included KU’s town hall forum on race and ensuing protests.

The new IOA director will replace Jane McQueeny, who resigned in October. McQueeny had been director since KU created the office in May 2012. The office currently has four staffers including interim director and investigator Joshua Jones.

The duties of the new director almost certainly will differ from McQueeny’s tenure in the area of education. While the IOA previously oversaw sexual assault training and other educational duties, KU announced this fall that it was creating a new office for that, the Sexual Assault Prevention and Education Center.

that drew extra attention to KU is the U.S. Department of Education’s list of universities it is investigating for their handling of sexual violence complaints.

KU was placed on that list in July 2014, with a second case added in July 2015 (both stem from the same female student’s rape complaint, which I first wrote about in 2014).

I just got the latest list from the USDE’s Office for Civil Rights, and it looks like the KU cases remain open, as does one opened at Washburn University in July 2014.

With two new cases opened just this fall, KState now has a total of four cases on the list.

As of Wednesday there are now a total of 194 cases under investigation at 159 schools nationwide.

When I last wrote about the list in July, there were 134 cases open nationwide — so they clearly continue to mount faster than the USDE is resolving them.

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USDE sexual violence cases keep climbing, including at Kansas State University: One part of the nationwide campus sexual assault discussion

— This is an excerpt from Sara Shepherd’s “Heard on the Hill” column, which appears at LJWorld.com.

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So far the investigation has shown that on the evenings of Nov. 21 and Nov. 28 two groups of students entered the school after it was closed, Herrig said.

“I believe there was somewhere around 14 the first night and then maybe four to six the next night,” he said. “I believe the first night they just went in and played basketball. The second night some trivial stuff was taken from the school, but it was taken nonetheless.”

Among those trivial items were several chairs, a papier-mâché goose and several food items, Yoder said.

The missing items were brought to the attention of the school’s resource officer, who approached administration, Herrig said.

Soon, punishments from the district were doled out to the students involved, Yoder said.

“There were out-ofschool suspensions for

all the students identified in the incident. There were consequences for students involved in extracurricular activities,” he said. “There may have been some community service involved. There could have been, like if they were on the basketball team, a suspension from being able to play games for a certain period of time.”

With ongoing rumors of more activity taking place while the students were in the school — Yoder would not elaborate on the rumors — some high school teachers began to push for further action.

“I think they wondered whether it should be a criminal investigation and if we should let that run its course,” he said.

Herrig said the door the students entered through may have been left unlocked. Yoder insists whether the door was locked or not is irrelevant. Either way the students were trespassing on school property, which they knew they were not allowed to do, he said.

Criminal charges or no,

up any information.

Altenbernd, who said his ancestors were one of the first families to settle in Lawrence, said that in recent years he has enjoyed enlarging the images and giving them to people.

A large image of the Bowersock Plant is now on display at the old plant.

“Originally I had the negatives printed in their 3-by-5 size,” Altenbernd said. “I had them for 25 years. Then technology caught up, and I digitized the negatives and started making those big prints.

“This has been a lot of fun,” he said.

— Reporter Karen Dillon can be reached at kdillon@ljworld.com or 832-7162.

Herrig said perhaps both the students and the school need to learn a lesson.

“I guess there has to be some accountability. I hope it doesn’t affect them for the rest of their lives, but they need to know what they did was wrong,” he said. “The kids know that they weren’t supposed to be in there at that point. Granted, the school district needs to do something about making sure the doors are locked.”

The incident at the high school is particularly unfortunate, Herrig said, because there are very few after-hours options for young people in the area.

“It’s a shame. We’re kind of a small farming community and we don’t really have anything for our kids to do per se,” he said. “It would be nice if we had a place where they could go and do some of the things like they were doing, like getting together and playing ball. But we just don’t have that in our community.”

— Reporter Conrad Swanson can be reached at cswanson@ljworld.com or 832-7144.

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P.E.O. SISTERHOOD MEMBERS PEGGY RASMUSSEN AND SUE HILL registered clients at the Salvation Army’s Share the Warmth Coat Drive. They volunteered in memory of their P.E.O. sister Rita Pennybaker, who was a faithful member of the Salvation Army Auxiliary and never missed a coat drive.

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Poinsettias sat atop red and green tablecloths, holiday wreaths lined the walls and free, hand-knit hats and mittens lay out for anyone needing to keep warm.

At any given moment there were perhaps 100 people eating, laughing and singing, with dozens of volunteers serving food, playing music, clearing tables and making small talk with their guests.

Each year the free dinner serves a cross-section of people from around Lawrence, Engstrom said.

Some may be homeless, living in a shelter or simply in need of a friendly face. All are welcome,

she said.

In addition, volunteers wait in line by the dozens to pick up meals and deliver them all over town, Engstrom said. Last year the group delivered around 700 meals.

“That’s also very gratifying because it’s people who might not get a meal or see another person today,” she said. “They might be shut in, or they might not have family.”

Carol Harris said she’s a caretaker by profession, so volunteering to deliver meals on Christmas comes naturally to her.

“It’s a blessing to serve people,” she said.

Some years it’s more work than others, Harris said, especially when the weather doesn’t cooperate.

“I can remember, six or seven years back, when we had a horrific snow

and people couldn’t come out and we had to double up,” she said. “They plowed down the streets, and the snow that they plowed was higher than my husband was tall.”

Joan Hoover sat and ate with her son Friday afternoon. This year is her second time attending the community meal, she said.

When asked what she enjoys about the meal, Hoover quickly replied, “The food; it’s always good.”

Hoover also said she enjoys the atmosphere and the friendly faces, and is grateful to the people who make it happen.

“The thanks always goes to the volunteers,” Hoover said.

— Reporter Conrad Swanson can be reached at cswanson@ljworld.com or 832-7144.

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Code violations and a new complaint led city staff about one year ago to tour the property at 1231 Pennsylvania St. They found that the home and several small sheds were deteriorating. There was salvage, dead trees and other debris in the yard.

Commissioners in April declared the property to be dangerous and unsafe and ordered it to be immediately repaired.

Kimball worked to clear his yard, but the city said last week it had seen little progress on the property since September, and Kimball is now at risk of having the city take over the cleanup.

City officials then could charge Kimball for the cleanup costs, which could be significant.

Kimball’s representative, Lawrence attorney Shelly Wakeman, went before the City Commission on Dec. 15 to ask for a 90-day extension for Kimball to remove debris from his yard and to demolish his home.

Once commissioners ensured the property and all of its buildings were

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LONGTIME EAST LAWRENCE RESIDENT LEON KIMBALL is under city mandate to fix up his property at 1231 Pennsylvania St., pictured above. secure, they unanimously voted to grant the extension.

Now, Kimball has until mid-March to complete the repairs — and the neighborhood is hoping to help.

Walsh, a board member of the East Lawrence Neighborhood Association, and Eisenbart, the association’s coordinator, said there’s talk at many of the group’s meetings about how neighbors can assist Kimball in the cleanup.

“In my opinion as his neighbor, I love him and think he’s a great guy,” Eisenbart said. “I would hate to see him disadvantaged by a city process.

What can we do? We don’t really know. We’d like to organize something.”

Walsh proposed the neighborhood association take over the demolition of the home.

Wakeman said that likely will not be a possibility because of safety issues, but there may be other ways neighbors can help, and Kimball would take them up on any offer. She said some of the kids he baby-sat have attended the meetings about the property.

“No matter what happens, I know they will continue to be supportive of him,” she said.

Kimball is currently

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NEELY MORRISON, LEFT, AND LIBBY EASTER, both 8, look over the dessert table searching for chocolate pie at Lawrence’s annual Community Christmas Dinner on Friday at First United Methodist Church, 946 Vermont St.. Neely and Libby helped serve and wait tables before enjoying a dessert treat.

gathering bids from contractors. His plan, Wakeman said, is to soon take down the home and maybe rebuild in the future.

Though Kimball no longer lives at the home on Pennsylvania Street, it was where he took care of the neighborhood children years ago when their parents were at work. It’s also where he became “a collector,” Wakeman said, and would stash items such as pots and pans and silverware — “anything to get you back on your feet or set up your home.”

“This is a hard decision for him,” Wakeman said.

“He’s owned this property for a long time. It’s hard to say goodbye like this, I think, for anyone.”

— City Hall reporter Nikki Wentling can be reached at 832-7144 or nwentling@ljworld.com.

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ANNIVERSARIES Pyle 65th Wedding Anniversary Tom and Alberta Pyle will celebrate their 65th wedding anniversary with an open house in the Holy Family Catholic Church (Eudora) Parish Hall on Saturday, January 22, 2016 from 2:30-4:30pm.

The reception will be followed by the parish Mass in the new church at 5:00pm.

Tom and Alberta were married in the original Holy Family Catholic Church on December 30, 1950. They are the only surviving couple in the parish married in the original church.

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Tom and Alberta Pyle in the community and the church throughout their married life. They are the parents of 7 children: Joe (Andrea) Pyle, Rose (Dave) House, Bernadette (Roger) Fulks, Ed (Mary) Pyle, Pat (Sandy) Pyle, Tom Pyle and Roberta (Dirk) Lehmann.

They also have 34 Grandchildren and 22 GreatGrandchildren.

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The following area people were also elected to the board class of 2018: Michael H. Hoeflich, of Lecompton; and Dru Sampson, of Lawrence. l

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Dear Annie: Normally I don’t respond to newspaper columns, but I felt compelled to reply to the letter from “Please Leave Animals at Home.” She said her grandson was allergic to animals, and asked why people bring their pets into stores and place them in the carts where children sit. She mentioned one particular woman who had a dog wrapped in a blanket, seated in the cart.

First, animals are not allowed in the store unless they are service animals. Some stores require that you put these animals on the floor and others require that you put them in your cart. She didn’t mention whether this woman’s dog was a service animal. Service animals must be trained, and you must have a written note from your doctor. The

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animal must also have a vest and tags.

Many people are physically dependent on their animals. When I go into a store, 99 percent of the people love my dog and talk to me about him, and I cheerfully talk back. I’m not required to tell them the medical reason for my animal, but I will. If store management asks whether the dog is a service animal, I am required to show the paperwork.

My dog does not shed.

‘The Sound of Music,’ not-so-live Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein did not live long enough to watch “Sharknado.”

But the spirit of that silly movie helps explain the appeal of the 2013 television musical “The Sound of Music Live!” (7 p.m., NBC, TV-G). This adaptation was the first of the network’s live experiments in musical theater (that now include “Peter Pan” and “The Wiz”), and it succeeded in attracting a large audience and generating social media chatter both positive and negative.

And the latter got the most attention.

By airing a live musical that aired two years ago, NBC perfectly captures the lazy spirit of the dayafter-Christmas programming.

It’s all about the leftovers.

TLC invites viewers to nibble on a “Dateline” marathon (11 a.m. today to 3 a.m. Sunday). National Geographic hopes we’re glued to their igloo with a “Life Below Zero” marathon (8 a.m.).

Having just binged on 24 hours of “A Christmas Story,” TBS limits itself to six consecutive helpings of “The Big Bang Theory” (7 p.m., TV-PG). Nat Geo Wild thinks it’s a perfect day for an evening marathon of “Aloha Vet” (4 p.m., TV-PG).

The Science Channel has been airing nothing but “MythBusters” episodes since Thursday, and plans to do so until Jan. 2. By those standards, the “Deadliest Catch” marathon (8 a.m., Discovery, TV-14) is pretty brief — a mere 18 hours. So is the 12-hour “Law & Order: Special Victims Unit” (12 p.m., ION, TV-14) run. Viewers with the stomach for 19th-century surgery techniques can catch up with 10 episodes of “The Knick” (2 p.m., Cinemax, TV-MA).

News takes a back seat on Saturday as CNN unspools nine episodes of “The Sixties” (6 p.m.), followed Sunday night with seven servings of “The Seventies” (6 p.m.). l Having indulged in some holiday romantic comedies, Lifetime returns to form in the 2015 shocker “Stalked by My Doctor” (7 p.m.) about a fetching teen who captures the attention of a creepy stethoscopewearer who’s all too happy to make house calls. Not to be confused with “Deadly Daycare” (7 p.m., LMN).

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sentimental letdown have at least one network left to handle their sugar fix. The Christmas onslaught continues on Hallmark, with “A Christmas Melody” (5 p.m.), a New Year’s helping of “When Calls the Heart” (7 p.m.) and “Christmas Incorporated” (9 p.m.). l TCM climbs the Astaireway to heaven with three consecutive dancing musicals: “Swing Time” (7 p.m.); “Top Hat” (9 p.m.) and “Shall We Dance” (11 p.m.).

He does hospital and nursing home visits with me, attends church and is a youth group leader animal. I also have him certified as a therapy dog so it’s official when we visit. He has sat for 12 hours with people who are in their last hours of life. We always ask before we go into a room to see whether someone wants a visit so we don’t upset anyone or approach those with allergies.

“Leave” should mind her own business. She should make a donation to an animal shelter or other charity of her choice. Thank you for letting me vent and tell the other side of the story. — A. Dear A.: Service animals are a medical necessity. They are trained and clearly identifiable. They are not a problem, and we don’t believe “Leave”

JACQUELINE BIGAR’S STARS

For Saturday, Dec. 26: This year you often try to see both sides of an argument. You also might have difficulty trying to decide which would be most effective. Curb a tendency to be negative or critical. If you are single, meeting people happens with ease. If you are attached, the two of you need to agree to disagree.

The stars show the kind of day you’ll have: 5-Dynamic; 4-Positive; 3-Average; 2-So-so; 1-Difficult Aries (March 21-April 19) HHH Tension builds early, yet you could be letting off steam for a good part of the day. Tonight: It could be lively.

Taurus (April 20-May 20) HHHH You might be juggling daily events with holiday visitors. A discussion is likely to be animated. Tonight: Wherever you can relax.

Gemini (May 21-June 20) HHHH Deal with the financial implications of recent events.

Don’t blame anyone. Tonight: You see the power of self-discipline.

Cancer (June 21-July 22) HHHH Those around you seem to demonstrate a strong analytical quality. Try to adapt to their way of thinking. Tonight: You get your way.

Leo (July 23-Aug. 22) HHH You might feel that the moment has come for you to disappear and do your own thing.

Tonight: Not to be found.

Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22)

thought so, either.

Some stores do allow dogs of any kind, but there is a third variety known as “comfort animals.” These are important companions for people with severe emotional problems. Unfortunately, many people claim their pets are comfort animals when, in fact, they are not trained at all. Store owners and other proprietors are reluctant to argue with customers who insist that their dogs be allowed on the premises for fear that they will be sued for discriminating against those with disabilities. These issues need to be cleared up so that genuine comfort animals are recognized as such.

— Send questions to anniesmailbox@comcast.net, or Annie’s Mailbox, P.O. Box 118190 Chicago, IL 60611.

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HHHHH Your inclination will be to join friends. However, a loved one is likely to prove that he or she can be an obstacle. Tonight: You can have it all.

Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) HHHH A take-charge attitude might be important to have right now. The unexpected occurs. Tonight: Out till the wee hours.

Scorpio (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) HHHH Keep reaching out for more of what you want. Give your impulsiveness more of a say.

Tonight: Catch up on a favorite TV series.

Sagittarius (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) HHHHH You welcome company as you go through your day.

Your carefree, fun nature emerges.

Tonight: Go along with someone’s request.

Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) HHHHH You are in the limelight. You seem to like the attention, but you no longer have the same privacy you once did. Tonight: Say “yes” to an offer.

Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) HHHH You could be surprised by what someone says or does. A loved one tries to be there for you.

Tonight: Call it a night.

Pisces (Feb. 19-March 20) HHHH Even if at first glance you think you have no alternatives, look again. Explain your logic.

Tonight: Let your hair down.

— The astrological forecast should be read for entertainment only.

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30 Skycap or caddie, at times 32 Cast-ofthousands films 35 “Shall we?” answer 37 Nostrils 39 Aberdeen man 40 Flowered recess 42 Stitch again 44 Wray of “King Kong” 45 Arctic cover-up

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Religious Directory

AFRICAN METHODIST EPISCOPAL

St Luke African Methodist Episcopal 900 New York Street 785-841-0847 Rev. Verdell Taylor, Jr. Sun. 11:00 am, Sun. School 10:00 am Bible Study Wed. 12:30 pm

ANGLICAN

Lawrence Anglican Mission Meadowlark Chapel 4440 Bauer Farm Rd Saturday, 3:30 PM 816-797-2237 www.stjamesanglican.net

ASSEMBLY OF GOD

Calvary Temple Assembly of God

606 W. 29th Terrace 785-832-2817 Pastor Don Goatlay Sunday Service 10:30 am & 6:30 pm Wed Service 6:30 pm

Eudora Assembly Of God 827 Elm Street 785-542-2182 Pastor Glenn Weld Sunday Worship 10:30 am Sunday Evening 7:00 pm

Lawrence Assembly of God 3200 Clinton Pkwy 785-843-7189 Pastor Rick Burwick Sunday 10:00 am www.lawrence3620church.com

New Life Assembly Of God Church

5th & Baker Baldwin City (785) 594-3045 Mark L. Halford Sun. 11:00 am 6 pm Wed. Family Night 6 pm

Williamstown Assembly of God 1225 Oak St. 785-597-5228 Pastor Rick Burch am wagc@williamstownag.org Sunday Worship 10:30 am

BAHA’I FAITH Baha’i Faith

BIBLE

Community Bible Church 906 N 1464 Rd. Pastor Shaun LePage Worship 10:30 am community-bible.org

Lawrence University Ward (Student)

Lawrence Bible Chapel

505 Monterey Way *785-841-2607 John Scollon 785-841-5271 Lord’s Supper Sunday 9am Sun. School 10:10am Bible Hour 11:10am Supper: 6:15 PM; Prayer meeting 7pm

BUDDHIST

Kansas Zen Center

1423 New York St. Guiding Teacher Judy Roitman Sunday 9:30 am - 11:30 am Orientation for beginners 9 am kansaszencenter.org

CATHOLIC

Annunciation Catholic Church 740 N 6th Street Baldwin City (785) 594-3700 Fr. Brandon Farrar Sunday 10:30 am & 6:00 pm www.annunciationchurch.org

Corpus Christi Catholic Church

6001 Bob Billings Pkwy (785) 843-6286 Fr. Michael Mulvany Sat. 4:00 pm * Sun. 8:30 am & 10:00 am www.cccparish.org

Holy Family Catholic Church 311 E 9th Street, Eudora 785-542-2788 Fr. Pat Riley Service Sat. 5:00 pm Sun. 9:30 am holyfamilyeudora@sunflower.com

St. John Evangelist Catholic Church 1229 Vermont ST 785.843.0109 www.saint-johns.net Weekend Mass: Sat 4:30 pm Sun. 7 am, 8:30 am, 10:30 am, 5 pm

CHRISTIAN

Lawrence Heights Christian Church

Baha’i Worship Service most Sundays at 10-00 Call 785-843-2703 or friendsoflawrencebahais@gmail.com

2321 Peterson Road 785-843-1729 Pastor Steve Koberlein Sunday Worship 8:45 am & 10:30 am Lawrence-heights.org

BAPTIST

Morning Star Christian Church

First Regular Missionary Baptist Church 1646 Vermont St • 843-5811 Pastor Arsenial Runion Sunday School 9:30 am Wednesday 7:00 pm Prayer Service and Bible Study

Fellowship Baptist Church 710 Locust Street 785-331-2299 Sunday School 9:45 am Worship 11:00 am & 6:30 pm Wednesday Prayer 7:00 pm

Lawrence Baptist Temple

3201 W 31st Street Rev. Gary L. Myers Pastor Sun. School & Worship 10:00 am Sun. Evening Worship 6:00 pm Wed. Evening 7:30 pm

Lighthouse Baptist Church 700 Chapel Street 785-594-4101 Pastor Richard Austin Sunday Worship 10:30 am llbt115@embarqmail.com.

Ninth Street Missionary Baptist Church

901 Tennessee St (785) 843-6472 Pastor Eric A. Galbreath Sun. School 9:30am * Worship 10:45am nsmbclk.org

BAPTIST - AMERICAN

First American Baptist Church 1330 Kasold Dr. * 785-843-0020 Rev. Matthew Sturtevant www.firstbaptistlawrence.com Sunday Worship 8:30 am & 10:45 am Sunday School 9:30 a.m.

BAPTIST - INDEPENDENT Heritage Baptist Church

1781 E 800th Rd. (785) 887-2200 Dr. Scott Hanks Sunday Worship 10:30 am www.heritagebaptistchurch.cc

BAPTIST - SOUTHERN

Cornerstone Southern Baptist Church 802 West 22nd Terrace (785) 843-0442 Pastor Gary O’Flannagan Sun. School 9:30 am * Worship 10:45 am www.cornerstonelawrence.com

Eudora Baptist Church

525 W 20th Street 785-542-2734 Pastor Jeff Ingle Sun. School 9:00 am * Worship 10:15 am eudorabc.org

CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST OF LATTER-DAY SAINTS

998 N 1771 Rd. 785-749-0023 Pastor John McDermott Worship 9:00 am & 11:00 am www.msclawrence.com

North Lawrence Christian Church

Church Of Jesus Christ Of LDS 1629 West 19th St. Lawrence 785-832-9622 Sacrament Worship 11:00am LDS.org, Mormon.org, institute.lds.org

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints

CHRISTIAN CHURCH DISCIPLES OF CHRIST First Christian Church 1000 Kentucky Street 785-843-0679 www.fcclawrence.org Reverend Dale Walling Sunday 9am & 11am

Lawrence First Church of the Nazarene 1470 N 1000 Rd. 785-843-3940 Bob Giffin, Senior Pastor Celebration & Praise Service 10:15 am www.lawrencefirstnaz.org

COMMUNITY OF CHRIST Lawrence Community of Christ

711 W. 23rd in the Malls Shopping Center 785-843-7535 Pastor Marilyn Myers Sunday Worship 10:00 am

University Community Of Christ 1900 University Drive 785-843-8427 Pastor Nancy Zahniser Sunday Worship 10:00 am Sunday Classtime 9:00 am

Church Of Christ

201 N. Michigan St. 785-838-9795 Elders Tom Griffin & Calvin Spencer Sunday 10 am & 6:00 pm, Wed. 7 pm www.lawrencecoc.org

Church Of Christ of Baldwin City 820 High Street, Baldwin City (785) 594-4246 Sunday Worship 11:00 am

Southside Church of Christ

Corner of 25th & Missouri 785-843-0770 Chris Newton, Minister Sun. Bible School 9:15 am Sun. Worship 10:20 am & 5:00 pm Wed. Bible Study 7:00 pm

CHURCH OF GOD

Bridgepointe Community Church 601 W 29th Terrace Lawrence (785) 843-9565 Pastor Dennis Carnahan Sunday 10:45 am www.bridgepointcc.com

EPISCOPAL

St. Margaret’s Episcopal Church 5700 W. 6th St. 785-865-5777 Father Matt Zimmermann 8 am & 10 am Holy Eucharist www.saintmargaret.org

Trinity Episcopal Church

1011 Vermont St (785) 843-6166 The Reverend Rob Baldwin, Rector 8 am; 10:30 am; 6:00 pm Solemn High Mass www.trinitylawrence.org

EVANGELICAL FREE CHURCH OF AMERICA Christ Community Church

ISLAMIC

Islamic Center Of Lawrence

Southern Hills Congregation

1802 E 19th St * 843-8765 Sun. 1:30 pm Public Talk & Watchtower Study

River Heights Congregation

1802 E 19th St * 843-8765 Sun. 10:00 am Public Talk & Watchtower Study Tues. 7:30, TMS, & Service Mtg

Chabad Center for Jewish Life 1203 West 19th St. Lawrence 785-832-TORA (8672) www.JewishKU.com “Your Source for Anything Jewish!”

917 Highland Drive 785-841-7636 www.LawrenceJCC.org Worship Friday 7:30pm Religious School Sunday 9:30am

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1501 Massachusetts St 785-843-7066 New Pastor Moon-Hee Chung Sun. School 9:30 am * Worship 10:45 am www.centralumclawrence.org 297 E. 2200 Rd. Eudora 785-883-2130 Rev. Kathy Symes Worship 9:00am Sunday School 10:30am

Eudora United Methodist Church

2084 N 1300th Rd. Eudora 785-542-3200 * www.eudoraumc.org Sunday Worship 9:30 am Sunday School Children & Youth 10:15 am Adult Spiritual Formation Group 8:30 & 10:40 am

Downtown 946 Vermont St. Rev. Dr. Tom Brady Pastor Traditional 10:30 am Contemporary 9:30 am West Campus 867 Highway 40 Contemporary 9:00 am & 11:00 am www.fumclawrence.org

Ives Chapel United Methodist 1018 Miami St Baldwin City (785) 594-6555 Rev. Kate Cordes Sunday Worship 11:00 am Church School 9:45 am

402 Elmore Street, Lecompton 785-887-6327 Pastor Billie Blair Sunday 8:30 am & 10:45 am www.lecomptonumc.org

Stull United Methodist Church

1596 E 250 Rd. Lecompton (785) 887-6521 Pastor Faye Wagner Worship 11:00am * Sun. School 10:00am www.stullumc.org

722 New Hampshire Street (785) 749-5397 Rabbi’s Neal Schuster www.kuhillel.org

1724 North 692 Rood 785-594-3256 Pastor Joni Raymond Sunday School 9:30 am Sunday Worship 10:30 am

LUTHERAN - ELCA

Worden United Methodist Church

Good Shepherd Lutheran Church 2211 Inverness Dr. * 785-843-3014 Pastor Ted Mosher Worship 2.0 9:30 am Classic Worship-11:00 am www.gslc-lawrence.org

906 North 1464 Rd. * 843-3325 Pastor: Ron Channell Worship 10:30 am Afterglow & Youth Group 6:00 pm www.FCLHome.org

Lawrence Christian Center

416 Lincoln Street 785-842-4926 Pastor Dan Nicholson Sun. Worship 10:00 am * Wed. 7:00 pm lawrencechristiancenter.org

Lawrence Life Fellowship

911 Massachusetts Basement below Kinkos 785-838-9093 Gabriel Alvarado Worship 10:30 am AWANA, Wednesday, 6:00

Morning Star Church

998 N 1771 Rd. 785-749-0023 Pastor John McDermott Worship 9:00 am & 11:00 am www.msclawrence.com

Mustard Seed Church

700 Wakarusa Drive 785-841-5685 www.mustardseedchurch.com Wed. Youth Service 7:00 pm Sun. Morning Service 10:00 am

New Life In Christ Church At Bridge Pointe Community 601 W. 29 Terrace 10:30 a.m. Sunday Pastor Paul Gray 785-766-3624 www.newlifelawrence.com

New Hope Fellowship

1449 Kasold Dr. Lawrence 785-331-HOPE (4673) Darrell Brazell Pastor 10:15 am Sundays www.newhopelawrence.com

The Salvation Army

946 New Hampshire St. 785-843-4188 Lts. Matt & Marisa McCluer Sun. School 9:30 am, Worship 10:45 am lawrence.salvationarmy.us

United Light Church 1515 West Main Street Lawrence, KS 66044 785-393-3539

Velocity Church

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940 New Hampshire, Lawrence, KS Meeting at Lawrence Arts Center Sundays @ 9:30 am & 11:00 am www.findvelocity.org

ORTHODOX - EASTERN

Saint Nicholas Orthodox Church 1235 Iowa Street 785-218-7663 Rev. Dr. Joshua Lollar Sunday Divine Liturgy 9:30am www.saintnicholaschurch.net

REFORMED-PRESBYTERIAN

Christ Covenant Reformed Presbyterian Church 2312 Harvard Road; Lawrence (785) 766-7796 Pastor John M. McFarland Sun. Worship 10:45 am; Classes at 9:30 am www.ChristCovenantChurchRPC.org

PRESBYTERIAN - USA Clinton Presbyterian Church 588 N 1200 Rd. Pastor Patrick Yancey Worship Sunday 11:00 am www.clintonchurch.net

1245 New Hampshire St. 785-843-4150 The Rev. Brian Elster, Lead Pastor Sun. 8:30 & 11:00am; Wed., 6:30 p.m. www.tlclawrence.org

LUTHERAN - MISSOURI SYNOD Immanuel Lutheran Church

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1024 Kasold Drive (785) 843-1504 Rev. Debbie Garber Worship 9:55 am * Sun. School 10:15 www.westsidelawrence.org

PRESBYTERIAN-EVANGELICAL Grace Evangelical Presbyterian Church 3312 Calvin Drive 785-843-2005 Pastor William D. Vogler Worship 8:15 am & 10:45 am www.gepc.org

RELIGIOUS SOCIETY OF FRIENDS Hesper Friends Church

2355 N 1100th Rd. 2 Mi. South. 11/2 Mi. East Eudora Rev. Darin Kearns Pastor Sunday School 9:30 am Sunday Worship 10:30 am

Oread Friends Meeting 1146 Oregon Street Loring Henderson, Clerk 785-764-2095 Meeting for worship, 10:00 am Sunday www.oreadfriends.org

UNITARIAN UNIVERSALIST Unitarian Fellowship of Lawrence 1263 N 1100 Rd. (785) 842-3339 Rev. Jill Jarvis 9:30 am Program & RE; 11:00 am Service www.uufl.net

UNITED CHURCH OF CHRIST - UCC

Plymouth Congregational Church, UCC 925 Vermont Street 785-843-3220 Rev. Dr. Peter Luckey Sun. Worship 9:30 am & 11:15 am www.plymouthlawrence.com

St John’s United Church-Christ 396 E 900th Rd. Baldwin City (785) 594-3478 Pastor Heather Coates Sunday School 10:00am Worship 11:00am

St Paul United Church-Christ 738 Church St. Eudora 785-542-2785 Rev. Shannah McAleer Sunday Worship 10:00 am stpaulucceudora.com

UNITY

Unity Church of Lawrence 900 Madeline Lane 785-841-1447 Sunday Meditation Service 9:30 am Sunday Worship 11:00 am Sunday Child/Nursery Care Available Wednesday Meditation 7:00 pm Moment of Inspiration 785-843-8832 www.unityoflawrence.org

WESLEYAN

Lawrence Wesleyan Church 3705 Clinton Parkway 785-841-5446 Pastor Nate Rovenstine Worship 9:00, 10:00 & 11:15 am lawrencewesleyan.com

Called to Greatness Ministries P.O. Box 550 Lawrence KS 66044 785-749-2100 info@calledtogreatness.com www.calledtogreatness.com

Christ International Church 1103 Main St. Eudora KS 66025 785-312-4263 Sunday 10:30 am Wednesdays 6:30 pm

Country Community Church

878 Locust St Lawrence 913-205-8304 Pastor, John Hart Sun. School 9 am, Fellowship 10 am, Worship 10:30 am 1387 N. 1300 Rd. Lawrence, KS 66046 785-393-6791 www.eaglerocklawrence.com Sundays at 10:00 am

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Action Plumbing

2415 Clinton Parkway 785-843-4171 Rev. Kent Winters-Hazelton Sun. Worship 8:30 & 11:00 am www.firstpreslawrence.org

294 East 900th Rd. Baldwin City 785-594-7598 Pastor Changsu Kim Worship 8:15 & 10:30 wordenumc.com

24 Hour Answering Service 1115 Massachusetts www.fuzzystacoshop.com

First Presbyterian Church

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Trinity Lutheran Church

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245 North Elm Street 785-843-1756 Pastor Daniel Norwood Sunday Worship 11:00 am centenarylawrence@yahoo.com

Family Church Of Lawrence

Vinland United Methodist Church

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Redeemer Lutheran Church

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Centenary United Methodist Church

Lecompton United Methodist Church

JEWISH

Praise Temple Church of God in Christ 315 E. 7th St. * 749-0985 Pastor Paul Winn Jr. SS 10:00 am * Worship 11:15 am Wed. & Fri. Bible Teaching 7:00 pm Call early for ride to church

96 Highway 40 * 785-887-6823 January Kiefer Pastor Traditional Sun. 9:00am Contemporary call for information www.bigspringsumc.org

First United Methodist Church

Victory Bible Church

1942 Massachusetts St www.victorybiblechurch.net (785) 841-3437 Pastor Leo Barbee Sunday Worship 10:30 am

Big Springs United Methodist Church

704 8th Street; Baldwin Rev. Paul Badcock Sunday School each Sunday 9:30 am Traditional Worship 8:30 am Contemporary Worship 10:45 am Combined Worship 10:45 last Sunday month

646 Alabama Street * 749-0951 Rev. William A Dulin Sun. School 10:30 am Worship 12:15 pm Tue. 7:00 pm Prayer & Bible Study Thur. 7:00 pm Worship & Pastoral Teaching

Calvary Church Of God In Christ

METHODIST - UNITED

First United Methodist Church

1100 Kasold Drive 785-842-7600 Jeff Barclay Pastor Sun. Worship 9:30 am & 10:30 am www.ccclawrence.org

4300 W. 6th Street (785) 843-8167 Pastor Joe Stiles Worship Service 8:30 am & 11:00 am www.fsbcfamily.com

First Southern Baptist Church

950 E. 21st Street 785-832-9200 Pastor Jami Moss Sun School 10 am *Worship 11 am Thurs Bible Study 7 pm

Clearfield United Methodist Church

2104 Bob Billings Pkwy (785) 843-0620 Pastor Randy Weinkauf Wors. with Holy Communion 8:30 am & 11:00 am Sun. School & Christian Ed 9:45 am Nursery Available & Wheelchair Accessible Ministry to Blind Outreach 3 Thur. 5:30 pm www.immanuel-lawrence.com

CHURCH OF GOD IN CHRIST

Lawrence Free Methodist Church

Central United Methodist Church

Lawrence Jewish Community Congregation

CHURCH OF CHRIST

METHODIST

Lawrence Indian Methodist Church

JEHOVAH’S WITNESSES

883 E 800 Rd Lawrence, Ks Jane Flora-Swick, Pastor Worship 10:30 * Sun. School 10:45am www.lonestarbrethren.com

615 Lincoln St 785-841-8614 Pastor Joanna Harader Service 10:30 am peacepreacher.wordpress.com

CHURCH OF THE NAZARENE

Perry Christian Church

Lone Star Church of the Brethren

Peace Mennonite Church

3655 West 10th St. Lawrence 1st Ward 785-842-4019, 2nd Ward 785-3315912, Wakarusa Valley 785-842-1283 LDS.org, Mormon.org, institute.lds.org

1917 Naismith Drive (785) 749-1638 Najabat Abbasi Director Friday 1:30 pm www.islamicsocietylawrence.org

CHURCH OF THE BRETHREN

MENNONITE

3001 Lawrence Ave 785-842-2343 Pastor Bill Bump Blended 9:00 am * Contemporary 10:35 am www.lfmchurch.org

7th and Elm Charles Waugh, Minister Bible School 10:00am Worship 10:55 am www.nlawrencechristianchurch.com

603 East Front Street Perry Kansas 785-597-5493 Pastors Will Eickman and Alan Hamer

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Opinion

Lawrence Journal-World l LJWorld.com l Saturday, December 26, 2015 Lawrence City Commission Mike Amyx, mayor 2312 Free State Lane 66047 843-3089 (H) 842-9425 (W) mikeamyx515@hotmail.com Leslie Soden, vice mayor 715 Connecticut, 66044 (913) 890-3647 lsoden@lawrenceks.org Stuart Boley, 1812 W. 21st Terr., 66046, 979-6699 sboley@lawrenceks.org Matthew Herbert 523 Kasold Dr., 66049 550-2085 matthewjherbert@gmail.com Lisa Larsen, 1117 Avalon., 66044, 331-9162 llarsen@lawrenceks.org

Douglas County Commission Jim Flory, 540 N. 711 Road, Lawrence 66047; 842-0054 jimflory@sunflower.com Mike Gaughan, 304 Stetson Circle, 66049; 856-1662; mgaughan@douglas-county.com Nancy Thellman, 1547 N. 2000 Road 66046; 832-0031 nthellman@douglas-county.com

Lawrence School Board Vanessa Sanburn, president 856-1233 765 Ash St., 66044 vsanburn@usd497.org

Food advice spurs healthy skepticism Washington — When the federal government’s 1980 “Dietary Guidelines for Americans” warned about the baleful effects of saturated fats, public interest activists joined the fight and managed to persuade major food companies to switch to the shiny new alternative: trans fats. Thirty-five years later, the Food and Drug Administration finally determined that trans fats are not just useless but unsafe, and ordered them removed from all foods. Oops.

So much for settled science.

To tell the truth, I never paid much attention to the fat fights in the first place. From my days as a medical student (and prodigious consumer of junk food), I’ve seen so many solemnly proclaimed “findings” come and go that I decided long ago to ignore — and outlive — them all.

So far, I’m ahead. Never had an egg substitute in my life. I figured trans fats were just another fad waiting to be revoked and renounced. Moreover, if I was wrong, the green eggs and ham would take so long to kill me anyway that I was more likely to be hit by a bus first. Either way, win-win.

Don’t get me wrong. I don’t advocate this kind of jaunty fatalism for everyone. This is a private affair. I do, however, preach skepticism. Remember that most venerable piece of received medical wisdom — 98.6 degrees as the average adult

Institutes of Health has strongly recommended omega-3 fatty acids and fish oil for the prevention of cardiovascular disease.

I held out, trusting both my gastronomic prejudices (more turf than surf) and my faith that time ultimately undoes all of life’s verities. I waited. My orneriness has not been fully vindicated — NIH still recommends dietary fish oil — but it does find omega-3 supplements to be useless.

Exhibit A for medical skepticism, however, remains vitamin C. When Linus Pauling, Nobel laureate in chemistry (not nutrition), began the vitamin-C megadose fad to fend off all manner of disease, the whole thing struck me as bizarre. Yes, you need some C to prevent scurvy if you’re seven months at sea with Capt. Cook and citrus is nowhere to be found.

Otherwise, the megadose is a crock. Evolution is pretty clever. For 2 million years it made sure Homo erectus, neanderthalensis, sapiens, what have you, got his daily dose without having to visit a GNC store.

Sure enough, that fashion came and went. But there are always new windmills to be tilted at. The latest is gluten.

Now, if you suffer from celiac disease, you need a gluten-free diet. How many of us is that?

Less than 1 percent. And yet supermarket shelves are groaning with products proclaiming

Charles Krauthammer letters@charleskrauthammer.com

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Don’t get me wrong.

I don’t advocate this kind of jaunty fatalism for everyone. This is a private affair. I do, however, preach skepticism.”

human temperature? In 1992, three researchers bothered to measure — and found that the conventional wisdom (based on an 1878 German study) was wrong. Normal is 98.2.

After that — 114 years of error — one is inclined to embrace Woody Allen’s “Sleeper” theory that in 200 years we’ll discover that smoking is good for you, fruits are not. I still love peaches, but I eat them for the taste — and the memories — not because they might add a month to my life (in the ICU when I’m 90).

I don’t mean to be cynical, just realistic. Take fish oil. For at least 10 years the National

Marcel Harmon, vice president; 550-7749 753 Lauren Street, 66044 mharmon@usd497.org

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Jill Fincher, 865-5870 1700 Inverness Dr. 66047 jfincher@usd497.org Rick Ingram 864-9819 1510 Crescent Rd. 66044 ringram@usd497.org Shannon Kimball 840-7722 257 Earhart Circle 66049 skimball@usd497.org

Area legislators Rep. Barbara Ballard (D-44th District) Room 451-S, State Capitol, Topeka 66612 Lawrence: 841-0063; Topeka: (785) 296-7697 barbara.ballard@house.ks.gov

Rep. John Wilson (D-10th District) 54-S, State Capitol, Topeka 66612 Topeka: (785) 296-7652; john.wilson@house.ks.gov Rep. Ken Corbet (R-54th District) 179-N, State Capitol, Topeka 66612 Topeka: (785) 296-7679; ken.corbet@house.ks.gov Sen. Marci Francisco (D-2nd District) Room 134-E, State Capitol, Topeka 66612 Lawrence: 842-6402; Topeka: (785) 296-7364 Marci.Francisco@senate.ks.gov Sen. Tom Holland (D-3rd District) Room 134-E, State Capitol, Topeka 66612 Lawrence: 865-2786; Topeka: 296-7372 Tom.Holland@senate.ks.gov Sen. Anthony Hensley (D-10th District) Room 318-E, State Capitol, Topeka 66612 Topeka: (785) 296-3245 Anthony.Hensley@senate. ks.gov

— Charles Krauthammer is a columnist for Washington Post Writers Group.

From the Lawrence Daily Journal-World for Dec. 26, 1915: “The anticipations of the committee in charge of the years municipal Christmas Tree exerago cises in South park were agreeIN 1915 ably realized by the attendance and interest, and by the success of the exercises around the municipal tree. The exercises were held in the frosty dusk of a winter day, but the number of people who braved the weather and stood about in the snow for a little more than half an hour while the program was on has been estimated at from 2,500 to 3,000.... A few minutes after 6 o’clock the lights of the tree were flashed on. Alfred Lawrence took a flashlight photograph of the tree and the crowd immediately afterward. The presence of the Haskell and First Regiment bands was a decided help to the exercises. The weather was so cold that most of the people in the crowd preferred not to sing. The selections given by the grade school children and high school girls were well sung and interesting features of the open air service. The program came to a close in a little more than a half hour and the crowd was then as anxious to get home as it had been to get to the park. A half hour of standing about in the snow made every one more appreciative of the warm firesides.”

“Figuring that twelve quarts of whisky constituted rather too large a shipment for personal use, the city police arrested a young man Saturday night, who was bringing in that amount from Kansas City.... The young man’s father attempted to assure the officers today that it was all a mistake that as much as twelve quarts were brought in.

He said he told his boy to bring home a gallon from Kansas City for family use, but he thinks the skillful salesman at the wholesale house talked the boy into getting three gallons.”

“William Barnaby, age 17, died last night at Haskell Institute where he was a student.

The cause of death was heart failure resulting from tuberculosis.”

Jessica Beeson, 691-6678 1720 Mississippi St. 66044 jbeeson@usd497.org

Rep. Dennis “Boog” Highberger (D-46th District) Room 174-W, State Capitol, Topeka 66612 Topeka: (785) 296-7122 BoogHighberger@house.ks.gov

their gluten-freedom. Sales are going through the roof.

Another crock. Turns out, according to a massive Australian study of 3,200 products, glutenfree is useless. “The foods can be significantly more expensive and are very trendy to eat,” says Jason Wu, the principal investigator. “But we discovered a negligible difference when looking at their overall nutrition.”

Told you so.

Why then am I not agitating to have this junk taken off the shelves? Because of my other obsession: placebos. For which I have an undying respect, acquired during my early years as a general-hospital psychiatrist.

If you believe in the curative powers of something — often encouraged by the authority of your physician — a sugar pill or a glass of plain water can produce remarkable symptom relief. I’ve seen it. I’ve done it.

So I’d never mess with it. If a placebo can alleviate your pain, that’s better than opioids. If going gluten-free gives a spring to your step, why not? But please, let the civility go both ways.

Let the virtuous Fitbit foodie, all omega-3’d and gluten-free, drop the self-congratulatory smugness. And I promise not to say it’s all in his head.

Live and let eat. Merry Christmas.

OLD HOME TOWN

Kristie Adair, 840-7989 4924 Stoneback Place, 66047 kadair@usd497.org

Rep. Tom Sloan (R-45th District) Room 149-S, State Capitol, Topeka 66612 Lawrence: 841-1526; Topeka: (785) 296-7654 tom.sloan@house.ks.gov

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Thankful

The first claim is so widespread that PolitiFact found it necessary to address it in an article entitled, “Bernie Sanders — socialist or democratic socialist?” PolitiFact found that Sanders himself uses the terms interchangeably.

Regarding the second claim, I noted that Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) is the principal U.S. affiliate of the Socialist International, which, according to Michael Harrington, the late DSA chair, “claims direct descent from Marx’s International Workingmen’s Association.”

Nowlin now suggests a third claim: Sanders has nothing to do with DSA. — Compiled by Sarah St. John True, Sanders is not a DSA member.

However, in 1991 Sanders was a founding member of the Congressional Progressive Read more Old Home Town at LJWorld.com/ Caucus (CPC), which DSA helped organews/lawrence/history/old_home_town. nize. DSA also initially hosted CPC’s webpage while Sanders chaired the caucus. In 1998, Solveig Wilder, DSA membership services, identified Sanders as a “friend Letters Policy of DSA.” Finally, according to DSA’s The Journal-World welcomes letters to the Public Forum. Letters website, those who “wish to promote the should be 250 words or less, be of public interest and should avoid goals of democratic socialism should con- name-calling and libelous language. The Journal-World reserves the to edit letters, as long as viewpoints are not altered. By submitsider taking concrete and specific actions right ting letters, you grant the Journal-World a nonexclusive license to at the grassroots level that would support publish, copy and distribute your work, while acknowledging that you Sanders’ (presidential) candidacy.” are the author of the work.

To the editor: It is time to be thankful.

I would like to thank Thomas Fritzel. We are fortunate to have him in our community. Each one of his projects will continue to serve our children, our community and our future generations for many years.

Few people are brave enough to take so much risk, hard work, and public dissent, for the sake of their community’s future.

Thank you again Peach Madl, Baldwin City

Sanders response To the editor: In his Dec. 22 letter, Stu Nowlin accused me of sharing misinformation, setting up “straw-men arguments,” and making up things about Bernie Sanders and socialism in my Dec. 17 letter. He is wrong on all counts.

In my letter, I noted that Sanders’ supporters often share two claims. First, there is the claim that a democratic socialist isn’t really a socialist. Second, there is the claim that democratic socialism has nothing to do with Karl Marx.

Kevin Groenhagen, Lawrence

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Breezy with snow and ice

High 51° Low 32° POP: 65%

High 36° Low 31° POP: 25%

High 33° Low 19° POP: 60%

High 27° Low 16° POP: 15%

High 25° Low 3° POP: 55%

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Wind NNE 12-25 mph

Wind N 10-20 mph

Wind WNW 4-8 mph

Wind W 4-8 mph

Kearney 32/15

McCook 28/14 Oberlin 30/17

Sun and areas of low A bit of morning snow clouds

Clarinda 40/27

Lincoln 37/21

Grand Island 33/14

Beatrice 39/22

Concordia 40/22

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Centerville 43/32

St. Joseph 46/31 Chillicothe 49/34

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Scientific names You’ve likely seen terms such as Quercus alba, Parthenocissus tricuspidata, or anything else that is normally written in italics and sounds like another language. This is the Latin name or scientific name for a plant. Gardeners use Latin names because a plant might have a half-dozen or more common names.

The first word describes the group of plants, like a last name might describe a traditional family. The second word describes the specific type of plant within the group. For example, Quercus refers to all oaks and Quercus alba is specifically white oak.

Parthenocissus tricuspidata is Boston ivy.

THE JARGON GARDENERS USE may seem confusing at first, but learning some key terms can make visits to your local garden center much smoother.

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Jennifer Smith as vegetables based on nutritional content.

Pinching In the case of plants, pinching is only painful when a gardener spends too much time bending or kneeling to finish the job. Pinching is basically Hardiness zones what it sounds like, but The United States De- with a purpose. Use the partment of Agriculture motion to remove the made a pretty map based growing point from the on average annual winter top of the stem. Pinching temperatures across the encourages branching United States, grouped lower on the stem and the temperatures and can prevent early flowernumbered them. The ing. Chrysanthemums numbers go from 1 (low- are routinely pinched est winter temperatures) in late spring and early to 13 (highest winter tem- summer to get the nice peratures). Lawrence is uniform shape and even in zone 6. Plants hardy to late-season flowering for lower-numbered zones which they are known. will survive the winters B and B here, but ask around Gardeners may love about summer heat. their plants, but weekend Fruits vs. vegetables getaways are another Gardeners love this bit story when a gardener of trivia. Yes, a tomato is talks “B and B.” In this a fruit in botanical terms case, the letters refer to because it is a ripened “balled and burlapped” ovary. A vegetable is a trees and shrubs. B and plant part used as food B trees and shrubs have like the leaves of lettuce been dug from a field or carrots (roots). But with round shovels or a ask a nutritionist and mechanical spade. Their you will get a different roots are wrapped in answer. The USDA recburlap to prevent soil ognizes tomatoes, squash and moisture loss. Large and other botanical fruits plants may also have

a wire basket placed around the mass of roots to add extra support.

Hybrids A hybrid is produced when two plants of different species are crossed to make a more desirable plant. Daylily lovers commonly take pollen from one flower to another in hopes of producing a more beautiful daylily. Many vegetable seeds on the market are also hybrids — to get a bigger, better-flavored tomato, or especially tasty sweet corn.

Canopy In the gardening world, canopy refers to the above-ground part of the plant and is most commonly used in reference to trees. Think of the expanse of tree leaves and branches in the same way that a cloth canopy provides cover.

Dripline If you could look straight down on a tree from the sky and draw a circle at the edge of the branches, the dripline would be that circle. It is an invisible line on the ground, named because it marks the area where rain drips through the canopy.

— Jennifer Smith is a former horticulture extension agent for K-State Research and Extension and horticulturist for Lawrence Parks and Recreation. She is the host of “The Garden Show” and has been a gardener since childhood. Send your gardening questions and feedback to features@ljworld.com.

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Airstrike kills powerful Syrian rebel leader Death a blow to insurgent movement a month before peace talks begin Aamer Madhani @AamerlSmad USA TODAY

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Officials suspect arson in a fire that damaged the childhood home of former president Bill Clinton in Hope, Ark. Police also found graffiti on the property.

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Former president Bill Clinton’s first boyhood home in Hope, Ark., was damaged by fire early Friday in what authorities suspect is arson.

Hope Police Chief J.R. Wilson said firefighters were alerted at 3:20 a.m. after a passing motorist spotted smoke coming from what is known as the William J. Clinton Birthplace. Wilson told USA TODAY that firefighters on the scene also spotted graffiti on the building and that investigators

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suspect arson as the cause.

The fire caused minor damage to the exterior of the east side of the house, plus smoke and water damage to the interior. Wilson said the fire appeared to have started at the base of the east exterior wall. By the time firefighters arrived, flames reached about 8 feet high on the two-story white frame house.

“We suspect arson, because of the point of origin,” Wilson said.

“Also, there was strong smell of accelerant at the point of the origin of what appeared ... to smell like gasoline,” Wilson said.

Wilson said police found “55”

spray-painted in black on a walkway leading to the north side of the home. Officers also spotted “XX” painted above what appeared to be a frown with a tongue sticking out on a door of the building.

“We have not seen this graffiti before,” Wilson said. “It has no meaning to us. From my perspective, with the graffiti that was drawn and how the arson occurred, I would highly suspect a juvenile or juveniles.”

Hope Fire Department Chief Dale Glanton said National Park Service officials have taken control of the investigation.

An airstrike near the Syrian capital of Damascus on Friday killed one of the most powerful rebel commanders attempting to oust Syrian President Bashar Assad, opposition activists said.

The killing of Zahran Allouch, leader of the Saudi-backed Army of Islam, comes a month before peace talks between the Syrian government and the opposition are scheduled to begin in Geneva.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said an airstrike hit an Army of Islam meeting near the Damascus suburb of Otaya, killing five rebel commanders, including Allouch, as well as eight rebel fighters.

It was unclear whether the strike was carried out by the Assad regime or Russia, both of which have been carrying out airstrikes against opposition groups, according to the Britain-based Syrian Observatory.

But Mazen al-Shami, an opposition activist based near Damascus, said Russian warplanes fired 10 missiles at the site where Allouch and top commanders had gathered, the Associated Press reported.

The Syrian military, in a statement published later Friday on the state-run SANA news agency, claimed that Allouch was killed in

a Syrian army airstrike.

It said the strike was carried out after a series of aerial reconnaissance operations against groupings of “terrorist” organizations and their headquarters.

Russia is a key ally of Syria. Assad has said Russia’s involvement in the conflict is legal and comes with Syria’s permission. The United States, Britain and France are also carrying out bombing campaigns against militant groups in the bloody civil war.

Allouch and other rebel leaders were struck as they were preparing for an operation against Lebanese Hezbollah and the regime forces, according to a statement from the Syrian Observatory.

Allouch, who had backing from Saudi Arabia, was one of the most powerful rebel commanders in the 4-year-old Syrian conflict, and his death is a blow to the insurgent movement ahead of next month’s peace talks. His group controls major swaths of the Damascus suburbs.

The United Nations Security Council approved a resolution last week that calls for talks between the Syrian government and opposition groups, as well as a cease-fire in the civil war.

However, the resolution doesn’t mention what role Assad will play. The Syrian leader is supported by close allies Russia and Iran, but the United States has said it wants to see him removed from power.

Survey: Parents’ fears tied to paycheck Low-income families tend to worry more about violence Greg Toppo @gtoppo USATODAY

Fretting that your children’s lives are over-scheduled? Your worries may be in vogue, but new survey findings suggest that you’re an outlier.

A new study by the Pew Research Center finds that fewer than one in six parents believes their children’s day-to-day schedules are “too hectic.” Among upper-income parents, the belief is more common, at one in five. But low-income parents, who have lots of other things to worry about, the study suggests, aren’t buying it: Just one in 12 says their kids’ lives are too hectic.

These parents fret more about their kids being hurt or getting in trouble with the law, the survey

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A new survey of parents finds that fewer than one in six believes their children’s lives are over-scheduled. finds — a far cry from too many after-school activities.

The more affluent and educated parents are, researchers found, the more likely they were to say that their kids have too much going on.

“Those are also the parents

who are more likely to say, ‘Oh my gosh, I’m busy all the time — I’m so rushed,’” said Kim Parker, Pew’s director of social trends research. “That speaks to a certain demographic, but not necessarily (to) everybody’s experience.”

For the study, out Thursday,

researchers interviewed 1,807 parents by phone from Sept. 15 to Oct. 13. They found that the more money parents made, the more likely their kids were to participate in sports, religious instruction or a youth group, music, dance or art lessons. These kids were also more likely to have a part-time job, volunteer or participate in organizations such as scouting.

Parker and her co-researchers say the findings suggest that financial instability can limit kids’ access to a safe environment and to “the kinds of enrichment activities that affluent parents take for granted.”

Case in point: The same upper-income parents, who make $75,000 or more annually, were nearly twice as likely as lower income parents to rate their neighborhood as an “excellent” or “very good” place to raise kids.

On the other hand, one-third of parents with annual family inv STORY CONTINUES ON 2B

Don’t like your gift? How you can return, trade or sell it Hadley Malcolm USA TODAY

If you were underwhelmed by your Christmas Day haul, you’re not the only one.

As much as 15% of holiday sales, which are likely to reach $630.5 billion this year, are returned, according to the National Retail Federation. Luckily, returning unwanted holiday presents has become a relatively painless process. As long as you understand the parameters.

To ensure a hassle-free process, make sure items are in their original packaging, keep tags in

As much as 15% of holiday sales are returned, according to the National Retail Federation.

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place on clothing or shoes and come with a receipt if you can, the National Retail Federation recommends. Those without receipts aren’t necessary out of luck. Retailers’ policies vary widely, but it never hurts to ask, with a smile, of course.

You don’t have to rush to stores, as many major retailers have extended return policies for purchases made during the holiday season. Some even have programs that let you make returns for items or gift cards the retailer didn’t originally sell.

Got a gift card you know you’ll never use? Use an exchange service such as Cardpool, which al-

lows people to sell unwanted gift cards for up to 92% cash back. You can also use the site to buy gift cards at a discount.

Target launched a gift card exchange program in stores this year that allows customers to turn in third-party gift cards in exchange for a Target gift card.

For the first time, online retailer Zappos will accept returns for items not bought on its site.

Saturday, the first 500 people to call customer service from 11 a.m. to 11 p.m. ET and tell them about an unwanted gift will get a $100 Zappos gift card in exchange for their gift, which will be donated to charity.

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HOW I DECIDED TO BUY A GUN

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Perhaps there’s just some comfort in feeling like I’m taking action, even if all the statistics tell me I might actually just be making the problem worse.

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Top, a customer shops for a pistol at Freddie Bear Sports in Tinley Park, Ill. Gun sales are surging across the country.

Above, Gary Mendoza and his son Michael walk around a makeshift memorial to those killed and injured Dec. 7 in a shooting attack in San Bernardino, Calif.

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comes lower than $30,000 said their neighborhood is a “fair” or “poor” place to raise kids; just 7% of higher-income parents gave their neighborhood similarly low ratings.

The findings surprised researchers, who weren’t expecting such big wage-related gaps in how parents approach their job, Parker said.

“We went into the survey thinking about exploring some of the current debates about parenting, like helicopter parenting and ‘free-range parents,’ kids being over-scheduled and ‘tiger moms’ and all that kind of stuff,” she said. “But then when we got the data back, we found that the really compelling fault lines that we were able to identify tended to have less to do with those philosophical differences and more to do with parents’ socio-economic status — and we saw big gaps.”

Among the biggest: what par-

The findings surprised researchers, who weren’t expecting such big wage-related gaps in how parents approach their job. ents worry about.

Parents at all income levels worry at roughly equal levels about their kids having problems with drugs or alcohol, being bullied or struggling with anxiety or depression. And recent school shootings and terrorism threats have brought all parents closer to the grim realization that their child’s school might be targeted, Parker said.

But concerns about day-today violence are more pronounced for parents with lower incomes, she said — and for par-

ents who say their neighborhood could be a better place for kids.

Among the wealthiest parents, only 22% worry that their child might get shot at some point. By contrast, nearly half of parents at the lowest income level — 47% — worry about this.

Parents at the lowest end of the income scale also worry more about their children: uGetting in trouble with the law: 40% vs. 21%. uGetting beat up or attacked: 55% vs. 38%. uBeing kidnapped: 59% vs.

44%.

Recent U.S. Census data have found that the percentage of single-parent households is growing — and single-parent families are three times as likely as others to live in poverty, Parker said. So the findings could point to a sign of rising parental anxiety nationwide.

“Single-parent households are in a much more vulnerable economic position,” she said.

Trevor Hughes USA TODAY

After months of soul-searching, I’ve decided to buy a handgun.

It’s not a decision to which I’ve come lightly. At least one coworker came near to tears as she tried to dissuade me. But after a horrendous year of violence across the country, I’m left with the undeniable feeling that I ought to do something different.

I’m no longer willing to wait for the government to protect me all of the time. As a former Vermonter and Boy Scout, I just can’t escape the feeling that I need to take more responsibility for my own safety.

Here’s the thing: More than almost anyone, I know the devastation handguns can cause. As a journalist who has covered many mass shootings, I’ve watched families ripped apart by death. I’ve seen entire communities shattered because some jerk who couldn’t control himself decided to take out his anger on the world with a weapon.

I also know I’m not the only one struggling with this decision. Gun shops across our country are reporting a surge in sales. It’s a sad fact that gun sales go up after a shooting or a terrorist attack.

I have no illusions that I’m going to be the proverbial good guy with a gun. Even worse, I know the statistics that show I’m at risk, as a middle-age white man living in Colorado, of using the gun to kill myself.

I recognize that my decision doesn’t make the best logical sense. My head knows that. On the other hand, we humans are emotional creatures, and this decision helps me feel better.

Perhaps there’s just some comfort in feeling like I’m taking action, even if all the statistics tell me I might actually just be making the problem worse But. What else should I do? Our politicians have demonstrated they aren’t actually serious about reducing gun violence in

America. I mean, although we accept that car crashes kill about 30,000 people annually, at least there’s a serious effort underway to reduce that number.

At the same time, there does appear to be an actual belief around the world and in our own country that Americans are a soft target.

I’ve never fired a handgun. I hope to God I never fire mine in anger. The men and women we pay to carry guns and protect us rarely do it, and those that do often miss or accidentally shoot their colleagues or innocent bystanders during the confusion of a gunbattle.

It’s those innocent bystanders that have me worried. I’ve been in Aurora, in Roseburg, in Killeen. Time and time again, mass murderers have targeted groups that were unprepared to fight back. Soft targets. What a terrible phrase.

For me, like for many people I’ve talked to, San Bernardino was the tipping point. As someone who goes to lots of community meetings and rallies, I’m all too aware of how vulnerable we are. A holiday party? Your coworkers? (For me, it started with movie theaters.) I’m not a fan of waiting for the next attack from a religious terrorist.

That’s got me thinking about that famous quote from Teddy Roosevelt: “Speak softly and carry a big stick.”

You don’t have to use that stick. In fact, plan on not using it. But if my carrying a concealed weapon — just like millions of my responsible neighbors in this country — deters someone from attacking my friends and neighbors, maybe that’s worth it. You don’t see terror attacks in this country on areas where there are lots of armed men and women. Instead, it’s those soft targets that get hit. Maybe it’s time we made sure our enemies, both foreign and domestic, understand that we shoot back.

I’m starting to feel like a soft target. I don’t like feeling like a soft target. Once again, I’m left with this idea that an armed society ends up being a very polite society — and one that’s highly resistant to attack.

Hughes is a Denver-based correspondent for USA TODAY.

PARENTS’ FEARS LINKED TO INCOME Percentage of parents who say they worry that each of these might happen to their child or children, by annual family income: $75,000 or more

$30,000 or less

Get shot Get in trouble with law Get beat up or attacked Be kidnapped Get pregnant or get a girl pregnant as teenager Have problems with drugs or alcohol

22% 47% 21% 40% 38% 55% 44% 59% 43% 50% 41% 44% 60%

Be bullied

61% 55% 55%

Struggle with anxiety or depression Source Pew Research Center survey of 1,807 parents with children under 18, conducted Sept. 15-Oct. 13.

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Floods soak south as blizzard eyes central U.S.

Unseasonably warm weather fuels storms, but some relief could be on way next week Oren Dorell and Doyle Rice USA TODAY

Unseasonably warm weather helped fuel more storms and floods across the South on Christmas Day, as a separate system is forecast to bring snow and ice to the Texas Panhandle, New Mexico and Kansas over the weekend.

Drenching rain on Christmas Day led to flash floods across Alabama, Tennessee, Georgia and Mississippi, where residents were recovering from tornadoes and severe storms that left 14 people dead Wednesday and Thursday.

The flooding was exacerbated by ground saturated from recent

storms, the National Weather Service (NWS) said. Friday’s storms hit areas where Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant had issued a state of emergency Thursday following the tornadoes.

There were also overnight reports of a tornado in Georgia and several reports of twisters in California’s Central Valley.

The weekend storm will target the central USA. Eastern New Mexico will be hit with snow Saturday and Sunday. The Texas and Oklahoma panhandles, plus southwestern Kansas, could see snow Saturday night into Monday, according to AccuWeather.

Albuquerque, Amarillo and Lubbock, Texas, are all in the potential blizzard zone, with over a foot

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Christmas gifts are stacked outside of a house demolished by a tornado in Selmer, Tenn., on Wednesday.

of snow expected.

Severe thunderstorms and heavy rain are likely in eastern Oklahoma, Arkansas, north-central Texas and Louisiana on Saturday, according to the NWS. This weekend’s winter weather in the central states will move toward the Eastern Tennessee Valley early next week, followed by cooling temperatures, Storm Prediction Center forecaster Corey Mead said.

Meanwhile, more record highs were set Christmas Day along the East Coast for the third day in a row. New York City had its warmest Christmas on record, when temperatures hit 66 degrees just after midnight in Central Park, the NWS said.

In the South, Atlanta’s 75-degree reading was a record for Christmas, as was the 81-degree reading in Fayetteville, N.C.

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India’s Modi makes surprise visit to Pakistan

Prime minister greeted warmly as countries known for skirmishes show more signs of peace Aamer Madhani USA TODAY

India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi made a surprise visit to Pakistan on Friday as the two nuclear-armed rivals show increased signs of thawing their historically fraught relationship.

Modi is the first Indian premier to visit Pakistan in more than a decade. The Hindu nationalist came to power in 2014 and has made raising India’s international profile a high priority.

He was greeted warmly by Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif when he arrived in the city of Lahore.

Modi, who had been in Afghanistan before heading to Pakistan, first announced his plans to meet

with Sharif earlier Friday on Twitter.

“Spent a warm evening with Sharif family at their family home. Nawaz Sahab’s birthday & granddaughter’s marriage made it a double celebration,” Modi posted on his Twitter account after departing from Lahore.

The two South Asian countries have fought three wars since independence from Britain in 1947, two of the wars over the disputed area of Kashmir.

Tensions between the countries grew after the 2008 terror attack on Mumbai in which 166 people were killed by militants trained in Pakistan.

But in recent months, there has been a warming in relations.

India and Pakistan held talks in December in Thailand in which

The two South Asian countries have fought three wars since independence from Britain in 1947, two of the wars over the disputed area of Kashmir.

Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, left, welcomes Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday.

Kashmir was discussed. Modi and Sharif met last month in Paris on the sidelines of a major climate conference. And this month, India’s external affairs minister traveled to Pakistan for a meeting on Afghanistan.

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State television showed the two men hugging at the airport tarmac upon Modi’s arrival to Pakistan. Modi spent a few hours at Sharif’s family estate in Lahore before returning to India.

The two leaders agreed to con-

tinue bilateral talks in the future, said Aizaz Chaudhary, Pakistan’s foreign minister, the Financial Times reported.

The visit did not sit well with India’s opposition Congress Party, which argued that Pakistan had not taken any steps to warrant such a visit by Modi.

High-level talks had been planned for August but were canceled after a cease-fire violation in Kashmir.

Iowa, N.H. key to Sanders’ strategy Nicole Gaudiano @ngaudiano USA TODAY

It could all come down to Iowa and New Hampshire for Sen. Bernie Sanders.

The underdog candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination is counting on momentum from strong finishes in those early contests to help him pull off a gigantic political upset against former secretary of State Hillary Clinton, whose lead averaged 25 percentage points in recent national polls.

Sanders, I-Vt., has invested in staff and resources in states that vote later in the process and, on Tuesday, he became the first presidential candidate to launch a major TV ad blitz in Nevada.

But the campaign acknowledges that, absent wins or close finishes in Iowa on Feb. 1 and New Hampshire on Feb. 9, it will become even harder for Sanders to compete.

“Does Hillary have a serious challenger? That’s really going to be the question that’s answered

by Iowa — is the Sanders challenge symbolic or is it serious?” said Tad Devine, Sanders’ senior adviser. “If we do succeed early, and I believe we can, I think we can generate momentum.”

Since Sanders announced his candidacy, he has made 14 trips to New Hampshire and wrapped up his 13th to Iowa this week, with plans to travel there again next week. Expectations will be higher for Sanders in New Hampshire, his neighboring state where he has led most polls since August.

“If the New Hampshire program needs something, we definitely get it because it’s essential,” Julia Barnes, Sanders’ director in New Hampshire, said of the campaign’s investment in the state.

Clinton has averaged about a 15 percentage-point lead in recent Iowa polls. But Sanders said on CBS This Morning on Monday that he has a “shot to win in Iowa.” His Monday-to-Wednesday trip drew more than 31,000 to rallies and town meetings, according to the campaign.

“If we can win in Iowa, if we

Underdog Democrat counting on strong finishes in early contests to generate momentum

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Above, Sen. Bernie Sanders waves to supporters after speaking in Sioux City, Iowa, last Monday. Left, Sanders’ supporters at Saint Anselm College were out in force before the Dec. 19 Democratic debate in Manchester, N.H.

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can win in New Hampshire, I think we’re on our way to a national victory and one of the great political upsets in the modern history of America,” he said.

Clinton has prominent endorsements in both states. In New Hampshire — a state she won during her 2008 primary bid

— she has been endorsed by Sen. Jeanne Shaheen, Gov. Maggie Hassan, Rep. Ann Kuster and a lengthy list of state representatives, senators and other leaders.

She began advertising in August — three months ahead of Sanders — and her campaign has spent about $12 million on adver-

tising, while a pro-Clinton super PAC has spent nearly $200,000, according to SMG Delta ad-tracking data reported Tuesday by NBC. The Sanders campaign has spent almost $7.6 million.

Devine concedes Clinton has “real advantages,” including an Iowa electorate that is typically older and a high turnout expectation for women in New Hampshire.

The Sanders campaign hopes to overcome such barriers by expanding the number of young people and others in the process, as President Obama did ahead of

the 2008 primaries. That year, Obama won the Iowa caucuses after a record attendance that nearly doubled the 2004 turnout.

Clinton placed third.

Sanders’ volunteers and staff are fanning out, not only at colleges, but at high schools. They said they hope to win support from 17-year-olds, who can participate in the contests if they will be 18 in time for the general election.

“In order for us to prevail, we’re going to have to change things,” Devine said. “We’re going to have to get new people to participate.”

A significantly larger turnout in Iowa would likely work in Sanders’ favor, said Dennis Goldford, a political science professor at Drake University in Des Moines. If he were to prevent her from capturing 50% of support from caucus-goers, “even if she wins, he’s embarrassed her,” he said. “It’s not as bad as a loss, but it’s next to a loss. It suggests a significant weakness.”

Still, Goldford said, actually winning Iowa will be important for Sanders because it would show “he can win someplace other than his backyard.”

Dante Scala, associate professor of political science at the University of New Hampshire, said Sanders needs to win both to have a credible shot at the nomination. And even then, he said, “I wouldn’t bet on it.”

He said it helps Sanders that New Hampshire colleges will be in session on primary day, Feb. 9, because it’s a lot easier for students to get to polls. But Clinton’s relatively older supporters are a more reliable electorate, he said.

“I don’t see any way to describe Sanders’ lead in New Hampshire as a safe lead,” Scala said.

After Iowa and New Hampshire, Sanders will begin to face more non-white voters, who have largely favored Clinton in polls.

He launched Spanish-language radio ads in Nevada along with ads on African-American radio stations in South Carolina, including one that emphasizes his fight to end “institutional racism” and reform the criminal justice system.

IN BRIEF QUAKE SHAKES PAKISTAN, AFGHANISTAN, INDIA

A strong earthquake rattled cities from Afghanistan to India late Friday, injuring dozens as they slept and forcing residents out of their homes.

More than 30 people were injured as houses or walls collapsed in the northwestern Pakistan city of Peshawar, emergency rescue service spokesman Bilal Ahmed Faizi told The Associated Press.

The magnitude-6.2 quake was centered near Feyzabad in Afghanistan and struck at 7:15 p.m. local time, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. Pakistani official Ghulam Rasool told the AP the quake was magnitude 6.9 and was centered in Tajikistan near the Afghan border, lasting for 59 seconds. The quake was also felt in the Kashmir region.

Tremors were felt in India’s Chandigarh, Srinagar, Jaipur, Delhi and the National Capital regions, according to New Delhi Television. The Delhi police said on Twitter there had not yet been any reports of damage or casualties, NDTV reported.

— Oren Dorell

ISRAELI-PALESTINIAN VIOLENCE CONTINUES

stand the toll of spaceflight on the human body, which is hoped will aid in future missions to Mars.

He blasted off to the space station Dec. 15 with an American and a Russian. He’s the first Briton to visit the station.

— Matthew Diebel TWO DROWN, 12 INJURED TRYING TO REACH SPAIN

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Two Palestinians died Friday, including a woman Israeli police say attempted to ram Israeli forces in the West Bank, and a man who was shot by troops in clashes in the Gaza Strip.

ASTRONAUT DIALS WRONG NUMBER FROM SPACE

British astronaut Tim Peake has apologized after dialing a wrong number from the International Space Station and saying “Hello, is this planet Earth?” to the woman who answered.

Peake took to Twitter late Thursday to insist that the incident was not a prank call, “just a wrong number!” and that he was trying to connect to his home.

According to Britain’s Daily Telegraph newspaper, Peake, 43, is conducting experiments on himself to help scientists under-

At least two people drowned and 12 were injured they tried to swim from Morocco to Ceuta, a small patch of Spanish territory, Spanish and Moroccan news agencies reported Friday.

The dead and hurt were among more than 200 people trying to reach Ceuta, which borders Morocco and is across the Strait of Gibraltar from mainland Spain, The Associated Press reported.

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uLocal authorities in Okinawa, Japan, have filed a lawsuit against the central government to try to stop the relocation of a U.S. air base on the southern Japanese island, The Associated Press reported.

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MORTGAGE RATES FALL DESPITE FED’S RATE HIKE The average 30-year fixed rate mortgage fell slightly to 3.96% from 3.97% in mortgage giant’s Freddie Mac’s most recent survey, despite the Federal Reserve’s recent decision to raise short-term interest rates from near zero for the first time in nearly a decade. The survey, covering last week, indicates new homebuyers will still see low mortgage rates for awhile.

NEWS MONEY SPORTS WORLD STEEL CHIEF CALLS CHINESE GLUT LIFE ‘SERIOUS AUTOS AND TRAVEL CRITICAL’

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Wolfgang Eder is CEO of Austrian steel company Voestalpine and chairman of the World Steel Association.

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DEADLINE LOOMS FOR SPRINT, VERIZON REBATES Customers with Sprint and Verizon Wireless have one more week to claim their chunk of a $158-million settlement with the Federal Communications Commission. The refunds are for subscription services like sports scores and horoscopes that were billed to smartphone customers who hadn’t ordered them. Refunds can be requested of both companies through Dec. 31.

JOBLESS AID CLAIMS FALL Applications for unemployment aid dropped 5,000 to a seasonally adjusted 267,000. Claims have been below the critical threshold of 300,000 for the past 42 weeks, a level that generally points to monthly job gains in excess of 200,000. The unemployment rate remained at a seven-year low of 5%.

he global steel industry is reeling amid a plunge in steel prices, a flood of lowpriced imports from China and other countries and a collapse in investment in pipes for oil drilling as a result of tumbling crude prices. USA TODAY economics reporter Paul Davidson spoke about these challenges with Wolfgang Eder, chairman of the World Steel Association and CEO of Austrian steel giant Voestalpine. The company has 46,000 employees worldwide and 2,500 workers and nearly two dozen factories in the USA.

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U.S. STEELMAKERS ARE AWAITING DECISIONS ON TRADE CASES AGAINST CHINA FOR ILLEGALLY DUMPING STEEL BELOW COST IN THIS COUNTRY. IS THIS A GLOBAL PROBLEM?

A: The current Chinese overcapacity problem affects all parts of the world. Chinese plants (are selling) not only to the U.S. but also to Europe. It’s an intensive discussion of what should be the reaction and an ongoing discussion to what extent Europe should follow the U.S. (in filing trade cases). The problem at the moment is enormous. I do hope we will find some balance again in the next months, but at the moment, the situation is a very serious and critical one.

Q A: In the long run, a solution to WHAT’S THE LONG-TERM SOLUTION?

the problem can only come from the reduction of capacities. According to OECD (countries in the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development ), there are 600 to 700 million tons

of overcapacity (worldwide), the largest part in China. That means permanent pressure on margins and prices.

Q

IS THE PLUNGE IN PRICES AFFECTING YOUR COMPANY?

A: We are not (selling) any material via the spot market. We do have only high-quality steel, and this steel is only sold based on contracts. We are, of course, the (supplier) for the German auto producers — BMW, Mercedes, Audi, Porsche. So we are one of the largest suppliers for these car producers. They are only buying really high-tech, high-quality material where we can differentiate.

Two-thirds (of production) is downstream — we make complete automotive components, exteriors of cars, we produce complete rail tracks.

Q

STILL, YOU DO MAKE SOME RAW STEEL, AND THE DROP IN PRICES HAS AFFECTED YOU, HASN’T IT?

A: We have started additional cost-cutting measures. We try to

avoid layoffs because we do not want to lose highly qualified people. So for the time being, we have (cut staff ) in only a very few locations — some in Germany, some in Brazil. And of course we try to extend our product range. We intend to sell more automotive parts.

Q

HAVE YOU BEEN AFFECTED

BY THE DOWNTURN IN OIL AND GAS DRILLING?

A: We have not yet been affected by the weakness in the oil and gas market, but we do expect looking forward, looking at the second half (of the fiscal year) will be really a more difficult period. Inventories are extremely high now, of oil and gas, but also inventories for all the production equipment are at very high levels. We cannot expect oil and gas levels will come down quickly over the winter as they have reached levels we have never seen before. So it’s unlikely we’ll see recovery of this segment before the summer of next year.

Q A: You have several industrial ARE OTHER SEGMENTS HURTING AS WELL?

segments that are also not in good shape. For example, in Europe it’s building construction where we have not seen any major recovery in the last year. You have the global situation in oil and gas. You have a very volatile situation in machine building. So this is a very shaky environment.

Automotive is doing well. We have no indication that automotive demand will show weakness.

Q A: That’s very hard to predict WHEN DO YOU EXPECT STEEL PRICES TO RECOVER?

where the prices are going. Nobody expected a few months ago that they could down that far. I do not want to give any indication

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where the prices of steel could go.

As long as overcapacity is constantly putting pressure on the market it’s unlikely we’ll see a broader price recovery.

Q

YOU’RE BUILDING AN $800 MILLION STEEL PLANT IN CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS. AND HALF OF THE PRODUCTION IS RAW STEEL THAT YOU’LL SHIP BACK TO YOUR FACTORIES IN AUSTRIA. WHY DID YOU BUILD THAT PLANT IN THE U.S. WHEN MANY MANUFACTURERS CONTINUE TO OFFSHORE U.S. PRODUCTION?

A: We checked 18 possible locations for that plant worldwide.

From the European point of view, the U.S. does have much more advantages. The U.S. has enough land available. The U.S. has extremely cheap energy. The cost of gas, for example, is only one third of the cost in Europe. Electric energy is cheaper as well. You have a very positive political environment, for industrial operations.

It’s a very clean procedure if you apply for building. In Europe, it gets much more complicated.

The regulatory environment is more complicated in Europe.

Compared to other parts of the world, cheap labor is still available. All of that means the U.S. offers a very solid base for industrial operations.

Q

WHAT’S THE MAIN DRAWBACK OF LOCATING IN THE U.S.?

A: The main disadvantage in my opinion is taxes in the U.S., especially corporate taxes. There are a number of regions in the world that a more attractive. And access to qualified labor, qualified people. Those are the two main disadvantages. Unemployment (in the U.S.) is low, and it has become difficult to find qualified people.

Bridgestone trumps Icahn on Pep Boys bid maximum of $18.10 per share.

That signaled his willingness to USA TODAY pay nearly $1 billion for Pep Boys, a bid the auto services chain said Bridgestone at least temporari- constituted a “superior proposal.” ly trumped activist investor Carl But Pep Boys on Thursday said Icahn on Thursday, sweetening its board of directors no longer its cash takeover bid from $15.50 deems Icahn’s proposal as superia share to $17 for auto or and said the new services giant Pep Boys Bridgestone deal would — Manny, Moe & Jack. provide approximately Announced just be$84 million in additional fore the 5 p.m. expiration cash to Pep Boys deadline that Pep Boys shareholders. set in the back-and-forth The board, which had merger duel, the companot dropped its recomnies said the new offer by mendation of BridgesBridgestone Retail Opertone’s earlier deal GETTY IMAGES ations, a U.S. based subpending Thursday’s sidiary of Japan tire Carl Icahn deadline, unanimously maker Bridgestone, valadvised investors to acues Philadelphia-based Pep Boys cept the agreement and tender at approximately $947 million. their shares.

The agreement came after Pep The amended agreement inBoys’ Wednesday announcement creases the the termination fee that Icahn would offer 10 cents payable by Pep Boys to Bridgesmore per share for the chain than tone from $35 million to any new Bridgestone bid, up to a $39.5 million for certain circumKevin McCoy

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The Pep Boys — Manny, Moe & Jack — tower above the auto service chain’s location in West Philadelphia, Pa. stances, including a termination to enter a superior proposal by a third party, the companies said.

Pep Boys shares closed 11 cents higher at $17.51 in Thursday’s abbreviated trading session.

“Nearly a century ago, the

founders of both our companies created what has become today’s automotive aftermarket retail model,” Stu Crum, President of Bridgestone Retail Operations, said in a statement issued with the agreement. “In addition to

our long and successful histories in this industry, Pep Boys and Bridgestone share a common vision for the future — to continue to build upon this 100-year foundation to form an even stronger company, one that is renowned for its commitment to being the most trusted provider of automotive service in every neighborhood it serves.”

Icahn Enterprises did not immediately respond to a telephone message seeking comment.

Bridgestone bid for Pep Boys as part of a plan to expand its U.S. retail operations. The company operates 2,200 U.S. tire and car service centers under the Firestone Complete Auto Care, Tires Plus, Hibdon Tires Plus and Wheel Works brands. Also, Bridgestone has more than 5,000 U.S. dealers and distributors.

Trying to land Pep Boys represents a strategic acquisition for Icahn, who controls Auto Plus, a rival vehicle service company.

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TECH 5 APPS THAT MADE US SAY ‘WOW’ IN 2015 Jefferson Graham l USA TODAY

So many new apps came out this year — but only five of them made me say “wow.” I was that impressed. All are free and available in the Apple and Google app stores.

Here they are: LOS ANGELES

GOOGLE PHOTOS made backup copies of all my smartphone and camera photos and videos for free. It created little mini movies in the background of my pix and stylized collages — without me being involved.

And now I have one place to find everything, without being nagged to upgrade to more storage. That’s a wow.

HBO NOW is the greatest TV app ever. I now have access to every TV show HBO has ever produced, within an app, and on-demand access to everything on the HBO schedule, without having to wait a few hours or days to watch it. I can view on the TV, tablet and phone. Wow.

With PERISCOPE, I can broadcast my thoughts to people all over the world from a smartphone directly to my Twitter followers, show them what I’m seeing and get love in return. That’s a wow.

YOUTUBE MUSIC went beyond Spotify, Apple Music and others to give more music than had ever been available in an app before, with access to live performances, late night gigs and the like, presented in a neverending mix based on the music YouTube knows I like.

Finally, FLIPAGRAM brought a way to make a music video out of your camera roll shots. It’s a whole lot of fun. If you haven’t checked it out, the holidays are a great time to download the app. It’s free and will be a great conversation starter around the family living room.

Which apps made you saw wow this year? Let’s talk about it on Twitter, where I’m @jeffersongraham.

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HOW TO SWITCH FROM IPHONE TO ANDROID Jessica Naziri l Special for USA TODAY

So you’ve decided that maybe the grass is greener on the other side, and you’re ready to ditch your iPhone for the promised land of Android.

But before your embark on your Apple detox, let’s take one last look around.

There are a few things you’ll have to leave behind. Many of the cases, docks and other accessories you bought for your iPhone are not going to be compatible with Android smartphones. And most importantly, when an iPhone user texts with a non-iPhone user, , those outgoing texts are in a harsh green … so say goodbye to your calm blue bubbles. Now let’s take a look at how to transfer contacts and deal with your music, photos, and videos.

TRANSFERRING CONTACTS

One of the most annoying aspects of changing phones is ensuring all your contacts are transferred over to your new device. In the olden days, this meant manually typing in countless names and phone numbers. But things changed for the better.

If you’ve been an iPhone user for a while, odds are your contacts are synced to iCloud. That makes it easy to log into iOS devices and have your address book readily available, but it also makes it easier to get it into Google’s ecosystem.

If you already turned on your Android phone and didn’t sync it with a Google account, head to the Settings menu and find the Accounts or Accounts & Sync option that shows you every account synced with your phone.

At the bottom of the page you will see a button labeled Add account, where you can now enter your Google login.

If you have enabled iCloud on

There are various ways of getting your precious files from your iPhone onto your Android.

your iPhone, backing up contacts is incredibly easy. Turn on Contacts in Settings > iCloud on your iPhone. Log into the iCloud website on your computer. Tap the gear icon at the bottom left and choose Select All > Export vCard. Now log into Gmail, tap Contacts, or head to Google Contacts in your browser and tap Import.

If you are in a pinch and need to transfer your contacts fast, it’s also possible to do this with the free My Contacts Backup app. Install it on your iPhone, launch it, tap backup and then email the backup file to an email account on your Android phone.

You’ll get a VCF file which you can import into your Android contacts app.

MOVING YOUR PHOTOS AND VIDEOS

There are various ways of getting your precious files from your iPhone onto your Android, but we’ll start with the most obvious and basic. You can plug

your iPhone into your Windows PC via USB and then choose Import pictures and videos for an automatic transfer.

Google has also launched a new photo and video manager app on both Android and iOS, so this one is easy. All you need to do is grab the Google Photos app from the App Store and log in with your Google account. Once you are logged in, turn on “Backup & sync” and continue.

Once your photos have fully synced (which might take a long time!) you can view them from your Google account on your Android device.

MOVING YOUR MUSIC

To sync your music onto your Android device, make sure you have already synced your iPhone with your iTunes library, then install Google Play Music Manager.

Welcome to Android.

Follow USA TODAY contributor Jessica Naziri on Twitter: @jessicanaziri.

Virtual reality offers spectacle on a budget Samsung, Google devices impress, and more options are on the way in 2016

Edward C. Baig @edbaig USA TODAY

NEW YORK Most people who try on virtual reality headgear can’t help but be blown away.

Using it, you can travel to the top of Mount Everest, sit courtside at an NBA game or tag along in the cockpit, flying with the Blue Angels.

Samsung and Google gave folks a taste of VR in 2015, the latter with the Google Cardboard foldout mount for smartphones, the former with the Gear VR headgear Samsung co-developed with Facebook-owned Oculus.

Cardboard generally starts around $15, but prices for this simple viewer vary, and sometimes it is distributed free as part of a promotion.

Dozens of companies, including Mattel, make custom versions of Cardboard, not all out of

Samsung’s Gear VR works with one of four Samsung phones.

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cardboard.

Google recently unveiled a version that accommodates larger cellphones.

At $99.99, Samsung priced Gear VR for the mainstream, though it does require one of four premium Samsung phones: Gal-

axy Note 5, Galaxy S6 edge+, Galaxy S6 and Galaxy S6 edge.

Such devices snap into a compartment on the back of Gear VR, ruling out iPhones or other rival devices.

On the plus side, there’s a growing collection of available content that works with Gear VR, including games, 360 videos and about a half-dozen feature-length films from 20th Century Fox and Lionsgate.

You can download or stream content via a store within the

Gear VR environment.

Issues remain.

Some users may have to fuss with fit and comfort. Some may get motion sickness.

And some may choose to wait for the richer, more elaborate and, yes, pricier virtual reality experiences coming in 2016: Sony’s PlayStation VR, Oculus Rift, and HTC Vive.

The reality for consumers is you’ll have a broader range of VR options next year from which to choose.

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HOW WAS YOUR DAY? GOOD DAY JOHN LEGEND, CHRISSY TEIGEN They’re having a girl, she said on Instagram. The supermodel, below left, posted with pride, with her new ‘Vogue Thailand’ cover.

“A couple minutes after this shot, John and I learned we were having our little baby girl!”

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GOOD DAY EDDIE REDMAYNE Eddie Redmayne and his wife, Hannah Bagshawe, both 33, are expecting their first child, according to reports. The couple, above right, were married last December, a month before he won a best-actor Oscar for playing Stephen Hawking in ‘The Theory of Everything.’ Now Redmayne is hot on the Oscar trail for ‘The Danish Girl’ and is the new face of the ‘Harry Potter’ franchise, in the role of Newt Scamander in ‘Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them,’ now filming in London. After that? “That’s a question you’ll have to ask my wife,” he told USA TODAY. “I’m like, ‘I’m going to take months off!’ She’s like, ‘You always say that.’ And then you get sort of itchy feet.”

MAKING WAVES The Obamas and the Bidens released their Christmas Spotify lists Wednesday, and their favorites are pretty different.

According to the SHAWN THEW, EPA streaming service, ‘O Tannenbaum’ by Vince Guaraldi from ‘A Charlie Brown Christmas’ tops the Obamas’ list.

For the Bidens, Bruce Springsteen’s ‘Santa Claus is Comin’ to Town’ was tops.

Jennifer Jason Leigh plays the hateful Daisy Domergue, a fugitive shackled to a bounty hunter, in The Hateful Eight.

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Jennifer Jason Leigh enjoyed the full Quentin Tarantino experience doing The Hateful Eight, in which her character cackles through getting splashed with vomited blood, piles on cuts and bruises and loses teeth after blows to the face.

One day on set, Tarantino had yet another weird idea for Leigh’s deadly damsel Daisy Domergue in his Western epic (in select theaters around the country Christmas Day, expands nationwide Dec. 31). “I said, ‘Is that OK?’ ” the director recalls. “She goes, ‘Oh, you mean now I’m going to actually have a choice about this (stuff )?

Oh, no, noooo, now you’ve gone too far.’ ” They both laugh about the moment now, but Leigh was committed to doing anything and everything to bring Daisy to glorious, kooky life. “She’s such a great part,” the actress says. “It appealed to everything I love about acting.”

Leigh, 53, has played drug addicts and prostitutes but ac-

ROYALS REPORT ROYAL HOLIDAY STROLL The British royals are all about tradition. So the family’s annual Christmas stroll to church at Sandringham took place as usual. The queen, 89, was driven, but others, including Prince William and Duchess Kate (in a smart green coat) took the short walk.

No royal babies though: Prince George and Princess Charlotte stayed home.

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knowledges there has been nobody as insane or as phenomenal as Daisy, a fugitive shackled to a bounty hunter (Kurt Russell).

The two end up stranded with six other dangerous people during a blizzard, and by the end of it, she’s brutalized but also does some brutalizing herself.

Awards season voters have taken note. Leigh — who’s also a starring voice in the animated Anomalisa (in theaters Dec. 30) — has won a National Board of Review Award for supporting actress, garnered nominations for Critics’ Choice and Golden Globes and is considered a favorite for an Oscar nod.

Tarantino wrote most of the characters specifically for the actors, but with Daisy — whom he saw as “a Manson girl out West, like Susan Atkins or something” — he wanted the character to reveal herself to him. In Leigh, he found an actress who could “make the right decisions for her.”

Shortly before production started, Tarantino asked her to listen to the old folk ballad Jim Jones at Botany Bay. He wanted a scene where Daisy sang it — since it reflected the criminal’s desperation and desire for revenge — and wanted Leigh to learn to play guitar, too.

It was a hobby she’d always

wanted to take up, but it was a tricky tune that required picking with both hands. It also clicked her into Daisy’s personality.

“She doesn’t want to show she’s terrified or vulnerable or afraid — these are all things I didn’t want to show Quentin about the guitar situation he had put me into,” the actress says.

“I wanted to survive it, I wanted to play that piece for him.”

“She’s such a great part. It appealed to everything I love about acting.”

Jennifer Jason Leigh on her character Daisy Domergue in The Hateful Eight

Co-star Samuel L. Jackson saw Leigh’s commitment “to craft that character from who she is when you first see her in that wagon with Kurt into that feral wild thing,” the actor says. “She’s as hateful as everybody else in the movie.”

An abundance of crazy stuff happens to Daisy, but Leigh had the foresight to take a picture of her face on the first day of filming, brandishing a black eye, and send it to her mom. “I was like, ‘I’m only going downhill from here.’ ” Adds Tarantino: “She definitely wins the good-sport award.”

On Broadway, a ‘Fiddler’ that triumphantly sings FIDDLER ON THE ROOF Starring Danny Burstein Broadway Theatre

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YORK When Tevye the dairyman speaks to God in Bartlett Sher’s sublime new revival of Fiddler On the Roof, you grasp every inch of the character’s distance from heaven.

Through previous productions of Fiddler, and the 1971 film adaptation, Tevye has become an outsize figure, despite his humble circumstances as a poor Jewish man living in early-20th-century Russia.

We picture him as a solid, bearded fellow, gesticulating broadly as he tells us of tradition, fatherhood and faith,and the various challenges they’ve brought him.

Danny Burstein, the marvelous actor who stars in this production, has the beard and the bulk, but his Tevye is distinctly nuanced. As he fields his limited options, and the sharp comments of his loving wife, Golde (played here by a robustly moving Jessica Hecht), Tevye’s humanity is made fully accessible. When his trials

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demand expression on a larger scale, Burstein delivers mightily.

The performance anchors a production that, like Sher’s previous stagings of American classics — from Rodgers and Hammerstein’s South Pacific and The King and I to Clifford Odets’ Golden Boy and August Wilson’s Joe Turner’s Come and Gone — reveals both the timelessness and the contemporary pertinence of the work.

His Fiddler arguably is even more revelatory, as the material has always lent itself to certain clichés closer to Broadway audiences. The religion, culture and history of Tevye’s community is fundamental to their story; the trick is to capture that without veering into caricature.

Sher does this with the support of a seamless cast and an intuitive, inventive design team that includes several previous collaborators. Michael Yeargan’s lean, spacious sets and Donald Holder’s alternately stark and warm lighting evoke the poverty and close bonds in the village of Anatevka as compellingly as they did the majesty of Siam in King.

Catherine Zuber’s costumes, sturdy and rich in earth tones,

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Tevye (Danny Burstein) is a man of humility and tradition. suit a group of people for whom vitality is a form of defiance.

The director has an invaluable new colleague in Israeli choreographer Hofesh Shechter, whose kinetic, exhilarating dance routines (based on Jerome Robbins’ original work) reinforce this

resolve. We see the capacity for joy that carries Tevye’s family and fellow villagers through wrenching heartache, though this production hardly plays down the latter.

As in the past, Sher explores the difficulty of change, a major theme in Fiddler; cultural and generational conflicts and the perpetuating nature of intolerance are confronted unsparingly.

The buoyant Matchmaker is restaged to more fully acknowledge the powerlessness young women such as Tevye’s daughters faced in arranged marriages.

When the three eldest make their own choices — near-impossible ones for the second, Hodel (a sterling-voiced Samantha Massell) and the third, Chava (a gently gleaming Melanie Moore) — we feel the weight of their consequences.

And a framing device is used, briefly but memorably, to reinforce the topicality of the kind of struggles faced in Anatevka.

What this Fiddler shows us most powerfully, though, is the resilience of love. For all its specific insights, it delivers that simple and universal message, thrillingly.

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Proposed rule would benefit potential pro players

By Gary Bedore gbedore@ljworld.com

The NCAA Div. I Council is expected to pass a rule in January that will help college basketball players make more informed decisions on whether they should turn pro or return to school.

It’s a rule that also figures to add to the stress level of fans who could be waiting an extra month for the all-important verdicts on the futures of their favorite players.

The proposed rule will allow players to declare for the NBA Draft — while retaining the opportunity to remove their name 10 days after the conclusion of the NBA Combine — which is set for May 10-15, 2016 in Chicago.

The NCAA will allow college players to work out at the Combine — as well as work out individually for one NBA team — and still retain collegiate eligibility as long as they do not sign with agent representation.

Currently, players who wish to return to school must remove their names out of the draft pool by April 10, just before the start of the month-long spring signing period.

Here’s an example of how this all might work.

Let’s say KU junior Wayne Selden Jr. and soph Svi Mykhailiuk are undecided whether to turn pro or return to KU for another season.

If invited to the Combine — not all college standouts will be invited — Selden and Svi, for example, would compete in drills and scrimmages, then receive specific feedback from NBA front office officials.

In fact, an NBA panel of experts would tell those Jayhawks where they likely would be picked if they entered the draft. Those who receive negative feedback might reasonably expect to choose another year of college as the most desirable option.

Players invited to the combine would also be allowed to work out under supervision of their college coaches 20 hours a week leading up to the Combine, thus eliminating the need to leave campus at season’s end to work out with personal trainers.

KU coach Bill Self is in favor of the new proposal despite the fact it could leave his roster in flux during the all-important spring signing period.

Coaches, in effect, may not know for sure how many players they’ll need to sign until late May, just a few days before the start of summer school.

“I think it’s a big step in the right direction,” Self said, “if kids can be educated to the fact there’s really no advantage to dropping out of school to go train until the NBA lets you know if you are even worthy of being an invitee to the Combine.

“If you are not an invitee to the Combine, you are not a draft pick. If they are going to take 60 guys plus foreign guys and you are not one of the guys they think is even worth watching, then that’s a positive statement you should stay in school,” Self added.

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KANSAS UNIVERSITY DEFENSIVE END DORANCE ARMSTRONG (46) REACHES TO FORCE Texas Tech quarterback Patrick Mahomes (5) out of bounds on Oct. 17 at Memorial Stadium.

Several Jayhawks deserve watching A few weeks ago, I wrote about the seven red-shirts from the 2015 season who stood to make the biggest impact on the Kansas University football program in 2016.

Today, we’re taking that theme and tweaking it just a little bit to give you a look at the six players I’m most excited to see in 2016.

Note: This list is subject to change in the event of any mind-blowing developments on the recruiting trail.

In other words, if four-star, Lawrence High standout

important players, though a case could be made that a couple of them are both.

Instead, the list is made up of six guys who I think will be the most fun to watch on a team that will look to bounce back from a rough and winless 2015 season.

1. Dorance Armstrong, mtait@ljworld.com DE — The true freshman Amani Bledsoe picks Kansas, entered the picture at a he’ll be at or near the top of stacked position and yet still this list in a second. made a pretty solid case for The following Jayhawks himself as the team’s best are not necessarily the six pass rusher. Most of what best players on the roster Armstrong accomplished nor are they the six most in 2015 was on raw ability

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alone and it’s exciting to think about what another year with the strength and conditioning staff and all of that valuable experience will do for him during his sophomore season. Departing senior Ben Goodman said Armstrong was the kind of player he could see becoming an all-Big 12 guy multiple times in his career.

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International event helps Portela

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FREE STATE’S JORDAN PORTELA PUMPS HIS FIST after winning the 200-yard Please see HOOPS, page 3C freestyle at the state championships on Feb. 21 in Topeka.

Free State High junior swimmer Jordan Portela has proven himself as one of the best swimmers in the state over the past two years.

Twice, he’s been named the Swimmer of the Meet at state. Portela has won five Class 6A state championships, sweeping the 200yard freestyle and 100 butterfly in his freshman and sophomore seasons.

But the international level is a new challenge for Portela. In August, Portela traveled to Singapore for the FINA Junior World Championships, representing Puerto Rico.

At the Junior Worlds, Portela took 35th in the 100-meter butterfly (56.20 seconds), 41st in the 50 butterfly (25.60), 43rd in the 100 freestyle (52.77) and 49th in

the 50 freestyle (24.44). He set two national age-group records for 15-16-year-old Puerto Ricans.

“It was spectacular,” Portela said. “It was a pretty cool experience. Being able to race at that international level is like a whole new league out there. I swim here and I know I need to train hard, but when I go over there, people just kick my butt and lots of things.

But it’s good for me. It means I need to have a lot of things to work on in practice. I’m excited about that.”

A first-team all-state selection in the past two seasons, Portela swam at an international meet in Barbados in June before traveling to Singapore, giving him his first international experience outside of a meet in the U.S. or Puerto Rico.

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Warriors 89, Cavaliers 83 Oakland, Calif. — Draymond Green had 22 points and 15 rebounds and Golden State got defensive in its NBA Finals rematch against Cleveland, beating the Cavaliers on Friday.

Stephen Curry added 19 points and Klay Thompson had 18 for the Warriors, who improved to 28-1 by winning their 32nd straight regular-season home game. Instead of doing it with three-pointers, defending champion Golden State maintained its edge over Cleveland by limiting the Cavaliers to 32 percent shooting.

LeBron James scored 25 points to lead the Cavaliers.

They had their six-game winning streak snapped.

The Cavaliers were shorthanded when they lost the final to the Warriors in six games, missing power forward Kevin Love the entire series with a shoulder injury and losing point guard Kyrie Irving to a knee injury late in the first game.

Having both those players healthy for the rematch did little to help Cleveland. Love scored just 10 points on 5-for-16 shooting, and Irving missed 11 of 15 shots in a 13-point game.

With those two struggling, the Warriors built a 10-point lead midway through the fourth quarter following a jumper by Thompson and a layup from Green.

But James responded with a pair of dunks and a blocked shot on Thompson before Love’s tip-in made it 81-77 with just over two minutes to play.

James missed two free throws after Cleveland got another stop and Curry responded with a pair of layups around J.R. Smith’s three-pointer to make it 85-80 with 57.6 seconds to play.

James shot an air ball from three with 12.7 seconds to play to end Cleveland’s comeback attempt.

There was an increased intensity at the start of the seventh Christmas Day rematch of the previous season’s finals with fans on edge far more than for most regular season games.

The officials let both teams play through contact early and the Warriors built a 28-19 lead after one behind 10 points and six rebounds from Green.

But the Cavaliers picked up the defense in the second quarter against Golden State’s reserves. The Warriors led 45-42 at the half.

CLEVELAND (83) James 10-26 4-9 25, Love 5-16 0-0 10, Mozgov 0-5 0-0 0, Irving 4-15 5-5 13, Smith 4-9 2-3 14, Dellavedova 4-11 2-3 10, T.Thompson 3-6 2-2 8, Shumpert 0-6 0-0 0, Jones 0-0 0-0 0, Williams 0-1 3-3 3. Totals 30-95 18-25 83.

GOLDEN STATE (89) Rush 0-5 0-0 0, Green 8-17 4-7 22, Bogut 2-2 0-0 4, Curry 6-15 6-6 19, K.Thompson 6-16 5-6 18, Iguodala 1-6 4-6 7, Livingston 8-9 0-0 16, Ezeli 1-4 1-2 3, Barbosa 0-2 0-0 0, Speights 0-1 0-0 0, Clark 0-1 0-0 0, McAdoo 0-0 0-0 0. Totals 32-78 20-27 89.

Cleveland 19 23 17 24—83 Golden State 28 17 19 25—89 Three-Point Goals-Cleveland 5-30 (Smith 4-8, James 1-5, Dellavedova 0-3, Shumpert 0-3, Love 0-5, Irving 0-6), Golden State 5-18 (Green 2-3, Curry 1-4, K.Thompson 1-4, Iguodala 1-5, Rush 0-2). Rebounds-Cleveland 64 (Love 18), Golden State 61 (Green 15). Assists-Cleveland 12 (Love 4), Golden State 21 (Curry, Green 7).

Total Fouls-Cleveland 22, Golden State 19.

Technicals-Golden State defensive three second. A-19,596 (19,596).

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Nick Collison, Oklahoma City Min: 11. Pts: 2. Reb: 2. Ast: 0.

Kirk Hinrich, Chicago Min: 17. Pts: 2. Reb: 0. Ast: 2.

Sasha Kaun, Cleveland Did not play (coach’s decision) Paul Pierce, L.A. Clippers Late game

OKLAHOMA CITY FORWARD NICK COLLISON (4) GOES TO THE BASKET against the Chicago Bulls during the first quarter of the Bulls’ 105-96 win Friday in Oklahoma City.

Heat 94, Pelicans 88 Miami — Chris Bosh scored 30 points and grabbed 10 rebounds, Dwyane Wade added 19 points to move into No. 3 on the NBA’s all-time Christmas Day list and Miami survived some shaky moments to beat New Orleans in overtime.

Hassan Whiteside grabbed 17 rebounds for the Heat, who improved to an NBA-best 10-2 all-time on the holiday.

Wade’s tough jumper with 1:45 left in overtime gave him 273 points on Christmas, one more than Shaquille O’Neal for No. 3 on that list, and Bosh followed that about a minute later with a three-point play that sealed the win.

Anthony Davis was stellar in his Christmas debut, leading the Pelicans with 29 points and 15 rebounds. But he missed a contested jumper on New Orleans’ final possession of regulation, and the Heat took control in the extra session.

Ryan Anderson scored 18 and Eric Gordon finished with 16 for New Orleans.

The Heat had 18 turnovers in the game — and New Orleans scored on only one of them.

Miami outrebounded the Pelicans 57-45.

Davis had more points than his teammates combined in the first half, the reason why New Orleans still had a shot.

New Orleans’ largest firsthalf deficit was 13 points, which was trimmed to 42-38 going into intermission after Davis’ follow-slam closed the scoring.

He had 20 points, 10 rebounds, three assists and three blocks at the break.

NEW ORLEANS (88) Gee 0-2 0-0 0, Davis 13-29 2-3 29, Asik 1-1 0-0 2, Evans 2-9 2-2 6, Gordon 5-15 5-5 16, Anderson 7-14 1-1 18, Holiday 4-9 0-0 9, Cole 4-10 0-0 8, Cunningham 0-1 0-0 0. Totals 36-90 10-11 88.

MIAMI (94) Deng 3-8 0-0 9, Bosh 11-25 6-7 30, Whiteside 3-7 2-4 8, Dragic 3-8 1-2 7, Wade 7-20 5-9 19, Winslow 3-6 2-3 9, Green 3-10 0-0 6, Udrih 1-2 2-2 4, Haslem 1-2 0-0 2. Totals 35-88 18-27 94.

New Orleans 15 23 14 26 10—88 Miami 27 15 21 15 16—94 Three-Point Goals-New Orleans 6-20 (Anderson 3-6, Davis 1-2, Gordon 1-3, Holiday 1-3, Evans 0-1, Cunningham 0-1, Cole 0-2, Gee 0-2), Miami 6-26 (Deng 3-5, Bosh 2-8, Winslow 1-3, Dragic 0-2, Wade 0-2, Green 0-6).

Rebounds-New Orleans 51 (Davis 15), Miami 66 (Whiteside 17). Assists-New Orleans 19 (Evans 7), Miami 19 (Dragic 6). Total FoulsNew Orleans 20, Miami 15. Technicals-New Orleans defensive three second, Miami defensive three second 4. A-19,845 (19,600).

Bulls 105, Thunder 96 Oklahoma City — Jimmy Butler scored 23 points, and Pau Gasol had 21 points and 13 rebounds in Chicago’s victory.

Derrick Rose added 19 points, and Taj Gibson had 13 points and 10 rebounds to help the Bulls snap a three-game losing streak.

Kevin Durant had 29 points, nine rebounds and seven assists for Oklahoma City, and Russell Westbrook added 26 points, eight assists and seven rebounds.

The Bulls led by 18 at the end of the third quarter. Oklahoma City changed things up and played Anthony Morrow and Enes Kanter with Durant, Westbrook and Serge Ibaka for most of the fourth quarter. The unit played well, but the Thunder got no closer than six.

Oklahoma City shot 38.5 percent from the field, its thirdworst showing of the season.

Chicago led 51-37 with 4:58 left in the first half, but the Thunder cut it to 54-52 at halftime. Durant scored 19 points in the half, and Westbrook had 12 points and five assists. All five assists were in the second quarter.

The Bulls’ Gasol and Butler each had 11 points in the first half.

Chicago scored the first eight points of the second half to go up 62-52 and force the Thunder to call a timeout. The Bulls led 86-68 at the end of the third quarter.

A pair of 3-pointers by Morrow cut Chicago’s lead to 97-89 with just under 5 minutes to play, but the Bulls hung on.

CHICAGO (105) Gibson 6-8 1-1 13, Mirotic 1-5 3-3 6, Gasol 8-16 5-6 21, Rose 7-18 5-6 19, Butler 9-20 4-4 23, Snell 1-4 0-0 3, Hinrich 1-2 0-0 2, Brooks 2-4 0-0 6, Portis 3-8 0-0 7, McDermott 2-7 0-0 5. Totals 40-92 18-20 105.

OKLAHOMA CITY (96) Durant 11-21 6-6 29, Ibaka 3-12 0-0 6, Adams 1-4 1-2 3, Westbrook 9-23 7-13 26, Roberson 1-6 0-0 2, Kanter 6-12 2-2 14, Waiters 1-6 0-0 2, Collison 1-2 0-0 2, Augustin 1-4 0-0 3, Morrow 3-6 0-0 9. Totals 37-96 16-23 96.

Chicago 32 22 32 19—105 Oklahoma City 26 26 16 28 — 96 Three-Point Goals-Chicago 7-18 (Brooks 2-2, Snell 1-1, Portis 1-1, Butler 1-3, McDermott 1-4, Mirotic 1-5, Gasol 0-1, Rose 0-1), Oklahoma City 6-24 (Morrow 3-6, Augustin 1-2, Durant 1-6, Westbrook 1-7, Roberson 0-1, Ibaka 0-2). Fouled Out-Rose. Rebounds-Chicago 63 (Gasol 13), Oklahoma City 57 (Kanter 13).

Assists-Chicago 22 (Gasol 6), Oklahoma City 20 (Westbrook 8). Total Fouls-Chicago 19, Oklahoma City 15. Technicals-Gibson, Ibaka.

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Brandon Rush, Golden State Min: 18. Pts: 0. Reb: 3. Ast: 0.

Rockets 88, Spurs 84 Houston — James Harden had 20 points and Houston slowed down soaring San Antonio.

The improved Houston defense held the Spurs to a season low in points to snap their season-best seven-game winning streak.

Houston used an 8-2 run to take a 78-71 lead with about five minutes left. Tim Duncan made a hook shot after that, but Harden hit a three-pointer. A layup by Duncan came next before Harden brought the crowd to its feet with an off-balance three-pointer from the corner that made it 84-75.

The Spurs resorted to the Hack-A-Howard tactic soon after that, intentionally fouling Dwight Howard on two straight possessions. He missed all four free throws, and a basket by LaMarcus Aldridge got the Spurs to 86-81.

Kawhi Leonard made a threepointer after two free throws

by Houston to allow San Antonio to cut the lead to four, but he missed a shot a few seconds later and Houston held on for the victory.

Leonard had 20 points to lead San Antonio. The Spurs struggled on long-range shooting, making just 5 of 19 threepointers.

It was the first time the Rockets have hosted a game on Christmas since they moved to Houston. The last time the franchise hosted a Christmas game was in 1967 when the team was in San Diego.

The Rockets led by one after three and scored the first nine points of the fourth quarter, powered by five points from Jason Terry, to make it 70-60 with about 10 minutes remaining.

SAN ANTONIO (84) Leonard 8-19 2-2 20, Aldridge 9-17 0-0 18, Duncan 5-10 3-4 13, Parker 1-7 0-0 2, Green 2-6 0-0 5, Ginobili 3-7 2-2 9, Mills 1-5 0-0 3, Diaw 5-11 0-0 10, Simmons 1-2 0-0 2, West 1-4 0-0 2. Totals 36-88 7-8 84.

HOUSTON (88) Ariza 2-4 2-2 7, Capela 2-6 2-4 6, Howard 4-6 3-8 11, Beverley 1-8 0-0 3, Harden 7-21 4-5 20, Jones 6-11 2-2 14, Lawson 3-5 0-0 7, Brewer 2-6 0-0 4, Terry 3-3 4-5 12, Motiejunas 2-4 0-0 4.

Totals 32-74 17-26 88.

San Antonio 22 21 17 24—84 Houston 25 13 23 27—88 Three-Point Goals-San Antonio 5-19 (Leonard 2-5, Green 1-2, Ginobili 1-3, Mills 1-5, Simmons 0-1, West 0-1, Diaw 0-2), Houston 7-15 (Terry 2-2, Harden 2-6, Ariza 1-1, Lawson 1-1, Beverley 1-4, Jones 0-1). Rebounds-San Antonio 53 (Duncan 11), Houston 51 (Howard 12).

Assists-San Antonio 24 (Leonard 4), Houston 23 (Harden 9). Total Fouls-San Antonio 20, Houston 17. Technicals-San Antonio defensive three second. A-18,319 (18,023).

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By Dave Skretta AP Sports Writer

Kansas City, Mo. — There have been checkpoints every step of Eric Berry’s comeback from cancer, mile markers that have told him that he not only conquered lymphoma but just might be better than ever.

There were small ones early — the ability to do a single push-up during the energy-sapping rigors of chemotherapy. But there were much bigger ones later: running out of the tunnel and onto that brilliant green turf of Arrowhead Stadium for the Kansas City Chiefs’ season opener.

Berry reached another big one this week when he was voted to his fourth Pro Bowl.

“It’s one of those checkpoints,” he acknowledged, “but right now, I feel like I have more stuff to focus on. It’s good and everything, but right now I’m just focused on something different.”

Like not being able to make that trip to Hawaii.

Berry’s elite play at the back end of Kansas City’s relentless defense is a big reason the Chiefs (9-5) have won eight straight games and gotten back into playoff contention.

And with wins Sunday over Cleveland and next week against Oakland, the Chiefs could still capture the AFC West, giving them a home playoff game as they begin their quest for the Super Bowl.

That would be the big-

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and I think you’re looking at a big-time player waiting to happen.

2. Jeremiah Booker, WR — Let’s consider the impact Booker made as a true freshman after missing all of preseason camp and most of the first half of the 2015 season: 23 catches, 228 yards, 10 yards per catch. None of those numbers are going to blow you away, but when you consider that they came without much prep time, it could change your mind.

Booker is a big target (6foot-2, 195) — and figures to only get bigger — with strong hands who’s hard to bring down after the catch. He also appears to already have developed a nice rapport with freshman QB Ryan Willis. But whether it’s Willis or someone else throwing the passes next season, this is a guy who looks a lot like the receivers all those other Big 12 offenses have.

3. LaQuivionte Gonzales, WR — The Texas A&M transfer instantaneously will become the fastest guy on the roster and also one of KU’s most experienced playmakers. Fast, shifty and confident as heck, “Quiv”

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will come when the Combine invitations are issued. If a player, such as Selden or Mykhailiuk, in the example above, is not on the list of invitees ... returning to school (or playing ball in Europe) might be the most logical way to go.

“I think it’ll affect a lot of guys in a good way.

They can find out where they are and not make bad decisions to jump,” Self said. “The question is: Will kids stay in school through this entire process? If you stay

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KANSAS CITY CHIEFS SAFETY ERIC BERRY, LEFT, pushes Baltimore wide receiver Kamar Aiken out of bounds on Sunday in Baltimore. gizes one of the league’s best defenses.

“He was so driven that you kind of had a feeling he was going to get there, crazy as that sounds,” Chiefs coach Andy Reid said this week. “When you look back on it, and now that it’s real, what a great story. True toughness and grit to be able to do that.”

Berry had only two tackles in the opener, but he kept playing more snaps each week, and before long was back to his old self. That meant crashing the line on safety blitzes, and dropping

into coverage, where he’s picked off a pair of passes. It meant making the kind of plays that Kansas City has come to expect from a player who has long been considered one of the best at his position.

“I kind of joked about it, but was serious,” Reid said, “the more his hair grew back the stronger his body became as he went, and here he is today as a Pro Bowl player.”

All of those accolades are great, Berry said. He appreciates the fact that he’s been able to play at such a high level again.

But he’s perhaps proudest that he has inspired others.

Guys like James Connor, the University of Pittsburgh running back who learned he had been diagnosed with lymphoma on Thanksgiving. Berry has spoken to Connor a few times, offering him encouragement.

“I got a chance to embrace unconditional love and total passion from everybody, regardless of, I guess you could say, stereotypes or anything like that,” Berry said of his own journey back.

“That’s a beautiful thing, just to see when people put aside the differences and things like that and just really focus on wishing you well and caring for one another. I think that’s a beautiful thing.

“That was probably one of the most magnificent things I probably experienced. That was cool.”

gest milestone in Berry’s storybook comeback.

Not that he’s ever considered any other outcomes.

Berry said he “brainwashed myself from the get-go” that he was going to return from cancer, even in the days and weeks immediately after his diagnosis. His hair fell out during treatments, and some days it was a chore just to get out of bed. But visits from teammates such as Justin Houston kept his spirits up, and the opportunity to help the Chiefs win a Super Bowl kept him going.

He was deemed cancerfree in June, about seven months after the cancer was discovered. He was back in training camp by the time rookies arrived in July. And he made his return to the field in Arizona for a preseason game, ensuring he would be back for the start of the regular season.

But being back is one thing. Being back at a Pro Bowl level is something else entirely.

“The thing I focus on is just getting better every week,” Berry said. “Probably after the season, I’ll look at the total body of

should make an instant impact both on the Kansas offense and in the return game. I’ll be honest, though, I’m just excited to see the guy fly. Based on what I’ve seen from him in practice, he has the same kind of catchme-if-you-can speed that Tony Pierson possessed, and watching Pierson break into the open field easily was one of the best aspects of an otherwise rough four seasons of Kansas football.

4. Kyle Mayberry, CB — They call him “Money” and he’ll have an opportunity to cash in right away. One of Oklahoma’s top cornerbacks in the prep class of 2016, the 5-11, 163-pound Mayberry has stayed strong in his commitment to Kansas despite hearing from a handful of big-time programs since committing to KU in July — including K-State, Virginia Tech, Houston and others — and should compete to start right away as a true freshman.

KU had its issues at the cornerback position last season, so an upgrade here would go a long way toward improving the team. Mayberry, with his elite speed, good cover skills and supreme confidence, could be just the man for the job.

5. Joe Dineen LB — The Free State High grad

was one of the few bright spots during the 2015 season and I think it’s important to remember one thing: Dineen enjoyed a monster season while playing linebacker for the first time in his life. The junior-to-be showed improvement and increased comfort in his role with each game, and, when given an entire offseason to add bulk and learn the finer points of the position, it’s easy to project that the best is still ahead for the local boy. Dineen is no Ben Heeney just yet, but he could be on track to begin producing at that level.

6. Taylor Martin, RB — My pick to lead the Jayhawks in rushing a year ago, Martin never got the opportunity he needed to do that. But that doesn’t mean he can’t play. With veterans De’Andre Mann and Taylor Cox ahead of him and juco transfer Ke’aun Kinner proving more ready for Div. I football, Martin sat back and watched and learned.

With Cox and Mann out of eligibility and Kinner not quite big enough to handle every-down abuse, the Forth Worth, Texas, native with a good blend of size (5-10, 195), speed and quickness instantly could become Nick Krug/Journal-World File Photo a very important part of the Kansas offense in KANSAS UNIVERSITY RECEIVER JEREMIAH BOOKER (88) pulls in a catch as he is defended by Baylor’s Xavien Howard on Oct. 10 at Memorial Stadium.

2016.

in school, there’s nothing that could keep you from coming back. If you do go ahead and leave (to work out with trainer) you have potential amateurism issues with agents and expenses.”

The proposal (if passed) will also allow players to enter the NBA Draft multiple times without jeopardizing eligibility as long as they don’t sign with agents. Athletes would be able to participate in the Combine and take part in one individual workout/tryout with an NBA team per year.

“This is a positive development for studentathletes exploring their professional dreams,” Dan Gavitt, NCAA vice

president of men’s basketball, told Andy Katz of ESPN. “This would give prospects and their families more appropriate time and unbiased info from the NBA to make important decisions. And it would probably lead some to go back to school.”

“We want our studentathletes to maintain their relationships with their coaches,” said Dan Guerrero, the chair of the Div. I Men’s Oversight Committee and athletic director at UCLA. “While this doesn’t impact a significant number of student-athletes, what it does hopefully is help those students who believe they have the opportunity to play professional basketball.”

work. Right now I just want to keep getting better, keep getting better every day I step on the field or in the meeting room, and just try to keep striving for greatness.”

That day-at-a-time approach served him well during treatment. It has also served him well on the field, where the former first-round pick has become the consummate team leader.

Berry is often the last player out of the tunnel for warmups. He’s the one who breaks down the Chiefs’ pregame huddle.

It is his voice that ener-

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Portela’s father, Tony, swam for Puerto Rico in the 1984 Olympic Games in Los Angeles. His sister, Chloe, and brother, Anthony, have also swam for Puerto Rico. His mother, Dorie, swam in the U.S. Olympic Trials in 1984.

“Junior Worlds, that was a whole new level,” Portela said. “There were fast people all around.

USA came to the meet and brought all of their relays and they were really fast.”

Portela will rejoin Free State’s boys swimming

and diving team after winter break because he swims with his club team throughout December.

With his Lawrence club team, he swam in 21⁄2hour practices last week, recording more than 7,200 yards in the pool.

During winter break, he’s training with a team in Palo Alto, California, while he visits family in the area.

“I’m excited to come back from winter break and swim with my high school team,” Portela said. “There’s a lot of new swimmers this year — freshmen, and a lot of new fast upperclassmen that I’m really excited to race with this season.”

During the upcom-

ing year, Portela plans on continuing his dominance at the state meet.

He’s won more state titles than any swimmer in the state over the past two years.

After the season ends, he will focus once again on his performance on the international level going from short-course to long-course pools.

“The ultimate goal is to get an Olympic Trial cut,” he said.

Portela is proud to represent Puerto Rico, especially as it helps him gain experience at the international stage.

“It’s a nice perk,” Portela said. “USA is crazy fast. But maybe someday I can work up to it.”

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OKLAHOMA GUARD BUDDY HIELD (24) ATTEMPTS TO DRIVE the baseline in the first half of the Sooners’ 83-71 win over Harvard at the Diamond Head Classic, Friday in Honolulu.

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Oklahoma pulls away from Harvard, 83-71 The Associated Press

No. 3 Oklahoma 83, Harvard 71 Honolulu — Buddy Hield scored 34 points and Jordan Woodward had 28 — both career highs — to help Oklahoma beat Harvard on Friday night in the Diamond Head Classic title game.

Hield was 11 of 14 from the field and 9 of 10 from the free-throw line, and Woodward was 9 of 13 from the field and 6 of 7 from the line.

The Sooners (11-0) shot 50 percent from the field (27 of 54) and made nine 3-pointers.

Woodward was 4 of 7 from beyond the arc, and Hield 3 of 5.

Ryan Spangler had 15 rebounds and eight points.

Zena Edosomwan scored a career-high 25 points on 10-of-20 shooting and had 16 rebounds for Harvard (5-7). The Crimson had won three straight.

Down 37-35 at halftime, Oklahoma opened the second half with a 17-0 run.

HARVARD (5-7) McCarthy 3-8 0-0 9, Edosomwan 10-20 5-9 25, Johnson 3-6 0-0 9, Cummins 4-7 2-2 10, Okolie 2-7 1-2 5, Steeves 1-8 0-0 2, Egi 1-2 0-0 2, Miller 3-9 0-0 9, Perez 0-2 0-0 0. Totals 27-69 8-13 71.

OKLAHOMA (11-0) Spangler 3-4 0-1 8, Woodard 9-13 6-7 28, Cousins 2-11 3-4 7, Lattin 2-6 1-2 5, Hield 11-14 9-10 34, Walker 0-2 0-0 0, James 0-1 0-0 0, Buford 0-1 0-0 0, Manyang 0-2 1-2 1. Totals 27-54 20-26 83.

Halftime-Harvard 37-35. Three-Point Goals-Harvard 9-24 (McCarthy 3-5, Johnson 3-6, Miller 3-9, Okolie 0-1, Perez 0-1, Steeves 0-2), Oklahoma 9-24 (Woodard 4-7, Hield 3-5, Spangler 2-3, James 0-1, Buford 0-1, Walker 0-2, Cousins 0-5). Rebounds-Harvard 32 (Edosomwan 16), Oklahoma 41 (Spangler 15). Assists-Harvard 12 (McCarthy 5), Oklahoma 10 (Cousins 4). Total Fouls-Harvard 20, Oklahoma 15. A-7,251.

Kentucky, Louisville trying to establish their identities Lexington, Ky. (ap) — Identity-building seems more important right now for No. 12 Kentucky and 16th-ranked archrival Louisville than claiming Bluegrass bragging rights.

The winner of Saturday’s annual showdown at Rupp Arena can take a big step in that process, along with giving their fan base something to feel good about entering conference play.

The talented and young Wildcats (9-2), replacing seven players who turned pro after last season, are still finding their way after opening No. 2 in the Top 25. They face an 11-1 Louisville squad with something to prove as well, and Kentucky junior guard Dominique Hawkins believes that beating another quality opponent provides more motivation than the rivalry.

“We know that they’re a great pressing team and I’m pretty sure that’s what we’re going to prepare for,” the Richmond, Kentucky, native said of the Cardinals. “It’s just another game and we’re just looking to win.”

While that may be underplaying it a little, if the Wildcats are going to come away with a victory, they’ll have to beat a Cardinals team that might be even hungrier than Ohio State. The Buckeyes were unfazed

by Kentucky’s height and hype in their 74-67 win last week in Brooklyn,

New York. Ohio State led throughout and withstood a second-half rally led by Jamal Murray’s 33-point explosion.

Impressive as Murray’s game was, Kentucky coach John Calipari seeks more offensive contributions. A presence in the middle will be needed on both ends against the quick, physical Cardinals.

As Kentucky works to establish continuity, its inside game could be helped this weekend with the recent addition of 6-foot-10, 255-pound forward Tai Wynyard from New Zealand. He has only had a couple of workouts and Calipari has been coy about whether he’ll play Saturday because he’s a work in progress — much like the Wildcats.

“We’ve got things that we’ve got to do,” Calipari said. “We’re still tweaking offensively exactly how we have to play. I saw some good stuff in the second half of that game (Ohio State). But, we’re a ways away.”

Louisville began the season unranked with a made-over roster of youngsters as well, but has quickly grown into a group looking to be competitive in the Atlantic Coast Conference and beyond.

The Cardinals enter the game leading the nation in scoring margin at plus-30.2 points per game and ranked sixth in field goal percentage (.519).

EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division

W L Pct GB Toronto 18 12 .600 — Boston 16 13 .552 1½ New York 14 16 .467 4 Brooklyn 8 21 .276 9½ Philadelphia 1 30 .032 17½ Southeast Division

W L Pct GB Atlanta 19 12 .613 — Miami 17 11 .607 ½ Orlando 17 12 .586 1 Charlotte 15 13 .536 2½ Washington 13 14 .481 4 Central Division

W L Pct GB Cleveland 19 8 .704 — Chicago 16 11 .593 3 Indiana 16 12 .571 3½ Detroit 17 13 .567 3½ Milwaukee 12 18 .400 8½ WESTERN CONFERENCE Southwest Division

W L Pct GB San Antonio 25 6 .806 — Dallas 16 13 .552 8 Memphis 16 15 .516 9 Houston 16 15 .516 9 New Orleans 9 20 .310 15 Northwest Division

W L Pct GB Oklahoma City 20 10 .667 — Utah 12 15 .444 6½ Denver 12 17 .414 7½ Minnesota 11 18 .379 8½ Portland 11 20 .355 9½ Pacific Division

W L Pct GB Golden State 28 1 .966 — L.A. Clippers 16 13 .552 12 Sacramento 12 17 .414 16 Phoenix 12 19 .387 17 L.A. Lakers 5 24 .172 23 Friday’s Games Miami 94, New Orleans 88, OT Chicago 105, Oklahoma City 96 Golden State 89, Cleveland 83 Houston 88, San Antonio 84 L.A. Clippers at L.A. Lakers (n) Today’s Games Washington at Brooklyn, 3 p.m.

Toronto at Milwaukee, 4 p.m.

Houston at New Orleans, 6 p.m.

Miami at Orlando, 6 p.m.

Memphis at Charlotte, 6 p.m.

Boston at Detroit, 6:30 p.m.

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

Indiana at Minnesota, 7 p.m.

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

Chicago at Dallas, 7:30 p.m.

L.A. Clippers at Utah, 8 p.m.

Philadelphia at Phoenix, 8 p.m.

Cleveland at Portland, 9 p.m.

Sunday’s Games L.A. Lakers at Memphis, 5 p.m.

Denver at Oklahoma City, 6 p.m.

New York at Boston, 6 p.m.

Portland at Sacramento, 8 p.m.

NBA All-Star Voting

Released Dec. 25 Game: Feb. 14 at Air Canada Centre, Toronto Eastern Conference Frontcourt 1, LeBron James, Cleveland, 357,937.

2, Paul George, Indiana, 283,785. 3, Andre Drummond, Detroit, 148,278.

4, Carmelo Anthony, New York, 132,119. 5, Pau Gasol, Chicago, 109,585.

6, Kevin Love, Cleveland, 92,177. 7, Chris Bosh, Miami, 91,896. 8, Kristaps Porzingis, New York, 85,606. 9, Hassan Whiteside, Miami, 72,923. 10, Giannis Antetokounmpo, Milwaukee, 25,926.

11, Jonas Valanciunas, Toronto, 12,341.

12, Joakim Noah, Chicago, 10,808.

13, Paul Millsap, Atlanta, 10,501. 14, Marcin Gortat, Washington, 9,443. 15, DeMarre Carroll, Toronto, 8,885.

Guards 1, Dwyane Wade, Miami, 300,595.

2, Kyrie Irving, Cleveland, 138,191. 3, Kyle Lowry, Toronto, 128,131. 4, Jimmy Butler, Chicago, 111,220. 5, John Wall, Washington, 103,094. 6, Derrick Rose, Chicago, 72,709. 7, DeMar DeRozan, Toronto, 69,042. 8, Jeremy Lin, Charlotte, 61,832. 9, Isaiah Thomas.

Boston, 45,014. 10, Nicolas Batum, Charlotte, 20,596.

Western Conference Frontcourt 1, Kobe Bryant, L.A. Lakers, 719,235. 2, Kevin Durant, Oklahoma City, 349,473. 3, Blake Griffin, L.A. Clippers, 182,107. 4, Kawhi Leonard, San Antonio, 164,521. 5, Draymond Green, Golden State, 160,350. 6, Anthony Davis, New Orleans, 156,161.

7, Tim Duncan, San Antonio, 127,543.

8, DeMarcus Cousins, Sacramento, 101,930. 9, Dwight Howard, Houston, 66,598. 10, LaMarcus Aldridge, San Antonio, 65,019. 11, Dirk Nowitzki, Dallas, 56,377. 12, DeAndre Jordan, L.A. Clippers, 49,696. 13, Enes Kanter, Oklahoma City, 47,806. 14, Harrison Barnes, Golden State, 43,343. 15, Kevin Garnett, Minnesota, 42,285.

Guards 1, Stephen Curry, Golden State, 510,202. 2, Russell Westbrook, Oklahoma City, 267,699. 3, Chris Paul, L.A. Clippers, 146,335. 4, Klay Thompson, Golden State, 138,587. 5, James Harden, Houston, 135,531. 6, Rajon Rondo, Sacramento, 66,164. 7, Andre Iguodala, Golden State, 62,407.

8, Damian Lillard, Portland, 47,615. 9, Manu Ginobili, San Antonio, 42,413. 10, Tony Parker, San Antonio, 40,693.

Feb. 15 — Oklahoma State, 8 p.m.

Feb. 20 — at Kansas State, 5 p.m.

Feb. 23 —at Baylor, 7 p.m.

Feb. 27 — Texas Tech, 11 a.m. or 1 p.m.

Feb. 29 — at Texas, 8 p.m.

March 5 — Iowa State, TBA March 9-12 — Big 12 tournament at Kansas City, Mo.

College Men

TOURNAMENT Hawaiian Airlines Diamond Head Classic Championship Oklahoma 83, Harvard 71 Third Place Hawaii 79, Auburn 67 Fifth Place BYU 84, N. Iowa 76 Seventh Place Washington St. 82, New Mexico 59

Big 12 Women

Big 12 Overall

W L W L Baylor 0 0 13 0 Texas 0 0 10 0 Kansas State 0 0 10 1 Oklahoma State 0 0 9 1 Oklahoma 0 0 9 2 Texas Tech 0 0 9 2 West Virginia 0 0 9 3 Iowa State 0 0 8 3 TCU 0 0 8 3 Kansas 0 0 5 6 Sunday, Dec. 27 Savannah State at Oklahoma State, 2 p.m.

Sam Houston State Texas, 2 p.m.

Kansas Women

Nov. 1 — Pittsburg State (exhibition), W 80-54 Nov. 8 — Emporia State (exhibition), W 68-57 Nov. 15 — Texas Southern, W 72-65 (1-0) Nov. 19 — Memphis, W 72-63 (2-0) Nov. 23 — at Arizona, L 52-67 (2-1) Nov. 27 — Northern Illinois at SMU Thanksgiving Classic, Dallas, W 66-58 (3-1) Nov. 28 — SMU at SMU Thanksgiving Classic, Dallas, L 64-73 (3-2) Dec. 2 — Creighton, W 67-54 (4-2) Dec. 6 — St. John’s, L 71-86 (4-3) Dec. 10 — UMKC, L 44-47 (4-4) Dec. 13 — Navy, W 61-54 OT (5-4) Dec. 20 — Washington State, L 53-66 (5-5) Dec. 22 — Oral Roberts, L 63-70 (5-6) Dec. 30 — at Oklahoma, TBA Jan. 3 — West Virginia, TBA Jan. 6 — Baylor, TBA Jan. 9 — at Iowa State, TBA Jan. 13 — Texas, TBA Jan. 16 — at West Virginia, TBA Jan. 20 — Kansas State, TBA Jan. 24 — Oklahoma State, TBA Jan. 27 — at Texas, TBA Jan. 30 — at Texas Tech, TBA Feb. 2 — Iowa State, TBA Feb. 6 — at Baylor, TBA Feb. 13 — at Kansas State, TBA Feb. 17 — TCU, TBA Feb. 20 — Oklahoma, TBA Feb. 24 — at Oklahoma State, TBA Feb. 27 — Texas Tech, TBA Feb. 29 — at TCU, TBA March 4-7 — Big 12 tournament at Oklahoma City

NFL

AMERICAN CONFERENCE East

W L T Pct PF PA y-New England 12 2 0 .857 435 269 N.Y. Jets 9 5 0 .643 344 272 Buffalo 6 8 0 .429 341 336 Miami 5 9 0 .357 278 361 South

W L T Pct PF PA Houston 7 7 0 .500 275 301 Indianapolis 6 8 0 .429 285 372 Jacksonville 5 9 0 .357 343 380 Tennessee 3 11 0 .214 269 359 North

W L T Pct PF PA x-Cincinnati 11 3 0 .786 378 243 Pittsburgh 9 5 0 .643 378 287 Baltimore 4 10 0 .286 292 360 Cleveland 3 11 0 .214 253 387 West

W L T Pct PF PA Denver 10 4 0 .714 308 259 Kansas City 9 5 0 .643 365 257 Oakland 7 8 0 .467 342 376 San Diego 4 11 0 .267 300 371 NATIONAL CONFERENCE East

W L T Pct PF PA Washington 7 7 0 .500 316 332 Philadelphia 6 8 0 .429 318 362 N.Y. Giants 6 8 0 .429 373 358 Dallas 4 10 0 .286 246 324 South

W L T Pct PF PA y-Carolina 14 0 0 1.000 449 278 Atlanta 7 7 0 .500 302 312 Tampa Bay 6 8 0 .429 311 353 New Orleans 5 9 0 .357 350 432 North

W L T Pct PF PA x-Green Bay 10 4 0 .714 347 265 Minnesota 9 5 0 .643 296 272 Detroit 5 9 0 .357 302 363 Chicago 5 9 0 .357 289 352 West

W L T Pct PF PA y-Arizona 12 2 0 .857 445 269 x-Seattle 9 5 0 .643 370 248 St. Louis 6 8 0 .429 241 294 San Francisco 4 10 0 .286 202 339 x-clinched playoff spot y-clinched division Thursday’s Game Oakland 23, San Diego 20, OT Today’s Game Washington at Philadelphia, 7:25 p.m.

Sunday’s Games Houston at Tennessee, noon Cleveland at Kansas City, noon New England at N.Y. Jets, noon Indianapolis at Miami, noon San Francisco at Detroit, noon Dallas at Buffalo, noon Chicago at Tampa Bay, noon Carolina at Atlanta, noon Pittsburgh at Baltimore, noon Jacksonville at New Orleans, 3:05 p.m.

St. Louis at Seattle, 3:25 p.m.

Green Bay at Arizona, 3:25 p.m.

N.Y. Giants at Minnesota, 7:30 p.m.

Monday’s Game Cincinnati at Denver, 7:30 p.m.

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

San Diego at Denver, 3:25 p.m.

Seattle at Arizona, 3:25 p.m.

Duke (7-5) vs. Indiana (6-6), 2:30 p.m. (ABC) Independence Bowl Shreveport, La. Virginia Tech (6-6) vs. Tulsa (6-6), 4:45 p.m. (ESPN) Foster Farms Bowl Santa Clara, Calif.

Nebraska (5-7) vs. UCLA (8-4), 8:15 p.m. (ESPN) Monday, Dec. 28 Military Bowl Annapolis, Md. Navy (10-2) vs. Pittsburgh (8-4), 1:30 p.m. (ESPN) Quick Lane Bowl Detroit Central Michigan (7-5) vs. Minnesota (5-7), 4 p.m. (ESPN2) Tuesday, Dec. 29 Armed Forces Bowl Fort Worth, Texas Air Force (8-5) vs. California (7-5), 1 p.m. (ESPN) Russell Athletic Bowl Orlando, Fla. North Carolina (11-2) vs. Baylor (9-3), 4:30 p.m. (ESPN) Arizona Bowl Tucson Nevada (6-6) vs. Colorado State (7-5), 6:30 p.m. (ASN) Texas Bowl Houston Texas Tech (7-5) vs. LSU (8-3), 8 p.m. (ESPN) Wednesday, Dec. 30 Birmingham (Ala.) Bowl Auburn (6-6) vs. Memphis (9-3), 11 a.m. (ESPN) Belk Bowl Charlotte, N.C. NC State (7-5) vs. Mississippi St. (8-4), 2:30 p.m. (ESPN) Music City Bowl Nashville, Tenn.

Louisville (7-5) vs. Texas A&M (8-4), 6 p.m. (ESPN) Holiday Bowl San Diego Wisconsin (9-3) vs. Southern Cal (8-5), 9:30 p.m. (ESPN) Thursday, Dec. 31 Peach Bowl Atlanta Houston (12-1) vs. Florida State (102), 11 a.m. (ESPN) Orange Bowl (Playoff Semifinal) Miami Gardens, Fla. Clemson (13-0) vs. Oklahoma (11-1), 3 p.m. (ESPN) Cotton Bowl Classic (Playoff Semifinal) Arlington, Texas Alabama (12-1) vs. Michigan State (12-1), 7 p.m. (ESPN) Friday, Jan. 1 Outback Bowl Tampa, Fla. Northwestern (10-2) vs. Tennessee (8-4), 11 a.m. (ESPN2) Citrus Bowl Orlando, Fla. Michigan (9-3) vs. Florida (10-3), noon (ABC) Fiesta Bowl Glendale, Ariz.

Notre Dame (10-2) vs. Ohio State (11-1), noon (ESPN) Rose Bowl Pasadena, Calif.

Iowa (12-1) vs. Stanford (11-2), 4 p.m. (ESPN) Sugar Bowl New Orleans Oklahoma State (10-2) vs.

Mississippi (9-3), 7:30 p.m. (ESPN) Saturday, Jan. 2 TaxSlayer Bowl Jacksonville, Fla. Penn St. (7-5) vs. Georgia (9-3), 11 a.m. (ESPN) Liberty Bowl Memphis, Tenn.

Kansas St. (6-6) vs. Arkansas (7-5), 2:20 p.m. (ESPN) Alamo Bowl San Antonio Oregon (9-3) vs. TCU (10-2), 5:45 p.m. (ESPN) Cactus Bowl Phoenix West Virginia (7-5) vs. Arizona State (6-6), 9:15 p.m. (ESPN) Monday, Jan. 11 College Football Championship Game Glendale, Ariz.

Orange Bowl winner vs. Cotton Bowl winner, 7:30 p.m. (ESPN) Saturday, Jan. 23 East-West Shrine Classic At St. Petersburg, Fla. East vs. West, 3 p.m. (NFLN)

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Granted, their opponents have not all been the caliber of top-ranked Michigan State, but Louisville led that game on the road before the Spartans ralNCAA Football lied in the final minutes Championship for a 71-67 win.

Subdivision Playoffs But Louisville’s lopFirst Round Saturday, Nov. 28 sided victories have Western Illinois 24, Dayton 7 provided young players Chattanooga 50, Fordham 20 valuable playing time and Big 12 Men The Citadel 41, Coastal Carolina 38 Big 12 Overall Sam Houston State 42, Southern helped the Cardinals’ of- W L W L Utah 39 fense blossom enough to Oklahoma 0 0 11 0 Montana 24, South Dakota State 17 0 0 10 1 Colgate 27, New Hampshire 20 shoot above 50 percent Kansas Iowa State 0 0 10 1 William & Mary 52, Duquesne 49 nine times this year, one West Virginia 0 0 10 1 Northern Iowa 53, Eastern Illinois 17 Texas Tech 0 0 9 1 Second Round more than last season.

0 0 9 2 Saturday, Dec. 5 “Our confidence is Baylor Kansas State 0 0 9 2 Richmond 48, William & Mary 13 0 0 8 3 pretty high,” said Louis- Texas Charleston Southern 14, The Citadel Oklahoma State 0 0 7 4 6 ville coach Rick Pitino, TCU 0 0 7 4 Colgate 44, James Madison 38 comparing his team’s Friday’s Game Illinois State 36, Western Illinois 19 Oklahoma 83, Harvard 71 Jacksonville State 41, Chattanooga docket to the alternative Monday’s Game 35, OT of a tougher schedule Delaware State at TCU, 7 p.m.

North Dakota State 37, Montana 6 Sam Houston State 34, McNeese with such a young team.

State 29 Graduate transfers Da- Kansas Men Northern Iowa 29, Portland State 17 Nov. 4 — Pittsburg State (exhibimion Lee (17.3) and Trey tion), W 89-66 Quarterfinals Friday, Dec. 11 Nov. 10 — Fort Hays State (exhibiLewis have combined for Richmond 39, Illinois State 27 W 95-59 nearly 32 points per game tion), Jacksonville State 58, Charleston Nov. 13 — Northern Colorado, W Southern 38 in the backcourt with 109-72 (1-0) Saturday, Dec. 12 Nov. 17 — Michigan State at Chicago sophomore guard Quen- United North Dakota State 23, Northern Center, L 73-79 (1-1) Iowa 13 tin Snider averaging 10 Nov. 23 — Chaminade at Maui Sam Houston State 48, Colgate 21 W 123-72 (2-1) points. They’ll face Ken- Invitational, Semifinals Nov. 24 — UCLA at Maui Invitational, Friday, Dec. 18 tucky’s three-guard back- W 92-73 (3-1) North Dakota State 33, Richmond 7 Nov. 25 — Vanderbilt at Maui court of Murray, Isaiah Saturday, Dec. 19 Invitational, W 70-63 (4-1) Briscoe and Tyler Ulis.

Jacksonville State 62, Sam Houston Dec. 1 — Loyola (Md.), W 94-61 (5-1) State 10 Dec. 5 — Harvard, W 75-69 (6-1) The game is a chance Championship Dec. 9 — Holy Cross, W 92-59 (7-1) for Louisville to earn a Saturday, Jan. 9 Dec. 12 — Oregon State at Kansas At Toyota Stadium signature win, against its City Shootout, Sprint Center, W 82-67 Frisco, Texas biggest rival at that. The (8-1) North Dakota State (12-2) vs.

Dec. 19 — Montana, W 88-46 (9-1) Jacksonville State (13-1), 11 a.m.

Cardinals also seek their Dec. 22 — at San Diego State, W 70-57 (10-1) first win at Rupp since Dec. 29 — UC Irvine, 8 p.m.

2008 and aim to end a Bowl Glance Jan. 2 — Baylor, 3 p.m.

Today Jan. 4 — Oklahoma, 8 p.m. three-game slide in a seFOOTBALL St. Petersburg (Fla.) Bowl Jan. 9 — at Texas Tech, 8 p.m. ries Kentucky leads 33-15.

Marshall (9-3) vs. UConn (6-6), 10 National Football League Jan. 12 — at West Virginia, 6 p.m.

DALLAS COWBOYS — Placed TE a.m. (ESPN) Jan. 16 — TCU, 1 p.m.

Though many of the Gavin Escobar and QB Tony Romo Sun Bowl Jan. 19 — at Oklahoma State, 6 p.m. young Cardinals may not on injured reserve. Signed QB Jameill El Paso, Texas Jan. 23 — Texas, 1 p.m.

Miami (8-4) vs. Washington State Showers and DT Casey Walker from fully grasp the magnitude Jan. 25 —at Iowa State, 8 p.m. the practice squad.

Jan. 30 — Kentucky in Big 12/SEC (8-4), 1 p.m. (CBS) of the rivalry, their fans Challenge, NEW ORLEANS SAINTS — Waived Heart of Dallas Bowl Allen Fieldhouse, TBA have certainly reminded Washington (6-6) vs. Southern RB Toben Opurum. Signed WR Feb. 3 — Kansas State, 8 p.m.

Seantavius Jones from the practice Mississippi (9-4), 2:20 p.m.

(ESPN) Feb. 6 — at TCU, 11 a.m. them of what beating squad and OT Bryan Witzmann to the Pinstripe Bowl Feb. 9 — West Virginia, 6 p.m.

Kentucky means to them.

Bronx, N.Y. Feb. 13 — at Oklahoma, 1 p.m. practice squad.

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PUBLIC NOTICES 785.832.2222 (First published in the Lawrence Daily JournalWorld December 12, 2015) IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF DOUGLAS COUNTY, KANSAS PROBATE DEPARTMENT In the Matter of the Estate of Christina L. Moore, Deceased Case no. 2015PR197

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Petition Pursuant to K.S.A. Chapter 59 NOTICE TO CREDITORS THE STATE OF KANSAS TO ALL PERSONS CONCERNED: You are notified that on December 4, 2015, a Petition for Issuance of Letters of Administration under the Kansas Simplified Estates Act was filed in this court by Ronald Moore, an

heir of Christina L. Moore, Steve Moore #20519 In the Matter of the deceased.

Moore Law Office, LLC Estate of 5040 Noreston Glee S. Smith, Jr., All creditors are notified to Shawnee, KS 66226 Deceased. exhibit their demands Ph. 913 940 5875 against the Estate within Fax 815 301 9091 No. 2015PR000199 four months from the date Attorney for Petitioner Division 1 of the first publication of ________ Proceeding Under K.S.A. this notice, as provided by Chapter 59 law, and if their demands (First published in the NOTICE TO CREDITORS are not thus exhibited, Lawrence Daily Journalthey shall be forever World December 12, 2015) The State of Kansas to all barred.

IN THE DISTRICT COURT persons concerned: OF DOUGLAS COUNTY, Ronald Moore KANSAS You are hereby notified Petitioner

that on December 7, 2015, a petition for probate of will was filed in this court

by Susan K. Moeser, heir and remainder beneficiary named in the will of Glee S. Smith, Jr., deceased.

All creditors are notified to exhibit their demands against this estate within four (4) months from the date of the first publication of this notice as provided by law, and if the demands are not thus exhibited they shall be forever

barred.

Susan K. Moeser Petitioner Calvin J. Karlin - 09555 Barber Emerson, L.C. 1211 Massachusetts Street P. O. Box 667 Lawrence, Kansas 66044-0667 (785) 843-6600 Telephone (785) 843-8405 Facsimile ckarlin@barberemerson.com Attorneys for Petitioner _______

(First published in the Lawrence Daily Journal World December 19, 2015) IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF OSAGE COUNTY, KANSAS FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT IN THE INTEREST OF:

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PUBLIC NOTICE CONTINUED FROM 7C A. R., Year of Birth: 2014 A female Case No. 2014-JC-000015 A. R., Year of Birth: 2014 A female Case No. 2014-JC-000016 NOTICE OF HEARING-Publication Pursuant to K.S.A. 38-2237 TO: Dean Pate, Blake Sample, Caleb Atkins, Jeffery Fairbanks, Phillip Fillmore, Jason Brown and all other persons who are or may be concerned

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You are hereby notified that a petition has been filed in this court alleging that the children named above are Children in Need of Care.

An Adjudication hearing on the petition is scheduled for the 28th day of January, 2016, at 1:30 p.m. At the hearing the Court may issue orders relating to the care, custody and control of the children. The hearing will determine if the children should be adjudicated.

The parent(s), and any other person having legal custody are required to appear before this Court on the date and time shown, or to file your written response to the peti-

tion with the Clerk of the District Court prior to that time. Failure to respond or to appear before the Court at the time shown will not prevent the Court from entering judgment as requested in the petition, finding that the child is a Child in Need of Care, removing the child from the custody of parent, parents or any other present legal custodian until further order of the Court, or finding the parents unfit, and entering an order permanently terminating the parents’ parental rights.

heard personally, either with or without an attorney. The Court will appoint an attorney for any parent who desires an attorney but is financially unable to hire one. The Court may order one or both parents to pay child support. An attorney has been appointed for you: Kim Bieker, 785-828-4431.

Date and time of hearing: January 28, 2016 at 1:30 p.m.

Place of hearing: Osage County District Court, 717 Topeka Ave., Lyndon, KanAn attorney has been ap- sas 66451 pointed as guardian ad litem for the child: Sue /S/ Charna Williams DeVoe, 785- 665-7015. You Clerk of the District Court have the right to appear ________ before the Court and be