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In Kansas, Obama calls for ‘a fair shot and a fair share’ President sets campaign theme of middle class survival

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OSAWATOMIE — Declaring the American middle class in jeopardy, President Barack Obama on Tuesday outlined a populist economic vision that will drive his re-election bid, insisting the United States must reclaim its standing as a country in which everyone can prosper if provided “a fair shot and a fair share.”

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In small-town Osawatomie, in a high school gym where patriotic bunting lined the bleachers, Obama presented himself as the one fighting for shared sacrifice and success against those who would gut government and let people fend for themselves. He did so knowing the nation is riven over the question of whether economic opportunity for all is evaporating.

Carolyn Kaster/AP Photos “Throughout the country, it’s sparked protests and po- PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA CLIMBS ONTO THE STAGE before delivering his speech Tuesday at litical movements, from the Osawatomie High School. Obama’s speech in the small Kansas town focused on the economic tea party to the people who’ve challenges facing the United States. President Theodore Roosevelt gave his famous “Square Deal” Please see OBAMA, page 6A speech in 1910 in Osawatomie.

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KU basketball coach meets with Obama in Osawatomie

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Kansas University basketball coach Bill Self met with President Barack Obama at a meet-and-greet session before the president’s speech Tuesday at Osawatomie High School.

“Great day. Just met President Obama. So down-toearth, loves ball. Heading back to Allen to get to work.

Game-Day. See you guys at 8,” Self wrote on Twitter.

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Plans for a downtown, multi-story hotel and apartment building shrunk a bit Tuesday night, while city leaders expressed hope that chances of a compromise with concerned neighbors were growing.

City commissioners at their Tuesday evening meeting canceled a vote on the hotel/apartment project at the southeast corner of Ninth and New Hampshire streets. Instead, developers submitted a new plan that reduces the height of the building on the edge closest to the east Lawrence neighborhood, along with making several other design changes. Commis- Cromwell sioners ordered that plan to go to the city’s Historic Resources Commission next week for further review.

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DISTINGUISHED KANSAS UNIVERSITY PROFESSOR EMERITUS Roger Shimomura, pictured recently in his Lawrence art studio, spent part of his childhood in a U.S. Japanese detention camp after the Dec. 7, 1941, bombing of Pearl Harbor. Behind him is one of several paintings inspired by his experiences. It’s called “Classmates.”

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Editor’s note: This concludes our three-part series marking the 70th anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor, which occurred on Dec. 7, 1941.

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For 35 years, it looked like it was going to be your typical immigrant story.

Roger Shimomura’s grandfather comes to America from Japan, looking for a better life. The year was 1906 and Japan was building a new empire to the drumbeat of nationalism and renewed military might. Shimomura’s grandfather wasn’t so interested in that. He wanted to become a dentist.

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DEATHS GRACE LILLIAN SHOEMAKER Funeral services for Grace Lillian Shoemaker, 87, Wellsville, will be 2 p.m. Friday at Gardner Friends Church in Gardner. Burial will follow at Wellsville Cemetery.

She died Monday, Dec. 5, 2011, at Golden Heights Living Center in Garnett.

She was born June 6, 1924, in Franklin County, the daughter of Gilbert and Mildred Howell Stone.

She attended Lone Star, Corinth and Belvue rural schools in Johnson County.

She worked for Hallmark Cards in Kansas City for eight years and Reuter Organ Company in Lawrence.

She also cared for elderly people in their home. Later Grace worked as a nurse’s aide for Cedar House Nursing Home in Ottawa.

She was a member of New Hope Baptist Church of Franklin County and loved teaching Sunday School at the church.

She married Marvin Shoemaker in September 1977 at Gardner Friends Church, Gardner, and they made their home on Marvin’s family farm outside Wellsville.

He preceded her in death.

She was also preceded in death by her parents; two sisters, Mary Stone, and Helen Terrell; and a brother, RobShoemaker ert Stone.

She is survived by three brothers, William Stone, of Spring Hill, Gilbert Stone, of Lawrence, and Herbert Stone and wife Ruth, of Eudora; 12 nephews; four nieces; and many grandnieces and grandnephews, and great-grandnieces and grandnephews.

Friends may call from in state from 1 p.m. Thursday to the service hour at the Lamb-Roberts Funeral Home. The family will meet with friends from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. Thursday at the funeral home.

The family suggests memorials to Gardner Friends Church, sent in care of Lamb-Roberts Funeral Home, 325 S. Hickory, Ottawa, KS 66067.

Online condolences may be sent at lamb-roberts.com.

Kurt D. Ramos Kurt D. Ramos, 45, of Eudora, passed away Dec. 2, 2011 in Aurora, Colo. while on a business trip there. He was born Oct. 16, 1966 in Kansas City, MO the son of David R. and Edna Marie Ramos.

He went to high school at Maryville, Mo. before attending Northwest Missouri State. He joined the Missouri National Guard before beginning his working career. He was the Operations Manager for Office Depot in Kansas City, Transportation Manager for First Choice in Kansas City and was Senior District Manager for RCS in Lawrence and Topeka. He enjoyed performing as a standup comedian in the Kansas City area. Kurt was a baseball and football coach for his sons’ teams while they were growing up.

He was married to Susan Herman on January 20, 1990 in Topeka. They lived in Auburn, KS, Topeka, KS, Blue Springs, Mo., Lawrence, KS and the past three years in Eudora, KS. He is survived by his

wife Susan Ramos of Eudora; sons, Harrison David Ramos and Joseph Daniel Ramos of Ramos Eudora; his mother, Edna Marie Ramos of Maryville, MO; his brothers, Gregory Rogers of Portland, OR, Timothy Rogers and James Barnes of Maryville, MO; and his sister, Tambrey Ann Brown of Maryville, MO. He was preceded in death by his father, David Raul Ramos.

Funeral services will be held at 1:30 p.m. on Monday, Dec. 12th at Davidson Funeral Home.

Interment will be in the Prairie Home Cemetery northwest of Topeka.

Mr. Ramos will lie in state from 1-6 on Sunday where the family will receive friends from 2-3 p.m. Sunday afternoon.

To leave a message for the family please visit www.davidsonfuneral. com.

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But even back then, America didn’t welcome immigrants quite that easily. Shimomura’s grandfather never neared dentistry. In America, he worked as a janitor and a cook and other such blue-collar professions. But his son, well, that’s another matter.

He became a pharmacist. Not a dentist, but not bad.

Yeah, life was shaping up well. If they were Italian or Irish, their story could be the plot of one of those “pull yourself up by the bootstraps” movies. The grandfather didn’t know it at the time, but even his grandson Roger would do the family proud: He’d go on to become a renowned artist and professor whose work at Kansas University would be collected by the Smithsonian Institution.

The story was on track until almost the very end of 1941.

Shimomura’s grandmother, who came to America in 1912, wrote 56 years’ worth of daily dairies while in America. Shimomura quotes the entry from Dec. 7, 1941, by memory.

“Today I came home from church and heard the dreamlike news that Japanese airplanes had bombed Hawaii.

I was scared beyond belief. It was said that at 6 a.m. Japan declared war on the United States.

“Our future has become gloomy.”

One of Roger Shimomura’s first memories is of the Washington State Fairgrounds.

He wasn’t at the fair.

He and about 7,000 other Japanese-Americans on the West Coast were detained inside the fairground’s Assembly Hall.

“They were mostly horse stables. There were some makeshift accommodations under the grandstands,” Shimomura recalls partly from memory and partly from stories that his family later told him.

Shimomura was 2 years old at the time. He would live among the horse stables for three months. Then, it was on to the south Idaho desert region of Minidoka.

It housed one of 10 “relocation” camps built by the U.S. government to detain Japanese-Americans during World War II. Shimomura and about 20 members of his extended family were in the camp. He doesn’t directly remember much from the camp, mainly the change in weather from his Seattle home, the outdoor privies and the large group of kids who always were available for a play date.

Shimomura spent two DNA EST years in the camp. He has spent the rest of his life tryFuneral services for Edna 2011, at Stormont-Vail Hospi- ing to point out the injustice West, 88, Topeka, will be tal in Topeka. behind it. at 10:30 a.m. Friday at Hope The family will meet Shimomura spent more Lutheran Church. Interfriends from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. than 35 years teaching art ment will follow in Mt. Hope Thursday at the funeral at Kansas University and Cemetery. home. gained international acclaim She died Monday, Dec. 5, for paintings — almost comic

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book-like depictions — of U.S. concentration camps and post-war JapaneseAmericans.

Shimomura was born in the United States — Seattle — and so were both of his parents.

“My parents both passed away without every setting foot in Japan,” he said.

But a lifetime on American soil didn’t save you from a concentration camp, and even today it doesn’t save you from some “insulting” questions.

“For a long time I would have people ask me where I was from,” Shimomura said.

“And I would say Seattle.

But then they would ask how long I’ve lived in the country.

No matter how you cut it, I couldn’t be American.”

In the hours following the terrorist attacks of 9/11, a phrase began to spread across America: “This is our Pearl Harbor.”

Shimomura remembers it well.

“When I heard that, it made me shudder,” he said.

It certainly wasn’t the first time that Shimomura had recoiled from an American image. He remembers being a regular at a Lawrence concert venue and seeing the poster on the wall of a Japanese pilot with slanted eyes in a Zero plane in full dive-bomb mode. The words underneath the image advertised Kamikaze shots for $2.

Once, Shimomura was shocked to learn that a popular clothing retailer in New York City has the name Yellow Rat Bastard. Then, to add to it, he learned some of its best customers are tourists from Japan.

“They don’t understand,” Shimomura said of the Japanese tourists. “It is the Japanese-Americans who have to live with it.”

For Shimomura the images can pop up everywhere, even in a cartoon. He remembers an editorial cartoon in a regional newspaper during the days of the auto wars with Japan. The cartoon depicted Japanese planes dropping Hondas and Nissans on Kansas City.

“You can’t tell me that it doesn’t still live on in people’s minds,” Shimomura said.

After the 9/11 attacks, Shimomura began to think about the stories his father had told him of the day Pearl Harbor was attacked.

His father heard the news on the car radio. Immediately, he made a U-turn and went home.

“All of a sudden, he felt like he was living in a foreign country,” Shimomura said.

In 2001 Shimomura became worried that Muslims in the U.S. would be detained. Although largescale U.S. detention camps weren’t created, there were multiple reports of U.S. citizens of Arab descent who were detained, often on the grounds that they may need to be called as a witness in a future trial.

Shimomura is convinced the detentions would have been even more widespread

had it not been for some Japanese-American groups speaking out about the dangers of detaining people based solely on their ancestry.

“It was clear we hadn’t learned a damn thing,” Shimomura said of his thoughts post-9/11.

Like he always does — he paints every day — Shimomura put some of those thoughts on canvas. The painting was of a stereotypical Japanese character wearing a Muslim turban. In the background, a plane was crashing into a building. The title of the painting: “Not Pearl Harbor.”

It was an odd twist to say the least. The same U.S. government that detained Shimomura and his family in a south Idaho camp discovered that its depleted wartime economy needed pharmacists and other highly trained professionals like Shimomura’s father.

So, after a year, Shimomura’s father was released from the camp and told to find a job if he could. Eventually, a German-American family in Chicago hired him, but it took another year before he could find stable enough living accommodations to send for his family.

But finally, after two years, Shimomura, his mother and his sister, who was born in the camp but died two years after being released, were free.

His grandparents were released after three years.

And then … life went on. Shimomura said their time in the camp became a “forbidden topic” in his household, so much so that his father became furious when Shimomura proposed writing a simple college paper on the subject.

Shimomura said he was never surprised by the silence from his family and from most families who were detained in a camp.

His family took its cue from his grandparents, who epitomized a Japanese philosophy of Gaman.

“It means to endure,” Shimomura said. “You hold it in and silently suffer. They were Japanese. They were Japanese.”

Shimomura is not. At least not that type. He’s from Seattle. He didn’t bomb his country’s naval base in Hawaii, but his country did surround him with barbed wire and guard towers.

Seventy years is a long time, but it is not that long.

“There is no doubt that bitterness fuels my work,” Shimomura said in a studio that included a partially finished work of a Japanese-American character in a Superman outfit. “But it allows me to put together a lot of pieces of life in a way that makes me understand that this has been a part of my life and will continue to be a part of my life until I die.

“It is not going to become resolved.”

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have gotten together, and that is encouraging to see.”

Developers for the project, a group led by Lawrence businessmen Doug Compton and Mike Treanor, proposed several changes to the building. They include:

The portion of the building facing New Hampshire Street would remain six stories in height, but a parapet at the top of the building would be reduced. Overall the New Hampshire Street side of the building would shrink from 79 feet to 74 feet.

Much of the eastern edge of the building, which is closest to a historic neighborhood on Rhode Island Street, would shrink from five stories to four stories.

The building’s height on that edge would reduce from 69 feet to 52 feet. As a result, the project would include 79 hotel rooms instead of the 81 previously envisioned. The project also would include 36 apartment units and retail and restaurant space on the ground floor.

City seeks to hire construction manager for library expansion City commissioners on Tuesday sent another sign that they may consider moving the Lawrence Public Library to a new location while its current facility at Seventh and Vermont streets undergoes a $19 million expansion.

Commissioners unanimously directed staff to begin the process of hiring a construction manager for the library expansion project.

Commissioners were told a

Vehicles using the hotel’s drop-off lane, which would be between the new building and the adjacent Lawrence Arts Center, would no longer use the alley to exit the property.

Instead vehicles would be rerouted into the building’s underground parking garage.

The building would be moved two feet away from the eastern edge of the property line to allow for the existing alley to be widened.

Designers will look to replace more contemporary exterior building materials, such as ceramic tile, with more traditional materials.

Several neighbors said they

construction manager could help the city decide whether it would be feasible to keep the library operations in place while construction work happens at the site.

City Manager David Corliss said maintaining library operations at the site during the expansion will be difficult. The city, however, has committed to making library services available somewhere during the construction project. appreciated that developers had made changes to the plans after having two meetings with concerned residents in the area. But they stopped far short of saying they approved of the new plans.

“Each time we meet, we get a little more,” said Phil Collison, who was representing the East Lawrence Neighborhood Association. “So I say let’s go for 10 more meetings.”

Collison said several neighbors would much rather see the building shrink to five stories on its New Hampshire Street edge and to three stories along its eastern edge that abuts the neighborhood.

A construction management company will take the place of a general contractor for the project.

That means instead of the city receiving one overall bid for the project, the city will break the project into smaller bid packages.

The construction management firm will be paid a fee that is negotiated up front.

The city will issue a request for proposals in the next several weeks.

Representatives with the development group said they would continue to meet with neighbors.

“I think we’ll continue to have good discussions in the future,” Compton said. “But it is change, and some people don’t like change, but we’ll continue to work to make it a good project for everybody involved.”

City commissioners offered very few comments about the new design. That’s in part because commissioners may be asked to be judge and jury on the project at a later date. The city’s Historic Resources Commission will

next review the project. If the HRC approves the plan, the project theoretically could be built without any City Commission action because the site already has the proper zoning in place.

But if the HRC denies the project, which it did with the previous plan, the City Commission will serve as a quasijudicial board to hear an appeal of the HRC decision.

The Historic Resources Commission is scheduled to discuss the project at its Dec. 15 meeting, but staff members said they’ll recommend that the HRC take no action at that meeting. Instead, they’ll recommend the project be sent to an HRC subcommittee for discussion about various architectural issues, which will also give developers more time to meet with neighbors.

— City reporter Chad Lawhorn can be reached at 832-6362. Follow him at Twitter. com/clawhorn_ljw.

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FAA administrator Randy Babbitt resigned Tuesday as head of the Federal Aviation Administration following his arrest over the weekend on charges of drunken driving.

By Chad Lawhorn Babbitt was about halfway through a five-year clawhorn@ljworld.com term. Deputy FAA Administrator Michael Huerta will serve as acting administrator. Industry officials and Lawrence city commissioners lawmakers said they expect Huerta to continue in agreed Tuesday night to create the post through next year since the White House a new program that makes it probably will want to avoid a possible nomination easier for city police officers to fight before the presidential election. purchase semi-automatic rifles In recent months, Huerta has been leading the to carry in their patrol cars.

FAA’s troubled NextGen effort to transition from an air traffic control system based on World War II-era radar technology to one based on satellite technology.

Babbitt, 65, was arrested Saturday night in Fairfax City, Va., by a patrolman who said the nation’s top aviation official was driving on the wrong side of the road.

Commissioners unanimously agreed to create a lease-purchase program that allows the city to buy specially approved semi-automatic rifles that can then be purchased by Lawrence police officers for use as patrol rifles.

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to carry approved rifles in their patrol vehicles since 2003, but the city does not purchase the riCITY fles for officers.

COMMISSION The city’s police department operates under a philosophy that officers should buy their own firearms because it makes

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Drone in Iran crash was on CIA mission U.S. officials say a drone that crashed inside Iran over the weekend was one of a fleet of stealth aircraft that have spied on Iran for years from a U.S. air base in Afghanistan.

They say the CIA stealth-version of the RQ-170 unmanned craft was also used to survey Osama bin Laden’s compound before the May raid in Pakistan.

According to these officials, the U.S. has built up the air base Shindad, Afghanistan, with an eye to keeping a long-term presence there to launch surveillance missions and even special operations missions into Iran if deemed necessary. The officials spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss classified information.

The officials say that while no specific mission into Iran has been authorized, the military has contingency plans for such clandestine missions.

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Clinton meets with Syrian opposition The Obama administration moved to expand contacts with opponents of Syria’s President Bashar Assad on Tuesday as Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton held a rare meeting with Syrian opposition figures and the top U.S. envoy to Syria returned to Damascus after a six-week absence.

Amid reports of a new surge in violence that the U.N. says has killed more than 4,000 people since an uprising against Assad erupted in March, Clinton told Syrian pro-reform activists in Geneva that she wanted to hear their plans to establish a new democratic government if they are successful in prying Assad and his regime from power.

The invitation was a step short of endorsement but a clear sign the U.S. wants to work closely with those who might assume leadership roles.

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Blagojevich team says he’s guilty After all his claims of innocence and facing years in prison, Rod Blagojevich let his lawyers make an admission that he has so far avoided — that he is, in fact, guilty of public corruption.

The former Illinois governor will get a chance to do the same today, when he is scheduled to address the judge who will decide his sentence.

Judge James Zagel signaled Tuesday he may be prepared to impose a stiff prison sentence, saying he thinks Blagojevich lied when he told jurors he never tried to sell or trade an appointment to President Barack Obama’s vacated Senate seat for campaign cash or a top job.

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Arrests of illegal immigrants along the U.S. border with Mexico are at the lowest level since the Nixon administration, indicating that fewer people are attempting to cross the border to live or work in the United States. The development could change the debate on illegal immigration from securing the border to handling the people who are already here.

It’s the sixth straight year apprehensions have dropped.

In the fiscal year that ended Sept. 30, Border Patrol arrested 327,577 people trying to cross the southern U.S. border. Meanwhile, Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials deported a record 396,906 people over the same period. That marks the first time in decades that formal removals from the U.S. outpaced arrests at the border.

it more likely they’ll have better access to practice with the weapon and will care for it better.

The new program will make it easier for officers who want to have a patrol rifle to purchase one because officers will be able to repay the city through 26 automatic payroll deductions.

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A GINGERBREAD VERSION OF KANSAS UNIVERSITY’S SPOONER HALL, foreground left, is one of 25 gingerbread creations that will be featured at the 17th annual Gingerbread Festival Auction from 6 p.m. to 10 p.m. today at the Carnegie Building, 200 W. Ninth St. In addition to the live auction, a display of children’s gingerbread creations will be for sale in a silent auction. All proceeds will benefit Big Brothers Big Sisters of Douglas County.

420 KU employees get pay raises

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Although Kansas University has been without systemwide salary increases for faculty and staff since the 2008-09 fiscal year, 420 KU employees, including four deans, did receive pay increases for this academic year.

Tim Caboni, KU’s vice chancellor for public affairs, said the pay increases were for several reasons, including promotions and new job duties, increases to keep people from being recruited to other positions and addressing issues of salary equity based on the market.

KU officials said the 420 pay increases were separate from the planned merit-based pay increases for faculty and staff scheduled to be distributed in January.

The increases came throughout the university, including for faculty and classified and unclassified staff, he said. He said he didn’t know precisely how the pay raises were determined in each case and did not specify

Mary Ellen Kondrat, dean of KU’s School of Social Welfare, received the largest pay increase among the deans, a $20,000, or 12 percent, increase from $165,000 to $185,000. why the deans were given increases.

“It’s an individual-level decision,” Caboni said.

A specific job offer was not required in all cases. Jack Martin, a KU spokesman, said KU took pre-emptive action in cases “up and down the board” where salaries were out of line with the market value for the positions.

“Retention and retaining talent is going to be key to us doing what we aspire to do” in the future, Caboni said.

In at least one case where an increase was given, no specific job offer was ever discussed before the decision was made.

Mary Ellen Kondrat, dean of KU’s School of Social Wel-

fare, received the largest pay increase among the deans, a $20,000, or 12 percent, increase from $165,000 to $185,000.

She said she never brought up other employers’ interest in her with her superiors, but she knew they were aware of the interest. While she said she didn’t know the specific reason given for her pay increase, she’s happy to remain at KU and wants to stay.

“I was the lowest paid dean,” she said, adding, “I certainly had options.”

Three other KU deans received salary increases:

Rick Ginsberg, dean of the School of Education, received an 8.7 percent increase, from $184,000 to $200,000.

Stuart Bell, dean of the School of Engineering, received a 3.8 percent increase, from $260,000 to $270,000.

Lorraine Haricombe, dean of libraries, received a 3 percent increase, from $174,620 to $180,000.

TOPEKA — A special commission that has been studying the state’s public employee retirement system is nearing some crucial decisions that could affect the lives of thousands of Kansans.

The commission is scheduled to spend today and Thursday debating whether to recommend a new retirement plan design and modifications to the current one.

“We have a big task ahead of us,” said Rep. Mitch Holmes, R-St. John, who is co-chairman of the Kansas Public Employees Retirement System Study Commission.

KPERS provides retirement benefits to state, local government and school employees and has nearly 280,000 members.

Pensions are financed through contributions from employees and employers and investments made by the system.

Employees who have retired receive a “defined benefit” based on how long they worked and how much they made on average in the final years of employment. For example, a typical worker earning $40,000 a year who worked for 20 years will receive an annual pension of $14,000.

A combination of inadequate funding and record-making investment losses in 2008 have hurt the long-term funding status of the system. Many states have faced the same problem as Kansas.

Some have argued that Kansas should convert to a 401(k)-style “defined contribution” system, but others have said that would do nothing to solve the existing funding gap.

Holmes said another proposal that has caught some attention is what is called a “stacked hybrid system” in which salaries below a certain level would continue under the current pension plan, while earnings above that level would go into

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Neeli Bendapudi, KU’s business dean, is the school’s highest paid dean on the Lawrence campus.

She started this year at a salary of $350,000, which includes $60,000 in private funds.

Before this year, all of the KU deans on the Lawrence campus had been kept at the same salary level as the 200809 fiscal year. The only increases came when new people were hired to the position. Caboni said it was not just deans, howKANSAS who UNIVERSITY ever, received increases. On his own staff, another company tried to recruit one of his employees.

Caboni said that while the university couldn’t match the offer, he was able to offer the employee a raise, though it didn’t match the offer given by the outside employer.

Information on the deans’ salaries came to light after comparing their previous salaries with a new state salary database published this week by the Topeka Capital-Journal.

KU officials expressed some concern about the database, including that it appeared to be inflating the salaries of most faculty members by taking their biweekly pay and multiplying it out over the entire year. However, many faculty members are paid on a nine-month salary instead of a 12-month salary.

The deans’ salaries, however, were reported accurately.

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In lawsuit, Washburn denies claims of dismissal over medication incident

By George Diepenbrock gdiepenbrock@ljworld.com

Washburn University in Topeka has denied it dismissed a Lawrence man and psychology graduate student from an internship at a Topeka prison because of an incident involving his ADHD medication.

An attorney representing Washburn alleged in a response to a federal lawsuit by Ryan Talley, 30, against the university that faculty members had concluded keeping Talley in his internship at the Topeka Correctional Facility “constituted harm or potential harm to clients through observable conduct.”

Talley as a graduate student worked at an internship engaging in individual and group psychotherapy with patients at the women’s prison from October 2009 to March 2010 under Correct Care Solutions, a health care contractor for the prison.

Washburn’s response alleges Talley violated institutional policies by returning to the prison when no Correct Care Solutions staff members were present, inadequately documenting contact with clients, being unable to follow or accept professional supervision and being unable to address issues regarding his contributions to the treatment of clients at the prison.

“Plaintiff’s conduct was inconsistent with the estab— Higher education reporter Andy Hyland lished professional standards

and expectations for the conduct of graduate student therapists-in-training as described in publications given to (Talley) and all psychology master’s degree students when beginning the program,” Washburn’s attorney Arthur E. Palmer wrote.

An attorney for Talley in October filed the lawsuit accusing Washburn and Correct Care Solutions of violating the Americans with Disabilities Act because they dismissed Talley based on his ADHD diagnosis and his need to use the prescribed medication Adderall to treat it. Talley alleged in the suit that he had permission to take his daily dosage of Adderall into the prison but that Correct Care Solutions and Washburn officials became upset when a prison guard on March 22, 2010, stopped him and prohibited him from bringing the medication inside without swallowing it all in the guard’s presence.

Talley’s suit also alleges Washburn officials never informed him of “any tangible reason for his dismissal.”

But attorneys for Washburn and Correct Care Solutions denied those claims in their responses to the suit.

U.S. District Judge Carlos Murguia has not yet set any hearings in the case.

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a 401(k)-style plan. If Kansas were to adopt this plan, it would be the first state in the nation to do so.

But others argue that what the Legislature has already done is enough to solve the long-term funding problem.

During the last legislative session, legislators and Gov. Sam Brownback approved House Bill 2194, which would increase employer contribution rates and provide an option for some employees to contribute more in exchange for increased retirement benefits. However, those changes won’t take effect unless the Legislature acts on bills recommended by the KPERS Study Commission during the 2012 session that starts in January.

KPERS officials have said those additional employer and employee contributions and plan design changes in HB 2194 “are a meaningful step towards improving the system’s long-term funding outlook and reaching actuarially required contribution levels.” But the system is still vulnerable to future economic downturns that cause investment returns to decline, KPERS officials said.

One commission member, Sen. Laura Kelly, D-Topeka, said HB 2194 “is still alive and part of the process.” Rep. Geraldine Flaharty, D-Wichita, who serves on another pension committee, said HB 2194 “is a reasonable plan” that solves the funding problem.

discussion,” Police Chief Tarik Khatib told commissioners. “We live in a world that can turn ugly very fast.

The question is whether we want to be prepared for that.”

Commissioners did hear several comments from speakers who questioned why city police officers needed the more advanced weaponry.

“My concern is that if they have these rifles at their disposal, they will find a need to use them, and sometimes inappropriately,” Jessica Baron said.

City commissioners said they saw the benefit of the program. Several noted that similar concerns of inappropriate use were raised when the police department added Tasers to its operations, but incidents of misuse haven’t been a problem.

“It comes down to trusting our officers in the police department, and I do,” City Commissioner Mike Amyx said.

Officers will receive four days of mandatory training before being allowed to carry the rifles, which are a .223 caliber AR platform, semiautomatic rifle.

To push for the program, Khatib provided commissioners with a report that included the average number of incidents per year from 2006 to 2010 for several gun-related police calls. The numbers are:

130 disturbances with weapons per year in the city.

The high was 170 in 2006, and the low was 94 in 2010.

136 reports per year of sounds of gunshots. The high was 156 in 2007, and the low was 110 in 2006.

44 reports per year of suspicious activity with a weapon. The high was 52 in 2008, and the low was 38 in 2010.

26 shootings per year.

The high was 41 in 2009, and the low was 14 in 2010.

0.6 death per year from shootings.

The high Carter was two in 2008. The low was zero in 2007, 2009 and 2010.

146 firearms per year placed in evidence. The high was 200 in 2006. The low was 111 in 2008.

Several audience members said the numbers did not justify adding more patrol rifles to the force. But commissioners disagreed.

“There is no way you wait for something to happen to justify this type of program,” said City Commissioner Hugh Carter.

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Kansas drops to No. 26 in America’s Health Rankings

By Christine Metz cmetz@ljworld.com

Kansas fell to the 26th spot in the annual America’s Health Rankings, which tracks the country’s overall health. Last year Kansas ranked No. 23.

Like the rest of the country, Kansas follows a troubling trend of increasing obesity, diabetes and children in poverty, which offsets improvements that have been made in smoking cessation, premature deaths, preventable hospitalizations and cardiovascular deaths.

Here’s how Kansas fared in those categories:

Kansas has 640,000 obese adults, which is 229,000 more than 10 years ago.

In the past five years, diabetes in the adult population increased from 6.9 percent to 8.4 percent. To-

day, 179,000 Kansans have diabetes.

In the past year, the child poverty rate increased from 18 percent to 23.1 percent.

Smoking has decreased from 21 percent to 17 percent in the past 10 years. But 361,000 still smoke in Kansas.

In the past year, rate of preventable hospitalizations decreased from 75.3 to 70.5 discharges per 1,000 Medicare enrollees.

In the past 10 years, the rate of cardiovascular deaths in Kansas has decreased from 324.3 to 265.2 deaths per 100,000 people.

Moderate use of early prenatal care.

Low rate of uninsured population.

And the report noted challenges the state faces:

Low per capita public health funding.

Limited availability of primary care physicians.

High prevalence of obesity.

The report found that Vermont remains the nation’s healthiest state, and New York and New Jersey showed the most improvement. America’s Health Rankings are compiled each year by United Health Foundation in collaboration with the America Public Health AssociaThe report found some tion and Partnership for strengths in Kansas: Prevention.

Few poor mental and physical health days per — Reporter Christine Metz can be reached at 832-6352. month.

ON THE RECORD REPORT

• A 51-year-old rural Tonganoxie man was arrested Monday following an incident in which he allegedly threatened Tonganoxie High School Principal Jamie Carlisle at the school. The incident happened about 10 a.m. Monday, according to Leavenworth County sheriff’s reports. A Tonganoxie school resource officer with the sheriff’s office arrested the man, who had come to the school to address issues of bullying against his daughter, reports said. The man allegedly kicked open the door to Carlisle’s office, and when Carlisle indicated he was going to contact the authorities, the man said, “I may not take care of it here but by God I will take care of it somewhere,” the report said. The man was arrested for criminal threats to the principal and taken to

HOSPITAL BIRTHS Joshua and Kayla Kohn, Wellsville, a girl, Tuesday.

Catherine Merritt and Dean Edington Jr., Lawrence, a boy, Tuesday.

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The Kansas Prisoner Review Board will hear public See the story, page 1A comments this month on two prisoners convicted of murder in Douglas County who are eligible for parole in February.

Donald Bruce, 49, is serving up to a life sentence for a 1992 first-degree murder conviction in Douglas County for the beating death of a 23-monthold boy, who was the son of Bruce’s girlfriend at the time.

Bruce was passed over for parole once before in 2007.

Tyrone Walker, 46, pleaded no contest in 1990 to a secEsther Price, ond-degree murder charge retired, for strangling Tamara Baker, Lawrence who disappeared on Hal“I saw Gerald Ford at Allen loween night in 1989. Baker’s Fieldhouse and Franklin Roo- decomposed body was later sevelt at a parade in Detroit.” found in a wooded area in east Lawrence. Walker received a sentence of 12 years

Bruce Walker to life and has been paroled twice, in 2005 and 2010, but was returned to prison on parole violations.

Walker and Bruce will both have parole hearings in January.

The public can comment on any inmate up for parole at these locations:

Wichita: 10 a.m. to 1 p.m.

Dec. 19, 230 E. William St., Room 3080.

Kansas City: 10 a.m. to noon Dec. 20, 701 N. Seventh St.

Topeka: 8:30 a.m. to 10:30 a.m. Dec. 21, 900 SW Jackson St., Room 106A.

Kan. Supreme Court to hear smoking ban case

By Elvyn Jones ejones@theworldco.info

TONGANOXIE — Kevin HaisToni Taylor, lip is about to get his day in retired, court. western Douglas County The Kansas Supreme “I saw Eisenhower in PittsCourt will hear arguments field, Mass., when I was a girl. today in a case involving I thought he looked like my Haislip’s Downtown Bar and math teacher.”

Grill in Tonganoxie. The justices will hear arguments centering on an injunction Kansas District Court Judge Franklin Theis issued in June 2010 against a state smoking ban at the bar and a few other private clubs licensed between Jan. 1, 2009, and July 1, 2010. A state law that forbids smoking in public places went into effect July 1, 2010.

The Kansas Attorney General’s office will argue against the injunction.

Mike Daugherty, Theis upheld the antisemi-retired, smoking law but agreed Ottawa, with Haislip’s attorney that “No.” the Jan. 1, 2009, cutoff date was arbitrary because it allowed some recently opened

private clubs to be grandfathered in against the smoking prohibition but not others. The Downtown Bar and Grill received its private club license in May 2009.

The Legislature established a cutoff date to prevent taverns from skirting the ban by changing status as the law was being debated.

Haislip said he was confident Supreme Court Justices would agree with Theis.

“I think we’ll probably be OK,” Haislip said Monday. “I think they’ll grandfather us.”

Although his name is on the lawsuit, other private clubs in the same cutoff date limbo joined his lawsuit, Haislip said.

“I wasn’t the only one in this lawsuit,” he said. “I haven’t spent a whole lot on it. I won’t spend any more. What they say is the way it will be.”

— Elvyn Jones, reporter for The Mirror newspaper in Tonganoxie, can be reached at 913-845-2222.

Officials investigating theft of students’ info Kansas University police are investigating a break-in at KU Student Housing’s offices that resulted in some students’ personal information being stolen, said KU spokeswoman Jill Jess.

The break-in occurred last Wednesday night or Thursday morning, Jess said. Two computers, a desktop and a laptop were taken, along with a binder containing housing paperwork for current and past Stouffer Place and Sunflower Apartments residents. The information stolen from the offices, which are at 422 W. 11th St., included names, KUID numbers and dates of birth. It also included dependents’ names and dates of birth.

Leavenworth County Jail. At the time of the arrest, he also was arrested on an outstanding warrant for contempt of court.

The Journal-World does not print accounts of all police reports filed.

The newspaper generally reports: • Burglaries, only with a loss of $1,000 or more, unless there are unusual circumstances. To protect victims, we generally don’t identify them by name.

• The names and circumstances of people arrested, only after they are charged.

• Assaults and batteries, only if major injuries are reported.

• Holdups and robberies.

CORRECTIONS The school that would close under a proposal from representatives of Hillcrest School on the Central and East Lawrence Elementary School Consolidation Working Group was misidentified in a story in Tuesday’s Journal-World. The Hillcrest proposal specifically identifies Sunset Hill School as a potential source of additional students, and a Hillcrest representative said that other adjacent schools, such as Pinckney or Cordley, also could be candidates for sending students to an expanded Hillcrest.

A Journal-World calendar item listed the incorrect day for Cocktails and Carols with Kim Murphree and Friends. The event will be from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. Thursday in the Crystal Ballroom at the Eldridge, Seventh and Massachusetts streets.

Members of the public also can write letters to: Prisoner Review Board, Landon State Office Building, 900 SW Jackson St., fourth floor, Topeka, 66612-1220.

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A small number of the reports included Social Security numbers, Jess said. KUID numbers will not allow access to student records without a password.

Affected students have been informed exactly what information was stolen, and KU officials are recommending that students whose paperwork was stolen update their passwords.

Anyone with information on the crimes should call the KU Public Safety Office at 864-5900, KU Crime Stoppers at 864-8888 or the Douglas County Crime Stoppers at 843-TIPS.

— Reporter Shaun Hittle can be reached at 832-7173. Follow him at Twitter.com/ shaunhittle.

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overwhelmingly approved next year’s austerity budget early today, extending tough spending cuts that have already left Greeks struggling as the country tries to slash its vast debts and tame a severe recession.

Citigroup Inc. is eliminating 4,500 jobs in its latest effort to cut costs. The bank will take a $400 million charge in the fourth quarter as a result.

Citigroup’s CEO, Vikram Pandit, disclosed the job cuts at an investor conference Tuesday.

The cuts represent about 1.5 percent of its global workforce of 267,000. Pandit said the cuts would be made over the next few quarters.

Tuesday’s markets Dow Industrials +52.30, 12,150.13 Nasdaq —6.20, 2,649.56 S&P 500 +1.39, 1,258.47 30-Year Treasury +0.07, 3.11% Corn (Chicago) +5.50 cents, $5.97 Soybeans (Chicago) +3.25 cents, $11.30 Wheat (Kansas City) +0.50 cent, $6.67 Oil (New York) +29 cents, $101.28 Gold —$2.70, $1,731.80 Silver +37.20 cents, $32.74 Platinum —$8.50, $1,524

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he received an email Monday inviting him to meet with the president.

“I said, ‘I can’t make it. It’s game day. I’ve got shootaround,’” Self said. “They (Obama staff members) emailed back and said, ‘He

Why S&P wields so much power in European crisis

By Bernard Condon and Christopher S. Rugaber Associated Press

NEW YORK — Until this week, the fate of Europe seemed to hang on the decisions of three power brokers — the president of France, the chancellor of Germany and the head of the European Central Bank.

Add a surprising fourth: Standard & Poor’s, the credit rating agency.

S&P ripped into American politicians last summer for failing to address longterm debt and stripped the United States of its topflight credit rating. Now it is essentially warning Europe to fix its debt problem — or else.

Critics of S&P have questioned its credibility and relevance because it failed to foresee the collapse in the U.S. subprime mortgage mar-

ket, which helped trigger the financial meltdown of 2008.

But what S&P says about the creditworthiness of European countries, or just about any other financial entity, still matters a great deal.

S&P rates companies and governments by their ability to repay debt. The higher the rating — AAA is the highest — the more investors trust them, and the less interest companies or governments have to pay to borrow money.

S&P threatened to lower its rating on 15 nations — even Germany, the most powerful economy in Europe — if their leaders don’t agree on a tough response to the European debt crisis.

Borrowing costs for European countries were little changed after S&P’s announcement, which came Monday night Europe time.

But ratings cuts later could

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force countries to pay higher interest rates on the national bonds they issue to investors, creating a dangerous debt spiral and pushing them closer to default.

In a debt spiral, a country is forced to put aside an ever larger share of its budget for interest. That leaves less for everything else, and the country has to borrow even more to make up the difference — or cut services, hurting the economy.

S&P’s warning drew angry responses from some European officials who are scrambling to contain the crisis, and outrage from critics who say S&P plays an outsize role in markets.

“It still has enormous power,” said Michael Lewitt, a former money manager who pilloried credit raters in his book “The Death of Capital.”

“I’m surprised it hasn’t been throttled back by now.”

by Scott Adams

Medicare open enrollment ends today Today is the last day for Medicare open enrollment.

The news might catch some seniors off guard because in years past the deadline had been at the end of December, said Criss Tomlin, who has been working with Medicare beneficiaries at Douglas County Senior Services since open enrollment began Oct. 15.

Douglas County Senior Services has been buzzing with people looking for help in choosing their Medicare plans.

Anyone on Medicare should review their plan, Tomlin said, even those who are happy with it. Changes in prescriptions and company policy can cause other plans to be cheaper.

“It’s really rare that we find out you should stay on the same one,” Tomlin said. “That is the exception rather than the rule.”

Medicare beneficiaries can evaluate plans by going online to Medicare.gov. More information can be found at that website or by calling 1-800-MEDICARE.

KU’s Big Event set for March 31 Registration is now open for an event in which Kansas University students take time out of their day to perform odd jobs of all kinds for community members and organizations as a way of saying “thank you.”

The Big Event is scheduled

Overheated outlet cause of house fire Fire investigators have determined an overheated electrical outlet caused a fire Monday morning at an east Lawrence mobile home that displaced one family.

Division Chief Eve Tolefree of Lawrence-Douglas County Fire Medical said Tuesday morning the fire was an accident and caused an estimated $12,000 in damage.

The fire was reported at 10:19 a.m. Monday at a home in Brookwood Mobile Home Park, 1908 E. 19th St. A dog died from smoke inhalation.

The family was not home when the fire started. Jane Blocher, executive director of the Douglas County chapter of the American Red Cross, said Tuesday the agency provided a woman, her four children and her boyfriend with lodging and funds for food, clothing and linens.

The family has also received other clothing donations, Blocher said, and family members are currently looking for more-permanent housing.

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“The talk of him being a huge basketball fan is not just talk,” Self added. “He asked me about our team. I told him, ‘I like our guys. They try awfully hard, but we need to play at a higher level.’”

The two shared a light moment.

“I said, ‘With all due respect, Mr. President, don’t pick us

again (in his pre-NCAA Tournament bracket).’ He picked us to win it all the last two years.

He said, ‘You cost me money,’” Self added with a laugh. “I said, ‘Not as much as you cost me.’”

Self said he was appreciative of the time with the president.

“It’s amazing what the president goes through in daily life. Every second of the day is allotted,” Self said.

“He gave me six minutes, and I think we were allotted five.

It was one of those once-in-alifetime opportunities.

“As an American you have so much respect for that office,” Self said. “For me it was a no-brainer to go.”

Self has now met three presidents: Obama; President George W. Bush in the White House after KU won the title in 2008; and President Bill Clinton at KU when Clinton visited campus with Bob Dole.

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Responding to those who want to cut taxes and regulation in the belief success will trickle down, Obama said: “Here’s the problem: It doesn’t work. It’s never worked.”

Obama noted that Theodore Roosevelt was called a “radical, a socialist, even a communist” for putting forth ideas in his last campaign such as an eight-hour work day, a minimum wage for women, unemployment insurance and a progressive income tax.

Left unsaid: Roosevelt’s Bull Moose campaign in 1912 failed to return him to the White House.

Obama attempted to sum up the pain and peril for a society where the middle class is struggling. But he also called for individual responsibility.

“In the end,” he said, “rebuilding this economy based on fair play, a fair shot and a fair share will require all of us to see the stake we have in each other’s success.”

Obama also challenged the big banks that took bailouts from American taxpayers, pointing to “a deficit of trust between Main Street and Wall Street.” He said banks that were bailed out had an obligation to work to close that trust deficit and should be doing more to help remedy past mortgage abuses and assist middle-class taxpayers.

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It is a theme Obama is embracing in a mounting fight for re-election against Republicans who, regardless of the nominee, will attack his stewardship of the economy.

One of the leading contenders for the GOP nomination, Mitt Romney, ridiculed Obama for comparing himself to Roosevelt.

Obama “said that he is like Teddy Roosevelt,” Romney said at a campaign event in Paradise Valley, Ariz. “And I thought, ‘In what way is he like Teddy Roosevelt?’ Teddy Roosevelt of course founded the Bull Moose Party. One of those words applies.”

Kirsten Kukowski, spokeswoman for the Republican National Committee, said, “Maybe instead of trying to be like other presidents, Obama should try being president.”

Obama took aim at the Republicans, saying they would only return the same structures that led to America’s economic downturn. “Their philosophy is simple: We are better off when everyone is left to fend for themselves and play by their own rules,” Obama said. “I’m here to say they are wrong.”

The president conceded that the country is in the midst of a consuming re-examination on his watch, prompting national movements against both government spending and an economy that many feel disproportionately favors the elite. Obama went on

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“This is the defining issue of our time,” he said in echoing President Theodore Roosevelt’s famous speech here in 1910.

“This is a make-or-break moment for the middle class and all those who are fighting to get into the middle class,” Obama said. “At stake is whether this will be a country where working people can earn enough to raise a family, build a modest savings, own a home and secure their retirement.”

For Obama, saddled with a weak national economic recovery, the speech was a chance to break away from Washington’s incremental battles and his own smallscale executive actions. He offered a sweeping indictment of economic inequality and unleashed his own brand of prairie populism.

He spoke for nearly an hour to a supportive audience, reselling his ideas under the framework of “building a nation where we’re all better off.”

Billed as an important address that would put today’s economic debates in context, Obama’s speech seemed a bit like two packaged into one.

The first was that of the campaigner, full of loft and reclamation of American values. The second was the governing Obama, who recited his familiar jobs agenda, his feud with Congress over extending a Social Security tax cut, even his fight to get his consumer watchdog confirmed.

Obama tied himself to Roosevelt, the president and reformer who came to this town in eastern Kansas and called for a “square deal” for regular Americans. Roosevelt said then the fight for progress was a conflict “between the men who possess more than they have earned and the men who have earned more than they possess.”

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view, Texas. But her father changed his mind after visiting Pearl Harbor for the 65th anniversary in 2006.

“He announced that he wanted to be interred on the Utah. And my mother looked a little hurt and perplexed.

And I said, ‘Don’t worry Daddy, I’ll take that part of your ashes that was your mouth and I’ll have those interred on the Utah. And you can then tell those that have preceded you, including those that were entombed, what’s been going on in the world,’” Margaret Soucy recalled saying with a laugh.

Soucy’s three children, several grandchildren and great-grandchildren — 11 family members altogether — will be attending the sunset ceremony today. His wife died earlier this year.

An urn carrying the ashes of Vernon Olsen, who was among the 334 on the Arizona to survive the attack, will be interred in a gun turret on the Arizona today. Most of the battleship’s 1,177 sailors and Marines who died on Dec. 7 are still entombed on the ship.

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GENEVA — The Obama administration bluntly warned the world against gay and lesbian discrimination Tuesday, declaring the U.S. will use foreign assistance as well as diplomacy to back its insistence that gay rights are fully equal to other basic human rights.

In unusu- Clinton ally strong language, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton compared the struggle for gay equality to difficult passages toward women’s rights and racial equality, and she said a country’s cultural or religious traditions are no excuse for discrimination.

“Gay rights are human rights, and human rights are gay rights,” she said. “It should never be a crime to be gay.”

Clinton’s audience included diplomats from Arab, African and other nations where homosexuality is criminalized or where brutality and discrimination against gay people is tolerated or encouraged.

Many of the ambassadors in the audience responded with stony faces and rushed out of the room as soon as Clinton finished speaking.

President Barack Obama directed the State Depart-

ment and other agencies to make sure U.S. diplomacy and foreign assistance promote gay rights and fight discrimination. But there are no specific new consequences for poor performers, meaning the directive is more of a challenge to other governments than a threat.

In announcing the policy, the U.S. did not point to individual countries with specifically poor records on gay rights, although an annual State Department accounting of global human rights has cited abuses against gays by such friends as Saudi Arabia.

The White House said Tuesday’s announcement marked the first U.S. government strategy to combat human rights abuses against gays and lesbians abroad.

The speech in Geneva, home of the United Nations’ human rights body, is also part of the Obama administration’s outreach to gays and lesbians, a core Democratic constituency at home.

Since taking office, Obama has advocated the repeal of the military’s ban on openly gay service members — now accomplished — and has ordered the administration to stop defending a law defining marriage as between one man and one woman.

However, Obama has stopped short of backing gay marriage, saying only that his personal views on the matter are evolving. That position and a long delay repealing the military ban have left some gay supporters disgruntled.

HONOLULU — Lee Soucy decided five years ago that when he died he wanted to join his shipmates killed in the attack on Pearl Harbor.

Soucy lived to be 90, passing away just last year. On Tuesday, seven decades after dozens of fellow sailors were killed when the USS Utah sank on Dec. 7, 1941, a Navy diver will take a small urn containing his ashes and place it in a porthole of the ship.

The ceremony is one of five memorials being held this week for servicemen who lived through the assault and want their remains placed in Pearl Harbor out of pride and affinity for those they left behind.

“They want to return and be with the shipmates that they lost during the attack,” said Jim Taylor, a retired sailor who coordinates the ceremonies.

The memorials are happening the same week the country observes the 70th anniversary of the aerial bombing that killed 2,390 Americans and brought the United States into World War II. A larger ceremony to remember all those who perished will be today just before 8 a.m. Hawaii time — the same moment the devastating attack began.

Most of the 12 ships that sank or were beached that day were removed from the harbor, their metal hulls salvaged for scrap. Just the Utah and the USS Arizona still lie in the dark blue waters. Only survivors of those vessels may return in death to their ships.

The cremated remains of Vernon Olsen, who served aboard the Arizona, will be

$210M settlement reached in mine explosion BEAVER, W.VA. (AP) — In the biggest settlement ever reached in a U.S. mining disaster, the new owners of the West Virginia coal mine where 29 men were killed in an explosion agreed Tuesday to pay $210 million over a tragedy the government blamed on the ruthless pursuit of profits ahead of safety.

The money will go to compensate the grieving families, bankroll cutting-edge safety improvements and pay for years of violations by Massey Energy, owner of the Upper Big Branch mine at the time of the April 2010 blast.

Under the deal, Alpha Natural Resources, which bought Massey earlier this year, will face no criminal charges in the explosion as long as it abides by the settlement, U.S. Attorney Booth Goodwin said.

But “no individuals are off the hook,” Goodwin warned, adding that federal prosecutors are still investigating former Massey managers.

Charges have been brought against only one person so far: the mine’s former security chief, Hughie Elbert Stover. A federal jury convicted him last month of lying to investigators and trying to destroy mine records. He is awaiting sentencing.

The settlement was bitterly criticized by some of the dead men’s relatives, who said they won’t be satisfied until charges are filed against those they consider responsible for the catastrophe, the nation’s deadliest mine accident in 40 years.

Gary Quarles, whose son Gary Wayne Quarles died in the disaster, said: “I want to hear names, and I want to know what they’re going to be charged for. Today would have been a fine day for them to have told us.”

Hours after the settlement was announced, the U.S. Mine Safety and Health Administration released a final report on the blast that detailed 369 safety violations at Upper Big Branch, including 12 it said contributed to the explosion.

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PEARL HARBOR SURVIVORS LEE SOUCY, LEFT, AND VERNON OLSEN are pictured. In accordance with their wishes, Soucy’s and Olsen’s ashes will be interred on each of their ships — Soucy’s on the USS Utah and Olsen’s on the USS Arizona. interred on his ship during a sunset ceremony today. The ashes of three other survivors are being scattered in the harbor.

Soucy, the youngest of seven children, joined the Navy out of high school so he wouldn’t burden his parents.

In 1941, he was a pharmacist mate, trained to care for the sick and wounded.

He had just finished breakfast that Sunday morning when he saw planes dropping bombs on airplane hangars.

He rushed to his battle station after feeling the Utah lurch but soon heard the call to abandon ship as the vessel began sinking. He swam to shore, where he made a makeshift first aid center to help the wounded and dying. He worked straight through for two days.

The Utah lost nearly 60 men on Dec. 7, and about 50 are still entombed in the bat-

tleship. Today, the rusting hull of the Utah sits on its side next to Ford Island, not far from where it sank 70 years ago.

Soucy’s daughter, Margaret, said her parents had initially planned to have their ashes interred together at their church in Plain-

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More and more, Santas say the children on their laps are asking for less for themselves — and Santa is promising less as well.

With unemployment stubbornly high, more homes in foreclosure and the economic outlook dim, many children who visit Santa are all too aware of the struggle to make ends meet.

“These children understand the conditions around the home when they ask for stuff,” said Richard Holden, a 69-year-old Santa from Gastonia, N.C. “They understand when there are other children in the family, they need to be cautious or thoughtful of them as well and not ask for 10 to 12 items.”

Cliff Snider, who’s been playing Santa since he was a teenager, agrees.

“I think the parents are saying, ‘It’s an economic thing.

Just list two to three things you really want to have,’” he said.

“Parents are trying to encourage the children to be thrifty.”

And the 64-year-old Snider does his best to help out.

When he gets a big-ticket request, he typically responds: “There’s an awful lot of children asking for that this year.

What else do you want?”

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Santa Claus School, Santas learn lines like, “Wow, that’s a big gift. Is there anything else you might like?”

These days, though, Santas are having to use it less and less.

“I think it’s becoming more popular not to have that long list,” said Tom Valent, dean of the Howard Santa school in Midland, Mich., which gets more than 3,000 letters to Santa a year and just graduated its 75th class. “Families are teaching their children to be as much of a giver as a receiver.”

Starlight Fonseca has been teaching her five children, ages 5 to 14, “that we’re not the only ones who have to cut things back. We’re not the only ones struggling.”

The 31-year-old mother and her husband Jose had been relying on a stipend from the University of Texas law school that Fonseca lost when an illness made it impossible for her to keep her grades up. She’d hoped to graduate in May but was unable to attend school this semester and can’t get student loans because of poor credit.

Fonseca tells her kids that “to make it fair for everyone, Santa has to cut back for everyone. ... We paint it in a way that Santa is doing the best he can to make everybody happy at Christmas.”

Of course, Santas still see some kids like the 9-year-old who pulled out a BlackBerry and showed Snider photos of all the things he wanted. “It cracked me up,” he said.

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Critical count City officials need to resolve the discrepancy between local and federal population counts for Lawrence.

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hat’s in a number?

A lot, if it is a federal Census number.

The U.S. Census Bureau and the city of Lawrence are on two different pages when it comes to how many people actually reside in Lawrence. When the Census data was released earlier this year, it found 87,643 people lived in the city. Lawrence planners do their own estimates each year and had expected at least 92,000 people to be counted in the city. That’s a difference of more than 4,000 people or nearly 5 percent. To put it another way, the Census found that the city’s population actually is what we thought it was back in 2004. According to the bureau, population growth in the city and county during the decade of the 2000s was the slowest since the days of the Great Depression.

All this is particularly important when you consider that the Census numbers are used for everything from determining our representation levels in Congress to our eligibility for a variety of state and federal grants. One group — the Brookings Institution — estimates that every uncounted person in Kansas cost local government about $1,100 per year in lost federal funding.

But there is more at stake than just money.

These Census numbers raise an important question: Have we been deluding ourselves for a decade? In the decades of the 1980s and the 1990s, Lawrence was truly a leader in terms of population growth in Kansas. We were found to be an attractive place that produced a high quality of life and good access to both Kansas City and Topeka. Certainly, we needed to create more local jobs, but we at least were a community of choice for many new residents.

For too long, too many people have assumed that our standing as a community of choice was rock solid. We still have not figured out how to produce nearly enough local jobs, and now the Census Bureau is providing compelling evidence that our standing in northeast Kansas is falling. This is unacceptable.

City leaders are not yet buying that the Census data is correct. They believe that the Census Bureau simply failed to count some living units in the city. City staff members are beginning to gather data to try to prove that point.

The city should make this effort a high priority.

Here is hoping that the Census Bureau is incorrect, and that the community has posted more growth than the Census Bureau indicates.

City leaders, however, need to prepare for the possibility that the Census Bureau count is right. There are indications that the city’s population estimates haven’t done enough to account for the rise in vacancy rates throughout the decade. The Census Bureau found more than 2,500 vacant living units in the city when it did its count. Some real estate professionals have said they don’t doubt that number.

The Census Bureau found that inner-city, older neighborhoods in Lawrence lost population during the last decade, while neighborhoods on the edge of the city gained. The numbers are an early sign of the traditional “donut hole” that has left the core of many cities desolate places. It is imperative that the city determine whether these Census numbers are a true trend or simply a false reading.

A basic responsibility of local government is to conduct solid planning that gives a community its best chance to be successful in the future. That will be a difficult task for Lawrence if we can’t even agree on how many people live here today.

Unfortunately, Lawrence today is paying the price of a deadly disease called “complacency,” which has infected the city and many of its leaders over the past 10 to 20 years.

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Leadership struggle continues in Egypt Now the real struggle for Egypt begins.

In round one of Egypt’s first free elections, Islamist parties strongly outperformed the others. Two more rounds of elections will take place by midMarch, but the message of the first round couldn’t be clearer.

Egypt’s political landscape will be dominated in the near term by parties with strong Muslim religious leanings. For all those who are concerned about this outcome, it’s important to understand what this does — and doesn’t — mean.

Egypt is not Iran. The people of this predominantly Sunni Muslim country do not believe in rule by clerics. Egypt’s Facebook revolt in Tahrir Square was organized by youths who believed in a civil, not a religious, state.

So why did the Muslim Brotherhood, via its Freedom and Justice Party, do so well at the polls?

In part, because the Facebook rebels proved unable to translate their skills into campaign operations. They continued to rally in Tahrir Square, but failed to organize effectively for elections, rather than creating a broad political coalition. They had no charismatic leaders with name recognition, and no clear platforms. Also, the large numbers of parties and the complicated voting system confused first-time voters.

The Muslim Brotherhood, on the other hand, offered a recognizable brand name. And for many traditional Muslims, the idea of a “good Muslim” getting

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Egypt’s political landscape will be dominated in the near term by parties with strong Muslim religious leanings.”

elected to office was comforting; the concept of civil (secular) parties was misunderstood, with the term secular misinterpreted as hostile to religion.

When I visited Cairo’s working-class Imbaba neighborhood in November, many locals told me they would vote for the Brotherhood party’s candidates because they were “good people who did good things for the poor.” Similarly, the more fundamentalist Nour Party of Salafi Islamists, which finished second in many districts, also garnered popularity by its charitable work.

Long banned from politics, the Brotherhood gave up violence and focused on social work. It developed a tight organizational structure all around the country and gathered thousands of loyal followers. It provided a steady stream of funds to the religious organization (as did Arab gulf countries). This gave it a great

monetary advantage over nonreligious parties.

Once its party was legalized, the Brotherhood’s cadres of veiled women and youths got out to vote. Its computerized operations weren’t unlike those of machine pols in the wards of Chicago or New York.

However, despite its success in the first voting round, the Brotherhood’s ultimate strength is still uncertain until the voting is entirely finished. Moreover, it is hardly the only political player in the new Egypt. It is still pitted in a three-way struggle with the ruling generals (known as the Supreme Military Council, or SCAF) and with those Egyptians who support a “civil” state.

The latter include non-Islamist political parties, along with civil-society organizations and human-rights groups.

Egypt’s political future will depend on how that struggle plays out.

The SCAF generals initially felt more comfortable dealing with the Brotherhood than they did with the Facebook rebels or civil-society groups. The latter were critical of the military’s human-rights violations and were less easy to control than the Brotherhood — or so the generals thought until very recently.

Now, the SCAF is rethinking, but not seriously enough.

The generals want to keep their perks and power even after the elections are over. The Facebook rebels and civil-society groups urged the SCAF to appoint a strong civilian interim government during the election transition, which would have

offset growing Islamist power.

But the generals refused. (They just appointed another weak member of the old guard as prime minister.)

This rejection — and the military’s war on civil society — has played into the Islamists’ hands.

Buoyed by their first-round victory, the Brotherhood’s party is insisting — in opposition to the military — that the new parliament should choose the interim government. It is also insisting that the parliament must choose all members of the committee that will write the new constitution; in a parliament dominated by Islamist parties, that bodes ill for Egypt’s future.

The generals have a choice: They can appoint a strong independent champion of a civil state such as Nobel laureate Mohamed ElBaradei to be interim prime minister, and hand over real power. This would provide a strong civilian counterweight to growing Islamist strength. Or the generals can stick with their present course, and watch their power diminish as elections give the Islamists political legitimacy as the strongest political force in the country. Unlike its treatment of civil society, the military dares not attack the Islamists with guns, lest they bring a million followers out on the streets.

To retain their legitimacy, the generals will have to concede some of their power. But the time for making that decision is running out.

— Trudy Rubin is a columnist and editorial-board member for the Philadelphia Inquirer.

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Act of kindness To the editor: I just want to thank the lady (first name Betty) who rescued me Friday. I stopped at the post office before going to my doctor’s appointment.

After mailing my letter, I was unable to get my car started and I had a doctor’s appointment in 30 minutes.

After listening to my sad story, Betty immediately transported me across town to my doctor’s appointment.

I tried to pay her, but she wouldn’t take it. So I want to thank you again Betty. I have a feeling you have the Christmas spirit year round. I hope I can pass your kind spirit on to someone else who needs help.

Saundra Rongish, Lawrence

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Lessons for us from 70 Christmases ago A thin fragment of moon stood watch that Christmas Eve as the president of the United States and the prime minister of Great Britain came out onto the South Portico of the White House. They were there to light the national Christmas tree — and to speak a holiday greeting to an uncertain world.

Two and a half weeks before — and 70 years ago today — the Japanese had devastated the American Pacific fleet at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii. A nation that had endured 12 grinding years of economic catastrophe was now plunged into a maelstrom of worldwide war. It was Christmas in time of turmoil, a season of brotherhood and peace under the shadow of genocide and war — and it fell to these two men to help the nation and the world make sense of that.

These times, thank God, are not like those. Though the nation finds itself mired in the worst economic disaster since the Depression of the 1930s, though it fights multiple wars, though terrorism is an ever present menace, America faces no existential danger, no threat to its very survival, as it did 70 Christmases ago.

Which is not to say these are easy times. If America’s continued existence is not in doubt, there is, nevertheless, fear of the shape that existence will take.

America seems diminished by her

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woes. Besides the wars, besides the economy, besides the terror, there are the schools, which are not educating; the infrastructure, which is cracking; the debt, which is ballooning; the anger, which is boiling; the divisions, which are widening.

And there is the hope, which is fading. In May, a Gallup poll found optimism for the future has fallen to record lows. Just 44 percent of Americans believe today’s youth will have better lives than their parents.

Is there anything more redolent of America than optimism?

When it is lost, something essential to the nation’s character is, too.

No, these times are not like those. In that America, people girded for sacrifice and sang new Christmas carols that rang bittersweet with uncertainty. “I’ll be home for Christmas,” went one, “if only in my dreams.” Another said, “Someday soon we all will be together — if the fates allow.”

In our America, people pepper spray or trample one another to get deals on video games and DVD players.

But both Americas were challenged, both shaken, both reached a year’s end in the shadow of a future that loomed foreboding and grim. As we wait to see how this America will respond, it is good to recall how that one did.

“Against enemies who preach the principles of hate and practice them,” said Roosevelt, “we set our faith in human love and in God’s care for us and all men everywhere.”

“Let the children have their night of fun and laughter,” said Churchill. “Let the gifts of Father Christmas delight their play. Let us grownups share to the full in their unstinted pleasures before we turn again to the stern task and the formidable years that lie before us, resolved that, by our sacrifice and daring, these same children shall not be robbed of their inheritance or denied their right to live in a free and decent world.”

Radio carried their words around the globe. Thousands more were there in person, standing beneath the shining tree.

Under a rind of moon in a time of war, they gazed up, and were bathed in Christmas light.

— Leonard Pitts Jr., winner of the 2004 Pulitzer Prize for commentary, is a columnist for the Miami Herald.

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It had been nearly a year since 3-year-old Robert Cole Corbridge had YEARS been attacked by a AGO pit bull terrier while IN 1986 playing at his grandmother’s Eudora home. After multiple operations to cleanse and close the wounds with skin grafts and 300 stitches, Robert’s recovery, according to his father, had been “really amazing.”

In the wake of the attack and the headlines it had generated, at least 46 towns in Kansas created laws to control dogs. While some dog owners had defended certain breeds, the Douglas County Commission in March had passed a resolution prohibiting ownership of “vicious” dogs and requiring owners of dogs prone to such behavior to carry a minimum of $50,000 of insurance.

— Compiled by Sarah St. John

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NON SEQUITUR

HI AND LOIS

BEETLE BAILEY

GARFIELD

PEARLS BEFORE SWINE

SHERMAN’S LAGOON

WILEY

PLUGGERS

GARY BROOKINS

GREG BROWNE/CHANCE WALKER

MORT, GREG & BRIAN WALKER

JIM DAVIS

STEPHAN PASTIS

FAMILY CIRCUS

PICKLES

BORN LOSER

PEANUTS

SHOE

HAGAR THE HORRIBLE

DOONESBURY

BIL KEANE

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MARK PARISI

BRIAN CRANE

CHIP SANSOM/ART SANSOM

CHARLES M. SCHULZ

JEFF MACNELLY

J.P. TOOMEY ZITS

BLONDIE

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DEAN YOUNG/JOHN MARSHALL

CHRIS BROWNE

GARRY TRUDEAU

MUTTS

BABY BLUES

GET FUZZY

JERRY SCOTT & JIM BORGMAN

PATRICK MCDONNELL

JERRY SCOTT/RICK KIRKMAN

DARBY CONLEY

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Wednesday, December 7, 2011

THURSDAY

FRIDAY

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SUNDAY

SATURDAY

7 TODAY

Not as cold with plenty of sun

Mostly cloudy

Partly sunny and cold

Bright sunshine

Mostly sunny and breezy

High 38° Low 14° POP: 0%

High 39° Low 17° POP: 10%

High 35° Low 16° POP: 10%

High 43° Low 21° POP: 5%

High 46° Low 26° POP: 5%

Wind WSW 4-8 mph

Wind SE 4-8 mph

Wind NNE 4-8 mph

Wind S 7-14 mph

Wind S 10-20 mph

POP: Probability of Precipitation

Kearney 34/12

McCook 35/11 Oberlin 35/11 Goodland 36/12

Beatrice 35/16

Oakley 36/10

Manhattan Russell Salina 38/15 36/15 Topeka 38/15 38/17 Emporia 38/19

Great Bend 37/17 Dodge City 40/18

Garden City 38/14 Liberal 43/17

Kansas City 38/20 Lawrence Kansas City 36/18 38/14

Chillicothe 37/18 Marshall 36/22 Sedalia 37/22

Nevada 38/22

Chanute 39/21

Hutchinson 39/14 Wichita Pratt 40/21 42/20

Centerville 35/19

St. Joseph 38/15

Sabetha 34/16

Concordia 35/14 Hays 37/14

Clarinda 34/19

Lincoln 36/15

Grand Island 33/16

Coffeyville Joplin 40/25 40/21

Springfield 38/20

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

LAWRENCE ALMANAC Through 8 p.m. Tuesday.

Temperature 30°/19° 43°/23° 70° in 1966 3° in 1950

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

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0.00 1.12 0.34 27.53 38.63

SUN & MOON

Full

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7:26 a.m.

4:58 p.m.

2:59 p.m.

4:42 a.m.

Last

7:27 a.m.

4:58 p.m.

3:38 p.m.

5:40 a.m.

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Billings 34/13

Minneapolis 28/9

San Francisco 56/42

Dec 17

Dec 24

LAKE LEVELS

As of 7 a.m. Tuesday Lake

Clinton Perry Pomona

Level (ft)

873.13 893.44 972.11

Discharge (cfs)

7 1092 25

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

Temperature bands are highs for today.

INTERNATIONAL CITIES Cities Acapulco Amsterdam Athens Baghdad Bangkok Beijing Berlin Brussels Buenos Aires Cairo Calgary Dublin Geneva Hong Kong Jerusalem Kabul London Madrid Mexico City Montreal Moscow New Delhi Oslo Paris Rio de Janeiro Rome Seoul Singapore Stockholm Sydney Tokyo Toronto Vancouver Vienna Warsaw Winnipeg

Today Hi Lo W 90 72 s 45 38 r 63 49 sh 65 45 s 88 70 t 39 25 pc 39 31 c 47 29 r 82 59 s 68 52 s 22 -1 c 45 39 pc 45 41 r 72 61 pc 62 47 s 49 25 s 46 37 pc 54 36 s 72 43 pc 36 23 pc 28 21 c 76 47 pc 37 20 c 47 40 r 86 76 t 56 48 s 43 28 pc 86 77 t 39 30 c 69 59 r 52 46 pc 34 28 pc 40 30 pc 43 34 sh 38 32 pc 19 3 pc

Hi 90 48 63 64 88 34 37 45 79 68 27 50 44 70 62 49 52 57 73 33 28 76 26 49 84 61 37 84 37 72 54 34 40 41 35 7

Thu. Lo W 72 s 46 r 47 s 45 s 70 t 21 s 36 c 39 r 59 pc 48 s 21 pc 37 r 38 pc 59 pc 46 s 24 s 39 r 37 s 41 pc 22 pc 21 pc 47 pc 24 s 44 sh 73 t 45 s 23 pc 77 t 28 pc 61 r 43 c 26 pc 32 s 38 s 24 sh -6 pc

Atlanta 48/33

Houston 54/32

Fronts Cold

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Washington 58/35

Kansas City 36/18

El Paso 44/26

Jan 1

Warm Stationary

New York 54/37

Chicago 34/23

Denver 38/13

Los Angeles 66/45

Dec 10

Detroit 38/25

Miami 82/66

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-10s -0s 0s 10s 20s 30s 40s 50s 60s 70s 80s 90s 100s 110s National Summary: Rain will stretch from northern Florida to southern and eastern New England today. As cold air invades from the west, a change to snow will progress from the Tennessee Valley to the central Appalachians. Light snow will stretch from around Lake Superior to northern Idaho.

Today Thu. Today Thu. Cities Hi Lo W Hi Lo W Cities Hi Lo W Hi Lo W Memphis 42 29 sf 50 32 s Albuquerque 37 19 s 42 24 s 82 66 pc 74 67 pc Anchorage 28 25 sn 33 24 sn Miami Milwaukee 32 20 pc 32 18 pc Atlanta 48 33 r 52 35 s Minneapolis 28 9 pc 20 2 pc Austin 52 27 s 59 35 s 44 26 c 49 28 s Baltimore 58 36 r 46 30 pc Nashville New Orleans 53 36 sh 54 38 s Birmingham 46 30 c 54 32 s 54 37 r 45 33 pc Boise 36 22 pc 35 20 pc New York 32 18 pc 31 16 c Boston 50 38 r 46 31 sn Omaha 82 52 sh 68 54 pc Buffalo 38 27 pc 36 27 pc Orlando Philadelphia 55 38 r 46 32 pc Cheyenne 38 12 pc 32 12 sf 58 38 s 64 42 s Chicago 34 23 pc 34 19 pc Phoenix Pittsburgh 40 25 r 38 26 pc Cincinnati 44 24 c 41 26 s 44 25 sn Cleveland 38 26 c 38 28 pc Portland, ME 48 32 r Portland, OR 46 33 pc 46 30 pc Dallas 47 29 s 57 32 s 47 21 s 46 19 s Denver 38 13 pc 34 10 pc Reno Richmond 62 39 r 51 31 pc Des Moines 32 19 pc 31 16 c 56 32 s 56 33 s Detroit 38 25 pc 39 25 pc Sacramento St. Louis 36 24 pc 42 28 pc El Paso 44 26 s 50 28 s Salt Lake City 36 20 s 38 18 pc Fairbanks 3 -3 c 10 5 sf San Diego 66 46 s 63 47 s Honolulu 80 68 s 82 69 s San Francisco 56 42 s 56 42 s Houston 54 32 s 60 35 s 45 32 pc 44 31 pc Indianapolis 38 23 pc 39 27 pc Seattle Spokane 34 21 c 32 18 pc Kansas City 36 18 s 40 21 c Tucson 53 32 s 59 36 s Las Vegas 54 36 s 56 40 s Tulsa 42 23 s 49 24 s Little Rock 46 27 pc 50 27 s Wash., DC 58 35 r 46 33 pc Los Angeles 66 45 s 67 46 s National extremes yesterday for the 48 contiguous states High: Inverness, FL 85° Low: Laramie, WY -27°

WEATHER HISTORY

On Dec. 7, 1982, San Francisco, Calif., maintained a constant temperature of 52 degrees. This tied the record for the least amount of temperature change in 24 hours.

WEATHER TRIVIA™

on Earth is the wind always from the north?

Q: Where

The South Pole.

Today

Sunrise Sunset Moonrise Moonset

NATIONAL FORECAST

Seattle 45/32

A:

High/low Normal high/low today Record high today Record low today

REGIONAL CITIES

Today Thu. Today Thu. Cities Hi Lo W Hi Lo W Cities Hi Lo W Hi Lo W Independence 40 26 s 44 20 s Atchison 36 14 s 38 17 c Fort Riley 38 15 s 37 16 c Belton 38 20 s 41 23 c 37 19 s 41 23 c Burlington 37 17 s 43 20 pc Olathe Osage Beach 34 23 s 41 23 pc Coffeyville 40 25 s 45 20 s Osage City 38 15 s 40 19 c Concordia 35 14 pc 36 18 c 36 19 s 41 21 pc Dodge City 40 18 s 37 16 pc Ottawa Wichita 40 21 s 42 21 pc Holton 38 17 s 40 18 c Weather (W): s-sunny, pc-partly cloudy, c-cloudy, sh-showers, t-thunderstorms, r-rain, sf-snow flurries, sn-snow, i-ice.

Mentoring program for convicts reaches goal WICHITA — Kansas officials say they have met their initial goal of recruiting 500 mentors to teach convicts the life skills they need when they get out of prison.

Gov. Sam Brownback and Corrections Secretary Ray Roberts made the announcement Tuesday at a news conference at the Kansas Urban League in Wichita.

The Mentoring4Success initiative pairs mentors with inmates six to 12 months before their release to reduce the inmates’ risk of committing other crimes and returning to prison.

The search for additional mentors continues because about 4,700 people are released from prison each year. About half of them need help with housing, employment, family and other issues.

ECM University-Community Forum, planning meeting for Spring 2012 UC Forum, noon, Ecumenical Campus Ministries, 1204 Oread Ave. Big Brothers Big Sisters of Douglas County, noon, 536 Fireside Court, Suite B. Information meeting for prospective volunteers. For more information, call 8437359.

Class: Make Your Own Holiday Cards with artist-in-residence Carla Aspenberg, 5 p.m.-7 p.m., Lawrence Arts Center printmaking studio, 940 N.H. Cost: $30.

Billy Spears and the Beer Bellies, 6 p.m., Johnny’s Tavern, 401 N. Second St. Douglas County Commission meeting, 6:35 p.m., Douglas County Courthouse, 1100 Mass.

The Salvation Army Holiday Community Dinner, 1 p.m.-2 p.m., 946 N.H. Volunteers needed 9:30 a.m.-3 p.m.

17th annual Gingerbread Festival Auction, 6-10 p.m., Carnegie Building, 200 W. Ninth St. Last Wednesday Book Club: “A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius,” 7 p.m., Lawrence Public Library, 707 Vt. Every Child Ready to Read, for families, 7 p.m., Lawrence Public Library, 707 Vt. “White Christmas,” 7:30 p.m., Theatre Lawrence, 1501 N.H. Conroy’s Trivia, 7:30 p.m., Conroy’s Pub, 3115 W. Sixth St. Free salsa lessons, 8:309:30 p.m., Taste Lounge, 804 W. 24th St. Pride Night, 9 p.m., Wilde’s Chateau, 2412 Iowa.

Dollar Bowling, 9:30 p.m. to 1 a.m., Royal Crest Lanes, 933 Iowa.

8 THURSDAY

Red Dog’s Dog Days winter workout, 6 a.m., Allen Fieldhouse, Enter through the south doors and meet on the southeast corner of the second floor.

Adult class: Technology Petting Zoo, 2 p.m., Lawrence Public Library, 707 Vt. Theology on Tap, discussion of a selected religion topic, 5:30 p.m. to 7 p.m., Henry’s, 11 E. Eighth St. Cocktails and Carols with Kim Murphree and Friends, 7 p.m.-10 p.m., The Eldridge Hotel, 701 Mass.

Tickets: $5, under age 16 free.

Junkyard Jazz Band, 7 p.m., American Legion, 3408 W. Sixth St. A Holiday Happening: Dessert and Friendship, sponsored by Douglas County Democrats, 7 p.m., Carnegie Building, 200 W. Ninth St. Lawrence Arts & Crafts group, 7-9 p.m., Java Break, 17 E. Seventh St. Jazz Vespers, 7:30 p.m., Lied Center, 1600 Stewart Drive.

“Early Music for the Holiday Season, or, The Return of the Crumhorns,” 7:30 p.m., Bales Recital Hall, 1600 Stewart Drive.

“White Christmas,” 7:30 p.m., Theatre Lawrence, 1501 N.H.

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“Noah’s Art,” 7:30 p.m., Inge Theatre, Murphy Hall, 1530 Naismith Drive.

Big Deal Band, 9 p.m., Slow Ride Roadhouse, 1350 N. Third St.

10 SATURDAY

Trivia Smackdown: Quiz For a Cause There’s no shortage of trivia in Lawrence, but only one trivia game this week is for an actual, charitable cause aside from stifling boredom and securing bragging rights amongst the trivia elite. Trivia Smackdown: Quiz For a Cause allows you to do the previously mentioned gloating, but win or lose you can proudly say that you helped Engineers Without Borders USA: Sunflower State Professionals in the process. The Topeka-based branch of the international organization has a pair of projects going right now.

Engineers have volunteered to provide services in the Kopila water project in Festival Town, Nigeria. And a scoping trip was planned to Guatemala in November.

All proceeds from tonight’s trivia smackdown are going to Engineering Without Borders USA. It’s $10 to register individually or $50 for a team. There is no limit on how many teams register. Andy Morton hosts the game, which starts at 7 p.m. at the Bottleneck, 737 N.H.

Poker Night, 8 p.m., Applebee’s, 2520 Iowa.

Team trivia, 9 p.m., Johnny’s West, 721 Wakarusa Drive.

9 FRIDAY

Coffee with the Experts, guest speaker: Steve Nowak, executive director, Douglas County Historical Society and Watkins Museum, 9:3010:30 a.m., Eldridge Hotel, 701 Mass.

Book signing: “The Paradise Cafe and Bakery Cookbook” by Missy McCoy, 5-7 p.m., The Raven, 8 E. Seventh St. Ecumenical Advent Taize Service, 6 p.m., Good Shepherd Lutheran Church, 2211 Inverness Drive.

Performance Development Haven for young artists, 6:30 p.m., Victory Bible Church, 1942 Mass.

Holiday Music in the Stacks: Fiddlers from the Americana Music Academy, 6:30 p.m., Lawrence Public Library, 707 Vt. Fundraiser for the Community Health Center Project, 7 p.m., Carnegie Building, 200 W. Ninth St. The Kansas Nutcracker, 2011 Sesquicentennial Edition with Mandolin Orchestra, 7 p.m., Lawrence Arts Center, 940 N.H. “White Christmas,” 7:30 p.m., Theatre Lawrence, 1501 N.H.

Red Dog’s Dog Days, 7:30 a.m., parking lot behind Kizer-Cummings Jewelry, Ninth and Vermont streets.

Breakfast with Santa, 8:30 a.m.-11:30 a.m., Community Building, 115 W. 11th St. .

Holiday Farmers’ Market, 9 a.m.-5 p.m., Holiday Inn Lawrence, 200 McDonald Drive.

Saxophone Studio Recital, 9 a.m. Swarthout Recital Hall, Murphy Hall, 1530 Naismith Drive.

LOLA Giant 2011 Holiday Show, 10 a.m.-4 p.m., Van Go Arts, 715 N.J. Jayhawk Audubon Society Holiday Bird Seed, Book and Feeder Sale, 10 a.m.-1 p.m., Lawrence Senior Center, 745 Vt. Runaway Pony Bed and Breakfast opening and fundraiser for LHS Band, noon-8 p.m., 603 Tenn.”

Festival of Nativities, noon-4 p.m., Centenary United Methodist Church, North Fourth and Elm streets in North Lawrence, donations accepted.

“Stocking The Pantry” - A Transition Kaw Valley Workshop, 1-5 p.m., First Baptist Church, 1330 Kasold Drive.

December Music Series, New Horizons Clarinet Quintet,1 p.m., Watkins Community Museum, 1047 Mass.

Oboe Studio Recital, 1 p.m., Swarthout Recital Hall, Murphy Hall, 1530 Naismith Drive.

Ragtime Piano Rehearsal / Jam Session, 2-4 p.m., Watkins Community Museum of History, 1047 Mass.

Americana Music Academy Saturday Jam, 3 p.m., Americana Music Academy, 1419 Mass.

The Kansas Nutcracker, 2011 Sesquicentennial Edition with Mandolin Orchestra, 7 p.m., Lawrence Arts Center, 940 N.H. The Celtic Tenors, 7:30 p.m., Lied Center, 1600 Stewart Drive.

“White Christmas,” 7:30 p.m., Theatre Lawrence, 1501 N.H. “Noah’s Art,” 7:30 p.m., Inge Theatre, Murphy Hall, 1530 Naismith Drive.

A Festival of Song: Carols From Around the World by the Lawrence Civic Choir, 7:30 p.m., Free Methodist Church, 3001 Lawrence Ave. Noise For Toys Benefit for Toys for Tots: Noise FM, Making Movies, Cowboy Indian Bear, Team Bear Club, 8 p.m., the Bottleneck, 737 N.H. KPR Holiday Jazz Show, 8 p.m., Liberty Hall, 642 Mass.

Stranger Creek Band, 8 p.m., Knights of Columbus, 2206 E. 23rd St. Soul’d Out, 9 p.m., Slow Ride Roadhouse, 1350 N. Third St. Young Comedians of Kansas City, 10 p.m., Duffy’s, 2222 W. Sixth St.

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Practice makes perfect Carly Malsom and Austin Roberson, both of Lawrence, rehearsed at Point B Dance for their duet in the B HUMAN Dance Concert. Malsom and Roberson, members of the Art In Motion Dance Company, performed Nov. 5 at the Lawrence Arts Center. Cathy Patterson, artistic director of the Art In Motion Dance Company, submitted the photo.

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LAWRENCE JOURNAL-WORLD LJWorld.com/sports Wednesday, December 7, 2011

Not great late KANSAS 88, LONG BEACH STATE 80

Nick Krug/Journal-World Photos

KANSAS FORWARD THOMAS ROBINSON MUGS FOR TELEVISION CAMERAS after a put-back dunk against Long Beach State. Robinson had a game-high 26 points in the Jayhawks’ 88-80 victory Tuesday at Allen Fieldhouse.

KU’s carelessness has Self steaming

By Gary Bedore gbedore@ljworld.com

Sure, it was great that Thomas Robinson scored a careerhigh 26 points and dandy that Jeff Withey nearly recorded a triple-double with 13 points, 13 rebounds and nine blocks.

Those individual feats didn’t have coach Kansas University basketball coach Bill Self smiling after his Jayhawks’ entertaining, but sloppy, 88-80 victory over Long Beach State on Tuesday night in Allen Fieldhouse.

“We are the worst passing team I have ever seen,” Self proclaimed after watching his team see a 19-point lead to shrink to four late, courtesy of a second half in which the Jayhawks committed 16 turnovers against just four assists. Overall, KU had 16 assists and 22 turnovers and had the ball stolen a whopping 15 times.

“It’s ridiculous to watch,” Self

Teahan plays big for Jayhawks

added. “You can look up and down the lineup, and there’s nobody that values the ball at all.”

Self was so miffed at his team’s passing that he cautioned the fans what they might expect in Saturday’s 2:15 p.m. home battle against No. 2 Ohio State.

“If we handle the ball like that, they can pick the score,” Self said. “Let’s just call it like it is. They will pick the score in our own building if we handle the ball like that. We have to do a better job. Elijah (Johnson, four turnovers, five assists, 20 minutes) ... unbelievable, the plays he made after he subbed back in after his sitting because of his fourth foul (with 16:40 left). Incredible he can make those plays when he’s sitting over there watching and knowing the score and the circum- KANSAS DEFENDERS JEFF WITHEY (5) AND stances in which we need him to TRAVIS RELEFORD GET UP to stuff a shot by give us some minutes to win the Long Beach State forward Eugene Phelps.

The two Jayhawks combined on nine blocks Please see KANSAS, page 4B against LBSU (Withey had nine of them).

Three Kansas University basketball players sat at the interview table after the Jayhawks survived 16 second-half turnovers and a talented Long Beach State team to win, 88-80, Tuesday night in Allen Fieldhouse.

Center Jeff Withey had a mustache of fresh blood.

“My tooth went into my lip and went through it, got some blood flowing,” Withey said.

“It’s definitely painful. My lip’s going to be swollen for a little while, but it obviously wasn’t that big of a deal if I could come back and play.”

Not quite five minutes into the interview session as Conner Teahan was talking, Thomas Robinson began making sounds of a man in pain, either having cramps or knocking his knee on the table. He limped out of the room 90 seconds later.

Tyshawn Taylor wore a sleeve over a brace on his right knee, the result of an injury

Ex-KU AD lauds Zenger’s approach

By Matt Tait mtait@ljworld.com

Fans of Kansas University football may be growing tired of the silence surrounding KU’s quest to find a new head coach, but there are those out there who are impressed by the crafty way with which KU athletic director Sheahon Zenger has conducted the search.

“I admire him for what he’s doing and the way he’s doing it,” said former KU AD Monte Johnson, who held the post from 198287. “He indicated right from the start that’s the way he was gonna conduct the search. He didn’t try to mislead anybody. And I have nothing but great respect for what he’s trying to do.”

During his brief time leading Kansas athletics, Johnson had a hand in hiring three football coaches. The first, prior to the 1983 season, was Mike Gottfried, who previously injected life into the football cultures at Murray State and Cincinnati. The second came after Gottfried left following the 1985 season, when Johnson turned to KU assistant Bob Valesente. Valesente lasted just two seasons, and although both Johnson and Valesente left KU after the 1987 season, it was a tip from Johnson about a young coach named Glen Mason that helped lead KU to find Valesente’s successor.

Johnson remembers about each search. In many ways, he was proud of each. One thing

he made sure to emphasize was that the coaches he went after were in good standing with the schools they were at or had been at previously.

“I don’t think there was one coach on my list that had recently been fired,” said Johnson, recalling the search of 1982.

That was by design. Johnson said pursuing coaches who have been fired within the past several weeks can send the wrong message. Although none of the names on Zenger’s official list are known absolutely, some that have been floated in the past week include Houston Nutt (Ole Miss), Pat Hill (Fresno State) and Mike Sherman (Texas A&M). Each was fired within the past two weeks. None are

Tom Keegan tkeegan@ljworld.com

incurred in Monday’s practice.

He grimaced at times but battled his way through 34 minutes off the bench. KU coach Bill Self said the knee injury was “the primary reason” he didn’t start. He was unavailable for comment afterward.

Bodies were bent, but not broken, which is a good thing because a team with so little depth can ill afford to play short-handed.

Naadir Tharpe hasn’t developed to the point he has Please see KEEGAN, page 5B

DRIVIN’ LION

believed to be serious candidates for the job.

“I’m not sure that I would refer to them as dangers, but any time you’re looking at someone who was recently relieved of their duties, it almost automatically conjures up questions in people’s minds,” Johnson said.

“I have to think, if Sheahon has his choice, he’s going to find a sitting coach that has done well and has the strengths that he’s looking for.”

Beyond the negative connotations that come with targeting a coach who has just been fired, Kevin Anderson/Journal-World Photo one of the biggest reasons Johnson says it’s best to stay away is LAWRENCE HIGH’S MARISSA POPE (20) TAKES THE BALL TO THE PAINT during the Lions’ the time-crunch factor.

35-30 victory over Junction City on Tuesday Please see SEARCH, page 6B at LHS. Story on page 3B.

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Syracuse probe faces obstacles ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — Prosecutors investigating allegations of child molestation against former Syracuse assistant basketball coach Bernie Fine face obstacles that include finding corroborating proof, statutes of limitations on old accusations and the credibility of the men who accuse him of sex abuse.

The 65-year-old Fine, who had

been coach Jim Boeheim’s top assistant since 1976, has adamantly denied wrongdoing. He was fired when three men made public accusations and ESPN played a 2002 recording of a phone call in which a woman ESPN identified as Laurie Fine, the coach’s wife, tells accuser Bobby Davis she knew “everything that went on.�

But state charges against Fine

are out, for the time being. Davis is now 39, and his stepbrother Mike Lang, another former ball boy who also told ESPN that Fine molested him, is 45; both men say they were first abused as boys in the 1980s. Any crimes against them happened so long ago that the statute of limitations has expired. Davis went to police in 2002, but even then, it already

TODAY • Boys swimming at Manhattan, 3:30 p.m.

was too late to bring any charges in New York.

That leaves a federal prosecution.

The U.S. Secret Service is running that investigation, and it hinges on the claims of a third man, Zach Tomaselli of Lewiston, Maine. He has told authorities that Fine molested him in 2002 in a Pittsburgh hotel room.

LAWRENCE HIGH

TODAY • Boys swimming at Manhattan, 3:30 p.m.

THURSDAY • Boys basketball vs. KC Sumner at Blue Valley Shootout, 8:30 p.m. • Wrestling vs. Olathe South, 7 p.m.

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THURSDAY • Boys basketball vs. TBA at Eudora Tournament, 5 p.m.

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SPORTS ON TV TODAY College Basketball

Time

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North Dakota v. UMKC 7 p.m.

L. Beach St. v. KU replay 7 p.m.

Arizona v. Florida 6 p.m.

Colorado State v. Duke 6 p.m.

C. Conn. St. v. Michigan St. 6 p.m.

Vermond v. St. Louis 7 p.m.

W. Kentucky v. S. Illinois 7 p.m.

Pepperdine v. N. Arizona 7:30 p.m.

Xavier v. Butler 8 p.m.

St. Bonaventure v. Illinois 8 p.m.

Oklahoma St. v. Mo. St. 8 p.m.

Iona v. Denver 8 p.m.

By Larry Stone The Seattle Times

Please don’t call it a bittersweet day, his daughter said, because Ron Santo didn’t abide bitterness.

Focus on the sweet, urged Linda Santo, because — this is trite, but oh so true — Ron would have wanted it that way.

Santo, the best baseball player ever produced in Seattle, finally made it into the Baseball Hall of Fame on Monday — belatedly, and posthumously (or, as he once said in one of his endearing malapropisms, post-humorously). But he made it.

After so many false alarms, so many past election days in which Ron, against his better judgment, allowed himself to get his hopes up, only to have them come crashing down, the Veterans Committee finally came to its senses.

The composition of the committee kept changing over the years, until finally, this time it was down to 16 members, including his old Cubs buddy, Billy Williams, who served as an invaluable advocate.

And this time, the vote came down on the right side of Santo — 15 of the 16 voting in favor of immortalizing one of the greatest third basemen of his era, and one of the greatest ambassadors the game has ever seen. He becomes the third native Washingtonian in the Hall of Fame, joining Ryne Sandberg and Earl Averill.

That’s wonderful news, and I’m particularly happy for his family, including his older sister, Adielene, who still lives in Auburn, Wash., and for Ron’s loyal group of friends in Seattle.

When she got the news Monday morning in a phone call from Ron’s son, Jeff, Adielene was hit with a wave of emotion. “I was very, very sad that Ron couldn’t be here for this,� she said. “And I was very, very happy, because he deserved it.�

It’s impossible not to wish that Santo had gotten to experience this day, for which he had yearned so long. “We’re all elated that finally, justice prevailed,� said Frank Savelli, one of those lifelong friends from Seattle who lived and died, along with Ron, with each illfated vote. “But it’s a darned shame he’s not here to see it.�

It’s especially cruel to think that Santo missed it by just a year, after suffering through so many near-misses. Santo died Dec. 3, 2010, of complications from bladder cancer. He was 70, and in some ways it was a miracle he lived that long, considering the lifelong battle he waged with diabetes, a fight that cost him both legs and necessitated dozens of operations (that’s no exaggeration).

And yet I’ve never met anyone as relentlessly positive as Santo, who was always convinced that the next season was when the Cubs were finally going to win the World Series, and the next election was the one that would get him into the Hall of Fame. And, most important, that a cure for diabetes — his mission in life — was just around the corner.

One of his closest Seattle friends, Bill Chatalas, told me that Ron never wanted to make the Hall out of sympathy. “He and I had more than one conversation, probably several, about this whole deal,� Chatalas said. “He was almost afraid they’d vote him in after he died because he died, rather than what he did on the field. He should have been in on his merits, not because he died.�

Ultimately, I think it was his merits that finally got him in, although maybe a little guilt was involved, too. “I had the funniest feeling after he died that something would come out this year,� said Adielene Santo.

This is a happy day in Seattle, but it’s particularly meaningful in Chicago. Ernie Banks might have been “Mr. Cub� but Santo was right there with him, in the trenches, until the end. Tom Ricketts, the Cubs owner, said aptly of Santo’s selection, “I think this means a lot to a lot of Cubs fans. It was always a missing piece in the puzzle of Cubs history.�

For Ron Santo’s baseball legacy, Cooperstown is the final resting place.

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WASHINGTON STATE ATHLETIC DIRECTOR BILL MOOS, LEFT, introduces Mike Leach as WSU’s new head football coach. Leach spoke during a news conference Tuesday in Pullman, Wash.

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Report: Big East swells by 5 NEW YORK — The Big East’s long-awaited additions are set, with more rebuilding to come.

The conference is preparing to announce the additions of Boise State and San Diego State as football-only members and Houston, Central Florida and SMU for all sports as soon as today, a person with knowledge of the situation told the Associated Press. The five schools will join in 2013.

The person spoke Tuesday on condition of anonymity because details were still being worked out with the schools and plans for an announcement were being completed.

The Big East has been trying to rebuild as a 12-school football conference since Syracuse and Pittsburgh announced they would be moving to the ACC and West Virginia announced it was leaving for the Big 12. TCU also reneged on a commitment to join the Big East and instead accepted an invite to the Big 12.

The Star-Ledger in New Jersey first reported the Big East was on the verge of making the additions.

The Big East has also been pursuing Navy and Air Force as football-only members, but the military academies are not yet ready to commit to the conference, the person said.

While the Big East is finally about to expand, it’s still very much a league in flux.

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Leach takes over at Washington State PULLMAN, WASH. — New Washington State football coach Mike Leach said Tuesday that some people have been asking him why he wanted to take over a downtrodden program in a remote town in the Pacific Northwest.

His response? “I think that’s a stupid question,� Leach said, drawing a roar from about 1,000 fans, players and marching band members at a rally where he was introduced Tuesday. “You can win here and win big, I believe.�

Leach, a former coach at Texas Tech, was hired last week to replace Paul Wulff, who was fired after going 9-40 in four seasons at the helm at Washington State.

Leach has been out of coaching the past two seasons. But he was 84-43 at Texas Tech, leading the Red Raiders to 10 bowl appearances in 10 seasons, before being fired in 2009 amid allegations he mistreated a player with a concussion.

On Tuesday, he thanked Washington State athletic director Bill Moos for hiring him, and he thanked the coaches who came before him for laying the foundation for success.

He said he is contacting his former assistant coaches at Texas Tech as he seeks to fill out his staff. Leach said it’s too soon to say whether he will keep any of Wulff’s assistants.

Leach will make $2.25 million per year in salary and other guaranteed income. His contract also includes bonus payments for things such as winning the Pac-12 championship or going to a BCS bowl that could push his pay to over $3 million. That includes $25,000 for winning the Apple Cup against archrival Washington.

Washington State could not have afforded Leach without revenue from a new Pac-12 television contract that will eventually pay each school up to $20 million per year, Moos said.

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Commissioner John Marinatto has pledged to hold Syracuse, Pittsburgh and West Virginia to the league bylaws and keep the schools in the Big East for two more football seasons. Syracuse, Pitt and the ACC have said they would like to move on as soon as possible, but are not challenging the Big East’s rules.

PSU might miss deadline STATE COLLEGE, PA. — Penn State likely won’t provide the NCAA all the answers it wants by a Dec. 16 deadline for its inquiry into whether the school broke rules with its handling of the scandal that cost Joe Paterno his job. School president Rodney Erickson said Tuesday the university would respond to the NCAA by the deadline as a “work in progress.�

Arkansas names coordinator FAYETTEVILLE, ARK. — Paul Petrino was hired as No. 7 Arkansas’ offensive coordinator on Tuesday. Petrino, the former Illinois offensive coordinator, was hired to replace Garrick McGee, who was introduced a day earlier as the new coach at Alabama-Birmingham.

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Shortened schedule set NEW YORK — The Los Angeles Lakers will play games on the first three nights of the NBA season, the first of 42 back-to-back-toback sets teams will face during this lockoutshortened season. The NBA announced the compacted, 66-game schedule Tuesday night, one that will require every team to play on three consecutive nights at least once. And it will force every team to navigate demanding stretches that are never seen during a full season, such as the nine games in 12 nights the Atlanta Hawks face starting with their Dec. 27 opener.

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Sox send Santos to Jays DALLAS — The Chicago White Sox traded closer Sergio Santos to the Toronto Blue Jays on Tuesday, sending him back to the organization where he spent three seasons trying to make the majors as a shortstop.

Toronto gave up pitching prospect Nestor Molina to acquire the 28-year-old Santos.

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Mets, Rauch agree DALLAS — The New York Mets agreed Tuesday to a one-year contract with reliever Jon Rauch, their first move since All-Star shortstop Jose Reyes left for the Miami Marlins, a person familiar with the deal told the Associated Press.

1973 — Jerry West of Los Angeles sets an NBA record with 10 steals in the Lakers’ 115-111 loss to the Seattle Supersonics.

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By Benton Smith basmith@ljworld.com

Free State High boys basketball coach Chuck Law couldn’t help but feel a bit relieved after the Firebirds’ 6757 season-opening win over Topeka Seaman on Tuesday night at home.

FSHS might have held off a second-half push by the Vikings, but with 15 turnovers in the final 16 minutes, Law wasn’t about to give the debut a glowing review.

“It was murky,” Law said, grinning Most of the muck came in the third quarter, when Free State (1-0) turned the ball over 10 times, but somehow extended its halftime lead of 13 to 14 entering the fourth quarter.

“That’s hard to do,” Law said. “We were real careless with the ball. A lot of guys take a dribble first and look to pass second. That’s not what we’re gonna do to be successful. We’re not gonna be able to just beat people off the dribble, and that hasn’t been anything we’ve done in 17 practices. We’ve been really good at pushing and sharing and moving without the ball. I guess you get under the heat a little bit, and you just go back to your old habits.”

As the Vikings (0-2) tried to mount a fourth-quarter comeback, the Firebirds held them off with transition baskets from seniors Brett Frantz, Cameron Dabney and Shawn Knighton.

Also, FSHS went 12-for-15 at the free-throw line in the fourth, with Frantz hitting six straight in the final minute.

The senior guard did even more damage in the first half, making six of his seven shot attempts, including two three-pointers, on his way to a 25-point night. He even added seven boards, three assists and three steals.

Knighton, who scored 13 points, said Frantz’s versatility was key in the win.

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TOP: FREE STATE’S KENNEDY KIRKPATRICK (11) DRIVES to the paint against Topeka Seaman on Tuesday at FSHS. LEFT: Free State senior Brett Frantz (15) drives during the boys’ game against Seaman.

“Brett’s a good player,” Knighton said. “He can shoot, he can drive, he can hit free throws.”

The Firebirds, Frantz said, were at their best when they got out and ran, which was a critical element of a 14-2 run late in the second quarter.

“Our main goal is to get runnin’,” Frantz said. “That’s what we need to do.”

In that stretch, Blake Winslow, Knighton, Logan Bannister and Frantz all scored, setting up a 13-point lead entering halftime.

Law said there was a lot of room for improvement, but he liked the effort and energy out of all 10 players who played in the season opener.

“They were all into it, they were all engaged,” Law said, “and that’s a big factor in coaching high school sports.”

Free State 39, Topeka Seaman 30 Experience was on the side of the Free State girls Tuesday night in their season opener.

With all five starters returning from a year ago, the Firebirds comfortably with-

stood Topeka Seaman’s second-half counterattack and controlled the fourth quarter in a 39-30 victory.

FSHS held the Vikings scoreless for the first 4:32 of the fourth, and outscored the visitors, 7-2, in the final eight minutes.

Though Free State (1-0) only led by four entering the final period, junior Chelsea Casady got the Firebirds’ late scoring in motion with a baseline jumper. Junior Kennedy Kirkpatrick hit her fifth three-pointer of the night to extend the lead to nine and, later, as the final seconds ticked off the clock, Kirkpatrick stole the ball on the sideline and whipped a pass backward, over her head, setting up senior Jackie Garcia for a lay-up just before the final horn sounded.

“I think our experience showed tonight,” coach Bryan Duncan said.

The Firebirds had resolve as the Vikings (1-1) began hitting more shots and opened the third quarter with a 6-0 run. Then Kirkpatrick hit three straight baskets, bookending that streak with threepointers. She said FSHS had

to answer Seaman’s quick start in the third.

“We talked at halftime about just keeping our composure,” she said, “because we knew they were gonna come out and make a run.”

Free State made its biggest run out of the gate, opening the game with a 13-3 stretch.

Senior Lynn Robinson hit both of her three-pointers in the first, and Kirkpatrick, who finished with 21 points, and A’Liyah Rogers also delivered buckets for FSHS. Duncan said the early 10-point advantage resulted from the players’ collective approach.

“I think the kids came out with a lot of energy and desire,” Duncan said.

Kirkpatrick was pleased with the Firebirds’ debut.

“I was definitely impressed with the way we played,” she said. “I was glad that we came out strong in the first quarter, because sometimes we can wait ‘til the game gets fast-tempo and start to pick it up.”

Free State’s teams play a road doubleheader at 6:15 p.m. Friday, at Shawnee Heights in Tecumseh.

Lawrence High girls grind out 35-30 victory

By Corey Thibodeaux cthibodeaux@ljworld.com

Lawrence High and Junction City looked as if they were playing in mud for an entire girls basketball game, with the exception of 10 game-changing seconds.

The Lions (2-0) outlasted the visiting Blue Jays, 35-30, on Tuesday after a rare burst of action in the third quarter.

“It saved the game for us, in my mind,” coach Nick Wood said.

The Lions, who led 15-14 at the half, had no points for the first 7:50 of the third quarter. Defense kept LHS in the game when the offense disappeared, and Junction City

10 seconds to go, junior Anna Wright found herself wideLawrence High girls 35, open for a three to tie the Junction City 30 game. Almost immediately, LHS 5 10 5 15—35 junior Krista Costa stole the JC 2 12 4 12—30 Lawrence (35) ball and ran free down the Monica Howard 4-5 1-3 9, Bri Anderson 3-7 3-6 9, Krista Costa 3-4 0-0 6, Bri Anglin 0-1 court, just getting the ball 4-4 4, Anna Wright 1-1 1-2 4, Emma Kelly 1-2 in before the third-quarter 1-5 3, Kylie Seaman 0-2 0-0 0, Marissa Pope 0-3 0-0 0, Kionna Coleman 0-4 0-2, Christina buzzer sounded.

Haswood 0-6 0-0 0; Totals 12-35 10-22 35.

All of a sudden, the whole Junction City (30) of the game Bria Yazzie 1-3 1-2 3, Shanna Witt 4-14 0-0 complexion 9, Peyton Pender 1-4 2-2 4, Jessie Gjerstad changed, and the Lions used 3-11 3-7 9, Raven Davis 0-1 0-0 0, Kori Kamm 1-2 1-2 3, Keara Stokes 0-1 0-0 0, Rosie Hollis the momentum to build an 0-0 2-2 2. Totals 10-36 9-15. eight-point lead to start the Three-point goals: LHS – Kylie Seaman 0-2, Wright 1-1.; J.C. – Shanna Witt 1-3, fourth. The Blue Jays did get (Peyton Pender, Jessie Gjerstad). within three at one point, but Turnovers: Lawrence High 19, Junction City 28. Shooting: LHS 34.3 percent; JC 27.8 per- there wasn’t enough time left cent. to turn it into a comeback.

“If we weren’t able to get had gained only a three-point some stops here and there, it lead. could have been a long night Then, with just less than for us,” Wood said. “We sure

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as heck weren’t doing much offensively.”

Four players led all scorers with nine points: juniors Monica Howard and Bri Anderson from LHS and Shanna Witt and Jessie Gjerstad from Junction City.

Wood said his team, which has a starting roster of four juniors and one freshman, is going through growing pains as young players gain experience.

The two teams combined for 47 turnovers, but for Wood, it still felt great to win ugly.

“It feels a lot better to be 2-0 than 1-1,” he said. “We’re never going to apologize for winning.”

BOYS BOX SCORE Free State boys 67, Topeka Seaman 57 TSHS 8 9 16 24 — 57 FSHS 9 21 17 20 — 67 TOPEKA-SEAMAN (57) Ryan Colombo 6-13 0-1 14, Tyler Ward 4-10 2-5 15, Butch Rea 1-9 8-8 10, Mason Miller 2-5 3-4 7, Wyatt Hendrix 0-5 0-0 0, Trayl Chaffee 1-4 1-1 3, Sean Higley 2-4 4-5 8. Totals 16-50 21-25 57.

FREE STATE (67) Shawn Knighton 3-5 7-9 13, Cameron Dabney 2-10 3-4 7, Brett Frantz 8-12 7-9 25, Tyler Self 2-9 0-1 4, Gabe Patterson 2-4 2-2 6, Kyle McFarland 1-1 3-4 6, Logan Bannister 1-2 0-0 2, Blake Winslow 2-4 0-0 4, Wilson Hack 0-1 0-0 0, Joe Dineen 0-0 0-0 0. Totals 21-48 22-29 67.

Three-point goals: Seaman 4-18 (Colombo 2, Ward 2); Free State 3-8 (Frantz 2, McFarland). Fouled out: Seaman (Colombo). Shooting: Seaman 16-50 (32-percent); Free State 21-48 (44-percent).

Turnovers: Seaman 12, Free State 24.

GIRLS BOX SCORE Free State girls 39, Topeka Seaman 30 TSHS 5 7 16 2 — 30 FSHS 13 9 10 7 — 39 TOPEKA-SEAMAN (30) Kaylee Lambrecht 4-5 1-2 9, Mallory Diederich 0-4 0-0 0, Mallory Searcy 2-7 1-3 5, Shelby Slimmer 2-7 2-2 6, Jeris Thomas 1-1 0-0 2, Tatyana Legette 2-5 0-0 4, Brooke McMillin 0-0 0-0 0, Rachel Heald 2-3 0-0 4.

Totals 13-32 4-7 30.

FREE STATE (39) Abbey Casady 0-2 0-0 0, Jackie Garcia 2-7 0-0 4, Kennedy Kirkpatrick 8-18 0-0 21, Lynn Robinson 2-6 1-2 7, Chelsea Casady 1-4 1-2 3, A’Liyah Rogers 1-3 0-0 2, Summer Frantz 1-4 0-0 2, Ariana Frantz 0-1 0-0 0. Totals 15-45 2-4 39.

Three-point goals: Seaman 0-3; Free State 7-17 (Kirkpatrick 5, Robinson 2). Fouled out: None. Shooting: Seaman 13-32 (41-percent); Free State 15-45 (33-percent). Turnovers: Seaman 17, Free State 10.

Veritas Christian girls 58, Kan. School for the Deaf 30 OLATHE — Veritas’ Kristen Finger and Ellen Phillips dominated the interior as the Eagles defeated Kansas School for the Deaf, 58-30, in high school basketball Tuesday.

Finger scored 18 points and collected 10 rebounds, while Phillips finished with 17 points and seven rebounds.

Veritas (2-2) will play its first league match of the season on Saturday when the Eagles play host to Topkea’s Cair Paravel in Eudora.

Veritas 18 8 18 14—58 KSD 6 9 9 6—30 Veritas scoring: Maddie Bennett 6, Joy Brooks 2, Brittany Rask 8, Alison Dover 3, Ellen Phillips 17 points, 7 rebounds, Kristen Finger 18 points, 10 rebounds, Aubry Griffen 4.

KSD scoring: Brooke Harper 15, Amy Hesser 15.

Veritas boys 57, Kan. School for the Deaf 19 OLATHE — Thomas Bachert registered a double-double with 20 points and 11 rebounds, and the Veritas boys defeated Kansas School for the Deaf, 57-19, on Tuesday.

Veritas’s next game will be a home match against Topeka Cair Paravel on Saturday in Eudora.

Veritas 18 9 25 5 — 57 KSD (score by quarter not available) Veritas scoring: Brody Robinson 3, Thomas Bachert 20 points, 11 rebounds, Caleb Holland 4, Caleb Bond 6, Eric Shin 6, Andrew Currier 7, Elijah Penny 13.

Seabury boys 49, K.C. Ward 44 EUDORA — Garrett Gillett scored 18 points, and Khadre Lane added 17 to lead Seabury Academy to a 49-44 victory over Kansas City Ward on Tuesday in the Eudora Invitational.

Seabury (2-1) will play Piper or Paola at 5 p.m. Thursday in the tournament.

Seabury 12 17 7 13 — 49 K.C. Ward 6 16 7 15 — 44 Seabury scoring: Garrett Gillett 18, Khadre Lane 17, Thomas Diaz 10, Jesse May 2, Aaron Still-Lock 2.

K.C. Ward leading scorer: Vallejo 11.

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Eudora boys fall to K.C. Harmon KC Ward girls 40, Eudora 24 PAOLA — Anyssa Mays scored 13 points, and Valerie K.C. Harmon boys 65, Eudora 49 Pringle added seven, but EuEUDORA — Andrew Bal- dora High’s girls basketball lock scored 23 points to lead team fell to Kansas City Ward, Eudora against Kansas City 40-24, on Tuesday night in the Harmon.

Paola Tournament.

Eudora (1-2) will play FriK.C. Harmon 14 13 25 13 — 65 Eudora 12 8 13 16 — 49 day against KC Schlagle as the K.C. Harmon scoring: Roark 17, Taylor 5, Hawkins 24, Wallace 7, S. Carson 3, M. Paola tournament concludes.

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Eudora scoring: David Pierce 7, Derek Webb 2, Andrew Ballock 23, Tyler Hadl 3, Jordan Ballock 8, Nick Becker 6.

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Eudora scoring — Anyssa Mays 13, Danelle Topil 2, Sophia Lehmann 1, Valerie Pringle 7, Victoria Lehmann 1.

KC Ward scoring — Reed 5, Scotland 9, Williams 15, Barnhart 4, Morrissey 5, F. Oropeza 2.

Royal Valley girls 46, Perry-Lecompton 31 Baldwin boys 49, Anderson County 34 Baldwin girls 48, Anderson County 24

BRIEFLY KUSports.com honored by APSE KUSports.com was honored as one of the top sports sites in the nation by the Associated Press Sports Editors Tuesday.

The site earned top-10 distinction among sites with fewer than 500,000 unique monthly visitors.

Though the top 10 are not ranked, other sites in KUSports.com’s class that were

recognized included the Bloomington Herald News and the Tuscaloosa News. Other top-10 finishers in larger categories included USA Today, the Chicago Tribune and Dallas Morning News.

KUSports.com also was honored by the APSE as a top 10 site in 2010.

Websites were evaluated by a national panel of seven judges, who looked at content, design and interactive elements.

All-Sunflower League clarification Free State High football player Calloway Schmidt’s name was not included on the All-Sunflower League list obtained by the Journal-World, but he was selected by league coaches to be part of the team.

Schmidt received honorable mention for his play at linebacker.

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LBSU’s gamble on Robinson backfires

By Matt Tait mtait@ljworld.com

Long Beach State coach Dan Monson figured the best way to contain Kansas University junior Thomas Robinson was to make KU’s 6-foot-9, 237-pound monster of a man hang around the perimeter as often as possible.

Oops.

Robinson finished with 26 points and 11 rebounds — his seventh double-double in eight games. He kick-started

his spectacular night, as well as KU’s 88-80 victory Tuesday at Allen Fieldhouse, by hitting a couple of deep jump shots during a 16-4 run by the Jayhawks that put the 49ers on their heels from the start.

“Defensively, I probably made a mistake,” Monson said. “We wanted Robinson to try to beat us from the perimeter, and he did that. He showed why he’s a preseason All-American candidate. He really hurt us.”

So did the opening run that

helped KU race to a 34-15 lead, a cushion that proved to be crucial as LBSU trimmed KU’s lead to as few as four points in the final minute.

“When you come into an environment like this and you fall down 17, 19 in the first half, you’re just battling uphill the rest of the way,” Monson said. “We’re obviously disappointed. We came in with four seniors, and we didn’t play like seniors to start with.”

LBSU senior T.J. Robinson

said KU’s opening run momentarily sent the 49ers into shock.

“They just made shots,” he said. “We left Conner (Teahan) open twice during that little run. Robinson hit two in a row. So they started out, and it was 12 before we had hardly even scored.”

Prior to Tuesday’s game, everything about Long Beach State’s team indicated that the 49ers were ready to play.

The LBSU players had a bounce in their steps, a flicker in their eyes and enough

confidence to make anyone watching believe they were here to win. But the environment, a few early mistakes and a stellar first half from the Jayhawks put a kink in their plans.

In racing to a 51-39 halftime lead, the Jayhawks (6-2) hit 59 percent of their shots, including a 50 percent mark (5-of-10) from three-point range.

“You have to give Kansas credit,” Monson said. “I think even if we weren’t out there, it

would’ve been hard for them to make every shot they made in the first half. They were on fire. I’m beating our guys down because we came in here and expected to win, but the bottom line is you gotta give Kansas some credit. They built that lead up not by accident.”

LBSU’s road does not get any easier from here. Already saddled with losses at San Diego State (77-73 in overtime) and at Louisville (79-66), the 49ers on Saturday will travel to No. 4 North Carolina.

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game. We have to have a lot better guard play. We need to have everybody play better.

“It will be a jailbreak,” Self added of Saturday, “if we turn the ball over against Ohio State. They won’t just be running out and scoring two points. They will be making plays that are ESPN Top-10 plays. We have to handle and pass it and maybe think the game a little better Saturday.”

As far as the guards, off guard Conner Teahan scored a career-high 14 points off 4-of-5 three-point shooting, and Tyshawn Taylor had 12 points, five turnovers and four assists in 34 minutes.

Taylor showed no effects of a right knee injury he suffered at practice Monday.

“The doctors said he tweaked it,” Self said, noting the injury was not believed to be serious. Also, Johnson had six points in 23 minutes.

Freshman point Naadir Tharpe didn’t play. Self said it was “coach’s decision.”

“We shot the ball great and shared it great early,” Self said. “Thomas was on fire. We actually defended them pretty well except for ball-screen defense. We had so many mental breakdowns that allowed them to score 39 the first half (to KU’s 51). In the second half, our defense was pretty good, but our offense sucks.

“The thing that’s so pitiful,” Self went on, “is of their 41 points the second half, 25 were off our turnovers. Our guards had zero assists, six turnovers the second half. It’s hard to look good when you don’t get shots. It is as miserable a performance the last 10 minutes as I’ve ever seen.”

Robinson scored 18 points — just two off his previous career-high total of 20 — in the first half alone as KU raced to a 51-39 halftime lead. Teahan drilled four threes in the half and totaled 12 points, which actually surpassed the careerhigh of 11 he tied the previous game against South Florida.

Robinson (10-14 from field overall) was credited with perfect 8-of-8 shooting the first half, the official scorers giving him a turnover instead of a shot on a play in which he hoisted the ball toward the goal from about six feet out.

Robinson had 16 points and Teahan 12 off combined perNick Krug/Journal-World Photos fect 11-of-11 shooting as KU led by 19 points — 34-15 — with KANSAS CENTER JEFF WITHEY, RIGHT, REJECTS A SHOT by Long Beach State forward T.J. 9:30 left in the first half. How- Robinson. Withey flirted with a triple-double Tuesday — 13 points, 13 rebounds and nine ever, Long Beach State, which blocked shots — in the Jayhawks’ 88-80 victory in Allen Fieldhouse. was paced by T.J. Robinson’s 17 first-half points, cut the gap BOX SCORE to 10 twice — 41-31 and 43-33.

The 49ers, who trailed by LONG BEACH STATE (80) MIN FG FT REB PF TP 11 with 1:37 to play (83-72), m-a m-a o-t were down by just four, 84- Eugene Phelps 29 2-6 0-0 1-3 4 4 James Ennis 37 5-7 2-3 1-4 2 16 80, with 42.2 seconds left.

T.J. Robinson 36 6-14 7-10 1-7 3 19 Taylor hit two free throws Larry Anderson 38 3-9 7-10 1-3 2 14 36 3-11 7-8 0-0 5 16 at :33.3 and Withey two more Casper Ware Edis Dervisevic 14 2-3 1-2 0-3 5 5 at :23.1, averting a shock- Mike Caffey 10 1-3 4-4 1-4 1 6 ing late loss. Another key Nick Shepherd 1 0-0 0-0 0-0 0 0 22-53 28-37 5-24 22 80 stretch was with just under Totals Three-point goals: 8-19 (Ennis 4-5, Ware three minutes left. KU led, 3-7, Anderson 1-5, Caffey 0-1, Dervisevic Assists: 12 (Anderson 7, Ennis 2, 77-72, when Robinson missed 0-1).

Robinson, Ware, Caffey). Turnovers: 14 two free throws. Teahan re- (Robinson 4, Anderson 4, Phelps 2, Ennis bounded the second, then 2, Ware 2). Blocked shots: 4 (Anderson Phelps, Dervisevic). Steals: 15 (Ennis 6, after a deep Robinson miss, 2, Ware 4, Anderson 3, Dervisevic, Shpeherd).

Teahan rebounded again.

Taylor then drove for a bas- KANSAS (88) MIN FG FT REB PF TP ket and hit a free throw, and m-a m-a o-t KU led, 80-72, at 2:09.

Thomas Robinson 33 10-14 6-10 3-11 1 26 31 4-8 5-6 4-13 2 13 “The biggest play Conner Jeff Withey Conner Teahan 35 5-7 0-0 2-5 3 14 made was when he got two of- Elijah Johnson 23 2-6 1-1 0-3 5 6 fensive rebounds in one pos- Travis Releford 29 4-9 2-3 0-1 4 10 Tyshawn Taylor 34 4-11 3-3 0-1 4 12 session,” Self said. “It led to a Justin Wesley 9 1-2 0-0 0-2 3 2 three-point play off two terri- Kevin Young 6 2-2 1-1 0-0 3 5 team 3-5 ble shots. Conner made some Totals 32-59 18-24 12-41 25 88 good plays, but he got picked Three-point goals: 6-13 (Teahan 4-5, for a layup late, too. Our ball- Taylor 1-2, Johnson 1-3, Releford 0-3).

Assists: 16 (Johnson 5, Taylor 4, Robinson handling is just atrocious.”

3, Releford 2, Withey, Young). Turnovers: 22 KU did improve to 6-2; (Taylor 5, Withey 4, Johnson 4, Releford 4, Tobinson 3, Teahan, Young). Blocked shots: Long Beach State fell to 4-4.

12 (Withey 9, Robinson, Wesley, Taylor).

“They have a good team, a Steals: 3 (Robinson, Johnson, Releford).

Beach State 39 41 — 80 KANSAS GUARD TYSHAWN TAYLOR PUSHES THE BALL to fun team to watch,” Self said Long Kansas 51 37 — 88 of the 49ers.

Officials: Rick Randall, Rick Crawford, the bucket against Long Beach State guard Casper Ware Terry Davis. Attendance: 16,300. during the second half.

KANSAS FORWARD THOMAS ROBINSON (0) FLASHES A SURPRISED LOOK to teammate Elijah Johnson after Johnson converted a bucket after a foul from Long Beach State.

NOTEBOOK

Withey close to triple-double

By Gary Bedore gbedore@ljworld.com

Kansas University junior center Jeff Withey came close to a triple-double with 13 points, 13 rebounds and nine blocks in 31 minutes.

“Of course, it would have been great to have,” Withey said of a triple-double, which would have been the second official triple-double in KU history. Cole Aldrich had one versus Dayton in the 2009 NCAA Tournament.

“I didn’t realize I was that close until toward the end of the game. I guess I’ll just have to try for another one.

I definitely wanted it, but it’s not something that’s always on my mind.”

His nine-block effort ranks second in KU history. Aldrich had 10 versus Dayton.

Withey suffered a cut lip in the second half when he was elbowed in the face.

“We are going to punch Jeff in the mouth before every game,” KU’s Thomas Robinson joked.

Robinson, by the way, actually cramped up at the press table in the interview room, cutting his postgame session a bit short.

Player stats: Withey’s 13 rebounds and nine blocks were career highs. ... Tyshawn Taylor started the second half, but not the first. It snapped a string of 12 straight starts. Self said it was because the team didn’t know if it would have Taylor for the game after he “tweaked” his right knee at practice Monday. Self said the injury is not serious. ...

Robinson’s 26 points were the most by a Jayhawk this season and most since Marcus Morris scored 27 against Oklahoma State on Feb. 21 of last season. Robinson set a career high with 10 field goals. ... Conner Teahan scored a career-high 14 points, connecting on four three-point field goals, which was also a career best.

Team stats: KU’s 22 turnovers were the most committed by the team this season

and most since turning the ball over 24 times at Missouri last season. ... The Jayhawks’ 25 fouls matched the most committed by KU this season. ... KU’s three steals were a season low. .. Long Beach State’s 15 steals were the most by a Jayhawk opponent since UCLA recorded 15 steals in the 2007 NCAA Tournament game. ... Long Beach State’s 80 points were the most by a KU opponent in Allen Fieldhouse since Missouri scored 86 against the Jayhawks on Feb. 7 last season (a 103-86 KU win). ...

Kansas outrebounded LBSU 41-24, giving the Jayhawks a plus-17 rebounding margin.

Over the last four games, KU is plus-51 on the glass.

Memories: KU coach Bill Self remembers coaching against Long Beach State’s Dan Monson before.

Monson’s Gonzaga team clobbered Self’s Tulsa squad, 78-40, in a first-round Top of the World Classic contest on Nov. 22, 1997 in Fairbanks, Alaska.

“We go there and the only tape we had on them was an exhibition game against one of the premier beer-drinking outlets in all of Spokane,” Self quipped on his Hawk Talk radio show. “They (exhibition contest foes) were awful. You couldn’t tell anything by the tape, they beat them so bad.

“Gonzaga had us down, 34-8, to start the game. I was going, ‘Oh my gosh.’ It was probably the worst beatdown a coach’s team has ever given me. We had to make two free throws to get to 10 at halftime.”

Dan Monson’s dad is former Oregon coach Don Monson.

“He was a long-time Div. I coach and really good guy, just like Dan,” Self said. “We played against Dan’s teams at Minnesota (when Self was at Illinois). He probably has a better team now than what he had at Minnesota a majority of years. He has a team (in Long Beach State) that probably could do well in our league.”

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KU’s Robinson ready for OSU’s Sullinger

By Jesse Newell jnewell@ljworld.com

Kansas University forward Thomas Robinson was asked if his 26-point, 11-rebound performance against Long Beach State on Tuesday sent a message to Ohio State preseason All-America big man Jared Sullinger.

“I hope he got it,” Robinson said with a wide grin following KU’s 88-80 victory over LBSU. “But no, definitely, I’m not trying to start anything with that. But speaking of that, Sullinger’s a good player. I know he’s going to be ready Saturday. Message or no message, he’s going to come ready to play.”

The Jayhawks will play host to the No. 2 Buckeyes at 2:15 p.m. Saturday on ESPN. Before getting there, though, Robinson played a big part in assuring that KU didn’t have a letdown against LBSU. The 6-foot-10 junior was a perfect 8-for-8 from the floor in the first half, racking up 18 points and six rebounds.

Many of his twos came on

mid-range jumpers — an area he focused on in the offseason.

“As much as I worked on (my shot), I’m going to be honest with myself: Don’t expect me to come out 7-for-7 every night,” Robinson said with a laugh. “But it was definitely something that I’m proud of, hitting shots tonight.”

Robinson finished with a career-high 26 points, which broke his previous high of 20, set on two occasions.

His final totals included 10for-14 shooting, three assists, three turnovers, a block and a steal.

Robinson also stayed composed as LBSU threw different double-teams and traps his way.

“That’s something that D-Manning is now working with me on every day,” Robinson said of KU assistant coach Danny Manning.

“He makes the red team trap me on purpose, just so I can work out of those situations.

So I don’t panic at all any more, especially having people like (Conner) Teahan on my team and Tyshawn (Taylor) shooting the ball great.”

After watching the 49ers a few times previously on TV, Robinson wasn’t surprised by how well they played Tuesday.

“They’re physical, and they’re fast, and they have one great player,” Robinson said.

“That’s a formula for staying in the game with any good team. So we definitely knew they weren’t going to go away easy, especially when we were up 19. They kept fighting.”

Robinson also was optimistic that KU would take care of its turnover issues.

The Jayhawks had 16 turnovers in the second half and 22 total.

“It’s that ADD again.

That’s all it was. It kicked in,” Robinson said. “I caught it. A couple of our guards caught it. We just got careless again, but like I said, it’s still early.

It’s still early.

“As much as we don’t want to keep turning it over, I’m glad we’re doing it right now.

We’ve still got a long week of practice, and like I said, our guards will be ready, and the turnovers will not be there KANSAS FORWARD THOMAS ROBINSON PUMPS HIS FIST after a bucket by teammate Elijah Johnson against Long Beach State.

Saturday.”

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earned an every-night spot in the rotation and did not get into Tuesday’s game, so that’s one less player than earlier in the season it looked as if could be counted on heavily.

If not for the development of a former walk-on who used to be buried so far down the bench he tried out at quarterback for the football team after the 2009-2010 basketball season, it easily could have been a different outcome Tuesday.

Teahan, who played a careerhigh 35 minutes, scored 14 points and had five rebounds and didn’t Teahan look gassed sitting at the table.

“I was actually shocked when I looked at that stat Select your own assortment (minutes) because I feel pretty decent right now,” from thousands of homemade Teahan said. “I feel like cookies and candies.

I’ve been staying in decent shape.”

More than ever, Teahan showed he’s more than a catch-and-shoot guy whose presence can keep the defense from jamming the Doors open at 9:00 a m. ... lane.

He scored 12 points, all on But hurry, just open ‘til three-pointers, in the first cookies are gone!

10:27 of the game. His contributions didn’t stop when his Corpus Christi Church scoring did.

On a possession with 6001 Bob Billings Pkwy less than three minutes left and Kansas clinging to Lawrence, Kansas a four-point lead, Teahan twice picked up offensive rebounds to keep the clock ticking and spray some waNick Krug/Journal-World Photos ter on the meltdown.

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And it’s a good thing he did, because Kansas had four assists and 16 turnovers, compared to 12 and six in a first half in which Kansas moved the ball well and scored 51 points.

Coming into making his first start, Teahan’s career high in points was 11, minutes 25.

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TOP 25 MEN’S BASKETBALL ROUNDUP

No. 3 Syracuse outlasts Marshall, 62-56 Halftime-North Carolina 52-22. 3-Point Goals-Evansville 6-27 (Holmes 4-8, Nelson 1-3, Ryan 1-5, Cox 0-1, Chinn 0-1, Harris 0-2, Jones 0-2, Jahr 0-5), North Carolina 7-19 (Bullock 4-7, Marshall 1-3, Barnes 1-3, Hairston 1-4, Crouch 0-1, White 0-1). Fouled Out-Cox, Peeler. Rebounds-Evansville 30 (Jahr, Ryan 4), North Carolina 62 (Henson 12).

Assists-Evansville 10 (Cox, Holmes, Ryan 2), North Carolina 19 (Marshall 6). Total FoulsEvansville 32, North Carolina 15. A-15,623.

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No. 3 Syracuse 62, Marshall 56 SYRACUSE, N.Y. — Dion Waiters scored 15 points, Kris Joseph had 11 points and eight rebounds and Syracuse continued to win amid a federal investigation.

It was the third game for the Orange (9-0) since former associate head coach Bernie Fine was fired after allegations by three men that he sexually molested them as minors. Two of the three men were former Syracuse ballboys. Fine has maintained his innocence and no charges have been filed.

Syracuse coach Jim Boeheim figured the Marshall Thundering Herd (5-2), which beat Cincinnati of the Big East in overtime on the road, would offer a tough challenge for the Orange.

He was right.

But Scoop Jardine helped down the stretch, finishing with 10 points, five rebounds and four assists as the Orange became the first Big East team to get to nine wins.

Jardine also had three steals.

Dennis Tinnon had 17 points and 15 rebounds to MARSHALL’S DAMIER PITTS HAS THE BALL STOLEN by Syracuse’s Dion Waiters, right, as lead Marshall.

Brandon Triche pressures during the first half on Tuesday in Syracuse, N.Y. MARSHALL (5-2) Tinnon 7-13 3-3 17, Goff 4-10 0-2 8, Pitts 3-9 2-2 10, Pena 1-6 0-0 2, Kane 3-13 2-2 9, Hanner 1-6 0-1 2, Spikes 0-2 0-0 0, Coleman 1-2 0-0 2, Johnson 2-4 0-0 6, Mbao 0-0 0-0 0.

Totals 22-65 7-10 56.

SYRACUSE (9-0) Christmas 1-1 0-0 2, Joseph 4-10 1-2 11, Melo 4-7 1-2 9, Jardine 5-8 0-1 10, Triche 3-9 0-0 6, Carter-Williams 0-2 3-4 3, Waiters 4-7 7-8 15, Fair 0-4 0-0 0, Keita 0-2 0-0 0, Southerland 1-3 3-6 6. Totals 22-53 15-23 62.

Halftime-Syracuse 31-18. 3-Point GoalsMarshall 5-24 (Johnson 2-4, Pitts 2-7, Kane 1-7, Hanner 0-1, Coleman 0-1, Pena 0-4), Syracuse 3-11 (Joseph 2-3, Southerland 1-3, Waiters 0-1, Triche 0-2, Jardine 0-2). Fouled Out-Goff. Rebounds-Marshall 46 (Tinnon 15), Syracuse 33 (Joseph 8). Assists-Marshall 11 (Kane 5), Syracuse 12 (Jardine 4). Total Fouls-Marshall 19, Syracuse 14. A-19,817.

No. 4 North Carolina 97, Evansville 48 CHAPEL HILL, N.C. — Harrison Barnes scored 17 points to help North Carolina beat Evansville.

Reggie Bullock added 15 points off the bench for the Tar Heels (7-2), who had an easy time bouncing back from their loss at top-ranked Kentucky. North Carolina ran off 10 straight points midway through the first half to

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blow the game open, then points and was the only playpushed a 30-point halftime er to reach double figures for lead to as many as 51 points Evansville. in the second half.

(3-4) North Carolina shot 60 per- EVANSVILLE Peeler 0-1 0-0 0, Harris 0-3 0-0 0, Holmes cent in the first half before fin- 5-9 0-0 14, Taylor 1-2 0-0 2, Ryan 1-11 6-7 9, 2-2 0-0 4, Nelson 1-3 0-0 3, Jones 2-10 ishing the game at 49 percent. Sawvell 1-1 5, Moore 1-1 0-1 2, Jahr 1-14 0-0 2, Chinn The Tar Heels more than dou- 0-1 0-0 0, Williams 0-0 0-0 0, Cox 3-9 1-2 7, bled the Purple Aces (3-4) on Cesnulevicius 0-0 0-0 0. Totals 17-66 8-11 48.

CAROLINA (7-2) the boards and held them to NORTH Henson 5-6 3-8 13, Barnes 5-9 6-7 17, Zeller 26 percent shooting, including 5-9 2-2 12, Strickland 3-6 3-6 9, Marshall 0-1 7, White 0-2 3-4 3, Hubert 1-2 0-2 a 6-for-27 performance from 3-5 2, Hairston 1-5 2-2 5, Simmons 1-2 0-0 2, three-point range.

Dupont 0-1 0-0 0, Watts 0-0 0-1 0, Crouch 0-0 2, Cooper 0-1 0-0 0, Bullock 5-9 1-1 Denver Holmes scored 14 1-2 15, McAdoo 2-7 6-9 10. Totals 32-66 26-43 97.

No. 11 Marquette 79, Washington 77 NEW YORK — Jae Crowder hit a three-pointer from the corner with 6.3 seconds to play and Marquette beat Washington 79-77 in the Jimmy V Classic.

Darius Johnson-Odom had 23 points to lead the Golden Eagles (8-0) in an up-anddown game that included 15 lead changes and four ties over the final 12 minutes.

Crowder, who finished with 18 points, hit his only three-pointer of the game in four attempts 9 seconds after Terrence Ross had given the Huskies (4-3) a 77-76 lead with a nice move in the lane when he was closely guarded by two Marquette players.

Washington had one last chance but Abdul Gaddy’s long jumper at the buzzer was well off the mark.

Ross had 19 points to lead the Huskies, who have lost three of four.

WASHINGTON (4-3) Gant 6-9 0-0 14, N’Diaye 2-4 0-1 4, Gaddy 2-11 0-0 4, Wilcox 6-16 0-0 15, Ross 9-14 0-0 19, Breunig 0-0 0-0 0, Wroten 5-9 3-7 13, Simmons 3-5 2-2 8, Kemp Jr. 0-0 0-0 0. Totals 33-68 5-10 77.

MARQUETTE (8-0) Crowder 8-15 1-3 18, Otule 0-0 0-0 0, Johnson-Odom 6-17 9-11 23, Blue 5-9 1-1 11, Cadougan 1-3 2-2 4, J. Wilson 2-5 1-2 6, Mayo 3-7 3-4 11, Anderson 0-0 0-0 0, Jones 0-1 0-0 0, D. Wilson 0-1 0-0 0, Gardner 2-4 2-4 6. Totals 27-62 19-27 79.

Halftime-Marquette 37-34. 3-Point GoalsWashington 6-20 (Wilcox 3-9, Gant 2-3, Ross 1-4, Simmons 0-1, Gaddy 0-3), Marquette 6-17 (Mayo 2-3, Johnson-Odom 2-7, J. Wilson 1-2, Crowder 1-4, Jones 0-1). Fouled OutNone. Rebounds-Washington 46 (N’Diaye 13), Marquette 32 (Crowder 6). AssistsWashington 13 (Gant 4), Marquette 20 (Cadougan 6). Total Fouls-Washington 24, Marquette 14. A-8,231.

BIG 12 MEN’S BASKETBALL ROUNDUP

Denmon, No. 10 Mizzou light up Villanova cluding a pair of key free throws with 13 seconds left, as TCU hung on.

The Horned Frogs (72) led by double digits for most of the second half before Texas Tech (4-4) pulled within 71-69 on a threepointer by Toddrick Gotcher with 22 seconds remaining.

Cadot followed with his two free throws to extend the lead back to four, and Hank Thorns added two more from the line with three seconds left.

The Associated Press

No. 10 Missouri 81, Villanova 71 NEW YORK — Missouri was No. 25 in the preseason poll.

The Tigers have moved into the top 10 and are playing as though they mean to stay up there.

“The Mizzou brand was on the national scene tonight,” first-year coach Frank Haith said. “And the lights are bright, very bright here in New York. We had an opportunity on national TV against a good team.”

The country should be impressed.

Marcus Denmon had his second straight strong game from 3-point range, this time making six and scoring 28 points in an 81-71 victory over Villanova in the Jimmy V Classic at Madison Square Garden on Tuesday night.

“There was a lid on the basket for a little while,” Denmon said. “We kept the ball moving and started making some shots.”

The 6-foot-3 senior guard made seven threes while scoring a career-high 31 points in the Tigers’ last game against Northwestern State. He came into the game averaging 20.6 points and 3.3 three-pointers.

On Tuesday, he was 6 of 10 from three-point range, making all three attempts in the first 7:41 of the second half when Missouri (8-0) opened a 16-point lead.

Ricardo Ratliffe added 17 points and 11 rebounds for

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MISSOURI’S MARCUS DENMON (12) SHOOTS over Villanova’s James Bell during the second half on Tuesday at the Jimmy V Classic in New York. Denmon finished with 28 points, and Missouri won 81-71. the Tigers, who last started a season with eight straight wins in 2006-07. Kim English had 15 points for Missouri, which cracked the top 10 this week.

The Tigers shot 42.4 percent from the field (28 of 66), well off the 52.5 percent they were at entering the game, a mark that is fourth nationally .

MISSOURI (8-0) Ratliffe 8-8 1-2 17, P. Pressey 1-8 6-6 8, M. Pressey 2-8 2-2 6, Denmon 10-16 2-2 28, English 5-12 2-2 15, Dixon 2-13 1-2 6, Moore 0-1 1-2 1. Totals 28-66 15-18 81.

sure there’s enough time in the day to verify everything about a coach that’s just CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1B been fired, while at the same time carrying on a legitimate “If you’re looking at some- search for the best coach that one who was fired at the end you can find.” of this season, how much due diligence could you do Fedora to UNC? A report in the Winstonto know exactly everything that went into that firing?” Salem Journal late Tuesday Johnson asked. “You can’t evening indicated that Southtrack down every reference ern Miss coach Larry Fedora and talk to every administra- had agreed to become the tor, and they can’t tell you next coach at North Carolina. everything because most of Sources said KU was interthem are more concerned ested in Fedora and might about being sued. I’m not have been in his final three.

TEXAS TECH (4-4) Lewandowski 4-7 0-0 8, Gotcher 2-5 9-10 14, Tolbert 12-16 3-3 27, Nurse 2-5 2-2 6, Willis 0-3 0-0 0, Petteway 1-2 0-0 3, Minnis 0-2 0-2 0, Adams 0-0 3-3 3, Crockett 0-1 0-0 0, Nash 3-3 2-4 8. Totals 24-44 19-24 69.

TCU (7-2) Fields 2-7 6-6 11, McKinney 0-3 0-0 0, Thorns 3-11 7-8 15, Butler 2-6 1-2 7, Cadot 4-7 8-12 18, Crossland 0-0 0-0 0, Anderson 0-3 0-0 0, Green 6-12 3-4 18, Williams 2-2 1-2 6. Totals 19-51 26-34 75.

Halftime-TCU 42-29. 3-Point Goals-Texas Tech 2-8 (Petteway 1-1, Gotcher 1-2, Nurse 0-2, Willis 0-3), TCU 11-25 (Green 3-7, Butler 2-3, Cadot 2-4, Thorns 2-5, Williams 1-1, Fields 1-4, Anderson 0-1). Fouled Out-McKinney. Rebounds-Texas Tech 31 (Lewandowski 9), TCU 27 (Cadot 10).

Assists-Texas Tech 19 (Gotcher 7), TCU 14 (Thorns 4). Total Fouls-Texas Tech 23, TCU 19. A-6,290.

TEXAS-ARLINGTON (4-3) Ingram 3-11 0-0 8, Butler 3-10 5-7 12, Reves 2-4 0-0 4, Catlett 2-6 2-2 6, Reed III 1-8 2-2 5, Redmon 4-8 1-2 11, Lagerson 1-3 0-0 2, Gay 2-4 1-2 6, White-Miller 1-4 0-0 3, Gruszecki 0-0 0-0 0, Edwards 1-2 2-2 5. Totals 20-60 13-17 62.

TEXAS (6-2) Holmes 3-8 1-2 7, Wangmene 4-5 2-4 10, Lewis 6-10 0-1 13, Kabongo 4-8 5-7 13, Brown 2-11 6-6 11, McClellan 8-11 3-5 23, Bond 1-1 1-2 3, Gibbs 0-3 0-0 0, Chapman 0-1 0-0 0.

Totals 28-58 18-27 80.

Halftime-Texas 35-28. 3-Point GoalsTexas-Arlington 9-23 (Redmon 2-4, Ingram 2-7, Edwards 1-1, White-Miller 1-1, Gay 1-2, Reed III 1-4, Butler 1-4), Texas 6-25 (McClellan 4-6, Lewis 1-4, Brown 1-7, Kabongo 0-2, Gibbs 0-3, Holmes 0-3). Fouled Out-Holmes. Rebounds-Texas-Arlington 36 (Butler 6), Texas 39 (Wangmene 7). AssistsTexas-Arlington 9 (White-Miller 3), Texas 15 (Kabongo 7). Total Fouls-Texas-Arlington 21, Texas 14. A-9,202.

Iowa State 84, Prairie View A&M 59 AMES, IOWA — Percy Gibson scored 15 points in his first start, 13 in the opening half, and Iowa State broke out of a two-game shooting slump.

Gibson, a freshman, started in place of Royce White, the team’s leading scorer and rebounder, and helped the Cyclones (6-3) regain their touch after shooting just 39 percent in consecutive losses to Northern Iowa and Michigan.

Texas 80, Texas-Arlington 62 AUSTIN, TEXAS — Sheldon McClellan scored a careerhigh 23 points to help Texas defeat Texas-Arlington.

McClellan became the fourth different player to lead Texas (6-2) in scoring this season. The freshman averages 10.3 points per game TCU 75, Texas Tech 69 but surpassed that mark in FORT WORTH, TEXAS — J.R. under 10 minutes against the Cadot scored 18 points, in- Mavericks (4-3).

PRAIRIE VIEW (2-7) Munks 4-10 1-1 9, Montgomery 4-10 0-0 8, Scott 2-5 0-1 5, Riathin 0-2 0-2 0, Meadows 3-6 0-0 6, Demunyck 8-12 1-1 18, Wright 1-5 0-0 2, Jackson 0-2 0-0 0, Duplessis 0-1 1-2 1, Scranton 0-1 0-0 0, Adu 0-0 0-0 0, Bell 1-2 0-0 2, Gesiakowski 1-6 0-0 2, Chapman 2-4 2-5 6.

Totals 26-66 5-12 59.

IOWA ST. (6-3) Babb 2-7 0-0 5, Ejim 3-4 2-4 8, Allen 4-7 5-6 16, Christopherson 1-8 4-4 7, Gibson 7-8 1-4 15, Railey 1-1 0-0 2, Palo 1-4 1-4 3, Sledge 1-1 2-2 4, McBeth 0-0 0-0 0, McGee 2-4 7-8 12, White 5-8 2-4 12. Totals 27-52 24-36 84.

Halftime-Iowa St. 46-23. 3-Point GoalsPrairie View 2-13 (Demunyck 1-2, Scott 1-2, Montgomery 0-1, Wright 0-1, Jackson 0-1, Gesiakowski 0-2, Munks 0-2, Meadows 0-2), Iowa St. 6-17 (Allen 3-5, McGee 1-2, Christopherson 1-3, Babb 1-6, Ejim 0-1).

Fouled Out-None. Rebounds-Prairie View 34 (Chapman 7), Iowa St. 36 (Babb 9).

Assists-Prairie View 15 (Demunyck 5), Iowa St. 19 (Allen 7). Total Fouls-Prairie View 26, Iowa St. 15. A-12,915.

If Fedora is UNC-bound, the Jayhawks will have to take their search in a new direction. Some of the names that are rumored to remain in the running include: Dirk Koetter (Jacksonville Jaguars offensive coordinator), Troy Calhoun (Air Force), Dave Christensen (Wyoming), Sonny Dykes (Louisiana Tech), Gus Malzahn (Auburn OC) and Chris Petersen (Boise State). There also has been some chatter about a couple of candidates who have not been mentioned much, if at all.

Camaraderie no issue As KU prepares to welcome in its third football coach in four seasons, there are plenty of factors that must be considered. According to Barry Hinson, the director of operations for KU’s men’s basketball team, getting along with KU’s hoops coach isn’t one of them.

“You never have to worry about Bill Self getting along with anybody,” Hinson said.

“They could hire Darth Vader to be the football coach, and Bill Self would pull for him and do everything he could to help him be successful.”

VILLANOVA (5-3) Yarou 4-7 3-4 11, Pinkston 3-6 4-7 10, Wayns 4-11 3-4 14, Cheek 5-11 0-0 12, Bell 3-9 0-0 8, Johnson 0-1 0-0 0, Hilliard 5-13 0-0 13, Kennedy 0-1 0-0 0, Yacoubou 1-1 0-0 3.

Totals 25-60 10-15 71.

Halftime-Missouri 42-29. 3-Point GoalsMissouri 10-25 (Denmon 6-10, English 3-7, Dixon 1-2, M. Pressey 0-2, P. Pressey 0-4), Villanova 11-29 (Wayns 3-7, Hilliard 3-8, Cheek 2-6, Bell 2-6, Yacoubou 1-1, Johnson 0-1). Fouled Out-None. ReboundsMissouri 37 (Ratliffe 11), Villanova 38 (Yarou 8). Assists-Missouri 23 (P. Pressey 12), Villanova 16 (Wayns 9). Total FoulsMissouri 14, Villanova 19. A-NA.

Nothing has leaked from KU during the past nine days, and, according to Tim Caboni, KU’s vice chancellor for public affairs, that’s been the goal.

“There are less than a handful of people,” said Caboni, asked who was privy to the details of the search. “The posts on message boards and Twitter, as interesting as they may be, I can guarantee they are not coming from the very few people who would know. They are not posting on message boards and tweeting.”

No. 15 Pittsburgh 97, VMI 70 PITTSBURGH — Ashton Gibbs scored 20 points and Pittsburgh rolled to its sixth straight win by beating VMI. Nasir Robinson added 19 points, 14 rebounds and five assists for the Panthers (8-1).

VMI (3-5) Okoye 6-14 1-1 14, Burks 4-11 0-2 9, Gore 0-2 2-2 2, Glasgow 0-4 0-0 0, Gabriel 3-16 6-7 12, Covington 2-2 0-0 4, Sparks 2-3 2-3 7, Whiting 0-1 0-0 0, Watson 2-2 0-3 4, Weethee 6-13 2-2 18. Totals 25-68 13-20 70.

PITTSBURGH (8-1) Patterson 3-10 0-0 7, Robinson 8-9 3-4 19, Birch 1-3 0-0 2, Wright 1-4 0-0 2, Gibbs 7-19 0-0 20, Epps 0-3 0-1 0, J. Johnson 3-5 5-5 13, Taylor 3-4 4-5 10, Rivers 0-1 0-0 0, Nwankwo 0-1 0-0 0, Zanna 4-6 0-1 8, Moore 5-8 2-2 16.

Totals 35-73 14-18 97.

Halftime-Pittsburgh 57-33. 3-Point GoalsVMI 7-30 (Weethee 4-11, Sparks 1-2, Okoye 1-3, Burks 1-4, Gore 0-1, Glasgow 0-2, Gabriel 0-7), Pittsburgh 13-33 (Gibbs 6-15, Moore 4-6, J. Johnson 2-3, Patterson 1-3, Rivers 0-1, Wright 0-2, Epps 0-3). Fouled OutNone. Rebounds-VMI 31 (Gabriel, Okoye 5), Pittsburgh 60 (Robinson 14). Assists-VMI 13 (Burks 6), Pittsburgh 24 (Patterson 6). Total Fouls-VMI 16, Pittsburgh 20. A-8,923.

No. 21 Memphis 71, Miami 54 CORAL GABLES, FLA. — Sophomore Will Barton had career highs of 27 points and 14 rebounds to help Memphis overcome a poor night of outside shooting against Miami.

The Tigers (5-2), who sank 15 three-pointers in a rout three nights earlier, went 1 for 13 from beyond the arc.

MEMPHIS (5-2) Witherspoon 0-6 0-0 0, Simpson 3-3 2-2 8, Jackson 1-7 5-6 8, Crawford 4-6 1-1 9, W. Barton 12-20 3-7 27, A. Barton 2-3 0-0 4, Black 3-4 3-4 9, Thomas 3-11 0-0 6. Totals 28-60 14-20 71.

MIAMI (5-3) Akpejiori 0-1 2-4 2, Larkin 3-8 1-1 7, Scott 4-12 1-3 10, Grant 2-9 0-0 5, McKinney Jones 4-8 0-0 10, Brown 1-4 3-4 6, Swoope 1-4 0-0 2, Adams 0-0 0-0 0, Kadji 5-10 2-6 12. Totals 20-56 9-18 54.

Halftime-Memphis 27-26. 3-Point GoalsMemphis 1-12 (Jackson 1-3, Crawford 0-1, W. Barton 0-2, Witherspoon 0-2, Thomas 0-4), Miami 5-18 (McKinney Jones 2-6, Scott 1-2, Brown 1-2, Grant 1-5, Kadji 0-1, Larkin 0-2). Fouled Out-Swoope. ReboundsMemphis 41 (W. Barton 14), Miami 33 (Kadji, Scott 6). Assists-Memphis 12 (Crawford 5), Miami 6 (Scott 5). Total Fouls-Memphis 19, Miami 15. A-4,500.

BIG 12 WOMEN’S BASKETBALL

UConn routs Texas A&M, 81-51 HARTFORD, CONN. (AP) — Tiffany Hayes and Kaleena Mosqueda-Lewis each scored 14 points to help secondranked Connecticut rout No. 8 Texas A&M 81-51 on Tuesday night in the Jimmy V Classic.

Kelly Faris added 13 points, seven rebounds and six assists for the Huskies (8-0).

Caroline Doty had 11 points as UConn put six players in double figures. She sat out the final 30 minutes of the Huskies’ win over Towson on Nov. 30 after suffering a concussion. She showed no ill effects against the Aggies.

The victory was UConn’s 91st straight at home, extending its NCAA record. The Huskies’ last home loss came in the 2007 Big East championship game to Rutgers.

Texas A&M (6-2) was coming off its first loss of the season, falling to then-No. 13 Purdue on Sunday. That was the first defeat for the defending national champions since they lost to Baylor in the Big 12 finals last March.

UConn has opened up the season with eight straight home games, winning by an average of 43 points. The only ranked team the Huskies played before Tuesday was then-No. 3 Stanford, which UConn beat 68-58. They begin Big East season at Seton Hall Friday before a showdown with No. 1 Baylor on Dec. 18.

Gill on ESPN Former KU coach Turner Gill joined a panel of college football analysts Tuesday afternoon on an ESPN show known as “The Experts.”

Gill, who was fired by KU on Nov. 27 after finishing 5-19 in two seasons, recently was named a finalist for the head coaching job at the University of AlabamaBirmingham. UAB elected to hire Arkansas assistant Garrick McGee instead of Gill, whose overall record in six seasons as a Div. I head coach is 25-49.

SPORTS

L AWRENCE J OURNAL -W ORLD

Wednesday, December 7, 2011

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SCOREBOARD Chick-fil-A Bowl At Atlanta Virginia (8-4) vs. Auburn (7-5), 6:30 p.m.

(ESPN)

NFL

AMERICAN CONFERENCE East W L T Pct PF New England 9 3 0 .750 362 N.Y. Jets 7 5 0 .583 290 Buffalo 5 7 0 .417 278 Miami 4 8 0 .333 246 South W L T Pct PF Houston 9 3 0 .750 310 Tennessee 7 5 0 .583 249 Jacksonville 3 9 0 .250 152 Indianapolis 0 12 0 .000 174 North W L T Pct PF Baltimore 9 3 0 .750 296 Pittsburgh 9 3 0 .750 268 Cincinnati 7 5 0 .583 266 Cleveland 4 8 0 .333 175 West W L T Pct PF Denver 7 5 0 .583 256 Oakland 7 5 0 .583 274 Kansas City 5 7 0 .417 163 San Diego 5 7 0 .417 287 NATIONAL CONFERENCE East W L T Pct PF Dallas 7 5 0 .583 283 N.Y. Giants 6 6 0 .500 287 Philadelphia 4 8 0 .333 271 Washington 4 8 0 .333 202 South W L T Pct PF New Orleans 9 3 0 .750 393 Atlanta 7 5 0 .583 269 Carolina 4 8 0 .333 290 Tampa Bay 4 8 0 .333 218 North W L T Pct PF x-Green Bay 12 0 0 1.000 420 Chicago 7 5 0 .583 291 Detroit 7 5 0 .583 333 Minnesota 2 10 0 .167 246 West W L T Pct PF x-San Francisco 10 2 0 .833 288 Seattle 5 7 0 .417 216 Arizona 5 7 0 .417 232 St. Louis 2 10 0 .167 140 x-clinched division Thursday Cleveland at Pittsburgh, 7:20 p.m.

Sunday New Orleans at Tennessee, noon Indianapolis at Baltimore, noon Kansas City at N.Y. Jets, noon Minnesota at Detroit, noon Houston at Cincinnati, noon Tampa Bay at Jacksonville, noon Atlanta at Carolina, noon Philadelphia at Miami, noon New England at Washington, noon.

San Francisco at Arizona, 3:05 p.m.

Chicago at Denver, 3:05 p.m.

Buffalo at San Diego, 3:15 p.m.

Oakland at Green Bay, 3:15 p.m.

N.Y. Giants at Dallas, 7:20 p.m.

Monday St. Louis at Seattle, 7:30 p.m.

PA 247 260 304 220 PA 189 229 238 358 PA 192 195 250 240 PA 292 308 268 289

Monday, Jan. 2 TicketCity Bowl At Dallas Penn State (9-3) vs. Houston (12-1), 11 a.m. (ESPNU) Capital One Bowl At Orlando, Fla. Nebraska (9-3) vs. South Carolina (10-2), noon (ESPN) Outback Bowl At Tampa, Fla. Georgia (10-3) vs. Michigan State (10-3), noon (ABC) Gator Bowl At Jacksonville, Fla. Florida (6-6) vs. Ohio State (6-6), noon (ESPN2) Rose Bowl At Pasadena, Calif.

Oregon (11-2) vs. Wisconsin (11-2), 4 p.m.

(ESPN) Fiesta Bowl At Glendale, Ariz.

Stanford (11-1) vs. Oklahoma State (11-1), 7:30 p.m. (ESPN)

PA 244 315 282 256

Tuesday, Jan. 3 Sugar Bowl At New Orleans Michigan (10-2) vs. Virginia Tech (11-2), 7 p.m. (ESPN)

PA 269 244 324 329

Wednesday, Jan. 4 Orange Bowl At Miami West Virginia (9-3) vs. Clemson (10-3), 7 p.m. (ESPN)

PA 262 242 277 330

Friday, Jan. 6 Cotton Bowl At Arlington, Texas Kansas State (10-2) vs. Arkansas (10-2), 7 p.m. (FOX)

PA 161 246 269 296

Saturday, Jan. 7 BBVA Compass Bowl At Birmingham, Ala. Pittsburgh (6-6) vs. SMU (7-5), 11 a.m.

(ESPN)

Chiefs

Buffalo, L 7-41 (0-1) at Detroit, L 3-48 (0-2) at San Diego, L 17-20 (0-3) Minnesota, W 22-17 (1-3) at Indianapolis, W 28-24 (2-3) BYE at Oakland, W 28-0 (3-3) San Diego, W 23-20 (OT) (4-3) Miami, L 3-31 (4-4) Denver, L 10-17 (4-5) at New England, L 3-34 (4-6) Pittsburgh, L 9-13 (4-7) at Chicago, W 10-3 (5-7) Dec. 11 — at N.Y. Jets, noon Dec. 18 — Green Bay, noon Dec. 24 — Oakland, noon Jan. 1 — at Denver, 3:15 p.m.

College Bowls

Saturday, Dec. 17 New Mexico Bowl At Albuquerque Wyoming (8-4) vs. Temple (8-4), 1:30 p.m.

(ESPN) Famous Idaho Potato Bowl At Boise, Idaho Utah State (7-5) vs. Ohio (9-4), 4:30 p.m.

(ESPN) New Orleans Bowl Louisiana-Lafayette (8-4) vs. San Diego State (8-4), 8 p.m. (ESPN) Tuesday, Dec. 20 Beef ‘O’Brady’s Bowl At St. Petersburg, Fla. Marshall (6-6) vs. FIU (8-4), 7 p.m. (ESPN) Wednesday, Dec. 21 Poinsettia Bowl At San Diego TCU (10-2) vs. Louisiana Tech (8-4), 7 p.m. (ESPN) Thursday, Dec. 22 MAACO Bowl At Las Vegas Boise State (11-1) vs. Arizona State (6-6), 7 p.m. (ESPN) Saturday, Dec. 24 Hawaii Bowl At Honolulu Nevada (7-5) vs. Southern Mississippi (112), 7 p.m. (ESPN) Monday, Dec. 26 Independence Bowl At Shreveport, La. North Carolina (7-5) vs. Missouri (7-5), 4 p.m. (ESPN2) Tuesday, Dec. 27 Little Caesars Pizza Bowl At Detroit Western Michigan (7-5) vs. Purdue (6-6), 3:30 p.m. (ESPN2) Belk Bowl At Charlotte, N.C. North Carolina State (7-5) vs. Louisville (7-5), 7 p.m. (ESPN) Wednesday, Dec. 28 Military Bowl At Washington Air Force (7-5) vs. Toledo (8-4), 3:30 p.m.

(ESPN) Holiday Bowl At San Diego Texas (7-5) vs. California (7-5), 7 p.m.

(ESPN) Thursday, Dec. 29 Champs Sports Bowl At Orlando, Fla. Florida State (8-4) vs. Notre Dame (8-4), 4:30 p.m. (ESPN) Alamo Bowl At San Antonio Baylor (9-3) vs. Washington (7-5), 8 p.m.

(ESPN) Friday, Dec. 30 Armed Forces Bowl At Dallas Tulsa (8-4) vs. BYU (9-3), 11 a.m. (ESPN) Pinstripe Bowl At Bronx, N.Y. Rutgers (8-4) vs. Iowa State (6-6), 2:30 p.m. (ESPN) Music City Bowl At Nashville, Tenn.

Mississippi State (6-6) vs. Wake Forest (6-6), 5:40 p.m. (ESPN) Insight Bowl At Tempe, Ariz.

Oklahoma (9-3) vs. Iowa (7-5), 9 p.m.

(ESPN) Saturday, Dec. 31 Meineke Car Care Bowl At Houston Texas A&M (6-6) vs. Northwestern (6-6), 11 a.m. (ESPN) Sun Bowl At El Paso, Texas Georgia Tech (8-4) vs. Utah (7-5), 1 p.m.

(CBS) Liberty Bowl At Memphis, Tenn.

Vanderbilt (6-6) vs. Cincinnati (9-3), 2:30 p.m. (ESPN) Fight Hunger Bowl At San Francisco UCLA (6-7) vs. Illinois (6-6), 2:30 p.m. (ESPN)

Sunday, Jan. 8 GoDaddy.com Bowl At Mobile, Ala. Arkansas State (10-2) vs. Northern Illinois (10-3), 8 p.m. (ESPN) Monday, Jan. 9 BCS National Championship At New Orleans LSU (13-0) vs. Alabama (11-1), 7:30 p.m.

(ESPN) Saturday, Jan. 21 East-West Shrine Classic At St. Petersburg, Fla. East vs. West, TBA, (NFLN) Saturday, Jan. 28 Senior Bowl At Mobile, Ala. North vs. South, 3 p.m. (NFLN) Saturday, Feb. 5 Texas vs. Nation At San Antonio Texas vs. Nation, 1 p.m. (CBSSN)

Kansas Men

Exhibition Pittsburg State, W 84-55 Fort Hays State (exhibition), W 101-52 Regular season Towson (first-round Maui Invitational), W 100-54 (1-0) Kentucky in New York (Champions Classic at Madison Square Garden), L 65-75 (1-1).

Georgetown (Maui Invitational), W 67-63 (2-1) UCLA (Maui Invitational), W 72-56 (3-1) Duke (Maui Invitational), L 61-68 (3-2) Florida Atlantic, W 77-54 (4-2) South Florida, W 70-42 (5-2) Long Beach State, W 88-80 (6-2) Dec. 10 — Ohio State, 2:15 p.m., ESPN. Dec. 19 — Davidson, (M&I Bank Kansas City Shootout), 8 p.m., at Sprint Center, ESPNU. Dec. 22 — at USC, TBA, Fox Sports Net. Dec. 29 — Howard, 7 p.m., JTV. Dec. 31 — North Dakota, TBA, ESPNU. Jan. 4 — Kansas State, 7 p.m., Big 12 network.

Jan. 7 — at Oklahoma, 1 p.m., ESPNU. Jan. 11 — at Texas Tech, 8 p.m., ESPNU. Jan. 14 — Iowa State, 3 p.m., Big 12.

Jan. 16 — Baylor, 8:30 p.m., ESPN. Jan. 21 — at Texas, 3 p.m., CBS. Jan. 23 — Texas A&M, 8 p.m., ESPN. Jan. 28 — at Iowa State, 1 p.m., ESPN/ ESPN2.

Feb. 1 — Oklahoma, 8 p.m., ESPNU. Feb. 4 — at Missouri, 8 p.m., ESPN. Feb. 8 — at Baylor, 6 p.m., ESPN/ESPN2.

Feb. 11 — Oklahoma State, 3 p.m., Big 12.

Feb. 13 — at Kansas State, 8 p.m., ESPN. Feb. 18 — Texas Tech, 7 p.m., Big 12.

Feb. 22 — at Texas A&M, 8 p.m., ESPN2.

Feb. 25 — Missouri, 3 p.m., CBS. Feb. 27 — at Oklahoma State, 8 p.m., ESPN. March 3 — Texas, 8 p.m., ESPN. March 7-10 — Big 12 championship, Sprint Center, Kansas City, Mo.

Kansas Women

Exhibition Emporia State W, 83-61 Pittsburg State W, 68-43 Regular season Western Michigan W, 76-64 (1-0) Creighton W, 73-59 (2-0) at Wake Forest, W 74-73 (3-0) Lamar in Basketball Traveler’s, Inc. Tipoff Classic, W 90-40 (4-0) IUPUI in Basketball Traveler’s, Inc. Tipoff Classic, W 71-50 (5-0) FAU in Basketball Travelers, Inc. Tipoff Classic, W 82-63 (6-0) SMU, W 75-52 (7-0) at Alabama, L 76-80 (7-1) Thursday — Wisconsin, 7 p.m. (Metro) Dec. 17 — UMKC, 7 p.m. (Knology) Dec. 21 — Oral Roberts, 7 p.m. (Knology) Dec. 28 — Sam Houston State, 7 p.m.

(Knology) Jan. 4 — at Texas, 8 p.m. (Longhorn) Jan. 7 — Kansas State, 7 p.m. (Metro) Jan. 11 — Iowa State, 7 p.m. (Knology) Jan. 15 — at Missouri, 11:30 a.m. (FSN) Jan. 18 — at Oklahoma State, 7 p.m.

Jan. 21 — Texas A&M, 7 p.m. (Knology) Jan. 25 — Texas Tech, 7 p.m. (Knology) Jan. 28 — at Baylor, 7 p.m.

Jan. 31 — Oklahoma, 7 p.m. (Metro) Feb. 4 — at Texas A&M, 7 p.m.

Feb. 8 — Texas, 7 p.m. (Metro) Feb. 12 — at Kansas State, noon (FSN) Feb. 15 — at Iowa State, 7 p.m.

Feb. 18 — Missouri, 1 p.m. (Metro) Feb. 21 — at Texas Tech, 7 p.m.

Feb. 24 — Baylor, 6:30 p.m. (FSN) Feb. 29 — Oklahoma State, 7 p.m.

(Metro) March 4 — at Oklakhoma, TBA March 7-10 — Big 12 championship at Kansas City, Mo.

Free State Boys

Topeka Seaman, W 67-57 (1-0) Dec. 9 — at Shawnee Heights, 7:45 p.m.

Dec. 10 — Lansing, 7 p.m.

Dec. 13 — Blue Valley North, 7 p.m.

Dec. 16 — Lawrence High, 7 p.m.

Jan. 3 — Blue Valley West, 7 p.m.

Jan. 6 — Olathe East, 7 p.m.

Jan. 10 — SM South, 7 p.m.

Jan. 13 — at Olathe Northwest, 7 p.m.

Jan. 19 — at McPherson Invitational, TBA Jan. 20 — at McPherson Invitational, TBA Jan. 21 — at McPherson Invitational, TBA Jan. 31 — at SM West, 7 p.m.

Feb. 3 — SM North, 7 p.m.

Feb. 7 — at Leavenworth, 7 p.m.

Feb. 10 — at Olathe South, 7 p.m.

Feb. 14 — SM Northwest, 7 p.m.

Feb. 17 — Olathe North, 7 p.m.

Feb. 21 — at SM East, 7 p.m.

Feb. 24 — at Lawrence High, 7 p.m.

Free State Girls

Topeka Seaman, W 39-30 (1-0) Dec. 9 — at Shawnee Heights, 6:15 p.m.

Dec. 10 — Lansing, 5:30 p.m.

Dec. 16 — Lawrence High, 5:30 p.m.

Dec. 20 — at Platte County (Mo.), 7 p.m.

Jan. 6 — Olathe East, 5:30 p.m.

Jan. 10 — SM South, 5:30 p.m.

Jan. 13 — at Olathe Northwest, 5:30 p.m.

Jan. 17 — Emporia, 7 p.m.

Jan. 26 — Firebird Winter Classic at home, TBA Jan. 27 — Firebird Winter Classic at home, TBA Jan. 28 — Firebird Winter Classic at home, TBA Jan. 31 — at SM West, 5:30 p.m.

Feb. 3 — SM North, 5:30 p.m.

Feb. 7 — at Leavenworth, 5:30 p.m.

Feb. 10 — at Olathe South, 5:30 p.m.

Feb. 14 — SM Northwest, 5:30 p.m.

Feb. 17 — Olathe North, 5:30 p.m.

Feb. 21 — at SM East, 5:30 p.m.

Feb. 24 — at Lawrence High, 5:30 p.m.

Lawrence High Girls

at KC Wyandotte, W 68-22 (1-0) Junction City, W 35-30 (2-0) Dec. 9 — St. Teresa’s Academy, 7 p.m.

Dec. 16 — at Free State, 5:30 p.m.

Jan. 6 — Olathe Northwest, 5:30 p.m.

Jan. 10 — SM Northwest, 5:30 p.m.

Jan. 12 — Olathe South, 7 p.m.

Jan. 17 — KC Schlagle, 7 p.m.

Jan. 20 — at Emporia, 7 p.m.

Jan. 26 — at Free State Firebird Tournament, TBA Jan. 27 — at Free State Firebird Tournament, TBA Jan. 28 — at Free State Firebird Tournament, TBA Jan. 31 — at Leavenworth, 5:30 p.m.

Feb. 3 — at SM East, 5:30 p.m.

Feb. 6 — SM West, 7 p.m.

Feb. 10 — Olathe North, 5:30 p.m.

Feb. 13 — at SM South, 7 p.m.

Feb. 17 — at Olathe East, 5:30 p.m.

Feb. 21 — at SM North, 5:30 p.m.

Feb. 24 — Free State, 5:30 p.m.

Middle School Girls

EIGHTH GRADE Tuesday SOUTHWEST 31, SEABURY 30 Southwest scoring: Nicolasa Kenney 2, Emma Bentzinger 1, Lizzy Patton 4, Sophia Taylor 4, Caroline Dykes 6, Kennidi Wright 2, Nesreen Iskandrani 12.

Seabury scoring: Tanisha Kaur 1, Hannah Walter 3, Meghan McClorey 13, Isabelle Tabak 2, Taylor Hodge 7, Ellen Almanza 4.

Seabury record: 2-1.

College Men

EAST Adelphi 57, Pace 52 Assumption 60, St. Rose 55 Bloomfield 61, Dominican (NY) 58 Bucknell 77, Binghamton 63 Columbia 46, Holy Cross 45 Elms 62, Regis 38 John Jay 84, Vaughn 37 Marquette 79, Washington 77 Merrimack 68, St. Michael’s 60 Missouri 81, Villanova 71 Monmouth (NJ) 69, Navy 67 New Haven 63, American International 43 Pittsburgh 97, VMI 70 Quinnipiac 70, Hartford 61 Robert Morris 64, Duquesne 60 S. Connecticut 72, LeMoyne 69 SUNY-IT 102, Utica 98 Seton Hall 78, NJIT 48 Skidmore 108, Castleton St. 99, OT Staten Island 66, Mount St. Vincent 59 Stonehill 70, S. New Hampshire 58 Syracuse 62, Marshall 56 Vassar 69, CCNY 56 Wagner 58, Hofstra 43 SOUTH Apprentice 76, Mary Washington 74 Barton 84, Chowan 81 Belmont 75, Tennessee St. 62 Campbellsville 92, Asbury 76 Charlotte 57, Radford 49 Coastal Carolina 80, The Citadel 58 E. Kentucky 75, NC Central 62 Furman 86, Virginia-Wise 66 Gardner-Webb 87, Alice Lloyd 57 Howard 72, Delaware St. 65 Kent St. 71, James Madison 51 Lenoir-Rhyne 100, St. Andrews 62 Lipscomb 70, UT-Martin 55 Louisiana Tech 94, Northwestern St. 93, 2OT Memphis 71, Miami 54 Mountain St. 83, Pikeville 73 N. Kentucky 96, Ohio Mid-Western 52 North Carolina 97, Evansville 48 Rhodes 86, Rust 62 Sewanee 86, Johnson Bible 42 Trevecca Nazarene 83, Tenn. Temple 73 UMass 63, East Carolina 58 UNC Wilmington 77, Liberty 68 Virginia 68, George Mason 48 Wofford 61, Tulane 50 MIDWEST Ball St. 76, SIU-Edwardsville 55 Bradley 79, Northeastern 68 Cardinal Stritch 77, Wis. Lutheran 71 Ferris St. 75, Alma 62 Iowa St. 84, Prairie View 59 Kansas 88, Long Beach St. 80 Lake Forest 63, Carthage 60 Minn.-Crookston 73, Mayville St. 60 Minnesota 70, Appalachian St. 56 N. Iowa 80, Iowa 60 Nebraska-Omaha 75, Benedictine (Kan.) 49 S. Dakota St. 92, SW Minnesota St. 69 Youngstown St. 69, Fredonia St. 35 SOUTHWEST TCU 75, Texas Tech 69 Texas 80, Texas-Arlington 62 Texas St. 81, Houston 78 UALR 102, Philander Smith 59 FAR WEST Pacific 64, Hawaii 54 Utah St. 63, Utah Valley 54

College Women

EAST Albany (NY) 55, Niagara 45 Binghamton 49, Army 47 Bucknell 49, Fordham 39 Duquesne 64, Miami (Ohio) 63 Harvard 69, New Hampshire 62 Penn St. 66, Virginia Tech 28 Rider 53, Stony Brook 41 Temple 68, Kent St. 33 UConn 81, Texas A&M 51 UMBC 65, Md.-Eastern Shore 60 SOUTH Kentucky 60, Belmont 46 Georgia 80, Mercer 43 Middle Tennessee 69, Austin Peay 63 UAB 72, UNC-Greensboro 42 MIDWEST Bowling Green 73, Youngstown St. 61 Bradley 66, SIU-Edwardsville 60 Chicago St. 70, W. Michigan 65 Dayton 77, Wright St. 69 Indiana St. 49, Butler 46 Michigan St. 64, Detroit 41 Missouri St. 81, ETSU 70 Valparaiso 64, IPFW 43 Xavier 71, Morehead St. 66 SOUTHWEST Abilene Christian 78, St. Edward’s 66 Arkansas 61, Stephen F. Austin 46 S. Dakota St. 60, UALR 49 Texas St. 102, Huston-Tillotson 69 FAR WEST Arizona St. 63, Cal St.-Fullerton 49 Utah 56, Idaho St. 31

High School Boys

Arkansas City 55, Winfield 53 Baileyville-B&B 45, Washington County 34 Beatrice, Neb. 75, Marysville 32 Bern 63, Valley Heights 51 Bishop Miege 38, St. James Academy 32 Buhler 60, Andale 56 Burlington, Okla. 63, South Barber 52 Caney Valley 42, Neodesha 41 Concordia 55, Republic County 53 Dodge City 60, Goddard 36 Falls City, Neb. 52, Hiawatha 40 Falls City Sacred Heart, Neb. 51, Wetmore 23 Halstead 42, Bennington 32 Hanover 66, Axtell 43 Hays 65, Colby 39 Hope 64, Southeast Saline 46 Jasper, Mo. 53, Pittsburg Colgan 51 Lakeside 55, St. John’s Beloit-Tipton 24 McPherson 61, Goddard-Eisenhower 57 Mill Valley 76, Gardner-Edgerton 75, 2OT Parsons 68, Baxter Springs 43

Pittsburg 50, Girard 42 Pleasant Ridge 48, Atchison 32 Royal Valley 51, Perry-Lecompton 42 Salina Central 61, Maize South 39 Salina South 46, Newton 44 Topeka 61, Washburn Rural 58 Wichita East 70, Wichita South 61 Wichita Heights 61, Kapaun Mount Carmel 52 Wichita Northwest 61, Wichita North 59 Wichita Southeast 57, Bishop Carroll 52 Wilson 62, Logan 22 Amos Morris/George Stephens Classic Russell 43, Nickerson 29 Brewster (Sagebrush) Tournament Greeley County 66, Triplains-Brewster 36 St. Francis 60, Rawlins County 43 Caldwell Tournament Argonia 38, Norwich 35 Norwich 46, Argonia 34 Cheney Tournament Wichita Collegiate 59, Valley Center 42 DK Classic Tournament Abilene 72, Council Grove 45 Chapman 73, Rossville 55 Eudora Tournament KC Harmon 64, Eudora 49 Fowler Tournament Ashland 75, Minneola 36 Inman/Sedgwick Tournament Inman 25, Cunningham 20 Lakeside Tournament Thunder Ridge 53, Osborne 45 Louisburg Tournament Baldwin 49, Anderson County 34 Iola 50, Louisburg 38 Marion Tournament Belle Plaine 59, Remington 46 Moundridge Tournament Hillsboro 65, Lyons 47 Moundridge 58, Garden Plain 46 Palco Tournament Sylvan-Lucas 55, St. John’s Military 45 Skyline Tournament Pratt Skyline 52, Stafford 25 Wichita Defenders 58, Pretty Prairie 53 Tescott Tournament Tescott 62, Southern Cloud 49 Trego Tournament LaCrosse 30, Trego 20 Tri-County Classic Halstead 42, Bennington 32

High School Girls

Andale 66, Buhler 52 Arkansas City 42, Winfield 27 Atchison 50, Pleasant Ridge 48 Beatrice, Neb. 44, Marysville 38 Bishop Miege 38, St. James Academy 32 Bonner Springs 48, Blue Valley Southwest 32 Burlington, Okla. 34, South Barber 30 Clay Center 45, Beloit 41 Dodge City 37, Goddard 26 Ellinwood 54, Wichita Northfield 19 Falls City, Neb. 38, Hiawatha 23 Frankfort 40, Linn 27 Gardner-Edgerton 48, Mill Valley 40 Halstead 34, Bennington 24 Hanover 55, Axtell 15 Hays 65, Colby 39 Hesston 66, Wichita Trinity 46 Holton 39, Silver Lake 24 Hope 32, Southeast Saline 30 Hutchinson 56, Wichita Campus 40 Immaculata 27, Topeka Heritage Christian 14 Lawrence 35, Junction City 30 Maize 57, Derby 33 McPherson 75, Goddard-Eisenhower 20 Newton 48, Salina South 45 Olathe Northwest 46, St. Thomas Aquinas 32 Republic County 55, Concordia 37 Royal Valley 46, Perry-Lecompton 31 Salina Central 56, Maize South 32 Shawnee Heights 43, Lansing 35 SM West 46, SM North 35 St. John’s Beloit-Tipton 40, Lakeside 27 Thunder Ridge 37, Osborne 35 Valley Heights 72, Bern 23 Washburn Rural 56, Topeka 51 Washington County 57, Baileyville-B&B 37 Wetmore 43, Falls City Sacred Heart, Neb. 32 Wichita Heights 63, Kapaun Mount Carmel 36 Wichita Northwest 53, Wichita North 44 Wichita South 39, Wichita East 36 Wilson 48, Logan 25 Amos Morris/George Stephens Classic Russell 60, Nickerson 30 Brewster (Sagebrush) Tournament Greeley County 55, Triplains-Brewster 38 Rawlins County 70, St. Francis 46 Caldwell Tournament Argonia 38, Norwich 35 Cheney Tournament Chaparral 37, Clearwater 35 Wichita Collegiate 41, Valley Center 35 Circle Tournament Fredonia 45, Douglass 43 DK Classic Tournament Abilene 61, Council Grove 58 Rossville 53, Chapman 44 Fowler Tournament Ashland 39, Minneola 27 Inman/Sedgwick Tournament Inman 25, Cunningham 20 Kingman Tournament Haven 47, Mulvane 44 Louisburg Tournament Baldwin 48, Anderson County 24 Iola 38, Louisburg 32 Marion Tournament Remington 46, Belle Plaine 33 Moundridge Tournament Garden Plain 36, Moundridge 35 Hillsboro 69, Lyons 29 Olathe South Tournament Blue Valley Stilwell 52, Sunrise Christian 19 Olathe South 82, KC Sumner 17 Paola Tournament KC Bishop Ward 40, Eudora 24 Skyline Tournament Pratt Skyline 47, Stafford 10 Pretty Prairie 40, Wichita Defenders 32 St. Paul Tournament Derby 62, Columbus 54 Tescott Tournament Southern Cloud 46, Tescott 28 Trego Tournament Trego 58, LaCrosse 55 Tri-County Classic Halstead 34, Bennington 24

NHL

Tuesday’s Games Columbus 3, Montreal 2, SO New Jersey 3, Toronto 2, OT N.Y. Islanders 5, Tampa Bay 1 St. Louis 3, Detroit 2 Phoenix 3, Nashville 2 Winnipeg 2, Boston 1 Calgary 7, Carolina 6 Vancouver 6, Colorado 0 Anaheim 3, Los Angeles 2 Minnesota 2, San Jose 1 Today’s Games Washington at Ottawa, 6 p.m.

Philadelphia at Buffalo, 6:30 p.m.

Carolina at Edmonton, 8:30 p.m.

Thursday’s Games Florida at Boston, 6 p.m.

Ottawa at New Jersey, 6 p.m.

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

Tampa Bay at N.Y. Rangers, 6 p.m.

Pittsburgh at Philadelphia, 6 p.m.

Nashville at Columbus, 6 p.m.

Vancouver at Montreal, 6:30 p.m.

Phoenix at Detroit, 6:30 p.m.

Anaheim at St. Louis, 7 p.m.

Colorado at Calgary, 8 p.m.

Minnesota at Los Angeles, 9:30 p.m.

Dallas at San Jose, 9:30 p.m.

BASEBALL American League BOSTON RED SOX-Agreed to terms with LHP Andrew Miller on a one-year contract.

CLEVELAND INDIANS-Designated RHP Hector Rondon for assignment. Added OF Grady Sizemore to the 40-man roster.

MINNESOTA TWINS-Traded RHP Kevin Slowey to Colorado for a player to be named.

TAMPA BAY RAYS-Agreed to terms with INF Matt Mangini, 1B Juan Miranda, RHP Jhonny Nunez and RHP Ricky Orta on minor league contracts.

TORONTO BLUE JAYS-Acquired RHP Sergio Santos from the Chicago White Sox for RHP Nestor Molina.

National League NEW YORK METS-Aagreed to terms with RHP Jon Rauch on a one-year contract.

American Association AMARILLO SOX-Traded RHP Sean Keeler and C Josh Banda to San Angelo (North American) for future considerations.

WICHITA WINGNUTS-Traded INF Gerardo Avila to River City (Frontier) for RHP Josh Lowey.

FOOTBALL National Football League NFL-Suspended Washington TE Fred Davis, Washington T Trent Williams and Seattle G John Moffitt for four games each for violating the league’s substance abuse policy.

HOUSTON TEXANS-Released QB Kellen Clemens. Placed P Brett Hartmann on injured reserve.

INDIANAPOLIS COLTS-Placed DT Drake Nevis on injured reserve. Signed DB Brandon King from the Miami Dolphins practice squad. Claimed LB Kevin Bentley off waivers from Jacksonville. Promoted DB Mike Holmes from the practice squad to the active roster. Signed OT Mike Tepper to the practice squad.

SEATTLE SEAHAWKS-Placed T Russell Okung on injured reserve. Signed G Mike Gibson.

HOCKEY National Hockey League NHL-Suspended Nashville F Jordin Tootoo for two games, without pay, for charging Buffalo G Ryan Miller during a Dec. 3 game.

BUFFALO SABRES-Recalled D Joe Finley from Rochester (AHL).

CAROLINA HURRICANES-Recalled G Mike Murphy from Charlotte (AHL).

PHOENIX COYOTES-Assigned F Patrick O’Sullivan to Portland (AHL).

TAMPA BAY LIGHTNING-Recalled D Evan Oberg from Norfolk (AHL).

SOCCER Major League Soccer CHIVAS USA-Re-signed G Dan Kennedy to a multiyear contract.

COLORADO RAPIDS-Announced the resignation of managing director Jeff Plush.

VANCOUVER WHITECAPS-Agreed to terms with MF Young-Pyo Lee. COLLEGE ALBANY (NY)-Named Patrick Hairston associate director of athletics for NCAA compliance.

APPALACHIAN STATE-Named Matt Nelson men’s soccer coach.

ARIZONA-Announced freshman G Josiah Turner has been suspended for one game due to violations of team policy.

ARKANSAS-Announced the resignation of defensive coordinator Willy Robinson.

ILLINOIS-Announced the resignation of offensive coordinator Paul Petrino to return to Arkansas. Announced quarterbacks coach Jeff Brohm will be offensive coordinator for the Fight Hunger Bowl against UCLA on Dec. 31.

PURDUE-Suspended sophomore WR O.J. Ross indefinitely from the football team for violating team policy and rules.

UCLA-Suspended junior F Reeves Nelson indefinitely for conduct unbecoming a member of the basketball team.

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Holiday beverages can pack a caloric wallop Q:

I know that some of the festive beverages this time of year have a lot of calories. Can you give me an idea just how much we’re talking?

Cooking Q&A

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Depending on your drink of choice, you’re right — some of those favorites contain more calories than you think! As a part of North Carolina’s Maintain Don’t Gain Holiday Challenge, organizers shared the calories in some of the more popular beverages in their e-newsletter. Some of them will surely make you gasp.

A glass of wine, at 125 calories in 5 ounces, may not break the calorie bank, but some holiday drinks can pack a powerful punch. Traditional holiday eggnog can have between 300 and 400 calories and 15 to 20 grams of fat in an 8-ounce glass (and that’s before you add anything to it like whipped cream or rum).

Consider light versions: while they may still have lots of sugar they are lower in calories. As always, pay attention to serving size. Most cartons list 4 ounces as a serving.

Susan Krumm skrumm@oznet.ksu.edu

When out finishing your holiday shopping, a stop at the coffee shop may seem like a no-brainer for a quick pick-me-up, but some drinks can be a hidden source of calories. A Starbucks Grande White Chocolate Mocha (16 ounces) made with 2 percent milk and whipped cream has 400 calories and 11 grams of fat.

If you still want to indulge in a holiday favorite, don’t despair. You can still make it lighter. For example, a Grande Starbucks’ Peppermint Hot Chocolate (16 ounces) made with 2 percent milk and topped whipped cream has 360 calories and 9 grams

of fat, but when made with nonfat milk and no whipped cream it has 310 calories and 2 1/2 grams of fat. Better yet, if you get a Short Peppermint Hot Chocolate (8 ounces) with nonfat milk and no whipped cream you will cut the fat and calories to a manageable 160 calories and 1 1/2 grams fat.

For holiday parties and other festive occasions, decide in advance how much you plan to drink to help you stay on track with your Holiday Challenge goals. Choose lower-calorie drinks such as wine spritzers and ask for light or diet drink mixers. Opt for hot tea or coffee (without sugar and cream) instead of hot chocolate or cider. And, as a reminder to the host and hostess, always have a large vessel of water with colorful fruit in it for easy accessibility. Even though I always enjoy a combo of lemons, limes and oranges, this time of year it’s fun to put fresh strawberry halves and raspberries in it (or strawberries and blueberries for the KU fans) Anything goes!

Icing on the cake — bun pudding

By J.M. Hirsch Associated Press Food Editor

As though the candy canes on the tree and the presents under it aren’t enough, here’s an excuse to have an even sweeter start to Christmas.

Cinnamon buns were the inspiration. And while on their own they make a delicious breakfast, I wanted to take them a little further. So I chopped them up, drenched them in eggs and milk, then baked them into an insanely delicious (and simple) bread pudding.

To keep this recipe from becoming entirely heart stopping, I used fat-free half-andhalf (skim milk is fine, too). If you wanted, you also could use liquid egg substitute (egg whites) to cut the fat even further.

And to help keep you focused on what really matters on Christmas morning (the presents!), this bread pudding can be assembled the night before, then covered and refrigerated. Bake as directed the next morning.

Cinnamon Bun Bread Pudding This recipe calls for 12 fully baked cinnamon buns. Get them at the bakery or in the grocer’s baking section. If you get raw cinnamon buns, bake them according to package directions, let them cool, then use them as directed in this recipe.

Start to finish: 1 hour (15 minutes active) Servings: 12 6 eggs 1 1/2 cups fat-free half-andhalf or skim milk 2 teaspoons cinnamon, divided Pinch salt 12 large glazed cinnamon buns 1 cup powdered sugar 1 1/2 tablespoons water 1 teaspoon vanilla extract Heat the oven to 350 F. Coat a 9-by-13-inch baking dish with cooking spray.

In a blender or large bowl, combine the eggs, half-andhalf, 1 teaspoon of the cinnamon and the salt. Puree or

whisk until smooth. Set aside.

Cut each cinnamon bun into 1- to 2-inch chunks. Arrange the chunks in an even layer in the prepared baking pan. Pour the egg mixture over the pieces of cinnamon buns. As you pour, use a fork to gently press on the bun pieces to help them absorb the liquid.

Bake for 25 to 30 minutes, or until lightly puffed and starting to brown. Let cool for 15 to 20 minutes.

Meanwhile, in a medium bowl whisk together the powdered sugar, water, vanilla and remaining 1 teaspoon of cinnamon.

To serve, drizzle the bread pudding with the glaze, then cut it into 12 squares.

Nutrition information per serving (values are rounded to the nearest whole number): 420 calories; 120 calories from fat (29 percent of total calories); 14 g fat (4 g saturated; 3 g trans fats); 110 mg cholesterol; 67 g carbohydrate; 9 g protein; 1 g fiber; 750 mg sodium.

Tap into beer for holiday gift list

By Evan S. Benn St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Giving beer as a present offers recipients two options: Drink it or cellar it.

Either way, you can’t lose.

If the recipients choose to open it right away, you — the giver — can reap the rewards of sharing in your smartly chosen beer. If they put it in a cool, dark place for a few years, they’ll think fondly of you, their generous and knowledgeable friend, whenever they survey their beer shelf.

In the spirit of giving (and maybe even getting a little back), here are 10 new, largeformat or otherwise special beers that would make lovely stocking-stuffers or additions to your holiday dinner table.

1. 2nd Shift Liquid Spiritual Delight The first limited-run bottles from New Haven’s 2nd Shift Brewing Co. made their way to a few St. Louis stores this week. Liquid Spiritual Delight — LSD for short — is a rich, roasty stout with flavors of coffee, chocolate and dark fruit. At 7.5 percent alcohol by volume, you could open it now or tuck it away for a year to let the flavors develop. $9.99 for a 750-ml bottle 2. Ayinger Celebrator This German-brewed doppelbock is a classic example of the style, deep reddish-brown in color, and flavors of bready malts, toffee and brown sugar. Celebrator, with 6.7 percent alcohol by volume, is a cold-weather beer if there ever was one, and the little goat trinkets on every bottle make nice Christmas tree ornaments. $10.29 for four-pack of 11-ounce bottles 3. Boulevard Harvest Dance Wheat Wine The

winter release in Boulevard Brewing Co.’s Smokestack Series is this standout wheat wine that packs a punch at 9.1 percent alcohol by volume.

Harvest Dance is brewed with an abundance of malted wheat, as well as Hallertau and Citra hops. Aging the brew on French and American oak gives it a smooth, creamy finish that complements its soft, wheaty mouthfeel. $8.49 for a 750-ml bottle 4. Budweiser World Series Champions Bottles Anheuser-Busch InBev released these limited-edition aluminum bottles this month to commemorate the world champion Cardinals. Buy a case and pass them out to your co-workers and the beer-loving baseball fans on your holiday shopping list. $17.99 for 15 12-ounce bottles.

5. Grand Teton Wake Up Call Imperial Coffee Porter Idaho’s Grand Teton Brewing Co. sourced beans from Utah’s Caffe Ibis Coffee Roasting Co. to brew this imperial porter that the brewery recently released as part of its 2011 Cellar Reserve Series.

Try it with roasted meats or chocolate desserts. $8.99 for a 750-ml bottle 6. He’Brew Genesis 15:15 For its 15th anniversary, Shmaltz Brewing Co. presents drinkers with this barrelaged barleywine. He’Brew Genesis 15:15 is loaded with seven types of hops in addition to pomegranate, fig, date and grape juice. The brew is then aged for eight months in Sazerac 6-Year Rye Whiskey barrels. At 13.4 percent alcohol by volume, the most festive beer this Christmas season might be a He’Brew one. $10.99 for a 22-ounce bottle 7. Mikkeller Red/White Christmas For a truly inter-

national taste of the holidays, pick up a magnum of this beer, a hybrid of a British red ale and a Belgian witbier from Danish brewer Mikkeller. American hops and orange peels round out the citrusy flavors of this bright winter ale. $23.99 for a 1.5-liter bottle 8. Odell Friek Fresh off a gold-medal win in this year’s Great American Beer Festival’s wood-aged sourbeer category, Odell Friek returned to store shelves this week in cork-and-cagefinished bottles. The name is a nod to its blending of framboise and kriek styles of beer, using Colorado-grown raspberries and cherries in the brew. Wild yeasts and oak-barrel aging help create a bright, tart, refreshing and complex beer that’s one of the year’s best. $15.99 for a 750-ml bottle 9. Perennial Saison de Lis Whole chamomile flowers used to make this beer lend soft floral notes to the aroma and flavor of this Belgianstyle saison from Perennial Artisan Ales, one of St. Louis’ newest craft breweries.

At just 5 percent alcohol by volume, this is a drink-whilefresh, food-friendly beer that deserves a spot at the holiday table. $10.99 for a 750-ml bottle 10. Trader Joe’s Vintage Ale 2011 One of the best values in holiday ales, Trader Joe’s Vintage Ale is brewed under contract by Canada’s Unibroue. The Belgian-style strong dark ale delivers flavors of booze-soaked fruit and herbal spices. It’s big enough (9 percent alcohol by volume) to drink now or lay down for a few years. $4.99 for a 750-ml bottle, at Trader Joe’s, multiple locations

Check out the calories in Vodka tonic (8 ounces): some of the alcoholic and 170 calories nonalcoholic beverages beWhiskey sour (3 ounces): low: 123 calories Wine spritzer (5 ounces): Beer, regular (12 ounces): 72 calories 150 calories Wine, red (5 ounces): 125 Beer, light (12 ounces): 100 calories calories Wine, white (5 ounces): 121 Candy Cane Martini (5 calories ounces, made with vodka and peppermint schnapps): 150 Here’s a Chai Tea Mix that, calories when mixed with water, only Champagne (4 ounces): has 45 calories per serving: 100 calories Crantini (5 ounces): 190 Chai Tea Mix calories 1-1/2 cups sugar Eggnog, alcoholic (8 ounc1-1/2 cups unsweetened, es): 394 calories Eggnog, nonalcoholic (8 instant tea 1 cup nonfat dry milk powounces): 343 calories Holiday Punch (8 ounces): der 1 cup powdered nondairy 234 calories Sangria (8 ounces): 176 creamer 1 cup French vanilla-flavored, calories Scotch on the rocks (1.5 powdered nondairy creamer 2 teaspoons ground ginger ounces): 105 calories 2 teaspoons ground cinSparkling grape juice (8 namon ounces): 150 calories 1 teaspoon ground cloves Spiced cider with rum: 150 1 teaspoon ground cardamom calories

In a large bowl, combine first five ingredients. Stir in ginger, cinnamon, cloves and cardamom. In a blender or food processor, blend 1 cup at a time until mixture is the consistency of fine powder. To make tea, stir 2 heaping tablespoons Chai tea mixture into a mug of hot water. Makes 48 servings.

Nutrition Facts Per Serving (2 tablespoons per one cup of water): 45 calories, 1 g total fat, 10 mg sodium, 9 g total carbohydrates, 0 g Dietary Fiber, and 1 g protein: For more information on this Maintain Don’t Gain Challenge, go to: www.my eatsmartmovemore.com/ HolidayChallenge/index. html.

— Susan Krumm is an Extension agent in family and consumer sciences with K-State Research and Extension-Douglas County, 2110 Harper St. She can be reached at 843-7058

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Creamy Pear Cobbler 4 cups pears, peeled and sliced firm (about 3 large pears)* Juice of 1/2 lemon 3 ounces cream cheese, softened 1/2 cup sour cream 3/4 cup sugar 2 tablespoons all-purpose flour 1 egg, large 1 teaspoon vanilla Oatmeal Topping (recipe follows) Instructions: Preheat oven to 375 degrees. Toss pears with lemon juice and set aside. Beat cream cheese, sour cream, sugar, flour, egg and vanilla at medium speed with an electric mixer until smooth.

Gently stir in pear mixture.

Spoon into a lightly greased 11-by-7-inch baking dish.

Sprinkle with oatmeal topping. Bake for 45 minutes or until golden. Cool slightly and serve warm with ice cream.

Serves 6 to 8.

Oatmeal Topping 1/2 cup oats, uncooked regular 1/2 cup brown sugar, firmly packed 1/2 cup sugar 1/4 cup all-purpose flour 1 teaspoon cinnamon, ground 1/4 cup butter, cold, cut-up 1/2 cup walnuts, coarsely chopped Stir together oats, brown sugar, granulated sugar, flour and cinnamon. Cut in butter with a fork or pastry blender

until mixture is crumbly. Stir in walnuts. *4 cups peeled and sliced Granny Smith apples (about 3 large apples) may be substituted.

— Recipe from www. chsugar.com

By Lauren Chattman Newsday

Like many popcorn lovers seduced by the ease and low-fat promises of microwave popcorn, I spent years popping corn in a paper bag. But the artificial butter flavor of packaged microwave popcorn never truly satisfied. And popping corn in my own lunch bags produced tough, dry popcorn that wasn’t entirely redeemed by the butter I drizzled on top.

After my fling with microwave popcorn, I returned to doing it the old-fashioned way. My default method for popping corn was pretty simple: Put a little oil in a pot, add a few kernels, heat over high, and when the kernels popped add the rest and wait for them to push the lid toward the ceiling.

Admittedly, it was frustrating to find a tablespoon of stubborn unpopped kernels at the bottom of the pot.

And scrubbing the burned bits away was a pain.

Looking around for ways to solve these problems, I discovered a few tips for more productive popping and less mess. First, I realized that in search of a low-fat snack, I had been skimping on the oil.

Popcorn popped on top of the stove reaps the flavor benefit of the oil it is popped in. Adding a full two tablespoons of oil for every 1/4 cup of popcorn means better-tasting popcorn with less burning.

Shaking the pan as the corn popped also helped prevent scorching.

The best way to avoid dreaded “old maids” is to heat the corn properly. If heated too quickly, the kernels will crack open but fail to pop fully. If heated too slowly, they will release their moisture with a hiss, rather than a pop. To heat my kernels at just the right rate, I tried a trick lots of people remember from the old Jiffy Pop box. Once my test kernels had popped, I quickly poured my popcorn into the pot, covered it and let it stand for 30 seconds before moving it back onto the hot burner. This got the kernels hot but not too hot, so when they popped they achieved their maximum volume.

During popping, I cracked the lid open enough to release steam (this prevents soggy popcorn), but not enough so that the kernels flew all over the kitchen. After I transferred the popcorn to a large

The spumoni cookie

By Alison Ladman For The Associated Press

Editor’s note: The Associated Press is offering a series to celebrate the holidays with 12 days of cookies, each inspired by a different classic dessert.

Spumoni is an ice cream dessert made from chocolate and vanilla ice creams, candied cherries and pistachios. Keeping the same flavors, we made a fudge-like truffle square studded with dried cherries and pistachios.

Be sure to cut the squares very small, as the flavors are rich. Store in the refrigerator, but let them come to room temperature for serving.

bowl, I added melted butter and salt to taste.

Just as important as the cooking method is the freshness of the popcorn itself.

Popcorn pops when the water molecules trapped inside the tough shell expand as they heat. The fresher the popcorn, the more moisture it retains, and the fluffier the result. There’s little difference between premium and supermarket brands.

The important thing is to buy your popping corn at a market with a lot of turnover, so you know it hasn’t been sitting on the shelves and drying out for months or years. Store your popcorn in an airtight container or tightly sealed jar to help it retain its moisture. Keep it in a cool, dry place, but don’t refrigerate or freeze it.

At lower temperatures, the kernels will lose moisture more quickly.

Maple And Spiced Popcorn With Walnuts 1/4 cup canola or peanut oil 1/4 cup popcorn 1 cup walnut pieces, toasted 6 tablespoons unsalted butter 1 1/2 cups pure maple syrup 1/2 teaspoon fine sea salt 1/2 teaspoon maple extract (optional) 1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon 1/4 teaspoon ground ginger Line a rimmed baking sheet with parchment paper. Lightly oil a rubber spatula.

Heat oil and 2 or 3 popcorn kernels in a large, heavy saucepan with cover over high heat.

When kernels pop, add the remaining popcorn, re-cover, and remove pot from heat for 30 seconds.

Return to heat, crack lid open just a little to release steam, and cook, shaking pan every once in a while, until popping slows. Transfer popcorn to the prepared baking sheet to cool (you’ll have about 8 cups). Stir in walnuts.

Melt butter in a large, heavy saucepan over medium heat.

Add syrup and salt and bring to a boil. Cook without stirring until candy thermometer registers 300 degrees, 12 to 15 minutes. Remove from heat, stir in optional maple extract, cinnamon and ginger, and pour over popcorn mixture, stirring with oiled spatula to coat. Cool completely and break into bitesize pieces. Store in an airtight container at room temperature for up to 3 days. Makes about 9 cups.

Spumoni Truffle Squares

Heat, stirring constantly, until the chocolate is melted and the mixture is smooth.

Start to finish: 2 hours 15 Stir in the vanilla, pistachios minutes (15 minutes active) and cherries. Transfer to the Makes 64 squares prepared pan. Sprinkle the mini Two 12-ounce bags white chocolate chips over the top. chocolate bits Refrigerate until completely 14-ounce can sweetened chilled, about 2 hours. condensed milk Using the overhanging edges 1 teaspoon vanilla extract of the waxed or parchment pa1 cup lightly chopped pistaper to help, lift the truffle square chios out of the pan. Trim any uneven 1 cup lightly chopped dried edges, then cut into 1-inch cherries squares. Store in an airtight 1/2 cup mini chocolate chips container in the refrigerator.

Coat a 9-by-9-inch pan with Nutrition information per cooking spray. Line with waxed square (values are rounded to or parchment paper, allowing the nearest whole number): excess to overhang the edges 100 calories; 50 calories from of the pan. fat (45 percent of total caloIn a medium saucepan ries); 5 g fat (3 g saturated; 0 over medium-low, combine g trans fats); 5 mg cholesterol; the white chocolate bits and 13 g carbohydrate; 2 g protein; sweetened condensed milk.

1 g fiber; 20 mg sodium.

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SPUMONI IS AN ICE CREAM dessert made from chocolate and vanilla ice creams, candied cherries and pistachios.

Keeping the same flavors, this recipe makes fudge-like truffle squares studded with dried cherries and pistachios.

The lemon meringue cookie

By Alison Ladman For The Associated Press

Meringue cookies are baked with dimples in the center until crisp. The dimples then are filled with — Recipe from www.melissas. creamy tangy lemon curd. If com you like the idea of a crisp meringue, fill the cookies just before serving. If you prefer the meringue to be soft, fill the meringues up to 24 hours in advance.

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The 12 days of cookies: Holiday treats inspired by classic desserts

Cran-Raspberry Cobbler 1/2 cup sugar 1 teaspoon cornstarch 2 cups cranberries 2 cups raspberries 1 teaspoon lemon juice Biscuit Topping 1 large egg 3 tablespoons unsalted butter melted and cooled 1/4 cup heavy cream 1/2 cup flour 1 tablespoon sugar 1 teaspoon baking powder Cinnamon, to taste Vanilla ice cream, to taste Preheat oven to 400 degrees.

Combine sugar and cornstarch in a bowl. Blend in the berries and lemon juice. Arrange into ungreased 2-quart casserole. Set aside.

Combine egg, melted butter, and cream in a bowl; Whisk and set aside.

Biscuit Topping: Combine flour, sugar, baking powder and cinnamon in a bowl. Make a well in center of dry ingredients, and put egg mixture into well. Mix dry and wet ingredients and work dough until just mixed together. Drop dough by spoonfuls onto fruit, spreading evenly over the surface. Bake 25 to 30 minutes or until biscuit topping is golden brown. Serve warm with ice cream.

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Lemon Meringue Cookies Start to finish: 2 hours (30 minutes active) Makes 3 dozen cookies 4 egg whites

1/2 teaspoon cream of tartar 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract 1 cup sugar 8 ounces lemon curd Heat the oven to 200 F. Line 2 baking sheets with parchment paper.

In a large bowl, combine the egg whites, cream of tartar and vanilla. Use an electric mixer to beat until the whites are foamy. Very slowly, while continuing to beat, add the sugar. Beat until the mixture is thick and glossy.

Use a spoon to dollop the mixture in walnut-sized mounds onto the prepared baking sheets. Using a slightly dampened finger, press an indent into the center of each mound. Bake for 1 1/2 hours, or until the meringues are dried

and crisp.

Store the meringues in an airtight container, at room temperature, between sheets of waxed paper.

For crisp cookies with a soft lemon filling, add a teaspoon of lemon curd to each indent just before serving.

For soft, marshmallow-like cookies, fill the cookies at least several hours (and up to 24 hours) before serving.

Nutrition information per cookie (values are rounded to the nearest whole number): 35 calories; 5 calories from fat (8 percent of total calories); 0 g fat (0 g saturated; 0 g trans fats); 5 mg cholesterol; 8 g carbohydrate; 0 g protein; 0 g fiber; 10 mg sodium.

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LEMON MERINGUE PIE is an easy dessert to rethink as a cookie.

Though the crust was left off, these cookies have all the same elements as that delicious pie.

The Indian pudding cookie

By Alison Ladman For The Associated Press

Indian pudding is a warm molasses-laced pudding made from cornmeal. So we took all the spiced molasses and cornmeal components and turned them into cookies. We added a handful of dried cranberries for sweettart touch and a drizzle of icing. The result was a cookie similar to a soft gingerbread.

Indian Pudding Cookies Start to finish: 20 minutes Makes 3 1/2 dozen cookies 2 cups all-purpose flour 1 teaspoon baking soda 1 cup yellow cornmeal 1/2 teaspoon salt 1 teaspoon cinnamon 1 teaspoon dry ginger 1/2 teaspoon nutmeg

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the top of the ribs — stuff the good cook would remove anyway. He explains that this cut of ribs will get more tender than a baby back. The color should be good — very red and fresh. There is no membrane on the back of the St. Louis Spare — which allows for greater flavor influence in the meat.

To begin, coat the entire slab, front and back, with cooking spray. This will help seasonings stick to it. For this, he rubbed the entire thing with two tablespoons of his favorite spice rub. He’s not going to tell us his exact recipe. Home cooks can decide for themselves what rubs they prefer.

Then it’s good to let the meat rest with the spices on it for just a few minutes to let the rub “take to” the meat.

Next, take the slab out to your regular old outdoor grill — either gas or charcoal, and sear it for about five minutes on each side over “medium” heat, about 400 degrees.

Then bring it back in the

1/4 teaspoon ground cloves 1 cup (2 sticks) unsalted butter, room temperature 1 1/4 cups granulated sugar 2 tablespoons molasses 1 tablespoon honey 2 eggs 1/2 cup finely chopped dried cranberries 1 cup powdered sugar Juice of 1/2 lemon Heat the oven to 350 F. Line 2 baking sheets with parchment paper.

In a medium bowl, whisk together the flour, baking soda, cornmeal, salt, cinnamon, ginger, nutmeg and cloves. Set aside.

In the bowl of an electric mixer, beat together the butter, granulated sugar, molasses and honey until light and fluffy.

Add the eggs, one at a time, beating and scraping the bowl between each. On low speed, mix in the flour-cornmeal mix-

ture. Stir in the cranberries.

Scoop the dough by the tablespoonful onto the prepared baking sheets, leaving 2 inches between for spreading.

Bake for 10 to 12 minutes, or until golden brown. Let cool for 5 minutes on the pans, then transfer to a cooling rack to cool completely.

In a small bowl, mix together the powdered sugar and lemon juice. Use a spoon to drizzle over each cookie. Store in an airtight container, between sheets of waxed paper, at room temperature.

Nutrition information per cookie (values are rounded to the nearest whole number): 110 calories; 40 calories from fat (37 percent of total calories); 5 g fat (3 g saturated; 0 g trans fats); 20 mg cholesterol; 17 g carbohydrate; 1 g protein; 0 g fiber; 55 mg sodium.

house and hit it with a “secondary rub.” Mr. Bacon believes in building a flavor profile. Doing different things at different stages of cooking will result in deeper, richer flavor. No matter what you are cooking, he says, working on that constant building of flavor is always a good idea, rather than just throwing a bunch of ingredients in a pot and turning on the stove to cook.

The secondary rub consisted of one tablespoon of the original rub, two tablespoons of white sugar, and two tablespoons of brown sugar. The sugars, he says, help to break down proteins, and this equals tenderness.

So he pressed all that into the meat, and then he said he was going to let the oven “do the heavy lifting” for about an hour per pound at 250 degrees. He wrapped it snugly

in aluminum foil, and in it went.

After the oven part of the show, he brought the meat back out to the grill, where he mopped on his barbecue sauce of choice on each side, again letting the meat rest on the grill over medium heat for about five minutes per side. He also saved the cooking juices from the aluminum foil and mixed them in with the barbecue sauce he was mopping on. “No reason to waste all that good flavor,” he explained.

And then, voila, ready to eat. People, these ribs fell off the bone. They were juicy, packed with flavor, and delicious. I’m sure Mr. Bacon’s signature sauce didn’t hurt.

Thankfully, he sent me home with some of the super-hot stuff for Mr. Meat and Pota-

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INDIAN PUDDING is a warm molasses-laced pudding made from cornmeal. This recipe uses the spiced molasses and cornmeal components and turns them into cookies.

toes, but I’ll have to go to HyVee and get myself some of the medium heat stuff, since I am a wuss and would rather not set myself up to spontaneously combust while eating.

I am so happy to know that we can eat ribs now without having to leave the house.

And because they don’t take a lot of time on the grill (only about 20 minutes total) we can even do them in the chillier months without losing digits to frostbite.

Thanks so much to Mr. Bacon, who showed me this out of the goodness of his warm, tender and juicy heart. Mr. Meat and Potatoes thanks him, too — new smokers run about two grand.

— Read more of Megan Stuke’s Flying Fork blog at Lawrence.com

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Raw Apple Cobbler

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Biscuit-Topped Apple Cobbler

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Cobblers, crumbles easier than pie

By Sarah Henning sarah@lawrence.com

Pie and cookies may spar to be the season’s top dessert option, but that doesn’t mean they are the be-all, end-all of holiday sweets.

Yes, candy canes and fruitcake and concoctions made with eggnog or mint are also good winter winners, to be sure. And there’s nothing wrong with any of those offerings, either alone or in combination.

Still, there might be one hearty winter dish you’re overlooking this winter. Something that can as easily incorporate the sweet or the savory, your seasonal favorites or the frozen bounty of summer past.

The humble cobbler.

Not quite pie, the cobbler is its own delectable animal. It’s perfect not only for the holiday parties studding your calendar, but also for breakfast on those mornings when frost clings to your windows and cold cereal won’t cut it.

In theory, cobbler is just a fruit base covered with a batter of some sort cooked over the top, but that description, like cobbler in general is about as shifty as the Cheshire Cat. We found cobblers made in the oven, made on the stove, made without heating at all.

We found them filled with berries, pears and green chilies.

We even found a cobbler so chameleon-esque it goes by “crumble” rather than cobbler — can your average Christmas cookie do that?

Biscuit-Topped Apple Cobbler 5 large granny smith apples, peeled, cored and sliced 1/2 cup plus 1 tablespoon honey, divided 1 tablespoon arrowroot 1 tablespoon lemon juice 1 1/2 teaspoons cinnamon 1/2 teaspoon nutmeg 1/8 teaspoon cloves 3/4 teaspoon sea salt, divided 2 cups white whole wheat flour 1 tablespoon baking powder 1/4 cup high heat safflower or sunflower oil

1 cup 1-percent milk or unsweetened soy milk Preheat oven to 400 degrees.

In large bowl, toss apples with 1/2 cup honey, arrowroot, lemon juice, cinnamon, nutmeg, cloves and 1/4 teaspoon of the salt. Mix well, using your hands to completely coat the apples. Spoon mixture into 9- or 10inch deep-dish pie plate.

In a large bowl, combine flour with baking powder and remaining 1/2 teaspoon sea salt. Drizzle remaining tablespoon of honey along with the oil over the flour mixture, cutting them in with a fork or pastry blender until the dough resembles small peas. Add milk, stirring to make a soft, moist batter.

Using a tablespoon, drop small amounts of biscuit dough evenly over the top of the cobbler. Bake for 10 minutes, then reduce heat to 350 degrees and continue to bake for 30 to 45 more minutes or until apples are tender and bubbly, and dough is golden-brown. Cool on a wire rack before serving.

— Recipe from www.wholefoods market.com

2 tablespoons sugar 1 teaspoon baking powder 1/2 teaspoon baking soda 1/4 teaspoon salt 1/2 cup vanilla soy creamer 2 tablespoons melted butter or vegetable oil Combine peaches, liqueur, lime juice and 3 tablespoons water in a deep, medium-sized, non-reactive skillet. Stir gently to combine. Bring to simmer over medium heat.

Meanwhile, whisk flour, sugar, baking powder, baking soda and salt in a bowl. Whisk melted butter or oil in another bowl. Stir wet mixture into dry mixture.

Drop batter by large spoonfuls over peaches. Cover tightly and cook undisturbed over low heat until dumplings are firm, 15 minutes. Serve hot with maple syrup or warm with whipped heavy cream.

— Recipe by Terese Allen for www. organicvalley.coop

Green Chile and Cheddar Cornbread Cobbler

2 tablespoons olive oil 2 onions, diced 6 green Anaheim chilies, thinly 2 apples, sliced horizontally and sliced (or 4 poblano) cored 2 red bell peppers, thinly sliced 1/2 cup raw cashews (or green bell peppers) 6-7 dried figs 1-2 tablespoons minced garlic 1 tablespoon maple syrup 2 teaspoons cumin Caramel sauce (see below) Salt & pepper to taste Pulse cashews, figs and maple 8 ounces cheddar, grated, syrup in food processor until a divided sticky crumble mixture forms.

8 ounces cream cheese, cut into Stack apple with figgy cashew chunks mixture between each slice, drizzle Biscuit Topping: with caramel sauce. Serves 2.

1/4 cup honey Caramel sauce 1 cup milk 2 tablespoons lucuma powder 1 egg 2 tablespoons maple syrup 3 tablespoons butter, melted 1 tablespoon organic apple sauce 1 cup yellow cornmeal Stir until lucuma dissolves.

1 cup flour Drizzle over apple slices.

2 teaspoons baking powder — Recipe by Kristina Sloggett for 1/2 teaspoon baking soda www.spabettie.com 1/2 teaspoon salt Sour cream to taste (or fresh tomato salsa) Stovetop Peach Cobbler Grease an 8-by-12-inch baking dish. Heat olive oil in large skillet 2 1/2 to 3 cups fresh or semiover medium flame. Add onions frozen sliced, peeled peaches and cook, stirring often, until they 2 tablespoons peach or raspberry begin to soften. Add chilies, bell liqueur, or plain brandy peppers, garlic and cumin. Continue 1 tablespoon fresh lime juice to cook, stirring occasionally until 1 scant cup whole wheat flour

Raw Apple Cobbler

vegetables are just tender. Season with salt and pepper to taste.

Heat oven to 400 degrees.

Spread half the mixture into the baking dish. Arrange half the cheddar cheese over mixture. Spread remaining chile mixture over cheese. Scatter the cream cheese over mixture.

To make topping: Mix wet ingredients in a bowl. Mix dry ingredients in another bowl. Stir the two together until just combined.

Spread topping evenly over chile/ cheese layers. Bake at 25 minutes.

Arrange or scatter remaining cheddar over topping and bake another 5 minutes.

Serve with sliced tomatoes, salsa or sour cream.

— Recipe by Terese Allen for www. organicvalley.coop

Apple Apricot Crumble 1/2 cup dried apricots, chopped and soaked in boiling water to cover for 1/2 hour 4 cups chopped, peeled apples (a mixture of sweet and tart apples, 4 to 5 apples) 3 tablespoons apple juice concentrate 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon Topping 2 tablespoons melted butter or canola oil 2 tablespoons apple juice concentrate 2 tablespoons maple syrup 1/4 cup turbinado sugar 1/2 cup whole-wheat pastry flour 1 teaspoon baking powder 1/4 teaspoon salt 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon 1 cup quick-cooking rolled oats Preheat oven to 350 degrees.

Drain apricots. Mix apricots with apples, along with apple juice concentrate and cinnamon. Place mixture in an oiled, 10-inch baking dish.

To make topping: Stir butter or oil, apple juice concentrate, maple syrup and sugar together. When well blended, sift in flour, baking powder, salt and cinnamon. Mix well. Finally, work in the oats to form a stiff topping. Sprinkle evenly over fruit and bake for 45 minutes, or until apples are tender. Serves 8.

— Recipe by Nancy O’Connor in “ Rolling Prairie Cookbook”

Please see COBBLER, page 9B

am a person who is usually rather long on ideas and short on equipment. I am loath to spend big bucks on specialty cooking equipment when I’m not sure I’ll use it enough nor do I have room to have it sitting around.

I called up my friend Jeff Frye, he who is better known in foodie circles as “Mr. Bacon,” and asked him for some help. You see, we love barbecue, but we don’t own a smoker, nor do we really feel ready to invest in one.

I’m not looking to compete or to serve the masses any barbecue, but once in a while Mr. Meat and Potatoes and I would like to have some ribs. Good ribs. I wanted to know if it is even legal to cook ribs anywhere other than a smoker, let alone possible.

Mr. Bacon assured me that I could cook awesome ribs sans smoker. In fact, he has a method he calls “smokeless ribs” he was willing to show me. Uh, yes, please.

He is quick to note that this is not his “professional” recipe, which of course involves a smoker and a lot of secrets. This is just a process he discovered along the way that works well for the home cook and he was sure we’d like it — even without the benefit of hours on a big honking professional smoker.

Mr. Bacon suggests starting with a “St. Louis Spare” cut of ribs. This is a cut wherein the butcher has already removed all the undesirable stuff from Please see FORK, page 9B

Calling all cookies: A recipe exchange

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he holidays are upon us and with them and the cold weather, we get our fair share of homemade food both savory and sweet. We here at the Lawrence JournalWorld have a sizeable sweet tooth, teeth even. With that in mind, we’re calling for your favorite cookie recipes. Whether they’re trusted favorites like chocolate chip or something off the (egg) beaten path, we want them and will print them all on Dec. 21. You can send your culinary masterpieces to trevan@lawrence.com by Friday, Dec. 16. Happy holidays and happy baking.

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Ideal candidate will have at least two year’s experience working with social media tools and techniques with proven ability to create and execute online social media campaigns; leadership experience with strategic planning and marketing of successful online communities; proven track record for managing online communities and creating positive and successful community engagements; expertise publishing or participating on blogs, social news, video/photo sharing, social networking applications with a strong personal online reputation; strong results-driven project management experience plus proven public relations skills; detail-oriented and excellent verbal and written communication skills; outstanding organizational skills and the ability to handle multiple projects simultaneously while meeting deadlines; bachelor’s degree in Journalism, Communication, Marketing Public Relations or related field preferred; and ability to drive with valid driver’s license, proof of insurance and safe driving record.

To apply submit a cover letter and resume to hrapplications@ljworld.com. Please include links to online communities/accounts you have been responsible for managing. We offer an excellent benefits package including medical insurance, 401k, paid time off, employee discounts and more!

Background check, pre-employment drug screen and physical lift assessment required. EOE

2 WW 2C EDNESDAY EDNESDAY -T, HURSDAY DECEMBER , D7, ECEMBER 2011 7-8, 2011 General Hotel-Restaurant Maintenance HBO EXPANDING Entertainment Co. Needs 12 self motivated individuals, to start immediately, trainingprovided. Management opportunities for right person. $2400/mo. while in training. Excellent compensation. Good benefits Restaurant Manager No felonies. Call Seth at Looking for a career 785-218-8836. minded individual with a strong desire to succeed.

Excellent benefits including bonuses, insurance, 401k, sick & vacation pay, and competitive salary.

Email resume to: Conniesmith@KCBELL.com

Maintenance Tech -

FT Evening. Medical facility near the Legends is seeking individual to perform routine maint.

At least 3 yrs exp; including electrical & plumbing; mechanical.

PT benefits. Fax resume w/salary req. to 913.596.4901 or email to plux@ppikc.com

Apartments Unfurnished A CHRISTMAS GIFT Move in December and Get $300 OFF your rent 1, 2, and 3 BRs available 3 Great Locations Nice Communities Remodeled Units avail.

Call 785-841-5444 or 785-830-0888

Landscaping & Groundskeeping Workers (temp.

4/2/12 -11/30/12) 8 jobs w/WRD, LLC dba Reed Dillon & Associates in Lawrence, KS. Use hand/power tools/equip. Lay sod, trim, plant, dig/rake/mulch; assist w/installing sprinklers/mortarless concrete masonry wall units.

Entry level/req’s supervision. Lift/carry 50 lbs when nec. No exp. req’d/will train. Random drug testng req’d. Background check req’d. No felony convictions. 40 hr/wk; 8am-5pm M-F. Sat. work req’d when nec. This job pays $8.80/hr (OT varies @ $13.20/hr).

The hourly wage may possibly increase to $13.34/hr (OT varies @ $20.01/hr) in the future. The possible increase is not guaranteed as it depends on future events which may or may not occur. Raise/bonus at employer’s discretion. Employer provides transport to/from worksites in Douglas (KS), Shawnee (KS), Johnson (KS), Jefferson (KS) & Jackson (MO) cnties from central loc. To apply fax resume to (785) 832-0545.

Health Care Baldwin Healthcare and Rehabilitation Center has openings for: Part time & Full time CNAs weekends & nights. and Full time weekend RN Please call Chelsea & Lori at 785-594-6492

MEDICALODGES OF EUDORA FT Nurse RN or LPN on the 6p-6a shift.

To apply come to 1415 Maple or email resume to dkfox@medicalodges.com

Please NO phone calls Come work in a friendly, resident centered, family oriented home

RN & LPN needed to join our great family practice team! Full time positions with benefits. Some evening and weekend hours required.

Please email resume to: slhalllfpc@yahoo.com or fax to (785) 841-3129

ASHBURY TOWNHOMES A GREAT PLACE TO LIVE

Legal - Paralegal

Legal Assistant with Billing Responsibilities

Immediate opening for experienced legal assistant with responsibility for time entry and billing.

Law firm experience required, billing experience with Legal Exchange and Tabs preferred. Training will be provided by current legal assistant, who is moving from the area.

This is a full time position, although flexible time or less than full time will be considered for the right person. Salary will depend upon experience.

Apply by email with resume, references, and contact information to: markbuck@ fairchildandbuck.com or by mail to: Fairchild & Buck, PA PO. Box 865 Lawrence, KS 66044

Maintenance

Move-in Special for 1BRs Only one of each left: 2BR Apt.& 2BR Townhome USD497 is accepting applications for a Payroll/Benefits Specialist. Position involves processing payroll and benefits for district employees. 2-3 yrs. experience preferred.

For detailed job description & to apply, go to www.usd497.org. EOE

TECHNICIAN

Call NOW 785-842-1322

Applecroft Apts.

Sunrise Terrace — 951 Arkansas, so close to KU! 2BR w/study or 3rd BR, 2 full bath, CA, DW, laundry, lots of parking, some with W/D. $550 - $750/month.

No pets. Call 785-841-5797 www.rentinlawrence.com

19th & Iowa, Lawrence 1 Bedroom Gas, Water & Trash Paid

785-843-8220

Management Assistant Director/Supervisor for Toddler and Two year old classrooms. Full time position starting 1/3/12.

Req. Bachelor’s degree in child or family related field, two years teaching exp. with 1-2 year olds and good computer skills.

Knowledge of Child Care Food Program procedures preferred but not required.

Contact Hilltop Child Development Center, 1605 Irving Hill Rd. Lawrence 66045, 785 864-4940, or ppisani@ku.edu to apply. EOE

Oliver Electric Construction has an immediate opening for an Estimator/ PM position. Competitive salary, great benefits.

Must have experience. EOE Email resume to: info@oliverelectric.com

Aspen West

Half Month FREE

1 & 2 Bedrooms, Near KU. Water/trash paid, No pets.

AC Management 785-842-4461

BRAND NEW One Month FREE Tuckaway at Frontier 542 Frontier, Lawrence 1BR, 1.5 bath 2BR, 2.5 baths Rent Includes All Utilities. Plus Cable, Internet, Fitness & Pool.

Garages Available Elevators to all floors

Reserve YOURS for Spring/Fall

Call Today 785-856-8900

Great Locations! Great Prices!

1, 2 & 3 Bedrooms

Call for SPECIALS

Technology Architect II Sprint Nextel Corp is seeking a Technology Architect II in Overland Park, KS with the following requirements: MS degree in Comp Sci or Engineering or related field or foreign academic equivalent plus 1 yr of related experience OR BS degree in Comp Sci or Engineering or related field or foreign academic equivalent plus 2 yrs of related exp. Prior exp must include: design and Develop IBM MQ connectivity to .NET Framework; design, develop and maintain Web and Windows applications using .NET Framework; provide database design and development of SQL Server 2000 and 2005; design, develop and system test provisioning software solutions for Wireline telephony services.

Please apply on-line at: www.sprint.com/careers and search for Req. # 117590BR EOE/AA M/F/D/V

785-838-3377, 785-841-3339 www.tuckawaymgmt.com

YOUR PLACE, YOUR SPACE

Start at $495 One Bedroom/studio style Pool - Fitness Center -On-Site Laundry - Water & Trash Pd.

785.856.7788

Available January 2012

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Garages - Pool - Fitness Center • Ironwood Court Apts.

• Park West Gardens Apts • Park West Town Homes • Homes at Monterey Bluffs and Green Tree Call for more details 785.840.9467

2BR — 1017 Illinois. 2 story, 1 bath, CA, DW. $570/mo.

No pets. Call 785-841-5797 www.rentinlawrence.com

MULTI-MEDIA ACCOUNT EXECUTIVES The World Company Account Executives are responsible for selling and maintaining print and online advertising for Lawrence Journal-World, LJWorld.com, KUsports. com, Lawrence.com, LawrenceDeals.com and other company newspapers, websites and digital products.

Our sales team will sell clients a platform of products including print and online advertising, web banners, and event marketing sponsorships. Account Executives are accountable for meeting or exceeding sales goals, prospecting new clients and making initial contact by cold-calling either in person or by phone. They are responsible for developing and building relationships with potential clients to build a large advertising client list. Sales opportunities include Lawrence, Kansas and surrounding communities.

Ideal candidates will have minimum two years experience in sales, marketing and/or advertising; experience in online media sales; demonstrated success with prospecting and cold calling; excellent verbal and written communication skills; networking, time management and interpersonal skills; regular achievement of monthly sales goals; self motivated; proficient in Microsoft Office applications; and a valid driver’s license, reliable transportation with proof of auto insurance, and a clean driving record.

To apply submit a cover letter and resume to hrapplications@ljworld.com. We offer an excellent benefits package including health, dental and vision insurance, 401k, paid time off, employee discounts and more! Background check, pre-employment drug screen and physical lift assessment required. EOE

Apartments Furnished

Sunrise Place Sunrise Village

Apartments & Townhomes 2, 3 & 4BRs

Limited Time Special

Apply in person or online: www.torgesonelectric.com

Responsible for regular labor work within the Athletics Department.

Work involves performance of standard as well as technical tasks for successful completion of equipment maintenance, landscaping, carpentry, painting, grounds maintenance, custodial, & set-up/take down of athletic events preparation.

Must be available for scheduled over-time including nights and week-ends. $10.68- $11.75/hr.

Deadline 12/09/2011.

On-line application https://jobs.ku.edu position # 00063050 EO/AA Employer

One Month FREE!

2900 Bob Billings Pkwy.

www.tuckawaymgmt.com Performs mechanical and building maintenance work in the operation, reDowntown Lofts pair, evaluation, replaceNew Studio, 1, & 2 BRs ment, installation and Sonic Drivein MGMT Trainpreventative mainteLIVE IN LUXURY nance of mechanical sys- ees. Baldwin/Eudora Sonic at 901 New Hampshire tems, physical structures Drive-In is hiring Assistant 785-830-8800 and building appliances Managers. Salary range is www.firstmanagementinc.com Call at the KU Memorial $23,000-$35,000/yr.

Scott at 785-690-7200 Unions. Must have prior experience in and the HIGHPOINTE APTS ability to use a wide range REDUCED RATES of tools, specific equip- Office-Clerical 2001 W. 6th. 785-841-8468 ment and supplies in the www.firstmanagementinc.com performance of various Administrative maintenance tasks. Prefer PARKWAY COMMONS Assistant universal refrigerant liInsurance Agency seekcense. Job description at: One Month Rent FREE! ing an Administrative Aswww.union.ku.edu/hr 2 & 3 Bedrooms sistant.

Must be Clubhouse lounge, gym, Starting salary $14.47 self-motivated, organgarages avail., W/D, walk $16.22 per hour plus excellent benefits including ized, and multi-task ori- in closets, and 1 pet okay. ented.

Excellent commuhealth, dental, life & long 3601 Clinton Pkwy., Lawrence term disability insurance nication and MS Office 785-842-3280 plans, retirement, paid skills required. Email revacation, sick leave and sume to Lmg@sunflower.com.

Red Oak Apts. holidays. Employment ap2408 Alabama plications available in the 2BR, water & trash paid Trade Skills Human Resources Office $510/mo. Deposit -$300 3rd Floor, Kansas Union On the Bus Route 1301 Jayhawk Blvd.

NOW HIRING Call Today 785-841-1155 Lawrence, KS 66045 Electricians EOE Torgeson Electric Co. 711 W 1st Ave. Topeka, KS

General Maintenance Worker Kansas Athletics (University Support Staff)

MOVE IN SPECIALS

chasecourt@sunflower.com

Estimator/PM

EQUIPMENT & FACILITIES

Near K-10, W/D hookups & fenced courtyard.

2BR & 3BRs Available

VILLA 26 APARTMENTS

Quiet, great location on KU bus route, no pets, W/D in all units.

785-842-5227 www.villa26lawrence.com

2BR - 2406 Alabama, Bldg. 2, 2 story, 1.5 baths, CA, DW, $570. No pets. 785-841-5797 www.rentinlawrence.com

2BR — 2412 Alabama in Rooms (newly remodeled) 4-plex. 1 bath, CA, washer Rent by week or by month. & dryer. No pets. $470/mo.

With cable & internet. Call Call 785-841-5797 Virginia Inn 785-856-7536 2BR - 3503 W. 7th Court, 2 story, 1 bath, CA, DW, W/D Apartments hookup, garage, 1 pet ok. $650/mo. 785-841-5797 Unfurnished 2BR - 415 W. 17th, laundry 1BR, 1/2 block to KU, re- on site, wood floors, off-st. served parking, $510. GAS & parking, CA. No pets. $500WATER PAID. 785-842-7644 $550, water pd. 785-841-5797 www.gagemgmt.com 2BR — 725 W. 25th, In 4plex, CA, W/D hookup, offCrossgate Casita’s st. parking. $410-$420/mo.

New 1BR - $540/mo. Open No pets. Call 785-841-5797 Mon.-Sat. Noon-4pm, 2451 2BR — 934 Illinois, In 4-plex, Crossgate Dr. 785-760-7899 1st floor, DW. $490/month.

No pets. Call 785-841-5797 Ad Astra Apartments www.rentinlawrence.com 1 & 2 BRs from $390/mo.

2BR avail. now, very nice Call MPM for more details & quiet, DW, W/D, off-st. at 785-841-4935 parking. $545/mo. No pets.

785-423-1565, 785-841-4035

Cedarwood Apts

All Units: Pool, on KU bus route, DW, & microwave 2BRs - 1/2 Mo. Rent FREE near KU, laundry facilities 837 MICHIGAN 3 & 4BRs - Special Prices W/D, FREE wireless internet 660 GATEWAY COURT

Call 785-841-8400 www.sunriseapartments.com

Winter is here No high gas bill to pay, all electric units only!

2BR at 1BR price

Newer 2BR for only $475.

Jacksonville Apts.

Act fast! (785) 841-4935

Parkway Terrace Apts.

2340 Murphy Drive 1 Bedrooms - $440/mo.

2 Bedrooms - $500/mo.

Large kitchens, bedrooms and closets. Newly updated. Convenient to all services, on the bus route

785.843.4040 www.thefoxrun.com

INVEST IN A NEW HOME FOR THE HOLIDAYS

1, 2, & 3BR townhomes avail. in Cooperative. Units starting at $412 - $485/mo.

Water, trash, sewer paid.

FIRST MONTH FREE! Back patio, CA, hard wood floors, full bsmt., stove, refrig., W/D hookup, garbage disposal, Reserved parking. On site management & maintenance. 24 hr. emergency maintenance.

Membership & Equity Fee Required. 785-842-2545 (Equal Housing Opportunity) www.pinetreetownhouses.com

PARKWAY 6000

CALL FOR SPECIALS! • 3 Bedroom, 2 bath • 2 car garage w/opener • W/D hookups • Maintenance free 785-832-0555, 785-766-2722

Saddlebrook Townhomes

Luxury 2BR, 2 Bath Units Gas FP, W/D, 1 Car garage Quiet West Side Area 625 Folks Rd. 785-832-8200 Saddlebrook@sunflower.com

Storage-Garage

1BR farm house, near Lawrence. Stove, refrig., W/D hookups. NO PETS! $560/ mo. +deposit. 785-979-6956 Leave name, phone#, msg.

Soma Queen Size Tube & Foam Water Bed with box spring & frame. Like new, used very little. Complete $150. Call 913-845-3297

Pets

Toy Poodles, Chihuahuas, Yorkies. Older puppies reduced. 785-883-4883.

Square Oak Table, 42” each www.cuddlesomefarm.com side. functional table; needs some work. $30/offer. 785-841-5577

Health & Beauty

Wanted: Someone to take over Diana’s Beauty Shop in Eudora, KS (2012). Will sell equipment & supplies, 785-542-3172/ Garage for Rent. $80 per $400-450. month. Close to campus at 785- 542-1147 1801 Mississippi. Clean & Secure. 785-842-4242

Holiday Decor

Christmas Decor: Brand New 6 reversible Tartan Plaid /Red Chair Pads Org. Price $8. each. Asking $4. each or all 6 for $20. Call 785-865-2813 Christmas Glass Block lights up. Wrapped like a package with a gold bow Priced to sell. Recent re- on top and gold snowmodel 2BR, 1 bath, CA, flakes on the side. New. nice appls., laundry rm., $10. 785-842-8776. privacy fence.

Sunset Hills. 809 Madeline Lane. Cookie Tins- Three Holiday cookie tins, 8” diameter, $94,500. Call 785-393-4322 2.5 “ deep. Old-fashioned colorful snow scene embossed on lid. Lovely gift Acreage-Lots container for your baked goods. $2 per tin/offer.

ALLIED HEALTH career Call 785-841-5577 training - Attend college 100% online. Job placeDownsized Christmas decment assistance. Comorations, - in mint condiputer available. Financial tion to sell at a bargain!

Aid if qualified. SCHEV Burgundy, white, gold, nutcertified. crackers, snowman styles.

Call 800-481-9409 Some linens & candles. www.CenturaOnline.com 785-856-2227/785-764-2763 afternoons or evenings.

Cars-Domestic

1-888-239-5723 All American Auto Mart 1200 E Sante Fe Olathe, KS www.aaamkc.com

Lawrence

Lights, Strand of C-9 Blue lights (25 bulbs). Used last Christmas only. 4 strands at $3 each or all 4 for $10.

Baldwin. 785-594-7149

Antiques

Firewood-Stoves

Buick 2010 ENCLAVE Certified, Stk#T96788A Special Price $30,000 Robert Brogden Olathe Buick - GMC KC’s #1 Low Price Dealer 1500 E. Santa Fe, Olathe, KS 800-536-5346 913-782-1500 www.brogdenauto.com

Buick 2008 Lucerne CX, 46K, Maroon, Gray Cloth.

This Ain’t Your Grandpa’s Buick! www.academycars.com 785-841-0102

2BR, 2 bath, fireplace, CA, W/D hookups, 2 car with opener. Easy access to I-70. Includes paid cable.

Pets under 20 lbs. allowed Call 785-842-2575 www.princeton-place.com

PARKWAY 4000

Move-In Specials!

• 2 & 3BRs available now • 2 Bath, W/D hookups • 2 Car garage w/opener • New kitchen appliances • Maintenance free 785-749-2555/785-766-2722

3BR, 2 bath, 2 car garage.

Newer spacious unit. All appls. No pets. Avail. now. $895/mo. Call 785-766-9823

The Woods of Old West Lawrence 785-841-4935

AVAIL. Now 3BR, 2 bath, major appls., FP, 2 car.

785-865-2505

Buick 2009 Lucerne CXL, leather heated seats, 3800 V6, great power with great gas mileage, On Star, trade in, stk#54939A2 only $12,715.

Dale Willey 785-843-5200 www.dalewilleyauto.com

Buick 2001 Regal LS Sedan, Gold Metallic, B6647A $7771.00 Robert Brogden Olathe Buick - GMC KC’s #1 Low Price Dealer 1500 E. Santa Fe, Olathe, KS 800-536-5346 913-782-1500 www.brogdenauto.com

Cadillac 2007 CTS leather heated memory seats, On Star, plenty of comfort that only a Cadillac can give you!!

Stk#14826A1 only $14,351.

Dale Willey 785-843-5200 www.dalewilleyauto.com

Cadillac 2007 CTS sunroof, leather, power seat, alloy wheels, stk#631501 only $17,588.

Dale Willey 785-843-5200 www.dalewilleyauto.com

fill every corner (2) Wood Burning Stoves, 1 of your home w/beautiful large, red - $2,000. 1 small music this year w/a piano from Mid-America Piano 3BR, 1 bath, W/D hookup, to medium $1,000-1,200. www.piano4u.com CH/CA, DR, bsmt., garage. 785-764-9359 No pets. Avail. now. $850/ A Full Cord Seasoned Piano, Kimball Spinet, great mo. Yr. lease. 913-585-1211 Hedge, Oak, Locust & condition. $975. Please call mixed hardwoods, stacked 785-843-2140 & delivered, $160. Call LanEdwardsville don, 785-766-0863 Pianos for sale, SAVE UP to 2-3BR duplexes, appls., CA, Firewood: Mixed firewood 65% on over 125 pianos Cadillac 2007 CTS sunleather, Bose 1-1/2 bath, FR, laundry rm., and/or hedge, cured for 1 during Mid-America Piano’s roof, navigation, On garage. 417 Beach. $695/mo. year. More than a cord for Sounds of the Season Sale sound, Star, and more, only plus deposit. 913-667-3060 in Manhattan!

Grand pi$180. 785-766-4272 Lawrence anos from $2888, verticals $14,785.00 stk#371851.

Dale Willey 785-843-5200 Firewood: Mixed hard- start at $488! 1-800-950-3774 Tonganoxie www.dalewilleyauto.com woods, mostly split. www.piano4u.com Stacked/delivered. $85 -1/2 2BR, 2 bath, 2 car, like new cord. James 785-241-3530 QUALITY INSTRUMENTS luxury duplex, 112 Bradley AT AFFORDABLE PRICES! Ct., Tonganoxie. $750/mo. + Firewood: mostly split oak Pianos starting at $488. deposit. 1 yr. lease. Avail. delivered/stacked. $190 Mid-America Piano full, $95 half. Call Mike at piano4u.com 785-537-3774 now. No pets. 913-208-0723 785-241-1857 3-4BR house avail. now. 4 Firewood for car, CH/CA. $875/mo. 7 mi. Seasoned Sounds of the Season N. of Tonganoxie. 18 mi. N. sale. hedge, oak, locust, & Piano Sale! other mixed hardwoods. of Lawrence. 816-838-1988 Get them a lifetime $160/cord. Split stacked & gift and still have enough 3BR, 2 bath, CA, master Delivered. Call Ryan at left for the rest of their suite w/fireplace, jacuzzi 785-418-9910 list! 800-950-3774 tub, vaulted ceilings, 2 car.

No pets. $975/mo. 821 S. Seasoned Mixed Firewood, 2-1/2 miles south of LawSounds of the Season Delaware. Call 913-441-1545 Cadillac 2007 DTS very rence. $80/half cord. Call Sale!

3BR apt., fireplace, AC, car- Lloyd 785-842-4502 nice, very luxurious!

All acoustic & digital peted, quiet. Avail. now. No With out the luxury pianos on sale thru pets, no smoking. $650/mo. price! Stk#164601 only Dec 10th!

Food & Produce utils. furn. 913-963-0890. $16845.

Save thousands!

Dale Willey 785-843-5200 4BR Townhome on quiet Shelled Black Walnuts, ap5-537-3774 785 www.dalewilleyauto.com cul-de-sac. No smoking. 2 prox. 1# bags at $5.00 piano4u.com car garage. 2,500 sq. ft. of each. Call 785-842-4139 Chevrolet 1969 Camaro living space. 1 year lease.

RS/SS 396 325hp, Hugger $1,100/mo. $1,100 deposit.

Sports-Fitness Orange, Price $7000, more Furniture 913-845-9005, 816-872-7343 Equipment details at 316-247-4376. stuckyy7@msn.com CEDAR HILLS Cabinet, 4-drawer, black metal file cabinet in work- SKi Machine, Precor 515e.

New Management ing order and ready to go. Best aerobic total body 1-3BR apts. in Tonganoxie workout without pound- Chevrolet $60. Call 785-331-7413 2002 Cavalier, Many improvements! ing. Conditions heart and Automatic 2 door in very 816-260-8606, 913-845-0992 Consign & Design, 925 lungs, improves strength clean condition. A very Iowa, Ste. L. Furniture Con- in every major muscle nice car, with good gas signment. Now offering full group. $75. 785-843-0257 mileage for under $5000.

Office Space interior design services.

Come for a test drive. See Mon. - Fri. Call 785-856-9595 website for photos.

Downtown offices, 3 avail.

Wii Fit Plus and balance Rueschhoff Automobiles rueschhoffautos.com $325, $350, $450/mo. New! Loveseat - Blue and white board in box. Excellent 2441 W. 6th St. Nice ammenities. Utils. pd. plaid loveseat. $30.00 condition. Used only a few 785-856-6100 24/7 Year lease. 785-842-7337 times. $60. 785-832-1332.

Please Call 785-842-1760

De Soto

RENT SPECIAL!

2BR starting at $525 W/D included. Pool

2BR, 2 bath, care provided. & newer tile.

785-393-9359

Round Oak Table. 42” diameter. Extra seating for holiday guests! $45 785-841-5577

KIPP’S TREASURES

3BR, 2 bath, 2 car, 2 story townhome, FireTree Estate, Baldwin - avail. now. 106 Silver Leaf. $825/mo. Call 785-594-2558, 785-218-4070

Call Today 785-841-1155

Avail. Now. bsmt., lawn Wood floor $650/mo.

Furniture

Ornaments: Antique, shiny, bright glass Christmas tree ornaments. All colors, 1st Class, Pet Friendly very pretty. Still in the box, • Small dog welcome Handmade/Signed primi- with hangers. Very SpeHouses & Apts.

• Income restrictions apply tive trunk made in Grafton, cial. $50 785-594-3188 www.vintagemgmt.com • Students welcome ND. ca 1914. zinc top em785-842-1069 LAUREL GLEN APTS bellished brass tacks & ac- Santa Figurines: 2-piece For Current Rent Specials 2-3BR, 1 bath rancher, N. cents, very unusual, $75. Mr. and Mrs. Santa Claus Call 785-838-9559 EOH Can be seen Fri.-Sun. Lawrence. Nice, new stove Holiday Baking figurines. & refrig. Jan. 1st. $735/mo. 12/2-12/4 8am, 1117 New Perfect Condition. $35 for 3BR — 1131 Tennessee, 1st + deposit. 785-841-1284 York, Chris at 619-655-1670. set. Call (785) 843-5655 floor, 1 bath. Avail. now. No pets. $650/mo. 785-841-5797 2BR - Stonehouse, old stone house south of Lawrence. www.rentinlawrence.com Household Misc.

All modern amenities. $900.

3BR - 2121 Inverness, 2 Avail now. 785-841-2828 423B E 4th Street Meat Slicer, Rival meat story, 2.5 bath, CA, DW, Tonganoxie, KS 66086 slicer with 6.5” Blade. Like W/D hookup, 2 car, 1 pet 3BR, exceptionally nice! Fire913-704-5037 new, still in box with manplace, 2 baths, double garok. $850/mo. 785-841-5797 Antiques, Collectibles, age, fenced yard. Good for Glass, Furniture, Treasures ual. $30. Call 785-550-6848.

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NEW RENT SPECIALS $1,100/mo. 785-841-4201 Campus & Downtown Silver Flatware, Set of Reed Appliances 2 & 3 Bedroom Apts 3BR+, 3 level, 1.5 bath, gar& Barton. Complete serv785-749-7744 age, close to KU and ice for 4 - partial for 8, $40. school, 1307 W. 22nd St. Range, Older almond col- Also, Stemware $20. Can ored coil top range, works $1,000/mo. 785 331-7846 be seen Fri.-Sun. 12/2-12/4 Apartments, Houses & great. $50. Call if inter8am, 1117 New York, Chris Duplexes. 785-842-7644 3BR, 1.5 bath, 2530 Ridge Ct. ested at 785 760-3711. at 619-655-1670. www.GageMgmt.com Wood floors, W/D, DW, 2 Refrigerator 1987 almond car.

Newly remodeled. side by side, works great. $959/mo. Call 785-841-4449 Bailey Properties no ice maker. $100. Call if Lawn, Garden & 1BR Apt., 517 N. Nettleton, 3BR, 813 Crestline Ct. CA, 1 interested at 785 760-3711.

Nursery appls., wood floors, off-st. bath, garage, fenced yard. parking, front/back yards, Avail. Now. $750/mo. 1/2 off Riding Mower for sale, 26 Arts-Crafts $375/mo. + deposit. Avail. Deposit. Call 785-842-7644 HP riding mower with Immediately. Call today: 913-232-1073. & Antique snow blade & tire chains.

4BR, 2 bath, 2 car, $995/mo. Vintage Call 785-843-5436 18th & Wakarusa - Alvamar Fabrics/Laces, $1-10. For Place Rental Homes. Avail. more info. call Chris. Chris Storage Container, Suncast Heatherwood Valley & at 619-655-1670.

Jan. 1st. Call 785-393-2580 Sunflower Apartments lockable storage container 1, 2 & 3 Bedroom Units 4-1/2 ft. x 3 ft. x 4-1/2 ft. Apartments, Houses & $100, (Cost New over $300) Baby & Children's • No Application Fee • Duplexes. 785-842-7644 Call 785-841-9427 Short-term Leases avail.

Items www.GageMgmt.com • Leasing Programs for Applicants w/Bad Credit Barnum & Bailey Wooden Miscellaneous 785-856-1237 ToyBox, with domed Roommates www.AssetMgmtPlus.com wooden top for children. Desk Chair - medium size, $30.

785-843-0665 oak desk chair on rollers.

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600 sq. ft., $675/mo. perfect 3BR home. $400/ for both. 785-842-6671 Perfect for keeping Legos, 825 sq. ft., $855/mo. mo. + 1/3 utils. Contact: blocks, etc. off the floor. akatzfey6@yahoo.com No pets allowed Building Materials $30. 785-842-5661 Call Today 785-841-6565 advanco@sunflower.com Baldwin City STEEL ARCH BUILDINGS - Quilt Rack. Show off your Arch and Framed. End of quilts or blankets with this Year Clearance! Lowest white wood quilt rack.

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Sterling Duplexes Boots (Wolverine) Size 9M, Spinet, $175. Price includes Near new 3BR townhome still in box. $50.00 Please tuning and delivery. Call: 2.5 bath, 1 car garage, Call 785-550-1271 2BR, 1 bath, 1 car, W/D. 785-832-9906 Lawn care & snow reNW. No pets. Avail. Jan. 1. moval provided. Avail. Boots, Caterpillar Steel Toe $645/mo. 785-865-6064 HURRY IN! Nov. 1. $1,050/mo. + utils. Boots. Brand New, size 10M $50.00 785-550-1271 SALE ENDS SAT! 785-456-4145, 913-927-1713 Apartments, Houses & Save on acoustic & Coat, Beige, barn-style, unDuplexes. 785-842-7644 digital pianos. lined coat. Picture of Native www.GageMgmt.com Bonner Springs American painted on back 6 months same as (painted by a Native Amercash financing.

2BR, large duplex w/ base- ican). Adult, size L. $100 Kentucky Street Place Call today ment, CA, DW, W/D hookup, (cash only). Perfect Christ1700 Kentucky Street 785-537-3774 range, garage with opener. mas present. 785-842-6671 * 4BR, 2 Bath, Balcony 217 N. Nettleton, $750/mo. piano4u.com * W/D, DW, Microwave Credit check. Pet policy. Letter Jacket, Lawrence * Off-street parking Call 913-441-1854 High letter jacket, men’s If the weather outside * Close to downtown/KU size XL in excellent condi* $1,000/month is frightful, 3BR home, 2 bath, CA, W/D tion. $95 (new price is over Inquire About Incentives! hookup, DW, range, 2 car $170). 785-843-0257 be delighted to be at Call Today 785-550-7430 garage w/power opener. home with a piano 424 Twist Drive, Bonner. from $1,100/mo.

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Townhomes * Near stores, restaurants 785-813-1344, 785-393-4510 * Water & trash paid 2859 Four Wheel Drive 4BR duplex - start at $795 2BR, 925 Alabama. 1 Bath, Amazing 2BR, tranquil inti—————————————————— Central Air, $500/mo. 2 Car mate setting, free standGet Coupon* for $25 OFF garage is avail. for $100 ing townhome w/ courtEACH MONTH’S RENT yard, cathedral ceilings, per month. 785-842-7644 skylights, & W/D. Most *Sign lease by Dec. 30, 2011 residents professionals.

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3BR Townhomes Avail.

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2411 Cedarwood Ave. Beautiful & Spacious

Townhomes

2BR — 909 Missouri or 1305 Adam Ave. - 2 bath, 2 car, Kentucky, in 4-plex. Have 1,700 sq. ft., some with CA & DW. No pets. $450/ fenced yards, $895/mo.

Office Space Available month. Call 785-841-5797 at 5040 Bob Billings Pkwy.

Bainbridge Cir. - 1,200 785-841-4785 2BR, 1310 Kentucky. CA, DW, 1,540 sq. ft., 1.5-2.5 bath, 1 laundry. Close to KU. $550/ car, $695 - $775/mo. mo. One Month FREE. $200 Pets okay Retail & Deposit. Call 785-842-7644 with paid pet deposit Commercial Space Village Square www.garberprop.com 785-841-4785 Stonecrest • Hanover 1311 Wakarusa - office space available. 200 sq. ft.

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Jobs! Jobs! Jobs!

• Production Operators (Must have manufacturing and machine operating experience) $10.53 hr.

2nd & 3rd Shifts (with shift differential) • Processing Techs Experience needed: Mechanical skills in Set-up, repair and Troubleshooting TSL, PTI Extruders 2nd & 3rd shift (with shift differential) • Maintenance Technicians (Experience with industrial maintenance, Basic Pneumatics, mechanical, electrical, And trouble shooting) TSL, TRIA, PTI, 480 Volt, 3phase DC voltage (Thermoform experience a plus) • Tooling Technicians Experience with measuring tools. math, analytical skills. Lathes, mills, grinders & G-code exp a plus. Mech. ability & electric knowledge needed. 12 hr shift. Excellent Benefits after 60 days.

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Carpets & Rugs

Computer Running Slow?

Viruses/Malware?

Troubleshooting? Lessons?

Computer Questions, Advise?

We Can Help — 785-979-0838

BILL FAIR AND COMPANY AT YOUR SERVICE

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Automotive Services Auto Maintenance and Repair

www.lawrenceautodiag.com

785-842-8665

Bryant Collision Repair Mon-Fri. 8AM-6PM We specialize in Auto Body Repair, Paintless Dent Repair, Glass Repair, & Auto Accessories.

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Cash Paid. Free Tow. U-Call, We-Haul!

Call 785-633-7556

Dale and Ron’s Auto Service

Family Owned & Operated for 37 Years Domestic & Foreign Expert Service 630 Connecticut St

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- Full Service Caterer Specializing in smoked meats & barbeque

- Corporate Events, Private Parties, Weddings-

Child Care Provided

K’s Tire

Sales and Service Tires for anything Batteries Brakes Oil Changes Fair and Friendly Customer Service is our trademark 2720 Oregon St. 785-843-3222 Find great offers at

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Tires, Alignment, Brakes, A/C, Suspension Repair Financing Available 785-841-6050 1828 Mass. St lawrencemarketplace.com/ performancetire

Westside 66 & Car Wash

Full Service Gas Station 100% Ethanol-Free Gasoline Auto Repair Shop - Automatic Car Washes Starting At Just $3 2815 W 6th St | 785-843-1878 http://lawrencemarketplace. com/westside66

Carpet Cleaning Kansas Carpet Care, Inc.

Your locally owned and operated carpet and upholstery cleaning company since 1993!

• 24 Hour Emergency Water Damage Services Available

By Appointment Only

Decorative & Regular concrete drives, walks, & patios. 42 yrs. exp.

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Over 25 yrs. exp.

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• Decks • Gazebos • Framing • Siding • Fences • Additions • Remodel • Weatherproofing & Staining Insured, 20 yrs. experience.

785-550-5592

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Dirt-Manure-Mulch

Rich Black Top Soil No Chemicals Machine Pulverized Pickup or Delivery

Serving KC over 40 years 913-962-0798 Fast Service

Electrical

Cleaning Electric & Industrial Supply Pump & Well Drilling Service

Motors - Pumps Complete Water Systems 602 E 9th St | 785-843-4522

Bird Janitorial & Hawk Wash Window Cleaning.

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Even if you don’t have a disability and you live outside the Lawrence City limits, we can help.

Funded in part by KDOT Public Transit Program

Lawn, Garden & Nursery

Home Repair Services Interior/Exterior Carpentry, Vinyl siding, Roofing, Tearoff/reroof.

35 yrs. exp. Free est.

913-636-1881

ROCK-SOD-SOIL-MULCH

JASON TANKING CONSTRUCTION New Construction Framing, Remodels, Additions, Decks Fully Ins. & Lic. 785.760.4066 http://lawrencemarketplac e.com/jtconstruction

Light Up The Season!

for up to 200 people?

Try the TEE PEES in North Lawrence. Call 785-766-3538

• Holiday Lighting Installation • Professional and timely • Residential & Commercial

Steve’s Place

Year round storage

913-488-7320

Banquet Hall available for wedding receptions, birthday parties, corporate meetings & seminars.

For more info. visit http://lawrencemarket place.com/stevesplace

785-843-2174

1388 N 1293 Rd, Lawrence

Financial

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No Job Too Big or Small

Guttering Services

Your Local Lawrence Bank

Renovations Kitchen/Bath Remodels House Additions & Decks Quality Work Affordable Prices

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For Everything Electrical Committed to Excellence Since 1972 Full Service Electrical Contractor www.quality-electric.net

(785) 550-1565

Firewood & Chimney Sweep

mmdownstic@hotmail.com Lawrencemarketplace.com/tic Retired Carpenter, Deck Repairs, Home repairs: Doors, Windows, Stairs, Wood Rot, Siding, Powerwash785-766-5285

Chimney Sweep

Cleaning Chimneys/Stoves We install inserts & stoves, Home Repairs & Tree Trimming 785-331-6730

Instruction and Tutoring

Foundation Repair

Origins Interior Design

ADVANCED SYSTEMS Basement & foundation repair Your hometown company Over three decades 785-841-0145 mybasementiscracked.com

“where simple ideas become inspiring realities”

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CONCRETE INC Your local foundation repair specialist!

Waterproofing, Basement, & Crack Repair

Concrete, Block & Limestone Wall Repair, Waterproofing Drainage Solutions Sump Pumps, Driveways.

785-843-2700 Owen 24/7

Garage Doors

Buckingham Palace Commercial & Residential Cleaning Services “The Greener Cleaner”

785-842-6264

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Chim-Chiminee Sweeps Chimney/Dryer Duct Sweeping, Stoves, Inserts, & Liners installed.

25 yrs. exp. 913-724-1957

Eco-Friendly Cleaning

Get Lynn on the line!

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Seamless aluminum guttering. Many colors to choose from. Install, repair, screen, clean-out. Locally owned.

Insured. Free estimates.

Yoga is more than getting on the mat.

Live Passionately Yoga Nutrition Classes Relaxation Retreats 1407 Massachusetts 785-218-0174 lawrencemarketplace.com/ breathe

Moving-Hauling

Employment Services

Insurance

Heating & Cooling

Auto-Home- BusinessLife- Health Dennis J. Donnelly Insurance Inc. 913-268-5000 11211 Johnson Dr. insuranceinckc.com

“Your Comfort Is Our Business.”

Installation & Service Residential & Commercial (785) 841-2665 http://lawrencemarketplace. com/rivercityhvac

Housecleaner

Free estimate. Honest and Dependable. References available.

785-691-7999

Let Us Help With The Holidays

Gift Certificates Avail.

Family owned and operated since 1992 For Your Holiday Cleaning Needs

Sue Bee’s Cleaning 785-841-2268

Air Conditioning/ & Heating/Sales & Srvs.

Free Estimates on replacement equipment! Ask us about Energy Star equipment & how to save on your utility bills.

Roger, Kevin or Sarajane

785-841-3088

• Garage Doors • Openers • Service • Installation 930 E 27th Street, 785-843-1691 http://lawrencemarketplace. com/chaneyinc

Office* Clerical* Accounting Light Industrial* Technical Finance* Legal

Apply at eapp.adecco.com Or Call (785) 842-1515 BETTER WORK BETTER LIFE lawrencemarketplace.com/ adecco

Temporary or Contract Staffing Evaluation Hire, Direct Hire Professional Search Onsite Services (785) 749-7550 1000 S Iowa, Lawrence KS lawrencemarketplace.com/ express

785-856-GOLD(4653) Jewelry, coins, silver, watches. Earn money with broken & Unwanted jewelry

Fast Quality Service

Landscaping Low Maintenance Landscape, Inc.

1210 Lakeview Court, Innovative Planting Design Construction & Installation www.lawrencemarketplace. com/lml

Plan Now For Next Year • Custom Pools, Spas & Water Features • Design & Installation • Pool Maintenance (785) 843-9119

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Haul Free: Salvageable items. Minimum charge: other moving/hauling jobs.

Also Maintenance/Cleaning for home/business, inside/out plumbing / electrical & more. www.a2zenterprises.info 785-841-6254

STARVING ARTISTS MOVING

15yr. locally owned and operated company.

Professionally trained staff. We move everything from fossils to office and household goods.

Call for a free estimate.

785-749-5073 http://lawrencemarketplace. com/starvingartist

I COME TO YOU!

Dependable & Reliable Holiday pet sitting, feeding, overnights, walks, more!

References! Insured!

785-550-9289

Water, Fire & Smoke Damage Restoration • Odor Removal • Carpet Cleaning • Air Duct Cleaning •

One Company Is All You Need and One Phone Call Is All You Need To Make (785) 842-0351

Roofing Professional Service with a Tender Touch

Stress Free for you and your pet.

Call Calli 785-766-8420

Plumbing

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LAWN & LANDSCAPE MAINTENANCE Big/Small Jobs Fall Clean Up Leaf Clean Up Snow Removal

We’re There for You!

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“When You’re Ready, We’re Reddi” •Sales •Service •Installations •Free Estimate on replacements all makes & models Commercial Residential Financing Available

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Free Estimates

Insurance Work Welcome

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KEYS of JOY

Piano Lessons 4704 W. 24th St Learn to play 30-50 songs in the first year!

Re-Roofs: All Types Roofing Repairs Siding & Windows FREE Estimates (785) 749-0462 www.meslerroofing.com

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785-331-8369

Salon & Spa

Int/ext. Drywall, Tile, Siding, Wood rot, & Decks 30 plus yrs. Refs. Free Est. albeil@aol.com

Int/Ext/Specialty Painting Siding, Wood Rot & Decks Kate, 785-423-4464 www.kbpaintingllc.com

Painting

Husband & wife team, exp., fast & good.

Reasonable, Carolyn& Mark 785-424-5860

Professional Painters Home, Interior, Exterior Painting, Lead Paint Removal Serving Northeast Kansas 785-691-6050 http://lawrencemarket place.com/primecoat

Riffel Painting Co. Specializing in new homes & Residential interior and exterior repaints Power Washing Deck staining Sheet Rock Repair Quality work and products since 1985

Supplying all your Painting needs.

Serving Lawrence and surrounding areas for over 25 years.

Locally owned & operated.

Free estimates/Insured.

Pet Services

Whatever U Need

Serving the Douglas & Franklin county areas

Complete Roofing

Tearoffs, Reroofs, Redecks * Storm Damage * Leaks * Roof Inspections

Music Lessons

913-585-1846

Dependable Service

Commercial &Residential 24 hour Service

For all your Heating, Air Conditioning and Plumbing needs

NOT Your ordinary bicycle store!

Free Quote

Al 785-331-6994

Green Grass Lawn Care Air Conditioning Heating/Plumbing

House Cleaner

785-842-3030

A. B. Painting & Repair

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General Services

• Unsightly black streaks of mold & dirt on your roof?

• Mold or Mildew on your house?

• Is winter salt intrusion causing your concrete to flake?

Mobile Enviro-Wash LTD

Painting

jayhawkguttering.com

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12 years experience.

Reasonable rates.

References available

• Garage Doors • Openers • Service • Installation Call 785-842-5203 or visit us at Lawrencemarketplace.com /freestategaragedoors

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JAYHAWK GUTTERING

Mudjacking, Waterproofing. We specialize in Basement Repair & Pressure Grouting.

Level & Straighten Walls & Bracing on wall. BBB. Free Estimates Since 1962

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Adorable Animal Designs

Full Service Grooming All Breeds & Sizes Including Cats!

Flea & Tick Solutions

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All Your Banking Needs

1-888-326-2799 Toll Free

Pet Services

Breathe Holistic Life Center

Int. & Ext. Remodeling All Home Repairs Mark Koontz

Quality work at a fair price!

1783 E 1500 Rd, Lawrence

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Specializing in Carpet, Tile & Upholstery cleaning.

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We provide door-to-door transportation as well as many additional services to residents of Douglas County living with disabilities.

Home Improvements

Bus. 913-269-0284

Stacked Deck

Harris Auto Repair

Domestics and Imports Brake repair Engine repair AC repair / service Custom exhaust systems Shock & Struts Transmissions Tire sales / repairs

“If you want it done right, take it to Hite.”

Auto Body Repair Windshield & Auto Glass Repair 3401 W 6th St (785) 843-8991 http://lawrencemarket place.com/hite

1-888-326-2799 Toll Free

DECK BUILDER

Oakley Creek Catering

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Hite Collision Repair

Quality work at a fair price!

Banquet Room Available for Corporate Parties, Wedding Receptions, Fundraisers Bingo Every Friday Night 1803 W 6th St. (785) 843-9690 http://lawrencemarket place.com/Eagles_Lodge

Accessible and General Public Transportation

Decks & Fences

Family Owned & Operated

785-838-4488

CONCRETE INC. Your local concrete repair specialists Sidewalks, Patios, Driveways

Eagles Lodge

General Services

Catering

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On-Site Cooking Available

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RETIRED MASTER PLUMBER & Handyman needs small work.

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Travel Services Lawrence First Class Transportation Limos Corporate Cars Drivers available 24/7

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Cars-Imports

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2009 Lincoln MKZ V6, Auto,Carfax 1 owner, $24,995 23rd & Alabama 843-3500 www.lairdnollerlawrence.com

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Lincoln 2001 LS - always garaged, V8, 74,340 miles, full power, leather seats, moon roof, traction control, 17” chrome Lincoln wheels, 6-disc in-dash Alpine sound system. I have all service records. I’ve owned this car for about 7 yrs. and only put 43,000 miles on it in that time. Not your ‘typical’ Lincoln. Awe- Pontiac 2009 G3, autosome handling, fast car. matic, talk about fuel economy and room!

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Ford 2008 Fusion SE Silver Bright Metallic, 44K Get Hooked At

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2008 Mini Cooper S, 2 Door, 6speed manual, heated seats, cloth, Moon, CD, Bluetooth, Trac, Spoiler, 25K, $19,900.

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2009 Mazda3 4cyl., Auto, 45,000 mi, $15,995 23rd & Alabama 843-3500 www.lairdnollerlawrence.com

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Cars-Imports

Crossovers

Crossovers

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Crossovers

2006 Acura MDX Touring, V6, AWD, 2-Owner, well-maintained, leather, Moon, 3rd row, Bose, 92K, $17,900.

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2006 Toyota 4Runner SPORT, 4WD, Moon, tow, CD, PL, PW, cruise, spoiler, 120K, new tires, clean! $14,900 View pictures at www.theselectionautos.com 785.856.0280 845 Iowa St. Lawrence, KS 66049

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2008 Lincoln MKX V6, Auto,34,000 mi., $30,995 23rd & Alabama 843-3500 www.lairdnollerlawrence.com

Ducati 2004 1000 DS only 1K miles on multistrada like new.

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GMC 2004 Sierra SLE 4wd, Z71, ext cab, alloy wheels, running boards, tow pkg, hard to find at this price, only $15,950. stk#10092.

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2006 Toyota Highlander Hybrid V6, Auto, Blk, AWD, Carfax 1 owner $17,995 23rd & Alabama 843-3500 www.lairdnollerlawrence.com

HUMMER 2006 H2.

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Chevrolet 2007 Suburban 1500 LT, 4x4, V8, auto. $27,988 Call 785-838-2327 LAIRD NOLLER HYUNDAI 2829 Iowa St. Lawrence

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Jeep 2005 Liberty RENEGADE model with tons of fun options. Nice silver color, clean condition and history.

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GMC 2008 YUKON XL DENALI, AWD, SUV Certified, Stk#D8785 Special Price $36,000.

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2006 Honda CR-V EX-L SE 1-Owner, 4WD, 4cyl, auto, leather, moon, alloy, PW, PL, 6CD, ONLY 31k ORIGINAL MILES $18,900.

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FORD 2007 TRUCK Stk#B96918A Special Price $21,000.

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Toyota 2006 Tundra, AccessCab, 8cyl.

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Kia 2010 Sedona Toyota 2008 Tundra crew V6, Auto, Silver, 39,000 mi cab 4x4, 49,000 miles, $15,988 loaded, TRO package, Call 785-838-2327 leather, PW, PL, cruise, LAIRD NOLLER HYUNDAI fully equipped nice ride.

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Olathe KS 66061 7 passenger family van, visit our website very clean, with DVD www.aaamkc.com player. Nice Dark Blue MeCall 888-239-5723 Today. tallic, clean gray interior.

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2008 Buick Enclave CXL 1-Owner, AWD, Pearl White, 3rd row, Leather, 2nd Row Buckets, rear ac, Bose, htd seats, power, park assist 92K, $20,900.

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2008 Lincoln MKX V6, Auto,Loaded $24,995 23rd & Alabama 843-3500 www.lairdnollerlawrence.com

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6 WW 6C EDNESDAY EDNESDAY -T, HURSDAY DECEMBER , D7, ECEMBER 2011 7-8, 2011 Lawrence Lawrence Bonner period as provided by law, of this debt, or would like and further subject to the the name and address of approval of the Court. the original creditor, you must advise us in writing Douglas County Sheriff within thirty (30) days of the first notice you receive MILLSAP & SINGER, LLC from us. Otherwise, we will By: assume the entire debt to Jeremy M. Hart, #20886 be valid. This is an attempt jhart@msfirm.com to collect a debt, and any Lindsey L. Craft, #23315 information obtained will lcraft@msfirm.com be used for that purpose.

Chad R. Doornink, #23536 cdoornink@msfirm.com Respectfully Submitted, Jennifer L. Michaels, #24256 By: jmichaels@msfirm.com Kelli Breer, KS Ct. #17851 11460 Tomahawk Creek KOZENY & MCCUBBIN, L.C. Parkway, Fairway Corporate Center Suite 300 4220 Shawnee Mission Leawood, KS 66211 Parkway, Suite 200B (913) 339-9132 Fairway, KS 66205 (913) 339-9045 (fax) Phone: (913) 677-0253/ Fax: (913) 831-6014 ATTORNEYS FOR PLAINTIFF email: kbreer@km-law.com K&M File Code: FRIJOBOA MILLSAP & SINGER, LLC AS ________ ATTORNEYS FOR CITIMORTGAGE, INC. IS ATTEMPTING TO COLLECT A (First published in the LawDEBT AND ANY INFORMA- rence Daily Journal-World TION OBTAINED WILL BE November 23, 2011) USED FOR THAT PURPOSE. IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF ________ DOUGLAS COUNTY, KANSAS CIVIL DEPARTMENT (First published in the Lawrence Daily Journal-World U.S. Bank National November 23, 2011) Association Plaintiff, IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF vs.

DOUGLAS COUNTY, KANSAS Pamela S Dixson aka Pamela Sue Dixson, R Morris In the Matter of the Dixson aka Robert Morris Adoption of Dixson, Jane Doe, and John VIVIAN SHANNON Doe, et al., MORIARTY, Defendants born 2004, minor Case No. 2011 AD 43 Division 6

Case No. 11CV658 Court No.

Proceeding Under K.S.A. Chapter 59.

Title to Real Estate Involved

NOTICE OF SUIT The State of Kansas to Solomon B. Silver, natural father herein, and all other persons who are or may be concerned: You are hereby notified that a Petition for Adoption has been filed in the District Court of Douglas County, Kansas, praying that Joseph Benjamin Eggleston, Jr. be allowed to adopt the above named minor child, and you are hereby required to plead to the Petition for Adoption on or before the 20th day of December, 2011, at 4:45 p.m. in the District Court, Division 6, Douglas County Judicial and Law Enforcement Center, 11th and New Hampshire Streets, Lawrence, Kansas. If you fail to plead, judgment and decree will be entered in due course upon the Petition.

Pursuant to K.S.A. § 60 NOTICE OF SUIT STATE OF KANSAS to the above named Defendants and The Unknown Heirs, executors, devisees, trustees, creditors, and assigns of any deceased defendants; the unknown spouses of any defendants; the unknown officers, successors, trustees, creditors and assigns of any defendants that are existing, dissolved or dormant corporations; the unknown executors, administrators, devisees, trustees, creditors, successors and assigns of any defendants that are or were partners or in partnership; and the unknown guardians, conservators and trustees of any defendants that are minors or are under any legal disability and all other person who are or may be concerned:

YOU ARE HEREBY NOTIFIED Joseph Benjamin that a Petition for Mortgage Eggleston, Jr. Foreclosure has been filed Petitioner in the District Court of Douglas County, Kansas by U.S. Bank National AssociaSTEVENS & BRAND, L.L.P. tion, praying for foreclo900 Massachusetts, sure of certain real propSuite 500 erty legally described as P.O. Box 189 follows: Lawrence, Kansas 66044-0189 LOTS 89, 91, AND 93, ON (785) 843-0811 - phone MONROE STREET, IN THE (785) 843-0341 - fax CITY OF BALDWIN, IN DOUGAttorneys for Petitioner LAS COUNTY, KANSAS. Tax ________ ID No. B01926 (First published in the Lawrence Daily Journal-World for a judgment against deNovember 30, 2011) fendants and any other interested parties and, unless Kelli Breer otherwise served by perKOZENY & MCCUBBIN, L.C. sonal or mail service of Fairway Corporate Center summons, the time in 4220 Shawnee Mission which you have to plead to Parkway, Suite 200B the Petition for Foreclosure Fairway, KS 66205 in the District Court of email: kbreer@km-law.com Douglas County, Kansas K&M File Code: FRIJOBOA will expire on January 4, 2012. If you fail to plead, IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF judgment and decree will DOUGLAS COUNTY, KANSAS be entered in due course upon the request of plainTHE BANK OF NEW YORK tiff.

MELLON FKA THE BANK OF NEW YORK,AS TRUSTEE FOR MILLSAP & SINGER, LLC THE HOLDERS OF CWMBS, INC., CHL MORTGAGE By: PASS-THROUGH TRUST Chad R. Doornink, #23536 2002-21, MORTGAGE PASS cdoornink@msfirm.com THROUGH CERTIFICATES, Lindsey L. Craft, #23315 SERIES 2002-21, lcraft@msfirm.com Plaintiff, Jeremy M. Hart, #20886 vs. jhart@msfirm.com Joel D Fritzel AKA Jennifer L. Michaels, #24256 Joel Fritzel, et al., jmichaels@msfirm.com Defendants.

11460 Tomahawk Creek Parkway, Ste 300 Case No. 11CV518 Leawood, KS 66211 Div. No. 1 (913) 339-9132 K.S.A. 60 (913) 339-9045 (fax) Mortgage Foreclosure (Title to Real Estate ATTORNEYS FOR PLAINTIFF Involved) MILLSAP & SINGER, LLC AS NOTICE OF SUIT ATTORNEYS FOR U.S. BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION IS THE STATE OF KANSAS to: ATTEMPTING TO COLLECT A Christine M Fritzel AKA C M DEBT AND ANY INFORMAFritzel AKA Christine M Jen- TION OBTAINED WILL BE nings , Defendants, and all USED FOR THAT PURPOSE. other persons who are or _______ may be concerned: YOU ARE HEREBY NOTIFIED: That a Petition has been filed in the District Court of Douglas County, Kansas, Case No. 11CV518 by THE BANK OF NEW YORK MELLON FKA THE BANK OF NEW YORK,AS TRUSTEE FOR THE HOLDERS OF CWMBS, INC., CHL MORTGAGE PASS-THROUGH TRUST 2002-21, MORTGAGE PASS THROUGH CERTIFICATES, SERIES 2002-21, praying for foreclosure of a mortgage executed by Joel D Fritzel AKA Joel Fritzel on 09/12/2002 and recorded in Book 796, Page 1555 in the real estate records of Douglas County, Kansas, related to the following property: BEGINNING AT THE SOUTHWEST CORNER OF LOT 1, PRESTWICK COURT, A SUBDIVISION IN THE CITY OF LAWRENCE, DOUGLAS COUNTY, KANSAS; THENCE NORTH 00 DEGREES 05 MINUTES 57 SECONDS EAST ALONG THE WEST LINE OF SAID LOT 1, 156.25 FEET; THENCE SOUTH 89 DEGREES 54 MINUTES 03 SECONDS EAST, 90.10 FEET; THENCE SOUTH 61 DEGREES 35 MINUTES 15 SECONDS EAST, 60.00 FEET TO THE EASTERN LINE OF SAID LOT 1; THENCE ON A 225.00 FEET RADIUS CURVE TO THE LEFT, AN ARC DISTANCE OF 44.07 FEET WITH A CHORD BEARING SOUTH 13 DEGREES 16 MINUTES 47 SECONDS WEST, 44.00 FEET ALONG SAID EASTERLY LINE; THENCE ON A 97.83 FEET RADIUS CURVE TO THE RIGHT, AN ARC DISTANCE OF 140.75 FEET WITH A CHORD BEARING SOUTH 48 DEGREES 53 MINUTES 01 SECONDS WEST, 128.92 FEET ALONG SAID EASTERLY LINE; THENCE NORTH 89 DEGREES 54 MINUTES 03 SECONDS WEST, 35.91 FEET ALONG THE SOUTHERLY LINE OF SAID LOT 1 TO THE POINT OF BEGINNING, ALL IN THE CITY OF LAWRENCE, IN DOUGLAS COUNTY, KANSAS, AND SHOWN AS 1515 PRESTWICK COURT BY THE PLAT OF SURVEY FOR LOTS 1, 2 AND 3 PRESTWICK COURT, RECORDED MARCH 11, 1994, IN BOOK C-1, PAGE 127.

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tion.

Written comments with respect to the exemption may also be submitted to the City Clerk before the hearing.

Additional information regarding the exemption may be obtained in advance of the hearing from the City Clerk.

Dated: December 5, 2012. ________

Baldwin (First published in the Baldwin City Signal, Thursday, December 1, 2011) INVITATION TO BID 2012 LIGHTING FIXTURES, BULBS, AND RELATED PARTS CITY OF BALDWIN CITY P.O. BOX 86 BALDWIN CITY, KANSAS 66006 PHONE: (785) 594-6427 You are invited to bid on a contract to provide lighting fixtures, bulbs, and related parts for a city wide lighting retrofit. The contract is for materials only as city staff will install.

torized bicycle displays an unlawful state license plate.

SECTION 2. SAME; DISPLAY. The display of an unlawful state license plate shall be defined to be any one or more of the following: A. Any license plate not lawfully issued to such vehicle; B. Any expired license plate; C. Any suspended, revoked or canceled license plate; D. Any stolen license plate; E. Any altered, defaced or fictitious license plate; F. Any license plate without the current registration attached to it as required by state law; G. Any license plate that is not securely attached to the rear of the vehicle with the correct side up and in a manner that makes it clearly visible and legible.

SECTION 3.

SAME; STANDARD TRAFFIC ORDINANCE. Nothing in this Ordinance shall be interpreted as conflicting with Section 198 of This is a federally funded the Standard Traffic Ordiproject and “Buy Ameri- nance, as adopted in 14-101 can” regulations will apply. of the City Code.

(The successful bidder will be required to provide cer- SECTION 4. SAME; PENALTY Violation of tification that all parts and PROVISION. components were made in this ordinance shall be conAmerica.) There will be a sidered a parking infracpre-bid meeting for all in- tion, and upon conviction, terested parties on THURS- the violator shall receive a DAY, DECEMBER 15 at 10:00 fine of not less than $45 or A.M. at the Baldwin City more than $100.

Public Works Building, 609 High Street, Baldwin City, SECTION 5. EFFECTIVE DATE OF ORDINANCE. This OrdiKansas. nance shall be in full force Specifications for the bid and effect from and after with product requirements its adoption and publicawill be available at that tion as provided by law, time and at any time fol- and the above new Seclowing at the same loca- tions shall be added to the tion.

Questions about official Code of the City of products should be di- Baldwin City, Kansas. rected to Chris Croucher, the Baldwin City Distribu- PASSED AND APPROVED by tion Superintendent at the Governing Body of the (785) 594-6907.

Questions City of Baldwin City, Kansas about the bid should be di- this 5th day of December, rected to Don Swartz, Bald- 2011. win City Energy Manager at (816) 835-4781.

APPROVED: Sealed Bids will be opened Ken Wagner, Mayor 2 on THURSDAY, JANUARY 12 at 10:00 A.M. at the Baldwin ATTEST: City Public Works Building, Darcy Higgins, City Clerk 609 High Street. The City reserves the right to reject APPROVED AS TO FORM: any or all bids and to waive Matthew H. Hoy, any irregularities in bidd- City Attorney _______ ing. Federal and State laws supersede any conflicting part of this specification.

Shawnee Chris Lowe City Administrator City of Baldwin City _______ (First published in the Baldwin City Signal, Thursday, December 1, 2011) RESOLUTION No. 2011-16 A

RESOLUTION SETTING THE TIME AND PLACE OF A HEARING REGARDING A REPORTED UNSAFE MOBILE HOME STRUCTURE AT 1020 ELM STREET WHEREAS, Chapter 8, Article 5 of the Code of the City of Baldwin City sets forth a procedure for dealing with dangerous and unfit structures whereby the Public Officer may provide a report to the governing body on a potential dangerous structure; and WHEREAS, the City Code provides that the governing body, upon receiving a report of a potentially dangerous or unfit structure, shall by resolution fix a time and place at which the owner, the owner’s agent, any lienholder of record and any occupant of the structure may appear and show cause why the structure should not be condemned and ordered repaired or demolished; and WHEREAS, whenever any structure within the city shall be found to be dangerous, unsafe or unfit for human use or habitation, it shall be the duty and obligation of the owner of the property to render the same secure and safe or to remove the same; and

WHEREAS, the City’s Code Enforcement staff has observed a mobile home structure that is unfit for human habitation because Bonner of dilapidation and has be(Published in The Chieftain, come unsafe and dangerThursday, December 8, ous. It is evident to staff that the structure contin2011) ues to deteriorate and should be removed in order NOTICE OF PUBLIC to protect the safety of the HEARING general public.

OF THE CITY OF BONNER SPRINGS, KANSAS NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT REThe City of Bonner Springs, SOLVED by the governing Kansas (the “City”), will body of the City of Baldwin conduct a public hearing at City, Kansas, that there 7:30 p.m. (or as soon there- shall be a hearing on Monafter as is practical) on day, January 17, 2012 in the Monday, January 9, 2012, at American Legion Hall, 803 the Council Chambers, City High Street, Baldwin City, Hall, 205 E. 2nd Street, Kansas at the regular meetBonner Springs, Kansas, to ing of the governing body, consider applying to the such meeting starting at Court of Tax Appeals of the 7:30 p.m. At such hearing, State of Kansas to grant an the owner of the structure exemption from ad valorem at 1020 Elm Street in Baldtaxes pursuant to K.S.A. win City, the owner’s agent, 79-201a Second for prop- any lienholder of record, erty financed with the pro- and any occupant of the ceeds of not to exceed structure may appear and $1,000,000 principal amount show cause why the strucof industrial revenue bonds ture should not be con(the “Bonds”) in accord- demned and ordered reance with K.S.A. 12-1740 to paired or demolished, and 12-1749d, inclusive, as proper notice of such hearamended. The proceeds of ing shall be given as set the Bonds will be used to forth in Section 8-506 of the pay the cost of construct- Code of the City of Baldwin ing, equipping and furnish- City, Kansas. ing an addition to a manufacturing facility located at ADOPTED AND APPROVED 23825 W. 40th Street, by the Governing Body of Bonner Springs, Kansas the City of Baldwin City, (the “Project”) and consist- Kansas on this 21st day of ing of an approximately November.

14,000 square foot addition to the industrial printing APPROVED: and manufacturing build- /s/ Ken Wagner ing. The existing building Ken Wagner, Mayor and the addition will be leased to DRI Ink, LLC, a ATTEST: Kansas limited liability /s/ Darcy Higgins company or its assigns (the Darcy Higgins, City Clerk _______ “Company”), and subleased to Sterling Screen (First published in the BaldPrinting Inc., a Kansas corporation.

Application for win City Signal, Thursday, December 8, 2011) the exemption will be con-

(Published in the Shawnee Dispatch, Wednesday, December 7, 2011) Notice to Bidders CITY OF SHAWNEE, KANSAS

Case No. 2008 PR 146 PURSUANT TO CHAPTER 59 OF K.S.A. NOTICE OF HEARING THE STATE OF KANSAS TO ALL PERSONS CONCERNED: You are notified that a petition has been filed in this Court by William R. Rinehart, duly appointed, qualified and acting Executor of the Estate of Charles William Rinehart, deceased, requesting that Petitioner’s acts be approved; account be settled and allowed; the heirs be determined; the “Valid Settlement Agreement” be construed and the Estate be assigned to the persons entitled thereto; the Court find the allowances requested for attorneys’ and guardian ad litem fees and expenses are reasonable and should be allowed; the costs be determined and ordered paid; the administration of the Estate be closed; upon the filing of receipts the Petitioner be finally discharged as the Executor of the Estate of Charles William Rinehart, deceased, and the Petitioner be released from further liability.

You are required to file your written defenses to the petition on or before December 29, 2011, at 11:30 a.m., in the District Court, in Leavenworth, Leavenworth County, Kansas, at which time and place the cause will be heard.

Should you fail to file your written defenses, judgment and decree will be entered in due course upon the petition.

WILLIAM R. RINEHART, Executor

All Bidders shall verify that they have considered all written addenda. Any written addenda issued during the time of bidding shall be covered and included in the bid. There will be no clarifications or exceptions allowed on the Bid. Bids are for a total bid package based on estimated on-call services for a twelve (12) month period.

DISTRICT COURT, LEAVENWORTH COUNTY, KANSAS PROBATE DEPARTMENT IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF CHARLES WILLIAM RINEHART, Deceased

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Forty-Eight (48) And Forty-Nine (49), Block Fifteen (15), Stilling’s Subdivision, City Of Leavenworth, Leavenworth County, Kansas.

Lien: $11,442.82

Lien: $244.80

ter Of Section Three (3), Township Ten (10), Range Twenty-Three (23), Leavenworth County, Kansas Lien: $3,890.13

Cause of Action No. 3 Lot 13, Block 6, Ree’s, Doniphan And Thornton’s Addition, An Addition In The City Of Leavenworth, Leavenworth County, KanThe North 130.00 feet of Lot sas, According To The Re1, Wild Acres Subdivision, corded Plat Thereof City of Basehor, Leaven- Lien: $597.45 worth County, Kansas, commonly known as 1832 Cause of Action No. 4 North 150th Street, Basehor, Five Acre Tract In S 1/2 Of KS 66007 (the “Property”) Section 14, Township 12, Range 22, The West 1.114’ to satisfy the judgment in Of The S 1/2 Lying South Of the above-entitled case. Railroad Right Of Way The sale is to be made Lien: $295.31 without appraisement and subject to the redemption Cause of Action No. 5 period as provided by law, Lot 14, Block 1, Mix’s Subdiand further subject to the vision, City Of Leavenworth, approval of the Court. For Leavenworth County, Kanmore information, visit sas www.Southlaw.com.

Lien: $626.50 David Zoellner, Sheriff Cause of Action No. 6 Leavenworth County, Lot 16 Of Block 16, Of Day’s Kansas Subdivisin Of The City Of Leavenworth, Leavenworth Prepared By: County, Kansas South & Associates, P.C. Lien: $2,141.04 Kristen G. Stroehmann (KS # 10551) Cause of Action No. 8 6363 College Blvd., Suite 100 The South 47 Feet Of Lot 7 Overland Park, KS 66211 In Block 24, Latta’s Addi(913)663-7600 tion, City Of Leavenworth, (913)663-7899 (Fax) Leavenworth County, KanAttorneys For Plaintiff sas (123219) Lien: $10,010.70 ________ Cause of Action No. 9 (First published in The MirLot 31, Less The North 20 ror, Tuesday, November 22, Feet, And All Of Lot 32, 2011) Block 13, Stilling’s Subdivision, A Subdivision In The IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF City Of Leavenworth, LeavLEAVENWORTH COUNTY, enworth County, Kansas KANSAS Lien: $10,210.91 Bank of America, N.A., as successor by merger to BAC Home Loans Servicing, LP Plaintiff, vs.

Terri N Traul AKA DePriest P Traul AKA Terri DePriest AKA Terri T DePriest AKA Terri Traul-DePriest , et al., Defendants Case No. 11CV148 Division 4 Pursuant to K.S.A. Chapter 60 Mortgage Foreclosure (Title to Real Estate Involved) NOTICE OF SHERIFF’S SALE

Under and by virtue of an Order of Sale issued by the Clerk of the District Court in and for the said County SUBMITTED BY: of Leavenworth, State of Law Office of Kansas, in a certain cause in said Court Numbered Cathleen A. Gulledge wherein the par310 West Center, Suite 11CV148, ties above named were re108 spectively plaintiff and deWichita, Kansas fendant, and to me, the undersigned Sheriff of said 67202-1003 County, directed, I will offer Attorney for Petitioner for sale at public auction and sell to the highest bid_______ der for cash in hand at (First published in The Mir- 10:00 AM, on 12/15/2011, ror, Tuesday, November 22, THE JUSTICE CENTER ON THE 2nd FLOOR LOBBY 2011) (street level), 601 S. 3rd Leavenworth, KS IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF Street, 66048, Leavenworth County LEAVENWORTH COUNTY, Courthouse, the following KANSAS described real estate loCIVIL DEPARTMENT cated in the County of BAC Home Loans Servicing, Leavenworth, State of KanLP fka Countrywide Home sas, to wit: Loans Servicing, LP LOT 22, BLOCK 3, SHERPlaintiff, WOOD FOREST SUBDIVIvs. SION, IN THE COUNTY OF Elaine M. Nitz, et al.

LEAVENWORTH, KANSAS, Defendants.

ACCORDING TO THE RECORDED PLAT THEREOF. Case No. 10CV489 Court Number: 4 David Zoellner, Sheriff Leavenworth County, Pursuant to K.S.A. Kansas Chapter 60

Sealed Proposals will be received from Bidders by the City of Shawnee, hereinafter referred to as the Owner, at the office of the City Clerk at Shawnee City Hall, 11110 Johnson Drive, Shawnee, Kansas, until 10:00 A.M., Friday January 6, 2012 at which time, the bids received will be opened and publicly read for the Traffic Signal and Street Light Maintenance Services Contract. Bidders will be notified of the results within fourteen (14) days of the date set above for bids to be received. The Contract shall be awarded by the Governing Body of the Owner at the sole and complete discretion of such Governing Body. The City of Shawnee reserves the right to reject any or all NOTICE OF SALE bids and to waive informalities or irregularities in Under and by virtue of an bids.

Order of Sale issued to me by the Clerk of the District A pre-bid conference will Court of Leavenworth be held at 9:00 A.M., County, Kansas, the underWednesday December 21, signed Sheriff of Leaven2011, at the Public Works worth County, Kansas, will Service Center at 18690 offer for sale at public aucJohnson Drive, Shawnee, tion and sell to the highest Kansas. bidder for cash in hand, at the Justice Center, 2nd The Contract provides the Floor Lobby, Leavenworth City with a qualified inde- County, Kansas, on Decempendent contractor on an ber 15, 2011, at 10:00 AM, on-call basis who has the the following real estate: resources, certifications, and knowledge of City of A tract of land in the South Shawnee standards and 1/2 of the Southeast 1/4 of specifications to furnish all Section 27, Township 11 materials and labor neces- South, Range 22 East of the sary to provide non-routine Sixth P.M. in the City of traffic signal and street Bonner Springs, Leavenlight maintenance for worth County, Kansas, deCity-owned facilities. scribed as follows: Commencing at the Southeast Contract Documents may corner of said Section 27; be found on the City thence North 89 degrees, 54 website minutes, 12 seconds West www.cityofshawnee.org (assumed) 660.00 feet along /Business/Bids and propos- the South line of Section 27 als on Wednesday, Decem- to the point of beginning of ber 7, 2011. Contract Docu- this tract; thence North 89 ments may also be picked degrees, 59 minutes, 12 up from the Public Works seconds West 300.00 feet; Department, Codes Divi- thence North 00 degrees sion, at City Hall 11110 East 1,324.12 feet to the Johnson Drive, for a North line of the South 1/2 non-refundable fee of of the Southeast 1/4 of said $25.00 on Wednesday, De- Section 27; thence South 89 cember 7, 2011. degrees, 59 minutes, 37 seconds East 303.21 feet Each Bidder shall file with along the North line of the their bid a cashier’s check, South 1/2 of the Southeast certified check, or bid bond 1/4 of Section 27; thence drawn on an acceptable South 00 degrees, 08 minbank in an amount not less utes, 20 seconds West than five percent (5%) of 1,324.16 feet to the point of the total amount of the bid. beginning of this tract, less Bid Bonds will be returned any part thereof taken or to the unsuccessful Bid- used for road purposes., ders, with the exception of commonly known as 15930 the second qualifying Bid- Linwood Road, Bonner der, at such time as their Springs, KS 66012 (the bids are rejected.

“Property”)

Each bid shall be made on a printed Proposal form included with these documents. Bids shall be submitted in sealed envelopes and shall be marked “2012 Traffic Signal and Street Light Maintenance Services Contract”. An officer of the firm making such Proposal shall properly execute all Proposal forms.

Bids rePublished in The Baldwin ceived after the time and City Signal on the 8th day date above specified shall be returned, unopened, to of December, 2011 the Bidder.

ORDINANCE NO. 1273 CITY OF SHAWNEE, KANSAS _______ AN ORDINANCE REGARDING VEHICLE LICENSE, ILLEGAL Tonganoxie TAG, DISPLAY, AND ESTABLISHING PENALTIES THERE- (First Published in the TonFORE. ganoxie Mirror on the 7th day of December, 2011.)

NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED BY THE GOVERNING IN THE FIRST BODY OF THE CITY OF BALDJUDICIAL DISTRICT WIN CITY, KANSAS:

ditioned on agreement by the Company to make certain payments in lieu of taxes which payments will be apportioned and paid by the Johnson County Treasurer to all taxing subdivisions in the territory in which the Project is located in the manner provided by K.S.A. 12-1742. The Bonds and the interest thereon will not be a debt or general obligation of the City, the State of Kansas or any municipal corporation thereof, and neither the Bonds nor the interest VEHICLE LIYou are hereby required to thereon are payable in any SECTION 1.

It plead to the Petition on or manner from tax revenues CENSE; ILLEGAL TAG. shall be unlawful for any before January 10, 2012 in of any kind or character. person to park, stop, or the court at Douglas County, Kansas. If you fail The meeting and public stand a vehicle, motor vehito plead, judgment and de- hearing will be open to the cle, or motorized bicycle on cree will be entered in due public.

Interested mem- the streets, alleys, public course upon the petition. bers of the public are in- areas, park grounds, public vited to attend the hearing or private parking lots or NOTICE TO BORROWER: If and will have an opportu- other publicly accessible you wish to dispute the va- nity to express their views areas of the City if such velidity of all or any portion with respect to the exemp- hicle, motor vehicle, or mo-

Tonganoxie

to satisfy the judgment in the above-entitled case.

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

David Zoellner, Sheriff Leavenworth County, Kansas Prepared By: South & Associates, P.C. Kristen G. Stroehmann (KS # 10551) 6363 College Blvd., Suite 100 Overland Park, KS 66211 (913)663-7600 (913)663-7899 (Fax) Attorneys For Plaintiff (102419) ________ (First published in The Mirror, Tuesday, November 22, 2011) IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF LEAVENWORTH COUNTY, KANSAS CIVIL DEPARTMENT BAC Home Loans Servicing, L.P. fka Countrywide Home Loans Servicing, L.P. Plaintiff, vs.

Gary D. Carbaugh and Melissa M. Carbaugh, et al.

Defendants.

Case No. 10CV761 Court Number: Pursuant to K.S.A. Chapter 60 NOTICE OF SALE Under and by virtue of an Order of Sale issued to me

Cause of Action No. 10 Lots 18 And 19, Block 2, Flesher’s Riverview Subdivision, Leavenworth County, Kansas Lien: $6,654.98 Cause of Action No. 11 Lot 25, Hillbrook Subidivision, City Of Lansing, Leavenworth County, Kansas Lien: $1,452.45 Cause of Action No. 12 Lot 26, Hillbrook Subidivision, City Of Lansing, Leavenworth County, Kansas Lien: $1,482.70 Cause of Action No. 13 A Tract Of Land In The Northeast One-Quarter (Ne 1/4) Of Section Thirty-Six (36), Township Nine (9), Range Twenty (20) East, In Leavenworth County, Kansas, Being More Fully Described As Follows: Beginning At A Point 25.00 Feet West Of The Southeast Corner Of The Northeast One-Quarter (Ne 1/4) Of Said Section Thirty-Six (36), Said Point Of Beginning Also Being On The West Right-Of-Way Line Of County Road No. 30; Thence North 900.00 Feet Along The West Line Of Said County Road No. 30; Thence West 25.00 Feet; Thence North 600.00 Feet Along The West Line Of Said County, Road No. 30; Thence North 11° 18’ 36” West 101.98 Feet Along The West Line Of Said County Road No. 30; Thence North 89° 55’ 20” West 470.42 Feet; Thence South 1600.00 Feet To A Point On The South Line Of The Said Northeast One-Quarter (Ne 1/4); Thence South 89° 55’ 20” East 515.42 Feet To The Point Of Beginning, In Leavenworth County, Kansas Lien: $132.73

Cause of Action No. 14 Lot 32, Block 32, In Macaulay’s First Addition To The City Of Leavenworth, Also The Following Described Tract Described As Follows: Commencing At Teh Southeast Corner Of Said Lot 32, In Block 32, Thence South To The North Line Of Kiowa Street, Thence West 30 Feet, Thence North To The Southwest Corner Of Said Lot 32, Thence East Along The South Line Of Said Lot 32 To The Place Of Beginning, Said Tract Being In Ewing, (First published in The Mir- Roelofson & Co’s Subdiviror, Tuesday, November 22, sion Lying North Of Block 12 And North Of Kiowa Street 2011) And Adjoining Lot 32, Block 32, Macaulay’s First AddiIN THE FIRST JUDICIAL tion On The South Side DISTRICT COURT OF LEAVENWORTH COUNTY, Lien: $6,876.90 KANSAS Cause of Action No. 15 The South Thirty-Three (S. BOARD OF COUNTY COM33) Feet Of Lot Twelve (12), MISSIONERS OF LEAVENWORTH COUNTY, KANSAS In Block Three (3), In James Davis’ Addition To The City vs.

BEST DEVELOPMENT, INC., Of Leavenworth According To The Recorded Plat Of et al.

Said Addition In The Office Defendants Of The Register Of Deeds Of Said County And State Case No. 2011 CV 327 Lien: $4,871.90 SHERIFF’S NOTICE OF SALE Cause of Action No. 16 PUBLIC NOTICE is hereby Lots 18 And 19, Block 17, given that under and by vir- Ewing, Roelofson & Co’s tue of an Order of Sale is- Subdivision, City Of LeavenLeavenworth sued to me out of the Dis- worth, trict Court of Leavenworth County, Kansas County, Kansas, in the Lien: $142.45 above entitled action, I will, on Wednesday, January 11, Cause of Action No. 17 2012, at 10:00 o’clock a.m. The Middle One-Third (1/3) on said day, in the Base- Of The West Eighteen (18) ment Conference Room in Acres Of The Southeast the Leavenworth County Quarter Of The Southwest Courthouse, 300 Walnut, in Quarter Of Section Three the City of Leavenworth, (3), Township Ten (10), Leavenworth County, Kan- Range Twenty-Three (23), sas, offer at public sale, Leaveworth County, Kansas and sell to the highest bid- Lien: $3,923.86 der for cash in hand, all of the following described Cause of Action No. 18 real property situated in Lot Numbered Four (4) In Leavenworth County, Kan- Block Numbered Eighteen (18) In Rees, Doniphan And sas, to wit: Thornton Addition To The City Of Leavenworth, AcCause of Action No. 1 A portion of Tract A, CEDAR cording To The Recorded LAKE ESTATES Phase 1, a Plat Thereof And Also Lot Block 18, Rees, subdivision in the South- 5M west ¼ of Section 11, Town- Doniphan & Thornton Addiship 11 South, Range 22 tion, City Of Leavenworth, East of the 6th P.M, Leaven- Leavenworth County, Kanworth County, Kansas, de- sas Lien: $245.70 scribed as follows: Commencing at the Southeast corner of said South- Cause of Action No. 20 west ¼ of Section 11; Lots 46 And 47, Block 117, thence N 00°19’04” E along Lying Partly In Latta’s Addithe East line of Said South- tion And Partly In Western west ¼, a distance of 706.58 Addition, City Of LeavenLeavenworth feet to the Point of Beginn- worth, ing: thence S 89°53’53” W a County, Kansas distance of 143.97 feet; Lien: $11,563.38 thence S 19°36’26” W a distance of 386.05 feet; thence Cause of Action No. 21 S 29°54’56” W a distance of Lot Thirteen (13) In Block 108.63 feet; thence S Five (5) In Mix’s Subdivision 43°06’36” W a distance of Of The City Of Leavenworth, 99.95 feet; thence S Leavenworth County, Kan84°10’39” W a distance of sas 290.03 feet; thence N Lien: $10,152.35 44°27’07” W a distance of 252.25 feet; thence N Cause of Action No. 22 45°26’02” E a distance of Lot 13, Block 88, Western 30.00 feet; thence S Addition To The City Of 45°18’35” E a distance of Leavenworth, A Subdivision 249.82 feet; thence N In The City Of Leavenworth, 57°13’07” E a distance of Leavenworth County, Kan261.72 feet; thence N sas 32°17’17” E a distance of Lien: $5,246.01 608.06 feet; thence S 80°03’59” E a distance of Cause of Action No. 23 119.72 feet to a point on the Lot 14, Block 88, Western East line of Said Southwest Addition To The City Of ¼; thence S 00°19’04” W a Leavenworth, A Subdivision distance of 100.06 feet In The City Of Leavenworth, along the East line of Said Leavenworth County, KanSouthwest ¼ to the Point of sas Beginning. Containing 2.28 Lien: $4,822.92 acres Cause of Action No. 24 Lien: $101.67 Lot 19, Block 88, Western Addition To The City Of Cause of Action No. 2 The South One-Half (S 1/2) Leavenworth, A Subdivision Of Lot Forty-Five (45), All Of In The City Of Leavenworth, Lots Forty-Six (46), Leavenworth County, KanForty-Seven (47), sas Respectfully Submitted, By: Shawn Scharenborg, KS # 24542 Sara Knittel, KS # 23624 Kelli N. Breer, KS # 17851 Kozeny & McCubbin, L.C. (St. Louis Office) 12400 Olive Blvd., Suite 555 St. Louis, MO 63141 Phone: (314) 991-0255 Fax: (314) 567-8006 Email: sscharenborg@km-law.com Attorney for Plaintiff ________

Cause of Action No. 25 Lot 3, Block 1, Peak Subdivision, Linwood, Leavenworth County, Kansas Lien: $12,204.20 Cause of Action No. 26 Lot 25, Block 79, Bruns Subdivision, City Of Leavenworth, Leavenworth County, Kansas Lien: $183.08 Cause of Action No. 27 Lots Numbered Five (5) And Six (6), In Block Numbered Twenty-Nine (29) In Central Subdivision Of The City Of Leavenworth, Leavenworth County, Kansas Lien: $8,021.56 Cause of Action No. 28 The North One-Half (N 1/2) Of Lots Eleven (11), Twelve (12) And Thirteen (13) In Block Thirty-Seven (37), In Clark And Rees’ Addition, City Of Leavenworth, Leavenworth County, Kansas Lien: $19,326.03 Cause of Action No. 29 Lots Numbered One (1) And Two (2), In Block Numbered One (1), In Mix’s Subdivision In The City Of Leavenworth, Leavenworth County, Kansas Lien: $4,840.69 Cause of Action No. 30 Lot 18, Except The North 2 Feet Thereof, In Block 3, In Day’s Subdivision, To The City Of Leavenworth, According To The Plat Thereof, Also: Lot 19, In Block 3, Day’s Subdivision, In The City Of Leavenworth, According To The Recorded Plat Thereof, Except, As Much Of Said Lot As May Hereto Before Have Been Appropriated By The City Of Leavenworth For Widening Spruce Street, Also: The North 2 Feet Of Lot 18, In Block 3, Day’s Subdivision, To The City Of Leavenworth, According To The Recorded Plat Thereof, More Fully Described As Follows: Commencing At A Point On The West Line Of Said Block 3, 318 Feet North Of The Southwest Corner Of Block And Running East Parallel To The South Line Of Said Block 140 Feet; Thence North And Parallel To The West Line Of Said Block, 2 Feet, Thence West Parallel To The First Line, 140 Feet, Thence South Along The West Line Of Said Block, 2 Feet To The Place Of Beginning, In Leavenworth County, Kansas Lien: $21,278.45 Cause of Action No. 31 The West 63 Feet Of Lots Fourteen (14), Fifteen (15) And Sixteen (16), Block Three (3), S. W. Johnston’s Subdivision, City Of Leavenworth, In Leavenworth County, Kansas Lien: $5,038.16 Cause of Action No. 32 Lot Twenty-Eight (28), Block Sixteen (16), Central Subdivision, City Of Leavenworth, Leavenworth County, Kansas Lien: $647.76

Cause of Action No. 48 Commencing At A Stone Set At The Southeast Corner Of The Southeast Quarter (SE 1/4) Of The Southwest Quarter (SW 1/4) Of Section Three (3), Township Ten (10), Range Twenty Three (23), In Leavenworth County, Kansas (Said Point Being The Intersection Of The East Line Of Said Southwest Quarter With The Delaware Reserve Line, Thence North Along The East Line Of Said Southwest Quarter Eighteen And Thirty Six Hundredth Chains (18 36/100 Ch) To A Point Marked By A Stone; Thence West On A Line Parallel With The North Line Of Said Southwest Quarter Five Chains (5 Ch) To A Point Marked By A Stake; Thence South On A Line Parallel With The East Line Of Said Southwest Quarter Eighteen And 36/100th Chains (18 36/100 Ch) More Or Less To A Point On The Delaware Reserve Line Marked By A Stake; Thence East Along The Delaware Reserve Line Five Chains (5 Ch) More Or Less To The Point By Place Of Beginning.

(The Tract Of Land Hereby Conveyed Being The East 9 12/100 Acres Of The SE 1/4 Of The SW 1/4 Of Section 3, Township 10, Range 23 In Leavenworth County, Kansas Lying North Of The Delaware Reserve Line) Lien: $5,210.48 Cause of Action No. 49 Lots Numbered 19 And 20 In Block Numbered 26 In Leavenworth City Proper, Leavenworth County, Kansas Lien: $3,035.85 Cause of Action No. 50 All Of Lot 48 And The East 1/2 Of Lot 47, Block 88 Western Addition, In The City Of Leavenworth, Leavenworth County, Kansas Lien: $1,571.01 Cause of Action No. 51 Lot 7, Block 13, In The Town Of Richardson, And Also That Part Of Block “D”, In The Town Of Richardson Described As Follows: Beginning At The Northwest Corner Of Lot 7, Block 13, Thence West To A Point On The East Right Of Way Of The Kansas City Northwestern Railroad, Thence Southeasterly Along The Right Of Way Of Said Railroad To A Point Due West Of The Southwest Corner Of Said Lot 7, Block 13, Thence East To The Southwest Corner Of Lot 7, Block 13, Thence Northwesterly Along The West Line Of Said Lot 7, Block 13, All In The City Of Leavenworth, Leavenworth County, Kansas Lien: $8,044.46

Cause of Action No. 55 Lots 1, 2 And 3, Block 6, City Of Linwood, A Subdivision In The City Of Linwood, Leavenworth County, Kansas, According To The Recorded Plat Thereof Cause of Action No. 33 Lot Twenty-Nine (29) In Lien: $8,626.38 Block Sixteen (16) In Central Subdivision Of The City Cause of Action No. 56 Of Leavenworth, Leaven- Lot 26, Block 15, Central Subdivision In The City Of worth County, Kansas Leavenworth, Leavenworth Lien: $1,117.55 County, Kansas Lien: $1,063.47 Cause of Action No. 34 Lots 12, 13, And 14, Block 16, In Stillings Replat Of Block Cause of Action No. 57 16 Stillings Subdivision, The West 77 Feet Of Lots 27 City Of Leavenworth, Leav- And 28, Block 15, In Central Subdivision In The City Of enworth County, Kansas Leavenworth, According To Lien: $11,214.38 The Recorded Plat Thereof, In Leavenworth County, Cause of Action No. 35 The South 90 Feet Of Lot 16, Kansas, Commonly Known Block 31, Leavenworth City As 932 Cherokee, LeavenProperty, To The City Of worth KS 66048 Leavenworth, According To Lien: $5,914.38 The Recorded Plat Thereof, In Leavenworth County, Cause of Action No. 58 Tract A, Woods On Muncie Kansas Addition, An Addition To Lien: $523.11 The City Of Leavenworth, Leavenworth County, KanCause of Action No. 36 The “Common Areas” And sas, Subject To Covenants, Restrictions “Common Elements” Re- Conditions, ferred To In Section 5, Arti- And Easements Of Record cle I Of The Bylaws Of Lien: $68.78 Pennsylvania Station Homeowners’ Association The above described real Recorded In Book 585, Page property is taken as prop25 Through 44 Of The Rec- erty of the respective deords In The Office Of The fendants designated herein Register Of Deeds For Leav- as the owner thereof and is enworth County, Kansas, to be sold and will be sold And As Amended In Leaven- without appraisement to satisfy said Order of Sale worth County, Kansas and the respective adLien: $180.38 judged liens thereon.

Cause of Action No. 37 Lots 17 And 18, Block 6, WITNESS my hand at LeavInsley & Shire’s Subdivi- enworth, Kansas, this 21st sion, City Of Leavenworth, day of November, 2011.

Leavenworth County, KanDavid Zoellner sas Sheriff of Leavenworth Lien: $6,581.61 County, Kansas Cause of Action No. 38 The North 44 Feet Of Lots Roger L. Marrs Thirty-One (31) And Deputy County Counselor Thirty-Two (32), Block 65, Leavenworth County Leavenworth City Proper, Courthouse Leavenworth County, Kan- 300 Walnut, Suite 225 sas Leavenworth, KS 66048 Lien: $1,077.95 913-684-1031 rmarrs@leavenworthcounty.org

_______ Cause of Action No. 39 Lot 17 Of Block 18 And The (First published in The MirSouth Half (S 1/2) Of The ror, Wednesday, November Vacated Alley Adjacent 30, 2011) Thereof And The East Half (E 1/2) Of The Vacated Alley IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF Adjacent Thereto, Rees LEAVENWORTH COUNTY, Doniphan And Thor SubdiviKANSAS sion In The City Of LeavenCIVIL DEPARTMENT worth, Leavenworth County, Kansas Bank of America, N.A., Lien: $4,197.27 Plaintiff, vs.

Cause of Action No. 40 Kenneth Blair, et al.

Lot 23, Block 26, In LeavenDefendants. worth City Proper, City Of Leavenworth, Leavenworth Case No. 11 CV 417 County, Kansas Pursuant to K.S.A. Lien: $1,744.72 Chapter 60 Cause of Action No. 41 Title to Real Estate Involved Lot Thirty (30), Block Sixty-Five (65), LeavenNOTICE FOR SERVICE BY worth City Proper, City Of PUBLICATION Leavenworth, Leavenworth County, Kansas The State of Kansas to DeLien: $10,481.42 fendants: Kenneth Blair, John Doe, Mary Doe, and Cause of Action No. 43 the unknown heirs, execuThe South 80 Feet Of The tors, administrators, deviNorth 120 Feet Of Lot 4, sees, trustees, creditors Block 49, Railroad Addition, and assigns of any deTo The City Of Tonganoxie, ceased defendants; the unLeavenworth County, Kan- known spouses of any desas fendants; the unknown ofLien: $10,109.96 ficers, successors, trustees, creditors and assigns of Cause of Action No. 44 any defendants that are Lot 4, Block 17, Clark And existing, dissolved or dorRees Subdivision, City Of mant corporations; the unLeavenworth, Leavenworth known executors, adminisCounty, Kansas trators, devisees, trustees, Lien: $122.92 creditors, successors and assigns of any defendants Cause of Action No. 45 that are or were partners or The East Half (E 1/2) Of Lot in partnership; the unNumbered Three (3) In known guardians, conserBlock Numbered vators and trustees of any Twenty-Three (23), In defendants that are minors Fackler’s Addition To The or are under any legal disaCity Of Leavenworth, Leav- bility; and the unknown enworth County, Kansas heirs, executors, adminisLien: $644.16 trators, devisees, trustees, creditors and assigns of Cause of Action No. 46 any person alleged to be The West One-Third (1/3) deceased, and all other Of The West Eighteen (18) persons who are or may be Acres Of The Southeast concerned.

Quarter Of The Southwest Quarter Of Section Three You are hereby notified (3), Township Ten (10), that a Petition Quieting TiRange Twenty-Three (23), tle In Personal Property has Leavenworth County, Kan- been commenced against sas you in the Civil Court of Lien: $3,774.67 Leavenworth County, the object and general nature Cause of Action No. 47 of which is a Declaratory The East One-Third (1/3) Of Judgment and Petition for The West Eighteen (18) Ac- Quiet Title regarding the res Of The Southeast Quar- following-described propter Of The Southwest Quar-

46 It ll float your boat

Immature fiancee might not be truly committed Annie’s Mailbox

by a husband and a wife. — Bring It On Dear Bring: We wish more women would emulate your attitude, although we know it can be difficult. And too many women wrote to insist that having sex when you aren’t in the mood is akin to rape. It is NOT. Read on for more: From California: I was outraged by your answer to “Sick of It.” I have a husanniesmailbox@comcast.net band 12 years my senior with heart and impotency probhave been willing to stand lems. That did not stop him up for her choice of mate from wanting to play with all after four years and an enthe bells and whistles, push gagement. Sorry to say, we do not have a great deal of confidence in your future together.

Dear Annie: I could have written that letter from “Sick of It,” who doesn’t want her husband to approach her for sex. Combine post-menopausal me with my husband’s health problems and medications, and you could have a dreary sex life, except for one thing: I love my husband so much that even though sex is not as magical as it used to be, I cherish every moment of closeness we have together.

Even though I don’t always feel like it, I jump at the chance to be intimate. Love is about the other person, not yourself. Sex should not be an obligation, but a fulfillment of the promise made

Marcy Sugar and Kathy Mitchell

Pearl Harbor recalled in minute detail “Pearl Harbor: 24 Hours After” (7 p.m., History) commemorates the 70th anniversary of the “date which will live in infamy” with an engaging minute-byminute account of the day America was plunged into war.

The special does a good job of juxtaposing world-shaking events and decisions with tiny, intimate details. President Franklin Roosevelt was at work in his private office, relaxing with his beloved stamp collection, when word came of the Japanese attack on the Pacific Fleet. He had a terrific cold and sinus condition that day, an ailment that doctors most likely treated with cocaine.

We get a finely detailed account of Roosevelt as he composed his famous war declaration to be delivered the very next day. Writing and editing don’t usually make for good television, but this is an exception.

We’re also told how the Secret Service had no bulletproof car to drive Roosevelt to the Capitol to deliver his war address.

So the Treasury Department commandeered a car that once belonged to Al Capone. And when the president arrived, he had to create the illusion of “walking” past both Houses of Congress, even though he had been paralyzed for 20 years.

Historians interviewed here give Roosevelt high marks for his calm and his ability to articulate the defiant resolve of a nation that had, only 24 hours before, been bitterly divided about entering World War II. And “Pearl Harbor: 24 Hours After” deserves high marks as well.

BBC America repeats the brilliant six-part 2003 miniseries “State of Play” (8 p.m.). A complex tale of a murder, an apparent suicide, a political cover-up and evidence obtained by the press that’s kept from the police, the drama seems all the more timely given the recent scandals rocking the British press and government. A great cast includes a young Kelly Macdonald, better known now for “Boardwalk Empire.”

Based on a novel by Richard North Patterson, “Silent Witness” (8 p.m., TNT) is anything but good. But that doesn’t mean it’s not a guilty pleasure.

Dermot Mulroney stars as a hotshot lawyer dragged back to his hometown to defend an old pal and high school coach (Michael Cudlitz), who is accused of murdering the student he had been sleeping with. Add to this a backstory about the lawyer’s past as a teen jock accused of killing his cheerleader girlfriend, and you’re going to get a lot of flashbacks to the 1980s and the ominous, if obvious, use of The Police’s “Every Breath You Take” to create an atmosphere of paranoia.

Tonight’s other highlights

Finalists sing to survive on “The X Factor” (7 p.m., Fox).

A vet needs a good defense on “Harry’s Law” (8 p.m., NBC).

Rushed plans for an early Christmas on “Modern Family” (8 p.m., ABC).

A winner emerges on “America’s Next Top Model” (8 p.m., CW).

A rancher’s murder defies explanation on “CSI” (9 p.m., CBS).

A former NFL star (Treat Williams) is busted in a back alley on “Law & Order: SVU” (9 p.m., NBC).

— Please e-mail your questions to anniesmailbox@comcast.net, or write to Annie’s Mailbox, P.O. Box 118190 Chicago, IL 60611.

Universal Crossword Edited by Timothy E. Parker December 7, 2011

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zzz’s.

Cancer (June 21-July 22) You might want to rethink a decision that is taking you in a new direction. Actions taken right now might not work out instantly but point to the correct direction. Tonight: Where people are.

Leo (July 23-Aug. 22) Others naturally gravitate toward you, but is this what you want?

Sometimes you might be happier assuming a low profile. Tonight: A partner needs attention, too.

Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept.

22) Take an overview. Be willing to dig into an issue more deeply, or detach more to understand what is happening, or check to see that you have a full perspective.

Tonight: Let your mind wander.

Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) Relate on a one-on-one level with others. That type of attention always makes someone feel important. Tonight: Find time for a special friend.

Scorpio (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) You might be taken aback by everything that happens around you.

The issue might be that

you have some strong opinions and want to proceed in a key direction. Tonight: Sort through ideas and invitations.

Sagittarius (Nov. 22Dec. 21) Maintain an even pace, and clear out your errands. You have the ability to accomplish a lot.

Tonight: Squeeze in some exercise.

Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) You could be overwhelmed by all the ideas that are coming forward. News from a distance sets you in a new direction. Tonight: Let the fun begin.

Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) Stay centered on your personal patterns.

Realize what is going on behind the scenes with what you want to bring forward. Tonight: Where the action is.

Pisces (Feb. 19-March 20) Clear your desk and answer calls before making a key decision.

Recognize what you are feeling and what is going on behind the scenes.

Tonight: Visit with a friend as soon as you can.

— The astrological forecast should be read for entertainment only.

BIRTHDAYS Actor Eli Wallach is 96. Linguist and political philosopher Noam Chomsky is 83. Bluegrass singer Bobby Osborne is 80.

Actress Ellen Burstyn is 79. Sen. Thad Cochran, R-Miss., is 74. Broadcast journalist Carole Simpson

THE GANG’S ALL HERE By Jill Pepper

12/7

all the buttons and then say, “Oops, that’s all.” Meanwhile, I was hot and bothered with no relief. Finally, I made him understand that all that groping was not welcome. True intimacy at our age comes from love and tenderness.

Now we cuddle. He is sad that sex has disappeared, but love is full of compromises.

JACQUELINE BIGAR’S STARS For Wednesday, Dec. 7: This year you declare that you need more efficiency in order to live your life to the fullest. Think before you get involved in anything new or different.

If you are single, you will look for someone who adds to your life, as opposed to trying to “save” another person. You have a lot to smile about. Taurus helps you in any way possible.

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) Good suggestions and bright ideas seem to happen naturally, especially when communicating with a loved one or dear friends. Tonight: Treat yourself well.

Taurus (April 20-May 20) You feel good; act accordingly. Do you do different activities when you are on top of the world? Charge! Tonight: All smiles.

Gemini (May 21-June 20) Listen to a friend you really care about. His or her advice right now might be more grounded than in the past.

Tonight: Get some extra

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is 71. Baseball Hall of Famer Johnny Bench is 64.

Actor-director-producer James Keach is 64. Country singer Gary Morris is 63. Singer-songwriter Tom Waits is 62. Sen. Susan M. Collins, R-Maine, is 59.

Basketball Hall of Famer

ACROSS 1 Word in some university names 6 31-Across, at a sushi restaurant 11 Physics unit 14 Ancient Greek poet associated with a dolphin 15 Addition conclusion 16 Abbreviation on a TV remote 17 The end-all neat freak portrayer of classic TV 19 Poetic homage 20 Teaches 21 Become conscious 23 Long ___ and far away ...

24 Bible distributor 25 The end-all “The Big Sleep” star 31 Elongated fish 32 ___- Croatian (Slavic language) 33 Lollipop portions 37 Fat measure 39 Artillery outburst 41 Lessen, to the Bard 42 Submarine sensing system 44 Zigs or zags 46 It’ll float your boat

11 Arouse, as feelings 12 Riding and roping event 13 Space traveler of 1962 and 1998 18 Does penance 22 Speak offthe-cuff 25 Trio for grand pianos 26 Word with “dynamic” or “space” 27 ___ Bator 28 Atlanta pro 29 Better equipped 30 Crave, biblically 34 Cuban’s house 35 “Hooked on Classics” co.

36 Animal that honks horns 38 Waterlogged ground

47 The end-all “The Godfather” actor 50 Asserts authoritatively 53 When French fans circulate?

54 Hellos and good-byes on the Island 55 Dante’s love 60 Fifth month 61 The end-all redhead of classic TV 63 Lennon’s wife 64 Counting everything 65 Hindu music pieces 66 Long-eared equine 67 First name in skin care 68 Mountain feature DOWN 1 Appease fully 2 Tramped or trampled 3 Aboriginal Japanese 4 Matchbox racer 5 Angers 6 ___ Reader (alternative magazine) 7 Agrees nonverbally 8 “Now ___ theater near you!”

9 Classic arcade game with tractor beams 10 Animosity

40 Severe test 43 Gershwin musical adapted by Cole Porter 45 Mill associated with gold discovery 48 Ship’s petty officers 49 Expressed out loud 50 Land of Pago Pago: American ____ 51 Shepard and King 52 Shows wild instability 55 Liver production 56 Fashion mag 57 Othello heavy 58 Thunder sound 59 Word after “who,” “what” or “where” 62 Natural birdwatcher

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

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Dear Annie: I am 57 years old and divorced. I am now engaged to a woman who is 29 years my junior. “Carla” is everything I ever wanted.

I never intended to fall in love with her, but I needed a friend, and there she was. She feels the same way.

Here is the problem: Even though we are engaged, Carla’s parents do not know I exist. For the past four years, she’s been trying to figure out a way to tell them about us. Her father is a minister.

Both parents are of the opinion that an older man and a younger woman do not make a biblically proper couple.

I have read my Bible from front to back, and nowhere does it say this.

Carla says we should elope and then she will find the right time and the right words to tell her parents.

But for four years, I’ve been hearing that we will “elope this year,” and it has yet to happen. What do I do when I love a woman so much, but she doesn’t have the inner strength to disappoint her parents? — Hurting Deeply Dear Hurting: Carla is too young for you — not because of the age difference, but because she is immature. As daunting as it is to confront disapproving parents, someone who is truly committed to the relationship would

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Ans:

Larry Bird is 55. Actress Priscilla Barnes is 54.

Former “Tonight Show” announcer Edd Hall is 53.

Rock musician Tim Butler (The Psychedelic Furs) is 53. Actor Jeffrey Wright is 46. Actor C. Thomas Howell is 45.

Yesterday’s

(Answers tomorrow) Jumbles: TWICE REBEL DREDGE FLYING Answer: When Lou Ferrigno found out he’d be playing the Hulk on TV, he thought it was this — INCREDIBLE

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8 WW 8C EDNESDAY EDNESDAY -T, HURSDAY DECEMBER , D7, ECEMBER 2011 7-8, 2011 Tonganoxie Tonganoxie Tonganoxie erty:

Of Section Four (4), Township Nine (9) South, Range Twenty-Two (22) East of the 6th P.M., described as follows: beginning at a point 160.00 feet North and 60 feet West from the Southeast corner of said Southeast Quarter; thence West 160.00 feet; thence North 160.00 feet; thence East 160.00 feet; thence South 160.00 feet to the point of beginning, less that part if any taken or used for road, in Leavenworth County, Kansas, commonly known as 2800 South 22nd Street, Leavenworth, KS 66048 (the “Property”)

A tract of land in the Northwest Quarter of Section 8, Township 11 South, Range 22 East in Leavenworth County, Kansas being more fully described as follows: Beginning at a point that is N 89 degrees 21’53” W 223.75 feet from the Southeast Corner of the Northwest Quarter of said Section 8, thence N 89 degrees 21’53” W 254.15 feet; thence N 00 degrees 36’20” W 348.75 feet; thence S 89 degrees 21’53” E 477.90 feet; thence S 00 degrees 36’20” E 150.00 feet; thence No 89 degrees 21’53” W 223.75 feet; thence S 00 degrees 36’20” E 198.75 feet to the to satisfy the judgment in point of beginning. the above-entitled case.

The sale is to be made Plus without appraisement and subject to the redemption A tract of land in the North- period as provided by law, west Quarter of Section 8, and further subject to the Township 11 South, Range approval of the Court. For 22 East in Leavenworth more information, visit County, Kansas, being more www.Southlaw.com. fully described as follows: Beginning at a point that is David Zoellner, Sheriff N 00 degrees 36’20” W Leavenworth County, 198.75 feet from the SouthKansas east Corner of the Northwest Quarter of said Sec- Prepared By: tion 8, thence N 89 degrees South & Associates, P.C. 21’53” W 208.75 feet; thence Megan Cello (KS # 24167) N 00 degrees 36’20” W 10.00 6363 College Blvd., Suite 100 feet; thence S 89 degrees Overland Park, KS 66211 21’53” E 208.75 feet; thence (913)663-7600 S 00 degrees 36’20” E 10.00 (913)663-7899 (Fax) feet to the point of beginn- Attorneys For Plaintiff ing., commonly known as (134764) 18447 178th Street, Ton_______ ganoxie, KS 66086 (“the (First published in The MirProperty”). ror, Tuesday, November 22, 2011) The names of all parties to this action are stated in the IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF above caption. The name LEAVENWORTH COUNTY, and address of the attorKANSAS neys for the Plaintiff is CIVIL DEPARTMENT Adrienne Strecker, South & Associates, P.C., 6363 Col- The Bank of New York Mellege Blvd., Suite 100, Over- lon fka The Bank of New land Park, MO 66211.

York, as Trustee for the Certificateholders of You are further notified CWALT, Inc., Alternative that unless you file an an- Loan Trust 2005-52CB, Mortswer or other pleading or gage Pass-Through Certifishall otherwise appear and cates, Series 2005-52CB defend against the aforePlaintiff, said petition within 45 days vs. after the 10th day of JanuMelinda K. Riddle, et al. ary, 2012 judgment by deDefendants. fault will be rendered against you.

Case No. 11CV497 Court Number: Respectfully submitted, /s/Adrienne Strecker Pursuant to K.S.A. South & Associates, P.C. Chapter 60 Adrienne Strecker (KS # 23540) NOTICE OF SALE 6363 College Blvd., Suite 100 Overland Park, KS 66211 Under and by virtue of an (913)663-7600, ext. 221 Order of Sale issued to me (913)663-7899 (Fax) by the Clerk of the District Adrienne.strecker@southlaw.com Court of Leavenworth Attorneys for Plaintiff County, Kansas, the underFile No. 94662 signed Sheriff of Leaven_______ worth County, Kansas, will offer for sale at public auc(First published in The Mirror, Tuesday, November 22, tion and sell to the highest bidder for cash in hand, at 2011) the Justice Center, 2nd IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF Floor Lobby, Leavenworth County, Kansas, on DecemLEAVENWORTH COUNTY, ber 15, 2011, at 10:00 AM, KANSAS the following real estate: CIVIL DEPARTMENT Bank of America, N.A. successor by merger to BAC Home Loans Servicing, LP fka Countrywide Home Loans Servicing LP Plaintiff, vs.

Debora A. Pearson, et al.

Defendants.

Case No. 11CV418 Court Number: Pursuant to K.S.A. Chapter 60 NOTICE OF SALE Under and by virtue of an Order of Sale issued to me by the Clerk of the District Court of Leavenworth County, Kansas, the undersigned Sheriff of Leavenworth County, Kansas, will offer for sale at public auction and sell to the highest bidder for cash in hand, at the Justice Center, 2nd Floor Lobby, Leavenworth County, Kansas, on December 15, 2011, at 10:00 AM, the following real estate: Part of Lot D-25, PRAIRIE GARDENS, described as: Beginning at an existing 1/2” iron pin at the Northeast corner of Lot D-25, PRAIRIE GARDENS, a subdivision in the City of Basehor, Leavenworth County, Kansas; thence South 00 degrees 21’ 27” East for a distance of 40.13 feet along the East line of said Lot D-25 to a 1/2” iron pin set; thence South 89 degrees 22’ 35” West for a distance of 145.00 feet to a 1/2” iron pin set on the West line of said Lot D-25; thence North 00 degrees 21’ 27” West for a distance of 40.81 feet to an existing 1/2” iron pin at the Northwest corner of said Lot D-25; thence North 89 degrees 38’ 33” East for a distance of 145.00 feet along the North line of said Lot D-25 to the point of beginning, in Leavenworth County, Kansas, commonly known as 1316 158th Court, Basehor, KS 66007 (the “Property”) to satisfy the judgment in the above-entitled case.

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

Lot 18, HILLBROOK SUBDIVISION, City of Lansing, Leavenworth County, Kansas, commonly known as 550 Hithergreen Drive, Lansing, KS 66043 (the “Property”) to satisfy the judgment in the above-entitled case.

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

David Zoellner, Sheriff Leavenworth County, Kansas Prepared By: South & Associates, P.C. Megan Cello (KS # 24167) 6363 College Blvd., Suite 100 Overland Park, KS 66211 (913)663-7600 (913)663-7899 (Fax) Attorneys For Plaintiff (134888) ________ (First published in The Mirror, Wednesday, December 7, 2011) IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF LEAVENWORTH COUNTY, KANSAS DEUTSCHE BANK NATIONAL TRUST COMPANY, AS TRUSTEE FOR FIRST FRANKLIN MORTGAGE LOAN TRUST 2006-FF11, MORTGAGE PASS-THROUGH CERTIFICATES, SERIES 2006-FF11 PLAINTIFF KRISTAN M. BRANSON DEFENDANTS Case No. 11CV545 Div. No. K.S.A. 60 Mortgage Foreclosure NOTICE OF SUIT The State of Kansas to: KRISTAN M. BRANSON, A/K/A KRISTAN MICHELLE BRANSON, F/K/A KRISTAN M. GILMORE, F/K/A KRISTAN MICHELLE DIERSEN, F/K/A KRISTAN MICHELLE GILMORE; BILLY M. BRANSON, A/K/A BILLY MARTIN BRANSON, II; JOHN DOE (REAL NAME UNKNOWN); MARY DOE (REAL NAME UNKNOWN); GARY D. ROBINSON, A/K/A GARY DEAN ROBINSON; DLJ MORTGAGE CAPITAL, INC.; MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC.

David Zoellner, Sheriff Leavenworth County, and the unknown heirs, exKansas ecutors, administrators, devisees, trustees, crediPrepared By: tors, and assigns of such of South & Associates, P.C. the defendants as may be Brian R. Hazel (KS # 21804) deceased; the unknown 6363 College Blvd., Suite 100 spouses of the defendants; Overland Park, KS 66211 the unknown officers, suc(913)663-7600 cessors, trustees, creditors (913)663-7899 (Fax) and assigns of such deAttorneys For Plaintiff fendants as are existing, (133219) dissolved or dormant cor________ porations; the unknown (First published in The Mir- guardians and trustees of ror, Tuesday, November 22, such of the defendants as are minors or are in any2011) wise under legal disability; IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF and all other persons who are or may be concerned: LEAVENWORTH COUNTY, KANSAS You are hereby notified CIVIL DEPARTMENT that a petition has been filed in the District Court of BOKF, NA dba Bank of Leavenworth County, KanOklahoma, NA sas, by Deutsche Bank NaPlaintiff, tional Trust Company, As vs.

Dameon D. Lewis, Sr. and Trustee For First Franklin Mortgage Loan Trust Tiffani L. Lewis, et al.

2006-FF11, Mortgage Defendants.

Pass-Through Certificates, Series 2006-FF11 for judgCase No. 11CV487 ment in the sum of Court Number: $119,732.92, plus interest, costs and other relief; judgPursuant to K.S.A. ment that plaintiff’s lien is Chapter 60 a first lien on the said real property and sale of said NOTICE OF SALE property to satisfy the inUnder and by virtue of an debtedness, said property Order of Sale issued to me described as follows, to by the Clerk of the District wit: Court of Leavenworth County, Kansas, the under- LOTS 22 AND 23, LESS THAT signed Sheriff of Leaven- PART TAKEN FOR STREET, worth County, Kansas, will BLOCK 1, COUNTRY CLUB offer for sale at public auc- ADDITION UNIT NO. 2, CITY LANSING, LEAVENtion and sell to the highest OF bidder for cash in hand, at WORTH COUNTY, KANSAS. the Justice Center, 2nd Commonly known as 220 Floor Lobby, Leavenworth Highland Rd., Lansing, KanCounty, Kansas, on Decem- sas 66043 ber 15, 2011, at 10:00 AM, and you are hereby rethe following real estate: quired to plead to said petiA tract of land in the tion in said Court at LeavSoutheast Quarter (SE 1/4) enworth, Kansas on or before the 23rd day of Janu-

Tonganoxie

Tonganoxie

ary, 2012.

(First published in The Mir- U.S.C. §1692c(b), no inforror, Wednesday, November mation concerning the colShould you fail therein 30, 2011) lection of this debt may be judgment and decree will given without the prior conbe entered in due course Kelli Breer sent of the consumer given upon said petition.

KOZENY & MCCUBBIN, L.C. directly to the debt collecFairway Corporate Center tor or the express permisTHIS IS AN ATTEMPT TO 4220 Shawnee Mission sion of a court of compeCOLLECT A DEBT AND ANY Parkway, Suite 200B tent jurisdiction. The debt INFORMATION OBTAINED Fairway, KS 66205 collector is attempting to WILL BE USED FOR THAT email: kbreer@km-law.com collect a debt and any inPURPOSE. K&M File Code: BERANCOU formation obtained will be used for that purpose.

SHAPIRO & MOCK, LLC IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF Attorneys for Plaintiff LEAVENWORTH COUNTY, Prepared By: 6310 Lamar - Suite 235 KANSAS South & Associates, P.C. Overland Park, KS 66202 Megan Cello (KS # 24167) (913)831-3000 THE BANK OF NEW YORK 6363 College Blvd., Suite 100 Fax No. (913)831-3320 MELLON FKA THE BANK OF Overland Park, KS 66211 Our File No. 11-002775/kv NEW YORK,AS TRUSTEE FOR (913)663-7600 ________ THE CERTIFICATEHOLDERS (913)663-7899 (Fax) OF THE CWABS, INC., Attorneys For Plaintiff (First published in The Mir- ASSET-BACKED CERTIFI- (133645) ror, Wednesday, November CATES, SERIES 2006-18, ________ 30, 2011) Plaintiff, vs.

IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF Angella D Berg AKA Angella (First published in The MirLEAVENWORTH COUNTY, D McEachern AKA Angella ror, Tuesday, November 22, KANSAS Dawn Tulette AKA Angella D 2011) Stephansen-Fitzgerald AKA WELLS FARGO BANK, NA Angella D Tulette AKA An- Prepared by: PLAINTIFF gella Berg and Christopher G. Ronald Bates, Jr., #12901 A Berg AKA Christopher 529 Delaware Street, DANIEL E. THURSTON Berg AKA Christopher A P.O. Box 392 DEFENDANTS Eady AKA Chris A Berg, et Leavenworth, Kansas 66048 al., (913) 682-8882 Case No. 11CV558 Defendants.

Attorney for Plaintiffs Div. No. K.S.A. 60 Case No. 11CV563 IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF Mortgage LEAVENWORTH COUNTY, Foreclosure K.S.A. 60 KANSAS Mortgage Foreclosure General Claims Division NOTICE OF SUIT (Title to Real Estate Involved)

KENNY W. YOUNG and C. DWAYNE YOUNG Plaintiffs, v.

THE STATE OF KANSAS to: Christopher A Berg AKA DOUGLAS A. GAULL and MARY R. GAULL Christopher Berg AKA Christopher A Eady AKA Chris A Berg; Unknown AND and the unknown heirs, ex- Spouse of Christopher A ecutors, administrators, Berg AKA Christopher Berg SHAWN E. KEEN and devisees, trustees, credi- AKA Christopher A Eady DEBORA L. KEEN tors, and assigns of such of AKA Chris A Berg; and the defendants as may be Countrywide Home Loans, AND deceased; the unknown Inc., Defendants, and all spouses of the defendants; other persons who are or THE STATE OF KANSAS DEPARTMENT OF REVENUE the unknown officers, suc- may be concerned: DIVISION OF MOTOR cessors, trustees, creditors and assigns of such de- YOU ARE HEREBY NOTIFIED: VEHICLES fendants as are existing, That a Petition has been dissolved or dormant cor- filed in the District Court of AND porations; the unknown Leavenworth County, Kanguardians and trustees of sas, Case No. 11CV563 by unknown heirs, executors, devisees, such of the defendants as THE BANK OF NEW YORK administrators, are minors or are in any- MELLON FKA THE BANK OF trustees, creditors and assigns of any above named wise under legal disability; NEW YORK,AS TRUSTEE FOR and all other persons who THE CERTIFICATEHOLDERS defendant who may be deare or may be concerned: OF THE CWABS, INC., ceased; unknown spouses; ASSET-BACKED CERTIFI- unknown guardians, conYou are hereby notified CATES, SERIES 2006-18, servators and trustees of that a petition has been praying for foreclosure of a any defendant who may be filed in the District Court of mortgage executed by An- a minor or under legal disaLeavenworth County, Kan- gella D Berg AKA Angella D bility.

Defendants. sas, by Wells Fargo Bank, McEachern AKA Angella Na for judgment in the sum Dawn Tulette AKA Angella D Case No. 2011 CV 602 of $242,357.27, plus interest, Stephansen-Fitzgerald AKA costs and other relief; judg- Angella D Tulette AKA AnNOTICE OF SUIT ment that plaintiff’s lien is gella Berg and Christopher a first lien on the said real A Berg AKA Christopher [K.S.A. 60-307] property and sale of said Berg AKA Christopher A property to satisfy the in- Eady AKA Chris A Berg on debtedness, said property 09/25/2006 and recorded in The State of Kansas to Dedescribed as follows, to Book 994, Page 1933 in the partment of Revenue, Diviwit: real estate records of Leav- sion of Motor Vehicles, and enworth County, Kansas, all persons who are or may A TRACT OF LAND IN THE related to the following be concerned: SOUTHWEST 1/4 OF SEC- property: You are hereby notified TION 31, TOWNSHIP 10 SOUTH, RANGE 21 EAST, LOT 8, SKYWALKER that a Petition has been MORE PARTICULARLY DE- HEIGHTS, CITY OF LEAVEN- filed in the District Court of SCRIBED AS FOLLOWS: WORTH, LEAVENWORTH Leavenworth County, Kansas, by Kenny W. Young COUNTY, KANSAS. and C. Dwayne Young, COMMENCING AT THE NORTHWEST CORNER OF You are hereby required to Plaintiffs, praying for an orTHE SOUTHWEST 1/4 OF plead to the Petition on or der quieting the title to the SAID SECTION 31; THENCE before January 12, 2012 in following described ManuSOUTH 00 DEGREES WEST the court at Leavenworth factured Home: 615.83 FEET ALONG THE County, Kansas. If you fail CHAMPION SECTION LINE TO THE POINT to plead, judgment and de- 1986 MANUFACOF BEGINNING OF THIS cree will be entered in due DOUBLE-WIDE TURED HOME TRACT; THENCE NORTH 87 course upon the petition.

HUD LABEL NUMBERS DEGREES 26’14” EAST 748.75 FEET; THENCE SOUTH 00 DE- NOTICE TO BORROWER: If NEB044571 and NEB044777 NUMBER (VIN#): GREES WEST 407.65 FEET; you wish to dispute the va- SERIAL THENCE SOUTH 90 DEGREES lidity of all or any portion 476-957-N-8893 WEST 748.00 FEET; THENCE of this debt, or would like NORTH 00 DEGREES EAST the name and address of You are hereby required to 374.17 FEET TO THE POINT the original creditor, you plead to said petition on or OF BEGINNING, LESS ANY must advise us in writing before the 4th day of JanuPART THEREOF TAKEN OR within thirty (30) days of ary, 2012, in said Court, at USED FOR ROAD PURPOSES, the first notice you receive Leavenworth, Leavenworth Should IN LEAVENWORTH COUNTY, from us. Otherwise, we will County, Kansas.

KANSAS. Commonly known assume the entire debt to you fail therein, judgment as 19890 McLouth Road, be valid. This is an attempt and decree will be entered Tonganoxie, Kansas 66086 to collect a debt, and any in due course upon said peinformation obtained will tition. and you are hereby re- be used for that purpose.

Kenny W. Young and quired to plead to said petiC. Dwayne Young, tion in said Court at Leav- Respectfully Submitted, Plaintiffs enworth, Kansas on or be- By: _______ fore the 16th day of Janu- Kelli Breer, KS Ct. #17851 ary, 2012.

KOZENY & MCCUBBIN, L.C. (First published in The MirFairway Corporate Center Should you fail therein 4220 Shawnee Mission ror, Wednesday, December judgment and decree will Parkway, Suite 200B 7, 2011) be entered in due course Fairway, KS 66205 upon said petition.

IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF Phone: (913) 677-0253 LEAVENWORTH COUNTY, Fax: (913) 831-6014 THIS IS AN ATTEMPT TO email: kbreer@km-law.com KANSAS COLLECT A DEBT AND ANY K&M File Code: BERANCOU CIVIL DEPARTMENT INFORMATION OBTAINED _______ WILL BE USED FOR THAT Bank of America, N.A., SucPURPOSE. (First published in The Mir- cessor by Merger to BAC ror, Tuesday, November 22, Home Loans Servicing, LP SHAPIRO & MOCK, LLC FKA Countrywide Home 2011) Attorneys for Plaintiff Loans Servicing LP 6310 Lamar - Suite 235 Plaintiff, IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF Overland Park, KS 66202 vs.

LEAVENWORTH COUNTY, (913)831-3000 Rita Colleen Price; John KANSAS Fax No. (913)831-3320 Doe (Tenant/Occupant); CIVIL DEPARTMENT Our File No. 11-003129/kv Mary Doe (Tenant/ Occu_______ pant); Unknown spouse, if OneWest Bank, FSB any, of Rita Colleen Price, Plaintiff, (First published in The MirDefendants. vs. ror, Wednesday, December The unknown heirs of Mar7, 2011) Case No. 11CV619 ita L. Martin, deceased; Court Number: John Doe (Tenant/ OccuIN THE DISTRICT COURT OF pant); Mary Doe LEAVENWORTH COUNTY, Pursuant to K.S.A. (Tenant/Occupant); United KANSAS Chapter 60 States of America, DepartCIVIL COURT DEPARTMENT ment of Housing and Urban NOTICE OF SUIT Development, GREEN TREE SERVICING LLC, Defendants.

Plaintiff, THE STATE OF KANSAS, to vs. the above-named defendCase No. 11CV585 JAMES A. MANGRAM A/K/A ants and the unknown Court Number: JAMES ALLAN MANGRAM; heirs, executors, adminisROSA MANGRAM A/K/A trators, devisees, trustees, Pursuant to K.S.A. ROSA P. MANGRAM and creditors and assigns of Chapter 60 JOHN DOE/JANE DOE, any deceased defendants; Defendants. the unknown spouses of NOTICE OF SUIT any defendants; the unCase No. 11 CV 559 THE STATE OF KANSAS, to known officers, successors, Court No. the above-named defend- trustees, creditors and asants and the unknown signs of any defendants Title to Real Estate Involved heirs, executors, adminis- that are existing, dissolved trators, devisees, trustees, or dormant corporations; NOTICE OF SUIT creditors and assigns of the unknown executors, addevisees, any deceased defendants; ministrators, STATE OF KANSAS to the the unknown spouses of trustees, creditors, succesabove named Defendants any defendants; the un- sors and assigns of any deand all other persons who known officers, successors, fendants that are or were are or may be concerned: trustees, creditors and as- partners or in partnership; signs of any defendants the unknown guardians, YOU ARE HEREBY NOTIFIED that are existing, dissolved conservators and trustees that a Petition for Mortgage or dormant corporations; of any defendants that are Foreclosure has been filed the unknown executors, ad- minors or are under any lein the District Court of ministrators, devisees, gal disability; and the unLeavenworth County, Kan- trustees, creditors, succes- known heirs, executors, adsas by Green Tree Servicing sors and assigns of any de- ministrators, devisees, LLC, praying for foreclosure fendants that are or were trustees, creditors and asof certain real property le- partners or in partnership; signs of any person alleged gally described as follows: the unknown guardians, to be deceased, and all conservators and trustees other persons who are or LOTS 1 AND 2, BLOCK 1, of any defendants that are may be concerned.

REASER`S SUBDIVISION OF minors or are under any leLOT NUMBER TWELVE gal disability; and the un- You are notified that a PetiCLARK`S ADDITION OF OUT known heirs, executors, ad- tion has been filed in the LOTS, A SUBDIVISION IN ministrators, devisees, District Court of LeavenTHE CITY OF LEAVEN- trustees, creditors and as- worth County, Kansas, WORTH, LEAVENWORTH signs of any person alleged praying to foreclose a real COUNTY, KANSAS, to be deceased, and all estate mortgage on the fol(“PROPERTY”) other persons who are or lowing described real estate: may be concerned. and for a judgment against Defendant James A. You are notified that a Peti- Part of Lot 7, Block 3, Mangram and any other in- tion has been filed in the SOUTH PARK TOWNHOME terested parties and you District Court of Leaven- SUBDIVISION, in the City of are hereby required to worth Leavenworth County, Kansas, Tonganoxie, plead to the Petition for praying to foreclose a real County, Kansas, described Foreclosure on or before estate mortgage on the fol- as follows: Beginning at the January 18, 2012 at Leaven- lowing described real es- Northwest corner of said worth County, Kansas.

If tate: Lot 7, thence South 89 deyou fail to plead, judgment grees 48 minutes 43 secand decree will be entered Lots 16, 17, and 18, Block 10, onds East (meas & plat) in due course upon the re- STILLING’S SUBDIVISION to along the North line of said quest of plaintiff. the City of Leavenworth, Lot 7, 38.97 feet; thence Leavenworth County, Kan- South 0 degrees 03 minutes Respectfully submitted, sas, commonly known as 27 seconds West, 120.49 1029 Ironmoulders Street, feet to the South line of MARTIN, LEIGH, LAWS Leavenworth, KS 66048 (the said Lot 7; thence North 89 & FRITZLEN, P.C. degrees 50 minutes 23 sec“Property”) Beverly M. Weber KS onds West (meas) North 89 #20570 and all those defendants degrees 48 minutes 43 secSara N. Faubion KS who have not otherwise onds West (plat) along the #24865 been served are required to South line of said Lot ATTORNEY FOR PLAINTIFF plead to the Petition on or 1,38.82 feet to the Southbefore the 3rd day of Janu- west corner of said Lot 7, MARTIN, LEIGH, LAWS & ary, 2012, in the District thence North 0 degrees 07 FRITZLEN, P.C. IS ATTEMPT- Court of Leavenworth minutes 42 seconds West ING TO COLLECT A DEBT County,Kansas. If you fail (meas) North 0 degrees 04 AND ANY INFORMATION OB- to plead, judgment and de- minutes 27 seconds West TAINED WILL BE USED FOR cree will be entered in due (plat) along the West line of THAT PURPOSE. said Lot 7, 120.51 feet course upon the Petition. (meas) 120.50 feet (plat) to (Mangram, 5613.132) the point of beginning NOTICE 12/7, 12/14, 12/21 Pursuant to the Fair Debt ________ Collection Practices Act, 15 ALSO MORE CORRECTLY DEThe State of Kansas to: DANIEL E. THURSTON; JENNY M. THURSTON, A/K/A JENNY THURSTON; JOHN DOE (REAL NAME UNKNOWN); MARY DOE (REAL NAME UNKNOWN)

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SCRIBED AS: Part of Lot 7, Block 3, SOUTH PARK TOWNHOME SUBDIVISION, in the City of Tonganoxie, Leavenworth County, Kansas, described as follows: Beginning at the Northwest corner of said Lot 7, thence South 90 degrees 48 minutes 43 seconds East (meas & plat) along the North line of said Lot 7, 38.97 feet; thence South 0 degrees 03 minutes 27 seconds West, 120.49 feet to the South line of said Lot 7; thence North 89 degrees 50 minutes 23 seconds West (meas) North 89 degrees 48 minutes 43 seconds West (plat) along the South line of said Lot 7,38.82 feet to the Southwest corner of said Lot 7, thence North 0 degrees 07 minutes 42 seconds West (meas) North 0 degrees 04 minutes 27 seconds West (plat) along the West line of said Lot 7, 120.51 feet (meas) 120.50 feet (plat) to the point of beginning, commonly known as 2010 Jackson Dr, Tonganoxie, KS 66086 (the “Property”) and all those defendants who have not otherwise been served are required to plead to the Petition on or before the 17th day of January, 2012, in the District Court of Leavenworth County,Kansas. If you fail to plead, judgment and decree will be entered in due course upon the Petition.

NOTICE Pursuant to the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act, 15 U.S.C. §1692c(b), no information concerning the collection of this debt may be given without the prior consent of the consumer given directly to the debt collector or the express permission of a court of competent jurisdiction. The debt collector is attempting to collect a debt and any information obtained will be used for that purpose.

Prepared By: South & Associates, P.C. Megan Cello (KS # 24167) 6363 College Blvd., Suite 100 Overland Park, KS 66211 (913)663-7600 (913)663-7899 (Fax) Attorneys For Plaintiff (137628) _______ (First published in The Mirror, Tuesday, November 22, 2011) IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF LEAVENWORTH COUNTY, KANSAS FIRST JUDICIAL DISTRICT In the Matter of the ESTATE of: VERLIN B. BENEFIEL, Deceased No. 2011 PR 160 (Petition Pursuant to K.S.A. Chapter 59) NOTICE OF HEARING THE STATE OF KANSAS TO: ALL PERSONS WHO ARE OR MAY BE CONCERNED: YOU ARE HEREBY NOTIFIED that a Petition has been filed in the District Court of Leavenworth County, Kansas, by Darci Schuler, as surviving daughter and one of the heirs of Verlin B. Benefiel, deceased, praying for the Determination of the Descent; and you are hereby required to file your written defenses thereto on or before December 16, 2011, at 1:00 p.m. of said day, in said Court, in the City of Leavenworth, in Leavenworth County, Kansas, at which time and place said cause will be heard.

Should you fail therein, Judgment and Decree will be entered in due course upon said Petition.

Darci Schuler, Petitioner.

Submitted By: Kevin E. Reardon, #12547 2300 S. 4th Street Leavenworth, Kansas 66048 (913) 682-4430

kevinereardon@sbcglobal.net

Attorney for Petitioner ________

(First published in The Mirror, Tuesday, November 22, 2011) IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF LEAVENWORTH COUNTY, KANSAS Probate Division In the Matter of the Estate of Janet J. Alexander, Deceased.

No. 2011 PR 65 NOTICE OF HEARING ON PETITION FOR FINAL SETTLEMENT THE STATE OF KANSAS TO ALL PERSONS CONCERNED: You are hereby notified that a Petition has been filed on the 16th day of November, 2011, in said court

by Teri J. Alexander, Executor of the Estate of Janet J. Alexander, deceased, praying for a final settlement of the estate, approval of her acts, proceedings and accounts as Executor, allowances for attorney fees and expenses, determination of the heirs, devisees and legatees entitled to the estate and assignment to them in accordance with the Last Will and Testament of the decedent. You are hereby required to file your written defenses thereto on or before the 16th day of December, 2011, at 1:00 o’clock p..m., on said day, in said court, in the City of Leavenworth, in Leavenworth County, Kansas, at which time and place said cause will be heard. Should you fail therein, judgment and decree will be entered in due course upon said Petition.

Teri J. Alexander, Petitioner SUBMITTED BY: G. RONALD BATES, JR. #12901 529 Delaware, P. O. Box 392 Leavenworth, Kansas 66048 (913) 682-8882 Attorney for Petitioner _______ (Published in The Mirror, Wednesday, December 7, 2011) Cellco Partnership and its controlled affiliates doing business as Verizon Wireless (Verizon Wireless) is proposing to build a 150 foot Monopole Telecommunications Tower, 165 feet with all appurtenances, in the vicinity of Kimberlin St., McLouth, KS 66054. Public comments regarding potential effects from this site on historic properties may be submitted within 30-days from the date of this publication to: Trileaf Corp, Amy Gholson, a.gholson@trileaf.com, 10845 Olive Blvd, St. Louis, MO 63141, phone number 314-997-6111. ________