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University stands behind hazing records handling

CONSTITUTIONAL SHOWDOWN

Supreme Court strikes judicial selection bill

Heavy redactions needed to protect students’ information, KU says

With funding in question, will lawmakers fix or retaliate?

By Sara Shepherd Twitter: @saramarieshep

By Peter Hancock Twitter:@LJWpqhancock

Topeka — In a case that threatens all funding for the entire state judicial branch, the Kansas Supreme Court on Wednesday struck down a new law that changes the way chief judges in the lower courts are selected.

In a 43-page opinion in the case of Solomon v. Kansas written

by Justice Eric Rosen, the court upheld a lower court decision that said the new law violates the separation of powers doctrine as well as Article 3 of the state constitution, which gives the Supreme Court “general administrative authority over all courts in this state.”

That decision could put funding for the judicial branch in jeopardy because lawmakers passed a funding bill this year that includes what’s called a “nonseverability” clause that says if the judicial selection law is overturned, all funding for the courts for the next two years also becomes null and void.

The Kansas Supreme Court’s ruling Wednesday did not address the funding issue, which is the subject of a separate constitutional lawsuit pending in Shawnee County District Court. In September, a judge in Neosho County put the nonseverability clause on hold until March 15, giving lawmakers time to address it when they return for the 2016 session.

No immediate crisis Kansas University law professor Rick Levy said that pause averts an immediate constitutional crisis in Kansas.

“It will take another act, or inaction, by the Legislature to up the

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State Sen. Jeff King, an Independence Republican, said earlier this year that the push for the judicial selection bill came from Sedgwick County, one of several judicial districts where judges are elected in partisan races.

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Kansas Chief Justice Lawton Nuss recused himself from the case because of public statements he had made about the bill as it was being debated by lawmakers. ante, I think, before we’re really in a crisis situation,” Levy said.

“At this point, since the budget can still be fixed before the loss of funds really kicks in, there’s no crisis yet.

“On the other hand,” he said, “if the Legislature comes back and says we’re not going to fix it, or says we’re going to re-pass a budget but we’re going to take retaliatory budget action of some kind,

Kansas Justice Eric Rosen wrote the opinion in the case of Solomon v.

Kansas, striking down King’s judicial selection bill. then that might make a difference.”

Kansas Chief Justice Lawton Nuss recused himself from the case because of public statements he had made about the bills as they were being debated in the Legislature. Retired Senior Judge Michael Malone of Douglas County filled his place on the court for the purpose of hearing the case.

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Community Christmas Dinner ensures no one’s alone for the holiday

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olunteers are preparing to serve up about 1,200 plates of traditional Christmas fare Friday during Lawrence’s annual Community Christmas Dinner.

The free dinner will take place from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. at First United Methodist Church, 946 Vermont St. Diners are asked to use the church’s Vermont Street entrance.

Kent Ely, who has been helping coordinate the dinner for the past 15 years, said most of the meals are delivered.

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rence,” Ely said.

“We have folks from the shelter and the streets that are there, and they can be sitting at a table — I’ve seen it — with a family that lives in Alvamar,” — Kent Ely, Community Christmas Dinner coordinator for 15 years Ely said. “It’s a picture of Lawrence.”

Regardless of need, delivery can call 841-1516 still trying to get more anyone is welcome to atafter 6 a.m. Friday to pies for the meal. Pie tend the dinner. place an order. donations can be dropped “Some people, while On the menu are all the off at the church any time they may not need the staples, Ely said, includafter 6 a.m. Friday. meal, they need or want ing smoked turkey, ham, The dinner is in its that companionship, and mashed potatoes, gravy, 22nd year. that’s just as important as sweet potatoes, dinner Those who usually atthe meal itself,” Ely said. rolls and pies. tend the meal represent — Nikki Wentling Ely said organizers are “a good mix of Law-

We have folks from the shelter and the streets that are there, and they can be sitting at a table — I’ve seen it — with a family that lives in Alvamar.”

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Kansas University has offered additional explanation about its heavy redacting of fraternity hazing documents, specifically regarding the fraternities’ membership numbers.

The Journal-World, which reported Sunday on KU’s disciplining of two fraternities, filed a Kansas Open Records Act request for documents from KU’s investigation into the fraternities, which are on KANSAS probation for hazing. The UNIVERSITY records KU provided the newspaper were heavily redacted to hide all information about the nature of the hazing — which, under KU code, can include anything from creating “mental discomfort” to “recklessly” endangering someone’s physical safety.

Under the federal Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA), KU is only allowed to release student information without the student’s consent after removing “all personally identifiable information,” university spokesman Joe Monaco said in an email early this week.

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$2.35M OK’d for fairgrounds improvements

By Mackenzie Clark Twitter: @mclark_ljw

Douglas County commissioners approved $2.35 million in funds to move forward with Phase 1 of the fairgrounds project, as well as some adjustments to make facilities more accessible to the hearing-impaired.

The first phase of the project includes demolishing Buildings 1 and 2, replacing them with a new Meeting Hall, and resurfacing and extending parking lots, among other improvements.

COUNTY “This has been a process COMMISSION we’ve been working on for seven or eight years, and finally tonight, as (Commissioner Nancy Thellman) said, when you actually dedicate money to it, it’s real,” Commissioner Jim Flory said after the meeting.

On Wednesday, commissioners also voted to approve about $22,000 for an audiovisual technology package that includes a looping system. The system, comprising wires that encircle the room, allows hearing aid users to pick up a direct signal from audio equipment so the sound is amplified.

The system will be built into the new meeting hall, which is why Assistant County Administrator Sarah Plinsky said it was important that it be approved along with

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Kenneth ShumaKer Kenneth Shumaker, 92, formerly of Lawrence, KS, passed away December 23, 2015 at Brookdale Wornall Place.

Private family service.

Kenneth was born November 25, 1923 in Atchison, KS. He was a WWII veteran serving in the U.S. Navy. Kenneth worked as a Division Superintendent for Kansas Power & Light, retiring after 42 years of

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Judicial selection In 2014, lawmakers passed a funding bill for the courts that included a provision changing the way chief judges in the lower courts are chosen.

Instead of being named by the Supreme Court, as they have been in the past, the new law says they are to be elected by the other judges in each district.

Judge Larry T. Solomon, chief judge of the 30th Judicial District in Kingman County, filed the suit challenging the change. The Supreme Court put the case on a fast track because terms of all the district court chief judges expire Dec. 31.

Sen. Jeff King, R-Independence, who chairs the Senate Judiciary Committee, said earlier this year that the push for the judicial selection bill came from Sedgwick County, one of several judicial districts where judges are elected in partisan races.

Those elections have produced partisan and philosophical splits on the 28-judge Sedgwick County bench. King said the change was intended to bring more “local control” in the selection of chief judges because the process would be more closely tied to the outcome of local judicial elections.

Chief judges in district courts wield significant influence over allocating

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“One of those fraternities had less than 10 total members, meaning any information about those events can be identifiable to anyone who knows a fraternity member — and many people on campus do,” Monaco said. “The other fraternity involved events that happened to all members of a particular pledge class, meaning any details of those events can be identifiable to anyone who knows a member of that class — and many people on campus do.”

KU also said releasing the records without behaviors redacted would constitute an unwarranted invasion of privacy under the Kansas Open Records Act. After investigating reports of hazing during fall 2014, KU placed Delta Tau Delta on probation March 9, 2015, through Jan. 1, 2017 — 22 months.

Delta Tau Delta, located at 1111 W. 11th St., has 75 undergraduate members, according to the fraternity’s national headquarters.

Following reports of hazing in early 2015, KU placed Phi Beta Sigma on probation May 7, 2015, through May 7, 2017 — the

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He is survived by his wife of 70 years, Peggy Shumaker; children Sharon Carpenter (Bill), Marsha Howland (Dennis), Mark Shumaker and Mary Martin (Gary); grandchildren, greatgrandchildren and extended family.

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the rest of Phase 1. The Lawrence City Commission meeting room recently had its carpets torn out so a hearing loop could be installed directly onto the room’s concrete floor, which is necessary for it to function.

“I think we need to keep in mind everything we can do to make sure that not only now, but in the future, we have disabilityaccessible facilities,” Flory said.

Plinsky said Tuesday she hoped commissioners would approve Phase 1 this week so that abatement and demolition work can begin as early as Monday.

“We didn’t want to wait and hold the

the court’s budget and resources, hiring court personnel, and sometimes assigning cases to other judges.

Tension between branches The case drew national attention because it was seen as part of the escalating tension Defunding the courts between the LegislaResponding to ture and the courts — a Wednesday’s decision, tension that has been King said he is confident growing in other states the Legislature will act as well. In Kansas, much quickly to protect funding of the animosity stems for the courts. from Supreme Court “The Legislature is decisions over the past not going to defund 10 years on issues rangthe courts. We were ing from school finance never going to defund the to the death penalty. courts, and it’s my intent House Speaker Ray and pledge when we go Merrick, R-Stilwell, back into session next alluded to those other month to make crystal issues when he issued a clear that funding for the statement responding to judicial branch is secure,” Wednesday’s decision.

King said.

“This time the court But King would not found the concept of rule out the possibility separation of powers to that funding for the courts be compelling enough could be substantially to rule in their own changed as a result of the favor,” Merrick said. “I Solomon decision. would hope the court “The provision was continues to hold the put in the bill specificoncept of separation of cally because there were powers with such reverhistoric increases in ence in future rulings.” judicial branch funding The idea of tying the last few years,” he funding of the entire jusaid. “Multi-, multimillion dicial branch to the outdollar increases in judicial come of one case was branch funding at a very thought to be unprectight budget time in the edented anywhere in state. Those increases the country, and Solowere predicated largely mon’s attorneys argued on the ability of getting that both the change in local control, of having selection process and local judges get a say in the funding threat were how their local courts are a direct threat to the funded. Having that say independence of the was an integral part of the judiciary. entire budget package, “With this decision, which was passed as a the Supreme Court has package and so linked as established its authora package. Now that some ity over administrative of that has been called issues with the court, into question, we have the and has made it clear opportunity to go back that the court is willand re-evaluate that fund- ing and able to protect ing, but no one wants to itself from the type of abolish it entirely.” power grab that the

Anti-hazing policy KU’s Code of Student Rights and Responsibilities prohibits various offenses against persons, including hazing. The section defining hazing is as follows: “Engages in hazing of another person for the purpose of initiation or admission into, affiliation with, or continuation of membership in any organization operating under the sanction of the University. Hazing includes, but is not limited to, any action, activity or situation which recklessly, negligently or intentionally endangers the mental or physical health, welfare or safety of a person, creates maximum two years allowed under KU disciplinary probation procedures. Phi Beta Sigma, an African-American greek letter fraternity that does not have a formal chapter house, currently has five members, according to the KU organization directory.

Representatives from both fraternities’ national headquarters declined to answer what hazing behaviors led to the discipline.

Fraternities themselves are private organizations not subject to open

excessive fatigue, sleep deprivation, mental or physical discomfort, exposes a person to extreme embarrassment or ridicule, involves personal servitude, destroys or removes public or private property, or implicitly or explicitly interferes with the academic requirements or responsibilities of a student. It is presumed that hazing is a forced activity regardless of the apparent willingness of an individual to participate in the activity.

Apathy or acquiescence in the presence of hazing is not neutral; both are violations of this rule.” records laws.

However, KU — which formally recognizes fraternities as registered university organizations and disciplines them for violations of KU student code — is a state agency that is subject to open records laws.

Monaco said state law requires KU to be “as transparent as possible” but that FERPA is “designed to protect the privacy of students and families.”

“These two requirements are often at odds with each other, meaning

construction team back for this early phase of the project,” she said.

The $2.35 million in funding had already been allotted as part of the total $6.5 million for the project in the county’s capital improvement plan. However, more recent estimates for the construction budget come to almost $7.2 million. Plinsky told commissioners construction costs have gone up about 7 percent a year since the original numbers were identified in December 2013, and with any project there is additional refinement.

The sources for those funds will be determined in the first few months of the new year as the final construction costs and bids come together for the remaining two phases of the project, Plinsky said.

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Quoting from an earlier case, he said: “When ‘the government is called upon to perform a function that requires an exercise of legislative, executive or judicial power, only the vested recipient of that power can perform it.’”

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WEDNESDAY’S — Reporter Peter Hancock can be In his concurring SUPER KANSAS CASH reached at 354-4222 or opinion, Stegall argued 12 18 21 22 25 (02) phancock@ljworld.com. for a more rigid and WEDNESDAY’S Legislature, in particular through Sen. Jeff King’s efforts, and the governor were attempting to perform,” said Pedro Irigonegaray, Solomon’s lead attorney in the case.

The Brennan Center for Justice, based at New York University, which served as cocounsel for Solomon, also praised Wednesday’s decision.

“Today’s ruling is a major victory for fair and impartial courts in Kansas,” said Alicia Bannon, senior counsel at the Brennan Center.

“This unconstitutional law was a clear violation of the separation of powers between the courts and the political branches and an inappropriate attempt by the Legislature to interfere with the operation of the courts.”

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the university is often stuck between ensuring reasonable transparency and complying with FERPA. Moreover, FERPA is not always clear, and the federal government has interpreted it very broadly, putting the university at risk virtually any time student information is requested,” Monaco said. “... In the case of student records governed by FERPA, we tend to err in favor of student privacy to ensure we are in compliance with federal law.”

KU is not the only university to broadly interpret FERPA when applying it to organizational discipline records.

However, some transparency advocates say that’s a misuse of the law.

“In cases that involve discipline, we frequently hear FERPA invoked whether or not that statute genuinely applies,” said Frank LoMonte, executive director of the Student Press Law Center, which advocates for open government on campuses nationwide.

“FERPA is a very narrow statute. It governs only individually identifiable student education records.”

Penalties imposed on groups almost never qualify as FERPA records, by definition, as those documents aren’t part of any particular student’s education record,

LoMonte said.

LoMonte said that if names or mentions of a particular fraternity office held by an individual were included in group records, it would be appropriate to redact those — but not more.

If a group is, in fact, so small that individual members would be widely known on campus, the university probably shouldn’t publicly share any information, LoMonte said. He said single digits might fall into that category but not larger groups.

“If they’re convinced that saying that a pledge was tied up and hit with paddles gives away someone’s confidential education information, then it equally gives away information to say that the fraternity was found guilty of hazing,” he said. “You cannot have this both ways — either you can’t disclose at all, or you need to disclose everything other than the identities of the students.”

The Journal-World plans to file a written appeal to KU, asking the university’s Freedom of Information officer to provide the requested fraternity hazing records without the redaction.

— KU and higher ed reporter Sara Shepherd can be reached at 832-7187 or sshepherd@ljworld.com.

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County hires new zoning director

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By Karen Dillon Twitter: @karensdillon

After a six-month search, Douglas County has hired a Johnson County building official to become its new director of zoning and codes.

Sean Reid, currently a building program manager for Johnson County, will begin the job on Jan. 19. Reid is taking over the department as Douglas County commissioners have ordered a third-party review of its codes. The building codes department came under scrutiny after concerns were raised that the department’s former leader, Jim Sherman, had

allowed Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach to build a house without the proper permits.

Reid said he wasn’t familiar enough with the details of that case to comment about any issues it has caused in the department. But he said he was excited about the Douglas County position, in part, because of the unusual structure of the director’s position. Typically a building official reports to the public works director or the planning director. But in Douglas County, the director reports directly to the county administrator.

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MARC ZIMMERMAN, 1643 DELAWARE ST., DRAWS A BEAD WITH HIS DISINTEGRATION RAY GUN on what seems to be an ominous stranger from outer space on Dec. 10, 1957. And Marc demands that the eerie alien take him to his “boss” to determine if an invasion is in progress. But don’t get excited. This goggle-eyed Mars type creature is nothing more than a car’s taillight assembly with a hat placed atop its “head” to make it appear more human. Each week, usually on Thursday, the Journal-World runs a photo from its archives, chosen by chief photographer Mike Yoder, that gives a glimpse into Lawrence’s past.

eXplore Lawrence leaders getting established

By Nikki Wentling Twitter: @nikkiwentling

Lawrence’s convention and visitors bureau, now operating as its own entity and renamed eXplore Lawrence, has assembled its governing board and is in the process of hiring an executive director.

The seven-member governing board interviewed candidates through teleconference Dec. 8. Members will meet in January to discuss when they’ll hold another round of interviews and when a new director will be selected.

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Ultimately, it all kind of coalesces into that strong visitor experience and making sure people enjoy visiting Lawrence, consider a repeat visit back to Lawrence and consider holding meetings and events here in our facilities.”

— Megan Gilliland, city spokeswoman and interim director of eXplore Lawrence the effort to bring tourists, events and conferences to Lawrence — anything that helps boost the city’s transient sales tax revenue, said Megan Gilliland, a city spokeswoman who has been serving as eXplore

Lawrence’s interim director.

One event the new director will work to coordinate is the 2017 USA Track & Field Junior Olympics. It was announced earlier this month that Lawrence

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“Ultimately, it all kind of coalesces into that strong visitor experience and making sure people enjoy visiting Lawrence, consider a repeat visit back to Lawrence and consider holding meetings and events here in our facilities,” Gilliland said of the job. “All of that ties together into what eXplore Lawrence does.”

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‘Systemic failure,’ rape case cited by inspectors Associated Press

Osawatomie — A Kansas mental hospital that lost federal funding failed to supervise care, perform safety checks and protect suicidal patients, inspectors said.

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services report cited a

rape at the Osawatomie State Hospital in October as an example of the problems that prompted the federal government to cut off funding Monday. Kansas now has to pay for care at the facility, which is one of only two of its kind in the state.

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Westar Energy plans wind farm near Dodge City Associated Press

Dodge City — A Kansas electric utility provider has contracted with a company to construct a 280-megawatt wind farm in Ford County.

The Hutchinson News reports that Westar Energy chose Infinity Wind Power to build the more

than $400 million Western Plains Wind Farm.

Construction is expected to start in late spring or early summer. Infinity will build the farm and then turn it over to Westar. Officials hope to have the farm completed by the end of 2016 or by early 2017.

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Multiple suspects sought in alleged robbery

By Conrad Swanson Twitter: @Conrad_Swanson

Police were searching for several suspects accused of robbing Read more responses and add two men outside a party early your thoughts at LJWorld.com Wednesday morning.

Just after 3 a.m., police were What was your favorite called to an apartment in the toy as a child?

3100 block of Ousdahl Road for a report of a robbery, said LawAsked on rence Police Sgt. Trent McKinMassachusetts Street ley.

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The victims, one man from Lawrence and another from Leavenworth, had been at a party in the apartment when they decided to leave in the early morning hours, McKinley said.

The suspects — about six men unknown to the victims — left the party around the same time and approached them in the apartment parking lot.

At least two of the suspects punched the victims while the

group demanded their wallets, phones and other valuables, McKinley said. At least two of the suspects had firearms.

After taking the victims’ valuables, the suspects left the parking lot in two vehicles, McKinley said.

The victims followed the suspects in their vehicle but could not call police because they no longer had their cellphones, McKinley said. They then re-

turned to the apartment and called police.

The victims had minor injuries but declined medical attention, McKinley said. An investigation into the incident was ongoing Wednesday, and so far police had not located any of the suspects.

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

County’s ambulance rates set to increase lowed by an increase to 20 percent over current rates on Jan. 1, 2017.

County Administrator Craig Weinaug said the rates are generally revisited annually, occasionally skipping a couple of years.

He said about half the cost of the medical portion of the department is financed through reimbursements from insurance and costs paid by patients; the other half comes from property taxes.

“We’ve always tried

to adjust the ambulance charges that would enable us to leverage as many Medicaid and Medicare dollars as possible,” Weinaug said. “...

The extent to which we can leverage as many federal dollars as possible, and appropriate ambulance charges consistent with what other people charge, it minimizes the amount we have to put on the mill levy.”

In a memo to the county, Lawrence-Douglas

County Fire Medical Chief Mark Bradford said the department has seen a 23.5 percent increase in EMS calls since 2008.

Weinaug said he may need to draft an official resolution for the commission’s next consent agenda to formally approve the rate increases, but commissioners authorized him to do so on Wednesday.

mately $9,200 contract for Austin Peters Group Inc. to conduct a review of the building codes department. The review won’t focus exclusively on issues that were raised during the Kobach building project, but county commissioners have said those issues will be addressed.

The codes department also found itself facing questions over inspections the former director, Sherman, provided to the Lawrence school district as part of the $92.5 million in school improvement projects approved by voters.

The consulting firm previously has said it expects the review to take about 16 weeks to complete.

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“It is a relatively rare career opportunity for a building official to be a director or have a director-level position,” Reid said. “I’m really excited at this opportunity.”

Douglas County’s zoning and codes director is charged with enforcing zoning regulations and building codes and issuing building permits.

Douglas County officials in a statement said Reid was highly qualified for the position, noting that the contractor licensing program he oversaw in Johnson County was the first in the country to win the designation of a “preferred provider pro-

gram” from the International Code Council.

Reid has overseen Johnson County’s contractor licensing program for about 10 years and is the current eastern vice president of the Heart of America Chapter of the International Code Council, a past presenter to the International Code Council and was featured on the cover and in an article of a prominent industry magazine this month.

Reid also has been a chief building official in Warrensburg, Mo., and Mendocino County, Calif.

Reid will be paid $90,000 a year, about $25,000 a year more than Sherman was paid, according to the county.

County commissioners in early November approved an approxi-

station WIBW-TV, was named the new executive director of Freedom’s Frontier in November.

That organization promotes tourism in 41 counties in eastern Kansas and western Missouri — sites of struggle during the Civil War. eXplore Lawrence will have an agreement next year with the city, stating that though it’s a separate entity, the organization is carrying out the city’s tourism and marketing responsibilities.

The city budgeted $880,000 to go to eXplore Lawrence in 2016.

The Lawrence City Commission voted in November to appoint eXplore Lawrence’s member governing board, which will set the vision and goals for the organization.

Its members are: Nancy Longhurst, general manager of The Eldridge; Derek Felch, general manager of The Hampton Inn; City Commissioner Stuart Boley; Charlie Persinger, Kansas University’s director of ceremonies and special events; Derek Kwan, executive director of the Lied Center; Doug Banks, associate athletics director for Kansas Athletics; and Mike Logan, owner of The Granada and Abe & Jake’s Landing.

Longhurst was elected as the board’s chairman.

It’s unsure when a director of eXplore Lawrence will be named, Gilliland said.

The bureau’s governing board did a national search for candidates.

The new director is expected to have strong

sales, marketing, eventplanning and communityrelations abilities.

Besides the Junior Olympics, another project the director will work on is eXplore Lawrence’s “Unmistakably Lawrence” campaign, which started in April.

Gilliland said the bureau wants to have a marketing push on the “Unmistakably Lawrence” brand in 2016.

“We want to capitalize on that and get it out there so people can start to relate that unmistakable and unforgettable experience you can have here in Lawrence, right in the middle of the country,” Gilliland said. “We want to play up that aspect of it.”

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Chris Beightel, engineer, Lawrence “A gyroscopic Evel Knievel motorcycle.”

Scott McDonald, driving instructor, Lawrence “I had a little toy organ that I liked a lot when I was a kid.”

Lucie Dubail, teaching assistant, Lawrence “Lego.”

Douglas Raney, developer, Lawrence “My Super Nintendo.”

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The city’s convention and visitors bureau became its own organization in September and broke away from Destination Management Inc., a nonprofit group that had managed both it and Freedom’s Frontier National Heritage Area since 2008.

Gilliland said the split would allow eXplore Lawrence to focus solely on growing Lawrence’s tourism industry. Three months after the separation, both eXplore Lawrence and Freedom’s Frontier are “very focused on their own missions,” she said.

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BRIEFLY Lotto head resigns amid jackpot scandal

Iowa City, Iowa (ap) — A prominent lottery official who has run the Powerball game since its inception was quietly removed from his 28-year post leading the Multi-State Lottery Association after a jackpot-fixing scandal inside his organization had spread, according to a document obtained by The Associated Press.

— Reporter Mackenzie Clark can be Charles Strutt, executive reached at mclark@ljworld.com or director of the association 832-7198. since its 1987 founding, was stripped of his duties in October by the group’s board, which includes directors of FRIENDS AND NEIGHBORS lotteries in 37 states and U.S. territories. The move came days after prosecutors said their investigation of jackpot-fixing by the association’s former security director, Eddie Tipton, had expanded nationwide.

The Urbandale, Iowabased association has been rocked by the case against Tipton, who was convicted in July of fraud for working with associates to attempt to claim a fixed $16.5 million Hot Lotto jackpot.

On Oct. 9, investigators announced they had uncovered new evidence showing Tipton worked with associates to fix jackpots and claim prizes worth millions of dollars in Colorado and Wisconsin. Since then, the case has expanded to include jackpots in Oklahoma and Kansas.

Brandon Schoenhofer/Contributed Photo Tipton, who denies the TAYLOR BAUER, VOLUNTEER AND COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT MANAGER OF THE LAWRENCE HUMANE SOCIETY, along with allegations, is scheduled Roxy the dog, receive a donation of $24.60 from second-graders Dayton Schoenhofer and Gaby Agneli. Dayton and to face a second trial next Gaby painted rocks and set up a stand at the end of the driveway to give away the rocks in exchange for donations for month. the Lawrence Humane Society.

Rates for ambulance and emergency medical services will increase gradually over the next three years after a decision by Douglas County commissioners at their Wednesday meeting.

By Jan. 1, 2018, an overall increase of 25 percent from current rates is planned. Beginning Jan. 1 of next year, rates will increase by 15 percent, fol-

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The report found that staff members were not appropriately stationed to provide safety and oversight before the sexual assault, The Topeka Capital-Journal reported. The worker who was attacked told inspectors that two patients saved her.

Staff didn’t check on the patient who is charged in the attack and who had previously attempted to strangle his spouse. Video showed an observational check logged at about the same time as the attack didn’t actually take place.

An inspection last month also found the hospital didn’t meet a federal requirement to provide organized 24-hour nursing services.

“The cumulative effect of the systemic failure to supervise the provision of care, to perform

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The project will use parts, including rotors, manufactured at Siemens’ Hutchinson plant, as well as 108-meter blades from the company’s Iowabased manufacturing facility.

The utility says the wind farm will bring its renewable energy portfolio to more than 1,500 megawatts.

According to Westar, the Ford County project — City Hall reporter Nikki Wentling can will include land lease be reached at 832-7144 or nwentling@ royalties paid to local ljworld.com. landowners and pay-

required safety checks and to protect suicidal patients from hanging risks placed all patients receiving services at risk for harm,” the report said.

Angela de Rocha, a spokeswoman for the Kansas Department for Aging and Disability Services, which operates Osawatomie, said the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services had accepted a correction plan submitted by the hospital, which included providing workers with a personal alarm button.

But she said a follow-up survey found the facility was still out of compliance, but that she had no information on why.

She said another survey was anticipated in January.

Earlier this year, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services required hospital renovations that limited bed space. The hospital has been replacing items that could be used as weapons or for hanging. ments to local and county government of about $75 million during the first 20 years of operation.

Utility officials say the project will create more than 200 construction jobs and three dozen permanent jobs.

Westar also plans to pursue an additional 200 megawatts of wind energy with an option to own 50 percent of that energy.

“Both these projects come out of a recent request for proposals issued this past fall,” Westar Energy spokeswoman Gina Penzig said.

The utility hopes to be able to disclose details on the second project by the end of the year.

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LUCIANA HLODAK, LEFT, OF LAWRENCE, PICKS OUT TOYS FOR HER TWO CHILDREN with help from volunteer Cheyenne Hansen Wednesday at the Toys for Tots Toy Shop at the former Borders bookstore, 6 E. Seventh St. The shop will be open today from 10 a.m. to noon.

Holiday closings announced Staff Reports

Most city and county offices will be closed for the holidays for portions of today and all of Friday.

Lawrence city offices will be closed Christmas Day and New Year’s Day. The Douglas County Courthouse, Judicial and Law Enforcement Center, department of public works and satellite locations will close at 3 p.m. today and remain closed through Friday, said Craig Weinaug, county administrator.

All will be closed Jan. 1, as well.

The district court offices will be closed all day today and Friday.

There will be no solid

BRIEFLY Accountant pleads guilty in fraud case Kansas City, Mo. (ap) — A suburban Kansas City accountant accused of stealing more than $4 million from clients has pleaded guilty to federal charges.

Federal prosecutors in Kansas City said in a release that 42-year-old Thomas Hauk, of Overland Park, pleaded guilty Tuesday to several charges, including bank fraud, wire fraud and money laundering.

The prosecutor’s office says Hauk was an accountant from 2005 to 2015 when he engaged in several schemes to defraud the company he worked for by embezzling more than $4 million from clients’ accounts. He then used the money to pay for living expenses, vehicles and jewelry.

Sentencing hasn’t been scheduled.

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The Lawrence Public Library will be closed today and Friday, as well as Dec. 31 and Jan. 1.

The Lawrence Transit System will not run Friday or Jan. 1. Parking meters downtown will be free Friday.

To report a waterline break on a holiday or weekend, call 832-7800.

Sports Pavilion Lawrence, the East Lawrence Recreation Center, the

Community Building and Holcom Park Recreation Center will be closed Friday and Jan. 1.

The Library Lawn Skate Rink, 707 Vermont St., will also be closed those days and will operate shortened hours, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., today and Dec. 31.

Eagle Bend Golf Course will close at 2 p.m. today and reopen at noon Saturday.

Detailed holiday hours for recreational and aquatic facilities, Prairie Park Nature Center and more are available at the city of Lawrence’s website, lawrenceks.org.

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Don’t get left out of daughter’s big day Dear Annie: My husband and I adopted our daughter from foster care when she was 12. We were told by the social worker that she had mental health issues, but we already loved her and went through with the adoption.

The 10 years since have not been easy, but we thought she had grown to love us.

She is a smart, beautiful girl, and we never regretted adopting her. She was the light of our lives. She is now in college in another town. Last week, she called and said she is never coming back to our house and no longer wants to have anything to do with us.

We have tried to talk to her, but she either doesn’t answer the phone or hangs up when we press for

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answers about what is wrong. She is dating a young man who has expressed his dislike of us.

We have learned through other people that they are getting married and his family is paying for the whole thing. We don’t know what to do. When she learned that we knew about the wedding, she did call and say we could come if we wanted, but it seemed a half-hearted invita-

Old faves home for the holidays Tonight is a night for old favorites, broadcast classics worth thinking about all through the year.

A bald, neurotic child who can’t even earn the respect of his dog learns the meaning of the holidays in the 1965 special “A Charlie Brown Christmas” (7 p.m., ABC, TV-G). This special hit the half-century mark this year, celebrated on “It’s Your 50th Christmas, Charlie Brown” (8 p.m., ABC, TV-G), hosted by Kristen Bell.

It’s easy to see why people may be enjoying “A Charlie Brown Christmas” come 2065. It has something for everyone. And its abundance arrives, not like overstuffed turkey, but with any number of curious paradoxes. Much has been written about its rare biblical references. Rarer still are its cool West Coast jazz score and its nods to Beethoven, “syndicates” and psychiatry. It’s both a product of the cool modernism of mid-century America and the Midwestern Protestantism of Charles Schulz’s boyhood. It’s one of the most overtly anti-commercial specials ever made, but it has been used to sell products for decades.

While “A Charlie Brown Christmas” reflects and transcends the era that produced it, the 1983 holiday film “A Christmas Story” (6 p.m., TNT, and 7 p.m., TBS, airing in a 24-hour stream) stands apart from many films of its time. The 1980s churned out a great many yuppie comedies (“Risky Business,” “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off”) that asked us to sympathize with rather satisfied and affluent suburban types. That spirit is clearly reflected in the 1989 comedy “National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation” (5:30 p.m., ABC Family).

If the 1983 role-reversal comedy “Trading Places” (7 p.m., Esquire) hearkened back to Great Depression-era screwball comedies, “A Christmas Story” was set in the Great Depression itself.

This allowed it to rise above the materialism of its era. Like “A Charlie Brown Christmas,” it was largely a children’s tale, and like that “Peanuts” effort, its cynical take on advertising (“Ovaltine?

A crummy commercial?”) hasn’t prevented “A Christmas Story” from becoming a merchandising phenomenon.

Far from children’s movies, “It’s a Wonderful Life” (7 p.m., NBC) and “Mr. Magoo’s Christmas Carol” (7 p.m., CW) are dark tales of adult despair, contemplating the End and Meaning of It All. The darkness of “It’s a Wonderful a Life” doesn’t hold a Dickensian candle to the 1951 adaptation of “A Christmas Carol” (8 p.m., Fox Movie Channel). Whatever you’re watching tonight, have a merry Christmas!

Tonight’s other highlights

From midnight forward, the Science Channel will air nothing but “MythBusters” episodes until Jan. 2.

tion. I suspect if we had not been told by someone else about the wedding, she never would have told us herself.

Should we go to the wedding or not? We do not know what kind of lies she may have told his family and are concerned it may be a problem. We love her and want to see her get married.

What should we do? — Brokenhearted Mother in Georgia Dear Georgia: Please go to the wedding. Don’t worry what the groom’s parents think. Prove them wrong.

You need to be supportive of your daughter on her big day and let her see that you still love her enough to do this. Don’t cry or become angry or try to get her to tell you

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For Thursday, Dec. 24: This year you express unique versatility, which is likely to enchant many people around you. You will become more likable! If you are single, someone from a different culture strolls into your life. If you are attached, the two of you will schedule a long-discussed trip.

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) As you put the final touches on holiday preparations, you might feel more discomfort than you thought possible. Keep communication flowing. Tonight: Get into the moment.

Taurus (April 20-May 20) Curb a tendency to be overly possessive or too touchy.

Tonight: Indulge a loved one rather than withdraw.

Gemini (May 21-June 20) You’ll watch others’ reactions as the holiday season starts playing out. A family member seems to be more upbeat.

Tonight: All smiles.

Cancer (June 21-July 22) Understand what is going on with others. Remain positive.

Tonight: Life is about to get much livelier.

Leo (July 23-Aug. 22) You might be spending a lot on a last-minute item that you have decided you want to purchase. Tonight: With your loved ones.

what’s wrong. Simply be happy for her as best you can.

We always worry about relationships where the husband or wife prevents the spouse from seeing family members. It could lead to an abusive situation. Please keep your eyes open and make sure your daughter knows you will always be there for her.

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Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) You might feel as if nearly anything is possible. Wherever you are, avoid taking on more responsibility. Tonight: A force to be dealt with.

Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) You could be at a point where you want to run away.

Don’t worry — you won’t need to.

Tonight: Use your instincts.

Scorpio (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) Understand what needs to happen between you and someone else. Once the two of you click, you won’t want to separate.

Tonight: Beam in what you want.

Sagittarius (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) Others observe your attitude and like what they see. You still might be upset about a matter that you have not discussed yet.

Tonight: Make plans.

Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) You might wind up being responsible for a bit too much. Try to say “no” more often. Tonight: You know the drill.

Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) Maintain a positive outlook. Others are likely to return the same type of friendliness. Tonight: Get into your Santa gear.

Pisces (Feb. 19-March 20) You could be in a position of having to accept what is happening, even if it upsets you. Tonight: Not too late.

— The astrological forecast should be read for entertainment only.

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18 Old prefix for “while” 22 Work at, as a trade 23 Loose mountain debris 24 Child labor?

25 City-related 26 Tell-all books, briefly 27 Celebratory poems 29 Allowed, to the Bard 30 Not on the level 31 Beefy bovine 34 Wheel spokes, essentially 35 Change, as the Constitution 36 Piece of cake 38 Cockatoo’s crest 39 They may be glossed over

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Crisis looms The legislative power play aimed at the Kansas courts has failed. Now, lawmakers need to put political games aside and approve funding for the state’s judicial branch.

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he governor and state legislators should not be surprised by Wednesday’s Supreme Court action striking down a state law that changed how chief judges are selected in district courts across the state.

The only mystery now is how the Kansas Legislature will address another provision of that law that automatically defunds the state’s court system as a result of Wednesday’s ruling.

Despite some denials from legislative leaders, it’s hard to believe lawmakers didn’t intend to pick a fight with the courts when they passed this law.

They said that requiring chief judges to be elected by the other judges in their districts, rather than appointed by the Supreme Court, was an effort to impose more local control, but it was obvious from the beginning that the law would be challenged as an unconstitutional infringement of the judicial branch’s authority to oversee state courts.

To make things worse, legislators added a “nonseverability clause” to the bill, nullifying the judicial budget if other parts of the bill were struck down.

That clause also is the subject of court action, and an injunction in that case will keep money flowing to the courts at least until mid-March.

That gives the Legislature a little time after it returns in January to deal with this mess. Hopefully, the legislators who championed this bill last session will bring a different attitude to Topeka in January and work to ease the growing animosity of the legislative and executive branches toward the state court system. Unfortunately, such a change of heart is not guaranteed or, perhaps, even likely. Instead, many observers expect lawmakers to push for new judicial selection laws and perhaps other measures aimed at the courts.

Just for the record, the Supreme Court unanimously concluded that the statute violated the state’s constitutional separation of powers. Even Justice Caleb Stegall, Gov. Sam Brownback’s only appointment to the court, concurred, although he wrote a separate opinion that offered some different reasoning.

The law that was struck down Wednesday was an attack on the separation of powers that is essential to the government of the state. Tying that law to the judicial branch’s budget was a legislative power play that failed. Pressing that case will only push the state toward a constitutional crisis that benefits no one. Approving funding for the judicial branch — without further political games — should be at the top of the Legislature’s agenda when it convenes in January.

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Trump threatens conservatism’s future Washington — If you look beyond Donald Trump’s comprehensive unpleasantness — is there a disagreeable human trait he does not have? — you might see this: He is a fundamentally sad figure. His compulsive boasting is evidence of insecurity.

His unassuageable neediness suggests an aching hunger for others’ approval to ratify his self-admiration. His incessant announcements of his selfesteem indicate that he is not self-persuaded. Now, panting with a puppy’s insatiable eagerness to be petted, Trump has reveled in the approval of

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Conservatives’ highest priority now must be to prevent Trump from winning the Republican nomination in this the GOP’s third epochal intra-party struggle in 104 years.”

Vladimir Putin, murderer and war criminal.

Putin slyly stirred America’s politics by saying Trump is “very talented,” adding that he welcomed Trump’s promise of “closer, deeper relations,” whatever that might mean, with Russia. Trump announced himself flattered to be “so nicely complimented” by a “highly respected” man: “When people call you brilliant, it’s always good.” When MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough said Putin “kills journalists and political opponents and invades countries,” Trump replied that “at least he’s a leader.” Besides, Trump breezily asserted, “I think our country does plenty of killing also.” Two days later, Trump, who rarely feigns judiciousness, said: “It has not been proven that he’s

killed reporters.”

Well. Perhaps the 56 journalists murdered were coincidental victims of amazingly random violence that the former KGB operative’s police state is powerless to stop. It has, however, been “proven,” perhaps even to Trump’s exacting standards, that Putin has dismembered Ukraine.

(Counts one and two at the 1946 Nuremberg trials concerned conspiracy to wage, and waging, aggressive war.)

Until now, Trump’s ever-more-exotic effusions have had an almost numbing effect. Almost. But by his embrace of Putin, and by postulating a slanderous moral equivalence — Putin kills journalists, the United States kills terrorists, what’s the big deal, or the difference? — Trump has forced conservatives to recognize their immediate priority.

Certainly conservatives consider it crucial to deny the Democratic Party a third consecutive term controlling the executive branch. Extending from eight to 12 years its use of unbridled executive power would further emancipate the administrative state from control by either a withering legislative branch or a supine judiciary. But first things first.

Conservatives’ highest priority now must be to prevent Trump from winning the Republican nomination in this the GOP’s third epochal intraparty struggle in 104 years.

In 1912, former President

Theodore Roosevelt campaigned for the Republican nomination on an explicitly progressive platform. Having failed to win the nomination, he ran a third-party campaign against the Republican nominee, President William Howard Taft, and the Democratic nominee, New Jersey’s Gov. Woodrow Wilson, who that November would become the first person elected president who was deeply critical of the American founding.

TR shared Wilson’s impatience with the separation of powers, which both men considered an 18thcentury relic incompatible with a properly energetic executive. Espousing unconstrained majoritarianism, TR favored a passive judiciary deferential to elected legislatures and executives; he also endorsed the powers of popular majorities to overturn judicial decisions and recall all public officials.

Taft finished third, carrying only Utah and Vermont.

But because Taft hewed to conservatism, and was supported by some other leading Republicans (e.g., Sen. Henry Cabot Lodge, one of TR’s closest friends, and Elihu Root, TR’s secretary of war and then secretary of state), the Republican Party survived as a counterbalance to a progressive Democratic Party.

In 1964, Barry Goldwater mounted a successful con-

servative insurgency against a Republican establishment that was content to blur and dilute the Republican distinctiveness that had been preserved 52 years earlier. Goldwater defeated New York’s Gov. Nelson Rockefeller for the nomination, just as Taft had defeated TR, a former New York governor. Like Taft, Goldwater was trounced (he carried six states). But the Republican Party won five of the next seven presidential elections. In two of them, Ronald Reagan secured the party’s continuity as the custodian of conservatism.

In 2016, a Trump nomination would not just mean another Democratic presidency. It would mean the loss of what Taft and then Goldwater made possible — a conservative party as a constant presence in American politics.

It is possible Trump will not win any primary, and that by the middle of March our long national embarrassment will be over. But this avatar of unfettered government and executive authoritarianism has mesmerized a large portion of Republicans for six months. The larger portion should understand this: One hundred and four years of history is in the balance. If Trump is the Republican nominee in 2016, there might not be a conservative party in 2020 either.

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

2015’s most world-changing events When people ask me what was the most important news of 2015, my answer is that — aside from the global rise of Islamic State terrorism — it was several things that in some cases barely made headlines.

Here they go: l First, the recently signed Paris climate accord, which for the first time committed the United States, China and nearly 200 other nations to limit their greenhouse gas emissions and take other measures to fight global warming.

The deal made big headlines around the world, but drew less attention in the United States, where part of the population — led by Republican presidential candidates and congress members — dismisses climate change as a liberal fabrication. While some countries may not fully comply with it, the deal may have marked a turning point in the history of the global climate crisis. l Second, the collapse of oil prices, which hit their lowest levels in seven years in 2015, leading to widespread speculation that we are heading toward “the end of oil.” A global oil supply glut, new technologies to produce green energy, and the Paris climate accord to reduce long-term oil production, among other factors, suggest that we may see a steady — perhaps permanent — decline of oil prices.

Plummeting oil prices are already causing economic

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I would pick the rise of Islamic State terrorism, the collapse of oil and the uberization of the economy as the ones that will dominate the global agenda in 2016.”

havoc in Venezuela, Russia, Saudi Arabia and other oil producers, and may permanently erode the previous diplomatic clout of authoritarian petro-states. l Third, Uber — the smart phone application that matches people who need a car ride with private car owners who are willing to provide that service — reached a market value of $50 billion in 2015, prompting forecasts that we are heading toward an “uberization” of the world economy.

Uber’s market value means that the 6-year-old company, which neither produces nor owns cars, is worth almost as much as General Motors, which pro-

duces about 10 million vehicles a year. Uber’s business model is expanding rapidly.

Just as Uber is threatening the taxi industry, Airbnb — an application that matches people looking for accommodations with homeowners who want to rent out their homes — is rocking the hotel industry. Hundreds of similar applications that reduce consumer prices by matching people and eliminating intermediaries are threatening virtually every industry. l Fourth, the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade agreement reached by the United States, Japan, Australia, Canada, Mexico, Peru, Chile and five other Pacific Rim countries. The trade deal represents 40 percent of the world economy, and is a little-disguised effort by the United States and Japan to counter China’s economic clout in the Pacific Basin.

The deal needs to be ratified by member countries, and is opposed by all leading Republican and Democratic candidates for the 2016 election. But, much like happened in previous U.S. elections, the next U.S. president is likely to drop his or her anti-free trade stance and embrace the agreement. l Fifth, the threatened breakup of the European Union (EU) as we know it following an avalanche of Syrian refugees and the Greek debt crisis. While it’s not the first time that the 28-country EU has been in trouble, European

Council President Donald Tusk said that the refugee crisis “has the potential to change the European Union we have built,” and European Commission President JuanClaude Juncker has conceded that Europe’s “love affair” with integration may be over. l Sixth, the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to legalize same-sex marriage nationwide, amid a growing trend to legalize gay marriages in the Western world. More than a dozen countries, including Argentina, Brazil, Canada, France, South Africa, Spain and Sweden, now allow same-sex couples to marry.

The trend is likely to continue, with states and cities in other countries following suit. But, at the same time, legalization of same-sex couples is creating a growing culture clash with fundamentalist Islamic states that see it as an alleged sign of the West’s moral decline, increasing their repression of gays.

There were other important events in 2015 that will have a worldwide impact, including the U.S. Federal Reserve’s first hike of U.S. interests in seven years. But I would pick the rise of Islamic State terrorism, the collapse of oil and the uberization of the economy as the ones that will dominate the global agenda in 2016.

Happy holidays!

— Andres Oppenheimer is a Latin America correspondent for the Miami Herald.

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Lawrence Meals on Wheels will not be delivering meals today.

Community Christmas Dinner, 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. at First United Methodist Church, 946 Vermont St. Diners are asked to use the church’s Vermont Street entrance. Those seeking a meal delivery can call 841-1516 after 6 a.m. to place an order.

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Adornment Holiday Art Sale and Show, 1-5 p.m., Van Go Arts, 715 New Jersey St. “The Nutcracker,” 1 p.m., Muriel Kauffman Theatre, Kauffman Center, 1601 Broadway, Kansas City, Mo. Merry Franksmas, 4 p.m., Leeway Franks, 935 Iowa St., No. 7.

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John Jervis, classical

guitar, 8-11 a.m., Panera, 520 W. 23rd St. Festival of Nativities, noon-4 p.m., Centenary United Methodist Church, 245 N. Fourth St., North Lawrence.

Trans-Siberian Orchestra, 3 p.m., Sprint Center, 1407 Grand Blvd., Kansas City, Mo. Trans-Siberian Orchestra, 8 p.m., Sprint Center, 1407 Grand Blvd., Kansas City, Mo.

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Festival of Nativities, noon-4 p.m., Centenary United Methodist Church, 245 N. Fourth St., North Lawrence.

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On Comet, on Cupid and now on an app 60 years in, NORAD’s Santa Claus quest is all cutting edge

Keep tabs on your orders — er, wish lists — at noradsanta.org.

“Santa Cams” will even stream videos.

Trevor Hughes USA TODAY

While Santa knows only whether you’ve been naughty or nice, the men and women of NORAD and Google will employ cutting-edge technology to see exactly where the big guy is on Christmas Eve, and they’ll help you track his flight as he makes his around-the-world deliveries.

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NORAD

Aerospace Defense Command, or NORAD, at Peterson Air Force Base, launched its 60th year of tracking Santa’s Yuletide adventure. Volunteers at the military

command will also answer questions and provide real-time updates on Santa’s progress from callers around the world.

Google also offers a Santa

Tracker service, using its Google Maps, to show the jolly old elf’s progress around the world.

Both services go live Thursday to track Santa’s progress, because, obviously, he and the reindeer will be working through the night to deliver presents.

The Santa tracking tradition began in 1955 after a Colorado Springs-based Sears, Roebuck & Co. advertisement misprinted the telephone number for children to call Santa. Instead of Santa, children reached the commander in chief’s hotline at CONAD, the U.S. Continental Air Defense Command. Col. Harry Shoup instructed his staff to check the radar for

signs of Santa and give the children updates. The practice continued and was taken over in 1958

by NORAD, the bi-national air defense command for North America, run by the governments of Canada and the United States.

At 12:01 a.m. MST Thursday, website visitors can watch Santa make preparations for his flight.

“Santa Cams” will stream videos as he makes his way over various locations. At 4 a.m. MST, trackers can speak with a phone operator to inquire as to Santa’s whereabouts at 1-877-Hi-NORAD. If you don’t want to sit in front of a computer, NORAD also has apps for iOS, Android and Windows.

Police halt ‘Black Lives’ rally

Change comes amid holiday travel season.

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Gender equality for all jobs provided women meet the same standards as men.

May 27 is target date to rescind the ban that affects as many as 12,000 troops.

Troops who serve 20 years will also receive 40% of pay as a traditional pension.

Tom Vanden Brook USA TODAY

WASHINGTON Women in the infantry. Transgender troops.

401(k)s for soldiers. The Pentagon in 2015 witnessed some of the most significant changes to its policies on who fights and how they’re compensated since the draft ended in 1973.

The changes pushed by Ashton Carter, who took office in February, make him “the most consequential secretary of Defense in 40 years,” according to a top deputy. Analysts and critics agree the changes are monumental but note that they remain deeply unpopular among senior uniformed officers.

2016 promises more upheaval

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Lives on edge have become Jerusalem’s new normal Tensions hurting business, tourism Shira Rubin

Special for USA TODAY

Three months of near daily attacks by Palestinians have kept Jerusalem’s streets quieter than usual, but that hasn’t stopped Israeli teacher Talia Malek from purposely taking public transportation and attempting to keep up her daily routine despite deep anxieties.

“This is our city, this is our country, and we need to show JERUSALEM

that we cannot be intimidated,” said Malek, who lives in a predominantly Jewish part of the city. As she and others waited for the light rail train to arrive, the group stared and stiffened when an Arab girl in a colorful hijab (head scarf ) walked past.

“Co-existence in Israel is possible between Jews and other groups, but this current situation reminds us that Palestinians see us as their enemy, reject our existence here. And the moment that they have the chance they will — literally — stab us in the back,” Malek said.

In the latest round of such violence, two Palestinians were shot

and killed after stabbing Jewish pedestrians Wednesday in Jerusalem’s Old City. Two Israelis later died from their wounds, including one man who was apparently wounded by police as they shot at the attackers, the Associated Press reported.

Since late September, Jerusalem and the West Bank have been plagued by almost daily stabbings, shootings and vehicle attacks. Twenty Israelis and an American student have died and at least 120 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli fire, including 82 identified by Israel as assailants, according to the AP. The tense situation has hurt

business and tourism.

The attacks began after false word spread among Palestinians that Israel was going to take control of their holy site, a claim repeated by Palestinian leaders to spur the violence despite repeated Israeli denials.

Palestinians such as Ahmad Amari from East Jerusalem also say they are afraid — of their Jewish neighbors.

“I used to travel on the bus and hang out in Jewish areas, but now I’ve decided to buy a motorcycle and I only enter Jewish areas for work — though it’s still quite scary,” said Amari, who, like many of his Palestinian neighbors,

works at a Jewish-owned business in the western part of the city.

Yehuda Amram, a Jewish baker in the Mahane Yehuda Market, one of the few places where Arabs and Jews mingle freely, said Jews should not confuse Arab neighbors — who make up the backbone of the Israeli economy and mostly favor coexistence — with the “foreign millionaires (in Arab countries) who are trying to cause problems and incite them to violence through the Internet.”

Although Jerusalem has long been subject to religious tensions, the market has never looked so empty as now, Amram said.

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No-go for Muslims on holiday British family barred from flight to L.A. on way to Disneyland

The 11 family members — two adults and nine children — were authorized to travel to the U.S., but U.S. officials reportedly blocked their travel.

Kim Hjelmgaard USA TODAY

A British Muslim family was prevented by U.S. security officials from boarding a plane from London to Los Angeles, where they were planning to visit Disneyland, British media reported Wednesday.

The 11 family members — two adults and nine children — were authorized to travel to the U.S. ahead of their flight to California on Dec. 15, but were not allowed on the plane at London’s Gatwick airport, The Guardian reported. It identified one family member as Mohammad Tariq Mahmood.

Mahmood, a Pakistani-born gym owner, told Metro UK that he was approached by a British border control agent moments before boarding. The agent said he had gotten a call from U.S. officials in Washington barring Mahmood from boarding the flight.

“He wouldn’t tell me anything more,” Mahmood told Metro UK. “I felt humiliated and my kids

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were tearful they were so upset.

I’d never experienced anything like that.”

U.S. Customs and Border Protection issued a statement following an inquiry into Mahmood’s case. Although the agency didn’t address his family’s situation directly, it said would-be visitors to the U.S. can be prevented from entering the country based on more than 60 grounds of inadmissibility, including healthrelated issues, criminal backgrounds, immigration violations or security concerns.

“The religion, faith, or spiritual beliefs of an international travel-

er are not determining factors about his/her admissibility into the U.S.,” the CBP statement read.

The incident comes a few weeks after Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump called for Muslims to be banned temporarily from entering the U.S., a comment prompted by the San Bernardino, Calif., shootings by two radicalized Muslims that left 14 people dead.

Trump’s proposed ban drew fierce criticism in Britain, including from Prime Minister David Cameron, who called Trump’s remarks “stupid, divisive and wrong.”

The family’s case has been taken up by their local politician, Stella Creasy. She subsequently wrote in an opinion piece for The Guardian that “instead of heading to Universal Studios for two weeks of fun, (family members) were told to go home and unpack.”

“The official who stopped them was from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security,” the opposition Labour Party politician wrote, “and in the ensuing furor, other local residents have come forward to say that they, too, have been summarily refused entry to America.” Creasy said she has asked Cameron to look into the matter.

Last week, another British Muslim traveler, Ajmal Masroor, was turned away at the gate without explanation when he tried to board a flight to New York.

Masroor, an imam, detailed the experience in a Facebook post. “(The U.S.) has the right to issue and revoke visa [sic] — I fully understand that,” he wrote. “However not forwarding any reasons infuriates ordinary people. ... I am amazed how irrational these processes are but does USA care about what you and I think? I don’t think so!”

Dumbfounded by this December: Trees, buds, bugs and your nose Warm weather in the East is causing confusion Doyle Rice USA TODAY

The calendar may say winter, but trees are blooming, insects are buzzing and allergies are making a comeback across the eastern USA. The freakishly warm December that’s set thousands of record temperatures — with dozens more predicted to fall Thursday on Christmas Eve — is also confusing trees, plants, flowers and bugs and could throw spring out of whack, too.

“Not only could the warm weather create the problem of early budding and blooming, but in addition, fruit trees need a certain number of hours of chilling for best fruiting, which they may not get if the warm weather continues,” said horticulturist Ralph Scorza of the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Appalachian Fruit Research Laboratory in Kearneysville, W.Va. If the trees don’t get enough time in the cold, spring blooming can be delayed or erratic and the quality of the fruit may suffer, he added.

Bulbs like those for tulips and daffodils also need a bit of a chill in order to blossom well later on.

Any flowers blooming now because of the warm weather may not bloom at all in the spring, said Richard Olsen, director of the National Arboretum.

A quick, dramatic temperature drop in January or February would also be problematic, leading to damage to trees and plants

BRYNN ANDERSON, AP

Aliya Cross, 8, left, Aiden Cross, 2, and Miranda Williams walk Wednesday in Birmingham, Ala., in rainy but balmy weather. More records could be set this week. suddenly unprepared for the cold.

“Once the buds reach a certain stage of growth, if they are exposed to a hard freeze, that may be it for the year,” said Kim Kaplan of the USDA’s Agricultural Research Service.

With no Arctic blasts on the horizon, according to the Climate Prediction Center, the eastern half of the nation geared up for yet another round of record warmth Thursday.

Dozens of record highs could be set Christmas Eve across 25 states, according to Weather.com.

That would come on top of the

2,661 record high temperatures that have already been set or tied across the nation in the first three weeks of the month, according to the National Centers for Environmental Information.

If the above-normal temperatures continue, it could be good news for bugs — and not-so-good news for plants.

Come spring, that could mean more stink bugs, said Kevin Hackett, also of the USDA’s Agricultural Research Service. That would impact fruit farmers, who will have to watch out for the pesky critters earlier than usual.

Allergies are also rebounding.

Pinkus Goldberg has seen more asthmatic patients recently at his Indiana practice and attributes the rise to a weather-induced increase in mold growth and dust mites — the region’s most common allergen. “Dust mites need moisture out of the air to thrive,” he said. “Cold air can’t hold as much moisture, and when it gets bitterly cold, insects like dust mites die.”

Contributing: Gabrielle Ferreira, Indianapolis Star; Kristina Zverjako, 13News Now

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Travelers may not be able to opt out of a full-body scan.

TSA can now require full-body scans Bart Jansen USA TODAY

Just in time for the holidays, the Transportation Security Administration changed the rules for its full-body scanners to find out who’s naughty or nice at airport checkpoints.

The change is aimed at safeguarding airline security at a time of heightened tensions over terrorism. But legal and security experts complain the TSA rules are ambiguous and that changes come without public comment.

TSA announced Friday it would require full-body scans for some travelers rather than allowing everyone the option of a patdown search instead. The scanners can detect non-metallic weapons beneath clothing.

“Generally, passengers undergoing screening will still have the option to decline a (full-body) screening in favor of physical screening,” said Bruce Anderson, a TSA spokesman. “However, some passengers will be required to undergo (full-body) screening if warranted by security considerations in order to safeguard transportation security.”

“We’re in bizarro-world with TSA,” said Marc Scribner, a research fellow at the Competitive Enterprise Institute.

The institute has sued TSA to force a formal rule-making procedure to continue use of scanners.

Fred Cate, an Indiana University law professor, said changing a policy that travelers already don’t understand will lead to greater confusion. And granting TSA officers greater discretion is an invitation to more complaints.

“Anything that adds more complexity likely weakens security,” Cate said. “Almost anywhere else in government or industry, if you don’t do things by the rules, it’s something people can complain about. Here if you don’t do something by the rules, they just say you don’t know what the rules are or we can’t tell you.”

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as women seek to qualify for combat and elite special operations and the military deals with a burgeoning problem with recruiting. Also likely: An overhaul of the mechanism for awarding medals that could include commendations for drone pilots.

Brad Carson, the Pentagon’s top civilian for personnel, in a brief interview credited Carter’s initiatives for making him “the most consequential” Pentagon chief in four decades. That covers a lot of ground and several highprofile secretaries, including Donald Rumsfeld, who was forced out in the aftermath of the Iraq War invasion, and Bob Gates who led the effort to repair the Army’s Walter Reed hospital.

The changes Carter has championed are a big deal, said Todd Harrison, a military budget and personnel expert at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. They also face resistance inside the Pentagon from senior officers, he said.

“Almost none of it would have happened if it had been left to the

uniformed military,” Harrison said. “No gays in the military, at least not openly. Transgender would not even be on table. No changes to the retirement system. They have opposed every bit of this.”

The problem with overhauling personnel is “the measures you need to take for the lower-ranking, enlisted and junior officers are very different than the needs of senior officers,” Harrison said.

Top brass have resisted the personnel changes because they feel troops have been forced to accept too much social change too quickly, all while fighting wars in the Middle East.

Carter’s announcement Dec. 3 that all combat units will be open to women in 2016 was set in motion in 2013 by then-Defense secretary Leon Panetta, who called for an end to the restriction that kept more than 200,000 military jobs, most in the infantry, a maleonly preserve.

But it was Carter who, despite a plea from the Marine Corps to keep women out of infantry units based on a study of fighting effectiveness, declared gender equality

for all military jobs provided women meet the same standards as men. Gen. Joseph Dunford, who is chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and the nation’s top military officer, declined to appear with Carter when he made the announcement. Dunford had been Marine Corps commandant and had sought to keep women from infantry units.

Rep. Duncan Hunter, a California Republican and member of the Armed Services Committee, blasted the policies putting women in combat and allowing transsexuals to serve as “the politicization of the U.S. military.”

“They don’t care about the outcome. Small infantry units become less effective, and less able to kill.”

Rep. Duncan Hunter, R-Calif.

Ignoring Dunford’s advice, Hunter said, indicates Carter and the White House are more concerned with appearances than combat effectiveness.

“They don’t care about the outcome,” Hunter said. “Small infantry units become less effective, and less able to kill.”

Senior officials continue to meet on a weekly basis to implement the policy on transgender troops. The top civilian and uniform officials are working toward a target date of May 27 to rescind the ban that affects as many as 12,000 troops. Current policy disqualifies troops diagnosed with gender dysphoria, although Carter effectively ended the practice of cashiering those troops by requiring a top official to sign off on such decisions.

Among the issues officials are sorting through are housing, uniforms and how to handle time off for troops under hormone treatment or surgery.

The Army made history in February when it approved hormone treatment for Chelsea Manning, the soldier convicted of leaking national security secrets, as first

reported by USA TODAY. Manning, previously known as Bradley, is an inmate at the Army’s prison in Leavenworth, Kan. The working group dealing with the issue meets again in January.

Changes to military pensions also caused consternation among senior officers, Harrison said.

Congress approved a hybrid retirement system that blends 401(k)-style benefits with the military’s traditional pension of 50% of annual pay after 20 years.

Veterans and active troops will continue under the old system.

Henceforth, troops who serve 20 years will receive 40% of their pay as a traditional pension and have the option to contribute to a fund that the Pentagon will match dollar for dollar up to 5% of their pay. Ultimately, the change is forecast to save the military $2 billion per year, Harrison said. The current retirement system means that young troops who served multiple deployments in Iraq and Afghanistan but left before reaching 20 years of service receive no retirement benefit.

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Severe storms target South

Tornado watches stretch to Midwest Doyle Rice USA TODAY

A ferocious storm system slammed parts of the South and Midwest on Wednesday, leaving at least one person dead amid torrential downpours, damaging winds and the potential for tornadoes.

An 18-year-old woman was killed in Pope County, Ark., after a tree fell on her home during high winds, KTHV-TV reported. More than 3,500 power outages were reported throughout the state.

In Mississippi, Marshall County Coroner James Anderson said there was one confirmed fatality in Holly Springs, a 7-year-old boy, and Benton County Sheriff A.A.

POPE COUNTY SHERIFF’S DEPARTMENT VIA AP

High winds and heavy rain caused a tree to fall on a house in Arkansas, killing an 18-year-old woman. Her 1year-old child was rescued.

McMullen confirmed two deaths there.

As of late afternoon, there had been 12 reports of tornadoes, according to the Storm Prediction Center, in Indiana, Illinois, Mississippi and Tennessee.

Tornado watches remained in effect from southern Mississippi to central Indiana. The greatest threat for tornadoes, damaging wind and occasional hail was for areas from eastern Arkansas and northern Mississippi to extreme southern Illinois, the prediction center said.

The chance of a “few intense, long-tracked tornadoes” will continue into Wednesday night, the center said. In all, 101 million Americans were at risk for severe weather.

The center issued a “moderate” risk area — the second-highest level on a 5-tier scale — for severe storms in the mid-Mississippi River Valley, including the Memphis area.

Moderate risk areas are extremely rare in December, typically occurring just once every other year, according to Greg Carbin, warning coordination meteorologist for the prediction center.

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A protester is detained at the Mall of America, where activists gathered to draw attention to the police shooting of Jamar Clark.

Black Lives Matter protest snarls Minneapolis airport Activists disrupt Mall of America to bring attention to police shooting of Jamar Clark

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and Doug Stanglin USA TODAY

Several hundred Black Lives Matter activists shut down at least one terminal at the Minneapolis-St.Paul International Airport for about two hours Wednesday in an afternoon of protest that began miles away at the huge Mall of America.

The protesters not only disrupted rail traffic to the terminals, they blocked the freeway in front of the airport, snarling holiday traffic on one of the busiest travel days of the year.

Police said a total of 15 people were arrested at both sites, according to the Associated Press, mostly for trespassing or obstruction of justice. No injuries or property damage were reported.

The protest was aimed at drawing attention to the police shooting last month of Jamar Clark, a 24-year-old black man from Minneapolis. Clark died one day after he was shot by officers responding to a complaint of an assault.

Most protesters came to Terminals 1 and 2 by light rail from the initial demonstration at the mall in suburban Bloomington.

In anticipation of demonstrations at the mall, several stores, including a Starbucks and a Barnes and Noble, were closed around the central rotunda. Barricades also were erected on several levels nearby.

As protesters began assembling, the mall announced that the demonstration was unlawful and asked the activists to leave the grounds. Signs had advised visitors that many shops would be closed temporarily during the early afternoon, when the protests were scheduled.

As police urged onlookers out of the rotunda, threatening arrests, many protesters abruptly filed outside, toward a light-rail station. Many chanted “What do we want? Justice! When do we MINNEAPOLIS

The Black Lives Matter protest moved to Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport, where demonstrators caused delays. want it? Now!” Many then went by light rail to the airport, where they renewed their demonstration. Some got into pushing and shoving matches with police and airport security. Heavily armed police, trying to stem the arrival of protesters, eventually assembled at the rail arrival platform to keep people from entering the terminal.

Trains eventually were prevented from stopping at the terminals. After more than an hour, as the protest dwindled, police then had to deal with protesters who left the airport to return to the privately owned and operated mall, which includes an amusement park and more than 500 shops on four floors.

A judge on Tuesday ordered three organizers of the black activist movement not to attend the protest but said she did not have the power to block unidentified protesters associated with the group from showing up.

Gov. Mark Dayton said Wednesday that 30 Minnesota State Patrol officers would be on hand in Bloomington at the request of the local police department.

Dayton told reporters that he

sympathizes with protesters’ concerns, but he stressed that the mall is private property.

Protesters, some wearing shirts scrawled with the slogan “Black Lives Matter” gathered at the mall in the afternoon. Some had their mouths taped shut in a silent protest.

A similar protest at the mall last year drew as many as 3,000 people and disrupted one of the busiest shopping days of the year, the Star Tribune reported.

Kandace Montgomery, one of three organizers barred by the judge’s order, said the group isn’t deterred by the ban, the AP reported.

She had declined to say if she or her fellow organizers still planned to go to the mall, but she said she expected at least 700 people to show up.

Montgomery said the popular retail center is the perfect venue for their demonstration to pressure authorities involved in the investigation of Clark’s death to release video footage.

“When you disrupt their flow of capital ... they actually start paying attention,” she said.

“That’s the only way that they’ll hear us.”

When you disrupt their flow of capital ... they actually start paying attention.”

Kandace Montgomery, Black Lives Matter organizer

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Fierce fighting erupted Wednesday in Ramadi as Iraqi troops sought to dislodge Islamic State fighters who have held the city since May. Troops from Iraq’s elite counterterrorist service have taken the lead in the battle, U.S. Army Col. Steve Warren said Wednesday in a phone interview from Baghdad. There are about 750 Iraqi security forces advancing on an estimated 125 fighters from the Islamic State, also known as ISIL. Ramadi came to symbolize the ineffectiveness of Iraqi forces when they fled the city without a fight despite outnumbering ISIL fighters at least 10-to-1.

— Tom Vanden Brook RUSSIA ORDERS REARREST OF KREMLIN CRITIC

Russia issued an international arrest warrant Wednesday for a longtime Kremlin critic and former oil tycoon who spent 10 years in jail, Russia’s Interfax

MASSES TURN OUT IN GERMANY

OLIVER KILLIG, EUROPEAN PRESSPHOTO AGENCY

Thousands of visitors attend the traditional Christmas vespers Wednesday in front of Frauenkirche Church at Neumarkt Square in Dresden, Germany. news agency reported.

Mikhail Khodorkovsky, once Russia’s richest man, was accused this month of helping to arrange the murder of a Siberian mayor in 1998. Wednesday’s warrant is related to a probe into a privatization deal at a pro-democracy group he founded.

Khodorkovsky, now based in London, denies the charges.

— Kim Hjelmgaard CLERKS NO LONGER ID’D ON KY. MARRIAGE LICENSES

In his first major policy action, Kentucky’s new governor issued

an executive order to shield religious county clerks such as Kim Davis from being identified on marriage licenses.

GOP Gov. Matt Bevin, who was sworn in Dec. 8, said in a statement that he was upholding his commitments to voters.

Among five orders filed Tuesday, he rolled back efforts to restore voting rights to thousands of ex-felons, put a state government hiring freeze in place, repealed former Democratic governor Steve Beshear’s order raising the minimum wage for state employees and abolished the governor’s employee advisory council.

— Mike Wynn, The Courier-Journal ALSO ...

A man was rescued Wednesday nearly three days after being buried by a landslide that swept through Shenzhen, Chinese media reported. Tian Zeming, 21, was found 67 hours after the Sunday incident but was conscious and in a stable condition, the Chinese state-run Xinhua News agency reported.

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STATE-BY-STATE News from across the USA

HIGHLIGHT: WASHINGTON

ALABAMA Birmingham: TV

Glitch frees more than 3,000 prisoners early

newscaster Karen Church told AL.com that station management at Fox 6/WBRC-TV fired her after she erroneously reported that City Councilman Marcus Lundy turned himself in to the City Jail after an altercation with Mayor William Bell.

ALASKA Fairbanks: It started

out as a doodle in 2011 — a bearded whale on stilts carrying a city of stranded sea creatures on its back — and now it’s fully animated, interactive and on iPads and iPhones. Flewn launched this month and tells the story of the whale searching for the ocean and a home for its friends. The app is the work of Gabriel Smetzer, newsminer.com reported.

ARIZONA Phoenix: The Arizona

Republic listed 27 “special occasion” restaurants serving Christmas meals. Among the choices, diners can enjoy the holiday buffet at the Royal Palms Resort or partake in eggnog doughnuts at the Hash Kitchen.

ARKANSAS Searcy County:

Dozens of dogs found dead in a wooded area were given hot dogs laced with over-the-counter sleeping aids, then shot, ArkansasOnline reported.

CALIFORNIA Monterey: The

Natalie Brand KING-TV, Seattle

More than 3,000 prisoners have been released early from Washington state prisons since 2002 because of a computer error that incorrectly calculated credit for good conduct, the governor said.

That’s about 3% of all prisoners, Gov. Jay Inslee said Tuesday.

“That this problem was allowed to continue for 13 years is deeply disappointing to me, totally unacceptable and, frankly, maddening,” Inslee said. “So, when I learned of this, I immediately ordered the department to fix it, fix it fast and fix it right.”

He learned of the problem last week, he said.

The state was made aware of the error in 2012 when the family of a crime victim learned the offender responsible was being released too early, Department of Corrections officials said. A new chief information officer found out about the repeated delays this month and alerted department leaders.

Some of those who were released early will be required to return to finish their sentences either in prison or on work release, but some will be given credit for time in the community.

SEATTLE

buck here last winter, was sentenced to 90 days in county jail, the Times-News reported.

ILLINOIS Oak Park: Oak Park and River Forest High School and police investigated an alleged sexual assault that involved two students on campus, the Chicago Tribune reported.

state’s Dungeness crab season will not open in time for Christmas, the San Jose Mercury News reported. The latest tests of crab from Crescent City to here this month show that levels of domoic acid, a neurotoxin produced by microscopic algae, have not dropped below federal safety limits.

INDIANA Carmel: The city announced a plan to invest $217 million over the next three years on more than two dozen roundabouts and other street and infrastructure improvements, The Indianapolis Star reported.

COLORADO Fort Collins: Beer

IOWA Des Moines: A massive

giant Anheuser-Busch plans to nab one of Colorado’s most established craft brewers. AB announced an undisclosed deal to acquire Littleton-based Breckenridge Brewery. The 25-year-old brewery could be the first Colorado craft brewery to join The High End — AB’s line of craft and import brands, The Coloradoan reported.

CONNECTICUT Hartford: The

LOUISIANA New Orleans: Free-

KENTUCKY Frankfort: In his

masons moved to the suburbs this summer and left behind a 162-year-old ceremonial temple downtown. Developers are peeling back layers of secret history in the Scottish Rite Temple to make it the home of Nolaluna, a theater and dining venue, The TimesPicayune reported.

150 to 200 household products, including food-grade cooking oil, pet food, facial cleanser and disinfectant, have washed up on the beach, Florida Today reported.

members of the Milton High School varsity football team were arrested after residents in the Knightsbridge Way neighborhood allegedly saw them pilfering packages from the porches of homes, The Atlanta JournalConstitution reported.

HAWAII Pahala: Farmers who

grow coffee beans on the slopes of Mauna Loa have agreed to enter into new licenses to continue farming the land, West Hawaii Today reported.

IDAHO Twin Falls: Jacob Pool, a

34-year-old hunter who pleaded guilty to poaching a well-known

KING-TV

About 3,200 prisoners in Washington state since 2002 have been released early because of a computer coding glitch.

Inslee has directed the state to work with local law enforcement to identify those people who need to be returned, and seven already have been identified. Five already have returned to prison.

Neither names nor cases were released as of Tuesday.

The problem originated in July 2002 when the Washington Supreme Court ruled that the Department of Corrections had to apply good conduct credit earned in county jails to state prison sentences, the state said. When the department MASSACHUSETTS Westfield:

Scott Marek, owner of Marek Jewelers in Westfield, Mass., and Enfield, Conn., was released on $2,000 bail after pleading not guilty in Westfield District Court to multiple counts of larceny.

MICHIGAN Flint: A downtown

ice rink closed for more than two decades is set to reopen Jan. 2 thanks to a partnership between two local universities and a foundation, The Flint Journal reported.

MINNESOTA St. Cloud: Jean

Peters, 70, has died after being hit by a vehicle here earlier this month while crossing the street.

Joseph Cyrus, 77, who is awaiting sentencing for robbing a Branson bank, says he wanted to be caught so he could receive health care in the federal prison sentence, the Springfield News-Leader reported.

MONTANA Bozeman: An avalanche warning is in effect for several mountainous areas in western Montana. The Gallatin National Forest Avalanche Center rates the danger of avalanche as “high” in the Bridger Range north of here.

NEBRASKA Omaha: A pygmy hippopotamus calf is on display at the Henry Doorly Zoo & Aquarium here. The Omaha World-Herald reported that the 2-month-old animal was born Oct. 1 and was named Mabel by keepers.

NEVADA Reno: The Washoe County Sheriff’s Office arrested two men on charges of stealing holiday gifts that were left out for waste-services employees, the Reno Gazette-Journal reported.

FLORIDA Cocoa Beach: About

GEORGIA Alpharetta: Two

City Manager Lynn Lander says the town’s new $8 million public library should be completed by summer 2017, The American News reported.

MISSOURI Springfield:

DELAWARE Dover: Cpl. Thomas

dian Jerry Seinfeld drove to the White House in a 1963 Corvette Stingray to pick up President Obama, who was Seinfeld’s guest on the Web series Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee, The Washington Post reported.

SOUTH DAKOTA Aberdeen:

KANSAS Wichita: Spirit

first major policy action, Republican Gov. Bevin issued a series of executive orders Tuesday that shield religious county clerks — like Kim Davis — from being named on marriage licenses, The Courier-Journal reported.

DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA: Come-

County: Pickens County plans to build two parks along the Twelve Mile River to open up a hard-toaccess 4-mile stretch for whitewater rafting and fishing, The Greenville News reported.

MISSISSIPPI Summit: Fire destroyed the Dixie Springs Cafe, The Clarion-Ledger reported. The cafe served the Pike and Lincoln county communities for more than 75 years.

Hartford Stadium Authority sent a letter to Centerplan Cos. and DoNo Hartford LLC asking to explain $10 million in cost overruns and why Dunkin’ Donuts Park might not be ready for the Hartford Yard Goats’ first game on April 7, the Hartford Courant reported.

Webster IV, the police officer who was acquitted of assault charges, will be given back pay, The News Journal reported.

SOUTH CAROLINA Pickens

spending bill approved by President Obama last week puts money in the coffers for Des Moines to get a new federal courthouse.

The location, cost and scheduled opening remained unknown, The Des Moines Register reported.

AeroSystems says it will temporarily lay off up to 70 production workers here, The Wichita Eagle reported.

NEW HAMPSHIRE Dover: Tris-

MAINE Unity: A three-year

study conducted by Unity College students found that black bears are repopulating the state’s northwest, the Morning Sentinel reported. Students have trapped, weighed and tagged black bears for three years in the area near the Waldo County college.

MARYLAND Baltimore:

Chip Molloy, former chief financial officer of PetSmart, will become Under Armour’s new CFO, replacing Brad Dickerson, who is stepping down from the role at the Baltimore-based sports apparel brand next month, The Baltimore Sun reported.

RHODE ISLAND Providence: Electrical service provider National Grid is preparing a proposal to to construct a massive wall surrounding the utility’s gas storage tank at Fields Point, the Providence Journal reported. The concrete wall would stand 85 feet tall and would extend roughly 754 feet around the 172-foot storage tank in a full circle.

tan Wolusky, 19, who was convicted of murdering an 18-year-old following a botched robbery in 2014, will serve the rest of his life behind bars without the chance of parole, Foster’s Daily Democrat reported.

NEW JERSEY Pitman: A house

where more than 130 cats were removed was “basically abandoned” by the tenant, but the animals were healthy, the property owner said. Animal control and NJ SPCA officials began removing animals last week, the Courier-Post reported.

NEW MEXICO Hobbs: A planned

$1 billion potash mine in southeastern New Mexico has secured key funding, the Hobbs News-Sun

changed computer coding to recalculate the sentences, it overcredited offenders with sentencing enhancements. Enhancements can range from weapons used to the location of the crime.

The department now has been ordered not to release offenders until their sentences are hand-calculated. The state estimates the median number of days offenders were released early is 49 days.

The longest case was 600 days, according to the governor’s office. reported. Cartesian Capital Group has agreed to make a second investment of up to $45 million for Intercontinental Potash’s project.

NEW YORK Yonkers: Members

of St. Barnabas’ Youth Festival Choir from here and the Bronx will travel to the Vatican next week to sing at a Mass for the Feast of the Epiphany celebrated

by Pope Francis, The Journal News reported. The Jan. 6 Mass at St. Peter’s Basilica will be one of four performances in Rome by girls, who will perform with three other youth choirs from the USA.

TENNESSEE Murfreesboro: Anna Yocca, 31, indicted on attempted murder charges for using a coat hanger to end her 24-week pregnancy in September, pleaded not guilty earlier this week in 16th Circuit Court as those protesting her arrest filled the courtroom, The Daily News Journal reported. Yocca is being held on $200,000 bond.

TEXAS Dallas: Police say a man accidentally fell to his death while apparently trying to jump from a parking garage to a seventh-floor apartment balcony.

UTAH Salt Lake City: A couple welcomed their fourth child into the world on the side of Interstate 15, coached through delivery problems by a 911 operator. Dispatcher William Kalaher was new to the job and had only been taking solo calls for two weeks, KUTV-TV reported.

VERMONT Burlington: Law

enforcement officers fatally shot a man Tuesday night while executing a federal search warrant at a multi-unit home, the Burlington Free Press reported.

VIRGINIA McLean: Some highschool debate teams plan to boycott the state championships unless they’re moved from Liberty University. Coaches and students are angry over Chancellor Jerry Falwell Jr.’s comments about taking up arms to stop Muslims. “I wouldn’t feel comfortable as an American Muslim debater going to Liberty University,” Fatima Shahbaz, one of the captains on McLean High School’s team, told WUSA-TV.

NORTH CAROLINA Buxton:

A great white shark nicknamed Mary Lee was tracked in the waters nearby, The VirginianPilot reported. For the past few months, the 16-foot shark has traveled back and forth between the Outer Banks and the New Jersey area. Since she was tagged at Cape Cod in 2012, the 3,456pound shark has traveled more than 26,300 miles.

NORTH DAKOTA Fargo: Mayor

Tim Mahoney’s recommendation to give city workers a paid day off for Martin Luther King Jr. Day failed after city commissioners ended up in a tie vote, KFGO-AM reported.

OHIO Cleveland: A municipal

court judge accused of mistreating staff, defendants and others will step down, agreeing never to serve as a judge again in exchange for her disciplinary case being dropped, The Plain Dealer reported.

OKLAHOMA Oklahoma City: An Oklahoma Corporation Commission spokesman says the commission is preparing to take action to force Sandridge Energy to reduce the amount of wastewater it’s injecting into disposal wells.

OREGON Salem: State residents

who get their first driver’s license or renew an existing one next year will automatically be registered to vote. Officials said that they’re ready to begin implementing a law the Legislature approved this year.

PENNSYLVANIA Champion:

Western Pennsylvania’s two major ski resorts, Seven Springs Mountain Resort and Hidden Valley Resort, were scheduled to open for business despite unseasonably warm temperatures.

WASHINGTON Seattle: State health officials are warning that cases of mosquito-borne illnesses are on the rise in travelers returning to Washington after vacations in warmer weather, The Seattle Times reported.

WEST VIRGINIA Cherry River: Because of a stream enhancement project involving the West Virginia Conservation Agency and the Plum Creek forestry company, these waters are becoming a more hospitable locale for the only trout species native to the state, the Charleston Gazette-Mail reported.

WISCONSIN Green Bay: Southwest High School student Ridwaan Mohamud, 17, is charged with a felony after punching and breaking a teacher’s nose, Green Bay Press-Gazette reported.

WYOMING Riverton: State lawmakers have been asked to consider a bill that would help curb livestock rustling in Fremont County. The Ranger reported that a group of producers and the Fremont County Sheriff has asked the Selected Committee on Tribal Relations to urge the Bureau of Indian Affairs to make livestock theft a priority.

Compiled by Tim Wendel, Nicole Gill and Jonathan Briggs, with Carolyn Cerbin, Linda Dono, Mike Gottschamer, Ben Sheffler and Nichelle Smith.

Design by Mallory Redinger.

Graphics by Alejandro Gonzalez.

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MONEYLINE JUDGE RULES KIM DOTCOM CAN BE EXTRADITED TO U.S. A New Zealand judge ruled Wednesday that Internet entrepreneur Kim Dotcom is eligible to be extradited to the United States to face charges that include copyright infringement and money launderAFP/GETTY IMAGES ing. Three of Dotcom Dotcom’s colleagues were also ruled to be eligible for extradition. The U.S. has charged the men in relation to the now-defunct file-sharing website Megaupload that Dotcom founded. Dotcom maintains he should not be held responsible for people who chose to use his site illegally. “This is my weirdest (Christmas) ever,” Dotcom said on Twitter after the ruling.

He also asked his Twitter followers to vote in a poll on whether he should be extradited.

NEW-HOME SALES ROSE IN NOV. AFTER WEAK OCT. Americans appear less inclined to buy new homes as the year ends. Sales improved in November only because fewer people bought new homes in October than initially reported. The Commerce Department says newhome sales rose 4.3% last month to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 490,000. But that increase was made possible because the sales rate for October was revised downward to 470,000 from 495,000. The median new-home sales price has risen 0.8% from a year ago to $305,000.

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Could be first year of negative returns since crisis in 2008

DOWN YEAR FOR DOW? The Dow Jones industrial average is on track for its first negative year since 2008. Dow annual performance by year: 2008

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Nissan’s Leaf may be one of the top-selling electric cars, but it leads a list of 2015 models that show the biggest immediate drop-off in resale value.

In a year in which SUVs are blistering sales charts, only a single truck makes the list of top 10 models with highest depreciation.

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highs in May, followed in August by the first 10% “correction” in four years to a market currently sporting modest losses with a week and a half to go in the year.

Wall Street stock strategists tracked by Bloomberg expect the S&P 500 to rebound next year, however. Based on 2016 projections released by 14 strategists, the average year-end 2016 price target for the S&P 500 is 2216, or up nearly 9% from Tuesday’s closing level of 2039.

Market headwinds have been plentiful this year. Angst over the timing of the Federal Reserve’s first interest rate hike since 2006 (which finally came last week with a quarter-point increase) began in March when Fed chair Janet Yellen first hinted that hikes in 2015 were coming. The summer swoon was sparked by fears of an economic collapse in Greece and exit from the eurozone, which was averted by a last-minute bailout. Add in the spring bio-

Leaf ranks worst in resale value after driving off lot Tax credits to blame for popular car’s spot on depreciation list

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It’s the Chevrolet Express, a fullsize van sold mostly as a commercial vehicle, which comes in at seventh place.

Besides Leaf, cars on the list include a mix of imports and domestics, luxury and mainstream.

“I was surprised at the range of vehicles on the list,” says Joseph Audette, product manager for Carlypso, a used-car website that compiled the list by comparing retail sticker prices for the new 2015 models to their sales values at wholesale used-car auctions. “I thought I would see nothing but expensive luxury cars.”

The Mercedes-Benz SL, a plush convertible with a price that Carlypso says can range from $84,000 to $149,700 new, is the only high-end luxury model on the list JOHN MURPHY

2016 Nissan Leaf.

Martin Shkreli, the controversial symbol of drug price hikes, had several meetings with federal authorities before they arrested and charged him with securities fraud last week, a new court filing shows.

The ex-CEO of Turing Pharmaceuticals provided statements to federal prosecutors Jan. 29, the Brooklyn U.S. Attorney’s office stated in a disclosure filed late Tuesday.

Shkreli’s de- ANDREW GOMBERT, EPA fense lawyers Shkreli will get copies of a report and corresponding notes from the session, prosecutors wrote.

Shkreli also gave testimony to the Securities and Exchange Commission on Aug. 23, 2013, and Feb. 24, 2014. Transcripts of the sessions, held before the SEC charged Shkreli in a civil case that paralleled the criminal charges filed by prosecutors, will also be turned over to the defense team.

The SEC and Brooklyn U.S. Attorney Robert Capers’ office declined to comment on the filing or the purpose of the meetings, as did the SEC. Marcus Asner, a former federal prosecutor representing Shkreli, did not immediately respond to a message seeking comment. But it is not uncommon for investigation subjects or their emissaries to meet with prosecutors or regulators in an effort to state their position on events in question and forestall criminal or civil charges.

Federal prosecutors signaled they have no previous criminal records for Shkreli or Evan Greebel, his co-defendant and a former outside counsel for Retrophin, a pharmaceutical company Shkreli founded and took public.

Shkreli gained prominence this year when he and Turing Pharmaceuticals raised the price of Daraprim by more than 5,000%, from $13.50 per pill to $750. The drug is used to treat toxoplasmosis, a parasitic disease that afflicts patients with weakened immune systems, including pregnant women and AIDS sufferers.

Shkreli and Greebel pleaded not guilty at arraignments last week and were released on respective bonds of $5 million and $1 million.

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Barring a rally in the final days of trading in 2015, the up-anddown year on Wall Street has put the Dow Jones industrial average at risk for its first year of negative returns since the financial crisis in 2008.

Following Wednesday’s trading session, which was the Dow’s SAUL LOEB, AFP/GETTY IMAGES third day of triple-digit gains, the blue-chip barometer was down CONSUMER SPENDING, 1.2% for the year. The Dow ended INCOME SHOW GAINS the day up 185.34 points, or 1.1%, Consumer spending rebounded to 17,602.61 as it moved closer to in November, and a key inflation its 2014 close of 17,823.07. gauge posted the fastest yearBut Wednesday’s rally helped over-year increase in 11 months. boost the Standard & Poor’s 500 The Commerce Department says index back into positive territory consumer spending increased for the year as it rose 1.2% to 0.3% in November after an es2064, topping its 2014 close of sentially flat reading in October.

2058.90.

Personal income rose a solid If both well-known U.S. stock 0.3%. A key inflation gauge was gauges finish in the red this year, up 0.4% in November. Inflation is it will mark the first down calenbeing closely watched by the Fed dar year for both indexes since to determine the pace for inthe bull market began in 2009. terest rate hikes.

The U.S. stock market’s last negative year was back in 2008, when DOW JONES INDUSTRIAL AVG. the Dow plunged nearly 34% and the large-company S&P 500 cra4:00 p.m. tered almost 39%. (The S&P 500 17,650 17,603 declined 0.04 points in 2011, but Wall Street deems that fractional 17,600 185.34 loss a “flat” year.)

17,550 Stocks have been hurt in 2015 by a string of headwinds that 17,500 have caused the market to trade sideways. The frustrating year be17,450 9:30 a.m. gan with solid gains and record 17,417 17,400

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Former pharma CEO testified three times

This year’s roller-coaster ride left traders frazzled on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange.

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tech stock plunge, the stock bust in mainland China in July, Beijing’s surprise devaluation of its currency in August, Turkey’s downing of a Russian fighter jet over Syria in November, terror attacks in Paris and California in late fall and crashing oil prices – and it’s clear why investors haven’t been taking out second mortgages to buy U.S. stocks.

Wall Street is still digesting the impact of the Fed’s new rate hike cycle on future economic growth in the U.S., stock market valuations and the value of the dollar, which has strengthened in 2015, making U.S. multinationals less competitive.

But heading into the week, when the Dow was down nearly 4% in 2015 and the S&P 500 was off 2.6%, the odds of the stock market finishing the year in positive territory were “low,” according to an analysis done by Edward Yardeni, chief investment strategist at Yardeni Research.

COMPARING RESALE VALUES Here is Carlypso’s list of 2015 cars with the highest depreciation: sticker % loss 2015 model price in value 1. Nissan Leaf $29,010 48% 2. Dodge Charger $27,995 45% 3. Mercedes-Benz SL Class $84,000 41% 4. Chevrolet Camaro $23,705 39% 5. Kia Cadenza $34,900 38% 6. Volkswagen Beetle $20,195 37% 7. Chevrolet Express $32,190 37% 8. Mitsubishi Lancer $17,395 35% 9. Kia Optima $21,840 35% 10. Cadillac CTS $45,345 34% NOTE: DEPRECIATION IS CALCULATED BY COMPARING RETAIL STARTING PRICE TO THE WHOLESALE USED-CAR PRICE. A CONSUMER BUYING THE CAR USED WOULD LIKELY PAY MORE. SOURCE: CARLYPSO.COM

and ranked third. Cadillac’s CTS, priced from $45,345 to $69,340, is in 10th place.

The list shows that there are plenty of bargains in the market for those who buy slightly used, rather than new, cars, Audette says. Since the study looks at wholesale, not retail used-car prices, however, consumers are unlikely to reel in savings as big as those found in the study. Carlypso says it tracked depreciation of 300 models involving 46,000

transactions.

Nissan’s Leaf, priced new from $29,010 to $35,120, has shown up near the top of worst resale price before — and for good reason. It, like other new electric vehicles, is eligible for up to $7,500 in federal tax credits and state incentives, as well as automakers’ discounts.

But discounts and incentives filter down when the car is resold.

Overall, used-car sales are expected to rise 1.3% next year, according to TrueCar.com.

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AMERICA’S MARKETS What to watch Adam Shell @adamshell USA TODAY

If the first three days of the week are a sign of things to come, maybe the Santa Claus rally will come to Wall Street after all.

After a two-day drop of more than 600 points for the Dow Jones industrial average to end last week, the Dow has bounced back this week, posting three consecutive days of triple-digit gains totaling more than 400 points that has trimmed the Dow’s year-to-date loss to 1.6%.

The Santa Claus rally, as defined by Wall Street’s seasonaltrading bible, The Stock Trader’s Almanac, is a seven-trading-day period that begins on the open of trading on Christmas Eve, or Dec. 24, and ends with the close of trading on the second trading

Facts about America’s investors who use SigFig tracking services:

day of the new year.

Normally, during the seasonal Santa Claus rally, the benchmark Standard & Poor’s 500 stock index posts an average gain of 1.5%, according to the Almanac.

But there’s also potential downside if the Santa Claus rally doesn’t materialize.

According to the Almanac, the failure of stocks to rally during this seven-day timeframe tends to precede bear markets or times when stocks5-day couldavg.: be purchased -3.04 at lower prices later in the year.

6-month avg.: -14.46 So there you have it. If Santa Largest holding: AAPL Claus showers Street AAPL with MostWall bought: bullprofits in coming days, it’s a PSEC Most sold: ish sign. But if Santa pulls a Grinch on investors, the bear case looms larger.

The first Santa-related market test comes Thursday. Since 1928, the S&P 500 has been up 67% of the time Chrismas Eve, historical data show.

+185.34

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COMP

+44.82 CHANGE: +.9% YTD: +309.88 YTD % CHG: +6.5%

CLOSE: 17,602.61 PREV. CLOSE: 17,417.27 RANGE: 17,427.63-17,607.92

NASDAQ COMPOSITE

CLOSE: 5,045.93 PREV. CLOSE: 5,001.11 RANGE: 5,020.44-5,046.09

+15.13

CLOSE: 2,064.29 PREV. CLOSE: 2,038.97 RANGE: 2,044.73-2,064.73

RUSSELL 2000 INDEX

CHANGE: +1.3% YTD: -51.89 YTD % CHG: -4.3%

CLOSE: 1,152.81 PREV. CLOSE: 1,137.68 RANGE: 1,139.03-1,152.91

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Price

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YTD % Chg % Chg

Freeport McMoRan (FCX)

7.45

+1.03

+16.0

-68.1

6.71

+.83

+14.1

-75.4

Copper producer leads rally in mining, energy equities.

Southwestern Energy (SWN) Oil company shares rebound after oil prices stabilize.

25.34 +2.77

+12.3 -43.6

33.20 +3.37

+11.3 -45.8

24.18 +2.34

+10.7 -54.8

Oil producer shares gain as oil prices plateau.

Devon Energy (DVN) Energy firm’s shares rise 11% in standard deviation move.

Range Resources (RRC)

Energy producer sees broader opportunity in Appalachia.

Chesapeake Energy (CHK)

4.40

+.42

+10.6

AGGRESSIVE 71% or more in equities

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Apple

13.96

+1.27

+10.0 -50.7

Oil company shares rise on expectations of shale.

Celgene (CELG)

122.07 +10.93

+9.8

+9.1

Drugmaker shares jump after drug patent settlement.

Newfield Exploration (NFX)

33.27 +2.64

+8.6 +22.7

92.28

+8.2

Energy maker pivots focus to oil over natural gas.

Cimarex Energy (XEC)

+7.01

-12.9

Oil & gas producer awaits rules on methane, fracking.

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Price

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Bed Bath &Beyond (BBBY)

48.97

-2.35

-4.6

Nike (NKE)

128.71

-3.14

-2.4 +33.9

Micron (MU)

14.30

-.31

-2.1

-59.2

39.33

-.46

-1.2

+17.4

105.56

-1.18

-1.1

+12.1

77.04

-.82

-1.1

+9.5

Home goods retailer shares fall on Q3 estimates.

-35.7

Tech firm falls on lackluster Q2 EPS expectations.

Baxalta (BXLT)

Biopharmaceutical firm rises on Shire acquisition offer.

Disney (DIS)

Shares decline despite popularity of ‘Star Wars’ movie.

Dollar Tree Stores (DLTR)

Discount retailer shares fall in wake of safety violation fine.

Expedia (EXPE)

126.28

-1.24

-1.0

+47.9

Illumina (ILMN)

185.35

-1.63

-.9

+.4

90.99

-.80

-.9

+2.6

79.75

-.76

-.9

+53.1

Travel service down over German government rules.

Biotech firm slips against bullish ratings by analysts.

CME Group (CME) Futures company declines in anticipation of Q4 earnings.

Food maker shares down after mixed market ratings.

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The tech giant updated its bylaws to allow a shareholder or a group $120 of up to 20 shareholders who own at least 3% of Apple common stock for a minimum of three years to $100 submit a board nomination.

Nov. 27

Price: $108.61 Chg: $1.38 % chg: 1.3 Day’s high/low: $108.85/107.20

Bed Bath & Beyond

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Close 206.02 19.27 4.30 33.12 11.26 13.97 1.72 24.03 11.99 12.27

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Chg. +2.52 -0.47 +0.55 +0.46 +0.49 +0.29 +0.17 +0.28 +0.65 +0.13

% Chg +1.2% -2.4% +14.7% +1.4% +4.5% +2.1% +11.0% +1.2% +5.7% +1.1%

%YTD +0.2% -38.8% -91.2% -15.7% -44.7% -24.0% -91.4% -2.8% -31.6% +9.2%

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

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Close 6 mo ago 3.91% 4.20% 3.11% 3.19% 2.78% 2.63% 3.22% 3.19%

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Cattle (lb.)

1.29 1.26 Corn (bushel) 3.66 3.66 Gold (troy oz.)

1,069.40 1,074.80 Hogs, lean (lb.) .58 .57 Natural Gas (Btu.) 1.98 1.89 Oil, heating (gal.)

1.12 1.09 Oil, lt. swt. crude (bar.)

37.50 36.14 Silver (troy oz.)

14.28 14.30 Soybeans (bushel) 8.82 8.85 Wheat (bushel) 4.70 4.72

Chg. +0.03 unch.

-5.40 +0.01 +0.09 +0.03 +1.36 -0.02 -0.03 -0.02

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% YTD -22.4% -7.9% -9.7% -28.9% -31.4% -39.4% -29.6% -8.3% -13.5% -20.4%

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Close .6723 1.3859 6.4797 .9164 120.88 17.2344

Prev. .6750 1.3940 6.4801 .9130 121.04 17.2041

6 mo. ago .6363 1.2336 6.2041 .8953 123.96 15.4231

Yr. ago .6444 1.1616 6.2251 .8212 120.73 14.7361

FOREIGN MARKETS Country Frankfurt Hong Kong Japan (Nikkei) London Mexico City

Close 10,727.64 22,040.59 18,886.70 6,240.98 43,579.67

Prev.

10,488.75 21,830.02 18,916.02 6,083.10 43,328.72

Dec. 23

$108.61

Dec. 23

$48.97

Dec. 23

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$86.85

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The home goods and bath supplies $60 retailer said its preliminary findings show that fiscal third-quarter earnings and comparable-store sales will be less than it had previ- $40 Nov. 27 ously forecast.

Price: $48.97 Chg: -$2.35 % chg: -4.6 Day’s high/low: $49.55/$47.98

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Athletic wear maker retreats after recent record high.

-2.93 -8.55 AAPL GOOG BUD

4-WEEK TREND

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Marathon Oil (MRO)

-2.46 -6.64 AAPL AAPL GOOG

MODERATE 51%-70% equities

The railroad spurned another acquisition offer from Canadian Pa- $100 Price: $86.85 cific, heightening tension between Chg: $0.78 the two rail giants. Norfolk said % chg: 0.9 Day’s high/low: that its board had unanimously re- $80 jected the latest takeover proposal.

Nov. 27 $87.11/$86.00

-77.5

Shares rise as S&P cuts company debt rating.

Hormel Foods (HRL)

5-day avg.: 6-month avg.: Largest holding: Most bought: Most sold:

-2.31 -6.50 AAPL STI PXD

TOP 10 MUTUAL FUNDS

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Some say, ‘Just do it,’ but Nike not the deal it was Q: Is it time to buy Nike stock?

Matt Krantz

mkrantz@usatoday.com USA TODAY

A: It’s hard to find any foot faults at Nike (NKE). But that’s the stock’s problem.

The athletic footwear and apparel giant’s stock is on a tear — leaving investors who didn’t see the breakaway forced to pay up. Shares of Nike are up 35% this year, pushing the stock’s price-to-earnings ratio based on earnings over the past 12 months to 33. That means Nike gets a valuation that’s 65% higher than the market.

Nike is showing it’s worth a premium.

The company late Wednesday reported 22% higher adjusted quarterly profit of 90 cents a share. The company squeezed even more profit from revenue. During the just-reported quarter, Nike kept 45.6 cents of every dollar of sales after paying direct costs. That’s up from a gross profit margin of 45.1% in the same year ago period.

Analysts continue to support the stock and think it can go higher. The average analyst’s 18-month price target on Nike is $144.17, S&P Capital IQ says.

That is 12% higher than the stock’s $128.71 closing price on Wednesday. But after rallying to around its all-time highs, the stock just isn’t the deal it was.

New Constructs, which measures the value of stocks based on the expected value of future cash flows, rates Nike “neutral.”

Regulators say ninth person killed by exploding Takata air bag Nathan Bomey @NathanBomey USA TODAY

U.S. auto-safety regulators said Wednesday they’ve identified a ninth motorist who was killed when a Takata air bag inflator exploded as it deployed, causing fatal injuries when it hurled shrapnel at the victim.

The latest victim was a minor who was driving a relative’s 2001 Honda Accord coupe near Pittsburgh on July 22, National Highway Traffic Safety Administration spokesman Gordon Trowbridge

FRANCK ROBICHON, EPA

said. Trowbridge and Honda declined to identify the teenager, who was hospitalized and died several days after the accident.

He said the death was “likely” attributable to the ruptured air bag.

NHTSA had previously identi-

fied seven deaths in the U.S. — all in Honda vehicles — and another outside the U.S. blamed on the Takata scandal.

Takata, a Japanese auto supplier, agreed in November to accept penalties for failing to promptly disclose and fix defective air bag inflators now blamed for nine deaths and at least 98 injuries.

The defect triggered a recall covering 23 million ammoniumnitrate inflators in 19 million vehicles. NHTSA officials indicated Wednesday they may expand the list of vehicles under recall.

Honda said in a statement the vehicle was recalled to replace

the air bag in 2010, but the owner of the Accord coupe never took the vehicle to the dealership for the repairs. The automaker said it mailed a notice to the current owner of the vehicle a day before the accident.

“We are working hard to understand this crash and the cause of the injuries that resulted in this fatality,” Honda said in a statement. Takata said in a statement: “Our heartfelt condolences go out to the driver’s family.”

NHTSA said Wednesday it appointed an independent monitor — Cravath, Swaine & Moore attorneys and former U.S. Principal

Deputy Assistant Attorney General John Buretta — for the Takata recall as part of the November settlement. Takata also agreed to pay a penalty of at least $70 million and up to $200 million.

NHTSA also said Wednesday it would likely add a few hundred thousand vehicles to the recall list, including certain versions of the 2005 to 2008 Mazda 6, 2002 to 2004 Honda CR-V and 2005 to 2008 Subaru Legacy and Outback. Honda concurrently issued a recall for 127,000 inflators in 2003 and 2004 Honda CR-V crossovers that were not previously subject to recalls.

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LIFELINE THEY SAID WHAT? THE STARS’ BEST QUOTES A few days after being crowned Miss Universe by host Steve Harvey before finding out she was actually the pageant’s runner-up, Miss Colombia, Ariadna Gutiérrez, posted a classy message on Instagram: “After the storm comes the calm. ... I was able to bring happiness to my country after becoming Miss Universe for only a couple of minutes ... Today because of that COLOMBIA and the LATIN COMMUNITY are being talked about in every corner of the world. I also want to congratulate the Philippines for their new Miss Universe.”

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HOW WAS YOUR DAY? GOOD DAY BEATLES FANS Here comes the sun for Beatles fans. On Christmas Eve, the band’s music — 224 songs across 13 albums — will be added to nine streaming services, including Spotify, Apple Music, Google Play, Tidal and Amazon Prime.

PHOTOS BY KIMBERLEY FRENCH, FOX

His icy determination in ‘The Revenant’ has all the elements for an Oscar

As frontiersman Hugh Glass, Leonardo DiCaprio stared down the cold wilds of Canada.

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IT’S YOUR BIRTHDAY WHO’S CELEBRATING TODAY?

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LOS ANGELES When Leonardo DiCaprio finished the arduous film shoot for The Revenant, he had gifts made for the entire cast and crew who endured the sixmonth adventure in the frozen wilderness.

DiCaprio gave out ornamental metal bear claws that resembled the grizzly paw that almost killed his Hugh Glass character.

“It was a symbol of camaraderie,” says DiCaprio, 41. “Other than that, everything else (from the film) is part of memories.”

But DiCaprio might be seeing far more metal, of the awards variety, for his epic portrayal of the 19th-century frontiersman in The Revenant, which begins an awards-season run Christmas Day in New York and Los Angeles before expanding nationwide Jan. 8. The four-time Oscar acting nominee is considered a strong best-actor contender and already has been nominated for Screen Actors Guild and Golden Globe awards.

Historically, DiCaprio has had a tough time sealing the deal with Academy Awards voters. He has lost every time since receiving his first nomination (supporting actor) in 1994 for What’s Eating Gilbert Grape.

But 2016 could bring golden change: All 24 Oscar experts for the awards site GoldDerby.com predict DiCaprio will win best actor.

A clear reason is the grueling, critically praised performance

in which DiCaprio’s presence dominates nearly every frame, says Tom O’Neil, GoldDerby.com founder.

“He also undergoes a radical physical transformation as he permits his chiseled matinee looks to vanish behind a scraggly beard and a riot of hair drenched in sweat, dirt and blood.”

Even director Alejandro González Iñárritu jokes that DiCaprio’s role, which required him to film in subzero temperatures for months, should be judged partially on great acting in challenging conditions.

“In the Olympics, there’s a grade of difficulty for divers,” Iñárritu says. “The level of difficulty for this film was extraordinary. The ambition is big.”

Scott Feinberg, awards columnist for The Hollywood Reporter, points out that DiCaprio has lost Oscars in years when other stars had career-defining roles — most recently in 2014, when he lost for The Wolf of Wall Street to

Matthew McConaughey for Dallas Buyers Club. It just might be DiCaprio’s time to be recognized, in part for the past.

“Virtually everyone feels (DiCaprio) is long overdue for a win,” Feinberg says.

DiCaprio says he appreciates that people who have seen early screenings of the film have admired his work throughout the treacherous winter months in Canada.

“It feels great being acknowledged for the work you do,” DiCaprio says. “Especially when you do something that is this difficult. And it’s taken a huge portion of the entire year, if not the entire year, to accomplish.”

But DiCaprio tries not to get caught up in the awards race, adding that pundits “can be fickle, or people can say one thing and mean another.”

“You just go in there and make the best possible movie you can make. All of this stuff is completely beyond your control.”

There’s a lot to like in ‘Hateful Eight’ What The Hateful Eight lacks in brevity it makes up for in buckets of blood.

Quentin Tarantino’s latest film mashes up the WestMOVIE ern genre with a REVIEW murder mystery to BRIAN depict one night with TRUITT eight unpleasant strangers packed together in the most tense of situations. It’s also one of the iconoclastic filmmaker’s finest works, mixing gallows humor, ultra-violence and strong character work into a real potboiler.

Set during Reconstruction in Wyoming, the movie opens with bounty hunter John “The Hangman” Ruth (Kurt Russell) taking dangerous fugitive Daisy Domergue (Jennifer Jason Leigh) to justice in Red Rock. Along their snowy journey, they pick up former Union soldier Major Marquis Warren (Samuel L. Jackson), as well as Chris Mannix (Walton Goggins), an ex-Confederate renegade on the way to Red Rock to be the new sheriff.

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Samuel L. Jackson is former Union soldier and now bounty hunter Major Marquis Warren in The Hateful Eight.

They stop at a Minnie’s Haberdashery on a mountain pass, but instead of Minnie they find another four interesting people: an old Southern general by the name of Sanford Smithers (Bruce Dern), Red Rock’s resident hangman Oswaldo Mobray (Tim

Roth), the place’s current caretaker, Mexican Bob (Demián Bichir), and notorious cow puncher Joe Gage (Michael Madsen).

The eight are stuck when the weather turns. Things go downhill fast as alliances are made, mysteries revealed, people start dying

and the latter half of the movie turns into a revelatory whodunit.

Hateful Eight doles out all of Tarantino’s favorite things. He crafts his usual snappy dialogue for a story that pays off for attentive moviegoers.

But the key MVP of Tarantino’s three-hour showpiece — which miraculously never seems that long — is Leigh. As the odious femme fatale Daisy, the actress spits and snarls.

Yet as great as she is, Daisy is simply one of Tarantino’s countless Hateful things to love.

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Mason, Graham make life miserable for foes San Diego — The myriad responsibilities for guards in basketball can be boiled down to two jobs: 1. Make sure your team puts up a good shot every time down the floor; 2. Make sure the other team doesn’t get off good shots by pestering ball handlers so that they can’t get the ball where it needs to go.

Junior Frank Mason and sophomore Devonté Graham deserve mention in every discussion about college basketball’s best backcourts because they consistently do a terrific job of executing both responsibilities. Consequently, more than just superior skill has enabled Kansas to shoot so much better (.517 overall, .463 from three) than opponents (.393, .324).

It all starts with the guards and they have led Kansas to a 10-1 start and a No. 2 national ranking.

Both guards do a nice job of getting to the paint to break down defenses and set up teammates for easy buckets and open threepoint shots. Both have shooting touches that make defenders guard them tight at the three-point line or pay for losing track of them.

The stone-faced Mason is averaging 13.3 points and shooting .481 from three and the expressive Graham has hit an even 40 percent of his attempts and averages 10.2 points.

Remarkably, the guards have combined for 100 assists and just 23 turnovers, a 4.35-to-1 ratio. They have combined for 41 steals, meaning that for every turnover, they have 1.8 steals.

Mason has the nation’s seventh-best assists-turnover ratio (4.43), one spot ahead of Graham (4.22).

When it was noted to KU coach Bill Self that each guard turned it over just once in Tuesday’s 70-57 victory against San Diego State, he was quick to point out their imperfections in the game.

“Those guys didn’t make any floaters in the second half either and they’re good floater shooters,” Self said.

“Frank wasn’t into it in the second half. He lost his mind there in the second half.”

Still, the coach loves the way Mason and Graham pressure defenses with penetration, play tidy basketball at high speeds in transition and take away options from opponents.

“There are not going to be too many teams who are going to press those two guys,” Self said.

Veteran San Diego State coach Steve Fisher likes to use full-court pressure, but did so just once in Tuesday’s game, quickly recognizing the futility of that strategy against such sure ball handlers.

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LAWRENCE HIGH DEFENSIVE LINEMAN AMANI BLEDSOE (72) comes around to wrap up Free State quarterback Bryce Torneden (1) for a sack on Sept. 17 at Free State High School.

Bledsoe excited about All-American Bowl

By Bobby Nightengale bnightengale@ljworld.com

After a busy month focusing on recruiting, Lawrence High football standout Amani Bledsoe is excited to make his return on the field.

The 6-foot-5, 270-pound defensive end will play in the Semper Fidelis All-American Bowl at 8 p.m. Central time on Jan. 3 at StubHub Center in Carson, California. The game will be televised on Fox Sports 1.

Bledsoe will leave Law-

rence on Dec. 29 for practices before the game. Playing on the West squad, which includes Olathe North free safety Isaiah Simmons, Bledsoe will practice with his team at Orange Coast College for four days.

“It’s really exciting at the moment,” Bledsoe said. “To me, I think it’s going to be fun just to play harder competition. … It’ll be a fun challenge for me to see where I’m at against those type of athletes.”

Bledsoe, who was selected

as the Sunflower League’s Andre Maloney Most Valuable Player, had 89 tackles last season for Lions, including 11 sacks. It’ll be his first time playing on national TV, but he’s more excited for the chance to make himself better as a player against top competition.

“I’m not one to like all the hype and TV and stuff, but I think it’ll still be pretty cool,” said Bledsoe, who won the Buck Buchanan Award earlier this month, which is given to the best lineman/lineback-

Please see BLEDSOE, page 3C

Traylor gives Jayhawks lift off bench

By Gary Bedore gbedore@ljworld.com

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— Tom Keegan appears on The Drive every Sunday night on WIBW-TV.

er among big-class schools in the Kansas City metro area.

The trip to California will also give Bledsoe a chance to relax on the recruiting front.

Bledsoe took his fifth and final official visit to Kansas University on Dec. 11-12. He is also considering Baylor, North Carolina State, Oklahoma and Oregon.

He was the only football recruit on campus during his visit to KU, which gave him the undivided attention

KANSAS UNIVERSITY FORWARD JAMARI TRAYLOR (31) celebrates after a dunk on Tuesday night against San Diego State in San Diego. At right is San Diego State forward Malik Pope.

Jamari Traylor definitely filled his role as Kansas University’s “energy guy” in the Jayhawks’ 70-57 victory over San Diego State on Tuesday night in San Diego State’s Viejas Arena.

Traylor, who played six minutes in the first half — a half in which KU led by 16 points overall and 39-27 at the break — was a force the final half, especially after the Aztecs cut KU’s lead to four points.

The 6-foot-8 Chicago senior scored six points with five rebounds and two steals in 15 vital minutes.

“I’m a senior,” Traylor said, “so if I’m playing hard, those guys (younger teammates) don’t have an excuse if they see me doing that.”

Traylor said a key to Tuesday’s victory was the fact the Jayhawks “moved the ball. We knew we had to

move the ball because they are one of the best defensive teams in the nation. Defensively we didn’t want to give them easy buckets.”

KU hit 42.6 percent of its shots including eight of 19 threes. S.D. State hit 37 percent including three of eight from three.

KU senior Perry Ellis, who had 20 points in 35 minutes, was quite impressed the Jayhawks kept their composure after seeing the 16-point lead dip to four, 4541, still with 13:45 left.

“We kept running our offense and moving the ball,” Ellis said. “We’ve been in these situations before.

I feel comfortable in our team. We showed composure, and that should help moving forward.” l Self on Greene, Traylor: KU coach Bill Self lauded the play of Brannen Greene Please see HOOPS, page 3C

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Mavericks 119, Nets 118, OT New York — Dirk Nowitzki moved past Shaquille O’Neal into sixth place on the NBA’s career scoring list, then made the go-ahead basket with 19.2 seconds left in overtime in Dallas’ victory over Brooklyn on Wednesday night.

J.J. Barea had a career-high 32 points and added a season-best 11 assists for the Mavericks.

Nowitzki scored 22 points, giving him 22,609 in his career, and Wesley Matthews finished with 17.

DALLAS (119) Matthews 6-13 0-0 17, Nowitzki 7-13 5-5 22, Pachulia 2-3 4-4 8, Barea 13-20 1-1 32, Felton 3-6 0-0 6, Parsons 5-7 0-0 11, McGee 2-3 0-2 4, Villanueva 5-12 2-2 14, Jenkins 1-4 1-1 3, Evans 0-0 0-0 0, Powell 1-1 0-0 2. Totals 45-82 13-15 119.

BROOKLYN (118) Johnson 6-16 0-0 13, Young 14-20 0-5 29, Lopez 6-15 1-3 13, Jack 4-14 3-3 13, Bogdanovic 6-8 0-0 17, Bargnani 6-13 0-0 12, Sloan 1-3 0-0 2, Ellington 3-5 1-1 7, Larkin 3-4 0-0 7, Reed 2-3 1-2 5. Totals 51-101 6-14 118.

Dallas 32 32 17 27 11—119 Brooklyn 26 27 34 21 10—118 3-Point Goals-Dallas 16-34 (Barea 5-7, Matthews 5-10, Nowitzki 3-5, Villanueva 2-7, Parsons 1-3, Felton 0-1, Jenkins 0-1), Brooklyn 10-19 (Bogdanovic 5-5, Jack 2-5, Larkin 1-1, Young 1-1, Johnson 1-6, Bargnani 0-1). Fouled Out-None. Rebounds-Dallas 43 (Parsons 7), Brooklyn 54 (Young 10). Assists-Dallas 27 (Barea 11), Brooklyn 32 (Jack 8). Total FoulsDallas 18, Brooklyn 17. Technicals-Dallas defensive three second, Brooklyn defensive three second 2. A-15,994 (17,732).

Cavaliers 91, Knicks 84 Cleveland — LeBron James scored 24 points, including three key baskets down the stretch, and Cleveland held off the short-handed New York.

Knicks star Carmelo Anthony didn’t play because of a sprained right ankle. New York went scoreless for nearly 4 minutes after taking an 82-80 lead.

NEW YORK (84) Thomas 4-11 0-0 8, Porzingis 8-18 3-4 23, Lopez 4-9 0-0 8, Calderon 4-5 1-1 10, Afflalo 6-17 4-4 16, Seraphin 0-2 0-0 0, Galloway 2-6 0-0 4, D.Williams 2-6 7-7 11, Grant 1-5 0-0 2, Early 0-0 0-0 0, Amundson 1-3 0-0 2. Totals 32-82 15-16 84.

CLEVELAND (91) James 9-22 6-7 24, Love 8-17 5-7 23, Mozgov 3-6 0-0 6, Irving 1-7 3-3 5, Smith 2-7 0-0 4, Dellavedova 3-8 0-0 7, Shumpert 2-7 2-2 8, Thompson 2-5 6-6 10, Jefferson 0-0 0-0 0, M.Williams 2-4 0-0 4, Jones 0-0 0-0 0. Totals 32-83 22-25 91.

New York 24 26 22 12—84 Cleveland 31 24 17 19—91 3-Point Goals-New York 5-16 (Porzingis 4-5, Calderon 1-1, Galloway 0-1, Grant 0-1, Thomas 0-2, D.Williams 0-2, Afflalo 0-4), Cleveland 5-22 (Shumpert 2-5, Love 2-6, Dellavedova 1-4, Irving 0-1, M.Williams 0-1, Smith 0-2, James 0-3). Fouled Out-Thomas. Rebounds-New York 53 (Porzingis 13), Cleveland 52 (Thompson 14).

Assists-New York 19 (Calderon 6), Cleveland 23 (Dellavedova 7). Total Fouls-New York 17, Cleveland 15. Technicals-Amundson, Lopez, New York defensive three second 2, James, Thompson. A-20,562 (20,562).

Wizards 100, Grizzlies 91 Washington — John Wall had 14 points and 14 assists to help Washington beat Memphis.

This was Wall’s fourth consecutive double-double and the Wizards have won three games. Memphis also saw its two-game winning streak end.

MEMPHIS (91) Barnes 1-6 0-0 2, Je.Green 8-14 3-5 19, Gasol 3-9 5-6 11, Conley 9-16 1-1 21, Lee 3-6 1-2 8, Randolph 5-9 6-6 16, Chalmers 0-1 0-0 0, Allen 1-2 3-8 5, Ja.Green 3-4 2-2 8, Carter 0-5 1-2 1.

Totals 33-72 22-32 91.

WASHINGTON (100) Oubre Jr. 3-6 2-2 10, Dudley 5-7 0-0 11, Gortat 6-13 0-0 12, Wall 5-18 2-2 14, Temple 8-17 1-2 20, Sessions 5-11 5-6 16, Neal 1-2 3-5 5, Humphries 2-4 2-2 8, Blair 2-4 0-0 4. Totals 37-82 15-19 100.

Memphis 18 30 17 26— 91 Washington 25 34 22 19—100 3-Point Goals-Memphis 3-17 (Conley 2-3, Lee 1-2, Barnes 0-4, Carter 0-4, Je.Green 0-4), Washington 11-25 (Temple 3-9, Oubre Jr. 2-2, Humphries 2-3, Wall 2-7, Dudley 1-2, Sessions 1-2). Fouled Out-None. ReboundsMemphis 43 (Je.Green 12), Washington 55 (Gortat 12). Assists-Memphis 12 (Je.Green 4), Washington 26 (Wall 14). Total Fouls-Memphis 17, Washington 23. Technicals-Chalmers 2, Memphis Coach Joerger, Washington defensive three second. Ejected-Chalmers. A-15,879 (20,308).

Kings 108, Pacers 106 Indianapolis — DeMarcus Cousins scored 25 points and had a season-high 16 rebounds, Darren Collison added a season-high 24 points and Sacramento held off Indiana.

Rajon Rondo had 13 points and 16 assists to help the Kings (12-17) win for the fifth time in seven games.

SACRAMENTO (108) Casspi 6-11 1-2 15, Gay 9-16 1-2 19, Cousins 8-19 9-10 25, Rondo 6-10 1-2 13, McLemore 1-4 0-0 2, Collison 11-17 0-0 24, Belinelli 3-6 0-0 6, Koufos 2-5 0-0 4, Curry 0-1 0-0 0. Totals 46-89 12-16 108.

INDIANA (106) Miles 7-15 2-4 20, George 5-19 1-4 12, Mahinmi 3-4 3-4 9, G.Hill 7-14 2-2 20, Ellis 8-13 2-4 21, Stuckey 1-8 2-2 4, Allen 3-6 0-0 6, J.Hill 7-9 0-0 14, Budinger 0-1 0-0 0. Totals 41-89 12-20 106.

Sacramento 30 34 20 24—108 Indiana 27 22 33 24—106 3-Point Goals-Sacramento 4-23 (Collison 2-5, Casspi 2-5, Rondo 0-1, Cousins 0-1, Curry 0-1, McLemore 0-2, Belinelli 0-3, Gay 0-5), Indiana 12-32 (Miles 4-9, G.Hill 4-10, Ellis 3-5, George 1-7, Stuckey 0-1). Fouled Out-None. ReboundsSacramento 58 (Cousins 16), Indiana 45 (George 10). Assists-Sacramento 28 (Rondo 16), Indiana 20 (Ellis 6). Total Fouls-Sacramento 16, Indiana 16. Technicals-Sacramento Coach Karl. A-18,165 (18,165).

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EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division

W L Pct Toronto 18 12 .600 Boston 16 13 .552 New York 14 16 .467 Brooklyn 8 21 .276 Philadelphia 1 30 .032 Southeast Division

W L Pct Atlanta 19 12 .613 Miami 16 11 .593 Orlando 17 12 .586 Charlotte 15 13 .536 Washington 13 14 .481 Central Division

W L Pct Cleveland 19 7 .731 Chicago 15 11 .577 Indiana 16 12 .571 Detroit 17 13 .567 Milwaukee 12 18 .400 WESTERN CONFERENCE Southwest Division

W L Pct San Antonio 25 5 .833 Dallas 16 13 .552 Memphis 16 15 .516 Houston 15 15 .500 New Orleans 9 19 .321 Northwest Division

W L Pct Oklahoma City 20 9 .690 Utah 12 15 .444 Denver 12 17 .414 Minnesota 11 18 .379 Portland 11 20 .355 Pacific Division

W L Pct Golden State 27 1 .964 L.A. Clippers 16 13 .552 Sacramento 12 17 .414 Phoenix 12 19 .387 L.A. Lakers 5 24 .172 Wednesday’s Games Cleveland 91, New York 84 Sacramento 108, Indiana 106 Orlando 104, Houston 101 Washington 100, Memphis 91 Boston 102, Charlotte 89 Dallas 119, Brooklyn 118, OT San Antonio 108, Minnesota 83 New Orleans 115, Portland 89 Milwaukee 113, Philadelphia 100 Atlanta 107, Detroit 100 Denver 104, Phoenix 96 Golden State 103, Utah 85 Oklahoma City 120, L.A. Lakers 85 Today’s Games No games scheduled Friday’s Games New Orleans at Miami, 11 a.m.

Chicago at Oklahoma City, 1:30 p.m.

Cleveland at Golden State, 4 p.m.

San Antonio at Houston, 7 p.m.

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

Cliff Alexander, Portland Did not play (inactive).

Darrell Arthur, Denver Min: 28. Pts: 19. Reb: 10. Ast: 3.

Tarik Black, L.A. Lakers Did not play (inactive).

Mario Chalmers, Memphis Min: 5. Pts: 0. Reb: 1. Ast: 0.

Nick Collison, Oklahoma City Min: 18. Pts: 4. Reb: 8. Ast: 0.

Drew Gooden, Washington Did not play (coach’s decision).

Sasha Kaun, Cleveland Did not play (inactive).

Ben McLemore, Sacramento Min: 13. Pts: 2. Reb: 2. Ast: 0.

Marcus Morris, Detroit Min: 38. Pts: 22. Reb: 7. Ast: 1.

Markieff Morris, Phoenix Min: 12. Pts: 6. Reb: 1. Ast: 0.

Kelly Oubre Jr., Washington Min: 20. Pts: 10. Reb: 7. Ast: 0.

Thomas Robinson, Brooklyn Did not play (coach’s decision).

Brandon Rush, Golden State Min: 14. Pts: 3. Reb: 2. Ast: 0.

Andrew Wiggins, Minnesota Min: 31. Pts: 10. Reb: 0. Ast: 4.

Jeff Withey, Utah Min: 12. Pts: 9. Reb: 4. Ast: 2.

Celtics 102, Hornets 89 Charoltte, N.C. — Kelly Olynyk scored 20 points, Jae Crowder added 19 points and 12 rebounds and Boston held off a fourth-quarter rally for a victory over Charlotte.

Isaiah Thomas and Avery Bradley had 18 points each, and David Lee 10 for the Celtics, who scored the game’s first six points and never trailed after that in winning their fourth straight over the Hornets.

BOSTON (102) Crowder 8-16 3-4 19, Sullinger 4-12 0-0 8, Olynyk 7-10 5-6 20, Thomas 3-10 9-10 18, Bradley 7-14 2-2 18, Lee 4-7 2-2 10, Turner 0-3 0-0 0, Hunter 2-7 2-2 7, Jerebko 0-2 0-0 0, T.Zeller 1-4 0-0 2. Totals 36-85 23-26 102.

CHARLOTTE (89) Hairston 1-5 2-2 5, Williams 1-5 0-0 3, C.Zeller 3-7 1-2 7, Walker 4-12 2-4 10, Batum 6-15 2-4 17, Lin 3-11 6-6 12, Kaminsky 9-20 3-6 23, Hawes 0-2 0-0 0, Lamb 2-4 7-8 12, Hansbrough 0-0 0-0 0. Totals 29-81 23-32 89.

Boston 29 18 27 28—102 Charlotte 21 19 22 27— 89 3-Point Goals-Boston 7-29 (Thomas 3-6, Bradley 2-5, Olynyk 1-3, Hunter 1-5, Turner 0-2, Sullinger 0-3, Crowder 0-5), Charlotte 8-28 (Batum 3-8, Kaminsky 2-7, Lamb 1-1, Williams 1-3, Hairston 1-4, Lin 0-1, Walker 0-4). Fouled Out-None. Rebounds-Boston 56 (Crowder 12), Charlotte 57 (C.Zeller 10). Assists-Boston 25 (Thomas 7), Charlotte 19 (Batum 7). Total Fouls-Boston 23, Charlotte 18. TechnicalsBoston defensive three second 2, Charlotte defensive three second 2. Flagrant Fouls-Lee. A-19,082 (19,077).

Magic 104, Rockets 101 Orlando, Fla. — Evan Fournier hit a short bank shot with 14.2 seconds left and Tobias Harris made two free throws with 1.1 seconds remaining to help Orlando hold off Houston.

Nik Vucevic’s 21 points led six players in double figures for the Magic, who have won five of six.

HOUSTON (101) Ariza 4-14 0-0 8, Capela 5-5 0-2 10, Howard 6-10 0-2 12, Beverley 2-9 2-2 7, Harden 12-18 5-6 31, Jones 3-6 1-1 8, Lawson 4-6 2-2 11, Brewer 2-5 0-0 4, Motiejunas 1-2 0-0 2, Thornton 2-8 2-2 8. Totals 41-83 12-17 101.

ORLANDO (104) Harris 8-10 2-2 19, Frye 4-4 0-0 10, Vucevic 10-16 1-2 21, Payton 5-11 2-4 12, Fournier 6-11 3-3 17, Oladipo 0-9 0-0 0, Smith 3-8 0-0 6, Nicholson 1-3 0-0 3, Hezonja 1-1 0-0 2, Gordon 6-11 1-2 14. Totals 44-84 9-13 104.

Houston 33 20 21 27—101 Orlando 27 32 28 17—104 3-Point Goals-Houston 7-29 (Harden 2-4, Thornton 2-6, Jones 1-2, Lawson 1-3, Beverley 1-4, Brewer 0-2, Ariza 0-8), Orlando 7-16 (Frye 2-2, Fournier 2-5, Harris 1-1, Gordon 1-2, Nicholson 1-2, Smith 0-1, Oladipo 0-3).

Fouled Out-None. Rebounds-Houston 43 (Ariza 8), Orlando 48 (Harris 8). Assists-Houston 19 (Harden 7), Orlando 26 (Payton 9). Total FoulsHouston 18, Orlando 15. A-17,061 (18,500).

GB — 1½ 4 9½ 17½ GB — 1 1 2½ 4 GB — 4 4 4 9 GB — 8½ 9½ 10 15 GB — 7 8 9 10 GB — 11½ 15½ 16½ 22½

SAN ANTONIO (108) Leonard 8-16 0-0 19, Aldridge 4-9 4-5 12, Duncan 1-6 0-0 2, Parker 6-11 0-0 14, Green 4-5 0-0 11, Ginobili 2-5 2-2 8, Diaw 3-5 0-0 6, Mills 3-9 0-0 6, West 6-8 1-3 13, Anderson 5-6 0-0 10, Simmons 1-1 1-2 3, Marjanovic 1-1 2-2 4, Butler 0-0 0-0 0. Totals 44-82 10-14 108.

MINNESOTA (83) Prince 0-2 0-0 0, Garnett 1-1 2-2 4, Towns 4-12 2-2 10, Rubio 3-5 2-2 9, Wiggins 2-11 6-9 10, Dieng 5-9 2-2 12, LaVine 7-13 2-4 17, Jones 3-7 0-0 6, Muhammad 5-9 4-4 15, Payne 0-1 0-0 0, Bjelica 0-2 0-0 0. Totals 30-72 20-25 83.

San Antonio 28 24 25 31—108 Minnesota 16 22 23 22— 83 3-Point Goals-San Antonio 10-24 (Green 3-4, Leonard 3-7, Parker 2-3, Ginobili 2-4, Anderson 0-1, Diaw 0-1, Aldridge 0-1, Mills 0-3), Minnesota 3-10 (LaVine 1-1, Muhammad 1-1, Rubio 1-2, Jones 0-1, Wiggins 0-1, Towns 0-2, Bjelica 0-2). Fouled Out-None. ReboundsSan Antonio 53 (Aldridge 8), Minnesota 36 (Towns 11). Assists-San Antonio 24 (Parker 6), Minnesota 19 (Wiggins, LaVine 4). Total Fouls-San Antonio 14, Minnesota 17. A-16,788 (19,356).

Bucks 113, 76ers 100 Milwaukee — Giannis Antetokounmpo made his first 11 shots to finish with 22 points, Khris Middleton added 21 on 8-of-9 shooting and Milwaukee beat the hapless Philadelphia.

Philadelphia fell to an astonishing 1-30, including 0-18 on the road, and lost its 12th straight game.

PHILADELPHIA (100) Covington 3-8 1-2 9, Noel 5-8 1-1 11, Okafor 5-16 7-8 17, Marshall 2-4 0-2 5, Sampson 4-8 1-2 9, Thompson 7-16 0-0 16, Holmes 2-5 0-1 4, Canaan 3-6 2-3 10, McConnell 0-0 0-0 0, Grant 4-4 1-2 9, Landry 2-6 6-8 10. Totals 37-81 19-29 100.

MILWAUKEE (113) Antetokounmpo 11-13 0-0 22, Parker 8-10 0-0 16, Monroe 4-10 3-4 11, Carter-Williams 9-13 0-0 18, Middleton 8-9 3-4 21, Mayo 2-7 0-0 4, O’Bryant 3-7 0-0 6, Henson 1-4 0-0 2, Vaughn 1-5 0-0 3, Ennis 4-6 0-0 10, Inglis 0-0 0-0 0, Plumlee 0-0 0-0 0, Copeland 0-1 0-0 0. Totals 51-85 6-8 113.

Philadelphia 18 28 24 30—100 Milwaukee 35 30 27 21—113 3-Point Goals-Philadelphia 7-20 (Canaan 2-5, Covington 2-5, Thompson 2-7, Marshall 1-1, Holmes 0-2), Milwaukee 5-12 (Middleton 2-2, Ennis 2-3, Vaughn 1-4, Copeland 0-1, Mayo 0-2).

Fouled Out-None. Rebounds-Philadelphia 51 (Okafor 8), Milwaukee 39 (Monroe 6). AssistsPhiladelphia 24 (Marshall 7), Milwaukee 34 (Carter-Williams 9). Total Fouls-Philadelphia 14, Milwaukee 22. Technicals-Milwaukee defensive three second. A-15,754 (18,717).

Pelicans 115, Trail Blazers 89 New Orleans — Anthony Davis scored 28 points and grabbed 12 rebounds to lead New Orleans to a victory over Portland.

Tyreke Evans nearly added a triple-double, scoring 24 points to go with nine rebounds and eight assists and reserve Jrue Holiday had 19 points as New Orleans won two straight games for just the second time Spurs 108, Timberwolves 83 this season.

Minneapolis — Kawhi Leon- PORTLAND (89) ard had 19 points and six reAminu 3-9 3-4 10, Vonleh 2-3 2-2 6, Plumlee 0-1 8, McCollum 8-21 2-2 19, Crabbe 5-14 1-2 bounds, and San Antonio bul- 4-9 12, Leonard 5-9 2-5 15, Henderson 5-9 0-0 11, lied Minnesota in the paint E.Davis 1-9 3-4 5, Harkless 0-3 0-0 0, Frazier 0-5 1-2 1, Montero 0-3 2-2 2, Connaughton 0-1 0-0 0. during a victory.

33-95 16-24 89.

Danny Green broke out of Totals NEW ORLEANS (115) Gee 3-4 0-0 8, A.Davis 12-21 4-5 28, Asik 2-3 a season-long shooting slump 4, Evans 7-14 8-8 24, Gordon 3-8 2-2 11, with 11 points, including 3 for 4 0-0 Anderson 4-11 2-2 13, Holiday 7-13 2-2 19, Cole from 3-point range, and seven 2-7 2-4 6, Cunningham 0-1 0-0 0, Smith 0-1 0-0 Babbitt 1-2 0-0 2, Douglas 0-0 0-0 0. Totals rebounds in the seventh straight 0, 41-85 20-23 115. victory for the Spurs (25-5).

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Portland 23 13 29 24— 89 New Orleans 26 27 27 35—115 3-Point Goals-Portland 7-28 (Leonard 3-6, Henderson 1-1, Aminu 1-4, McCollum 1-5, Crabbe 1-6, Frazier 0-2, Harkless 0-2, Montero 0-2), New Orleans 13-31 (Holiday 3-5, Anderson 3-7, Gordon 3-7, Gee 2-2, Evans 2-6, A.Davis 0-1, Babbitt 0-1, Cole 0-2). Fouled Out-None.

Rebounds-Portland 64 (E.Davis, Plumlee 12), New Orleans 53 (A.Davis 12). Assists-Portland 16 (McCollum 7), New Orleans 27 (Evans 9).

Total Fouls-Portland 22, New Orleans 17.

Technicals-Aminu, Anderson. Flagrant FoulsMcCollum. A-16,686 (16,867).

Hawks 107, Pistons 100 Atlanta — Jeff Teague scored 23 points, Paul Millsap added 18 and Atlanta beat the Pistons for its fifth straight win.

Al Horford finished with 15 points and Dennis Schroder added 14 for the Hawks.

DETROIT (100) Morris 9-16 2-3 22, Ilyasova 2-9 0-0 5, Drummond 9-13 7-18 25, Jackson 7-16 4-5 19, Caldwell-Pope 4-12 2-2 12, Johnson 4-10 0-0 9, Blake 1-6 0-0 2, Baynes 1-4 2-5 4, Tolliver 1-2 0-0 2, Hilliard 0-1 0-0 0. Totals 38-89 17-33 100.

ATLANTA (107) Bazemore 3-7 1-1 8, Millsap 8-15 1-2 18, Horford 7-14 0-0 15, Teague 10-19 3-5 23, Korver 3-6 2-2 9, Sefolosha 0-2 0-0 0, Splitter 4-7 3-4 11, Schroder 5-12 3-4 14, Patterson 0-1 0-0 0, Scott 3-6 2-2 9. Totals 43-89 15-20 107.

Detroit 26 19 22 33—100 Atlanta 27 34 21 25—107 3-Point Goals-Detroit 7-21 (Morris 2-2, Caldwell-Pope 2-4, Johnson 1-2, Jackson 1-3, Ilyasova 1-5, Tolliver 0-1, Hilliard 0-1, Blake 0-3), Atlanta 6-20 (Millsap 1-2, Scott 1-2, Korver 1-3, Horford 1-3, Schroder 1-3, Bazemore 1-3, Sefolosha 0-1, Teague 0-3). Fouled Out-None.

Rebounds-Detroit 62 (Drummond 12), Atlanta 56 (Teague, Bazemore 6). Assists-Detroit 18 (Jackson 7), Atlanta 25 (Teague 9). Total Fouls-Detroit 20, Atlanta 25. Technicals-Morris, Detroit Coach Van Gundy. A-17,575 (18,729).

Nuggets 104, Suns 96 Phoenix — Randy Foye scored a season-high 31 points, hitting seven 3-pointers in 16 attempts, and Denver bounced back from an embarrassing loss to beat slumping Phoenix.

DENVER (104) Papanikolaou 2-6 3-6 9, Miller 0-2 0-0 0, Faried 5-7 1-3 11, Foye 12-27 0-1 31, Harris 2-13 0-0 4, Arthur 9-14 0-0 19, Jokic 5-7 2-2 13, Barton 7-15 0-1 17. Totals 42-91 6-13 104.

PHOENIX (96) Warren 2-7 0-0 5, Leuer 9-18 0-0 18, Len 0-0 0-0 0, Bledsoe 2-11 4-5 9, Knight 8-18 4-6 21, T.Chandler 0-1 1-2 1, Teletovic 1-3 0-0 3, Goodwin 2-3 1-2 5, Morris 2-8 0-0 6, Price 7-13 0-0 20, Tucker 3-5 1-2 8. Totals 36-87 11-17 96.

Denver 33 23 23 25—104 Phoenix 21 29 22 24— 96 3-Point Goals-Denver 14-35 (Foye 7-16, Barton 3-5, Papanikolaou 2-3, Arthur 1-2, Jokic 1-2, Miller 0-2, Harris 0-5), Phoenix 13-25 (Price 6-9, Morris 2-2, Tucker 1-2, Warren 1-2, Teletovic 1-2, Bledsoe 1-3, Knight 1-5). Fouled Out-None.

Rebounds-Denver 60 (Arthur 10), Phoenix 53 (Tucker 13). Assists-Denver 26 (Foye 6), Phoenix 21 (Knight 10). Total Fouls-Denver 20, Phoenix 19. Technicals-Denver defensive three second, Tucker. A-17,034 (18,055).

Warriors 103, Jazz 85 Oakland, Calif. — Klay Thompson scored 20 points, Stephen Curry added 16 with nine assists and Golden State remained unbeaten at home this season with a win over Utah.

Andrew Bogut added 10 points and 13 rebounds while Draymond Green had 15 points, nine rebounds and six assists for the Warriors (27-1) in their final tuneup before an NBA Finals rematch against LeBron James and the Cleveland Cavaliers on Christmas.

UTAH (85) Hayward 2-15 4-4 8, Lyles 1-2 0-0 2, Favors 7-16 3-4 17, Neto 1-2 0-0 2, Hood 6-11 0-0 15, Booker 0-1 0-0 0, Burke 6-14 0-0 13, Burks 5-12 2-2 13, Ingles 2-4 0-0 6, Withey 3-3 3-4 9. Totals 33-80 12-14 85.

GOLDEN STATE (103) Rush 1-2 0-0 3, Green 7-15 0-0 15, Bogut 4-8 2-2 10, Curry 5-14 4-4 16, K.Thompson 6-16 5-5 20, Iguodala 3-5 2-2 9, Ezeli 2-6 2-2 6, Livingston 4-8 1-1 9, Barbosa 4-6 0-0 8, Clark 3-3 0-0 7, McAdoo 0-0 0-0 0. Totals 39-83 16-16 103.

Utah 13 25 20 27— 85 Golden State 23 24 26 30—103 3-Point Goals-Utah 7-20 (Hood 3-5, Ingles 2-3, Burks 1-1, Burke 1-5, Booker 0-1, Hayward 0-5), Golden State 9-22 (K.Thompson 3-6, Curry 2-8, Clark 1-1, Iguodala 1-1, Rush 1-2, Green 1-4).

Fouled Out-None. Rebounds-Utah 47 (Favors 9), Golden State 46 (Bogut 13). Assists-Utah 14 (Hood, Ingles, Burke 3), Golden State 26 (Curry 9). Total Fouls-Utah 18, Golden State 11.

A-19,596 (19,596).

Thunder 120, Lakers 85 Los Angeles — Russell Westbrook had 23 points, eight assists and eight rebounds and Oklahoma City steamrolled Los Angeles for the second time in five days.

OKLAHOMA CITY (120) Durant 7-9 6-6 21, Ibaka 7-11 1-1 17, Adams 3-5 0-1 6, Westbrook 10-19 3-5 23, Roberson 7-9 1-2 15, Collison 2-4 0-0 4, Waiters 1-8 0-0 2, Kanter 8-12 0-0 16, Augustin 0-1 2-2 2, Morrow 2-8 0-0 5, Payne 2-5 0-0 5, Singler 1-3 0-0 2, Novak 1-1 0-0 2. Totals 51-95 13-17 120.

L.A. LAKERS (85) Bryant 7-22 3-3 19, Nance Jr. 2-5 0-0 4, Hibbert 1-4 2-2 4, Clarkson 4-12 2-2 10, Williams 0-6 2-6 2, Sacre 4-6 2-4 10, Russell 6-16 2-3 18, Bass 2-4 0-0 4, Brown 1-6 0-0 2, Kelly 5-7 1-2 12, Huertas 0-1 0-0 0. Totals 32-89 14-22 85.

Oklahoma City 27 30 35 28—120 L.A. Lakers 17 29 15 24— 85 3-Point Goals-Oklahoma City 5-19 (Ibaka 2-4, Durant 1-2, Payne 1-3, Morrow 1-4, Roberson 0-1, Augustin 0-1, Westbrook 0-1, Waiters 0-3), L.A. Lakers 7-25 (Russell 4-7, Bryant 2-7, Kelly 1-2, Clarkson 0-2, Williams 0-2, Brown 0-5).

Fouled Out-None. Rebounds-Oklahoma City 68 (Kanter 11), L.A. Lakers 45 (Sacre, Clarkson, Bass 6). Assists-Oklahoma City 23 (Westbrook 8), L.A. Lakers 19 (Huertas 4). Total FoulsOklahoma City 17, L.A. Lakers 18. A-18,997 (18,997).

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KANSAS UNIVERSITY’S MARIO CHALMERS, LEFT, DEFENDS Davidson’s Stephen Curry during an Elite Eight game in the 2008 NCAA Tournament in Detroit.

Self happy Curry didn’t take last shot

By Gary Bedore gbedore@ljworld.com

The more Stephen Curry dominates the NBA ... the more impressive the fact Kansas University survived Curry’s Davidson Wildcats, 59-57, in an NCAA Tournament Elite Eight game in 2008 in Detroit.

The 6-foot-3, 190-pound Curry, who blistered KU for 25 points off 9-of-25 shooting (4-16 from three), brought the ball up court with 16.1 seconds left and his Wildcats trailing by two.

Brandon Rush, who now is Curry’s teammate on the Golden State Warriors, slipped while guarding Curry about 20 feet from the basket with 10 seconds left. Rush received immediate help from Mario Chalmers, a defensive whiz in college who now plays for the Memphis Grizzlies.

Appearing confused, Curry passed to Jason Richards, whose 25-footer over Chalmers and Sherron Collins was long enough, but thudded off the backboard.

The Jayhawks, who collectively breathed a sigh of relief, went on to the Final Four and ultimately won the national title. Davidson’s season was over.

“I’m just glad he didn’t take that last shot,” KU coach Bill Self said of the reigning NBA Most Valuable Player, “because after seeing him play since then, if he could have taken it he would have made it.

“We got lucky. That’s what goes through my mind,” Self added. “He (Curry) didn’t really get a chance to get a look off, fortunately for us, because he’s the best there is of making bad shots.

He takes off-balance, crazy stuff that goes in.

“He was by far the best player in the tournament.

If he got the shot up, chances are pretty good it would have gone down.

Fortunately we defended

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(four points, four boards, 26 minutes) and Traylor.

“You could make a case they were our two best players. And Carlton (Bragg, two points, six minutes) gave us some good things. Cheick (Diallo, four points first half) made two big baskets in the first half. Landen (Lucas, two minutes) didn’t play a lot. I thought Hunter (Mickelson two points, eight minutes), even though he starts, he’s sort of a bench guy. They all play the same. If you add that position together we got some good production,” Self said. l Self on the big men: “It’s not easy to play six big guys and we played one of them 17 minutes in the first half (Ellis).

Have to give everybody a chance. When the game got tight, I went with ex-

that pretty well. Although it was a hard shot, the guy (Richards) missed it wide left and the rest is history.”

Self said that in looking back ... “certainly it was a treat to coach against him.

What was unique about that Davidson team, everybody thought they were the choir boys. That was without question the most physical team in the tournament. Sasha Kaun was the one who stepped up and won that game for us,” Self added of the current member of the Cleveland Cavaliers, who had 13 points and six boards.

Curry returned to Davidson for one more year, his junior year. The Wildcats did not receive an NCAA bid. Curry turned pro and was taken No. 7 overall in the 2009 NBA Draft.

“When people took him that high in the draft, I was like, ‘He’s too frail.

Is he going to be able to handle 82 games?’’’ Self said. “He’s become a terrific athlete. He’s tough as nails which is very apparent when you see him play.

“His shooting is unbelievable. He’s in ridiculously great shape, knows how to take advantage of the defense when the defense turns. He’s in perpetual motion. He can get it off the bounce.

I’ve never seen a guy lull you to sleep then (throw in a three). It’s amazing watching him play.” l No summer tour coming: KU’s basketball team, which is eligible to take a foreign trip this summer, will bypass a possible trip, instead travel somewhere in the summer of 2017.

“We’re going to take a year off. We’re tired.

That’s a lot (in a short period of time),” said Self, whose Jayhawks traveled to South Korea for three weeks last summer for the World University Games.

The Jayhawks were al-

lotted a month of practice before heading to Korea where they won seven games (and an exhibition) and the WUG title.

KU won two exhibitions vs. Canada before heading to Korea.

The Jayhawks competed in the Maui Invitational this past November and will be heading to Honolulu for a game versus Indiana on Friday, Nov. 11 with a game against Duke slated just four days later in New York. KU also will play in Las Vegas next season. The Jayhawks’ last summer tour was a trip to Switzerland in the summer of 2012. The NCAA allows teams to travel overseas once every four years. l Two left: KU has two nonconference games left to play — Tuesday vs. UC Irvine, then a Jan. 30 meeting against John Calipari’s Kentucky Wildcats.

That’s part of the Big 12/SEC Challenge.

“It’s great we are going to get some exposure. It’s great we are playing Kentucky,” Self said. “The Kentucky game is not bigger than any conference game. These (challenge) games are basically thrown in the first third of your conference season. I don’t think any coach is excited about that.

“I think we are excited about the exposure it could potentially bring to our league. Every game is going to be played that Saturday and GameDay will operate from one of the places, hopefully ours from that particular day all day long. It’ll be fun, a great challenge. It’s something I think a lot of our fans because of Kentucky’s success especially of late will look at this as the game of the season. It is the nonconference game of the season, but it’s not a conference game.

“I think all coaches would feel if it is in December it’d be perfect.”

perience (Traylor). I put an experienced guy out there because he’d been there before.” l Self on the win: “We would have been very happy coming out here and getting a win period.

And to come out here and control the game basically from start to finish with the exception of a couple of minutes, I think is pretty good. Both teams were ready to play.

A lot of energy in the building. I think it was great prep for conference play, but the bottom line, we needed this game. We needed to go on the road and play in a good building. I think it was good for us. I think our nonconference, even though the schedule probably wasn’t as tough as it has been in other years. We played some good teams but we just didn’t play as many really, really good teams this year probably. But I think the nonconference schedule has done what

it’s needed to do for us this year.” l S.D State coach Steve Fisher: “We played a team tonight that is, in my opinion, nobody in the country is better than.

They’re good. They’re good in so many different ways. They’re obviously well-coached. They can run body after body after body on you. They don’t lose — and usually gain — a step when they go to the bench.

“Like really good teams do — REALLY good teams — they took a hard hit, took a left hand to the head, but came back to themselves with a 1-2-3 on us to get eight straight points, to push it right back up to where it was.

The fight was there, we just weren’t quite good enough.”

Editor’s note: Because of deadlines, this story did not appear in Wednesday’s Journal-World but did appear on kusports. com.

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Bledsoe only decided in the past few weeks to take an official visit to Kansas. He’s made plenty of unofficial visits to campus, but once he progressed in his recruiting, he decided to take a more in-depth look at his hometown option.

“There’s like no time to go somewhere else,” he said of his thought process. “I’m not really trying to wait. Just go to KU and get a good feel for them. I know I’ve already been there a lot, but just get a different type of feel for them like the official was. Get to see where I’m at with things and if I

have new feelings toward them or if things have changed.”

Two days after his visit to KU ended, NCAA Div. I football teams went into a dead period on the recruiting calendar — no in-person contact is allowed — through Jan. 13.

Now, he can spend most of his time focusing on his first game since the high school season ended.

“It’s a great relief,” Bledsoe said. “A huge weight off of my shoulders, just to be able to chill and not have them bombard me with as many phone calls and visits and stuff. It’s nice.”

Torneden, Bledsoe gain football honors J-W Staff Reports

Lawrence High senior lineman Amani Bledsoe and Free State senior quarterback/free safety Bryce Torneden were both selected to the top 11 all-state

team by the Kansas Football Coaches Association.

Among Class 6A players, LHS senior running back JD Woods and linebacker Price Morgan were picked for the allstate team, along with

Free State senior linebacker Sam Skwarlo.

Mill Valley coach Joel Applebee was named the Coach of the Year after leading the Jaguars to their first-ever state championship in Class 5A.

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SCOREBOARD

COLLEGE BASKETBALL ROUNDUP

Sooners survive The Associated Press

Big 12 Men No. 3 Oklahoma 84, Hawaii 81 Honolulu — Buddy Hield had 27 points and nine rebounds as No. 3 Oklahoma remained unbeaten, escaping with an 84-81 victory over Hawaii in a Diamond Head Classic semifinal on Wednesday night.

The Sooners (10-0) got a career-high 17 points from Khadeem Lattin and 14 from Isaiah Cousins.

Hield was 7 of 16 from the field, including 5 of 9 from 3-point range, and he made all six of his free throw attempts. He had 18 points at halftime.

Roderick Bobbitt scored a career-high 32 points and had six assists for the Rainbow Warriors (8-2), who had their four-game winning streak snapped. It was their first loss on their home court this season.

Hawaii had a chance to tie it at the buzzer, but Bobbitt’s desperation 3-pointer was no good.

Oklahoma, which led by as many as 16 points in the first half, was up 41-40 at halftime.

There were six ties and 12 lead changes in the game.

OKLAHOMA (10-0) Spangler 3-5 1-2 7, Woodard 1-5 6-7 9, Cousins 4-11 5-7 14, Lattin 7-9 3-6 17, Hield 7-16 8-8 27, Walker 1-5 0-1 3, Buford 1-3 1-2 3, Manyang 2-2 0-0 4.

Totals 26-56 24-33 84.

HAWAII (8-2) Bobbitt 8-12 13-16 32, Smith 1-3 1-2 3, Thomas 1-2 1-2 3, Valdes 1-6 0-0 3, Jankovic 5-11 7-9 17, Fleming 3-6 0-0 8, Tummala 3-10 0-2 7, Jovanovic 3-5 2-2 8, Drammeh 0-0 0-0 0. Totals 25-55 24-33 81.

Halftime-Oklahoma 41-40. 3-Point Goals-Oklahoma 8-17 (Hield 5-9, Woodard 1-1, Walker 1-3, Cousins 1-3, Buford 0-1), Hawaii 7-20 (Bobbitt 3-4, Fleming 2-3, Valdes 1-3, Tummala 1-7, Thomas 0-1, Jankovic 0-2). Fouled Out-Fleming.

Rebounds-Oklahoma 34 (Hield 9), Hawaii 33 (Valdes 6). AssistsOklahoma 15 (Cousins 6), Hawaii 13 (Bobbitt 6). Total Fouls-Oklahoma 21, Hawaii 25. Technicals-Buford, Fleming. A-NA.

No. 23 Baylor 85, New Mexico St. 70 Waco, Texas — Taurean Prince scored a careerhigh 34 points, Lester Medford had 10 points and 12 assists and No. 23 Baylor beat New Mexico State.

Prince was 13 of 19 from the field, including 3 of 4 from 3-point range, and led the Bears (9-2) with six rebounds in their 32nd consecutive non-conference home win.

NEW MEXICO ST. (7-6) Wilkins 1-2 2-2 4, Siakam 9-17 8-10 26, Baker 7-12 5-6 21, Taylor 1-3 0-0 2, Pennie 2-4 2-2 8, Huggins 0-1 0-0 0, Browne 1-1 0-0 2, Ndir 1-2 0-0 2, Bhullar 1-2 1-1 3, Chuha 1-2 0-0 2. Totals 24-46 18-21 70.

BAYLOR (9-2) Gathers 2-6 5-7 9, Prince 13-19 5-6 34, Medford 4-10 0-0 10, Wainright 6-10 2-2 14, Freeman 3-8 1-2 10, Lindsey 1-5 0-0 2, Motley 0-2 0-0 0, McClure 0-2 0-0 0, Maston 2-3 2-2 6. Totals 31-65 15-19 85.

Halftime-Baylor 45-30. 3-Point Goals-New Mexico St. 4-11 (Pennie 2-4, Baker 2-6, Siakam 0-1), Baylor 8-23 (Prince 3-4, Freeman 3-5, Medford 2-7, McClure 0-2, Wainright 0-2, Lindsey 0-3). Fouled Out-None. Rebounds-New Mexico St. 31 (Siakam 10), Baylor 27 (Prince 6). Assists-New Mexico St. 18 (Pennie, Taylor 5), Baylor 24 (Medford 12). Total Fouls-New Mexico St. 19, Baylor 17. A-5,842.

TCU 53, Bradley 49 Peoria, Ill. — Sophomore guard Chauncey Collins scored 14 points and grabbed eight rebounds and TCU barely held off Bradley.

The Horned Frogs (74) are now 6-28 in road games since joining the Big 12 Conference in 2012.

TCU (7-4) Brodziansky 3-9 4-8 10, Shepherd 1-5 0-0 2, M. Williams 3-11 3-6 10, Trent 1-8 2-4 5, Parrish 1-4 0-2 3, Collins 2-5 9-14 14, Miller 3-5 3-6 9, Abron 0-0 0-0 0. Totals 14-47 21-40 53.

BRADLEY (2-11) Thomas 2-9 2-2 6, van Bree 6-12 4-5 19, Barker 0-2 0-0 0, Pittman 2-4 3-3 7, Lautier-Ogunleye 2-5 1-5 5, Bell 0-1 0-0 0, Okafor 0-0 0-0 0, Cooper 0-0 0-0 0, McBride 0-0 0-0 0, Hanley 0-1 0-0 0, Suggs 4-8 2-2 12, James 0-3 0-0 0.

Totals 16-45 12-17 49.

Halftime-TCU 30-21. 3-Point GoalsTCU 4-17 (Parrish 1-3, Trent 1-4, M. Williams 1-4, Collins 1-4, Miller 0-1, Brodziansky 0-1), Bradley 5-21 (van Bree 3-8, Suggs 2-5, Barker 0-1, Lautier-Ogunleye 0-1, James 0-1, Bell 0-1, Thomas 0-2, Pittman 0-2). Fouled Out-Barker, Bell, Lautier-Ogunleye, Thomas, van Bree. Rebounds-TCU 35 (Collins 8), Bradley 39 (van Bree 11). Assists-TCU 6 (Collins, Trent 2), Bradley 6 (Thomas 2). Total Fouls-TCU 19, Bradley 37. Technical-Bell. A-5,560.

Top 25 Men

UTAH VALLEY ST. (5-8) Davis 5-10 3-6 15, Jackson 4-11 2-3 10, Frey 6-14 2-4 17, Young 3-10 1-1 8, Bastien 2-3 0-0 4, Hamilton 0-1 2-2 2, Schenck 1-4 2-2 5, Cardwell 0-0 0-0 0, Carr 0-1 0-0 0, Ott 1-1 0-0 3, Goodman 1-2 2-3 4. Totals 23-57 14-21 68.

LOUISVILLE (11-1) Lee 2-8 6-6 11, Snider 5-7 3-4 15, Lewis 7-10 4-6 21, Spalding 3-4 3-6 9, Onuaku 3-3 0-0 6, Avare 0-2 0-0 0, Stockman 2-3 2-6 6, Johnson 3-4 2-2 8, Henderson 0-2 0-0 0, Mahmoud 0-0 1-2 1, Adel 3-5 2-3 8, Levitch 0-1 4-4 4, Mitchell 3-7 0-0 9. Totals 31-56 27-39 98.

Halftime-Louisville 59-31. 3-Point Goals-Utah Valley St. 8-18 (Frey 3-8, Davis 2-2, Ott 1-1, Schenck 1-2, Young 1-3, Jackson 0-1, Carr 0-1), Louisville 9-22 (Mitchell 3-5, Lewis 3-6, Snider 2-2, Lee 1-6, Avare 0-1, Henderson 0-2). Fouled Out-Hamilton. ReboundsUtah Valley St. 30 (Frey 6), Louisville 39 (Lewis 7). Assists-Utah Valley St. 13 (Davis 5), Louisville 19 (Onuaku, Snider 4). Total Fouls-Utah Valley St. 28, Louisville 18. A-19,146.

No. 18 SMU 70, Colorado 66 Las Vegas — Nic Moore scored 16 points to lead No. 18 SMU past Colorado in the Las Vegas Classic championship game. The Mustangs remain one of five unbeaten Division I teams.

SMU (11-0) B. Moore 3-4 1-2 7, Milton 6-11 2-2 14, Brown 3-6 4-4 10, N. Moore 7-18 2-2 16, Tolbert 3-5 1-2 7, Frazier 1-6 0-0 2, Kennedy 5-9 2-2 12, Foster 1-1 0-0 2.

Totals 29-60 12-14 70.

COLORADO (11-2) Gordon 2-6 0-0 5, Fletcher 2-3 1-2 5, Collier 3-7 3-4 12, King 3-14 1-2 9, Scott 5-10 2-7 12, Akyazili 2-3 0-0 6, Talton 1-3 0-0 2, Miller 0-1 0-0 0, Fortune 5-11 1-2 15. Totals 23-58 8-17 66.

Halftime-SMU 35-30. 3-Point GoalsSMU 0-5 (Brown 0-1, Frazier 0-2, N. Moore 0-2), Colorado 12-27 (Fortune 4-7, Collier 3-6, Akyazili 2-2, King 2-8, Gordon 1-2, Talton 0-1, Fletcher 0-1).

Fouled Out-None. Rebounds-SMU 34 (B. Moore 9), Colorado 38 (Scott 12).

Assists-SMU 10 (N. Moore 4), Colorado 13 (Gordon 4). Total Fouls-SMU 11, Colorado 17. A-2,154.

Boise St. bashes NIU Poinsettia Bowl Boise St. 55, Northern Illinois 7 San Diego — Jeremy McNichols scored three touchdowns, the first one just 58 seconds into the game, and finished with 189 total yards as Boise State embarrassed Northern Illinois 55-7 in the Poinsettia Bowl on Wednesday.

This one was essentially over when Northern Illinois won the coin toss and deferred, allowing Boise State to get the ball first and unleash its talented offense.

The Broncos (9-4) needed just three plays to score the first TD, the fastest in school bowl history. After completions of 7 and 39 yards by Brett Rypien, McNichols scampered in from 29 yards.

McNichols and the Broncos kept piling on as the back from Long Beach scored on each of the next two possessions, on a 4-yard pass from Rypien and on a 1-yard run.

McNichols ran 19 times for 93 yards and caught five passes for 96 yards.

He came in tied with Heisman Trophy winner Derrick Henry of Alabama for the national lead with 23 TDs. Rypien was 29 of 40 for 377 yards and three touchdowns, with one interception.

The Broncos outgained the Huskies (8-6) 654 yards to 33.

The Huskies added to their misery by losing three fumbles in the first half.

Boise St. 21 10 10 14—55 N. Illinois 0 7 0 0— 7 First Quarter Boi-McNichols 29 run (Rausa kick), 14:02.

Boi-McNichols 4 pass from Rypien (Rausa kick), 7:38.

Boi-McNichols 1 run (Rausa kick), 3:28.

Second Quarter Boi-FG Rausa 20, 9:44.

NIU-Turner 96 kickoff return (Hagan kick), 9:32.

Boi-Anderson 16 pass from Rypien (Rausa kick), 1:51.

Third Quarter Boi-FG Rausa 27, 7:30.

Boi-Dhaenens 18 pass from Rypien (Rausa kick), 3:29.

Fourth Quarter Boi-K.Young 24 run (Rausa kick), 14:52.

Boi-Stuart 1 run (Rausa kick), 9:52.

A-21,501.

Boi NIU First downs 35 7 Rushes-yards 56-277 30-(-5) Passing 377 38 Comp-Att-Int 29-40-1 7-21-0 Return Yards 1 27 Punts-Avg. 1-30.0 9-38.6 Fumbles-Lost 1-1 3-3 8-65 5-30 Penalties-Yards Time of Possession 43:13 16:47 INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS RUSHING-Boise St., McNichols 19-93, Wolpin 14-87, K.Young 10-54, Williams-Rhodes 3-34, Stuart 6-23, Ogle 1-2, Sperbeck 1-1, Rypien 2-(minus 17). N. Illinois, Bouagnon 8-16, Huff 5-13, Turner 3-9, Golladay 4-6, Graham 10-(minus 49).

PASSING-Boise St., Rypien 29-39-1377, Williams-Rhodes 0-1-0-0. N. Illinois, Graham 7-21-0-38.

RECEIVING-Boise St., WilliamsRhodes 8-94, Sperbeck 6-78, McNichols 5-96, Anderson 4-46, Roh 4-38, Dhaenens 1-18, Huff 1-7. N. Illinois, Brescacin 3-12, Golladay 2-7, Lewis 1-11, Maxwell 1-8.

GoDaddy Bowl Georgia Southern 58, Bowling Green 27 Mobile, Ala. — Favian Upshaw ran for 199 yards and four touchdowns to help Georgia Southern beat Bowling Green in the GoDaddy Bowl.

Georgia Southern (9-4) won the first bowl game in school history in the first year it was eligible to go to the postseason. The program transitioned to the Football Bowl Subdivision in 2014.

The Eagles won thanks to their trademark run-

Big 12 Men

Big 12 Overall

W L W L Oklahoma 0 0 10 0 Kansas 0 0 10 1 Iowa State 0 0 10 1 West Virginia 0 0 10 1 Texas Tech 0 0 9 1 Baylor 0 0 9 2 Kansas State 0 0 9 2 Texas 0 0 8 3 Oklahoma State 0 0 7 4 TCU 0 0 7 4 Wednesday’s Games Oklahoma 84, Hawaii 81 TCU 51, Bradley 49 Baylor 85, New Mexico State 70 Friday’s Game Oklahoma vs. Harvard at Honolulu, 7:30 p.m.

No. 16 Louisville 98, Utah Valley 68 Louisville, Ky. — Trey Lewis scored 21 points and No. 16 Louisville used a hot shooting start to coast to a victory over Utah Valley.

Louisville made 18 of its first 24 shots and shot 69 percent from the field in Big 12 Women Big 12 the first half to blow past

W L Utah Valley, one night af- Baylor 0 0 Texas 0 0 ter an out-of-sync showKansas State 0 0 ing in beating UMKC. Oklahoma State 0 0

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Overall W L 13 0 10 0 10 1 9 1 9 2 9 2 9 3 8 3 8 3 5 6

Oklahoma 0 0 Texas Tech 0 0 West Virginia 0 0 Iowa State 0 0 TCU 0 0 Kansas 0 0 Sunday’s Games Savannah State at Oklahoma State, 2 p.m.

Sam Houston State Texas, 2 p.m.

College Men

Wedneseday’s Scores EAST Albany (NY) 65, Niagara 56 Monmouth (NJ) 78, Cornell 69 Pittsburgh 79, W. Carolina 73 Rutgers 72, Fairleigh Dickinson 64 St. Peter’s 56, St. Francis Brooklyn 45 Towson 91, UMBC 65 UConn 99, CCSU 52 SOUTH Davidson 81, Morehead St. 77 Georgia Tech 76, Colgate 60 Louisville 98, Utah Valley 68 Mississippi St. 93, N. Colorado 69 N. Kentucky 88, Indiana-Kokomo 44 Rider 71, Morgan St. 49 UNC Wilmington 76, UMKC 56 MIDWEST Bowling Green 62, Cleveland St. 47 Illinois 68, Missouri 63 Michigan 96, Bryant 60 Milwaukee 74, Minnesota 65 TCU 53, Bradley 49 Wisconsin 84, Green Bay 79 SOUTHWEST Baylor 85, New Mexico St. 70 Idaho St. 76, Texas Rio Grande Valley 64 FAR WEST Akron 78, Iona 64 Gonzaga 85, Loyola Marymount 62 Portland 87, Pepperdine 79 San Diego 81, CS Northridge 63 Southern Cal 100, Lafayette 64 Utah St. 76, N. Dakota St. 62 Tournaments Hawaiian Airlines Diamond Head Classic Semifinals Harvard 69, Auburn 51 Oklahoma 84, Hawaii 81 Consolation Semifinals BYU 96, New Mexico 66 Hosts-Las Vegas Classic Third Place Penn St. 75, Kent St. 69 Visitors-Las Vegas Classic Third Place Hampton 75, Louisiana-Monroe 64 Third Place Canisius 83, Nicholls St. 74

College Women

Wedneseday’s Scores EAST Georgetown 82, Towson 46 St. Bonaventure 67, Niagara 55 SOUTH Auburn 88, George Mason 59 Georgia 60, Cincinnati 42 MIDWEST E. Michigan 64, Michigan 63 Minnesota 57, North Dakota 47 FAR WEST Gonzaga 66, Loyola Marymount 59 Pacific 70, San Francisco 57 Pepperdine 74, Portland 62 San Diego 78, BYU 65 Santa Clara 73, Saint Mary’s (Cal) 67

ning game. They had 452 Kansas Men Nov. 4 — Pittsburg State (exhibiyards rushing to top their tion), W 89-66 nation-best season averNov. 10 — Fort Hays State (exhibition), W 95-59 age of 355.6 yards.

Nov. 13 — Northern Colorado, W Bowling Green (10-4) 109-72 (1-0) Nov. 17 — Michigan State at Chicago led 27-23 at halftime, but Center, L 73-79 (1-1) Georgia Southern scored United Nov. 23 — Chaminade at Maui Invitational, W 123-72 (2-1) the final 35 points.

24 — UCLA at Maui Invitational, Bowling Green was un- WNov. 92-73 (3-1) Nov. 25 — Vanderbilt at Maui done by a brutal stretch W 70-63 (4-1) in the third quarter that Invitational, Dec. 1 — Loyola (Md.), W 94-61 (5-1) included two fumbles by Dec. 5 — Harvard, W 75-69 (6-1) Dec. 9 — Holy Cross, W 92-59 (7-1) quarterback Matt JohnDec. 12 — Oregon State at Kansas son deep in the Falcons’ City Shootout, Sprint Center, W 82-67 (8-1) own territory.

Georgia Southern 9 14 21 14—58 Bowling Green 13 14 0 0—27 First Quarter GaSo-Ramsby 1 run (Koo kick), 8:52.

BG-Lewis 45 pass from M.Johnson (kick blocked), 7:29.

GaSo-2-point defensive conversion

by Dobson, 7:29.

BG-Moore 15 pass from M.Johnson (Tate kick), :33.

Second Quarter BG-G.Dieter 51 pass from M.Johnson (Tate kick), 11:42.

GaSo-W.Fields 26 run (Koo kick), 7:53.

GaSo-Crockett 31 pass from K.Ellison (Koo kick), 1:27.

BG-Tra.Greene 5 run (Tate kick), :36.

Third Quarter GaSo-Upshaw 3 run (Koo kick), 7:28.

GaSo-Upshaw 80 run (Koo kick), 2:55.

GaSo-Breida 1 run (Koo kick), 1:51.

Fourth Quarter GaSo-Upshaw 8 run (Koo kick), 14:55.

GaSo-Upshaw 42 run (Koo kick), 5:25.

A-28,656.

GaSo BG First downs 26 15 Rushes-yards 68-452 29-116 Passing 82 246 Comp-Att-Int 4-8-0 15-34-0 Return Yards 16 37 Punts-Avg. 4-43.8 5-50.0 Fumbles-Lost 2-0 2-2 5-45 7-59 Penalties-Yards Time of Possession 40:39 19:21 INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS RUSHING-Georgia Southern, Upshaw 12-199, W.Fields 9-75, K.Ellison 13-70, Breida 15-68, Ramsby 12-44, Keaton 1-15, Thornton 2-(minus 3), Team 4-(minus 16). Bowling Green, Tra.Greene 10-79, Coppet 10-29, Moore 1-6, M.Johnson 8-2.

PASSING-Georgia Southern, K.Ellison 3-5-0-65, Upshaw 1-3-0-17.

Bowling Green, M.Johnson 15-34-0246.

RECEIVING-Georgia Southern, Crockett 1-31, W.Fields 1-17, B.Johnson 1-17, K.Williams 1-17.

Bowling Green, Moore 5-83, G.Dieter 5-76, Lewis 3-68, Redding 1-24, Miller 1-(minus 5).

Dec. 19 — Montana, W 88-46 (9-1) Today — at San Diego State, W 70-57 (10-1) Dec. 29 — UC Irvine, 8 p.m.

Jan. 2 — Baylor, 3 p.m.

Jan. 4 — Oklahoma, 8 p.m.

Jan. 9 — at Texas Tech, 8 p.m.

Jan. 12 — at West Virginia, 6 p.m.

Jan. 16 — TCU, 1 p.m.

Jan. 19 — at Oklahoma State, 6 p.m.

Jan. 23 — Texas, 1 p.m.

Jan. 25 —at Iowa State, 8 p.m.

Jan. 30 — Kentucky in Big 12/SEC Challenge, Allen Fieldhouse, TBA Feb. 3 — Kansas State, 8 p.m.

Feb. 6 — at TCU, 11 a.m.

Feb. 9 — West Virginia, 6 p.m.

Feb. 13 — at Oklahoma, 1 p.m.

Feb. 15 — Oklahoma State, 8 p.m.

Feb. 20 — at Kansas State, 5 p.m.

Feb. 23 —at Baylor, 7 p.m.

Feb. 27 — Texas Tech, 11 a.m. or 1 p.m.

Feb. 29 — at Texas, 8 p.m.

March 5 — Iowa State, TBA March 9-12 — Big 12 tournament at Kansas City, Mo.

Kansas Women

Nov. 1 — Pittsburg State (exhibition), W 80-54 Nov. 8 — Emporia State (exhibition), W 68-57 Nov. 15 — Texas Southern, W 72-65 (1-0) Nov. 19 — Memphis, W 72-63 (2-0) Nov. 23 — at Arizona, L 67-52 (2-1) Nov. 27 — N. Illinois at SMU Thanksgiving Classic, W 66-58 (3-1) Nov. 28 — SMU at SMU Thanksgiving Classic, L 64-73 (3-2) Dec. 2 — Creighton, W 67-54 (4-2) Dec. 6 — St. John’s, L 71-86 (4-3) Dec. 10 — UMKC, L 44-47 (4-4) Dec. 13 — Navy, W 61-54, OT (5-4) Dec. 20 — Washington State, L 53-66 (5-5) Dec. 22 — Oral Roberts, L 63-70 (5-6) Dec. 30 — at Oklahoma, 7 p.m.

Jan. 3 — West Virginia, TBA Jan. 6 — Baylor, TBA Jan. 9 — at Iowa State, TBA Jan. 13 — Texas, TBA Jan. 16 — at West Virginia, TBA Jan. 20 — Kansas State, TBA Jan. 24 — Oklahoma State, TBA Jan. 27 — at Texas, TBA Jan. 30 — at Texas Tech, TBA Feb. 2 — Iowa State, TBA

Feb. 6 — at Baylor, TBA Feb. 13 — at Kansas State, TBA Feb. 17 — TCU, TBA Feb. 20 — Oklahoma, TBA Feb. 24 — at Oklahoma State, TBA Feb. 27 — Texas Tech, TBA Feb. 29 — at TCU, TBA March 4-7 — Big 12 tournament at Oklahoma City

NFL

AMERICAN CONFERENCE East

W L T Pct PF PA y-New England 12 2 0 .857 435 269 N.Y. Jets 9 5 0 .643 344 272 Buffalo 6 8 0 .429 341 336 Miami 5 9 0 .357 278 361 South

W L T Pct PF PA Houston 7 7 0 .500 275 301 Indianapolis 6 8 0 .429 285 372 Jacksonville 5 9 0 .357 343 380 Tennessee 3 11 0 .214 269 359 North

W L T Pct PF PA x-Cincinnati 11 3 0 .786 378 243 Pittsburgh 9 5 0 .643 378 287 Baltimore 4 10 0 .286 292 360 Cleveland 3 11 0 .214 253 387 West

W L T Pct PF PA Denver 10 4 0 .714 308 259 Kansas City 9 5 0 .643 365 257 Oakland 6 8 0 .429 319 356 San Diego 4 10 0 .286 280 348 NATIONAL CONFERENCE East

W L T Pct PF PA Washington 7 7 0 .500 316 332 Philadelphia 6 8 0 .429 318 362 N.Y. Giants 6 8 0 .429 373 358 Dallas 4 10 0 .286 246 324 South

W L T Pct PF PA y-Carolina 14 0 0 1.000 449 278 Atlanta 7 7 0 .500 302 312 Tampa Bay 6 8 0 .429 311 353 New Orleans 5 9 0 .357 350 432 North

W L T Pct PF PA x-Green Bay 10 4 0 .714 347 265 Minnesota 9 5 0 .643 296 272 Detroit 5 9 0 .357 302 363 Chicago 5 9 0 .357 289 352 West

W L T Pct PF PA y-Arizona 12 2 0 .857 445 269 x-Seattle 9 5 0 .643 370 248 St. Louis 6 8 0 .429 241 294 San Francisco 4 10 0 .286 202 339 x-clinched playoff spot y-clinched division Today’s Game San Diego at Oakland, 7:25 p.m.

Saturday’s Game Washington at Philadelphia, 7:25 p.m.

Sunday’s Games Houston at Tennessee, noon Cleveland at Kansas City, noon New England at N.Y. Jets, noon Indianapolis at Miami, noon San Francisco at Detroit, noon Dallas at Buffalo, noon Chicago at Tampa Bay, noon Carolina at Atlanta, noon Pittsburgh at Baltimore, noon Jacksonville at New Orleans, 3:05 p.m.

St. Louis at Seattle, 3:25 p.m.

Green Bay at Arizona, 3:25 p.m.

N.Y. Giants at Minnesota, 7:30 p.m.

Monday’s Game Cincinnati at Denver, 7:30 p.m.

College Bowl Schedule

Today Bahamas Bowl Nassau Middle Tennessee (7-5) vs. Western Michigan (7-5), 11 a.m. (ESPN) Hawaii Bowl Honolulu Cincinnati (7-5) vs. San Diego St. (103), 7 p.m. (ESPN) Saturday, Dec. 26 St. Petersburg (Fla.) Bowl Marshall (9-3) vs. UConn (6-6), 10 a.m. (ESPN) Sun Bowl El Paso, Texas Miami (8-4) vs. Washington St. (8-4), 1 p.m. (CBS) Heart of Dallas Bowl Washington (6-6) vs. Southern Mississippi (9-4), 2:20 p.m. (ESPN) Pinstripe Bowl Bronx, N.Y. Duke (7-5) vs. Indiana (6-6), 2:30 p.m. (ABC) Independence Bowl Shreveport, La. Virginia Tech (6-6) vs. Tulsa (6-6), 4:45 p.m. (ESPN) Foster Farms Bowl Santa Clara, Calif.

Nebraska (5-7) vs. UCLA (8-4), 8:15 p.m. (ESPN) Monday, Dec. 28 Military Bowl Annapolis, Md. Navy (9-2) vs. Pittsburgh (8-4), 1:30 p.m. (ESPN) Quick Lane Bowl Detroit Central Michigan (7-5) vs. Minnesota (5-7), 4 p.m. (ESPN2) Tuesday, Dec. 29 Armed Forces Bowl Fort Worth, Texas Air Force (8-5) vs. California (7-5), 1 p.m. (ESPN) Russell Athletic Bowl Orlando, Fla. North Carolina (11-2) vs. Baylor (9-3), 4:30 p.m. (ESPN) Arizona Bowl Tucson Nevada (6-6) vs. Colorado St. (7-5), 6:30 p.m. (TBA) Texas Bowl Houston Texas Tech (7-5) vs. LSU (8-3), 8 p.m. (ESPN) Wednesday, Dec. 30 Birmingham (Ala.) Bowl Auburn (6-6) vs. Memphis (9-3), 11 a.m. (ESPN) Belk Bowl Charlotte, N.C. NC State (7-5) vs. Mississippi St. (8-4), 2:30 p.m. (ESPN) Music City Bowl Nashville, Tenn.

Louisville (7-5) vs. Texas A&M (8-4), 6 p.m. (ESPN) Holiday Bowl San Diego Wisconsin (9-3) vs. Southern Cal (8-5), 9:30 p.m. (ESPN) Thursday, Dec. 31 Peach Bowl Atlanta Houston (12-1) vs. Florida St. (10-2), 11 a.m. (ESPN) Orange Bowl (Playoff Semifinal) Miami Gardens, Fla. Clemson (13-0) vs. Oklahoma (11-1), 3 p.m. (ESPN) Cotton Bowl Classic (Playoff Semifinal) Arlington, Texas Alabama (12-1) vs. Michigan St. (121), 7 p.m. (ESPN) Friday, Jan. 1 Outback Bowl Tampa, Fla. Northwestern (10-2) vs. Tennessee (8-4), 11 a.m. (ESPN2) Citrus Bowl Orlando, Fla. Michigan (9-3) vs. Florida (10-3), noon (ABC) Fiesta Bowl Glendale, Ariz.

Notre Dame (10-2) vs. Ohio St. (11-1), noon (ESPN) Rose Bowl Pasadena, Calif.

Iowa (12-1) vs. Stanford (11-2), 4 p.m. (ESPN)

Sugar Bowl New Orleans Oklahoma St. (10-2) vs. Mississippi (9-3), 7:30 p.m. (ESPN) Saturday, Jan. 2 TaxSlayer Bowl Jacksonville, Fla. Penn St. (7-5) vs. Georgia (9-3), 11 a.m. (ESPN) Liberty Bowl, Memphis, Tenn.

Kansas St. (6-6) vs. Arkansas (7-5), 2:20 p.m. (ESPN) Alamo Bowl San Antonio Oregon (9-3) vs. TCU (10-2), 5:45 p.m. (ESPN) Cactus Bowl Phoenix West Virginia (7-5) vs. Arizona St. (6-6), 9:15 p.m. (ESPN) Monday, Jan. 11 College Football Championship Game Glendale, Ariz.

Orange Bowl winner vs. Cotton Bowl winner, 7:30 p.m. (ESPN) Saturday, Jan. 23 East-West Shrine Classic At St. Petersburg, Fla. East vs. West, 3 p.m. (NFLN) NFLPA Collegiate Bowl At Carson, Calif.

National vs. American, 5 p.m.

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BASEBALL COMMISSIONER’S OFFICE — Suspended Pittsburgh RHP Clario Perez 80 games (Altoona-EL), Minnesota C Kerby Camacho (GCL Twins) and N.Y. Mets SS Jose Martinez (GCL Mets) 60 games and Baltimore LHP Will Dennis 50 games for violating the Minor League Drug Prevention and Treatment Program.

American League BALTIMORE ORIOLES — Agreed to terms with OF Hyun Soo Kim on a twoyear contract.

CHICAGO WHITE SOX — Claimed OF Jerry Sands off waivers from Cleveland.

DETROIT TIGERS — Agreed to terms with INF Alberto Gonzalez, OF Nate Schierholtz, INF/OF Jordany Valdespin and RHPs Logan Kensing, Melvin Mercedes and Dustin Molleken on minor league contracts.

HOUSTON ASTROS — Claimed RHP Danny Reynolds off waivers from the L.A. Dodgers.

LOS ANGELES ANGELS — Claimed LHP Rob Rasmussen off waivers from Seattle.

SEATTLE MARINERS — Assigned OF Dan Robertson outright to Tacoma (PCL).

National League CHICAGO CUBS — Released INF Brendan Ryan. Claimed LHP Edgar Olmos off waivers from Baltimore.

MILWAUKEE BREWERS — Claimed OF Kirk Nieuwenhuis off waivers from the N.Y. Mets and 1B Andy Wilkins from Texas.

NEW YORK METS — Assigned C Johnny Monell outright to Las Vegas (PCL). Agreed to terms with OF Alejandro De Aza on a one-year contract.

PITTSBURGH PIRATES — Agreed to terms with 1B/OF John Jaso on a twoyear contract. Claimed RHP Yoervis Medina off waivers from the Chicago Cubs.

WASHINGTON NATIONALS — Agreed to terms with C Jhonatan Solano on a minor league contract.

Can-Am League NEW JERSEY JACKALS — Signed RHP Danny Moskovits.

BASKETBALL National Basketball Association WASHINGTON WIZARDS — Waived C Ryan Hollins. Signed G/F Jarell Eddie.

FOOTBALL National Football League NFL — Fined Carolina CB Josh Norman $26,044 for his actions during last week’s game.

ATLANTA FALCONS — Signed G Collin Rahrig to the practice squad.

BUFFALO BILLS — Signed S Jonathan Dowling to the practice squad.

CLEVELAND BROWNS — Placed WR Andrew Hawkins on injured reserve.

Signed LB Jayson DiManche from the practice squad and OL Conor Boffeli to the practice squad.

DALLAS COWBOYS — Signed LB Derek Akunne and CB Buddy Jackson to the practice squad.

DENVER BRONCOS — Placed S David Bruton on injured reserve. Signed DB Shaun Prater.

HOUSTON TEXANS — Placed LB Tony Washington Jr. on the practice squad-injured list. Signed LB Jordan Dewalt-Ondijo to the practice squad.

INDIANAPOLIS COLTS — Signed LB Edwin Jackson to the practice squad.

MIAMI DOLPHINS — Signed RB Jahwan Edwards to the practice squad.

NEW YORK GIANTS — Placed FB Nikita Whitlock on injured reserve.

Re-signed S Brandon Meriweather OAKLAND RAIDERS — Placed DE Mario Edwards Jr. on injured reserve.

Signed LB John Lotulelei from the practice squad.

SAN DIEGO CHARGERS — Placed RB Melvin Gordon on injured reserve.

Signed RB Dreamius Smith from the practice squad and P Kasey Redfern to the practice squad.

SAN FRANCISCO 49ERS — Waived RB Travaris Cadet. Signed RB DuJuan Harris from the practice squad.

SEATTLE SEAHAWKS — Released DT Justin Hamilton from the practice squad. Signed WRs Deshon Foxx and Antwan Goodley to the practice squad.

TAMPA BAY BUCCANEERS — Signed WR Evan Spencer from the practice squad and WR Andre Davis to the practice squad.

TENNESSEE TITANS — Released WR Rico Richardson and QB Mike Kafka from the practice squad. Signed WR Gavin Lutman and QB Bryn Renner to the practice squad.

Arena Football League ORLANDO PREDATORS — Agreed to terms with DE Donte Paige-Moss.

HOCKEY National Hockey League ARIZONA COYOTES — Signed RW Conor Garland to a three-year, entrylevel contract.

DETROIT RED WINGS — Assigned D Xavier Ouellet to Grand Rapids (AHL).

FLORIDA PANTHERS — Assigned D Josh Brown from Portland (AHL) to Manchester (ECHL).

MINNESOTA WILD — Assigned D Guillaume Gelinas from Iowa (AHL) to Quad City (ECHL).

NEW YORK RANGERS — Assigned G Magnus Hellberg and D Chris Summers to Hartford (AHL).

ST. LOUIS BLUES — Assigned F Jordan Caron to Chicago (AHL).

SOCCER U.S. SOCCER — Named John Hackworth U-17 men’s national team coach.

Major League Soccer NEW YORK RED BULLS — Signed Ms Chris Thorsheim and Mael Corboz and M/D Scott Thomsen.

COLLEGE EAST CAROLINA — Named Kenwick Thompson defensive coordinator, Deke Adams defensive line coach, Phil McGeoghan wide receivers coach and Terrell Smith assistant athletics director for football operations.

MISSOURI — Reinstated senior QB Maty Mauk to the football team.

TCU — Announced basketball G Alex Robinson has transferred from Texas A&M.

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By Dave Skretta AP Sports Writer

Kansas City, Mo. — Marcus Peters has been on a mission ever since the Kansas City Chiefs took the talented cornerback with the checkered background in the first round of the draft.

To prove the volatile temper that got him kicked off his college team had been tempered by time.

To prove the Chiefs were not foolish to spend such a high pick on him.

To prove he can be one of the best defensive backs in the league.

So far, he’s been able to prove each of them.

After his second pick-6 of the season on Sunday in Baltimore, Peters has firmly placed himself in the defensive rookie of the year race. He was just voted to the Pro Bowl, and was the AFC defensive player of the week after helping Kansas City to its eighth straight victory.

“He’s had a great year, there’s no question,” Chiefs quarterback Alex Smith said. “I don’t know how many turnovers he’s generated, but they’re huge. He battles all the time, and his attitude seems to have spread throughout the team. It’s very rare for a young guy to have such a great attitude.”

With two picks of Ravens quarterback Jimmy Clausen, Peters has seven interceptions on the season — one more than the entire Chiefs roster managed last season.

He also has 23 passes defended, and one of those ricocheted to linebacker Derrick Johnson for another interception.

Nick Wass/AP Photo

KANSAS CITY CHIEFS CORNERBACK MARCUS PETERS (22) runs past Baltimore quarterback Jimmy Clausen after intercepting Clausen’s pass for a touchdown Sunday in Baltimore.

Throw in the fumble that Peters forced and he is responsible for at least nine turnovers this season.

To put that into perspective, three teams have managed fewer interceptions than Peters, and two more are tied with him. He’s had more touchdown returns than all but six defenses in the league.

Those nine takeaways?

It’s the same number Dallas has produced.

Peters has done it all with youthful exuberance bordering on flamboyance. Case in point was his 90-yard TD return against the Ravens, which he celebrated by breaking

into Ray Lewis’ celebratory dance.

It was homage to the retired Pro Bowl linebacker, Peters said, and not a slight.

“Playing in his house — he was here for a long time, and he did a very good job. So that’s an honor and salute to Ray Lewis,” Peters said. “I knew if I got a pick I was going to do it.”

That play and celebration capture perfectly the Chiefs cornerback.

His talent has never been in question, all the way back to his days leading McClymond’s to its first perfect season as a high school senior in

Oakland, California. After a redshirt season at Washington, his talent allowed him to become one of the best defensive backs in the Pac-12.

But a coaching change didn’t sit well with him, and Peters got into several arguments with new boss Chris Peterson. He was ultimately kicked off the Huskies team during his senior season.

At that point, his story could have gone two ways: He could have continued a spiral and his career could have been finished, or he could have taken the difficult road of atonement.

He did the latter.

Peters made amends with Peterson, who did not allow him back on the team but at least allowed him the use of Washington’s workout facilities.

He became a model citizen off the field, maturing even more rapidly once his newborn arrived, and impressed most NFL teams when he discussed all the issues that he had at Washington during the NFL’s scouting combine.

The Chiefs were among the teams that talked to him. Still, they decided to send personnel to spend time with Peters in Oakland shortly before the draft, just to be certain of his character.

“It’s the way he carries himself, the way he goes about his work,” Chiefs coach Andy Reid said. “We’re not a big hazing team and all of those things anyway with rookies. We expect them to come in and play and produce.

“And so that’s what I think they see, a kid whose dad was a coach and he grew up around it and has a pretty good feeling for the game, and then he’s making plays on the field.”

Right from the start, too. He had an interception on his first NFL play against Houston, and then had his first pick-6 against Peyton Manning and the Broncos in Week 2.

Now, with the Chiefs (9-5) in playoff position heading into their final two games — at home against Cleveland and Oakland — Peters is putting the finishing touches on a memorable rookie season.

“Rookies at about this time in the year, they’re kind of working through that wall, that rookie wall where their season’s over and they’re resting up for bowl games,” Reid said. “He’s pushing through that and doing a good job with it. He’s a competitive kid — he’s having a good year.”

Notes: Pro Bowl LB Tamba Hali had three small screws inserted to repair his broken right thumb, though trainer Rick Burkholder said he could play Sunday against Cleveland. ...

WR De’Anthony Thomas was expected to practice after missing three games with a concussion.

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MV TRANSPORTATION ......................... 25

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(First published in the ALL PERSONS CONCERNED: Lawrence Daily Journal World, December 24, 2015) You are hereby notified that on December 16, 2015, IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF a Petition was filed in this DOUGLAS COUNTY, Court by Albert B. Wurtz, KANSAS an heir, devisee, and legatee and executor named in In the Matter of the the Last Will and TestaEstate of: ment, praying the will filed RITA L. WURTZ, with the Petition be admitDeceased. ted to probate and record; and that Albert B. Wurtz be Case No. 2007 PR 185 appointed as executor, Division No. I without bond.

which time and place the cause will be heard.

Should you fail therein, judgment and decree will be entered in due course upon the Petition.

All creditors are notified to exhibit their demands against the estate within four (4) months from the date of the first publication of this notice, as provided by law, and if their demands are not thus exhibited, they shall be forProceeding Under You are required to file ever barred.

K.S.A. Chapter 59 your written defenses ALBERT B. WURTZ, thereto on or before the Petitioner NOTICE OF HEARING AND 14th day of January, 2016, NOTICE TO CREDITORS at 10:00 o’clock a.m., in the COLLISTER & District Court in Lawrence, KAMPSCHROEDER THE STATE OF KANSAS TO Douglas County, Kansas, at Attorneys at Law

3311 Clinton Parkway Ct Lawrence, Kansas 66047-2631 Phone:(785) 842-3126 Fax:(758) 842-3878 E-mail: collkamp@sbcglobal.net ATTORNEYS FOR PETITIONER ______

Deceased.

Case No. 2015 PR 203 Division No. I Proceeding Under K.S.A. Chapter 59 NOTICE OF HEARING AND NOTICE TO CREDITORS

THE STATE OF KANSAS TO ALL PERSONS CONCERNED: (First published in the Lawrence Daily Journal You are hereby notified World, December 24, 2015) that on December 16, 2015, a Petition was filed in this IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF Court by David NottingDOUGLAS COUNTY, ham, an heir, devisee, and KANSAS legatee and executor named in the Last Will and In the Matter of the Testament, praying the Estate of: will filed with the Petition DORIS I. NOTTINGHAM, be admitted to probate

and record; and that David tion of this notice, as pro- (First published in the Nottingham be appointed vided by law, and if their Lawrence Daily Journalas executor, without bond. demands are not thus ex- World December 24, 2015) hibited, they shall be forYou are required to file ever barred.

IN THE 7th JUDICIAL your written defenses DISTRICT thereto on or before the DAVID NOTTINGHAM, DISTRICT COURT OF 14th day of January, 2016, Petitioner DOUGLAS COUNTY, at 10:15 o’clock a.m., in the KANSAS District Court in Lawrence, COLLISTER & Douglas County, Kansas, at KAMPSCHROEDER IN THE MATTER OF THE which time and place the Attorneys at Law PETITION OF cause will be heard. 3311 Clinton Parkway Ct Should you fail therein, Lawrence, Kansas Thomas Allen Brown judgment and decree will 66047-2631 Present Name be entered in due course Phone:(785) 842-3126 upon the Petition.

Fax:(758) 842-3878 To Change His Name To: E-mail: Thomas Allen DeCoste All creditors are notified to collkamp@sbcglobal.net exhibit their demands against the estate within ATTORNEYS FOR four (4) months from the PETITIONER date of the first publica_______

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New Name Case No. 15CV450 Div. No. 5 PURSUANT TO K.S.A. CHAPTER 60 NOTICE OF HEARING THE STATE OF KANSAS TO ALL WHO ARE OR MAY BE CONCERNED: You are hereby notified that Thomas Allen Brown, filed a Petition in Douglas County District Court, Douglas County, Kansas, on the 22nd day of December, 2015, requesting a judgment and order changing his name from Thomas Allen Brown to Thomas Allen DeCoste.

The said Petition will be heard in Douglas County District Court, Douglas County, Kansas, 11th St, Lawrence, KS on the 12th day of February 2016, at 4:30 p.m.

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By Charles Dickens

MARLEY’S GHOST Marley was dead, to begin with. There is no doubt whatsoever about that. The register of his burial was signed by the clergyman, the clerk, the undertaker, and the chief mourner.

Scrooge signed it. And Scrooge’s name was good upon change for anything he chose to put his hand to.

Old Marley was dead as a doornail.

Scrooge never painted out old Marley’s name, however. There it yet stood, years afterwards, above the warehouse door Scrooge and Marley. The firm was known as Scrooge and Marley. Sometimes people new to the business called Scrooge Scrooge, and sometimes Marley. He answered to both names. It was all the same to him.

Oh! But he was a tight-fisted hand at the grindstone, was Scrooge! A squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, clutching, covetous old sinner! External heat and cold had little influence on him. No warmth could warm, no cold could chill him. No wind that blew was bitterer than he, no falling snow was more intent upon its purpose, no pelting rain less open to entreaty. Foul weather didn’t know where to have him. The heaviest rain and snow and hail and sleet could boast of the advantage over him in only one respect — they often came down handsomely, and Scrooge never did.

Nobody ever stopped him in the street to say, with gladsome looks, “My dear Scrooge, how are you? When will you come to see me?”

No beggars implored him to bestow a trifle, no children asked him what it was o’clock, no man or woman ever once in all his life inquired the way to such and such a place, of Scrooge. Even the blind men’s dogs appeared to know him, and when they saw him coming on, would tug their owners into doorways and up courts; and then would wag their tails as though they said, “No eyes at all is better than an evil eye, dark master!”

But what did Scrooge care! It was the very thing he liked. To edge his way along the crowded paths of life, warning all human sympathy to keep its distance, was what the knowing ones call “nuts” to Scrooge.

Once upon a time of all the good days in the year, upon a Christmas Eve, old Scrooge sat busy in his counting-house. It was cold, bleak, biting, foggy weather; and the city clocks had only just gone three, but it was quite dark already.

The door of Scrooge’s counting-house was open, that he might keep his eye upon his clerk, who in a dismal little cell beyond, a sort of tank, was copying letters. Scrooge had a very small fire, but the clerk’s fire was so very much smaller that it looked like one coal. But he couldn’t replenish it, for Scrooge kept the coal box in his own room; and so surely as the clerk came in with the shovel, the master predicted it would be necessary for them to part. Wherefore the clerk put on his white comforter and tried to warm himself at the candle, in which effort, not being a man of strong imagination, he failed.

“A Merry Christmas, uncle! God save you” cried a cheerful voice. It was the voice of Scrooge’s nephew, who came upon him so quickly that this was the first intimation Scrooge had of his approach.

“Bah,” said Scrooge; “humbug!”

“Christmas a humbug, uncle! You can’t mean that, I am sure?”

“I do. Out upon Merry Christmas! What’s Christmas time to you but a time for paying bills without money; a time for finding yourself

a year older, and not an hour richer; a time for balancing your books and having every item in `em through a round dozen of months presented dead against you? If I had my will, every idiot who goes about with `Merry Christmas’ on his lips should be boiled with his own pudding, and buried with a stake of holly through his heart. He should!”

“Uncle!”

“Nephew, keep Christmas in your own way, and let me keep it in mine.”

“Keep it! But you don’t keep it.”

“Let me leave it alone, then. Much good may it do you! Much good it has ever done you!”

“There are many things from which I might have derived good, by which I have not profited, I dare say. Christmas among the rest. But I am sure I have always thought of Christmas time, when it has come around apart from the veneration due to its sacred origin, if anything belonging to it can be apart from that, as a good time; a kind, forgiving, charitable, pleasant time; the only time I know of, in the long calendar of the year when men and women seem by one consent to open their shut-up hearts freely, and to think of people below them as if they really were fellowtravelers to the grave, and not another race of creatures bound on other journeys. And, therefore, uncle, though it has never put a scrap of gold or silver in my pocket, I believe that it has done me good, and will do me good; and I say, God bless it!”

The clerk in the tank involuntarily applauded.

“Let me hear another sound from you,” said Scrooge, “and you’ll keep your Christmas by losing your situation! You’re quite a powerful speaker, sir,” he added, turning to his nephew.

“I wonder you don’t go into Parliament.”

“Don’t be angry, uncle. Come! Dine with us tomorrow.”

Scrooge said that he would see him yes, indeed he did. He went the whole length of the expression, and said that he would see him in the extremity first.

“But why?” cried Scrooge’s nephew. “Why?” “Why did you get married?”

“Because I fell in love!”

“Because you fell in love!” growled Scrooge, as if that were the only one thing in the world more ridiculous than a merry Christmas.

“Good afternoon!”

“Nay, uncle, but you never came to see me before that happened. Why give it as a reason for not coming now?”

“Good afternoon.”

“I want nothing from you; I ask nothing of you; why cannot we be friends?”

“Good afternoon.”

“I am sorry, with all my heart, to find you so resolute. We have never had any quarrel, to which I have been a party. But I have made the trial in homage to Christmas, and I’ll keep my Christmas humour to the last. So a Merry Christmas, uncle!”

“Good afternoon!”

“And a Happy New Year!”

“Good afternoon!”

• His nephew left the room without an angry word, notwithstanding. The clerk, in letting Scrooge’s nephew out, had let two other people in. They were portly gentlemen, pleasant to behold, and now stood with their hats off, in Scrooge’s office. They had books and papers in their hands, and bowed to him.

“Scrooge’s and Marley’s, I believe,” said one of the gentlemen, referring to his list. “Have I the pleasure of addressing Mr. Scrooge or Mr.

Marley?”

“Mr. Marley has been dead these seven years. He died seven years ago, this very night.”

“At this festive season of the year, Mr. Scrooge,” said the gentleman, taking up a pen. “It is more than usually desirable that we should make some slight provision for the poor and destitute, who suffer greatly at the present time. Many thousands are in want of common necessities; hundreds of thousands are in want of common comforts, sir.”

“Are there no prisons?”

“Plenty of prisons. But under the impression that they scarcely furnish Christian cheer of mind or body to the unoffending multitude, a few of us are endeavoring to raise a fund to buy the poor some meat and drink, and means of warmth. We choose this time, because it is a time, of all others, when Want is keenly felt, and Abundance rejoices. What shall I put you

down for?”

“Nothing!”

“You wish to be anonymous?”

“I wish to be left alone. Since you ask me what I wish, gentlemen, that is my answer. I don’t make merry myself at Christmas, and I can’t afford to make the idle people merry.

I help to support the prisons and the workhouses they cost enough and those who are badly off must go there.”

“Many can’t go there, and many would rather die.”

“If they would rather die, they had better do it, and decrease the surplus population.”

At length, the hour of shutting up the counting-house arrived. With an ill-will, Scrooge, dismounting from his stool, tacitly admitted the fact to the expectant clerk in the tank, who instantly snuffed his candle out, and put on his hat.

“You want all day tomorrow, I suppose?”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

-Author Unknown

We wish you a Blessed Holiday Season!

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“If quite convenient, sir.”

“It’s not convenient, and it’s not fair. If I was to stop half a crown for it, you’d think yourself mightily ill-used, I’ll be bound?”

“Yes, sir.”

“And yet you don’t think me ill-used, when I pay a day’s wages for no work.”

“It’s only once a year, sir.”

“A poor excuse for picking a man’s pocket every twenty-fifth of December! But I suppose you must have the whole day. Be here all the earlier next morning.”

The clerk promised that he would, and Scrooge walked out with a growl. The office was closed in a twinkling, and the clerk, with the long ends of his white comforter dangling below his waist (for he boasted no great-coat), went down a slide, at the end of a lane of boys, twenty times, in honour of its being Christmas Eve, and then ran home as hard as he could pelt, to play at blindman’s bluff.

• Scrooge took his melancholy dinner in his usual melancholy tavern; and having read all the newspapers, and beguiled the rest of the evening with his banker’s book, went home to bed. He lived in chambers which had once belonged to his deceased partner. They were a gloomy suite of rooms, in a lowering pile of building, up a yard. The building was old enough now, and dreary enough; for nobody lived in it but Scrooge, the other rooms being all let out as offices.

Now it is a fact, that there was nothing at all particular about the knocker on the door of this house, except that it was very large; also that Scrooge had seen it night and morning, during his whole residence in that place; also that Scrooge had as little of what is called fancy about him as any man in the city of London.

And yet Scrooge, having his key in the lock of the door, saw in the knocker, without its undergoing any intermediate process of change, not a knocker, but Marley’s face.

Marley’s face, with a dismal light about it, like a bad lobster in a dark cellar. It was not angry or ferocious, but it looked at Scrooge as Marley used to look, ghostly spectacles turned up upon its ghostly forehead.

As Scrooge looked fixedly at this phenomenon, it was a knocker again. He said, “Pooh, pooh!” and closed the door with a bang.

The sound resounded through the house like thunder. Every room above, and every cask in the wine-merchant’s cellars below, appeared to have a separate peal of echoes of its own. Scrooge was not a man to be frightened by echoes. He fastened the door and walked across the hall and up the stairs. Slowly too, trimming his candle as he went.

Up Scrooge went, not caring a button for its being very dark. Darkness is cheap, and Scrooge liked it. But before he shut his heavy door, he walked through his rooms to see that all was right. He had just enough recollection of the face to desire to do that.

Sitting-room, bedroom, lumber-room, all as they should be. Nobody under the table, nobody under the sofa; a small fire in the grate; spoon and basin ready; and the little saucepan of gruel (Scrooge had a cold in his head) upon the hob. Nobody under the bed) nobody in the closet; nobody in his dressing gown, which was hanging up in a suspicious attitude against the wall. Lumber-room as usual. Old fireguards, old shoes, two fish-baskets, washingstand on three legs, and a poker.

Quite satisfied, he closed his door, and locked himself in; doublelocked himself in, which was not his custom. Thus secured against surprise, he took off his cravat, put on his dressing-gown and slippers and his nightcap, and sat down before the very low fire to take his gruel.

• As he threw his head back in the chair, his glance happened to rest upon a bell, a disused bell, that hung in the room, and communicated, for some purpose now forgotten, with a chamber in the highest story of the building. It was with great astonishment, and with a strange, inexplicable dread, that, as he looked, he saw this bell begin to swing.

Soon it rang out loudly, and so did every bell in the house.

This was succeeded by a clanking noise, deep down below as if some person were dragging a heavy chain over the casks in the wine merchant’s cellar.

Then he heard the noise, much louder, on the floors below; then coming up the stairs; then coming straight toward his door.

It came on through the heavy door, and a spectre passed into the room before his eyes.

And upon its coming in, the dying flame leaped up, as though it cried, “I know him!

Marley’s ghost!”

The same face, the very same. Marley in his pigtail, usual waist-coat, tights and boots,.

His body was transparent, so that Scrooge, observing him and looking through his waist-

coat, could see the two buttons on his coat behind.

Scrooge had often heard it said that Marley had no bowels, but he never believed it until now.

No, nor did he believe it even now. Though he looked the phantom through and through, and saw it standing before him, though he felt the chilling influence of its death-cold eyes, and noticed the very texture of the folded kerchief bound about its head and chin, he was still incredulous.

“How now!” said Scrooge, caustic and cold as ever. “What do you want with me?”

“Much!” Marley’s voice, no doubt about it.

“Who are you?”

“Ask me who I was.”

“Who were you then?”

“In life I was your partner, Jacob Marley.”

“Can you, can you sit down?”

“I can.”

“Do it, then.”

Scrooge asked the question, because he didn’t know whether a ghost so transparent might find himself in a condition to take a chair, and felt that in the event of its being impossible, it might involve the necessity of an embarrassing explanation. But the ghost sat down on the opposite side of the fireplace, as if he were quite used to it.

“You don’t believe in me.”

“I don’t.”

“What evidence would you have of my reality beyond that of your senses?”

“I don’t know.”

“Why do you doubt your senses?”

“Because a little thing affects them. A slight disorder of the stomach makes them cheat.

You may be an undigested bit of beef, a blot of mustard, a crumb of cheese, a fragment of an underdone potato. There’s more of gravy than grave about you, whatever you are!”

• Scrooge was not much in the habit of cracking jokes, nor did he feel in his heart by any means waggish then. The truth is, that he tried to be smart as a means of distracting his own attention and keeping down his horror.

But how much greater was his horror when, the phantom taking off the bandage round its head, as if it were too warm to wear indoors, its lower jaw dropped down upon its breast!

“Mercy! Dreadful apparition, why do you trouble me? Why do spirits walk the earth, and why do they come to me?”

“It is required of every man that the spirit within him should walk abroad among his fellow men, and travel far and wide; and if that spirit goes not forth in life, it is condemned to do so after death. I cannot tell you all I would.

A very little more is permitted to me. I cannot rest, I cannot stay, I cannot linger anywhere.

My spirit never walked beyond our counting house, mark me! In life my spirit never roved beyond the narrow limits of our money changing hole, and weary journeys lie before me!”

“Seven years dead. And traveling all the time? You travel fast?”

“On the wings of the wind.”

“You might have got over a great quantity of ground in seven years.”

“O’blind man, blind man! Not to know that ages of incessant labour by immortal creatures for this earth must pass into eternity before the good of which it is susceptible is all developed.

Not to know that any Christian spirit working kindly in its little sphere whatever it may be, will find its mortal life too short for its vast means of usefulness. Not to know that no space of regret can make amends for one life’s opportunities misused! Yet I was like this man; I once was like this man!”

“But you were always a good man of business, Jacob,” faltered Scrooge, who now began to apply this to himself.

• “Business!” cried the Ghost, wringing its hands again. “Mankind was my business. The common welfare was by business; charity, mercy, forbearance, benevolence, were all my business. The dealings of my trade were but a drop of water in the comprehensive ocean of my business!”

Scrooge was very much dismayed to hear the spectre going on at this rate and began to quake exceedingly.

“Hear me! My time is near gone.”

“I will. But don’t be hard upon me! Don’t be flowery, Jacob! Pray!”

“I am here tonight to warn you that you have yet a chance and hope of escaping my fate. A chance and hope of my procuring, Ebenezer.”

“You were always a good friend to me.

Thank’ee!”

“You will be haunted by Three Spirits.”

“Is that the chance and hope you mentioned, Jacob? I, I think I’d rather not.”

“Without their visits, you cannot hope to shun the path I tread. Expect the first tomorrow night, when the bell tolls ONE.

Expect the second on the next night at the same hour. The third, upon the next night, when the last stroke of Twelve has ceased to vibrate. Look to see me no more; and look that, for your own sake, you remember what has passed between us!”

It walked backward from him and at every step it took, the window raised itself a little, so that when the apparition reached it, it was wide open.

• Scrooge closed the window, and examined the door by which the ghost had entered. It was double-locked, as he had locked it with his own hands, and the bolts were undisturbed.

Scrooge tried to say, “Humbug!” but stopped at the first syllable. And being, from the emotion he had undergone, or the fatigues of the day, or the glimpse of the invisible world, or the dull conversation of the Ghost, or the lateness of the hour, much in need of repose, he went straight to bed, without undressing, and fell asleep on the instant.

THE FIRST OF THE THREE SPIRITS When Scrooge awoke, it was so dark, that looking out of bed, he could scarcely distinguish the transparent window from the opaque walls of his chamber, until suddenly the church clock tolled a deep, dull, hollow, melancholy ONE. Light flashed up in the room upon the instant the curtains of his bed were drawn aside by a strange figure, like a child; yet not so like a child as like an old man, viewed through some supernatural medium which gave him the appearance of having receded from the view, and being diminished to a child’s proportions. Its hair, which hung about its back, was white as it with age; and yet the face had not a wrinkle in it, and the tenderest bloom was on the skin, It held a branch of fresh green holly it its hand; and, in singular contradiction of that wintry emblem had its dress trimmed with summer flowers.

But the strangest thing about it was, that from the crown of its head there sprung a bright clear jet of light, by which was doubtless the occasion of its using, in its duller moments, a great extinguisher for a cap which it now held under its arm.

“Are you the Spirit, sir, whose coming was foretold to me?”

“I am!”

“Who and what are you?”

“I am the Ghost of Christmas Past.”

“Long Past?”

“No. Your Past. The things that you will see with me are shadows of the things that have been; they will have no consciousness of us.”

Scrooge then made bold to inquire what business brought him there.

“Your welfare. Rise and walk with me!”

It would have been in vain for Scrooge to plead that the weather and the hour were not adapted to pedestrian purposes; that bed was warm, and the thermometer a long way below freezing; that he was clad but lightly in his slippers, dressing gown, and night-cap; and that he had a cold upon him at that time. The grasp though gentle as a woman’s hand was not to be resisted. He rose, but finding that the spirit made towards the window, clasped its robe in supplication.

“I am a mortal, and liable to fall.”

“Bear but a touch of my hand THERE,” said the Spirit, laying it upon his heart, “and you shall be upheld in more than this!”

As the words were spoken, they passed through the wall and stood in the busy thoroughfares of a city. It was made plain enough by the dressing of the shops that here, too, it was Christmas time. The Ghost stopped at a certain warehouse door, and asked Scrooge if he knew it.

“Know it! I was apprenticed here!”

They went in. At sight of an old gentleman in a Welch wig, sitting behind such a high desk that, if he had been two inches taller, he must have knocked his head against the ceiling. Scrooge cried in great excitement: “Why it’s old Fezziwig! Bless his heart, it’s Fezziwig alive again!”

Old Fezziwig laid down his pen and looked up at the clock, which pointed to the hour of seven. He rubbed his hands; adjusted his capacious waistcoat; laughed over himself, from his shoes to his organ of benevolence; and called out in a comfortable, oily, rich, fat, jovial voice: “Yo ho, there, Ebenezer! Dick!”

A living and moving picture of Scrooge’s former self, a young man, came briskly in, accompanied by his fellow apprentice.

“Dick Wilkins, to be sure!” said Scrooge to the Ghost. “My old fellow apprentice, bless me, yes. There he is. He was very attached to me, was old Dick! Poor Dick! Dear, dear!”

“Yo ho, my boys!” said Fezziwig. “No more work tonight. Christmas Eve, Dick, Christmas, Ebenezer! Let’s have the shutters up, before a man can say Jack Robinson! Clear away, my

lads, and let’s have lots of room here!”

Clear away! There was nothing they wouldn’t have cleared away, or couldn’t have cleared away, with old Fezziwig looking on. It was done in a minute. Every movable was packed off, as if it were dismissed from public life for evermore; the floor was swept and watered, the lamps were trimmed, fuel was heaped upon the fire; and the warehouse was as snug and warm and dry and bright a ballroom as you would desire to see on a winter’s night.

In came a fiddler with a music book, and went up to the lofty desk, and made an orchestra of it, and tuned like fifty stomachaches. In came Mrs. Fezziwig, one vast substantial smile. In came the three Miss Fezziwigs, beaming and lovable. In came the six young followers whose hearts they broke. In came all the young men and women employed in the business. In came the housemaid, with her cousin the baker. In came the cook, with her brother’s particular friend the milkman. In they all came one after another; some shyly, some boldly, some gracefully, some awkwardly, some pushing, some pulling; in they all came, anyhow and everhow; away they all went, twenty couples at once; hands half round and round in various stages of affectionate grouping; old top couple always tuning up in the wrong place; new top couple starting off again, as soon as they got there; all top couples at last, and not a bottom one to help them. When this result was brought about, old Fezziwig, clapping his hands to stop the dance, cried out, “Well done”; and the fiddler plunged his hot face into a pot of porter especially provided for that purpose.

There were more dances, and there were forfeits, and more dances, and there was cake, and there was negus, and there was a great piece of cold roast, and there was a great piece of cold boiled, and there were mince pies, and plenty of beer. But the great effect of the evening came after the roast and broiled when the fiddler struck up “Sir Roger Coverly.” Then old Fezziwig stood out to dance with Mrs. Fezziwig. Top couple, too; with a good stiff piece of work cut out for them; three or four and twenty pair of partners; people who were not to be trifled with, people who COULD dance, and had no notion of walking.

But if they had been twice as many — four times — old Fezziwig would have been a match for them and so would have Mrs. Fezziwig. As to HER, she was worthy to be his partner in every sense of the term. A positive light appeared to issue from Fezziwig’s calves.

They shone in every part of the dance. You couldn’t have predicted, at any given time, what would come of `em next. And when old Fezziwig and Mrs. Fezziwig had gone all through the dance, advance and retire, turn your partner, bow and curtsey, corkscrew, thread and needle, and back again to your place, Fezziwig “cut,” cut so deftly, that he appeared to wink with his legs.

When the clock struck eleven this domestic broke up. Mr. and Mrs. Fezziwig took their stations, one on either side door, and shaking hands with every person individually as he or she went out, wished him or her a Merry Christmas. When everybody had retired but the two `prentices, they did the same to them; and thus the cheerful voices died away, and the lads were left to their beds, which were under a counter in the back shop.

“A small matter,” said the Ghost, “to make these silly folks so full of gratitude. He has spent but a few pounds of your mortal money, three or four perhaps. Is that so much that he deserves this praise?”

“It isn’t that,” said Scrooge, heated by the remark, and speaking unconsciously like his former, not his latter self “it isn’t that, Spirit. He has the power to render us happy or unhappy; to make our service light or burdensome; a pleasure lies in words and looks; in things so slight and insignificant that it is impossible to add and count `em up; what then? The happiness he gives is quite as great as if it cost a fortune.”

He fled the Spirit’s glance and stopped.

“What is the matter?”

“Nothing particular.”

“Something, I think?”

“No, no. I should like to be able to say a word or two to my clerk Scrooge,” or to any one whom he could see, but it produced an immediate effect. For again he was himself. He was older now; a man in the prime of life.

He was not alone but sat by the side of a fair young girl in a black dress, in whose eyes there were tears.

“It matters little,” she said softly to Scrooge’s former self. “To you very little. Another idol has displaced me; and if it can comfort you in time to come, as I would have tried to do, I have no just cause to grieve.”

“What idol has displaced you?”

“A golden one. You fear the world too

much. I have seen your nobler aspirations fall off one by one, until the master passion. Gain engrosses you. Have I not?”

“What then? Even if I have grown so much wiser, what then? I am not changed towards you. Have I ever sought release from our engagement?”

“In words, no. Never.”

“In what then?”

“In changed nature; in an altered spirit; in another atmosphere of life; another Hope as its great end. If you were free today, tomorrow, yesterday, can even I believe that you would choose a dowerless girl; or, choosing her do I not know that your repentance and regret would surely follow? I do, and I release you.

With a full heart, for the love of him you once were.”

“Spirit! remove me from this place.”

“I told you these were shadows of the things that have been,” said the Ghost. “That they are what they are, do not blame me!”

“Remove me!” Scrooge exclaimed. “I cannot bear it! Leave me! Take me back. Haunt me no longer!”

As he struggled with the Spirit he was conscious of being exhausted, and over by an irresistible drowsiness; and further, of being in his own bedroom. He had barely time to reel to bed before he sank into a heavy sleep.

THE SECOND OF THE THREE SPIRITS Scrooge awoke in his own bedroom. There was no doubt about that. But it and his own adjoining sitting-room, into which he shuffled in his slippers, attracted by a great light there, had undergone a surprising transformation.

The walls and ceiling were so hung with living green, that it looked a perfect grove. The leaves and holly, mistletoe, and ivy reflected back the light, as if so many little mirrors had been scattered there; and such a mighty blaze went roaring up the chimney, as that petrification of a hearth had never known in Scrooge’s time, or Marley’s, or for many and many a winter season gone. Heaped upon the floor, to form a kind of throne, were turkeys, geese, game, brawn, great joints of meat, suckling pigs, long wreaths of sausages, mince pies, plum pudding, barrels of oysters, red-hot chestnuts, cherry-checked apples, juicy oranges, luscious pears, immense twelfth-cakes, and great bowls of punch. In easy state upon this couch there sat a giant glorious to see; who bore a glowing torch, in shape not unlike Plenty’s horn, and who raised it high to shed its light on Scrooge, as he came peeping round the door.

“Come in, come in! and know me better, man! I am the Ghost of Christmas Present.

Look upon me! You have never seen the likes of me before.”

“Never.”

“Have never walked forth with the younger members of my family! meaning (for I am very young) my elder brothers born in these later years?” pursued the Phantom.

“I don’t think I have, I am afraid I have not.

Have you had many brothers, Spirit?”

“More than eighteen hundred.”

“A tremendous family to provide for! Spirit, conduct me where you will. I went forth last night on compulsion, and I learnt a lesson which is working now. Tonight, if you have aught to teach me, let me profit by it.”

“Touch my robe!”

Scrooge did as he was told, and held it fast.

• The room and its contents all vanished instantly, and they stood in the city streets upon a snowy Christmas morning.

Scrooge and the Ghost passed on, invisible, straight to Scrooge’s clerk; and on the threshold of the door the Spirit smiled, and stopped to bless Bob Cratchit’s dwelling with the sprinklings of his torch. Think of that!

Bob had but fifteen “bob” a week himself; he pocketed on Saturdays but fifteen copies of his Christian name; and yet the Ghost of Christmas Present blessed the four-roomed house!

Then up rose Mrs. Cratchit, Cratchit’s wife, dressed out but poorly in a twice-turned gown, but brave in ribbons, which are cheap and make a goodly show for sixpence; and she laid the cloth, assisted by Belinda Cratchit, second of her daughters, also brave in ribbons; while Master Peter Cratchit plunged a fork into the saucepan of potatoes, and getting the corners of his monstrous shirt collar (Bob’s private property, conferred upon his son and heir in honour of the day) into his mouth, rejoiced to find himself so gallantly attired, and yearned to show his linen in the fashionable Parks. And now the two smaller Cratchits, boy and girl, came tearing in, screaming that outside the baker’s they had smelt the goose, and known it for their own; and, basking in luxurious thoughts of sage and onion, these young Cratchits danced about the table, and exalted Master Peter Cratchit to the skies, while he (not proud, although his collar nearly choked

him) blew the fire, until the slow potatoes, bubbling up, knocked loudly at the saucepan lid to be let out and peeled.

“What has ever got your precious father then?” said Mrs. Cratchit. “And your brother Tiny Tim! and Martha wasn’t as late last Christmas Day by half an hour!”

“Here’s Martha, mother!” said a girl, appearing as she spoke.

“Here’s Martha, mother!” cried the two young Cratchits “Hurray! There’s such a goose, Martha!”

“Why bless your heart alive, my dear, how late you are!” said Mrs. Cratchit, kissing her a dozen times, and taking off her shawl and bonnet for her.

“We’d a deal of work to finish up last night,” replied the girl, “and had to clear away this morning, mother!”

“Well, never mind so long as you are come,” said Mrs. Cratchit. “Sit ye down before the fire, my dear, and have a warm, Lord bless ye!”

“No, no! There’s father coming,” cried the two young Cratchits, who were everywhere at once. “Hide, Martha, hide!”

So Martha hid herself, and in came little Bob, the father with at least three feet of comforter, exclusive of the fringe, hanging down before him; and his threadbare clothes darned up and brushed to look seasonable, and Tiny Tim upon his shoulder. Alas for Tiny Tim, he bore a little crutch, and had his limbs supported by an iron frame!

“Why, where’s our Martha?” cried Bob Cratchit, looking round.

“Not coming,” said Mrs. Cratchit.

“Not coming!” said Bob, with a sudden decension in his high spirits; for he had been Tim’s blood-horse all the way from church, and had come home rampant “not coming upon Christmas Day!” Martha didn’t like to see him disappointed, if it were only in joke; so she came out prematurely from behind the closet door, and ran into his arms, while the two young Cratchits hustled Tiny Tim, and bore him off into the washhouse, that he might hear the pudding singing in the copper.

• “And how did little Tim behave?” asked Mrs. Cratchit, when she had rallied Bob on his credulity, and Bob had hugged his daughter to his heart’s content.

“As good as gold” said Bob, “and better.

Sometimes he gets thoughtful sitting by himself so much, and thinks the strangest things you ever heard. He told me, coming home, that he hoped the people saw him in the church because he was a cripple, and it might be pleasant to them to remember, upon Christmas Day, who made lame beggars walk and blind men see.”

Bob’s voice was tremulous when he told them this, and trembled more when he said that Tiny Tim was growing strong and hearty.

His active little crutch was heard upon the floor, and back came Tiny Tim before another word was spoken, escorted by his brother and sister to his stool beside the fire; and while Bob, turning up his cuffs as if, poor fellow, they were capable of being made more shabby compounded some hot mixture in a jug with gin and lemons, and stirred it round and round, and put it on the hob to simmer.

Master Peter and the two ubiquitous young Cratchits went to fetch the goose, with which they soon returned in high procession.

Mrs. Cratchit made the gravy (ready beforehand in a little saucepan) hissing hot; Master Peter mashed the potatoes with incredible vigor; Miss Belinda sweetened up the applesauce; Martha dusted the hot plates; Bob took Tiny Tim beside him in a tiny corner at the table; the two young Cratchits set chairs for everybody, not forgetting themselves, and mounting guard upon their posts, crammed spoons into their mouths, lest they should shriek for goose before their turn came to be helped. At last the dishes were set on, and grace was said, It was succeeded by a breathless pause, as Mrs. Cratchit, looking slowly all along the carving knife, prepared to plunge it in the breast; but when she did, and when the long-expected gush of stuffing, issued forth, one murmur of delight arose all around the board, and even Tiny Tim, excited by the two young Cratchits, beat on the table with the handle of his knife, and feebly cried, “Hurrah!”

There never was such a goose. Bob said he didn’t believe there ever was such a goose cooked. It’s tenderness and flavour, size and cheapness, were themes of universal admiration. Eked out of applesauce and mashed potatoes, it was a sufficient dinner for the whole family; indeed, as Mrs Cratchit said with great delight (surveying one small atom of a bone upon the dish) they hadn’t ate it all at least! Yet every one had had enough, and the youngest Cratchits in particular were steeped in sage and onion to the eyebrows! But now, the plates being changed by Miss Belinda,

Mrs. Cratchit left the room alone, to take the pudding up, and bring it in.

Suppose it should not be done enough!

Suppose it should break in turning out!

Suppose somebody should have got over the wall of the back yard, and stolen it while they were merry with the goose, a supposition at which the two young Cratchits became livid!

All sorts of horrors were supposed.

Hallo! A great deal of steam! The pudding was out of the copper. A smell like a washingday! That was the cloth. A smell like an eating house and a pastry-cook’s next door to each other, with a laundress’ next door to that!

That was the pudding! In half a minute Mrs. Cratchit entered, flushed but smiling proudly, with the pudding, like a speckled cannon ball, so hard and firm, blazing in half of half a quartern of ignited brandy, and bedlight with Christmas holly stuck into the top.

Oh, a wonderful pudding! Bob Cratchit said, and calmly too, that he regarded it as the greatest success achieved by Mrs. Cratchit since their marriage. Mrs. Cratchit said that now the weight was off her mind, she would confess that she had had her doubts about the quantity of flour. Everybody had something to say about it, but nobody said or thought it was at all a small pudding for a large family. Any Cratchit would have blushed to hint at such a thing.

At last the dinner was all done, the cloth was cleared, the hearth swept, and the fire made up. The compound in the jug being tasted, and considered perfect, apples and oranges were put upon the table, and a shovelful of chestnuts on the fire.

Then all the Cratchit family drew around the hearth, in what Bob Cratchit called a circle, and at Bob Cratchit’s elbow stood the family display of glass, two tumblers, and a custard cup without a handle.

These held the hot stuff from the jug, however, as well as golden goblets would have done; and Bob served it out with beaming looks, while the chestnuts on the fire sputtered and crackled noisily. Then Bob proposed: “A Merry Christmas to us all, my dears. God bless us!”

Which all the family re-echoed.

“God bless us everyone!” said Tiny Tim, the last of all.

• He sat very close to his father’s side, upon his little stool. Bob held his withered little hand in his, as if he loved the child, and wished to keep him by his side, and dreaded that he might be taken from him.

Scrooge raised his head speedily on hearing his own name.

“Mr. Scrooge” said Bob, “I’ll give you Mr. Scrooge, the Founder of the Feast!”

“The Founder of the Feast indeed!” cried Mrs. Cratchit, reddening. “I wish I had him here. I’d give him a piece of my mind to feast upon, and I hope he’d have a good appetite for it.”

“My dear,” said Bob, “the children!

Christmas Day.” “It should be Christmas Day, I am sure,” said she, “on which one drinks to the health of such an odious, stingy, hard, unfeeling man as Mr. Scrooge. You know he is Robert! Nobody knows it better than you do, poor fellow!”

“My dear,” was Bob’s mild answer, “Christmas Day.” “I’ll drink to his health for your sake and the day’s” said Mrs. Cratchit, “not for his. Long life to him! A Merry Christmas and a happy New Year! He’ll be very merry and very happy, I have to doubt!”

The children drank the toast after her. It was the first of their proceedings which had no heartiness in it. Tiny Tim drank it last of all, but he didn’t care two pence for it. Scrooge was the Ogre of the family. The mention of his name cast a dark shadow on the party which was not dispelled for full minutes.

After it had passed away, they were ten times merrier than before, from the mere relief of Scrooge, the baleful being done with, Bob Cratchit told them how he had a situation in his eye for Master Peter, which would bring him, if obtained, full five and six pence weekly. The two young Cratchits laughed tremendously at the idea of Peter’s being a man of business; and Peter himself looked thoughtfully at the fire from between his collars, as if he were deliberating what particular investments he should favour when he came into the receipt of that bewildering income. Martha, who was a poor apprentice at a milliner’s, then told them what kind of work she had to do, and how many hours she worked at a stretch, and how she meant to lie abed tomorrow morning for a good long rest; tomorrow being a holiday she passed at home.

Also how she had seen a countess and a lord some days before, and how the lord “was much about as tall as Peter,” at which Peter pulled up his collars so high that you couldn’t have seen his head if you had been there. All this

time the chestnuts and the jug went round and round; and by and by they had a song, about a lost child traveling in the snow, from Tiny Tim, who had a plaintive little voice, and sang it very well indeed.

There was nothing of high mark in this.

They were not a handsome family, they were not well dressed; their shoes were far from being waterproof; their clothes were scanty; and Peter might have known, and very likely did, the inside of a pawnbroker’s. But they were happy, grateful, pleased with one another, and contented with the time; and when they faded, and looked happiest yet in the bright sprinklings of the Spirit’s torch at parting, Scrooge had his eye upon them, and especially on Tiny Tim, until the last.

It was a great surprise to Scrooge to recognize it as his own nephew’s and to find himself in a bright, dry, gleaming room, with the Spirit standing smiling by his side, and looking at that same nephew.

It is a fair, even-handed, noble adjustment of things, that while there is infection in disease and sorrow, there is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humour. When Scrooge’s nephew laughed, Scrooge’s niece of marriage laughed as heartily as he. And their assembled friends, being not a big behind-hand, laughed out lustily.

“He said that Christmas was a humbug, as I live!” cried Scrooge’s nephew. “He believed it too!”

“More shame for him, Fred!” said Scrooge’s niece, indignantly. Bless those women! They never do anything by halves. They are always in earnest.

She was very pretty, exceedingly pretty.

With a dimpled, surprised-looking, capitol face; a ripe little mouth that seemed made to be kissed, as no doubt it was; all kinds of good little dots about her chin, that melted into one another when she laughed; and the sunniest pair of eyes you ever saw in any little creature’s head. Altogether she was what you would have called provoking, but satisfactory, too. Oh, perfectly satisfactory.

“He’s a comical old fellow,” said Scrooge’s nephew, “that’s the truth; and not so pleasant as he might be. However, his offenses carry their own punishment, and I have nothing to say against him. Who suffers by all his ill whims? Himself, always, Here he takes it into his head to dislike us, and he won’t come and dine with us. What’s the consequence? He don’t lose much of a dinner.”

“Indeed, I think he loses a very good dinner,” interrupted Scrooge’s niece.

Everybody else said the same, and they must be allowed to have been competent judges, because they had just had dinner, and with dessert upon the table, were clustered round the fire, by lamplight.

“Well, I am very glad to hear it,” said Scrooge’s nephew, “because I haven’t any great faith in these young housekeepers. What do you say, Topper?”

Topper clearly had his eye on one of Scrooge’s niece’s sisters, for he answered that a bachelor was a wretched outcast, who had no right to express an opinion on the subject.

Where at Scrooge’s niece’s sister, the plump one with the lace tucker; the one with the roses, blushed.

• After tea they had more music. For they were a musical family, and knew what they were about when they sung a Glee or Catch. I can assure you, especially Topper, who could growl away in the bass like a good one, and never swell the large veins in his forehead, or get red in the face over it.

But they didn’t devote the whole evening to music. After a while they played at forfeits; for it is good to be children sometimes, and never better than at Christmas, when its mighty Founder was a child himself. There was first a game at blindman’s bluff though. And I no more believe Topper was really blinded than I believe he had eyes in his boots. Because the way in which he went after the plump sister in the lace tucker was an outrage on the credulity of human nature. Knocking down the fire-irons, tumbling over chairs, bumping up against the piano, smothering himself among the curtains, wherever she went there went he!

He always knew where the plump sister was.

He wouldn’t catch anybody else. If you had fallen up against him, as some of them did, and stood there, he would have made a feint of endeavoring to seize you which would have been an affront to your understanding, and would instantly have sidled off in the direction of the plump sister.

“Here is a new game,” said Scrooge. “One half-hour, Spirit, only one”!

It was a game called Yes and No, where Scrooge’s nephew had to think of something, and the rest must find out what; he only answering to their questions yes or no, as the case was. The first of questioning to which

he was exposed elicited from him that he was thinking of an animal, a live animal, rather a disagreeable animal that growled and grunted sometimes, and talked sometimes, and lived in London, and walked about the street, and wasn’t made a show of, and wasn’t led by anybody, and didn’t live in a menagerie, and was never killed in a market, and was not a horse, or an ass, or a cow, or a bull, or a tiger, or a dog, or a pig, or a cat, or a bear. At every new question put to him, this nephew burst into a fresh roar of laughter; and was so inexpressibly tickled that he was obliged to get up off the sofa and stamp. At last the plump sister cried out: “I have found it out! I know what it is!”

“What is it?” cried Fred.

“It’s your uncle Scro-o-o-ge!”

Which it certainly was. Admiration was the universal sentiment, though some objected that the reply to “Is it a bear?” ought to have been “Yes.” • Uncle Scrooge had imperceptibly become so gay and light of heart, that he would have drank to the unconscious company in an inaudible speech. But the whole scene passed off in the breath of the last word spoken by his nephew; and he and the Spirit were again upon their travels.

Much they saw, and far they went, and many homes they visited, but always with a happy end. The Spirit stood beside the sickbeds, and they were cheerful; on foreign lands, and they were close at home; by struggling men, and they were patient in their greater hope; by poverty, and it was rich. In almhouse, hospital and jail, in misery’s every refuge, where vain man in his little brief authority had not made fast the door and barred the Spirit out, he left his blessing, and taught Scrooge his precepts. Suddenly, as they stood together in an open place, the bell struck Twelve.

Scrooge looked about him for the Ghost, and saw it no more. As the last stroke ceased to vibrate, he remembered the prediction of old Jacob Marley, and lifting up his eyes, beheld a solemn Phantom, draped and hooded, coming like a mist along the ground towards him.

THE LAST OF THE SPIRITS The Phantom slowly, gravely, silently approached. When it came near him, Scrooge bent down upon his knee; for in the air through which this Spirit moved it seemed to scatter gloom and mystery.

It was shrouded in a deep black garment, which concealed its head, its face, its form, and left nothing of it visible over one outstretched hand. He knew no more, for the Spirit neither spoke nor moved.

“I am in the presence of the Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come? Ghost of the Future? I fear you more than any spectre I have seen. But as I know your purpose is to do me good, and as I hope to live to be another man from what I was, I am prepared to bear your company, and do it with a thankful heart. Will you not speak to me?”

It gave him no reply. The hand was pointed straight before them.

“Lead on! Lead on! The night is waning fast, and it is precious time to me, I know.

Lead on, Spirit!”

They scarcely seemed to enter the city; for the city rather seemed to spring up about them. But there they were in the heart of it; on Change, amongst the merchants.

The Spirit stopped beside one little knot of businessmen. Observing that the hand was pointed to them Scrooge advanced to listen to their talk.

“No,” said a great fat man with a monstrous chin. “I don’t know much about it either way. I only know he’s dead.”

“When did he die?” inquired another.

“Last night I believe.”

“Why, what was the matter with him? I thought he’d never die.”

“God knows,” said the first, with a yawn.

“What has he done with his money?” asked a red-faced gentleman.

“I haven’t heard,” said the man with the large chin. “Company perhaps. He hasn’t left it to me. That’s all I know. Bye, Bye” Scrooge was first inclined to be surprised that the Spirit should attach importance to conversation apparently so trivial; but feeling assured that it must have some hidden purpose, he set himself to consider what it was likely to be. It could scarcely be supposed to have any bearing on the death of Jacob, his partner, for that was Past, and this Ghost’s province was the Future.

He looked about in that every place for his own image; but another man stood in his accustomed corner, and though the clock pointed to his usual time of day for being there, he saw no likeness of himself among the multitudes that poured in thru the Porch. It gave him little surprise, however, for he had been revolving in his mind a change of life and

he thought and hoped he saw his newborn resolutions carried out in this.

• They left this busy scene, and went into an obscure part of town to a low shop where iron, old rags, bottles, bones and greasy offal were bought. A grey-haired rascal, of great age, sat smoking his pipe. Scrooge and the Phantom came into the presence of this man just as a woman with a heavy bundle slunk into the shop. But she had scarcely entered, when another woman, similarly laden, came in too; and she was closely followed by a man in faded black. After a short period of blank astonishment, in which the old man with the pipe had joined them, they all three burst into a laugh.

“Let the charwoman alone to be the first?” cried she who had entered first. “Let the laundress alone to be the second; and let the undertaker’s man alone to be the third. Look here, old Joe, here’s a chance! If we haven’t all three met here without meaning it!”

“You couldn’t have met in a better place.

You were made free of it long ago, you know, and the other two ain’t strangers. What have you got to sell? What have you got to sell?”

“Half a minute’s patience, Joe, and you shall see.”

“What odds then? What odds, Mrs. Dibler?” said the woman. “Every person has a right to take care of themselves. He always did! Who’s the worse for the loss of a few things like these? Not a dead man, I suppose.”

“If he wanted to keep `em after he was dead, a wicked old screw, why wasn’t he natural in his lifetime? If he had been, he’d have had somebody to look after him when he was struck with Death, instead of lying gasping out his last there, alone by himself.”

“It’s the truest word that ever was spoke, it’s a judgment on him.”

“I wish it was a little heavier judgment, and it should have been, you may depend upon it, if I could have laid my hands on anything else.

Open that bundle, old Joe, and let me know the value of it. Speak out plain. I’m not afraid for them to see it.”

Joe went down on his knees for the greater convenience of opening the bundle, and dragged out a large and heavy roll of some dark stuff.

“What do you call this: Bed curtains?”

“Ah Bed-curtains! Don’t drop the oil upon the blankets, now.”

“His blankets?”

“Whose else do you think? He isn’t likely to take cold without `em, I dare say. Ah! You may look thru that shirttail ‘til your eyes ache, but you won’t find a hole in it, nor a threadbare place. It’s the best he had, and a fine one too.

They’d have wasted it by dressing him up in it, if it hadn’t been for me.”

Scrooge listened to this dialogue in horror.

“Spirit! I see, I see. The case of this unhappy man might be my own. My life tends that way, now. Merciful Heaven. What is this!”

• The scene changed, and now he almost touched a bare, curtained bed. A pale light, rising in the outer air, fell straight upon this bed, and on it, unwatched, unwept, uncared for, was the body of this plundered unknown man.

“Spirit, let me see some tenderness connected with a death, or this dark chamber, Spirit, will be forever present to me.”

The Ghost conducted him to poor Bob Cratchit’s house, the dwelling he had visited before and found the mother and children seated round the fire.

Quiet, very quiet. The noisy little Cratchits were as still as statues in one corner, and sat looking up at Peter, who had a book before him. The mother and her daughters were engaged in needlework. But surely they were very quiet!

“And he took a child, and set him in the midst of them.”

Where had Scrooge heard those words? He had not dreamed them. The boy must have read them out, as he and the Spirit crossed the threshold. Why did he not go on?

The mother laid her work upon the table, and put her hand up to her face. “The color hurts my eyes,” she said.

The color? Ah, poor Tiny Tim! “They’re better now again. It makes them weak by candlelight; and I wouldn’t show weak eyes to your father when he comes home, for the world. It must be near his time.”

“Past it rather,” Peter answered, shutting up his book. “But I think he has walked a little slower than he used, these past few evenings, mother.”

“I have known him walk with Tiny Tim upon his shoulder, very fast indeed.”

“And so have I,” cried Peter. “Often.”

“And so have I,” exclaimed another. So had all.

“But he was very light to carry, and his father loved him so, that it was no trouble, no

trouble. And there is your father at the door!”

She hurried out to meet him; and little Bob in his comforter, had had need of it, poor fellow, came in. His tea was ready for him on the hob, and they all tried who should help him to it most. Then the two young Cratchits got upon his knees and laid, each child, a little cheek against his face, as if they said, “Don’t mind it, father. Don’t be grieved!”

Bob was very cheerful with them, and spoke pleasantly to all the family. He looked at the work upon the table, and praised the industry and speed of Mrs. Cratchit and the girls. They would be done long before Sunday, he said.

“Sunday! You went today, then, Robert?”

“Yes, my dear,” returned Bob. “I wish you could have gone. It would have done you good to see how green a place it is. But you’ll see it often. I promised him that I would walk there on a Sunday. My little, little child! My little child!”

He broke down all at once. He couldn’t help it. If he could have helped it, he and his child would have been farther apart, perhaps, than they were.

• “Spectre,” said Scrooge, “something informs me that our parting moment is at hand, I know it, but I know not how. Tell me what man that was, with the covered face, whom we saw lying dead?”

The Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come conveyed him to a churchyard.

The Spirit stood amongst the graves, and pointed down to one.

“Before I draw nearer to that stone to which you point, answer me one question. Are these the shadows of the things that will be, or are they shadows of the things that May be only?”

Still the Ghost pointed downward to the grave by which it stood.

“Men’s courses will foreshadow certain ends, to which, if persevered in, they must lead. But if the courses be departed from, the ends will change. Say it is thus with what you show me!”

The Spirit was immovable as ever.

Scrooge crept towards it, trembling as he went; and following the finger, read upon the stone of the neglected grave his own name EBENEZER SCROOGE. “Am I that man who lay upon the bed? No, Spirit! Oh no, no! Spirit! hear me! I am not the man I was. I will not be the man I must have been but for this intercourse. Why show me this, if I am past all hope? Assure me that I yet may change these shadows you have shown me by an altered life.”

For the first time the kind hand faltered.

“I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year. I will live in the Past, the Present, and the Future. The Spirits of all three shall strive within me. I will not shut out the lessons that they teach. Oh, tell me I may sponge away the writing on this stone.”

Holding up his hands in one last prayer to have his fate reversed, he was an alteration in the Phantom’s hood and dress. It shrunk, collapsed, and dwindled down into a bedpost.

• Yes, the bedpost was his own. The bed was his own, the room was his own. Best and happiest of all, the Time before him was his own to make amends in!

He was checked in his transports by the churches ringing out the lustiest peals he had ever heard.

Running to the window, he opened it, and put out his head. No fog, no mist, no night; clear, bright, stirring golden day.

“What’s today?” cried Scrooge, calling downward to a boy in Sunday clothes, who perhaps had loitered in to look about him, “Eh?” “What’s today, my fine fellow?”

“Today! Why Christmas Day.” “It’s Christmas Day. I haven’t missed it.

Hallo, my fine fellow!”

“Hallo!”

“Do you know the Poulterer’s in the next street but one, at the corner?”

“I should hope I did.”

“An intelligent boy! A remarkable boy!

Do you know whether they’ve sold the prize turkey that was hanging up there? Not the little prize turkey the big one?”

“What, the one as big as me?”

“What a delightful boy! It’s a pleasure to talk to him. Yes, my buck!”

“It’s hanging there now.”

“Is it? Go and buy it.”

“Walk-er!” exclaimed the boy.

“No, no. I am in earnest. Go and buy it, and tell `em to bring it here, that I may give the direction where to take it. Come back with the man, and I’ll give you a shilling. Come back with him in less than five minutes, and I’ll give you half a crown!”

The boy was off like a shot.

“I’ll send it to Bob Cratchit! He shan’t know who sent it. It’s twice the size of Tiny Tim. Joe Miller never made such a joke as sending it to Bob’s will be!”

The hand in which he wrote the address was not a steady one; but write it he did, somehow, and went downstairs to open the street door, ready for the coming of the poulterer’s man.

It was a turkey! He never could have stood upon his legs, that bird. He would have snapped `em short off in a minute, like sticks of sealing wax.

Scrooge dressed himself “all in his best,” and at last got out into the streets. The people were by this time pouring forth, as he had seen them with the Ghost of Christmas Present; and, walking with his hands behind him, Scrooge regarded every one with a delightful smile. He looked so irresistible pleasant, in a word, that three or four good-humored fellows said, “Good morning, sir! A Merry Christmas to you!” And Scrooge said often afterwards that, of all the blithe sounds he had ever heard, those were the blithest in his ears.

In the afternoon, he turned his steps towards his nephew’s house.

He passed the door a dozen times before he had the courage to go up and knock. But he made a dash and did it.

“Is your master at home my dear?” said Scrooge to the girl. Nice girl! Very.

“Yes, sir.”

“Where is he, my love?”

“He’s in the dining room, sir, along with mistress.”

“He knows me,” said Scrooge, with his hand already on the dining room lock. “I’ll go in here, my dear.”

“Fred!”

“Why, bless my soul!” cried Fred, “who’s that?”

“It’s I. Your uncle Scrooge. I have come to dinner. Will you let me in, Fred?”

Let him in! It is a mercy he didn’t shake his arm off. He was at home in five minutes.

Nothing could be heartier. His niece looked just the same. So did Topper when he came.

So did the plump sister when she came.

Wonderful party, wonderful games, wonderful unanimity, wonderful happiness.

• But he was early at the office next morning.

Oh, he was early there. If he could only be there first, and catch Bob Cratchit coming late!

That was the thing he had set his heart upon.

And he did it. The clock struck nine. No Bob. A quarter past. No Bob. Bob was full eighteen minutes and a half behind his time.

Scrooge sat with his door wide open, that he might see him come into the tank.

Bob’s hat was off before he opened the door; his comforter too. He was on his still in a jiffy; driving away with his pen, as if he were trying to overtake nine o’clock.

“Hallo!” growled Scrooge, in his accustomed voice, as near as he could feign it. “What do you mean by coming here at this time of day?”

“I am very sorry, sir. I am behind my time.”

“You are? Yes. I think you are. Step this way if you please.”

“It’s only once a year, sir. It shall not be repeated. I was making rather merry yesterday, sir.”

“Now, I’ll tell you what, my friend, I am not going to stand this sort of thing any longer.

And therefore,” Scrooge continued, leaping from his stool, and giving Bob such a dig in the waistcoat that he staggered back into the tank again “and therefore I am about to raise your salary.”

Bob trembled, and got a little nearer the ruler.

“A Merry Christmas, Bob!” said Scrooge, with an eagerness that could not be mistaken, as he clapped him on the back. “A Merry Christmas, Bob, my good fellow, than I have given you for many a year! I’ll raise your salary and endeavour to assist your struggling family, and we will discuss your affairs this very afternoon, over a Christmas bowl of smoking bishop, Bob! Make up the fires, and buy a second coalscuttle before you dot another i, Bob Cratchit!”

Scrooge was better than his word. He did it all, and infinitely more; and to Tiny Tim, who did not die, he was a second father. He became as good a friend, as good a master, and as good a man as the good old city knew, or any other good old world. Some people laughed to see the alteration in him, but his own heart laughed, and was quite enough for him.

He had not further intercourse with Spirits, but lived in that respect upon the Total Abstinence Principle ever afterwards; and it was always said of him that he knew how to keep Christmas well, if any man alive possessed the knowledge. May that be truly said of us, and all of us! And so, as Tiny Tim observed, “God Bless Us, Every One!” • The End.

The Life of Our Lord

by Charles Dickens

MY DEAR CHILDREN, I am very anxious that you should know something about the history of Jesus Christ.

For everybody ought to know about Him. No one ever lived, who was so good, so kind, so gentle, and so sorry for all people in any way ill or miserable, as He was. And as He is now in Heaven, where we hope to go, and all to meet each other after we are dead, and there be happy always together, you can never think what a good place Heaven is, without knowing who He was and what He did.

He was born a long, long time ago nearly two thousand years ago at a place called Bethlehem. His father and mother lived in a city called Nazareth, but they were forced by business to travel to Bethlehem. His father’s name was Joseph, and his mother’s name was Mary. And the town being very full of people, also brought there by business, there was no room for Joseph and Mary in the Inn or in any house; so they went into a stable to lodge, and in this stable Jesus Christ was born.

There was no cradle or anything of that kind there, so Mary laid her pretty little boy in what is called the manger, which is the place the horses eat out of. And there He fell asleep.

While He was asleep, some shepherds who were watching sheep in the fields, saw an Angel from God, all light and beautiful, come moving over the grass towards them. At first they were afraid and fell down and hid their faces. But it said, “There is a Child born today in the City of Bethlehem near here, who will

grow up to be so good that God will love Him as His own son, and He will teach men to love one another, and not to quarrel and hurt one another; and His name will be Jesus Christ; and people will put that name in their prayers, because they will know God loves it, and will know that they should love it, too.”

And then the Angel told the shepherds to go to that stable and look at the little Child in the manger, which they did; and they kneeled down by it in its sleep and said “God bless this Child!”

Now the great place of all that country was Jerusalem just as London is the great place in England and at Jerusalem the King lived, whose name was King Herod. Some Wise Men came one day, from a country a long way off in the East, and said to the King, “We have seen a star in the sky, which teaches us to know that a Child is born in Bethlehem who will live to be a man whom all people will love.” When King Herod heard this he was jealous, for he was a wicked man. But he pretended not to be, and said to the Wise Men, “Whereabouts is the Child?” And the Wise Men said, “We don’t know. But we think the star has been moving on before us, all the way here, and is now standing still in the sky.” King Herod asked them to see if the Star would show them where the Child lived, and ordered them if they found the Child to come back to him. So they went out, and the Star went on, over their heads a little way before them, until it stopped over the house where the Child was. This was

very wonderful, but God ordered it to be so.

When the Star stopped, the Wise Men went in and saw the Child with Mary, his Mother.

They loved Him very much, and gave Him presents. Then they went away. But they did not go back to King Herod; for they thought he was jealous, though he had not said so. So they went away by night back into their own country. And an Angel came and told Joseph and Mary to take the Child into a country called Egypt, or Herod would kill Him. So they escaped, too, in the night the father, the mother, and the Child and arrived there safely.

But when this cruel Herod found that the Wise Men did not come back to him, and he could not, therefore, find out where this Child, Jesus Christ lived, he called his soldiers and captains to him, and told them to go kill all the children in his dominions that were not more than two years old. The wicked men did so.

The mothers of the children ran up and down the streets with them in their arms, trying to save them and hid them in caves and cellars, but it was of no use. The soldiers with their swords killed all the children they could find.

This dreadful murder was called the Murder of the Innocents. Because the little children were innocent.

King Herod hoped that Jesus Christ was one of them. But He was not, as you know, for He had escaped safely into Egypt. And He lived there with His father and mother until bad King Herod died.

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CHAPTER THE SECOND When King Herod was dead, an Angel came to Joseph again, and said he might now go to Jerusalem, and not to be afraid for the Child’s sake. So Joseph and Mary, and her son Jesus Christ (who are commonly called The Holy Family) traveled towards Jerusalem; but hearing on the way that King Herod’s son was the new King, and fearing that he, too, might want to hurt the Child, they turned out of the way and went to live in Nazareth. They lived there until Jesus Christ was twelve years old.

• Then Joseph and Mary went to Jerusalem to attend a Religious Feast which used to be held in those days, in the Temple of Jerusalem, which was a great church or cathedral; and they took Jesus Christ with them, and when the feast was over, they traveled away from Jerusalem, back towards their own home in Nazareth, with a great many of their friends and neighbors. For people then used to travel a great many together for fear of robbers; the roads not being so safe and well guarded as they are now, and traveling being much more difficult altogether than it now is.

They traveled on for a whole day and never knew that Jesus Christ was not with them; for the company being so large, they thought He was somewhere among the people, though they did not see Him. But finding that He was not there and fearing that He was lost, they turned back to Jerusalem in great anxiety to look for Him. They found Him sitting in the

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Temple talking about the Goodness of God and how we should all pray to him, with some learned men who were called Doctors.

They were not what you understand by the word “Doctors” now; they did not attend sick people, they were scholars and clever men.

And Jesus Christ showed such knowledge in what He said to them and in the questions He asked them that they were all astonished.

He went with Joseph and Mary home to Nazareth when they found Him, and lived there until He was thirty or thirty-five years old.

• At that time there was a very good man indeed, named John, who was the son of a woman named Elizabeth, the cousin of Mary.

And people being wicked and violent, and minding their duty towards God, John (to teach them better) went about the country preaching to them and entreating them to be better men and women. And because he loved them more than himself, and didn’t mind himself when he was doing good, he was poorly dressed in the skin of a camel, and ate little but some insects called locusts, which he found as he traveled; and wild honey, which the bees left in the hollow trees. You never saw a locust because they belong to that country near Jerusalem which is a great way off. So do camels, but I think you have seen a camel?

At all events they are brought over here, sometimes; and if you would like to see one, I will show you one.

There was a river not far from Jerusalem called the River Jordan; and in this water John baptized those people who would come to him and promise to be better. A great many people went to him in crowds. Jesus Christ went too.

But when John saw Him, John said, “Why should I baptize you, who are so much better than I!” Jesus made answer, “Suffer it to be so now.” So John baptized Him. And when He was baptized, the sky opened and a beautiful bird like a dove came flying down, and the voice of God speaking up in Heaven was heard to say “This is My beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased!”

Jesus Christ then went into a wild and lonely country called the Wilderness, and stayed there forty days and forty nights, praying that He might be of use to men and women and teach them to be better so that after their deaths they might be happy in Heaven.

• When He came out of the Wilderness, He began to cure sick people by only laying His hand upon them; for God had given Him power to heal the sick and to give sight to the blind, and to do many wonderful and solemn things of which I shall tell you more bye and bye, and which are called “The Miracles” of Christ. I wish you would remember that word, because I shall use it again and I should like you to know that it means something which is very wonderful and which could not be done without God’s leave and assistance.

The First Miracle which Jesus Christ did was at a place called Cana, where He went to a Marriage Feast with Mary His Mother. There was no wine and Mary told Him so. There were only six stone water pots filled with water. But Jesus turned this water into wine by only lifting up His hand, and all who were there drank of it.

For God had given Jesus Christ the power to do such wonders and He did them that people might know He was not a common man, and might believe that God had sent Him. And many people, hearing this, and hearing that He cured the sick, did begin to believe in Him, and great crowds followed Him in the streets and on the roads wherever He went.

CHAPTER THE THIRD That there might be some good men to go about with Him teaching the people, Jesus Christ chose twelve poor men to be his companions. The Twelve are called The Apostles or Disciples, and he chose them from among poor men in order that the poor might know always after that in all years to come that Heaven was made for them as well as for the rich, and that God makes no difference between those who wear good clothes and those who go barefoot and in rags. The most miserable, the most ugly, deformed, wretched creatures that live will be bright Angels in Heaven if they are good here on earth. Never forget this when you are grown up. Never be proud or unkind my dears, any poor man, woman or child. If they are bad, think that they would have been better if they had had kind friends and good homes, and had been better taught. So, always try to teach them better by kind persuading words, and always try to teach them and believe them if you can. And when people speak ill of the poor and miserable think how Jesus Christ went among them and taught them, and thought them worthy of His care. And always pity them yourselves and think as well of them as you can.

• The names of The Twelve Apostles were, Simon Peter, Andrew, James (the son of Zebedee), John, Philip, Bartholomew, Thomas, Matthew, James (the son of Aphaeus), Jude, Labbaeus Simon, and Judas Iscariot. This man afterwards betrayed Jesus Christ, as you will hear bye and bye.

The first four of these were poor fishermen who were sitting in their boats by the seaside mending their nets when Christ passed by. He stopped and went into Simon Peter’s boat and asked him if he had caught many fish. Peter said no, though they had worked all night with their nets, they had caught nothing. Christ said, “Let down the net again.” They did so and it was immediately so full of fish that it required the strength of many men (who came and helped them) to lift it out of the water and even then it was very hard to do. This was another of the miracles of Jesus Christ.

Jesus then said “Come with me.” And from that time the Twelve Disciples or Apostles were always with him.

As great crowds of people followed him and wished to be taught, He went into the mountains and there preached to them and gave them, from his own lips, the words of that Prayer, beginning “Our Father which art in Heaven,” that you say every night. It is called The Lord’s Prayer because it was first said by Jesus Christ and because he commanded his disciples to pray in those words.

• When he was coming down from the Mountain, there came to Him a man with a dreadful disease called leprosy. It was common in those times and those who were ill with it were called Lepers. This Leper fell at the feet of Jesus Christ and said, “Lord! If thou wilt, thou cans’t make me well!” Jesus, always full of compassion, stretched out his hand and said, “I will, Be thou well!” And his disease went away immediately, and he was cured.

Being followed wherever he went, by great crowds of people, Jesus went with his Disciples into a house to rest. While He was sitting inside, some men brought upon a bed a man who was very ill of what is called the palsy, so that he trembled all over from head to foot, and could neither stand nor move. But the crowd being all about the door and windows, and they not being able to get near Jesus

Christ, these men climbed up to the roof of the house, which was a low one, and through the tiling at the top, let down the bed with the sick man upon it, into the room where Jesus sat. When He saw him, Jesus, full of pity, said “Arise; Take up thy bed and go to thine own home.” And the man rose up and went away quite well, blessing Him and thanking God. There was a Centurion too, or officer over the soldiers, who came to Him and said, “Lord!

My servant lies at home in my house, very ill.”

Jesus Christ made answer, “I will come and cure him.” But the Centurion said “Lord! I am not worthy that Thou should’st come to my house. Say the word only and I know he will be cured.” Then Jesus Christ, glad that the Centurion believed in him so truly, said, “Be it so.” And the servant became well from that moment.

• But of the people who came to him, none were so full of grief and distress as one man who was a Ruler of Magistrate over many people, and he wrung his hands and cried, and said “Oh Lord, my daughter my beautiful, good, innocent little girl is dead. O come to her, come to her and lay thy blessed hand upon her, and I know she will revive and come to life again and make me and her Mother happy. Oh Lord we love her so, we love her so!

And she is dead!”

Jesus Christ went out with him, and so did his Disciples, and friends and neighbors were crying in the room where the poor dead little girl lay, and where there was soft music playing as there used to be in those days where people died. Jesus Christ, looking on her sorrowfully, said to comfort her poor parents“She is not dead. She is asleep.” Then He commanded the room to be cleared of the people that were in it, and going to the dead child, took her by the hand and she rose up quite well as if she had only been asleep.

Oh what a sight it must have been to see her parents clasp her in their arms and kiss her and thank God, and Jesus Christ His son, for such great Mercy!

But He was always merciful and tender. And because He did such good and taught people to love God and how to hope to go to Heaven after death, He was called Our Saviour.

CHAPTER THE FOURTH There were in that country where Our Saviour performed His Miracles, certain people who were called Pharisees. They were very proud and believed that no people were good but themselves; and they were all afraid of Jesus Christ, because He taught the people better. So were the Jews, in general. Most of the inhabitants of that country were Jews.

Our Saviour, walking once in the fields with His Disciples on a Sunday (which the Jews called, and still call, the Sabbath) they gathered some ears of corn that was growing there, to eat. This, the Pharisees said, was wrong; and in the same way, when Our Saviour went into one of their churches they were called Synagogues and looked compassionately on a poor man who had his hand all withered and wasted away, these Pharisees said “Is it right to cure people on a Sunday?” Our Saviour answered them by saying, “If any of you had a sheep and it fell into a pit, would you not take it out even though it happened on a Sunday?

And how much better is a man than a sheep?”

Then He said to the poor man, “Stretch out thine hand!” And it was cured immediately and was smooth and useful like the other. So Jesus Christ told them, “You may always do good, no matter what the day is.”

There was a city called Nain, into which Our Saviour went soon after this, followed by great

numbers of people, especially by those who had sick relations or friends or children. For they brought sick people out into the streets and roads through which He passed, and cried out to Him to touch them, and when He did, they became well. Going on in the midst of this crowd, near the gate of the city, He met a funeral. It was the funeral of a young man who was carried on what was called Bier, which was open, as was the custom in that country, and is now in many parts of Italy. His poor mother followed the Bier and wept very much, for she had no other child. When Our Saviour saw her, He was touched to the heart to see her so sorry, and said “Weep not!” Then, the bearers of the Bier standing still, He walked up to it, and touched it with His hand and said “Young Man! Arise.” The dead man, coming to life again at the sound of The Saviour’s voice, rose up and began to speak. And Jesus Christ, leaving him with his Mother saw how happy they both were went away.

• By this time the crowd was so very great that Jesus Christ went down to the waterside to go in a boat to a more retired place. And in the boat, He fell asleep while His Disciples were sitting on the deck. While He was still sleeping, a violent storm arose so that the waves washed over the boat and the howling wind so rocked and shook it that they thought it would sink. In their fright the Disciples awoke Our Saviour and said “Lord! Save us, or we are lost!” He stood up, and raising His arm, said to the rolling sea and to the whistling wind, “Peace! Be still!” And immediately it was calm and pleasant weather, and the boat went safely on through the smooth waters.

When they came to the other side of the water they had to pass a wild and lonely burying ground that was outside the city to which they were going. All burying grounds were outside cities in those times. In this place there was a dreadful madman who lived among the tombs and howled all day and night, so that it made travelers afraid to hear him. They had tried to chain him but he broke his chains, he was so strong; and he would throw himself on the sharp stones and cut himself in the most dreadful manner, crying and howling all the while. When this wretched man saw Jesus Christ, a long way off, he cried out “It is the Son of God! Oh Son of God! do not torment me!” Jesus, coming near him, perceived that he was torn by an Evil Spirit and cast the madness out of him, and into a herd of swine (or pigs) who directly ran headlong down a steep place leading into the sea and were dashed to pieces.

• Now Herod, the son of the cruel King who murdered the Innocents, reigning over the people there, and hearing that Jesus Christ was doing these wonders and was giving sight to the blind and causing the deaf to hear, and the dumb to speak, and the lame to walk, and that he was followed by multitudes and multitudes of people Herod, hearing this, said: “This man is a companion and friend of John the Baptist.”

John was a good man, you recollect, who wore a garment made of camel’s hair and ate wild honey. Herod had taken him prisoner because he taught and preached to the people, and had him locked up in the prisons of his Palace.

While Herod was in this angry humour with John, his birthday came, and his daughter, Herodias, who was a fine dancer, danced before him to please him. She pleased him so much that he swore an oath he would give her whatever she would ask him for. “Then,” said she, “father, give me the head of John the Baptist in a charger.” For she hated John, and was a wicked, cruel woman.

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The King was sorry, for though he had John prisoner, he did not wish to kill him. But having sworn that he would give her what she asked for, he sent some soldiers down into the prison with directions to cut off the head of John the Baptist and give it to Herodias.

This they did and took it to her, as she had said, in a charger, which was a kind of dish.

When Jesus Christ heard from the Apostles of this cruel deed, he left that city and went with them (after they had privately buried John’s body in the night) to another place.

CHAPTER THE FIFTH One of the Pharisees begged Our Saviour to go to his house and eat with him. And while Our Saviour sat eating at the table, there crept into the room a woman of that city who had led a bad and sinful life and was ashamed that the Son of God should see her; and yet she trusted so much to His goodness and His compassion for all, who having done wrong were truly sorry for it in their hearts, that, little by little, she went behind the seat on which He sat and dropped down at His feet and wetted them with her sorrowful tears; then she kissed them and dried them on her long hair and rubbed them with some sweet-smelling ointment she had brought with her in a box.

Her name was Mary Magdalene.

When the Pharisee saw that Jesus permitted this woman to touch Him, he said within himself that Jesus did not know how wicked she had been. But Jesus Christ, who knew his thoughts, said to him “Simon”, for that was his name, “If a man had debtors, one of whom owed him five hundred pence, and one of whom owed him only fifty pence, and he forgave them both their debts, which of those two debtors do you think would love him most?” Simon answered “I suppose the one whom he forgave the most.” Jesus told him he was right, and said “As God forgives this woman so much sin, she will love Him, I hope, the more.” And He said to her “God forgives you!” The company who were present wondered that Jesus Christ had power to forgive sins, but God had given it to Him. And, the woman thanking Him for all His mercy, went away.

We learn from this, that we must always forgive those who have done us any harm, when they come to us and say they are truly sorry for it. Even if they do not come and say so, we must still forgive them and never hate them or be unkind to them, if we would hope that God will forgive us.

After this, there was a great feast of the Jews, and Jesus Christ went to Jerusalem. There was, near the sheep market in that place, a pool or pond, called Bethesda, having five gates to it. And at the time of the year when that feast took place, great numbers of sick people and cripples went to this pool to bathe in it, believing that an angel came and stirred the water, and that whoever went in first after the angel had done so, was cured of any illness, he or she had, whatever it might be. Among those poor persons was one man who had been ill, thirty-eight years; and he told Jesus Christ (who took pity on him when he saw him lying on his bed alone with no one to help him) that he never could be dipped in the pool because he was so weak and ill that he could not move to get there. Our Saviour said to him, “Take up thy bed and go away.” And he went away quite well.

Many Jews saw this, and when they saw it, they hated Jesus the more, knowing that the people being taught and cured by Him would not believe their Priests, who told the people what was not true and deceived them. So they said to one another that Jesus Christ should be killed, because He cured people on the Sabbath Day (which was against their strict law) and because He called himself Son of God. And they tried to raise enemies against Him and to get the crowd in the streets to murder Him. • But the crowd followed Him wherever he went, blessing Him and praying to be taught and cured, for they knew He did nothing but Good. Jesus going with His Disciples over a sea called the Sea of Tiberia and sitting with them on a hillside, saw great numbers of these poor people waiting below, and said to the Apostle Philip, “Where shall be buy bread that they may eat and be refreshed after their long journey?” Philip answered, “Lord, two hundred penny worth of bread would not be enough for

so many people, and we have none.” “We have only,” said another Apostle Andrew, Simon Peter’s brother“five small barley loaves and two little fish, belonging to a lad who is among us.

What are they, among so many!” Jesus Christ said, “Let them all sit down!” They did; there being a great deal of grass in that place. When they were all seated, Jesus took the bread and looked up to Heaven and blessed it, and broke it, and handed it to the people. And of those five thousand men, besides women and children ate, and had enough, and when they were all satisfied, there were gathered up twelve baskets full of what was left. This was another of the Miracles of Jesus Christ.

Our Saviour then sent His Disciples away in a boat across the water, and said He would follow them presently when He had dismissed the people. The people being gone he remained by himself to pray; so that the night came on and the Disciples were still rowing on the water in their boat, wondering when Christ would come. Late in the night when the wind was against them and the waves were running high, they saw Him come walking towards them on the water as if it were dry land. When they saw this they were terrified, and cried out, but Jesus said, “It is I, Be not afraid!” Peter, taking courage said, “Lord, if it be thou, tell me to come to thee upon the water.” Jesus Christ said, “Come!” Peter then walked towards Him, but seeing the angry waves and hearing the wind roar, he was frightened and began to sink and would have done so, but that Jesus took him by the hand and led him into the boat.

Then, in a moment the wind went down and the Disciples said to one another, “It is true! He is the Son of God!” • Jesus did many more miracles after this happened and cured the sick in great numbers, making the lame walk, and the dumb speak, and the blind see. And being again surrounded by a great crowd who were faint and hungry and had been with Him for three days eating little He took from His Disciples, seven loaves and a few fish, and again divided them among the people who were found thousand in number. They all ate and had enough, and of what was left, there were gathered up seven baskets full.

He now divided the Disciples and sent them into many towns and villages teaching the people and giving them power to cure, in the name of God, all those who were ill. And at this time He began to tell them (for He knew what would happen) that He must one day go back to Jerusalem where He would suffer a great deal, and where He would certainly be put to death. But He said to them that on the third day after He was dead, He would rise from the grave and ascend to Heaven where He would sit at the right hand of God, beseeching God’s pardon to sinners.

CHAPTER THE SIXTH Six days after the last Miracle of loaves and fish, Jesus Christ went up into a high mountain with only three of the Disciples Peter, James and John. And while He was speaking to them there, suddenly His face began to shine as if it were the Sun, and the robes He wore, which were white, glistened and shone like sparkling silver, and He stood before them like an angel.

A bright cloud over-shadowed them at the same time, and a voice speaking from the cloud was heard to say “This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased. Hear ye him!”

At which the three Disciples fell on their knees and covered their faces; being afraid.

This is called the Transfiguration of Our Saviour.

When they were come down from this mountain and were among the people again, a man knelt at the feet of Jesus Christ and said, “Lord have mercy on my son, for he is mad and cannot help himself and sometimes he falls into the fire and sometimes into the water, and covers himself with scars and sores. Some of Thy Disciples have tried to cure him but could not.” Our Saviour cured the child immediately, and turning to His Disciples told them they had not been able to cure themselves, because they did not believe in Him so truly as He had hoped.

The Disciples asked him, “Master, who is greatest in the Kingdom of Heaven?” Jesus called a little child to Him and took him in His arms, and stood him among them and answered, “A child like this. I say unto you humble as little children shall enter in Heaven.

Whosoever shall receive one such little child in my name receiveth me. But whosoever hits one of them it were better for him that he had a millstone tied about his neck and were drowned in the depths of the sea. The angels are all children.”

Our Saviour loved the child, and loved all children. Yes, and all the world. No one ever loved all people so well and so truly as He did.

• Peter asked Him, “Lord, how often shall I forgive anyone who offends me? Seven times?”

Our Saviour answered, “Seventy times seven times and more than that. For how can you hope that God will forgive you, when you do wrong unless you forgive all the people!”

And he told His Disciples this story. He said there was once a Servant who owed his master a great deal of money and could not pay it. At which the master, being very angry, was going to have this Servant sold for a slave.

But the Servant kneeling down and begging his master’s pardon with great sorrow, the master forgave him. Now this same servant had a fellow-servant who owed him a hundred pence, and instead of being kind and forgiving to this poor man as his master had been to him, he put him in prison for the debt. His master, hearing of it, went to him and said “Oh wicked servant, I forgave you, why did you not forgive your fellow servant?” And because he had not done so, his master turned him away with great misery. “So,” said Our Saviour, “How can you expect God to forgive you, if you do not forgive others?” This is the meaning of that part of the Lord’s Prayer, where we say “forgive us our trespasses” that word means faults “as we forgive them that tresspass against us.”

And he told them another story, and said, “There was a certain farmer once who had a vineyard, and he went out early in the morning and agreed with some labourers to work there all day for a penny. And bye and bye when it was later, he went out again and engaged some more labourers on the same terms, and bye and bye went out again, and so on, several times until the afternoon. When the day was over and they all came to be paid, those who had worked since morning complained that those who had not begun to work until late in the day had the same money as themselves, and they said it was not fair. But the master said, “Friend, I agree with you for a penny, and is it less money to you because I give the same money to another man?”

Our Saviour meant to teach them by this, that people who have done good all their lives long will go to Heaven after they are dead. But the people who have been wicked because of their being miserable or not having parents and friends to take care of them when young and who are truly sorry for it, however late in their lives, and pray God to forgive them, will be forgiven and will go to Heaven too. He taught His Disciples in these stories because He knew the people liked to hear them and would remember what He said better if He said it in that way.

They are called Parables THE PARABLES OF OUR SAVIOUR; and I wish you to remember that word, as I shall soon have some more of these Parables to tell you about.

The people listened to all that Our Saviour said, but were not agreed among themselves about Him. The Pharisees and Jews had spoken to some of them against Him, and some of them were inclined to do Him harm because of His goodness and His looking so divine and grand, although He was dressed almost like the poor people that they could hardly bear to meet His eyes.

• One morning He was sitting in a place called the Mount of Olives teaching the people who were all clustered round Him, listening and learning attentively, when a great noise was heard and a crowd of Pharisees and some other people like them called Scribes, came running in with great cries and shouts, dragging among them a woman who had done wrong and they all cried out together, “Master! Look at this woman. The law says she shall be pelted with stones until she is dead. But what say you?

What say you?”

Jesus looked upon the noisy crowd attentively and knew that they had come to make Him say the law was wrong and cruel, and that if He said so, they would make it a charge against Him and would kill Him. They were ashamed and afraid as He looked into

their faces, but they still cried out, “Come! what say you Master? What say you?”

Jesus stooped down and wrote with his finger in the sand on the ground, “He that is without sin among you, let him throw the first stone at her.” As they read this, looking over one another’s shoulders, and as He repeated the words to them they went away one by one, ashamed, until not a man of all the noisy crowd was left there. And Jesus Christ and the woman, hiding her face in her hands, alone remained.

Then said Jesus Christ, “Woman, where are thine accusers? Hath no man condemned thee?” She answered, trembling, “No Lord!”

Then said Our Saviour, “Neither do I condemn thee. Go! and sin no more!”

CHAPTER THE SEVENTH As Our Saviour sat teaching the people and answering their questions, a certain lawyer stood up and said “Master, what shall I do, that I may live again in happiness after I am dead?” Jesus said to him, “The first of all commandments is, The Lord Our God is One Lord! And thou shalt love The Lord Thy God with all thy heart and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind, and with all thy strength.

And the second is like unto it. Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. There is none other commandment greater than these.

Then the lawyer said “But who is my neighbor? Tell me that I may know.” Jesus answered in this parable: “There once was a traveler,” he said, “journeying to Jericho, who fell among thieves and they robbed him of his clothes and wounded him and went away, leaving him half dead upon the road. A priest, happening to pass that way while the poor man lay there, saw him, took no notice, and passed by on the other side. Another man, a Levite, came that way and also saw him but he only looked at him for a moment and then passed by also. But a certain Samaritan who came traveling along that road, no sooner saw him than he had compassion on him and dressed his wounds with oil and wine and set him on the beast he rode himself, and took him to an inn, and next morning took out of his pocket two pence and gave them to the landlord, saying “Take care of him and whatever you may spend beyond this in doing so, I will repay you when I come here again.”

“Now which of these three men,” said Our Saviour to the lawyer, “do you think should be called the neighbor of him who fell among the thieves?” The lawyer said, “The man who showed compassion on him.” “True,” replied Our Saviour, “Go thou and do likewise! Be compassionate to all men. For all men are your neighbors and brothers.”

And He told them this parable of which the meaning is, that we are never to be proud or think ourselves good before God, but are always to be humble. He said, “When you are invited to a feast or wedding do not sit down in the best place lest some more honored man should come and claim that seat. But sit down in the lowest place and a better place will be offered you if you deserve it. For whosoever exalteth himself shall be abased, and whosoever humbleth himself shall be exalted.”

He also told them this parable “There was a certain man who prepared a great supper and invited many people and sent his servant round to them when supper was ready to tell them they were waited for. Upon this, they made excuses. One said he had bought a piece of ground and must go to look at it. Another that he had bought five yoke of oxen and must go to try them. Another that he was newly married and could not come. When the master of the house heard this, he was angry and told the servant to go into the streets and into the high roads and among the hedges and invite the poor, the lame, the maimed and the blind to supper instead.”

The meaning of Our Saviour in telling them this parable, was that those who are too busy with their own profits and pleasures to think of good and of doing good, will not find such favor with Him as the sick and miserable.

• It happened that Our Saviour, being in the city of Jericho, saw looking down upon Him over the heads of the crowd, from a tree into which he had climbed for that purpose, a man named Zacchaeus, who was regarded as a common kind of man and a sinner, but to whom Jesus Christ called out as He passed

along, that He would come and eat with Him in His house that day. Those proud men, the Pharisees and Scribes, hearing this, muttered among themselves and said “He eats with sinners.” In answer to them Jesus related this parable, which is usually called The Parable of the Prodigal Son.” “There was once a man” he told them, “who had two sons, and the younger of them said one day, “Father, give me my share of your riches now and let me do with it what I please.” The father, granting his request, he traveled away with his money into a distant country and soon spent it in riotous living.

When he had spent all, there came a time through all that country of great public distress and famine, when there was no bread and all things that grow in the ground were all dried up and blighted. The Prodigal Son fell into such distress and hunger that he hired himself out as a servant to feed swine in the fields. And he would have been glad to eat what the swine were fed with but his master gave him none.

In this distress, he said to himself, “How many of my Father’s servants have bread enough and to spare while I perish with hunger? I will arise and go to my Father and will say unto him, “Father, I have sinned against Heaven and before thee and am no more worthy to be called Thy Son!” And so he traveled back again in great pain and sorrow and difficulty, to his Father’s house. When he was yet a great way off, his Father saw him and knew him in the midst of all his rags and misery and ran towards him and wept and fell upon his neck and kissed him. And he told his servants to clothe this poor repentant Son in the best robes and to make a great feast to celebrate his return.

Which was done, and they began to be merry.

But the eldest Son, who had been in the field and knew not of the younger brother’s return, coming to the house and hearing the music and dancing, called to one of the servants and asked him what it meant. To this the servant made answer that his brother had come home and his Father was joyful because of his return.

At this the elder brother was angry and would not go into the house. So the Father hearing of it came out to persuade him.

“Father,” said the elder brother, “you do not treat me justly, to show so much joy for my younger brother’s return. For these many years I have remained with you constantly and have been true to you, yet you have never made a feast for me. But when my younger brother returns, who has been prodigal and riotous and spent his money in many bad ways, you are full of delight and the whole house makes merry!”

“Son,” returned the father, “You have always been with me and all I have is yours. But we thought your brother was dead, and he is alive.

He was lost and he is found; and it is natural and right that we should be merry for his unexpected return to his old home.”

By this, Our Saviour meant to teach that those who have done wrong and forgotten God, will always receive His mercy if they will only return to Him in sorrow for the sin of which they have been guilty.

Now the Pharisees received these lessons from Our Saviour scornfully; for they were rich and superior to all mankind. As a warning to them, Christ related this parable: Of Doves and Lazarus.

“There was a certain rich man who was clothed in purple and fine linen and fared sumptuously every day. And there was a certain beggar named Lazarus, who was laid at his gate, full of sores and desiring to be fed with crumbs which fell from the rich man’s table. Moreover, the dogs came and licked his sores.

“And it came to pass that the beggar died and was carried away by the angels into Abraham’s bosom. Abraham had been a very good man who lived many years before that time, and the rich man also died and was buried. And in Hell he lifted up his eyes, being in torment, and saw Abraham afar off, said Lazarus. And he cried and said, “Father Abraham, have mercy on me and send Lazarus that he may dip the tip of his finger in water and cool my tongue, for I am tormented in this flame. But Abraham said, “Son, remember that in the lifetime thou received good things, and thou are tormented.”

And among other parables, Christ said to these same Pharisees, because of their pride, that two once went up into the temple to

pray; of whom one was a Pharisee and one a Publican. The Pharisee said, “God, I thank Thee that I am not unjust as other men are, or bad as this Publican is!” The Publican, standing afar off, would not lift up his eyes to Heaven, but struck his breast and only said, “God, be merciful to me, a sinner!” And God Our Saviour told them He would be merciful to that man rather than the other, and would be better pleased with his prayer because he made it with a humble and a lowly heart.

The Pharisees were so angry at being taught these things that they employed some spies to ask Our Saviour questions and try to entrap Him into saying something which was against the law. The emperor of that country, who was called Caesar, having commanded tributemoney to be regularly paid to him by the people and being cruel against anyone who disputed his right to it, these spies thought they might perhaps induce Our Saviour to say it was an unjust payment, and so to bring himself under the Emperor’s displeasure.

Therefore, pretending to be very humble, they came to Him and said, “Master, you teach the word of God rightly and do not respect persons on account of their wealth or high station. Tell us, is it lawful that we should pay tribute to Caesar?”

• Christ, who knew their thoughts, replied, “Why do you ask? Show me a penny.” They did so. “Whose image and whose name is this upon it?” he asked them. They said “Caesar’s.”

“Then,” said He “Render unto Caesar the things that are Caesar’s.”

So they left Him, very much enraged and disappointed that they could not entrap Him. But Our Saviour knew their hearts and thoughts as well as He knew that other men were conspiring against Him and that He would soon be put to death.

As he was teaching them thus he sat near the Public Treasury, where people, as they passed along the street were accustomed to drop money into a box for the poor; and many rich persons, passing while Jesus sat there, had put in a great deal of money. At last there came a poor widow who dropped in two mites each half a farthing in value, and then went quickly away. Jesus, seeing her do this, called his Disciples about Him and said to them that the poor widow had been more truly charitable than all the rest who had given money that day, for the others were rich and would never miss what they had given, but she was very poor and had given those two mites which might have bought her bread to eat.

Let us never forget what the poor widow did when we think we are charitable.

CHAPTER THE EIGHTH There was a certain man named Lazarus of Bethany who was taken ill; and as he was the Brother of that Mary who had annointed Christ with ointment and wiped His feet with her hair, she and her sister, Martha sent to him in great trouble, saying “Lord, Lazarus, whom you love, is sick and likely to die.”

Jesus did not go to them for two days after receiving this message, but when that time was past, He said to his Disciples, “Lazarus is dead.

Let us go to Bethany.” When they arrived there (it was a place very near to Jerusalem) they found, as Jesus had foretold, that Lazarus was dead and had been dead and buried four days.

When Martha heard that Jesus was coming she rose up from among the people who had come to console with her on her poor brother’s death and ran to meet him, leaving her sister Mary weeping in the house. When Martha saw him she burst into tears, and said “Oh Lord if Thou hads’t been here my brother would not have died.” “Thy brother shall rise again,” returned Our Saviour. “I know he will, and I believe he will, Lord, at the Resurrection on the Last Day,” said Martha.

Jesus said to her, “I am the Resurrection and the Life! Dost Thou believe this?”, and running back to sister Mary, told her that Christ was come. Mary hearing this, ran out, followed by all those who had been grieving with her in the house, and coming to the place where He was, fell down at his feet upon the ground and wept, and so did all the rest. Jesus was so full of compassion for their sorrow that He wept too, as he said “Where have you laid him?”They said “Lord, come and see!”

• He was buried in a cave and there was a great stone laid upon it when they all came to

the grave, Jesus ordered the stone to be rolled away, which was done. Then, after casting up His eyes and thanking God, He said, in a loud and solemn voice “Lazarus, come forth!” and the dead man Lazarus, restored to life, came out among the people there, believed that Christ was indeed the Son of God, come to instruct and save mankind. But others ran to tell the Pharisees; and from that day the Pharisees resolved among themselves to prevent more people from believing in Him, that Jesus should be killed. And they agreed among themselves meeting in the temple for that purpose that if He came into Jerusalem before the Feast of the Passover, which was then approaching, He should be seized. It was six days before the Passover, when Jesus raised Lazarus from the dead; and at night when they all sat at supper together with Lazarus among them, Mary rose up and took a pound of ointment (which was very precious and costly and was called ointment of spikenard) and anointed the feet of Jesus Christ with it and once again wiped them on her hair, and the whole house was filled with the pleasant smell of the ointment. Judas Iscariot, one of the Disciples, pretended that the ointment might have been sold for three hundred pence and the money given to the poor! But he only said so, in reality, because he carried the purse and was (unknown to the rest at that time) a thief, and wished to get all the money he could. He now began to plot for betraying Christ into the hands of the Chief Priests.

The Feast of the Passover now drawing very near, Jesus Christ with His Disciples, moved forward toward Jerusalem. When they were come near to that city He pointed to a village and told two of His Disciples to go there and they would find an ass, with a colt, tied to a tree, which they were to bring to Him. Finding these animals exactly as Jesus had described, they brought them away, and Jesus riding on the ass entered Jerusalem. An immense crowd of people collected round Him as He went along, and throwing their robes on the ground and cutting down green branches from the trees and spreading them in His path they shouted, and cried “Hosanna to the Son of David!” (David had been a great King there).

“He comes in the name of the Lord! This is Jesus, the Prophet of Nazareth!” And then Jesus went into the Temple and cast out the tables of the money changers who wrongfully sat there together with people who sold Doves; saying “My father’s house is a house of prayer, but ye have made it a den of thieves!” and when the people and children cried in the Temple “This is Jesus the Prophet of Nazareth,” and would not be silenced and when the blind and lame come walking there in the crowds and were healed by His hands the Chief Priests and Scribes and Pharisees were filled with fear and hatred of Him. But Jesus continued to heal the sick and to do good, and went and lodged at Bethany, a place that was very near the City of Jerusalem, but not within the walls.

• One night, at that place, He rose from supper at which He was seated with His Disciples, and taking a cloth and a basin of water, washed their feet. Simon Peter, one of the Disciples, would have prevented Him from washing his feet, but Our Saviour told him that He did this in order that they, remembering it, might always be kind and gentle to one another and might know no pride or ill-will among themselves.”

Then, He became sad and grieved, and looking round on the Disciples, said “There is one here, who will betray me.” They cried out, one after another “Is it I Lord! Is it I?” But he only answered, “It is one of the Twelve that dippeth with me in the dish.” One of His Disciples, whom Jesus loved, happening to be leaning on his breast at the moment listening to his words, Simon Peter beckoned to Him that He should ask the name of this false man.

Jesus answered “It is he whom I shall give a sop when I have dipped it in the dish.” And when he had dipped it He gave it to Judas Iscariot, saying “what you doest, do quickly,” which the other Disciples did not understand, but which Judas knew to mean that Christ had read his bad thoughts.

So Judas, taking the sop, went out immediately. It was the Chief Priests, and said, “what will you give me if I deliver Him to you?”

They agreed to give him thirty pieces of silver, and for this he undertook soon to betray into their hands his Lord and Master, Jesus Christ.

CHAPTER THE NINTH The Feast of the Passover being now almost come, Jesus said to two of His disciples, Peter and John, “Go into the city of Jerusalem and you will meet a man carrying a pitcher of water. Follow him home and say to him “the Master says `where is the guest chamber where he can eat the Passover with His Disciples?’ and he will show you a large supper room furnished. There make ready the supper.”

The two Disciples found that it happened as Jesus had said; and having met the man with the pitcher of water and having followed him home and having been shown the room, they prepared the supper, and Jesus and the other ten Apostles came at the usual time and they all sat down to partake of it together.

It is always called The Last Supper, because this was the last time that Our Saviour ate and drank with His Disciples.

• And He took bread from the table and blessed it and broke it and gave it to them, and He took the cup of wine and blessed it and drank it, and gave it to them saying “Do this in remembrance of Me!” And when they had finished supper and had sung a hymn, they went out into the Mount of Olives.

There, Jesus told them that He would be seized that night, and that they would think only of their own safety. Peter said, earnestly, he never would for one. “Before the cock crows,” returned Our Saviour, “you will deny me thrice.” But Peter answered “No Lord.

Though I should die with Thee, I will never deny Thee.” And all other Disciples did the same.

• Jesus then led the way over a brook called Cedron, into a garden that was called Gethsemane; walked with three of the Disciples into a retired part of the garden.

Then He left them as He had left the others together, saying “Wait there and watch!” and went away and prayed by Himself, while they, being weary, fell asleep.

And Christ suffered great sorrow and distress of mind in his prayers in that garden because of the wickedness of the men of Jerusalem who were going to kill Him; and He shed tears before God and was in deep and strong affliction.

When His prayers were finished and He was comforted, He returned to the Disciples and said, “Rise! Let us be going! He is close at hand who will betray me!”

Among other questions that were put to Jesus, the High Priest asked Him what He had taught the people. To which He answered that He had taught them in the open day and in the open streets and that the Priests should ask the people what they had learned of Him. One of the officers struck Jesus with his hand for this reply, and two false witnesses coming in said they had heard Him say that He could destroy the Temple of God, and build it again in three days. Jesus answered little, but the Scribes and Priests agreed that He was guilty of blasphemy and should be put to death, and they spat upon Him and beat Him. When Judas Iscariot saw that His Master was indeed condemned, he was so full of horror for what he had done that he took the thirty pieces of silver back to the Chief Priest, and said, “I have betrayed innocent blood! I cannot keep it!” With these words, he threw the money down upon the floor and rushing away wild with despair, hanged himself. The rope, being weak, broke with the weight of his body and it fell down on the ground after death, all bruised and burst. A dreadful sight to see! The Chief Priests, not knowing what else to do with the thirty pieces of silver, bought a burying-place for strangers with it, the proper name of which was the Potters’ Field. But the people called it The Field of Blood ever afterwards.

• Jesus was taken from the High Priests to the Judgment Hall where Pontius Pilate, the Governor, sat to administer justice. Pilate (who was not a Jew) said to Him “your own nation, the Jews, and your own Priests have delivered you to me. What have you done?” Finding that He had done no harm, Pilate went out and told the Jews so, but they said “He has been teaching the people what is not true and what is wrong, and He began to do so long ago in Galilee.” As Herod had the right to punish people who offended against the law in Galilee, Pilate said, “I find no wrong in Him. Let Him be taken before Herod!”

They carried Him accordingly before Herod, where he sat surrounded by his stern soldiers and men in armour. And these laughed at Jesus and dressed him, in mockery, in a fine robe and sent him back to Pilate. And Pilate called the Priests and people together again, and said “I find no wrong in this man, neither does Herod. He has done nothing to deserve death.”

But they cried out “He has, he has! Yes, yes!

Let Him be killed!”

Pilate was troubled in his mind to hear them so clamorous against Jesus Christ. His wife, too, had dreamed all night about it and sent to him upon the Judgment Seat, saying “have nothing to do with that just man!” As it was the custom at the Feast of the Passover to give some prisoner his liberty, Pilate endeavored to persuade the people to ask for the release of Jesus. But they said (being very ignorant and passionate and being told to do so by the Priests) “No, no, we will not have him released. Release Barrabas, and let this man be crucified!”

Barrabas was a wicked criminal in jail for his crimes and in danger of being put to death.

• Pilate, finding the people so determined against Jesus, delivered Him to the soldiers to be scourged that is, beaten. They plaited a crown of thorns and put it on His head and dressed Him in a purple robe and spat upon Him and struck Him with their hands, and said “Hail, King of the Jews!” remembering that the crowd had called Him the Son of David when He entered into Jerusalem. And they illused Him in many cruel ways but Jesus bore it patiently, and only said “Father! Forgive them!

They know not what they do!”

Once more, Pilate brought Him out before the people dressed in the purple robe and crown of thorns, and said “Behold the man!”

They cried out savagely, “Crucify him! Crucify him!” So did the Chief Priests and officers.

“Take Him and crucify Him yourselves,” said Pilate. “I find no fault in him.” But they cried out “He called Himself the Son of God, and that, by Jewish Law, is death! And He called himself King of the Jews, and that is against the Roman Law, for we have no king but Caesar, who is the Roman Emperor. If you let Him go you are not Caesar’s friend. Crucify him!

Crucify him!”

When Pilate saw that he could not prevail upon them, however hard he tried, he called for water and washing his hands before the crowd, said “I am innocent of the blood of this just person.” Then he delivered Him to them to be crucified, and they, shouting and gathering around Him, and treating Him (who still prayed for them to God) with cruelty and insult, took Him away.

CHAPTER THE TENTH That you may know what the people meant when they said “Crucify him!” I must tell you that in those times, which were cruel times indeed (let us thank God and Jesus Christ that they are past!) it was the custom to kill people who were sentenced to death, by nailing them alone on a great wooden cross, planted upright in the ground, and leaving them there exposed to the sun and wind and day and night until they died of pain and thirst. It was the custom too, to make them walk to the place of execution, carrying the cross piece of wood to which their hands were to be afterwards nailed, that their shame and suffering might be the greater.

Bearing His cross upon His shoulder, like the commonest and most wicked criminal, Our Blessed Saviour, Jesus Christ, surrounded by the persecuting crowd, went out of Jerusalem to a place called, in the Hebrew language, Golgotha; that is the place of a skull. And being come to a hill called Mount Calvary, they hammered cruel nails through His hands and feet and nailed Him to The Cross, between two other crosses on each of which a common thief was nailed in agony. Over His head they fastened this writing “Jesus of Nazareth, the King of the Jews” in three languages; in Hebrew, in Greek and in Latin.

• Meantime, a guard of four soldiers sitting on the ground, divided His clothes (which they had taken off) into four parcels for themselves and cast lots for His coat and sat there gambling and talking while He suffered.

They offered Him vinegar to drink, mixed with gall; and wine mixed with myrrh, but He took none. And the wicked people who passed that

way mocked Him, and said “If Thou be the Son of God, come down from the Cross.” The Chief Priests also mocked Him, and said “He came to save Sinners. Let him save himself!”

One of the thieves too, railed at him in his torture and said “If Thou be Christ, save thyself and us.” But the other thief who was penitent, said “Lord! remember me when Thou comest into Thy Kingdom!” And Jesus answered “Today, thou shall be with me in Paradise.”

None were there to take pity on Him but one Disciple and four women. God blessed those women for their true and tender hearts!

They were the Mother of Jesus, His Mother’s sister Mary, the wife of Cleophas, and Mary Magdalene who had twice dried His feet upon her hair. The Disciple was he whom Jesus loved, John, who had leaned upon his breast and asked Him which was the betrayer. When Jesus saw them standing at the foot of the Cross He said to His Mother that John would be her son to comfort her when He was dead; and from that hour, John was as a son to her and loved her.

• At about the sixth hour, a deep and terrible darkness came over all the land and lasted until the ninth hour when Jesus cried out, with a loud voice, “My God, My God, why hast Thou forsaken me!” The soldiers, hearing Him, dipped a sponge in some vinegar that was standing there, and fastening it to a long reed, put it up to His mouth. When he had received it He said, “It is finished!” And crying, “Father!

Into Thy hands, I commend my Spirit!” died.

Then there was a dreadful earthquake, and the great wall of the Temple cracked and the rocks were rent asunder. The guards, terrified at these sights, said to each other “Surely this was the Son of God!” And the people who had been watching the cross from a distance (among whom were many women) smote upon their breasts and went fearfully and sadly home.

The next day being the Sabbath, the Jews were anxious that the bodies should be taken down at once and made the request to Pilate.

Therefore some soldiers came and broke the legs of two criminals to kill them, but coming to Jesus and finding Him already dead, they only pierced His side with a spear. From the wound there came out blood and water.

There was a good man named Joseph of Arimathea, a Jewish city, who believed in Christ, and going to Pilate privately (for fear of the Jews) begged that he might have the body.

Pilate consenting, he and one Nicodemus, rolled it in linen and spices. It was the custom of the Jews to prepare bodies for burial in that way and buried it in a tomb or Sepulchre, which had been cut out of a rock in a garden near the place of Crucifixion and where no one had ever yet been buried. They then rolled a great stone to the mouth of the Sepulchre and left Mary Magdalene and the other Mary sitting there watching it.

The Chief Priests and Pharisees, remembering that Jesus Christ had said to His Disciples that He would rise from the grave on the third day after His death, went to Pilate and prayed that the Sepulchre might be well taken care of until that day, lest the Disciples should steal the body and afterwards say to the people that Christ was risen from the dead.

Pilate agreeing to this, a guard of soldiers was set over it constantly and the stone was sealed up besides. And so it remained watched and sealed until the third day which was the first day of the week.

CHAPTER THE ELEVENTH When that morning began to dawn, Mary Magdalene and the other Mary, and some other women came to the Sepulchre with some more spices which they had prepared.

As they were saying to each other “How shall we roll away the stone?” the earth trembled and shook and an angel descending from Heaven rolled it back and then sat resting on it. His countenance was like lightning and his garments were white as snow, and at the sight of him, the men of the guard fainted away with fear as if they were dead.

Mary Magdalene saw the stone rolled and waiting to see no more, ran to Peter and John who were coming towards the place, and said “They have taken away the Lord and we know not where they have laid Him!” They immediately ran to the Tomb, but John, being the faster of the two, outran the other and got there first. He stooped down and looked in

and saw the linen clothes in which the body had been wrapped lying there, but he did not go in. When Peter came up, he went in and saw the linen clothes lying in one place, and a napkin that had been about the head, in another. John also went in, then they saw the things. Then they went home to tell the rest.

But Mary Magdalene remained outside the Sepulchre weeping. After a time she stooped down and looked in and saw two angels clothed in white, sitting where the body of Christ laid. These said to her, “Woman why weepest Thou?” She answered “Because they have taken away my Lord, and I know not where they have laid Him. “As she gave this answer she turned around and saw Jesus standing behind her but did not know Him. “Woman,” said He, “Why weepest Thou? What seekest Thou?” She, supposing Him to be the gardener, replied, “Sir! If Thou hast borne my Lord hence, tell me where thou hast laid Him and I will take Him away.” Jesus pronounced her name “Mary!” Then she knew Him, and starting, exclaimed “Master!” “Touch me not,” said Christ, “for I am not yet ascended to my Father, but go to my Disciples and say unto them I ascend unto my Father and your Father, and to my God to your God!” Accordingly, Mary Magdalene went and told the Disciples that she had seen Christ, and that then she found the other women whom she had left at the Sepulchre when she had gone to call those two Disciples, Peter and John.

These women told her and the rest what they had seen at the Tomb, two men in shining garments, at sight of whom they had held him by the feet and down, but who had told them that the Lord was risen; and also that as they came to tell this, they had seen Christ on the way and had held Him by the feet and worshipped Him. But these accounts seemed to the Apostles at that time as idle tales and they did not believe them.

The soldiers of the guard too, when they recovered from their fainting fit and went to the Chief Priests to tell them what they had seen, were silenced with large sums of money and were told by them to say that the Disciples had stolen the Body away while they were asleep.

But it happened that on that same day, Simon and Cleopus. Simon one of the Twelve Apostles, and Cleopus one of the followers of Christ, were walking to a village called Emmaus, at some little distance from Jerusalem, and were talking, by the way, upon the death and Resurrection of Christ, when they were joined by a stranger who explained the scriptures to them and told them a great deal about God so that they wondered at his knowledge. As the night was coming on when they reached the village, they asked this stranger to stay with them which he consented to do.

When they all three sat down to supper He took some bread and blessed it and broke it as Christ had done at the Last Supper. Looking on Him in wonder, they found that His face was changed before them and that it was Christ himself; and as they looked on Him He disappeared.

They instantly rose up and returned to Jerusalem, and finding the Disciples sitting together, told them what they had seen. While they were speaking, Jesus suddenly stood in the midst of all the company and said “Peace be unto ye!” Seeing that they were greatly frightened, He showed them His hands and feet and invited them to touch Him; and to encourage them and give them time to recover themselves, He ate a piece of broiled fish and a piece of honeycomb before them all.

But Thomas, one of the Twelve Apostles, was not there at the time and when the rest said to him afterwards, “We have seen the Lord!” he answered “Except I shall see in His hands the print of the nails and thrust my hand into his side, I will not believe!” At that moment, though the doors were all shut, Jesus again appeared, standing among them and said “Peace be unto you!” Then He said to Thomas, “Reach hither thy finger and behold my hand and thrust it into my side and be not faithless but believing.” And Thomas answered, and said unto Him, “My Lord and God!” Then said Jesus, “Thomas, because thou hast seen me, thou has believed. Blessed are they that have not seen me yet have believed.”

five hundred of His followers at once, and He remained with others of them forty days teaching them to go forth into the world and preach His gospel and religion, not minding what wicked men might do to them. And conducting His Disciples at last, out of Jerusalem as far as Bethany, He blessed them and ascended in a cloud to Heaven and took his place at the right hand of God. And while they gazed into the bright blue sky where He had vanished, two white-robed angels appeared among them and told them that as they had seen Christ ascend to Heaven, so He would one day come descending from it to judge the world.

When Christ was seen no more, the Apostles began to teach the people as He had commanded them. And having chosen a new Apostle named Matthias, to replace the wicked Judas, they wandered into all countries telling the people of Christ’s Life and Death and of His Crucifixion and Resurrection and of the Lessons He had taught and baptized them in Christ’s name. And through the power He had given them they healed the sick, and gave sight to the blind, and speech to the dumb, and hearing to the deaf, as He had done. And Peter being thrown into prison, was delivered from it in the dead of night by an angel. And once his words before God caused a man named Ananis and his wife Sapphirs, who had told a lie, to be struck down dead upon the earth.

Wherever they went they were persecuted and cruelly treated; and one man named Saul who had held the clothes of some barbarous persons who pelted one of the Christians named Stephen to death with stones, was always active in doing them harm. But God turned Saul’s heart afterward; for as he was traveling to Damascus to find out some Christians who were there and drag them to prison, there shone about him a great light from Heaven; a voice cried, “Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me?” and he was struck down from his horse by an invisible hand in sight of all the guards and soldiers who were riding with him. When they raised him they found that he was blind, and so he remained for three days, neither eating nor drinking until one of the Christians (sent to him by an angel for that purpose) restored his sight in the name of Jesus Christ. After which he became a Christian and preached and taught and believed with the Apostles, and did great service.

They took the name of Christians from Our Saviour Christ and carried crosses as their sign because upon a cross He has suffered death. The religions that were then in the world were false and brutal and encouraged men to violence. Beasts and even men were killed in the churches in the belief that the smell of their blood was pleasant to the Gods.

There were supposed to be a great many Gods and many most cruel and disgusting ceremonies prevailed. Yet, for all this, and though the Christian Religion was such a true and kind and good one, the Priests of the old religions long persuaded the people to do all possible hurt to the Christians; and Christians were hanged, beheaded, burnt, buried alive and devoured in theaters by wild beasts for the public amusement during many years.

Nothing would silence them or terrify them though, for they knew that if they did their duty they would go to Heaven. So thousands upon thousands of Christians sprung up and taught the people and were succeeded by other Christians until the religion gradually became the great Religion of the world.

• Remember! It is Christianity to do good, always, even to those who do evil to us. It is Christianity to love our neighbor as ourself and to do all men as we would have them do to us. It is Christianity to be gentle, merciful and forgiving and to keep those qualities quiet in our own hearts, or of our prayers or of our love of God, but always to show that we love Him by humbly trying to do right in everything. If we do this, and remember the life and lessons of Our Lord Jesus Christ, and try to act up to them, we may confidently hope that God will forgive us our sins and mistakes and enable us to live and die in peace.

• The End.

CHAPTER THE TWELFTH After that time Jesus Christ was seen by

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