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BUDGET: Gov. Jay Inslee will reveal details of his propsed budget this week, in advance of the Legislature’s session in January.

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By Jerry Cornfield Herald Writer

OLYMPIA — Gov. Jay Inslee this week will propose raising several billion dollars through new and higher taxes, much of

it aimed at public schools and transportation.

Over coming days, the state’s Democratic chief executive will hold events to highlight his spending priorities for the second half of his term.

It will culminate Thursday when he releases a proposal for the next two-year state budget and the revenue-raising measures needed to pay for it. He’s also expected to propose a separate, longer-term

transportation package that could mean a higher gas tax and fees.

All of it will be scrutinized during the coming legislative See BUDGET, Page A2

Dogged determination Mudslide put Bad Dog Distillery on hold — but not forever

Boeing workers donate $500K HopeWorks Social Enterprises, a group that creates businesses to provide job training, will use the grant for building fixes and more.

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ARLINGTON — Hank’s not always a bad dog. The 5-year-old Labrador retriever just has a mind of his own, a tendency to do things his way.

Dave and Shelly McGlothern think he’s a fitting mascot for Bad Dog Distillery, their new business.

The couple put their dream of opening a distillery on hold earlier this year to help with recovery efforts after the Oso mudslide, which claimed 43 lives and buried a neighborhood less than 20 miles from their business.

The McGlotherns live in Bryant, a small community north of Arlington, and worked with others around the Stillaguamish Valley to help in the weeks

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and months following the slide.

The distillery celebrates those hardworking, do-it-yourself friends and neighbors.

Dave and Shelly aim to open the distillery, at 19109 63rd Ave., by the end of the year for tours and tastings of their first liquors, including Bad Dog vodka, See BAD DOG, Page A2

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A couple of hurdles stand in its way, however. First it has to figure out how to harness the energy of elves and reindeer, then it has to get Santa’s approval.

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with Vivien Leigh and Clark Gable, made its world premiere in Atlanta (Today in History, Page B4).

Repeating a line from the movie, Leigh told the concession clerk, “As God is my witness I’ll never go hungry again,” until she saw the price of a medium popcorn and drink.

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Dave and Shelly McGlothern and their dog Hank pose inside their new Bad Dog Distillery, which will be opening soon in Arlington. Dave McGlothern built the pot still he will be used to make moonshine from scratch.

EVERETT — Boeing workers gave $500,000 on Friday to HopeWorks Social Enterprises, a nonprofit that is creating businesses in the community to provide job training.

It’s the largest capital grant ever given by the Employees Community Fund of Boeing Puget Sound and one-sixth of the fund’s capital grant budget for 2014, said Bob Malone, the incoming president of the organization.

The money will be used for building improvements at HopeWorks Station at 3331 Broadway in Everett. It will also purchase two new trucks and equipment for three existing HopeWorks businesses and will help launch a fourth business next year, said Ed Petersen, the CEO for HopeWorks.

“It is not just an expression of compassion and support for some of the most vulnerable members of our community, it’s also a strong show of faith in (HopeWorks) and what they have accomplished and what we think they can accomplish in the future,” Malone said at a reception in Everett.

“We’re pretty excited, as you can imagine, to have a commitment not just of money but from the workforce of the largest in employer in our community,” Petersen said.

Everett Mayor Ray Stephanson praised Boeing workers and the company for their generosity.

“As bad as our challenges are at times, and we see the people on the street, just imagine what it would be like if we didn’t have our giving community and companies like Boeing doing what they’re doing,” Stephanson said.

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session. The state House and Senate will pass their own plans. Eventually, legislative leaders of the two chambers and the governor will try to reconcile their differences — a process that many lawmakers think will require a special session, or two.

“This is an opportunity for the governor to establish a starting point for the conversation,” said Sandeep Kaushik, a campaign strategist for Democrats and progressive initiatives.

“It will be interesting to see how the Republicans react.

If they don’t like the proposals the governor puts forward, they need to put forth something they think is better.”

Little of what Inslee will say should surprise leaders of interest groups that lobby in Olympia.

The governor met with most of them this fall. He

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heard their concerns and emphasized his focus will be meeting schoolfunding obligations in the so-called McCleary state Supreme Court case, getting a transportation package passed and reducing greenhouse gas emissions — all of which require new revenue.

“There will be a lot of drama involved in the revenue proposal,” said Jan Teague, president and chief executive officer of the Washington Retail Association. “I think he’ll put out his vision, but I think it will be very difficult for it to come to his desk the way that he wants.”

Eric Johnson, executive director of the Washington State Association of Counties, said the governor made clear his agenda.

County representatives laid out their message too and want to see how the governor responds.

For them, the operating

are other potential sources of money.

Inslee might decide to revisit such ideas as collecting sales tax on bottled water and boosting the business-and-occupation tax on services by doctors, lawyers, accountants and other professionals.

He embraced those ideas in 2013 as part of a $1.3 billion revenue proposal, the majority of which were rejected.

While Republicans view taxes as a last option, they are likely to offer or agree to a few ideas when negotiations between the House, Senate and governor are in the final stages during the legislative session next year.

“I’m pretty sure the Democrats are going to start high and the Republicans are going to start low,” said Rep. J.T. Wilcox, R-Yelm, floor leader for the minority caucus.

Inslee this week is

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whiskey and Grandpa’s Likker.

A grand opening celebration is tentatively planned for spring, once more labels are approved for sale, Shelly said. The U.S. Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau reviews the design and information on alcohol labels. Approved labels show that the distiller meets legal requirements to bottle and sell their recipes Dave and Shelly McGlothern started planning their business about two years ago. They took classes to learn how to start and run a distillery.

Dave also works as a fulltime horseshoer — when he’s not assembling stills, making light fixtures out of scrap metal or finding local sources for the ingredients his recipes require.

The couple remodeled the distillery space using mostly recycled material, creating a counter out of pallets and an old door and buying windows that were reclaimed from other buildings during demolition or renovations. Dave built two of the three stills

expected to offer a multibillion-dollar plan for maintaining roads, expanding bus service and completing major highway projects around the state.

Agreement on a transportation package has eluded the governor and lawmakers for two years.

Recent proposals drafted in the House and Senate have relied on increasing gas taxes by at least a dime and boosting weight fees.

Sen. Curtis King, R-Yakima, chairman of the Senate Transportation Committee, said he’s “anxious” to see what the governor produces.

“I’m looking forward to seeing how he plans to raise new revenue,” King said. “It will give us a basis to start the discussion.”

The legislative session will begin Jan. 12 and is scheduled to last 105 days.

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Nothing about this is not neighborly.

— Dave McGlothern

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Distillery namesake Hank strolls past the pot still.

himself, and the other came from a friend who planned to open a distillery but never did.

The McGlotherns plan to use local ingredients as much as possible, including grain, honey, coffee and cider, as they delve into recipes for flavored liqueurs.

“We’re going all-natural, all-local,” Dave said. “Even the honey in our liquors will be local. Nothing about this is not neighborly.”

With the mudslide in mind, supporting their neighbors is as important

as ever.

Before the counter, lights, stills or even walls had been put in at Bad Dog Distillery, the place was crammed with food, water and equipment gathered by the community. While Dave took rented machinery up to help search for survivors or bodies in the debris, Shelly helped her Arlington employer, Aerospace Manufacturing Technologies, gather donations and shuttle them to the slide zone. AMT stored things like water bottles,

food, hard hats, shovels, picks, boots, gloves, chain saws, flashlights, duct tape and blankets on pallets in the distillery.

Shelly has photos of the room piled high with boxes and crates. Searchers in Oso relayed what was needed, and volunteers loaded their vehicles and delivered them by way of a lengthy detour while Highway 530 was buried in mud.

The McGlotherns, like many in the Stillaguamish Valley, felt the devastation keenly. Friends lost houses.

Friends of friends lost loved ones.

“All of our lives stopped for two weeks solid,” Shelly said. “Doing all of this was just a healing process for us.”

After the donation drive, they spent months renovating the space for Bad

Dog Distillery and making sure the stills were ready.

As they get closer to opening, more people have been stopping by to learn about the business or how they can help.

“We couldn’t have done this without the friends and family,” Shelly said.

“We’re the tools and we’re the drivers, but we really didn’t do this.”

Curtis Hecla, who owns the building where the McGlotherns are leasing space, is excited to see the business come together.

He’s known Dave for years and used to tease him, asking him what he wanted to be when he grew up. Finally, Dave said he wanted to open a distillery.

Hecla had a place available.

The distillery has two rooms — a plant where the alcohol is processed and a tasting room. The McGlotherns plan to distill vodka, gin and whiskey at first, Shelly said.

“I think the specialty will be the whiskey that comes out of Dave’s handcrafted copper still,” she said.

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the practice of “boarding” mentally ill patients in nonpsychiatric hospital beds.

It also counts on spending $1.2 billion to satisfy the court in the McCleary case, he said. And, finally, there needs to be a down payment on complying with a voter-approved initiative for smaller classes, he said.

Inslee will propose revoking a few tax breaks, but those won’t generate enough money to balance the budget, Schumacher said.

That leaves new or higher taxes, and what those might be is a subject of educated speculation.

A tax on carbon emissions is often mentioned by Inslee as a means of generating sizable sums for education, transportation or both. A capital-gains tax, which is attractive to progressive Democrats, and an increase in the statewide portion of the property tax

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budget “is an important document. It gives us knowledge of where the executive branch is,” Johnson said. “It will be the starting point for a legitimate discussion with the House and Senate.”

In a meeting with reporters last week, Inslee’s budget director outlined the challenges.

The state expects to collect nearly $3 billion more in taxes and fees in the next budget than the current one. That can cover the rising tab of current state programs, including pension and health care costs and bond payments.

But that’s still $2.3 billion shy of what the governor views as needed, said David Schumacher, director of the state Office of Financial Management.

That sum includes such things as pay hikes for teachers ($400 million) and state workers ($583 million) and funding to end

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The Employees Community Fund is an employee-owned and managed charity that has given $600 million in donations since 1951. Boeing workers voluntarily donate to the fund through payroll deductions as small as $5 per paycheck. Its trustees are rank-and-file employees.

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addition to our full-time day jobs,” said Kathleen Sneden-Cook, the fund’s president. “I work commercial airplanes, engineering processes and tools. Bob is one of my coworkers. Alan is one of my coworkers in engineering. My other friends work the factory, where they build those magical birds for all of us that we love to fly as we go places.”

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Sullivan accuses Somers of ‘character assassination’ It follows Executive John Lovick’s decision Wednesday to veto the budget that Somers and two other council members passed on a 3-2 vote. Sullivan was on the losing end.

“The budget process has always presented difficult choices that requires compromises and civility between the Council and Executive’s office,” Sullivan wrote. “We have seen the exact opposite from you, Chair Somers.”

The spat among the members of Snohomish County Council continues on and on.

By Noah Haglund Herald Writer

EVERETT — Snohomish County Councilman Brian Sullivan fired off a strongly worded letter Friday accusing Council chairman Dave Somers of “character assassination” and

arrogance.

The missive blames Somers for contributing to a rancorous atmosphere among the county’s elected leaders and what’s become a dysfunctional budget process. Sullivan wrote that the conduct “can only be explained as purely for political gain.”

Sullivan’s letter is the latest salvo in a war of words and legislative actions that has split the council into two factions. Sullivan and Councilwoman Stephanie Wright consistently support Lovick.

Somers, along with Councilmen Terry Ryan and Ken Klein, have clashed with the executive’s administration.

Klein, the lone Republican on the council, defended Somers’ leadership during the budget

process. He said he felt included and called Sullivan’s accusations “totally inconsistent with reality.”

“With me, Dave has been nothing but forthright and honest,” Klein said Friday. “We obviously don’t agree on everything, but at least my ideas were heard.”

Lovick faces another re-election campaign next year, and See SPAT, Page A4

New bridge planned over South Fork Stilly

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If the current 80-yearold bridge failed, people would be forced to take a 94-mile detour.

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Diana Cortes, a Granite Falls High School senior, is deeply rooted to her family and friends. She also is working hard to achieve her goals.

Full of good cheer

Granite Falls High’s Diana Cortes loves family, dance...and dentistry

By Kari Bray Herald Writer

GRANITE FALLS — Diana Cortes, 18, is a senior at Granite Falls High School who connects with her hometown through cheerleading. She is the oldest of four children and spends a lot of her time with family. She is in Running Start at Everett Community College and hopes to become a dental hygienist.

Question: What activities are you

involved in at Granite Falls High School?

Answer: Well, I’ve been a cheerleader since my sophomore year and I really enjoy that. I did cross-country when I was a freshman and I also did competitive ballroom dance as a freshman. Sadly, the program ended so that’s why I went into cheer, but I enjoy cheer a lot. I’m also in Honor Society and I’m doing Running Start, so I think that has a lot to do with maybe not being able to involve myself as much as I

wish I could. It’s far away and it just consumes my time. I tried doing half-time Running Start last year, my junior year, but it didn’t quite work out because it was hard to get the classes to line up.

cultures have different ways of communicating and how you have to respect those boundaries and try to cope with one another. I’m also taking U.S. History, which is a requirement for graduation.

Q: What classes are you taking?

Q: So is cheerleading the only time you get to spend here at the high school?

A: Right now, I’m taking a pre-calculus class — most of it’s just trigonometry — and then I have an intercultural communications class, and it really explains how people between

A: It really is, yeah.

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Little changes will ease driving frustrations

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rom Lynnwood to Bothell to Everett and back to Lynnwood again, let’s travel around the south end today with some questions and answers.

Light cycle changed at North Road

front porch

Robert Casteel of Lynnwood travels south on North Road a

couple times each week and had become frustrated by the timing on the light at 164th Street SW. “The light cycle is way too short,” he wrote to tell me in late November. “No matter how quickly I react the light will allow no more than two cars, sometimes only one. It is quite frustrating being third in line and knowing I won’t be able to get

Lynnwood council on break The Lynnwood City Council is on break for the holidays until 2015.

The next council work session is Jan. 5, with the next full council meeting scheduled for Jan. 12.

Get a low-cost ski helmet: Children can hit the slopes in styl-

through the light. Can this cycle be adjusted?”

Yes, it can. And yes, they did.

“I see what Robert is talking about,” said Jim Bloodgood, Snohomish County traffic engineer, when forwarded the question.

“Timing changes have been made and he and other users

ish safety this year. Fire District 8 in Lake Stevens and Safe Kids Snohomish County are offering ski and snowboard helmets to kids for $25.

Crews will fit the helmets to the kids. Helmets can reduce the severity of a head injury when worn and fit properly. To set up a fitting appointment, call 425-334-3034.

More info: www.lsfire.org or www.snosafekids.org.

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MELISSA SLAGER STREET SMARTS

Ugly sweater pub crawl and poker walk: There’s an ugly Christmas sweater pub crawl and poker walk through historic downtown Snohomish scheduled from 6:30 to 11:30 p.m. on Saturday.

Prizes will be awarded to people who show up for the pub crawl wearing the ugliest holiday sweaters.

There’s also a prize and cash

GRANITE FALLS — Plans are in the works to replace an 80-year-old bridge on the Mountain Loop Highway near the town’s namesake falls and fish ladder.

The county aims to construct a new bridge across the South Fork Stillaguamish River less than two miles from downtown.

It would be 10 feet wider, measured curb to curb, and 66 feet longer than the existing 20-footwide, 304-foot-long span. The road would remain two lanes and a sidewalk is planned on the bridge.

Built in 1934, the bridge predates the start of construction on the Mountain Loop Highway by about two years. An estimated 1,288 trucks and 2,737 cars cross the bridge per weekday in the summer, according to a 2013 report from Snohomish County. It provides access to popular campgrounds and hiking trails along with hundreds of homes in small communities such as Verlot, Silverton and Robe.

If the bridge were to fail or be shut down for critical repairs, people could face up to a 94-mile detour through Darrington to access homes and businesses along the Loop near Granite Falls. In the winter months, a detour wouldn’t be available because much of the highway remains unplowed.

The county is seeking a design consultant to finalize plans for the new bridge, county spokeswoman Rebecca Hover said.

Officials expect the design to be finished in early 2017.

The county council on Wednesday approved $16,000 to purchase two right-of-way parcels from the state Department of Fish & Wildlife. The budget for the entire bridge construction is estimated at $29 million.

Project leaders plan to seek federal grants, Hover said. A construction schedule can be decided once the project is funded.

A new bridge would be built immediately downstream from the existing bridge — officially Granite Falls Bridge No. 102 — so the route could remain open during construction.

It’s the only access over the Stilly on the Mountain Loop, a

for the winner of the poker walk.

During the poker walk, players visit seven businesses and select a card at each location. They then choose five to make the best hand.

It costs $5 to play. The event starts at 6:30 p.m. at Skip Rock Distillers, 104 Avenue C. Pub crawl wristbands cost $15 online or $20 at the event. Three drinks are included.

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Cheerleading helps me because it’s so involved with school.

There’s football games, basketball games, wrestling, assemblies. So that’s the reason I didn’t let go of cheerleading when I went into Running Start, because it’s the only thing that really keeps me connected with the student life here.

Q: Is it hard to keep your grades up in college courses?

A: Kind of. I’ve had straight A’s in all of my classes except for a B+. Last year, I faced the challenge of taking a chemistry course and I had no chemistry background. I had to do what a high school student does in a year in two months and a half, and that was a big challenge, but

I ended up with an A. I was like, wow, I did it.

Q: What are your favorite subjects?

A: I really like math. Right now, like I said, I’m taking precalculus and communications, and I thought communications was going to be the easier class for me. But it turns out math just comes easier to me than communication and English and history. I also enjoy biology and other sciences.

Q: What are your plans after high school?

A: I’m planning to get my degree in dental hygiene. With Running Start, I can save a year in college. I’ll do one more year at Everett and then I’ll transfer to a dental hygiene program in

either Shoreline or Lake Washington. I should be graduating with my degree at 21.

Q: Why dental hygiene?

A: I enjoy going to the dentist.

My first goal was to become a dentist, then I began working toward it. I just feel like it’s too long in school for me because I have three other siblings who I also want to have an opportunity to get a really good job and I feel like I’d be kind of hogging all the money because it’s such an expensive career to study for.

I also want to start living life a little earlier instead of having to wait eight years.

said, I was in ballroom dance, and I really enjoy going to dances. I’m also really familyoriented, so I love to spend time with my family. We have movie nights and we’ll go out on family dates. We try every weekend, but sometimes because of school I can’t. I also have this thing with my cheer friends where we go on friend dates every Thursday night, and then with my boyfriend at Western Washington University, we try to see each other every two weeks for a movie or dinner or something.

Q: Along with being a dental hygienist, what are some of your longgoals?

Q: What do you like to term A: Definitely to have my own family. My goal is if I graduate do for fun?

A: I really enjoy dance. Like I

with a degree at 21, I have a couple years to enjoy my career, find

Spat: A rancorous atmosphere at county From Page A3

there’s speculation in his camp that Somers or other council members may be angling to challenge him for the job.

Sullivan’s letter addressed a spat between a majority of council and the Deputy Executive Mark Ericks.

He criticized Somers for voting to spend $15,000 on a private attorney who will investigate comments Ericks allegedly made during private meetings.

“In 35 years I have had disagreements, been yelled and screamed at,” Sullivan wrote. “You got in my face three months ago and yelled profanities at me, but rather than call the police or conduct an investigation, I chose to stand up and walk away.”

Somers, Ryan and Klein believe the comments Ericks reportedly made were hostile and threatening toward them.

Sullivan also took exception to Somers’ votes to eliminate pay raises and jobs in next year’s budget, especially the recently hired deputy director of the Medical Examiner’s Office. Dan Christman, hired to bring fresh

leadership to the troubled morgue, reportedly joked in a meeting about issuing death certificates for Somers and Ryan.

“This is punitive and an abuse of power,” Sullivan wrote.

All five council members are scheduled at 10:30 a.m. Monday to sit down and respond to Lovick’s budget veto. First, they’ll discuss an override. That’s extremely unlikely to happen, because it requires four votes. Neither Sullivan nor Wright appear inclined to now support the 2015 budget that a council majority passed before Thanksgiving.

If the council and executive can’t come to

agreement on the budget by the end of the year, county operations could go into partial shutdown.

Meanwhile, the council has postponed a decision originally scheduled Monday about reappointing John Koster as county ombudsman. Lovick, a Democrat, hired the former longtime Republican councilman last year. He recently asked that the council not renew Koster’s contract because of anti-union statements he made in a fundraising letter for the Freedom Foundation, a conservative Olympia think tank.

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CLUBS AND GROUPS Cascade Radio Club: Meets next at 7 p.m. Dec. 17 (third Wednesday) in the training room at the Snohomish County PUD building, 2320 California St. More info: Kerry Sparlin, 425-258-4600.

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Dec. 20 (third Saturday except June through August) at Normanna Lodge, 2725 Oakes Ave., Everett.

Bring a favorite food for a potluck and an item for a silent auction.

Guests welcome at this meeting.

Membership open to women age 13 and up of Nordic background, by

Good Sam Club: Chapters in Snohomish and Island counties seek new members who enjoy RVing, meeting new friends and going to new places. More info: kaydonna43@hotmail.com or 425-344-4916. Interested singles contact msamida@gmail.com or call 360-802-0308.

M-DOG: Marysville Dog Owners Group meets at 6:30 p.m. Dec. 17 (third Wednesday) at Haggen Food and Pharmacy, 3711 88th St. NE. Leslie Buell at 425-268-5285,

Mukilteo Lighthouse Quilters: Meets next at 7 p.m. Dec. 16 (third Tuesday) in the Christiansen Room at Rosehill Community Center, 304 Lincoln Ave., Mukilteo. A $5 donation is appreciated. More info: www.mlquilters.org.

Puget Sound Camera Club: Meets at 7 p.m. the second, fourth and fifth Monday of the month at Maplewood Presbyterian Church,

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SNOHOMISH COUNTY PUBLIC UTILITY DISTRICT BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS REGULAR MEETING EVERETT HEADQUARTERS BUILDING, 2320 CALIFORNIA STREET

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CONVENE REGULAR MEETING 9:00 a.m. Commission Meeting Room 1. CEO/GENERAL MANAGER BRIEFING AND STUDY SESSION EXECUTIVE SESSION Recess into Executive Session to Discuss Current or Potential Litigation and the Legal Risks of a Current Practice or Proposed Action – Training Center Room 1 RECONVENE REGULAR MEETING 1: 30 p.m. Commission Meeting Room 2. COMMENTS FROM THE PUBLIC 3. CONSENT AGENDA A. Approval of Minutes for the Regular Meeting of December 2, 2014 B. Bid Awards, Professional Services Contracts and Amendments C. Consideration of Certification/Ratification and Approval of District Checks and Vouchers D. Consideration to Prequalify Contractors as Bidders for Electrical Line Work for the District During 2015 4. PUBLIC HEARING AND ACTION A. Disposal of Surplus Property – 1st Quarter 2015 B. Consideration of a Resolution Adopting the 2015 Budget for Public Utility District No. 1 of Snohomish County, Washington C. Consideration of a Resolution Ordering, Approving, Ratifying, and Confirming the Construction and Installation of the Plan or System of Additions to the District’s Water Utility, as Adopted on November 18, 2014, and Applicable to the Local Utility District Hereinafter Described, Forming Local Utility District No. 57 of Snohomish County, Washington, and Confirming the Final Assessment Roll 5. ITEMS FOR INDIVIDUAL CONSIDERATION A. Consideration of a Motion Accepting the Annual Financial Planning and Budgeting Monitoring Report B. Consideration of a Resolution Adopting a Strategic Plan 2015-2019 C. Consideration of a Resolution Authorizing the CEO/General Manager or His Designee to Execute Amendment No. 5 to the Professional Services Contract for the Implementation of the ONE Program with Deloitte Consulting LLP D. Consideration of a Resolution Authorizing the CEO/General Manager to Execute a Letter Agreement with Puget Sound Energy for Services Related to the District’s Expansion of the Beverly Park Substation E. Consideration of a Resolution Authorizing the CEO/General Manager to Execute a Revised Agreement and Other Documents with John Hancock Life Insurance Company (U.S.A.) Related to Pipe Realignment and Construction of Hydroelectric Generating Facilities on Calligan Creek and Hancock Creek, King County, Washington 6. COMMISSION BUSINESS A. Commission Reports 7. GOVERNANCE PLANNING A. Governance Planning Calendar ADJOURNMENT The next scheduled regular meeting is January 6, 2015 Agendas can be found in their entirety on the Snohomish County Public Utility District No. 1 web page at www.snopud.com. The public is invited to attend.

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Q: Where do you want to travel?

A: I definitely want to go to Spain and Fiji.

Q: Is there anything else you do to stay busy here in Granite Falls?

A: I do some volunteering at my church, and I’m in the youth group. I go to Holy Cross Catholic Church on Highway 92. But most of my time is really involved and focused in school.

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Widening the bridge has been on the county’s radar for more than a decade. Narrow lanes make it difficult for two large vehicles going opposite directions to use the bridge at the same time. The span provides access to camping, quarries and logging, meaning that trucks and RVs regularly use it.

In 2001, planners considered setting up an

alternating traffic light to let one vehicle cross at a time, according to county documents.

However, people in Granite Falls quickly shot down the idea, concerned about the impact on traffic.

Some improvements have been made to the bridge in the last decade, but it remains below the county’s standards for size and safety. The replacement bridge will be designed to meet those thresholds, according to the county.

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homish County. To find a local club, go to www.toastmasters.org.

Singles, Puget Sound Singles: Singles over age 50 join for fun activities, such as weekly breakfasts at 9 a.m. Saturdays at the IHOP at Everett Mall Way and Evergreen Way, as well as movie nights, potlucks, day trips and dinner adventures. More info: 425-374-3203.

Valley Spinners Guild: Meets next from 7-9 p.m. Dec. 16 (third Tuesday) at Zion Lutheran Church, 329 Ave. A, Snohomish. More info: Alice Lake, 360-668-8196, valleyspinnersguild.wordpress.com.

Sons of Italy: The Mille Cugini Lodge meets next from 7-9 p.m.

Dec. 17 (third Wednesday) at the Red Barn in Jennings Park, 6915 Armar Road, Marysville. More info: riccivilla@hotmail.com, www. glnw.org/millecugini.htm.

Soroptimist International Marysville: Meets at 7 a.m.

Dec. 16 (first and third Tuesday) at Fanny’s Restaurant, 505 Cedar Ave., Suite A1. More info: Renae, 425-971-0031.

Toastmasters: The nonprofit club helps members improve their speaking and leadership skills.

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the right guy and get married and enjoy the marriage before we start a family. Traveling is also a goal. And I’ll probably move to a warmer place, either California or Florida.

Willow Place: Activities for adults with developmental disabilities are offered 9 a.m.-noon and 1-4 p.m. Monday through Thursday at Quilceda Community Services, 9610 48th Drive NE, Marysville. Three-hour activity sessions include exercise, crafts, games and music. Cost is $15.

More info: 360-653-2324.

MEETING NOTICES Sno-Isle Libraries: The Board of Trustees meets in regular session, 5 p.m. Dec. 15 at the Library District’s Service Center, 7312 35th Ave. NE, Marysville. More info: www.sno-isle. org.

Send calendar items to newstips@heraldnet.com.

NOTICE OF REGULAR MEETING TUESDAY DECEMbER 16, 2014 7 p.M. pRELIMINARY CITY COUNCIL MEETING AGENDA pUbLIC HEARING – Comcast Franchise Extension – ADOpT Ordinance 2282 ACTION ITEMS a. ACCEpT 3rd Quarter Budget Report b. AUTHORIZE City Manager to Sign Interlocal Agreement with Snohomish School District for School Resource Officer c. AUTHORIZE City Manager to Sign Amendment to Snohomish County Sheriff’s Office Interlocal Agreement for School Resource Officer d. AUTHORIZE City Manager to Sign Interlocal Agreement with Snohomish County for Jail Services e. AUTHORIZE City Manager to Sign Professional Services Agreement for Hearing Examiner Services f. AUTHORIZE City Manager to Sign Professional Services Agreement with Strategies 360 for SR 9 Coalition Lobbying Services g. AUTHORIZE City Manager to Sign Interlocal Agreement with Lake Stevens for SR9 Coalition Lobbying Services h. AMEND 2014 Budget – ADOpT Ordinance 2281 DISCUSSION ITEM – Community Facilities and Services Element ADJOURN NEXT MEETING: Tuesday, January 6, 2015, regular meeting at 7 p.m., in the George Gilbertson Boardroom, Snohomish School District Resource Center, 1601 Avenue D.

The City Council Chambers are ADA accessible. Specialized accommodations will be provided with 5 days advanced notice.

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he holidays can be a challenging time. It is especially challenging for those struggling with memory issues such as Alzheimer’s disease and dementia. It can be equally challenging for caregivers and loved ones.

The holidays bring schedules that are disrupted with shopping and festivities. People tend to get rushed, tempers are short and guilt can ruin what should be a happy and joyous time. Sometimes all that is needed is a worry-free few hours, or perhaps a day, to relax and regain balance in life.

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Day stays can ease the first steps in that journey. Many of Rosewood Courte’s long-term residents first got to know and feel at ease in the facility as short-termstay or day-stay clients.

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By Kristen Gelineau Associated Press

SYDNEY— A gunman took an unknown number of people hostage inside a downtown Sydney chocolate shop and cafe at the height of Monday morning rush hour, with two people

inside the cafe seen holding up a flag believed to contain an Islamic declaration of faith.

Four hours after the incident first erupted inside the Lindt Chocolat Cafe, New South Wales state Police Commissioner Andrew Scipione said police had not made direct contact with the gunman, did not know his motivation and were not sure how many people were being held inside.

“We have not yet

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L a r r y W . W e s t , 76 , o f Stanwood, Wash. died December 10, 2014. Larry was born to Mary and Wilbur on April 25, 1938 in Leroy Township, Miss.

L a r r y r e c e i v e d h i s p h a r m a c i s t l i c e n s e f ro m Ferris State University. After he moved the family to Wa s h i n g t o n S t a t e , L a r r y worked at Todd and Marco shipyards and then for the Everett School District working nearly 20 years as the head custodian for Silver Lake Elementary.

Larr y is sur vived by a brother and sister; six children (three adopted); fourteen grandchildren; and one great grandchild.

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Ethyl Wheat passed away peacefully in her sleep on Saturday December 6, 2014 in her family’s home at the age of 88.

E thy l l eaves b eh i n d h er s o n , M i c h a e l W. W h e a t ; d a u g h te r- i n - l aw, J e n n i fe r Hundley Wheat; and son-inlaw, Jim McGee; also, her four grandchildren and their spouses, Matt McGee (Rihannon), Megan McGee Crawshaw (Billy), Andy Wheat (Andrea), and Amy Wheat Austin. Ethyl was also blessed with ten great grandchildren.

She was preceded in death by son, Mark Wheat; daughter, Christine Wheat McGee; and beloved husband Bud. Ethyl Wheat was born in Seattle, Wash. and graduated from Ballard high school. She spent the majority of her life living in Edmonds where she raised three children and was married for over 65 years.

She was a devout mother, loving wife, and caring friend to all. Ethyl was a woman who will be remembered for her commitment to family, generous hospitality, and beautiful smile. Loved and adored by her children, she was a guiding force in their lives. Her loyalty to Bud and family was admired by all w h o k n e w h e r. A n a v i d g o l f e r, s h e e n j o y e d t h e game socially as much as for the competition. She also enjoyed traveling with her husband and friends during their retirement years.

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confirmed it is a terrorismrelated event,” Scipione said. “We’re dealing with a hostage situation with an armed offender and we are dealing with it accordingly.”

The cafe is located in Martin Place, a plaza in the heart of the city’s financial and shopping district that is packed with holiday shoppers this time of year.

Many of those inside the cafe would have been taken hostage as they stopped in for their morning coffees.

Hundreds of police flooded into the area, streets were closed and offices evacuated. The public was told to stay away from Martin Place, home to the state premier’s office, the Reserve Bank of Australia, and the headquarters of two of the nation’s largest banks. The state parliament house is a few blocks away.

Television footage shot through the cafe’s windows showed several people with their arms in the air and hands pressed against the glass, and two people holding up what appeared to be a black flag with white Arabic writing on it.

Zain Ali, the head of the Islamic Studies Research Unit at the University of Auckland, said it was difficult to read the message because media images showed only the lower part of the flag. But he believed it was the Shahada, or declaration of faith, largely because a black flag with white writing in a contemporary context often contains that message. He

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In a follow-up, Casteel said he noticed the changes the last time he drove through the intersection. “The light clearly worked better.”

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said he could make out the word “Muhammad.”

Ali said the Shahada translates as “There is no deity of worship except God (Allah), and Muhammad is the messenger of God.” It is considered the first pillar of Islam’s five pillars of faith, and has been used by groups like alQaida and Islamic State but wasn’t invented by them, Ali said.

“We don’t know whether this is politically motivated, although obviously there are some indications that it could be,” Prime Minister Tony Abbott told reporters in the nation’s

capital, Canberra. “We have to appreciate that even in a society such as ours, there are people who would wish to do us harm.”

A police spokeswoman said no injuries had been reported from the incident.

Heavily armed officers were lined up outside the cafe, and a man with a backpack inside the cafe could be seen walking back and forth in front of the glass doors.

“Police have been in attendance and have controlled the situation from very early this morning,” said Scipione, the police commissioner. “We are at

this stage continuing to secure and make sure that we are doing all we can to bring this to a peaceful outcome.”

Abbott said the National Security Committee of Cabinet met to be briefed on the situation.

“The whole point of politically motivated violence is to scare people out of being themselves,” Abbott said. “Australia is a peaceful, open and generous society — nothing should ever change that.

And that’s why I would urge all Australians today to go about their business as usual.”

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direction, it stays green for far longer than the westbound lanes need to empty. And in the meantime, the two through-lanes are nearly empty as well,” she said.

She wondered if the city has explored adding a second left-turn lane.

T.J. McDermott of Lake Stevens suggested adding a second turn lane as well, perhaps by converting the center through lane into one where drivers can go straight or turn left.

Turns out Bothell is in the middle of a project to address their concerns.

“The city has been working with a traffic design consultant over the past year to develop a design that will reconfigure the entire intersection, add a left turn lane on eastbound 228th, upgrade and reprogram the signal operations, upgrade street illumination, new pavement overlay and install new lane striping,” project manager Nduta Mbuthia said.

The city will take a different approach than McDermott’s idea.

“Rather than converting the existing center lane into a dual-purpose through/left turn lane, the city is adding a left-turn lane by widening 228th to the north. This will be accomplished by converting the landscaping strip on the north side of the street into a westbound travel lane,” Mbuthia said.

Design of the project is wrapping up, and

construction is expected to begin in early spring.

Congestion fuels rear-end collisions Judy Gregerson of Everett says Highway 99 (Evergreen Way) at Airport Road has got to be one of the worst intersections in the county.

“I avoid that intersection like the plague,” she said.

For good reason. She was rear-ended there twice in incidents 10 years apart.

“You will notice that there are multiple, deep skid marks all over the road” on northbound Highway 99 from the Poulsbo RV dealership two-tenths of a mile south to the intersection with Airport Road, she said.

Tom Pearce at the state Department of Transportation notes that segment of Highway 99 has become quite congested during peak periods.

“The increase in population, as well as commercial, retail and manufacturing growth, all have contributed to this,” Pearce said. “We typically see higher numbers of rear-end collisions at signalized intersections than at locations where only the side street is controlled by stop signs.

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drivers to pay attention to the road and not to their cellphones — or, Gregerson would add, the recreational vehicles for sale.

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A Lynnwood project to adjust traffic lights along Highway 99 and 196th Street SW (Highway 524) to ease congestion and reduce driving times is still in the works.

Next up for the adaptive traffic signal system, which the city received a grant for a few years back, is selecting the appropriate software, said David Mach, in the city’s Public Works office. “So we haven’t implemented it yet. We’re getting closer, though.”

The city anticipates moving forward in 2015.

When installed, the software is expected to improve things by 10 to 20 percent, Mach said. “But we’ll see as we install it how things are actually going.”

More than 18,000 drivers travel Highway 524 each day, city data show.

Highway 99 in Lynnwood sees about 22,500 cars daily.

The traffic-signal project is expected to cost $472,500, paid for with federal highway grants.

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9/11 judge: Review the secrets

After ‘Torture Report,’ some sealed records could be made public

By Carol Rosenberg Miami Herald

GUANTANAMO BAY NAVAL BASE, Cuba — The judge overseeing the 9/11 mass-murder trial has ordered prosecutors to go back and look at secrets sealed up in the court record to assess what the public can now see in light of this week’s revelations in the Senate Intelligence Committee’s so-called Torture Report.

The chief prosecutor, Army Brig. Gen. Mark Martins, declined to discuss the order on Saturday because it was not yet made public.

But four attorneys who read it

said the judge, Army Col. James L. Pohl, on Friday instructed the prosecution to carry out a sweeping review of more than two years of classified trial filings.

At issue is how much of the once-secret CIA interrogation and detention program can now be discussed in open court — and which classified filings can be unsealed — in the trial of the five men accused as conspiring to direct, train and finance the 19 hijackers who killed nearly 3,000 people in New York, Pennsylvania and the Pentagon on Sept. 11, 2001.

The alleged mastermind Khalid Sheik Mohammed, 49, and

four other men were charged May 5, 2012, but their deathpenalty prosecution has been slow moving in part because of a superstructure of secrecy built around what the CIA did to them in years before they were brought to Guantanamo base in September 2006 for eventual trial.

Now that the Senate Intelligence Committee has released a damning summary of its study of the brutal tactics the CIA used in its secret overseas prisons — and the trustworthiness of what their interrogations gleaned — information the spy agency once shielded at the Guantanamo war court as national

security secrets is declassified.

One defense attorney interpreted the judge’s order to open to the public “all the torture methods” described in defense filings that are currently sealed as top secret.

“Judge Pohl ordered the prosecution to take a new look at the material they claimed was classified,” said Cheryl Bormann, who represents Walid bin Attash, 36, an alleged 9/11 plot deputy. “Revisiting the issue should result in the world finding out what happened to these men,” she said, adding that the public portion of the Senate report “doesn’t begin to cover the horror.”

ACROSS THE U.S.

No ceremonies for Sandy Hook shooting anniversary NEWTOWN, Conn. — The community of Newtown quietly marked the second anniversary Dec. 14 of the shooting rampage that left 20 children and six educators dead at Sandy Hook Elementary School. No public memorial events were held on a day town officials said instead would be for private reflection and remembrance. First Selectman Pat Llodra and school Superintendent Joseph Erardi said in a public letter the community’s recovery has been a “challenging journey, filled with days of joyful hope and occasional dips of despair.”

D.C.: Senator Ted Cruz’s moves roil Republicans One colleague called the tactics of Tea Party-backed Sen. Ted Cruz on the $1.1 trillion spending bill a painful echo of last year’s 16-day partial government shutdown. Another senator said it was a strategy without an end game. And that sniping came from Cruz’s fellow Republicans. The Texas freshman in a political hurry — he’s considering a 2016 presidential run — infuriated several GOP colleagues with a last-minute attempt to force a vote on President Barack Obama’s executive actions on immigration. The move upended lawmakers’ weekend plans and gave Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid an opening to move forward on long-stalled Obama nominees.

Calif.: Lynching effigies on campus spur debate Effigies of black lynching victims found hanging on a Northern California college campus have sparked debate over whether the images are powerful protest art or just plain tasteless and racist. The photographic images were found Saturday morning hanging at two prominent spots on the campus of the University of California, Berkeley. Police are investigating, but officials say they still don’t know who hanged the images or the motivation. Some suggested the effigies may have been a form of “guerrilla art” and that images of lynching victims have been used by artists in the past.

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Environmental activists perform representing leaders, from left, Australia’s Prime Minister Tony Abbott, China’s President Xi Jinping, Canada’s Prime Minister Stephen Harper, Russia’s President Vladimir Putin and Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe during the Climate Change Conference COP20, in Lima, Peru on Friday.

Rich vs. poor at U.N. climate talks Some developing countries worry pollution controls will hinder their economic growth.

Many of you colonized us, so we started from a completely different point.

By Karl Ritter Associated Press

LIMA, Peru — A last-minute deal that salvaged U.N. climate talks from collapse early Sunday sends a signal the rich-poor divide that long held up progress can be overcome with a year to go before a landmark pact is supposed to be adopted in Paris.

Still, it remains to be seen whether governments can come up with a new formula for how countries in different stages of development should contribute in a way that keeps global warming from reaching dangerous levels.

“This issue will be contentious and it will need to be worked through all the way to Paris,” U.S. climate envoy Todd Stern said after the marathon talks in Lima finished, more than 30 hours behind schedule.

The U.N. talks were still far away from reaching any agreement on reducing emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases to a level that scientists say would keep global warming in check.

But the Paris agreement would be the first to call on all countries to control their emissions.

The U.S. and other developed nations say that means tearing down the firewall in negotiations that compels only rich countries to rein in emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases.

— Guridial Singh Nijar Malaysian climate negotiator

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Thousands march in “Defense of Mother Earth” in Lima on Wednesday, as they chanted slogans against illegal mining, logging operations and oil drilling. Indians also asked that the exploitation of resources in their ancestral lands be stopped immediately.

Though it was agreed in 2011 that goals set in Paris would be “applicable to all,” many developing countries worry they will be required to take on emissions controls that stymie their economic growth. In Lima they angrily rejected a draft text that made no mention of different responsibilities and capabilities to fight global warming.

“We are in a differentiated world. That is the reality,”

Malaysian negotiator Gurdial Singh Nijar told delegates.

“Many of you colonized us, so we started from a completely different point.”

Despite the tough rhetoric, the conference ended Sunday with a compromise based on a groundbreaking U.S.-China deal on emissions targets last month.

The Lima decision noted the principle in the 1992 U.N. climate change convention that

countries have “common but differentiated responsibilities” to tackle climate change.

But like the U.S.-China deal, it added that this should be seen “in light of different national circumstances,” suggesting countries’ responsibilities change over time as they develop.

“It sounds like a tiny thing, but it’s very important,” said Nathaniel Keohane, vice president of the Environmental Defense Fund. “I think we’re starting to see the plates move.”

How to interpret what it means in practice is going to be critical over the next year as countries firm up their emissions targets for the Paris agreement.

Asked about the implications of the Lima deal, Chinese negotiator Su Wei repeated China’s mantra that the purpose of the Paris agreement is to “reinforce and enhance” the 1992 convention, not rewrite it.

“This paragraph may represent a compromise that both sides can interpret as they choose to,” said Alden Meyer of the Union of Concerned Scientists.

Texas: New governor would bring back ‘open carry’ Long depicted as the rootin’-tootin’ capital of American gun culture, Texas is one of the few states with an outright ban on the open carry of handguns.

That could change in 2015, with the Republican-dominated Legislature and Gov.-elect Greg Abbott expected to push for expanded gun rights. “If open carry is good enough for Massachusetts, it’s good enough for the state of Texas,” Abbott said the day after his election last month. He has already pledged to sign one into law if sent to his desk.

AROUND THE WORLD

American crosses into North Korea, denounces U.S. TOKYO — Just weeks after three Americans detained in North Korea were released, a U.S. citizen has shown up in the repressive state, appearing on television to denounce his home country as a “mafia enterprise” and call American democracy “an illusion.” It seems that the man, Arturo Pierre Martinez, 29, of El Paso, willingly went to North Korea. His mother, Patricia Eugenia Martinez, told CNN that her son has bipolar disorder and had previously tried to enter North Korea by swimming across a river but was apprehended and sent back to the United States, where he was treated at a psychiatric hospital in California.

Denmark: Claims North Pole via Greenland ridge link Denmark says scientific data shows Greenland’s continental shelf is connected to a ridge beneath the Arctic Ocean, giving Danes a claim to the North Pole and any potential energy resources beneath it. Foreign Minister Martin Lidegaard says Denmark will deliver a claim on Monday to a United Nations panel in New York that will eventually decide control of the area, for which Russia and Canada are also coveting. Lidegaard told the AP he hopes the other nations that also have made claims in the Arctic will continue to keep to “the rules of the game.”

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Mukilteo firm’s riveting success story

By Eileen Bjorkman The Herald Business Journal

MUKILTEO — In 1983, Peter Zieve didn’t even know what a rivet looked like.

Three years later, he founded a company, Electroimpact, to sell riveting machines to aerospace companies.

It’s been a spectacular success.

Electroimpact has grown into a heavyweight in the aerospace industry, employing more than 620 people while operating on five continents.

The company sells dozens of machines to Boeing, Airbus and other aerospace manufacturers throughout the world. The machines do everything from driving old-fashioned rivets into aluminum on assembly lines to manufacturing parts by laying up advanced composite materials.

And this has been a particularly good year for Electroimpact.

In January, the Pacific Northwest Aerospace Alliance named the business its aerospace company of the year. In October, Electroimpact won a coveted contract from Boeing to develop automated fiber placement machines for building 777X wings.

Sales continue to grow so much that Electroimpact plans to expand soon.

It all started with Zieve, 60, who from the beginning envisioned his company as “a haven for engineers.”

Electroimpact is atypical of many engineering and manufacturing organizations, which are often characterized by huge support staffs, rigid hierarchical structures, senior managers isolated inside plush offices, and cubicle-dwelling engineers (think Dilbert).

At Electroimpact, only a handful of employees provide administrative support, and no one has an office, including Zieve.

On a November day, he didn’t look like most CEOs either, instead resembling more of an absent-minded professor — wearing socks but no shoes, cargo pants and a gray T-shirt with “Peter Zieve” embroidered on the right chest and “Electroimpact” on the left.

Zieve’s path to world-class aerospace entrepreneur was propelled by electromagnetics, a field normally associated with systems such as radios, radars, cellphones, and

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Peter Zieve’s ElectroImpact has moved well beyond the original riveting and drilling assembly machines of its earlier days.

antennas, not rivets.

His early desire was to apply electrical engineering technology to environmental problems, an interest sparked during high school in his native Wisconsin when he helped his mother with a project on air pollution control.

During his sophomore year as an electrical engineering major at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, he heard about a professor, James R. Melcher, who was researching ways to apply electromagnetics to new areas.

Zieve found Melcher’s phone number in a faculty directory and dialed, expecting the call to be answered by an assistant or a secretary. He was shocked when the famous professor answered himself, but instead of telling Zieve to

go away, Melcher commanded, “Come here now.”

Thus began a mentorship that continued through Zieve’s two MIT master’s degrees, one in electrical engineering and one in environmental engineering.

In 1977, Zieve helped to found EFB Inc., a Boston company dedicated to applying a technology called “Electrified Filter Bed” to reduce pollution particles in the atmosphere.

Zieve had lost interest in air pollution control by 1983, so he sold his share of the business to his two partners and headed to Seattle and the University of Washington to work on a doctorate in mechanical engineering.

One day, as Zieve sat at his desk, Georg Mauer, then a UW assistant professor, dropped by to talk about rivets. Despite the fact that

Boeing uses the tiny metal cylinders by the millions to assemble airplanes, until then, Zieve said, “I had never even heard of a rivet.”

Using a chalkboard behind Zieve’s desk, Mauer sketched diagrams of rivets and explained how they work: drill holes in two or more pieces of sheet metal, slip a rivet into the holes (a head on one side of the rivet keeps it from falling out) and then squeeze the rivet until the non-head side deforms so it extends over the holes to hold the parts together.

Mauer also explained that researchers were developing electromagnetic processes to improve traditional mechanical processes for squeezing the rivets.

Zieve, electrified, said, “By the end of the discussion, I knew I wanted to work on this for the rest of

my life.”

For his Ph.D. work, Zieve invented a technology called “low voltage electromagnetic riveting.” Compared to purely mechanical processes, the new technology promised to be quieter, more suitable for riveting in small places, require lower skill levels, and reduce damage to aircraft skins during manufacturing.

After graduating in 1986, Zieve established Electroimpact, with the goal to commercialize the technology. At first, he was the only employee and he figured out by himself how to build the first low voltage electromagnetic riveter, which was small enough to transport in a pickup.

After selling the first machine to Northrop Grumman in Pico Rivera, California, the company grew slowly, selling a drilling machine to Boeing and then a computer numerical control machine to Textron Aerostructures in Nashville.

Initially, the company was housed in what looked like an oversized garage on Blakely Street near the UW in Seattle. Zieve said the location was “paradise” — he could run on the Burke-Gilman trail and he was minutes away from his second job as a UW professor.

By 1993, Electroimpact had grown to the point that Zieve said a Boeing vice president recommended they move to a larger facility more suited to manufacturing aerospace equipment.

Wanting to avoid a commute to the Eastside, Zieve looked further north in Mukilteo and found a good facility near Paine Field.

He said, “It was the end of paradise, but the new building really allowed us to grow.” The company now resides in the Electroimpact campus of six buildings on Chennault Beach Road.

Mauer, now a professor at the University of Nevada Las Vegas, wasn’t surprised that Electroimpact succeeded. He said, “What distinguishes Peter is creativity and a willingness to work outside the box. He’s not bound by customs and tradition. And his quirky personality gives him a unique perspective.”

The structure at Electroimpact is very flat.

Zieve said that, at most, there is one layer between every engineer in the company and him.

He personally hires every

employee in the U.S., and he speaks to all overseas hires on the phone before a final decision is made. The international component of the company is primarily in the U.K.; the relatively independent operation employs about 100 people and is dedicated to supporting Airbus assembly in the U.K. Electroimpact’s technology and product offerings have grown well beyond the original riveting and drilling machines used for assembly, and now include manufacturing machines that can build entire aircraft sections made from composite materials. The company also offers a line of articulated robots.

The Mukilteo engineers are organized into teams that sit together in areas designated by signs with titles like “Squeeze” (for rivets) and “AFP” (for automated fiber placement) to reflect the type of equipment they work on.

Zieve’s desk in the “Squeeze” section looks identical to the other desks on the engineering floor, although it is located by a window. The desk next to his is occupied by his son, Michael Zieve, who also has B.S and M.S. degrees in electrical engineering from MIT. For the future, Zieve said he plans to stay within the aerospace manufacturing and assembly business “An airplane is so complicated that you can never really understand all of it,” Zieve said. As for slow growth, manufacturing technology doesn’t change as rapidly as software, which often requires lead times of less than two years from idea to implementation.

Zieve said that timeline boggles his mind — aircraft manufacturers are much more patient. And, although in Electroimpact’s early days, Zieve had to convince manufacturers to buy his products, these days the manufacturers are more likely to approach Zieve to ask him to develop a new piece of equipment.

Whatever Zieve is doing at Electroimpact, it seems to be working. The company continues to hire new engineers and is expected to grow to around 750 employees in the near term.

Orders continue to pour in from aerospace manufacturers around the world and Zieve recently opened a new office in China.

And it all started with someone who had never heard of a rivet.

McDonald’s forgot that successful firms focus on market niche

By Pat Sisneros

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id you know that McDonald’s has 121 items on its menu?

I learned this in a recent newspaper article about McDonald’s that explained the challenges facing the fast-food giant, including declining sales the past two years.

Franchisees are unhappy with the company’s direction. The large number of menu items has made their kitchen operations much more complicated. The CEO is under intense pressure to make big changes.

And I thought, how did McDonald’s get to 121 items on its menu?

What happened to hamburgers, fries, shakes, Ronald McDonald and the Golden Arches? How did this iconic brand, one of the most famous companies in the entire world, with more than 14,000 restaurants in the U.S. alone, become a company trying to serve so many different types of customer tastes?

There is an important lesson for small business owners to learn here — don’t let your company become an enterprise that tries to be all things to all people. It never works. Successful companies concentrate on a market niche. They are focused and excel at meeting customer needs in that niche.

How does trying to be all things

People The Everett Clinic has welcomed pediatrician Dr. Yu Lisa Shen to its Marysville Clinic and Dr. Andrea Drown to Family Medicine at Smokey Point Medical Center. Shen is board certified in pediatrics and a member of the American Academy of Pediatrics.

happen, even to the best-run enterprises?

It begins innocently.

There is the allure of developing a new product or service, which may attract different customers. New markets can create sales growth opportunities. The temptation is great to expand beyond your market niche, especially if sales are soft.

The challenge is that slowly, over time, the original product offerings get lost in the mix with the new products. Resources get focused on the new and less on the old. The excitement and energy is with the new.

The company’s brand gets

Drown is a member of the American Osteopathic Association, American Medical Association and Washington Academy of Family Physicians.

Mike Deller has been appointed to Everett Community College’s Board of Trustees.

Deller, who graduated from

muddled, confusing for both current and potential customers and employees. What the company stands for is no longer easily explained. Your company’s pitch that used be a few simple sentences now requires a page or so of explanation. For any small businesses, brand muddle is never a good place to be and could end up destroying the business.

This is the situation facing the McDonald’s brand. It’s pretty hard to see a connection between a blueberry pomegranate smoothie and a Big Mac and fries.

It speaks volumes that even the legendary McDonald’s, with a 60-year history and one of the

EvCC in 1971, is a longtime supporter of the college. He’s the second of three generations connected to EvCC. His father, Bill Deller, was the dean of students at the college and later established the EvCC Foundation.

Jim Maddux, longtime manager of Lake Stevens

Ministorage and U-Haul, has announced his retirement effective Jan.10. Under his leadership, the franchise received multiple customer service awards and has frequently ranked among the top five AAA U-Haul dealers for the region.

The Navy veteran and his wife of 45 years, Evelyn, plan to return to his native Arizona.

most recognizable brand names in the world, is struggling mightily to create a “menu for all.” Their restaurant of today isn’t the brand they’ve built over the past six decades.

The McDonald’s brand was built on quick service time. They are destroying one of the key parts to their brand.

I’d suspect that if the founder Ray Kroc were alive today, he’d say, “Let’s get back to what made McDonald’s great!”

Pat Sisneros is the Vice President of College Services at Everett Community College. Send comments to psisneros@everettcc. edu

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IN OUR VIEW | 2015 legislative agenda

More voices for education fix In addressing education funding when it convenes in January, the Legislature must serve two masters.

It has to satisfy a state Supreme Court ruling — and lift a contempt of court finding — that mandates that it fulfill its paramount duty to fully fund education in the state, which could require an additional $1.5 billion to $2 billion each year in the 201517 budget.

And it must satisfy the state’s residents that those expenditures will result in measurable improvements in education. Sooner, rather than later, the state will have to identify sources of revenue that will allow it to meet its paramount duty to education while at the

same time meeting all other responsibilities.

Voters aren’t going to have the appetite to see taxes increased unless the state can show how things are going to be better, said Dave Powell, executive director for Stand for Children Washington, the state branch of the national education advocacy group.

The state will have to spend money, Powell said, “but they have to spend it wisely.”

Stand for Children is part of the chorus of voices urging the Legislature to find consensus and meet its obligations to education. Among its priorities, the state group is backing support for higher education to halt tuition increases and for pre-school and early education, specifically Shoreline

Rep. Ruth Kagi’s Early Start bill, which would provide support and assistance for certified child care centers and early education programs.

And it also, having opposed Initiative 1351, believes the class-size initiate will have to at least be suspended while the state addresses the more immediate funding issue.

Stand for Children also wants the Legislature to attempt to restore its waiver from the federal No Child Left Behind requirements, lost in April after the Legislature failed to include student performance on standardized tests as part of teacher evaluations. Losing the waiver meant that almost all schools in the state had to notify parents that they were failing. The state’s

school districts also lost control of $40 million in federal support that had to be used for outside tutors.

This has been were Stand for Children and the state’s teachers unions diverge. But it’s a conversation worth having.

Powell admits that teachers are distrustful of linking the results of standardized tests to their evaluations because lawmakers “haven’t created clarity as to how those measurements will be used,” Powell said.

The concerns of teachers are reasonable, and finding a way to satisfy both teachers and the federal mandate also could be one avenue to winning greater public trust that the money being spent on education is well spent.

To quote Abe Lincoln, a Republican, “You can fool all of the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time , but you cannot fool all of the people all of the time.”

others and mature behavior in public.

Every child should be taught that when a person, whether male or female, young or old, large or small, black, white or brown — that when a person wearing a badge of authority says “stop” that means only one thing, “stop.” That is especially true if the law enforcement officer is carrying a sidearm.

Life is a boomerang with agonizing consequences, not only for you, but also for your loved ones.

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR ■ CIA

Cannot forget victims of 9/11 Torture! Torture is watching 400 bodies of firemen and policemen being carried out of the ruins of the World Trade Center.

Torture is the families of 3,000 innocent civilians trying to deal with a senseless act.

Torture is attending the funerals of all of the victims.

Torture is widowed moms and dads trying to explain to their children why their parents were murdered.

We are worried about discomfort applied to the murderers? None of them died.

The murderers are psychopaths. None of their acts have anything to do with religion.

I applaud the CIA and I do believe they obtained vital information. The senate Democrats should be ashamed.

Kent Christenson Everett

■ I-405 TOLL

HOV lanes just a moneymaker Regarding the article, “Complexity for carpoolers when toll lanes come to I-405”: Years ago, the WSDOT confiscated the far-left freeway lanes to encourage commuters to carpool.

Now I see that those lanes on I-405 will be open to anyone willing to pay a toll, and everyone who uses the lanes will need to install a transponder to be tracked by WSDOT. So the truth emerges. Carpool lanes are not really to encourage carpools and lessen traffic.

They are just another fundraising device on a road that has been paid for long ago.

Of course, government officials are smart enough not to put these stupid measures up for public vote because they would never pass. We just have to deal with another level of irritation from these parasites.

Anna Smith Marysville

■ FOX NEWS

Truth might bother the left The dictionary defines phobia as an abnormal or morbid fear or aversion, therefore Fox-aphobia is hatred or fear of Fox News.

I fail to understand the morbid fear that the left has for Fox, they always claim that Fox lies, now I watch and I don’t ever remember any blatant lies. Could it be that the left doesn’t like what is reported or the fact that the “regime” is less than forthcoming about certain situations?

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The IRS, for instance — this supposedly neutral agency has been auditing Republican donors (like the Koch Brothers) and acting like the financial “gestapo” toward those who dare oppose this administration.

What about the NSA scandal, listening in on private conversations and harassing reporters like James Rosen of Fox News?

Fox certainly didn’t lie about the fiasco that was Bengazi, and the death of four Americans.

More recently, the reporting about Johnathon Gruber and the seven separate videos of Dr. Gruber explained how the administration “lied” to the “stupid” American public to get Obamacare passed.

Did any other media report on the criminal waste of $500 million on the Solyndra project?

Or how about the waste of the $687 million tax dollars on the stimulus package, money that was suppose to go to shovelready jobs that went instead to shore up union pension funds?

Fox has revealed that Al Sharpton is $4.5 million in arrears in back taxes. Can you imagine if you were delinquent what would happen to you?

An election day poll of American voters shows that the electorate is rejecting the administration by a wide margin. The Democrats lost nine seats (and the majority) in the Senate and 17 more seats in the House.

Jeff Crocker Lake Stevens

■ EVERETT

Keep old logo, save some money It is absolutely ridiculous to change the Everett logo. Who is it that can’t let “well enough” alone? How many years has the current logo been in existence and serving well? What will be the cost to taxpayers to change signs, stationery and whatever else? Whoever wants to change the logo should have to pay for the changes out of their own pocket.

Ronald Cummins Everett

■ LAW AND ORDER

Respect must be taught at home There are many lessons to be learned from the tragic shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, and the ensuing senseless riots and looting.

There are those, like Al Sharpton, who believe the police are always at fault and consequently need a retraining program in how to deal with aggressive troublemakers. That viewpoint certainly has merit. However, I believe the majority of our street problems begin in the home.

Perhaps if Brown’s father, who wanted to burn the town down, had used a different approach when his son was an adolescent, perhaps the entire tragedy may have never happened.

As parents and grandparents, we are responsible for setting an example and teaching the younger generation the principles of respect for

George Hawkinson Everett

■ H.S. FOOTBALL

Montez’s efforts very impressive When the Seattle Times All League Team, Wesco North 3A, Football Offense Team was announced it was gratifying to see Collin Montez’s name on first team. So I waited, excitedly, for the Everett Herald’s All-Area Football Teams to be announced. It is a more local paper for Marysville and would have picks from coaches and staff that have seen Collin play. Was I ever shocked and disappointed to see he was on second team!

Collin, the only sophomore picked by the Seattle Times, ran for 2,016 yards in nine games this year. One of the players on the Herald’s first team offense ran for 1,486 yards. A difference of 530 yards rushing is quite a difference! Collin also plays defense, punts, and sometimes quarterbacks. Granted he was not on a team that went to playoffs or district or state. But, in my opinion, that makes his 2,016 yards all the more impressive.

Way to go, Collin! Thank you for your determination and your wonderful attitude as a student and athlete at Marysville Getchell High School.

Sheila Anderson Marysville

Direct criticism at those who OK’d torture

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aid a chief prosecutor in the Nuremburg trials: “As an International Military Tribunal, it … seeks guidance not only from international law but also from the basic principles of jurisprudence which are assumptions of civilization and which long have found embodiment in the codes of all nations.”

SID SCHWAB Comes now the Senate report on the torture that was done in our name. After reading it (there’s an interactive “Cliffsnotes” version atwapo. st/1D3POg2), there can remain no doubt that George Bush lied when he told the world “The U.S. doesn’t torture.” You can think it’s horrible, or you can thump your chest with pride that we’re as hardcore as anyone; but you can’t deny the lie. You might have decided what we did in the aftermath of 9/11 — out of fear, or panic, or the best of intentions, or, as George Bush claimed, on instructions from God — was justified and righteous. You might reject the conclusion that “we” forsook the most basic of American values, tossed away that which once separated us from the worst of humanity; you might, as have many, even before Dianne Feinstein was done reading the report into the record, find nothing wrong with what we did, only with those revealing it.

You might believe, like me, (decidedly in the minority according to fivethirtyeight.com, 53eig.ht/1B3tb6G), that our torture program diminished our greatness, did us only harm, debased our standing in the world, and removed forever our once-justified claims to the moral high ground; or, like Mr. Bush, you might want to change the subject, praising the brave men and women of the CIA, suggesting the report is intended only as denigration of those people, as opposed to a way toward illumination of the sort of state in which we’ve come to live, good and bad, potential and actual; a means of facing fundamental questions, given ephemeral mention after the attacks of 9/11, of the balance between freedom and security, of government as protector or deceiver.

Wherever you stand on the morality or necessity of torture, one thing ought finally to be unassailably clear: Bush and Cheney’s program didn’t work. Period.

Which isn’t surprising. Torture never has been a vehicle for obtaining the truth: since the racks of the Inquisition and the drownings in Salem, the waterboarding by the Khmer Rouge and the KGB, torture’s timeless gift to the world has always been the coercion of false confessions. Ask Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., whose outrage at our program is pure, and nearly singular on his side of the aisle. In fact, in the report we learn that one captive hauled to a “black” site in (redacted), after days of brutal torture, gave what was demanded of him: claims of Saddam’s WMD stockpile and connection to al-Qaida. The ones used to justify the war. The ones enumerated by Colin Powell at the UN. The ones later recanted by the man, admitting he said what he needed to say, lied to make the torture stop.

To the surprise of exactly zero people, Fox “news” and the rest of right wing media are united in their outrage. Not at the torture. At the fact it was revealed. Not about the impact and implications of the actions; at the airing of them. The Cheney approach, father and daughter.

Remember the 1970s Congressional investigation of CIA excesses, headed

by Sen. Frank Church of Idaho? The coordinated attacks that came his way, orchestrated in part by a couple of President Ford’s men, names of Cheney and Rumsfeld? Shall this be the ultimate fate of the current report, vilifying those who provided it, ignoring the substance? Or might we yet have a clear-headed, nonFoxolimbagian disputation about whether open society and democracy, ruled by law, have an inherent protective power of their own, worth saving, in the longest run transcending even military might; or are they now merely quaint and obsolete indulgences of a naïve past?

The report makes a point of not directing eyes where they belong: not on those who tortured, but those who authorized and then lied about it. By treaty (signed

by Ronald Reagan) and definitions at the time, these were war crimes requiring punishment. Do we address it, or ought we just define it away and move on?

Sid Schwab is a surgeon and Edmonds resident. He writes occasionally for The Herald.

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Passenger rail resumes after mudslide SEATTLE — Amtrak says passenger train service has resumed between Everett and Seattle after a 48-hour safety moratorium was lifted. Amtrak said in a statement early Sunday that BNSF Railway has cleared its tracks and re-opened the route. A mudslide hit railroad tracks at 12:30 a.m.

Friday near Edmonds.

Olympia: Gov. Inslee will unveil budget Gov. Jay Inslee says he will unveil his budget ideas this week, starting with dollars for education. The Washington Supreme Court has given the Legislature one more session to figure out how it’s going to put more money into K-12 schools. Lawmakers have been ordered by the court to pay the full cost of basic education. In addition to the McCleary

decision, lawmakers will also need to figure out what to do about an initiative approved by voters in November to decrease class sizes in every grade. The governor said he has some ideas for how to get more state dollars for education. On Tuesday, he plans to talk about the transportation budget. On Wednesday, the governor will focus on climate change and environmental issues. On Thursday, he’ll deliver a state budget overview.

Leavenworth: Man feared drowned after fleeing from police A 28-year-old shoplifting suspect who jumped into the Wenatchee River near Leavenworth to run from Chelan County deputies has likely drowned.

Chelan County sheriff’s Sgt. Kent Sisson said Sunday that there’s “a high probability” the man drowned. There have been no sightings of him in two days.

He was last seen Friday afternoon, when he ran from deputies

who were looking for him over a theft of two liquor bottles from a Leavenworth grocery store. The man, who is homeless, tried to swim across the swollen river but was swept downstream.

At one point, he was spotted trying to hold onto a boulder several yards down river. On Saturday, rescuers searching by helicopter and on the water for a second day were unable to find him.

Longview: Recyclables will be shipped to Asia The city of Longview plans to sell and ship its recycled bottles, cardboard and other materials to Asia.

The city’s trash and recycling contractor, Waste Control Inc., says it will soon start selling the recyclables it collects in Longview to buyers in Asia.

The Longview Daily News reported that the Longview City Council approved the recycling changes last week.

The city’s recycling compliance manager, Gregg Hannon, says the

Judge rules for Cowlitz casino VANCOUVER, Wash. — A federal judge has sided with the Cowlitz Indian tribe in its long fight to establish a reservation and build a casino along I-5 in southwest Washington.

U.S. District Judge Barbara J. Rothstein in Washington, D.C., on Friday dismissed a lawsuit filed by plaintiffs who had challenged a federal government decision to put into trust for the tribe about 152 acres west of La Center in Clark County and to allow gambling on that land, the Columbian reported. The tribe, which has about 3,500 members

but no land of its own, plans to develop the property into tribal offices, housing, a tribal center as well as a massive casinoresort complex with a roughly 134,000-squarefoot casino.

“I know there’s legal wrangling around all this, but it’s certainly a huge victory for the Cowlitz people,” Cowlitz Tribal Chairman William Iyall said. “The land going into trust will be a huge milestone, a historic milestone 150 years in the making.

It’s taken a long time to get here. It is justice served.”

Plaintiffs who challenged

the federal government’s decisions questioned the Cowlitz tribe’s historical ties to the area west of I-5, the newspaper reported.

The tribal offices are 24 miles north of the site, and plaintiffs argued that the Cowlitz tribe just wanted their reservation to be an easy 16-mile drive from Portland to attract casino customers in that area.

The plaintiffs include the Confederated Tribes of the Grand Ronde Community of Oregon, which owns and operates a casino that would compete with any future casino built on the land.

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Idaho: Cow escapes butcher shop, not police POCATELLO, Idaho — A 1,000pound cow being prepared for slaughter jumped a 6-foot fence and bolted through the streets of Pocatello before police shot and killed it following a lengthy pursuit.

Pocatello Police Chief Scott Marchand tells the Idaho State Journal that his officers fired two shots at the heifer because it posed a safety risk. The cow had escaped from Anderson Custom Pack, a meat processing business, on Friday afternoon.

Early in the chase, an officer shot the cow in the head but the wounded animal kept running.

The cow led police and animal control officers on a chase on foot and in vehicles through the city’s north side. It rammed an animal control truck and two police cars.

The animal was eventually cornered in a residential backyard

Oregon: Student collapses, dies at Indian boarding school SALEM, Ore. — The Marion County Sheriff’s Office said it’s investigating the death of an 18-year-old student who collapsed in her room at a Native American boarding school in Salem.

The sheriff’s office said “there is nothing to suggest any foul play,” but the U.S. Attorney’s office has ordered an autopsy out of precaution. Emergency personnel called to Chemawa Indian School at 7:30 a.m. Sunday were unable to resuscitate the teen.

The sheriff’s office said it is working with the student’s family, the U.S. Attorney’s office and others to determine what caused the teen’s death. It said it will not release other details until Monday.

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Second man arrested in Portland school shooting Associated Press PORTLAND, Ore. — An 18-year-old man arrested Sunday is the second of three people believed to be involved in a shooting outside an alternative Portland high school, police said.

Marquel Dugas, 18, was arrested on a probation violation and lodged into jail Sunday afternoon.

Police said they are working to identify a third person connected with Friday’s shooting near Rosemary Anderson High School.

One of three people hospitalized has been released. Taylor Zimmers, 16, remains hospitalized in serious condition, while David Jackson-Liday,

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Labraye Franklin, 17, was released from the hospital on Saturday. A fourth person, a 17-year-old girl, was grazed by a bullet and treated at the scene.

Police arrested a 22-year-old man in connection with the shooting early Saturday. Lonzo Murphy was charged with a parole violation and could face additional charges.

Police said he’s a “person of interest” in an incident they believe was related to gang activity.

Murphy was pulled over early Saturday, and police found a handgun in the vehicle though it’s unclear whether that gun was used in the shooting.

Police have said Murphy

and the two male victims had ties to a gang.

On Sunday, Zach McKay was among several dozen people who attended an open house at the school, the Oregonian reported.

“This is my family. It’s important to talk about it,” McKay, who graduated from the school in 2010.

“Good to get it out sooner than later.”

School President Joe McFerrin told the newspaper that community agencies and trauma experts will be available to students on Monday.

Police said officers on Monday will also provide extra patrols of the school, as well as a nearby high school and community college in the city’s north end.

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YOUR PHOTOS A weekly showcase of our favorite photos from the reader galleries at HeraldNet.com.

See more great photos or share your own at www.heraldnet.com/yourphotos.

David Carlos caught this picture-perfect autumn day at Green Lake in Seattle on Oct. 7.

Katie Buck of Marysville photographed this cairn on the Ediz Hook sand spit in Port Angeles in August.

Julie Titone took this photo last May while kayaking in Puget Sound. It shows a section of the Air Force pier, which will be removed to make way for the new Mukilteo ferry terminal.

SCHOOL WINNERS New food program seeks donations The Foundation for Edmonds School District is collecting funds for its new Nourishing Network program, a weekend meal program to serve the district’s homeless and low-income families.

A Dec. 6 benefit concert by the Mosaic Choir and Orchestra, North Sound Church and Campbell Nelson VW/Nissan helped bring the group closer to its goal of raising $20,000.

The foundation has a donor who will match up to $20,000 in donations.

The Campbell Nelson car dealership also will match 10 percent of the group’s fundraising, up to a total of $50,000.

meals and snacks. Once the bags were ready to go, technicians from Frontier Communications loaded the bags onto their service trucks to take them to school sites for distribution.

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Foundation for Edmonds School District Executive Director Deb Anderson (second from left) cuts the ribbon on the Nourishing Network food pantry with Edmonds Mayor Dave Earling (left) and Mountlake Terrace Mayor Jerry Smith as other program supporters look on.

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Moms, don’t walk your sons to school

By John Rosemond Tribune News Service

Q: My buddy’s wife walks their 11-year-old into the classroom each day. Then she takes out his assignments and helps him get ready.

We’re talking about a very capable kid who has no “issues” at all. My buddy says other mothers at his son’s school are also doing the same thing. My wife has heard about this and wants to start walking our very capable son into his 4th grade room. What are your thoughts?

A: I think there may be children who because of some developmental problem or medical issue might need a parent to walk them into school, but that practice is unnecessary otherwise, and something Shakespeare might have had lots of fun with.

My first thought is that this is a symptom of what has been happening in American mother culture for some time now. One mother ups the ante on the other mothers by taking enabling to a new level and it spreads like wildfire by some psychic transmission force that men have no aptitude for.

My second thought is that today’s moms generally seem to think that raising a child is all about nurturing;

therefore, the more a mother nurtures, the better a mother she must be. This was not the case 60-plus years ago, when mothers could strike fear into the hearts of their kids with no more than a sideways glance. Now children strike fear into their mothers, who do not have a firm grasp of the fact that unless nurturing is balanced by an equal portion of authority, it turns into a toxic thing called enabling.

My third thought is that when I say stuff like this, some women think I’m “ragging” on women. No, I’m trying to help women understand what they have allowed themselves to become caught up in.

This is not about women, obviously, because women of my mother’s generation and before did not come close to fitting this description. Since then, we have gone from men demeaning women to women demeaning themselves.

My fourth thought is that we seem to have misplaced a sense of purpose when it comes to raising children. The purpose is to help them become adults, and it should be self-evident that the more quickly they become adults and take on adult responsibilities, the better off they are. Walking a competent 11-year-old into class every

SUPER QUIZ Take this Super Quiz to a Ph.D. Score 1 point for each correct answer on the Freshman Level, 2 points on the Graduate Level and 3 points on the Ph.D. Level.

Subject: THE GRINCH All questions are based on the original animated TV show. (e.g., What color is the Grinch? Answer: Green.)

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2. The Grinch made his first appearance in which Christmas story?

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“How the Grinch Stole Christmas!” 3. Whoville. 4. Max. 5.

Cindy Lou Who. 6. A light needed to be fixed. 7. Boris Karloff. 8. The log for the fire. 9. Mount Crumpit.

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Actor-comedian Tim Conway is 81. Singer Cindy Birdsong (The Supremes) is 75. Rock musician Dave Clark (The Dave Clark Five) is 72. Rock musician Carmine Appice (Vanilla Fudge) is 68. Actor Don Johnson is 65. Movie director Julie Taymor is 62. Movie director Alex Cox is 60. Actor Justin Ross is 60. Rock musician Paul Simonon (The Clash) is 59. Movie director John Lee Hancock (Film: “Saving Mr. Banks”; “The Blind Side”) is 58. DNC Vice Chairwoman Donna Brazile is 55. Movie producer-director Reginald Hudlin is 53. Actress Helen Slater is 51.

Actress Molly Price is 49. Actor Michael Shanks is 44. Actor Stuart Townsend is 42. “Crowd-hyper” Kito Trawick (Ghostown DJs) is 37. Actor Adam Brody is 35. Actress Michelle Dockery (TV: “Downton Abbey”) is 33. Actor George O. Gore II is 32. Actress Camilla Luddington (TV: “Grey’s Anatomy”) is 31. Rock musician Alana Haim (HYM) is 23. Actress Stefania Owen is 17.

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day and helping him get situated significantly raises the likelihood that this child, 20 years from now, will still be living at home, being waited on hand and foot by his mother. But perhaps this will be normative by then and no one will give it a second thought.

My fifth thought is that these mothers have too much time on their hands. Lacking modern conveniences, having to wash clothes and dishes by hand and sweep and mop rather than fire up a vacuum cleaner, my mother and her peers did not have time to bring perfection to every aspect of their children’s lives. In fact, their callous disregard of our fragile psyches included making us wash, sweep, and mop along with them.

A mom who has the time to walk her 11-year-old into school every day and arrange his work for him needs to get out and volunteer with people who really and truly need her help. She’s eminently qualified, obviously.

My last and hopefully most sobering thought is that these moms are going a long way toward ensuring that their male children grow up with no respect whatsoever for women. Respecting and expecting are incompatible.

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Dear Abby: I have a teenage grandson with an upcoming birthday.

For several years we have taken him to a major sporting event for his birthday. I get complimentary tickets for this from work.

Last year he noticed that the tickets were complimentary and acted very disappointed. We had spent more than $50 on refreshments and souvenirs. Should we take him to the game again this year, or opt for something else? — Can’t Win For Losing In Wichita Dear Can’t Win: Your grandson’s reaction was disappointing. He should have been grateful to have been invited to share the experience. It would have been best to discuss his reaction at the time it happened.

Before making up your mind about what to do this year, ask him why he acted the way he did. Feel free to tell him it hurt your feelings. If it turns out he was looking a gift horse in the mouth, make plans to do something else for his birthday this year, at your discretion. Shame on him.

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Dear Abby: Recently, our state became one that allows same-sex couples to wed. My partner, “Alex,” and I have been together for 18 years. We had planned to be married last spring, but a death in the family put our wedding on hold.

When I found out about the ruling, I expected Alex to be excited and suggest we go ahead and marry.

To my disappointment, he didn’t seem to care. He hasn’t mentioned marriage once, and when I bring it up, he’s quiet and doesn’t respond.

We’re older, and because of health issues we don’t have an active sex life. I’m wondering if my relationship with him has been downgraded to “roommate” without me realizing it. Do I push this?

Do I let it alone and settle for what I have now?

I feel like I’m too old to start over, but I have to admit that suddenly feeling like the relationship I thought I had may be an illusion has me very depressed. — Let Down In Arizona Dear Let Down: The most important ingredient in any relationship is communication, and you and Alex have been together long enough that you should be able to level with each other.

His reluctance to move forward may be something as simple as a case of cold feet. It could also be that he’s had a change of heart and doesn’t want to be married. Not all gay people do.

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“I said I wouldn’t complain,” Louie scowled, “but don’t tell me I’ve nothing to complain about.”

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MUSIC “Ascension” is a spaced-out miniseries about a covert starship voyage launched by the U.S. government. When a woman mysteriously turns up dead, the passengers begin to question the true nature of their mission. 9 p.m., Syfy.

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Monday’s highlights on TV include: Because America’s recording artists just do not have enough trophies in their cases, TV gives us the American Country Countdown Awards.

This one celebrates country music’s biggest stars based on album sales and radio airplay. 8 p.m., Fox.

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TODAY IN HISTORY Today is Monday, Dec. 15, the 349th day of 2014.

There are 16 days left in the year.

Today’s Highlights in History: On Dec. 15, 1944, the U.S. Senate approved the promotions of Henry H. Arnold, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Douglas MacArthur and George C. Marshall to the five-star rank of General of the Army and the nominations of William D. Leahy, Ernest J. King and Chester W. Nimitz as Admirals of the Fleet. U.S. forces invaded Mindoro Island in the Philippines, encountering little resistance from the Japanese. A singleengine plane carrying bandleader Glenn Miller, a major in the U.S. Army Air Forces, disappeared over the English Channel while en route to Paris.

On this date: In 1791, the Bill of Rights went into effect following ratification by Virginia.

In 1890, Sioux Indian Chief Sitting Bull and 11 other tribe members were killed in Grand River, South Dakota, during a confrontation with Indian

police.

In 1938, groundbreaking for the Jefferson Memorial took place in Washington, D.C. with President Franklin D. Roosevelt taking part in the ceremony.

In 1939, the Civil War motion picture epic “Gone with the Wind,” starring Vivien Leigh and Clark Gable, had its world premiere in Atlanta.

In 1964, Canada’s House of Commons approved dropping the country’s “Red Ensign” flag in favor of a new design, the “Maple Leaf” flag.

In 1965, two U.S. manned spacecraft, Gemini 6A and Gemini 7, maneuvered to within 10 feet of each other while in orbit.

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CITY OF EDMONDS NOTICE OF DEVELOPMENT APPLICATION AND COMMENT PERIOD NAME OF APPLICANT: Rotary Club of Lynnwood DATE OF APPLICATION: 11/6/2014 DATE OF COMPLETENESS: 12/4/2014 DATE OF NOTICE: 12/15/2014 FILE NO.: PLN20140063 PROJECT LOCATION: 8116 - 206th St. SW, Edmonds, WA PROJECT DESCRIPTION: Application to subdivide one lot into two lots (Type II decision). The site is zoned Single-Family Residential (RS-8).

REQUESTED PERMIT: Short Subdivision. Information on this application can be viewed at the City of Edmonds Development Services Dept., 121 5th Ave. N, Edmonds, WA 98020, or on the City’s website at www.edmondswa.gov through the Online Permits link. Search for PLN20140063.

OTHER REQUIRED PERMITS: Unknown.

REQUIRED STUDIES: Unknown.

EXISTING ENVIRONMENTAL DOCUMENTS: Critical Areas Checklist.

COMMENT PERIOD: Comments due by January 5, 2015. Any person has the right to comment on this application during the public comment period, receive notice and participate in any hearings, and request a copy of the decision on the application.

The City may accept public comments at any time prior to the closing of the record of an open record pre-decision hearing, if any, or, if no open record pre-decision hearing is provided, prior to the decision on the project permit. Only parties of record as defined in ECDC 20.07.003 have standing to initiate an administrative appeal.

CITY CONTACT: Jen Machuga, Associate Planner (425) 771-0220 Jen.Machuga@edmondswa.gov Published: December 15, 2014.

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The application was deemed complete on December 1, 2014.

Location: The property is located at 17702 Spruce Way; Assessor’s Parcel No. 00372700600706.

Preliminary Short Plat Subdivision Approval: The proposal will be reviewed for compliance with City of Lynnwood and Washington State requirements for short plat s u b d i v i s i o n s. T h e M ayo r o f Ly n n wo o d w i l l t h e n m a ke a determination to grant or deny preliminary approval. The Mayor’s decision will be publicly noticed by posting on the project site and in the Everett Herald newspaper, but no public hearing will be held unless the Mayor’s decision is appealed.

Comments: Comments concerning this project should be mailed to the City of Lynnwood, Community Development Department, PO Box 5008, Ly n n w o o d , WA 9 8 0 4 6 O R d e l i ve r e d t o t h e C o m m u n i t y Development Department ofďŹ ce at 4114 198th St SW, Suite 7.

Contact: T h e f i l e o n t h i s p r o j e c t i s m a i n t a i n e d i n t h e C o m mu n i t y Development Department ofďŹ ce and is available for review at the above listed address. If you have questions, please contact Michele Szafran, Associate Planner, at (425) 670-5408 or m s z a f ra n @ c i . l y n n wo o d . wa . u s. P l e a s e m a ke r e fe r e n c e t o STP-002263-2014 when making contact.

Project Contact: David Cooper 808 9th Ave. S. Edmonds, WA 98020 Date of this Notice: December 15, 2014 Comment Period Ends: December 29, 2014 Published: December 15, 2014.

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NOTICE OF DETERMINATION OF MITIGATED NONSIGNIFICANCE (MDNS) AND NOTICE OF APPLICATION PROJECT NAME: Mackie Clearing & Grading Permit, SEPA2014-003 DESCRIPTION OF PROPOSAL: Remove all trees taller than 50 feet on property located at 602 E. Galena Street, Granite Falls, Washington 98252, see Attachment A. DESCRIPTION OF MITIGATION: Replanting with native plant material in the form of seedlings equal to what was removed within 240 feet of a residence and compliance with the Department of Natural Resources required reforestation plan.

APPLICANT/CONTACT PERSON: Curt Mackie, PO Box 841, Granite Falls, Washington 98252.

LOCATION OF PROPOSAL: 602 E. Galena Street, Granite Falls, Washington 98252, approximately 320 feet east of the Alpine Avenue/Galena Street intersection in a portion of Section 18, Township 30N, Range 7E, see Attachment A. PERMITS REQUIRED: City of Granite Falls Clearing & Grading Permit and Washington State Department of Natural Resources Forest Practice Permit.

LEAD AGENCY: City of Granite Falls as the lead agency for this proposal has deter mined that it does not have a probable significant adverse impact on the environment. An Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) is not required under RCW 43.21C.030(2)(c). This decision was made after review of a completed environmental checklist and other information on file with the lead agency. This information is available to the public on request.

PUBLIC COMMENTS AND APPEALS: There is a 14-day comment period on this DNS & NOA, followed by a 10-day appeal period.

The public is invited to comment on this project according to the schedules below. The project ďŹ le is available for review at City Hall at the address below. Please contact City Clerk, Darla Reese, at 360-691-6441 or darla.reese@ci.granite-falls.wa.us for assistance.

Comments on the DNS & NOA addressing environmental and application issues must be submitted prior to 5:00 P.M. on December 29, 2014. Comments will be considered and may cause the DNS to be revised. Appeals to the DNS must be submitted in writing by 5:00 P.M. on January 8, 2015 to the City Clerk, along with a required fee of $100, and a deposit of $500.

Disclaimer: The determination that an Environmental Impact Statement does not have to be ďŹ led does not mean there will be no adverse environmental impacts. The City of Granite Falls codes gover ning noise control, land use perfor mance standards, construction and improvements of roads, off-site road improvement obligations, drainage control, trafďŹ c, school, park, stormwater, and utility mitigations; and building practices will provide substantial mitigation of the aforementioned impacts.

The issuance of this DNS & NOA should not be interpreted as acceptance of approval of this proposal as presented. The City of Granite Falls reserves the right to deny or approve said proposal subject to conditions if it is determined to be in the best interest of the City and/or necessary for the general health, safety, and welfare of the public to do so.

Responsible OfďŹ cial: Darla Reese Position/Title: City Clerk Address: City of Granite Falls, 206 South Granite Avenue, P.O. Box 1440, Granite Falls Washington 98252 Published: December 15, 2014.

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DETERMINATION OF NON-SIGNIFICANCE Edmonds School District No. 15 Alderwood Middle School Replacement DESCRIPTION OF PROPOSAL: The proposed action is the construction of Alderwood Middle School, a relocation and replacement middle school which requires a Conditional Use permit (CUP) and associated building permits from Snohomish County. The new school would consist of a one story PE, music, art, and Commons wing and a two story academic wing including administration and library. Softball field, football/soccer field with perimeter track and pedestrian pathways complete the site plan.

The size of the school building would be approximately 112,000 square feet. The proposal also includes an approximately 192 square foot emergency storage and a designated area for 4 future portables. The proposed school would include 39 teaching stations and house approximately 800 students’ grades 7 and 8, and 77 staff. The primary entrance would be accessed from 172nd St. SW for staff, visitors and student pick-up/drop-off. Bus access would be provided south of the school building between Mar tha Lake Elementary and Alderwood Middle from Larch Way using the existing Martha Lake driveways for shared bus pick-up/drop-off.

There are proposed a total of 89 new parking stalls in three locations. A new primary visitor and staff parking lot with 53 spaces would be located north of the new school building. Two additional staff parking lots-each with 18 spaces-would be located south of the new building and would be accessed from Larch Way using the Martha Lake Elementary driveways. In total the combined site would have 225 parking spaces. There would be 2 ADA accessible stalls and 2 ADA van parking stalls located in the primary north parking lot. The site encompasses approximately 19 acres.

Construction would begin in the summer of 2015 and be completed by mid-November 2016; the school would be available for occupancy January 2017.

The proposed action will require approval of a Conditional Use Permit from Snohomish County along with associated permits related to the building and grading permits from Snohomish County.

SNOHOMISH COUNTY FILE NUMBER: 14-113010-CUP PROPONENT: Edmonds School District No. 15 LOCATION OF PROPOSAL: The new Alderwood Middle School at 1132 172nd St. SW will collocate with Martha Lake Elementary School at 17500 Larch Way in unincorporated Snohomish County on the northern vacant portion of the site. The Snohomish County Tax Parcel Number is 27041200300500 and 27041100401200 located in portions of the NE Quarter of the SE Quarter of Section 11, and the NW Quar ter of the SW Quar ter of Section 12, Township 27 North, Range 04 East, W.M. Snohomish County, Washington LEAD AGENCY: Edmonds School District No. 15 The lead agency for this proposal has determined that the proposal does not have a probable significant adverse impact on the environment. An environmental impact statement (EIS) is not required under RCW 43.21C.030(2)(c). This deter mination assumes compliance with State law and Snohomish County ordinances related to general environmental protection including, but not limited to: earthwork, site utilities, access improvements and drainage. This decision was made after review of a completed environmental checklist and other information on ďŹ le with the lead agency. This information is available to the public upon request.

Note: Issuance of this threshold determination does not constitute approval of the per mit. This proposal will be reviewed for compliance with all applicable Snohomish County codes, which regulate development activities.

It is the policy of the District that, when undertaking an action involving the exercise of substantive SEPA authority, the District shall consider, as appropriate under the circumstances, the ramiďŹ cations of such action as to one or more of the factors listed in Edmonds School District No. 15 Policy 9630, 7.0 SEPA and Agency Decisions.

This Determination of Non-Significance (DNS) is issued under WAC 197-11-340(2). The lead agency will not act on this proposal for 14 days from the published date below. Comments must be submitted by December 22, 2014 to the Responsible Official as named below. The responsible official will reconsider the DNS based on timely comments and may retain, modify, or, if signiďŹ cant adverse impacts are likely, withdraw the DNS. If the DNS is retained, it will be final after the expiration of the comment deadline.

Responsible OfďŹ cial: Edward Peters, Edmonds School District No. 15 Title: Capital Projects Director Address: Edmonds School District No. 15 20420 68th Avenue West Lynnwood, Washington 98036 Phone: (425) 431-7170 Issue Date: December 8, 2014 Published: December 8, 15, 2014.

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SEALED BIDS for PROJECT 2014-63.R.1 Grandview HomesInterior Renovations-15 Units will be received by the Everett Housing Author ity Office at 3107 Colby Avenue, Everett, Washington 98201 until 2:00 PM January 15, 2015 There will be two pre-bid walk throughs at the Grandview (unit) 823 Locust Street, Everett, WA 98201 on December 17th and December 29th , 2014 starting at 10:00 AM. The Invitation to Bid and a Summary of Work can be found at www.evha.org, under “Doing Business with EHAâ€?, then “Current Bidding Opportunities or at http://www.evha.org/doing-business.html Bid Documents are made available as follows: Fr e e - o f - c h a r g e a c c e s s t o p r o j e c t b i d d o c u m e n t s ( p l a n s, specifications, addenda, and Bidders List) is provided to Prime Bidders, Subcontractors, and Vendors by going to www.bxwa.com and clicking on “Posted Projectsâ€?, “Public Worksâ€?, and Everett Housing Authority This online plan room provides Bidders with fully usable online documents with the ability to: download, view, print, order full/partial plan sets from numerous reprographic sources, and a free online digitizer/take-off tool. It is recommended that Bidders “Registerâ€? in order to receive automatic e-mail notiďŹ cation of future addenda and to place themselves on the “Self-Registered Bidders Listâ€?. Bidders that do not register will not be automatically notiďŹ ed of addenda and will need to periodically check the on-line plan room for addenda issued on this project. Contact Builders Exchange of Washington at (425) 258-1303 should you require assistance with access or registration.

SEPARATE SEALED BIDS in unaltered envelopes will be received for these projects as required in the Invitations to Bid, and the Procurement Policy of the Everett Housing Authority adopted April 2008 (copy available for review), will be delivered as set forth above.

Published: December 10, 15, 24, 2014.

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No. 14-4-01644-7 NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF WASHINGTON FOR SNOHOMISH COUNTY IN RE THE ESTATE OF: JERRY LEW LEE Deceased John Carrington has been appointed and has qualified as Personal Representative (PR) of the estate of the a b o ve n a m e d d e c e a s e d .

Each person having a claim against the deceased must ser ve the claim on the undersigned PR or on the attor ney of record at the address stated below and must file an executed copy of the claim with the clerk of the court within four months after the date of first publication of this notice or within four months after the date of ďŹ ling of a copy of this notice with the clerk of the court, whichever is later, or the claim will be barred, except under those provis i o n s i n c l u d e d i n R . C. W. 11.40.011.

Date of Filing copy of Notice to Creditors December 12, 2014 Date of ďŹ rst publication December 15, 2014 PR - John Carrington 9016 Loyal Ave. NW Seattle, WA 98117 Attorney for Estate Neil Sussman Law OfďŹ ces of Neil Sussman 10751 Densmore Ave. North Seattle, WA 98133 Submitted this 5th day of December, 2014.

Neil Sussman Attorney for Personal Representative WSBA #12846 Published: December 15, 22, 29, 2014.

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HOROSCOPE Happy Birthday: Focus on saving money, not giving it away. Your mission this year is to protect and to strategize the best way to maintain and grow in a positive manner emotionally, intellectually and financially. Investing in your abilities and honing your skills and expertise will bring you that much closer to your goals. Your numbers are 6, 8, 23, 27, 30, 36, 41.

ARIES (March 21-April 19): Negative emotions will mount if you feel pressured to give in to demands. Find out all you can about a situation before you make a decision. Don’t mix business with pleasure or you will end up in a vulnerable position. ��� TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Learn from your experiences today. Not everyone you work with will be easy to get along with. Put your energy into your personal relationships.

Nurture what is most important to you. ��� GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Travel plans can be made and socializing will allow you to share your ideas. Discussing intentions with a romantic or business partner will lead to exciting prospects you hadn’t considered in the past. ����� CANCER (June 21-July 22): Emotional matters will escalate if you refuse to adapt to the changes going on around you. Use your imagination and you will find a way to turn a negative into a positive. �� LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Make a point of entertaining people who have something interesting to share. Offer options that will help bring about the changes you are hoping to accomplish. Open discussions will lead to prospects that are worth checking

out. ���� VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Get out and mingle. Attend a business event that allows you to share your thoughts and gives you insight into future trends. Romance is highlighted, but so is jealousy. Be careful not to lead someone on. ��� LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Refrain from making impulsive decisions or changes at home. Learn from past experience and do your best to find ways to improve your knowledge and surroundings. ��� SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): There is money to be made and job opportunities to apply for. Don’t sit back — be a participant. Stay on top of the latest trends in your industry and prepare to go over and above any competition you face. ��� SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Make sure you complete whatever job you are given. It’s how you deal with people as well as what you accomplish that will pave the way for future opportunities. ���� CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Question everyone and everything. You need to have a clear picture of what’s going on around you if you are going to deal with situations successfully. �� AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Your ideas are solid, and the help you offer will lead to a positive change at work. Don’t let someone’s jealousy stop you from doing something that makes you happy and can lead to success. ����� PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Take a close look at any offer before you agree or make a commitment. You are best to work on selfimprovement until you feel comfortable with what you have to offer. ��� Universal Uclick

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SUNDAY, 12.15.2014

2014 GAME 14

Seattle Seahawks 17, San Francisco 49ers 7

Seahawks are on it

IAN TERRY / THE HERALD

Seahawks middle linebacker Bobby Wagner (center) celebrates with strong safety Kam Chancellor (left) and cornerback Richard Sherman during Sunday’s game agaisnt the 49ers.

Surging Seahawks win 4th in a row, eliminate 49ers from playoff contention

Seahawks always believed they control their destiny

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By Rich Myhre Herald Writer

SEATTLE — Much as they did in last January’s NFC championship game, the Seattle Seahawks used an efficient offense and a smothering second-half defense to overtake and defeat the rival San Francisco 49ers on a clear, cool and ultimately joyous day at CenturyLink ✓ Okung has chest wall bruise C4 Field.

Seattle’s 17-7 victory ✓ Seahawks grades C4 on Sunday, combined ✓ Game stats C4 with Green Bay’s 21-13 loss at Buffalo, ✓ Defense steps up C5 ✓ Richardson scores first TD C5 puts the Seahawks in a strong position to claim one of the NFC’s top two playoff spots in the regular season’s final two weeks.

The loss knocked the 49ers (7-7) out of playoff contention.

By winning at Arizona next Sunday and then beating St. Louis at home in the regular-season finale, Seattle would finish 12-4 and end up no worse than the NFC’s No. 2 playoff seed, meaning a first-round playoff bye and a second-round home game. The Seahawks could

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Seattle wide receiver Jermaine Kearse catches a pass for a gain of 47 yards in the first half of Sunday’s game against the 49ers.

See SEAHAWKS, Page C5

EATTLE — The Seattle Seahawks know they’re a much better team than the one that lost in Kansas City a month ago.

Four straight wins have shown that, including Sunday’s 17-7 victory over the San Francisco 49ers that eliminated the Seahawks’ biggest rival from playoff contention. But while nobody in Seattle’s locker room would argue that they turned a corner last month, beginning with a 19-3 victory over the Arizona Cardinals, they never felt like the season was getting away from them.

While the Seahawks’ JOHN BOYLE recent success, as well as the stumbles of some NFC teams ahead of them, means they now control their destiny in the division, and have a very good shot at the No. 1 overall seed should they win their final two games, they believed they were going to be just fine even when they were 6-4.

“We never felt like we were out of control of our own destiny,” cornerback Richard Sherman said. “I think the media and you guys kind of panicked a little bit.”

Back when the Green Bay Packers were struggling on offense and had a 1-2 record, quarterback Aaron Rodgers said in a now famous radio interview, “Five See BOYLE, Page C4

Huskies remain unbeaten, rally to beat E. Washington 81-77

By Christian Caple The News Tribune

SEATTLE — Robert Upshaw emerged from the Hec Edmundson Pavilion locker room on Sunday night in what is becoming standard postgame attire.

Sneakers. Kangol-style hat.

Sweatshirt. And, too, the world’s longest pair of floral-pattern

pants that look as if they might have been fashioned from your grandmother’s davenport.

A little different, for sure. But if the 7-foot center continues to anchor the No. 17-ranked Washington Huskies as he did during Sunday’s 81-77 victory over Eastern Washington, the rest of his teammates might start dressing the same.

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UW coach Lorenzo Romar called this “a character win” for the Huskies, who trailed by 11 points at halftime against an Eagles team that respectable folks believe could challenge for the Big Sky championship.

And Upshaw is the biggest character of them all. He led UW with 21 points, nine rebounds, and six more blocked shots to

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bring his season total to 39 (the single-season school record is 67).

His tip-in with 1:42 to play gave the Huskies their first lead of the second half. And while the 6,184 in attendance groaned at his firsthalf futility from the free-throw line — he missed his first seven attempts — Upshaw pulled it together well enough to make

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four of his final six, and three of his final four in the game’s final 3:11.

Clutch 3-pointers by Nigel Williams-Goss and Darin Johnson in the final 1:14 were just as essential.

“I think the team we have this year, we’re a bunch of fighters,” See UW, Page C2

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MON 15

Kobe passes Jordan, is 3rd on NBA scoring list

HUSKIES | Notebook TUE 16

Next game: at Arizona 5:30 p.m., Sun., Dec. 21

By Jon Krawczynski

Vancouver 7:05 p.m.

Associated Press

Next game: vs. Oklahoma St. 7:15 p.m., Fri., Jan. 2

Next game: Grambling St. 8 p.m., Wed., Dec. 17 UW MEN

Northwest University 7 p.m.

Next game: at San Diego St. 6 p.m., Thu., Dec. 18 UW WOMEN

Next game: Montana 2 p.m., Wed., Dec. 17

Next game: San Jose State 4 p.m., Sun. Dec. 21 Texas Southern 6 p.m.

ROOT Home

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BASKETBALL ROOT Texas Southern at Gonzaga 7 p.m.

PAC12 Grambling St. at Oregon St. FOOTBALL 5:15 p.m. ESPN N. Orleans at Chicago GOLF 9 a.m.

GOLF Thailand Championship HOCKEY 4 p.m.

NBCS Tampa Bay at Pittsburgh SOCCER Noon NBCS English Premier League 9:30 p.m. NBCS English Premier League 6 p.m.

TUESDAY

AUTO RACING FS1 Formula E: Punta del Este BASKETBALL 4 p.m.

ESPN2 North Carolina at UNC-Greensboro 5 p.m.

ESPN Golden State at Memphis 6 p.m.

ESPN2 Alabama at Wichita St. 6 p.m.

FS1 Arizona St. at Marquette 6 p.m.

PAC12 Oakland at Arizona 7:30 p.m. ESPN Okla. City at Sacramento SOCCER 11:30 a.m. FS1 FIFA Club World Cup Semifinal 4 p.m.

ROOT AS Roma vs Man. City 8 p.m.

NBCS English Premier League WINTER SPORTS 4 p.m.

NBCS Luge 9 a.m.

RADIO TODAY

BASKETBALL 6 p.m.

880 Texas S. at Gonzaga 7 p.m.

770 Northwest U. at Seattle 7:15 p.m. 1380 M. Terrace girls at Stanwood FOOTBALL 5:20 p.m. 950 N. Orleans at Chicago

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Washington wide receiver Jaydon Mickens (4) leads the Huskies with 53 catches for 535 yards.

Could have been a Cowboy WR Mickens considered playing for Oklahoma St.

By Christian Caple The News Tribune

SEATTLE — When the Washington Huskies take the field against the Oklahoma State Cowboys in the Cactus Bowl on Jan. 2 in Tempe, Arizona, Huskies receiver Jaydon Mickens will face the team he nearly chose to play for.

Mickens, now a junior at UW, took one of his official recruiting visits to Stillwater as a four-star prospect at Dorsey High in Los Angeles.

He gave the Cowboys strong consideration, mostly due to their pass-heavy offensive style under coach Mike Gundy.

On Saturday, Mickens reflected on that visit, and also recounted an entertaining story about meeting Oklahoma State super-booster T. Boone Pickens.

“They throw the ball a lot. As a recruit and as a young guy, you see the third receiver having 70 catches — it puts you at awe,” said Mickens, who leads the Huskies with 53 catches for 535 yards. “So going out there and seeing something different

HOCKEY 7:05 p.m. 1380 Everett at Vancouver

PREPS TODAY

BOYS BASKETBALL Northwest 1B—Lummi at Highland Christian, 4 p.m.

Nonconference—Burlington-Edison at Mount Vernon, 7:15 p.m.

BOYS SWIMMING Lake Stevens vs. Oak Harbor at Vanderzicht Memorial Pool, 6 p.m.

GIRLS BASKETBALL Northwest 1B—Grace Academy at Lopez Island, 3:30 p.m.; Lummi at Highland Christian , 4 p.m.

Nonconference—Burlington-Edison at Mount Vernon, 5:40 p.m.; Shorecrest at Marysville Getchell, Mountlake Terrace at Stanwood, Meadowdale at Oak Harbor, Shorewood at Marysville Pilchuck, Arlington at Glacier Peak, Everett at Edmonds-Woodway, all 7:15 p.m.

Chicago Tribune

The Chicago White Sox’s stealth pursuit of free agent Melky Cabrera paid off late Saturday when the former Blue Jays outfielder agreed to a three-year deal.

MLB.com confirmed the 30-year-old Cabrera agreed to a deal worth an estimated $4243.5 million, pending a physical.

Cabrera does carry some baggage after being suspended for 50-games during the 2012 season with the Giants for testing positive for performanceenhancing drugs. That mistake cost him a National League batting title and a chance to play in the postseason for the eventual world champs.

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Huskies rout Grambling St. 84-53 for 8th victory in row Herald Wire Services SEATTLE — The University of Washington overcame a sluggish start to beat Grambling State for an 84-53 victory on Sunday at Alaska Airlines Arena.

It was the eighth consecutive win for the Huskies (8-1) who have not lost since falling at Oklahoma on Nov. 14.

Kelsey Plum scored 26 points to lead the charge for Washington, but was joined by three other double-digit scorers.

Brianna Ruiz made 6-of-7 from the floor and finished with 15 points, Talia Walton tacked on 14 and Aminah Williams added a double-double of 13 points and

Youth movement With the Huskies’ bowl game still nearly three weeks away, their practices have put more of an emphasis on giving younger players a chance to take some more mean-

ingful repetitions.

And one position group that will certainly need those young players next season is the defensive line, which will lose starters Danny Shelton, Hau’oli Kikaha, Evan Hudson and Andrew Hudson to graduation.

Defensive line coach Jeff Choate spoke Sunday about what the future might hold for the Huskies’ younger, inexperienced defensive linemen, some of whom were already in the rotation in 2013.

“I think its going to be an interesting group. I think JoJo (Mathis) is a high-effort guy. He’s what I call a splash player — he’s going to make a lot of plays, just because of the nature of his effort,” Choate said. “I think you’re going to have a guy like Will Dissly who’s got a really high football intellect and is going to be able to get guys lined up and be a really productive, consistent player.

I think you’ve got a guy like Elijah (Qualls), who’s got a lot of game reps this year and matured.”

And, Choate said, 6-foot-4, 346-pound lineman Vita Vea, who redshirted this season, will be a player to watch.

“Vita ... I mean, come on,” Choate said. “That guy has more physical talent than Danny does. But he’s not where Danny is in terms of the reps that he’s had, understanding the game the way that Danny does. So that’s the challenge for us as coaches, to push them in that direction.”

Free-agent Cabrera agrees to deal with White Sox

By Paul Sullivan

TUESDAY

... just experiencing something new. Of course, they came off the Tostitos Fiesta Bowl, so that opened my eyes even more, like, ‘wow, this program is a power right now.’ And I felt that I could contribute over there.

“But through the grace of God, things changed, and I’m here. And I’m happy here.”

But he did have a fine time on his Stillwater visit. According to a Scout.com story from Jan. 15, 2012, Mickens had nothing but good things to say about Oklahoma State, and described the OSU campus as “one of the most incredible things I have seen.”

And their facilities aren’t bad either, right?

“I’m at Washington now,” Mickens said with a laugh. “But respect to them. They have some top-of-the-line facilities.

It’s amazing.”

But, he added, laughing again, “we do, as well.”

MINNEAPOLIS — Kobe Bryant has reached rarefied air.

The Los Angeles Lakers star passed Michael Jordan for third on the NBA’s career scoring list Sunday night in a 100-94 victory over the Minnesota Timberwolves.

Bryant needed nine points to move past Jordan and, after missing four of his first five shots, he knocked down a pair of free throws with 5:24 to play in the first half to join Kareem AbdulJabbar and Karl Malone on the NBA’s career scoring podium.

Bryant finished with 26 points on 7-for-20 shooting and hit a 3-pointer with just over a minute to play that helped seal the victory.

Only Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (38,387) and Karl Malone (36,928) have scored more points than Bryant (32,310).

“I congratulate Kobe on reaching this milestone,” Jordan, the owner of the Charlotte Hornets, said in a statement released to The Associated Press. “He’s obviously a great player, with a strong work ethic and has an equally strong passion for the game of basketball. I’ve enjoyed watching his game evolve over the years, and I look forward to seeing what he accomplishes next.”

Bryant didn’t break a record Sunday night. Abdul-Jabbar is still more than 6,000 points ahead of him and in no danger of being caught. But moving past Jordan was cause for celebration.

The two players have been linked for years and Bryant often mimicked Jordan from his earliest days in the league, from the way he pumped his fist after big shots to adopting the fade-away jumper as his career has progressed and even sprinkling in a little tongue-wagging on his drives to the bucket as a youth.

The Timberwolves stopped the game, and a Lakers-heavy crowd gave Bryant a standing ovation as Wolves owner Glen Taylor — presented him with the game ball.

Bryant took the floor against a Timberwolves team that includes 19-year-old rookies Andrew Wiggins and Zach LaVine, two players who were barely born when Bryant made his NBA debut in 1996.

10 rebounds.

Washington began the second half with a 30-9 outburst, shooting 64.5 percent from the field in the period to put the game away.

San Francisco 67, Seattle 56 SEATTLE — The Redhawks couldn’t overcome an 11-point halftime deficit in a loss to the Dons.

Alexis Montgomery led Seattle (2-7) with 14 points and Taelor Ross tacked on 10.

Bellevue 74, EvCC 55 EVERETT — Monroe native Breezy Shore led the Trojans (5-6) with 16 points, but it wasn’t enough in a loss to end the Everett CC Classic.

Kali Long, a Lake Stevens alumna, added 14 points for the Trojans and was selected to the All-Tournament team.

Cabrera and his associates compounded the problem when a “paid consultant” of his agent, Seth Levinson, created a fake website in an effort to concoct a story that he inadvertently took the banned substance that led to the positive test. MLB investigators quickly sniffed out that ruse.

Cabrera’s past will always be part of his resume, but as Jhonny Peralta and Nelson Cruz have proven, there no longer seems to be any stigma to giving out lucrative deals to players associated with PEDs. The move gives the Sox some much-needed on-base percentage from the left field spot, and another table-setter to join Adam Eaton. They’ve been in discussions with the Mariners on Dayan Viciedo, who also had

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Upshaw said. “We’re a bunch of competitive guys. We fight. We fought back in a lot of games this year. We fought back in this one, and we came out on top.”

EWU (8-2) will win plenty of games this year behind its stellar perimeter shooting, but the Eagles made only 10 of their 30 3-point attempts on Sunday and shot just 36.8 percent from the field.

Still, they led 42-31 at halftime thanks to 12 points apiece from bruising forward Venky Jois (he finished with 13) and Tyler Harvey (he wound up with a team-best 21), and too many defensive miscues by the Huskies.

They weren’t great at putting the ball through the net, either.

Upshaw scored 10 points in the

pursued Cabrera. The signing suggests Vicideo is all but gone in a trade, whether it’s the Mariners or some other AL team.

Between Adam La Roche, David Robertson and Cabrera, the Sox have now spent over $113 million on three key free agents while filling holes at DH, closer and left field. They also acquired A’s starter Jeff Samardzija in a six-player deal.

It’s the biggest offseason since general manager Rick Hahn took over, and indicates they’re looking to win now, as manager Robin Ventura reiterated at the winter meetings.

“We were setting ourselves up to do something at this winter meetings,” he said, “The last couple years, there really were not a lot of opportunities. We had

a couple trades, but nothing of this magnitude. So that’s the part where you’re changing the mood and the view of how people see it.”

The switch-hitting Cabrera, who began his major league career with the Yankees in 2005, is a career .286 hitters with a .339 on-base percentage. His best season was in 2012 when Cabrera was the All-Star Game MVP and was leading the NL with a .346 average in midAugust while posting a .390 OBP. But the positive test for testosterone led to the 50-game suspension, including the final 45 games of the regular season.

At Cabrera’s request, MLB and the players union agreed to disqualify him for the batting title, and the Giants decided to leave him off their postseason roster.

first half on dunks or short-range drop-ins against the shorter Eagles, but missed all six of his free-throw attempts — the only foul shots UW attempted in the period.

That changed in the second half, when EWU was whistled for three fouls in the first 4:31, and the Huskies entered the bonus with 12:02 to play.

At that point, Romar told the Huskies: “Don’t take very many outside shots. If you’re going to take an outside shot, it’s off penetration and we shoot a rhythm 3. If not, get to the basket. Go inside. And I thought our guys did a marvelous job of that.”

So the march to the free-throw line began. Andrew Andrews was the biggest benefactor, making 12-of-13 — including 4-of-4 in the final 33.1 seconds — to finish with 18 points.

Despite Upshaw’s 5-for-14 effort, the Huskies made 24 of their 37 free-throw attempts,

and 24-of-31 in the second half.

That — coupled with a more focused defensive effort that limited EWU to just 31.6-percent shooting in the second half — allowed the Huskies to chip away at Eastern’s lead.

And despite abandoning the 3-point line for much of the night, the Huskies made two 3-pointers down the stretch that required considerable fortitude.

After Drew Brandon missed a 3-pointer following Upshaw’s tip-in, Williams-Goss stepped into a long-range shot and buried it to give UW a 74-70 lead with 1:14 to play.

EWU answered with a pair of free throws. And 11 seconds later, after making just one fieldgoal all game, Johnson caught a pass in the left corner, let fly from behind the arc and splashed home one of the game’s biggest shots to put the Huskies ahead by five points with 49 seconds to play.

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Bryant, Dallas top Eagles Cowboys back in race for home field in playoffs

in a big third quarter.

Broncos 22, Chargers 10 SAN DIEGO — Peyton Manning played through a thigh injury and flu-like symptoms and Connor Barth kicked five field goals to lead Denver to a fourth straight AFC West title.

Colts 17, Texans 10 INDIANAPOLIS — Andrew Luck threw two touchdown passes and the Colts won their second straight AFC South title.

Associated Press PHILADELPHIA — Dez Bryant caught a career-best three touchdown catches from Tony Romo and the Dallas Cowboys rallied to beat the Philadelphia Eagles 38-27 on Sunday night after wasting a 21-0 lead.

DeMarco Murray had a pair of TD runs to help the Cowboys (104) move ahead of the Eagles (9-5) into first place in the NFC East. The Eagles dominated the Cowboys in a 33-10 road win on Thanksgiving, but Dallas takes control of the division with two weeks left.

The Cowboys jumped to a 21-0 lead early in the second quarter before Philadelphia rallied behind Mark Sanchez.

Chris Polk had TD runs of 1 and 5 yards and Darren Sproles ran in from the 1 to give the Eagles a 24-21 lead late in third quarter. But Romo and the Cowboys answered quickly with two touchdowns in a span of 2:51.

Murray scored on a 2-yard run to cap a 78-yard drive. J.J. Wilcox then intercepted Sanchez’s pass and the Cowboys started the fourth quarter at the Eagles 42.

Romo then hit Bryant in stride for a 25-yard scoring pass.

Lions 16, Vikings 14 DETROIT — Matt Prater’s 33-yard field goal with 3:38 remaining lifted the Detroit Lions to a 16-14 victory

STANDINGS NFC Arizona Seattle San Francisco St. Louis Dallas Philadelphia N.Y. Giants Washington Carolina New Orleans Atlanta Tampa Bay Detroit Green Bay Minnesota Chicago

West L 3 4 7 8 East W L 10 4 9 5 5 9 3 11 South W L 5 8 5 8 5 9 2 12 North W L 10 4 10 4 6 8 5 8

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Pct PF PA .786 287 244 .714 339 242 .500 251 285 .429 291 297

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PF 381 416 317 257

PA 328 347 339 370

T 1 0 0 0

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PF 288 333 348 254

PA 358 359 369 367

T 0 0 0 0

Pct .714 .714 .429 .385

PF 281 436 277 281

PA 238 325 297 378

AFC West L T Pct PF 3 0 .786 407 6 0 .571 322 6 0 .571 303 12 0 .143 213 East W L T Pct PF x-New England 11 3 0 .786 442 Buffalo 8 6 0 .571 302 Miami 7 7 0 .500 327 N.Y. Jets 3 11 0 .214 230 South W L T Pct PF x-Indianapolis 10 4 0 .714 424 Houston 7 7 0 .500 324 Tennessee 2 12 0 .143 231 Jacksonville 2 12 0 .143 211 North W L T Pct PF Cincinnati 9 4 1 .679 311 Pittsburgh 9 5 0 .643 389 Baltimore 9 5 0 .643 376 Cleveland 7 7 0 .500 276 x-clinched division Sunday’s games Kansas City 31, Oakland 13 Pittsburgh 27, Atlanta 20 N.Y. Giants 24, Washington 13 New England 41, Miami 13 Indianapolis 17, Houston 10 Baltimore 20, Jacksonville 12 Buffalo 21, Green Bay 13 Carolina 19, Tampa Bay 17 Cincinnati 30, Cleveland 0 Denver 22, San Diego 10 N.Y. Jets 16, Tennessee 11 Seattle 17, San Francisco 7 Detroit 16, Minnesota 14 Dallas 38, Philadelphia 27 Today’s game New Orleans at Chicago, 5:30 p.m.

Thursday’s game Tennessee at Jacksonville, 5:25 p.m.

Saturday’s games Philadelphia at Washington, 1:30 p.m.

San Diego at San Francisco, 5:25 p.m.

Sunday, Dec. 21 Baltimore at Houston, 10 a.m.

Detroit at Chicago, 10 a.m.

Atlanta at New Orleans, 10 a.m.

Minnesota at Miami, 10 a.m.

Cleveland at Carolina, 10 a.m.

Green Bay at Tampa Bay, 10 a.m.

Kansas City at Pittsburgh, 10 a.m.

New England at N.Y. Jets, 10 a.m.

N.Y. Giants at St. Louis, 1:05 p.m.

Buffalo at Oakland, 1:25 p.m.

Indianapolis at Dallas, 1:25 p.m.

Seattle at Arizona, 5:30 p.m.

Monday, Dec. 22 Denver at Cincinnati, 5:30 p.m.

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Dallas’ Dez Bryant pulls in the last of his three touchdown passes on Sunday night as Philadelphia’s Bradley Fletcher defends. Bryant had 114 receiving yards in the 38-27 win.

over the Minnesota Vikings and into a tie for first place in the NFC North.

The Lions (10-4) are now even atop the division with Green Bay, which lost to Buffalo earlier in the day, but Detroit didn’t have an easy time, spotting the Vikings (6-8) a 14-0 lead before a pair of secondquarter interceptions helped the Lions start their rally.

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First Quarter Pit—FG Suisham 38, 9:09.

Pit—FG Suisham 38, :02.

Second Quarter Pit—Gay 52 interception return (Suisham kick), 14:46.

Atl—Hester 17 pass from Ryan (Bryant kick), 4:19.

Pit—Bell 1 run (Suisham kick), :27.

Third Quarter Atl—FG Bryant 28, 11:00.

Atl—FG Bryant 22, 2:40.

Fourth Quarter Pit—Bell 13 run (Suisham kick), 14:11.

Atl—White 4 pass from Ryan (Bryant kick), 10:21.

A—71,161.

Pit Atl First downs 22 20 Total Net Yards 398 407

BALTIMORE — The Ravens sacked rookie Blake Bortles eight times and returned a blocked punt for a touchdown.

Panthers 19, Buccaneers 17 CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Derek Anderson threw for 277 yards and a touchdown, Graham Gano kicked four field goals and the Panthers helped their chances in the NFC South.

EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. — Eli Manning threw three touchdown passes to rookie Odell Beckham Jr. and the Giants took advantage of an overturned touchdown at the end of the half.

Rushes-yards 22-45 20-97 Passing 353 310 Punt Returns 2-43 1-7 Kickoff Returns 2-50 4-83 Interceptions Ret. 1-52 0-0 Comp-Att-Int 27-35-0 26-37-1 Sacked-Yards Lost 1-7 0-0 Punts 3-43.0 3-48.0 Fumbles-Lost 0-0 1-0 Penalties-Yards 3-34 3-25 Time of Possession 30:43 29:17 INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS RUSHING—Pittsburgh, Bell 20-47, Roethlisberger 2-(minus 2). Atlanta, S.Jackson 11-46, Ryan 3-27, Freeman 4-21, Rodgers 2-3.

PASSING—Pittsburgh, Roethlisberger 2735-0-360. Atlanta, Ryan 26-37-1-310.

RECEIVING—Pittsburgh, A.Brown 10-123, Bell 5-72, Wheaton 5-66, Miller 4-68, Bryant 3-31. Atlanta, Douglas 10-131, White 7-58, Hester 5-85, Rodgers 1-12, S.Jackson 1-11, Freeman 1-9, Toilolo 1-4.

Bengals 30, Browns 0 Cincinnati Cleveland

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First Quarter Cin—Hill 2 run (Nugent kick), 7:53.

Cin—FG Nugent 44, 1:57.

Second Quarter Cin—Hill 16 run (Nugent kick), 13:11.

Cin—FG Nugent 44, 10:20.

Third Quarter Cin—FG Nugent 34, 2:35.

Fourth Quarter Cin—Burkhead 10 run (Nugent kick), :23.

A—67,431.

Cin Cle First downs 24 5 Total Net Yards 347 107 Rushes-yards 45-244 17-53 Passing 103 54 Punt Returns 5-49 0-0 Kickoff Returns 1-24 5-101 Interceptions Ret. 2-2 1-15 Comp-Att-Int 14-24-1 10-18-2 Sacked-Yards Lost 2-14 3-26 Punts 2-38.5 7-47.9 Fumbles-Lost 3-0 0-0 Penalties-Yards 5-41 9-68 Time of Possession 38:52 21:08 INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS RUSHING—Cincinnati, Hill 25-148, Bernard 15-79, Burkhead 3-14, Dalton 2-3. Cleveland, West 5-23, Crowell 7-17, Manziel 5-13.

PASSING—Cincinnati, Dalton 14-24-1-117.

Cleveland, Manziel 10-18-2-80.

RECEIVING—Cincinnati, Green 5-49, Hewitt 3-34, Bernard 3-24, Hill 1-4, Sanu 1-4, Brock 1-2.

Cleveland, Gordon 3-48, Crowell 2-10, Hawkins 2-7, Benjamin 1-9, Cameron 1-4, Gabriel 1-2.

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First Quarter Hou—K.Lewis 27 interception return (Bullock kick), 5:56.

Second Quarter Ind—Nicks 26 pass from Luck (Vinatieri kick), 14:53.

Ind—Allen 3 pass from Luck (Vinatieri kick), 6:21.

Fourth Quarter Hou—FG Bullock 53, 13:40.

Ind—FG Vinatieri 29, 2:11.

A—65,148.

Hou Ind First downs 14 20 Total Net Yards 289 278 Rushes-yards 41-137 28-110 Passing 152 168 Punt Returns 3-6 4-13 Kickoff Returns 1-28 2-60 Interceptions Ret. 1-27 1-8 Comp-Att-Int 13-25-1 18-34-1 Sacked-Yards Lost 1-5 2-19 Punts 7-42.7 7-46.4 Fumbles-Lost 2-1 1-1 Penalties-Yards 8-66 7-45 Time of Possession 31:05 28:55 INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS RUSHING—Houston, Foster 26-99, Blue 8-26, Fitzpatrick 3-16, Savage 4-(minus 4). Indianapolis, Herron 11-60, Richardson 9-32, Luck 8-18.

PASSING—Houston, Fitzpatrick 3-6-0-30, Savage 10-19-1-127. Indianapolis, Luck 18-341-187.

RECEIVING—Houston, Hopkins 5-77, Foster 3-18, D.Johnson 2-21, Griffin 2-11, Posey 1-30.

Indianapolis, Hilton 4-50, Wayne 4-24, Nicks 2-44, Fleener 2-32, Allen 2-16, Herron 2-12, Richardson 2-9.

Giants 24, Redskins 13 Washington N.Y. Giants

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First Quarter Was—FG Forbath 35, 6:47.

NYG—Beckham Jr. 10 pass from E.Manning (J.Brown kick), 1:40.

Second Quarter Was—Thompson 9 pass from Griffin III (Forbath kick), 8:19.

Third Quarter NYG—FG J.Brown 32, 13:18.

Jets 16, Titans 11 NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Chris Ivory scored on a 1-yard touchdown run with 3:09 left in a game marked by a brawl between teams playing only for pride, with the loser hoping for better draft position.

Was—FG Forbath 38, 3:27.

NYG—Beckham Jr. 35 pass from E.Manning (J.Brown kick), 1:22.

Fourth Quarter NYG—Beckham Jr. 6 pass from E.Manning (J.Brown kick), 4:41.

A—77,628.

Was NYG First downs 21 17 Total Net Yards 372 287 Rushes-yards 27-144 22-49 Passing 228 238 Punt Returns 1-1 4-19 Kickoff Returns 1-33 3-90 Interceptions Ret. 0-0 0-0 Comp-Att-Int 22-34-0 23-34-0 Sacked-Yards Lost 7-47 1-12 Punts 6-45.2 6-43.5 Fumbles-Lost 4-1 1-1 Penalties-Yards 10-135 9-60 Time of Possession 32:31 27:29 INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS RUSHING—Washington, Morris 14-49, Griffin III 5-46, McCoy 2-24, Thompson 3-12, Jackson 1-9, Young 1-3, Redd Jr. 1-1. N.Y. Giants, A.Williams 18-44, Jennings 1-3, Hynoski 2-2, Beckham Jr. 1-0.

PASSING—Washington, Griffin III 18-27-0236, McCoy 4-7-0-39. N.Y. Giants, E.Manning 23-34-0-250.

RECEIVING—Washington, Garcon 4-36, Redd Jr. 3-62, Thompson 3-22, Jackson 3-15, Reed 3-13, Roberts 2-81, Moss 1-18, Paul 1-17, Paulsen 1-9, Young 1-2. N.Y. Giants, Beckham Jr. 12-143, Ogletree 3-25, Randle 2-30, Donnell 2-11, Fells 1-16, Parker 1-12, A.Williams 1-9, Washington 1-4.

Chiefs 31, Raiders 13 Oakland Kansas City

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First Quarter KC—Thomas 81 punt return (Santos kick), 2:38.

Second Quarter KC—FG Santos 41, 8:01.

Oak—FG Janikowski 53, :00.

Third Quarter Oak—FG Janikowski 33, 11:44.

KC—Davis 3 run (Santos kick), 6:46.

KC—Kelce 20 pass from A.Smith (Santos kick), 5:50.

KC—Davis 70 pass from A.Smith (Santos kick), 2:04.

Fourth Quarter Oak—J.Jones 1 pass from Carr (Janikowski kick), :34.

A—72,153.

Oak KC First downs 17 16 Total Net Yards 280 388 Rushes-yards 17-78 27-93 Passing 202 295 Punt Returns 2-1 8-156 Kickoff Returns 3-73 2-66 Interceptions Ret. 0-0 0-0 Comp-Att-Int 27-56-0 18-31-0 Sacked-Yards Lost 4-20 1-2 Punts 11-43.4 7-39.9 Fumbles-Lost 1-1 1-1 Penalties-Yards 10-75 11-84 Time of Possession 30:00 30:00 INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS RUSHING—Oakland, Murray 12-59, McFadden 2-13, Jones-Drew 2-6, Carr 1-0. Kansas City, Charles 12-52, A.Smith 3-17, Thomas 2-14, Davis 9-11, Daniel 1-(minus 1).

PASSING—Oakland, Carr 27-56-0-222. Kansas City, Daniel 0-1-0-0, A.Smith 18-30-0-297.

RECEIVING—Oakland, J.Jones 8-57, Rivera 7-39, Holmes 5-70, Butler 3-23, Murray 2-17, V.Brown 2-16. Kansas City, Kelce 5-59, Bowe 3-69, Wilson 3-69, Davis 1-70, Avant 1-14, Hammond Jr. 1-7, Thomas 1-5, Fasano 1-2, Charles 1-1, Sherman 1-1.

MISSED FIELD GOALS—Kansas City, Santos 44 (WL), 47 (WL).

Ravens 20, Jaguars 12 Jacksonville Baltimore

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First Quarter Bal—Aiken 11 blocked punt return (Tucker kick), 11:52.

Jax—FG Scobee 53, 9:33.

Jax—FG Scobee 45, 1:18.

Second Quarter Jax—FG Scobee 53, 11:33.

Bal—FG Tucker 22, 3:45.

Jax—FG Scobee 45, :04.

Third Quarter Bal—Daniels 3 pass from Flacco (Tucker kick), 8:34.

Fourth Quarter Bal—FG Tucker 33, 1:11.

A—70,801.

Jax Bal First downs 13 17 Total Net Yards 248 314 Rushes-yards 23-82 26-93 Passing 166 221 Punt Returns 2-14 3-49 Kickoff Returns 3-50 1-16 Interceptions Ret. 0-0 1-6 Comp-Att-Int 22-38-1 20-30-0 Sacked-Yards Lost 8-63 0-0 Punts 6-44.5 4-50.8 Fumbles-Lost 0-0 1-1 Penalties-Yards 5-60 9-70

Time of Possession 31:42 28:18 INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS RUSHING—Jacksonville, Gerhart 13-54, Johnson 6-19, Todman 3-7, Bortles 1-2. Baltimore, Forsett 16-48, Pierce 6-37, Flacco 4-8.

PASSING—Jacksonville, Bortles 21-37-1210, Anger 1-1-0-19. Baltimore, Flacco 20-300-221.

RECEIVING—Jacksonville, Shorts III 6-76, Hurns 6-70, Lee 4-14, Lewis 2-22, Gerhart 2-9, Ta’ufo’ou 1-19, Todman 1-19. Baltimore, M.Brown 5-66, Smith Sr. 5-37, Daniels 4-62, Gillmore 2-37, T.Smith 2-16, Juszczyk 1-4, Forsett 1-(minus 1).

MISSED FIELD GOALS—Jacksonville, Scobee 42 (WR). Baltimore, Tucker 54 (SH), 54 (WL).

Panthers 19, Buccaneers 17 Tampa Bay Carolina

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First Quarter Car—FG Gano 29, 8:19.

TB—Evans 8 pass from McCown (Murray kick), 5:54.

Car—FG Gano 49, 1:14.

Second Quarter Car—FG Gano 38, 1:10.

TB—FG Murray 48, :02.

Third Quarter Car—Cotchery 2 pass from Anderson (Gano kick), 13:53.

Fourth Quarter Car—FG Gano 45, 8:31.

TB—McCown 16 run (Murray kick), 3:11.

A—72,842.

TB Car First downs 15 28 Total Net Yards 287 390 Rushes-yards 23-151 32-121 Passing 136 269 Punt Returns 0-0 2-18 Kickoff Returns 1-25 4-61 Interceptions Ret. 0-0 1-0 Comp-Att-Int 13-28-1 25-40-0 Sacked-Yards Lost 3-18 3-8 Punts 5-38.8 3-33.0 Fumbles-Lost 4-2 4-1 Penalties-Yards 4-29 4-25 Time of Possession 22:29 37:31 INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS RUSHING—Tampa Bay, Martin 14-96, Sims 7-34, McCown 2-21. Carolina, Stewart 22-73, Brown 1-17, Anderson 5-14, Whittaker 2-13, Tolbert 2-4.

PASSING—Tampa Bay, McCown 13-28-1154. Carolina, Anderson 25-40-0-277.

RECEIVING—Tampa Bay, Jackson 6-70, Sims 3-45, Evans 2-13, Shepard 1-23, Martin 1-3. Carolina, Olsen 10-110, Benjamin 8-104, Cotchery 5-47, Brown 1-10, Stewart 1-6.

MISSED FIELD GOALS—Carolina, Gano 50 (WL).

Patriots 41, Dolphins 13 Miami New England

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Mia—FG Sturgis 24, :59.

Second Quarter NE—Vereen 3 run (Gostkowski kick), 7:59.

Mia—FG Sturgis 53, 4:26.

Mia—M.Wallace 32 pass from Tannehill (Sturgis kick), :05.

Third Quarter NE—Blount 3 run (Gostkowski kick), 11:04.

NE—FG Gostkowski 35, 4:43.

NE—Gronkowski 27 pass from Brady (Gostkowski kick), 4:30.

NE—Edelman 6 pass from Brady (Gostkowski kick), 1:29.

Fourth Quarter NE—FG Gostkowski 36, 6:20.

A—68,756.

Mia NE First downs 23 23 Total Net Yards 384 395 Rushes-yards 23-76 29-108 Passing 308 287 Punt Returns 2-34 3-30 Kickoff Returns 1-26 3-43 Interceptions Ret. 1-0 2-70 Comp-Att-Int 29-47-2 21-35-1 Sacked-Yards Lost 4-38 0-0 Punts 4-39.8 3-48.0 Fumbles-Lost 3-0 1-0 Penalties-Yards 5-35 5-51 Time of Possession 33:46 26:14 INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS RUSHING—Miami, Miller 16-47, Tannehill 3-21, Dan.Thomas 2-5, Matthews 1-3, M.Wallace 1-0. New England, Gray 11-62, Brady 3-18, Blount 8-17, Edelman 1-6, Vereen 6-5.

PASSING—Miami, Tannehill 29-47-2-346.

New England, Brady 21-35-1-287.

RECEIVING—Miami, Landry 8-99, Clay 6-59, M.Wallace 5-104, Gibson 3-29, Dan. Thomas 2-20, Matthews 2-16, Williams 2-9, Miller 1-10. New England, Edelman 7-88, LaFell 6-66, Gronkowski 3-96, Blount 2-7, Vereen 1-12, Amendola 1-11, Gray 1-7.

MISSED FIELD GOALS—Miami, Sturgis 41 (BK).

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from his receivers, either. Trailing 16-10 and facing second-and-6 at his own 6, Rodgers found Nelson in stride down the right sideline, but the normally sure-handed receiver dropped the ball with nothing but field in front of him.

“We had all sorts of chances and just didn’t make them for whatever reason,” Nelson said.

“My drop could’ve won the game for us, so I’ve gotta make those no matter how easy or hard they are.”

The Packers (10-4) had a fivegame win streak snapped and squandered an opportunity to get closer to their sixth consecutive playoff berth.

The Bills (8-6) stayed in the thick of a jumbled AFC playoff hunt.

ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. — Aaron Rodgers, Jordy Nelson and the Green Bay Packers may have watched home-field advantage in the playoffs slip through their fingers.

Rodgers was intercepted twice by third-string safety Bacarri Rambo and Nelson dropped a wide-open pass late in the third quarter in a sloppy, inefficient 21-13 loss to the Buffalo Bills on Sunday.

“It wasn’t my best day by any stretch of the imagination,” Rodgers said. “I gotta play better for us to win. I expect more of myself.”

Rodgers was 17 of 42 for 185 yards, and didn’t get much help

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Alex Smith threw for 297 yards and two scores, while Kansas City shut down Derek Carr and the Oakland offense.

Giants 24, Redskins 13

FOXBOROUGH, Mass. — New England clinched the AFC East title for the sixth straight season as Tom Brady threw two touchdown passes

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Chiefs 31, Raiders 13

CLEVELAND — Johnny Manziel spent his first NFL start being chased and taunted by Cincinnati defenders as the Bengals rudely welcomed the hyped rookie quarterback to the league with a demolition of Cleveland.

Patriots 41, Dolphins 13

Defense keys Bills in upset of Green Bay

Ravens 20, Jaguars 12

Bengals 30, Browns 0

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Steelers 27, Falcons 20 Pittsburgh Atlanta

Steelers 27, Falcons 20

Colts 17, Texans 10

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Green Bay running back Eddie Lacy (27) is tackled in the end zone by Buffalo’s Nigel Bradham (53) and Corey Graham (20) in a play that had previously been blown dead and ruled a safety during the Bills’ 21-13 win over the Packers on Sunday. Green Bay’s loss opens the door for the Seahawks to clinch a first-round bye in the playoffs.

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Buf—Thigpen 75 punt return (Carpenter kick), 2:09.

Second Quarter GB—Lacy 1 run (Crosby kick), 14:14.

Buf—FG Carpenter 27, 8:04.

Third Quarter Buf—FG Carpenter 51, 9:21.

Buf—FG Carpenter 35, 4:18.

Fourth Quarter Buf—FG Carpenter 48, 9:23.

GB—FG Crosby 34, 4:51.

Buf—Robey safety, 1:51.

A—70,214.

GB Buf First downs 21 13 Total Net Yards 333 253 Rushes-yards 25-158 33-113 Passing 175 140 Punt Returns 2-5 2-75 Kickoff Returns 1-8 2-27 Interceptions Ret. 1-0 2-44 Comp-Att-Int 17-42-2 14-27-1 Sacked-Yards Lost 1-10 3-18 Punts 6-42.8 6-40.3 Fumbles-Lost 1-0 1-0 Penalties-Yards 9-70 10-75 Time of Possession 27:02 32:58 INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS RUSHING—Green Bay, Lacy 15-97, A.Rodgers 3-27, Starks 4-19, Cobb 3-15. Buffalo, Jackson 20-71, Dixon 6-26, B.Brown 4-20, Orton 3-(minus 4).

PASSING—Green Bay, A.Rodgers 17-42-2185. Buffalo, Orton 14-27-1-158.

RECEIVING—Green Bay, Cobb 7-96, Nelson 5-55, Lacy 2-11, Starks 1-10, Quarless 1-7, D.Adams 1-6. Buffalo, Jackson 3-27, Chandler 2-22, Woods 2-22, Smith 2-1, B.Brown 1-40, Watkins 1-28, Gray 1-7, Hogan 1-6, Dixon 1-5.

MISSED FIELD GOALS—Green Bay, Crosby 53 (BK).

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First Quarter Ten—FG Succop 40, 3:16.

Second Quarter Ten—Team safety, 12:09.

NYJ—FG Folk 51, 2:08.

Third Quarter Ten—FG Succop 33, 6:03.

NYJ—Conner 9 pass from Smith (Folk kick), 4:34.

Ten—FG Succop 51, 2:02.

Fourth Quarter NYJ—Ivory 1 run (pass failed), 3:09.

A—69,143.

NYJ Ten First downs 17 17 Total Net Yards 277 342 Rushes-yards 29-114 28-89 Passing 163 253 Punt Returns 3-23 4-26 Kickoff Returns 3-77 5-116 Interceptions Ret. 0-0 0-0 Comp-Att-Int 16-28-0 16-35-0 Sacked-Yards Lost 3-16 1-7 Punts 7-50.3 6-49.2 Fumbles-Lost 0-0 2-1 Penalties-Yards 7-46 9-76 Time of Possession 30:03 29:57 INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS RUSHING—N.Y. Jets, C.Johnson 10-55, Ivory 12-25, Smith 4-16, Harvin 1-10, B.Powell 1-8, Conner 1-0. Tennessee, Greene 16-50, McCluster 5-15, Whitehurst 2-9, Sankey 3-8, Locker 2-7.

PASSING—N.Y. Jets, Smith 16-28-0-179.

Tennessee, Locker 6-11-0-57, Whitehurst 10-240-203.

RECEIVING—N.Y. Jets, Decker 7-100, Cumberland 2-22, B.Powell 2-10, Amaro 1-20, Conner 1-9, Graham 1-9, Owusu 1-8, Ivory 1-1.

Tennessee, N.Washington 6-102, Walker 4-93, McCluster 2-8, Sankey 1-18, Durham 1-14, Greene 1-13, L.Washington 1-2.

MISSED FIELD GOALS—N.Y. Jets, Folk 53 (SH).

Lions 16, Vikings 14 Minnesota Detroit

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First Quarter Min—Asiata 2 run (Walsh kick), :16.

Second Quarter Min—Jennings 8 pass from Bridgewater (Walsh kick), 10:05.

Det—Tate 7 pass from Stafford (Prater kick), 3:42.

Det—FG Prater 29, :00.

Third Quarter Det—FG Prater 30, 3:45.

Fourth Quarter Det—FG Prater 33, 3:38.

A—62,490.

Min Det First downs 21 11 Total Net Yards 360 233 Rushes-yards 21-76 22-80 Passing 284 153 Punt Returns 2-37 2-14 Kickoff Returns 2-74 0-0 Interceptions Ret. 0-0 2-58 Comp-Att-Int 31-41-2 17-28-0 Sacked-Yards Lost 4-31 0-0

Punts 2-50.5 6-44.3 Fumbles-Lost 1-0 0-0 Penalties-Yards 3-25 5-35 Time of Possession 34:43 25:17 INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS RUSHING—Minnesota, Asiata 11-36, Bridgewater 3-30, Tate 5-8, Banyard 2-2. Detroit, Bell 15-62, Bush 3-7, Tate 2-5, Riddick 1-4, Stafford 1-2.

PASSING—Minnesota, Bridgewater 31-412-315. Detroit, Stafford 17-28-0-153.

RECEIVING—Minnesota, Rudolph 7-69, Asiata 7-50, Charle.Johnson 5-72, Wright 4-49, Jennings 3-43, Patterson 2-16, Ellison 2-9, Ford 1-7. Detroit, Tate 7-38, C.Johnson 4-53, Bell 4-41, Ebron 1-11, Bush 1-10.

MISSED FIELD GOALS—Minnesota, Walsh 53 (WR), 26 (BK), 68 (SH).

Broncos 22, Chargers 10 Denver San Diego

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First Quarter Den—FG Barth 19, 6:55.

Second Quarter Den—FG Barth 26, 14:21.

Den—FG Barth 19, 1:50.

SD—FG Novak 30, :10.

Third Quarter Den—D.Thomas 28 pass from Manning (Barth kick), :31.

Fourth Quarter SD—Gates 5 pass from Rivers (Novak kick), 10:13.

Den—FG Barth 49, 4:53.

Den—FG Barth 44, 3:56.

A—68,682.

Den SD First downs 18 20 Total Net Yards 337 288 Rushes-yards 39-111 20-56 Passing 226 232 Punt Returns 3-27 2-61 Kickoff Returns 3-65 2-47 Interceptions Ret. 2-23 0-0 Comp-Att-Int 14-22-0 24-41-2 Sacked-Yards Lost 1-7 0-0 Punts 3-40.3 4-49.8 Fumbles-Lost 1-0 0-0 Penalties-Yards 7-71 8-65 Time of Possession 32:44 27:16 INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS RUSHING—Denver, Anderson 29-85, Stewart 2-16, Thompson 4-14, Osweiler 1-(minus 1), Manning 3-(minus 3). San Diego, Oliver 12-26, D.Brown 5-18, R.Brown 2-9, Rivers 1-3.

PASSING—Denver, Manning 14-20-0-233, Osweiler 0-2-0-0. San Diego, Rivers 24-41-2232.

RECEIVING—Denver, D.Thomas 6-123, Sanders 3-53, Welker 2-16, Anderson 2-11, J.Thomas 1-30. San Diego, Gates 6-54, Oliver 4-44, D.Brown 4-38, Floyd 3-34, Royal 3-27, Allen 3-18, Ajirotutu 1-17.

MISSED FIELD GOALS—San Diego, Novak 46 (BK), 37 (WL).

Cowboys 38, Eagles 27 Dallas Philadelphia

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First Quarter Dal—Murray 1 run (Bailey kick), 12:46.

Dal—Bryant 4 pass from Romo (Bailey kick), 3:04.

Second Quarter Dal—Bryant 26 pass from Romo (Bailey kick), 11:56.

Phi—Polk 5 run (Parkey kick), 8:32.

Phi—FG Parkey 47, 1:48.

Third Quarter Phi—Polk 1 run (Parkey kick), 8:48.

Phi—Sproles 1 run (Parkey kick), 5:42.

Dal—Murray 2 run (Bailey kick), :39.

Fourth Quarter Dal—Bryant 25 pass from Romo (Bailey kick), 12:48.

Phi—FG Parkey 43, 10:45.

Dal—FG Bailey 49, 4:37.

A—69,596.

Dal Phi First downs 26 19 Total Net Yards 364 294 Rushes-yards 42-115 21-75 Passing 249 219 Punt Returns 1-(-1) 1-1 Kickoff Returns 5-94 5-75 Interceptions Ret. 2-8 0-0 Comp-Att-Int 22-31-0 17-28-2 Sacked-Yards Lost 3-16 4-33 Punts 5-41.0 3-52.0 Fumbles-Lost 1-1 3-2 Penalties-Yards 11-79 8-95 Time of Possession 41:55 18:05 INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS RUSHING—Dallas, Murray 31-81, Dunbar 5-22, Randle 2-13, Romo 4-(minus 1). Philadelphia, McCoy 16-64, Polk 2-6, Sproles 3-5.

PASSING—Dallas, Romo 22-31-0-265. Philadelphia, Sanchez 17-28-2-252.

RECEIVING—Dallas, Witten 7-69, Bryant 6-114, Beasley 4-42, Williams 2-19, Hanna 1-12, Dunbar 1-6, Murray 1-3. Philadelphia, Maclin 4-98, Celek 4-52, Ertz 3-32, Cooper 2-17, Sproles 2-8, Huff 1-44, McCoy 1-1.

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Offense

B

Rushing for 152 yards against San Francisco, including 91 from Marshawn Lynch, is a very solid effort.

And the Seahawks made enough big plays in the passing game to keep some drives going. But this was hardly Seattle’s best offensive performance. Russell Wilson was 12 of 24 for 168 yards and an interception, giving him a passer rating of 69.4. And the line in front of him had a pretty rough day, yielding five sacks and 10 quarterback hits while also committing a few costly penalties. An encouraging sign for the second week in a row was the big-play ability from Seattle’s receivers, from Jermaine Kearse’s 47-yard catch to a 35-yarder by Doug Baldwin to Paul Richardson’s first career touchdown.

Defense

A-

The Seahawks extended their streak of dominant defensive play to four games, holding the 49ers to 245 yards and seven points. The 49ers had a few big plays early on their way to 178 first-half yards, but were completely shut down in the second half. The pass rush also looked like what you might expect when facing a team down to its third center and a backup right tackle, piling up a season-high six sacks.

Special teams

B+

Seattle’s kick coverage was outstanding.

And while there weren’t a ton of plays to make in the return game, Bryan Walters did have a 19-yard punt return that gave Seattle a short field on its second touchdown drive. Punter Jon Ryan twice pinned the 49ers deep in their own territory.This wasn’t a spectacular performance, but avoiding big mistakes was a step in the right direction.

Coaching

B+

Pete Carroll defended the decision to run one more play rather than kick a field goal on third down, but the fact that Russell Wilson’s throw was intercepted makes it easy to question whether that was indeed the right decision. The Seahawks had seven penalties, and it is fair to be critical of how many costly, pre-snap penalties have hurt them. Most notably the false start, which followed a hold, that put the Seahawks out of field goal range. Overall, however, this was another impressive performance from a team that has been a roll for a month now, so being overly critical of the coaching would just be nitpicking.

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Game Stats Seahawks 17, 49ers 7 San Francisco Seattle

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First Quarter Sea—FG Hauschka 38, 3:40.

Second Quarter SF—Gore 10 run (Dawson kick), 13:22.

Third Quarter Sea—Lynch 4 run (Hauschka kick), 2:19.

Fourth Quarter Sea—Richardson 10 pass from Wilson (Hauschka kick), 13:20.

A—68,526.

SF Sea First downs 14 18 Total Net Yards 245 290 Rushes-yards 32-140 32-152 Passing 105 138 Punt Returns 2-12 3-19 Kickoff Returns 4-90 1-12 Interceptions Ret. 1-73 0-0 Comp-Att-Int 11-19-0 12-24-1 Sacked-Yards Lost 6-36 5-30 Punts 5-43.4 4-48.0 Fumbles-Lost 0-0 0-0 Penalties-Yards 8-78 7-50 Time of Possession 31:02 28:58 INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS RUSHING—San Francisco, Hyde 6-55, Kaepernick 9-46, Gore 11-29, Alf.Smith 4-6, Miller 2-4. Seattle, Lynch 21-91, Turbin 5-33, Wilson 5-27, Michael 1-1.

PASSING—San Francisco, Kaepernick 11-19-0-141. Seattle, Wilson 12-24-1-168.

RECEIVING—San Francisco, Miller 4-56, Crabtree 3-19, Boldin 2-23, Celek 1-31, Lloyd 1-12. Seattle, Kearse 5-78, Baldwin 3-53, Richardson 3-30, Lynch 1-7.

MISSED FIELD GOALS—None.

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Seahawks wide receiver Doug Baldwin (right) catches pass for a 35-yard gain as 49ers safety Antoine Bethea defends in the second quarter.

Seahawks’ Okung has chest wall bruise

By John Boyle Herald Writer

SEATTLE — Seattle Seahawks left tackle Russell Okung not only had to leave Sunday’s game early, he also was taken to local hospital to check out a chest injury.

“He’s got a chest wall bruise,” Seahawks head coach Pete Carroll said. “I’m not sure what that all means, but he’s already gone to the hospital. They’ve checked him and he’s been released already. We’ll let you know in a couple of days what’s up with that.”

The injury happened on the final play of the first half when Okung took a hard hit during a 49ers interception return. As Okung was walking off the field, TV cameras showed him shove a trainer seemingly out of frustration, then spit up blood.

With Okung out of the game, Alvin Bailey played left tackle in the second half.

The only other injury that came out of the game, Carroll

said, was tight end Tony Moeaki’s shoulder injury. If Moeaki does miss any time, it would be just the latest tight end injury for the Seahawks, who have been without Zach Miller for most of the season, and have been without Cooper Helfet for three games.

“He got it banged a little bit,” Carroll said. “We’ve got to see how he responds, but he did get it banged on a little bit.”

The Seahawks were playing without center Max Unger for the fourth straight game because of ankle and knee injuries, but he did do some work in practice last week and Carroll said there’s a “good chance” Unger returns to face Arizona next week.

“The fact that he practiced this last week is a very good sign,” Carroll said. “It would great to get him back out there. He’s dying to come back and play for us.”

One play too many?

With the first half winding down, the Seahawks were in field goal range and out of timeouts with eight seconds left on the clock. But rather than send the field goal unit on the

field on third down, Carroll decided to have his offense run one more play. Not only did that play not result in a touchdown or a shorter field-goal attempt, it turned into the game’s only turnover, with Russell Wilson missing Doug Baldwin on a throw that was intercepted by Eric Reid. Not only did Reid’s pick cost the Seahawks points, it was also the play that saw Okung leave the game with an injury.

Carroll didn’t seem to regret the call in retrospect despite how it turned out, saying, “We were going to kick a field goal, we were just using every second. We had one more shot to take a shot at the end zone and we just made a mistake. We had enough time to get that done, we thought. We’ve practiced that a lot and it’s something we’re really familiar with. It’s easy to wonder or question that, but Russell knew exactly what was going on, I think he just threw the ball high.”

Big day for Hill Second-year defensive tackle Jordan Hill had three tackles Sunday, but two of them were sacks that backed the 49ers up a total of 18 yards. Hill, who missed most of his rookie year with injuries, has come on strong late this season, with four sacks in the past three games. Part of his success has been the mentorship

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letters here just for everybody out there in Packer-land: R-EL-A-X. Relax. We’re going to be OK.” Sherman joked that no such message was necessary from the Seahawks earlier this season, because “We’re not A-Rod, we’re not going to tell you to relax, because we don’t really care what you think. We’re just going to keep playing our game and keep chipping away, and that’s what we’ve done.”

Call it confidence, dominance, maybe a dash of arrogance, or what Seahawks players keep coming back to: just having fun.

Whatever it is, the Seahawks have rediscovered their winning formula over last month, and built upon Sunday to improve to 10-4, marking the first time in franchise history the Seahawks have won 10 or more games in three straight seasons.

Even if the Seahawks weren’t panicked a month ago, it’s impossible to deny how much their season has changed in the past four weeks. After losing to the Chiefs, the Seahawks trailed the Cardinals by three games in the NFC West and had a lot of work to do just to make the playoffs with a brutal finishing stretch of games awaiting them.

But after dominant wins over the Cardinals, 49ers, Eagles and the 49ers again Sunday, Seattle

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Seahawks wide receiver Jermaine Kearse (15) can’t hang on to a pass during the second quarter of Sunday’s game against the 49ers.

would win the NFC West with two more wins. And Seattle would earn home-field advantage as well so long as they don’t finish in a two-way tie at 12-4 with Dallas (any three-way tie scenario or two-way tie with Detroit or Green Bay would give Seattle the top seed).

The defense, which looked for much of the season like it had regressed from 2013, held the 49ers to a single touchdown and 245 yards Sunday, meaning they’re now allowing fewer yards per game (272.4) than they did a year ago. And while the offense isn’t lighting up the scoreboard on a weekly basis, the running game, led by 91 hard-fought yards from Marshawn Lynch, is even better than it was a year ago. And save for one bad throw at the end of the second half, quarterback Russell Wilson has been very good at taking care of the ball.

The Seahawks are winning now with a formula reminiscent of the one that led them to a title last season, one that they’ve shown to be very repeatable over the last month.

“We’re playing better,” Seahawks head coach Pete Carroll said. “We’re playing better football, obviously. The defense is playing well, the running game is there for us week in and week out. As long as we continue to do a great job of taking care of the ball, we have a chance to beat people with that formula.

That’s just the way we play, and there’s no mystery about it. I love that it’s so clear and you know what our philosophy is, and we have to go out and prove it every week. And we’ll try to do it again next week.

“We have definitely elevated, and we’ve gotten back to the connection that it takes to play with this kind of intensity. This

of veterans like Michael Bennett and Kevin Williams.

“I feel like a proud father out there to see him making those plays,” Bennett said.

Officials stand by call One of the biggest and most controversial penalties in Seattle’s win was the roughing-the-passer penalty called on 49ers linebacker Nick Moody that extended what would end up being a Seahawks touchdown drive. Moody didn’t hit Wilson late — the quarterback had just released the ball — but the play was deemed illegal because in the eyes of referee Ed Hochuli, Moody hit Wilson with the hairline of his helmet, which Hochuli said was a penalty.

“I felt that he hit the quarterback in the chest with the hairline, and that’s a foul unless he has his face completely up and would hit it face on with the face mask,” Hochuli said.

“It’s a foul and that’s why I called it.”

Attendance record Sunday’s crowd of 68,526 was a CenturyLink Field record, surpassing the mark set in the last meeting between these teams in Seattle, January’s NFC championship game.

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is what you’re trying to do, right at this time of year, the finish is so crucial. Really, we couldn’t be more excited about the way that they feel about what they’re doing. They know. The players know what’s going on. They can feel it, they know what’s shifted, they know what happened, and now, we have to recreate it each week. We only have a couple more shots before we end this regular season.“ Buoyed by a defensive performance that included six sacks, defensive end Michael Bennett suggested that, “Statistically we’re probably one of the best defenses ever to play the game of football right now.”

It’s a claim that at first sounds a little over-the-top, but when you consider the past four games in which the Seahawks have allowed just 188 yards per game and 6.75 points per game, Bennett might not be that far off with that statement.

“We’re rolling right now,” said linebacker K.J. Wright. “We’re at our peak right now and we’re playing really good football.”

Even when they weren’t playing this well, the Seahawks believed they could find their way. Now with two games left on the schedule, all of their goals are within their reach.

“We have everything ahead of us,” receiver Doug Baldwin said. “We said that three weeks ago, four weeks ago, and it’s no different.”

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Seahawks cornerback Richard Sherman stares at 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick prior to the snap during Sunday’s game.

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Defense steps up in 2nd half

By Rich Myhre Herald Writer

SEATTLE — On a day Seattle’s offense was good enough to win, the Seahawks defense made sure there would be no other outcome.

Against the San Francisco 49ers, the Seahawks went from a so-so first half defensively to a completely dominating second half, holding the visitors scoreless over the final two quarters.

Seattle limited San Francisco to just 67 net yards and four first downs after halftime on the way to a 17-7 victory at CenturyLink Field.

The Seahawks “just really didn’t give up anything in the second half,” said head coach Pete Carroll. “A great turnaround from the first half to the second half. ... We zeroed in, we knew what we wanted to do and we were able to go out and do it. I think the attitude of the guys up front to make it work was great, and it was a great turnaround.”

Even Seattle’s offensive players were impressed.

“The defense played unbelievable in terms of stepping up when they needed to,” said quarterback Russell Wilson.

In the first half, the 49ers totaled 178 yards of offense, including 104 on the ground. But midway through the second quarter San Francisco running back Frank Gore left the game with a concussion and his absence no doubt hurt his team offensively.

But Seattle’s defense also came out in the second half and did its part to shut down the 49ers.

“In the first half our tackling wasn’t crisp like it normally is,” said strong safety Kam Chancellor. “But in the second half we came out and tackled like we

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still get the No. 1 conference seed if Dallas loses one of its remaining games (at 12-4, Seattle would have the tie-breaker advantage over Arizona, Green Bay, Detroit and Philadelphia).

Finishing first in the West Division and perhaps the entire NFC “sounds good,” said Seattle linebacker K.J. Wright, “but it’s still one game at a time. We’ve just got to make sure we get these last two wins.

“But if we do get the (playoff) homefield advantage, I expect nothing but going to the top again,” said Wright, referring to last season’s Super Bowl championship.

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49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernik is sacked by Seahawks defensive end Cliff Avril (left) and defensive tackle Kevin Williams.

needed to. ... It wasn’t our (style of) ball the first half. The Niners came out and played hard like they always do, but we just didn’t play our ball in the first half.

“But in the second half we turned it up some. There was a lot of missed tackles in the first half, but in the second half we just made tackles and that was the difference.”

In successive weeks, Seattle’s defense has given up three points to Arizona, three points to San Francisco, 14 points against Philadelphia and seven points in the rematch with San Francisco.

“We’re rolling now,” said

Sunday’s victory was the fourth in a row for Seattle and the team’s seventh win in the last eight games. The late surge has turned around a Seahawks season after a disappointing 3-3 start.

“It’s not how you start, it’s how you finish,” said Seattle wide receiver Doug Baldwin. “That’s our mentality. That’s how we approach each game and that’s how we approach the season.

“In this situation, we have everything ahead of us. We said that four weeks ago and it’s no different now.”

Seattle’s victory over San Francisco — by a quirk of schedule, it was the second meeting between the teams in 17 days — was very much in doubt through two quarters. Though the Seahawks struck first with a 38-yard Steven Hauschka field goal late in the first

linebacker K.J. Wright. “We’re peaking right now and we’re playing really good football.

We’re playing together and just making plays. We’re not letting teams breathe out there.

“That’s what we do. We play lights-out football. Don’t let them run the ball and take away their top weapons. I was real proud of us. I wish we did it the whole game, but the second half was beautiful.”

Indeed, the Seahawks are playing well enough defensively that some observers are mentioning them along with other great defenses in NFL history,

quarter, San Francisco promptly responded with an impressive 11-play, 85-yard drive for a touchdown early in the second period.

Seattle had chances to retake the lead later in the quarter, but a critical holding penalty on tackle Justin Britt thwarted one promising drive, and another possession on the last play before halftime came up empty when quarterback Russell Wilson threw an interception.

But in the third quarter the Seahawks got a go-ahead touchdown on a 4-yard Marshawn Lynch run and then an insurance TD early in the fourth quarter on a 10-yard pass from Wilson to wide receiver Paul Richardson.

San Francisco had two remaining offensive possessions, but both times Seattle’s defense halted the 49ers on downs.

Afterward, the Seahawks and

like the 1985 Chicago Bears and the Pittsburgh Steelers “Steel Curtain” of the early 1970s.

“I wish we could get in those conversations,” said cornerback Richard Sherman. “It’s always great to be mentioned with those (earlier teams) and the outstanding defense they played. ... If we can hopefully get in that historic state with those guys it’d be a blessing and an honor.”

Still, Seattle’s defensive showing on Sunday was not flawless, as Sherman was quick to point out. San Francisco’s sole touchdown came on a fourth-and-1 play from the Seahawks 10-yard line early in the second quarter, with Gore bursting through the middle to the end zone.

“We have to clean that up,” Sherman said, feigning frustration. “We should’ve stopped them on that drive. They should’ve got nothing.”

San Francisco finished with eight offensive possessions, two in each quarter. The 49ers scored their touchdown on their third possession, but the first two ended with punts, as did the fourth, fifth and sixth. The last two in the fourth quarter were stopped by the Seahawks on fourth down, the first time at Seattle’s 38 and the second at Seattle’s 49.

“We didn’t give up (many) yards,” said defensive end Michael Bennett. “We just played our way, we played team defense and that’s the way you play championship football.”

“This is a different team,” added defensive end Cliff Avril.

“But I think we’re having a lot more fun than we were last year.

We’re playing for each other and it’s fun. ... We feel good. Guys are playing good, guys are healthy and we’re just playing lights-out right now.”

their fans celebrated a fourth straight one-sided outcome against an opponent with playoff ambitions. In succession, Seattle has beaten Arizona, San Francisco, Philadelphia and the 49ers again by a combined score of 79-27, and that stretch has lifted the Seahawks into the pool of top Super Bowl contenders.

“We’re playing better football (than earlier in the season), obviously,” said Seattle head coach Pete Carroll. “The defense is playing well, the running game is there for us week in and week out, and as long as we continue to do a great job of taking care of the ball we have a chance to beat people with that formula.

“We’ve definitely elevated and we’ve gotten back to the connection that it takes to play with this kind of intensity. This is what

SEATTLE — Before Paul Richardson could enjoy his big moment, he first had to look for laundry on the field.

The Seattle Seahawks’ rookie receiver was almost certain he had secured the first touchdown of his NFL career when he caught a 10-yard pass from Russell Wilson in the fourth quarter. But because he has seen a few plays erased by penalty flags this season — including what he thought was his first touchdown a couple weeks earlier as well as a 22-yard catch earlier in Sunday’s game — Richardson took a quick moment to assess the situation.

“Every time I make a play, I’ve got to make sure before I celebrate that there’s no flags on the ground,” the second-round pick out of Colorado said with a grin.

“But it all came together today.”

Not only did Richardson earn his first touchdown in Sunday’s 17-7 victory over the 49ers, he also had two big third-down conversions to keep scoring drives going. In the first quarter on third-and-6, Wilson hit Richardson over the middle and he hung on for a 9-yard gain despite a big hit from 49ers safety Eric Reid, which drew an unnecessary-roughness penalty. Then on Seattle’s first touchdown drive, Richardson ran a perfect route on third-and-10 to get just enough depth for an 11-yard gain, setting up a Marshawn Lynch touchdown run.

Richardson showing up more on game days had less to do with him doing anything different, Seahawks head coach Pete Carroll said, and more to do with him getting opportunities to make plays.

“He’s been fine,” Carroll said.

“We haven’t gotten the ball to him much, but he’s a terrific catcher, he’s a good route runner — a beautiful curl route he hits on third down, a crucial (third-andsix), just a dynamite route and catch with guys hanging all over him. He’s just doing what he’s been doing, nothing special. He’s a really good football player.”

While Richardson celebrated his score, fellow receiver Doug Baldwin grabbed the ball to make sure the rookie would have a souvenir. Richardson said that ball will be a Christmas gift for somebody, but he wouldn’t say who and ruin the surprise.

“I remember my first touchdown and what it meant to me and how special it was,” Baldwin said. “It’s a rarity, you’ve got to cherish those moments.”

Richardson’s big day was just part of a strong showing for Seattle’s receivers, who made a few big plays without many opportunities. Baldwin turned three catches into 53 yards, Jermaine Kearse had 78 yards on five catches, including a 47-yarder, and Richardson had three very big catches for 30 yards.

“When you get your opportunities as a receiver, you have to make the best of them and he did that, and we had no doubt he was going to do that,” Baldwin said before bringing up one of his favorite insults of Seattle’s receivers from last season. “That’s just what the pedestrians do.”

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you’re trying to do at this time of year (because) the finish is so crucial. ... The players know what’s going on. They can feel it and now we have to recreate it each week.”

Winning on the road next Sunday will by no means be easy, but the Seahawks will head to Arizona with a confidence that is beginning to brim.

“I’m expecting a fight,” said linebacker Bobby Wagner. “It’ll be for the division (lead) and they’re not going to just give it up like that and we’re not just going to let them have it either.”

“If we win, we take control of the division,” Wright said. “It’s going to be critical. We know they’re going to come ready to play because they want to defend (their lead in) the West. So I’m excited to get out there.”

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Puget Sound

Wind southeast 12-25 knots today. Seas 1-3 feet. A shower.

Wind southeast 12-25 knots tonight. Seas 1-3 feet. Spotty showers.

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Yesterday’s offender ....... Particulates

Good: 0-50; Moderate: 51-100, Unhealthy (for sensitive groups): 101-150; Unhealthy: 151-200; Very unhealthy: 201300; Hazardous: 301-500 WA Dept. of Environmental Quality

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BASKETBALL WESTERN CONFERENCE Northwest Division W L Pct GB Portland 18 6 .750 — Oklahoma City 11 13 .458 7 Denver 10 14 .417 8 Utah 6 18 .250 12 Minnesota 5 18 .217 12½ Pacific Division W L Pct GB Golden State 21 2 .913 — L.A. Clippers 16 7 .696 5 Phoenix 12 13 .480 10 Sacramento 11 13 .458 10½ L.A. Lakers 8 16 .333 13½ Southwest Division W L Pct GB Memphis 19 4 .826 — Houston 18 5 .783 1 San Antonio 17 7 .708 2½ Dallas 17 8 .680 3 New Orleans 11 12 .478 8 EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division W L Pct GB Toronto 18 6 .750 — Brooklyn 10 12 .455 7 Boston 7 14 .333 9½ New York 5 21 .192 14 Philadelphia 2 21 .087 15½ Southeast Division W L Pct GB Washington 17 6 .739 — Atlanta 16 7 .696 1 Miami 11 13 .458 6½ Orlando 10 16 .385 8½ Charlotte 6 17 .261 11 Central Division W L Pct GB Chicago 15 8 .652 — Cleveland 13 9 .591 1½ Milwaukee 12 12 .500 3½ Indiana 7 17 .292 8½ Detroit 5 19 .208 10½ Sunday’s games Golden State 128, New Orleans 122, OT Washington 93, Utah 84 Chicago 93, Miami 75 Oklahoma City 112, Phoenix 88 L.A. Lakers 100, Minnesota 94 Toronto 95, New York 90, OT San Antonio 99, Denver 91 Today’s games Boston at Philadelphia, 4 p.m.

L.A. Lakers at Indiana, 4 p.m.

Charlotte at Cleveland, 4 p.m.

Chicago at Atlanta, 4:30 p.m.

Orlando at Toronto, 4:30 p.m.

Milwaukee at Phoenix, 6 p.m.

San Antonio at Portland, 7 p.m.

Detroit at L.A. Clippers, 7:30 p.m.

Wizards 93, Jazz 84 UTAH (84) Hayward 4-14 8-9 16, Gobert 3-5 1-2 7, Kanter 5-14 0-0 10, Burke 7-16 0-0 15, Burks 5-11 6-8 19, Booker 3-7 2-6 8, Hood 1-5 1-2 3, Exum 1-2 0-0 3, Evans 1-3 1-1 3, Ingles 0-1 0-0 0, Clark 0-0 0-0 0. Totals 30-78 19-28 84.

WASHINGTON (93) Pierce 5-8 4-4 15, Humphries 1-4 0-0 2, Gortat 2-8 1-2 5, Wall 8-15 0-2 16, Beal 9-17 2-2 22, Nene 5-8 0-1 10, Butler 3-7 0-0 7, Seraphin 2-7 0-1 4, Porter 1-4 0-0 2, Miller 5-6 0-0 10, Temple 0-0 0-0 0. Totals 41-84 7-12 93.

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84 93

3-Point Goals—Utah 5-17 (Burks 3-4, Exum 1-1, Burke 1-3, Evans 0-1, Ingles 0-1, Hood 0-2, Booker 0-2, Hayward 0-3), Washington 4-13 (Beal 2-5, Pierce 1-3, Butler 1-3, Wall 0-2).

Fouled Out—None. Rebounds—Utah 55 (Kanter 11), Washington 50 (Gortat, Beal 7). Assists— Utah 13 (Hayward, Kanter 3), Washington 20 (Wall 8). Total Fouls—Utah 18, Washington 21.

Technicals—Humphries. A—15,220 (20,308).

Bulls 93, Heat 75 CHICAGO (93) Dunleavy 8-11 2-2 22, Gibson 5-8 5-5 15, Gasol 4-13 1-2 9, Rose 6-14 1-2 14, Butler 4-10 9-10 17, Hinrich 0-0 0-0 0, Mirotic 2-7 0-0 5, Brooks 3-6 0-0 8, Snell 0-1 0-0 0, Mohammed 0-0 0-0 0, Bairstow 0-0 0-0 0, Moore 1-1 0-0 3.

Totals 33-71 18-21 93.

MIAMI (75) Deng 6-14 4-4 17, Haslem 0-1 0-0 0, Hamilton 5-11 0-0 10, Cole 3-10 4-4 10, Wade 7-18 2-2 17, Williams 1-4 1-2 4, Chalmers 4-12 2-4 11, Granger 1-6 2-2 4, Andersen 1-1 0-0 2, Ennis 0-3 0-0 0. Totals 28-80 15-18 75.

Chicago

14 25 33 21

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Sets ........ 4:21 p.m. ........ 5:04 p.m. ........ 7:48 p.m. ...... 11:25 a.m. ........ 3:00 p.m. ........ 1:44 a.m. ...... 10:20 p.m. ........ 5:47 p.m.

World Weather Today Hi/Lo/W Amsterdam 45/38/r Athens 60/52/pc Baghdad 67/50/s Bangkok 89/72/s Beijing 37/18/s Berlin 42/35/sh Buenos Aires 79/67/c Cairo 70/53/pc Dublin 44/36/pc Hong Kong 72/58/c Jerusalem 55/42/s Johannesburg 76/59/t London 47/37/pc

Miami

NBA

24 18 16 26 22 15 30 26

Rises Mercury ..... 8:23 a.m.

Venus ......... 8:55 a.m.

Mars ......... 10:44 a.m.

Jupiter ........ 9:01 p.m.

Saturn ........ 5:43 a.m.

Uranus ..... 12:58 p.m.

Neptune ... 11:46 a.m.

Pluto ........... 8:57 a.m.

City

Road Reports:

Utah Washington

through 5 p.m. yesterday High/low ..................................... 48/25 Normal high/low ....................... 43/35 Records (1977/2008) ................. 55/20 Barometric pressure (noon) ... 30.15 F 24 hours ending 5 p.m. ............... 0.00” Month to date ............................. 2.72” Normal month to date ............... 2.75” Year to date ............................... 56.88” Normal year to date ................. 44.12”

93

Tomorrow Hi/Lo/W 44/38/sh 62/55/pc 64/48/c 90/68/pc 34/18/s 39/32/sh 80/63/pc 70/53/pc 48/46/r 65/50/s 58/43/s 70/54/t 45/39/pc

18 14 16 27

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75

3-Point Goals—Chicago 9-18 (Dunleavy 4-5, Brooks 2-3, Moore 1-1, Rose 1-3, Mirotic 1-5, Butler 0-1), Miami 4-22 (Wade 1-2, Williams 1-3, Deng 1-3, Chalmers 1-6, Ennis 0-1, Cole 0-2, Hamilton 0-2, Granger 0-3). Fouled Out—None.

Rebounds—Chicago 51 (Gibson, Gasol 9), Miami 45 (Deng 10). Assists—Chicago 21 (Butler 5), Miami 12 (Cole 6). Total Fouls—Chicago 18, Miami 22. A—19,600 (19,600).

Warriors 128, Pelicans 122 (OT) GOLDEN STATE (128) Green 5-11 1-1 11, Barnes 1-3 0-0 2, Ezeli 1-2 2-2 4, Curry 11-21 6-6 34, Thompson 1022 7-9 29, Speights 3-4 4-6 10, Iguodala 7-12 3-5 20, Livingston 4-6 4-4 12, Barbosa 1-4 2-2 4, Ju.Holiday 1-1 0-0 2. Totals 44-86 29-35 128.

NEW ORLEANS (122) Babbitt 2-6 0-0 6, Anderson 5-16 3-3 15, Asik 2-8 0-0 4, Jr.Holiday 12-23 4-5 30, Evans 13-25 6-9 34, Cunningham 6-7 1-2 13, Rivers 3-8 0-0 6, Fredette 1-3 0-0 2, Withey 3-4 4-4 10, Salmons 0-1 2-2 2. Totals 47-101 20-25 122.

Golden State New Orleans

28 32 29 22 17 — 128 31 20 38 22 11 — 122

3-Point Goals—Golden State 11-24 (Curry 6-10, Iguodala 3-4, Thompson 2-7, Green 0-1, Barnes 0-2), New Orleans 8-27 (Jr.Holiday 2-4, Babbitt 2-5, Evans 2-5, Anderson 2-8, Fredette 0-1, Asik 0-1, Rivers 0-3). Fouled Out—Evans.

Rebounds—Golden State 55 (Green 13), New Orleans 52 (Asik, Evans 8). Assists—Golden State 22 (Curry 7), New Orleans 22 (Jr.Holiday 9).

Total Fouls—Golden State 19, New Orleans 27.

Technicals—Green. A—15,037 (16,867).

Thunder 112, Suns 88 PHOENIX (88) Tucker 1-3 0-0 3, Mark.Morris 1-3 2-2 4, Plumlee 3-7 0-0 6, Bledsoe 4-12 4-5 12, Green 5-13 2-2 15, Tolliver 0-3 0-0 0, I.Thomas 2-9 2-2 6, Marc.Morris 4-13 1-1 10, Goodwin 2-9 0-1 5, Len 1-2 0-0 2, Warren 4-9 0-0 8, Randolph 2-9 2-5 6, Ennis 5-7 0-0 11. Totals 34-99 13-18 88.

OKLAHOMA CITY (112) Durant 8-13 6-6 23, Ibaka 5-7 2-2 12, Adams 2-2 2-2 6, Westbrook 7-18 13-13 28, Roberson 0-0 0-0 0, Jackson 3-10 0-0 6, Morrow 4-11 4-4 14, Perkins 2-4 1-2 5, Collison 3-5 0-0 6, Jones 3-5 1-3 7, Smith 1-4 0-0 2, McGary 1-1 1-2 3.

Totals 39-80 30-34 112.

Phoenix 29 19 16 24 Oklahoma City 41 29 19 23

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3-Point Goals—Phoenix 7-31 (Green 3-7, Tucker 1-2, Ennis 1-2, Goodwin 1-3, Marc.Morris 1-6, Randolph 0-1, Bledsoe 0-2, Warren 0-2, Tolliver 0-3, I.Thomas 0-3), Oklahoma City 4-18 (Morrow 2-6, Durant 1-2, Westbrook 1-4, Ibaka 0-1, Collison 0-1, Jones 0-2, Jackson 0-2). Fouled Out—None. Rebounds—Phoenix 46 (Plumlee, Green 7), Oklahoma City 69 (Perkins 10). Assists—Phoenix 21 (Bledsoe, I.Thomas 4), Oklahoma City 20 (Westbrook 8). Total Fouls—Phoenix 22, Oklahoma City 19. Technicals—Green, Tucker, Westbrook. A—18,203 (18,203).

Lakers 100, Timberwolves 94 L.A. LAKERS (100) Johnson 3-7 4-6 12, Davis 3-6 0-0 6, Hill 5-10 3-4 13, Price 0-3 2-2 2, Bryant 7-20 10-13 26, Boozer 10-14 2-3 22, N.Young 2-9 2-2 7, Lin 2-5 4-4 8, Sacre 2-3 0-0 4, Ellington 0-4 0-0 0.

Totals 34-81 27-34 100.

MINNESOTA (94) Wiggins 4-12 8-8 16, T.Young 4-7 0-0 8, Dieng 4-9 1-3 9, LaVine 4-15 2-2 10, Brewer 4-9 0-0 10, Muhammad 12-21 4-7 28, Budinger 1-3 0-0 2, Bennett 3-11 0-0 6, Adrien 0-0 0-0 0, Hummel 2-3 0-0 5. Totals 38-90 15-20 94.

L.A. Lakers Minnesota

22 27 22 29 19 25 25 25

— 100 — 94

3-Point Goals—L.A. Lakers 5-17 (Johnson 2-3, Bryant 2-7, N.Young 1-3, Price 0-2, Ellington 0-2), Minnesota 3-10 (Brewer 2-3, Hummel 1-1, Wiggins 0-1, T.Young 0-1, Budinger 0-1, LaVine 0-3). Fouled Out—None. Rebounds—L.A. Lakers 57 (Boozer 13), Minnesota 54 (Dieng, Muhammad 9). Assists—L.A. Lakers 22 (Johnson, Lin 6), Minnesota 25 (Brewer 9). Total Fouls—L.A. Lakers 17, Minnesota 21. A—15,008 (19,356).

Raptors 95, Knicks 90 (OT) TORONTO (95) Ross 8-14 3-3 22, A.Johnson 3-8 0-0 6, Valanciunas 3-6 2-4 8, Lowry 8-19 4-4 21, Fields 0-1 0-0 0, Williams 5-15 3-3 15, Patterson 5-6 0-0 13, Hansbrough 2-3 2-4 6, J.Johnson 1-4 0-0 2, Vasquez 1-2 0-0 2. Totals 36-78 14-18 95.

NEW YORK (90) Anthony 11-24 8-10 34, Acy 1-3 0-0 2, Stoudemire 3-7 4-7 10, Calderon 6-13 0-0 13,

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Everett

through 5 p.m. yesterday High/low ..................................... 50/32 Normal high/low ....................... 43/35 Records (1952/1914) ................. 62/14 Barometric pressure (noon) ... 30.12 F 24 hours ending 5 p.m. ............... 0.00” Month to date ............................. 2.44” Normal month to date ............... 2.33” Year to date ............................... 36.47” Normal year to date ................. 33.13”

Washington Bellingham Colville Ellensburg Forks Friday Harbor Moses Lake Ocean Shores Olympia Port Angeles Pullman Spokane Seattle Tacoma Walla Walla Wenatchee Yakima Idaho Boise Coeur d’Alene Sun Valley Oregon Astoria Bend Eugene Klamath Falls Medford Portland

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through 5 p.m. yesterday High/low ..................................... 52/34 Normal high/low ....................... 45/35 Records (1952/1967) ................. 59/21 Barometric pressure (noon) ... 30.14 F 24 hours ending 5 p.m. ............... 0.00” Month to date ............................. 1.04” Normal month to date ............... 1.08” Year to date ............................... 21.99” Normal year to date ................. 19.26”

Sunrise today ....................... 7:52 a.m.

Sunset tonight ..................... 4:16 p.m.

Moonrise today ................. 12:49 a.m.

Moonset today ................... 12:42 p.m.

New Dec 21

First Dec 28

Full Jan 4

Last Jan 13

City

Today Tomorrow Hi/Lo/W Hi/Lo/W Madrid 53/36/pc 53/38/pc Manila 86/77/sh 88/76/pc Mexico City 72/48/pc 71/47/pc Moscow 31/27/c 35/33/r Paris 43/40/r 46/37/pc Rio de Janeiro 79/68/pc 81/66/s Riyadh 75/54/s 74/54/s Rome 62/53/sh 59/46/r Singapore 87/76/t 86/77/t Stockholm 39/31/r 38/30/pc Sydney 79/67/s 85/68/pc Tokyo 50/38/pc 58/43/r Toronto 40/35/c 41/35/sh

Hardaway Jr. 4-15 9-9 18, Dalembert 0-1 2-2 2, Ja.Smith 0-3 0-0 0, Larkin 1-5 0-0 3, Prigioni 3-7 0-0 8, Wear 0-0 0-0 0. Totals 29-78 23-28 90.

Toronto New York

27 18 27 14 9 — 27 19 21 19 4 —

95 90

3-Point Goals—Toronto 9-24 (Patterson 3-4, Ross 3-5, Williams 2-8, Lowry 1-4, J.Johnson 0-1, A.Johnson 0-1, Vasquez 0-1), New York 9-29 (Anthony 4-9, Prigioni 2-5, Larkin 1-2, Calderon 1-5, Hardaway Jr. 1-8). Fouled Out—None. Rebounds—Toronto 50 (Valanciunas 13), New York 50 (Anthony 9). Assists—Toronto 24 (Lowry 11), New York 15 (Calderon 5). Total Fouls—Toronto 25, New York 22. Technicals—Toronto defensive three second. A—19,812 (19,763).

47/34/pc 37/24/pc 39/30/pc 48/39/sh 47/37/pc 40/27/pc 49/43/sh 47/33/sh 47/35/c 40/28/pc 37/25/pc 51/41/pc 48/32/pc 40/30/pc 39/30/pc 40/29/pc 44/31/pc 39/26/pc 35/23/s

43/30/c 37/29/c 38/27/c

51/41/sh 36/26/c 46/38/sh 39/29/r 50/36/r 47/39/sh

52/41/c 39/25/c 49/35/c 40/29/c 49/36/c 48/37/c

City

Today Hi/Lo/W Albany 36/25/pc Albuquerque 48/30/s Amarillo 52/25/s Anchorage 36/29/c Atlanta 63/49/pc Atlantic City 49/36/pc Austin 71/42/s Baltimore 49/35/pc Baton Rouge 74/48/sh Billings 29/18/sn Birmingham 65/50/r Boise 44/31/pc Boston 41/33/pc Buffalo 42/35/c Burlington, VT 34/21/pc Charleston, SC 66/40/s Charleston, WV 54/40/pc Charlotte 66/37/pc Cheyenne 33/17/sn Chicago 50/42/r Cincinnati 51/45/r Cleveland 50/41/c Columbus, OH 51/43/c Dallas 63/37/s Denver 42/17/pc Des Moines 56/27/r Detroit 51/41/c El Paso 59/36/pc Evansville 53/43/r Fairbanks 18/12/pc Fargo 29/14/sn Fort Myers 74/50/s Fresno 58/47/r Grand Rapids 50/42/r Greensboro 60/36/pc Hartford 42/29/pc Honolulu 81/70/s Houston 76/47/sh Indianapolis 47/44/r

Tomorrow Hi/Lo/W 39/34/sh 53/32/c 52/32/s 34/25/c 62/40/pc 52/44/sh 62/45/s 47/38/sh 65/37/s 30/19/s 57/35/s 43/30/c 44/41/c 45/38/sh 38/34/c 69/43/c 54/40/sh 60/36/sh 39/19/pc 45/24/sh 50/32/sh 50/35/sh 50/33/sh 54/38/s 38/19/pc 32/20/pc 51/30/sh 65/42/c 46/29/pc 17/5/pc 19/8/pc 75/55/s 57/46/r 45/28/sh 56/38/sh 42/38/c 82/70/pc 64/45/s 45/27/c

3-Point Goals—San Antonio 5-16 (Joseph 1-1, Bonner 1-2, Belinelli 1-2, Ginobili 1-3, D.Green 1-4, Leonard 0-2, Diaw 0-2), Denver 8-16 (Afflalo 4-6, Chandler 2-2, Arthur 2-2, Lawson 0-1, Harris 0-1, Robinson 0-4). Fouled Out—None. Rebounds—San Antonio 52 (Duncan 9), Denver 52 (Mozgov 13). Assists—San Antonio 26 (Ginobili 6), Denver 20 (Lawson 10).

Total Fouls—San Antonio 20, Denver 29. Technicals—San Antonio Coach Popovich. A—16,544 (19,155).

College men’s scores UW 81, E. Washington 77 E. WASHINGTON (8-2) Miljkovic 4-10 3-4 14, Harvey 6-17 4-5 21, Kelly 1-4 0-0 3, Brandon 6-13 4-4 16, Jois 4-14 4-6 13, Washington 0-2 2-2 2, Jorg 0-1 0-0 0, Reid 0-0 0-0 0, Bliznyuk 3-3 0-0 6, Von Hofe 1-4 0-0 2. Totals 25-68 17-21 77.

WASHINGTON (8-0) Williams-Goss 7-18 3-4 19, Anderson 5-9 2-2 12, Andrews 2-6 12-13 18, Jarreau 1-3 0-0 2, Kemp Jr. 1-3 1-2 3, Johnson 2-4 1-2 6, Winters 0-1 0-0 0, Upshaw 8-10 5-14 21, Dorsey 0-2 0-0 0. Totals 26-56 24-37 81.

Halftime—E. Washington 42-31. 3-Point Goals—E. Washington 10-30 (Harvey 5-12, Miljkovic 3-6, Jois 1-3, Kelly 1-4, Brandon 0-2, Von Hofe 0-3), Washington 5-16 (Andrews 2-4, Williams-Goss 2-5, Johnson 1-1, Jarreau 0-1, Upshaw 0-1, Dorsey 0-1, Anderson 0-3).

Fouled Out—None. Rebounds—E. Washington 35 (Brandon 9), Washington 42 (Upshaw 9).

Assists—E. Washington 8 (Brandon 3), Washington 12 (Anderson 4). Total Fouls—E. Washington 25, Washington 17. Technical—E. Washington Bench. A—6,184.

FAR WEST Boise St. 79, S. Utah 60 Portland 80, Sacramento St. 75 Wyoming 70, Montana St. 61 SOUTHWEST Kent St. 60, UALR 55, OT Texas Tech 79, Prairie View 51 MIDWEST Illinois St. 78, DePaul 72 Iowa St. 88, Southern U. 78 Kansas St. 73, Savannah St. 53 Michigan St. 87, Oakland 61 Milwaukee 73, Montana 58 Northwestern 101, MVSU 49 SOUTH Clemson 72, Auburn 61 Florida 79, Jacksonville 34 Louisville 68, UNC Wilmington 57 Tennessee 67, Butler 55 UAB 79, UNC Asheville 71 Virginia Tech 65, Alabama A&M 55 Wake Forest 86, Samford 68 Wofford 55, NC State 54 EAST Boston College 63, Binghamton 49 Boston U. 71, Quinnipiac 68 LIU Brooklyn 65, NJIT 49 New Hampshire 63, Colgate 57 Penn St. 64, George Washington 51 Rutgers 63, Manhattan 55 Seton Hall 67, St. Peter’s 52 St. John’s 74, Fordham 53 Syracuse 71, Louisiana Tech 69 UConn 106, Coppin St. 85

Redding 46/43

Roseburg Salem Montana Butte Great Falls Missoula Alaska Anchorage

51/41/r 48/37/sh

51/39/c 51/35/pc

29/8/s 30/19/s 32/14/s

31/15/pc 30/24/s 29/19/pc

36/29/c

34/25/c

Today Hi/Lo/W Jackson, MS 71/44/r Kansas City 52/27/r Knoxville 55/43/pc Las Vegas 54/37/c Little Rock 69/41/r Los Angeles 65/55/c Louisville 53/48/r Lubbock 57/28/s Memphis 64/44/r Miami 76/59/s Milwaukee 48/40/r Minneapolis 47/21/r Mobile 71/58/sh Montgomery 71/55/pc Newark 45/34/pc New Orleans 75/55/sh New York City 45/37/pc Norfolk 47/38/pc Oakland 55/49/r Oklahoma City 53/30/s Omaha 51/23/r Orlando 71/45/s Palm Springs 65/45/c Philadelphia 47/36/pc Phoenix 65/47/c Pittsburgh 48/37/c Portland, ME 39/27/pc Portland, OR 47/39/sh Providence 43/31/pc

Tomorrow Hi/Lo/W 59/34/s 35/21/s 53/36/pc 55/40/c 52/31/s 64/54/r 49/34/pc 55/35/s 52/34/s 77/59/s 43/23/sh 24/16/c 67/37/pc 66/35/pc 47/40/sh 67/43/s 47/41/sh 56/42/sh 58/48/r 48/30/s 30/18/s 73/56/s 61/49/sh 49/40/r 67/50/c 50/39/sh 40/37/c 48/37/c 45/39/c

City

Barrow -11/-14/sn Fairbanks 18/12/pc Juneau 42/35/r British Columbia Chilliwack 45/36/s Kelowna 37/21/s Vancouver 45/36/pc Victoria 46/38/sh City

Today Hi/Lo/W Raleigh 60/36/s Rapid City 30/10/sn Reno 41/31/c Richmond 53/37/pc Sacramento 51/48/r St. Louis 57/41/r St. Petersburg 69/52/s Salt Lake City 44/30/pc San Antonio 76/46/s San Diego 65/55/c San Francisco 57/51/r San Jose 55/47/r Stockton 51/47/r Syracuse 37/28/c Tallahassee 70/42/s Tampa 70/50/s Tempe 66/44/c Topeka 52/28/r Tucson 66/42/pc Tulsa 53/33/pc Washington, DC 53/41/pc Wichita 45/27/c Winston-Salem 60/35/pc Yuma 69/48/pc

-7/-10/c 17/5/pc 41/34/sh 44/35/c 36/24/c 45/38/pc 47/39/sh Tomorrow Hi/Lo/W 56/40/c 28/11/s 45/27/sh 55/41/c 57/48/r 42/27/pc 72/60/s 47/33/c 64/49/s 65/56/r 59/51/r 58/47/r 57/48/r 40/34/sh 76/39/c 72/59/s 67/49/c 38/22/s 67/44/pc 45/28/s 51/43/sh 41/25/s 56/38/sh 68/49/pc

Weather(W): s-sunny, pc-partly cloudy, c-cloudy, sh-showers, t-thunderstorms, r-rain, sf-snow flurries, sn-snow, i-ice.

Shown are noon positions of weather systems and precipitation. Temperature bands are highs for the day.

Vermont 61, Wagner 47 Villanova 85, Temple 62 West Virginia 69, Marshall 66

College women’s scores Washington 84, Grambling St. 53

San Francisco 67, Seattle 56

99 91

Port Angeles 47/35

(for the 48 contiguous states) High: Kingsville, TX ......................... 83 Low: Bodie State Park, CA ............... -4

San Antonio Denver

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47/34

National Extremes

SAN ANTONIO (99) Leonard 6-14 6-6 18, Duncan 5-14 5-6 15, Splitter 5-7 1-4 11, Joseph 6-7 0-0 13, D.Green 2-7 0-0 5, Ginobili 4-9 6-7 15, Belinelli 2-6 5-8 10, Diaw 0-2 3-4 3, Baynes 3-4 0-0 6, Bonner 1-3 0-0 3, Anderson 0-0 0-0 0, Daye 0-1 0-0 0. Totals 34-74 26-35 99.

DENVER (91) Chandler 6-10 0-0 14, Hickson 1-2 2-2 4, Mozgov 4-12 3-4 11, Lawson 2-10 2-4 6, Afflalo 12-20 3-3 31, Harris 0-2 0-0 0, Arthur 3-7 0-0 8, Gee 2-6 1-2 5, Nurkic 3-7 4-5 10, Robinson 1-7 0-1 2. Totals 34-83 15-21 91.

20 25 26 28 22 12 27 30

Kelowna 37/21

Bellingham

Calgary 33/23 Everett 47/34 47/36/c Medicine Hat Seattle 28/12 37/28/c 51/41 Spokane Libby Tacoma 38/29/sn 35/21 37/25 48/32 48/38/c Yakima Coeur d’Alene 40/29 47/38/sh Portland 39/26 47/39 Great Falls Walla Walla 38/28/c Newport Lewiston Missoula 30/19 40/30 49/44/c 51/44 40/30 32/14 Salem 48/34/c 48/37 Helena Pendleton 47/36/sh 32/10 39/30 40/28/c Eugene Bend 46/38 Butte 36/28/c 36/26 29/8 Ontario 50/39/pc 38/30 Medford 48/32/c Boise 50/36 40/29/c 44/31 Klamath Falls 38/29/sn Eureka 39/29 Idaho Falls Twin Falls 40/30/sn 54/45 35/20 42/27

GRAMBLING ST. (3-6) Watson 7-15 1-5 15, Neal 5-10 0-0 11, McClendon 1-3 0-2 2, Jones 0-2 0-0 0, Andrews 2-7 0-0 6, Poole 0-7 0-0 0, Ely 2-7 1-2 5, Martin 2-7 0-0 4, Gilliam 3-10 2-7 10, Johnson 0-3 0-0 0.

Totals 22-68 4-12 53.

WASHINGTON (8-1) Walton 7-13 0-0 14, Williams 6-10 1-3 13, Plum 10-21 4-4 26, Ruiz 6-7 0-0 15, Davis 2-6 1-2 6, Oshashor 2-5 0-0 4, Gilling 0-1 0-0 0, Collier 0-1 0-0 0, Lark 1-3 0-0 3, Kingma 1-3 0-0 3, Wieburg 0-1 0-0 0. Totals 35-71 6-9 84.

Halftime—Washington 38-28. 3-Point Goals—Grambling St. (Watson 0-3, Neal 1-1, Andrews 2-6, Poole 0-4, Martin 0-1, Gilliam 2-7), Washington 8-26 (Walton 0-3, Plum 2-8, Ruiz 3-4, Davis 1-3, Oshashor 0-1, Lark 1-3, Kingma 1-3, Wieburg 0-1). Fouled Out—None.

Rebounds—Grambling St. 38 (Martin 8), Washington 47 (Oshashor 11). Assists—Grambling St. 7 (Watson 3), Washington 17 (Davis 7).

Total Fouls—Grambling St. 12, Washington 9.

A—1379.

Spurs 99, Nuggets 91

Vancouver

45/36

Today Tomorrow Hi/Lo/W Hi/Lo/W

National Weather

Tacoma 48/32

Tides

City

SAN FRANCISCO (7-2) Spietz 2-5 4-5 8, Proctor 8-18 5-8 22, Dikes 3-12 4-4 10, Winston 1-6 4-4 6, Howard 3-7 0-0 7, Gordon 2-4 0-0 6, Rakova 0-1 0-0 0, Price 0-2 0-0 0, Scafidi 3-4 0-0 6, Carothers 1-1 0-0 2. Totals 23-60 17-21 67.

SEATTLE (2-7) Afunugo 3-6 3-3 9, Ross 5-9 0-2 10, Best 2-9 2-4 7, Metoyer 0-0 0-0 0, Montgomery 6-17 0-0 14, Johnson 0-0 1-2 1, Allen 3-8 2-2 9, Clark 0-3 0-0 0, Dillard-Brown 2-3 0-0 4, Stoffel 1-3 0-0 2.

Totals 22-58- 8-13 56.

Halftime—San Francisco 46-35. 3-Point Goals—San Francisco 4-10 (Proctor 1-5, Winston 0-1, Howard 1-2, Gordon 2-2), Seattle 4-15 (Best 1-3, Montgomery 2-7, Allen 1-4, Clark 0-1).

Fouled Out—None. Rebounds—San Francisco 40 (Dikes 10), Seattle 36 (Ross 6). Assists—San Francisco 14 (Proctor 5), Seattle 14 (Montgomery 5). Total Fouls—San Francisco 14, Seattle 17.

A—175.

FAR WEST Arizona 49, UAB 44 Boise St. 90, E. Washington 72 Colorado St. 59, FAU 46 Fresno St. 57, Cal St.-Fullerton 52 Montana 69, Portland 55 New Mexico 72, UTEP 57 San Diego 87, UC Irvine 64 Stanford 82, Santa Clara 43 Southern Cal 101, Sacramento St. 99 Utah St. 65, N. Colorado 61 SOUTHWEST Arkansas 64, Tulsa 53 Baylor 96, Stephen F. Austin 57 Texas 74, Northwestern St. 34 Texas Tech 50, Texas-Pan American 42 UALR 66, Oklahoma 62 MIDWEST Creighton 93, Drake 71 Idaho 78, SE Missouri 62 Indiana 82, Milwaukee 56 Iowa St. 82, Ark.-Pine Bluff 56 Kansas 62, Arkansas St. 48 Kansas St. 53, Oral Roberts 47 Michigan St. 90, Loyola of Chicago 38 Missouri 47, N. Illinois 44 Ohio St. 83, W. Michigan 46 Xavier 72, Cincinnati 71 SOUTH Auburn 64, Samford 41 Florida 59, Stetson 54 Georgia Tech 88, Cent. Arkansas 50 Kentucky 71, Belmont 55 LSU 75, SE Louisiana 42 Mercer 46, Alabama 39 Mississippi 88, South Alabama 48 Mississippi St. 73, Southern Miss. 46 North Carolina 84, Appalachian St. 52 Richmond 79, Wake Forest 72 South Carolina 111, Savannah St. 49 Vanderbilt 66, Elon 50 Virginia Tech 79, W. Carolina 58 EAST Boston College 64, New Hampshire 58 Florida St. 66, Temple 62 Penn St. 85, Rider 51 Pittsburgh 72, Drexel 53 St. John’s 66, NJIT 42 Syracuse 70, NC Central 25 Tennessee 55, Rutgers 45 Villanova 70, La Salle 36

GOLF

Australian PGA Sunday At RACV Royal Pines Resort Gold Coast, Australia Purse: $823,400 Yardage: 7,336; Par: 72 Final Chalmers won on seventh playoff hole Greg Chalmers, Australia 71-71-71-64—277 Wade Ormsby, Australia 68-67-71-71—277 Adam Scott, Australia 68-69-69-71—277 M. Hendry, New Zealand 70-71-67-71—279 Scott Stallings, United States 72-70-68-70—280 Boo Weekley, United States 66-72-69-74—281 Matthew Giles, Australia 73-69-70-70—282 Scott Strange, Australia 69-66-71-76—282 John Senden, Australia 73-68-73-69—283 Cameron Smith, Australia 74-68-71-70—283

HOCKEY WESTERN CONFERENCE Pacific Division GP W L OT Pts GF GA Anaheim 32 21 6 5 47 95 83 Vancouver 30 18 10 2 38 89 86 San Jose 32 17 11 4 38 90 82 Los Angeles 31 15 10 6 36 82 73 Calgary 32 17 13 2 36 95 85 Arizona 30 10 16 4 24 70 99 Edmonton 31 7 19 5 19 65 104 Central Division GP W L OT Pts GF GA Chicago 31 21 9 1 43 95 61 St. Louis 30 20 8 2 42 89 70 Nashville 29 19 8 2 40 78 57 Winnipeg 31 15 10 6 36 73 74 Minnesota 28 16 11 1 33 81 70 Dallas 29 11 13 5 27 85 103 Colorado 30 10 13 7 27 78 98 EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division GP W L OT Pts GF GA Tampa Bay 31 19 9 3 41 105 82 Detroit 31 17 7 7 41 92 79 Montreal 31 19 10 2 40 83 79 Toronto 30 18 9 3 39 103 85 Florida 28 12 8 8 32 64 74 Boston 30 15 13 2 32 76 78 Ottawa 29 12 12 5 29 76 81 Buffalo 30 12 16 2 26 56 91 Metropolitan Division GP W L OT Pts GF GA Pittsburgh 29 19 6 4 42 94 69 N.Y. Islanders 30 20 10 0 40 96 87 Washington 29 14 10 5 33 85 79 N.Y. Rangers 28 14 10 4 32 84 77 Philadelphia 29 11 13 5 27 79 87 New Jersey 31 11 15 5 27 72 91 Columbus 29 12 15 2 26 71 95 Carolina 29 8 18 3 19 61 83 NOTE: Two points for a win, one point for overtime loss.

Sunday’s games Toronto 4, Los Angeles 3, SO Chicago 2, Calgary 1 N.Y. Rangers 2, Edmonton 0 Today’s games Ottawa at Buffalo, 4 p.m.

New Jersey at N.Y. Islanders, 4 p.m.

Tampa Bay at Pittsburgh, 4 p.m.

Maple Leafs 4, Kings 3 (SO) 0 2

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Toronto won shootout 1-0 First Period—1, Toronto, Santorelli 6 (Winnik, Holzer), 14:00. 2, Toronto, Franson 5 (Kadri, Santorelli), 19:30.

Second Period—3, Los Angeles, Williams 8 (Clifford, Martinez), 16:02. 4, Los Angeles, King 3 (Regehr, Martinez), 19:46.

Third Period—5, Los Angeles, Gaborik 5 (Williams, Stoll), 1:02. 6, Toronto, van Riemsdyk 13 (Franson, Kessel), 8:49 (pp).

Overtime—None.

Shootout—Los Angeles 0 (Gaborik NG, D.Brown NG, Kopitar NG), Toronto 1 (Lupul G, Bozak NG, Santorelli NG).

Shots on Goal—Los Angeles 11-11-11-3— 36. Toronto 8-6-16-1—31.

Goalies—Los Angeles, Quick. Toronto, Reimer. A—19,219 (18,819). T—2:43.

Blackhawks 2, Flames 1 Calgary Chicago

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Rangers 2, Oilers 0 N.Y. Rangers Edmonton

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First Period—1, N.Y. Rangers, Girardi 2 (Nash, Zuccarello), 16:04.

Second Period—None.

Third Period—2, N.Y. Rangers, Hagelin 6 (D.Moore), 19:38 (en).

Shots on Goal—N.Y. Rangers 7-8-7—22.

Edmonton 5-5-6—16.

Goalies—N.Y. Rangers, Lundqvist. Edmonton, Scrivens. A—16,839 (16,839). T—2:16.

Western Hockey League

NHL

Los Angeles Toronto

Shots on Goal—Calgary 9-10-5—24. Chicago 7-11-10—28.

Goalies—Calgary, Hiller. Chicago, Raanta.

A—21,572 (19,717). T—2:17.

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First Period—None.

Second Period—1, Calgary, Hudler 12 (Gaudreau, Brodie), 4:27. 2, Chicago, Sharp 4 (Toews, Kane), 8:43 (pp).

Third Period—3, Chicago, Saad 7 (Toews, Hjalmarsson), 12:57.

WESTERN CONFERENCE U.S. DIVISION GP W L OTL SOL GF GA Pt Everett 31 19 8 3 1 104 86 42 Portland 36 19 14 0 3 122 124 41 Spokane 31 16 12 3 0 83 87 35 Tri-City 33 17 15 0 1 93 89 35 Seattle 32 13 15 2 2 81 88 30 B.C. DIVISION GP W L OTL SOL GF GA Pt Kelowna 34 26 5 3 0 147 82 55 Victoria 35 17 16 2 0 111 119 36 Prince George 33 17 16 0 0 103 131 34 Kamloops 36 13 18 3 2 109 131 31 Vancouver 33 15 18 0 0 103 109 30 EASTERN CONFERENCE EAST DIVISION GP W L OTL SOL GF GA Pt Brandon 34 24 7 2 1 155 110 51 Regina 31 19 11 1 0 114 88 39 Swift Current 34 16 14 0 4 105 110 36 Moose Jaw 33 15 15 2 1 100 113 33 Prince Albert 34 15 18 1 0 100 113 31 Saskatoon 34 7 24 2 1 89 156 17 CENTRAL DIVISION GP W L OTL SOL GF GA Pt Medicine Hat 33 23 8 1 1 126 83 48 Calgary 33 19 11 1 2 133 98 41 Red Deer 34 18 12 3 1 121 111 40 Edmonton 33 15 13 3 2 102 97 35 Kootenay 34 17 17 0 0 104 127 34 Lethbridge 31 6 20 3 2 72 125 17 Note: Division leaders ranked in top three positions per conference regardless of points; a team winning in overtime or shootout is credited with two points and a victory in the W column; the team losing in overtime or shootout receives one point which is registered in the OTL or SOL columns Sunday’s games Brandon 4, Red Deer 0 Calgary 4, Kelowna 1 Kamloops 4, Lethbridge 2 Portland 4, Tri-City 3

DEALS FOOTBALL National Football League BALTIMORE RAVENS — Placed OT Jah Reid on injured reserve. Signed RB Fitzgerald Toussaint from the practice squad.

CAROLINA PANTHERS — Released LB Horace Miller. Signed LB Kevin Reddick from the practice squad.

DALLAS COWBOYS — Signed DE Kenneth Boatright from the practice squad.

KANSAS CITY CHIEFS — Released OT Curtis Feigt from the practice squad. Signed G Jarrod Pughsley to the practice squad.

MIAMI DOLPHINS — Placed DT Anthony Johnson on injured reserve. Signed DB T.J. Heath from the practice squad.

SAN FRANCISCO 49ERS — Placed NT Glenn Dorsey and LB NaVorro Bowman on injured reserve. Signed DB Marcus Cromartie and G Andrew Tiller from the practice squad.

HOCKEY National Hockey League CHICAGO BLACKHAWKS — Traded F Jeremy Morin to Columbus for D Tim Erixon. Reassigned D Klas Dahlbeck to Rockford (AHL).

COLLEGE DUKE — Announced men’s basketball F Semi Ojeleye is leaving the program.

TENNESSEE — Announced TE Daniel Helm, DE Dewayne Hendrix and RB Derrell Scott will transfer.

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