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Tuesday, February 4, 2014
The Abilene
Abilene braces
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By TIM [email protected]
Snow was falling early Tuesday morning as road crews in Abilene began clearing roads in what was ex-pected to be a day-long process.
“We’ll throw everything we have at it,” Abilene Public Works Director Lon Schrader said of the snowstorm that shuttered schools throughout the region. “Hopefully it won’t be quite as much as they are calling for.”
The National Weather Service is calling for between 7 to 10 inches of snow to fall in the Abilene area. Snow is forecast to accumulate throughout the day.
City crews are ready, Schrader said Monday night. The city has had some practice recently as several inches of snow fell shortly before Christmas.
The salt and sand supplies have been refilled. A key piece of equip-ment, a spreader/plow truck that had been in the shop for repair, is back ready for action.
“We’ll start putting people out on it and stay on it until it quits,” he said Monday.
Schrader said the crews would be-gin clearing emergency snow routes in the city as soon as the snow starts to accumulate.
Abilene City Manager David Dill-ner declared a snow emergency Mon-day afternoon and vehicles should be removed from the emergency route streets as soon as possible.
City crews will be clearing the emergency routes and some of the secondary routes off and on all day Tuesday, Schrader said.
The Abilene Police Department responded to a few accidents early Tuesday, but traffic was light.
“It has not been overwhelming,” said Abilene Police Lt. Michael Kyle of the traffic incidents. “I think a lot of people are staying off the roads. Traffic is pretty light. We have not seen many.”
He said the police department has not declared a state of emergency.
“We’ll respond to everything,” Kyle said “If our resources would become overwhelmed then we would declare that.”
Buckeye Avenue and Third Street were largely free of snow early Tues-day morning, but other downtown streets were tougher to navigate.
“If it quits by late tomorrow eve-ning we would like to go right from that and shift over here to the down-town, roll everything up and haul off what we can during. Tuesday night,” Schrader said Monday evening. “If we get a fair amount and depend-ing on how long that duration is ... we don’t want to have to roll it up a couple of times downtown.”
Schrader said the city spent the last several weeks while it was dry re-stocking salt and sand.
“Independent salt, where we get our salt from, is pretty good about
Art on display
Area students showcase talents in art showBy TIFFANY RONEY
While most of the art show visi-tors browsed the aisles for draw-ings, paintings, sculptures or crafts by their children or grandchildren, one couple simply wanted to see all they could see, even though they weren’t related to any of the artists.
“Which one is yours?” Ron Rus-sell asked Kennedy Elementary School kindergartener Layla Pick-erign. She pointed out a colorful drawing of a tree with many leaves.
Russell bent over to get a closer
look at her masterpiece and gave her positive feedback while she held it closer for his view.
“It’s so wonderful to see the dif-ferent drawings that young people make, and to see what they can do,” Russell said. “When you see what has been done many, many years ago, it’s so wonderful to see how we’ve gone further and further. ‘What’s going to be next?’ I won-der.”
More than 300 people, comprised of more than 90 families and other individuals, attended the Annual
Scholastic Art Show and reception, which was sponsored by the Dick-inson County Historical Society. Though the reception took place at the Heritage Center Sunday after-noon, the pieces stay up until Feb. 9.
Each year, the reception includes a 15- to 30-minute presentation by a featured artist from Dickinson County. This year’s presenter was clay sculptor Bob Bow of Abilene.
Bow demonstrated his clay work by dipping it in water and explain-ing the science behind pigmentation
while he mixed the clay with cop-per, iron and barium. He also shared where he gets his clay — from a brick factory in Ellsworth County and out of a farmer’s hillside in southern Cloud County.
Since Bow coordinates with Abilene schools to bring 2nd-grade students to his studio each year, he is familiar with explaining his pro-cesses in terms that are easy to un-derstand.
“I like kids — they’re so eager to learn, and they’re so much fun,”
Tiffany Roney • Reflector-ChronicleLayla Pickerign shows Ron Russell a piece of art she created at the Scholastic Art Show Sunday at the Heritage Center. Artwork from Dickinson County students will be on display at the Center through Sunday.
Kansas, Ariz. rekindle voter citizenship lawsuitBy ROXANA HEGEMAN
The Associated Press
WICHITA — Kansas and Arizona have rekindled a law-suit seeking to force the U.S. Election Assistance Com-mission to require residents to show proof-of-citizenship when registering to vote, ar-guing that a recent agency
decision to deny the requests was unlawful.
In a filing late Friday in a case with broad implica-tions for voting rights, the two states asked U.S. District Judge Eric Melgren to order federal officials to include state-specific requirements in federal voter registration forms.
Kansas and Arizona re-quire voters to provide a birth certificate, passport or other proof of U.S. citizen-ship when registering to vote. People who register using the federal form sign only a state-ment under oath that they are U.S. citizens.
The latest legal move was not unexpected. Melgren
had previously scheduled a Feb. 11 hearing in the wake of a decision last month by the election commission that rejected the states’ requests, finding that stricter proof-of-citizenship rules hinder eli-gible citizens from voting in federal elections.
Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach has championed
proof-of-citizenship laws to keep non-citizens from vot-ing, particularly those in the U.S. illegally. But critics say voter fraud is extremely rare and contend such laws sup-press the vote and threaten to keep thousands of citizens from casting ballots.
In its decision, the EAC found that added documen-
tation results in an overall decrease in registration of eli-gible citizens — undermining the core purpose of the Na-tional Voter Registration Act.
The agency said that given the “paucity of evidence” provided by the states regard-ing noncitizens registering to vote, the new voter registra-
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WASHINGTON — Cuts to food stamps, continued subsi-dies to farmers and victories for animal rights advocates. The massive, five-year farm bill heading toward final pas-sage this week has broad im-plications for just about every American, from the foods we eat to what we pay for them.
Support for farmers through the subsidies included in the legislation bill help determine the price of food and what is available. And money for food stamps helps the needi-est Americans who might oth-erwise go hungry.
The legislation could reach President Barack Obama later this week. The House already has passed the bipartisan measure and the Senate was scheduled to pass the bill this week after a test vote Mon-day.
Five things you should know about the farm bill:
Where the money goes:
Most of the bill’s almost $100 billion-a-year price tag goes to the nation’s food stamp program, now known as SNAP, or the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program. One in seven Americans, or about 47 million people, par-ticipates in the program. The legislation cuts food stamps by about $800 million, or 1 percent, by cracking down on states that seek to boost indi-vidual food stamp benefits by giving people small amounts of federal heating assistance that they don’t need. Much of the rest of the money goes to
farm subsidies and programs to protect environmentally sensitive lands.
Subsidies maintained:
Farmers will continue to receive generous federal sub-sidies that help them stay in business in an unpredictable environment, but through re-vamped programs. The bill eliminates a fixed $4.5 bil-lion-a-year subsidy called di-rect payments, which are paid to farmers whether they farm or not. New subsidies would require farmers to incur loss-es before they could collect from the federal government. The bill would also overhaul dairy and cotton subsidies and transition them into simi-lar insurance-style programs. Most farmers would pick be-tween a program that would pay out when revenue dips or another that pays out when prices drop.
The legislation would also spend about $570 million more a year on crop insur-ance, which, on top of subsi-dies, protects farmers in the event of major losses.
Crackdown on food stamp
fraud:The Agriculture Depart-
ment has been aggressively tackling food stamp fraud in recent years and the final farm bill will add to that. It would step up efforts to reduce fraud by retailers who sell food stamps, track SNAP traffick-ing and ensure that people who have died do not receive
benefits. The bill would also prohibit lottery winners and convicted murderers and sex offenders from receiving food stamps.
Hemp laws relaxed:
The bill would allow farm-ers to grow hemp, marijuana’s non-intoxicating cousin, in 10 states as research projects. Those states already allow the growing of hemp, though federal drug law has blocked actual cultivation in most.
Hemp is often used in rope but has also been used to make clothing, mulch, foods, creams, soaps and lotions.
Victory for animal
rights groups:The No. 1 farm bill prior-
ity for animal rights groups was to defeat a House provi-sion that would have blocked an upcoming California law requiring all eggs sold in the state to come from hens that live in larger cages. Animal groups have fought the state law, which will be a major burden for egg producers in other states who use smaller cages and still want to sell eggs to the lucrative Califor-nia market. The animal rights groups won, and the provi-sion didn’t make it into the final bill.
The animal rights groups also won language that will make it a federal crime to at-tend an animal fighting event or bring a child to one.
US troop moral higherTheAssociatedPress
WASHINGTON — U.S. soldiers had higher morale and suffered fewer men-tal health problems in Af-ghanistan last year as they handed off more duties to Afghans and saw less com-bat themselves, according to a report released Mon-day.
The Army report was drawn from a battlefield survey and interviews in June and July. It was the ninth time since the prac-tice started in 2003 in Iraq that the service had sent a team of mental health ex-perts to the field of war to measure soldier mental health and assess available care.
The report says rates of soldiers with depression, anxiety and acute stress — as well as tendencies to-ward suicide — were lower than in the most recent pre-vious surveys.
In a survey of nearly 900 soldiers, 20.2 percent said last year that their morale was high or very high, compared with 14.7 per-cent and 16.3 percent in 2012 and 2010, respective-ly. During those earlier sur-vey years, there were more U.S. troops in Afghanistan — 100,000 at the height of the surge that started in 2010. Now, there are about 34,000 U.S. troops.
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ObituariesOrval L. Fouse
Orval L. Fouse, age 77 of Temple, Texas, passed away Wednesday, Jan. 29, 2014, at a Temple hospital. A memorial service was held at Christ Episcopal Church in Temple on Monday, Feb. 3, 2014, at 1 p.m. with Father Mark Wilburn officiating. Mr. Fouse was cremated.
Orval was born Nov. 11, 1936 in Manchester, the son of Leon F. Fouse and Lulu E. (James) Fouse. On Sept. 2, 1960, he married his wife, Patricia (Brew) Fouse in Port Arthur, Texas. He moved to Temple from San Francisco, Calif. He graduated from Chapman High School in Chapman, in 1954 and later graduated from Kansas State University in 1959 with a Bachelor’s Degree. He worked as a mechanic then en-vironmental engineer for Gulf Oil ,which later became Chev-ron, then retired in 1992 after 33-and-a-half years. He was a member of Christ Episcopal Church in Temple and volun-teered with Churches Touching Lives For Christ (C.T.L.C.) and was an active member of the Tuesday Morning Bible Study at the church.
He is preceded in death by parents and one brother, Warren Fouse.
Survivors include his loving wife, Patricia Fouse; four sons, Rodger A. Fouse, David L. Fouse, Kevin D. Fouse, Jeffrey M. Fouse; one brother, Earl Fouse; two sisters, Edith Scripter and Irene Jensen; and five grandchildren.
In lieu flowers, memorials may be sent to Churches Touch-ing Lives for Christ, P.O. Box 5, Temple, Texas 76503, The American Lung Association, 1301 Pennsylvania Ave. N.W. STE 800, Washington, D.C. 20004, or a charity of your choice.
Willard Murray JohnsonWillard Murray Johnson, 81, of Abilene passed away Satur-
day, Feb. 1, 2014, at Fort Dodge Old Soldiers Home in Dodge City. He was born June 18, 1932, in Stoneham, Mass., the son of Gordon Woodman and Dorothy (Murray) Johnson.
Willard enlisted in the Army at age 17 and spent 20-plus years in the military. After serving overseas for a number of years, he retired from the Army in 1973 at Fort Riley. He Was a member of VFW Post 1432. After retiring from the Army he worked at CE in Abilene, ABB in Enterprise and then part time for the Abilene-Reflector.
Having spent his early years in Maine and Vermont, he met and married Greta May Johnson in Rutland, Vermont on Oct. 1, 1957.
He was preceded in death by his parents, Gordon and Dor-othy; his wife, Greta; brother, Gordon W. Johnson, Jr. of Glens Falls, New York and one sister, Wilma L. Cavacas of Rutland, Vermont.
Willard is survived by his son Willard M. Johnson II of Abilene and a number of nieces and nephews.
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seeking fee increaseTheAssociatedPress
TOPEKA — The Kansas In-surance Department is asking the Legislature for permission to raise fees paid by insurance companies because the state has diverted millions of dol-lars from its regulatory fund for other purposes.
Zachary Anshutz, assistant commissioner of insurance, said the regulatory fund is likely to be down to $200,000 in December if revenues don’t improve.
The fund used to hold $24 million but the state diverted $15 million in June and an-other $5 million in July. An-other $5 million is scheduled to be used in July and Gov. Sam Brownback has proposed diverting $3 million more in March 2015, The Topeka Capital-Journal reported.
Since income tax reductions were enacted in 2012, the state has been diverting funds, called “fee sweeps,” from agencies such as the insurance department, the highway fund and a tobacco litigation settle-ment for programs that usu-ally are paid for by the state general fund.
“The sweep of fee funds from the insurance depart-ment is just one more exam-ple of this governor’s attempt to fill the holes in the Kansas budget created by his reckless and irresponsible income tax cuts,” said Sen. Laura Kelly, D-Topeka.
Previous administrations also have used the fee sweeps
to fill budget holes. Brown-back’s predecessor, Democrat Mark Parkinson, was sued by former House Speaker Mike O’Neal in 2010 over diver-sions his administration used. The lawsuit, which claims some industries were essen-tially double-taxed, remains in litigation after the Kansas Court of Appeals reinstated it last September.
Brownback’s spokeswoman, Sara Belfry, said the insurance department has the necessary cash flow to operate.
“The budget office is work-ing closely with them, and as the actual money comes in over the next few months, we will make adjustments if re-quired,” Belfry said.
The department’s fees on in-surance companies are capped at $25,000. A proposed bill would lift that ceiling and tie the assessment fee to the agency’s budget. It would specify that the total assess-ments could not exceed 125 percent of the total budget for the insurance company regu-lation program.
Insurance companies paid an estimated $440 million in premium taxes into the state treasury over the last three years.
Anshutz also said that be-cause Kansas Insurance Com-missioner Sandy Praeger isn’t running for re-election in No-vember, the legislative change would give more flexibility to the department’s next admin-istration to deal with depleted funds.
Survery suggests growth in Midwest
TheAssociatedPress
OMAHA, Neb. — A new survey of business leaders released Monday signals the economy should continue growing in nine Midwest-ern and Plains states in the months ahead.
The monthly economic index for the region rose to 57.7 last month, compared with 53.2 in December. That puts the index well above a neutral score of 50 and into positive territory.
Looking six months ahead, the business confidence in-dex declined to a still strong 62.2 from 66.5 in December.
“Gains for durable goods manufacturers more than offset losses for nondurable goods producers in the re-gion. The region has now gained back all job loss-es during the recession,” Creighton University econo-mist Ernie Goss said.
The survey covers Arkan-
sas, Iowa, Kansas, Minne-sota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, Oklahoma and South Dakota.
More hiring may be on the way because the employ-ment index improved to 56.4 in January from December’s 48.7. Goss said the region’s labor force is already at its highest level ever.
The survey results are compiled into a collection of indexes ranging from zero to 100. Survey organizers say any score above 50 suggests growth, while a score below that suggests decline.
The survey’s prices-paid index grew to 71.6 in Janu-ary from December’s 63.6. That suggests wholesale in-flation pressure will increase in the months ahead.
The inventory index in-creased to 53.2 in January from December’s 51.3. Goss said that suggests businesses are more optimistic about the economy.
Probe into inmate’s death draws questions
By ROXANA HEGEMANTheAssociatedPress
WICHITA — Goodland Police Chief Clif-ton Couch defended on Monday his depart-ment’s probe the death of an inmate at the Sherman County jail amid community con-cerns over the impartiality of the police de-tective who handled the investigation is mar-ried to the undersheriff.
The Police Department turned over last week to County Attorney Charles Moser the results of its investigation into the Jan. 22 death of Brenda Sewell. The 58-year-old Kansas City, Mo., woman died while in the custody of the Sherman County jail after her arrest for possession of a small amount of marijuana. Relatives contend she was held for days without being given an opportu-nity to make a phone call. They also con-tend jailers refused to give her prescription medication and were slow to help after she collapsed in her cell.
Sherman County Sheriff Burton Pianalto asked the Goodland Police Department to look into the death after the Kansas Bureau of Investigation declined to investigate, Couch said.
Couch acknowledged he has been hearing community concerns and seen blog posts about the potential conflict of interest given that Joni Showalter — the Goodland Police Department’s assistant chief and the detec-tive who investigated the death — is mar-ried to Sherman County Undersheriff Jason Showalter.
“It is not an ideal situation,” Couch said. “I would have preferred the KBI investigate it, but as I said, they did decline to and this is what we were left with.”
Sewell’s brother, Rick Ray, of Kansas City, Mo., said he had been concerned from the beginning that the state was going to sweep his sister’s death under the rug or not put out any findings that would make their Sheriff’s Department look bad.
“There was going to be somebody trying to hide something, and now to find out, you know, that the investigating officer is mar-ried to someone in the Sheriff’s Department,
then that pretty much confirms everything that I was thinking,” Ray said. “It is too easy to cover something up. They have every rea-son to cover each other’s butt, really.”
Upon learning of the conflict, the family’s attorney, William Norton, said: “My God. It speaks for itself.”
The Goodland Police Department took some “extra precautions” when it turned over the results of its investigation to the county attorney for a decision, Couch said. Its re-port did not draw any conclusions or sum-marize any of the evidence, as it normally would, he said. The Police Department also turned over hours of raw video and audio re-cordings for the county attorney to review and make his own conclusion. Couch also noted that the undersheriff who is married to the case detective did not have any personal contact with Sewell.
KBI Special Agent in Charge Mark Malick said the bureau had received a request from the county attorney to investigate Sewell’s death but declined to do so because the in-formation indicated the death was from nat-ural causes and was not a criminal manner, he said.
“In-custody deaths are a priority,” Malick said. “But when it doesn’t meet the criteria by statute, it no longer falls within our pri-orities.”
Moser, the county attorney, did not imme-diately return phone and email messages.
Couch said he understands the public concern but cited his department’s limited resources. After the KBI refused to investi-gate, Goodland police took the case.
“We were kind of left with the only other option after that was for the sheriff’s office to investigate themselves,” Couch said. “So this kind of seemed like this is the lesser of two evils.”
“It is not an ideal situation. I would have preferred the KBI investigate it, but as I said, they did decline to and this is what
we were left with.”Clifton Couch
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DEAR DOCTOR K: My teenage daughter has become a vegetarian. How can I make sure she gets enough protein?
DEAR READER: You have less to worry about than you might think. When it comes to getting protein in your diet, there are many meat-free op-tions.
Our bodies need protein (made of amino acids) for the health of every cell, and particularly to build strong muscles, bones and skin. Some of these amino acids are called “essential.” Our bod-ies cannot make essential amino acids, so we must get them from foods.
Meats have plenty of essen-tial amino acids, but they also contain some unhealthy compo-nents, such as saturated (“bad”) fat. Vegetables, grains and nuts are lower in essential amino acids than meat-based proteins. But combining plant-based proteins will ensure that your daughter gets enough amino ac-ids. If your daughter eats a vari-ety of plant-based foods, she’ll be fine.
There are many ways to get protein from plants. Whole grains are a good source, and they’re complex carbohydrates as well. Try quinoa, barley, bul-gur wheat, amaranth, millet, and brown and wild rice.
Nuts, nut butters and seeds are another protein source, and they are rich in healthy, unsaturated (“good”) fat. There are many to choose from: almonds, cashews, hazelnuts, pecans, pistachios and walnuts; almond butter and cashew butter. Pumpkin seeds, sesame seeds and sunflower seeds are also good options.
But the richest source of plant-based protein is the le-gume family: lentils, split peas,
black-eyed peas. And beans: black, kidney, garbanzo, lima, navy, pinto, white and kidney. The soybean, another legume, is the source of tofu and tempeh, which are rich in protein. (Try to limit your daughter to two to four servings of soy per week.)
I’ve put a table listing the amount of protein in several vegetarian foods on my website, AskDoctorK.com.
As you start out, you’ll need to get creative to adopt a more vegetarian-friendly mindset. Here are some suggestions from Kathy McManus, director of the Department of Nutrition for Harvard-affiliated Brigham and Women’s Hospital:
• Add beans and whole grains to soups.
• Throw beans and nuts in sal-ads, pasta dishes and sauces.
• Substitute tofu for meat in stir-fries.
• Snack on whole-grain crack-ers with bean salsa or hummus.
I had dinner several weeks ago with an old friend who had been a meat eater all his life. In fact, I called him a world-class carnivore. He had been on a meat-free diet for the past three months and told me he never felt better. His energy was better and his blood pressure was lower.
Before you know it, turning to plant-based proteins will become second nature. Your daughter — and perhaps the rest of your family — will thank you for it.
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On January 27, 2014, the City of Abilene, Kansas, adopted Ordinance No. 3247, An Ordinance approving amendments to the neighborhood revitalization program of the City of Abilene. A complete copy of this ordinance is available online at www.abilenecityhall.com or during normal business hours at City Hall, located at 419 N. Broadway Street in Abilene, Kansas. The ordinance is not subject to a protest petition. Questions pertaining to this ordinance may be directed to City Attorney Mark Guilfoyle at (785) 263-3070 or City Manager David Dillner at (785) 263-2550. This summary has been reviewed and certified by Mark Guilfoyle, P.A., City Attorney.MARK GUILFOYLE,City Attorney 1T
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Historical Society board member Theresa Brierton said the selection process turns the students’ privilege of showing their work into an honor they can be excited about. Teachers from across the county selected the best work from students in kindergar-ten through 12th grade.
The show features the artwork of students from Abilene, Chapman and Hope public schools, as well as stu-dents of private schools like Abilene Bible Baptist Academy, St. Andrew’s Parochial School and homeschoolers.
Brierton said the goal of the show is to highlight area children and spotlight something they did well. Additionally, each student featured in the show re-ceives a prize: a ticket for a free ride on the Heritage Center carousel.
“We have a wonderful community where the kids can play sports or do music and get a lot of attention that way, and this is a way to showcase (visual) art, so it’s an opportunity for them to get a little attention from their parents and everybody else,” she said. “It’s a wonderful opportunity to families to come out, because they’re looking at their children’s artwork and paying attention to that creativity in them.”
While the reception was free, ad-mission to the show during this week and weekend is the regular price dur-ing regular museum hours — $4 per adult, $3 per senior 62 and above and $2 for children aged 2 to 14. The show and museum are open from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Monday through Friday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday and 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday.
“I think the art exhibit certainly was great, and I hope a lot of people see that it shows what budding talent young people have,” Bow said. “I’m really glad the historical society puts on this show for young people. It’s re-ally just a treat to see it.”
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50’ against roommateBy JOHN MILBURNTheAssociatedPress
LAWRENCE — An attorney for a 19-year-old woman charged with mur-der for the slaying of a Lawrence busi-nessman who was her roommate said Monday that the case would center on her motive, not on whether or not she committed the crime.
Carl Cornwell’s client, Sarah Brooke Gonzales McLinn, appeared briefly in Douglas County District Court to hear the amended charges against her in the Jan. 14 death of 52-year-old Harold Sasko.
Douglas County District Attorney Charles Branson also filed notice that he would seek to have McLinn sentenced to life without the possibility of parole for at least 50 years, known as the “Hard 50.” McLinn is scheduled to be back in court on March 27. She’s being held on $1 million bond.
Cornwell said after the hearing that there was more to the story that would come out as the court case progressed. He did not elaborate on what the motive might be.
But he did suggest that he hoped to avoid a protracted court trial.
“I’m hoping I can work it out with the prosecutor,” Cornwell said, adding that the “Hard 50” was “like a death penalty. She’s going to die in prison with that kind of a deal.”
Branson said the evidence of the crime was particularly vicious, heinous and
cruel that would qualify for the “Hard 50” sentence, but declined to elaborate. Authorities have said that they believe Sasko was killed with an “edged instru-ment” and may have been subdued be-fore the incident.
“We are open to a dialogue with the defense,” Branson said. “Any good prosecutor is going to explore all options before going to court with a crime.”
Sasko owned pizza restaurants in Law-rence and Topeka. McLinn was an em-ployee, and Sasko’s relatives have said he let her move into his home while she was having personal problems.
McLinn was arrested in Florida at the Everglades National Park, but waived extradition and returned to Kansas over the weekend. Branson has also charged her with theft of Sasko’s vehicle.
Branson confirmed that several items were found in the vehicle, including knives, an ax and a gun, but did not say whether any were used in Sasko’s death.
Cornwell said he met with McLinn over the weekend along with a mental health expert to assess her condition. More evaluation is expected, he said, which could delay court proceedings.
Her attorney said McLinn didn’t have a substance abuse problem. He also said the relationship between the pair was not abusive.
“It’s kind of odd that a 19-year-old is living with a 52-year-old,” he said. “Does she have emotional problems? Yes. Mental problems? Yes, no ques-tion.”
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tion requirements enacted by the states reflect “legislative policy preferences” and are not based on any demon-strated necessity. It also noted that stricter documentation re-quirements in Kansas and Ar-izona have led to significant reductions in organized voter registration programs.
But Kobach contends in the latest court filing that proof-of-citizenship is not any less of a legal requirement sim-ply because the agency does not think it is necessary. He argued the EAC is legally re-quired to include the Kansas and Arizona instructions on the federal voter registration form.
“The EAC’s determination to the contrary was arbitrary, capricious, an abuse of discre-tion, and not in accordance with law, and should therefore be set aside,” the states’ filing said.
Kobach also challenged the authority of EAC’s acting ex-ecutive director, Alice Miller, to issue the decision because at the time the EAC had no commissioners. The commis-sion was waiting for Congress to approve some presidential appointments.
The dispute stems from a U.S. Supreme Court ruling in June that Arizona could not refuse to accept the national voter registration form, even though people who use it aren’t required to provide citi-zenship documents.
Kobach has said that if he cannot get a federal court to order EAC to modify the fed-eral registration form to allow state-specific requirements, he would institute — on his own authority as Kansas sec-retary of state — a dual reg-istration procedure that limits Kansans who register with the federal form to voting only in presidential, U.S. Senate and congressional races.
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working with us,” he said. “We were restocked up until Friday night and we used a little.”Dickinson CountyDickinson County crews
went into snow removal mode at noon on Monday.
“We sent half the crew home at noon and they came back at 8 o’clock last night and they worked through the night,” said County Adminis-trator Brad Homman.
Road and Bridge Supervi-sor Martin Tannahill reported that accumulations varied.
“They had places where there were 7 to 8 inches on the road and other places they had one or two. It just de-pended on where they are at,” Homman said. “All seven of our plows are functional and
we are doing what we can to keep the paved roads open.”
The threat of a snowstorm Tuesday caused Abilene and Chapman school districts to cancel classes Monday evening. Geary County and Manhattan school districts closed, as well. The Eisen-hower Presidential Library and Museum closed on Tues-day, as did the Abilene Public Library.
A meeting of the Dickin-son County Diabetes Support group scheduled for Tuesday afternoon was also cancelled.
Kansas Gov. Sam Brown-back on Monday announced state offices in Shawnee County will be closed on Tuesday due to the storm.
Closing the offices are for non-essential executive branch employees in the ef-fected counties scheduled to work between 6 a.m. Tuesday to 6 a.m., Wednesday.
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Weather swings worry producersTheAssociatedPress
WICHITA — The Na-tional Agricultural Statis-tics Service says declin-ing stock water supplies and extreme weather swings were the big-gest concerns for Kansas livestock producers last month.
In its monthly winter-time update, the agency
reported Monday that cattle and calf losses were 13 percent below normal, 85 percent normal and 2 percent above normal in January.
The report also said most of Kansas received less than half the normal amount of precipitation last month.
About 20 percent of the
winter wheat was rated in poor to very poor condi-tion, with 45 percent rat-ed fair, 33 percent rated good and 2 percent rated excellent.
The report says Kansas farmers in areas with lit-tle to no snow cover last month were concerned with winterkill on their wheat crop.
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LOS ANGELES — We eat there, buy our clothes there and some people suspect teenagers may actually live there. So perhaps it was just a matter of time until funeral homes began moving into the local shopping mall.
Over the past two years, Forest Lawn has been quietly putting movable kiosks in several of the malls that dot Southern California’s sub-urbs.
The move, by one of the fu-neral industry’s best known operators, expands on a mar-keting innovation that ap-pears to have begun at the dawn of the decade when a company called Til We Meet Again began opening casket stores around the country.
“We try to reach our audi-ence where they are at and the mall is a great way to do that,” said Ben Sussman, spokesman for Forest Lawn, whose cemeteries count among their permanent resi-dents such notables as Walt Disney, Elizabeth Taylor and Michael Jackson.
“And it’s also, perhaps, a way to reach people who might be a little leery about coming directly into one of our parks,” Sussman said.
As to why folks would be leery about that, industry offi-cials acknowledge the answer is obvious: Who really wants to enter a funeral home even
one day before they have to?“Funeral planning is some-
thing everybody knows they must do, but at the same time it’s something nobody wants to do,” said Robert Fells, ex-ecutive director of the Inter-national Cemetery, Crema-tion and Funeral Association.
“Nobody gets up on a Satur-day morning and says, ‘Gee, it’s a nice day. I wonder if I can go out and get myself a burial plot,’” Fells said.
But if they’re strolling past a funeral outlet at the mall, where they’re surrounded by happy, lively people and may-be clutching a bag of Mrs. Field’s cookies, the thought is that they’ll feel differently.
“When they’re going to the mall, people are not going out of need,” said Nathan Smith, co-founder and CEO of Til We Meet Again, which has outlets in malls in Arizona, Louisiana, Kansas, Indiana and Texas.
So if they do happen to see a place peddling coffins or urns while they’re pricing T-shirts and hoodies, Smith said, it will look far less intimidating.
Forest Lawn’s effort began modestly, with just one kiosk (one of those movable things that usually sell stuff like cal-endars or ties) in a mall in the Los Angeles suburb of Eagle Rock.
When no one was creeped out, the program expanded to about a half-dozen malls.
Now Forest Lawn periodi-cally shuffles them from one mall to another to reach the largest audience.
Unlike the people at other such stations, who can seem like carnival barkers as they walk right up to you and hawk discount calling plans or free yogurt samples, For-est Lawn’s operators are more discreet.
At the entrance to a Macy’s department in the LA suburb of Arcadia last year, opera-tors were quick to smile and hand out brochures when ap-proached. But they kept their distance until people came to them.
It was the same at a mall in Glendale last week, where people stopped to examine cremation urns ranging from one with a subdued design of leaves to another that brightly featured the logo for the Los Angeles Dodgers baseball team.
Also on display was a re-cruiting poster for potential future Forest Lawn employ-
ees, complete with a picture of the great Dodgers pitcher Fernando Valenzuela, who urged them to consider “join-ing a winning team.”
Still, not everyone is thrilled with the idea. “You’re in a shopping mall and you’re walking along and there’s a funeral place?” retired high-school teacher Stan Slome said incredulously. “That sounds too deadly.”
After thinking it over, how-ever, he acknowledged it’s something that could catch on.
At age 86, Slome said, he gets his share of mail from funeral operators inviting him to seminars at local res-taurants, where he can have a meal on them while he hears a pitch on why he should use their services when he exits this mortal coil.
He doesn’t care for that ei-ther, he said, but he figures somebody is attending those seminars.
If the mall effort catches on, said Jessica Koth of the
National Funeral Directors Association, credit the ag-ing Baby Boom generation at least in part. Historically, people have not wanted to talk, or even think, about their demise.
But Baby Boomers, the old-est of whom are pushing 70, are different. Many are be-ginning to press for so-called green funerals that don’t re-quire the use of coffins or burial vaults, Koth said. Oth-ers want custom-made coffins or urns that say something about who they were.
That often means something that represents a favorite car or sports team, said Smith of Til We Meet Again. He pointed out he even got a re-quest once for a coffin built to resemble a portable toilet — from a guy whose company made portable toilets.
With that mindset, could go-ing to the mall and planning the whole deal just steps away from the Merry-Go-Round really be that unusual?
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WASHINGTON — Janet Yellen was sworn in Monday to succeed Ben Bernanke, becoming the first woman to lead the Federal Reserve in its 100-year history.
Yellen, who was confirmed by the Senate last month, was sworn in by Fed Gover-nor Daniel Tarullo, the senior member of the Fed’s seven-member board.
She took the oath in a brief ceremony in front of a fire-place in the Fed’s massive board room. Her husband, Nobel-winning economist George Akerloff, was present as were other Fed board mem-bers and Fed staff.
Yellen, 67, made no re-marks at her swearing in but did smile to acknowledge the applause of the assembled group.
Nominated by President Barack Obama on Oct. 9, her four-year term as chairman will end on Feb. 3, 2018.
Meanwhile, the Brookings
Institution, announced Mon-day that Bernanke was join-ing the Washington think tank as a distinguished fellow in residence.
Bernanke stepped down on Friday after eight years as Fed chairman. He had said he planned to stay in Washington and was looking forward to writing and giving speeches on economic policy.
Yellen, who served as Fed vice chair since 2010, has been a close Bernanke ally. She is expected to continue the Fed’s policy of maintain-ing low interest rates while scaling back on the Fed’s bond buying program. The Fed announced a second $10 billion reduction in the bond buying at last week’s meeting, Bernanke’s last as chairman.
Yellen will get to explain her views in more detail next week when she delivers the Fed’s twice-a-year policy re-port to Congress. She will testify before the House Fi-nancial Services Committee on Feb. 11.
Mandela’swill worth
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JOHANNESBURG — Nelson Mandela’s estate, worth roughly $4.1 mil-lion, will be shared between his family, members of his staff, schools that he attend-ed and the African National Congress, the movement that fought white rule and now governs South Africa, the will’s executors said Monday.
Mandela’s third wife, Graca Machel, is the main beneficiary of the will be-cause their marriage was “in community of property” and she therefore has the right to half his estate, as long as she claims it within 90 days, said executor Dik-gang Moseneke, who is also deputy chief justice of the Constitutional Court. Gra-ca Machel’s first husband, President Samora Machel of Mozambique, died in a plane crash in 1986.
Mandela’s ex-wife, Win-nie Madikizela-Mandela, was not mentioned in the will. The couple divorced in 1996.
Moseneke said he is not aware of any challenges to the provisions of the will. Mandela, a prisoner dur-ing white racist rule who became South Africa’s first black president, died Dec. 5 at age 95.
Moseneke outlined a “provisional inventory” of 46 million South Afri-can rand, or $4.1 million, but cautioned the amount could change as the will is studied more carefully. The document was drawn up in 2004, and was amended in 2005 and 2008. Two other executors are George Bizos, a human rights lawyer and longtime friend of Man-dela, and Themba Sangoni, a chief judge from Eastern Cape province, Mandela’s birthplace.
The will was read in its entirety to members of Mandela’s family Monday.
“It went well,” Moseneke said at a news conference. “There were clarifications sought from time to time.”
Last year, while Mande-la’s health was in decline, his family was involved in a number of high-profile disputes.
Feds want cars to communicateThe Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Raising hopes of preventing many deadly collisions, transportation officials said Monday they plan to propose requiring auto-makers to equip new cars and light trucks with technology that lets ve-hicles communicate with each other.
A radio beacon would continually transmit a vehicle’s position, head-ing, speed and other information. Cars would receive the same information back from other vehicles, and a ve-hicle’s computer would alert the driv-er to an impending collision. Some systems may automatically brake to avoid an accident if manufacturers choose to include that option.
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, which has been working with automakers on the technology for the past decade, estimates vehicle-to-vehicle com-munications could prevent up to 80 percent of accidents that don’t in-volve drunken drivers or mechanical failure.
The technology holds the “game-changing” potential to prevent crashes in the first place, while the government’s focus until now has been on ensuring accidents are sur-vivable, David Friedman, the head of the safety administration, said at a news conference.
Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx said the Obama administration decided to announce its intention to require the technology in new ve-
hicles in order to “send a strong sig-nal to the (automotive industry) that we believe the wave of the future is vehicle-to-vehicle technology.”
However, it will still be a least several years and perhaps longer before manufacturers would have to put the technology in vehicles, of-ficials said. The safety administra-tion plans to issue a report later this month on the results of its research, and then the public and automakers will have 90 days to comment. After that, regulators will begin drafting a proposal to require automakers to equip new vehicles with the technol-ogy. That process could take months to years to complete, but Foxx said it is his intention to issue the proposal before President Barack Obama leaves office.
“It will change driving as we know it over time,” said Scott Belcher, president and CEO of the Intelligent Transportation Society of America. “Over time, we’ll see a reduction in crashes. Automobile makers will re-think how they design and construct cars because they will no longer be constructing cars to survive a crash, but building them to avoid a crash.”
Government officials declined to give an estimate for how much the technology would increase the price of a new car, but the transportation society estimate it would cost about $100 to $200 per vehicle.
Automakers are enthusiastic about vehicle-to-vehicle technology, but
feel there are important technical, security and privacy questions that need to be worked out first, said Gloria Bergquist, a spokeswoman for the Alliance of Automobile Man-ufacturers.
Vehicle-to-vehicle “may well play a larger role in future road safety, but many pieces of a large puzzle still need to fit together,” she said.
The safety benefits can’t be achieved until there is a criti-cal mass of cars and trucks on the road using the technology, and it’s not clear what that level of market penetration is. It takes many years to turn over the nation’s entire ve-hicle fleet, but the technology could start preventing accidents long be-fore that. Research indicates safety benefits can be seen with as few at 7 percent to 10 percent of vehicles in a given area similarly equipped, said Paul Feenstra, a spokesman for the transportation society, an umbrella organization for the research and development of new transportation technologies.
Once automakers start adding the technology to all new cars, it would take 15 years or more for half the cars on the nation’s roads to be equipped, according to the com-munications technology company Qualcomm. There are about 5 mil-lion to 6 million new cars sold each year.
There may be a way to speed things up. About 45 percent of Americans
use smartphones, and that share is growing. The average lifetime of a smartphone is two years. If smart-phones, which already have GPS, came equipped with a radio chip they could be used to retrofit vehicles al-ready on the road so that they can talk to each other. The phone would be put in a cradle to sync with the car’s computers. That would help make it possible to achieve a 50 per-cent market penetration in less than five years, according to Qualcomm.
Using cellphones could also ex-tend the safety benefits of connect-ed-car technology to pedestrians, bi-cyclists and motorcyclists, Belcher said. Drivers would be alerted to a possible collision with a pedestrian carrying a smartphone that continu-ally sends out information to cars in the vicinity, even if it’s too dark to see the person or if the pedestrian darts suddenly into traffic. More than 4,700 pedestrians were killed by vehicles and 76,000 injured in 2012.
But there are significant technical and standardization hurdles to us-ing cellphones to support connected car technology. Cellphone batteries typically last only about three hours if used continually. They would need antennas, there are issues with what radio frequencies would be used and their GPS functions may not be as precise as those in a vehicle manufac-tured with connected car technology, for example.
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3-point recordGuardTravisBaderofOaklandUniversitysettheNCAADivisionImen’sbasketballrecordformost3-pointersmadeinacareeronSunday,breakingthemarkof457setbyDuke’sJ.J.Redick.BaderenteredSunday’sgameagainstMilwaukeetwo3-pointersbehindRedick.Hemissedhisfirst3-pointshotbutmadehisnextfour.HebrokeRedick’srecordwithashotfromtherightcornerwith6:17leftinthefirsthalf.Hefinishedwith21points,makingof6-of-113-pointers,givinghim461forhiscareer.DespiteBader’sachieve-ment,Milwaukeewonthegame86-64.OaklandUniversityislocatedinRochester,Mich.
Syracuse unanimously takes over No. 1 spot
SyracusetookoverthetopspotintheAssociatedPresstop25,andisthefirstunanimousNo.1inthepollsinceDukewasforsixweeksin2010-11.TheOrange(21-0)areNo.1forthefirsttimesincehavingasix-weekrunin2011-12.Theyreceivedall65first-placevotesMonday.No.2Arizona(21-1)switchedplaceswithSyra-cuseaftereightweeksontop.TheWildcatslostatCaliforniaonSaturday.No.3Florida(17-2),No.4WichitaState(21-0)andNo.5SanDiegoState(18-1)stayedintheirspotsinthetopfive.TheShockersaretheonlyotherunbeatenDivisionIteam.Villanova,Cincinnati,Kansas,MichiganStateandMichiganroundedoutthetop10.No.20Virginia,No.22ConnecticutandNo.23Gonzagareturnedtothepoll.TheyreplacedOhioState,WisconsinandMas-sachusetts.TheBuckeyesandBadgerswererankedashighasNo.3earlierthisseason
K-State announces schedule
vs.StephenF.Austin,Aug.30atIowaState,Sept.6vs.Auburn,Sept.18vs.UTEP,Sept.27vs.TexasTech,Oct.4atOklahoma,Oct.18vs.Texas,Oct.25vs.OklahomaState,Nov.1atTCU*,Nov.8atWestVirginia,Nov.20vs.KU*,Nov.29atBaylor,Dec.6
Chapman 2nd at ConcordiaCONCORDIA – The Chap-
man Fighting Irish wrestling team competed in the Con-cordia Team Dual Wrestling Tournament Saturday.
Chapman took second place with a 3-2-team record.
Team scores from the meet:Minneapolis 39, Chapman
36Chapman 48, Concordia 33Smoky Valley 44, Chapman
21
Chapman 48, Riley County 36
Chapman 48, Beloit 33“I felt the team wrestled
well this weekend,” coach Jeff Sheets said. “There were a few matches I thought we let get away, but over all I thought the team was compet-itive. I think we are improv-ing each week and we hope to be at full strength before regional’s roll around.”
Chapman Individual Results:WyattPryor(106)–went3-2,JordonHenderson(113)2-3,BretLemon(120)5-0,ColeSutterfield(126)23-3,RobertSteck(138)3-2,StoneHayden(160)3-2,ZackWitt(170)4-1,Rob-ertWalsh(182)3-2,JacobStoneberger(195)3-2,DustinLister(220)3-2andJasonZook(285)5-0.
Kivett named to 4th pre-season All-American listMANHATTAN – Senior second baseman
Ross Kivett was named to Baseball America’s Preseason All-America Third Team, earning his fourth preseason All-American nod this year. Kivett is the first K-State baseball player to garner four preseason All-American honors in a single season.
The 2013 Big 12 Player of the Year has also been named to the preseason All-American first teams for Collegiate Baseball newspaper, NCBWA and Perfect Game. Kivett was named an All-American by three different organiza-tions following last season, including Baseball America’s third team.
Kivett is the third Wildcat since 2011 to earn preseason All-American accolades from Base-ball America. Nick Martini (2011) and Jared King (2013) were both named to the publica-tion’s third team.
The Baseball America preseason All-Ameri-ca teams are voted on by Major League Base-ball scouting directors.
Kivett and the Wildcats, who are ranked as high as No. 21 in preseason polls, start the 2014 season on Friday, Feb. 14 at Cal Poly to kick off an eight-game road trip. K-State will open the home portion of its schedule on Fri-day, Feb. 28 at 3 pm against Milwaukee.
Shockers ready for toughest week yet
By DAVE SKRETTA APSportsWriter
WICHITA — There aren’t a whole lot of statement games on Wichita State’s schedule this season.
Two of them are coming up in a matter of days.
The unbeaten Shockers are headed to Indiana State on Wednesday night, followed by a trip to Northern Iowa on Saturday. Those two teams are the closest contenders behind the fourth-ranked Shockers in the Missouri Valley race.
Perhaps more important, they’re arguably the two teams with the best chance of dealing Wichita State (23-0, 10-0) a defeat before the start of the conference tournament March 6.
“It’s the week that every-one’s been talking about and pointing at, arguably two of the best teams in our league, back to back, on the road,” Shockers coach Gregg Mar-shall said. “I know they’ll be great atmospheres coming up and we’ll have to play really good basketball.”
They might want to avoid spotting their opponents a big early lead, too.
Wichita State allowed Evansville to race out to a 15-point first-half advantage on Saturday before rallying for an 81-67 victory. When then-No. 1 Arizona lost to California later that night, it left only the Shockers and new No. 1 Syracuse as the na-tion’s undefeated teams.
To put that into perspective, the only other team from the Missouri Valley to win its first 23 games was Larry Bird’s In-diana State team, which went
33-0 before losing to Magic Johnson and Michigan State in the 1979 NCAA champion-ship game.
The last team to enter the NCAA tournament undefeat-ed was UNLV in 1991.
“Nobody in this program feels like we’re at our best our reached our peak,” guard Fred VanVleet said. “Besides, we don’t worry about what the outside world is talking about. We know every game in the Valley is a challenge.”
Poll voters have been large-ly unimpressed by the Shock-ers’ relatively weak schedule, which is why they remained No. 4 this week — behind the Wildcats, who dropped to second, and Florida, which has already lost twice this sea-son.
Wichita State has only one victory against a current Top 25 team, beating No. 13 Saint Louis before the Billikens were ranked. Otherwise, the Shockers have been pounding away on a schedule that offers very few chances to pick up marquee victories.
It’s not entirely the Shock-ers’ fault, of course. Marshall has found it increasingly tough to schedule games against high-profile oppo-nents after their run to last year’s Final Four — many of those teams don’t want to risk losing to a so-called “mid-major” program.
Then there’s the fact that the Missouri Valley has weak-ened considerably this season.
Creighton proved to be the Shockers’ toughest rival, but they moved to the Big East and left few contenders for conference superiority. The
Sycamores (17-5, 8-2) may be the closest thing, but even they were routed by Wichita State 68-48 when they met Jan. 18.
The Shockers beat the Pan-thers 67-53 in their first meet-ing this season.
“It’s something a lot of peo-ple have talked about, and I think we’re excited about it,” forward Ron Baker said of the two-game trip. “We’ll be pre-pared just like we always are. No games are a given on the road. It’s going to be hostile and we’re looking forward to it.”
Even with a weak schedule, Wichita state is still firmly in the top 10 of the RPI, a key factor when the NCAA selec-tion committee begins to seed teams. But their schedule also means that any slip along the way would likely dash the Shockers’ chances of earning a No. 1 seed.
It would help if they con-tinued to dominate their op-ponents.
The Shockers are the only team in the nation to lead their conference in scoring offense and defense. They also lead the league in scoring margin, offensive and defensive re-bounding, turnover margin, rebounding margin, blocked shots and, well, just about ev-ery other statistic.
“We’re trying to win a con-ference championship and get into the NCAA tournament with the best seed we can get, and just remain relevant nationally,” Marshall said. “We’re pleased to go to 23-0 and looking forward to this week. I know it’ll be a big challenge.”
Nice guy Carroll finsihes
first — againBy JIM LITKE
APSportsColumnist
EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. — He was supposed to be too nice, too laid-back, too much of a rah-rah guy for the NFL.
That was always the knock on Pete Carroll. When people called him a “player’s coach,” what they really meant was that soon-er or later, his own players were going to pull the rug out from under him.,
You heard it when Carroll got to Seattle four seasons ago — fresh off building a USC program that captured two national titles, but at times resembled a frater-nity — and went 7-9 for the first two of those. The same way you did when Carroll was run out of New York exactly 20 years earlier, like some wide-eyed tourist who’d just had his pocket picked.
He proved he could domi-nate the college game, and his hair turned gray in the interrim. Yet you heard it again during the buildup to this Super Bowl, when Car-roll refused to crack down on star defender Richard Sherman for talking too much, or running back Marshawn Lynch for talk-ing too little, or essentially passing off the rash of drug busts — seven Seattle play-ers have been suspended by the league for substance-abuse or performance-en-hancers since 2011 — as youthful mistakes.
“What,” Carroll said late Sunday night through a widening smile, “are you supposed to say to that?”
Exactly what the Se-ahawks said with their play just moments earlier, mak-ing a statement in the Su-per Bowl by destroying the Denver Broncos and quar-terback Peyton Manning 43-8.
“I think he does a great job of just making every day seem like it’s a champi-onship game,” said corner-back Byron Maxwell.
“I don’t want to say it feels like a regular game,” he added, “but it feels like a regular game in a sense. He does a great job of that.”
There were dozens of stats that spoke volumes about how enthusiastically Car-roll’s players warmed to the tasks. But few leapt off the page as vividly as the large stain covering the back of Carroll’s shirt, where most of the bucket of Gatorade his players poured over his head as the clock wound down finally settled in.
“If it were fake,” receiver Doug Baldwin said about Carroll’s approach,” it wouldn’t work. ... “You’ll run through a wall for that guy.”
It takes only a minute or
two around Carroll to see why he inspires that kind of fierce loyalty. He rambles sometimes, but he always listens. On the podium after the win, he didn’t gloat and more than once, he leaned away from the microphone and off to one side to make sure he heard the questions being thrown at him from every side.
“It played out the way we wanted it to play,” he said. “All phases contributed. It was not really a ques-tion in their minds that we wouldn’t perform like this.”
Carroll rarely tears into his guys, and while that nice-guy persona worked wonders in college, it near-ly got him laughed out of the pros.
Coaches are hired to be fired, or so the saying goes. But the Jets team he inherit-ed in 1994 — after working as an assistant from coast to coast — practically guaran-teed it by flat-out quitting on him in his only season there.
They took his constant calls for shared responsibil-ity as an invitation to take the rest of the season off. One moment the Jets were 6-5 and the next time Car-roll looked up, they were 6-10. Even so, he never saw it coming.
When the Jets’ late own-er, Leon Hess, finally got around to firing Carroll, this is what he reported back, “Pete was shocked. He’s a great, high-principled man. He didn’t expect it.”
Carroll was so princi-pled, in fact, that he didn’t change his approach; not when he got another NFL go-round with the Patriots, nor when he wound up back in the college ranks and on the West Coast, at laid-back Southern California. He still gave his assistants a wide berth, still played his hunches when it came to both trick plays and un-tested players — the kind of experiments that got him mocked in the hidebound NFL — and still insisted on spreading around the responsibilities, and espe-cially the credit.
Carroll gambled a career that he could it right in the NFL, provided he had the right people. It involved gathering up an armful of kids and another armful of free agents, but ultimately, it brought out the best in just about everybody that crossed his path.
“We didn’t ask them to do things that we don’t always do,” Carroll said finally, “and they trusted in that.”
Jim LitkeisanationalsportscolumnistforTheAs-sociatedPress.Writetohimatjlitke@ap.organdfollowhimatTwitter.com/JimLitke.
Seahawks plan for Super Bowl defenseNEW YORK (AP) — Less
than 12 hours after winning the Super Bowl, Seattle Se-ahawks coach Pete Carroll already was talking about get-ting started on next season.
“The first meeting that we’ll have will be tomorrow. ... Our guys would be surprised if we didn’t,” Carroll said Monday morning. “We really have an eye on what’s coming, and we don’t dwell on what just happened. We’ll take this in stride.”
He appeared at a news con-ference at a Manhattan hotel with linebacker Malcolm Smith, the MVP of Seattle’s 43-8 victory over Peyton Manning and the Denver
Broncos on Sunday night.Carroll oversees a team
with the fourth-youngest ros-ter for a Super Bowl cham-pion, with an average age of 26 years, 175 days, accord-ing to STATS. The youngest champs ever were the Pitts-burgh Steelers who won the 1975 Super Bowl, and they collected a second consecu-tive title the next year.
Seattle quarterback Rus-sell Wilson just wrapped up his second season in the league, as did Jermaine Ke-arse, the receiver who caught one of the QB’s two touch-down passes Sunday night. Doug Baldwin, who caught the other, is only three years
into his pro career, as are star cornerback Richard Sherman and Smith, who at 24 is the fourth-youngest player to be the Super Bowl MVP.
“We’ve seen the effort that it takes to get to this point, and, obviously, we’ll try to replicate that and do it again,” Smith said. “We’re looking forward to the next challeng-es and guys having a target on their back and people trying to come after us.”
Smith became the third line-backer to earn Super Bowl MVP honors, thanks to a 69-yard touchdown return off an interception of regular-season MVP Manning in the first half and a fumble recovery in the
second half.He said that during the
game, some of his teammates were telling him, “You might be the MVP.”
“And I was like, ‘No way. No way. Not me.’“
Carroll said general man-ager John Schneider has po-sitioned the Seahawks to be able to avoid the problems that can make it hard to repeat as NFL champions. Since Denver repeated in the 1999 game, only one team has won two Super Bowls in a row, the New England Patriots in 2004-05.
There’s the need to replace players who leave via free agency. The need to pay other
players with new, better-pay-ing contracts.
“John Schneider has done an extraordinary job of struc-turing this roster contractu-ally, and with the vision of looking ahead, so that we can keep our guys together,” Car-roll said. “One of the things that happens every so often is teams have a big fallout af-ter they win the Super Bowl. We’re not in that situation.”
Carroll was reminded dur-ing Sunday’s game of some of his blowout victories in college football bowl games when he was a championship-winning coach at Southern California.