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N. Korea threatens nuclear strike on Guam CHRISTINE KIM and JAMES OLIPHANT REUTERS
By ROWENA COETSEE
SEOUL/BEDMINSTER, N.J. — North Korea said on Wednesday it is considering plans for a missile strike on the U.S. Pacific territory of Guam, just hours after President Donald Trump told the North that any threat to the United States would be met with “fire and fury.” The ratcheting up in tensions rattled global financial markets and prompted warnings from U.S. officials and analysts not to engage in rhetorical slanging matches with North Korea. Pyongyang said it is “carefully examining” a plan to strike Guam, an island of around 162,000 in the western Pacific and the site of a U.S. military base that hosts a submarine squadron, an airbase and a Coast Guard group.
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BAY AREA — Mlise Avedian readily admits she didn’t do her homework before adopting a husky puppy. The Monterey County resident had fallen in love with the breed after seeing the 2002 Disney movie “Snow Dogs” but never expected that her fluff ball would be chewing on brass door knobs until he dented them trying to get in the house, and creating holes in drywall the size of his head. “Sometimes you say, ‘Why’d you do it’?” Ms. Avedian said with a rueful chuckle, although she still owns Striker, now 13. Now there is another reason that the founder of Brandy Sled Dog Rescue and other rescue organizations are experiencing an uptick in calls from husky and malamute owners who want to surrender their challenging pets: “Game of Thrones,” the popular HBO fantasy series featuring direwolves, fearsome canines played by large Siberian husky-mixes. Those calls, coupled with shelters that are running out of space, are making it more difficult for the Pacific Grove nonprofit to accept them all. A few years after the show debuted in 2011, international news media outlets began reporting a link between audiences’ fascination with the program’s feral-looking animals and the growing numbers of northern-breed dogs that were being abandoned. With the show now in its seventh season and more popular than ever, Bay Area animal welfare organizations also are taking in more huskies and similar breeds than they used to. San Jose Animal Care Center saw 285 huskies alone come through its doors in 2016-17, which is 50 percent more than those it kenneled two years earlier, according to Director of Animal Care and Services Jon Cicirelli. During the first four months of this year, Northern California Sled Dog Rescue — or NorSled — pulled as many dogs from Contra Costa County Animal Services’ two shelters as it typically takes in during an entire year. The year after “Game of Thrones” came out, the number of huskies, Malamutes and mixes that East Bay SPCA received jumped from 13 to 29, although officials there believe the increase is more likely because the nonprofit took in additional dogs overall. And whereas the Bay Area Siberian Husky Club found homes for 53 dogs in 2016, it already has adopted out 39 this year and has five more in foster homes awaiting permanent placement, said Randee McQueen, the group’s treasurer and rescue coordinator. Please see HUSKIES on A8
“They will be met with fire and fury like the world has never seen.” President Donald Trump
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The city’s new smoking ordinance bans smoking in open places such as farmers markets.
Smoke-free Santa Barbara City Council adopts new tobacco regulations
By MITCHELL WHITE NEWS-PRESS STAFF WRITER
Santa Barbara is taking a step closer to becoming a smoke-free city. The Santa Barbara City Council unanimously adopted regulations Tuesday banning smoking in open spaces most hours of the day, including beaches, sidewalks, recreational areas and farmers markets, in an update to the city’s 15-year-old smoking laws. The new ordinance is effective immediately, although city officials plan a slow rollout. Smoking — including tobacco, marijuana and electronic smoking devices — will be prohibited in the following places: public spaces, including sidewalks, plazas and paseos; city-owned parking structures and parking lots; public transportation bus stops and ticket areas; public parks and gardens; beaches; Stearns Wharf; the Harbor; recreational areas and facilities including sports pavilions, gyms, skate parks, trails, zoos; galleries, libraries, theaters and museums, pool halls and dance
halls; farmers market, art shows and concerts, retail stores and malls; restaurants; enclosed common areas in apartment buildings, condos, retirement facilities, nursing homes, child day care facilities; waiting rooms, entrances and exits of health facilities; restrooms; elevators; and city facilities and all vehicles owned, leased or operated by the city. In addition, any owner, operator or person who controls establishments under the ban may declare the entire establishment to be non-smoking, according to the ordinance. Areas where smoking will continue to be permitted include: private residences, except when they are used as a child care, health care or community foster care facility as defined by the state Health and Safety Code; retail tobacco stores; designated hotel and motel rooms, provided guest rooms are designated as non-smoking; outdoor patio areas and outdoor dining areas of restaurants after 10 p.m.; outdoor patio areas and outdoor dining areas of bars; and the teeing areas, fairways, rough,
playing greens, hazard areas and golf cart pathways of any city operated golf course. Smoking is not allowed in all other areas of the golf courses, including but not limited to the driving ranges, practice and teaching areas, practice greens, clubhouses, restaurant patios, pro shops and parking lots. The new restrictions amend city municipal code section 9.20. The city plans to launch an educational outreach effort that emphasizes voluntary compliance. Signs indicating areas where smoking is prohibited will be placed where appropriate and will be funded by the Santa Barbara County Public Health Department, according to a staff report. Citations will be issued to violators. Further, the Adult Use of Marijuana Act, which makes recreational pot legal in California, prohibits marijuana use while driving, in locations where smoking tobacco isn’t allowed, and in any public places other than a business that’s licensed for on-site consumption.
Earlier this year, the Santa Barbara Ordinance Committee — Councilwoman Cathy Murillo and Councilmen Frank Hotchkiss and Randy Rowse — came up with a list of recommendations for the council to consider. Rather than suggesting the city implement a blanket smoking ban, the committee returned to the council with maps of the city to determine how to parcel it out. An update to the city’s smoking law is meant to limit the public’s exposure to secondhand smoke, reduce the risk of fires, and reduce litter, according to a staff report. Last year, the city received a “D” grade from the American Lung Association, which grades cities each year on leadership in adopting policies to protect and improve community health. Goleta and Buellton have exempted bars from their smoking ordinances, and Santa Barbara County allows smoking on outdoor bar areas as long as smoke doesn’t drift to adjacent businesses and residences, according to a city staff report.
A Korean People’s Army spokesman, in a statement carried by staterun KCNA news agency, said the plan would be put into practice at any moment once leader Kim Jong Un makes a decision. In another statement citing a different military spokesman, North Korea also accused the United States of devising a “preventive war” and said any plans to execute this would be met with an “all-out war wiping out all the strongholds of enemies, including the U.S. mainland.” Washington has warned it is ready to use force if need be to stop North Korea’s ballistic missile and nuclear programs but that it prefers global diplomatic action, including sanctions. Speaking to reporters in New Jersey on Tuesday, Mr. Trump issued his strongest warning yet for North Korea. “North Korea best not make any more threats to the United States. They will be met with fire and fury like the world has never seen,” Mr. Trump said. The U.N. Security Council unanimously imposed new sanctions on North Korea on Saturday over its continued missile tests, that could slash the reclusive country’s $3 billion annual export revenue by a third. North Korea has made no secret of plans to develop a nuclear-tipped missile able to strike the United States and has ignored international calls to halt its nuclear and missile programs. It says its intercontinental ballistic missiles are a legitimate means of defense against perceived U.S.
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Country crossover singer Glen Campbell dies at 81 By BRIAN MANSFIELD VARIETY.COM
LOS ANGELES — “I’m not a country singer,” Glen Campbell often said. “I’m a country boy who sings.” Mr. Campbell, who died at 81 on Tuesday after a long battle with Alzheimer’s disease, became one of pop music’s biggest crossover stars with ’60s and ’70s singles like “Gentle on My Mind,” “By the Time I Get to Phoenix,” “Wichita Lineman,” “Galveston,” “Southern Nights” and “Rhinestone Cowboy.” Whether performing songs penned by ’60s chart titan Jimmy Webb or indie-rocker Paul Westerberg, Mr. Campbell played and sang with an
effortless plaintiveness that made him a model for younger generations of artists like Keith Urban, Vince Gill and Brad Paisley, who, like him, felt comfortable moving between the genres of country and pop music. He had a boyish handsomeness that made his transition from the recording studio into world of television and film seem like a foregone conclusion. The records he made with Mr. Webb as writer and Al DeLory as producer practically defined country-pop crossover during the late ’60s, and “Rhinestone Cowboy” and “Southern Nights” did the same in the ’70s. Mr. Campbell’s recording spanned six decades, leading to his induction
into the Country Music Hall of Fame in 2005. As he battled publicly with Alzheimer’s during the final decade of his life, Mr. Campbell and producer Julian Raymond used his art to tell the story of his struggles with the disease. Those efforts — culminating with the 2014 documentary “Glen Campbell: I’ll Be Me” and the album “Adios,” released earlier this year — traced the arc of the disease as it stole first his memory and, only later, his talent, allowing Mr. Campbell a poignant curtain call. Born near Delight, Arkansas — a town with a population of just 290 — in 1936, Mr. Campbell was a fabled
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Glen Campbell sings “Rhinestone Cowboy” during his tribute at the 2012 Grammy Awards.
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seventh son of a seventh son, and one of 12 children. As a child, he made a makeshift instrument by stringing wire across an empty kerosene can, soon graduating to a three-quartersize Sears & Roebuck guitar. By age 7, he was performing with his brothers on local radio shows. As a teenager, Mr. Campbell left Arkansas for Texas and New Mexico, playing in bands and marrying twice before landing in Los Angeles. There, he briefly joined the Champs, who’d had a 1958 chart-topper with the iconic instrumental “Tequila.” As a member of Los Angeles’ legendary Wrecking Crew collective of session
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