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Thursday, January 10, 2019 Kenai Peninsula, Alaska

Vol. 49, Issue 86

‘We need to be ready’

In the news Man in apartment wounded by shot fired from parking lot ANCHORAGE — A shot fired in the parking lot of an Anchorage fast-food restaurant wounded a man in an apartment across the street.

Anchorage police department spokesman MJ Thim says police have not determined whether the man was targeted or hit by a stray bullet.

The man was wounded early Wednesday by a shot fired outside a McDonald’s restaurant on Northern Lights Boulevard in west Anchorage.

Police took a call shortly before 1 a.m. of shots fired.

Investigators found the injured man with a wound to his upper body in a second-floor apartment. He was taken to a hospital with what police say are nonlife-threatening injuries.

Police are looking for witnesses who can identify the shooting suspect.

Fairbanks teen charged in fatal stabbing of older brother FAIRBANKS — An 18-year-old Fairbanks man has been charged with manslaughter in the fatal stabbing of his older brother.

Dustin Charley is charged in the death early Monday of 29-year-old Jonathan Titus.

Charley called 911 after the stabbing and told police he had armed himself with a small knife because he was afraid of how Titus was acting.

Police say Titus spent Sunday night drinking and twice woke the younger man to have him make Titus a drink.

They also engaged in what police described as a pushing match, and later, a fight.

Police say after the second physical encounter, Titus returned to Charley’s sleeping area and the younger man stabbed his brother.

Charley is represented by the Alaska Public Defender’s office, which did not immediately respond Wednesday to a request for comment.

LNG project committee focuses on potential community impacts

By VICTORIA PETERSEN Peninsula Clarion

Chairman for the Alaska LNG Advisory Committee, Tim Johnson, presented an update at Tuesday’s Kenai Peninsula Borough Assembly meeting, saying the group is focusing on potential impacts the proposed project would have on borough communities.

The role of the Alaska LNG Advisory Committee is to monitor the activities and developments related to the Alaska Liquefied Natural Gas project slated for Nikiski. In his presentation, Johnson emphasized the importance of planning and being prepared for when the project comes to fruition.

“Even though there’s not

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feedback from borough communities about potential impacts the LNG project could have across the peninsula. Through their bimonthly meetings, the committee is hoping to elicit more comments from the public regarding the project. Johnson said the committee has heard a lot of public testimony, especially when it comes to concerns about rerouting the Kenai Spur Highway. Currently, the highway passes through the approximately 900-acre footprint of the planned LNG plant, which will liquefy and export gas sent from an 800-mile pipeline from The industrial area of Nikiski is pictured in this undated photo. the North Slope.

(Photo/File/AJOC) Johnson said the project is very important to Alaska and the a project now, we need to be son said at Tuesday’s meeting. borough. working toward having a plan in The borough mayor’s office “We want to get input from place if it’s sanctioned,” John- is currently working on getting See LNG, page A3

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Erik Scholl, who owns cafes at the Hurff Ackerman Saunders Federal Building and the State Office Building in Juneau, talks Wednesday about having about half the patrons at the Federal Building location since the partial federal shutdown started on Saturday, Dec. 22, 2018. (Michael Penn/Juneau Empire)

car this month. That plan is certainly on hold. There are no date nights for the time being and no impulse purchases.

He said it’s been surreal to be without work for the first time

since he was 13. He’s worked through multiple government shutdowns, but none this long.

Wednesday was the 19th day of the shutdown.

“I think we kind of figured

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it might be a paycheck or two just because of the state of the administration and everyone digging their heels in,” McCabe said.

By ALEX MCCARTHY Juneau Empire

On day 19 of the federal government shutdown, Joe McCabe stood in the lobby of the Hurff Ackerman Saunders Federal Building and gazed up toward where his office was.

“My plants are up there dying, I think,” McCabe joked.

“Who knew it would be this long?”

The plants in his office — where he’s not legally allowed to go as he’s furloughed — are the least of his and many of his colleagues’ concerns. McCabe, 55, is a paralegal specialist for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s General Counsel’s Office.

Federal employees across the country are either on furlough or working without pay as a result of an impasse in Washington, D.C. President Donald Trump and Congress have been unable to reach an agreement about the national budget. At the center of negotiations is funding for a wall on the U.S.-Mexico border.

McCabe’s hoping to retire in a couple years, and hopes this shutdown doesn’t drag on as he’s still saving. He and his wife were hoping to buy a new

Borough looks to join online sales tax efforts An ordinance introduced at the Kenai Peninsula Borough Assembly meeting would appropriate $10,000 to help set up a work group, which would establish a system for Alaska municipalities to impose a sales tax on online purchases. Once set up, the borough could gain an estimated annual $1.5 million in additional sales tax revenue, according to the ordinance.

The Alaska Municipal League, a nonprofit organization of 165 cities, boroughs, and unified municipalities, is spearheading the effort to collect sales tax from remote sellers, who are vendors not within the borough or state.

At Tuesday’s assembly meeting, borough Mayor Charlie Pierce said he met with city officials from around the borough on Dec. 20, to discuss collecting sales tax through online sales. Pierce said borough attorneys will be involved with the process as it evolves.

“It is coming — it’s the change of the times,” Pierce said at the meeting.

The Alaska Municipal League is requesting contributions from Alaska cities and boroughs to support efforts in establishing an initial working group that will hire a contractor who will implement a statewide, independent online sales tax administration system for sales by remote sellers. The borough plans to make $10,000 available for the Alaska Municipal League.

Federal workers in limbo as shutdown continues

ACLU prepares lawsuits against Dunleavy admin Juneau Empire

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The American Civil Liberties Union of Alaska is preparing to file a lawsuit against Gov. Mike Dunleavy’s administration, it announced Wednesday.

The ACLU is alleging that the administration violated

the constitutional rights of state employees by firing them. Details of the lawsuits will be released at a 10 a.m.

Thursday press conference, according to a press release from the ACLU of Alaska.

The press conference will take place at the ACLU office in Anchorage.

Casey Reynolds, a spokes-

person for the ACLU of Alaska, declined to comment about the lawsuits Wednesday and said more information would be available at the press conference.

It’s not publicly known how many employees have been terminated since Dunleavy took office. A records request from the Empire to

Bill would require rape kit testing within 6 months

By BRIAN MAZUREK Peninsula Clarion

On Monday, Alaska House Rep. Geran Tarr (D-Anchorage) pre-filed public safety legislation that would require the timely testing of sexual assault/ rape kits in Alaska.

HB 20 aims to prevent a backlog of untested kits by requiring testing within six months, according to press release sent Tuesday by Tarr’s office.

“In many cases, rape kits are evidence of heinous crimes.

Justice for victims demands that

Rep. Geran Tarr, D-Anchorage, and Rep. Andy Josephson, DAnchorage, listen during a hearing at the Capitol in January 2017. (Michael Penn/Juneau Empire file photo)

we find ways to remove bureau- sexual assault kit goes untested cratic hurdles and test these kits is another day that a predator is See TEST, page A2 in a timely manner. Every day a

the governor’s office asking for the number of employees terminated have not yet been returned.

After his election in November, Dunleavy requested hundreds of state employees submit resignations and indicate if they wanted to work for the upcoming administration. The Associated Press re-

ported about 800 employees, including commissioners, scientists, prosecutors and others, received the request.

This isn’t an uncommon request for an incoming governor, but Dunleavy’s team told the Associated Press at the time that this request had a bit wider scope than normal.

Anchorage Museum exhibit remains closed ANCHORAGE (AP) — An exhibition featuring Alaska Native artifacts at the Anchorage Museum will remain closed until earthquake-cracked display cases are repaired.

The Anchorage Daily News reports the exhibit displaying hundreds of items on loan from the Smithsonian Institution is expected to reopen in mid-March.

Museum deputy director Kirsten Anderson says the

magnitude 7.0 earthquake caused “minor damage” in the form of small cracks on specialized glass cases.

The Nov. 30 quake did not damage any of the artifacts.

The quake did cause minor damage in the museum’s older part of the building, but normal operations mostly resumed within days.

The main exhibit of the Smithsonian Arctic Studies Center opened in 2010 and closes in 2022.

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3 dead after commercial crabbing vessel capsizes

By GILLIAN FLACCUS Associated Press

PORTLAND, Ore. — A commercial crabbing boat capsized in rough waters off the Oregon coast, killing the three men aboard and sending a shock wave through a seafaring community already struggling from a monthlong delay to the annual crabbing season.

The U.S. Coast Guard said the vessel, the Mary B. II, overturned about 10 p.m. Tuesday as it crossed Yaquina Bay bar in Newport, Oregon. The bar is one of the most notorious off the Oregon coast, and authorities said crews faced 12- to 14foot waves as they tried to rescue the fishermen.

The men had called for an escort across the bar and a responding Coast Guard boat was nearby when the crabbing boat capsized “without warning,” the Coast Guard said Wednesday evening in a news release.

The Coast Guard is investigating the incident.

James Lacey, 48, of South Toms River, New Jersey, was pulled from the ocean by helicopter and flown to a local hospital, where he was pronounced dead. The body of Joshua Porter, 50, of Toledo, Oregon, washed up on a beach early Wednesday.

The body of the boat’s skipper, Stephen Biernacki, 50, of Barnegat Township, New Jersey, was found on the hull of the boat after it, too, washed up

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on the streets endangering us all.

A six-month deadline should be more than enough time to send these kits to the lab, get the results, and start the process of justice for victims,” Tarr said.

The introduction of HB 20 comes on the heels of the successful passage of legislation last year sponsored by Tarr, requiring the Department of Public Safety to provide information to the Alaska Legislature annually detailing the num-

In this photo, provided by the U.S. Coast Guard, a U.S. Coast Guard boat crew responds to three fishermen in the water on Tuesday, after the commercial fishing vessel Mary B II capsized while crossing Yaquina Bay Bar off the coast of Newport, Ore. (U.S. Coast Guard via AP)

on a jetty.

The tragedy was nothing new for Newport, a working fishing port about 130 miles southwest of Portland on Oregon’s central coast. The small town hosts a granite memorial at Yaquina Bay etched with more than 100 names of local fishermen lost at sea over the past century and shared tragedies are woven into the fabric of the community.

“It happens frequently enough that we actually have

funds that help families during this time. We fundraise all year long, and we try to help them as much as we can,” said Taunette Dixon, president of the nonprofit Newport Fishermen’s Wives, which supports families who have lost a breadwinner to the waves.

But those in the industry said the loss hit particularly hard this year, when crabbers were rushing to sea to try to catch up after the annual Oregon Dungeness crab

season was delayed more than a month. The season usually begins Dec. 1, but this year it only began last week because the crabs were too small and didn’t have enough meat to harvest.

Then, a series of bad storms in the first week of the season prevented many crabbers from recovering their pots on Jan. 4, the first day they could do so, said Tim Novotny, spokesman for Oregon Dungeness Crab Commission.

ber of untested rape kits in Alaska.

According to the first report, the untested rape kit backlog stands at 2,586. Nationwide, that number could be more than 100,000 based on estimates by End the Backlog, a program run by the nonprofit Joyful Heart Foundation. HB 20 in its current form only applies to future rape kits collected and does not address the current backlog.

Rape kits are a routine part of medical examinations for victims who have reported cases of sexual assault and are used to test for the DNA of the perpetrator. Without specific laws or written guidance, the

testing of these kits is decided by local officials on a case-bycase basis. According to 2017 statistics from the FBI and the 2018 report from Alaska’s Criminal Justice Commission, the rate of reported rape cases per 100,000 people in Alaska was the highest among individual states at 116.7, with the national average at 41.7.

“Having thousands of untested rape kits is not acceptable when Alaska leads the nation in the rate of rapes and sexual assaults. The DNA evidence in those untested kits can and should be used to identify abus-

ers and provide justice to victims.

Instead, many of the kits are collecting dust in some evidence locker while criminals walk free.

That is simply unacceptable, and I encourage my colleagues in the Alaska Legislature to join me in supporting House Bill 20,” Tarr said in the release.

HB 20 is one of several bills filed for legislation before the beginning of the upcoming legislative session, which begins Jan. 15. All bills pre-filed this way will be introduced first when the session begins and potentially sent to committees before other legislation.

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Around the Peninsula Totem Tracers Genealogical Society The Kenai Totem Tracers Genealogical Society will meet in the Kenai Community Library on Saturday, Jan. 12 from 1-3 p.m. After a short business meeting, a genealogy book swap opportunity is planned. Bring your gently used, unwanted genealogy related books and research material to swap with other attendees. There will also be a variety of books and magazines available to look through and some will be free to take home.

Non-members are welcome to participate and the meeting is open to the public.

Trick Dog Class Kenai Kennel Club will be offering a TRICK DOG CLASS. This is an introductory class so no prior experience is necessary but it would be beneficial if the dogs already know basics like sit, down And work on a flat collar and leash. Next Trick Dog Class starts Tuesday, Jan. 15 at 5:30 p.m. for Novice & Intermediate Levels. Please Pre-Register by emailing aknewberrys@ gmail.com. More information about Trick Dog can be found at http://www.akc.org/about-trick-dog/.

N.E.T.S. (Necessary Education, Technology and Skills)

meeting is open to the public and an agenda will be posted at www.ciaanet.org.

Ladies Take-A-Break Luncheon Ladies Take-A-Break Luncheon will host “How Do You Beat the Wintertime Blues” on Wednesday, Jan. 23 from 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. at the Solid Rock Conference Center at Mile 90.5 of the Sterling Highway. Stonecroft Speaker Jan Mathers will present “A Jungle Island Adventure Results in a Life-changing Experience.” Lunch: $12. Complimentary child care provided.

For more information contact Susan at 335-6789 or 440-1319.

23rd Annual Hospice Wine event and Auction

NETS is a FREE seven-week workshop to help adults gain Ticket sales for the 23rd Annual Hospice Wine event and skills, explore careers, and find a job! The workshop every MonTie One On: Fly tying Auction will begin Jan. 7. Price is $150 each for this over-21 day and Wednesday from 2–3:30 p.m. from Jan. 23 to March 6 Learn to Tie Flies at Tie One On: Kenai Peninsula Chapter of in the Learning Center at Kenai Peninsula College. The course, event. Event date is Feb. 9 at the Soldotna Catholic Church.

Trout Unlimited’s popular fly tying night. Family friendly. All taught by Terri Cowart, will focus on community service, learn- Hospice Office number is 262-0453 to purchase tickets. skill levels welcome. Vices and fly tying equipment supplied. ing about resources, and career/college awareness. Everybody 6:30 PM, Tuesday, Jan. 29 at Odie’s Deli in Soldotna. is invited to attend (ages 18+) For more information, call 262- Musher hosts needed 0327.

T200 Looking for volunteers and host families for mushers!

Community craft show Race Weekend is Jan. 26-27. We have scheduled two volunteer The Kenai Peninsula Homeschool Activities Committee will Free In-Person Tax Preparation Available meetings: Soldotna — Jan. 17 at the River Center on Funny Rivhost a Community Craft and Vendor Show on Feb. 2 from 11 Free income tax return preparation is available again this year er Road, 6 p.m. Homer — Jan. 19 at Captain Coffee, 3 p.m. Sign a.m. to 5 p.m. at the Soldotna Sports Center. For vendor infor- at the Soldotna Library from Feb. 9 to April 13. This AARP up to volunteer or host a musher online at tustumena200.com. mation visit www.facebook.com/kphomeschoolactivities or call Foundation-sponsored program is open to low-and moderate907-513-9469. income taxpayers of all ages, with special attention to those age Free Diabetes Screenings 60 and older. AARP membership is not required. Call 907-420Medical Center is offering free Diabetes Screenings Family History and Resource Center opening 4308 to schedule an appointment. For more information, email in Homer the month of January for patients without a current diabetaxprepsoldotna@gmail.com.

The Newly Remodeled Soldotna Stake Temple & Family Histes diagnosis. The screening includes a Point of Care diabetes tory and Resource Center will be opening to the public Jan. 8. screening blood test (HbA1C), a 30-minute visit with Peggy Located inside the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints Woodturner’s meeting Ellen Kleinleder, RN, Certified Diabetes Nurse Educator, a reat 159 W. Marydale Ave. in Soldotna. Come and explore our The Kenai Peninsula Woodturner’s hold their monthly meet- view of test results, diabetes education on healthy eating for beautiful facility on Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday mornings ing at 1 p.m. this Saturday, Jan. 12. Location is the log building, pre-diabetes, diabetes and diabetes prevention, a blood pressure 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. and Tuesday, Wednesday evenings 6 p.m. to 8 Mile 100 on the Sterling Highway, just a few miles south of check and free take-home materials. Daytime and evening app.m. and Thursday evenings 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. Go to the Soldotna Soldotna where Echo Lake Road meets the highway. There will pointments available. Call Homer Medical Center 235-8586 and Stake Temple & Family History and Resource Center Facebook be a woodturning demonstration. Non-members are welcome. ask for the New Year’s Free Diabetes Screening. It is free, and page or call our Center during open hours at 907-262-3581 for Questions? Call 801-543-9122. no insurance is necessary. January 2019: 9, 16, 23, 30. February more information.

2019: 7, 13, 20, 27. March 2019: 6.

Caregiver Support Meeting Training Caregiver Support Meeting Training: Part 1 of DVD presentation with Teepa Snow, MS, OTR/L, FAOTA: Progression of Dementia Seeing Gems-Not Just Loss will take place Tuesday, Jan. 15 at 1 p.m. at the Kenai Senior Center. Training covers which level of dementia your care partner experiences to customize your caregiving techniques. Teepa Snow explains the appropriate levels of care needed during different stages, which types of behaviors to expect, appropriate activity, and much more.

Nikiski Community Council meeting

Wolfpack hosts flag rugby The Kenai River Wolfpack Rugby Club hosts indoor flag rugby Tuesday nights starting Jan. 22 at 7:15 p.m. at the Soldotna Prep Gym. Flag rugby is a fun, fast-paced, non-contact game and a great cardio workout. Participants in the 10-week session will learn the fundamentals of the sport from USA Rugby certified coaches. The summer season runs from May to August with Kenai hosting a tourney in July. New interested players are always welcome. Get introduced to the fastest growing sport.

Open to Co-ed ages 16 and up. No experience necessary. For more info, contact Dan at 360-220-7497 or like us on Facebook.

The Nikiski Community Council will be meeting Monday AGDC Board of Directors meet evening, Jan. 14 at 7 p.m. at the Lake Marie Nikiski Senior CenThe Alaska Gasline Development Corporation (AGDC) ter on Holt-Lamplight Road. All residents of the Nikiski com- Board of Directors will meet on Jan. 10 in Anchorage at the munity are invited to attend.”

AGDC corporate office, Calais Building One, 3201 C Street.

The meeting will be held in the AGDC Board Room, Suite 604, and convene at 9 a.m. The public is invited to attend in person Yellow Bird dancers to perform in Kenai at the location mentioned above or by teleconference by calling Yellow Bird Productions, an internationally known indige- 855-282-6330 access number 921-325-605. nous dance group, will perform at the Renee C. Henderson Auditorium at Kenai Central High School on Saturday, Jan. 19 at 7 p.m. Tickets are $15 and are available at the Kenaitze Indian Cook Inlet Aquaculture Association Meeting Tribe’s administration building at 150 N. Willow Street in KeCook Inlet Aquaculture Association Board of Directors will nai. The event is a fundraiser for the Tribe’s Yaghanen Program. meet Saturday, Jan. 19 at 10 a.m., in the conference room at For ticket questions or to contact the Tribe, contact Michael Ber- its Kenai office located at 40610 Kalifornsky Beach Road. The nard at 907-335-7290.

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For many people such as McCabe, a few weeks without pay is extremely inconvenient.

For Mary Goode, the shutdown’s effect extends from coast to coast.

Goode — Mary B. Goode to her friends — is a 71-year-old administrative assistant for the NOAA Fisheries Habitat Conservation Division. She’s planning on retiring next year, but her main concern at the moment isn’t for herself. It’s for her son, nearly 4,000 miles away.

Her son, who lives in South Carolina, was in construction until he badly injured his hand on the job and wasn’t able to return. He decided to get his degree, but is struggling to make ends meet. Goode said she’s sending him money for rent, food and gas. Without her paycheck, she won’t have anything to send him. He’s told her that he’ll figure something out, but that hasn’t stopped her from worrying.

Goode, who is currently in Seattle for eye surgery, said via phone Wednesday that she thinks those at the top are un-

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“(The Alaska Municipal League) has asked us all to pay to play, so we are,” Pierce said at the meeting.

The ordinance states that by contributing to the working group, the borough will be a part of the initial group

aware of how many people — federal employees or not — are touched by this shutdown.

“It affects more than one person,” Goode said. “It’s ridiculous, as far as I’m concerned, that the administration has no awareness of how government agencies work and what they actually do.”

Goode said she’s applied for unemployment in case the shutdown lasts much longer, and said she’s heard of others doing that as well. That won’t kick in for a couple weeks, though.

Fortunately, her health insurance covers her surgery this week.

Consequences of the shutdown have trickled down beyond families as well. Cafe Napoli, on the second floor of the Federal Building, has been so empty in recent weeks that owner Erik Scholl is starting to worry for his employees.

The cafe, which opened in October, was just starting to do well when the holidays hit. Business is always a bit irregular over the holidays, Scholl said, as he’s learned from operating cafes in the State Office Building. But this holiday season was particularly rough, he said, with employees in the Federal Building being furloughed or working

without pay.

Scholl said the cafe had about 75 percent fewer customers than normal at first, and now their business is only at about 50 percent as the shutdown drags on. There are four employees at Cafe Napoli, he said, and he’s having to cut some of their shifts.

“We’re at this point where, do I lay people off and then have to rehire them in a couple weeks or a month or however long it takes, or do I keep them on and cut everybody’s shifts,” Scholl said Wednesday.

Across the street from the Federal Building, Coppa (a coffee, food and ice cream shop) has seen a slight dip in its business, owner Marc Wheeler said.

In support of those on furlough or working without pay, the coffee shop is giving out free drip coffees to any federal employees who come in, he said.

U.S. Coast Guard Lt. Brian Dykens said Wednesday that not much has changed for local Coast Guard employees since late December when the shutdown began. Fifty-three civilian employees (of 59 total civilian employees) in Juneau were furloughed, he said in December, and he said Wednesday that the number remains the same.

have direct input on the structure and process.

A recent decision by the United States Supreme Court known as the Wayfair Case now allows municipalities that fulfill certain requirements to tax remote vendors through online sales.

The ordinance will have a public hearing at the Jan. 22 borough assembly meeting.

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service areas, Native corporations and city entities so we can have a full list of what the potential impacts of this project are, how we can start to prioritize them and work together to have a plan,” Johnson said. “If something does advance and develop we can work quickly.”

While the borough collects information about impacts from communities, the committee is working on its own list of impacts the project may have on the peninsula, which they hope to prioritize and plan for this year.

“There is no funded project, but as everyone realizes the size and the magnitude of the project is such

Employees in uniform got a paycheck on Dec. 31, Dykens said, but it’s still unclear if they’ll get their usual paycheck on Jan. 15. The Coast Guard’s essential services (search and rescue or environmental response, for example) are still funded. CWO3 Chad Saylor from the national Coast Guard Media Relations Office said via email in December that the Coast Guard has certain funds that allow them to carry out operations in the interest of national security or live-saving efforts.

Alaska U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski spoke on a national stage Wednesday about how the shutdown is affecting the state.

The Associated Press quoted her expressing similar sentiments to Goode, saying “it’s not just those who don’t receive a federal paycheck perhaps on a Friday but there are other consequences.” She also put out a statement on her Twitter account.

“I continue to stress that there is no good reason for a shutdown,” Murkowski’s statement read. “The reality is thousands of federal employees and contractors have no paycheck in sight, small businesses that rely on them are suffering and there’s no reason they should be held hostage to a political dispute.”

that if it were to move forward, we need to be ready,” Johnson said.

Johnson said the committee is made up in large part by Nikiski residents but has expanded to represent a larger portion of peninsula communities.

“I think that’s very important because whether you’re in Homer or Seward, there are going to be major impacts,” Johnson said. “It’s throughout the borough, not just Nikiski and the city of Kenai.”

The next Alaska LNG Advisory Committee will be held 6 p.m. on Jan. 15, at the Nikiski Community Recreation Center.

Johnson said key topics at the next meeting will include discussion on payment in lieu of taxes, prioritizing impacts and the project’s environmental impact statement that is scheduled to be completed at the end of February.

Testify at a School Board meeting remotely The KPBSD Board of Education will open two additional locations for public testimony via video during a school board meeting. Homer Middle School and Seward Elementary School sites will be open — if there are advance signups — starting with the Jan. 14 school board meeting. Sign up no later than 3 p.m. the Friday prior to a Board of Education meeting to guarantee the remote site will be open and staffed.

Grief Recovery Method Workshop The Grief Recovery Method Workshop: The Action Program for Moving beyond Death, Divorce and Other Losses 9-week program/Closed group will take place on Wednesday evenings from 6-8 p.m. Jan. 2019: 9, 16, 23, 30. February 2019: 7, 13, 20, 27. March 2019: 6. Takes place at PCHS 230 E. Marydale Soldotna (conference room upstairs). Sponsored by PCHS. Fee: $95.00 (scholarships available). To register or for further information call: Gail Kennedy • Certified Grief Recovery Specialist®• 907-602-9944

SEES candy fundraiser Annual SEES candy fundraiser is going on now at Soldotna Professional Pharmacy while supplies last. All proceeds go to the PCD foundation (Primary Ciliary Dyskinesia).

Today in History Today is Thursday, Jan. 10, the 10th day of 2019. There are 355 days left in the year.

Today’s Highlight in History: On Jan. 10, 1863, the London Underground had its beginnings as the Metropolitan, the world’s first underground passenger railway, opened to the public with service between Paddington and Farringdon Street.

On this date: In 1776, Thomas Paine anonymously published his influential pamphlet, “Common Sense,” which argued for American independence from British rule.

In 1860, the Pemberton Mill in Lawrence, Mass., collapsed and caught fire, killing up to 145 people, mostly female workers from Scotland and Ireland.

In 1861, Florida became the third state to secede from the Union.

In 1870, John D. Rockefeller incorporated Standard Oil. In 1920, the League of Nations was established as the Treaty of Versailles (vehr-SY’) went into effect.

In 1946, the first General Assembly of the United Nations convened in London. The first manmade contact with the moon was made as radar signals transmitted by the U.S. Army Signal Corps were bounced off the lunar surface.

In 1967, President Lyndon B. Johnson, in his State of the Union address, asked Congress to impose a surcharge on both corporate and individual income taxes to help pay for his “Great Society” programs as well as the war in Vietnam. That same day, Massachusetts Republican Edward W. Brooke, the first black person elected to the U.S. Senate by popular vote, took his seat.

In 1984, the United States and the Vatican established full diplomatic relations for the first time in more than a century.

In 1994, President Bill Clinton, attending a NATO summit meeting in Brussels, Belgium, announced completion of an agreement to remove all long-range nuclear missiles from the former Soviet republic of Ukraine.

In 2000, America Online announced it was buying Time Warner for $162 billion (the merger, which proved disastrous, ended in December 2009).

In 2002, Marines began flying hundreds of al-Qaida prisoners in Afghanistan to a U.S. base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

In 2006, Iran resumed nuclear research two years after halting the work to avoid possible U.N. economic sanctions.

Ten years ago: Vice President-elect Joe Biden arrived in Afghanistan, where he pledged long-term American support. Tens of thousands of people demonstrated in cities across Europe and in Lebanon against the Israeli offensive in Gaza. The aircraft carrier USS George H.W. Bush was commissioned with its namesake, the 41st president, and other members of the Bush family on hand for the ceremonies at Naval Station Norfolk.

Five years ago: The Labor Department reported that U.S. employers added just 74,000 jobs in December 2013. Larry Speakes, who’d spent six years as acting press secretary for President Ronald Reagan, died in Cleveland, Mississippi, at age 74.

One year ago: Immigration agents descended on dozens of 7-Eleven stores nationwide before dawn to check on the immigration status of employees in what officials described as the largest operation so far against an employer under Donald Trump’s presidency. The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra said Charles Dutoit had stepped down as artistic director and principal conductor after multiple allegations of sexual assault. After nine terms in the House, California Republican Rep. Darrell Issa announced that he would not seek re-election.

Today’s Birthdays: Opera singer Sherrill Milnes is 84. Rock singer-musician Ronnie Hawkins is 84. Movie director Walter Hill is 79. Actor William Sanderson is 75. Singer Rod Stewart is 74. Rock singer-musician Donald Fagen (Steely Dan) is 71. Boxing Hall of Famer and entrepreneur George Foreman is 70. Roots rock singer Alejandro Escovedo is 68. Rock musician Scott Thurston (Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers) is 67. Singer Pat Benatar is 66. Hall of Fame race car driver and team owner Bobby Rahal is 66. Rock musician Michael Schenker is 64. Singer Shawn Colvin is 63. Rock singermusician Curt Kirkwood (Meat Puppets) is 60. Actor Evan Handler is 58. Rock singer Brad Roberts (Crash Test Dummies) is 55. Actress Trini Alvarado is 52. Rock singer Brent Smith (Shinedown) is 41. Rapper Chris Smith (Kris Kross) is 40. Actress Sarah Shahi is 39. Presidential adviser and son-in-law Jared Kushner is 38. American roots singer Valerie June is 37.

Thought for Today: “You got to look on the bright side, even if there ain’t one.” -- Dashiell Hammett, American author (born 1894, died this date in 1961).

Opinion

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The Trump speech and the response

Despite advance billing that President Trump’s border wall speech would break news and contain new information, it was Serving the Kenai Peninsula since 1970 mostly familiar rhetoric: criminals and drugs, rapists and murderers are coming to Terry R. Ward America and the wall is the only way to Publisher stop them.

ERIN THOMPSON..................................................................... Editor The president named families who have DOUG MUNN....................................................... Circulation Director lost loved ones at the hands of undocuFRANK GOLDTHWAITE.................................... Production Manager mented immigrants. A case could be made, though, that American citizens are killing each other at higher rates during an average weekend in Chicago and other big cities than are killed by immigrants.

Whose facts to believe? There are plenty on both sides of the argument. Raul Ortiz, the deputy chief of Border Patrol agents, says his agents are arresting up to 641 undocumented immigrants every day. Other sources say arrests and border crossings have substantially declined in recent years.

What frustrates average Americans is the flip-flopping by politicians who were for a border wall and holding people who broke our laws accountable before they were against it.

These include Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama and Chuck Schumer, all of whom How fitting is it that President once championed stronger border security. When he was a senator from Illinois Trump’s first Oval Office address, which he requested be televised live in prime time by every major network, in 2006, Obama said: “Those who enter our country illegally and those who emwas aimed at stirring up the American public about a ploy them disrespect the rule of law. And crisis largely of his own making? because we live in an age where terrorists

What Others Say

An emergency of Trump’s making

Not that the border crisis is one of Mr. Trump’s selfserving political fictions — like the deep state or widespread voter fraud. It may have started out that way, but the situation has, with the president’s nurturing, become something far more tragic.

Pursuing poorly thought-out and even more poorly executed policies on the pretext of battling a nonexistent national security crisis, Mr. Trump has helped create a pressing humanitarian one. Desperate migrant families being detained en masse at the border are overwhelming a system pushed beyond its limits by an administration that chose to ignore the implications of its actions — overcrowding, children falling gravely ill and, paradoxically, the haphazard release of throngs of detainees into border communities stretching from California to Texas.

Mr. Trump is now invoking the urgency of the situation as a justification for pursuing more wasteful, hard-line measures that most Americans do not support, chiefly the ludicrous border wall over which he has shut down critical pieces of the government. The president and his enablers have been busily knitting together inaccurate data, misleading anecdotes, exaggerations and other “alternative facts” about the flow of criminals, drugs and terrorists across the southern border.

He seems to hope he can paint a dystopian landscape of security threats and human suffering so dire that the American people will rally to his side and pressure congressional Democrats to succumb to his demands for a towering wall — preferably concrete, but at this point, it seems, steel will suffice.

Failing that, Mr. Trump has also been floating the possibility of stiff-arming Congress altogether. With his advisers increasingly anxious that Republican lawmakers are poised to abandon them on the shutdown, the president has raised the threat of declaring a national emergency, which he thinks would allow him to command the Pentagon to build his wall.

Such a move would prompt a swift and furious legal challenge, if not a full-blown constitutional crisis, that could drag on indefinitely. It would, however, also give Mr. Trump a way to reach a wall-free funding deal with Congress without losing face, thus weaseling out of the shutdown box into which he has nailed himself.

The border wall began life as an applause line at Mr. Trump’s rallies, and it has endured as the rare — perhaps even sole — policy objective that actually matters to him. The substance of true border security may not interest him much, but this symbol sure does.

While Mr. Trump proved a wily campaigner and political street fighter, as president he has been painfully out of his element. Two years in, he remains ill suited to the complicated, thankless, often grinding work of leading the nation. Governance clearly bores him, as do policy details both foreign and domestic. He has proved a poor judge of talent. He prefers grandstanding to negotiating, and he continues to have trouble with the whole concept of checks and balances. While the Republican base remains enamored of him, most of the electorate has grown weary of his outrages and antics.

Which is why, with his wall on the line, Mr. Trump so desperately needs to convince the American people that they are facing an acute crisis — maybe even a bona fide emergency.

In times of trouble, an anxious public looks to its leaders, and the ability to telegraph strength, decisiveness and certitude assumes greater value than in periods of calm and prosperity. Circle-the-wagons patriotism, maybe even a little jingoism, becomes more appealing.

People long to feel protected.

With his demagogy, Mr. Trump managed to fuel a sense of insecurity and unease throughout his campaign, along with the idea that he alone could Make America Great Again. In office, he has attempted to perpetuate that angst by proclaiming existential threats to the Republic, be they migrant caravans storming the border, Muslim terrorists flooding the airports or violent immigrants roaming the countryside. Shutting down the

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are challenging our borders, we simply cannot allow people to pour into the United States undetected, undocumented, and unchecked. Americans are right to demand better border security and better enforcement of our

immigration laws.”

Those remarks are in line with what President Trump is now saying.

The president tweeted a comment Hillary Clinton made as recently as 2015 to underscore his claim of hypocrisy by Democrats: “I voted, when I was a senator, to build a barrier to try to prevent illegal immigrants from coming in.”

The major media and their Democrat allies claim that the decline in the number of people crossing the southern border is proof that a wall or other barrier is not needed. But a case could be made — and the White House made it in a statement — that walls already in place are proof that barriers work.

Since San Diego built its wall in 1992, the statement notes, apprehensions of illegal aliens have declined by 92 percent; El Paso, Texas erected a wall in 1993 and illegal border crossings dropped 72 percent

the first year and 95 percent over 22 years; Tucson built its wall in 2000 and apprehensions dropped 90 percent over 15 years; Yuma’s wall went up in 2005, contributing to a decline in crossings of 95 percent over nine years.

Yes, many went to other places where they could cross more easily, but that’s an argument for expanding the wall or constructing other barriers.

Schumer and Pelosi challenged the president in a sleight-of-hand deal to re-open the part of government that is closed and then continue the debate about a wall. That reminds me of the “deal” offered to President George H.W. Bush by then-Speaker Jim Wright (D-Texas). Wright said Congress would cut spending if Bush would OK a tax increase. Bush was blamed for the tax hike, never got the spending cuts and lost his re-election bid.

In the end it is going to be a battle of images. One image is of people trying to cross the border illegally, throwing rocks, a few engaging in criminal activity; the other image is of 800,000 suffering federal employees going without paychecks. Which side will win is less important than what is best for America. If only more politicians cared about that higher goal.

This year marks Cal Thomas’ 35th year as a syndicated columnist. Readers may email Cal Thomas at tcaeditors@tribpub. com.

News and Politics

Rosenstein will leave Justice Dept WASHINGTON — Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, the most visible Justice Department protector of special counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation and a frequent target of President Donald Trump’s wrath, is expected to leave his position soon after Trump’s nominee for attorney general is confirmed.

The departure creates uncertainty about the oversight of Mueller’s team as it enters what may be its final months of work.

But the attorney general nominee, William Barr, moved quickly Wednesday to quell concerns that his arrival could endanger the probe, telling lawmakers during Capitol Hill visits ahead of his confirmation hearing that he has a high opinion of Mueller.

“He had absolutely no indication he was going to tell Bob Mueller what to do or

how to do it,” said Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham, the incoming chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, which will question Barr next Tuesday.

If confirmed by the Republican-led Senate, Barr could be in place at the Justice Department by February. Rosenstein is expected to leave his position soon after that, though he is not being forced out, said a person familiar with the plans who was not authorized to discuss them on the record and spoke on condition of anonymity to The Associated Press.

The departure is not surprising given that Rosenstein has been deputy for almost two years. It is common for new attorneys general to have their own deputies and Barr has told people close to him that he wanted his own No. 2 as part of taking the attorney general job.

It was unclear who might replace Rosenstein, though Barr has some ideas for a selection, Graham said, without elaborating.

The deputy position requires Senate con-

firmation. It was also not immediately clear whether Rosenstein’s top deputy, Edward O’Callaghan, who has a prominent role overseeing Mueller’s investigation, might remain in his role.

Rosenstein’s departure is noteworthy given his appointment of Mueller and close supervision of his work. He’s also endured a tenuous relationship with Trump, who has repeatedly decried Rosenstein’s decision to appoint Mueller, and with congressional Republicans who accused him of withholding documents from them and not investigating aggressively enough what they contend was political bias within the FBI. In September, Rosenstein went to the White House expecting to be fired after news reports that he had discussed secretly recording Trump and invoking a constitutional amendment to remove Trump as unfit for office. He was ultimately allowed to stay on after private conversations with Trump and John Kelly, then chief of staff.

government is only the most recent effort at getting what he wants by traumatizing the nation he has sworn to serve.

Were Mr. Trump truly interested in securing the border, and easing the suffering his policies are making worse, there are immediate steps he could take. For starters, he could end this wretched shutdown so that the people responsible for protecting

the border can get paid, immigration judges can return to processing asylum claims and, yes, the physical and virtual barriers already in place can be maintained and perhaps even improved.

Beyond that, he would need to ease up on the my-way-or-the-highway swagger and sit down for a real discussion with lawmakers about how to address the deep dysfunction

of this nation’s immigration system.

None of which would be as sensational as grabbing some primetime airtime.

It would, however, be a sign that the president is at last getting serious about immigration concerns he has thus far done nothing but exacerbate.

By ERIC TUCKER and MICHAEL BALSAMO Associated Press

— The New York Times, Jan. 8

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Nation/World Trump stalks out of shutdown talks

By CATHERINE LUCEY, LISA MASCARO and LAURIE KELLMAN Associated Press

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump walked out of his negotiating meeting with congressional leaders Wednesday — “I said bye-bye,” he tweeted— as efforts to end the 19-day partial government shutdown fell into deeper disarray over his demand for billions of dollars to build a wall on the U.S.-Mexico border.

In a negotiating session that was over almost as soon as it began, Democrats went to the White House asking Trump to reopen the government. Trump renewed his call for money for his signature campaign promise and was rebuffed. Republicans and Democrats had differing accounts of the brief exchange, but the result was clear: The partial shutdown continued with no end in sight.

Hundreds of thousands of federal workers will miss paychecks on Friday; a little more than half of them are still working without pay. Other key federal services are suspended, including some food inspections. And as some lawmakers expressed discomfort with the growing toll of the standoff, it was clear Wednesday that the wall was at the center.

Trump revived his threat to

attempt to override Congress by declaring a national emergency to unleash Defense Department funding for the wall. He’s due to visit the border Thursday to highlight what he declared in an Oval Office speech Tuesday night as a “crisis.” Democrats say Trump is manufacturing the emergency to justify a political ploy.

That debate set the tone for Wednesday’s sit-down at the White House.

Republicans said Trump posed a direct question to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi: If he opened the government, would she fund the wall? She said no. Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer said Trump slammed his hand on the table, said “then we have nothing to discuss” and walked out.

Republicans said Trump, who passed out candy at the start of the meeting, did not raise his voice and there was no table pounding. Pelosi said Trump “stomped” out of the room and was “petulant.” Republicans said he was merely firm.

“The president made clear today that he is going to stand firm to achieve his priorities to build a wall — a steel barrier — at the southern border,” Vice President Mike Pence told reporters afterward.

Brazil’s new far-right president blasts UN migration pact

President Donald Trump, accompanied by Vice President Mike Pence, waves to members of the media as he arrives for a Senate Republican Policy lunch on Capitol Hill. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Trump had just returned from Capitol Hill, where he urged jittery congressional Republicans to hold firm with him. He suggested a deal for his border wall might be getting closer, but he also said the shutdown would last “whatever it takes.”

He discussed the possibility of a sweeping immigration compromise with Democrats to protect some immigrants from deportation but provided no clear strategy or timeline for resolving the standoff, according to senators in the private session. He left the Republican lunch boasting of “a very, very unified party,” but GOP sena-

tors are publicly uneasy as the standoff ripples across the lives of Americans and interrupts the economy.

Trump insisted at the White House: “I didn’t want this fight.” But it was his sudden rejection of a bipartisan spending bill late last month that blindsided leaders in Congress, including Republican allies, now seeking a resolution to the shutdown.

The effects are growing. The Food and Drug Administration says it isn’t doing routine food inspections because of the partial federal shutdown, but checks of the riskiest foods are expected to resume next week.

Comatose woman who had baby is hospitalized

This Friday, Jan. 4, 2019, photo shows Hacienda HealthCare in Phoenix. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin)

By TERRY TANG Associated Press

PHOENIX — An Arizona woman in a vegetative state who had a baby after she was sexually assaulted at a longterm care facility is recovering at a hospital along with her child, authorities said Wednesday as they ramped up the search for a suspect in a case that’s made shockwaves.

Commenting for the first time on the investigation since the Dec. 29 birth came to light, Phoenix police said they have not ruled out anyone and are still gathering DNA from all the facility’s male employees.

“She was not in a position

to give consent to any of this,” police spokesman Tommy Thompson said. “So if anyone can understand that, this was a helpless victim who was sexually assaulted.”

He didn’t release the conditions of the woman and her child, who will be taken in by his mother’s family.

The case has drawn outcry from the governor to the San Carlos Apache tribe in southeastern Arizona, of which the 29-year-old victim is an enrolled member, and put the spotlight on the safety of group homes and facilities that care for those who are incapacitated or severely disabled.

“Sadly, one of her caretakers was not to be trusted and took advantage of her. It is my hope that justice will be served,” tribal chairman Terry Rambler said.

Some criticized authorities for not speaking out earlier or calling the case a sexual assault.

Thompson said investigators initially didn’t want to say anything that could cause a suspect to “go underground or go into hiding.”

Hacienda HealthCare owns the care facility and said it welcomed DNA testing of its male workers. Authorities served a search warrant Tuesday, a day after the provider’s CEO resigned.

“We will continue to cooperate with Phoenix police and all other investigative agencies to uncover the facts in this deeply disturbing, but unprecedented situation,” the company said in a statement.

Thompson said police will get a court order if anyone declines to submit DNA. Local news website Azfamily.com first reported that the woman who was in a vegetative state for more than 10 years after a near-drowning had given birth on Dec. 29.

Police were called that day on a report of a newborn in distress, Thompson said. It appears no staff knew about the pregnancy until the birth, he

said, adding that anyone who knew but failed to report it could face charges.

A lawyer for the woman’s family said they were outraged at the “neglect of their daughter” and asked for privacy.

“The family would like me to convey that the baby boy has been born into a loving family and will be well cared for,” Phoenix attorney John Micheaels said in a statement.

The Hacienda facility serves infants, children and young adults who are “medically fragile” or have developmental disabilities, its website says. It has multiple complaints going back to 2013, most for emergency preparation or Medicaid eligibility, according to the state’s online complaint database for care facilities.

But one complaint from December 2013 alleges a staffer made inappropriate sexual comments about four patients two months earlier. Nobody relayed the incidents to an administrator. That employee was later fired.

After the birth emerged, the Arizona Department of Health Services said new safety measures have been implemented, including increased staff presence during any patient interaction, more monitoring of patient care areas and additional security measures involving visitors.

Iran says it holds US Navy vet as tensions rise

By NASSER KARIMI and JON GAMBRELL Associated Press

TEHRAN, Iran — Iran confirmed Wednesday it is holding U.S. Navy veteran Michael R. White at a prison in the country, making him the first American known to be detained under President Donald Trump’s administration.

White’s detention adds new pressure to the rising tension between Iran and the U.S., which under Trump has pursued a maximalist campaign against Tehran that includes pulling out of its nuclear deal with world powers.

Although the circumstances of White’s detention remain unclear, Iran in the past has used its detention of Westerners and dual nationals as leverage in negotiations.

The semi-official Tasnim news agency, believed to be close to the country’s paramilitary Revolutionary Guard, reported the confirmation, citing Foreign Ministry spokesman Bahram Ghasemi.

“An American citizen was arrested in the city of Mashhad some time ago and his case was conveyed to the U.S adminis-

tration on the first days” of his incarceration, Ghasemi was quoted as saying.

The New York Times has quoted White’s mother saying she learned three weeks ago that her son is alive and being held at an Iranian prison. His arrest was first reported by IranWire, an online news service run by one-time Iran detainee Maziar Bahari, which interviewed a former Iranian prisoner who said he met White at Vakilabad Prison in Mashhad in October.

Mashhad is about 95 kilometers (60 miles) east of Tehran, Iran’s capital.

Ghasemi also denied any mistreatment of prisoners in Mashhad, as alleged by the former prisoner quoted in the IranWire story. He described the allegations as “psychological warfare.”

The Associated Press has been unable to reach members of White’s family. The State Department said it was aware of reports of an American citizen’s arrest, but was otherwise unable to comment.

White’s mother, Joanne White, had told the Times that her 46-year-old son, who lives in Imperial Beach, California, went to Iran to see his girlfriend

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and had booked a July 27 flight back home to San Diego via the United Arab Emirates. She filed a missing person report with the State Department after he did not board the flight. She added that he had been undergoing treatment for a neck tumor and has asthma.

While relations between Iran and the U.S. warmed under President Barack Obama, they’ve turned increasingly toxic under Trump. Trump in May withdrew America from the nuclear deal, which saw Iran limit its enrichment of uranium in exchange for the easing of economic sanctions.

Trump has said he withdrew from the deal to put further pressure on Iran over its ballistic missile program, as well as to blunt its influence in the wider Mideast. While American officials deny that the goal of the U.S. policy is regime change, his administration includes officials who have openly called for Iran’s government to be overthrown.

The worsening ties could be heard in remarks Wednesday by Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who previously has told Trump he “cannot do a damn thing” to stop Iran.

“Some U.S. officials pretend that they are mad,” Khamenei said. “Of course I don’t agree with that, but they are first-class idiots.”

There are four other known American citizens being held in Iran.

Iranian-American Siamak Namazi and his 82-yearold father Baquer, a former UNICEF representative who served as governor of Iran’s oil-rich Khuzestan province under the U.S.-backed shah, are both serving 10-year sentences on espionage charges.

Iranian-American art dealer Karan Vafadari and his Iranian wife, Afarin Neyssari, received 27-year and 16-year prison sentences, respectively.

Chinese-American graduate student Xiyue Wang was sentenced to 10 years in prison for allegedly “infiltrating” the country while doing doctoral research on Iran’s Qajar dynasty.

Iranian-American Robin Shahini was released on bail in 2017 after staging a hunger strike while serving an 18year prison sentence for “collaboration with a hostile government.” Shahini is believed to still be in Iran.

SAO PAULO — Brazil’s new president blasted the United Nations’ migration pact on Wednesday indicating that Latin America’s largest nation will adopt a hard line on immigration.

President Jair Bolsonaro, who has promised to pull out of the U.N. deal, said on Twitter that he wants to ensure immigrants coming to Brazil not only abide by the laws, but also sing the national anthem and respect the country’s culture.

“Immigration cannot become an indiscriminate act. It is imperative for us to establish proper criteria for each country,” said Bolsonaro, a fan of U.S. President Donald Trump who took office Jan. 1. “If we control those who enter our homes, why should it be different with Brazil as a nation?”

The U.N pact signed by 164 countries in December recommends ruling out mass deportation policies and deems the deterrence of immigrants should be only a last resort.

Bolsonaro said he won’t reject help for those crossing the border, an apparent reference to Venezuelans fleeing an economic and political crisis at home. In recent years, tens of thousands of Venezuelans have crossed into neighboring Brazil.

Brazil has also welcomed Syrian and Lebanese refugees in recent years, along with Haitians, Bolivians, Paraguayans and Peruvians seeking better economic opportunities.

Bolsonaro said Brazil and migrants both will be safer if the country adopts its own rules.

Brazil’s outgoing government signed the U.N. pact weeks before Bolsonaro took office. As soon as the deal was signed in Morocco, the then president-elect said his administration would discard it.

Brazilian media reported several embassies received communication to inform them Bolsonaro’s decision to leave the pact. Brazil’s foreign ministry did not reply to requests for comment on Wednesday.

Maristela Basso, a law professor at Sao Paulo University, said that despite the heated rhetoric, the move wouldn’t likely be adopted quickly. She said a formal withdrawal would need to be approved by Congress, where Bolsonaro’s party controls about 10 percent of seats in the lower house and has 4 of 81 seats in the Senate. Congress doesn’t convene until February.

“The president cannot leave the pact just with his pen,” said Basso.

Former Foreign Minister Aloysio Nunes, who represented Brazil in the pact negotiations, recently said on Twitter that the pact does not “authorize indiscriminate migration” and “seeks to serve as reference for the organization of migration influxes.”

Camila Asano, a coordinator at human rights nonprofit Conectas, said the move not only affects immigrants to the South American nation, but could also impact more than 3 million Brazilians.

“Nowadays there are more Brazilians living abroad than foreigners living in Brazil, Asano said. “This move undermines one of Brazil’s main international credentials; we are a country of immigrants and our migration policies were seen as a reference.”

Nielsen says 35 million people watched Trump speech NEW YORK — An estimated 35.3 million people saw President Donald Trump and Democratic leaders speak to the nation on border security and the partial government shutdown.

That’s about 10 million fewer viewers than Trump had for his 2018 State of the Union address. The Nielsen company said Wednesday it was similar to President Barack Obama’s 2014 presidential address on fighting the Islamic state, which was seen by 34 million people.

There was some internal debate at networks about whether to grant Trump the TV time for Tuesday’s speech, but 11 separate networks aired it.

Fox News Channel with 8.044 million viewers and CBS with 8.043 million were in a virtual dead heat as the top destination. NBC was third with 7 million, followed

by ABC, MSNBC, CNN and Fox broadcasting.

Australians hold topless protest in support of Saudi runaway SYDNEY — Four Australian women have held a topless protest in Sydney to support a runaway Saudi woman as Australia considers her bid to settle in the country as a refugee.

Rahaf Mohammed Alqunun was on Wednesday deemed a refugee by the U.N. after being detained in Bangkok en route to Australia. The 18-year-old says she fears for her safety if sent back to her family in Saudi Arabia.

In downtown Sydney Thursday morning, four women, dressed only in jeans and calling themselves the Secret Sisterhood, protested outside the building housing the Saudi Consulate, holding placards calling on Australia to grant Alqunun residency.

Secret Sisterhood founder Jacquie Love says the protest was held to urge the Australian government to recognize Alqunun’s plight, and that of oppressed women everywhere.

Populist leader in Italy sees kinship with French protesters ROME — An Italian government leader says his populist movement is ready to help anti-government protesters in France.

Deputy Premier Luigi Di Maio said his 5-Star Movement shares a quest for “direct democracy in Europe” with the French protesters.

A 5-Star senator, Ettore Licheri, said on Wednesday that Di Maio is trying to line up “potential allies,” including populists in France, Poland, Croatia and Sweden, ahead of European Parliament elections in May, The French protests started in November to oppose fuel tax increases, but morphed into a rejection of government economic policies.

Di Maio blogged Monday that a “new Europe is being born” as citizens demand a law-making role. He said the 5-Stars and France’s yellow vest movement “can fight together” for that goal, but denounced the type of protest violence seen in Paris.

— The Associated Press

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Brantley III lifts SoHi skaters past Palmer

By JEREMIAH BARTZ Frontiersman.com

PALMER — Soldotna and Palmer were ready to play eight minutes of extra hockey. But thanks to Galen Brantley III, the Stars needed only eight seconds.

Brantley III scored on the first shift of the additional frame to give the Stars a 3-2 overtime win over the Moose on Wednesday night at the MTA Events Center in Palmer.

“Close game like that, any kind of mistake, you can end up losing the game,” Palmer head coach Dean Wilson said after the loss.

SoHi center Braxton Urban won the opening draw of overtime, and

dropped a pass back to Brantley III, and he did the rest. Brantley skated up the left side of the ice and lifted a backhander that glanced off the bottom of the crossbar to stun the Moose.

This is after Palmer forced the extra period with a pair of unanswered goals, including the game-tying score with just less than three minutes left with regulation. As SoHi skated on the power play late in the game, Palmer senior Darian Wilson forced a turnover on the forecheck at the left side of the SoHi net. Wilson picked up the puck, wrapped around the backside of the goal and tucked a shot just inside the right post. Wilson’s goal came off of one of at least three turnovers forced by the Moose forecheck late in

the game.

“They were flying around out there,” Dean Wilson said of his team’s play on the defensive end.

Wilson said Palmer’s ability to win battles in the neutral zone was also key in comeback.

“We were trying to turn things around at neutral ice,” Wilson said.

“Regroups are way better than breakouts.”

Quick scores were a theme for SoHi throughout the night. Soldotna took a lead less than two minutes into regulation. Defenseman Lucas Kline moved the puck from the right point to just inside the left circle where Alex Montague snapped a quick shot above the reach of Palmer goalie TJ O’Rourke

with 13:17 to play in the first period.

Early in the second, Brantley III needed only seven seconds of Soldotna’s first power play of the game to push his team’s advantage to a pair.

Brantley III took a pass at the top of the zone, skated between the circles, and tucked a shot right underneath the crossbar to give Soldotna the 2-0 lead.

Palmer cut SoHi’s lead in half late in the second period. Nathan Hooks knocked in a rebound from the right side of the crease with 1:50 left in the middle frame to put the Moose on the board.

Wednesday’s game marked the first meeting of the season between the old North Star Conference rivals in the new Railbelt Conference.

“I think it’s a lot more even,” Wilson said of the new Division II conference, which also includes Kenai Central, Homer, Houston and Juneau.

Contact Frontiersman managing editor Jeremiah Bartz at sports@frontiersman.com Soldotna 3, Palmer 2 OT Wednesday, MTA Events Center First period — 1. Soldotna- A. Montague (Kline, Skalnick) 13:17.

Second period — 2. Soldotna- Brantley III (Urban, Schelzenbach) pp 10:14; 3. Palmer- Hooks (Horacek, Hayes) 1:50.

Third period — 4. Palmer- Wilson (unassisted) sh 2:49.

Overtime — 5. Soldotna- Brantley III (Urban) 7:52.

Shots on goal: Soldotna 9-2-9-1—21, Palmer 6-7-100—23; Saves: Soldotna- Wirz 6-6-9-0—21, PalmerO’Rourke 8-1-9-0—18.

NFL coaches get new jobs

By The Associated Press

NEW YORK — The New York Jets stayed in the AFC East to find their new head coach.

Former Miami Dolphins coach Adam Gase agreed Wednesday night to take the Jets job, a person familiar with the decision told The Associated Press.

The hiring ends a 10-day, wide-open search for New York, which met with seven other coaches about their vacancy, including Mike McCarthy, Kris Richard, Jim Caldwell, Eric Bieniemy, Todd Monken, Matt Rhule and Kliff Kingsbury, who took the Arizona Cardinals job.

The person spoke to the AP on condition of anonymity because the team had not yet announced the hiring.

Gase was 23-26 in three years with Miami, including a playoff game in the 2016 season, before being fired last week. It turns out he’ll remain in the division, and face the Dolphins twice every regular season as a rival head coach.

Gase replaces Todd Bowles, who was fired after he went 2440 in four seasons and no playoff appearances. He’s the Jets’ first hire with previous full-time NFL head coaching experience since Bill Parcells’ three-year tenure from 1997-99.

The 40-year-old Gase is also the first offensive-focused coach since Rich Kotite in 1996.

Regarded as one of the league’s top young offensive minds, he’ll be tasked with furthering the development of quarterback Sam Darnold and helping New York snap an eight-year postseason drought.

While he had control over personnel in Miami, Gase will work closely in New York with general manager Mike Mac-

cagnan, who was retained by team chairman and CEO Christopher Johnson, to put together a competitive roster around Darnold. The Jets are expected to have around $100 million in salary cap space this offseason, and will be very active in free agency.

Those factors combined, Johnson insisted leading into the team’s search, made the Jets an attractive spot for a head coach to land.

“If you can make it here, you’re a freakin’ legend,” Johnson said. “That counts for something.”

Browns hire Kitchens CLEVELAND — The Browns didn’t have to go far to find their new coach.

Freddie Kitchens was already in the building.

The 44-year-old Kitchens, who had a dazzling eight-week run as interim offensive coordinator, is finalizing a contract to become Cleveland’s ninth coach since the franchise’s 1999 rebirth, a person familiar with the decision told The Associated Press. The person spoke on condition of anonymity because the team is not commenting on the imminent hire.

As of late Wednesday night, the Browns still had not officially announced Kitchens as their coach.

However, there are no obstacles blocking his hiring and he’s expected to be introduced at a press conference on Thursday.

The Browns selected Kitchens over six other candidates, including Gregg Williams, who went 5-3 as Cleveland’s interim coach but is not being retained.

The first candidate to interview for the coaching vacancy, Williams, who served as the team’s defensive coordinator, issued

Milwaukee Bucks forward Giannis Antetokounmpo, left, protects his rebound from Houston Rockets forward PJ Tucker, right, during the first half of an NBA basketball game Wednesday in Houston. (AP Photo/Michael Wyke)

Giannis, Bucks defeat Rockets

By The Associated Press

HOUSTON — Giannis Antetokounmpo had 27 points and a season-high 21 rebounds to help the Milwaukee Bucks withstand a 42-point performance from James Harden and beat the Houston Rockets 116-109 on Wednesday night.

In a matchup of the two front-runners for MVP, Harden and his teammates were done in by a shooting slump late in the third quarter that spilled into the fourth and left them down by 15 points.

Milwaukee held a 13-point lead with about five minutes left before Houston used a 8-0 run, started by two 3-pointers from Harden, to cut it to 107-102. The Bucks got a layup from Eric Bledsoe before Harden scored the next four points to get Houston to 109106 with 2 1/2 minutes left.

rebounds, and Brooklyn climbed out of an early 19-point hole to beat Atlanta.

DeMarre Carroll added 17 points to help the Nets improve to 21-22 with their eighth victory in their last nine home games.

They managed only 20 wins for the entire season just two years ago, but have engineered a big turnaround after a slow start to this season. On Wednesday, they did the same thing in the game.

the fourth quarter and finished with 34 to help Washington beat Philadelphia for a split of the home-and-home set.

After Washington’s 26-point third-quarter lead was cut to 12 in the fourth, Beal outscored Philadelphia 14-5 to make it 116-95 with 4:22 left. Beal was 6 of 11 from 3-point range and 13 of 21 overall from the field.

Otto Porter Jr. added 23 points, his most since returning NETS 115, HAWKS 100 from a quadriceps injury this WIZARDS 123, 76ERS 106 month, and Trevor Ariza had 17.

NEW YORK — D’Angelo Joel Embiid had 35 points and Russell scored 23 points, Ed WASHINGTON — Bradley 14 rebounds for the 76ers. They Davis grabbed a season-high 16 Beal scored 14 straight points in See NBA, page A7

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Howard’s 53 points lead Marquette past Creighton

By The Associated Press

OMAHA, Neb. — Markus Howard scored 14 of his career-high 53 points in overtime after Sam Hauser’s deep 3-pointer at the end of regulation tied the game, and No. 21 Marquette beat Creighton 106-104 on Wednesday night.

Howard’s dazzling offensive performance set a Marquette record and broke his own record for points in a Big East game. His 53 points were the most by a player in a game matching Division I opponents this season, one behind the 54 Furman’s Jordan Lyons had against D-II North Greenville. Howard had 52 points against Providence last season. It was also the highest-scoring performance ever by a Creighton opponent.

Marquette never led until Howard scored on his team’s first possession of overtime. Marquette repeatedly cut into Creighton leads only to see the Bluejays pull ahead again.

But with the Golden Eagles within 85-82 and 0.8 seconds on the clock, Creighton’s long inbound pass touched nobody and rolled out of bounds on the other end.

That gave Marquette possession under its basket. Hauser caught the inbound on the left wing and launched a shot that left his fingertips just before the clock hit zeroes. The 3-pointer was ruled good immediately, and the call

was upheld after a long video review.

Marquette (13-3, 2-1 Big East) won for the first time in four road games.

Creighton (10-6, 1-2) dropped its second straight.

Sam Hauser and Joey Hauser added 13 points apiece for the Eagles, who made 16 of 28 3-pointers.

Most of those 3s were by Howard, who was unstoppable despite Davion Mintz’s best efforts to guard him.

Howard was 10 for 14 on 3s and 13 for 15 from the free-throw line.

NO. 4 VIRGINIA 83, BOSTON COLLEGE 56 BOSTON — Mamadi Diakite matched his career high with 18 points, De’Andre Hunter also scored 18 and Virginia topped Boston College to stay unbeaten.

Ty Jerome added 13 points and Kyle Guy had 10 for the Cavaliers (14-0, 2-0 Atlantic Coast Conference).

It’s Virginia’s best start since opening 2014-15 with 19 straight victories.

Nik Popovic had 16 points and Ky Bowman 15 for Boston College (9-5, 0-2).

NO. 7 KANSAS 77, NO. 25 TCU 68 LAWRENCE, Kan. — Dedric Lawson had 31 points and 14 rebounds, Lagerald Vick added 12 points and four assists and Kansas beat TCU. Kansas City native Ochai Agbaji added seven points four rebounds for Kansas (12-2, 2-1 Big 12) after relinquishing his

redshirt eligibility on Tuesday following high 13 rebounds. the season-ending injury to Udoka AzuBrae Ivey led San Jose State (3-11, 0-2 buike. in Mountain West) with 10 points.

TCU (12-2, 1-1) continued to have Caroline hit a 3-pointer 11 seconds in troubles in Allen Fieldhouse, falling to 0-7 and Nevada (15-1, 2-1) never trailed. all-time there.

RJ Nembhard scored a season-high 14 MISSISSIPPI 82, points for TCU while shooting 3 of 6 from NO. 11 AUBURN 67 behind the arc.

OXFORD, Miss. — Terence Davis had 27 points and 12 rebounds to lead surprisNO. 9 VIRGINIA TECH 52, ing Mississippi to an upset of Auburn.

GEORGIA TECH 49 Ole Miss (12-2, 2-0 Southeastern ConATLANTA — Ahmed Hill scored 15 ference) continued its run of strong play points, Kerry Blackshear Jr. added 14 under first-year coach Kermit Davis after points and 10 rebounds, and Virginia Tech being widely picked to finish at or near the overcame a terrible shooting performance bottom of the league. to beat Georgia Tech.

Freshman K.J. Buffen added 16 points The Hokies (14-1, 3-0 Atlantic Coast for the Rebels (11-3, 0-1) while Devontae Conference) won their ninth straight game Shuler scored 14. Davis shot 9 of 15 from for the school’s best start to a season since the field and made four 3-pointers. the 1982-83 team had an identical record.

Auburn was led by Bryce Brown, who Virginia Tech, the nation’s second-best took 24 shots — 19 from 3-point range — 3-point shooting team, hit only five 3s and to score 23 points. finished at 18.5 percent from beyond the arc.

Jose Alvarado scored 20 points and AbNO. 13 FLORIDA STATE 68, doulaye Gueye had 11 for Georgia Tech MIAMI 62 (9-6, 1-1).

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — David Nichols had 13 points and PJ Savoy scored No. 10 NEVADA 92, eight of his 10 in the second half as the SAN JOSE STATE 53 bench players helped Florida State hold RENO, Nev. — Caleb Martin scored off Miami.

21 of his 23 points in the second-half and The Hurricanes used an 8-0 run late to Nevada rebounded from its first loss of the close the gap to 64-62 with 46.4 seconds season to beat San Jose State. left, but Trent Forrest’s putback with 29 Jordan Caroline scored 19 points. Co- seconds remaining gave the Seminoles rey Henson added 15 and Cody Martin breathing room. scored 14. Trey Porter grabbed a seasonPhil Cofer and Terance Mann each

added seven points and six rebounds for the Seminoles (12-2, 1-1 ACC).

RUTGERS 64, NO. 16 OHIO STATE 61 PISCATAWAY, N.J. — Montez Mathis hit two contested layups and Geo Baker nailed a jumper with 10.3 seconds to play as Rutgers scored its biggest Big Ten Conference victory under coach Steve Pikiell.

The win was the Scarlet Knights’ first against a ranked Big Ten team since an upset of No. 4 Wisconsin in January 2015 under then-coach Eddie Jordan.

Rutgers (8-6, 1-3) scored the final six points in handing the Buckeyes (12-3, 2-2) their second straight loss.

TEMPLE 73, NO. 17 HOUSTON 69 PHILADELPHIA — Quinton Rose scored 22 points and Temple handed Houston its first loss of the season.

Corey Davis Jr. was called for a charge in the final second of play, wiping out a tying basket for the Cougars (15-1, 2-1 American Athletic Conference).

Breaon Brady had 19 points to lead the Cougars, who started 15-0 for the first time since the 1967-68 team won its first 31 games. Shizz Alston Jr. had 12 points, six rebounds and six assists for the Owls (12-3, 2-1), who have won five of six.

Nate Pierre-Louis added 16 points to help Temple beat a Top 25 team for the 12th straight season.

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Sports Briefs Report: Grandal, Brewers agree to deal

going with AARP. The Chicago Bears defensive coordinator Vic Fangio, 60, has accepted Elway’s offer to become the Denver Broncos’ next head coach, a person with knowledge of the agreement told The Associated Press on Wednesday.

The person spoke on condition of anonymity because the Broncos didn’t announce the hiring, something the team won’t do until Fangio signs his contract. He’s expected to be introduced as the club’s 17th head coach on Thursday.

Fangio replaces Vance Joseph , who was fired on New Year’s Eve after posting the franchise’s first back-to-back losing seasons since the early 1970s.

Fangio and Elway, who turns 59 this summer, will make up one of the oldest coach-GM duos in the NFL in 2019.

Although Fangio, who turns 61 in August, has no NFL head coaching experience, he has been an assistant for 32 years in the NFL and 34 seasons overall, beginning with the Philadelphia Stars of the old USFL in 1984.

Just like former Denver defensive coordinator Wade Phillips, Fangio relates to players less than half his age and commands a deep respect in the locker room.

“You’re talking about one of the best coaches in football,” Bears star edge rusher Khalil Mack said recently, dubbing Fangio “the evil genius himself.”

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a statement thanking Browns fans for their support.

“I want to personally reach out to all the Cleveland Browns fans and the people of Cleveland to say thank you for your support,” William said. “It has been an honor to coach this team and we loved living in this community with the finest, most passionate fans in the world. I am proud that we were able to help get the Browns back to the winning tradition the fans deserve.

“I am humbled to have worked for such a storied franchise and will always love the NFL, NFLPA: Reid tested city of Cleveland, this city deserves a winner! Please continnormal amount of times ue to support this team and the CHARLOTTE, N.C. — The NFL and the NFL Players Associaincredible group of men. I wish tion say outspoken Eric Reid was not singled out with excessive you all the very best and always drug tests. remember #Comegetsome!”

The joint statement released Wednesday said an independent Kitchens has no previous administrator found Reid received the “normal” number of drug head coaching experience, but tests this season. The statement said, “there is no evidence of tarhis work with Cleveland’s ofgeting or any other impropriety with respect to his selection for testing.” fense — most notably quarterReid has said he believes he was repeatedly tested because of back Baker Mayfield — in the his pending lawsuit against the league. season’s second half vaulted The Carolina Panthers safety said in December he had been him ahead of the other six tested seven times by the NFL. Reid said the league was targetcandidates interviewed by the ing him because of the ongoing collusion case against the NFL in Browns, who were looking for which he alleged team owners conspired to keep him out of the the right coach to lead them folleague because of his decision to kneel alongside former 49ers lowing a stunning turnaround teammate Colin Kaepernick during the national anthem to protest season. racial and social injustice.

— The Associated Press Kitchens will get the chance.

Under his leadership, Mayfield, the No. 1 overall pick in last year’s draft, threw 19 of his NFL rookie record 27 touchdown passes while erasing any doubt that he could be the coveted franchise quarterback that Bucs task Arians with imhas eluded the Browns for de- proving Winston cades.

TAMPA, Fla. — Tampa Bay is counting on Bruce Arians to Broncos take Fangio from help Jameis Winston realize his Bears potential, however the young

By The Associated Press chuk, into an empty net, scored for ENGLEWOOD, Colo. — quarterback isn’t the only CHICAGO — Filip Fors- Calgary (28-13-4), which is 6-1-1 berg scored a minute into in its last eight games. The Flames Forget RPOs. John Elway is component the two-time NFL overtime for his second goal have a two-point lead over Vegas of the game, and the Nashville atop the Pacific Division. to get their fourth straight win.

Johnny Gaudreau added two asPredators beat the Chicago Jaylen Brown scored 22 points, sists to extend his point streak to Blackhawks 4-3 on Wednes- six games.

Gordon Hayward had 14 and Danday night for their third iel Theis added 12 points and six Giordano has 303 career assists, Continued from page A6 straight victory. rebounds off the bench. Terry Romoving him past Joe Nieuwendyk Colton Sissons and Viktor into fifth on the franchise list. zier had 12 points and five assists. committed 23 turnovers, and had a Domantas Sabonis had 20 Arvidsson also scored to help four-game winning streak end. points and seven rebounds for the the Predators improve to 3-0-1 Jimmy Butler added 23 points, SENATORS 2, Pacers. They had won seven of on a six-game trip. Ryan Joand Ben Simmons had 15 points DUCKS 1, OT eight. hansen and Mattias Ekholm and 10 rebounds for Philadelphia. each had two assists, and Pekka ANAHEIM, Calif. — Colin A night after hitting more than half PELICANS 140, White scored at 1:34 of overtime of its 31 attempts from beyond the Rinne made 28 saves.

CAVALIERS 124 and Ottawa snapped an eight-game arc, Philadelphia shot 8 of 27 from NEW YORK — Catcher Yasmani Grandal and the Milwaukee Brewers have agreed to an $18.25 million, one-year contract, a person familiar with the negotiations tells The Associated Press.

The person spoke on condition of anonymity Wednesday night because the agreement, first reported by The Athletic, was subject to a successful physical.

Grandal turned down a $17.9 million qualifying offer from the NL champion Los Angeles Dodgers in November. He would be eligible for free agency again after this year’s World Series Now 30, Grandal was an All-Star in his first season with the Dodgers in 2015. He hit .241 this year with 24 homers and 68 RBIs as Los Angeles won its second straight NL pennant. He made $7.9 million.

Grandal has a .240 big league career average with 113 home runs in seven seasons. He would supplant Manny Pina and Erik Katz, who combined to get the most games behind the plate for Milwaukee last season.

Preds nip Blackhawks

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FLAMES 5, AVALANCHE 3 CALGARY, Alberta — Mark Giordano had three assists and Calgary kept on rolling with a victory over Colorado.

Mikael Backlund, Mark Jankowski, Elias Lindholm, Michael Frolik and Matthew Tka-

losing streak by rallying past reeling Anaheim.

White took a pass from Mark Stone near the net and slid the puck past John Gibson for his 11th goal of the season. It was a franchiserecord ninth straight loss for the Ducks, surpassing an eight-game skid in October 1996.

Ostrander makes prestigious list Staff report Peninsula Clarion

Allie Ostrander, a 2015 graduate of Kenai Central High School, is on the watchlist for collegiate track and field’s top honor for the third time.

This week, Ostrander, a redshirt junior at Boise State, opened the season on The Bowerman watchlist, as chosen by the U.S. Track and Field and Cross Country Coaches Association.

Ostrander has won the last two NCAA championships in

the 3,000-meter steeplechase, but this is the first time she opens the season on The Bowerman watchlist. During the 2018 season, she worked her way onto the watchlist twice during the season.

Ostrander opened her indoor season on Dec. 1, 2018, by running her first indoor 5,000 meters in almost three years. At the Sharon Colyear-Danville BU Season Opener, she reset her school record by placing fourth in 15 minutes, 16.83 seconds.

The time ranks her seventh in NCAA event history.

3-point range, going 3 of 20 in the NEW ORLEANS — Anthony first three quarters.

Davis had 38 points and 13 rebounds and New Orleans overCELTICS 135, PACERS 108 came a slow start to pull away from Cleveland for its third straight vicBOSTON — Marcus Morris tory. had 22 points and eight rebounds, Cleveland has lost 11 in a row.

Jayson Tatum had 20 points and New Orleans rookie Frank Boston routed Indiana.

Jackson had 19 points to set a seaKyrie Irving had 12 points be- son high for a second straight game fore sitting out the fourth quarter, off the bench. He had 17 in a win and the Celtics put together their over Memphis on Monday night. highest-scoring game this season Jrue Holiday added 18 points, and

Staff report Peninsula Clarion

Tyle Owens, Morgan Aldridge and Landen Showalter braved the cold to win a Freezer Food Series fat bike race Sunday at Tsalteshi Trails.

The format was a staggered start race on the singletrack and part of the Wolverine Loop.

Owens won by finishing in 20 minutes, 21 seconds, while Nathan Kincaid was second at 21:26 and Mike Crawford was third at 24:14.

Aldridge, at 27:04, was the first woman across the line and fourth overall. Showalter, at 31:51, was the first youth rider and sixth overall.

The final Freezer Food Series fat bike race of the year will be Sunday, before the series moves on to four ski races.

Sunday’s race will start at 2

p.m. at the Slikok Trails trailhead almost directly across from the Central Peninsula Landfill. Registration starts at 1:30 p.m.

The race will be a short course with a randomly determined ending time between 27 and 35 minutes. The first person across the line wins, regardless of laps completed.

The goal of the Freezer Food Series is to raise money for the Kenai Peninsula Food Bank.

For Tsalteshi Trails Association members, the cost is $5 with donation or $6 without donation. For nonmembers, the cost is $10 with donation and $12 without donation.

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1. Tyle Owens, 20 minutes, 21 seconds; 2.

Nathan Kincaid, 21:26; 3. Mike Crawford, 24:14; 4. Morgan Aldridge, 27:04; 5. John Messick, 28:03; 6. Landen Showalter, 31:51; 7. Jen Showalter, 33:25; 8. Angie Sulley, 37:30; 9. Darrell Kincaid, 44:53.

Cardinals turn to Kingsbury for points TEMPE, Ariz. — Arizona Cardinals president Michael Bidwill went outside the traditional boundaries to find his new head coach, identifying Kliff Kingsbury as someone who can ignite the team’s moribund offense and mold Josh Rosen into a dynamic NFL quarterback.

Kingsbury, with no NFL coaching experience and a

losing record in six seasons at Texas Tech but a history of high-scoring offenses and prolific quarterbacks, was introduced as the Cardinals coach at a news conference at the team’s headquarters on Wednesday.

Kingsbury called it “an incredible opportunity.”

The reason for the hire, Bidwill made clear, is Kingsbury’s record as an innovative offensive coach.

“Look at today’s NFL and you look at the college game, especially the last several years, has come into the pro game,” Bidwill said. “When you look at the output of his offenses, both when he was a coordinator in college and as a head coach, it’s really impressive, the amount of points he puts up, where he positions his offenses. And you look at the six quarterbacks that he tutored and coached that have come into the National Football League.”

Among those quarterbacks are Patrick Mahomes, Case Keenum, Johnny Manziel and Baker Mayfield, who played at Texas Tech before transferring to Oklahoma.

Kingsbury believes he can incorporate the high-scoring system he had at Texas Tech into the NFL. “I think that’s going to be the exciting part for me,” he said.

“You watch the trends in the NFL. College football infiltrated that. There’s a lot of similar concepts to what we’ve done on the college level that are being widely used and are really successful in the league right now. ... I do think there are a lot of things we did at Texas Tech that can be successful.”

The Cardinals ranked last in the NFL in every major offensive category last season, so Bidwill went after someone who could turn that around.

Julius Randle and Nikola Mirotic a seven-game losing streak against had 17 each.

Phoenix.

Jordan Clarkson led Cleveland The 19-year-old rookie put the with 21 points.

Mavericks ahead for good with a 3-pointer early in the second half before getting one of his five asGRIZZLIES 96, SPURS 86 sists on a jump-pass from nearly MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Marc Ga- half court out of a double team to sol had 26 points and 14 rebounds DeAndre Jordan for a dunk as Daland Memphis Grizzlies snapped a las built its lead to nine going to six-game slide, beating San Antonio. the fourth quarter.

Mike Conley had 15 points and JAZZ 106, MAGIC 93 six assists for Memphis, and Jaren Jackson Jr. and JaMychal Green SALT LAKE CITY — Donoscored 12 points each. van Mitchell had 33 points and Marco Belinelli and Bryn seven assists and Utah rallied to Forbes scored 14 points apiece beat Orlando. for the Spurs, who ended a fiveJoe Ingles added 16 points and game winning streak. LaMarcus seven assists, and Rudy Gobert had Aldridge and Patty Mills had 13 12 points and 14 rebounds. Utah points each for San Antonio. improved to 21-21, winning for the third time in four games.

D.J Augustin had 23 points and MAVERICKS 104, SUNS 94 six assists for Orlando. The Magic DALLAS — Luka Doncic ended a six-game trip with four scored 30 points and Dallas ended straight losses.

Scoreboard Basketball NBA Standings EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division

W L Pct GB Toronto 31 12 .721 — Philadelphia 27 15 .643 3½ Boston 25 15 .625 4½ Brooklyn 21 22 .488 10 New York 10 31 .244 20 Southeast Division Miami 19 20 .487 — Charlotte 19 21 .475 ½ Orlando 17 24 .415 3 Washington 17 25 .405 3½ Atlanta 12 29 .293 8 Central Division Milwaukee 29 11 .725 — Indiana 27 14 .659 2½ Detroit 17 22 .436 11½ Chicago 10 31 .244 19½ Cleveland 8 34 .190 22 WESTERN CONFERENCE

Owens, Aldridge, Showalter get wins

Coach of the Year has to fix if the Buccaneers are going to end a long postseason drought.

A porous defense has been a problem for much of the team’s decade-plus absence from the playoffs and needs immediate attention, too.

So does an inconsistent running attack which ranked among the worst in the league this season, when Tampa Bay lost 11 of 14 following a 2-0 start to finish last in the NFC South for the seventh time in eight years.

Arians came out of retirement Tuesday to replace Dirk Koetter, who made significant strides with the Bucs offense but wasn’t able to develop Winston into a top-tier quarterback while going 19-29 over the past three years.

The 66-year-old Arians will be introduced during a news conference Thursday. One of his first orders of business was hiring former New York Jets head coach Todd Bowles as his defensive coordinator.

Arians is the sixth coach Tampa Bay has had since 2008 — following Jon Gruden, Raheem Morris, Greg Schiano, Lovie Smith and Koetter — and is working on assembling a staff to help him transform a roster featuring some good young talent into consistent winners.

Southwest Division Houston 23 17 .575 San Antonio 24 18 .571 New Orleans 20 22 .476 Memphis 19 22 .463 Dallas 19 22 .463 Northwest Division Denver 27 12 .692 Oklahoma City 25 15 .625 Portland 25 17 .595 Utah 21 21 .500 Minnesota 20 21 .488 Pacific Division Golden State 27 14 .659 L.A. Clippers 24 16 .600 L.A. Lakers 23 19 .548 Sacramento 20 21 .488 Phoenix 10 33 .233

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Wednesday’s Games Boston 135, Indiana 108 Washington 123, Philadelphia 106 Brooklyn 116, Atlanta 100 Memphis 96, San Antonio 86 Milwaukee 116, Houston 109 New Orleans 140, Cleveland 124 Dallas 104, Phoenix 94 Utah 106, Orlando 93 Portland 124, Chicago 112 L.A. Lakers 113, Detroit 100 Thursday’s Games Boston at Miami, 3 p.m.

L.A. Clippers at Denver, 5 p.m.

Oklahoma City at San Antonio, 5:30 p.m.

Detroit at Sacramento, 6 p.m.

All Times AST

Men’s Major Scores EAST American U. 71, Navy 63 Army 86, Boston U. 82 Bucknell 84, Colgate 81

Cornell 86, Towson 74 Dayton 72, George Washington 66 Duquesne 66, Fordham 61 Hartford 66, UMBC 64, OT Lafayette 85, Loyola (Md.) 70 Lehigh 99, Holy Cross 94, OT New Hampshire 68, Mass.-Lowell 64 Pittsburgh 89, Louisville 86, OT Rutgers 64, Ohio St. 61 Seton Hall 76, Butler 75 St. Bonaventure 73, Saint Joseph’s 47 Stony Brook 59, Binghamton 46 Syracuse 61, Clemson 53 Temple 73, Houston 69 Vermont 73, Maine 49 Virginia 83, Boston College 56 SOUTH Abilene Christian 73, McNeese St. 72 Davidson 61, George Mason 56 Florida St. 68, Miami 62 Georgia 82, Vanderbilt 63 Jacksonville 90, Kennesaw St. 70 Liberty 71, Stetson 53 Lipscomb 81, North Florida 66 Mississippi 82, Auburn 67 Nicholls 78, Stephen F. Austin 73 Rhode Island 78, Richmond 67 South Florida 66, Tulane 48 Texas A&M-CC 62, Northwestern St. 61 VCU 69, La Salle 63 Virginia Tech 52, Georgia Tech 49 MIDWEST Iowa 73, Northwestern 63 Kansas 77, TCU 68 Kansas St. 71, West Virginia 69 Marquette 106, Creighton 104, OT Saint Louis 65, UMass 62 Xavier 81, Georgetown 75 SOUTHWEST Florida 57, Arkansas 51 New Orleans 78, Lamar 71, OT Sam Houston St. 78, Cent. Arkansas 69 FAR WEST Arizona St. 80, California 66 CS Northridge 84, UC Riverside 83 Fresno St. 78, Utah St. 77 Nevada 92, San Jose St. 53 UC Santa Barbara 65, Cal Poly 56

Women’s Scores EAST American U. 58, Navy 45 Boston U. 64, Loyola (Md.) 62 Bucknell 66, Army 52 Colgate 60, Lafayette 49 Davidson 62, Duquesne 47 Fordham 60, Richmond 48 George Washington 64, Rhode Island 59 Hartford 66, UMBC 52 Lehigh 64, Holy Cross 55

Maine 63, Vermont 51 New Hampshire 56, Mass.-Lowell 53 Saint Louis 62, Saint Joseph’s 49 Stony Brook 65, Binghamton 56 UConn 82, Cincinnati 38 West Virginia 67, Oklahoma St. 58 SOUTH East Carolina 78, Wichita St. 56 Lamar 79, New Orleans 57 MIDWEST Akron 72, W. Michigan 59 Ball St. 77, Bowling Green 70 Buffalo 91, E. Michigan 84 Cent. Michigan 88, Ohio 70 Dayton 75, UMass 47 Iowa St. 92, TCU 54 Kent St. 87, N. Illinois 78 Miami (Ohio) 65, Toledo 64 Michigan St. 86, Minnesota 68 North Dakota 68, Nebraska-Omaha 57 Oral Roberts 72, Purdue Fort Wayne 61 Rutgers 71, Illinois 60 S. Dakota St. 76, Denver 59 SOUTHWEST Abilene Christian 109, McNeese St. 52 Ark.-Pine Bluff 52, LeMoyneOwen 43 Baylor 65, Kansas St. 50 Houston 72, SMU 61 Sam Houston St. 66, Cent. Arkansas 62 Stephen F. Austin 70, Nicholls 62 Texas 73, Oklahoma 63 Texas A&M-CC 79, Northwestern St. 55 Texas Tech 69, Kansas 66 Tulsa 46, Memphis 39 FAR WEST Air Force 63, Colorado St. 48 Fresno St. 70, Utah St. 59 Nevada 52, San Jose St. 49 UNLV 66, New Mexico 57 Wyoming 87, San Diego St. 45

Hockey NHL Standings EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division

GP W L OT Pts GF GA Tampa Bay 43 33 8 2 68 180 124 Toronto 42 27 13 2 56 152 117 Boston 43 25 14 4 54 126 110 43 23 14 6 52 125 121 Buffalo Montreal 44 23 16 5 51 134 135 Florida 41 17 17 7 41 131 147 Detroit 45 16 22 7 39 126 154 Ottawa 44 16 23 5 37 138 173 Metropolitan Division Washington 42 26 12 4 56 149 124 Pittsburgh 43 24 13 6 54 152 123 Columbus 42 24 15 3 51 135 130 N.Y. Islanders 41 23 14 4 50 124 111

Carolina N.Y. Rangers New Jersey Philadelphia

42 42 42 43

20 17 17 18 16 19 15 22

5 7 7 6

45 112 121 41 116 145 39 123 142 36 119 156

WESTERN CONFERENCE Central Division Nashville 45 27 15 3 57 139 112 Winnipeg 42 27 13 2 56 146 120 Dallas 44 23 17 4 50 119 117 Colorado 44 20 16 8 48 151 141 Minnesota 42 21 18 3 45 119 118 Chicago 46 16 22 8 40 134 167 St. Louis 41 17 20 4 38 114 132 Pacific Division Calgary 45 28 13 4 60 162 129 Vegas 46 27 15 4 58 140 121 San Jose 45 25 13 7 57 160 138 Anaheim 44 19 17 8 46 105 129 Vancouver 45 20 21 4 44 128 143 Edmonton 43 20 20 3 43 120 138 Arizona 42 18 21 3 39 108 118 Los Angeles 44 17 24 3 37 99 130 NOTE: Two points for a win, one point for overtime loss. Top three teams in each division and two wild cards per conference advance to playoffs.

Wednesday’s Games Nashville 4, Chicago 3, OT Calgary 5, Colorado 3 Ottawa 2, Anaheim 1, OT Thursday’s Games Nashville at Columbus, 3 p.m.

N.Y. Islanders at N.Y. Rangers, 3 p.m.

Washington at Boston, 3 p.m.

Toronto at New Jersey, 3 p.m.

Dallas at Philadelphia, 3 p.m.

Carolina at Tampa Bay, 3:30 p.m.

Montreal at St. Louis, 4 p.m.

Winnipeg at Minnesota, 4 p.m.

Florida at Edmonton, 5 p.m.

Arizona at Vancouver, 6 p.m.

San Jose at Vegas, 6 p.m.

Ottawa at Los Angeles, 6:30 p.m.

All Times AST

Transactions BASEBALL American League CLEVELAND INDIANS — Agreed to terms with C Kevin Plawecki on a one-year contract.

TEXAS RANGERS — Agreed to terms with RHP Shelby Miller on a one-year contract.

National League CINCINNATI REDS — Agreed to terms with RHPs Anthony Bass and Odrisamer Despaigne, INF Christian Colon and OFs Jordan Patterson and Mason Williams on minor league contracts.

FOOTBALL National Football League ATLANTA FALCONS — Named Ben Kotwica special teams coordinator.

INDIANAPOLIS COLTS — Placed S Mike Mitchell on injured

reserve. Signed S Rolan Milligan from the practice squad and DE Anthony Winbush to the practice squad.

MINNESOTA VIKINGS — Named Kevin Stefanski offensive coordinator.

TAMPA BAY BUCCANEERS — Named Todd Bowles defensive coordinator.

TENNESSEE TITANS — Named Frank Piraino strength and conditioning coach.

Canadian Football League WINNIPEG BLUE BOMBERS — Re-signed LS Chad Rempel to a two-year contract. Released CB Chris Randle.

HOCKEY National Hockey League ANAHEIM DUCKS — Reassigned C Ben Street and D Josh Mahura to San Diego (AHL).

ARIZONA COYOTES — Recalled F Michael Bunting from Tucson (AHL).

SOCCER Major League Soccer PROFESSIONAL REFEREE ORGANIZATION — Named Mark Geiger director of senior match officials.

FC DALLAS — Named Peter Luccin and Mikey Varas coaches and Marco Ferruzzi director of soccer operations.

LOS ANGELES FC — Traded a 2019 first-round draft pick and general allocation money to Cincinnati for a 2019 fourth-round draft pick and its 2020 allocation ranking.

PHILADELPHIA UNION — Agreed to terms with D Raymon Gaddis. Acquired up to $200,000 in general allocation money from FC Cincinnati for five selections in the 2019 MLS SuperDraft (picks 13, 29, 37, 61 and 85).

National Premier Soccer League NEW YORK COSMOS — Resigned F/M Darwin Espinal.

COLLEGE CLEMSON — Senior DT Dexter Lawrence has declared for the NFL draft.

MEMPHIS — Named John Simon recruiting coordinator, passing game coordinator and assistant coach of the wide receivers.

OKLAHOMA — Senior LT Bobby Evans has declare for the NFL draft.

OKLAHOMA STATE — Extended the contract of Mike Gundy football coach through 2023.

TENNESSEE — Named Jim Chaney offensive coordinator.

WILMINGTON (DEL.) — Announced the resignation of women’s basketball coach Rob Miller.

Promoted assistant coach Jamie Hensley to interim head coach.

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What’s Happening Events and Exhibitions n Ticket sales for the 23rd Annual Hospice Wine event and Auction will begin Jan. 7. Price is $150 each for this over-21 event. Event date is Feb. 9 at the Soldotna Catholic Church.

Hospice Office number is 262-0453 to purchase tickets. n The Kenai Peninsula Woodturner’s hold their monthly meeting at 1 p.m. this Saturday, Jan. 12. Location is the log building, Mile 100 on the Sterling Highway, just a few miles south of Soldotna where Echo Lake Road meets the highway. There will be a woodturning demonstration. Non-members are welcome. Questions? Call 801-543-9122. n Kenai Performers is selling chocolate Wonka bars as a promotional fundraiser. Funds raised will help pay production costs for their spring musical, “Roald Dahl’s Willy Wonka.”

Hidden among the candy bars are five, special Golden Tickets. Finders of the tickets will win FREE admission to one of the shows. The Wonka bars are 4.5 ounces of scrumptious milk chocolate, big enough to share with the whole family, and are $5 each. Candy bars are available at Curtain Call Consignment Boutique in Kenai and at River City Books in Soldotna. Thank you, Country Foods for sponsoring our fundraiser! For more information, please call Terri at 252-6808. n Kenai Performers is hosting a Comedy Writing Workshop with international performer, Chelsea Hart on Thursday, Jan. 10, noon-3 p.m. This workshop is open to adults, age 18 and up. Fee: $30 per participant. Workshop is being held at 44045 K-Beach Road (backside of Subway restaurant/same building). Minimum 5/Maximum 10 students. There will be an open mic at 6:30 p.m., open to the public. This is a smoke free/no alcohol venue. Entrance fee: pay-as-you-can at the door. To register please contact us by email: www.kenaiperformers@gmail.com OR call Terri at 252-6808. n Kenai Fine Art Center’s January exhibit will be Panta Rhei: Everything Flows, a dual artist show by Elizabeth Earl and Ben Boettger featuring Southcentral glaciers and their relationship to the Alaskan landscape and people. The Kenai Fine Art Center is located across from the Oiler’s Bingo Hall and next to the Historic Cabins. For more information contact 283-7040 or go to www.kenaifineart.com.

Entertainment

n The Place Bar & Grill will host Troubadour North Acoustic on Friday, Jan. 11 beginning at 8 p.m. Located at 53791 Sparrow Lane in Kenai. n Veronica’s in Old Town Kenai has Open Mic from 6-8 p.m.

Friday. Call Veronica’s at 283-2725. n The Flats Bistro presents Mike Morgan on Fridays starting at 6:30 p.m. n The Alaska Roadhouse Bar and Grill hosts open horseshoe tournaments Thursday nights at the bar on Golddust Drive. For more information, call 262-9887. n Acapulco, 43543 Sterling Highway in Soldotna, has live music at 5 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays starting at 5 p.m. n A bluegrass jam takes place on the first Sunday of the month at from 1-4 p.m. at the Mount Redoubt Baptist Church on South Lovers Loop in Nikiski. n An all acoustic jam takes place every Thursday. The jam takes place at Christ Lutheran Church in Soldotna on the first Thursday of the month, and at the Kenai Senior Center during the rest of the month. Jam starts at 6:30 p.m. n AmVets Post 4 has reopened in its brand new building on Kalifornsky Beach across from Jumpin’ Junction. Eligible veterans and their families are invited to stop by to find out more about AmVets and their involvement in the Veteran community. For members and invited guests, Friday night dance to “Running with Scissors,” and Saturday Burn your own steak and karaoke with Cowboy Don. n Odie’s Deli in Soldotna has live music Friday from 6-8 p.m. and Pub Quiz night every Wednesday from 6-8 p.m. n The Bow bar in Kenai has karaoke at 9 p.m. Thursdays.

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Lost Little Moon

By Andrea Ross, Kenai

Here I am Your lost little moon.

Sometimes I’m the thumbnail moon in your mind and sometimes I am the heaviest moon, so orange I sink into sycamore.

Mama of high rocky mountains Mama of glistening granite, I am the moon of your dream, shining on liquid memory.

I am every moon ever lost to you; Lemon moon, mint moon, planting moon, harvest moon, blue moon. I am the lost ghoul-moon. Oh Mama, I am the tear-shaped moon and I am floating.

Without this pull, a longing to keep me near you.

I would float away, missing you.

Poems must include the writer’s name, phone number and address. They should be kept to no more than 300 words. Submission of a poem does not guarantee publication. Poems may be e-mailed to news@peninsulaclarion. com, faxed to 283-3299, delivered to the Clarion at 150 Trading Bay Road or mailed to P.O. Box 3009, Kenai, AK 99611.

Entertainment

Kenai Performers host comedy writing workshop and open mic

Chelsea Hart performs at the Comedy Theatre in London in this undated photo. (Photo courtesy of Chelsea Hart)

By BRIAN MAZUREK Peninsula Clarion

Globetrotting comedienne and entertainer Chelsea Hart has returned to her hometown of Kenai to offer a comedy writing workshop with the Kenai Performers today.

Hart said that the workshop

will be an opportunity for aspiring comics to learn how to solidify their routine and start producing material for their acts. Students should bring about three minutes worth of material to go over for the workshop, she said.

The Kenai Performers have offered comedy and improv

classes in the past, and this is Hart’s first time leading one of these workshops. Hart believes that there is a lot of talent on the Kenai Peninsula. She is excited to be able to foster that talent as a way of giving back to the community where she grew up.

The multitalented Hart has spent the last five years touring across Europe, but not originally for comedy. Instead, she was focused on opera. Hart has been singing arias from England to Bosnia and almost everywhere in between.

She began doing comedy about three years ago, and fell in love with it instantly. She says that comedy is so enjoyable because there are no limitations, and she can do anything she wants with her act.

Hart recalls taking an improv class with Carol Ford and the Kenai Performers when she was a teenager. She didn’t realize it at the time, but that

class planted the seed for her comedy career later in life.

The writing workshop will be taking place from 12-3 p.m. today.

Registration is $30 and spots are limited to 10 students. According to Hart, about half of the spots have already been filled. After the workshop, there will be an open mic show where the students will be able to perform their newly crafted routines. Anyone can sign up for the open mic, even if they do not participate in the workshop. Registration for the open mic starts at 6 p.m. with the show starting at 6:30.

The show will be open to the public and will be “pay what you want,” meaning that the audience can donate however much they would like at the end of the performances.

Both events will be taking place at the Kenai Performers building on Kalifornsky Beach Road, behind the Subway.

‘An Unexplained Death’ — An unsettling, not-to-be-missed read The Bookwork Sez Missing….

That single word belies the deep panic and fear behind the reason for the poster it’s on.

Someone’s gone, not where he should be, and his family believes something’s wrong.

They’re terrified because at some time in the ensuing days, as the poster falls to the elements and as you’ll read in “An Unexplained Death” by Mikita Brottman, missing can become mystery.

In the early evening of May 16, 2006, Rey Rivera left his Baltimore home in a hurry, taking his wife’s car. He’d received what’s presumed to be a work-related phone call minutes before he left, but investigators still don’t know who called him.

No one was ever able to ask because, days later, Rivera was found dead in Baltimore’s Belvedere Hotel. He’d fallen through the roof into an abandoned office that had been a swimming pool in the Belvedere’s early years, but was now covered-over. The medical examiner said he hit the floor of the empty office, feet-first.

Mikita Brottman lived on

the fifth floor of the grand old hotel-cum-condominium, and she was immediately captivated

by Rivera’s passing. She admits that she’s always been fascinated in the “dark side,” in an X-Files sort of way, and death is of particular interest because of its unknowability. She admits that she’s tried all her life to experience the paranormal. She began digging deeper into what had become a mystery.

Rivera was a tall athletic man, an immediately likeable kind of guy. He had a bit of a temper as a youth and was said to be impulsive with money, but his life seemed to be going well. Friends refused to believe that he killed himself.

Though she’d never met Rivera, Brottman believed likewise but the more she learned, the odder the evidence. Rivera had just left a job that made him unhappy, for reasons that Brottman suggests were “tangled.”

Details were forgotten, various players refused to speak with her, and documents were “lost.”

And person after person after person warned Brottman to “be careful”…

“An Unexplained Death” is the kind of book that’s perfect for the person who poked at See BOOK, page B2

Solid writing and offscreen terror bring depth to ‘Bird Box’ R eeling It In C hris J enness

Does anyone remember “The Happening” from way back in 2008?

No? Well, you should.

“The Happening” should be forever commemorated as what happens when M. Night Shyamalan and Mark Wahlberg are given unrestricted access to studio money. I don’t actually know if their access was unrestricted, but I can tell you that, after seeing the movie, the access should have been exactly none.

“The Happening” is the worst film from both of these, arguably, talented filmmakers, and is in the running for worst movie of the millennium.

It’s terrible. Which is why it’s so surprising that this week’s “Bird Box,” the smash hit from Netflix and bizarrely similar remake, is so good.

OK, a couple of things.

One, “Bird Box” isn’t a remake of “The Happening.”

It just feels like it’s the same movie, or at least takes place during the same event. Or happening. But as far as I know, the two movies have nothing to do with each other.

“Bird Box” is based on a book by Josh Malerman. I don’t know if Malerman is a secret

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Shyamalan fan or not. Also, “Bird Box” is a smash hit according to Netflix — which has its own internal tallying system that is kept completely secret — so I guess we have to take their word for it. But I’d say it’s a self-fulfilling prophecy.

I know I was more prone to look this up because I’d heard it was really good. Turns out to be true, but “Bright” was also hailed as a smash hit by the network and that was awful. So I guess you have to take it with a grain of salt. Regardless of whether you believe Netflix’s numbers, however, the movie is taut and engaging, well-acted and very satisfying.

Sandra Bullock is Malorie, an introverted artist who is jealously protective of her independence. It’s no surprise, then, that she takes an ill view of her pregnancy and impending motherhood. When asked by her obstetrician what names she’s considering, Girl and Boy are all she can muster. Little does Malorie know that very soon she’s going to have bigger problems.

Abruptly around the world, people begin committing suicide, the precipitating event being something that the victim saw right before. Almost without warning, the world descends into chaos and the few

people who are able to survive huddle in doors with the blinds drawn. Malorie finds herself holed up in a house with a ragtag group including Trevante Rhodes as an ex-soldier, an antagonistic lawyer played

by John Malkovich and his gay neighbor, played by B.D. Wong, among others.

There may be safety in numbers, but Malorie takes no pleasure in the company, especially the attention from the one other pregnant woman, a kind, yet needy girl named Olympia.

Gradually, the group discovers that birds appear to be particularly sensitive to whatever See REEL, page B2

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road-kill as a child. It’s for the former kid who half-bravely half-thought about stumbling Continued from page B1 across a body in the woods someday, or who happily slept in a cemetery on Halloween. It’s creepy, and it’s very, very good.

In her story, and that of Rey Rivera, author Mikita Brottman makes readers squirm. Not only do we learn a lot of shivery things about missing persons, but she also tells more about suicides, autopsies, and dead bodies than most true crime books would ever dare tell. Put it in a century-old hotel that’s seen its share of unsettling suicides, and you have a book that will make you cringe, check the locks, and read some more.

Beware that this is not for anyone prone to nightmares. True crime fans may not like the personal injected into the process.

But if you love a mystery that’ll leave you unnerved and twisting, “An Unexplained Death” should not be missed.

Terri Schlichenmeyer is the bookworm.

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is causing the deaths, going into hysterics whenever “it” comes near. Later, Marjorie Continued from page B1 and two children brave a raging river along with a box of birds to warn them of certain death, hence the title of the film.

You can infer what happens to the characters in the film, but to tell too much would be to spoil it. Malorie on the river with Girl and Boy is the present; her time in the house with the others the past.

“Bird Box” is first and foremost a thriller and a good one at that. I actually thought this movie was going to be a rip off of last year’s “A Quiet Place” when I saw the first trailers, and it does have a little of the same sensibility, but there is more going on here, and the danger is certainly less defined.

The entire film works as an allegory of Malorie’s fear of motherhood and the terror that parents feel constantly, worrying not only about unknown dangers that might reach out grab your children, but also about the frightening and uncontrollable influence of the outside world. Parents are constantly worried that their children will literally “see” something that will scar or damage them beyond help.

In reality, what parents fear is change, the loss of innocence, and Malorie guards herself from that fear by refusing to fully engage with the children. The responsibility of their care is so crushing that she withholds affection in favor of harsh practicality.

Malorie is not a particularly likeable character and Sandra Bullock does an excellent job creating a completely believable portrayal of a selfish person who is driven to do the right thing.

All the characters are well done, particularly Malkovich’s lawyer who seems to take the opposite track from Malorie, allowing his bitterness to turn to cynicism and finally hatred after seeing his wife die. He’s not a stock character, however. Director Susanne Bier give each of her characters an interesting arc, some getting more than others, certainly, but each one feeling at least vaguely rounded.

The writing in the film is the star — probably the biggest difference between this film and “The Happening.” Not only is the film engaging, but works on multiple levels. The filmmakers are confident enough to keep the terror offscreen, which somehow makes it scarier, as well as keeping the budget down, I’m sure.

The movie is certainly not devoid of violence, some of it fairly shocking, but don’t go in expecting a traditional horror film. “Bird Box” is that rare film that delivers both visceral and emotional thrills. It’s not the best movie I’ve ever seen, but it’s certainly a positive start to 2019. Grade: A “Bird Box” is rated R for violence and language.

Chris Jenness is an art instructor at Soldotna High School and is currently reading “The Forever War” by Joe Haldeman.

Andre Braugher leads ‘Brooklyn Nine-Nine’ to a new network

By LYNN ELBER AP Television Writer

LOS ANGELES — When Andre Braugher learned last May that Fox’s “Brooklyn Nine-Nine” was canceled, it was an ending that he’d anticipated after five years and softening ratings.

“When we weren’t on the schedule for Fox, I said to my wife, ‘Here’s the new chapter, or whatever it is. Let’s see what it brings.’ And then I went to bed.”

Morning arrived with the news that the police sitcom was getting a second chance at NBC, which had decided there was life left in the series produced by corporate sibling Universal Television. It begins its new season Thursday.

“I missed all the drama. I have no idea what happened overnight,” said Braugher, whose steady gaze and thoughtful manner indicate not much else eludes him — unless by choice.

That includes the Hollywood glad-handing that can be critical to building a career. Instead, Braugher has given priority to his East Coast-based family, including his wife, actress and singer Ami Brabson, and their three sons.

“I would be neglecting something important for something not so important,” he said during a taping break.

“So there’s a lot of parties I’ve missed. But that’s OK.” He’s succeeded without the networking and although he started at a time when parts for African-American actors were, as he put it, “few and far between. Period.” The breakthrough came with his Emmywinning lead role as police detective Frank Pembleton on the 1990s series “Homicide: Life on the Street,” now part of a full, 30-year screen career stretching from “Glory” in 1989 to “Men of a Certain Age” in 2009-11 to the careertwist comedy of “Brooklyn Nine-Nine.”

Besides his 10 Emmy nominations (including three for “Brooklyn Nine-Nine”) and a

second Emmy for “Thief” in 2006, Braugher earned Obie Awards for his New York City stage work in “Henry V” and “Whipping Man.” When he thought the sitcom was over, Braugher looked to the stage for a different challenge. He’s producing as well appearing in a new play, “Tell Them I’m Still Young” by Julia Doolittle, taking advantage of a taping hiatus for “Brooklyn Nine-Nine” to balance the dual commitments.

“I’ve been an actor my entire life, and so I’ve been one cog in a giant machine,” he said. “But now I think I want to really explore learning more about the larger process, rather than my one part about it.”

The work, about a couple whose marriage under siege from heartbreak, makes its debut with a Jan. 24-Feb. 3 run at the performing arts center in South Orange, New Jersey. Braugher stars opposite Broadway actress Michele Pawk (“Hairspray,” ”Mamma Mia”).

“People under extraordinary stress perform in extraordinary ways,” he said. “This couple has lost their daughter, so in the midst of this tragedy they’re looking to regain and hold onto what they have.”

The New Jersey production is a springboard “to see how much interest I could generate” for a New York City staging, he said.

While he’s known for drama, Braugher said he adapted happily to the change-up of “Brooklyn Nine-Nine” when the sitcom that revels in physical schtick started in 2013.

After doing much research on “horrific crimes,” including for his “Law & Order: Special Victims Unit” role as attorney Bayard Ellis, “there comes a time in which you want to do something different, something lighter,” Braugher said.

“Brooklyn Nine-Nine” gave him the opportunity to learn from Andy Samberg and the show’s other comedic actors as he shaped his performance as Capt. Ray Holt, who’s contented in his home life with hus-

In this file photo, Andre Braugher, a cast member in the television series “Brooklyn Nine-Nine,” poses for a portrait at CBS Radford Studios in Los Angeles. (Photo by Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP)

band Kevin (Marc Evan Jackson) but seeking to advance in the police ranks.

“I just felt as though it was an opportunity to do something strikingly different from the rest of my career,” Braugher said. “I like it because it just simply opens up my mind and forces me to think in a different way. So I think I’ve become much more sort of supple as an actor, and more open to the incredible number of possibilities of how to play a scene.”

Dan Goor, who created the comedy with Michael Schur, is unsparing in his praise of Braugher.

He is “a genius whose gravitas and warmth as an actor anchor the entire show,” Goor said.

Since Braugher has made it clear there’s more to life than work, he’s kept to his schedule of taping the sitcom in Los An-

geles and heading home each weekend. His youngest son is in boarding school, the other two in college, including the oldest at Braugher’s alma mater, the Juilliard School.

“They’re pursuing their lives. They’re well-adjusted,” he said. “I’ve accomplished one of my great goals, which was to see my young men become honorable men.”

He said he fills his off hours with cooking, hanging out with his wife and helping her start an arts-related business by serving as her “gofer, her allaround factotum. And that’s a good thing to do.”

There’s also the tantalizing thought of what’s ahead.

“I want to learn more and I want to do more,” Braugher said.” I mean, I may be 56 years old, but I feel like there’s a wellspring of new ideas, new energy flowing in me.”

Ousted Pixar chief John Lasseter to head Skydance Animation

By JAKE COYLE AP Film Writer

NEW YORK — Pixar cofounder and former Disney animation chief John Lasseter, who last year was forced out after acknowledging “missteps” in his behavior with women staff members, has been hired to run the recently launched animation division of Skydance Media, the production company announced Wednesday.

Lasseter, one of the most illustrious and pioneering figures in animation, stepped down from Disney last June in the wake of complaints about unwanted workplace touching.

In a statement, Lasseter said he has spent the last year away from the industry in “deep reflection, learning how my actions unintentionally made colleagues uncomfortable, which I deeply regret and apologize for.”

“It has been humbling but I believe it will make me a better leader,” said Lasseter.

In a memo to staff, Skydance chief executive David Ellison emphasized that he didn’t take the decision lightly. Ellison said Skydance employed outside counsel to “thoroughly investigate the allegations” against Lasseter.

“John has been forthright in taking ownership of his behavior, apologized for his actions and has spent the past year on sabbatical analyzing and improving his workplace behavior,” Ellison told staffers.

Time’s Up, the organization founded to combat sexual harassment and gender inequality in Hollywood and elsewhere, sharply criticized the hiring of Lasseter.

“Skydance Media’s decision to hire John Lasseter as head of animation endorses and perpetuates a broken system that al-

lows powerful men to act without consequence,” Time’s Up said in statement. “At a moment when we should be uplifting the many talented voices who are consistently underrepresented, Skydance Media is providing another position of power, prominence and privilege to a man who has repeatedly been accused of sexual harassment in the workplace.”

Lasseter, 61, was a creative force behind every Pixar release and was an executive producer on Disney hits (including “Frozen,” ”Moana” and “Zootopia”) released under his stewardship of the animation giant. He also directed the first two “Toy Story” movies, the first two “Cars” movies and “A Bug’s Life.”

In November 2017, in the aftermath of Harvey Weinstein’s fall, Lasseter announced that he was taking a six-month “sabbatical” from Disney and apologized “to anyone who has

ever been on the receiving end of an unwanted hug” or any other gesture that made them feel “disrespected or uncomfortable.”

At the time, Lasseter suggested he might return to Disney but last June, he and the studio announced they were cutting ties permanently. Lasseter served out the year as a consultant to Disney.

Skydance Media, founded in 2010 by the 36-year-old Ellison, the son of Oracle billionaire Larry Ellison, co-produces and co-finances films with Paramount Pictures. It has been behind a slate of largely action films, including several “Mission: Impossible” films, numerous “Star Trek” releases, “Terminator Genisys” and “Jack Reacher: Never Go Back.” Its upcoming films include the new “Top Gun” sequel.

Skydance in 2017 formed an animation division that has

In this file photo, Pixar co-founder and Walt Disney Animation chief John Lasseter arrives at the Oscars in Los Angeles. (Photo by Dan Steinberg/Invision/AP, File)

two productions in the pipeline: Alessandro Carloni’s “Luck” and an untitled action fantasy to be directed by Vicky Jenson.

Lasseter will set the overall strategy and creative direction of the division, and oversee production.

‘Aquaman’ still rules, and others see a post-Christmas bump

By LINDSEY BAHR AP Film Writer

LOS ANGELES — In the final weekend of 2018, “Aquaman” still led the pack at the box office, but other films like “Mary Poppins Returns,” ”The Mule” and “Second Act” enjoyed post-holiday bumps too, even amid an onslaught of new Christmas offerings like “Vice,” ”Holmes and Watson,” ”On the Basis of Sex” and the Netflix phenomenon “Bird Box.” Warner Bros. said Sunday that “Aquaman” added an estimated $51.6 million in North American ticket sales over the weekend to take first place again. Down just 24 percent from its domestic debut, the DC Comics pic, which has been No. 1 internationally for four weeks, has now grossed nearly $748.8 million worldwide.

Although other films in theaters were left in “Aquaman’s” wake, more than a few in the top 10 experienced an uncommon uptick in returns this weekend.

Disney’s “Mary Poppins Returns” ended the weekend up an estimated 19 percent, in second place, with $28 million, while “Bumblebee,” down only five percent, settled in third with $20.5 million.

Up 11 percent, “SpiderMan: Into the Spider-Verse” got fourth with $18.3 million, and “The Mule,” up 24 percent, took fifth with $11.8 million.

The Jennifer Lopez-led “Second Act,” which got off to a slow start last weekend, also found itself up 11 percent, with $7.2 million in seventh place. But the biggest bump of all came for Disney’s “Ralph Breaks the Internet,” which was up nearly 40 percent in its sixth weekend in theaters, with $6.5 million.

“There is a bit of a lull on the weekend leading into Christmas. People are busy and distracted,” said Comscore’s senior media analyst Paul Dergarabedian. “But the weekend after, most of these films in the top 10 got a bounce.”

This so-called “catch-up” weekend made it a little difficult for the Christmas newcomers to make a huge impact, however, especially when the big widereleases this time were either politically charged (the Dick Cheney movie “Vice”) or poorly reviewed (“Holmes and Watson,” which is in the single digits on Rotten Tomatoes and got a deathly D+ CinemaScore).

Annapurna’s “Vice,” starring Christian Bale as the former Vice President, came out on top for the new films, grossing $7.8 million from the weekend and $17.7 million since its Christmas opening.

A leading contender at the Golden Globe Awards this coming Sunday, the film earned mixed reviews from critics and a C+ CinemaScore from audiences.

“That a movie with that subject matter can ride a wave to sixth place is really indicative of how interested people are in this movie,” Dergarabedian said.

“This is required viewing for anyone studying the awards season race.”

Driven by the star-power of Will Ferrell and John C. Reilly, “Holmes and Watson” managed to take in $7.3 million despite the negative audience and critic reviews. The Sony film has grossed $19.7 million since Christmas Day. And in limited release, the Ruth Bader Ginsburg film “On the Basis of Sex” starring Felicity Jones grossed $690,000 from 33 locations, for a total of $1.5 million since its debut. The Laurel and Hardy film “Stan & Ollie,” also with Reilly, opened on five screens to $79,674,” and “Destroyer,” with Nicole Kidman, earned $58,472 from three locations.

The box office year as a whole is barreling toward a record $11.9 billion in returns, as time runs out on 2018, although final numbers won’t be in from all the studios until mid-week.

“This is the perfect way to end a record box office year,” Dergarabedian said. “This weekend represented everything that this year was about: Diversity,

escapism and the movie-going experience in the theater, once again proving that the movie theater can take on all competition and come out a winner.”

Estimated ticket sales for Friday through Sunday at U.S. and Canadian theaters, according to Comscore. Where available, the latest international numbers for Friday through Sunday are also included. Final domestic figures will be released Monday.

1.”Aquaman,” $51.6 million ($85.4 million international).

2.”Mary Poppins Returns,” $28 million ($28.9 million international).

3.”Bumblebee,” $20.5 million ($45.7 million international).

4.”Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse,” $18.3 million ($27.4 million international).

5.”The Mule,” $11.8 million.

6.”Vice,” $7.8 million ($875,160 international).

7.”Holmes and Watson,” $7.3 million ($4 million international).

8.”Second Act,” $7.2 million

($1.5 million international).

9.”Ralph Breaks the Internet,” $6.5 million ($13.7 million international).

10.”Dr. Seuss’ The Grinch,” $4.2 million ($17.5 million international).

——— Estimated ticket sales for Friday through Sunday at international theaters (excluding the U.S. and Canada), according to Comscore: 1. “Aquaman,” $85.4 million.

2. “Bumblebee,” $45.7 million.

3. “Mary Poppins Returns,” $28.9 million.

4. “Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse,” $27.4 million.

5. “Kill Mobile,” $20 million.

6. “Dr. Seuss’ The Grinch,” $17.5 million.

7. “Bohemian Rhapsody,” $17.1 million.

8. “Mojin: The Worm Valley,” $16.7 million.

9. “Ralph Breaks the Internet,” $13.7 million.

10. “Fantastic Beasts: Crimes of Grindelwald,” $8.2 million.

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Jeff Bridges accepts Globes’ DeMille honor

This image released by NBC shows Jeff Bridges accepting the Cecil B. Demille Award during the 76th Annual Golden Globe Awards. (Paul Drinkwater/NBC via AP)

fant alongside his mother in a film, the prolific — and sometimes underappreciated — acBEVERLY HILLS, Calif. tor gleefully accepted the Cecil — Nearly seven decades after B. DeMille Award at Sunday’s Jeff Bridges appeared as an in- Golden Globe Awards.

By JONATHAN LANDRUM Jr. AP Entertainment Writer

Bridges, known as “The Dude,” stepped onstage full of energy, thanking everyone from his stand-in of nearly 70 years to his late parents.

He compared himself and ev-

eryone in the ballroom at the Beverly Hilton Hotel to a trim tab, the tiny piece beneath a ship that can change the craft’s direction, saying they can all “turn this ship around, man!”

He recognized Peter Bogdanovich for giving his start by casting him in the 1971 film “The Last Picture Show.” He thanked Joel and Ethan Coen for giving him his signature role as the Dude in 1998’s “The Big Lebowski,” which became a cult classic thanks to his nonchalant, knit-sweater wearing character Jeffrey “The Dude” Lebowski.

Sam Elliott narrated a montage of Bridges’ work in the same style that he narrated “The Big Lebowski,” saying, “Sometimes, making it look easy, can be mighty hard work.”

“If I’m lucky, I’ll be associated with The Dude for the rest of my life,” he said. “I feel honored to be a part of that film.”

Bridges, 69, comes from a strong acting lineage. He is the son of the late actors Lloyd and late Dorothy Bridges; his younger brother is Beau Bridges.

Bridges made his acting debut as an infant by appearing with his mother in the 1951 film “The Company She Keeps.”

Chris Pine, who starred with Bridges in “Hell or High Water,” presented the award to Bridges calling him “El Duderino.” Pine said everyone in the room and in Hollywood would agree he was “a master

craftsman and a kind and wonderful gentleman.”

Bridges won a Globe in 2010 for best actor for his role in “Crazy Heart,” when he remarked at the time during his acceptance speech about “chipping away” at his underappreciated status. He went on to win an Academy Award that year. Over the years, he has also received Globe nominations for his performances in “Starman,” ”The Fisher King,” ”Contender” and “Hell or High Water.”

“I looked at my life through the filtered movies,” Bridges said.

The DeMille Award is given annually to an “individual who has made an incredible impact on the world of entertainment.” Past recipients include Oprah Winfrey, Morgan Freeman, Meryl Streep, Jodie Foster, Barbra Streisand, Sidney Poitier and Lucille Ball.

In 1983, Bridges founded the End Hunger Network, a nonprofit dedicated to feeding children globally.

Bridges co-executive produced the 1996 television film “Hidden in America,” which focused on poverty in America.

Last year, he appeared in the mystery thriller “Bad Times at the El Royale” starring Chris Hemsworth, Jon Hamm and Dakota Johnson.

Mamma Mia! ‘Rhapsody’ upsets ‘Star Is Born’ at Globes

By JAKE COYLE AP Film Writer

NEW YORK — Thunder bolt and lightning rocked the 76th Golden Globes where a string of upsets culminated with the Freddie Mercury biopic “Bohemian Rhapsody” winning best picture, drama, over another movie about musicians: Bradley Cooper’s much more heavily favored “A Star Is Born.”

“A Star Is Born” came into Sunday’s ceremony at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills, California, as the presumed heavyweight and Oscar favorite. But Cooper’s remake went home with just one award, for the song “Shallow.” Instead, the night’s final two awards went to “Bohemian Rhapsody” — the popular but poorly reviewed drama about Queen’s frontman, a movie that wrapped after jettisoning its director, Bryan Singer — and best actor-winner Rami Malek for his fullbodied, prosthetic teeth-aided performance as Mercury.

“Thank you to Freddie Mercury for giving me the joy of a lifetime,” said Malek.

“This is for you, gorgeous.”

Few nominees were considered more of a sure thing than Lady Gaga as best actress in a drama. But Glenn Close pulled off the shocker in that category, too, for her performance in “The Wife,” as the spouse of a Nobel Prize-winning author. Met with a standing ovation, Close said she was thinking of her mother, “who really sublimated herself to my father her whole life.”

“We have to find personal fulfillment. We have to follow our dreams,” said Close, drawing still louder cheers from women in the crowd.

“We have to say I can do that and I should be allowed to do that.”

It’s Close’s second Globe in 14 nods. She’s never won an Oscar.

A year after Oprah Winfrey’s fiery anti-Donald Trump speech at the Globes, politics were largely absent from the ceremony before Christian Bale took the stage for winning best actor in a musical or comedy for his lead performance in Adam McKay’s “Vice.” He thanked the antichrist.

“What do you think? Mitch McConnell next?” joked the Welsh-born actor, referring to the Senate’s majority leader.

“Thank you to Satan for giving me inspiration for this role.”

Co-hosts Sandra Oh and Andy Samberg opened the Globes, put on by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, on a note of congeniality, including a mock roast of attendees and a string of jokes that playfully critiqued Hol-

lywood. Oh performed an impression of a sexist caveman film executive who casts like the title of Damien Chazelle’s Neil Armstrong drama: “First … man!”

Noting the success of “Crazy Rich Asians,” Oh alluded to films with white stars in Asian roles like “Ghost in the Shell” and “Aloha,” the latter of which prompted Emma Stone, who starred in “Aloha,” to shout out “I’m sorry!” from the crowd.

But Oh, who later also won for her performance on the BBC America drama series “Killing Eve,” closed their opening monologue on a serious note explaining why she was hosting.

“I wanted to be here to look out at this audience and witness this moment of change,” said Oh, tearing up and gazing at minority nominees in attendance. “Right now, this moment is real. Trust me, this is real. Because I see you.

And I see you. All of these faces of change. And now, so will everyone else.”

Some of those faces Oh alluded to won. Mahershala Ali, whom the foreign press association overlooked for his Oscar-winning performance in “Moonlight,” won best supporting actor for “Green Book.” While the Globes, decided by 88 voting members of the HFPA, have little relation to the Academy Awards, they can supply some awardsseason momentum when it matters most. Oscar nomination voting begins Monday.

Arguably the biggest boost went to “Green Book,” Peter Farrelly’s interracial road trip through the early ’60s Deep South, which has struggled to catch on at the box office while coming under harsh criticism for relying on racial tropes. It won best film, comedy or musical, and best screenplay. “If Don Shirley and Tony Vallelonga can find common ground, we all can,” said Farrelly, the director best known for broader comedies like “There’s Something About Mary.”

The year’s biggest domestic box-office hit, “Black Panther,” went unrewarded, though presenters Chadwick Boseman, Michael B. Jordan, Lupita Nyong’o and Danai Gurira took a moment, in unison, for a shout of “Wakanda Forever!”

As expected, Lady Gaga, Mark Ronson, Anthony Rossomando and Andrew Wyatt won best song for the signature tune from “A Star Is Born.” At the time, it seemed like just the first of a handful of awards for “A Star Is Born.”

“Can I just say that as a woman in music, it’s really hard to be taken seriously as a musician and as songwriter and these three incredible

men, they lifted me up,” Gaga said.

Though the Globes are put on by foreign journalists, they don’t including foreign language films in their two best picture categories (for drama and musical/comedy). That left Netflix’s Oscar hopeful, Alfonso Cuaron’s memory-drenched masterwork “Roma” out of the top category. Cuaron still won best director and the Mexican-born filmmaker’s movie won best foreign language film.

“This film would not have been possible without the specific colors that made me who I am,” said Cuaron. “Gracias, familia. Gracias, Mexico.”

Netflix also won numerous awards for the series “The Kominsky Method,” which won both best actor in a comedy series for Michael Douglas (he dedicated the honor to this 102-year-old father, Kirk Douglas) and for best comedy series over favored nominees like “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel” (whose star, Rachel Brosnahan still won) and “Barry.”

“Netflix, Netflix, Netflix,” said series creator Chuck Lorre.

Olivia Colman, expected to be Lady Gaga’s stiffest competition when the two presumably go head-to-head at the Oscars — though Close may now make it a three-way race — won best actress in a comedy/musical for her Queen Anne in the royal romp “The Favourite.” ”I ate constantly throughout the film,” said Colman. “It was brilliant.”

Best supporting actress in a motion picture went to the Oscar front-runner Regina King for her matriarch of Barry Jenkins’ James Baldwin adaptation “If Beale Street Could Talk.” In her acceptance speech, King spoke about the Time’s Up movement and vowed that the movie crews of everything she produces in the next two years will be half women. She challenged others to do likewise.

“Stand with us in solidarity and do the same,” said King, who was also nominated for the TV series “Seven Seconds.”

A year after the Globes were awash in a sea of black and #MeToo discussion replaced fashion chatter, the red carpet largely returned to more typical colors and conversation. Some attendees wore ribbons that read TIMESUPx2, to highlight the second year of the gender equality campaign that last year organized the Globes blackclad demonstration. Alyssa Milano, the actress who was integral in making #MeToo go viral, said on the red carpet that in the past year a “really wonderful sisterhood has formed.”

This image released by NBC shows Rami Malek accepting the award for best actor in a motion picture drama for his role as Freddie Mercury in a scene from “Bohemian Rhapsody” during the 76th Annual Golden Globe Awards. (Paul Drinkwater/NBC via AP)

This image released by NBC shows Christian Bale accepting the award for best actor in motion picture musical or comedy for his role in “Vice” during the 76th Annual Golden Globe Awards at the Beverly Hilton Hotel. (Paul Drinkwater/NBC via AP)

“Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse” won for best animated film. Ryan Murphy’s “The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story” won for both best limited series and Darren Criss’ lead performance.

For its sixth and final season, FX’s “The Americans” took best drama series over shows like Amazon’s conspiracy thriller “Homecoming” and Oh’s own “Killing Eve.” Richard Madden, the breakout star of the terrorism suspense series “Bodyguard,” won best actor in a drama series. Ben Wishaw took best supporting actor in a limited series for “A Very English Scandal.”

The press association typically likes having first crack at series that weren’t eligible

for the prior Emmys. They did this year with not just “The Kominsky Method” and “Bodyguard” but also the Showtime prison drama “Escape at Dannemora.” Its star, Patricia Arquette, won for best actress in a limited series.

Last year’s show, like a lot of recent awards shows, saw ratings decline. Some 19 million tuned in to the Seth Meyers-hosted broadcast, an 11-percent decline in viewership. This year, Globes broadcaster NBC has one thing in its favor: an NFL lead in.

NBC aired the late afternoon nail-biter between the Chicago Bears and the Philadelphia Eagles, likely delivering the network a huge audience.

Jeff Bridges received the Globes’ honorary Cecil B.

DeMille Award. In remarks about everything from Michael Cimino to Buckminster Fuller and, of course, to his “Big Lebowski” character the Dude, Bridges compared his life to a great game of tag. “We’ve all been tagged,” said Bridges.

“We’re alive.” He ended by “tagging” everyone watching. “We can turn this ship in the way we want to go, man,” said Bridges.

A similar television achievement award was also launched this year, dubbed the Carol Burnett Award. Its first honoree was Burnett, herself.

“I’m kind of really gobsmacked by this,” said Burnett. “Does this mean that I get to accept it every year?”

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After a tame Globes, is a less-charged awards season ahead?

By LINDSEY BAHR AP Film Writer

BEVERLY HILLS, Calif.

— The Golden Globe Awards looked like it had gone entirely back to frothy, bubbly business as usual, until Regina King did the impossible: She got the orchestra to stop playing her off.

Not even Lady Gaga had that much power.

King used her platform on stage accepting the supporting actress award for “If Beale Street Could Talk,” to shed a light on Time’s Up x 2, the second year iteration of the legal defense fund founded in the wake of the sexual misconduct revelations that shook Hollywood.

“We understand that our microphones are big and we’re speaking for everyone,” she said before pledging that every project she produces for the next two years will have at least 50 percent of women working on it. “And I challenge anyone out there who is in in a position of power, not just in our industry, in all industries, I challenge you to … stand with us in solidarity and do the same.”

It would be one of the rare show-stopping moments of the night. After last year’s Golden Globes were host to such a powerful display of female solidarity , in which top actresses walked the carpet in all-black alongside prominent activists in support of Time’s Up and #MeToo, this year, statements were no longer collective. They were individual.

A few actresses, Gina Rodriguez and Rachel Brosnahan among them, wore Time’s Up x 2 ribbons on the carpet; Patricia Clarkson said that her “Sharp Objects” director JeanMarc Vallee “demanded everything of me except sex which is exactly how it should be in our industry”; Glenn Close implored women to “find per-

sonal fulfillment” and follow their dreams; Co-host Sandra Oh got emotional saying she said yes to hosting so that she could, “Look out on this audience and witness this moment of change”; And Emma Stone even shouted out an apology from the audience for playing a part-Asian character in “Aloha.”

Sunday’s Globes could be a sign that awards shows in general are going to return to business as usual: The occasional snide political remark (Christian Bale thanking Satan for inspiration playing Dick Cheney, or positing that Mitch McConnell might be a good “uncharismatic” role to play next, adding an expletive), or showbiz joke (Oh and Andy Samberg saying in unison that “one lucky audience member will host the Oscars!”).

Harrison Ford presented the directing award and did not, as Natalie Portman did last year, note that all the nominees were men (again). Patricia Arquette, who three years ago called for equal pay while accepting her supporting actress Oscar, kept her speech to standard HFPA, fellow nominee and producer thanks (albeit with two Fbombs). And following two years of show-stealing Cecil B. DeMille award speeches from Meryl Streep and Oprah Winfrey, Jeff Bridges brought the honor back to earth with a heartfelt, nostalgic and, interestingly wide-ranging vamp about everything from Peter Bogdanovich and the Coen brothers to geodesic domes.

Even Carol Burnett, as the first-ever recipient of an award named after her, stayed in the past as well, speaking about how her show would never get made today.

As for the winners, while the choices of the 88-member Hollywood Foreign Press Association has no direct relation to the nearly 8,000 members of

the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, a win on a stage of the Golden Globes doesn’t go unnoticed, and Oscar nomination voting began Monday. Some probably didn’t need a bounce, like Olivia Colman’s win for “The Favourite,” or “Shallow” winning best original song. Some did, like Glenn Close who upset Lady Gaga with her best actress drama win for “The Wife” and gave one of the best speeches of the night. And two divisivefor-different-reasons films got high-profile boosts winning the top film awards and key acting awards: The Queen biopic “Bohemian Rhapsody” (which won over “A Star Is Born”) and the inspired-by-a-true-story Jim Crow-era South road trip movie “Green Book.”

“Bohemian Rhapsody” was not well-received by critics, who pointed out its factual inaccuracies and music biopic trappings, but resonated with audiences (it’s made over $743 million worldwide to date), and its awards profile is growing. “Green Book,” meanwhile, went from winning the audience award at the Toronto International Film Festival to being scrutinized for its racial politics.

“Green Book” director Peter Farrelly also got the orchestra to back off, but, in his case it was so that he could talk about his film.

“This story gave me hope and I wanted to share that hope with you,” Farrelly said on stage. “If Don Shirley and Tony Vallelonga can find a common ground so can we.”

Both pleased enough crowds and HFPA voters, despite the backlash, to win out over “A Star Is Born,” a film that everyone, wrongly, presumed would dominate Sunday night.

But everyone loves an underdog, and now, it’s “A Star This image released by NBC shows Regina King accepting the award for best supporting acIs Born’s” turn to find its way tress in a motion picture for her role in “If Beale Street Could Talk” during the 76th Annual Golden Globe Awards. (Paul Drinkwater/NBC via AP) back to the top.

At NBRs, Hollywood’s award season clashes with Trump address

By JAKE COYLE AP Film Writer

NEW YORK — While Sunday’s Golden Globes were notable for their lack of political speeches, Donald Trump couldn’t be avoided at Tuesday night’s National Board of Review Awards which, it turned out, were scheduled concurrently with the president’s nationally televised address advocating for a border wall with Mexico.

The awkward timing made for a ceremony that seldom strayed far from politics. Most of the previously announced winners at the star-studded, untelevised gala at Cipriani’s in Manhattan — including Lady Gaga of “A Star Is Born” and director Peter Farrelly of “Green Book” — made some mention or allusion to Trump and his policies.

Barry Jenkins, accepting the award for best adapted screenplay for James Baldwin’s “If Beale Street Could Talk,” happened to take the stage as Trump was addressing the nation from the Oval Office.

“Literally right now the president is talking about walls and borders. I don’t know how this happened. So I can’t help but talk about the president and borders and all these walls,” said the “Moonlight” director.

“There’s a film being celebrated called ‘Minding the Gap,’

by Bing Liu. Bing Liu and his family emigrated here. The president does not want them here.”

Jenkins also cited two of the year’s most acclaimed movies — Chloe Zhao’s “The Rider” and Alfonso Cuaron’s “Roma” — as other brilliant films made by immigrant filmmakers that Trump would dismiss. He concluded by quoting Baldwin — “One can only face in others what one can face in oneself” — and declaring “No walls. No borders,” along with an expletive directed at Trump.

The annual dinner was hosted by Willie Geist and put on by the National Board of Review, a 109-year-old organization of film enthusiasts, academics and professionals. It’s one of the many traditional stops in Hollywood’s awards season. While it has little bearing on the Oscars race, the NBRs can be a frothy pit-stop between other honors and a welcome chance to polish acceptance speeches that might have gone unused at the Globes.

Both Lady Gaga (best actress) and Bradley Cooper (best director) were presented with awards two days after their film went home with a disappointing solitary Globe. Cooper was introduced by Steven Spielberg, who lauded Cooper’s directorial debut as a birth of a filmmaking talent. “Bradley’s a survivor and Bradley’s a sponge,” Spiel-

Lady Gaga attends the National Board of Review Awards gala at Cipriani 42nd Street . (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP)

berg said.

Introducing Gaga was Stephen Colbert, who happily noted that “being here meant I had

to miss the president’s stupid speech.” In lengthy and poised remarks that lasted 13 minutes, Gaga said she was very differ-

ent from her character.

“I knew that although she was a strong woman, she would feel the pressures to succumb to what other’s saw her future as, whereas in my career I have over and over tried to subvert the influence of powerful men in my life had on me and create something unexpected all on my own,” said Gaga. “If they told me to go left, I would take a sharp, sharp right.”

Her co-star Sam Elliott was also celebrated Tuesday as best supporting actor. The 74-yearold actor’s speech, spoken in Elliott’s trademark, modest drawl, earned the night’s most raucous standing ovation.

For Farrelly’s 1960s interracial road trip “Green Book,” which won best film (comedy or musical) at the Globes, it was another night of celebration. The NBRs bestowed best picture and best actor (Viggo Mortensen) on the divisive film despite complaints over its racial sensitivity and its authenticity. “Green Book” got another boost earlier Tuesday, too, when Farrelly was selected among the five directors nominated by the Director’s Guild for its annual — and often quite predictive — honors.

Farrelly said he hoped his film, made as a feel-good throwback, could bring people together — as he hoped a future president could, too.

“All it takes to find common

ground is to talk and to listen and to learn,” said Farrelly.

“You know who I’m voting for next? The politician who represents all of us.”

Some awards were handed out before Trump’s speech.

Breakthrough performance honoree Thomasin McKenzie, the young New Zealand actress of “Leave No Trace,” said a better world can’t be made “if we build a wall to keep people out.” Geist called her comments a “pre-buttal.”

Honored as the best documentary of the year, the makers of the Ruth Bader Ginsburg portrait “RBG” — Betsy West and Julie Cohen — said that the justice’s family had told them that Ginsburg, who has lately missed oral arguments, is recovering well from surgery and plans to participate in upcoming decisions — an announcement that drew some of the loudest cheers of the evening.

As tribute to Ginsburg’s exercise regimen, both West and Cohen ended their speech by planking on the stage.

Another constant theme of the evening was the usual mystery of just who exactly the National Board of Review is. The Polish filmmaker Pawel Pawlikowski, whose “Cold War” was honored as best foreign language film, chuckled at the confusion. “I like you whoever you are,” he said. “I hope I meet you one day.”

CBS News president steps down, replaced by veteran producer

In this file photo, David Rhodes, president of CBS news division, participates in the CBS News panel at the CBS Summer TCA Tour . (Photo by Richard Shotwell/Invision/AP, File)

By DAVID BAUDER AP Media Writer

NEW YORK — CBS said Sunday that its news division president, David Rhodes, is stepping down following a troubled year that saw morning anchor Charlie Rose and the top executive at “60 Minutes”

lose their jobs following misconduct reports, and is being replaced by veteran producer Susan Zirinsky.

Zirinsky, who started work at CBS in the Washington bureau as a 20-year-old in the early 1970s and is currently the executive producer at “48 Hours,” will take over in March.

“It’s a very humbling and daunting role,” said Zirinsky, 66, in an interview Sunday.

“When you’ve been working someplace for 40 years, it’s a moment.”

Rhodes will work as an adviser to CBS News after leaving, said interim CBS Corp. leader Joseph Ianniello.

In a memo to his staff, Rhodes said Sunday that “the new year is a time for renewal, for new goals. The world we cover is changing, how we cover it is changing — and it’s the right time for me to make a change too.”

Rhodes came to CBS News from Fox News Channel and, together with former CBS News Chairman Jeff Fager, saw success in emphasizing a newsier approach than its rivals. The launch of “CBS This Morning” with Rose, Gayle King and

Norah O’Donnell was a particular success.

But in November 2017, Rose was abruptly fired following reports of improper behavior involving female staffers at CBS News. The show’s ratings have taken a tumble since then, and that show’s executive producer recently exited.

Rhodes last fall also had to oust his former partner, Fager, who had returned to his original job as executive producer of “60 Minutes.” Fager had sent a message regarded as threatening to a CBS reporter who was working on a story about alleged bad behavior at the show and by Fager.

“It was a cultural shift in the country and CBS had a piece of it, no doubt about it,” Zirinsky said. “But we’ve taken it headon.”

Ianniello owes his job to a

more sordid sexual misconduct involving former CBS Corp. chief executive Leslie Moonves, who was ousted last fall. The CBS board is currently trying to halt a multi-million dollar payment Moonves was to receive upon leaving.

Besides finding a new leader at “CBS This Morning,” Zirinsky will be charged with appointing a new executive producer at “60 Minutes,” television’s most popular and influential news program. Bill Owens has been the interim leader and he was considered a top candidate for the job, along with Zirinsky.

Rhodes’ decision to appoint Jeff Glor as anchor of the “CBS Evening News” has not succeeded in the ratings.

Zirinsky said ratings issues are hardly unique to CBS News and that she’s looking forward

to the challenge of delivering news in a digital-heavy age heading into a new presidential election cycle.

“I really believe that the power is within us and there’s work to be done,” said Zirinsky, who plans to address the CBS News staff on Monday.

As a news producer, Zirinsky has had a hand in dozens of major stories over the past four decades, perhaps most memorably in a documentary account of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks as seen from the point of view of French filmmakers who were nearby making a documentary about firefighters that day.

She’s also known — as a character — to a generation of moviegoers. She was the model for the hard-charging news producer portrayed by Holly Hunter in the 1987 movie, “Broadcast News.”

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(9:59) “The Hollow” (2015) Deborah Kara Unger. ‘14’ “Stickman” (2017) Alanna Bale, Valerie Buhagiar. (:02) “Jeepers Creepers 3” (2017) Jonathan Breck.

The Magicians ‘MA’ “Kite” (2014, Action) India Eisley, Callan McAuliffe.

“Hanna” (2011, Action) Saoirse Ronan, Eric Bana.

“47 Ronin” (2013) Keanu Reeves, Hiroyuki Sanada.

CSI: Crime Scene CSI: Crime Scene CSI: Crime Scene (:06) “The Darkest Hour” (2011) Emile Hirsch. (:06) “The Thing” (2011, Horror) Mary Elizabeth Winstead.

Blade Van Helsing Van Helsing ‘14’ Van Helsing ‘14’ “Source Code” (2011) Jake Gyllenhaal.

“Tron: Legacy” (2010) Jeff Bridges, Garrett Hedlund.

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(7:45) “Mickey Blue Eyes” (1999) “Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life” “Table 19” (2017) Anna Kendrick.

“Love Happens” (2009) Aaron Eckhart. ‘PG-13’ (2:55) “Isle of Dogs” Bring It On (:45) Elvis Presley: The Searcher “Part 1” ‘PG’ (:35) Elvis Presley: The Searcher ‘PG’ (:15) “Sherlock Holmes” (2009) Robert Downey Jr. ‘PG-13’ “Pitch Perfect 3” (2017) ‘PG-13’ (7:15) “The Mask” “Phenomenon” (1996) John Travolta. ‘PG’ (:10) “Volcano” (1997) Tommy Lee Jones.

(12:55) “The Core” (2003) Aaron Eckhart. (:10) “Z for Zachariah” (7:45) “Isle of Dogs” (2018) David Bowie: The Last Five Years ‘14’ Pacific Rim (:25) “Anywhere but Here” (1999) ‘PG-13’ (:25) “The Losers” (2010) ‘PG-13’ (:10) “Ideal Home” (7:30) “Bring It On” (:15) “Sherlock Holmes” (2009) Robert Downey Jr. ‘PG-13’ (:25) “Love Happens” (2009) (:15) “Under the Tuscan Sun” (2003) ‘PG-13’ (:15) “Knight and Day” (7:10) “X2” (2003) ‘PG-13’ The Shop REAL Sports Gumbel The Sopranos ‘MA’ The Sopranos ‘MA’ The Sopranos ‘MA’ (1:55) The Sopranos ‘MA’ (2:55) The Sopranos ‘MA’ Bowie (:40) “Logan” (2017, Action) Hugh Jackman. ‘R’ The Sopranos ‘MA’ (11:55) The Sopranos (12:55) The Sopranos Sopranos (:45) The Sopranos ‘MA’ Sopranos Annapolis (:35) “Ready Player One” (2018) Tye Sheridan. ‘PG-13’ The Sopranos ‘MA’ (11:55) The Sopranos (12:50) The Sopranos (1:50) The Sopranos ‘MA’ Sopranos Sopranos (7:05) “Darkest Hour” (:15) “The Hangover” (2009) Bradley Cooper.

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“Mr. Right” (2015) (7:45) “Sphere” (1998) Dustin Hoffman. ‘PG-13’ “Happy Death Day” (2017, Horror) (:40) “Rush Hour 2” (2001) ‘PG-13’ (:10) “The Usual Suspects” (1995) ‘R’ “Out of Sight” ‘R’ (7:00) “Snow Angels” ‘R’ (8:50) “Proof” (2005) ‘PG-13’ (:35) “Big Trouble in Little China” (:15) “Insidious: The Last Key” (2018) ‘PG-13’ “Cabin Fever” (2002, Horror) ‘R’ Nightmare (:10) “Green Zone” (2010) Matt Damon. ‘R’ (:05) “War for the Planet of the Apes” (2017) Andy Serkis.

“Mr. Right” (2015) Sam Rockwell. (:10) “The Fate of the Furious” (2017) ‘PG-13’ (7:20) “Me, Myself & Irene” (2000) (:20) “Out of Sight” (1998) George Clooney. (:25) “Stratton” (2017) Dominic Cooper.

“Term Life” (2016) Vince Vaughn. (:35) “Red Sparrow” (2018) ‘R’ (7:15) “Knowing” (2009) ‘PG-13’ “Herbie: Fully Loaded” (2005) ‘G’ (:15) “Home Again” (2017) Reese Witherspoon.

“Lynyrd Skynyrd: If I Leave Here” (:45) “Patriot Games” (1992) ‘R’ (7:30) “Bull Durham” (1988) ‘R’ “Bridget Jones’s Baby” (2016) Colin Firth ‘R’ (:45) “The Death of Stalin” (2017) ‘R’ (:45) “Snatch” (2000) Benicio Del Toro. ‘R’ Untouch “Remember the Titans” (:15) “Adventureland” (2009) Jesse Eisenberg. (:15) “The Foreigner” (2017) Jackie Chan. ‘R’ (:15) “Tombstone” (1993, Western) Kurt Russell. ‘R’ Thieves (7:30) “Mystic Pizza” ‘R’ (:15) “Splash” (1984) Tom Hanks. ‘PG’ (:15) “Extract” (2009) Jason Bateman. ‘R’ “Youth in Revolt” (2009) ‘R’ “The Blair Witch Project” (1999) Maid “The Back-up Plan” (2010) ‘PG-13’ (:15) “Coyote Ugly” (2000) Piper Perabo. ‘R’ “8 Mile” (2002, Drama) Eminem. ‘R’ (1:50) “The Untouchables” (1987) ‘R’ Daniel “Gone” (2012) Amanda Seyfried. (:15) “The Truth About Lies” (2017) Fran Kranz. ‘NR’ “Throw Momma From the Train” (1987) “Dolan’s Cadillac” (2009) ‘R’ “The Pirates of Somalia” (7:00) “The Debt” “Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work” “The Eyes” (2017) Nicholas Turturro.

Adolf Hitler (:40) “Hey Arnold! The Movie” “The Beaver” (2011) Mel Gibson. (:35) Dean House “The Queen” (2006) ‘PG-13’ (:15) “Pork Pie” (2017) Dean O’Gorman. ‘NR’ (:05) “Chuck” (2016) ‘R’ (:45) “The Longshots” (2008) Ice Cube. ‘PG’ Back (7:15) “First Sunday” “Throw Momma From the Train” (1987) “The Haunted Mansion” (2003) “Wakefield” (2016) Bryan Cranston. ‘R’ “My Life” (1993) Michael Keaton. ‘PG-13’ “The Sense of an Ending” (2017) ‘PG-13’ “The Kite Runner” (2007) Khalid Abdalla. (:10) “The Spanish Prisoner” (1998) ‘PG’ “Last Weekend” (2014) ‘NR’ Professional

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January 6 - 12, 2019

B8 | Thursday, January 10, 2019 | Peninsula Clarion

Crossword

Friend working three jobs envies man on easy street They don’t have the tools you have. You are independent. He isn’t. Rather than work to build success in a profession, he’s taking road trips. You know the value of hard work, and with each of the jobs you work, you are gaining experience and focus.

From my perspective, if I had to say which of you is Abigail Van Buren richer, it is you. Step back and you will recognize you have nothing to be jealous about, and you’ll be able to change your thinking.

DEAR ABBY: I have a friend I’ll call Layla. Her best friend, “Matt,” raped her. She doesn’t want to tell anyone, but I think she needs to. She told me Matt has done it multiple times. I love her, and I don’t want it to keep happening because she’s an amazing person.

Her life isn’t going well, either. Her mom has stage 4 colon cancer and is in her final year. Her stepdad isn’t the best person, and Layla has a disease herself.

I’m really worried about her. What should I do?

-- STANDING BY IN OREGON

DEAR STANDING BY: You SHOULD be worried. Encourage Layla to contact the Rape, Abuse and Incest National Network (rainn.org or 800-6564673) and tell someone there what has been happening. Offer to be with her for emotional support when she does it. Her “best friend” (!) Matt is a predator, and for the sake of her own mental health she must no longer allow herself to be victimized.

Layla will need your friendship and support while her mother spends this final year battling her disease. It’s a shame that her stepfather isn’t supportive, but he may be grieving in his own way and unable to.

With the amount of stress that your friend is under, it is not surprising that she’s ill. Stress can weaken the immune system. If she’s being treated by a doctor for her illness, her doctor should be made aware of everything that’s going on. She may be more inclined to reveal it if you accompany her to an appointment.

Dear Abby is written by Abigail Van Buren, also known as Jeanne Phillips, and was founded by her mother, Pauline Phillips. Contact Dear Abby at www.

DearAbby.com or P.O. Box 69440, Los Angeles, CA 90069.

Hints from Heloise

HAPPY BIRTHDAY for Thursday, Jan. 10, 2019: This year you will forge ahead toward a goal that you’ve wanted to achieve for a while. Be aware of the emotional cost of pursuing this path.

You might ignore other matters. If you are single, you meet others with ease.

Choosing the right person could be difficult, as you are running around with your rose-colored glasses on.

If you are attached, the two of you might have an unusually romantic year. You and your sweetie feel more bonded than in recent years. PISCES understands you well.

The Stars Show the Kind of Day You’ll Have: 5-Dynamic; 4-Positive; 3-Average; 2-So-so; 1-Difficult ARIES (March 21-April 19) HHH You become more introverted with your communication style. If you have a trusted confidant, you might want to air out your thoughts to him or her. This person’s feedback could give you a new perspective. You will be more content after this discussion.

Tonight: Daydream away.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20) HHH A friendship plays a strong role in your life. You share your news, thoughts and feelings without receiving any judgment from others. You might find a loved one to be more positive about a key matter involving both of you than you had anticipated.

Tonight: Do what you want.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20) HHH Reach out to someone who has clout in your life. Don’t push someone too hard in order to achieve a goal. This person might need to share his or her concerns about a mutual involvement. You will be delighted

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by the result. Tonight: Someone admires you more than you realize.

CANCER (June 21-July 22) HHH Read between the lines with a close associate who presents another perspective. A partner could be less serious than usual. This person will lighten up as the day progresses.

Discuss a possible trip or change that you’d like to make. Tonight: Be wherever there is great music.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) HHH One-on-one relating takes you down an interesting rabbit hole.

You discover more about how a close associate thinks. Your ability to be upbeat helps turn a loved one’s mood around. This person appears to lack self-discipline. Tonight: At a favorite place with a favorite person.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) HHH Defer to a partner who has a very different point of view. Handling a creative project takes some discipline. You easily could forget your boundaries. Check out a personal investment that you hear might be more valuable than its price indicates.

Tonight: A loved one intrigues you.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) HHH Deal with a matter that could affect your health. You could feel somewhat tired or withdrawn due to this issue. Take good care of yourself.

Your enthusiasm might be higher later on, and you’ll be likely to take on yet another project. Tonight: Take a walk by a body of water.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) HHH Your imagination could take you beyond your limits. You might have difficulty reining in your imagination and staying present in the moment. Call upon your self-discipline

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to stay more present in the moment.

Use care with spending. Tonight: Consider starting the weekend early.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) HHH Tension builds around a personal matter. Try to use your self-discipline when out and about. Window shopping could get you into a lot of trouble. Your personality helps a loved one reveal what is on his or her mind.

Your imagination could go overboard.

Tonight: Head home early.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) HHH Discussions could be animated, and might stem from what each person around you desires or thinks.

There is a level of distortion that you need to be aware of. At the moment, dreams float into facts. Look for reality another day! Tonight: Follow your intuition.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) HHH Be more forthright in how you deal with what is bothering you.

Others note that you might be quieter than usual about certain matters.

A friend or loved one has a way of opening you up and helping you see a situation from a different perspective. Tonight: Indulge yourself a little.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) HHH You might be working on another level when dealing with a loved one. You can’t help but distort your perspective in order to see this person as you wish. The issue here is that he or she is likely to disappoint you -- mostly because you are being unrealistic. Tonight: Tap into your imagination.

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Singer/songwriter Pat Benatar (1953), singer/songwriter Rod Stewart (1945), boxer George Foreman (1949)

Toss those freezer boxes Dear Heloise: I remove most of my boxes from my FREEZER. If your freezer is like mine, most of the boxes aren’t full. It’s easier to store single items than a half-empty box of ice cream bars, for example.

-- Roy R., via email One thing to be aware of? There can be important info printed on the box: the ingredients list, recipes, the Nutrition Facts panel, and the contact number and address for the company.

You can cut off the panel of the box and band it together with the items.

-- Heloise DRINK CARRIERS Dear Readers: The plain cardboard drink carriers (with a handle) that you get from the takeout window? Don’t throw them away.

Here are some uses for them: * Organize hairbrushes, hair ties, hair spray and other “hair stuff” on a dresser. * Combine crayons, pencils and art supplies for toddlers. * Hold a remote and other random knickknacks in the den. * Use to carry gardening tools once the weather warms up.

If you must discard it, put it in the recycle bin, or tear it up for the compost pile.

-- Heloise BOTTOM DWELLER Dear Heloise: I store thawing meat on the bottom shelf in the fridge. It’s colder, and there’s no chance of juices dripping down on other foods.

-- Bethany W. in Indiana WHAT GOES AROUND ...

Dear Readers: One of my favorite cheapo cleaners is actually bargain hair shampoo! It won’t break the bank, but it will break up greasy stains. One stain that’s easy to clean? Ring around the collar.

Run a thin line of shampoo on the inside neckband. Rub in gently, let sit and rinse.

Launder as usual. Keep cheap hair shampoo on hand, and use as a safe cleaner.

-- Heloise

SUDOKU

By Tom Wilson

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DEAR ABBY: I am having issues with a friend who gets handed most everything he wants. I had to grow up when I was very young, pay my own way for things and take care of myself. I work three jobs to pay my rent in a house with four other people while still pursuing my passion.

This friend is unemployed. He lives in an apartment his parents pay for and goes on frequent road trips. I have reached a point where I have become seriously envious, and I’m not sure how to stop feeling frustrated that he has an easier life than I do.

I care about our friendship, but it’s physically painful sometimes when he talks about these luxuries that I can’t afford. Should I cut off the relationship? Is this something I should talk about with him or something I need to work on myself?

-- ENVIOUS IN NEW YORK DEAR ENVIOUS: Why not do both? Tell him how his going on and on about his “luxuries” makes you feel. If that doesn’t increase his sensitivity to the disparity in your situations, you have my permission to end the relationship.

HOWEVER, while you are working on yourself, please understand that your friend’s parents are doing him no favors. “Children” raised without an incentive to succeed are not often successful in life.

By Eugene Sheffer