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Tuesday, December 11, 2018 Kenai Peninsula, Alaska

Vol. 49, Issue 62

In the news 2 men found dead in west Anchorage may have shot each other ANCHORAGE — Two men found dead on a west-side Anchorage street may have shot each other.

Anchorage police Monday say their preliminary investigation found that the two men had met inside a truck Sunday afternoon to discuss the sale of a gun.

Police say they apparently got into an argument and shot each other. Their names and ages have not been released.

Police responding to shots fired around 5:10 p.m. found both men dead.

One man was found inside a vehicle parked on west 29th Avenue and another was outside the vehicle.

Officers stopped a vehicle on nearby Northern Lights Boulevard and questioned the driver. Police say he was not involved in the shooting and was released.

Dunleavy among new leaders to meet with Trump on Thursday ANCHORAGE — Officials in Gov. Dunleavy’s office say he will be meeting with President Donald Trump on Thursday.

Officials said Monday that Dunleavy and 12 other newly elected governors and territorial governors will participate in the Washington, D.C., meeting.

Dunleavy says in a statement that the meeting is the “first of many opportunities to work in concert with the President and federal officials on advancing my administration’s priorities, like bringing new jobs and investment to Alaska.”

Fairbanks police say officer stole money from lost wallet ANCHORAGE — Fairbanks police say an officer has resigned after admitting that he stole up to $80 from a lost wallet that was turned over to him.

Police say Manuel Beza resigned on Friday. He could not be reached for comment Monday.

Police spokeswoman Yumi McCulloch says the state Office of Special Prosecutions is reviewing the case Police say a local man who found the wallet Nov. 23 turned it over to Beza. The man told police the wallet contained about $120 when he gave it to Beza.

The wallet owner later told the local man there was no cash in the wallet when it was retrieved.

Police say Beza initially denied taking any money but later said he took between $60 and $80.

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Republican leaves GOP caucus Rep. Gary Knopp seeks bipartisan coalition to run House

By BECKY BOHRER Associated Press

JUNEAU — A Republican state lawmaker is seeking to create a bipartisan majority coalition in the House after leaving a fragile GOP caucus that he said was “doomed to fail.”

The announcement by Kenai Rep. Gary Knopp is the latest twist in efforts to organize the House, with the new legislative session now just five weeks away.

Knopp said Monday he wanted to start talks on possibly forming a bipartisan coalition, with leadership roles divided equally between Republican and Democratic law-

In this Jan. 16, 2017, file photo, then Rep.-elect Gary Knopp sits in his office at the Alaska Capitol in Juneau. (AP Photo/ Becky Bohrer, File)

makers. “This them-against- course,” he said. us stuff has just really run its Recent years have been

marked by sharp debate over how to address a state budget deficit and what size check Alaskans should get from the state oil-wealth fund. The future of the dividend check program is expected to be a big issue in the coming session.

Knopp said he wasn’t sure whether a majority of some type would be in place in time for the start of session, Jan. 15.

If a majority were not in place by then, it wouldn’t be the first time that has happened.

In that case, Lt. Gov. Kevin Meyer would serve as speaker or elect a pro tempore to hold technical sessions until the House elects a speaker, said See KNOPP, page A3

Work begins on recovery home for men

By VICTORIA PETERSEN Peninsula Clarion

Jennifer Waller and a team of volunteers have begun the renovations to the Soldotna home that will be used as the men’s Freedom House location.

Waller, the founder of Freedom House, a faith-based women’s recovery home, is determined to open the same kind of facility for area men struggling with addictions, and hopes to have it up and running in the next couple of months.

“Opening in February would be my goal,” Waller said. “I would be happy with that.”

To make men’s Freedom House a reality, Waller needed to secure her ideal location, which is the home at 167 Warehouse Drive in Soldotna.

The site is close to emergency services and within walking distance of restaurants, coffee shops and other businesses along the Sterling Highway.

Last month, Waller announced

Freedom House founder Jennifer Waller is photographed at the women’s recovery home in March 2018. Waller is hoping to open a men’s recovery facility in early 2019. (Photo by Erin Thompson/Peninsula Clarion)

Freedom House was one step chase the home for the noncloser to securing the Soldot- profit.

Since November, legal isna home after an anonymous elderly couple offered to pur- sues poked holes in the plan for

the donation. Waller said her lawyers were concerned that if and when the anonymous donors entered a nursing or assisted living home, the state could potentially seize their assets, including the Soldotna home, to cover costs of care. Waller also noted she couldn’t give receipts to volunteers as a nonprofit if their building wasn’t also owned by a nonprofit.

These legal hiccups didn’t stop Waller from making progress on the expansion of Freedom House. The anonymous donors offered Waller the $250,000 in the form of a low-interest loan with a low monthly payment, which gave Waller the ability to purchase the home and get to work with renovations.

Waller said the renovations were estimated to cost around $200,000, but may now cost $250,000.

“We’ve got a lot of work done already,” Waller said.

See MEN, page A3

Trump scrambling to find new chief of staff

By ZEKE MILLER, JILL COLVIN and JONATHAN LEMIRE Associated Press

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump is scrambling to find a new chief of staff after his first choice to replace John Kelly bailed at the last minute and several other potential successors signaled they weren’t interested in the job.

Back to square one, Trump is mulling over a list of at

least four potential candidates after Nick Ayers, Vice President Mike Pence’s chief of staff, took himself out of the running Sunday and decided that he would instead be leaving the White House. The announcement surprised even senior staffers who believed that Ayers’ ascension was a done deal.

Trump is now soliciting input on a list of candidates that is said to include Office of Management and Budget

Director Mick Mulvaney, Rep. Mark Meadows, R-N.C., the chairman of the conservative House Freedom Caucus, and former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie. And allies are pitching Trump on even more contenders.

But as quickly as names were being floated, candidates appeared to be pulling themselves from consideration, underscoring the challenges of working for a mercurial president who has

acknowledged that he likes to surround himself with chaos and despises any suggestion he’s being managed.

“In the best of times, it is relentless,” said Chris Whipple, an expert on chiefs of staff and author of “The Gatekeepers,” a book on the subject. “It’s 24/7. It’s thankless.

You get all of the blame and none of the credit for everything that happens. And that’s in the best of times. We are See CHIEF, page A2

Soldotna to consider school zone cellphone ban

By VICTORIA PETERSEN Peninsula Clarion

Soldotna City Council member Jordan Chilson is looking to amend the Soldotna Municipal Code to prohibit the use of handheld electronic devices, like cellphones, while driving in school zones and on school property.

This year, the Alaska State Legislature passed House Bill 333, which gave cities the ability to regulate the use of cellphones while operating a motor vehicle in active school See CELL, page A3

Groups to sue over Atlantic offshore drilling tests

By MEG KINNARD Associated Press

COLUMBIA, S.C. — Environmental groups plan to sue the Trump administration over offshore drilling tests, launching a legal fight against a proposal that has drawn bipartisan opposition along the Atlantic Coast, two people with direct knowledge of the pending litigation told The Associated Press on Monday.

The lawsuit, which aims to stop the issuance of permits for the use of seismic air guns, will be filed by a coalition of environmental groups in federal court in South Carolina on Tuesday, according to the individuals. They spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak publicly before the suit is filed.

The Trump administration has authorized five such permits, which aim to find oil and gas formations deeply below the Atlantic Ocean floor, from Delaware to central Florida, an area where seismic surveys haven’t been conducted in decades.

The blasts are conducted in preparation for potential offshore drilling, which the administration has proposed to expand from the Atlantic to the Arctic and Pacific oceans.

The five-year plan would See DRILL, page A3

Anchorage museum to archive Ketchikan city social media memes on quake officials mull cruise passenger fee ruling

ANCHORAGE (AP) — The Anchorage Museum will include social media reactions to the powerful earthquake that rocked Alaska for its archived historical record.

The collection will include viral memes and other Facebook and Twitter responses to the Nov. 30 quake that struck 7 miles north of Anchorage, Alaska Public Media reported.

The magnitude 7.0 earthquake damaged roads and structures, but caused no widespread catastrophic damage. It has been fol-

See QUAKE, page A3

In this Nov. 30 file photo, workers inspect a road that collapsed during an earthquake in Anchorage. The Anchorage Museum will include social media reactions to the powerful earthquake that rocked Alaska for its archived historical record. (AP Photo/ Mike Dinneen, File)

KETCHIKAN (AP) — Ketchikan city officials are mulling the potential impacts of a federal court decision on the use of cruise ship passenger fees.

U.S. District Court Judge H. Russel Holland last week ruled that while Juneau can keep collecting the fees, their use must constitute a service to the ship. The decision restricting use of the fees came in a lawsuit brought against Juneau by the cruise industry.

Other communities, such as Ketchikan, have their own

passenger fees. There is also a state head tax.

Juneau officials have not announced whether they’ll appeal.

Ketchikan City Council members had wide-ranging reactions to the decision during a recent meeting, the Ketchikan Daily News reported.

Reactions varied from wanting to talk with the industry to perhaps looking at whether to cap the number passengers who visit.

Council member Janalee See CRUISE, page A3

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. . . Chief Continued from page A1

not in the best of times.”

Trump’s administration has set records for staff turnover, and the president has often struggled to attract experienced political professionals, a challenge that has grown more difficult with the upcoming threat of costly Democratic oversight investigations and an uncertain political environment.

Those who take high-level positions in the White House at this time open themselves up to potential legal exposure and pricey lawyer bills, said David B. Cohen, a political science professor at The University of Akron who co-wrote a book on chiefs of staff.

Meadows said Monday he had not discussed the role with the president, but one congressional Republican said Meadows has told others he wants the job.

“It’s not been anything that I’ve been out advocating for,” Meadows told Fox News, but he added that “my life changed” after Ayers decided to pull out of the job.

Meanwhile, U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer, a potential contender, said he was “entirely focused” on his current position. A person familiar with Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin’s thinking but not authorized to speak publicly made clear he, too, is happy in his current post.

While some of the reactions may be strategic posturing, there is also ample reason for any aspiring chief of staff to give pause to the notion of taking the job.

Trump has already burned through two chiefs of staff — a former chairman of the Republican National Committee and a retired Marine four-star general — subjecting them to regular humiliation and ridicule.

Former RNC Chairman Reince Priebus’s departure from the White House was unceremoniously announced

In this June 21 photo, White House chief of staff John Kelly listens as President Donald Trump speaks during a lunch with governors in the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington. Trump says chief of staff John Kelly will leave his job at the end of the year. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

by tweet. Nearly 18 months later, Trump stepped on an orderly succession plan for Kelly, making a surprise Saturday announcement on the White House lawn that the retired general would be leaving by year’s end.

Ayers’ ascension and Kelly’s departure looked like a done deal Friday night, according to multiple people in and close to the administration, with an announcement planned for Monday. Trump and Ayers had discussed the job for months, and the president had already been steering inquiries to the Pence staffer rather than Kelly. These people, like others, spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive personnel matters.

But Trump jumped the gun Saturday, and Ayers reevaluated his decision. While a White House official said Ayers’ decision was driven by a desire to return to Georgia to be closer to his family, people familiar with his thinking said he was also worried about scrutiny of his former political consulting business.

He and Trump also could not reach agreement on Ayers’ length of service. Ayers want-

ed to serve on an interim basis; Trump wanted a two-year commitment.

Trump was stung by Ayers’ decision to back out, according to people close to him.

The embarrassment comes at a pivotal time for Trump, as he prepares for re-election while facing an expected onslaught of investigations from Democrats who will take control of the House and amid the ongoing Russia probe.

When Trump appoints a replacement for Kelly, he will set a record for most chiefs of staff within the first 24 months of an administration, according to an analysis by Kathryn Dunn Tenpas of the Brookings Institution.

Yet Trump once mocked his predecessor for chief of staff turnover.

“3 Chief of Staffs in less than 3 years of being President: Part of the reason why @BarackObama can’t manage to pass his agenda,” Trump wrote in a 2012 tweet.

Trump had said Saturday that he would be announcing Kelly’s replacement in the next day or two. But with Ayers no longer waiting in the wings, there is fear that Trump may not have someone

in place in time for Kelly’s departure or that he will pick the first person who comes to mind as he tries to counter perceptions that no one wants the position.

Two Republicans close to the White House said Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner, and his daughter Ivanka Trump, who were among Ayers’ top backers, were still trying to have an outsized hand in the restarted process, telling the president that the two of them, as family, would be the only ones Trump could count on to stay the course in the coming months. The Republicans spoke on condition of anonymity because they weren’t authorized to speak publicly about private conversations.

Trump has also told confidants that he is eager to bring on someone he gets along with as his third chief of staff. While he still had a measure of respect for Kelly, the men’s personal relationship had long been frosty.

This time, Trump has told allies, he wants someone he can chat with — trading gossip and complaining about media coverage — as well as someone more attuned politically.

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Jon McMichael

May 20, 1937 - November 30, 2018 Jon grew up in Paradise, Montana with his two sisters, Barbara and Joan. He served in the army and worked for a short time in accounting before going back to school to become a teacher. Jon taught for 27 years on the Kenai Peninsula starting in Seldovia, Alaska where he met his wife Sheryl before settling in for the majority of his life in Sterling, Alaska. He taught subjects ranging from business and math to history at Soldotna High School.

In his spare time, he loved fishing, golf and poker. He was a handyman who helped build the family’s log cabin in Seldovia, and what he didn’t know he taught himself through books. He also devoted many decades to Lions Club International, serving as a local chapter president at one point. He was a dedicated father, loyal friend and joyful presence wherever he was living, working or serving. He valued kindness, he loved people and cherished his family. He will be remembered for his great sense of humor, enormous sweet tooth and an even bigger heart.

Proceeded In Death By: Parents Dallas and Sylvia McMichael, sister Joan Hensley, and wife of 44 years Sheryl McMichael Survivors: sister, Barbara Schmidt of Kenai, AK; sons, Anthony McMichael of Hillsboro, OR and Matt McMichael of Denver, CO; grandchildren Eric McMichael, Connor McMichael, Zi Murphy, and Zahavi McMichael

. . . Quake Continued from page A1

lowed by thousands of aftershocks.

Museum director Julie Decker said the internet is where stories and photos are being shared.

“They’re really a record of our time, that kind of popular culture response,” Decker said. “That human response really tells the story the best, so we’re making sure we document those.”

She pointed to a popular meme that featured a mock five-day Alaska forecast calling for conditions to escalate to “ice locusts” and a “polarbearcano.”

The meme was created by Anchorage web developer Steve Keller, who posted it on Facebook the day after the

quake. He said he he’d had enough after hearing that the weekend forecast called for a storm and strong wind gusts.

“I was not in a good place; I don’t think many of us were,” Keller said. “When I heard that forecast — that we were looking at high winds and snow — I was like, “This is getting absolutely Biblical.”

Besides collecting memes, the museum invited Alaskans to share their earthquake poetry online in the week following the quake.

For her, the pop culture and poems show something vital about the state.

“There’s kind of this empowered nature in Alaska, to the memes and other things that are going out there,” she said. “I think that’s really revealing about our character and our story, and I think that’s what we convey to outsiders — ‘We got this.’”

holiday songs and audience sing-alongs. Performing groups include the Redoubt Chamber Orchestra under the direction of Tammy Vollom-Matturro, and the Kenai Peninsula Singers under the direction of Simon Nissen, with special guests from Kenai Peninsula College holiday schedule the Anchorage Civic Orchestra. The KCHS Jazz Band, under KPC’s two campuses (Kenai River and Kachemak Bay) and the direction of Deborah Sounart, will perform during intermisSeward extension site (Resurrection Bay) will be closed for the sion. Tickets are available at the door. $15 general admission, holidays from Dec. 22, 2018 to Jan. 2, 2019. Registration for all youth 18 and under are free. the upcoming spring semester is available online at www.kpc. alaska.edu. Classes start on Tuesday, Jan. 14, 2019.

Around the Peninsula

Kenai Community Library holiday events

Narcan kits available at Kenai Public Health Heroin overdoses are on the rise in Alaska. Narcan is an easy medication you can give to someone who is overdosing. It may save their life. Adults can get free Narcan nasal spray kits at the Kenai Public Health Center at 630 Barnacle Way, Suite A, in Kenai. For additional information call Kenai Public Health at 335-3400.

The Kenai/Soldotna Fish & Game Advisory Committee

We are full of holiday spirit here at the library! Join us for one of our holiday-themed programs which include: Apple Butter Workshop, Candy Cane Family Craft, and Christmas Carols at the Library. As always these classes are free but you must pre-register; so stop by or give us a call to sign up. Also, between Dec. 26-29 we have a Scavenger Hunt Drop-In planned for patrons to find famous characters throughout the library and earn a small prize! Keep an eye out for all of our upcoming events and programs by “Liking” us on Facebook.

The Homer Fish & Game Advisory Committee meeting

The Kenai/Soldotna Fish & Game Advisory Committee will meet on Tuesday, Dec. 18 at 6:30 p.m. at the Cook Inlet Aquaculture Corporation conference room, located at 40610 K-Beach Road. Agenda will include discussion of SE Region proposals for board of game and any other business that may properly come before the committee. For more information contact Mike Crawford at 252-2919.

The Homer Fish & Game Advisory Committee will meet on Tuesday, Dec. 11 at the KBRR building located at 2181 Kachemak Drive at 6 p.m. Agenda will include Statewide BOF proposals, and any other business that may properly come before the committee. The public is encouraged to attend. For more information contact Dave Lyon at 399-2340.

Christmas Concert featuring Tune Weavers

Hospice Memorial Tree

The Sterling Senior Center presents a Christmas Concert featuring The Tune Weavers on Saturday, Dec. 15 at 7 p.m.

Music is Bluegrass and Country Classic. Cookies and hot cocoa will be shared with an appearance from Mr & Mrs Claus.

A donation of $10 is requested to assist with our Share in the Giving community project. For further info, call 262-6808. Everyone welcome!

From Nov. 23 – Dec. 23 Hospice of the Central Peninsula will have a Memorial Tree standing in the Peninsula Center Mall. Community Members may remember their loved ones with an ornament placed on our tree! No donation is too small to receive as many ornaments as you would like. Stop by the tree in the Mall during Mall hours, stop by Hospice’s office, or request an ornament online at www.hospiceofcentralpeninsula.com.

Support Meeting and Christmas Tea

Soldotna Senior Center Caregiver Support Meeting and Kenai Performers Wonka bars sale Christmas Tea will take place Tuesday, Dec. 11 at 1 p.m. DisKenai Performers is selling chocolate Wonka bars as a procussion on the 10 keys to Creating Healthy Holidays. Please motional fundraiser. Funds raised will help pay production being a snack to share and canned or boxed goods to give to the costs for their spring musical, “Roald Dahl’s Willy Wonka.”

Kenai Peninsula Food Bank.

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 League of Women Voters meeting chocolate, big enough to share with the whole family, and are The Central Peninsula League of Women Voters will hold a $5 each. Candy bars are available at Curtain Call Consignment regular meeting on Thursday, Dec. 13 at noon at the Soldotna Boutique in Kenai and at River City Books in Soldotna. Thank Public Library on Binkley Street. For additional information you, Country Foods for sponsoring our fundraiser! For more call Lois Pillifant at 907-209-6041. information, please call Terri at 252-6808.

Kenai River Special Management Area Advisory Board meeting The Kenai River Special Management Area Advisory Board will meet on Thursday, Dec. 13 at 5:30 p.m. at the Gilman River Center on Funny River Road, Soldotna. Agenda topics include committee and agency reports. The public is welcome to attend. If you have any questions about the meeting you can contact Jack Blackwell at 907-262-5581, Ext 21.

Habitat for Humanity seeking family partner The Central Peninsula Habitat for Humanity is now looking for a family to partner with for their 2019 building season.

If you would like more information, please contact Carri at 283-7797, or visit our website: https://hfhcentralpeninsula. org to apply online!

Kenai National Wildlife Refuge: December

The Kenai National Wildlife Refuge Visitors Center is open every day from 9 a.m.–5 p.m. on Ski Hill Road near Soldotna.

The Kenai Peninsula Orchestra presents “An Evening of For more information, call 260-2820. All events are free.

— Drop-in craft and self-guided trail walk, different each Christmas,” Friday, Dec. 14, at 7 p.m. at the KCHS Renee C. Henderson Auditorium. This is a fun-filled evening full of week

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zones and on school property.

In a Dec. 3 memo to the city council, Chilson said the ordinance will establish the use of a hand-held screen device while driving in school zones and property as a minor offense.

“This would not, however, apply to handsfree device usage or parked vehicles, not in operation,” Chilson wrote in his memo.

said she needs help from tile layers and home cooks who could help feed crews of 15-20 people. Waller said interested volunteers can email or call Freedom House at freedomhouse907@outlook.com or 907-260-3703.

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accommodate all these people and they can justify that all (they) have to do is put money into a concrete brick that they can dock up to,” she said.

Council member Dick Coose said it could be helpful for the city to talk with the industry.

Ketchikan City Manager Karl Amylon said the council should schedule a work session for January to discuss next steps.

In his memo, Chilson said the ordinance serves as a tool to keep children safer.

“Based on my discussions with local school administrators, there have been ongoing safety issues with parents distracted by cell phones in their parking lots during student pick up and drop off times,” Chilson said in the memo. “I believe the safety of our local students is paramount.”

The ordinance is being introduced at Wednesday’s Soldotna City Council meeting. A public hearing will follow at the Jan. 9 meeting.

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open 90 percent of the nation’s offshore reserves to private development.

Survey vessels will be required to have observers on board to listen and watch for marine life and alert operators if a protected species comes within a certain distance, officials have said, and acoustic monitoring will be used to detect those animals swimming beneath the ocean surface. Surveys would be shut down when certain sensitive species or groups are observed and penalties could be imposed for vessels that strike marine animals.

The precautions aren’t enough for environmental groups, who have said the blasts can disturb marine mammals. Industry groups say the surveys have been conducted around the world for decades, with little adverse impact.

The drilling issue has created strange political bedfellows along the East Coast, with Democrats and Republicans in

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Jessica Geary, executive director of the Legislative Affairs Agency. The House so far has not hired any staff for the next session other than the chief clerk and sergeant at arms, Geary said by email.

Right after the November elections, Republicans rushed to claim control of the House, which the current House speaker, Democrat Bryce Edgmon, called premature. Republicans said they had the minimum 21 members needed for a majority, including Knopp and assuming a win in a Fairbanks race by Bart LeBon. LeBon won an eventual re-

some areas united over the issue. In South Carolina’s 1st Congressional District, Republican Katie Arrington — a supporter of President Donald Trump who initially said she stood by his plans to open up Atlantic Coast drilling — later backed off that support amid a growing wave of drilling opposition in the coastal district she aimed to represent.

Arrington ultimately lost the general election to Joe Cunningham, a Democrat staunchly opposed to drilling who collected support from coastal Republican mayors.

Voters said they had been turned off by what they saw as Arrington’s flip-flop on the issue, and they turned instead to Cunningham’s consistency.

On Monday, Cunningham told the AP that he backed the legal effort, which would pair with legislative action he plans to take up in the U.S. House.

“I’m going to go up to D.C. and fight like hell,” Cunningham said. “These lawsuits are one tool in our bag that we’re going to use.”

South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster’s early support of Trump’s candidacy hasn’t stopped him from opposing the president’s drilling plans. Earlier this year, McMaster was among state executives to request a drilling waiver, seeking the same sort of promise already given to Florida Gov. Rick Scott, another Trump ally. Since then, officials from the Department of the Interior have said Secretary Ryan Zinke’s promise to Florida was not a formal action and will instead be part of the department’s analysis as it completes its plans.

In February, McMaster met with Zinke at the Governor’s Mansion in Columbia. This week, McMaster spokesman Brian Symmes told The Associated Press that the governor and the state’s top prosecutor, both Republicans, would continue to work on a plan to keep drilling away from the state.

“The governor and Attorney General (Alan) Wilson have resolved to continue working together to determine the best path forward,”

Symmes said. “Anything and everything is on the table to keep us from seeing seismic testing or offshore drilling off the coast of South Carolina.”

State Rep. Nancy Mace, a Republican representing parts of the greater Charleston area, supports the lawsuit, which she called South Carolina’s best option to challenge federal government overreach.

“The government doesn’t get to pick winners and losers in this thing,” Mace said.

“When you have every mayor, every community saying, ‘We don’t want this,’ and now you’re going to shove seismic testing down our throats? I don’t think so.”

Mace said she is concerned both with potential environmental damage and the possible threat to South Carolina’s $20 billion tourism industry, much of which centers around the coast.

“We have the potential to destroy that beauty off our coast with rigs that nobody wants,” Mace said. “We’ve got to do something, and a lawsuit might be the only way to do it.”

count in that race by one vote, though his Democratic rival, Kathryn Dodge, has appealed that outcome to the Alaska Supreme Court.

Last week, Republican Gov. Mike Dunleavy named incoming Republican Rep. Nancy Dahlstrom to be his corrections commissioner. She was set to replace Republican Rep. Dan Saddler, who resigned his seat Friday. By law, when legislative vacancies occur, the person appointed is be from the same party as the person who left.

“You’d have to have been blind not to see the writing on the wall about this thing, just doomed to fail,” Knopp said, citing concerns with the level of experience among members and potential divisions as Dunleavy rolls out his policies.

Majority control in Alaska is not always strictly decided on party lines.

In the House, Democrats, after the 2016 elections, pulled together a 22-member coalition that included two independents and three moderate Republicans to wrest control from a GOP-led majority. One of the independents and one of the Republicans, who changed his party affiliation to independent ahead of this year’s elections, lost. The seat LeBon and Dodge are vying for has been held by Democratic Rep. Scott Kawasaki, who won a state Senate seat in last month’s elections.

At the end of the last session, Knopp said some Republicans, whom he declined to identify, said forming a coalition going forward would be critical.

Republican Reps. Lance Pruitt and Dave Talerico said their preference would be to have a GOP-led majority. No matter the size of the majority, members are going to have difficult conversations, Pruitt said.

Pruitt, an Anchorage Republican, said Knopp’s actions bothered him. “This is more likely posturing for what potentially could be his own personal gain as opposed to truly doing what’s right for the state,” he said.

Knopp said it’s not a power play. “I’ve never asked for anything out of any of this,” he said.

House Majority Leader Chris Tuck, an Anchorage Democrat, said he thinks a coalition could be formed around several key principles. He noted that Knopp has not committed to his organization, either.

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What Others Say

Vaping is no healthy alternative to smoking Everybody knows about the dangers

that cigarettes pose on one’s body. According to the Center for Disease Control, more than 480,000 deaths each year in the United States. That is more deaths than alcohol use, illegal drug use and motor vehicle accidents.

New ways have been devised to help people get their nicotine fits. E-cigarettes, devices that heat a liquid into an aerosol that users can inhale, have become a popular trend in America, particularly among teens and young adults.

The misconception about e-cigarettes is that they are somehow better for you than cigarettes. According to a U.S. Surgeon General report released in 2016, that couldn’t be further from the truth.

E-cigarettes, like their namesake, contain nicotine. The dangerous substance has been making people addicted to cigarettes for years.

The fact that it is now available in liquid and aerosol form doesn’t make it any safer.

The harshest of nicotine’s side effects occur on younger people. The surgeon general said that youth and young adult brains are uniquely at risk from long-term, long-lasting effects of nicotine because they are still developing.

Those issues include nicotine addiction, mood disorders and a permanent lowering of impulse control.

The aerosol from e-cigarettes are also incredibly dangerous. Along with nicotine, other chemicals like diacetyl, found in flavoring, have been linked to serious lung disease, according to the surgeon general.

Another chemical e-cigarettes could expose users to is benzene, an organic compound usually found in car exhaust and heavy metals. If you wouldn’t wrap your mouth around a car exhaust, you should probably stay away from a vape pen, too.

It’s important to educate children, teens and young adults on the dangers of vaping. Something that looks cool on TV or social media could have lasting effects on their bodies for the rest of their lives.

Mean-spirited media do 180 on Bush

Before George H.W. Bush fades from memory into the darkness of history books, one more point needs to be made. It is about the contrast between how most of the major media treated him when he was president and how they mostly (but not completely) did a 180 during their coverage and commentary of his funeral.

Maybe reporters and anchors considered their largely favorable and complimentary coverage of the man in death as penance for their earlier sins during his life, but they still should be held accountable for what they said about him when it mattered.

CBS News anchor Dan Rather interviewed Vice President Bush in 1988, before the Iowa caucuses. This was at the height of the Iran-contra affair during which the White House sought to circumvent a law banning funds to aid the Nicaraguan contras who were fighting communist forces.

Bush and Rather shouted at each other in the 10-minute interview on live television.

CBS began its segment on Bush with a taped report that suggested the vice president had played a greater role in the Irancontra affair than Bush has acknowledged, and Rather hammered Bush about it during the interview, The New York Times reported. The candidate said he had been deceived about the true intent of the interview.

Phone calls swamped switchboards at CBS News in New York and at Bush’s presidential campaign office in Washing-

ton. A CBS News official and Bush’s spokesman, said calls were overwhelmingly supportive of the vice president and negative toward CBS, The Times reported.

Bush won the nomiCal Thomas nation. There would be other moments when the two would face off but with advantage to Bush.

There was pressure from Democrats and others for Bush to break the famous pledge he made at the 1988 Republican convention: “Read my lips. No new taxes.”

They knew it would erode his base of support. At the 1992 Republican convention, he apologized for breaking the promise.

His concession won him no media kudos, however, and he was pilloried in the press.

Even when it came to his most successful foreign policy achievements, many in the media found something to criticize.

After Bush sent U.S. troops to topple and arrest Manuel Noriega, the Panamanian dictator, CBS White House correspondent Wyatt Andrews worried: “Mr. Bush is erasing his old image of being timid, but the new question now, almost overnight, is whether this president is exhibiting signs of being reckless.”

It was for such moments that the phrase

“damned if you do, damned if you don’t” was created.

In 1987, shortly after Bush announced his presidential candidacy, Newsweek ran a cover story in which Evan Thomas called Bush a “wimp.” Last week, Thomas wrote a piece for Yahoo News, admitting he was wrong. A little late, I’d say.

During funeral coverage, a panel of NBC journalists recalled a story that received a lot of attention during Bush’s 1992 re-election bid. Bush visited a grocery store and it was reported that he was amazed by the barcode on a carton of milk. The Associated Press noted that reporters later learned it was a special scanner with advanced features, including a scale to weigh produce — uncommon then — and the ability to read barcodes even if they were torn up.

The New York Times in its obituary chose to allude to the alleged incident as fact. Fake news dies hard.

Most of the media coverage of Bush’s death and funeral was favorable. NBC ran a warm one-hour special on which Bush’s granddaughter Jenna compiled interviews with her “Gampy.” This would have been something inconceivable when Bush was alive and it does not make up for the biased coverage of the past.

For the major media, it would appear the only good Republican is a dead Republican.

Readers may email Cal Thomas at tcaeditors@tribpub.com.

— The Brunswick News, Nov. 29

Letter to the Editor Brown Bears making great strides If you like hockey and you support local efforts, do yourself a favor and get out to see the Brown Bears play. Head Coach Josh Petrich is in his second season and some of the players are new this year, so there’s been a tuning-up period. The team has had to hone their teamwork and at the speed of Brown Bears’ hockey that’s quite a difficult task to master. I’ve seen marked improvements through their playing this season. They’re making great strides and with our support, they will be geared up with the greater mental edge that only comes by knowing that others believe in and support them.

As a goal judge that sits in the box and watches the game up close, I see the changes happening very clearly.

Every game shows improvement in the skill of teamwork. As the Brown Bears improve offensive capability through this synergistic teamwork, the puck will spend more time at the other end of the ice and make the score board more pleasing to the eye, but their determination and true grit show through with every game.

We’ve got great plumbers not afraid to jump in and do the dirty work in the corners and fight for the puck.

We’ve also got great playmakers but their true glow will increasingly show through as that teamwork blossoms all the more. There’s no question that the Brown Bears play with conviction and determination. I’m pretty sure I’ve seen a few chiclets knocked loose and boarding can cause an impressive reverberation that rattles most of the boards down one side of the rink. Yes, that means it’s an exciting game played with passion and zeal.

Their next home games are Friday, Jan 11 and Saturday, Jan. 12 at 7:30 p.m. against Chippewa. As always, they’ll be at the Soldotna Sports Complex. I hope to see you there! Bring your noise makers and perhaps a frozen fish to celebrate the first score.

News and Politics

Republicans beginning to worry about Trump re-election chances

By JONATHAN LEMIRE, ALAN FRAM and ELANA SCHOR Associated Press

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump’s intensifying legal troubles are unnerving some of his fellow Republicans.

Despite his brash stance, they believe the turmoil has left him increasingly vulnerable as he gears up for what is sure to be a nasty fight for re-election.

Trump, ever confident of his ability to bend story lines to his will, mocks the investigations into his conduct as candidate and president as a “witch hunt” and insists he will survive the threats.

But a shift began to unfold over the weekend after prosecutors in New York for the first time linked Trump to a federal crime of illegal hush payments. That left some of his associates fearful that his customary bravado is unwarranted. For some Republicans, the implication that the president may have directed a campaign finance violation, which would be a felony, could foreshadow a true turning point in the Republican relationship with him when special counsel Robert Mueller releases his report on the Russia investigation.

“I’m sure there’s going to be a lot more that’s going to come out from the Southern District (of New York) and from, at some point, from the Mueller investigation as — Dr. Greg Madden, well,” Sen. John Thune of South Dakota, volunteer goal judge for Brown Bears home games the chamber’s incoming No. 2 Republi-

can, said Monday. “What they’re implying there, obviously, is something I assume at some point the president will have an opportunity to respond to.”

Thune continued: “Campaign finance violations are something that … they are serious matters, but obviously it depends a little bit on how it gets treated.”

As the legal drama plays out, political challenges that could threaten Trump’s reelection are piling up.

Republicans are still coming to terms with their drubbing in last month’s House elections and looking for someone to blame. The departure of John Kelly as White House chief of staff has set off a disorganized search for a replacement who could stay in the job through the 2020 campaign. After Trump’s top choice, the vice president’s chief of staff Nick Ayers, passed on the job, few of the remaining candidates have political experience.

Also, Democrats will soon take control of the House of Representatives, wielding subpoena power and potentially exploring impeachment proceedings. Meanwhile, financial markets have been jittery, in part because of Trump’s trade wars and concerns that higher borrowing costs could ultimately trigger a recession.

Facing pressure from Mueller and an impending onslaught of Democratic investigations, Trump could hew even further to the right, catering exclusively to the base of voters he is concerned about

losing, according to a Republican close to the White House who has consulted on the early re-election efforts. That instinct would echo the president’s double-down, scorched-earth response to the crises that hit his 2016 campaign, including the Access Hollywood tape about forcing himself on women, and could make it harder to woo the independent voters or disaffected Democrats he may well need.

Could Trump face a primary election challenge from within his own party? He doesn’t seem concerned.

The president is eager to unleash his re-election machinery and begin to collect pledges of loyalty from across the GOP to quell any hint of an insurrection, according to a campaign official and a Republican familiar with the inner workings of the campaign but not authorized to speak publicly.

The Trump team has discussed the possibility of a challenge from someone such as outgoing Ohio Gov. John Kasich or Arizona Sen. Jeff Flake. A week after the midterm elections, Kasich traveled to New Hampshire for a public speech and private meetings with prominent Republicans.

Flake, who has tangled repeatedly with Trump, isn’t making any personal commitment, but his feelings about a challenger are clear.

“Somebody needs to run” against Trump, he said Monday. “I hope somebody does.”

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Nation/World Justices won’t hear appeal over Planned Parenthood

By MARK SHERMAN Associated Press

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Monday avoided a high-profile case by rejecting appeals from Kansas and Louisiana in their effort to strip Medicaid money from Planned Parenthood, over the dissenting votes of three justices.

The court’s order reflected a split among its conservative justices and an accusation from Justice Clarence Thomas that his colleagues seemed to be ducking the case for political reasons. New Justice Brett Kavanaugh was among the justices who opted not to hear the case.

The two states were appealing lower court rulings that had blocked them from withholding money that is used for health services for low-income women. The money is not used for abortions. Abortion opponents have said Planned Parenthood should not receive any government money, and they seized on heavily edited videos that claimed to show the nation’s largest abortion provider profiting from sales of fetal tissue for medical research.

Investigations sparked by the videos in several states didn’t result in criminal charges.

The dispute at the high court has nothing to do with abortion, as Thomas pointed out in a dis-

sent that was joined by Justices Samuel Alito and Neil Gorsuch. Kavanaugh’s decision not to join the three justices was his first discernible vote on the court. Had he or Chief Justice John Roberts voted to hear the case, there would have been the four votes necessary to set the case for arguments.

The issue is who has the right to challenge a state’s Medicaid funding decisions, private individuals or only the federal government. The states say that the Medicaid program, a joint venture of federal and state governments to provide health care to poorer Americans, makes clear that only the Secretary of Health and Human Services can intervene, by withholding money from a state.

Most lower federal courts have found that private parties can challenge Medicaid funding decisions in court, although the federal appeals court in St. Louis rejected a similar court challenge and allowed Arkansas to end its contract with Planned Parenthood. A split among federal appeals courts is often a reason for the Supreme Court to step in.

“So what explains the court’s refusal to do its job here? I suspect it has something to do with the fact that some respondents in these cases are named ‘Planned Parenthood.’ That makes the Court’s decision par-

No jail time for Baylor fraternity president accused of rape

In this photo, the U.S. Supreme Court is seen at sunset in Washington. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

ticularly troubling, as the question presented has nothing to do with abortion,” Thomas wrote.

The dispute over funding for Planned Parenthood stemmed from the July 2015 release by the anti-abortion group Center for Medical Progress of a series of edited videos purportedly depicting Planned Parenthood of America executives talking about the sale of fetal tissue.

Planned Parenthood has said it did not seek any payments beyond legally permitted reimbursement of costs.

Catherine Glenn Foster, president and CEO of the antiabortion Americans United for Life, said the court should have heard the case. “But the good news is that there are other similar cases pending in lower

courts, which may give the Supreme Court another opportunity to decide this important issue. In the meantime, AUL will continue to fight to protect states from being forced to use their limited public funds to subsidize abortion businesses,” Foster said.

Planned Parenthood president Dr. Leana Wen praised the decision to leave the lower court rulings in place. “As a doctor, I have seen what’s at stake when people cannot access the care they need, and when politics gets in the way of people making their own health care choices. We won’t stop fighting for every patient who relies on Planned Parenthood for life-saving, life-changing care,” Wen said.

China ups pressure as bail hearing resumes for tech exec

In this undated photo released

by Huawei, Huawei’s chief financial officer Meng Wanzhou is seen in a portrait photo.

(Huawei via AP)

By JIM MORRIS, ROB GILLIES and PAUL WISEMAN Associated Press

VANCOUVER, British Columbia — China raised the pressure on the United States and Canada as a bail hearing resumed Monday for a top Chinese technology executive in a case that has fueled U.S.-China trade tensions and roiled financial markets.

Meng Wanzhou, the chief financial officer of Chinese telecommunications giant Huawei

and daughter of its founder, was detained at the request of the U.S. during a layover at the Vancouver airport on Dec. 1 — the same day that Presidents Donald Trump and Xi Jinping of China agreed to a 90-day cease-fire in a trade dispute that threatens to disrupt global commerce.

The U.S. has accused Huawei of using a Hong Kong shell company to sell equipment in Iran in violation of U.S. sanctions. It also says that Meng and Huawei misled banks about the company’s business dealings in Iran.

Her arrest has fueled U.S.China trade tensions at a time when the two countries are seeking to resolve a dispute over Beijing’s technology and industrial strategy. Both sides have sought to keep the issues separate, at least so far, but the arrest has roiled markets, with stock markets worldwide down again Monday.

China formally protested to the ambassadors of both Canada and the United States over the weekend.

In urging the court to reject Meng’s bail request, a prosecutor said Friday the Huawei executive had vast resources and a strong incentive to bolt: She’s facing fraud charges in the United States that could put her in prison for 30 years.

On Monday, David Martin, Meng’s lawyer, reiterated that Meng was willing to pay for a surveillance company to monitor her and wear an ankle monitor. Called by the defense, Scott Filer of Lions Gate Risk Management group said his company would make a citizen’s arrest if she breaches bail conditions.

Under the defense proposal, Meng’s travels would be restricted to Vancouver and surrounding municipalities.

Martin said Meng’s husband would put up both of their Vancouver homes plus $1 million Canadian ($750,000) for a total value of $15 million Canadian ($11.2 million) as collateral.

The hearing has sparked widespread interest, and the courtroom was packed again Monday with media and spectators, including some who came to support Meng. One man in the courtroom gallery brought binoculars to have a closer look at Meng, her lawyers and the prosecution team.

Outside court a man and woman held a sign that read “Free Ms. Meng.”

Over the weekend, China’s Vice Foreign Minister Le Yucheng summoned Canadian Ambassador John McCallum and U.S. Ambassador Terry Branstad.

Le warned both countries that Beijing would take steps based on their response.

Asked Monday what those steps might be, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Lu Kang said only that “it totally depends on the Canadian side itself.”

The Canadian province of British Columbia has already canceled a trade mission to China amid fears China could detain Canadians in retaliation for Meng’s detention.

Stocks around the world fell Monday over investor concerns about the continuing U.S.-China trade dispute, as well as the cloud hanging over Brexit negotiations after Britain’s prime minister postponed a vote on her deal for Britain to exit the European Union. In the U.S., stocks were volatile, tumbling in the morning and then recovering ground in the afternoon.

The Huawei case complicates efforts to resolve a U.S.-China trade dispute. The United States has slapped tariffs on $250 billion in Chinese imports, charging that China steals American technology and forces U.S. companies to turn over trade secrets. Tariffs on $200 billion of those imports were scheduled to rise from 10 percent to 25 percent on Jan. 1.

Iraq celebrates victory over IS while grappling with legacy

By SINAN SALAHEDDIN Associated Press

BAGHDAD — Iraq began removing cement walls from areas surrounding the capital’s most fortified enclave Monday, opening parts of the so-called Green Zone to traffic in a symbolic move coinciding with nationwide celebrations marking the anniversary of the country’s costly victory over the Islamic State group.

The partial reopening of parts of the high security area is meant to portray increased confidence in the country’s overall security situation and is also being billed as an act of transparency following protests against corruption and poor public services.

The enclave on the west bank of the Tigris became home to foreign embassies and key government buildings after the U.S.-led invasion of 2003 and has since then been surrounded by blast walls and barbed wire, inaccessible to most Iraqis.

The partial reopening of some side streets — initially just for five hours a day — has been repeatedly delayed and then timed to coincide with the one year anniversary of Iraq’s victory over IS. The group has lost virtually all the territory it once held but still carries out

sporadic attacks to hang on to its last enclave in Syria near the Iraqi border.

The government declared victory last December after a grueling three-year war in which tens of thousands of people were killed and hundreds of thousands displaced. Entire towns and neighborhoods were reduced to rubble in the fighting.

The government declared Monday a national holiday, and a moment of silence was held at midday. Checkpoints in the capital were decorated with Iraqi flags and balloons, as security forces patrolled the streets playing patriotic music.

“That victory and the relative stability in security is a golden opportunity for the government to rebuild the country and to meet the needs of its people,” said Sameer al-Obaidi, who led an initiative in the capital’s Sunni-dominated northern Azamiyah neighborhood to distribute flowers to security forces at checkpoints.

“It is important to treat all Iraqis equally so that they feel that their sacrifices are appreciated,” al-Obaidi added.

The celebrations come as political infighting has hindered the formation of the government and setting next year’s budget,

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Iraqi security forces parade on motorcycles with national flags marking the year anniversary of the defeat of the Islamic State group in Iraq in Tahrir Square, in central Baghdad. (AP Photo/ Ali Abdul Hassan)

amid a deteriorating economic situation as the country grapples with the legacy of the extremist group’s brutal rule.

More than 1.8 million Iraqis remain displaced across the country, and a staggering 8 million require some form of humanitarian aid, according to the Norwegian Refugee Council.

Those with suspected links to IS have been rejected by their communities, while thousands of children fathered by IS militants — including those born to enslaved Yazidi women — are still unrecognized by the state.

Nearly two-thirds of dis-

placed people say they are unwilling or unable to return home in the next year, with more than half saying their homes were damaged or destroyed, according to the aid group.

“If this is what ‘victory’ looks like, then there is little to celebrate for millions of Iraqis still haunted by the crimes of the IS and the long war to eliminate it,” said Norwegian Refugee Council Secretary General Jan Egeland.

“They have largely been forgotten by their own government and the international community.”

WACO, Texas — A Texas judge on Monday accepted a plea bargain allowing a former Baylor University fraternity president accused of rape to avoid serving jail time, prompting outrage from the former Baylor student who filed the complaint and her parents.

Judge Ralph Strother accepted the plea deal for Jacob Walter Anderson, who was indicted on sexual assault charges and pleaded no contest to a lesser charge of unlawful restraint. A no contest plea means a defendant does not admit guilt, but will offer no defense.

The deal from prosecutors allowed Anderson to receive deferred probation. The ex-Phi Delta Theta president agrees to seek counseling and pay a $400 fine. Anderson will not be forced to register as a sex offender.

The woman who accused Anderson said she was devastated by the judge’s decision and described the county’s justice system as “severely broken.” An online petition had been created to oppose the plea agreement, which the woman said more than 85,000 people have signed.

Baylor was engulfed in a sexual assault scandal tied to its football program in 2016, ultimately leading to the departure of several school leaders.

Plan to reclassify nuke waste alarms environmentalists SPOKANE, Wash. — The Trump administration wants to reclassify some radioactive waste left from the production of nuclear weapons to lower its threat level and make disposal cheaper and easier.

The proposal by the U.S. Department of Energy would lower the status of some high-level radioactive waste in several places around the nation, including the Hanford Nuclear Reservation in Washington state — the most contaminated nuclear site in the country.

Reclassifying the material to low-level could save the agency billions of dollars and decades of work by essentially leaving the material in the ground, critics say.

The proposal joins a long list of Trump administration efforts to loosen environmental protections. Just last week, the Environmental Protection Agency acted to ease rules on the sagging U.S. coal industry.

Tom Carpenter of Hanford Challenge, a nuclear watchdog group, said it wants a thorough cleanup of the Washington state nuclear site, which is half the size of Rhode Island.

That includes building a national repository somewhere else to bury the waste once it has been stabilized.

“The cleanup of the site is really at stake,” Carpenter said about the proposed change.

He noted that Hanford is located in an environmentally sensitive site adjacent to the Columbia River and susceptible to earthquakes, volcanoes and flooding.

Hanford was established by the Manhattan Project in World War II to make plutonium, a key ingredient in the atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki, Japan. The plant went on to produce most of the plutonium for the nation’s nuclear arsenal.

— The Associated Press

Today in History Today is Tuesday, Dec. 11, the 345th day of 2018. There are 20 days left in the year.

Today’s Highlight in History: On Dec. 11, 1972, Apollo 17’s lunar module landed on the moon with astronauts Eugene Cernan and Harrison Schmitt aboard; they became the last two men to date to step onto the lunar surface.

On this date: In 1792, France’s King Louis XVI went before the Convention to face charges of treason. (Louis was convicted, and executed the following month.)

In 1816, Indiana became the 19th state.

In 1910, French inventor Georges Claude publicly displayed his first neon lamp, consisting of two 38-foot-long tubes, at the Paris Expo.

In 1917, British Gen. Edmund Allenby entered Jerusalem two days after his forces expelled the Ottoman Turks.

In 1936, Britain’s King Edward VIII abdicated the throne so he could marry American divorcee Wallis Warfield Simpson; his brother, Prince Albert, became King George VI. In 1937, Italy withdrew from the League of Nations.

In 1941, Germany and Italy declared war on the United States; the U.S. responded in kind.

In 1961, a U.S. aircraft carrier carrying Army helicopters arrived in Saigon -- the first direct American military support for South Vietnam’s battle against Communist guerrillas.

In 1980, President Jimmy Carter signed legislation creating a $1.6 billion environmental “superfund” to pay for cleaning up chemical spills and toxic waste dumps. “Magnum P.I.,” starring Tom Selleck, premiered on CBS. In 1991, a jury in West Palm Beach, Florida, acquitted William Kennedy Smith of sexual assault and battery, rejecting the allegations of Patricia Bowman.

In 1997, more than 150 countries agreed at a global warming conference in Kyoto, Japan, to control the Earth’s greenhouse gases.

In 2001, in the first criminal indictment stemming from 9/11, federal prosecutors charged Zacarias Moussaoui, a French citizen of Moroccan descent, with conspiring to murder thousands in the suicide hijackings.

(Moussaoui pleaded guilty to conspiracy in 2005 and was sentenced to life in prison.)

Ten years ago: Former Nasdaq chairman Bernie Madoff was arrested, accused of running a multibillion-dollar Ponzi scheme that destroyed thousands of people’s life savings and wrecked charities. (Madoff is serving a 150-year federal prison sentence.) The remains of missing Florida toddler Caylee Anthony were found six months after she disappeared. (Her mother, Casey Anthony, was acquitted of murder in her daughter’s death.)

A suicide bomber killed at least 55 people near Kirkuk, Iraq. Former pinup model Bettie Page died in Los Angeles at age 85.

Five years ago: Time magazine selected Pope Francis as its Person of the Year, saying the Roman Catholic church’s new leader -- the first from Latin America -- had changed the perception of the 2,000-year-old institution in an extraordinary way in a short time.

One year ago: A Bangladeshi immigrant set off a crude pipe bomb in a New York City subway passageway in a botched suicide bombing; it did not fully detonate and Akayed Ullah was the only one seriously hurt.

(Ullah was convicted on terrorism charges in federal court; sentencing is set for April 5, 2019.) A Southern California wildfire exploded in size again, becoming the fifth largest in state history; officials handed out masks to those who stayed behind in an exclusive community where Oprah Winfrey and other stars had homes. Chef Mario Batali stepped away from his restaurant empire and his cooking show “The Chew” as he conceded that reports of sexual misconduct “match up” to his behavior. French President Emmanuel Macron awarded millions of dollars in grants to 18 climate scientists from the U.S. and elsewhere, allowing them to relocate to France for the remainder of Donald Trump’s presidential term. The Pentagon said transgender recruits would be allowed to enlist in the military beginning Jan. 1; a ban ordered by Trump had suffered a series of legal setbacks.

Today’s Birthdays: Actor Jean-Louis Trintignant is 88. Actress Rita Moreno is 87. Pop singer David Gates (Bread) is 78. Actress Donna Mills is 78. Former Sen. Max Baucus, D-Mont., is 77. Former U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry is 75. Singer Brenda Lee is 74. Actress Lynda Day George is 74. Music producer Tony Brown is 72. Actress Teri Garr is 71. Movie director Susan Seidelman is 67. Actress Bess Armstrong is 65. Singer Jermaine Jacksun is 64. Rock musician Mike Mesaros (The Smithereens) is 61. Rock musician Nikki Sixx (Motley Crue) is 60. Rock musician Darryl Jones (The Rolling Stones) is 57. Actor Ben Browder is 56. Singer-musician Justin Currie (Del Amitri) is 54. Rock musician David Schools (Hard Working Americans, Gov’t Mule, Widespread Panic) is 54. Actor Gary Dourdan (DOOR’-dan) is 52. Actress-comedian Mo’Nique is 51. Actor Max Martini is 49. Rapper-actor Mos Def is 45. Actor Rider Strong is 39. Actress Xosha (ZOH’-shah) Roquemore is 34. Actress Karla Souza is 32. Actress Hailee Steinfeld is 22.

Thought for Today: “It takes a long time to understand nothing.” -- Edward Dahlberg, American author and critic (1900-1977).

A6 | Tuesday, December 11, 2018 | Peninsula Clarion

Sports Briefs Golden State gets SI Sportsperson of Year The three-time NBA champion Golden State Warriors are the fourth team to be honored as Sports Illustrated’s Sportsperson of the Year .

The Warriors join the 1980 U.S. hockey team, the 1999 U.S. Women’s World Cup soccer squad and the 2004 Boston Red Sox as the other team honorees.

Sports Illustrated announced the winner Monday, and editorin-chief Chris Stone said they have been thinking of some way to honor the Warriors during their run of three titles in four years.

He also acknowledged that there were a couple years where Steph Curry has been in the conversation.

“There is something transcendent about the team where the sum of their parts was apparent from the beginning,” Stone said.

“What they have built into a dynasty is a function of empirical success. They’re really a generational team. I don’t know if, in my lifetime, there has been a team where the pieces have blended so beautifully together.”

Alabama has 4 1st team All-Americans The College Football Playoff semifinalists combined to place 10 players on The Associated Press All-America first team, including a high of four from No. 1 Alabama.

The Crimson Tide had six players chosen to the three AllAmerica teams, more than any other school. No. 2 Clemson has three first-teamers, No. 4 Oklahoma has two All-Americans — including quarterback and Heisman Trophy winner Kyler Murray — and No. 3 Notre Dame had one.

The Tide and Sooners meet in the Orange Bowl on Dec. 29 and the Tigers play the Fighting Irish at the Cotton Bowl that day. The winners meet in the College Football Playoff national championship game Jan. 7 at Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara, California.

The playoff teams combined for 17 overall selections on the teams chosen by a panel of AP poll voters and released Monday.

The Tide placed two players on each side of the ball, with Outland Trophy winner Quinnen Williams highlighting the defense.

Receiver Jerry Jeudy, offensive tackle Jonah Williams and safety Deionte Thompson also made the first team while Tua Tagovailoa was the second-team quarterback.

— The Associated Press

Raiders fire GM ALAMEDA, Calif. (AP) — From the moment Jon Gruden was brought back for a second stint as coach of the Oakland Raiders with a 10-year contract, general manager Reggie McKenzie’s longevity in the position was in serious doubt.

That only eroded more with each departure of one of McKenzie’s prized former draft picks and ended when he was fired Monday, less than two years after he was named the NFL’s executive of the year.

With the Raiders unable to build off that breakthrough 12win season in 2016 and McKenzie’s recent drafts failing to generate many impact players, the move to cut ties with McKenzie was made after Oakland beat Pittsburgh 24-21 for its third win of the season.

McKenzie’s influence with the Raiders had waned ever since the triumphant news conference to welcome Gruden back to Oakland in January. Gruden got rid of several of the players McKenzie had acquired, most notably edge rusher Khalil Mack and receiver Amari Cooper.

“I’m not going to sit up here today and talk about any disconnect,” Gruden said. “We were connected. We were very good friends and very connected.”

Seward’s Terry excels for Cowboys Staff report Peninsula Clarion

So far, so good for the transfer of Seward’s Jalen Terry from Humbolt State to Division III Hardin-Simmons University in Abilene, Texas.

Terry, a 6-foot-7 senior, averaged 4.8 points and 1.8 rebounds per game last season for Humbolt State. Through nine games for the Cowboys, Terry is averaging 11.8 points per game and 5.4 rebounds per game, while playing 21.6 minutes per game. Terry has been an efficient 50 percent from the floor, 45.5 percent from 3-point range and 65 percent from the foul stripe.

Friday, Terry scored 10 of the first 12 points of the game for the Cowboys at they notched an 80-69 victory over UT-Tyler in Tyler, Texas. The win was the third straight for Hardin-Simmons as the squad moved to 6-3 overall.

On Tap Peninsula high school sports Wednesday Basketball Kotzebue boys at Soldotna, 6 p.m. (scrimmage) Hockey Juneau-Douglas at Kenai Central, 7 p.m.

Thursday Hockey Juneau-Douglas at Soldotna, 7 p.m.

Basketball Homer girls at Eagle River, 7:30 p.m.

Seward girls at Service, 3 p.m.

39th Annual Service Cougar Tip Off Tournament Homer boys vs. Bartlett, 4:45 p.m.

Seward boys vs. East, 6:15 p.m.

Craig Jung Kenai River Challenge Kotzebue girls vs. Nikiski, 3 p.m.

Kotzebue boys vs. Nikiski, 4:30 p.m.

Kenai girls vs. Houston, 6 p.m.

Kenai boys vs. Houston, 7:30 p.m.

2018 Powerade/Al Howard Tip-Off Tournament Kodiak girls vs. Bethel girls, 5:15 p.m.

Soldotna girls vs. Cordova girls, 7 p.m.

Cook Inlet Academy Classic Nikolaevsk girls vs. Nikiski JV, 4 p.m.

Nikolaevsk boys vs. Nanwalek, 5:15 p.m.

CIA girls vs. Soldotna JV, 6:30 p.m.

CIA boys vs. Soldotna JV, 7:45 p.m.

Friday Hockey Juneau at Kenai, 7 p.m.

Wrestling State Championships at Alaska Airlines Center Prelims, quarters, consolation, 9 a.m.

Semifinals, 5 p.m.

Basketball 39th Annual Service Cougar Tip Off Tournament Service girls vs. Homer, 11:45 a.m.

Seward girls vs. Redington, 4:45 p.m.

Seward, Homer boys TBD Craig Jung Kenai River Challenge Kotzebue boys vs. Houston, 3 p.m.

Kotzebue girls vs. Houston, 4:30 p.m.

Kenai boys vs. Nikiski, 6 p.m.

Kenai girls vs. Nikiski, 7:30 p.m.

2018 Powerade/Al Howard Tip-Off Tournament Bethel girls vs. Cordova, 5:15 p.m.

Soldotna girls vs. Kodiak, 7 p.m.

Cook Inlet Academy Classic Nikiski JV girls vs. Soldotna JV, 4 p.m.

Nanwalek boys vs. Soldotna JV, 5:15 p.m.

Nikolaevsk girls vs. CIA, 6:30 p.m.

Nikolaevsk boys vs. CIA, 7:45 p.m.

Skiing Candy Cane at Tsalteshi, 2:30 p.m. (depends on weather) Saturday Hockey Juneau-Douglas at Soldotna, 1:15 p.m.

Wrestling State Championships at Alaska Airlines Center Consolation, 3rd- and 5th-place matches, 9 a.m.

Championships, 6 p.m.

Basketball 39th Annual Service Cougar Tip Off Tournament, TBD Craig Jung Kenai River Challenge Houston girls vs. Nikiski, noon Houston boys vs. Nikiski, 1:30 p.m.

Kenai girls vs. Kotzebue, 3 p.m.

Kenai boys vs. Kotzebue, 4:30 p.m.

2018 Powerade/Al Howard Tip-Off Tournament Cordova girls vs. Kodiak, 12:15 p.m.

Soldotna girls vs. Bethel, 2:15 p.m.

Cook Inlet Academy Classic Nikolaevsk girls vs. SoHi JV, 11 a.m.

Nikolaevsk boys vs. SoHi JV, 12:15 p.m.

CIA girls vs. Nikiski JV, 1:30 p.m.

CIA boys vs. Nanwalek, 2:45 p.m.

Skiing Besh Cup at Government Peak Recreation Area, TBA Sunday Skiing Besh Cup at Government Peak Recreation Area, TBA

Sports

Seahawks take down Vikings

By TIM BOOTH AP Sports Writer

SEATTLE — Bobby Wagner leaped over the line of scrimmage, swatted Dan Bailey’s field goal attempt and sparked the Seattle Seahawks to two late touchdowns.

Whether or not what Wagner did was entirely legal, he frankly didn’t care.

“I’m not stressing about that.

I made the play. They called what they called,” Wagner said.

“There’s times in games where things happen all the time. I’m not stressing on it. It was a big block and we’ll definitely take it.

It was amazing.”

Wagner’s block midway through the fourth quarter was the catalyst in a 21-7 win over the Minnesota Vikings on Monday night that pushed Seattle to the brink of a playoff berth.

Chris Carson followed the blocked kick with a 2-yard TD run with 2:53 left, and Justin Coleman capped off the Se-

ahawks’ fourth straight victory with a 29-yard fumble return for a touchdown 18 seconds later.

What was an ugly and mostly forgettable first three quarters turned into a Seattle party in the fourth as the Seahawks (8-5) moved to the brink of wrapping up a wild-card spot in the NFC. One win in Seattle’s final three games — including matchups with lowly San Francisco and Arizona — should be enough to put the Seahawks into the postseason.

“It’s really about the defense.

I loved the way they played, they played so hard and so spirited,” Seattle coach Pete Carroll said.

“It was almost poetic after last week’s game that Bobby would get to block the field goal and he pulled it off and did it. That was an incredible play.”

Minnesota (6-6-1) twice had scoring chances in the fourth quarter when it was still a onescore game but was turned away each time. Minnesota’s chances of winning the NFC North took a

major hit with its second straight loss, but the Vikings still hold the No. 6 spot in the NFC. “Part of it is being better on third downs. We haven’t really done a good job there. Part of it is being better in the red zone,” Vikings coach Mike Zimmer said.

“We had the ball on the 2-yard line and didn’t score.”

But much of the conversation centered on Wagner’s block of Bailey’s 47-yard attempt with 5:38 left and whether it was entirely legal. Wagner’s jump through a gap in Minnesota’s offensive line was fine, but it appeared he used his teammates to gain leverage, which allowed him to come through and block the kick. A flag was initially thrown but was picked up by the officials.

Wagner said he attempted it four times in practice without a problem but acknowledged it could be tough to pull off the play during the fourth quarter of a tight game.

“When I did it in practice I

was pretty fresh,” Wagner said.

Zimmer said he asked for an explanation of what happened but wasn’t given one. He was told he couldn’t challenge.

“Quite honestly, I didn’t see what happened. I was told what happened,” Zimmer said.

Seattle took possession and Russell Wilson immediately scrambled 40 yards deep into Minnesota territory. Five plays later, Carson scored and Seattle finally had a cushion. Two plays after that, Jacob Martin sacked Minnesota’s Kirk Cousins and the ball popped to Coleman, who weaved his way for the clinching touchdown.

Cousins threw a 6-yard touchdown pass to Dalvin Cook with 1:10 remaining, but Seattle recovered the onside kick.

“I feel like all of our losses we, as an offense, we are so slow,” Vikings wide receiver Adam Thielen said. “Our defense is keeping us in games.

And we’re not pulling our side of the bargain.”

Scoreboard Basketball Men’s AP Top 25

The top 25 teams in The Associated Press’ college basketball poll, with first-place votes in parentheses, records through Dec. 9, total points based on 25 points for a first-place vote through one point for a 25th-place vote and last week’s ranking:

Record Pts Prv 1. Kansas (57) 8-0 1583 2 2. Duke (4) 9-1 1454 3 3. Tennessee (1) 7-1 1421 7 4. Gonzaga (1) 9-1 1412 1 5. Michigan (1) 10-0 1398 5 6. Virginia (1) 9-0 1384 4 7. Nevada 10-0 1283 6 8. Auburn 8-1 1151 8 9. Michigan St. 8-2 1066 10 10. Florida St. 8-1 991 11 11. Texas Tech 8-0 914 13 12. North Carolina 7-2 890 14 13. Virginia Tech 8-1 833 15 14. Buffalo 9-0 664 17 15. Ohio St. 8-1 621 19 16. Wisconsin 8-2 599 12 17. Villanova 8-2 532 21 18. Mississippi St. 8-1 441 22 19. Kentucky 7-2 385 9 20. Arizona St. 7-1 351 20 21. Marquette 8-2 281 — 22. Iowa 7-2 208 18 23. Furman 10-0 189 25 24. Houston 8-0 173 — 25. Syracuse 7-2 118 — 25. Indiana 8-2 118 — 25. Kansas St. 6-2 118 16 Others receiving votes: Nebraska 115, Maryland 105, Oklahoma 82, Cincinnati 73, St. John’s 57, Purdue 40, N.C. State 26, Iowa St. 19, TCU 13, San Francisco 5, UCLA 3, Butler 2, Minnesota 2, Davidson 1, Florida 1, NJIT 1, Seton Hall 1, Texas 1.

Women’s AP Top 25

The top 25 teams in The Associated Press’ women’s college basketball poll, with first-place votes in parentheses, records through Dec. 9, total points based on 25 points for a first-place vote through one point for a 25th-place vote and last week’s ranking:

Record Pts Prv 1. UConn (31) 9-0 775 1 2. Notre Dame 8-1 736 2 3. Baylor 7-0 705 4 4. Louisville 10-0 685 5 5. Mississippi St. 9-0 654 6 6. Maryland 9-0 605 7 7. Oregon 7-1 576 3 8. Oregon St. 7-1 555 8 9. Tennessee 8-0 545 9 10. NC State 10-0 486 10 11. Stanford 6-1 464 11 7-2 389 12 12. Texas 13. Minnesota 9-0 374 14 13. California 8-0 374 13 15. Syracuse 8-2 336 15 16. Iowa 8-2 299 16 17. Arizona St. 7-2 226 17 18. Kentucky 9-1 196 19 19. Marquette 7-2 184 18 20. DePaul 7-3 182 20 21. Gonzaga 9-1 142 24 22. Missouri 8-2 122 23 23. Michigan St. 8-1 121 24. Miami 8-2 82 25 25. South Carolina 5-4 77 22 Others receiving votes: Drake 39, Texas A&M 24, Florida St. 22, Virginia Tech 21, South Florida 16, Iowa St. 14, Indiana 12, Georgia 11, South Dakota 10, Utah 5, West Virginia 5, Southern Cal 3, North Carolina 1, South Dakota St. 1, Cent Michigan 1.

Men’s Scores EAST Dartmouth 82, Sacred Heart 73 Hofstra 80, Manhattan 50 Maine 98, Maine at Machias 43 SOUTH Marshall 76, Morehead St. 64 SOUTHWEST Ark.-Pine Bluff 84, Champion Christian College 51 FAR WEST Pacific 74, Long Beach St. 68 Saint Mary’s (Cal) 81, Cal St.Fullerton 66

Women’s Scores EAST St. Francis Brooklyn 74, St. Peter’s 70 Towson 73, Saint Joseph’s 52 SOUTH Maryland 83, Loyola (Md.) 48 Southern U. 77, Louisiana College 53 SOUTHWEST

Ark.-Pine Bluff 68, Tougaloo 60 FAR WEST San Diego 76, Cal State San Bernardino 58

NBA Standings EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division

W L Pct GB Toronto 21 7 .750 — Philadelphia 19 9 .679 2 Boston 16 10 .615 4 Brooklyn 10 18 .357 11 New York 8 20 .286 13 Southeast Division Charlotte 13 13 .500 — Orlando 12 15 .444 1½ Miami 11 15 .423 2 Washington 11 16 .407 2½ Atlanta 6 20 .231 7 Central Division Milwaukee 18 8 .692 — Indiana 17 10 .630 1½ Detroit 13 12 .520 4½ Cleveland 6 21 .222 12½ Chicago 6 22 .214 13 WESTERN CONFERENCE Southwest Division Memphis 15 11 .577 — Dallas 14 11 .560 ½ New Orleans 14 15 .483 2½ San Antonio 13 14 .481 2½ Houston 11 14 .440 3½ Northwest Division Oklahoma City 17 8 .680 — Denver 18 9 .667 — Portland 15 11 .577 2½ Minnesota 13 14 .481 5 Utah 13 15 .464 5½ Pacific Division Golden State 19 9 .679 — L.A. Clippers 17 9 .654 1 L.A. Lakers 17 10 .630 1½ Sacramento 14 12 .538 4 Phoenix 4 23 .148 14½ Monday’s Games Indiana 109, Washington 101 Philadelphia 116, Detroit 102 Boston 113, New Orleans 100 Milwaukee 108, Cleveland 92 Oklahoma City 122, Utah 113 Sacramento 108, Chicago 89 Dallas 101, Orlando 76 Denver 105, Memphis 99 L.A. Clippers 123, Phoenix 119, OT Golden State 116, Minnesota 108 L.A. Lakers 108, Miami 105 Tuesday’s Games Portland at Houston, 4 p.m.

Phoenix at San Antonio, 4:30 p.m.

Toronto at L.A. Clippers, 6:30 p.m.

All Times AST

HOckey NHL Standings EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division

GP W L OT Pts GF GA Tampa Bay 32 24 7 1 49 130 91 Toronto 30 20 9 1 41 109 84 Buffalo 30 17 9 4 38 91 88 Boston 30 16 10 4 36 81 76 Montreal 30 15 10 5 35 96 94 Detroit 31 14 13 4 32 91 101 Ottawa 31 13 14 4 30 105 122 Florida 28 11 11 6 28 93 101 Metropolitan Division Washington 29 17 9 3 37 106 90 Columbus 29 16 11 2 34 100 99 N.Y. Islanders 29 14 11 4 32 83 85 Pittsburgh 29 13 10 6 32 98 92 N.Y. Rangers 30 14 13 3 31 88 98 Carolina 28 13 11 4 30 71 77 Philadelphia 28 12 13 3 27 86 101 New Jersey 29 10 13 6 26 88 105

WESTERN CONFERENCE Central Division Nashville 30 19 10 1 39 95 77 Colorado 30 17 8 5 39 108 88 Winnipeg 29 18 9 2 38 101 80 Dallas 30 16 11 3 35 83 78 Minnesota 29 15 12 2 32 88 87 St. Louis 28 10 14 4 24 78 94 Chicago 31 9 17 5 23 84 115 Pacific Division Calgary 31 19 10 2 40 107 85 San Jose 32 16 11 5 37 102 98 Anaheim 32 16 11 5 37 81 94 Vegas 32 17 14 1 35 96 91 Edmonton 30 16 12 2 34 82 87 Vancouver 32 13 16 3 29 95 109 Arizona 28 13 13 2 28 73 76 Los Angeles 31 11 19 1 23 68 94 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.

Monday’s Games Pittsburgh 2, N.Y. Islanders 1, SO Tampa Bay 6, N.Y. Rangers 3 Detroit 3, Los Angeles 1 San Jose 5, New Jersey 2 Tuesday’s Games Toronto at Carolina, 3 p.m.

Los Angeles at Buffalo, 3 p.m.

Vancouver at Columbus, 3 p.m.

Arizona at Boston, 3 p.m.

Detroit at Washington, 3:30 p.m.

Montreal at Minnesota, 4 p.m.

Ottawa at Nashville, 4 p.m.

Chicago at Winnipeg, 4 p.m.

Florida at St. Louis, 4 p.m.

Edmonton at Colorado, 5 p.m.

All Times AST

Football All-America Team FIRST TEAM OFFENSE Quarterback — Kyler Murray, junior, Oklahoma Running backs — Jonathan Taylor, sophomore, Wisconsin; Darrell Henderson, junior, Memphis Tackles — Jonah Williams, junior, Alabama; Mitch Hyatt, senior, Clemson Guards — Beau Benzschawel, senior, Wisconsin; Bunchy Stallings, senior, Kentucky Center — Garrett Bradbury, senior, North Carolina State Tight end — Jace Sternberger, junior, Texas A&M Wide receivers — Jerry Jeudy, sophomore, Alabama; Marquise Brown, junior, Oklahoma All-purpose player — Rondale Moore, freshman, Purdue Kicker — Andre Szmyt, freshman, Syracuse DEFENSE Ends — Clelin Ferrell, junior, Clemson; Sutton Smith, junior, Northern Illinois Tackles — Quinnen Williams, junior, Alabama; Christian Wilkins, senior, Clemson Linebackers — Josh Allen, senior, Kentucky; Devin White, junior, LSU; Ben Burr-Kirven, senior, Washington Cornerbacks — Deandre Baker, senior, Georgia; Julian Love, junior, Notre Dame Safeties — Grant Delpit, sophomore, LSU; Deionte Thompson, junior, Alabama Punter — Braden Mann, junior, Texas A&M SECOND TEAM OFFENSE Quarterback — Tua Tagovailoa, sophomore, Alabama Running backs — Travis Etienne, sophomore, Clemson; Trayveon Williams, junior, Texas A&M Tackles — Dalton Risner, senior, Kansas State; Andrew Thomas, sophomore, Georgia Guards — Dru Samia, senior, Oklahoma; Michael Dieter, senior, Wisconsin Center — Ross Pierschbacher, senior, Alabama Tight end — T.J. Hockenson, sophomore, Iowa Wide receivers — Tylan Wallace, sophomore, Oklahoma State; Andy Isabella, senior, Massachusetts All-purpose player — Greg Dortch, sophomore, Wake Forest Kicker — Cole Tracy, senior, LSU DEFENSE Ends — Montez Sweat, senior, Mississippi State; Jachai Polite, junior, Florida Tackles — Jerry Tillery, senior, Notre Dame; Gerald Willis III, senior, Miami Linebackers — Devin Bush, junior, Michigan; David Long Jr., junior, West Virginia; Joe Dineen, senior, Kansas Cornerbacks — Greedy Williams, sophomore, LSU; Byron Murphy, sophomore, Washington Safeties — Taylor Rapp, junior, Washington; Amani Hooker, junior, Iowa Punter — Mitch Wishnowsky, senior, Utah THIRD TEAM OFFENSE Quarterbacks — Dwayne Haskins, sophomore, Ohio State Running backs — Benny Snell, junior, Kentucky; Eno Benjamin, sophomore, Arizona State Tackles — Andre Dillard, senior, Washington State; Cody Ford, junior, Oklahoma Guards — Terrone Prescod, senior, North Carolina State; Chris Lindstrom, senior, Boston College Center — Michael Jordan, junior, Ohio State Tight end — Noah Fant, junior, Iowa Wide Receivers — A.J. Brown, junior, Mississippi; David Sills V, senior, West Virginia All-purpose player — J.J. Taylor, sophomore, Arizona Kicker — Matt Gay, senior, Utah DEFENSE Ends — Chase Winovich, senior, Michigan; Jaylon Ferguson, senior, Louisiana Tech Tackles — Jeffery Simmons, junior, Mississippi State; Ed Oliver, junior, Houston

Linebackers — Paddy Fisher, sophomore, Northwestern; David Woodward, sophomore, Utah State; Te’Von Coney, senior, Notre Dame Cornerbacks — Hamp Cheevers, junior, Boston College; Lavert Hill, junior, Michigan Safeties — Andre Cisco, freshman, Syracuse; Jonathan Abram, senior, Mississippi State Punter — James Smith, sophomore, Cincinnati

NFL Standings AMERICAN CONFERENCE East W L New England 9 4 Miami 7 6 Buffalo 4 9 4 9 N.Y. Jets South Houston 9 4 Indianapolis 7 6 Tennessee 7 6 Jacksonville 4 9 North Pittsburgh 7 5 Baltimore 7 6 Cleveland 5 7 5 8 Cincinnati West x-Kansas City 11 2 L.A. Chargers 10 3 Denver 6 7 3 10 Oakland

T Pct 0 .692 0 .538 0 .308 0 .308

PF 364 278 201 270

PA 293 333 320 330

0 .692 0 .538 0 .538 0 .308

323 349 251 212

259 300 254 273

1 .577 0 .538 1 .423 0 .385

367 321 292 307

306 241 332 397

0 .846 0 .769 0 .462 0 .231

471 366 290 244

351 270 282 388

NATIONAL CONFERENCE East 8 5 0 .615 276 246 Dallas Philadelphia 6 7 0 .462 281 295 Washington 6 7 0 .462 249 297 5 8 0 .385 307 331 N.Y. Giants South y-New Orleans 11 2 0 .846 447 283 Carolina 6 7 0 .462 324 332 Tampa Bay 5 8 0 .385 332 383 4 9 0 .308 316 367 Atlanta North Chicago 9 4 0 .692 359 247 Minnesota 6 6 1 .500 282 291 Green Bay 5 7 1 .423 315 307 5 8 0 .385 271 319 Detroit West y-L.A. Rams 11 2 0 .846 425 313 Seattle 8 5 0 .615 340 266 Arizona 3 10 0 .231 178 327 San Francisco 3 10 0 .231 275 350 x-clinched playoff spot y-clinched division Thursday, Dec. 13 L.A. Chargers at Kansas City, 4:20 p.m.

Saturday, Dec. 15 Houston at N.Y. Jets, 12:30 p.m.

Cleveland at Denver, 4:20 p.m.

Sunday, Dec. 16 Tennessee at N.Y. Giants, 9 a.m.

Green Bay at Chicago, 9 a.m.

Detroit at Buffalo, 9 a.m.

Tampa Bay at Baltimore, 9 a.m.

Arizona at Atlanta, 9 a.m.

Oakland at Cincinnati, 9 a.m.

Dallas at Indianapolis, 9 a.m.

Miami at Minnesota, 9 a.m.

Washington at Jacksonville, 9 a.m.

Seattle at San Francisco, 12:05 p.m.

New England at Pittsburgh, 12:25 p.m.

Philadelphia at L.A. Rams, 4:20 p.m.

Monday, Dec. 17 New Orleans at Carolina, 4:15 p.m.

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Seahawks 21, Vikings 7 Min. 0 0 0 7— 7 Sea. 0 3 0 18—21 Second Quarter Sea_FG Janikowski 37, 14:11.

Fourth Quarter Sea_FG Janikowski 35, 13:22.

Sea_Carson 2 run (Lockett pass from R.Wilson), 2:53.

Sea_Coleman 29 fumble return (Janikowski kick), 2:35.

Min_Cook 6 pass from Cousins (Bailey kick), 1:10.

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Min Sea First downs 16 19 Total Net Yards 276 274 Rushes-yards 21-77 42-214 Passing 199 60 Punt Returns 0-0 3-17 Kickoff Returns 3-64 0-0 Interceptions Ret. 1-3 0-0 Comp-Att-Int 20-33-0 10-20-1 2-12 Sacked-Yards Lost 2-9 Punts 5-42.6 5-44.0 Fumbles-Lost 1-1 0-0 Penalties-Yards 4-51 4-45 Time of Possession 28:11 31:49 INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS RUSHING_Minnesota, Cook 13-55, Thielen 1-8, Diggs 1-5, Cousins 3-5, Murray 3-4. Seattle, Carson 22-90, R.Wilson 7-61, Penny 8-44, Davis 3-22, Lockett 2-(minus 3).

PASSING_Minnesota, Cousins 20-33-0-208. Seattle, R.Wilson 10-20-1-72.

RECEIVING_Minnesota, Thielen 5-70, Cook 5-28, Diggs 4-76, Treadwell 3-16, Rudolph 2-7,

Conklin 1-11. Seattle, Lockett 5-42, Vannett 1-12, Fant 1-9, Davis 1-5, E.Dickson 1-4, J.Brown 1-0.

MISSED FIELD GOALS_None.

Transactions BASEBALL American League BALTIMORE ORIOLES — Claimed INF Rio Ruiz off waivers from Atlanta.

DETROIT TIGERS — Agreed to terms with RHP Tyson Ross on a one-year contract.

SEATTLE MARINERS — Claimed INF/RHP Kaleb Cowart off waivers from the L.A. Angels.

TEXAS RANGERS — Claimed INF Carlos Asuaje off waivers from San Diego.

National League CINCINNATI REDS — Claimed LHP Robby Scott off waivers from Boston.

ST. LOUIS CARDINALS — Claimed RHP Ryan Meisinger off waivers from Baltimore.

SAN FRANCISCO GIANTS — Claimed OF Mike Gerber off waivers from Detroit. Named J.P. Ricciardi senior adviser to the president of baseball operations, Zack Minasian director, pro scouting and Michael Holmes director, amateur scouting.

BASKETBALL National Basketball Association DENVER NUGGETS — Waived G Brandon Goodwin. Signed G Nick Young.

FOOTBALL National Football League INDIANAPOLIS COLTS — Released DE Anthony Wimbush from the practice squad. Signed DT DeShawn Williams to the practice squad.

OAKLAND RAIDERS — Fired general manager Reggie McKenzie.

GOLF PGA OF AMERICA — Promoted Jimmy Terry to senior director of PGA Golf Properties.

HOCKEY National Hockey League ANAHEIM DUCKS — Acquired RW Adam Cracknell from Toronto for D Steven Oleksy. Recalled D Andrej Sustr and G Jared Coreau from San Diego (AHL). Reassigned D Josh Mahura and Andy Welinski to San Diego.

ARIZONA COYOTES — Signed F Nathan Schnarr to an entry-level contract.

CALGARY FLAMES — Assigned D Rinat Valiev and F Anthony Peluso to Stockton (AHL). Recalled F Ryan Lomberg from Stockton.

DETROIT RED WINGS — Assigned D Brian Lashoff to Grand Rapids (AHL).

LOS ANGELES KINGS — Recalled D Sean Walker from the Ontario (AHL). Loaned F Gabriel Vilardi to Team Canada.

ST. LOUIS BLUES — Waived G Chad Johnson. Assigned F Sammy Blais to San Antonio (AHL).

Recalled G Jordan Binnington from San Antonio.

American Hockey League SAN ANTONIO RAMPAGE — Announced G Evan Fitzpatrick was recalled from Tulsa (ECHL).

SAN DIEGO GULLS — Acquired G Jeff Glass from Toronto for future considerations.

OLYMPICS U.S. OLYMPIC COMMITTEE — Fired chief of sport performance Alan Ashley.

SOCCER Major League Soccer PORTLAND TIMBERS — Signed D Zarek Valentin and Ms Marvin Loría and Renzo Zambrano.

SEATTLE SOUNDERS — Traded the rights to M Andy Rose to Vancouver for general allocation money.

COLLEGE AUBURN — Named Kenny Dillingham offensive coordinator/ quarterbacks coach.

CAMPBELL — Named Weston Glaser defensive coordinator.

CLAYTON STATE — Named Danielle Masi assistant trainer.

KANSAS STATE — Named Chris Klieman football coach and agreed to terms on a six-year contract.

MISSISSIPPI — Named Mike MacIntyre defensive coordinator.

MISSOURI — Suspended DE Tre Williams from the football team.

NORTHERN ARIZONA — Named Chris Ball football coach.

TEXAS TECH — Announced WR Antoine Wesley will forego his senior year and enter the NFL draft.

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Peninsula Clarion | Tuesday, December 11, 2018 | A9

Crossword

Kids are never out of mom’s sight with their grandparents P.S. As the kids get older, Mom’s need to supervise your visits may subside.

DEAR ABBY: My mother, who lives paycheck to paycheck, has recently become good friends with “Rhonda,” who is wealthy due to inherited money. They frequently go out to eat or on other excursions together, and Mom expects her friend to foot the Abigail Van Buren bill. Rhonda, however, usually pays only for herself and expects Mom to pay her own way. It has made Mom angry enough to complain to me.

I told my mom that it’s presumptuous of her to expect Rhonda to always pay. While it would be generous of her to pay for Mom too, I think the woman is allowed to do what she wants with her money. Mom says no, I’m wrong, and “those who have more should always be willing to pay for those who have less.”

What do you think?

-- COMPLAINING IN THE SOUTH DEAR COMPLAINING: I think that your mother’s friendship with Rhonda may be nearing its

end. I also think that because there is such a discrepancy in the amount of discretionary income your mother and her friend have, your mother should inform Rhonda that as much as she might like to frequently accompany her, financial reality prevents it. Alternatively, they could do something together that doesn’t cost as much or is free.

DEAR ABBY: I have a pet peeve -- when people live, say, in Washington state, and they say, “Are you going up to California?” or “I have a friend coming down from California.” My brother-in-law does this all the time. Is it a condition or just laziness? If I correct him, he gets angry. I know I’m right, but what would you call his condition?

-- PEEVED IN WASHINGTON DEAR PEEVED: I would call his condition “habit.” And I would call YOUR condition a need to nitpick. Although you may be right in this case, if you want a pleasant relationship with your brotherin-law, resist the temptation. Everyone has flaws.

His is a minor one.

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 Tuesday, Dec. perhaps you’ll want to spend time with a special loved one. Tonight: Hang 11, 2018: This year you evolve to a new lev- close to home if you can. el of understanding. You want to be CANCER (June 21-July 22) around people more often. You create HHHH One-on-one relating opens friendships that have a great deal of doors and provides an opportunity depth. If you are single, you might dis- to change the tone of your interaccover that converting a friendship to tion with a key person in your life. Do a romantic relationship could be prob- not deny this person the opportunity lematic. Just take your time. If you are to hear all the news that comes from attached, you and your partner seem your direction. Make time to visit with to have it all, both friendship and love. an older relative. Tonight: Be nice.

The combination of the two of you LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) together inevitably creates fun and HHH You still might be eyeing the good times. A fellow SAGITTARIUS is costs of this particular holiday season. always scheming; take his or her ad- Perhaps you wish you had splurged a bit more on certain loved ones. Know vice with a grain of salt.

The Stars Show the Kind of Day that it is not too late! You will love the You’ll Have: 5-Dynamic; 4-Positive; smiles you get when they open up an extra gift. Tonight: Choose a favorite 3-Average; 2-So-so; 1-Difficult pastime.

ARIES (March 21-April 19) HHHH Emphasize what works. As VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) you strive to make certain plans a re- HHHH Take advantage of the dayality, you will gain quite a few support- light hours. Understand that others ers. You also might be identifying with could be out of sorts with the presothers as they have similar discus- sure of the impending holidays. Not sions. The back-and-forth exchanges everyone is as organized as you are. likely will result in good feedback. To- Schedule some time to yourself today or in the near future. Tonight: Treat night: Where the crowds are. yourself to some extra R and R. TAURUS (April 20-May 20) HHH Emphasis seems to be on LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) your personal life. A partner or loved HHHH Slow down a bit for the time one might make a suggestion that being. Fatigue could be creeping up could affect your financial situation, on you, causing your energy levels but you could be quite attached to the to dwindle significantly. In fact, if you status quo. Try to open up to different take just the evening off, you will reperspectives, and you’ll be glad you new quickly and feel recharged. Tonight: Expect to be energized to do did. Tonight: Happy at home. whatever you desire.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20) HHHH You might feel as if some- SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) one is testing your limits. Rather than HHHH Use the daylight hours to respond, you could opt to screen your the max. You might surprise yourself calls and cocoon at home. You will be by how much you can get done. You in the mood for a change of pace, or easily could be overwhelmed by so

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many people seeking you out. In fact, you even might need to screen your calls and emails. Tonight: Catch up on a friend’s news.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) HHHH Like it or not, you are in a position of having to give responses and answers to others. You could feel quite uncomfortable with everything that is going on around you. Know that you can get a lot done if you worry less about the outcome. Tonight: Nap, then decide.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) HHH Reach out to someone at a distance whom you really care about.

This person might have some important information to share with you. You could feel uncomfortable with what you hear. Verify information first. Tonight: Imagine what it is like to be in someone else’s shoes.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) HHHH One-on-one relating is highlighted. Others appear more responsive than you originally had thought, but you will see that there seems to be a mental block to an important part of the conversation. Try a new approach, and have patience! Tonight: Go where there is great music.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) HHHH Don’t expect to get much quiet and/or reflective time. Others seek you out for a variety of reasons.

You remain responsive, though a sense of annoyance also emerges.

Consider isolating yourself for a short while until you feel relaxed. Tonight: Make time for a favorite person.

BORN TODAY Actor Rider Strong (1979), singer Brenda Lee (1944), rapper Mos Def (1973)

Don’t check this Dear Heloise: Given the cost for checked bags and problems with carry-ons, when my wife flew, we BOXED UP everything she’d need, from clothes to toothbrush, and mailed it about two weeks before she would get there.

She took a handbag that had her driver’s license, a credit card, cellphone and some cash. Going through security was easy, and not checking a suitcase made things even easier. When she arrived, she did not have to wait around for her luggage, or worry that it missed the plane.

When it was time to come home, she simply mailed everything back.

-- Timothy R., Owasso, Okla.

This is great if you are meeting family with gifts to give. Traveling light is a good idea. Who doesn’t want to lighten the load?

-- Heloise CASH-AND-CARRY GERMS Dear Heloise: I’m amazed at cashiers and checkers sneezing and coughing into their hands while I’m in the checkout line.

Twice in two weeks, I have backed out and moved to another register.

This is something that should be addressed in a store meeting. I see others raising their arms and covering their mouths with their forearms.

-- Michael V., Cypress, Calif.

THE WIPE STUFF Dear Heloise: I keep alcohol prep pads on hand for cleaning eyeglasses, phone and computer screens, and remote controls.

They are cheap -- a box of 100 is only a few dollars.

After buying screen- and lens-cleaner wipes, I found that rubbing alcohol was the main ingredient. I clean my laptop screen and keyboard, phone and remote with one square! I keep a few in my bag.

-- Allyse T., via email Readers, check with the manufacturers to be sure this is OK for your items.

-- Heloise

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DEAR ABBY: My husband and I have three wonderful grandchildren who live with our daughter and son-in-law in another state. Our daughter will not allow us to take the children out to lunch, shopping, for ice cream or anywhere without the parents coming with us.

The kids are 7 and 3-year-old twins. When we are in the house playing on the floor with them, our daughter is right there with us. When we go outside to play, she is also there watching.

When I have asked her why she won’t let us take the children out, she makes up different excuses, including saying she’s overprotective. This makes me and my husband very sad. We are not treated like normal grandparents. What do you suggest we do?

-- DISGRUNTLED GRANDPARENT DEAR DISGRUNTLED: Not knowing your daughter, I can’t guess why she appears to be so possessive of the grandchildren. However, while I agree that what’s going on isn’t “normal,” you might be less unhappy if you focus on being grateful that you are able to interact with your grandchildren. It is beneficial for them to spend time with you and know that you love them. Not all grandparents and grandchildren are as fortunate.

By Eugene Sheffer

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Pets Good boy: Sully the service dog visits Bush’s casket

By LAURIE KELLMAN Associated Press

WASHINGTON — It’s often said that if you want a friend in Washington, get a dog.

For the last six months, Sully the service dog was President George H.W. Bush’s. The yellow Labrador Retriever visited the president’s casket in the Capitol Rotunda Tuesday alongside people in wheelchairs who benefited from the

Americans With Disabilities Act that Bush signed in 1990.

John Miller, the president and CEO of America’s VetDogs, said the Bush family contacted Walter Reed National Military Medical Center after the late president’s wife of 73 years, Barbara, died in April.

America’s VetDogs chose Sully in part for his calm temperament. “After Mrs. Bush’s death, general companionship was a

This pet is available at the Kenai Animal Shelter

big part of Sully’s job,� Miller said in a phone interview. “One of the things that I think was important to the president was the rest command, where Sully would rest his head on the president’s lap.�

Sully is 2 years old. He was named for retired airline pilot Chesley “Sully� Sullenberger III, who became famous for landing a damaged passenger jet on the Hudson River in 2009, saving everyone aboard.

Sully the dog achieved worldwide fame after a Bush family spokesman tweeted a photo of Sully laying by Bush’s flag-draped casket with the caption: “Mission completed.�

The pup traveled to Washington with the funeral retinue.

And on Tuesday morning, officials issued a two-minute warning for Sully’s arrival in the Rotunda. Sully padded in, his leash held by Valerie Cramer, America’s VetDogs service dog

program manager.

At her command, he lay down — and threw a glance over his shoulder at the photographers scrambling to get his photo. He didn’t seem fazed.

Cramer then led him around the casket to sit among the others.

After a few minutes, the procession headed out.

Sully is headed back to America’s VetDogs in Smithtown, New York, where he was born and trained, Miller said.

This pet is available at the Kenai Animal Shelter

This pet is available at the Clear Creek Cat Rescue

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Meet Peanuts Peanuts is a very sweet, calm cat that loves to be cuddled. She has been around children of all ages and likes to hang around other cats. Peanuts is not very comfortable around dogs, but is a great couch companion

JULIAN

Meet Julian Julian is a sweet boy who loves his people and other cats. Loves to zoom around the house playing with his cat friends. Not a fan of dogs but could get along with another dog who doesn’t get in his face. He likes to curl up in the cat tree for bedtime and purr the night away. He’s a happy boy who would be purrfect for any loving family. He will need a safe place to go outside once he has adapted and the warm cozy weather returns.

Then he’ll go for training at Walter Reed to help brace, retrieve and otherwise help the veterans there get care. Sully will be working with two dogs already in service at the veterans’ hospital, Sgt. Dillon and Sgt. Truman.

The dogs provided by America’s VetDogs are provided free of charge for a service that can cost upward of $50,000 to breed, train and place them, Miller said.

DANTE

t Collie & Golden Retriever Mix t Senior t Male t Medium t Vaccinations up to Date t Spayed/Neutered

Meet Dante I am a shy boy who has done well around other dogs, cats and chickens from my previous home.

But due to my age, I would do best in a home with no kids. Once I get to know you, I love to snuggle.

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DENALI

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GYPSY t Adult t Female t Medium t House Trained t Prefers a home without other cats or dogs

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BASS

t Husky Shepherd Mix t Young t Female t Medium t Vaccinations up to Date

Meet Gypsy This sweet girl has to go to a home where there are no other animals. She is a doll as long as she is the only one. She isn’t too big and she’s a purring machine most of the time.

t Mastiff Mix t Extra Large t Adult t Female t House Trained t Vaccinations up to Date t Spayed/Neutered

Meet Denali I am a 4 year old female. I am mostly house trained but sometimes have an occasional accident. I am a large dog so I need a home with a TALL fence as I have been known to leap over 4 foot fences without a problem. Inside the house, I am a friendly couch potato. I am shy to visitors but once I warm up to someone I am affectionate. I am very vocal! Due to my size and strength I will do best in a home with older children.

Meet Bass This sweet little girl takes a while to get to know you. She is a climber and will need a secure yard.

She needs a home where she will no longer have to be stuck at the end of a chain but rather have someone who is willing to be patient with her to help her gain confidence as a dog again. She is so sweet once she knows she can trust you.

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