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THURSDAY, APRIL 10, 2014 Soldotna-Kenai, Alaska

Vol. 44, Issue 163

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College program opens to high school juniors

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By KAYLEE OSOWSKI Peninsula Clarion

In the news House passes bill addressing AGDC appointments

JUNEAU (AP) — The Alaska House has passed legislation to allow out-of-state residents to serve on the board of the Alaska Gasline Development Corp., or AGDC. The vote was 27-12. The bill still must to go to the Senate. House Speaker Mike Chenault requested House Rules introduce HB383 to address what he has called an oversight in legislation passed last year setting up AGDC. Chenault has said the intent was to ensure the most qualified people serve on the board, regardless of whether they’re Alaska residents. The issue came to the fore with Gov. Sean Parnell’s appointment to the board of a Texas man and former pipeline company executive. Critics of the appointment say Alaskans should be making policy calls affecting Alaskans, and nothing prevents AGDC from hiring out-of-state residents as consultants.

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Bella Fiore, left, and Alyssa Herr, right, stretch with Pako Whannell after working with her on Job Shadow Day Wednesday at New Beginnings in Kenai.

On-the-job training Kenai students participate in Job Shadow Day By WREN NORWOOD and KENDRICK O’ROURKE For the Peninsula Clarion

More than a hundred Kenai Central High School students join the workforce for the day Wednesday, as part of the annual Job Shadow Day. Job Shadow Day, now in its 20th year, is a joint program between Kenai Central High School and the Kenai Chamber of Commerce. High school juniors are matched with local businesses for a hands-on experience in a number of different career areas.

KCHS Principal Alan Fields said that about 125 students are given a day to shadow a worker and experience the job of their host. Students have the opportunity to understand what the job is like and if they might enjoy that type of career. The school faces a huge logistical challenge transporting more than a hundred students to different businesses, from the refineries and oil industry businesses of Nikiski to the hospital and police station in Soldotna. Fields said he appreciates the community support and would like to see it the community continue supporting the

program. Johna Beech, president and chief operating officer for the Kenai Chamber of Commerce, said that about 56 businesses are involved with the Job Shadow Day. This is her third year working with this program and she said KCHS is the only school in the United States that puts on a job shadow program of this type. One challenge the chamber faces in putting the program together is the size of the community and the heavy burden on some of the businesses. The hospital alone has accepted about 24 students for See JOB, page A-12

This fall Kenai Peninsula Borough School District juniors will be able to get a jump on college at a reduced rate. Kenai Peninsula College and KPBSD announced this week that the JumpStart program will be open to eleventh graders for the 2014 fall semester. Previously KPC only offered the program to seniors at the reduced tuition rate of $55 per credit compared to the regular $174 rate. “We’re just really excited for the opportunity for students and for helping them be successful … as well as thankful that it’s been extended to our juniors not just for out seniors,” said, Pegge Erkeneff, district spokesperson. Students can take up to six credits each semester at the college. KPBSD students who begin the program their junior years will be able to earn up to a full year of college credit and save a total of $3,570 when compared to regular University of Alaska rates. As an accredited institution under the University of Alaska Anchorage, KPC credits are transferable to nearly any institution, KPC Director Gary Turner said. See JUMP, page A-12

Senate Finance advances capital budget By BECKY BOHRER Associated Press

JUNEAU — The Senate Finance Committee advanced a $2.1 billion capital budget Wednesday. Perhaps the biggest change compared with the draft unveiled earlier this week was a $245-million financing package for a heat and power plant at the University of Alaska Fairbanks. The figure includes state funds and $157.5 million in antici-

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pated bond revenue. The committee advanced a separate bill, SB218, that would increase the borrowing limit of the Alaska Municipal Bond Bank Authority as part of that overall package. The capital budget included language urging the University

Soldotna man indicted on federal tax charges By Dan Balmer Peninsula Clarion

A Soldotna man was indicted for allegedly filing false tax returns and failing to file a return from 2006 to 2012, according to a release from the office of U.S. District Attorney Karen Loeffler. James R. Back, 59, was arrested at the Ted Stevens Anchorage International Airport on Monday and arraigned before U.S. Magistrate Judge John Roberts on Tuesday. Back did not enter a plea Tuesday and was released under the supervision of the U.S. Probation and Pretrial Services Office on $10,000 bail, according to the U.S. Attorney’s of-

fice. According to the prosecutors, Back filed false tax returns from 2006 to 2008 and failed to file tax returns from 2009 through 2012. During this time he worked for Alyeska Pipeline Service Company as a pipeline technician. In 2007, he sent the IRS a false Substitute W-2 form, “claiming his wages were not income,” according to the indictment. The indictment alleges from 2006 to 2008, Back falsely reported to the IRS that he earned no income during those years, when he had earnings that totaled nearly $400,000. Back claimed on his returns that he was owed refunds totaling $110,111. See TAX, page A-12

of Alaska to implement a utility surcharge or increase tuition in an amount not to exceed $2 million in annual revenue. That funding along with fuel savings from building a new plant would be used to offset revenue-bond debt service for the power plant project, according to the nonbinding language that expressed the intent of lawmakers. The budget bill is subject to change. Once it passes the Senate, it will go to the House.

Senate Finance co-chair Sen. Kevin Meyer, R-Anchorage, has said that his goals with the budget included having the state finish projects it has started — like the state library, archives and museum in Juneau and an engineering building at the University of Alaska Anchorage — and maintain roads, building or other state assets by addressing issues of deferred maintenance. He also has sought to hold down the level of spending, a desire shared by the governor

and other lawmakers. While the overall size of the bill was up from the committee draft released Monday, it was about $180 million less than the capital budget, including supplemental capital items, approved by lawmakers last session. The bill has close to $440 million less in unrestricted general funds than in the budget approved last year, according to the Legislative Finance Division. See BUDGET, page A-12

LNG measure moves out of House Resource Committee By BECKY BOHRER Associated Press

JUNEAU — Following an intensive amendment process that began last week, the House Resources Committee on Wednesday passed out its rewrite of a bill aimed at advancing a major liquefied natural gas project. The committee considered dozens of proposed amendments and debated many of them at length — even some that were ultimately withdrawn — over the course of several days. Co-chair Dan Saddler, REagle River, said he thought C

Alaskans could take comfort that the committee did “good, hard work.” Rep. Peggy Wilson, R-Wrangell, said she thought the bill was fair to all concerned. Other members expressed mixed feelings. Rep. Craig Johnson, R-Anchorage, said he saw this as a way forward in pursuing a long-hoped for gas line project. But he said he still had questions about ownership and control. He encouraged the Parnell administration to make sure this was the best deal the state could get. He said he wasn’t sure it was but if he knew a better way, he would have offered

options. The bill, SB138, from Gov. Sean Parnell, would set state participation in the project, also being pursued by the North Slope’s major players, TransCanada and the Alaska Gasline Development Corp., or AGDC, at about 25 percent. It also is aimed at moving the project — currently estimated to cost between $45 billion and more than $65 billion — into a phase of preliminary engineering and design and cost refinement. As proposed, AGDC would hold the state’s interest in liquefaction facilities. See GAS, page A-12

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AccuWeather 5-day forecast for Kenai-Soldotna

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24 hours through 4 p.m. yest. 0.00" Month to date ........................... 0.08" Normal month to date ............. 0.15" Year to date .............................. 2.71" Normal year to date ................. 2.63" Record today ................. 0.56" (1998) Record for April ............ 2.21" (1955) Record for year ............ 27.09" (1963) Snowfall 24 hours through 4 p.m. yest. .. 0.0" Month to date ............................. 0.8" Season to date ......................... 43.0"

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A large part of the nation will be dry, sunny and warm today. A zone of clouds, showers and spotty thunderstorms will reach from Kansas to Michigan. A pocket of cooler air will invade the North Central states.

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By RACHEL D’ORO Associated Press

ANCHORAGE — The remains of two pilots have been found in the wreckage of a small commercial plane that crashed during a training flight near a southwest Alaska town, state troopers said Wednesday. The pilots who died in the crash Tuesday afternoon near Bethel were identified as Derrick Cedars, 42, of Bethel, and Greggory McGee, 46, of Anchorage. They were the only two on board. The burned wreckage of the Cessna 208 operated by Hageland Aviation was found near Three Step Mountain about 2 ½ hours later. The crash occurred in clear and calm weather about 30 miles southeast of Bethel, Hageland spokesman Steve Smith said. It’s too early to say what caused the plane to go down, said Clint Johnson, an investigator with the National Transporta-

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tion Safety Board, which is leading the investigation of the crash. NTSB investigations look at weather, pilot error and mechanical problems as possible causes. “It’s in the very, very preliminary stages,” Johnson said of the investigation into Tuesday’s crash. “Everything is on the table at this point.” Also not immediately clear is whether there were any radio communications between the plane and pilots in the area. There also were no immediate reports of anything recorded by a Federal Aviation Administration control tower or a flight service station, Johnson said. Troopers flew to the scene by helicopter after the plane was reported overdue, and a local pilot spotted the burning wreckage, troopers spokeswoman Megan Peters said. Responders found the re-

mains of the men in the wreckage. Johnson said he didn’t know who was flying the Cessna when it crashed. Neither does Hageland, Smith said. “This was a training flight, unfortunately until the crash site is completely reviewed there is no way to determine who was at the controls,” he wrote in an email to The Associated Press. The NTSB also is investigating the crash of another Hageland Aviation Cessna 208 last November. Four people were killed and six others were injured in the crash of that commuter flight outside the southwest Alaska village of Saint Marys. A preliminary NTSB report said the plane had diverted course because of deteriorating weather. An NTSB investigator was en route Wednesday to Bethel, 425

miles west of Anchorage. The NTSB also was sending a helicopter to the town, said Johnson, who added that the chopper will be used to transport an investigative team to the wreckage site no later than Thursday morning. After the initial on-scene investigation is completed, the helicopter will be used to recover the wreckage and take it back to Bethel, said Johnson, who added that ultimately, the wreckage will probably be transported to Anchorage. Also part of the investigative team are the FAA, the Cessna’s operator and Cessna Aircraft, which was sending a technical expert to Alaska from Wichita, Kan., on Wednesday, Johnson said. Cedars is survived by his wife and two children, and McGee is survived by his wife, Hageland said.

Peninsula Clarion, Thursday, April 10, 2014

Community Calendar Today 8 a.m. • Alcoholics Anonymous As Bill Sees It Group, 11312 Kenai Spur Highway Unit 71 (Old Carrs Mall). Call 398-9440. 8:30 a.m. • TOPS AK No. 220 Kasilof weigh-in at CES Station 6, 58260 Sterling Highway. Meeting starts at 9 a.m. Call 2627319 or 252-3436. 10 a.m. • TOPS AK No. 164 Soldotna weigh-in at First Baptist Church, 159 S. Binkley. Meeting starts at 11 a.m. Call 2627339. • Narcotics Anonymous PJ Meeting, 11312 Kenai Spur Highway, Unit 71, Kenai. Noon • Alcoholics Anonymous recovery group at 11312 Kenai Spur Highway Suite 71 in the old Carrs Mall in Kenai. Call 262-1917. 12:30 p.m. • The local chapter of the National Multiple Sclerosis Society meets at at Heritage Place in Soldotna, 232 Rockwell Ave. Call Lindy at 262-4724. 5:30 p.m. • Free Seated Zumba Gold at the Kenai Senior Center. New participants, active older adults, and chair-bound or limited mobility participants are encouraged. 6 p.m. • AA Step Sisters at Central Peninsula Hospital. Call 2622304. • TOPS AK 20, Soldotna, weigh-in at Christ Lutheran Church, 128 North Soldotna Avenue, Soldotna. Meeting starts at 6:30 p.m. Call 262-1557. • Celebrate Recovery, Midnight Son Seventh-day Adventist church on the corner of Swires Rd. and Kenai Spur Hwy in Kenai. Dinner is at 6 p.m.; Recovery Lesson at 6:30 p.m.; Open Share groups at 7:15 p.m. Email rking4@mac.com or call260-3292. 7 p.m. • Narcotics Anonymous Support Group “Dopeless Hope Fiends,” 11312 Kenai Spur Highway, Unit 71, Kenai. • Square dance group at Ninilchik Senior Center. • Alcoholics Anonymous “Unity Men’s Group” meets downstairs the Salvation Army building in Soldotna. 8 p.m. • AA Attitude of Gratitude at URS Club, 405 Overland Drive. Call 283-3777. • AA North Roaders Group at North Star Methodist Church, Mile 25.5 Kenai Spur Highway. Call 242-9477. • Alcoholics Anonymous Ninichick support group at United Methodist Church, 15811 Sterling Highway, Ninilchik. Call 907567-3574. The Community Calendar lists recurring events and meetings of local organizations. To have your event listed, email organization name, day or days of meeting, time of meeting, place, and a contact phone number to news@ peninsulaclarion.com.

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The Peninsula Clarion strives to report the deaths of all current and former Peninsula residents. Notices should be received within three months of the death. We offer two types of death reports: Pending service/Death notices: Brief notices listing full name, age, date and place of death; and time, date and place of service. These are published at no charge. Obituaries: The Clarion charges a fee to publish obituaries. Obituaries are prepared by families, funeral homes, crematoriums, and are edited by our staff according to newspaper guidelines. Obituaries up to 300 words are charged $50, which includes a one-year online guest book memoriam to on Legacy. com. Obituaries up to 500 words are charged $100, which also includes the one-year online guest book memoriam. Tax is not included. All charges include publication of a black and white photo. Obituaries outside these guidelines are handled by the Clarion advertising department. How to submit: Funeral homes and crematoriums routinely submit completed obituaries to the newspaper. Obituaries may also be submitted directly to the Clarion, online at www.peninsulaclarion.com, or by mail to: Peninsula Clarion, P.O. Box 3009, Kenai, Alaska, 99611. Pre-payment must accompany all submissions not already handled by a funeral home or crematorium. Deadlines: Submissions for Tuesday – Friday editions must be received by 2 p.m. the previous day. Submissions for Sunday and Monday editions must be received by 3 p.m. Friday. We do not process obituaries on Saturdays or Sundays unless submitted by funeral homes or crematoriums. Obituaries are placed on a space-available basis, prioritized by dates of local services. Copyright: All death notices and obituaries become property of the Clarion and may not be republished in any format. For more information, call the Clarion at 907-283-7551.

Around the Peninsula Woodturners plan meeting, demonstration The Kenai Peninsula Woodturners Chapter will hold its April meeting at 1 p.m. Saturday, April 12 at the woodturning shop. Location is the log building, mile 100 on the Sterling Highway, just a few miles south of Soldotna where Echo Lake Road meets the highway. There will be a demonstration. Visitors are always welcome. Questions? Call 801-543-9122.

Firefighters help with car seat check up Transporting children safely in motor vehicles can be confusing. Stop in at either Kenai Fire Department Saturday, April 19 from 1-3 p.m. or the Soldotna/ CES Fire Station Wednesday, April 23 from 11 a.m to 2 p.m. to have your children checked in their car seats or booster seats to make sure they are riding safely according to their age, weight, height and development.

Kenai gets to work on playground upgrades A work session to help plan the upgrades and expansion of Kenai Municipal Park Playground is scheduled for Tuesday, April 15 at 6 p.m. and should last until 7:30 p.m., downstairs at Kenai City Hall. Contact Bob Frates at 283-3692 for more information.

Learn about foster care and adoption A meeting to learn more about foster care and adoption on the Kenai Peninsula will be held Wednesday, April 16, from 6 to 8 p.m. at 145 Main St. Loop in Kenai. The Alaska Department of Health and Social Services, Office of Children’s Services, offers monthly Resource Family Orientations to give interested individuals a brief overview of the state’s foster care and adoption programs and process. For more info, call Tonja Whitney or Michelle Partridge at 907-283-3136.

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Kenai Middle School orientation scheduled Kenai Middle School Orientation and Activity Night will be Monday, April 21 from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. Parents of all incoming 6th, 7th, and 8th grade students on the Peninsula are invited. A free barbecue will take place from 5:30-6:00 p.m. Parent orientation and classroom visitations will be from 6:007:30 p.m. Student activities are from 6:00-7:30 p.m. For more information call Kenai Middle School at 283-1700.

Take a break for fashion show Peninsula Take-A-Break is planning a Second Chance Fashion Show from 6:30-8:30 p.m. Tuesday, April 22 at the Solid Rock Conference Center, Mile 90.5 Sterling Highway. Cindy Ingraham will model repurposed designs for second-hand fashions. Dianne Cronin will speak to “A Journey With a Destination.” Dinner is $12. For reservations, call Susan at 335-6789.

KPC offers cultural enrichment programs Kenai Peninsula College’s Rural and Native Student Services invites the public to several free events. The Native Creations and Reflections group meets from 4:30-6:30 p.m. on Tuesdays in room 159 at the Kenai River Campus in Soldotna through the end of April. Participants are invited to bring their own artwork to share with the group. The Alaska Native Language Conversation series also continues through the end of the month. Attendees can learn Alaska Native languages with local experts. Dena’ina Qenaga: Basic Conversation meets from 11 a.m.-1 p.m. on Mondays at the Kenaitze Indian Tribe’s Tribal Justice Circle room (administration office) in Kenai. Yugtun Circle: Basic Conversation meets from 11 a.m.-1 p.m. on Fridays in room 159 at KRC. Ahtna Kenaege’: Basic Conversation and Beading Activity meets from 4-6 p.m. on Mondays in room 159 at KRC. For more information regarding any of these events, please contact Sondra Shaginoff-Stuart, KPC rural and native student services coordinator, by e-mail at slshaginoffstuart@kpc.alaska.edu or call 262-0213.

The Cook Inlet Regional Planning Team will meet on April Build skills at KPC 16 at 10:00 a.m. at the Cook Inlet Aquaculture Association building, 40610 Kalifornsky Beach Road. The agenda for the Free basic skill building help in math, writing and reading is meeting is located on CIAA’s website (ciaanet.org). The public available in the Learning Center at Kenai Peninsula College in is welcome to attend. Room 153. For more information, call LC at 262-0327.

Pink eye closes American Samoa schools By FILI SAGAPOLUTELE Associated Press

PAGO PAGO, American Samoa — American Samoa is keeping most schools closed for the rest of the week as the U.S. territory tries to contain a pink eye outbreak that has affected at least 2,400 students and teachers, disrupted court hearings and kept some passengers from boarding flights. All 28 public schools were scheduled to reopen Wednesday after shutting down Friday. But only four schools in the remote island group of Manua are back in session. Officials in American Samoa, a group of islands in the South Pacific about halfway between New Zealand and Hawaii, will keep schools on the main island of Tutuila shuttered until next week.

More than 30 percent of teachers are on sick leave because of conjunctivitis, a common eye condition better known as pink eye that can be extremely contagious, Education Department Director Salu Hunkin-Finau said. “In order to help prevent the further spread of the pink eye virus, we highly recommend that all affected teachers and workers stay home,” she said. “Please keep your child out of reach (of) those that are affected by the pink eye.” Conjunctivitis inflames tissue on the eyeball and lining the eyelid, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Pink eye can be caused by viruses and bacteria as well as allergens, the CDC says. Territory health officials say the outbreak is a nuisance but not very dangerous. “It’s very rare for it to cause

LIO Schedule Thursday 8:30 a.m. The House Finance Committee will sponsor a public hearing to discuss SB 56 Reclassifying Certain Drug Offenses, SB 64 Omnibus Crime / Corrections / Recidivism Bill, SB 173 Synthetic Drugs, HB 160 Licensing Of Athletic Trainers. Testimony will be taken. Thursday 9:00 a.m. The Senate Finance Committee will sponsor a public hearing to discuss HB 278 Education.

Testimony will be taken.

any serious damage to the eyes,” said Dr. Mark Durand, a health department physician. “And as far as we know, it’s never fatal.” Durand said 468 cases of pink eye had been recorded at community health centers and a hospital in the territory as of Monday, but he acknowledged that most people don’t see a doctor for the condition. Health officials recommend that schools stay closed until the outbreak passes if more than 20 percent of their students have contracted pink eye. The territory’s largest private school system, the Office of Catholic Education Service, will keep its six schools closed the rest of the week, Director Eddie Brown said. Classes will resume April 21 after a previously scheduled spring break. Meanwhile, Hawaiian Airline; AGDC; Oil & Gas Production Tax, SB 129 Real Estate Appraisers, SB 159 Air Ambulance Services, SB 145 Vets’ Retirement / Loans / Housing / Employment and SB 58 Cancel Insurance on Certain Abandoned Property. Testimony will be taken.

Friday 8:30 a.m. The House Finance Committee will sponsor a public hearing to discuss SB 74 University Of Alaska Building Fund and HB 316 All teleconferences are Workers’ Compensation Medical Fees. Testimony will held at the Kenai Legislative Information Office, 145 Main be taken. Street Loop No. 217, Kenai, Friday 3:15 p.m. unless otherwise noted. To confirm call 283-2030 or The House Labor & Comemail Kenai.LIO@akleg.gov. merce Committee will sponsor a public hearing to To listen or watch online go to http://alaskalegislature.tv/. discuss SB 138 Gas Pipe-

lines had refused to allow “a handful” of passengers who showed visible symptoms of pink eye to board flights to the rest of the United States, airline spokeswoman Ann Botticelli said. Hawaiian Airlines is the only airline connecting American Samoa with the U.S., with flights to Honolulu twice a week. Botticelli said flights between the island chains are thoroughly cleaned. “All hard surfaces of our plane are cleaned with an antiviral solution and pillows and blankets are bagged and disposed of,” she said. “Our cleaners have been given additional clothing for protection.”

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Avoiding an in-state fight over F-35s is essential Anyone wondering where Alaska’s

senior U.S. senator stands on where the Air Force should base two Pacific Rim squadrons of the new F-35 fighters need not wonder any longer. Sen. Lisa Murkowski said Eielson Air Force Base is the best home for them. Her comment came Wednesday at a Senate Appropriations Committee subcommittee hearing and is notable because Air Force officials in February placed two Alaska bases —Eielson and Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson in Anchorage — on the short list of five possible sites for hosting the 48 aircraft. “You know that I will continue to maintain that when we are talking about the proximity to the Pacific theater and the polar consideration, that Alaska, and particularly Eielson, is the ideal location for the F-35s,” she said to Air Force Gen. Mark Welsh III, who was among several Air Force military and civilian officials appearing before the subcommittee regarding the president’s proposed Defense Department budget. Sen. Murkowski’s comment is important because it helps send the message that Alaska’s state leaders and its local leaders outside of Fairbanks should be unified behind Eielson. And that’s essential because it is natural for Anchorage-area government and business leaders to want the F-35s, along with their large economic impact, to be located in their part of the state. Sen. Murkowski, Sen. Mark Begich and Rep. Don Young all were urging the Air Force in October to base the F-35s at Eielson, but that was before the surprise inclusion of ElmendorfRichardson on the Air Force list in February. Having both bases on the list can put statewide elected officials in a tough spot. Supporting one base over another on a decision as large as the F-35 basing will surely make some people unhappy. Sen. Murkowski has made it clear, however, that she believes in Eielson and that she is willing to say so, even with Elmendorf-Richardson on the list of candidate bases. It’s the smart choice, and not just for an Interior-centric reason. It is better for Alaska to have two Air Force bases with secure futures than just one. Eielson’s future has been in doubt at various times over the years, though the future seems a bit brighter with last year’s Air Force decision to keep the F-16 fighter squadron at Eielson rather than move it to ElmendorfRichardson. It is also best for the state if economic activity is spread out. The Fairbanks region is an economic hub for a large region of Alaska, so ensuring its vibrancy is important. What would the basing of 48 F-35s at Eielson mean to our economy? The Fairbanks Economic Development Corp. estimates it would directly create 3,042 Department of Defense jobs at Eielson. That would more than double the base’s present work force of 2,950. Those jobs would bring $379 million in payroll to the Fairbanks area, beyond the current payroll of $367 million. The list of five candidate bases will be winnowed to two or three this month or next, with a final decision expected this summer. Military leaders will make their decision on a host of factors, not just on military points. Making sure they have an understanding of Eielson’s benefits is a key job of our state and local leaders. Another job, as demonstrated by Sen. Murkowski on Wednesday, is precluding any in-state squabbling that could undermine Eielson’s opportunity — and its long-term future. — Fairbanks Daily News-Miner, April 3

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By GARRY TRUDEAU

The new conformity

The Web browser company Mozilla prides itself on its commitment to openness on the Web, just not openness of thought. Decades from now, people may wonder how the company whose manifesto is a collection of warm-and-fuzzy sentiments about the Internet bringing us all together became a watchword for the new intolerance. Ousting your new CEO for what is in essence a thought crime will do that, no matter how much you hail your devotion to “openness, innovation, and opportunity.” Mozilla CEO Brendan Eich had contributed $1,000 in 2008 to Proposition 8, the ballot measure to amend California’s Constitution to define marriage as between a man and a woman. How radical was Proposition 8? It passed with more than 52 percent of the vote in liberal California. At the time, no major Democratic presidential candidate, including obviously Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, supported gay marriage. Yet Eich has been hunted down and effectively fired six years later, not for anything he did in his decades at the company, not for any change he wanted to bring as its leader, not for any misconduct, but for an unfashionable political opinion that he refused to recant. Eich co-founded Mozilla. The company’s statement upon his elevation to CEO said that he “has been deeply involved in every aspect of Mozilla’s development starting from the original idea in 1998.” What’s more, his “technology vision and

general acumen have quietly shaped not only Mozilla, but large parts of the Web over the past two decades.” Yet somehow Mozilla — not to mention the entire Internet — managed to escape the taint of his Rich Lowry views on marriage. What changed? An Internet mob — led by a dating website, of all things — came after him. When Eich was duly defenestrated, the executive chairman of Mozilla, Mitchell Baker, issued a statement that could have been dictated under pressure from Mao’s Red Guards. She groveled for not moving faster: “We’re sorry. We must do better.” In other words, Eich should have been axed more expeditiously, which would have been difficult since he lasted about two weeks. She resorted to double talk: “Equality is necessary for meaningful speech. And you need free speech to fight for equality. Figuring out how to stand for both at the same time can be hard.” Not that hard. She fell back on Mozilla clichés: “Our mission will always be to make the Web more open so that humanity is stronger, more inclusive, and more just.” Yes, thankfully the enforcers at Mozilla are here to protect humanity’s inclusiveness. Liberal defenders of Mozilla say it is the

company’s right to fire its CEO. No one disputes that. An act can be legal and still foolish and blameworthy. Other supporters of Mozilla argue that opposition to gay marriage is as morally toxic as opposition to interracial marriage. But opposition to gay marriage isn’t grounded in a hateful belief in anyone’s inferiority. No one has alleged that Eich treated gay people differently from anyone else. Presumably Barack Obama wouldn’t have publicly supported traditional marriage up until two years ago if it were tantamount to racism. It turns out that when the left inveighed against “imposing morality,” what it meant is that it didn’t yet have the power to impose its own. Now that it increasingly does, the old live-and-let-live pose is abandoned, and the purge is on. The Mozilla episode is another indication that the regime of political correctness that characterizes academia is infecting the American mainstream. It will bring with it the same fear that haunts campus life. Fear of saying the wrong thing and crossing the wrong people. Fear of retaliation for believing the wrong things. For decades, we’ve heard from the left about the need to fight authority and to resist conformity. Now it is clearer than ever that it wants to wield the former to impose the latter. Brendan Eich is probably not a culmination so much a sign of things to come. Rich Lowry can be reached via e-mail: comments.lowry@nationalreview.com.

Alaska deserves the best when taking on the best When you get ready to make a significant decision in life, whether it is buying a car or home, choosing a career, or having to work through a legal matter, you want the best on your side. You wouldn’t want me, a state representative and career small businessman, investing your life savings; you’d want Warren Buffett. I say that as a way to relate why I am sponsoring a bill (House Bill 383) to allow a Texan to serve on the Board of Directors for the Alaska Gasline Development Corp (AGDC.) The legislature created AGDC to serve as Alaskans’ natural gas pipeline company, developing projects that connect Alaskans with Alaska natural gas, at the lowest possible price. While AGDC originally was to purse the ASAP instate pipeline, legislation this session would direct them to also develop the state’s share of a much bigger project with the producers and TransCanada, the Alaska LNG project. To accomplish the mission of getting gas to Alaskans, AGDC needs the strongest, most experienced people possible at the helm. In setting up AGDC last session, the legislature required a diverse board with specific expertise – and didn’t want to restrict the governor’s appointments to only Alaskans. We thought we did that, but we don’t always get complex legislation right the first time, and now there is a real question as to whether out-of-state residents can serve on AGDCs Board. My first attempt to fix this problem was to amend a bill by an Anchorage senator extending the much-respected Council on Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault (CDVSA.) The rules of the legislature say that you can only change a bill if it has the same subject. Since the CDVSA bill was about a board, I asked the sponsor — with his agreement at the time — if I could amend his bill to let Richard Rabinow make it through our confirmation hearings April 11. I thought I had his agreement; I was mistaken. I was as surprised as anyone to read in the newspaper when the sponsor reC

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P eninsula Rep . M ike C henault ferred to his bill as being “hijacked.” That’s why I withdrew my amendment during a House Rules Committee hearing April 3. No one in the Capitol, not my Majority Caucus members, the full House, Senate, or governor, wants to endanger the ability of the CDVSA to continue to advocate and help Alaskans. Now that that matter is settled, we’ll try and pass a fix to the AGDC Board statute. Here’s why: Alaska deserves to have the best and brightest on their side of the table when negotiating with the Big Three for our interests; that’s what AGDC was created to do, and the employees and Board are our advocates. The board members have even taken an oath of office to serve Alaskans. There is a similar exemption for in-state appointments to the Alaska Aerospace Development Corporation Board, which currently contains a well-qualified out-ofstate member, and for the Alaska Railroad Corporation’s Board. Both of those boards and corporations look to bring business and create wealth for Alaskans, much like AGDC. Richard Rabinow has more than four decades of experience in all aspects of natural resource and pipeline development. He’s worked for some of the world’s most successful and sophisticated companies, and has tremendous expertise in the areas AGDC has been tasked, and may be asked under the governor’s gasline bill, to protect the State’s interests. Yes, he’s from Texas. If there were a capable Alaskan with a similar background and résumé I would certainly advocate on

their behalf for appointment to the Board. He’s also extremely successful and has volunteered to serve on the Board. He doesn’t take a salary; he receives a $400 honorarium on days the Board conducts business and receives reimbursement for travel. We’re getting a tremendous deal having his insight and acumen in our meetings, as voiced in the Rules Committee hearing by AGDC Board Chair John Burns, and AGDC President Dan Fauske. Our state faces critical issues: declining revenues, declining oil production, getting our gas to market in time to compete with growing world demand and project competition. A natural gas pipeline and development of our North Slope resources are crucial to our state’s future. While an instate line could help alleviate energy problems, a bigger LNG project may help bolster state revenues until we see the benefits of new oil production fostered by the oil tax reform passed last year. Either way, AGDC will be representing Alaskans’ interests. To get there, we’ll need the best working with us and for us, which is why I’m hoping we can make this fix to law and keep Mr. Rabinow on the AGDC Board. If people vote for him, ok. If people vote against him, ok. But there needs to be a vote. I respect the voice and concerns of those who don’t want non-residents on state boards, but disagree with them philosophically. If Mr. Rabinow can help us get the best deal, understand the majors’ concerns and points of view, then I want him on that Board helping us, just as you’d want the best in whatever arena helping you make a critical decision. Mike Chenault has represented Nikiski and the rural Kenai Peninsula in the Alaska House of Representatives since 2000. He’s the first three-term Speaker of the House, and one of the prime authors of the bill creating the Alaska Gasline Development Corporation, along with Anchorage republican Mike Hawker.

Business

Kenai chamber pitches electronic sign to city By DAN BALMER Peninsula Clarion

With the Kenai Chamber of Commerce celebrating its 60th anniversary this year, Fred Braun, a director for the chamber, said he could not think of a better gift from the City of Kenai than a new sign. At the April 2 Kenai City Council meeting, Braun and chamber treasurer Brendyn Shiflea presented a proposal for a new electronic reader board sign for the Chamber and Visitor and Cultural Center. The purpose of the sign would be to promote events for both the chamber and visitor’s center. The proposed location for the 9-foot tall sign would be at the corner of the Kenai Spur Highway and Main Street. Braun said the sign, which would have the chamber logo above the electronic board, would be clean and easy to read from the street. Braun presented two options to the city council with estimates from Kenai Neon Sign Co. The cost of a full color sign would be $22,588 while a monochrome sign is estimated at $19,567. Neither price includes the cost of a $7,000 concrete foundation estimated by Carmody Masonry LLC. If the city selected the full color sign, including electrical and excavation costs, Braun estimated the total price of the

Image courtesy Kenai Chamber of Commerce Visitor and Cultural Center

An artist rendering shows a proposed electronic readerboard sign for the Kenai Chamber of Commerce Visitor and Cultural Center.

project at about $35,000. One unique feature of the sign is the Kenai River engraved in the concrete base, although it would be difficult to see from the vehicle passersby, he said. The price could be reduced by $2,000 if the river design was removed from the foundation. Mayor Pat Porter asked Braun if the chamber was looking for 100 percent funding from the city. “Since the chamber is turning 60 this year I could not think of a better gift,” Braun said. Kenai City Manager Rick Koch said if the city pays for the sign then it would own it. Porter said the sign would be a benefit to the city by promoting events put on by the visitor and cultural center as well as announcing chamber lun-

cheons. Council member Mike Boyle had a concern that a 9-foot sign would obstruct the view of the building. He also suggested the sign have a combination of both the chamber and city logo, which Braun did not object to. Since the City of Kenai agreed to finance the sign, the council recommended that city administrators review the proposal and put together a final plan in coordination with the chamber of commerce. Administration will respond with a final sign proposal for council consideration later this spring. Reach Dan Balmer at daniel.balmer@peninsulaclarion. com.

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NEW YORK — Small businesses are in limbo as they wait for Congress to make decisions that could save them a lot of money. Bills in Congress would extend tax deductions widely used by small businesses making equipment or property purchases. One, known as the Section 179 deduction, has shrunk to a maximum $25,000 this year from $500,000 in 2013. Another, called bonus depreciation, expired at the end of last year. The deductions are a big deal for small companies, saving them thousands or even millions of dollars on capital investments. But because Congress decides every year how big the deductions will be, owners can’t plan their equipment budgets until lawmakers vote. And in recent years, worried about the ballooning federal deficit, Congress has put off those votes, sometimes until late in the year. The annual uncertainty hurts small businesses looking for a break when their combined federal and state tax rates run as high as 40 percent, says Doug Bekker, a certified public accountant with the firm BDO in Grand Rapids, Mich. They don’t know if they should make the purchase in the current year or defer it. And as the economy gets stronger and businesses are more profitable, they’re concerned about tax bills. “If you talk to the typical small business out there, there’s a very high level of frustration,” Bekker says. The Section 179 deduction, named for part of the U.S. tax code, allows small businesses to deduct up-front the cost of equipment like vehicles, computers, furniture and manufacturing machines rather than depreciate them over a period of years. The deduction fell to $25,000 for 2014 because Congress hasn’t approved a higher amount. Many small businesses rely on the deduction. In a survey of more than 1,100 owners by the advocacy group National Small Business Association, 34 percent said they take advantage of it. Before the recession, the deduction was fairly predictable, rising to keep pace with inflation. In 2007, Congress voted

Business news Chambers set schedules n The Kenai and Soldotna Chambers of Commerce will host a joint luncheon on Tuesday at noon at the Soldotna Regional Sports Complex. A presentation from U.S. Senator Mark Begich is planned. RSVP to 262-9814 or 283-1991.

Redder named Kenai Peninsula Business Banking manager

Business waiting on Congress By JOYCE M. ROSENBERG AP Business Writer

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to nearly double it to $250,000 to stimulate the economy. It was $500,000 the next three years, but the final vote on a 2012 deduction didn’t come until the beginning of 2013 — too late for anyone who had decided against a purchase in 2012 believing there’d be no tax break. Bonus depreciation is another break small businesses want back. It allows companies of all sizes to take an immediate deduction for 50 percent of the purchase price of equipment or real estate, with the remainder depreciated over a number of years. It may look like Congress is anti-small business when it makes companies wait, but lawmakers are putting a higher priority on the federal budget and the overall tax code, says David Primo, a professor of political science and business at the University of Rochester. They’re avoiding the political fallout that will come their way if they create a large deduction and then reduce it when the government needs money. “They might as well keep reupping it year after year rather than risk revoking it,” Primo says. There may be good news for owners who have been

frustrated by a lack of clarity. House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Dave Camp, R-Mich., has proposed setting a permanent amount for the Section 179 deduction as part of a bill that would revive bonus depreciation and other business and individual tax breaks. And last week, the Senate Finance Committee approved a bill that would extend deductions into 2015. The bill goes next to the Senate floor; if it passes, it will have to be reconciled with any version that passes the House. In the meantime, small business owners are adjusting their plans — and in some cases spending less. Bill French has stopped buying equipment like bulldozers until he knows how big his tax deductions will be. French, owner of W.L. French Excavating Corp. in North Billerica, Mass., spent $1.2 million already this year, not realizing how low the deduction had fallen. His other planned purchases are on hold. Last year, French spent about $2 million on equipment and estimates he saved more than $1 million in taxes because of the deductions. “I’m just going to rebuild what I have,” French says. “It doesn’t make sense to buy new equipment.”

Wells Fargo has named Tim Redder Kenai Peninsula Business Banking manager. He leads a team of eight business associates and relationship managers in Homer, Kenai and Soldotna who are focused on helping Kenai Peninsula Tim Redder businesses achieve their financial goals. Redder has been helping Wells Fargo customers succeed financially for 10 years. He joined the company as a consumer loan underwriter for Wells Fargo Financial in South Dakota. He moved to Alaska in 2006 as a senior credit manager before joining the Kenai Peninsula Business Banking team as a business relationship manager in July 2007. He earned a bachelor’s degree in economics from South Dakota State University. Redder is actively involved in the community as a board member for the Boys and Girls Club of the Kenai Peninsula and United Way of Kenai Peninsula committee chair.

Credit Union 1 raises $15,000 for Soldotna Teen Center

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sources to give participants the tools to start their own business on the Kenai Peninsula. Bryan will prepare prospective business owners for a productive relationship with Alaska Small Business Development Center and its partner programs, and explain the value of its free counseling services. The workshop will be held in the Red Diamond Center, Suite 12. Deadline to register online is Friday. Marketing your business: What is advertising? What is marketing? Both are important and Bryan Zak will show business owners why on Tuesday from 1-4 p.m. Bryan has tips to plan sales strategy to get your company’s service or product information to your buyers — while keeping within your budget. The $50 workshop will be held in the Red Diamond Center, Suite 12 and the deadline to register is Friday. Contact Bunny if you are a U.S. Veteran. The Small Business Development Center accepts cash, check or online payment by credit card. For more information or to register, call 907-260-5629 or visit http://aksbdc.ecenterdirect.com.

Job Center hosts training The following job skills workshops will be offered at the Peninsula Job Center the week of April 14: Monday, April 14 — 9:30 a.m., ALEXsys Job Leads; 10:30 a.m., Introduction to ALEXsys and the Job Center; 2:30 p.m., Resume Writing Workshop. Tuesday, April 15 — 10:30 a.m., Job Prep Workshop; 1:00 p.m., GED Orientation. Wednesday, April 16 — 10:30 a.m., CareerReady 101 Lab; 1:30 p.m., WorkKeys® Testing; 3:00 p.m., Job Search Strategies for the Ex-Offender. Thursday, April 17 — 10:30 a.m., Interviewing Skills Workshop; 3:30 p.m., Vocational Rehabilitation Orientation. Friday, April 18 — No workshops offered. All workshop are free of charge to the public. Those interested in attending any workshops offered at the Peninsula Job Center can call 335-3010 or visit the job center located in Kenai at 11312 Kenai Spur Hwy., Suite No. 2. Business hours are Monday-Friday, 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. excluding state and federal holidays. You can also reserve space by clicking on the “Schedule Workshops” option located on the main screen in your ALEXsys account www.jobs.alaska.gov.

Credit Union 1 (CU1) hosted a silentauction benefit at its Soldotna branch for the Soldotna Teen Center, in conjunction with its Member Appreciation Night, on March 27. The evening featured items donated by local businesses, and with the generosity of the community, raised $7,500. This amount was matched dollar-for-dollar by CU1, resulting in a donation totaling $15,000 to the Soldotna Teen Center. The Soldotna Teen Center opened last December to serve a well-identified community need of providing a safe, positive place for area teens. Local teens played an integral part in taking the center from concept to reality, designing both the center’s logo and interior. The center is currently serving 20 to 40 teens What’s new in your business? a day, and the Boys & Girls Club of the Kenai Have you opened a new business, moved Peninsula is waiving the membership fee for to a new location, hired a new person or prothe first year of operation. moted an employee? The community wants to know, and so do we. Small Business Development Send us your information at news@penCenter offers workshops insulaclarion.com, fax it to 907-283-3299, Starting a business: In this free 2-hour or drop it by the Clarion at 150 Trading Bay “Starting a Business” seminar on Tuesday in Kenai. Questions? Call 907-335-1251. from 10:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. in the Red Diamond Center - Suite 12, Bryan Zak will anBusiness announcements may be submitted swer basic questions and offer helpful re- to news@peninsulaclarion.com.

Toyota, GM recalls push US to near-record pace DETROIT (AP) — Big U.S. recalls by General Motors and Toyota have put the auto industry on a record pace as companies try to avoid bad publicity and punishment from an increasingly aggressive government. On Wednesday, Toyota announced it was recalling nearly 1.8 million vehicles in the U.S. to fix a spate of problems, including air bags that might not inflate. It’s part of a worldwide recall of 6.4 million cars and trucks. So far this year, automakers have recalled about 9 million vehicles in the U.S. If that pace continues, the nation would break the record of 30.8 million recalled vehicles set in 2004. Most of the recalls are from Toyota and General Motors, two automakers that are under government scrutiny and facing bad publicity and

allegations that they concealed safety issues.

Heartbleed bug causes major security headache SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A confounding computer bug called “Heartbleed” is causing major security headaches across the Internet as websites scramble to fix the problem and Web surfers wonder whether they should change their passwords to prevent theft of their email accounts, credit card numbers and other sensitive information. The breakdown revealed this week affects a widely used encryption technology that is supposed to protect online accounts for a variety of online communications and electronic commerce. Security researchers who uncovered the threat are particularly worried about the lapse because it went undetected for more than two years.

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Around the Nation Obama shares in grief at Fort Hood memorial, reprising an all, too, frequent observance FORT HOOD, Texas — President Barack Obama returned to the grieving Army post Wednesday where he first took on the job as the nation’s comforter five years ago, mourning with families and uniformed comrades of those killed during last week’s Fort Hood shooting spree. “We somehow bear what seems unbearable,” he declared. It was yet another sad observance for a president who has had to deliver words of consolation across the country many times. At Fort Hood, the ceremony was made more poignant as a remembrance for soldiers who didn’t die in wars abroad but in the safety of their own compound. “They were members of a generation that has borne the burden of our security for more than a decade of war,” Obama said on a breezy, sun washed day in central Texas. Three soldiers died and 16 others were wounded in the rampage last Wednesday by another soldier, who killed himself. Obama and first lady Michelle Obama arrived late Wednesday morning at Fort Hood, where the camouflage fatigues of troops standing to salute his passing motorcade almost blended in with the desert terrain. Flags were lowered to half-staff at the sprawling Army post, where Obama met with victims’ relatives before offering his public condolences.

At least 12 children injured when car crashes into Orlando-area day care center; SUV found WINTER PARK, Fla. — Authorities say they have located the vehicle believed to be involved in a day care crash in Florida that injured 15 people, including a dozen children. The Orange County Sheriff’s Office reports Florida Highway Patrol troopers found a Silver Dodge Durango in Winter Park. Earlier Wednesday authorities said a Durango had smashed into another vehicle that then struck the KinderCare building. The Durango then left the scene. Orange County rescue says at least 12 children have been transported to Orlando area hospitals. Authorities say 50 children were in the building at the time.

Oscar Pistorius refuses to look at gruesome photo of slain girlfriend’s bloodied head PRETORIA, South Africa — A shaken Oscar Pistorius refused to look at a gruesome photo of his slain girlfriend’s bloodied head on Wednesday, telling a prosecutor through tears, “I don’t have to look at a picture. I was there.” “It’s time that you look at it,” chief prosecutor Gerrie Nel said during a fierce first day of cross-examination in which he doggedly pressed the double-amputee Olympian to “take responsibility” for killing Reeva Steenkamp. The 27-year-old Pistorius is charged with premeditated murder in the Valentine’s Day 2013 shooting of Steenkamp, who was hit three times — in the head, arm and hip — as she cowered behind a locked toilet door. Pistorius says he shot the 29-year-old model and law school graduate by mistake, thinking she was a dangerous intruder. Gasps could be heard in the courtroom from spectators, including the dead woman’s mother, June, when the police photo suddenly appeared on multiple TV screens showing Steenkamp’s head turned to the side, her blonde hair drenched in blood and a mass of tissue on the back and upper parts of her skull, her eyes closed. Pistorius turned away and refused to look at the image, even as the prosecutor insisted he do so and face up to what he did.

Hearing underwater ‘pings’ raises hopes that wreckage of Flight-370 will be found PERTH, Australia — After a navy ship heard more signals from deep in the Indian Ocean, the head of the search for the missing Malaysian jetliner said Wednesday he believes the hunt is closing in on the “final resting place” of Flight 370. The Australian vessel Ocean Shield picked up two signals Tuesday, and an analysis of two other sounds detected Saturday showed they were consistent with a plane’s flight recorders, or “black boxes,” said Angus Houston, the Australian official coordinating the search for the Malaysian Airlines jet. “I’m now optimistic that we will find the aircraft, or what is left of the aircraft, in the not-too-distant future,” Houston said. “But we haven’t found it yet, because this is a very challenging business.” — The Associated Press

Nation Teen stabs 20 at Pittsburgh high BY JOE MANDAK and KEVIN BEGOS Associated Press

MURRYSVILLE, Pa. — Flailing away with two kitchen knives, a 16-year-old boy with a “blank expression” stabbed and slashed 19 students and a security guard in the crowded halls of his suburban Pittsburgh high school Wednesday before an assistant principal tackled him. At least five students were critically wounded, including a boy who was on a ventilator after a knife pierced his liver, missing his heart and aorta by only millimeters, doctors said. The rampage — which came after decades in which U.S. schools geared much of their emergency planning toward mass shootings, not stabbings — set off a screaming stampede, left blood on the floor and walls, and brought teachers rushing to help the victims. The motive was under investigation. The suspect, whose name was not immediately released by police, was taken into custody and treated for a minor hand wound. Late in the afternoon, he was brought into court in shackles and a hospital gown to face charges. The attack unfolded in the morning just minutes before the start of classes at 1,200-student Franklin Regional High School, in an upper-middle-class area 15 miles east of Pittsburgh. It was over in about five minutes, during which the boy ran wildly down about 200 feet of hallway, slashing other students with knives about 8 to 10 inches long, police said. Nate Moore, 15, said he saw the boy tackle and stab a freshman. He said he going to try to

‘He says he’s OK. He’s a tough cookie and sometimes hides things, but I believe he’s OK. I’m proud of him.’ — Zack King break it up when the boy got up and slashed his face, requiring 11 stitches. “It was really fast. It felt like he hit me with a wet rag because I felt the blood splash on my face. It spurted up on my forehead,” he said. The attacker “had the same expression on his face that he has every day, which was the freakiest part,” Moore said. “He wasn’t saying anything. He didn’t have any anger on his face. It was just a blank expression.” Assistant Principal Sam King tackled the boy and disarmed him, and a Murrysville police officer who is regularly assigned to the campus handcuffed him, police said. Doctors said they expect all the victims to survive, despite large and deep abdominal puncture wounds in some cases. King’s son told The Associated Press that his father was treated at a hospital, though authorities have said he did not suffer any knife wounds. “He says he’s OK. He’s a tough cookie and sometimes hides things, but I believe he’s OK,” Zack King said. He added: “I’m proud of him.” As for what set off the attack, Murrysville Police Chief Thomas Seefeld said investigators were looking into reports of a threatening phone call between the suspect and another student the night before. Seefeld didn’t specify whether the suspect received or made

the call. “There are a number of heroes in this day. Many of them are students,” Gov. Tom Corbett said in a visit to the stricken town. “Students who stayed with their friends and didn’t leave their friends.” He also commended cafeteria workers, teachers and teacher’s aides who put themselves at risk to help during the attack. While several bloody stabbing rampages at schools in China have made headlines in the past few years, schools in the U.S. have concentrated their emergency preparations on shooting rampages. Nevertheless, there have been at least two major stabbing attacks at U.S. schools over the past year, one at a community college in Texas last April that wounded at least 14 people, and another, also in Texas, that killed a 17-year-old student and injured three others at a high school in September. On Wednesday, Mia Meixner, 16, said the initial assault touched off a “stampede of kids” yelling, “Run! Get out of here! Someone has a knife!” Meixner and Moore called the attacker a shy boy who largely kept to himself, but they said he was not an outcast and they saw no indication he might be violent. “He was never mean to anyone, and I never saw people be mean to him,” Meixner said. “I never saw him with a particular group of friends.”

During the attack, the boy had a “blank look,” she said. “He was just kind of looking like he always does, not smiling, not scowling or frowning.” Michael Float, 18, said he had just gotten to school when he saw “blood all over the floor” and smeared on the wall near the main entrance. Then he saw a wounded student. “He had his shirt pulled up and he was screaming, ‘Help! Help!’” Float said. “He had a stab wound right at the top right of his stomach, blood pouring down.” Float said he saw a teacher applying pressure to the wound of another student. About five minutes elapsed between the time the campus police officer summoned help over the radio at 7:13 a.m. and the boy was disarmed, the police chief said. Someone, possibly a student, pulled a fire alarm during the attack, Seefeld said. Although that created chaos, the police chief said, it emptied out the school more quickly, and “that was a good thing that that was done.” Also, a girl with “an amazing amount of composure” applied pressure to a schoolmate’s wounds and probably kept the victim from bleeding to death, said Dr. Mark Rubino at Forbes Regional Medical Center. Public safety and school officials said an emergency plan worked as well as could be expected. The district conducted an emergency exercise three months ago and a full-scale drill about a year ago. “We haven’t lost a life, and I think that’s what we have to keep in mind,” said county public safety spokesman Dan Stevens.

Report on power grid threats mishandled By MATTHEW DALY Associated Press

WASHINGTON — Federal energy regulators improperly allowed widespread access to a sensitive document that outlined specific locations where the nation’s electric grid is vulnerable to physical threats, a government investigator said Wednesday The document created by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission should have been kept secret as a national security matter, Energy Department Inspector General Gregory Friedman said. Instead the information was provided in whole or in part to federal and industry officials in uncontrolled settings. The Wall Street Journal reported last month that a federal analysis indicated that a coordinated terrorist strike on just

‘The most sophisticated and extensive attack that’s ever occurred on the grid to my knowledge.’ — former FERC Chairman Jon Wellinghoff nine key electric transmission substations could cause cascading power outages across the country in each of the nation’s three synchronized power networks. The report followed a comment by former FERC Chairman Jon Wellinghoff that an April 2013 attack on a California electric substation was terrorism. The FBI has said in repeated statements it had found no indications to back that up. FERC could not be reached for comment Wednesday. The attack, which involved snipping fiber-optic phone lines

and firing shots into a PG&E substation near Metcalf, Calif., caused power outages. Millions of people were asked to conserve energy after power lines were damaged. Wellinghoff called the incident “the most sophisticated and extensive attack that’s ever occurred on the grid to my knowledge.” A March 13 story in the Wall Street Journal said federal officials had concluded that coordinated attacks in each of the nation’s three separate electric systems could cause the entire power network to

collapse. Knocking out nine key substations could plunge the country into darkness for weeks, if not months, the newspaper said, citing the federal analysis. Sens. Mary Landrieu and Lisa Murkowski, the top two leaders of the Senate Energy Committee, asked Friedman to investigate the “apparent leak” to the newspaper. Murkowski, R-Alaska, called release of the information dangerous and irresponsible and said it “could provide a road map to those who wish to harm the United States.” Landrieu, a Louisiana Democrat, called the leak reckless and said it “put lives in danger.” Landrieu chairs the Energy Committee and Murkowski is that panel’s senior Republican. The committee is holding a hearing on the issue Thursday.

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Top-paid Medicare doctors say they have reasons By RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR and SERDAR TUMGOREN Associated Press

WASHINGTON — How is it that a few doctors take in millions of dollars from Medicare? Explanations for Wednesday’s eye-popping numbers from Medicare’s massive claims database ranged from straightforward to what the government considers suspicious, as the medical world confronted a new era of scrutiny. The long-sought release of Medicare data revealed just how much the program paid individual doctors in 2012. An analysis by The Associated Press found that a tiny group, 344 out of more than 825,000 doctors, received $3 million or more apiece — a threshold that raises eyebrows for the government’s own investigators. Overall, about 2 percent of clinicians accounted for onefourth of payments. Deputy administrator Jon Blum said Wednesday that Medicare will now take a closer look at doctors whose payments exceed certain levels. Blum told reporters he did not want to reveal those thresholds because that would tip off people trying to game the system. “We know there is waste in the system, we know there is fraud in the system,” he said. “We want the public to help identify spending that doesn’t

make sense.” Blum said an even bigger goal in making the data public is to help find more cost-effective, quality-conscious pathways for America’s $2.8-trillion health care system. Medicare, a $600-billion program for seniors and disabled people, sets the tone. In rural Hastings, Neb., ophthalmologist John Welch said the vast majority of the $9.5 million that Medicare paid him went straight from his practice to drug companies, for expensive medications used to treat patients with macular degeneration. “I’m concerned that people in the community will get the wrong idea of how these billings reflect doctors’ income,” said Welch, who ranked No. 8 in Medicare payments. “Instead of blaming us, they need to have a serious discussion with the drug companies about lowering the cost of these drugs. If they want us to stop taking care of patients, then tell us that — but don’t blame us for costs.” As for No. 4 on the payments list, the Mayo Clinic in Minnesota says a large number of tests are billed under the name of its Dr. Franklin Cockerill, chairman of laboratory medicine and pathology. According to the Medicare database, Cockerill was paid more than $11 million. “Dr. Cockerill is a salaried employee of Mayo Clinic and is not making big money from

‘We know there is waste in the system, we know there is fraud in the system. We want the public to help identify spending that doesn’t make sense.’ — Deputy administrator Jon Blum Medicare,” said spokesman Bryan Anderson. Medicare officials said multiple providers should not be using a doctor’s identification number to bill. The American Medical Association has expressed concern that laypersons may draw wrong conclusions from seeing large dollar signs next to a physician’s name. But another case, from Michigan, suggests that following the money can turn up potential problems. Detroitarea cancer doctor Farid Fata, among the top billers, is awaiting trial on federal charges that he intentionally misdiagnosed patients and ordered unnecessary treatments. Fata says he’s innocent. The overall top-paid doctor in 2012 was Florida ophthalmologist Salomon Melgen, who received $20.8 million. Last year, Melgen was in the news after revelations that Sen. Robert Menendez, D-N.J., had used the doctor’s personal jet for trips to the Dominican Republic. Menendez’s relationship with Melgen prompted

Senate Ethics Committee and Justice Department investigations. The senator reimbursed the doctor more than $70,000 for plane trips. Early last year the FBI conducted a search of Melgen’s West Palm Beach offices. Agents carted away materials, but law enforcement officials have refused to say why. Authorities declined to comment on the open investigation. Melgen’s lawyer said the doctor’s billing conformed with Medicare rules and is a reflection of high drug costs. Overall, Medicare paid individual physicians nearly $64 billion in 2012. AP picked the threshold of $3 million in payments for its analysis of individual doctors because that was the figure used by the Health and Human Services inspector general in an audit last year. The report recommended Medicare automatically scrutinize total billings above a set level. Of the 344 top-paid doctors, 87 practice in Florida, a state known both for high Medicare

spending and widespread fraud. Rounding out the top five states were California with 38 doctors in the top group, New Jersey with 27, Texas with 23, and New York with 18. In the $3 million-plus club, 151 ophthalmologists — eye specialists — accounted for nearly $658 million in Medicare payments, leading other disciplines. Cancer doctors made up the next three specialty groups, accounting for a combined total of more than $477 million in payments. The high number of ophthalmologists and cancer doctors in the top tier may reflect the expensive medications the doctors use to treat their patients. The Medicare claims database is considered the richest trove of information on doctors, surpassing what major insurance companies have in their files. Although Medicare is financed by taxpayers, the data have been off-limits to the public for decades. Physician organizations went to court in an effort to block its release, arguing it would amount to an invasion of doctors’ privacy. Employers, insurers, consumer groups and media organizations pressed for release, arguing that the data could help guide patients to doctors who provide quality, cost-effective care. A federal judge last year lifted the main legal obstacle, and the Obama administration recently informed the AMA it

would open the claims data. Doctors’ decision-making patterns are of intense interest to researchers who study what drives health care costs. Physicians’ decisions about how to treat are critical. The AMA, however, says the files may contain inaccurate information and, even if correct, do not provide meaningful insights into the quality of care. Over time, as researchers learn to mine the Medicare information, it could change the way medicine is practiced in the U.S. Doctor ratings would be driven by hard data, like statistics on baseball players. Consumers could become better educated about the doctors in their communities. For example, if your father is about to undergo heart bypass, you could find out how many operations his surgeon has done on Medicare patients in the past year. Research shows that for many procedures, patients are better off going to a surgeon who performs them frequently. Medical practice would have to change to accommodate big data. Acting as intermediaries for employers and government programs, insurers could use the Medicare numbers to demand that low-performing doctors measure up. Such oversight would probably accelerate trends toward large medical groups and doctors working as employees instead of in small practices.

For President Barack Obama, frustrations compared to LBJ By JULIE PACE AP White House Correspondent

WASHINGTON — Perhaps no historical analogy irks the White House more than the comparisons between Presidents Barack Obama and Lyndon B. Johnson, two Democrats who occupied the Oval Office a half-century apart. Obama’s advisers bristle at the suggestion that the current commander in chief could break through congressional gridlock if only he could emulate Johnson’s hands-on approach to wrangling votes on Capitol Hill. Obama’s team argues that both the Republican Party and the broader political landscape have shifted so significantly since the 1960s that there is little use in harkening back to Johnson’s cajoling, arm-twisting and physically intimidating lawmakers to back his priorities. “You can certainly learn lessons from the experiences of other presidents, but it’s folly to take a presidency from 50 or

100 years ago and transport that into the modern day,” said Jennifer Palmieri, Obama’s communications director. Johnson’s mastery of congressional deal-making is getting a fresh turn in the spotlight as the nation marks the 50th anniversary of the landmark Civil Rights Act. On Thursday, Obama will pay tribute to the historic bipartisan legislation during an event at the Johnson presidential library in Austin, Texas. While much has changed in Washington over the past 50 years, the presidential historian Doris Kearns Goodwin says Johnson did make it a priority to interact with lawmakers to an extent that Obama has not. “He would call them at 6 a.m.,” Goodwin said of Johnson. “He’d have them for lunch, he’d have them for dinner. If he called and the husband wasn’t there, he’d tell the wife to get her husband to support the bill.” Obama, in one of his few public comments on Johnson’s

legacy, appeared to try to puncture some of the mythology surrounding the former president’s political prowess. He noted in an interview earlier this year that many of Johnson’s most impressive achievements came on the heels of his sweeping victory in the 1964 presidential contest, an election that also resulted in big Democratic majorities in both the House and the Senate. “When he lost that historic majority and the glow of that landslide victory faded, he had the same problems with Congress that most presidents at one point or another have,” Obama told The New Yorker. “I say that not to suggest that I’m a master wheeler-dealer but rather to suggest that there are some structural institutional realities to our political system that don’t have much to do with schmoozing.” Obama’s advisers have long disputed the notion that the president could win Republican support if only he had cultivated deeper relationships

with GOP lawmakers. While Johnson was able to exploit the ideological diversity in the Republican Party to win votes in the 1960s, the tea party movement has pulled Republicans to the right and made it politically risky for some GOP lawmakers to even be seen with Obama, let alone vote for legislation he champions. What’s also changed since Johnson’s tenure is the toolkit presidents can use to curry favor with lawmakers, with ethics laws and earmark bans limiting what can be offered in exchange for votes. “He made tremendous progress on a lot of fronts so I wouldn’t now second guess how he got that done,” Palmieri said of Johnson. “But the kinds of tactics that people attribute to him are things that are derided today in politics.” It’s against the backdrop of Obama’s troubled relationship with Congress that it’s become trendy to long for the days when Johnson could cajole or strong-arm votes from lawmak-

Faith-touting congressman seeks privacy after kiss By MELINDA DESLATTE Associated Press

BATON ROUGE, La. — Captured on tape kissing another man’s wife, a Louisiana congressman who touts his religious faith issued a public appeal Wednesday for privacy for his family “during this difficult period.” Republican Rep. Vance McAllister’s brief statement offered no answers to the questions that have swirled about his private life — or political future — since the videotape surfaced of him kissing a woman identified as Melissa Peacock, who resigned Monday from his congressional payroll. Jennifer Dunagin, a spokeswoman, said in the statement that McAllister “will not pursue an FBI investigation at this time regarding the distribution of a video filmed in leased federal office space.” She said the congressman “is focused on earning back the trust of those he has disappointed, and he reiterates his request for privacy for his family during this difficult period.” The congressman has been absent from the House this week, and it was not known if he intended to return to the Capitol before lawmakers begin a scheduled two-week vacation to coincide with Easter. C

ers in both parties. A new play about Johnson’s presidency has opened on Broadway. And the biographer Robert Caro, who has attended Obama’s occasional White House meetings with presidential historians, is writing a new volume in his series about Johnson’s life and presidency. Johnson oversaw the creation of Medicare and Medicaid, as well as an ambitious anti-poverty agenda that included a permanent food stamp program and the creation of the Head Start early childhood education program. Johnson also followed up the 1964 civil rights legislation with the Vot-

ing Rights Act, a measure that cleared the way for millions of black Americans to vote for the first time. But it wasn’t Johnson’s Democratic majority alone that sealed those victories. As he pressed for passage of the civil rights bill, he faced opposition from within his own party, with Southern Democrats staunchly opposed to the measure. Johnson focused much of his attention on building alliances with Republicans, including Everett Dirksen, the Senate minority leader who helped the president rally GOP votes to break a Democratic filibuster of the civil rights bill.

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Bomb blast in Pakistan capital kills 22 By ASIF SHAHZAD and REBECCA SANTANA Associated Press

ISLAMABAD — A bomb ripped through a fruit and vegetable market on the outskirts of Islamabad on Wednesday, killing 22 people and wounding dozens more in a new attack in the Pakistani capital, which until recently had remained relatively removed from shootings and bombings that plague other parts of the country. Confusion over who carried out the morning blast underlined one of Pakistan’s central woes — the sheer number of armed groups waging violence for multiple motives. The Pakistani Taliban, which has led a campaign of bombings and shootings for years aimed at toppling the government, quickly denied responsibility, saying in a statement that it is adhering to a ceasefire for negotiations. Offshoots of the group have carried out at least one attack during the ceasefire. A separatist group of ethnic Baluch claimed responsibility for Wednesday’s attack. Baluch separatists have been fighting a bloody insurgency for years in

their heartland in the southwest of the country. They have rarely struck as far away as the capital, and if they were to blame, it could represent a worrying expansion of their reach. But the Interior Ministry called the Baluch claim “ludicrous” and said initial investigations did not suggest the group was involved. In a statement, it said the incident “pointed in another direction,” but did not elaborate. The bomb, hidden in a carton of fruit, went off as morning shoppers were buying supplies at the outdoor market. Witnesses described dismembered victims as the blast sent boxes of produce flying, leaving the bloodstained ground littered with fruits and vegetables, shoes, clothes and Muslim prayer caps. “People were dying. People were crying. People were running,” one fruit trader, Afzal Khan, said. Abdul Jalil frantically searched for his brother who works at the market. Cell phone calls to the brother were not going through. “People were torn apart,” he said. “Who are these people killing innocent people? What

‘People were torn apart. ‘Who are these people killing innocent people? What do they get out of it? God will not forgive them.’ — Abdul Jalil do they get out of it? God will not forgive them.” The market is on Islamabad’s edges, near a makeshift camp for people displaced from fighting in Pakistan’s northwest, as well as refugees from Afghanistan. A nearby supermarket is frequented by middle class families. The Interior Ministry said 22 people were killed and 83 wounded in the blast. The symbolism of having such a deadly attack in Islamabad — even in an area on the edge of the city and rarely frequented by its elite — is a blow to a Pakistani government trying to increase foreign investment and project an air of security in the capital. Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan vowed the government would take immediate steps to bolster security in the capital.

A number of Pakistani cities are notorious for large bombings and attacks, particularly the northwestern city of Peshawar and the southern port city of Karachi. But in Islamabad, home to diplomats, generals and top government officials, they are rarer. On March 3, an attack on an Islamabad court complex killed 11 people. It was the worst attack in the capital since a 2008 bombing of the Marriott Hotel that killed 56 people. The Baluch claim of responsibility came in a phone call to an Associated Press reporter from a spokesman of the United Baluch Army. The group, which emerged about a year and a half ago, is one of the newer factions among Baluch separatists fighting since the mid-2000s. The spokesman, Mureed

Baluch, said the attack was in retaliation for ongoing arrest and killings of their associates by the security forces in southwest Baluchistan province. The group first emerged about a year and a half ago. Baluchistan is Pakistan’s largest province and is plagued by violence from various factions. Separatists often attack the Pakistani military or other government targets. Sunni Muslim extremists have often targeted members of the Shiite Muslim minority. Members of the Afghan Taliban fighting across the border in their homeland are also believed to be living in the province. Violence in Baluchistan is escalating, with a 42 percent increase in incidents in March over the previous month, according to figures by the Islamabad-based Pak Institute for Peace Studies which tracks violence across the country. On Monday, a bomb tore through a railway car in the Baluch town of Sibi, setting the entire wagon ablaze and killing 16 people. That attack was also claimed by the United Baluch Army. Mohammed Amir Rana, the institute’s director, said the Ba-

luch group had claimed attacks in other areas of the country such as southern Punjab province and Lahore, the capital of Punjab province. But, he said, police must still do a thorough investigation to determine who was responsible. Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif came to power last May promising to end the years of bloodshed through negotiation instead of military operations. So far those talks have focused on the Tehrik-e-Taliban, as the Pakistani Taliban is formally called. That group is similar in ideology to the Afghan Taliban but shares a separate leadership and decision-making structure. They mostly operate in the northwest mountainous regions and in the southern city of Karachi. Many observers question whether it’s possible to come to a peace deal with the militants, who they contend have used previous peace deals to simply regroup and fight another day. Critics also point out that the Pakistani Taliban is made up of numerous factions and even if the umbrella organization agrees to a peace deal, it doesn’t mean all the factions will.

Afghan probe begins attack on AP journalists By AMIR SHAH and KIM GAMEL Associated Press

KABUL, Afghanistan — Afghan central government authorities on Wednesday began questioning the police commander who killed an Associated Press photographer and wounded an AP reporter, a day after he was transferred by helicopter to the capital — a rare case in which an Afghan officer or soldier who shot a foreigner was captured alive. Local security officials who spoke with the suspect after he was first detained said he seemed a calm, pious man who may have come under the influence of Islamic extremists calling for vengeance against foreigners over drone strikes. Witness and official accounts so far have suggested the shooting was not planned. But the Afghan Interior Ministry, which is overseeing the investigation, told the AP it won’t speculate about a motive so early in its probe into the attack, which killed AP photographer Anja Niedringhaus and seriously wounded senior correspondent Kathy Gannon. The suspect, identified as a unit commander named Naqibullah, surrendered immediately after the attack Friday in front of dozens of security forces and election workers on a heavily guarded government

compound in eastern Afghanistan. The shooting was the first known case of a security insider attacking journalists in Afghanistan, part of a surge in violence targeting foreigners. Niedringhaus and Gannon were traveling in their own car with an AP freelancer and a translator in a convoy of workers transporting election materials from Khost, the capital of the province of the same name on the border with Pakistan, to the outlying district of Tani. The convoy went first to the district government’s headquarters. The two foreign correspondents spoke to and photographed Afghan policemen and soldiers in the area, witnesses said, but it started to rain and they were worried about their equipment so they got back into the backseat of their car to wait for the convoy to move to deliver ballots to a nearby village. The shooter, who was wearing his police uniform, approached the car and stuck the barrel of the AK-47 in the backseat window, shouted “God is great!” and started firing, according to the witnesses and officials. “The good thing is that he is alive in this case because usually in these kinds of incidents the shooter either is killed or he escapes from the scene,” Interior Ministry spokesman Sediq Seddiqi said Wednesday in an interview, referring to at-

tacks by Afghan police or soldiers on foreigners. “But this time our police acted professionally and he was immediately arrested.” Gul Zahir, the Tani district police chief, said he was one of the first people to see Naqibullah, who was tackled by security forces after the shooting. “I took custody of him. I asked him, ‘Why did you do this thing?’” he said in a telephone interview with AP. “Naqibullah said, ‘I don’t know.’” However, the suspect gave different explanations to pro-

vincial officials who questioned him in the days he was in custody in Khost. Gul Mohammad, the counterterrorism director in Khost who participated in the initial questioning, said Naqibullah at first claimed the attack was in revenge for a Jan. 15 airstrike in the Ghorband district of Parwan province, a bombing which prompted a wave of anger against foreigners. The Afghans claimed 12 civilians and four Taliban fighters were killed in the airstrike. The U.S.-led coalition said the Af-

ghan government had requested the operation ahead of the country’s April 5 presidential elections because the area had fallen under Taliban control. But the Interior Ministry said Naqibullah was from an area in Parwan that was not connected in any way with the airstrike. “There was no record of any drone strike in the whole area where he lived, where his family is living,” Seddiqi said. “The initial statement does not really indicate anything so far. We do not have still any clarity on the motives.”

The Khost counterterrorism director said Naqibullah also claimed he was inspired by a lawmaker and a cleric who encouraged holy war against Americans and other foreigners. “He said, ‘Thank God I didn’t kill any Muslims.’” Seddiqi, the Interior Ministry spokesman, said he had seen reports from local authorities describing Naqibullah as a calm and devout Muslim who had been stationed in Khost city for a year and a half, had no criminal background and was not known to use drugs.

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Blasts in Syria city of Homs kill 25 people By ALBERT AJI, and BASSEM MROUE Associated Press

DAMASCUS, Syria — Two car bombs exploded Wednesday in a government-held district of Syria’s battleground city of Homs, killing at least 25 people and wounding more than 100, state media said. The blasts hit a commercial street inhabited mostly by members of President Bashar Assad’s minority Alawite sect in the central city, where government forces have been imposing a heavy siege on rebelcontrolled districts. Syria’s uprising, which began with largely peaceful protests against Assad’s rule in March 2011, has since evolved into a civil war with sectarian overtones, pitting predominantly Sunni Muslim rebels against an Assad government that is dominated by Alawites, an offshoot of Shiite Islam.

‘The blasts killed 21 people including children.’ — Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights Homs, a city of about 1 million, has shown great sympathy for the opposition since the early days of the uprising. The city was once known as “the capital of the Syrian revolution” before government forces captured large parts of once rebel-held neighborhoods such as Baba Amr and Khaldiyeh. State news agency SANA said one car blew up near a sweets shop in a busy street and about half an hour later another car exploded about 100 meters (yards) away “in order to inflict the biggest numbers of casual-

ties among citizens.” SANA said the wounded included its photographer in Homs, Syria’s third-largest city, adding that the blasts went off in the Karm el-Loz neighborhood. It said the explosion that struck a busy street also wounded 107 people. It said the dead and wounded in the explosions included women and children. Syrian TV showed several shops and cars on fire. Bloodied people could be seen being carried on stretchers into ambulances. “As ambulances and fire engines were working in the first site, the second blast went off, increasing the number of casualties,” a witness in the city told The Associated Press. The man, who asked that his name not be given for fear of reprisals, said he counted eight bodies of people killed in the second blast. The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights

said the blasts killed 21 people including children. It added that the number “is expected to rise” because some of the wounded are in critical conditions. The Observatory said the dead might have included some pro-government gunmen. On March 27, a blast occurred in an Alawite neighborhood in the city, killing and wounding dozens of people. The blasts in Homs came hours after Syrian troops backed by Hezbollah fighters captured the last major town in the Qalamoun region near the border with Lebanon after weeks of intense fighting. Syrian TV and Lebanon’s Hezbollah-owned Al-Manar station said the town of Rankous fell earlier Wednesday, depriving the rebels their last major base in the rugged area. President Bashar Assad’s forces backed by Hezbollah fighters have been on the offensive in the Qalamoun region

since November when they captured most of the border area with Lebanon. The six-month battle forced tens of thousands of Syrians to flee to safety in Lebanon. The capture of Rankous and other towns and villages has cut a major supply route for weapons and fighters into the country from eastern Lebanon. Syrian TV aired live footage from inside Rankous on Wednesday saying that the operation to capture the town lasted 18 hours. Much of the homes appeared intact in the town’s center, overlooked by a mosque with a green dome atop a hill. “Rankous returns to the nation and is under the control of the Syrian Arab Army,” a TV announcer said. The Observatory reported that troops and Hezbollah fighters are in full control of the town. It added that the fighting is continuing in a nearby area known as Rankous Farms.

Also Wednesday, the U.N. refugee agency said it had delivered aid to a rebel-held area of the war-shattered northern city of Aleppo in a “rare and risky” operation carried out in cooperation with the Syrian Red Crescent. UNHCR said in a statement that the operation took place following an agreement with the Syrian government and the opposition to observe a brief cease-fire that was respected by both sides. It said two trucks packed with blankets, plastic sheeting, hygiene kits and kitchen sets and food were delivered to the needy in the besieged neighborhood of Bustan al-Qasr in eastern Aleppo. UNHCR staff observed a “dire” humanitarian situation in the area, including acute shortage of food, water and medicine, the statement said. UNHCR last accessed the area in June 2013.

NATO may deploy United States troops to Europe By JOHN-THOR DAHLBURG Associated Press

PARIS — NATO’s top military commander in Europe, drafting countermoves to the Russian military threat against Ukraine, said Wednesday they could include deployment of American troops to alliance member states in Eastern Europe now feeling at risk. U.S. Air Force Gen. Philip Breedlove told The Associated Press he wouldn’t “write off involvement by any nation, to include the United States.” Foreign ministers of the 28-nation alliance have given Breedlove until Tuesday to propose steps to reassure NATO members nearest Russia that other alliance countries have their back. “Essentially what we are looking at is a package of land, air and maritime measures that would build assurance for our easternmost allies,” Breedlove told the AP. “I’m tasked to deliver this by next week. I fully

intend to deliver it early.” Asked again if American soldiers might be sent to NATO’s front-line states closest to Russia, the four-star U.S. general said, “I would not write off contributions from any nation.” In March, Russian troops took control of Ukraine’s Crimean Peninsula, whose inhabitants then voted in a referendum to secede and join Russia. The U.S. and other Western countries have accused Moscow of massing troops on Ukraine’s border to maintain the pressure on the government in Kiev, and possibly for military use. Speaking at the end of a NATO conference in Paris, Breedlove told the AP the Russian armed presence near Ukraine’s frontier continues unabated. To illustrate his point, the general’s staff provided the AP with a set of commercial satellite photographs they said showed Russian warplanes, combat helicopters, armor, artillery and a probable airborne

or special forces brigade deployed in locations east of the Ukraine-Russian border, including along the coastline of the Sea of Azov. A defense analyst at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, a Washingtonbased think tank, reviewed the satellite images and said the forces depicted in them don’t appear to be involved in training exercises. They appear to be “in combat readiness,” Anthony Cordesman said. But he said it’s unclear from the images how much of a buildup of Russian forces there has been in the border area. “They show there is a mixture of light and heavy forces and that they could go quickly” if ordered into Ukraine, and that they include forces to provide air mobility, according to Cordesman. “But that’s all they show,” he said. The commercial provider of the photographs, DigitalGlobe, said they were taken in late

‘There is not a shortage of what we can use. It’s how do we use this in a measured way that indicates defensive capability so that we don’t provoke. And that’s what we will be working on.’ — U.S. Air Force Gen. Philip Breedlove

March. “What we see there is a force of about 40,000,” Breedlove said. “I would characterize it as a combined arms army. In other words, this is an army that has all of the provisioning and enablers that it needs to accomplish military objectives if given them.” The Russians’ assets include fixed and rotary wing aircraft, artillery, field hospitals, communications and jamming gear, he said. Kremlin objectives remain unclear, the NATO commander said. The force could stand pat

and intimidate Ukraine solely by its presence, drive south to create a land bridge with Crimea, push along the Black Sea coast to the Ukrainian port city of Odessa and the largely Russian Trans-Dniester enclave of Moldova, or invade other areas of eastern Ukraine where ethnic Russians are demanding unity with Russia, he said. However the Russian contingent might ultimately be used, it’s “ready to go essentially at command. We talk about inside of 12 hours,” Breedlove said. NATO has already rein-

forced its Baltic air patrols and is performing daily AWACs surveillance flights over Poland and Romania. Breedlove said he has already received enough pledges of maritime assets from NATO member states to carry out beefed-up maritime operations through the end of the year. “The tougher piece is, how do we do the assurance piece on the land,” the general said. “Because these are measures which are more costly (and) if not done correctly, might appear provocative. And everything we are trying to do in the air, on the ground and at sea we are trying to completely characterize as defensive in nature.” “There is not a shortage of what we can use. It’s how do we use this in a measured way that indicates defensive capability so that we don’t provoke. And that’s what we will be working on,” Breedlove said before departing for NATO’s military headquarters near Mons, Belgium.

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Brown Bears force game 5 with Ice Dogs Kenai River holds on late to beat Fairbanks, force winner-take-all game Saturday at Big Dipper By JEFF HELMINIAK Peninsula Clarion

The Kenai River Brown Bears forced a deciding Game 5 in a firstround playoff series by defeating the Fairbanks Ice Dogs 4-3 Wednesday at the Soldotna Regional Sports Complex. The Ice Dogs, the North American Hockey League regular-season champs, are 4-0 all-time against the Bears, the No. 4 seed from the Midwest Division, in the playoffs. All of the series were sweeps except for last season when the Dogs prevailed 3-2 in Game 5 in Fairbanks. “There’s just a lot of people still on the team that know what mistakes we did,” Kenai River forward Albin Karlsson said of Game 5, which will be Saturday in Fairbanks at 7:30 p.m. “We know what we gotta do. It’s now

or never.” In the regular season, the Bears defeated the Dogs just three times in 16 tries. If Kenai River can beat Fairbanks three times in five tries in the playoffs, Kenai River will have its first playoff series victory in six tries. The first goal has been pivotal in the Bears-Dogs series this year. Fairbanks is 13-0 when scoring first, while Kenai River, after scoring first Wednesday, is now 5-1-1 when taking the initial lead. Fairbanks was as close as possible to getting that first goal early in the first period, with Viktor Liljegren hitting the pipe 58 seconds into the game and Brett Gervais ringing the metalwork at the 15-minute mark. “You always need a little luck,” Kenai River head coach Geoff Beauparlant said. “You don’t win any game against any team without a bounce or

two.” The Gervais shot came during a Fairbanks power play, and immediately after killing it off, Kenai River got to work with its top line, with passes from Alec Butcher and Sebastian Fuchs setting up Karlsson from just inside the circle for a goal with 13:02 left in the first period. But Ross Olsson tied the game with 2:54 left in the first on a rebound goal. The second period again belonged to the pinpoint sniping of Karlsson. With 2:33 left in the period, he got a pass from Fuchs then did most of the work himself, curling to the high slot and wristing a shot past Dogs goalie Kevin Aldridge high and on the glove side. “It’s good timing more than good skill,” said Karlsson, who has three goals in his last two games. “I have

good timing right now.” Karlsson has been a noted sniper since joining the team last season. “He’s got a good release, but what makes him special is his ability to rise to the occasion in big games,” Beauparlant said. “I thought he did that tonight. His whole line was good tonight.” But with 18:04 left in the third period, Olsson answered right back for a 2-2 game when Jacob Hetz found him with a nice pass right in front of the net. But Kenai River responded to the goal by owning the next eight minutes of play. “We didn’t have too many ups and downs,” Beauparlant said. “We stayed on task for the most part.” Matt Rudin pushed the Bears ahead with his first goal of the playoffs with 15:52 to play. Zack Zulkanycz and Jack Gessert had assists.

Then with 11:47 left, Jacob Davidson buried a shot for a power-play goal, assisted by Vince Stefan and Zulkanycz. The Bears had the advantage on the power play, converting their lone opportunity while Fairbanks went 0 for 3. Special teams has loomed large in the series. Fairbanks was 1 for 5 while Kenai River was 0 for 2 in Fairbanks’ 3-0 Game 1 victory, Kenai River was 1 for 3 while Fairbanks was 0 for 3 in the Bears’ 3-2 Game 2 victory, and Fairbanks was 2 for 3 while the Bears were 0-2 in losing Game 3 5-2. Down 4-2, Fairbanks pressed hard in the last 10 minutes, pulling Aldridge with 2:04 left. But it was not until seven seconds remained that Liljegren was able to score on a protracted scrum in front of the net. “A lot of credit tonight goes to the deSee BEARS, page A-11

Blue Jackets clinch 2nd-ever postseason berth The Associated Press

DALLAS — Artem Anisimov and Mark Letestu added goals to the one Columbus already had when the makeup game started, and the Blue Jackets clinched the second playoff berth in franchise history with a 3-1 victory over the Dallas Stars on Wednesday night. The Blue Jackets had a 1-0 lead when the puck dropped because that was the score March 10, the night the original game was postponed after Dallas forward Rich Peverley collapsed

on the bench because of an irregular heartbeat. The Blue Jackets set a franchise record with 42 wins, beating the previous mark from their only other playoff season in 2008-09. Anisimov doubled the margin on an unassisted goal just 1:33 into the game. That was 71 seconds faster than the goal last month by Nathan Horton, who got credit for it even though he didn’t officially play because he missed the makeup game with a lower-body injury.

Pacers grab East lead with victory The Associated Press

MILWAUKEE — Chris Copeland’s driving layup with 1.2 seconds remaining gave the Indiana Pacers a 104-102 victory over the Milwaukee Bucks on Wednesday night that moved them back into first place in the Eastern Conference. Copeland finished with a season-high 18 points. Luis Scola also recorded a season high with 24 points and Evan Turner added 23 for Indiana, which benched all of its usual starters for the entire game. Coach Frank Vogel made the move after saying his team appeared tired following a 107-88 home loss to Atlanta on Sunday, when the Pacers were held to a franchise-low 23 points in the first half. Even without the starters, Indiana moved a half-game ahead of the Heat heading into Friday’s matchup in Miami. GRIZZLIES 107, HEAT 102

Boston. With four games remaining in the regular season, Atlanta increased its lead to two games over the New York Knicks for the eighth and final Eastern Conference playoff spot.

THUNDER 107, CLIPPERS 101 LOS ANGELES (AP) — Russell Westbrook scored 30 points in his return to the lineup, Kevin Durant added 27, and Oklahoma City held off Los Angeles in a possible playoff preview. Serge Ibaka added 15 points for the Thunder, who had their starting five together for just the second time since Christmas Day. Westbrook had sat out two of the previous three games and has missed 34 games this season with a variety of injuries.

TRAIL BLAZERS 100, KINGS 99 PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Dorell Wright hit a 3-pointer with 7.9 seconds left and Portland beat late-charging Sacramento. Ray McCallum missed a 21foot jumper as time ran out for the Kings and Portland’s Robin Lopez grabbed the rebound and held it tight for the victory.

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — Zach Randolph had 25 points and 11 rebounds, Marc Gasol added 20 points and 14 rebounds and Memphis kept its playoff hopes alive with a victory over Miami. LeBron James led the Heat with 37 points, connecting on 14 of 23 BULLS 102, shots, including 3 of 5 from beyond TIMBERWOLVES 87 the arc. Rashard Lewis scored 17, MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — D.J. and Chris Bosh finished with 13 points. Mario Chalmers scored 12 Augustin scored 21 points and Joakim Noah posted his leaguepoints for the Heat. leading fourth triple-double of the season, leading Chicago over MinBOBCATS 94, nesota.

WIZARDS 88, OT

WASHINGTON (AP) — Kemba Walker made the only field goal for either team in overtime, and Charlotte won its fifth straight and moved into position for the No. 6 seed in the Eastern Conference with a win over Washington. Walker made a 3-pointer and a pair of free throws in the extra session, and Al Jefferson added two free throws to account for all of the Bobcats’ post-regulation scoring.

CAVALIERS 122, PISTONS 100

SUNS 94, PELICANS 88 NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Gerald Green scored 21 points, and Phoenix won its third straight game.

NUGGETS 123, ROCKETS 116 DENVER (AP) — Randy Foye scored 24 of his 30 points in the second half, and Denver hung on to beat Houston.

RAPTORS 125, 76ERS 114

CLEVELAND (AP) — Dion Waiters scored 22 points and Cleveland played one of its best games this season, routing Detroit before being eliminated from the playoff chase.

TORONTO (AP) — Jonas Valanciunas had 26 points and 12 rebounds to lift Toronto over Philadelphia on Wednesday, less than three days after he was charged with drunk driving.

HAWKS 105, CELTICS 97

MAGIC 115, NETS 111

ATLANTA (AP) — Jeff Teague ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — Arron scored 19 points, Kyle Korver Afflalo scored 25 points, E’Twaun added 17 and Atlanta helped its Moore added 17 and Orlando held playoff chances with a victory over off a late rally to beat Brooklyn.

The Stars scored when they pulled goalie Tim Thomas for a 6-on-4 power play with 13 minutes left in the game. Columbus goalie Sergei Bobrovsky made a sprawling save before Trevor Daley punched in a rebound in a crowd in front of the net. PENGUINS 4, RED WINGS 3, SO PITTSBURGH — Jussi Jokinen scored in regulation and then got the game-winner in the shootout, lifting Pittsburgh past playoff-

bound Detroit. Jeremy Morin also scored in the James Neal scored two power- Blackhawks’ fourth straight win play goals in regulation — his 25th overall, and their first in overtime and 26th of the season — for Pitts- this season after seven losses. burgh, which got defenseman Kris Letang back for the first time since DUCKS 5, SHARKS 2 he suffered a stroke 10 weeks ago. ANAHEIM, Calif. — Patrick Maroon scored two goals, John BLACKHAWKS 3, Gibson made 36 saves in his secCANADIENS 2, OT ond NHL start, and Anaheim CHICAGO — Patrick Sharp set clinched its second straight Pacific up Marian Hossa’s tying goal in Division title. Corey Perry scored his 43rd the final minute of regulation and then scored the game-winner 43 goal as the Ducks finished off the seconds into overtime to lift Chi- second-place Sharks with a threegoal third period to earn the first cago.

back-to-back division titles in franchise history.

FLAMES 4, KINGS 3, SO CALGARY, Alberta — Sean Monahan scored his 21st goal and then got the shootout winner as surging Calgary won its fourth straight. T.J. Galiardi and Matt Stajan also scored in regulation for Calgary, which has won seven of its last 10. Jarret Stoll, Anze Kopitar and Jordan King scored for playoff-bound Los Angeles, which is locked into third spot in the Pacific Division.

Scoreboard basketball NBA Standings EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division W L Pct GB x-Toronto 46 32 .590 — x-Brooklyn 43 35 .551 3 New York 33 45 .423 13 Boston 23 55 .295 23 Philadelphia 17 61 .218 29 Southeast Division y-Miami 53 25 .679 — x-Charlotte 40 38 .513 13 x-Washington 40 38 .513 13 Atlanta 35 43 .449 18 Orlando 23 55 .295 30 Central Division y-Indiana 54 25 .684 — x-Chicago 46 32 .590 7½ Cleveland 32 47 .405 22 Detroit 29 50 .367 25 Milwaukee 14 64 .179 39½ WESTERN CONFERENCE Southwest Division y-San Antonio 60 18 .769 — x-Houston 52 26 .667 8 Dallas 48 31 .608 12½ Memphis 46 32 .590 14 New Orleans 32 46 .410 28 Northwest Division y-Oklahoma City 57 21 .731 — x-Portland 51 28 .646 6½ Minnesota 39 39 .500 18 Denver 34 44 .436 23 Utah 24 54 .308 33 Pacific Division y-L.A. Clippers 55 24 .696 — Golden State 48 29 .623 6 Phoenix 47 31 .603 7½ Sacramento 27 52 .342 28 L.A. Lakers 25 53 .321 29½ x-clinched playoff spot y-clinched division Wednesday’s Games Orlando 115, Brooklyn 111 Charlotte 94, Washington 88, OT Cleveland 122, Detroit 100 Toronto 125, Philadelphia 114 Atlanta 105, Boston 97 Chicago 102, Minnesota 87 Indiana 104, Milwaukee 102 Memphis 107, Miami 102 Phoenix 94, New Orleans 88 Denver 123, Houston 116 Portland 100, Sacramento 99 Oklahoma City 107, L.A. Clippers 101 Thursday’s Games San Antonio at Dallas, 4 p.m. Denver at Golden State, 6:30 p.m. All Times ADT

hockey NHL Standings EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division GP W L OT Pts z-Boston 79 53 18 8 114 x-Montreal 80 45 27 8 98 x-Tampa Bay 79 43 27 9 95 x-Detroit 80 38 27 15 91 Toronto 80 38 34 8 84 Ottawa 79 34 31 14 82 Florida 80 28 44 8 64 Buffalo 79 21 49 9 51 Metropolitan Division y-Pittsburgh 80 51 24 5 107 x-N.Y. Rangers 80 44 31 5 93 x-Philadelphia 79 41 29 9 91 x-Columbus 80 42 31 7 91 Washington 79 36 30 13 85 New Jersey 79 34 29 16 84 Carolina 79 34 34 11 79 N.Y. Islanders 79 31 37 11 73 WESTERN CONFERENCE Central Division x-St. Louis 79 52 x-Colorado 79 51 x-Chicago 80 46 x-Minnesota 80 42 Dallas 80 39 Nashville 79 35 Winnipeg 80 35 Pacific Division x-Anaheim 80 52 x-San Jose 80 49 x-Los Angeles 80 45

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Phoenix 79 36 28 15 87 Vancouver 79 35 33 11 81 Calgary 80 35 38 7 77 Edmonton 80 28 43 9 65 NOTE: Two points for a win, one point for overtime loss. x-clinched playoff spot y-clinched division z-clinched conference Wednesday’s Games Pittsburgh 4, Detroit 3, SO Calgary 4, Los Angeles 3, SO Chicago 3, Montreal 2, OT Columbus 3, Dallas 1 Anaheim 5, San Jose 2 Thursday’s Games Buffalo at N.Y. Rangers, 3 p.m. Washington at Carolina, 3 p.m. N.Y. Islanders at Montreal, 3:30 p.m. New Jersey at Ottawa, 3:30 p.m. Philadelphia at Tampa Bay, 3:30 p.m. Toronto at Florida, 3:30 p.m. Phoenix at Nashville, 4 p.m. St. Louis at Minnesota, 4 p.m. Boston at Winnipeg, 4 p.m. Los Angeles at Edmonton, 5:30 p.m. Colorado at Vancouver, 6 p.m. All Times ADT

baseball American League

East Division W Toronto 5 Tampa Bay 5 Baltimore 4 Boston 4 New York 4 Central Division Detroit 5 Cleveland 5 Kansas City 4 Chicago 4 Minnesota 3 West Division Oakland 5 Seattle 5 Los Angeles 4 Texas 4 Houston 3

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East Division W Washington 6 Atlanta 5 Miami 5 New York 3 Philadelphia 3 Central Division Milwaukee 6 Pittsburgh 5 St. Louis 5 Chicago 3 Cincinnati 3 West Division San Francisco 6 Los Angeles 6 Colorado 5 San Diego 3 Arizona 3

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M.Gonzalez, Meek (7), Matusz (8), Tom.Hunter (9) and Wieters; Tanaka, Thornton (8), Warren (8), Kelley (9) and McCann.WСMatusz 1-0. LСKelley 0-1. SvСTom.Hunter (3). HRsСBaltimore, Schoop (1). New York, Beltran (1), K.Johnson (2). Blue Jays 7, Astros 3 Hou. 000 003 000—3 6 2 Tor. 200 030 20x—7 10 0 Harrell, Williams (5), Zeid (6) and J.Castro; Morrow, Wagner (7), Delabar (9), Rogers (9) and Navarro. WСMorrow 1-1. LСHarrell 0-2. HRsСHouston, Presley (2). Toronto, Lawrie (1). Angels 2, Mariners 0 LA Sea.

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Nationals 10, Marlins 7 Mia. 230 000 110— 7 14 3 Was. 000 312 04x—10 11 0 Hand, Slowey (4), Da.Jennings (6), Caminero (6), Marmol (8) and Saltalamacchia; Zimmermann, Stammen (2), Detwiler (6), Storen (7), Clippard (8), R.Soriano (9) and Lobaton. W_Clippard 1-1. L_Marmol 0-1. Sv_R.Soriano (2). HRs_Miami, Dietrich (1), Saltalamacchia (1). Washington, Harper (1), Werth (1). Braves 4, Mets 3 N.Y. 000 000 003—3 6 0 Atl. 100 030 00x—4 9 0 Wheeler, Familia (6), Lannan (8), Germen (8) and d’Arnaud; E.Santana, J.Walden (9), Kimbrel (9) and Gattis. W_E.Santana 1-0. L_Wheeler 0-2. Sv_Kimbrel (4). HRs_Atlanta, Heyward (2). Cubs 7, Pirates 5 Pit. 000 010 202—5 6 0 Chi. 100 033 0 0x—7 14 0 W.Rodriguez, J.Gomez (6), Ju.Wilson (8) and R.Martin; Hammel, H.Rondon (8), Strop (9) and Castillo. W_Hammel 2-0. L_W.Rodriguez 0-2. HRs_Pittsburgh, P.Alvarez 2 (4), Snider (1), R.Martin 2 (2). Chicago, Olt (2), Lake (1). D-Backs 7, Giants 3 Ari. 302 200 000—7 12 0 S.F. 011 010 000—3 9 0 Arroyo, Collmenter (6) and Montero; Lincecum, Petit (5), J.Gutierrez (7), Machi (8), Huff (9) and Posey. W_Arroyo 1-0. L_Lincecum 0-1. Sv_Collmenter (1). HRs_Arizona, Goldschmidt (2), G.Parra (1). San Francisco, Morse (2), Posey (3).

Transactions BASEBALL American League BOSTON RED SOX Activated LHP Craig Breslow from the 15day DL. Optioned RHP Brandon

Workman to Pawtucket. CLEVELAND INDIANS Optioned RHP Vinnie Pestano to Columbus (IL). Recalled RHP Trevor Bauer and RHP Chen-Chang Lee from Columbus. KANSAS CITY ROYALS Activated RHP Louis Coleman from the 15day DL. Recalled 2B Johnny Giavotella from Omaha (PCL). OpC tioned LHP Donnie Joseph and RHP Aaron Brooks to Omaha. Y LOS ANGELES ANGELS Placed OF Josh Hamilton on the 15-day DL. Recalled OF J.B. Shuck from Salt Lake (PCL). MINNESOTA TWINS Placed OF Oswaldo Arcia on the 15-day DL, retroactive to April 5. NEW YORK YANKEES Optioned C Austin Romine to Scranton/ Wilkes-Barre (IL). Recalled RHP Shane Greene from Scranton/ Wilkes-Barre. SEATTLE MARINERS Recalled LHP Lucas Luetge from Tacoma (PCL). Placed LHP James Paxton on the 15-day DL. TEXAS RANGERS Purchased the contract of INF Kevin Kouzmanoff from Round Rock (PCL). TORONTO BLUE JAYS Recalled RHP Neil Wagner from Buffalo (IL). Optioned RHP Marcus Walden to Buffalo. National League ATLANTA BRAVES Optioned RHP Pedro Beato to Gwinnett (IL). COLORADO ROCKIES Recalled INF Josh Rutledge from Colorado Springs (PCL). Optioned RHP Wilton Lopez to Colorado Springs. LOS ANGELES DODGERS Reinstated RHP Josh Beckett from the 15-day DL. Optioned RHP Jose Dominguez to Albuquerque (PCL). MIAMI MARLINS Placed RHP Jacob Turner on the 15-day DL. Recalled RHP Arquimedes Caminero from New Orleans (PCL). BASKETBALL National Basketball Association GOLDEN STATE WARRIORS — Signed C Hilton Armstrong for the remainder of the season. HOUSTON ROCKETS Recalled F Robert Covington and G Troy Daniels from Rio Grande Valley (NBADL). FOOTBALL National Football League BOSTON BRUINS Recalled F Ryan Spooner from Providence (AHL). BUFFALO BILLS Signed P Jake Dombrowski. CAROLINA PANTHERS Resigned DT Colin Cole to a oneyear contract. NEW YORK JETS Re-signed LB Garrett McIntyre. SAN DIEGO CHARGERS Agreed to terms with OL Rich Ohrnberger on a one-year contract. HOCKEY National Hockey League NEW YORK ISLANDERS Recalled F Johan Sundstrom from Bridgeport (AHL). TAMPA BAY LIGHTNING Recalled G Kristers Gudlevskis from Syracuse (AHL). VANCOUVER CANUCKS Named Trevor Linden president of hockey operations. COLLEGE ARIZONA STATE Named Zeke Jones wrestling coach. AUBURN Named Todd Golden director of basketball operations. FLORIDA A&M Named Kellen Winslow Sr. athletic director. JACKSONVILLE Named Tony Jasick men’s basketball coach. KANSAS С Announced freshman C Joel Embiid will enter the NBA draft. MARQUETTE Announced Terri Mitchell women’s basketball will not return next season. PROVIDENCE Named Dana Eikenberg women’s assistant basketball coach.

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Ortiz homer gives Red Sox late victory over Rangers The Associated Press

BOSTON — David Ortiz hit a threerun homer high over the Pesky Pole in the eighth inning, helping the Boston Red Sox rally for a 4-2 victory over the Texas Rangers on Wednesday. Ortiz’s second homer was heading down the right-field line before it curled around the pole just 302 feet from home plate. Ortiz remained in the batter’s box until first-base umpire Jerry Meals signaled a home run. Rangers manager Ron Washington came out after Ortiz crossed the plate to ask for a review. After 44.1 seconds, the play was upheld. Andrew Miller (1-0) won despite allowing the go-ahead run in the top of the eighth, and Koji Uehara pitched the ninth for his second save. Alexi Ogando (0-1) was the loser. ORIOLES 5, YANKEES 4 NEW YORK — Nick Markakis had an RBI single in the ninth inning against fill-in closer Shawn Kelley, and Baltimore rallied for a victory in Masahiro Tanaka’s first Yankee Stadium start. Jonathan Schoop hit a three-run homer off Tanaka in the second inning of his first start at Yankee Stadium but Carlos Bel-

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fensive corps,” Beauparlant said. “They stepped up and limited their opportunities.” Kenai River kept Fairbanks from a shot in the final seven

tran and Kelly Johnson connected against Miguel Gonzalez in the bottom of the inning.

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REDS 4, CARDINALS 0

MINNEAPOLIS — Derek Norris hit a three-run homer in the 11th inning off Jared Burton (0-1), and Oakland Athletics bounced back from another blown save by new closer Jim Johnson. Dan Otero (1-0) got the last eight outs for the victory in relief of Johnson, who has given up seven runs, nine hits and six walks in five appearances with the A’s.

ST. LOUIS — Billy Hamilton had three hits and his first two steals, and scored easily after tagging up on a shallow outfield pop fly to support a strong outing from Mike Leake in the Cincinnati Reds’ 4-0 victory over the St. Louis Cardinals on Wednesday.

TORONTO — Brett Lawrie hit a tworun homer and Brandon Morrow won for the first time in almost 11 months. Alex Presley hit a two-run homer for the Astros, who have lost six of seven following a 2-0 start. Morrow (1-1), limited to 10 starts last season with a nerve injury in his forearm, ROYALS 7, RAYS 3 won for the first time since May 23, 2013, when he beat Baltimore. He allowed three KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Alex Gordon runs and five hits in six innings and struck hit a three-run homer and matched a career out nine. high with four RBIs. Jeremy Guthrie (2-0) recovered from a sloppy start to hold the Rays to four hits INDIANS 2, PADRES 0 over seven innings. CLEVELAND — Robbie Erlin (1-0) gave up one run and four hits in six inANGELS 2, MARINERS 0 nings, and Chase Headley’s single in the sixth off Trevor Bauer (0-1) drove in the SEATTLE — Albert Pujols homered go-ahead run as San Diego gained a dou- for the second straight game while Garrett bleheader split. Richards and two relievers combined on one-hitter as the Los Angeles Angels beat the Seattle Mariners. PADRES 2, INDIANS 1 On the day the Angels lost Josh HamilZach McAllister (1-0) allowed five hits ton for potentially up to two months to inin 7 2-3, innings and Jason Kipnis hit a jury, Pujols provided the biggest blow. He two-run homer in the sixth off Eric Stults hit a two-run homer in the third off Seattle (0-2) as Cleveland won the opener. starter Roenis Elias (0-1).

seconds. “Kenai wanted it a little more than us tonight,” Ice Dogs head coach Trevor Stewart said, who was again without two of his five top scorers in Tayler Munson and Kyle Lee. “Their goaltending was really good. That was the difference.” Kris Oldham, at the tender

solo home runs.

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age of 16, got his first playoff start for the Bears and turned it into a victory, making 37 saves while Aldridge had 19 saves. Oldham calmly turned away most of the Ice Dogs’ forays, and his only mistake was a rebound that led to the first goal. “He’s one of those kids for his age that is very poised,”

BRAVES 4, METS 3 ATLANTA — Ervin Santana allowed only three hits over eight scoreless innings in his Atlanta debut, Jason Heyward homered and drove in two runs and the Braves held off the New York Mets.

BREWERS 9, PHILLIES 4

ROCKIES 10, WHITE SOX 4

PHILADELPHIA — Ryan Braun hit a DENVER — D.J. LeMahieu’s two-run two-run triple during a four-run eighth insingle broke a tie in a six-run eighth inning rally to lead the Milwaukee Brewers ning. LeMahieu finished with three hits, to their fifth straight win. including an RBI double in the sixth that tied the game at 4.

DIAMONDBACKS 7, GIANTS 3

NATIONALS 10, MARLINS 7

SAN FRANCISCO — Paul Goldschmidt hit a three-run homer and sacrifice WASHINGTON — Jayson Werth hit a fly to pound Tim Lincecum again, and the go-ahead grand slam in the eighth inning Arizona Diamondbacks beat the San Franoff Carlos Marmol after Bryce Harper’s cisco Giants. upper-deck, three-run homer started a comeback from an early deficit, leaidng TIGERS 7, DODGERS 6, the Washington Nationals over the Miami 10 innings Marlins.

CUBS 7, PIRATES 5 CHICAGO — Jason Hammel threw seven strong innings, Anthony Rizzo had four hits, and the Chicago Cubs beat the Pittsburgh Pirates despite allowing five

Beauparlant said. “He does make some youthful mistakes, and that’s expected. “At the same time, he rebounds quickly and has a great presence in net. “He’s never too much up or down. He’s worked hard this year to learn how to be a junior hockey player.”

LOS ANGELES — Victor Martinez hit a leadoff home run in the 10th inning, his second clutch hit against Los Angeles closer Kenley Jansen in two games, and the Detroit Tigers beat the Dodgers after Joe Nathan blew a three-run lead in the ninth.

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First period — 1. Kenai River, Karlsson (Butcher, Fuchs), 6:58; 2. Fairbanks, Olsson (Lagrone, Hetz), 17:06. Penalties — Kenai River 2 for 4:00. Second period — 3. Kenai River (Fuchs, Butcher), 17:27. Penalties — Kenai River 1 for 2:00. Third period — 4. Fairbanks, Olsson (Lagrone, Mueller), 1:56; 5. Kenai River,

Rudin (Zulkanycz, Gessert), 4:08; 6. Kenai River, Davidson (Stefan, Zulkanycz), pp, 8:13; 7. Fairbanks, Liljegren (un.), es, 19:53. Penalties — Fairbanks 1 for 2:00. Shots on goal — Fairbanks 8-17-15—40; Kenai River 9-7-7—23. Goalies — Fairbanks, Aldridge (23 shots, 19 saves); Kenai River, Oldham (40 shots, 37 saves). Power plays — Fairbanks 0 for 3; Kenai River for 1.

Pistorius murder trial heats up with autopsy photos CHRISTOPHER TORCHIA Associated Press

PRETORIA, South Africa (AP) — A shaken Oscar Pistorius refused to look at a gruesome photo of his slain girlfriend’s bloodied head on Wednesday, telling a prosecutor through tears, “I don’t have to look at a picture. I was there.” “It’s time that you look at it,” chief prosecutor Gerrie Nel said during a fierce first day of cross-examination in which he doggedly pressed the doubleamputee Olympian to “take responsibility” for killing Reeva

Steenkamp. The 27-year-old Pistorius is charged with premeditated murder in the Valentine’s Day 2013 shooting of Steenkamp, who was hit three times — in the head, arm and hip — as she cowered behind a locked toilet door. Pistorius says he shot the 29-year-old model and law school graduate by mistake, thinking she was a dangerous intruder. Gasps could be heard in the courtroom from spectators, including the dead woman’s mother, June, when the police photo suddenly appeared on

multiple TV screens showing Steenkamp’s head turned to the side, her blonde hair drenched in blood and a mass of tissue on the back and upper parts of her skull, her eyes closed. Pistorius turned away and refused to look at the image, even as the prosecutor insisted he do so and face up to what he did. “I will not look at a picture where I’m tormented by what I saw and felt that night,” Pistorius said, becoming distraught and breaking into sobs. “As I picked Reeva up, my fingers touched her head. I remember.

I don’t have to look at a picture. I was there.” Wednesday’s heated questioning began with the showing of a video, first broadcast on Sky News, of the star athlete firing a gun at a watermelon at a shooting range. Pistorius can be heard saying the melon was “softer than brains” as it exploded when the bullet hit, and calling the powerful .50-caliber handgun he was using a “zombie stopper.” “You know the same happened to Reeva’s head,” Nel told Pistorius. “It exploded.” “You killed her. You shot and

killed her,” the prosecutor said. “Take responsibility for what you’ve done, Mr. Pistorius.” Defense lawyer Barry Roux objected to the showing of the gun video, saying it was inadmissible character evidence and amounted to a legal “ambush” by the prosecution. Nel also attempted to poke holes in Pistorius’ version of the fatal night, including his reversal of a claim in court documents a year ago that he went out onto a balcony at his home before the shooting. The runner now says he went to the edge of the balcony but did not step outside. The

discrepancy could be significant because Pistorius says a noise in the bathroom alerted him to a possible intruder, which would have been harder to hear if he were outside. Nel tried to pin Pistorius down on whether he meant to fire into the toilet door at a perceived intruder. Pistorius said he didn’t intend to shoot “anyone” and that he fired “before thinking” because he thought his life was in danger. This prompted Nel to accuse him of weighing the legal implications of the question before answering.

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while others learned about anesthesiology. Childers also said that a couple of challenges they face about having students come is the lack of space, especially in the operating room. Also, confidentiality is stressed and students are asked to not talk about certain details of their experience outside of the hospital. Some of the pros about having the students come to the hospital is that they are exposed to the health and medical field, and hopefully encouraged to become more involved in it, Childers said.

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the Job Shadow Day. Beech said that one of the most exciting things about it is that it gives students the opportunity to join the work force for the day, giving them the chance to experience that job. The opportunity can help them decide whether they really want to pursue the career they chose, or perhaps they want to look for a different goal after their job shadow experience. Volunteer Coordinator at Central Peninsula Hospital Jim Childers said that things stuWren Norwood and Kendrick dents do include working in O’Rourke are juniors at Kenai the clinical lab. Some students Central High School particilearned how to be radiologists, pating in Job Shadow Day.

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The committee approved an amendment to provide $2.1 million as a match should the federal government provide funding for — and the U.S. interior secretary reverse her decision on — a road linking the community of King Cove and an all-weather airport at Cold Bay. Members of Alaska’s congressional delegation have been pushing for the project. The budget did not include any additional money — beyond the $10 million already included — for the proposed

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TransCanada would hold the state’s interest in the gas treatment plant and pipeline, with the state having an equity buyback option. The arrangement with TransCanada has been cast by the administration as a way for the state to not have to bear as much in upfront costs as it would without a partner. It also has been billed as an amicable transition from terms of the Alaska Gasline Inducement Act, under which TransCanada pursued a project for years. Parnell has said terms of the inducement act do not fit with the project now being considered. TransCanada and the administration have repeatedly defended the proposed partnership. In House Finance on Wednesday, when asked if TransCanada was something of a third-wheel, the company’s Tony Palmer said TransCanada brings value to the state in terms of expertise and experience in working in Arctic environments. The administration also has argued that TransCanada would be aligned with the state’s interest in support pipeline expansion. House Finance will also review the bill. SB138, as rewritten in House Resources, would require negotiated contracts that need legislative approval be made public at least 90 days before their proposed effective date. It would require regular legislative briefings on progress, accompanied by a written report on the amount of money the state may be obligated to pay TransCanada Corp. if a project were terminated before gas starts flowing. It also would not allow for payments

through a 0.1 of a mill rate of Kenai Peninsula Borough property taxes. He said if borough funding falls short, KPC will fill the gap with funds from one of its foundation accounts. “It’s important that high school students have the opportunity to become more college ready,” Turner said. Erkeneff said opening up the program to juniors shouldn’t affect the number or variety of classes offered at the high schools. “We have so many schools that it’s really going to be a few students from each school,” she said. “It’s not going to be a massive amount of students from one school in all likelihood.” Turner and Erkeneff both noted trends show that students who take college-level courses in high school are more likely to succeed in college. Along with opening the program up to juniors, KPBSD

Opening the program to juniors became an option as the number of KPBSD seniors continues to decrease. With fewer seniors enrolled in the district, the current funding levels in the JumpStart program should cover the number of additional students who take advantage of the program as juniors, Turner said. Turner said about 20 high school juniors currently take KPC classes at the full tuition rate. He said KPC estimations are that expanding the program will add about 20 additional juniors. But he said it’s difficult put a hard number on enrollment. “We will see in the fall,” he Susitna-Watana hydro project, said. The program is funded despite a request for reconsideration by Gov. Sean Parnell’s administration. Meyer has said the focus has been on pursuing a gas-line project and that there were some concerns that the state did not need to and could not afford to do both maAlaska soldier charged in death of son, 3 jor projects. FAIRBANKS — A 23-year-old soldier was charged WednesThe budget added $5 million day with premeditated murder and kidnapping in the death of for the Alaska Railroad Corp. his 3-year-old son at the family’s home at Fort Wainwright, the for safety technology, bringArmy said. ing to $15 million the total for Sgt. Nathaniel E. Ulroan also has been charged with assault that appropriation. Accompaand communicating a threat, the Army said in a statement. nying intent language urges Details of the death were not provided. the corporation to implement Military police found the child dead Friday. Ulroan was a passenger fee-based structreated at a Fairbanks hospital for unspecified injuries related ture to help cover the costs and to the child’s death, then taken to the Fairbanks Correctional implementation of the safety Center. program. The combat engineer originally from Berea, Ohio, is awaiting an Army pretrial hearing to determine whether sufficient evidence exists to warrant a court-martial. He’s assigned to the in lieu of taxes on existing oil 1st Stryker Brigade Combat Team, 25th Infantry Division. and gas infrastructure, like the Previously stationed at Joint Base Lewis-McChord in Washtrans-Alaska pipeline system, ington state, he deployed to Iraq for three months and Afghanian issue that’s been a concern stan for 11 months. He joined the Army in October 2008 and of several mayors whose comwas assigned to Fort Wainwright in December 2012. munities will be impacted by the project. One issue that seemed to State suspends grant for tennis facility cause continued concern for ANCHORAGE — The state has suspended a $37 million several Resources members grant that would pay for Anchorage projects, including conwas a provision in an agreestruction of a new indoor tennis facility supported by Mayor ment signed between the state Dan Sullivan. and TransCanada that would The suspension follows questions raised by state Sen. Legive the company right of first sil McGuire, who is running for lieutenant governor against refusal for five years if the state Sullivan in the Anchorage Republican primary, the Anchorage terminated the relationship. Daily News reported. Sullivan announced the suspension at a Palmer has said that obligameeting of the Anchorage Assembly Tuesday. tion would not apply if the state Scott Ruby with the Alaska Department of Commerce said exercised its right to termination the entire grant was suspended, rather than the $4.4 million earbefore approval of a firm transmarked for the tennis courts. Legislators gave the money to the portation services agreement. city “in one big pot,” he said. A spokeswoman for Sullivan said Such an agreement would be none of the grant money designated for the tennis project had subject to legislative approval. been spent as of Monday. Attempts to further clarify Concerns arose after Ruby’s department received a copy of the right so that it would not a letter McGuire sent to Gov. Sean Parnell on Monday that inapply to a smaller, in-state line cluded a legislative attorney’s opinion raising questions about that AGDC is currently pursuthe legality of the tennis project. ing, failed in committee. The grant is suspended until the state Department of Law Natural Resources Commissioner Joe Balash expressed concern with an amendment that would give the state access Back purposely did not file to data developed under a contax returns from 2009 to 2012, tract or agreement in which the despite earning up to $500,000 state participated financially if during those years, prosecutors the commissioner determined Continued from page A-1 say. the project was not making adIn 2008, the indictment alIf convicted on the seven equate progress toward a final investment decision. Balash leges, he provided a ficticious counts of tax charges, he could said he believed the intent of document entitled “Form W-0” face up to 13 years in jail and the provision, offered by Rep. to his employer, that his wages more than $1 million in fines. Paul Seaton, R-Homer, was to form the company were not Each count of the three false returns carries a maximum of give the state leverage “that is “federally privileged.” not quite nuclear hand grenade, but almost.” He said he could see it being useful but also causing problems in reaching agreements on the front end over how that leverage could be used. Balash, in an interview, said he didn’t think any of the amendments were “fatal” to the bill but said officials would be examining the bill closely and talking with the other parties.

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will also offer transportation between the college and all central peninsula high schools allowing students who don’t have a vehicle the opportunity to take advantage of the program, Erkeneff said. She said the transportation between the college and the high schools will not cost the district more money because the First Student buses are contracted by day. In the fall of 2013 KPC had 113 seniors in the program and the spring of 2014 saw 90 seniors. Turner said during the past 10 years enrollment in JumpStart has ranged from 90150 students. He said the majority of students enrolled in the JumpStart program live at home with some type of family support structure. “That is really important to that younger student that’s getting ready for college and

taking college courses,” Turner said. … “They have a family environment and a student support network, their friends, that makes it much more possible for them to be successful.” High school students can receive advising and register at the Kenai River Campus in Soldotna from 10 a.m. - 2 p.m. on April 26 and 3-5 p.m. on April 28. Additional advising and registration dates will be held in August. South peninsula students can receive advising and register at the Kachemak Bay Campus from 8 a.m. - 5 p.m. from April 21 – Aug. 22. School administrators and transportation providers are still discussing shuttle options for south peninsula students to the Kachemak Bay Campus. Kaylee Osowski can be reached at kaylee.osowski@ peninsulaclarion.com

can review it, Ruby said. “This was really a notice to say: ‘Hey, we may have a problem here,’ “ he said. “The Department of Law said we probably want to look at this little bit closer.” Ruby said he hoped the issue could be resolved within a couple of weeks. McGuire, R-Anchorage, has proposed that state Senate Finance Committee take the tennis money and reallocate for renovations to Anchorage’s Z.J. Loussac Library. The tennis project has been the subject of debate between Sullivan, the Anchorage Assembly and state lawmakers. Some legislators have said they were unaware when they voted on the state capital budget last year that it included tennis-facility funds. The facility had been listed under a line item for “Project 80’s Deferred and Critical Maintenance.” The legal opinion sent by McGuire to Parnell said the state money cannot be used to build new tennis courts, given the title of the line item.

UAF investigates injections of students FAIRBANKS — An assistant professor was placed on paid leave while the University of Alaska Fairbanks reviews the injecting of about 30 students with a solution not intended for human use. Students have told officials that clinical procedures professor Sherry Wolf told them to repeatedly inject each other with the solution that is only intended for use on pads during training exercises, UAF spokeswoman Marmian Grimes told The Associated Press on Wednesday. The practice stopped after students called the manufacturer and were told to end the injections, the Fairbanks Daily NewsMiner reported. “It should not have happened,” Chancellor Brian Rogers said. “I’m heartsick over it.” Students complained of burning sensations immediately after the injections; some also had skin irritation. The university is reviewing the effects, but Rogers told the newspaper that no health problems have been definitely linked to the injections. Wolf didn’t immediately return email and phone messages sent to her work by the AP on Wednesday. The university accepts responsibility for the improper use of the solution called simulated 0.9 percent sodim chlorde injection, Rogers said. The label said it should not be used on humans or animals, and should instead be used only on injection pads or training devices. — The Associated Press

three years in federal prison and a $250,000 fine. Each of the four counts of failure to file has a maximum of one year in prison and a $100,000 fine. Special agents with IRS Criminal Investigation are investigating the case. Assistant U.S. Attorney Thomas Bradley in Anchorage is handling the prosecution.

Back is due in Anchorage District Court Friday to enter a plea and decide on representation. Chief U.S. District Court Judge Ralph Beistline has been assigned to the case for trial, according to the release. Reach Dan Balmer at daniel.balmer@peninsulaclarion. com.

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What’s Happening Events and Exhibits n The Kenai Peninsula Borough School District High School

and Middle School Student Group Show is on display at the Kenai Fine Art Center through April 19. The exhibition includes more than 150 student art pieces. n North Peninsula Recreation is inviting everyone to be a part of the Nikiski Community Mural project. Community paint workshops will be offered April 11, 12 and 14 at the Nikiski Community Recreation Center. Come one come all — help is needed to paint this large mural for the community! Morning and afternoon painting sessions will be offered. Call 7768800 for more details. n The Kenai Peninsula Birding Festival’s PEEPs Young Artist Exhibit is seeking submissions. All bird-themed submissions will be on display the month of May at the Kenai Fine Arts Center with an Opening Reception May 2, 6-8 p.m. Awards will be announced at the Birding Festival Kickoff May 15 at the Kenai Visitors Center. The deadline for submissions is April 26. For more information on the PEEPs Exhibit or the May Kenai Peninsula Birding Festival, visit www.kenaibirdfest.com. n On April 24 at 6 p.m. in the Soldotna Public Library’s Community Room, author Dr. Nancy Elliott Sydnam will read from her book, “Sideways Rain,” followed by a Q&A session and book signing. Twenty-five percent of all book sales will go to the Soldotna Library Friends. Dr. Sydnam left a 30-year medical practice in Anchorage to work as an itinerant physician in the Aleutians and the Pribilofs. In journal entries, poems and letters, “Sideways Rain” tells of her love affair with the islands — the people and the bleak, beautiful landscapes. n The Soldotna Library Friends are holding an April Art Auction fundraiser on Saturday, April 12, at 7 pm at the Soldotna Public Library. Silent auction items will be displayed throughout the library, and five items will be sold by a professional auctioneer new to this area. The Spur Highway Spankers will provide additional entertainment. Funds will provide additional equipment for the library. Come join us for an evening of food, wine, door prizes, music and art. Tickets are available for $50 each at River City Books or by reservation at 3946082 or 420-7088.

Art by Doug Lindstrand, ‘Prospector & Dog’.

Art by Charles Wysock, ‘Apple Butter’.

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n AmVets Post 4 in the Red Diamond Center holds blind doubles darts every Friday evening with sign up at 6:30 p.m. Tacos are available; and burn your own steak dinner from 6 to 8 p.m every Saturday with karaoke after dinner from 8 p.m. to midnight. n Veronica’s cafe has open mic at 6:30 p.m. Friday and live music at 6:30 p.m. Saturday. This Saturday we have the fabulous Derek Poppin, come in bring the family and have some home made food and enjoy the music see you then. n Join Steve and Fern Holloway for Karaoke every Saturday night at the Kenai Moose Lodge. Singing starts at 9 p.m. and everyone is welcome. n An all acoustic jam takes place every Thursday. The jam is as Christ Lutheran Church in Soldotna on the first Thursday of the month, and at the Kenai Senior Center during the rest of the month. Jam starts at 6:30 p.m. n Four Royal Parkers on the Kenai Spur Highway in Soldotna has live music with Bob Ramponi and the Alaska Swing Company Friday and Saturday at 10 p.m. n Odie’s Deli in Soldotna has live music Friday from 6-8 p.m. and Pub Quiz night every Wednesday from 6-8 p.m. n The Studio Espresso Shop at Spur Highway and Nikiski Avenue in Nikiski hosts an open mic night on Saturdays starting at 7 p.m. Call 776-7655. n The Bow bar in Kenai has karaoke at 9 p.m. Thursdays and live music Fridays, Saturdays at 10 p.m. n Hooligans Saloon in Soldotna has poker Tuesdays and Thursdays starting at 5:30 p.m. and live music Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday nights. n The Duck Inn on Kalifornsky Beach Road has karaoke at 9 p.m. Thursdays and Fridays, and DJ Arisen on Saturdays. n Mykel’s in Soldotna has live music Thursdays from 6-9 p.m. with Robb Justice, and Fridays and Saturdays from 6:30-9:30 p.m. with Bob Ramponi. n The Duck Inn will have live music from 7 to 10 p.m. every Wednesday with Robb Justice and Trio. n Main Street Tap and Grill has Wednesday karaoke with KJ Natalia, Thursday acoustic music with Dustin and Friends and Keeley & Nelson, and live music and dancing with 9Spine Friday and Saturday. See ART, page B-2

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Listen to the rain By Jennifer Curry

Listen to the rain melting the snow off the metal roof. All night long I feel the undercoat shedding like spring. But no. This is just another way to be winter.

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

matched by the Rasmuson Foundation. Several local artists contributed media to the auction. Five pieces will be part of a live auction and the rest will be part of a silent auction, said Soldotna Library Friends secretary Jeanette Pedginski. The art auction turned fundraiser is the first of its kind for the friends organization, though Soldotna Librarian Rachel Nash said she’s seen similar events at other libraries. “We have until June 30 to raise funds for a matching grant,” Pedginski said. “It’s a $100,000 community grant.”

By RASHAH McCHESNEY Peninsula Clarion

or just a few hours Saturday, all of the traditional rules of library etiquette will be suspended as the Soldotna Library Friends throw a party in the stacks to raise money for a matching grant. Guests will eat food catered by Kenaibased Heavenly Delights and hear live music from local group The Spur Highway Spankers, all while bidding on art to raise money that will eventually be

So far, the group has about $22,0000, she said. Tickets to the event are $50 and so far, 50 people have bought tickets in advance. They’re available at River City Books or by reservation at 907-394-6082 or 907 420-7088. While it is not yet clear how the library will spend the funds, Nash said technology was at the top of her list. “A lot of it depends on how much we earn,” Nash said. “But we’re going to look at all of the community’s needs. See PARTY, page B-2

Get it done Bookworm Sez “Get It Done: From Procrastination to Creative Genius in 15 Minutes a Day” by Sam Bennett c.2014, New World Library $15.95 / $19.95 Canada 219 pages You’re hoping someone has a match. That’s because you need a fire lit under your tail. You’ve been putting things off, lollygagging, dragging your feet, even though you know you’ve got lots of work to do. You need a prod, a poke, a reason to get down to brass tacks. Or maybe a reason not to. That might be the solution to your procrastination, as you’ll see in “Get It Done” by Sam Bennett.

That unfinished project has been around for long enough. You were excited about it once, but now it’s the gorilla in the room and that makes you want to avoid it even more. Why can’t you just get the dang thing over and move on? There are three main reasons for being “stuckified,” says Bennett. Maybe it hasn’t been the right time. Maybe you’re scared of the project now. Or maybe you “genuinely don’t care about it” anymore. The first action to take is to break the project into 15-minute pieces. Set a timer and work on it first thing in the a.m., before you check email (or you’ll procrastinate even more). Remember that “if you find yourself procrastinating, your project is too big!” Forget about making a to-do list, See SEZ, page B-2

New ‘Captain American’ a winner R eeling It In C hris J enness “Captain America: The Winter Soldier” Marvel Entertainment 2 hours, 16 minutes The Marvel Studios juggernaut just keeps on rolling. With high quality, highconcept series’ like “Iron Man,” “Thor” “Captain America” and “The Avengers,” I am not only reminded of the heyday of Pixar, when the animation studio could seemingly do no wrong, but I am also incredibly impressed at how neatly and comfortable these seemingly disparate films fit together. In fact, though I really enjoyed this week’s Cap sequel, “The Winter Soldier,” I have been a little confused by the through line on the early criticism of it — about how different it is from it’s sibling films, about how much of a 1970’s mystery thriller it is. I didn’t think it was particularly different at all, and for me that’s a good thing. Each of the films in their particular series do carry a little bit of the unique flavor of that movie’s particular director. “Iron Man” has the wit

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This image released by Marvel shows George St-Pierre, left, and Chris Evans in a scene from “Captain America: The Winter Soldier.”

of John Favreau, “Thor” has the Shakespearean drama of Kenneth Branagh, and “The Avengers” has the playfulness of Joss Whedon. But each of these movies are also very obviously part of the same universe — it’s a delicate balance, and one I’ve been impressed by. Of course, if these kinds of movies aren’t your cup of tea, that sense of continuity could be a detriment — as it was

for the reviewer I listened to say that “Captain America: The Winter Soldier” felt like hour seventeen of one really long movie. I felt like that too, but in a good way. “Winter Soldier” opens with our hero, Steve Rogers, still trying to get used to living in the modern era. If you missed the See REEL, page B-2

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PBS ‘Glad All Over’ celebrates Dave Clark Five

By LYNN ELBER AP Television Writer

LOS ANGELES — There was more to the 1960s British invasion than the Beatles, as known by any fan of “Catch Us If You Can” or “Because” or — get ready to shimmy — “Glad All Over.” The hit tunes were among those recorded by another influential U.K. band that gets its due in “The Dave Clark Five and Beyond: Glad All Over,” a PBS documentary airing Tuesday (check local listings). The film includes interviews with Bruce Springsteen, Paul McCartney, Elton John, Steven Van Zandt and other impressive musicians who cite the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame band and Clark, its drummer-manager, as influences. It’s such an outpouring of praise that an embarrassed Clark nearly took his producer credit off the project. Friends talked him out of it, just as they had talked him into doing the documentary, he said. The band’s admirers “wouldn’t say it if they didn’t mean it,” Clark recalls being

reassured. He had no such hesitation in ending the Dave Clark Five’s short but stellar run when he called time and his bandmates agreed. He was left with a wealth of memories. “I wouldn’t have missed it for the world,” said Clark. At 71, he’s thoughtful and soft-spoken but still exudes a rocker’s raffish air with his dark hair, beard and grandly arched eyebrows. The Beatles beat Clark’s band to “The Ed Sullivan Show” by two weeks in 1964, but the DC5 — its shorthand name — racked up 18 appearances with the influential Sullivan, more than any other rock, pop or R&B artist. The group released 15 consecutive top 20 U.S. singles in a two-year period, second only to the Beatles. Fame came swiftly to the DC5. In March 1964, before appearing on Sullivan’s show, “we were really unknown,” Clark said. Within eight weeks, including a break to fulfill an agreedupon English tour, they were selling out American stadiums. Although they and the Beatles were cast as England’s Tot-

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In this March 10, 2008 file photo, musicians Dave Clark, center, Lenny Davidson, left, and Rick Huxley of the British band the Dave Clark Five pose backstage at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony, in New York.

tenham-versus-Liverpool civic rivals, it was just a media myth, Clark said: “Paul McCartney talks about it in the documentary. There was no rivalry. We were mates.” They were also different bands with their own character. While the Beatles consisted of three guitarists and a drummer, the Dave Clark Five included a

saxophone and keyboard and had a more driving sound — this in contrast to the group’s clean-cut look created by wardrobes that included natty jackets and white turtlenecks. Clark, in fact, was dismayed when Sullivan told his huge audience during one show that the DC5 band members were the kind of young men that “every

American mother” would love to have in her home. “I thought, ‘Well, that’s blown our rock ‘n’ rock career straight away. But it didn’t,” Clark said of the band that included Lenny Davidson, Mike Smith, Rick Huxley and Denis Payton. (Only Clark and Davidson survive.) What ended the DC5’s reign

in 1970 was the realization that, after playing concerts in every U.S. state and a number of countries, the experience of moving endlessly from hotel rooms to stadiums had become “routine,” Clark said. Being onstage, however, never did. “That was the ultimate high, playing live. You feel like the Pied Piper, or a conductor, knowing how to take an audience up or bring them down,” he said. “You were champion of the world for that one or two hours of the day.” The band went out on a high note, with top 10 U.K. releases, and there were remarkable experiences to come for Clark. Among other ventures, he founded a media company and co-created a hit stage musical, “Time,” that included a holographic performance by Laurence Olivier recorded at the end of his career. “One of the biggest inspirations of my life,” Clark said of the famed British actor. “You’d think that somebody that big wouldn’t want to work with a rock and roller from Tottenham. We had a great, great rapport.”

Comic book character Archie to be killed off By DERRIK J. LANG AP Entertainment Writer

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Photograph of the torso of a 26-foot-tall, 34,000-pound statue named “Forever Marilyn” in Hamilton, N.J., Tuesday. The sculpture depicting Marilyn Monroe in her memorable billowing skirt pose from the “The Seven Year Itch” is part of an exhibit at the Grounds for Sculpture in Hamilton, honoring its designer, Seward Johnson.

LOS ANGELES — Not even Archie Andrews is immortal in the world of comics. Archie Comics announced Tuesday that the famous comic book character will heroically sacrifice himself while saving the life of a friend in a July installment of “Life with Archie,” a comic book series that tells the story of grown-up renditions of Archie and his Riverdale gang. “We’ve been building up to this moment since we launched ‘Life with Archie’ five years ago and knew that any book that was telling the story of Archie’s life as an adult had to also show his final moment,” Archie Comics publisher and

co-CEO Jon Goldwater said in a statement. Archie’s final moments will be detailed in “Life with Archie” No. 36, while issue No. 37 will jump forward a year and focus on his friends Jughead, Betty, Veronica and Reggie honoring the legacy of their red-headed pal. Archie first appeared in comics in 1941 and went on to become a colorful icon of wholesomeness. In recent years, Archie Comics has tackled such issues as gay characters and the zombie apocalypse in Archie’s fictional hometown of Riverdale. However, Archie himself won’t need to rise from the grave. The freckle-faced character will still be alive and well in other series. Right, AP Photo/Archie Comics

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This photo released by Archie Comics shows “Life with Archie.” Archie Comics says the famous comic book character will heroically sacrifice himself while saving the life of a friend in a July 2014 installment of “Life with Archie.” The comic book series tells the story of grown-up renditions of Archie and his Riverdale pals.

grant.” The festivities will start at 7 p.m. and Nash said she was Continued from page B-1 excited to show the community the library after-hours. “Rather than coming to My first thoughts are that we check out books, people will could use some more techbe coming to enjoy culture,” nology, so more computers Continued from page B-1 she said. for patrons, because they are Reach Rashah McChesney usually very, very busy. It just says Bennett. Instead, make a depends on how much we are at rashah.mcchesney@penin“could-do” list of things you sulaclarion.com able to meet that matching can do in your fifteen minutes. Have an “idea catcher” with you and put your could-do list there, along with inspirations and thoughts you may need for later. Allow yourself to dayContinued from page B-1 dream, which loosens creative blockages. Find an idle task Markets, fairs and bazaars or hobby that takes your mind off the situation – and if that’s n Spring Craft Fair at the Nikiski Community Center, April 19, 10 a.m.-4 p.m., vendor space is available. Call 776-8800 for more information. n The Nikiski Senior In-Home Services’ Spring Craft Bazaar and Bake Sale will be held April 11-12 from 10 a.m. to 5p.m. Booth reservations are being accepted at $10 a day (tables not Continued from page B-1 provided). For more information call Laurajean at 776-7586. n An Arts & Crafts Early Spring Market will be held inside the Kenai Visitors & Cultural Center on Friday, April 18, and Satur- last film, Captain America was day, April 19 from 10:00 a.m. until 4:00 p.m. each day. All types frozen in a glacier in 1944 and of Arts & Crafts will be for sale from talented local vendors. For wasn’t revived until 2012 or so. Not only is the day to day information, call Harold at 283-1991. n A new farmers’ market in downtown Ninilchik will open May hard to get used to for Cap, but 24, Memorial Day weekend, featuring homegrown plants and it seems as though the ideals veggies, a wide variety of crafts, handmade artisan sea salt and sentiments that WWII was and dog cart rides. It will be across from the Kenai Peninsula fought to preserve have been State Fairgrounds. Vendors are needed! For an application or slipping away. As an agent of information call Michelle Hogan 299-4999. Cost for a booth is SHIELD, an NSA-esque superspy organization, Cap is asked $25 for the season or $5 per day. n The Kenai Peninsula Fair will be hosting the 2nd Annual Alas- again and again to intervene in ka Fiber & Arts Festive, April 26-27 from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the situations where he is philofairgrounds in Ninilchik. This festival was started to bring aware- sophically opposed to the outness to a dying art, natural fibers and our state and education comes he facilitates. Luckily, for SHIELD, at of that art. There will be informative booths, hands on experileast, Cap’s partner Natasha, ences and demonstrations as well as crafts persons booths. aka The Black Widow, has no Booth space is still available if anyone is interested. Classes such philosophical quandaries. are being made available this year and the class schedule is One such mission, where a on the website: www.kenaipeninsulafair.com along with the French mercenary named Baregistration form. troc has hijacked a SHIELD boat, sends the Captain over the Films edge. It seems SHIELD was violating international treaties n Call Orca Theaters at 262-7003 for listings and times. at the time of its hijacking and n Call Kambe Cinemas at 283-4554 for listings and times. Cap had to clean up the mess. He confronts SHIELD direcDown the Road tor Nick Fury, who reveals the big over arching plan. Three gin The Pratt Museum in Homer is open Tuesday-Sunday, noon- ant flying aircraft carriers have 5 p.m. For more information and a schedule of events, visit been constructed to create an www.prattmuseum.org impenetrable defence against anyone who would threaten the Submissions may be emailed to news@peninsulaclarion.com. US or her allies. But Cap sees The deadline is 5 p.m. Mondays. shades of darker intent. Fear,

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not possible, just “stand up and face the other direction” which “quite literally” changes your perspective. Track your progress. Remember that perfectionism “is an insidious demon that must be fought with every weapon you’ve got.” Don’t be afraid to “get a C” or to ignore bubblebursters and naysayers. Learn to budget and know exactly what you need in order “to find exactly what you need.” Cut down on TV, saying “yes,” and disorganization. And if all else fails, understand that it might be time to re-

linquish or delegate the project. “It’s possible,” says Bennett, “that you have outgrown this dream.” Feeling somewhat overwhelmed by a work project? You might feel overwhelmed by the solutions, which is why you’ll want to take your time reading “Get It Done.” By saying that, though, I’m not implying that author Sam Bennett’s book isn’t helpful; in fact, it’s quite the opposite: Bennett is full of great ideas to foil foot-dragging and her enthusiasm fairly oozes from each page.

That’s addicting and inspiring, but ideas come so hard and heavy that I felt like the only catcher at a Major League pitcher tryout. I had to remind myself to breathe. Still, I can’t imagine that this book wouldn’t be beneficial, even if the first twenty pages are all you read. So grab it, take your time, do the exercises, and you might find that “Get It Done” is, for your situation, quite a good match.

intimidation, policy executed through force — these are the same drivers used by the Nazis, as well as by Captain America’s old enemy, HYDRA. After Fury is violently attacked by a team of hitmen led by a mysterious assassin, Cap confronts his boss’ boss — Alexander Pierce, played by Robert Redford, who looks great, by the way. Refusing to play ball, the Captain is now enemy number one and SHIELD will do anything to stop him. Chris Evans, as Captain America, was not my first pick to play this character, but with every scene he proves me wrong. He’s a little square and certainly not sardonic like Robert Downey Jr.’s Tony Stark, but sometimes a lack of irony is refreshing. Also great is Scarlett Johannson, who remains one of my favorite actresses and continues to do stellar supporting work. I don’t know if Black Widow will ever get her own film, but as long as they put her in everyone else’s, I have nothing to complain about. New to the series is Anthony Mackie as Sam Wilson, better known to comic fans as The Falcon. Mackie is great and meshes perfectly. I keep hearing about how critical this movie is of the Obama administration and I have to say I think that’s just wishful thinking.

Yes, the action in this movie has a political message and that message goes something like this: if the government tries to take over personal freedoms and take away privacy, we need to fight against it. Of course, that’s the theme for “The Hunger Games,” “The Dark Knight Rises,” and dozens of other big budget Hollywood extravaganzas over the last half-century. Yes, the directors’ mentioned “Obama’s kill list,” as one of the aspects of government their fictional conspiracy is based on, but the spirit of the quote seemed to be more about big military, big intelligence, as well as big government. I’m not saying Obama doesn’t deserve any criticism (because I’m sure no president before him ever had a list of targets — c’mon.), I’m just saying I don’t think this movie is overtly about any one particular administration. What it is about, however, is amazing action. “The Avengers” may have had more variety, but it would be difficult to top the number awesome action set pieces in “The Winter Soldier.” I really had very little to be critical about this film, but I would offer a small caveat. If you are not already versed in the Marvel Universe of films, “The Winter Soldier” spends almost no time catching you up. It assumes you know who Natasha Romanov is, what

SHIELD is, and that you will remember esoteric characters like Dr. Arnim Zola and Senator Stern from previous films. It calls back nicely to the previous “Captain America” film, but doesn’t reiterate Cap’s origin story. However, for fans, Marvel includes both tantalizing bits of foreshadowing, such as having a character run down a list of names of potentially powerful people, including a mention of Stephen Strange. That’s master mage Dr. Strange, for the uninitiated. As well, the inclusion of Batroc as a gymnastic villain is a nice little nod to fans of the original comics who will remember Batroc the Leaper, a goofy, bouncy baddie with a Snidley Whiplash mustache and a flamboyantly flared costume. In his original form, Batroc would have been laughed off the screen, but with a little toning down, he makes a great, if small, addition to the whole. I really liked “The Winter Soldier,” and can’t wait to see it again. These movies just keep getting better.

The Bookworm is Terri Schlichenmeyer. Email her at bookwormsez@gmail.com.

Grade: A “Captain America: The Winter Soldier” is rated PG-13 for violence and language. Chris Jenness is a freelance graphic designer, artist and movie buff who lives in Nikiski.

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INVITATION TO BID Kenai Middle School and Aurora Borealis Charter School Gym Floor Refinishing The Kenai Peninsula Borough Maintenance Department hereby invites qualified firms to submit a firm price for acceptance by the Borough to Kenai Middle School and Aurora Borealis Charter School Gym Floor Refinishing. A pre-bid conference will be held at Kenai Middle School, 201 Tinker Lane, Kenai, Alaska 99611 on April 17, 2014 at 3:00 pm and continue on to Aurora Borealis Charter School in Kenai, Alaska. Attendance at the pre-bid is not mandatory but is strongly recommended. This contract is subject to the provision of State of Alaska, Title 36, Minimum Wage Rates. The subsequent contract will require certificates of insurance and may require performance and payment bonds. Bid documents may be obtained beginning April 10, 2014 at the Maintenance Department, 47140 E. Poppy Ln., Soldotna, AK 99669 (907) 262-4011. Bid documents may also be downloaded from the web at: http://purchasing.borough.kenai.ak.us/ Opportunities.aspx One (1) complete set of the bid package is to be submitted to the Kenai Peninsula Borough, Purchasing and Contracting Department at 144 N Binkley Street, Soldotna, Alaska 99669. These forms must be enclosed in a sealed envelope with the bidder's name on the outside and clearly marked: Kenai Middle School and Aurora Borealis Chater School Gym Floor Refinishing

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NOTICE OF DEFAULT AND SALE 2203840 NAMING TRUSTEE: FIRST AMERICAN TITLE INSURANCE COMPANY, SUCCESSOR BY MERGER TO SOUTHCENTRAL TITLE AGENCY TRUSTORS: SARAH E. ROBINSON, an unmarried person, and SARAH E. OTT and JASON OTT, each as to their respective interests as it may appear of record BENEFICIARY: AURORA S, LLC OWNERS OF RECORD: SARAH E. ROBINSON, an unmarried person, and SARAH E. OTT and JASON OTT, each as to their respective interests as it may appear of record Said Deed of Trust, including the terms and provisions thereof, was executed on September 5, 2003, by GAIL M. LIMBAUGH MOORE, an unmarried person, as Trustor, for the benefit of HUGH S. CHUMLEY and LINDA G. CHUMLEY , husband and wife, as Beneficiaries, and recorded on September 8, 2003, Serial No. 003-011402-0, Kenai Recording District, Third Judicial District, State of Alaska. Said Deed of Trust has been assigned by the Beneficiary of record, HUGH R. CHUMLEY and LINDA G. CHUMLEY, husband and wife, to AURORA S LLC, by ASSIGNMENT OF DEED OF TRUST, recorded on the 14th day of September, 2005, Serial No. 2005-008957-0, Kenai Recording District, Third Judicial District, State of Alaska. The Deed of Trust, including the terms and provisions thereof, has been assumed by ALEXANDER D. ROBINSON and SARAH E. ROBINSON , by ASSUMPTION AND RELEASE AGREEMENT, including the terms and conditions thereof, recorded on November 21, 2005, Serial No. 2005-011442-0, Kenai Recording District Third, Judicial District, State of Alaska. Said documents having been recorded in the Kenai Recording District, Third Judicial District, State of Alaska, describing: LOT ONE (1), MCFARLAND SUBDIVISION OF TRACT H, according to K-866, Kenai Recording District, Third Judicial District, State of Alaska.0 The physical address of the real property described above is 38090 Monica Street, Sterling, Alaska 99672. The undersigned, being the original, or properly substituted Trustee hereby gives notice that a breach of the obligations under the Deed of Trust has occurred in that the Trustors have failed to satisfy the indebtedness secured thereby: FORTY-FIVE THOUSAND FIVE HUNDRED FOUR AND 56/100TH DOLLARS ($45,504.56), plus interest, late charges, costs, attorney fees and other foreclosure costs actually incurred, and any future advances thereunder. Said default may be cured and the sale terminated upon payment of the sum of default plus interest, late charges, costs, attorney fees and other foreclosure costs actually incurred, and any future advances thereunder, prior to the sale date. If Notice of Default has been recorded two or more times previously and default has been cured, the trustee may elect to refuse payment and continue the sale. Upon demand of the Beneficiary, the Trustee elects to sell the above-described property, with proceeds to be applied to the total indebtedness secured thereby. Said sale shall be held at public auction at the ALASKA COURT SYSTEM BUILDING, 125 TRADING BAY DR., #100, KENAI, ALASKA, on the 20th day of May, 2014, said sale shall commence at 11:30 a.m., or as soon thereafter as possible, in conjunction with such other sales that the Trustee or its attorney may conduct. DATED this 13th day of February, 2014. FIRST AMERICAN TITLE INSURANCE AGENCY

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Public Notices ALASKA HOUSING FINANCE CORPORATION NOTICE OF PROGRAM REGISTRATION SFY'15 TEACHER, HEALTH PROFESSIONAL & PUBLIC SAFETY HOUSING (THHP) GRANT PROGRAM APPLICATION PROCESS AHFC announces the program registration period for the Teacher, Health Professional, and Public Safety Housing Grant Program. Under this program, competitive funding is available for new construction, rehabilitation, or acquisition of rental housing in small communities. The program provides grant funding to fill the gap between a project's capacity to carry debt and the total development cost of the project, given reasonable expenses for the project. Application for THHP funding is a three (3) step process. Applicants must (1) register for the online system, (2) submit a THHP Preliminary Application using the online system and (3) submit a THHP Application using the online system. This Notice contains requirements and deadlines for Steps (1) and (2). Applicants will NOT be eligible to apply for THHP funding unless they meet both deadlines for Steps (1) and (2). Step (1): Applicants must register to use the online system. AHFC must receive a registration request for the online application system no later than June 1, 2014. Registration forms are available for download at www.ahfc.us under the THHP Grant information page. Step (2): On June 9, 2014, applicants who have successfully submitted a registration request for the online application system will be invited to submit the SFY2015 Teacher, Health Professional, and Public Safety Housing Preliminary Application. The completed Pre-application must be submitted through the online system no later than June 29, 2014. Step (3): The preliminary application will provide sufficient information for AHFC to determine if the project proposal is an eligible activity and can be invited into the SFY2015 Teacher, Health Professional, and Public Safety Housing Grant Program competition starting early July 2014. The deadline to register for access to the online application system is June 1, 2014. All entities wishing to submit a Pre-Application must submit registration requests for access to the online application system according to this deadline. For information on how to submit a registration request and submit a Teacher, Health Professional, and Public Safety Housing preliminary application, please visit the AHFC website at www.ahfc.us. Or contact: Derrick Chan Alaska Housing Finance Corporation P.O. Box 101020 Anchorage, Alaska 99510 907-330-8235 907-338-2585(FAX) 1-800-478-2432 dchan@ahfc.us PUBLISHED: 4/10, 2014

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Man is patient as independent woman struggles with intimacy Crossword DEAR ABBY: I’m a 27-year-old woman who has never had a boyfriend or been kissed. I was never interested in romance or having a significant other. I felt strong being independent and taking care of myself. Now that I have a degree, a career and a house, I feel ready to try to let a man into my life. I met a really nice guy a month ago. “Brian” and I have gone out several times and have a lot in common. He’s a gentleman, and he says he’s willing to wait for me. I have been having a difficult time letting myself be physical with him. Even hugging is uncomfortable for me. I know it’s because I have been a shy loner my whole life and I’m unaccustomed to being close to people. Even though Brian says he’ll be patient, I can sense his frustration. Physical closeness should come easily if you like and are attracted to someone. I feel abnormal. I don’t know if I’ll be this way forever or get more comfortable the more I know him. I’m afraid Brian — and most men — won’t be willing to wait that long. I’m afraid if I don’t move faster I’ll lose a great guy and never get another chance. What do you think? — BLOCKED IN BOISE DEAR BLOCKED: Being intimate with some-

one because you’re afraid you’ll lose him or it will be your last chance is the wrong reason. I think that the sooner you talk with a licensed therapist about your lifelong shyness and discomfort, the quicker you can understand the reasons for it and overcome it. Your doctor should be able to refer you to someone. If Brian is the right man Abigail Van Buren for you, he will stand by you. But if he doesn’t, you’ll be able to more easily relate to someone else.

know if I can invite only them. What do I do? — WEDDING PLANNER IN OMAHA DEAR WEDDING PLANNER: What you do is invite only those people you truly want to attend your wedding. It’s not necessary to apologize for it or to explain why. If you are put on the spot and feel you must give a reason, say that your guest list is limited because of financial constraints. It’s far more tactful than saying they are being excluded because they are rude, awful people, and you don’t want them anywhere near you on such an important occasion.

Dear Abby is written by Abigail Van Buren, also known as Jeanne Phillips, and was founded by her mother, Pauline Phillips. Write Dear Abby at www. DearAbby.com or P.O. Box 69440, Los Angeles, CA DEAR ABBY: I am planning my wedding in the 90069. fall. My fiance and I are paying for the wedding and reception. What teens need to know about sex, drugs, I have worked at my job for a year, and I haven’t AIDS and getting along with peers and parents is in always been treated well by a few co-workers. I am “What Every Teen Should Know.” Send your name reluctant to invite these people because I’m worried and mailing address, plus check or money order for about the repercussions if I do. I know they will judge $7 (U.S. funds) to: Dear Abby, Teen Booklet, P.O. every aspect because they did it to another co-worker. Box 447, Mount Morris, IL 61054-0447. (Shipping I like a few of the people I work with, but I don’t and handling are included in the price.)

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Jacqueline Bigar’s Stars A baby born today has a Sun in Aries and a Moon in Leo if born before 6:06 p.m. (PDT). Afterward, the Moon will be in Virgo. HAPPY BIRTHDAY for Thursday, April 10, 2014: This year you make waves because of your ability to brainstorm and find answers. This quality will be emphasized even more come summertime. To others, it seems as though you don’t believe in the word “no.” If you are single, you enter one of the most romantic periods of your life from July on. You could meet someone who fulfills many of your fantasies. If you are attached, you can be found happily together at home this spring. You are likely to plan a special vacation or fulfill an important mutual goal this summer. VIRGO can be very fussy and detail-oriented. The Stars Show the Kind of Day You’ll Have: 5-Dynamic; 4-Positive; 3-Average; 2-So-so; 1-Difficult ARIES (March 21-April 19) HHHHHYou refuse to accept“no”as an answer right now. You will find a way of using a problem to pave your way to a goal. What seems to be an obstacle will vanish given creative brainstorming. Tonight: Make sure to get some exercise. TAURUS (April 20-May 20) HHH You might not want to budge in the morning or even in the afternoon. If you can, take a day off or try to work from home. Make it OK to extend your weekend once in a while. You will come back feeling much more refreshed. Tonight: Head out for a walk. GEMINI (May 21-June 20) HHHH Look at the long-term impli-

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cations of someone’s resistance at work. The problem could be bigger for this person than for you. In the afternoon, you might want to check on a real estate investment or the possibility of a change around your home. Tonight: Be a couch potato. CANCER (June 21-July 22) HHHH Be aware of your finances, and make a decision that allows greater flow for you. This ease might come from saying “no” to some risk-taking or overindulgence. Postpone a talk until late afternoon or tomorrow if you can. Tonight: Go hang out with a friend. LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) HHHHYou’ll enter any situation with a positive attitude, despite the fact that a personal matter might weigh you down. You know that the issue will resolve itself given some time. Resist pushing, and let it go for now. Tonight: Spruce up your wardrobe. VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) HHH You will feel as if you are on hold most of the day. You might wonder what would be the best way to proceed with a key project. You’ll sense a loosening up — if not today, in the near future. You could be a lot tenser than you realize. Tonight: Leave today behind you. LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) HHHHAmeetingordiscussioncould color your thinking. You might be replaying certain situations in your head. Aim for what you want, and worry less about what others think. A financial matter seems to pull your purse strings too tight. Tonight: Get some extra R and R. SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21)

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HHH A boss might be more pleased with your performance than you realize. You could be unusually concerned or worried. Perhaps you are not aware of the image you are projecting of yourself. Try to loosen up a little; you want to be approachable. Tonight: Only what you want. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) HHHHTake a broad look at some information that is coming down the pike. If you feel as if something is off or that facts are being withheld, do a little personal research. Before you take a stand, carefully review everything you have discovered. Tonight: Out till the wee hours. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) HHHH You can’t control someone else’s decisions; however, you can separate yourself from this person if his or her actions have financial implications. Make a decision for your security in the long run. Expect some upset over this matter. Tonight: Detach and relax. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) HHHHYou might feel weighed down by a work-related matter and want to have a discussion with a loved one immediately! Explain your predicament, and emphasize the importance of having this conversation. Tonight: Schedule some quiet time with your sweetie. PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) HHHH You’ll dive headfirst into a project with the ability to complete it within a certain time frame. Someone at a distance seems to be unavailable to you. Do not reach out to this person right now, as his or her behavior points to a desire for space. Tonight: Accept an invitation.

A Moving Plan Dear Heloise: We are moving out of state this summer and wonder if you have some hints to help make the moving experience as positive as possible. — Christine P. in Indiana You bet! I have several hints to help make the move easier. Start by stocking up on packing supplies and boxes for all the items you wish to pack yourself. The supplies may include newspapers, packing tape, boxes, etc. Start as soon as possible. Go through everything, discarding or donating the things you no longer need or want. You don’t want to move things you don’t need! Label packed boxes clearly with the items that are inside and the room the items belong in. This way, at the other end, the boxes can be placed in the correct room before unpacking. Finally, make lists of all the utilities you need to cancel and start up in the new place. — Heloise P.S.: Keep a list handy of the things you need to do. It’s amazing how a simple chore like checking the attic or basement carefully will fall by the wayside. Rubber band to the rescue Dear Heloise: My new flannel sheets got a lot of stains from being washed with other items. The sheets are large and cumbersome, making pretreatment difficult. I placed rubber bands around the areas that needed pretreatment, identifying all the areas that needed to be treated. — K.H., via email

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