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MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 2014 Kenai Peninsula, Alaska

Vol. 44, Issue 304

Close races

Question Do you think this winter will be: n Milder than last winter; n More severe than last winter; or n About the same as last winter?

Nov. 4 might not determine Senate control

By CHARLES BABINGTON Associated Press

WASHINGTON (AP) — A suspenseful election night is one thing, but what if it stretches out for a month? Or into next year? A handful of tight races in states with quirky election laws make for the headache-inducing possibility that Election Day will come and go without deciding which party controls the Senate. If that happens, brace for a fierce runoff election and possible recounts that could make for an ugly holiday season in politics and government. The main reason for uncertainty: Louisiana’s election laws. Strategists in both parties say a Dec. 6 runoff is likely because Democratic Sen. Mary Landrieu and top Republican challenger Bill Cassidy will struggle to exceed 50 percent on the crowded Nov. 4 ballot. In Louisiana’s “jungle primary,” all candidates — regardless of party — run in November. If none exceeds 50 percent,

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In the news Teen shot during house party

ANCHORAGE — Anchorage police say a 17-yearold girl was shot in the lower back during a disturbance at a house party Sunday morning. Police said they received several 911 calls just after midnight reporting gunshots heard outside a home. Police say their investigation revealed that a group of people who were not invited tried to crash the house party. When they weren’t allowed inside, one of them pulled out a handgun and began firing into the home through the front window. Witnesses say the suspect left in a red passenger car. The 17-year-old was inside the home when she was struck by a bullet. She was taken to a local hospital with injuries that were not considered life-threatening. — The Associated Press

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the top two finishers head into a Dec. 6 runoff. It’s not implausible that control of the Senate could hang on a Louisiana runoff. Republicans need six more seats to claim a 51-49 Senate majority. A 50-50 split would let Vice President Joe Biden break tie votes and keep Democrats in charge. Republicans are strongly favored to win three races where Democratic senators are retiring: West Virginia, South Dakota and Montana. Their best hopes to pick up three more seats are in the four contests where Democrats seek re-election in states President Barack Obama lost: Alaska, Arkansas, Louisiana and North Carolina. Republicans are also making strong bids in Iowa, Colorado and New Hampshire, which Obama carried. If Republicans win two of those races, plus the three where they are heavily favored, then all eyes and lots of campaign money would turn to Louisiana if there’s a runoff. See SENATE, page A-10

Deal inked for North Slope LNG plant Photo by Kelly Sullivan/Peninsula Clarion

Thumbs-up for outdoor learning Kaleidoscope School of Arts and Science kindergartners Alan Hack (left) and Katalla Tomrdle give a thumbs-up with the rest of their classmates during a trip to Shqui Tsatnu Creek with Kenai Watershed Forum education specialist Dan Pascucci on Wednesday in Kenai. Read about the excursion on page B-1.

FAIRBANKS (AP) — The effort to truck North Slope natural gas to the Fairbanks area for home heating and electricity generation is a step closer to fruition. The Alaska Industrial Development and Export Authority and project development firm MWH signed an agreement outlining the construction,

ownership and operation of the liquified natural gas plant that’s central to the Interior Energy Project. The Fairbanks Daily NewsMiner reports the state agency will own the plant while an MWH subsidiary will build and operate it. The subsidiary, Northern See LNG, page A-10

DOT and KPB monitoring erosion along K-Beach By KAYLEE OSOWSKI Peninsula Clarion

A Kalifornsky Beach Road resident is concerned that erosion near Mile 9 of the highway could lead to some serious problems. Rick Butler, who lives near Mile 11 on the bluff side of KBeach Road, has been watching the erosion feature worsen during the past two years. He said other area residents are concerned as well. Alaska State Department of Transportation and Public Facilities spokesperson Jill Reese said the department has been monitoring the area. “Our maintenance guys drive every road we own down there at least once a week so

they have a pretty good handle on it,” Reese said. At this time Reese said DOT&PF doesn’t have any plans to do work on the feature at Mile 9.7, and said the department is working on other erosion mitigation projects on the Kenai Peninsula. “Until (erosions) get to be where they’re looking like they’re going to be in the traveled way or in the clear zone, we have to take … the worst and then work on that one and then go to the next one,” she said. The Kenai Peninsula Borough is also watching the erosion at Mile 9.7, Max Best, planning director said. Best said experts look at the drainage exit from the swamp

on the east side of K-Beach Road to determine whether or not additional attention is necessary based on the water flow and erosion rates. “You might be able to slow the erosion down through some riprap or something at this time, if it was going to eat the road away,” Best said. Butler rides his all-terrain vehicle on the beach by the feature often and has been photographing the erosion. He thinks at least temporary mitigation project is warranted. In 2012, a flood-related washout temporarily closed KBeach Road at Mile 11. Butler is concerned that a similar event could happen at Mile 9.7. “Someone could easily get See EROSION, page A-10

Photo by Kaylee Osowski/Peninsula Clarion

Kalifornsky Beach Road resident Rick Butler says he and other area residents are concerned about erosion at Mile 9.7 of KBeach Road. Water flows under the road from a drainage exit on Friday. Alaska Department of Transportation and Public Facilities and Kenai Peninsula Borough officials say the agencies are monitoring the erosion.

Volunteers spend night out for homeless awareness By WESTON MORROW Fairbanks Daily News-Miner

FAIRBANKS (AP) — It had been a long time since Tracyann George had to spend a night on the street, but she did it once more recently. As she crafted a makeshift shelter of cardboard boxes, she checked to make sure her 8-, 6-, 4- and 2-year-old children hadn’t wandered too far. For a portion of George’s

childhood, she had no choice but to live on the streets, but this time it was different. This time she was bedding down in a park not out of necessity but as an act of free will. George was one of several dozen who volunteered to spend the night in Veterans Memorial park Sept. 13 to raise awareness of youth homelessness and to raise money for Fairbanks Youth Advocates. The organization

operates The Door, a 24-hour shelter at 138 10th Ave. open to any homeless youth younger than 18. The 40 or so volunteers occupying the park were there to participate in the FYA event, “One Homeless Night.” Participants arrived at the park about 7 p.m. with building supplies, mostly salvaged cardboard. At 9 p.m., the group split into smaller teams and began constructing the cardboard shanC

ties in which they would sleep through the night. “It’s not necessarily a realistic homeless youth experience ... but it still gives you the idea of you have no utilities around you. You don’t have a bathroom that you can just go to. You don’t necessarily have a fridge you can just go to,” Meryem Kugzruk said. “It does get realistic in some ways but not completely.” Kugzruk, 19, is the young-

est member of Fairbanks Youth Advocates board of directors. She has served on the board for three years, transitioning from the board’s youth representative to a full member with voting rights when she turned 18. She led the effort to organize the event, and has more knowledge of its workings than anyone else with FYA. This was the first year the orSee SHELTER, page A-10

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AccuWeather 5-day forecast for Kenai-Soldotna

Barrow 33/30

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City Adak* Anchorage Barrow Bethel Cold Bay Cordova Delta Junction Denali N. P. Dillingham Dutch Harbor Fairbanks Fort Yukon Glennallen* Gulkana Haines Homer Juneau Ketchikan Kiana King Salmon Klawock Kodiak

Tomorrow 7:51 a.m. 8:02 p.m.

Full Oct 8

Today 6:13 a.m. 7:23 p.m.

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Nome 49/32

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Last Oct 15 Tomorrow 7:26 a.m. 7:38 p.m.

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24 hours through 4 p.m. yest. 0.00" Month to date ........................... 3.99" Normal month to date ............. 2.24" Year to date ............................ 16.54" Normal year to date ................ 11.82" Record today ................. 1.01" (1958) Record for Sept. ............. 7.07" (1961) Record for year ............ 27.09" (1963)

Juneau 53/44

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Kodiak 55/39

Sitka 54/47

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105 at Death Valley, Calif. 26 at Wisdom, Mont.

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Ketchikan 59/47

72 at Wrangell 27 at Eagle and Gulkana

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(Shown are noon positions of weather systems and precipitation)

In the wake of a cold front, a breeze will bring in cool air and clouds to the Northeast today. There will be more sun in the I-95 corridor. Across the Gulf Coast, storms will bring downpours.

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Cold Bay 53/40

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High ............................................... 55 Low ................................................ 43 Normal high .................................. 55 Normal low .................................... 38 Record high ........................ 64 (1995) Record low ......................... 21 (1992)

Kenai/ Soldotna 53/34 Seward 53/38 Homer 53/36

Anchorage 53/40

Bethel 50/35

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Fairbanks 48/32

Talkeetna 54/34 Glennallen 45/29

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Today’s activity: Low Where: Auroral activity will be low. Weather permitting, low-level displays will be visible overhead from Barrow to Fairbanks and visible low on the northern horizon from as far south as Anchorage and Juneau.

Prudhoe Bay 36/30

Anaktuvuk Pass 35/25

Kotzebue 47/34

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China, US, India push emissions up By SETH BORENSTEIN AP Science Writer

WASHINGTON — Spurred chiefly by China, the United States and India, the world spewed far more carbon pollution into the air last year than ever before, scientists announced Sunday as world leaders gather to discuss how to reduce heattrapping gases. The world pumped an estimated 39.8 billion tons of carbon dioxide into the air last year by burning coal, oil and gas. That is 778 million tons or 2.3 percent more than the previous year. “It’s in the wrong direction,” said Glen Peters, a Norwegian scientist who was part of the Global Carbon Project international team that tracks and calculates global emissions every year. Their results were published Sunday in three articles in the peer-reviewed journals Nature Geoscience and Nature Climate Change. The team projects that emissions of carbon dioxide, the main heat-trapping gas from human activity, are increasing by 2.5 percent this year. The scientists forecast that emissions will continue to increase, adding that the world in about 30 years will warm by about 2 degrees Fahrenheit from now. In 2009, world leaders

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In this July 31, 2013, file photo, a worker levels the coal on a freight train in Taiyuan in northern China’s Shanxi province. Spurred chiefly by China, the United States and India, the world spewed far more carbon pollution into the air last year than ever before, scientists announced Sunday as world leaders gather to discuss how to reduce heat-trapping gases.

called that level dangerous and pledged not to reach it. “Time is running short,” said Pierre Friedlingstein of the University of Exeter in England, one of the studies’ lead authors. “The more we do nothing, the more likely we are to be hitting this wall in 2040-something.” Chris Field, a Carnegie In-

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‘The more we do nothing, the more likely we are to be hitting this wall in 2040-something.’ — Pierre Friedlingstein, one of the lead authors of the Global Carbon Project stitution ecologist who heads a U.N. panel on global warming, called the studies “a stark and sobering picture of the steps we need to take to address the challenge of climate change.” More than 100 world leaders will meet Tuesday at the U.N. Climate Summit to discuss how to reverse the emissions trend. The world’s three biggest carbon polluting nations — China, the U.S. and India — all saw their emissions jump. No other country came close in additional emissions. Indian emissions grew by 5.1 percent, Chinese emissions by 4.2 percent and the U.S. emissions by 2.9 percent, when the extra leap day in 2012 is accounted for.

China, the No. 1 carbon polluter, also had more than half the world’s increases over 2012. China’s increases are slowing because the Chinese economy isn’t growing as fast as it had been, Peters said. The U.S. had reduced its carbon emissions in four of the five previous years. Peters said it rose last year because of a recovering economy and more coal power. Only two dozen of the about 200 countries cut their carbon emissions last year, led by mostly European countries. Spain had the biggest decrease. The world emissions averaged to 6.3 million pounds of carbon dioxide put in the air every second.

Peninsula Clarion, Monday, September 22, 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. 10 a.m. • Narcotics Anonymous PJ Meeting, 11312 Kenai Spur Highway, Unit 71, Kenai Noon • Alcoholics Anonymous recovery group, 11312 Kenai Spur Highway, Suite 71 in the old Carrs Mall in Kenai. Call 2621917. 5 p.m. • TOPS group 182 meets at the Sterling Senior Center. Call 260-7606. • Overeater’s Anonymous meets at the URS Club in the old Kenai Mall. Do you have a problem with food? Members come in all sizes. 6 p.m. • Kenai Bridge Club plays duplicate bridge at the Kenai Senior Center. Call 252-9330 or 283-7609. 7 p.m. • Women’s Barbershop sings at the Soldotna Church of God on the corner of Redoubt and Binkley. For more information, call 335-6789 or 262-4504. • Narcotics Anonymous Support Group “Dopeless Hope Fiends,” 11312 Kenai Spur Highway, Unit 71, Kenai. • Alcoholics Anonymous “Into Action” group, VFW basement Birch Street, Soldotna, 907-262-0995. 8 p.m. • Al-Anon Support Group at Central Peninsula Hospital in the Augustine Room, Soldotna. Call 252-0558. 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.

Around the Peninsula Kenai/Soldotna Fish and Game Advisory Committee to meet The Kenai/Soldotna Fish and Game Advisory Committee will meet Wednesday at 6:30 p.m. at the Cook Inlet Aquaculture Association building, located on K-Beach Road. The agenda will include preparation of comments for the Board of Fish worksession, discussion of Board of Fish and Board of Game proposals, and discussion of the upcoming elections procedures and term issues. For more information contact Mike Crawford at 252-2919.

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — NASA’s Maven spacecraft arrived at Mars late Sunday after a 442 million-mile journey that began nearly a year ago. The robotic explorer fired its brakes and successfully slipped into orbit around the red planet, officials confirmed. “This is such an incredible night,” said John Grunsfeld, NASA’s chief for science missions.

Now the real work begins for the $671 million mission, the first dedicated to studying Mars’ upper atmosphere. Flight controllers in Colorado will spend the next six weeks adjusting Maven’s altitude and checking its science instruments. Then Maven will start probing the upper atmosphere of Mars. The spacecraft will conduct its observations from orbit; it’s not meant to land. Scientists believe the Martian atmosphere holds clues as to how Earth’s neighbor went from

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Kenai River Marathon registration open The Kenai River Marathon, Half Marathon, Relay Race, and 5k Family Fun Run are on Sept. 28 and begin in Kenai. The runs are sponsored by the city of Kenai, the Kenai Chamber of Commerce, local businesses, and individuals committed to Kenai Parks & Recreation improvements. Registration is open until midnight on September 27. Register online at www.kenairivermarathon.org or stop by the Kenai Visitor and Cultural Center by Sept. 27. The event kicks off with a spaghetti feed 5:30 p.m. Sept. 27 at the Kenai Visitor and Cultural Center.

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The North Peninsula Recreation Service Area is hosting a free Recreational Disc Golf Tournament Sept. 27. Competition starts at 1 p.m. at the Nikiski Community Recreation Center. All ages welcome to participate. Choose from a short 3-hole or full 18The Alaska State Trails Program will host a public telecon- hole tournament. Participate in the closest to the pin competition ference for potential Recreational Trails Program (RTP) grant for fun prizes! For more information call NCRC 776-8800. applicants from 11 a.m.-2 p.m. on Wednesday. New and experienced applicants are welcome to join the conversation. Information presented during the teleconference will include Harvest Art Auction on tap program guidelines and restrictions, what constitutes a successThe Peninsula Art Guild will be hosting their 15th Annual ful application, project eligibility, deadlines, how to collect let- Harvest Art Auction, 6-9 p.m. Sept. 27 at the Kenai Fine Arts ters of support, and the role of the Outdoor Recreational Trails Center, 816 Cook Ave., Old Town Kenai. Local art, appetizers, Advisory Board. Other topics will include reporting and billing and music by J. D. Uponen will highlight the evening. Tickets requirements, how to navigate the environmental review pro- for this event are available at the Kenai Fine Arts Center, noon-5 cess, and how to develop an effective budget. If you would like p.m., Wednesday through Saturday. Requested donation is $30. to join the free teleconference please call 877-226-9607 and en- Limited space available. All profits are committed to the art center Conference ID# 7547916061#. For more information please ter’s operating budget. Call 283-7040 for more information. contact Darcy at darcy.harris@alaska.gov or 907-269-8699.

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Free basic skill building help in math, writing and reading is Nikiski Youth Basketball coed registration deadline is Sept. available in the Learning Center at Kenai Peninsula College in 26 for third/fourth- and fifth/sixth-grade boys and girls. Please Room 153. For more information, call the Learning Center at call Tammy at 907-776-8800 for more information. 262-0327.

NASA’s Maven arrives at Mars after year By MARCIA DUNN AP Aerospace Writer

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‘I don’t have any fingernails any more, but we’ve made it. It’s incredible.’ — Colleen Hartman, deputy director at Goddard Space Flight Center being warm and wet billions of years ago to cold and dry. That early wet world may have harbored microbial life, a tantalizing question yet to be answered. NASA launched Maven last November from Cape Canaveral, the 10th U.S. mission sent to orbit the red planet. Three earlier ones failed, and until the official word came of success late Sunday night, the entire team was on edge. “I don’t have any fingernails any more, but we’ve made it,” said Colleen Hartman, deputy director for science at Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. “It’s incredible.” The spacecraft was clocking more than 10,000 mph when it hit the brakes for the so-called orbital insertion, a half-hour process. The world had to wait 12 minutes to learn the outcome, once it occurred, because of the lag in spacecraft signals given the 138 million miles between the two planets on Sunday. “Based on observed navigation data, congratulations, Maven is now in Mars orbit,” came the official announcement. Flight controllers applauded the news and shook hands; laughter filled the previously tense-filled room. Maven joins three spacecraft already circling Mars, two American and one European. And the traffic jam isn’t over: India’s first interplanetary probe, Mangalyaan, will reach Mars in two days and also aim for orbit. Maven’s chief investigator, Bruce Jakosky of the University of Colorado’s Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics in Boulder, hopes to learn where all the water on Mars went, along with the carbon dioxide that once comprised an atmosphere thick enough to hold

moist clouds. The gases may have been stripped away by the sun early in Mars’ existence, escaping into the upper atmosphere and out into space. Maven’s observations should be able to extrapolate back in time, Jakosky said. Maven — short for Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution Mission — will spend at least a year collecting data. That’s a full Earth year, half a Martian one. Its orbit will dip as low as 78 miles above the Martian surface as its eight instruments make measurements. The craft is as long as a school bus, from solar wingtip to tip, and as hefty as an SUV. Maven will have a rare brush with a comet next month. The nucleus of newly discovered Comet Siding Spring will pass 82,000 miles from Mars on Oct. 19. The risk of comet dust damaging Maven is low, officials said, and the spacecraft should be able to observe Siding Spring as a science bonus. Lockheed Martin Corp., Maven’s maker, is operating the mission from its control center at Littleton, Colorado. This is NASA’s 21st shot at Mars and the first since the Curiosity rover landed on the red planet in 2012. Just this month, Curiosity arrived at its prime science target, a mountain named Sharp, ripe for drilling. The Opportunity rover is also still active a decade after landing. All these robotic scouts are paving the way for the human explorers that NASA hopes to send in the 2030s. The space agency wants to understand as much about the red planet as possible before it sends people there.

Last stretch of New York’s High Line to open NEW YORK (AP) — The last stretch of New York’s High Line opens Sunday, completing one of the nation’s most distinctive urban transformations: abandoned elevated rails that have been turned into a linear oasis of flowers, grasses and trees. That last, half-mile section finishes the 22-block walkway that over five years has helped drive the hip gentrification of the Chelsea neighborhood on Manhattan’s West Side. Luxury condos, galleries, restaurants and boutiques have all but pushed out the industrial grime around the old freight route that once delivered goods to warehouses, meatpacking and manufacturing plants. “The High Line has changed the dynamics of the city,” says Laurance Rassin, an artist showcasing his paintings and sculptures to visitors along the three-story-high walkway. “If Picasso were alive, he’d be painting on the High Line.” As visitors stroll or relax on benches, actors read Shakespeare, musicians play violin and flute, and children gather for outdoor storytelling. “I get to talk to everyone from students to movie stars, and I find out about different parts of the world,” says Rassin, who lives in a luxury high-rise overlooking the new, northern stretch. That part of the park curves around Hudson Yards, a mammoth high-rise development that by 2024 will be home to more than a dozen new skyscrapers. Sections of rusty tracks are still visible in spots, a reminder of the area’s dirty and dangerous past. Street-level freight trains ran on Manhattan’s West Side between 1851 and 1929, causing so many accidents that Tenth Avenue was known as “Death Alley.” So-called “West Side Cowboys” on horses rode in front of the trains to prevent collisions with vehicles and pedestrians. That hazard spurred construction of the elevated High Line in 1934, allowing trains to roll right up to and, in some cases, inside buildings to deliver milk, meat, produce and other goods. The rise of interstate trucking led to the railway’s demise, and the last train ran in 1980, pulling carloads of frozen turkeys. In 1999, when the weed-choked relic was under threat of demolition, a community-based nonprofit calling itself the Friends of the High Line was formed to find another use for it. “We wanted to create a space where people could be immersed in nature,” says the group’s co-founder, Robert Hammond. Today, the High Line park — built with $223 million in both government and private funds — draws nearly 5 million visitors a year, offering an expansive view of midtown Manhattan and the Hudson River. Visitors walk on concrete slabs softened by grasses, shrubs, and trees peeking from crevices and benches surrounded by blossoms.

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blue, Republican and Democrat; it’s divided between Xtratufs and bunny boots. The boundary between the two starts at the Canadian border in the middle of Wrangell-St. Elias National Park and snakes west, north of McCarthy and Chitina, then follows the coastal range to the Anchorage bowl. It divides that city, then turns northwest, skimming the northern edges of the Kuskokwim before meeting the Bering Sea somewhere around Nome. North of that line is bunny boot territory. South of it is the kingdom of the Xtratuf. The lifestyles are different, as are the issues. A miner in Chicken sees Pebble Mine differently from a Ketchikan fisherman. A Wasilla wife goes to different stores than a Haines husband. Trying to divide Alaska between Republicans and Democrats doesn’t work. According to the Alaska Division of Elections, more than 267,000 of the state’s 498,000 registered voters are either nonpartisan or undeclared. Republicans and Democrats combined represent just over 205,000 voters. With those thoughts in mind, it shouldn’t be any surprise when we praise an action that promises better representation for the state’s nonpartisan and undeclared majority. Early this month, we saw Bill Walker and Byron Mallott combine forces on a fusion candidacy between an independent and a Democrat. Mallott agreed to serve as lieutenant governor if elected, and Walker agreed to give up his personal Republican Party registration. It’s too early for us to make an endorsement in this race — we’ll wait to see the platform of this new unity ticket — but we’re impressed by the spirit of compromise that seems to have emerged. Compromise is the grease that makes government work — without it, you get the deadlocked U.S. Senate. The idea of a unified administration, one with an independent governor and a Democratic lieutenant governor is attractive because it’s new and fresh, and if Americans are tired of the two-party system, new and fresh is what we need. The national perception has always been that third-party candidates are a joke and shouldn’t be taken seriously. Alaska knows differently. In 1990, Wally Hickel and Jack Coghill did an end run around the political establishment with their Alaskan Independence Party ticket. As promising as this new approach may be, it must be tested first. How will Walker and Mallott work out tough social issues like gay marriage and abortion rights? A key plank of their political platform is reducing spending: How will they cut the state’s budget? Perhaps most importantly, we should ask if this unity ticket disenfranchises Democrats who supported Mallott for governor during the state primary. Democrats who voted for Mallott in the gubernatorial primary had their votes effectively erased by the creation of the unity ticket. Moreover, there’s no guarantee that Mallott will be in a position of authority if he is elected. When Jack Coghill was elected lieutenant governor on the AIP ticket in 1990, he hoped to work with Hickel. Instead, the Hickel staff “treat(ed) me as if I’m the second janitor on the third floor,” he told a reporter later in the term. As columnist Dermot Cole pointed out, former House Speaker Mike Bradner used to joke that all the lieutenant governor has to do is sit at his desk with his feet up, reading the newspaper. The only qualifications for the job were a good pair of shoes and a subscription to the Juneau Empire. We don’t expect Democrats would be happy with that kind of role for their former gubernatorial candidate. Walker has promised a “nonpartisan” administration, but is neutral the best that Alaska Democrats can hope for? The next month will bring a blizzard of campaigning, and the candidates will be out in force to spread their names and their ideas. The Juneau Empire will work hard to answer the unanswered questions and claims of the Walker-Mallott ticket as well as others this election season. The unity ticket promises change, but as we’ve seen since 2008, “change” makes a good political slogan — it doesn’t always create results. The race between Gov. Sean Parnell and Bill Walker is one of the most interesting gubernatorial campaigns in decades, and though it may look strange, the ticket that wears one bunny boot and one Xtratuf could end up winning a sprint to November. — Juneau Empire, Sept. 14

The media’s absurd NFL hysteria

During the past few weeks, two sets of initials have dominated the news — ISIL and NFL — and the casual listener would be hard-pressed to decide which is more odious. It’s a wonder that President Barack Obama hasn’t pledged to bring NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell to justice. Such is the weight the press has put on the NFL’s punishment of Baltimore Ravens running back Ray Rice for punching his then-fiancee that Denis McDonough, the president’s chief of staff, had to weigh in on “Meet the Press”: “We all know Ray Rice being suspended indefinitely seems to be exactly the right thing.” On the NFL, the media has lost its collective mind. It’s as if the people who masterminded CNN’s programming after the disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 have been put in charge of all press coverage of the NFL, and brought to the task the same sense of proportion, good taste and dignity that characterized the network’s handling of the missing plane. The coverage of the Rice elevator video managed to combine moralistic preening with voyeuristic pandering. Everyone on TV professed to be so outraged by domestic violence that they had

to show a clip of a woman getting viciously punched, over and over again (until many of the networks finally recoiled from their own overkill). At least the NFL gets its ratings by Rich Lowry broadcasting images of men hitting other men. In recent weeks, you’d think that the fate of justice in America depends on how harshly the NFL punishes a few miscreants. Only if Ray Rice and accused child-abuser Adrian Peterson are banished can women and children be safe from violence and abuse. This is patently absurd. The NFL is a sports league. More specifically, it is a business that stages violent spectacles that will damage the brains of some significant portion of its participants. We shouldn’t expect it to set our society’s standards. No matter how many sermons we hear to the contrary, the NFL is not the key to fighting domestic violence. Domestic

violence declined 63 percent from 1994 to 2012, according to the Justice Department — even though the NFL had a lenient policy toward domestic abusers across this period. Nor is the NFL the sink of criminality you might assume from the headlines. Benjamin Morris of FiveThirtyEight writes that “arrest rates among NFL players are quite low compared to national averages for men in their age range.” (Although domestic violence accounts for a disproportionate share of the arrests for violent crimes.) It is true that Ray Rice should have gotten more than the initial two-game suspension for his shocking assault on Janay, and the NFL needs a clear, certain policy for punishing for such offenses. This should occupy every sports journalist eager to validate his or her seriousness by delving into social commentary (which is to say, most of them). It shouldn’t be a dominant news story across all media — for weeks. No one seems to care how the vortex of outrage affects the victim, Janay, who married Rice after the incident. She gets to see that horrible night replayed everywhere, to hear people bray for the end of her husband’s career and to receive lectures from people who presume to know what’s best for her and her marriage. Now, Minnesota Vikings running back Adrian Peterson is the new focus of outrage. Facing child-abuse charges for disciplining his son with a switch, he is taken as a symbol of the noxiousness of all corporal punishment. This is all so wildly disproportionate that perhaps something more than the usual ax-grinding, ratings-chase and group-think is at work. It may be that these cases are ways to express a deeper discomfort with the NFL, which sacrifices men’s bodies and minds for our viewing pleasure every week. That, of course, is something in which everyone who enjoys football is implicated and isn’t such a ready subject for table-thumping condemnations. Rich Lowry can be reached via e-mail: comments.lowry@nationalreview.com.

An important point on the gubernatorial race The governor race in Alaska has taken an interesting turn with Independent Republican Bill Walker jumping out of his party and platform to team with Byron Mallott, the Democrat’s candidate aligned with Begich and Obama. If this alliance wins, then it will have a major impact on the ongoing gasline projects. Some say that this race is now reminiscent of the Palin or Hickel races, but there are major differences. Sarah Palin ran against proven corruption in the legislature and won with the conservative populist vote, never abandoning party or principles. Hickel ran a conservative campaign against a liberal Republican opponent. Walker is running a liberal populist campaign based on an appeal to perceived evils in our successful oil and gas industry. He believes the state should just take over many facets of the industry, reminiscent of third world nationalization. He’s running against an incumbent governor whose optimism and focus on increasing oil production and a gasline have created an economic boom with jobs increasing every year. We currently have a gasline deal moving forward with buy-in from the producers and approval of the legislature. From an energy perspective, the most important issue that the next governor will address is a gasline project. Bill Walker has for many years been a driving force behind the Alaska Gasline Port Authority (AGPA), established in 1999 by the Fairbanks North Star Borough, the North Slope Borough and the City of Valdez. It was created to support a gasline effort, and early on chose to support the one that the voters had asked for that year, the line to Valdez. That project never garnered the support that was necessary to see it to fruition. Other gas projects were later proposed and gained

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L ance Roberts political backing. Walker’s Port Authority chose a scorched earth policy, working to defeat many proposals that weren’t their own. They advertised with public dollars and personally lobbied the legislature and administration to kill all other gas projects, instead of modifying their plan to fit the new situation. Personally, I’ve always been a supporter of the line to Valdez, and voted for Walker in 2010 because I thought that the specific gasline was the defining issue. What I don’t understand is refusing to adapt when the situation changed, delaying the chance for a gasline, due to a desire for a particular plan. Sometimes perfect is the enemy of good. Consider the following questions: How is Walker going to advance the gasline project that is already in motion? The Alaska LNG project, a project to construct a gasline and the facilities to export gas and provide for Alaska’s energy needs, has achieved cooperation with the oil companies and they been doing field work for it all summer. The planned route goes to Nikiski, on the Kenai Peninsula, not Walker’s hometown of Valdez and the EIS (Environmental Impact Statement) work is underway. There are more negotiations still to be done. How will a man who has consistently worked for the last fifteen years for a specific project to Valdez and against all others handle those negotiations? How will he

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make the win-win deal that is needed in our free enterprise system to advance a gasline, when he has taken an adversarial position with the oil companies, going so far as to sue the state after the Point Thomson settlement took place? This settlement would supply the gas for a line, has caused the oil companies to invest billions in infrastructure and had 700 people working this summer. If Walker mandates a change from what was previously approved and intended by the legislature, how will he be able to get legislative approval? For most of Alaska, a gasline is just an important source of future revenue, but for us in Fairbanks it is life or death, as many of our long-time citizens are leaving for places with cheaper utility bills. Sean Parnell helped the Interior by proposing and supporting the Interior Energy project to truck gas to Fairbanks. This is a bridge project that will prove helpful, but does not diminish the need for a long-term solution such as a gasline. If you examine the record of the candidates then it’s pretty easy to see that the choice you’ll make in November is Walker or a natural gas pipeline. Lance Roberts is an engineer, born and raised in Fairbanks. He is a member of the Fairbanks North Star Borough Assembly. The views expressed here are his own and do not represent the assembly or borough administration.

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Nation Some Calif. wells running dry By SCOTT SMITH Associated Press

EAST PORTERVILLE, Calif. — Hundreds of domestic wells in California’s droughtparched Central Valley farming region have run dry, leaving many residents to rely on donated bottles of drinking water to get by. Girl Scouts have set up collection points while local charities are searching for money to install tanks next to homes. Officials truck in water for families in greatest need and put a large tank in front of the local firehouse for residents to fill up with water for bathing and flushing toilets. About 290 families in East Porterville — a poor, largely Hispanic town of about 7,000 residents nestled against the Sierra Nevada foothills — have said their shallow wells are depleted. Officials say the rest of Tulare County has many more empty wells, but nobody has a precise count. Other Central Valley counties also report pockets of homes with wells gone dry and no alternative water service. “When you have water running in your house, everything is OK,” said East Porterville resident Yolanda Serrato. “Once you don’t have water, oh my goodness.”

With California locked in its third year of drought and groundwater levels dropping, residents and farmers have been forced to drill deeper and deeper to find water. Lawmakers in Sacramento passed legislation to regulate groundwater pumping, which Gov. Jerry Brown signed into law this past week. Three days later, Brown signed an executive order that provides money to buy drinking water for residents statewide whose wells have dried up, while also directing key state officials to work with counties and local agencies to find solutions for the shortages. The State Water Resources Control Board had already allotted $500,000 to buy bottled water for East Porterville residents, said Bruce Burton of the board’s Drinking Water Program. But many East Porterville residents, like Serrato, say all they want is to get a glass of water from the kitchen sink. Her well dried up nearly two months ago, she said, making life challenging for her husband and three children. To bathe, they each have to fill a bucket from a 300-gallon tank in the front yard, carry it inside and pour water over their heads with a cup. They’ve lived in their home for 21 years, she said. “It’s not that easy to say, ‘Let’s go someplace else.’ “

East Porterville sits along the Tule River, which starts high in the mountains and runs through the unincorporated town. Typically, river water permeates the sandy soil under the community, filling up wells as shallow as 30 feet deep. Not this year. Drought has caused the river to run dry, along with the wells. Tulare County spokeswoman Denise England said East Porterville needs to get connected to the nearest water main in neighboring Porterville. That could cost more than $20 million and take up to five years, if the project didn’t hit political snags, she said. England said counting the number of dry wells is difficult because people don’t come forward fearing their children will be taken away if their home lacks a safe water source, or they believe that their home would be condemned, making them homeless. Officials have had to combat these rumors, she said, adding, “We’re blindly feeling our way through this.” In the meantime, charities have stepped up. Local schools, businesses and a religious group in Cincinnati, Ohio, donated water to the community. Elva Beltran’s Porterville Area Coordinating Council has provided 46 homes with 300-gallon tanks, which are

filled each week. The group has pallets of donated bottled water and stacks of blue buckets waiting to be distributed. Beltran said every day a new family comes in seeking help. “They’re hurting,” she said. “We need water like we need air.” A local bank donated $50,000 to Self-Help Enterprise, so the housing nonprofit can provide more homes with water tanks. Community development program director Paul Boyer said people have been creative, using solar bags to heat water for bathing and putting tanks in trees to increase water pressure. Boyer said it will be more difficult when it turns cold this winter. “Families every night dream about water,” Boyer said. “Every day they’re thinking about how they’re going to deal with water.” The well belonging to Vickie Yorba, 94, dried up in February. She now relies on a donated water tank in front of her small home that she and her late husband bought 66 years ago. A neighbor with a deeper well ran a garden hose to Yorba’s home. She is proud of how sparingly she uses water, likening it to the little used during trips she and her husband took years ago to the mountains. “It isn’t hard,” she said. “Not if you know how to camp.”

Relatives: Arrested vet needs help By BETSY BLANEY Associated Press

MIDLAND, Texas — An Iraq war veteran accused of scaling a fence and making it into the White House before the Secret Service stopped him posed no threat to anyone and needs counseling instead of prosecution, members of his family said Sunday. Omar Gonzalez, 42, was arrested Friday and is expected in federal court Monday to face charges of unlawfully entering a restricted building or grounds while carrying a deadly or dangerous weapon — a small folding knife in this case. Jerry Murphy, whose mother was married to Gonzalez for several years, said Gonzalez suffers from post-traumatic stress disorder and that he needs treatment. He said Gonzalez has been driving around the country and living out of his truck for the past couple of years, and that he always carries his knife. “I know he’s got heavy artillery, you know?” Murphy added. “He’s got all kinds of weapons and he was trained to use them. I believe if he wanted to make a scene or cause problems, he very well could have. But it’s clear that he didn’t.” The Secret Service has come under heavy criticism since the

embarrassing security breach, which happened when the first family wasn’t at the White House. Secret Service Director Julia Pierson ordered increased surveillance and more officer patrols at the White House, as the agency investigates what went wrong. The Army said Gonzalez enlisted in July 1997 and remained until completing his service obligation in September 2003. He reenlisted in July 2005 and served until his retirement in late 2012, serving in Iraq from October 2006 to January 2008. The military does not provide details about a soldier’s disability due to privacy considerations. But Samantha Bell, who is Gonzalez’s ex-wife and Murphy’s mother, said Gonzalez was honorably discharged for medical reasons and suffered from plantar fasciitis on his feet, on which he had had some surgeries. She said he also suffered from PTSD, for which he had been prescribed several medications. Bell said she and Gonzalez married in 2006 and lived together in Copperas Cove, near Fort Hood, until she split up with him in 2010 because of his worsening mental condition. After his second tour in Iraq, Gonzalez began carrying a .45 on his hip at all times and kept three or four rifles and shotguns behind the

doors in their home, said Bell, who remarried and now lives in southern Indiana. She said Gonzalez kept the blinds drawn and would repeatedly go downstairs during the night to make sure the doors were locked and the oven was off. She said she once woke up in the middle of the night to find Gonzalez standing at the foot of the bed and staring at her. She said he told her he was simply watching her sleep. “Omar is a good guy; he’s just got some issues that he needs help with,” she said. “I think this is a cry out for help, what he’s done.” Bell said she had never heard Gonzalez speak about the “falling atmosphere” that a criminal complaint says Gonzalez wanted to warn the president about. Murphy’s sister described Gonzalez as a kind, gentle man who was scarred by war. “He was the kind of person everyone liked,” said Rainie Murphy-Gandy, 24, of Midland, who lived with her mom and Gonzalez when he was based at Fort Hood. “He just started going downhill.” Less than 24 hours after Gonzalez’s arrest, a second man was apprehended after he drove up to a White House gate and refused to leave, Secret Service spokesman Ed Donovan said, prompt-

ing bomb technicians in full gear to search the vehicle as agents briefly shut down nearby streets. On Sunday, Secret Service spokesman Brian Leary identified the man as Kevin Carr, 19, of Shamong, New Jersey. There were no indications the two incidents were connected. But they only intensified the scrutiny of the Secret Service.

Peninsula Clarion, Monday, September 22, 2014

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Around the Nation Man seen with UVA student faces driving charge CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. — A man believed to be the last person seen with a University of Virginia student before she disappeared was being sought on arrest warrants charging him with reckless driving, a police chief said Sunday, adding authorities also want to ask him about the missing teen. Virginia State Police have issued warrants for Jesse Matthew on a charge of misdemeanor reckless driving, Charlottesville Police Chief Timothy Longo said at a news conference Sunday. Matthew has not been charged in the disappearance of 18-yearold Hannah Graham, who was last seen early on Sept. 13 in Charlottesville. Longo said police want to talk to Matthew, who was seen with Graham before she disappeared. “I believe Jesse Matthew was the last person she was seen with before she vanished off the face of the Earth because it’s been a week and we can’t find her,” Longo said. Longo said Matthew had stopped by the Charlottesville Police Department’s station on Saturday with several family members and asked for a lawyer. He was provided with a lawyer but left in a vehicle, driving at a high rate of speed that endangered other drivers, according to the police chief. He said Matthew was there for about an hour. Virginia State Police spokeswoman said in an email late Sunday that State Police officers were conducing “surveillance” of the vehicle at the time but didn’t pursue Matthew. Police said they have focused on Graham’s movements the night of Sept. 12 and into the early morning hours of Sept. 13. Graham, a sophomore from northern Virginia, met friends at a restaurant for dinner, stopped by two parties at off-campus housing units and left the second party alone, police have said. Surveillance videos showed her walking, and at some points running, past a pub and a service station and then onto the Downtown Mall, a seven-block pedestrian strip lined with shops and restaurants.

Police say rifle carried by ambush suspect found CANADENSIS, Pa. — Nine days after a gunman went on a deadly ambush at a state police barracks, authorities said Sunday they have recovered one of the weapons he was carrying and believe they are hot on his trail as he travels on foot through rugged forests in northeastern Pennsylvania. Investigators said they believe the suspect they describe as a self-taught survivalist had been planning a confrontation with law enforcement for months, if not years. State Police Lt. Col. George Bivens revealed a few more details about the manhunt for Eric Frein, saying trackers have discovered items he hid or abandoned in the woods — including an AK-47 assault rifle and ammunition they believe he had been carrying while on the run. Authorities did not yet know if the weapon had been used in the ambush, he said. Still, police believe Frein remains dangerous and possibly armed with a .308 rifle with a scope that police say was missing from the family home along with the AK-47. — The Associated Press

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New Afghan president named By JASON STRAZIUSO Associated Press

KABUL, Afghanistan — Ending months of vote-related tension, Afghanistan’s election commission named a new president Sunday only hours after the leading candidates signed a power-sharing deal that names one of them as the country’s new chief executive. The commission named Ashraf Ghani Ahmadzai as the winner and next president and noted that his one-time rival, Abdullah Abdullah, will fill the newly created position of chief executive, a post akin to prime minister. But it pointedly did not release final vote totals amid concerns that doing so could inflame tensions. The deal brings to a close an election season that began in April, when millions of Afghans first went to the polls despite threats from Taliban militants, and ended when the two leading candidates signed a national unity government agreement and embraced in a hug. In between, the Abdullah camp alleged that its cause was cheated by massive vote fraud. A nation long tired of election bluffs and threats seemed to accept the electoral deal with a shrug. There were no mass celebrations in the streets of Kabul, and Afghan journalists reacted angrily when the election commission declined to release final results, abruptly ending a brief news conference without taking questions. The United States applauded the deal and the White House said that “respect for the democratic process” is the only viable path forward for Afghanistan. But to many here, the next Afghan government appeared to be more a product of negotiation than vote tallies, especially given the fact a final count wasn’t even released. “I don’t think anyone will vote again,” said Masie Hajizada, a 26-year-old businessman. “They will have to do a lot of campaigning to get us to vote.” U.S. officials said they believed Ghani Ahmadzai would sign a security agreement soon after taking his oath of office that would allow some 10,000 American forces to remain in Afghanistan next year. After 13 years of war following the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, all combat troops are to withdraw by the end of 2014. Ghani Ahmadzai and Abdullah signed the national unity government deal as President Hamid Karzai — in power since the 2001 U.S.-led invasion ousted the Taliban — looked on. It took weeks of negotiations to form a power-sharing arrangement after accusations of fraud in the June runoff vote. “I am very happy today that both of my brothers, Dr. Ashraf Ghani and Dr. Abdullah Abdullah, in an Afghan agreement for the benefit of this country, for the progress and development of this country, that they agreed on the structure affirming the new government of Afghanistan,” Karzai said after the signing. The deal is a victory for U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, who first got the candidates to agree in principle to share power during a July visit to Afghanistan. Kerry returned to Kabul in August and has spent hours with the candidates, including in repeated phone calls, in an effort to seal the deal. Kerry lauded the two leaders, saying the agreement helps bring closure to Afghanistan’s political crisis. “Americans know very well that the road to democracy is contentious and challenging, but it’s a road that leads to the best place. It doesn’t happen overnight. We’ve had our own contentious elections and witnessed their aftermath. ... But if my recent visits to Kabul and the hours upon hours on the phone with these two men have taught me anything, it’s how invested Afghanistan is in this historic effort,” Kerry said in a statement. In New York, the U.N. Security Council issued a press statement welcoming the “conclusion of Afghanistan’s presidential election,” adding that member countries looked forward to working with the new “Government of National Unity.”

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Supporters of Afghan presidential candidate Ashraf Ghani Ahmadzai celebrate with music and dancing near his residence after he was named the winner and next president by the Afghan election commission, in Kabul, Afghanistan, Sunday. Ending an election season that began with first-round ballots cast in April, Afghanistan’s two presidential candidates, Ahmadzai and Abdullah Abdullah, signed a power-sharing deal on Sunday that makes one president and the other chief executive, ending months of political wrangling following a disputed runoff that threatened to plunge the country into turmoil and complicate the withdrawal of foreign troops.

Jan Kubis, the top U.N. official in Afghanistan, said the uncertainty of the past months took a heavy toll on Afghanistan’s security, economy and governance. NATO said in a statement that it hoped both leaders could move forward “in the spirit of genuine political partnership.” The decision not to release vote totals underscores the fear of potential violence despite Sunday’s deal. One of Abdullah’s final demands was that the election commission not release the vote count because of the fraud he alleges took place. Ahmad Yousuf Nouristani, chairman of the election commission, said the final ballot counts have been shared with both candidates and that the commission would announce the numbers publicly later. A Ghani Ahmadzai supporter — Halim Fidai, a former governor — said Sunday that Kubis, the U.N. representative, told the commission not to release vote tallies. However, a U.N. official said the allegation was not true and the U.N. was only facilitating dialogue between the candidates and the election commission regarding the release of results. The official insisted on anonymity because he wasn’t authorized to speak publicly. A senior U.S. official said the vote result was transparent but may only be released slowly due to fears of violence. The official insisted on anonymity because he was not authorized to be identified publicly. Ghani Admadzai supporters and election commission reports circulating on social media said that the final vote gave Ghani Ahmadzai roughly 55 percent and Abdullah roughly 45 percent. The four-page power sharing contract says the relationship between president and chief executive — a position akin to prime minister — must be defined by “partnership, collegiality, collaboration, and, most importantly, responsibility to the people of

Afghanistan.” It spells out the powers for the new chief executive position: participation with the president in bilateral meetings, carrying out administrative and executive affairs as determined by presidential decree, and parity in selection of key security and economic ministries. The deal specifies that the president leads the Cabinet but that the chief executive manages the Cabinet’s implementation of government policies. The chief executive will also chair regular meetings of a council of ministers, which appeared to basically be watereddown Cabinet meetings. An inauguration ceremony was expected within days. Abdullah’s spokesman Fazel Sancharaki said the event could be held on Sept. 29. As talks dragged on, Abdullah’s mostly northern supporters had threatened to form a parallel government or react violently to any outright victory by Ghani Ahmadzai, a former finance minister and World Bank official whose power base is in the country’s south and east. Ghani Ahmadzai said he always maintained that ethnic politics in Afghanistan demand some sort of power sharing deal and not a winner-takes-all government. Abdullah believes he won the first round of the election in April with more than 50 percent of the vote, which would have precluded a runoff. But the official results showed him winning about 45 percent of that vote in a crowded presidential field of 10. He also believes he won a June runoff with Ghani Ahmadzai. But initial results totals showed Ghani Ahmadzai with about 56 percent of the vote. After the recount the election commission invalidated 1 million of the approximately 8.1 million cast in the runoff, according to the unreleased vote counts, suggesting that fraud was indeed widespread. Ghani Ahmadzai enjoyed the backing of much of

the state machinery, a government accused of massive fraud in the 2009 election as well. With Abdullah behind in the official count, he had no path to the presidency other than creating a parallel government or fomenting mass violence, two paths his campaign said he would not pursue. The power-sharing deal, in the end, gave his northern power base a strong slice of executive power. A power-sharing deal was almost sealed about a week ago, but Abdullah then demanded that no vote totals from the runoff be released. The U.S. official said the United States government believes the new president was declared as the result of quantitative electoral results from many millions of legitimate votes and that though a political agreement was made to form a unity government the government is headed by a president decided upon by an electoral process. U.N. and Afghan election officials spent weeks auditing the runoff results after allegations of fraud, a common occurrence over Afghanistan’s last two presidential elections. Abdullah’s side maintained the fraud was so sophisticated it was undetectable. The U.S. has been pushing for a resolution so the next president can sign a security agreement that would allow about 10,000 U.S. forces to remain in the country after combat operations wrap up at the end of the year. Karzai refused to sign it; Ghani Ahmadzai has said he will. The 13-year war against the Taliban has largely been turned over to Afghan security forces, a development that has seen casualties among Afghan soldiers rise significantly this year. The U.S. and international community will continue to fund the Afghan army in the coming years but the Afghans themselves will have to fend off Taliban attempts to again take over wide areas of the country.

Around the World 100,000 Syrians pour into Turkey telling of atrocities as Islamic State group advances KUCUK KENDIRCILER, Turkey — The 19-year-old Kurdish militant, who has been fighting the Islamic State group in Syria, brought his family across the border into Turkey to safety Sunday. But in the tranquility of a Turkish tea garden just miles from the frontier, Dalil Boras vowed to head back after nightfall to continue the fight. Pulling a wad of Syrian bills from his pocket, the young fighter — who has already lost a 17-year-old brother to the Islamic militants’ brutal advance — said that if the Turkish border guards tried to stop him, money would persuade them. Boras and his relatives are among some 100,000 Syrians, mostly Kurds, who have flooded into Turkey since Thursday, escaping an Islamic State offensive that has pushed the conflict nearly within eyeshot of the Turkish border. The al-Qaida breakaway group, which has established an Islamic state, or caliphate, ruled by its harsh version of Islamic law in territory it captured straddling the Syria-Iraq border, has in recent days advanced into Kurdish regions of Syria that border Turkey, where fleeing refugees on Sunday reported atrocities that included stonings, beheadings and the torching of homes. On Sunday, heavy clashes broke out between the Islamic State militants and Kurdish fighters only miles from the Syrian border town of Kobani, where the Islamic State group was bombarding villagers with tanks, artillery and multiple rocket launchers, said Nasser Haj Mansour, a defense official in Syria’s Kurdish region.

Arab governments slow to combat Islamic State group’s social media campaign DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — As the Islamic State group battles across Syria and Iraq, pushing back larger armies and ruling over entire cities, it is also waging an increasingly sophisticated media campaign that has rallied disenfranchised youth and outpaced the sluggish efforts of Arab governments to stem its appeal. Long gone are the days when militant leaders like Osama bin Laden smuggled grainy videos to Al-Jazeera. Nowadays Islamic State backers use Twitter, Facebook and other online platforms to entice recruits with professionally made videos showing fighters waging holy war and building an Islamic utopia. The extremist group’s opponents say it is dragging the region back into the Middle Ages with its grisly beheadings and massacres, but its tech-savvy media strategy has exposed the ways in which Arab governments and mainstream religious authorities seem to be living in the past. Most Arab governments see social media as a threat to their stability and have largely failed to harness its power, experts say. Instead, they have tried to monitor and censor the Internet while churning out stale public statements and state-approved sermons on stuffy government-run media. Last week, Saudi Arabia’s top council of religious scholars issued a lengthy Arabic statement via the state-run news agency denouncing terrorism and calling on citizens to back efforts to fight extremist groups like the Islamic State and al-Qaida. Leading Sunni Muslim authorities in Egypt have issued similar government-backed statements. — The Associated Press

Seahawks retain ‘Super’ prestige Super Bowl rematch between Seattle, Denver goes to overtime The Associated Press

SEATTLE (AP) — Marshawn Lynch scored on a 6-yard run on the first possession of overtime and the Seattle Seahawks beat the Denver Broncos 26-20 on Sunday in a Super Bowl rematch that lived up to expectations. Seattle (2-1) blew a 17-3 fourth-quarter lead, watching Denver tie it at 20 on Peyton Manning’s 26-yard touchdown pass to Jacob Tamme with 18 seconds left in regulation and his 2-point conversion pass to Demaryius Thomas. But Manning never saw the ball in overtime, thanks to Seattle quarterback Russell Wilson. After nearly getting sacked for a safety and throwing an interception in the fourth quarter, Wilson was brilliant in overtime. Wilson rushed for 21 yards and was 4 of 6 passing in overtime. Lynch went the final 6 yards. Manning led the rally for Denver (2-1) helped by a number of Seahawks mistakes. He was 31 of 49 for 303 yards and two touchdowns, but also threw a costly fourth-quarter interception.

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lopsided first half — and the Indianapolis Colts dominated the Jacksonville Jaguars for their first win. It was a home opener to forget for the Jaguars (0-3), who trailed 30-0 at the break and benched quarterback Chad Henne.

SAINTS 20, VIKINGS 9 NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Drew Brees passed for 293 yards and two touchdowns, and the New Orleans Saints won for the first time this season, taking their home opener against the Minnesota Vikings. For the Vikings, the loss capped a week of distractions as the club first announced that star running back Adrian Peterson would play, then later changed course and said Peterson would leave the team indefinitely to deal with child abuse allegations.

CHARGERS 22, BILLS 10

ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. (AP) — A week after throwing three touchdown passes to tight end Antonio Gates to knock off the Seattle Seahawks, Philip Rivers hit Eddie Royal for two scores in a win over the Buffalo Bills. Royal scored on 3- and 5-yard receptions and finished with four catches 42 yards. Malcom Floyd had two catches for 98 yards in a game the Chargers (2-1) never CARDINALS 23, 49ERS 14 trailed. Rivers finished 18 of 25 for 256 yards and extended his touchGLENDALE, Ariz. (AP) — down streak to 23 games to match Drew Stanton threw a pair of the team record he set over the third-quarter touchdown passes to 2009-10 seasons. rookie John Brown and Arizona rallied to beat San Francisco, snapGIANTS 30, TEXANS 17 ping a four-game losing streak to the 49ers. EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. Tommy Kelly blocked a field (AP) — Rashad Jennings ran for a goal for the Cardinals (3-0), who career-high 176 yards and a touchoutscored San Francisco 17-0 in down and Eli Manning threw two the second half. TD passes as the New York Giants overcame some early mistakes EAGLES 37, REDSKINS 34 and beat the suddenly error-prone M Houston Texans. The victory not only put some PHILADELPHIA (AP) — K Rookie Jordan Matthews, the re- life back into the Giants (1-2) afceiver who replaced DeSean Jack- ter two disappointing efforts, it son in Philadelphia, caught two also ended any chance of a sectouchdown passes, and the Eagles ond straight horrible start for Tom beat Jackson and his Washington Coughlin’s team which opened 0-6 Redskins in a nasty game marred last season. by a fourth-quarter brawl. Jackson had his own big play, BENGALS 33, TITANS 7 an 81-yard TD that tied it at 27. But it was not enough to offset MatCINCINNATI (AP) — Andy thews and Jeremy Maclin, whose Dalton caught a touchdown pass 27-yard scoring reception gave — the first Bengals quarterback to Philadelphia (3-0) the lead. Rookie pull off that feat — and Cincinnati Cody Parkey’s third field goal, a stayed undefeated with a victory 51-yarder with 5:55 remaining, put over the Tennessee Titans. the game out of reach. The Bengals (3-0) head into their bye week with their best start in eight years and a chance to get COWBOYS 34, RAMS 31 some of their many injured playST. LOUIS (AP) — Terrance ers healthy. They got a lot of big Williams scored the go-ahead plays, a few breaks and plenty of touchdown late in the fourth quar- help from a team dealing with the ter, Bruce Carter returned an inter- death of a long-time player. ception 25 yards for a TD on the next snap, and the Dallas Cowboys matched the largest comeback in PATRIOTS 16, RAIDERS 9 team history to stun the St. Louis FOXBOROUGH, Mass. (AP) Rams. — Tom Brady threw a touchdown DeMarco Murray’s 1-yard run pass, Stephen Gostkowski kicked late in the first half began the rally three field goals and the sluggish for Dallas (2-1), which trailed 21- New England Patriots held on to 0. Dez Bryant caught a 68-yard beat the Oakland Raiders when descoring pass in the third quarter, fensive tackle Vince Wilfork interand Carter’s first career intercep- cepted a pass near his goal line. tion and touchdown came not long Darren McFadden’s potential after he was evaluated for concus- tying touchdown run was nullified sion-like symptoms on the bench. by a holding penalty. A play later, Wilfork grabbed the ball when RAVENS 23, BROWNS 21 Logan Ryan jarred it loose from intended receiver Denarius Moore CLEVELAND (AP) — With with 51 seconds left. the Ray Rice case lingering over them, the Ravens pulled off a LIONS 19, PACKERS 7 comeback win as Justin Tucker kicked a 32-yard field as time exDETROIT (AP) — Don Carey pired to give Baltimore a victory returned a fumble 40 yards for a over the Cleveland Browns. touchdown, and Detroit’s defenTucker’s boot capped another sive front stuffed Green Bay, leadchallenging week for the Ravens ing the Lions over Aaron Rodgers (2-1), who continue to be dogged and the Packers. by their handling of Rice’s domesThe Lions (2-1) came in with a tic violence suspension. secondary decimated by injuries, but that didn’t much matter with Rodgers under constant pressure. STEELERS 37, He was sacked twice and threw for PANTHERS 19 only 162 yards, and Green Bay (1CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — 2) wasn’t any better when running Ben Roethlisberger threw two the ball. 7-yard touchdown passes to Antonio Brown, Le’Veon Bell ran for 147 yards and Pittsburgh beat CHIEFS 34, DOLPHINS 15 Carolina. MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. (AP) The Steelers had gone eight — Alex Smith shook off five sacks quarters without a touchdown be- to throw three touchdown passes fore Roethlisberger’s two scoring and help the Kansas City Chiefs strikes in the third. They were set earn their first victory by beating up by Cam Newton’s fumble and the Miami Dolphins. Bell’s 81-yard run. Smith led touchdown drives of 62, 76 and 66 yards in a span of four possessions as Kansas City COLTS 44, JAGUARS 17 took leads of 14-0 and 21-10. The JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (AP) Chiefs improved to 1-2 and won — Andrew Luck threw four touch- for only the third time in their past down passes — three of them in a 11 games, including postseason.

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NFL Scoreboard NFL Standings AMERICAN CONFERENCE East W L T PA Buffalo 2 1 0 .667 New England 2 1 0 .667 N.Y. Jets 1 1 0 .500 Miami 1 2 0 .333 South Houston 2 1 0 .667 Indianapolis 1 2 0 .333 Tennessee 1 2 0 .333 Jacksonville 0 3 0 .000 North Cincinnati 3 0 0 1.000 Baltimore 2 1 0 .667 Pittsburgh 2 1 0 .667 Cleveland 1 2 0 .333 West Denver 2 1 0 .667 San Diego 2 1 0 .667 Kansas City 1 2 0 .333 Oakland 0 3 0 .000

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52 49 45 83

64 50 95 78 43 69 44 119 80 65 73 74

33 50 72 77

75 69 61 37

67 49 65 65

NATIONAL CONFERENCE East Philadelphia 3 Dallas 2 N.Y. Giants 1 Washington 1 South Atlanta 2 Carolina 2 New Orleans 1 Tampa Bay 0 North Detroit 2 Chicago 1 Minnesota 1 Green Bay 1 West Arizona 3 Seattle 2 St. Louis 1 San Francisco 1

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0 1.000 0 .667 0 .333 0 .333

101 77 58 81

78 69 77 64

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0 .667 103 0 .667 63 0 .333 78 0 .000 45

72 58 72 95

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61 48 50 54

45 43 56 79

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45 66 85 68

Monday’s Game Chicago at N.Y. Jets, 4:30 p.m. Thursday, Sep. 25 N.Y. Giants at Washington, 4:25 p.m. All Times ADT

Patriots 16, Raiders 9 OAK NE

3 0 0 10

6 0—9 0 6—16

First Quarter OakСFG Janikowski 49, 4:37. Second Quarter NEСGronkowski 6 pass from Brady (Gostkowski kick), 4:14. NEСFG Gostkowski 21, :00. Third Quarter OakСFG Janikowski 37, 9:39. OakСFG Janikowski 47, 2:21. Fourth Quarter NEСFG Gostkowski 20, 13:42. NEСFG Gostkowski 36, 6:20. AС68,756. Oak NE First downs 14 21 Total Net Yards 241 297 Rushes-yards 22-67 32-76 Passing 174 221 Punt Returns 4-36 1-7 Kickoff Returns 0-0 1-26 Interceptions Ret. 0-0 1-1 Comp-Att-Int 21-34-1 24-37-0 Sacked-Yards Lost 0-0 2-13 Punts 5-43.2 5-48.0 Fumbles-Lost 0-0 1-0 Penalties-Yards 6-49 6-59 Time of Possession 28:25 31:35 INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS RUSHINGСOakland, McFadden 18-59, Reece 1-7, Murray 3-1. New England, Ridley 19-54, Vereen 7-20, Edelman 1-5, Bolden 2-4, Brady 3-(minus 7). PASSINGСOakland, Carr 21-341-174. New England, Brady 2437-0-234. RECEIVINGСOakland, McFadden 4-6, J.Jones 3-43, Streater 3-32, D.Moore 3-23, Reece 3-19, Rivera 2-11, Holmes 1-29, Leonhardt 1-7, Olawale 1-4. New England, Edelman 10-84, LaFell 4-46, Vereen 4-17, Gronkowski 3-44, Wright 1-20, Thompkins 1-16, Ridley 1-7. MISSED FIELD GOALSСNone. COWBOYS 34, RAMS 31 DAL SL

0 10 7 14

10 14—34 0 10—31

First Quarter StLСKendricks 1 pass from A.Davis (Zuerlein kick), 6:10. Second Quarter StLСQuick 51 pass from A.Davis (Zuerlein kick), 14:54. StLСJenkins 25 interception return (Zuerlein kick), 6:06. DalСMurray 1 run (Bailey kick), 2:07. DalСFG Bailey 29, :02. Third Quarter DalСBryant 68 pass from Romo (Bailey kick), 12:48. DalСFG Bailey 40, 2:43. Fourth Quarter StLСFG Zuerlein 28, 13:28. DalСWilliams 12 pass from Romo (Bailey kick), 6:13. DalСCarter 25 interception return (Bailey kick), 5:58. StLСPettis 4 pass from A.Davis (Zuerlein kick), 2:36. AС58,739. Dal StL First downs 19 26 Total Net Yards 340 448 Rushes-yards 29-123 30-121 Passing 217 327 Punt Returns 0-0 1-1 Kickoff Returns 3-74 2-53 Interceptions Ret. 2-17 1-25 Comp-Att-Int 18-23-1 30-42-2 Sacked-Yards Lost 0-0 0-0 Punts 2-39.0 1-24.0 Fumbles-Lost 1-1 1-1 Penalties-Yards 3-15 8-119 Time of Possession 27:10 32:50 INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS RUSHINGСDallas, Murray 24100, Romo 3-14, Randle 2-9. St. Louis, Stacy 12-67, Cunningham 9-29, Watts 5-24, Britt 1-2, Cook 1-0, A.Davis 2-(minus 1). PASSINGСDallas, Romo 18-231-217. St. Louis, A.Davis 30-422-327. RECEIVINGСDallas, Bryant 6-89, Witten 4-49, Murray 4-31, Williams 2-32, Beasley 1-9, Escobar 1-7. St. Louis, Cook 7-75, Kendricks 6-29, Britt 5-69, Stacy 5-54, Pettis 3-28, Quick 2-62, Cunningham 1-5, Givens 1-5. MISSED FIELD GOALSСNone.

Eagles 37, Redskins 34 WAS PHI

14 6 7 14

7 7—34 6 10—37

First Quarter WasСYoung 4 pass from Cousins (Forbath kick), 8:42.

PhiСPolk 102 kickoff return (Parkey kick), 8:29. WasСGarcon 4 pass from Cousins (Forbath kick), 2:09. Second Quarter WasСFG Forbath 49, 8:49. PhiСJ.Matthews 11 pass from Foles (Parkey kick), 5:48. WasСFG Forbath 44, 1:15. PhiСJ.Matthews 11 pass from Foles (Parkey kick), :09. Third Quarter PhiСFG Parkey 38, 12:03. PhiСFG Parkey 33, 8:04. WasСJackson 81 pass from Cousins (Forbath kick), 2:04. Fourth Quarter PhiСMaclin 27 pass from Foles (Parkey kick), 7:34. PhiСFG Parkey 51, 5:55. WasСHelu Jr. 1 run (Forbath kick), 4:16. AС69,596. Was Phi First downs 27 22 Total Net Yards 511 379 Rushes-yards 28-84 25-54 Passing 427 325 Punt Returns 1-6 2-27 Kickoff Returns 3-46 3-153 Interceptions Ret. 0-0 1-6 Comp-Att-Int 30-48-1 27-41-0 Sacked-Yards Lost 0-0 0-0 Punts 3-56.7 4-37.3 Fumbles-Lost 1-0 2-1 Penalties-Yards 10-131 9-70 Time of Possession 34:48 25:12 INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS RUSHINGСWashington, Morris 23-77, Cousins 3-5, Helu Jr. 1-1, Young 1-1. Philadelphia, McCoy 19-22, Sproles 2-20, Foles 4-12. PASSINGСWashington, Cousins 30-48-1-427. Philadelphia, Foles 27-41-0-325. RECEIVINGСWashington, Garcon 11-138, Paul 6-68, Jackson 5-117, Roberts 4-38, Paulsen 2-7, Helu Jr. 1-55, Young 1-4. Philadelphia, Maclin 8-154, J.Matthews 8-59, Cooper 4-34, Sproles 3-30, Ertz 2-14, Casey 1-19, Maehl 1-15. MISSED FIELD GOALS Washington, Forbath 33 (WR).

Giants 30, Texans 17 HOU NYG

0 0 0 14

10 7—17 3 13—30

Second Quarter NYGСCruz 26 pass from Manning (J.Brown kick), 3:21. NYGСJennings 1 run (J.Brown kick), 1:07. Third Quarter NYGСFG J.Brown 39, 10:39. HouСFG Bullock 27, 6:09. HouСD.Johnson 44 pass from Fitzpatrick (Bullock kick), 2:13. Fourth Quarter NYGСFG J.Brown 29, 12:19. NYGСFells 9 pass from Manning (J.Brown kick), 9:25. NYGСFG J.Brown 31, 5:33. HouСFitzpatrick 1 run (Bullock kick), 2:00. AС77,462. Hou NYG First downs 20 26 Total Net Yards 411 419 Rushes-yards 25-119 42-193 Passing 292 226 Punt Returns 1-3 2-12 Kickoff Returns 3-67 1-17 Interceptions Ret. 0-0 3-35 Comp-Att-Int 21-35-3 21-28-0 Sacked-Yards Lost 2-7 1-8 Punts 5-41.0 4-39.8 Fumbles-Lost 1-0 2-1 Penalties-Yards 5-40 4-31 Time of Possession 27:26 32:34 INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS RUSHINGСHouston, Blue 1378, Fitzpatrick 7-34, Grimes 1-5, R.Brown 3-2, D.Johnson 1-0. N.Y. Giants, Jennings 34-176, A.Williams 6-18, Weatherford 1-0, Manning 1-(minus 1). PASSINGСHouston, Fitzpatrick 20-34-3-289, Lechler 1-1-0-10. N.Y. Giants, Manning 21-28-0234. RECEIVINGСHouston, Hopkins 6-116, Graham 5-41, A.Johnson 4-24, D.Johnson 2-56, Grimes 1-31, Martin 1-16, Blue 1-10, R.Brown 1-5. N.Y. Giants, Donnell 6-45, Cruz 5-107, Randle 5-27, Parker 3-33, Fells 2-22. MISSED FIELD GOALSСNone.

Saints 20, Vikings 9 MIN NO

0 13

6 0

3 0—9 0 7—20

First Quarter NOСThomas 1 run (S.Graham kick), 9:36. NOСHill 34 pass from Brees (kick blocked), 4:50. Second Quarter MinСFG Walsh 25, 14:06. MinСFG Walsh 30, 6:28. Third Quarter MinСFG Walsh 40, 10:20. Fourth Quarter NOСColston 18 pass from Brees (S.Graham kick), 12:22. AС73,005. Min NO First downs 13 27 Total Net Yards 247 396 Rushes-yards 22-59 32-108 Passing 188 288 Punt Returns 4-11 1-(-3) Kickoff Returns 4-120 0-0 Interceptions Ret. 0-0 0-0 Comp-Att-Int 17-30-0 27-35-0 Sacked-Yards Lost 2-15 1-5 Punts 4-45.3 4-46.8 Fumbles-Lost 0-0 1-0 Penalties-Yards 5-44 4-30 Time of Possession 26:27 33:33

First Quarter CinСFG Nugent 29, 4:48. CinСDalton 18 pass from Sanu (Nugent kick), :00. Second Quarter CinСTeam safety, 6:25. CinСBernard 1 run (Nugent kick), 3:29. Third Quarter CinСBernard 1 run (Nugent kick), 1:58. Fourth Quarter CinСHill 4 run (Nugent kick), 9:26. TenСGreene 1 run (Succop kick), 6:09. AС56,743. Ten Cin First downs 22 25 Total Net Yards 326 300 Rushes-yards 28-149 31-116 Passing 177 184 Punt Returns 1-1 0-0 Kickoff Returns 2-56 1-18 Interceptions Ret. 1-0 2-2 Comp-Att-Int 17-34-2 17-26-1 Sacked-Yards Lost 2-8 0-0 Punts 4-35.3 4-49.3 Fumbles-Lost 2-0 0-0 Penalties-Yards 11-99 7-50 Time of Possession 31:16 28:44 INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS RUSHINGСTennessee, Sankey 10-61, Locker 6-50, Greene 1033, Battle 1-5, McCluster 1-0. Cincinnati, Bernard 14-47, Hill 7-39, Peerman 5-15, Tate 1-12, Dalton 3-3, Hewitt 1-0. PASSINGСTennessee, Locker 17-34-2-185. Cincinnati, Dalton 15-23-1-169, Sanu 1-1-0-18, Campbell 1-2-0-(minus 3). RECEIVINGСTennessee, Wright 5-44, Walker 4-54, Hunter 3-37, Stevens 2-26, McCluster 2-15, Sankey 1-9. Cincinnati, Green 6-102, Sanu 5-44, Dalton 1-18, Bernard 1-7, Hewitt 1-6, Gresham 1-5, Tate 1-5, Brock 1-(minus 3). MISSED FIELD GOALSСTennessee, Succop 40 (WR), 44 (WR).

Chargers 22, Bills 10 SD BUF

7 0

6 3

7 2—22 7 0—10

First Quarter SDСRoyal 3 pass from Rivers (Novak kick), 9:45. Second Quarter SDСFG Novak 19, 10:18. BufСFG Carpenter 45, 2:56. SDСFG Novak 37, :21. Third Quarter SDСRoyal 5 pass from Rivers (Novak kick), 7:31. BufСJackson 11 pass from Manuel (Carpenter kick), 1:16. Fourth Quarter SDСTeam safety, 3:23. AС68,611. SD Buf First downs 20 18 Total Net Yards 336 292 Rushes-yards 37-85 22-87 Passing 251 205 Punt Returns 3-6 1-0 Kickoff Returns 0-0 3-44 Interceptions Ret. 0-0 0-0 Comp-Att-Int 18-25-0 23-40-0 Sacked-Yards Lost 1-5 3-33 Punts 6-49.2 5-45.2 Fumbles-Lost 0-0 1-0 Penalties-Yards 6-44 11-110 Time of Possession 31:34 28:26 INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS RUSHINGСSan Diego, Brown 31-62, Oliver 3-11, Rivers 2-11, Woodhead 1-1. Buffalo, Jackson 6-34, Spiller 10-25, Manuel 5-24, Summers 1-4. PASSINGСSan Diego, Rivers 18-25-0-256. Buffalo, Manuel 23-39-0-238, Jackson 0-1-0-0. RECEIVINGСSan Diego, Brown 5-27, Green 4-64, Royal 4-42, Floyd 2-98, Allen 2-17, Gates 1-8. Buffalo, Jackson 8-78, Chandler 5-74, Spiller 3-37, Woods 3-19, Watkins 2-19, Mi.Williams 2-11. MISSED FIELD GOALSСNone.

Colts 44, Jaguars 17 IND JAX

10 20 0 0

0 14—44 3 14—17

First Quarter IndСFG Vinatieri 48, 9:37. IndСBradshaw 6 pass from Luck (Vinatieri kick), 1:50. Second Quarter IndСAllen 1 pass from Luck (Vinatieri kick), 12:28. IndСFG Vinatieri 43, 9:08. IndСFG Vinatieri 25, 1:10. IndСFleener 7 pass from Luck (Vinatieri kick), :28. Third Quarter JaxСFG Scobee 41, 5:13. Fourth Quarter IndСNicks 1 pass from Luck (Vinatieri kick), 8:53. JaxСHurns 63 pass from Bortles (Scobee kick), 6:51. IndСToler 47 interception return (Vinatieri kick), 2:58. JaxСShorts III 10 pass from Bortles (Scobee kick), :18. AС60,601. Ind Jax First downs 27 18 Total Net Yards 529 344 Rushes-yards 29-144 20-105 Passing 385 239 Punt Returns 0-0 0-0 Kickoff Returns 0-0 1-26 Interceptions Ret. 2-40 0-0 Comp-Att-Int 33-43-0 18-31-2 Sacked-Yards Lost 2-5 4-17 Punts 2-53.5 5-46.4 Fumbles-Lost 0-0 1-1 Penalties-Yards 8-46 2-15 Time of Possession 37:03 22:57

INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS RUSHINGСMinnesota, Asiata 12-35, Bridgewater 6-27, Cassel 1-5, McKinnon 2-(minus 1), Patterson 1-(minus 7). New Orleans, K.Robinson 18-69, Thomas 8-30, Cadet 2-9, Johnson 1-2, Brees 3-(minus 2). PASSINGСMinnesota, Bridgewater 12-20-0-150, Cassel 5-100-53. New Orleans, Brees 27-350-293. RECEIVINGСMinnesota, Jennings 5-70, Patterson 4-61, Asiata 3-36, Rudolph 3-27, McKinnon 2-9. New Orleans, Cooks 8-74, J.Graham 6-54, Stills 4-38, Thomas 3-21, Hill 2-48, Colston 2-25, Meachem 1-23, Watson 1-10. MISSED FIELD GOALSСNone.

INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS RUSHINGСIndianapolis, Bradshaw 9-65, Richardson 14-57, Luck 3-15, Moncrief 1-7, Herron 1-1, Hasselbeck 1-(minus 1). Jacksonville, D.Robinson 8-33, Gerhart 9-32, Bortles 2-30, Todman 1-10. PASSINGСIndianapolis, Luck 31-39-0-370, Hasselbeck 2-4-020. Jacksonville, Bortles 14-242-223, Henne 4-7-0-33. RECEIVINGСIndianapolis, Hilton 5-80, Wayne 4-62, Moncrief 4-55, Nicks 4-50, Fleener 4-49, Allen 4-43, Richardson 3-23, Doyle 3-10, Bradshaw 2-18. Jacksonville, A.Robinson 7-79, Shorts III 5-35, Gerhart 2-31, Hurns 1-63, Ta’ufo’ou 1-26, Brown 1-14, Jensen 1-8. MISSED FIELD GOALSСNone.

Bengals 33, Titans 7

Lions 19, Packers 7

TEN CIN

0 10

0 9

0 7—7 7 7—33

GB DET

7 7

0 5

0 0—7 0 7—19

First Quarter DetСCarey 40 fumble return (Freese kick), 12:02. GBСQuarless 10 pass from A.Rodgers (Crosby kick), :39. Second Quarter DetСLevy safety, 13:21. DetСFG Freese 30, 6:16. Fourth Quarter DetСBush 26 run (Freese kick), 10:40. AС62,418. GB Det First downs 14 21 Total Net Yards 223 353 Rushes-yards 22-76 38-115 Passing 147 238 Punt Returns 2-23 2-16 Kickoff Returns 2-51 2-56 Interceptions Ret. 2-9 0-0 Comp-Att-Int 16-27-0 22-34-2 Sacked-Yards Lost 2-15 2-8 Punts 5-43.0 2-52.0 Fumbles-Lost 1-1 1-1 Penalties-Yards 5-30 6-40 Time of Possession 21:47 38:13 INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS RUSHINGСGreen Bay, Starks 8-38, Lacy 11-36, Harris 3-2. Detroit, Bush 12-61, Bell 15-33, Riddick 3-16, Stafford 6-8, Collins 1-2, Ross 1-(minus 5). PASSINGСGreen Bay, A.Rodgers 16-27-0-162. Detroit, Stafford 22-34-2-246. RECEIVINGСGreen Bay, Nelson 5-59, Quarless 4-43, Cobb 3-29, D.Adams 2-11, Boykin 1-11, Lacy 1-9. Detroit, C.Johnson 6-82, Bush 6-38, Tate 5-51, Ross 3-20, Fuller 1-52, Fauria 1-3. MISSED FIELD GOALSСDetroit, Freese 41 (WL).

Ravens 23, Browns 21 BAL CLE

3 7

7 0

7 6—23 14 0—21

First Quarter BalСFG Tucker 38, 9:11. CleСWest 1 run (Cundiff kick), 3:15. Second Quarter BalСJuszczyk 9 pass from Flacco (Tucker kick), 7:24. Third Quarter CleСCrowell 14 run (Cundiff kick), 10:01. BalСTaliaferro 1 run (Tucker kick), 5:04. CleСAustin 4 pass from Hoyer (Cundiff kick), :13. Fourth Quarter BalСFG Tucker 21, 5:00. BalСFG Tucker 32, :00. AС67,407. Bal Cle First downs 23 19 Total Net Yards 377 375 Rushes-yards 33-160 29-91 Passing 217 284 Punt Returns 0-0 1-0 Kickoff Returns 0-0 1-31 Interceptions Ret. 0-0 1-17 Comp-Att-Int 19-31-1 19-25-0 Sacked-Yards Lost 0-0 1-6 Punts 3-50.7 4-45.0 Fumbles-Lost 0-0 1-0 Penalties-Yards 5-32 12-94 Time of Possession 30:55 29:05 INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS RUSHINGСBaltimore, Taliaferro 18-91, Forsett 11-63, Flacco 4-6. Cleveland, Crowell 11-55, West 12-36, Hoyer 2-4, Agnew 1-0, Gabriel 2-(minus 2), Benjamin 1-(minus 2). PASSINGСBaltimore, Flacco 19-31-1-217. Cleveland, Hoyer 19-25-0-290. RECEIVINGСBaltimore, Smith Sr. 5-101, Forsett 4-2, Juszczyk 3-54, Pitta 3-12, T.Smith 2-25, M.Brown 1-15, Daniels 1-8. Cleveland, Hawkins 7-87, Austin 6-51, Gabriel 2-81, West 2-5, Benjamin 1-43, Cameron 1-23. MISSED FIELD GOALSСCleveland, Cundiff 50 (WL), 36 (BK). SEAHAWKS 26, BRONCOS 20 DEN SEA

0 14

0 0

17 0—20 3 6—26

First Quarter SeaСFG Hauschka 20, 10:33. DenСFG McManus 24, 3:27. Second Quarter SeaСLockette 39 pass from Wilson (Hauschka kick), 3:05. SeaСLynch 5 pass from Wilson (Hauschka kick), :12. Fourth Quarter DenСIrving safety, 13:07. DenСJ.Thomas 3 pass from Manning (McManus kick), 9:20. SeaСFG Hauschka 28, :59. DenСTamme 26 pass from Manning (D.Thomas pass from Manning), :18. Overtime SeaСLynch 6 run, 9:14. AС68,447. Den Sea First downs 20 26 Total Net Yards 332 384 Rushes-yards 20-36 37-129 Passing 296 255 Punt Returns 2-15 5-36 Kickoff Returns 1-22 1-13 Interceptions Ret. 1-13 1-52 Comp-Att-Int 31-49-1 25-35-1 Sacked-Yards Lost 1-7 3-20 Punts 8-47.3 6-50.2 Fumbles-Lost 1-1 0-0 Penalties-Yards 4-27 7-34 Time of Possession 27:42 38:04 INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS RUSHINGСDenver, Ball 14-38, Hillman 2-2, Green 1-0, Manning 1-(minus 1), Anderson 2-(minus 3). Seattle, Lynch 26-88, Wilson 9-40, Turbin 2-1. PASSINGСDenver, Manning 3149-1-303. Seattle, Wilson 24-341-258, Kearse 1-1-0-17. RECEIVINGСDenver, Sanders 11-149, Welker 6-60, D.Thomas 4-31, J.Thomas 3-17, Tamme 2-22, Ball 2-6, Green 1-10, Hillman 1-7, Anderson 1-1. Seattle, Harvin 7-42, Baldwin 4-56, Lynch 3-40, Kearse 2-22, Walters 2-22, Miller 2-12, Lockette 1-39, Wilson 1-17, Coleman 1-14, Richardson 1-7, Turbin 1-4. MISSED FIELD GOALSСSeattle, Hauschka 46 (WL).

Cardinals 23, 49ers 14 SF ARI

7 3

0 0—14 14 3—23

First Quarter AriСFG Catanzaro 51, 12:23. SFСCrabtree 2 pass from Kaepernick (Dawson kick), 6:45. Second Quarter

AriСFG Catanzaro 32, 13:42. SFСHyde 6 run (Dawson kick), 5:07. Third Quarter AriСJo.Brown 24 pass from Stanton (Catanzaro kick), 9:20. AriСJo.Brown 21 pass from Stanton (Catanzaro kick), 4:39. Fourth Quarter AriСFG Catanzaro 35, :29. AС61,572. SF Ari First downs 20 24 Total Net Yards 318 338 Rushes-yards 24-82 27-84 Passing 236 254 Punt Returns 1-14 1-8 Kickoff Returns 2-44 0-0 Interceptions Ret. 0-0 0-0 Comp-Att-Int 29-37-0 19-34-0 Sacked-Yards Lost 1-9 0-0 Punts 4-43.5 1-49.0 Fumbles-Lost 0-0 1-1 Penalties-Yards 9-107 5-36 Time of Possession 32:20 27:40 INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS RUSHINGСSan Francisco, Kaepernick 13-54, Hyde 3-13, Gore 6-10, Crabtree 1-4, Ellington 1-1. Arizona, Ellington 18-62, Stanton 6-16, Ginn Jr. 1-4, Taylor 1-2, Parmele 1-0. PASSINGСSan Francisco, Kaepernick 29-37-0-245. Arizona, Stanton 18-33-0-244, Ginn Jr. 1-1-0-10. RECEIVINGСSan Francisco, Crabtree 10-80, S.Johnson 9-103, Boldin 6-36, Hyde 2-(minus 2), Carrier 1-23, Lloyd 1-5. Arizona, Floyd 5-114, Jo.Brown 4-52, Fitzgerald 3-34, Carlson 3-33, Ellington 3-13, Ginn Jr. 1-8. MISSED FIELD GOALSСSan Francisco, Dawson 45 (BK).

Chiefs 34, Dolphins 15 KC MIA

0 14 0 3

7 13—34 12 0—15

Second Quarter KCСDavis 21 run (Santos kick), 6:38. KCСKelce 20 pass from A.Smith (Santos kick), 1:35. MiaСFG Sturgis 22, :00. Third Quarter MiaСHartline 1 pass from Tannehill (Sturgis kick), 12:07. KCСMcKnight 11 pass from A.Smith (Santos kick), 6:36. MiaСFG Sturgis 51, 5:54. MiaСTeam safety, 2:38. Fourth Quarter KCСMcKnight 4 pass from A.Smith (pass failed), 4:35. KCСGray 6 run (Santos kick), :13. AС70,313. KC Mia First downs 23 18 Total Net Yards 342 332 Rushes-yards 41-174 20-141 Passing 168 191 Punt Returns 5-100 3-11 Kickoff Returns 3-65 7-212 Interceptions Ret. 0-0 0-0 Comp-Att-Int 19-25-0 21-43-0 Sacked-Yards Lost 5-18 4-14 Punts 5-51.0 7-46.7 Fumbles-Lost 4-2 1-0 Penalties-Yards 4-23 6-65 Time of Possession 33:42 26:18 INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS RUSHINGСKansas City, Davis 32-132, Gray 4-18, A.Smith 2-17, Sherman 1-4, McKnight 1-3, Jenkins 1-0. Miami, Miller 15-108, Dan.Thomas 2-15, M.Wallace 1-12, Tannehill 1-9, Williams 1-(minus 3). PASSINGСKansas City, A.Smith 19-25-0-186. Miami, Tannehill 21-43-0-205. RECEIVINGСKansas City, McKnight 6-64, Kelce 3-36, Bowe 3-32, Fasano 2-23, Hemingway 2-18, Avery 2-12, Sherman 1-1. Miami, M.Wallace 5-74, Miller 4-24, Hartline 3-25, Landry 3-24, Clay 3-21, Dan.Thomas 1-21, Matthews 1-13, Gibson 1-3. MISSED FIELD GOALSСMiami, Sturgis 48 (WL).

Steelers 37, Panthers 19 PIT CAR

3 3

6 0

14 14—37 3 13—19

First Quarter CarСFG Gano 40, 6:40. PitСFG Suisham 42, :07. Second Quarter PitСFG Suisham 24, 5:37. PitСFG Suisham 45, :00. Third Quarter PitСA.Brown 7 pass from Roethlisberger (Suisham kick), 11:02. CarСFG Gano 40, 6:21. PitСA.Brown 7 pass from Roethlisberger (Suisham kick), 2:22. Fourth Quarter CarСOlsen 37 pass from Newton (Gano kick), 13:28. PitСGolden fumble recovery in end zone (Suisham kick), 11:00. PitСBlount 8 run (Suisham kick), 5:38. CarСBenjamin 35 pass from Anderson (pass failed), 3:53. AС73,945. Pit Car First downs 24 20 Total Net Yards 454 349 Rushes-yards 34-264 10-42 Passing 190 307 Punt Returns 2-17 1-(-10) Kickoff Returns 0-0 2-43 Interceptions Ret. 0-0 0-0 Comp-Att-Int 22-30-0 29-41-0 Sacked-Yards Lost 1-6 3-23 Punts 3-46.0 4-52.5 Fumbles-Lost 0-0 3-2 Penalties-Yards 11-91 7-105 Time of Possession 34:39 25:21 INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS RUSHINGСPittsburgh, Bell 21147, Blount 10-118, Roethlisberger 1-1, Gradkowski 2-(minus 2). Carolina, Stewart 5-31, Newton 2-7, Tolbert 3-4. PASSINGСPittsburgh, Roethlisberger 22-30-0-196. Carolina, Newton 24-35-0-250, Anderson 5-6-0-80. RECEIVINGСPittsburgh, A.Brown 10-90, Miller 4-51, Wheaton 4-35, Bell 2-10, J.Brown 2-10. Carolina, Benjamin 8-115, Brown 7-66, Olsen 5-69, Tolbert 3-20, Stewart 3-19, Avant 2-12, Bersin 1-29. MISSED FIELD GOALSСNone.

A-8 Peninsula Clarion, Monday, September 22, 2014

Scoreboard baseball American League

East Division W L x-Baltimore 93 62 New York 80 75 Toronto 78 77 Tampa Bay 75 81 Boston 68 88 Central Division Detroit 86 69 Kansas City 84 70 Cleveland 81 74 Chicago 71 84 Minnesota 66 89 West Division x-Los Angeles 96 60 Oakland 85 70 Seattle 83 72 Houston 69 87 Texas 62 93 x-clinched division

Pct GB .600 — .516 13 .503 15 .481 18½ .436 25½ .555 .545 .523 .458 .426

— 1½ 5 15 20

.615 — .548 10½ .535 12½ .442 27 .400 33½

Sunday’s Games N.Y. Yankees 5, Toronto 2 Boston 3, Baltimore 2 Chicago White Sox 10, Tampa Bay 5 Cleveland 7, Minnesota 2 Kansas City 5, Detroit 2 Houston 8, Seattle 3 Texas 2, L.A. Angels 1 Oakland 8, Philadelphia 6, 10 innings Monday’s Games Cleveland 4, Kansas City 2, 10 innings, comp. of susp. game, 2:05 p.m. Baltimore (W.Chen 16-4) at N.Y. Yankees (Pineda 3-5), 3:05 p.m. Kansas City (D.Duffy 8-11) at Cleveland (Carrasco 8-5), 3:05 p.m. Seattle (Paxton 6-3) at Toronto (Happ 9-11), 3:07 p.m. Chicago White Sox (Bassitt 0-1) at Detroit (Lobstein 1-0), 3:08 p.m. Houston (Tropeano 1-1) at Texas (D.Holland 1-0), 4:05 p.m. Arizona (Collmenter 10-8) at Minnesota (Nolasco 5-11), 4:10 p.m. L.A. Angels (C.Wilson 13-9) at Oakland (Samardzija 4-5), 6:05 p.m.

National League

East Division W L Pct GB x-Washington 91 64 .587 — Atlanta 76 79 .490 15 New York 76 80 .487 15½ Miami 74 81 .477 17 Philadelphia 71 85 .455 20½ Central Division z-St. Louis 87 69 .558 — Pittsburgh 84 71 .542 2½ Milwaukee 80 76 .513 7 Cincinnati 72 84 .462 15 Chicago 69 87 .442 18 West Division z-Los Angeles 89 67 .571 — San Francisco 84 71 .542 4½ San Diego 74 81 .477 14½ Colorado 65 91 .417 24 Arizona 62 94 .397 27 z-clinched playoff berth x-clinched division Sunday’s Games Washington 2, Miami 1 Pittsburgh 1, Milwaukee 0 N.Y. Mets 10, Atlanta 2 L.A. Dodgers 8, Chicago Cubs 5 Oakland 8, Philadelphia 6, 10 innings Colorado 8, Arizona 3 San Diego 8, San Francisco 2 Cincinnati 7, St. Louis 2 Monday’s Games Pittsburgh (F.Liriano 6-10) at At-

lanta (Harang 11-11), 3:10 p.m. St. Louis (Wainwright 19-9) at Chicago Cubs (T.Wood 8-12), 4:05 p.m. Arizona (Collmenter 10-8) at Minnesota (Nolasco 5-11), 4:10 p.m. Colorado (Matzek 6-10) at San Diego (Stults 7-17), 6:10 p.m. San Francisco (Peavy 6-4) at L.A. Dodgers (Haren 13-11), 6:10 p.m. All Times ADT Yankees 5, Blue Jays 2 Tor. NY

100 000 010—2 7 0 100 010 30x—5 8 0

Hutchison, Loup (5), Redmond (6), Da.Norris (7), McGowan (8) and D.Navarro; Tanaka, Warren (6), Betances (8), Dav.Robertson (9) and B.McCann. WСTanaka 134. LСHutchison 10-13. SvСDav. Robertson (38). HRsСNew York, B.McCann 2 (22), Gardner (17). Red Sox 3, Orioles 2 Bos. 100 011 000—3 12 0 Bal. 000 002 000—2 6 0 J.Kelly, Layne (8), Badenhop (8), Mujica (9) and D.Ross; M.Gonzalez, R.Webb (6), Meek (7), McFarland (9) and C.Joseph. WСJ.Kelly 3-2. LСM.Gonzalez 9-9. SvСMujica (8). HRsСBoston, Betts (5), D.Ross (7). White Sox 10, Rays 5 Chi. TB

040 006 000—10 12 1 000 002 102—5 9 0

Joh.Danks, Lindstrom (7), Surkamp (8), D.Webb (9), Snodgress (9), Belisario (9) and Phegley; Karns, Colome (6), C.Ramos (7), Yates (8), Boxberger (9) and Casali. WСJoh.Danks 1011. LСKarns 1-1. HRsСChicago, A.Garcia 2 (7), Semien (5). Indians 7, Twins 2 Cle. Min.

002 032 000—7 14 0 010 010 000—2 7 2

Kluber, Hagadone (9) and Y.Gomes; Swarzak, Pressly (5), A.Thompson (5), Darnell (7), Fien (9) and Pinto. WСKluber 17-9. LСSwarzak 3-2. Astros 8, Mariners 3 Sea. Hou.

001 020 000—3 7 1 010 030 31x—8 14 0

Iwakuma, Ca.Smith (5), Leone (6), Furbush (7), Medina (7) and Zunino; McHugh, K.Chapman (7), Veras (7), Sipp (9) and J.Castro. WСMcHugh 11-9. LСIwakuma 149. HRsСSeattle, M.Saunders (7). Houston, Marisnick (3). Royals 5, Tigers 2 Det. KC

001 100 000—2 6 0 110 200 10x—5 11 2

Porcello, Ji.Johnson (4), B.Hardy (4), Alburquerque (5), Coke (7), Soria (7), K.Ryan (8) and Holaday; Guthrie, K.Herrera (6), W.Davis (8), G.Holland (9) and S.Perez. WСGuthrie 12-11. LСPorcello 15-12. SvСG.Holland (43). HRsСDetroit, Kinsler (16). Rangers 2, Angels 1 Tex. LA

000 001 001—2 9 0 000 001 000—1 4 0

Tepesch, Kirkman (8), Sh.Tolleson (8), Feliz (9) and Telis; Cor. Rasmus, Morin (5), Salas (6),

Jepsen (7), J.Smith (8), Street (9), Y.Herrera (9) and Iannetta. WСSh.Tolleson 3-1. LСStreet 1-2. SvСFeliz (11). HRsСTexas, Rua (1). Athletics 8, Phillies 6 Phi. Oak.

102 000 020 000

0—6 13 0 2—8 9 0

(10 innings) A.Burnett, C.Jimenez (5), Lu.Garcia (6), Diekman (8), De Fratus (9), Miguel Alfredo.Gonzalez (10) and Ruiz; Kazmir, Otero (6), Abad (7), Gregerson (8), Doolittle (9) and G.Soto. WСDoolittle 2-4. LСMiguel Alfredo.Gonzalez 0-1. HRsСOakland, Donaldson (28). Nationals 2, Marlins 1 Was. 000 020 0 00—2 8 0 Mia. 000 000 0 01—1 4 0 Strasburg, Stammen (8), R.Soriano (9) and Lobaton; Eovaldi, Heaney (7) and Saltalamacchia. W_Strasburg 13-11. L_ Eovaldi 6-13. Sv_R.Soriano (32). Mets 10, Braves 2 N.Y. 110 301 013—10 14 2 Atl. 000 020 0 00— 2 4 2 deGrom, Carlyle (7), Matsuzaka (8), Goeddel (9) and Recker; E.Santana, Jaime (6), Avilan (6), Schlosser (8) and Bethancourt. W_deGrom 9-6. L_E.Santana 1410. HRs_New York, Tejada (4). Pirates 1, Brewers 0 Mil. 000 000 0 00—0 6 0 Pit. 000 000 10x—1 5 0 W.Peralta, Estrada (8) and Lucroy; Worley, Watson (9) and R.Martin. W_Worley 8-4. L_W.Peralta 16-11. Sv_Watson (1). Dodgers 8, Cubs 5 L.A. 202 011 101—8 16 0 Chi. 011 020 010—5 8 1 J.Wright, Frias (3), C.Perez (6), P.Rodriguez (7), P.Baez (8), Jansen (9) and A.Ellis; Ja.Turner, Rosscup (6), Fujikawa (7), Straily (8), Schlitter (9) and W.Castillo. W_C.Perez 1-3. L_Ja.Turner 5-11. Sv_Jansen (43). HRs_Los Angeles, Kemp (23). Chicago, W.Castillo (12). Rockies 8, D-Backs 3 Ari. 000 002 0 01—3 9 0 Col. 012 030 20x—8 13 0 Miley, Delgado (5), Stites (7), E.De La Rosa (8) and Gosewisch; Bergman, F.Morales (6), B.Brown (7), Brothers (8), Ottavino (8), Nicasio (9) and Rosario. W_Bergman 3-4. L_Miley 8-12. HRs_Arizona, Trumbo 2 (11). Colorado, Cuddyer (10). Padres 8, Giants 2 S.F. 000 000 200—2 6 2 S.D. 000 014 30x—8 8 0 Vogelsong, J.Lopez (6), Kontos (6), Machi (7), Cordier (7), Bochy (8) and Susac; Kennedy, Garces (7), Vincent (8), Benoit (9) and Rivera. W_Kennedy 12-13. L_Vogelsong 8-12. HRs_San Francisco, C.Dominguez (1). Reds 7, Cardinals 2

Cin. 000 102 040—7 6 0 S.L. 000 011 0 00—2 8 1 Simon, LeCure (7), Ju.Diaz (8), A.Chapman (9) and Mesoraco; Lynn, Motte (7), Siegrist (8), Tuivailala (8), Greenwood (8) and Y.Molina, Pierzynski. W_Simon 15-10. L_Lynn 15-10. HRs_Cincinnati, Bruce 2 (18), Frazier (27), Mesoraco (24).

racing NASCAR Sylvania 400

Sunday At New Hampshire Motor Speedway Loudon, N.H. Lap length: 1.058 miles (Start position in parentheses) 1. (7) Joey Logano, Ford, 303 laps, 130.4 rating, 47 points, $290,581. 2. (10) Kyle Larson, Chevrolet, 303, 99.1, 42, $216,670. 3. (3) Kevin Harvick, Chevrolet, 303, 133, 43, $186,858. 4. (2) Jamie McMurray, Chevrolet, 303, 108.1, 40, $155,864. 5. (6) Jimmie Johnson, Chevrolet, 303, 103.5, 39, $160,686. 6. (21) Aric Almirola, Ford, 303, 88.2, 38, $141,876. 7. (1) Brad Keselowski, Ford, 303, 113.7, 38, $147,223. 8. (5) Kyle Busch, Toyota, 303, 94.9, 36, $138,906. 9. (11) Dale Earnhardt Jr., Chevrolet, 303, 94.7, 35, $101,765. 10. (12) Brian Vickers, Toyota, 303, 110.6, 35, $131,490. 11. (22) Austin Dillon, Chevrolet, 303, 76.4, 33, $136,751. 12. (32) Martin Truex Jr., Chevrolet, 303, 65.6, 32, $119,173. 13. (27) AJ Allmendinger, Chevrolet, 303, 70.8, 31, $108,223. 14. (14) Clint Bowyer, Toyota, 303, 79.7, 30, $123,831. 15. (23) Paul Menard, Chevrolet, 303, 73, 29, $116,254. 16. (26) Greg Biffle, Ford, 303, 62.5, 28, $128,590. 17. (8) Carl Edwards, Ford, 303, 82.4, 27, $102,640. 18. (9) Ryan Newman, Chevrolet, 303, 82.7, 26, $94,740. 19. (18) Danica Patrick, Chevrolet, 303, 79.7, 25, $94,440. 20. (24) Justin Allgaier, Chevrolet, 303, 61.1, 24, $111,498. 21. (16) Matt Kenseth, Toyota, 303, 90.1, 23, $131,426. 22. (25) Casey Mears, Chevrolet, 303, 65, 22, $107,698. 23. (17) Kasey Kahne, Chevrolet, 303, 67.2, 21, $101,215. 24. (20) Marcos Ambrose, Ford, 303, 68.3, 20, $111,360. 25. (30) Landon Cassill, Chevrolet, 303, 53.3, 0, $85,315. 26. (13) Jeff Gordon, Chevrolet, 303, 99.2, 18, $128,151. 27. (34) David Gilliland, Ford, 301, 48.4, 18, $103,848. 28. (35) Alex Bowman, Toyota, 301, 48, 16, $93,437. 29. (38) Michael Annett, Chevrolet, 301, 44.6, 15, $83,515. 30. (28) Tony Stewart, Chevrolet, 301, 51.6, 14, $118,923. 31. (37) Reed Sorenson, Chevrolet, 300, 42.2, 13, $82,565. 32. (40) Travis Kvapil, Toyota, 300, 35, 12, $79,790. 33. (39) Josh Wise, Chevrolet, 297, 34.9, 11, $79,565. 34. (42) Mike Wallace, Toyota, 296, 30.4, 0, $87,365. 35. (43) Timmy Hill, Ford, 295, 27.3, 9, $79,165.

36. (15) Kurt Busch, Chevrolet, 268, 61.1, 8, $78,935. 37. (4) Denny Hamlin, Toyota, 265, 97.7, 8, $87,217. 38. (31) Cole Whitt, Toyota, 264, 39.1, 6, $73,655. 39. (19) Ricky Stenhouse Jr., Ford, accident, 263, 63.9, 5, $105,480. 40. (36) David Stremme, Chevrolet, 228, 35, 4, $65,655. 41. (41) Corey LaJoie, Ford, 201, 30.3, 0, $61,655. 42. (29) David Ragan, Ford, accident, 177, 35.8, 2, $65,655. 43. (33) Clay Rogers, Toyota, overheating, 45, 27.4, 1, $54,155. Race Statistics Average Speed of Race Winner: 98.697 mph. Time of Race: 3 hours, 14 minutes, 53 seconds. Margin of Victory: 1.150 seconds. Caution Flags: 15 for 63 laps. Lead Changes: 10 among 6 drivers. Lap Leaders: B.Keselowski 1-37; D.Gilliland 38; D.Hamlin 3970; K.Harvick 71-106; J.Logano 107; K.Harvick 108-170; J.Logano 171-212; B.Vickers 213-227; B.Keselowski 228-268; K.Harvick 269-273; J.Logano 274-303. Leaders Summary (Driver, Times Led, Laps Led): K.Harvick, 3 times for 104 laps; B.Keselowski, 2 times for 78 laps; J.Logano, 3 times for 73 laps; D.Hamlin, 1 time for 32 laps; B.Vickers, 1 time for 15 laps; D.Gilliland, 1 time for 1 lap. Top 16 in Points: 1. B.Keselowski, 2,097; 2. J.Logano, 2,096; 3. K.Harvick, 2,090; 4. J.Johnson, 2,080; 5. Ky.Busch, 2,077; 6. D.Earnhardt Jr., 2,077; 7. J.Gordon, 2,070; 8. M.Kenseth, 2,057; 9. C.Edwards, 2,057; 10. A.Allmendinger, 2,056; 11. K.Kahne, 2,055; 12. R.Newman, 2,055; 13. D.Hamlin, 2,049; 14. G.Biffle, 2,049; 15. Ku.Busch, 2,047; 16. A.Almirola, 2,045. Wins: B.Keselowski, 5; J.Logano, 4; D.Earnhardt Jr., 3; J.Gordon, 3; J.Johnson, 3; C.Edwards, 2; K.Harvick, 2; A.Allmendinger, 1; A.Almirola, 1; Ku.Busch, 1; Ky.Busch, 1; D.Hamlin, 1; K.Kahne, 1.

Transactions BASEBALL MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL С Reduced the six-game suspension of Toronto RHP Marcus Stroman to five games. American League NEW YORK YANKEES С Designated RHP Chaz Roe for assignment. Reinstated RHP Masahiro Tanaka from the 60-day DL. HOCKEY National Hockey League ARIZONA COYOTES С Assigned Fs Dan O’Donoghue and Dyson Stevenson to Portland (AHL); F Ryan MacInnis to Kitchener (OHL); F Christian Dvorak to London (OHL); F Edgars Kulda to Edmonton (WHL); F Laurent Dauphin to Chicoutimi (QMJHL) and F Pavel LaPlante to Victoriaville (QMJHL). Released D Colin Suellentrop. NASVILLE PREDATORS С Assigned Fs Justin Kirkland to Kelowna (WHL), Tommy Veilleux to Victoriaville (QMJHL) and D Aaron Irving to Edmonton (WHL). Released F Mathew Campagna, D Jon Puskar and G Devin Williams.

Sports Briefs Hutchings, Shuler earn Homer Spit 5K wins The Stars and the Mariners took a firm hold of Saturday’s Homer Spit 5-kilometer high school run, which runs the length of the famed Homer Spit. The Homer girls edged out SoHi by five points, led by Molly Mitchell in second place. The Mariner girls took four of the top six places, with Megan Pitzman, Aurora Waclawski and Alex Mosley helping the home team to the team title. Soldotna junior Olivia Hutchings ran away with the girls race, beating Mitchell by a sizable margin of 46 seconds to win with a time of 18 minutes, 4.1 seconds. Teammate Dani McCormick added a third-place effort for the Stars. Soldotna senior Daniel Shuler won the boys race with a time of 17:00.1, topping Homer’s Jordan Beachy by nearly 17 seconds. The Homer and Soldotna boys tied in the team race with 28 points apiece. Both schools will travel to Kodiak for Saturday’s region III cross-country championships. BOYS Team scores — 1. Soldotna, 28 points; 2. Homer, 28. Individual results — 1. Daniel Shuler, Sol, 17:00.1; 2. Jordan Beachy, Hom, 17:16.9; 3. Aaron Swedberg, Sol, 17:37.8; 4. Jared Brant, Hom, 17:44.6; 5. Brandon Beachy, Hom, 17:49.4; 6. Jacob Davis, Hom, 17:50.4; 7. Levi Michael, Sol, 17:57.3; 8. Brenner Musgrave, Sol, 18:07.5; 9. Greg Trail, Niko, 18:22.8; 10. Koby Vinson, Sol, 18:25.9; 11. Josh Shuler, Sol, 18:26.9; 12. Denver Waclawski, Hom, 18:51.7; 13. Jaime Rios, Hom, 19:07.8; 14. Elan Carrol, Hom, 19:19.5; 15. Shane Larrow, Sol, 19:49.3; 16. Jonah Fefelov, Niko, 20:33.6; 17. Kyle Cooper, Nik, 21:47.6; 18. German Kalugin, Kach, 22:19.0. GIRLS Team scores — 1. Homer, 25 points; 2. Soldotna, 30. Individual results — 1. Olivia Hutchings, Sol, 18:04.1; 2. Molly Mitchell, Hom, 18:50.0; 3. Dani McCormick, Sol, 19:19.5; 4. Megan Pitzman, Hom, 19:42.9; 5. Aurora Waclawski, Hom, 19:55.7; 6. Alex Mosley, Hom, 19:59.8; 7. Sadie Fox, Sol, 20:07.9; 8. Lauren Evarts, Hom, 20:11.4; 9. Emily Werner, Sol, 20:14.7; 10. Daisy Nelson, Sol, 20:26.5; 11. Ziza Shemet-Pitcher, Hom, 20:31.5; 12. Molly Erickson, Sol, 20:59.4; 13. Audrey Rosencrans, Hom, 21:16.1; 14. Kellie Arthur, Sol, 21:47.4; 15. Megan Hickman, Niko, 29:23.9.

Logano takes Loudon, Chasers struggle LOUDON, N.H. (AP) — Raised in Connecticut, Joey Logano always considered New Hampshire his home track, the one where he dreamed of being bathed in confetti in Victory Lane and flocked by family and friends. For Logano, the track about 75 miles outside of Boston was his version of Daytona. Winning at New Hampshire could mean a bit more to him than a boyhood fantasy fulfilled when the season ends — it could be Logano’s launching pad for his first NASCAR championship. Logano helped Team Penske strengthen its grip as the organization to beat for the championship, pulling away on an overtime restart to win Sunday at New Hampshire Motor Speedway and advance to the second round of the Chase for the Sprint Cup Championship. Make it 2 for 2 for Team Penske in the Chase. “We’re doing what we’ve got to do to win this thing right now,” Logano said. Logano and teammate Brad Keselowski, who won the Chase opener at Chicagoland, have both advanced to the next round. Four drivers will be eliminated after every third race, and a win guarantees a driver an automatic berth into the next round. The first cutoff race is next week at Dover International Speedway. Team Penske will be playing with house money at the Monster Mile. Roger Penske’s crew is rolling, winning four of the last five races dating to Bristol and snagging the early lead on the scorecard against Hendrick Motorsports. “Confidence is high through the 22 team right now, all of Team Penske,” Logano said. “All of Team Penske. We feel like we’ve got some championships to win, not only on the Cup side, but Nationwide side. And you’ve got IndyCar. We’re just trying to catch up to them.” Will Power won the IndyCar Series championship for Penske last month. C

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“And I don’t think there’s any chance we don’t go into a runoff in Louisiana,” said Brian Walsh, a Republican adviser in Senate races. A major GOP campaign group has reserved $4 million in Louisiana TV air time after Nov. 4, anticipating battling Landrieu through Dec. 6. Waiting for a make-or-break Louisiana outcome would deeply affect the postelection congressional session scheduled to start Nov. 12. Congress must appropriate money in November to keep the government running, and it may revisit the president’s continued authority to arm Syrian rebels, among other things. If Republicans think they will control the Senate in the new Congress set to convene Jan. 3, they may want to limit

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ganization had run the event, but it wasn’t the first time it had taken place. This year was the third time Kugzruk and others had slept in the park to raise money. “The first year I was a junior, so yeah I was definitely not sure of what was going to happen, because you always hear stories about what downtown Fairbanks might be like, but it was really cool also to see all the different people who participated and care about the youth of Fairbanks,” Kugzruk said. “The first year it was so cold ... we were freezing and I don’t think we were really prepared.” One year it snowed. That wasn’t a problem for the group this time, as the temperature never fell below 51 degrees. For the first two years, One Homeless Night was organized by members of several local youth groups, but Fairbanks Youth Advocates took the reins this year with the help of Kugzruk.

action in the Democratic-controlled lame-duck session. It’s almost certain that Republicans will retain their House majority. Georgia’s Senate race could have an even messier outcome than Louisiana’s. GOP nominee David Perdue is thought to have a modest lead over Democrat Michelle Nunn in the race to succeed retiring Republican Saxby Chambliss. But there’s a Libertarian on the ballot, who might win enough votes to keep Perdue and Nunn from reaching 50 percent. That would trigger a runoff Jan. 6, three days after the new Congress’ scheduled start. It requires a lot of “ifs.” But a scenario in which Republicans entered the new Congress with a 50-49 Senate majority, while awaiting a Georgia outcome that could soon return them to the minority, would further roil an already bitterly partisan government.

If nothing else, “it would make for a bad Christmas for everyone,” said GOP strategist Ron Bonjean. A recount of a Georgia runoff result, should there be one, would extend confusion even deeper into 2015. A candidate may request a recount if the margin is less than 1 percent of all votes cast. Alaska presents another possibility for an inconclusive Nov. 4 Senate election. Alaska traditionally counts only about two-thirds of its total vote on election night. State law postpones counting most absentee and questioned ballots until a week after the election. Twice in the past six year, a Senate winner in Alaska wasn’t declared until at least two weeks after Election Day. This year, the state features one of the nation’s tightest races. First-term Democratic Sen. Mark Begich faces Republican Dan Sullivan. Obama lost Alaska by 14 percentage points.

Of all the high-stakes “what if” possibilities, campaign professionals see a Dec. 6 Louisiana runoff as the most likely. Landrieu has scrapped to win three Senate terms, but the state has trended Republican in recent years. “If Louisiana is the deciding seat, pity anyone watching television in the state that month,” said Matt Bennett, who has advised several Democratic candidates. “They will be blitzed with more ads, from campaigns and outside groups, than they could possibly imagine.” Generally, Republicans fare better in runoffs because their supporters tend to vote regardless of the date, weather or levels of publicity. But an intensive, well-targeted get-out-the-vote operation could save Landrieu, Bennett said, “and the Democrats clearly dominate in the technology and coordination of their ground campaigns.”

Each of the first two years, the event had raised about $5,000 for the organization. This year, though, FYA’s Executive Director Marylee Bates said she’s optimistic the event might raise much more. The goal for this year’s event was to double attendance, which has happened. Registration each of the previous two years was closer to 20. Volunteers for the event raise money by soliciting sponsorships for their homeless night. This year the event had its first corporate sponsors, but much of the money still comes from community donations. Bates said FYA added an option this year where community members can go online, see the list of participants and donate directly to their efforts from the organization’s website at fairbanksyouthadvocates. org/2014/09/04/one-homeless-night/. Bates said she and The Door’s staff talked with some of the teenagers at the shelter about the event and what its purpose was. The teenagers helped the staff put together survival kits to hand out to the

participants. The idea behind the survival kits, Bates said, is to give a glimpse of the everyday difficulties faced by homeless youths. For example, the kits contained a toothbrush but no toothpaste, a can of soup but

no way to heat it, a single hand warmer and other mismatched items. “Homelessness is not convenient,” Bates said. “It’s not easy and it certainly isn’t fun, even though we’re having a lot of fun tonight.”

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willows on the bluff started to fail and the last of those trees are falling over, Butler Continued from page A-1 said. “That whole bluff there in several places it’s bad, killed there if that washes out at but that is just critical right night or something,” he said. there and now the last roots are Butler said if the area does gone,” Butler said. washout, it won’t affect him much because he doesn’t travel Kaylee Osowski can be south on K-Beach Road often. reached at kaylee.osowski@ Last November a row of peninsulaclarion.com

Around Alaska Fairbanks halfway house escapee found FAIRBANKS — A 39-year old man who escaped from a Fairbanks halfway house has been captured after police found him hiding in an apartment closet. The Daily News-Miner says Fairbanks police arrested Jonathan T. Harris, of Delta Junction, on an escape charge after he walked away from North Star Center. Police were responding to a disturbance call in the area and talked to 59-year-old Charles Rutan at the apartment. Police reports say Rutan had allowed Harris to hide in his closet and told police he wasn’t there. Rutan was arrested on a charge of hindering prosecution. Police also arrested another man at the scene who had an active warrant for failing to appear in court. Court records show Harris was wanted on charges of theft, assault, criminal mischief and reckless driving.

Man accused of shooting black bear in closed area

AP Photo/Fairbanks Daily News-Miner, Erin Corneliussen

In this photo taken Sept. 13, Tracyann George shows her son Owen George, 8, one of the cardboard structures they made to sleep in during One Homeless Night in Veteran’s Memorial Park in Fairbanks, Alaska. George was one of several dozen who volunteered to spend the night in Veterans Memorial park Saturday to raise awareness of youth homelessness and to raise money for Fairbanks Youth Advocates. The organization operates The Door, a 24-hour shelter at 138 10th Ave. open to any homeless youth younger than 18.

JUNEAU — A 42-year-old Douglas man has been charged with a misdemeanor for allegedly shooting a black bear as it rummaged through trash in his yard. James Houck is set to be arraigned Oct. 2 in Juneau District Court for shooting in an area closed to hunting. The Juneau Empire says (http://is.gd/CddBor ) police began investigating after a homeowner reported a wounded black bear dragging itself through his yard. Police euthanized the partially paralyzed bear. Alaska Wildlife Troopers said last week that its investigation showed Houck shot the male black bear on Sept. 8 as it was going through his unsecured trash. Houck is not listed in the phone book and did not respond to messages from the newspaper on Facebook. It’s not clear if he has an attorney. — The Associated Press C

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Monday, September 22, 2014

Time to explore Kaleidoscope kinders take a trip to Shqui Tsatnu Creek Chance Percival

School board to meet The Kenai Peninsula Borough School District Board of Education meets at 7 p.m. in the borough building at 148 N. Binkley Street in Soldotna (unless otherwise noted). For more information, call 907-714-8888 or visit kpbsd.k12.ak.us. The agenda and packet items are posted on Wednesday afternoon prior to the date of the Board meeting. Persons with disabilities who need accommodations to participate at the School Board meetings should contact Debbie Tressler at 907-714-8836 or email dtressler@kpbsd.k12.ak.us no later than three business days before the meeting date. The board will meet: n Oct. 20; n Nov. 3; n Dec. 1; n Jan. 12; n Feb. 2; n March 2; n April 6; n May 4 (at Seward High School); n June 1; n June 2 (Board planning session).

Holidays and vacation days scheduled n Nov. 27 and 28 — Thanksgiving; n Dec. 22-Jan. 2 — Winter vacation; n Jan. 19 — Martin Luther King Jr. Day; n March 9-13 — Spring Break; n April 3 — Good Friday.

Early release dates for KPBSD schools Six times throughout the academic year, schools will meet the minimum day so that teachers may have approximately 90 minutes of additional time to work on improvement strategies. On these early release dates, schools will end 90 minutes earlier. Bus transportation will be adjusted by 90 minutes. Upcoming early release dates are: n Oct. 29; n Nov. 26; n Feb. 4; n March 27; n May 1. C

Career and tech training offered KPBSD Career and Tech Department is offering free after school academies to train students in the welding, construction and medical field. There will be a welding academy this fall at the Workforce Development Center (located behind KCHS). The students will be building a snowmobile trailer. Class days will run Sept. 23-Dec. 4 on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 2:30-5p.m. Any high school student is able to participate in any of our academies. If a student successfully completes the 60 hour academy they will receive a 1/2 of a practical art credit. To sign up students can see their counselor, call Debbie Pearson at 283-2145 or go to onestop.kpbsd.k12.ak.us. Funding for the Alaska Construction Academies comes from a grant from the Alaska Department of Labor and Workforce Development and The Alaska Department of Commerce and Economic Development.

By KAYLEE OSOWSKI Peninsula Clarion

The students scrambled into a rainbow of waterproof jackets and rain boots. They were ready for an adventure. The Kaleidoscope School of Arts and Science kindergartners explored the Shqui Tsatnu Creek Trail in Kenai on Wednesday with Dan Pascucci or “Mr. Dan,” education specialist for the Kenai Watershed Forum. It was the first “Being There” trip for the two kindergarten classes. The students focused on sensing the world around them — what they saw, heard, smelled and touched. Before leaving the classroom, Pascucci told the kids what they would be doing on their trip to the creek and the students guessed what thing they might experience such as seeing mushrooms, hearing birds and touching trees. On the way to the creek the group stopped a few times and shared with their classmates what they saw, heard, smelled and touched. The group entered the trail from 5th Avenue. Kindergartner Miles Metteer said “walking in the woods” was his favorite part, he said, because he liked the woodchip trail. On 4th Avenue, which overlooks the creek, the students saw how the water flows under the road through a “big tube,” which, Pascucci explained, was a culvert. “If that big tube was not there, the water would get higher and higher,” Pascucci said to the students as they looked at the creek and its many small feeder sources on the north side of 4th Avenue. Then the group crossed 4th Avenue and saw the water flow out of the culvert in one larger, single creek. Kindergartner Gracie Every said her favorite part was seeing the “big tube.” “On the other side the water goes through the (tube) and then water goes down the other (side) out the tube,” she said, explaining what she learned. Pascucci led the students down closer

Photos by Kelly Sullivan/ Peninsula Clarion

Kenai Watershed Forum’s Educational Specialist Dan Pascucci took Kaleidoscope School of Arts and Science kindergartners for a walk on the Shqui Tsatnu Creek Trail, Wednesday in Kenai.

to the creek where the kids spent time feeling the grass, rocks and plants and listening to the water. Teacher Robyn Zinszer said Pascucci will come to the kindergarten classes four times this school year, but the students will also revisit the creek without Pascucci. Kaleidoscope students work with the Watershed through sixth grade learning about Shqui Tsatnu Creek doing water quality testing, exploring the habitat and doing other projects. Zinszer took class will put together a book using the photos during the excursion and said the pictures. Back in the classroom Pascucci wrapped up the session, discussing with students the different things they sensed from seeing the fall leaves to smelling fresh air. “All of those (senses) helped us to get a better understanding of where we were,” Pascucci said. Kaylee Osowski can be reached at kaylee.osowski@peninsulaclarion.com

Screenings for infants and preschoolers

Teagan Pate secretly kept his eyes open when Kenai Watershed Forum’s Educational Specialist Dan Pascucci asked the kindergartners from Kaleidoscope School of Arts and Science to close their eyes and point out a specific color of vegetation during their class walk on the Shqui Tsatnu Creek Trails, Wednesday in Kenai.

The KPBSD Child Find Program and SeaView Infant Learning will be offering free screenings for children 5 years old and younger during the Cooper Landing Community Health Fair. The screening will be on Oct. 4 from 9 a.m.–1 p.m. at the Cooper Landing School. We will screen your child’s early development, motor skills, speech, early learning concepts, vision and hearing.

The Study offers tutoring The Study wants to wish everyone an amazing 2014-2015 school year. The Study is an accredited learning center that partners with the KPBSD, Home School Entities and Private Schools. We offer private tutoring in all subject matters — music including: voice, guitar and piano; courses for credit, including: algebra 1 and 2, Spanish, Alaska studies, geometry, high school art, as well as “all day” kindergarten and pre-k. The Study also offers a SAT Prep course. Check us out on the web at thestudysoldotna.com or call us at 907-262-6227.”

Teen writers sought The Clarion is seeking students in grades nine through 12 from central peninsula high schools interested in writing for its Verbatim column. The column is designed to let teens voice their opinions on topics that affect their daily life, such as home, family, school, peers, social pressures, etc. Columns are 300-500 words in length. Students interested in writing should submit a sample column for consideration by 5 p.m. Friday, Sept. 26. Submissions must include first and last name, school, grade, mailing address and contact phone number. Submissions should be emailed to schools@peninsulacarion.com. For more information, call Will Morrow at 907-335-1251.

Connections Home-school Dates to remember n Monday and Tuesday to Oct. 7 and 8 — Brown Bag Learning Lunch on Tuesday and Wednesday 12:10-1:10 p.m. for Students K–third grade n Wednesday — Movie: Dolphin Tale 2 at noon n Sept. 29 and 30 — Safe Sitter Class Brown Bag Learning Lunch for Students K-third grade: Miss Shelli is hosting a special brown bag learning lunch on See SCHOOLS, page B-2

Local social and ecological presentation planned The mission of the National Science Foundation’s experimental program to stimulate competitive research (EPSCor) is to help the NSF reach its goal to strengthen research and education in science and engineering throughout the United States. The organization is engaged in the five-year, place-based Alaska Adapting to Changing Environments alaska.edu/epscor/ focus (Alaska ACE) project to examine the mechanisms by which communities adapt to environmental and social change. The interdisciplinary effort seeks to increase Alaska’s research capacity to understand changing environments in order to more effectively respond. The goal of the project is to produce long-term benefits for Alaska including development of tools that can be used by decision-makers to assist adaptive responses and to create a platform for ongoing studies of adaptation in the North. The project hopes to build research capacity at small and rural UA campuses and contribute hydrological data useful to researchers, watershed managers and residents. Further goals are development of a data portal providing geospatial, scientific and social/ demographic data for use by researchers and citizens. There is also an educational and workforce development component to ACE that seeks to increase interest and expertise in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) disciplines. The initiative is organized into three

K enai P eninsula C ollege A round C ampus regional test cases based at University of Alaska campuses. The south central test case is based at the University of Alaska Anchorage, including KPC’s Kenai River Campus. The local test case examines Kenai River watershed research. The area is subject to multiple drivers of change, including global/regional temperature and precipitation changes. It also examines salmon population fluctuations, a recent tourism downturn, recreational pressure from Anchorage, forest fire dynamics, shrinking wetlands and the resulting successional changes that occur. Hydrological changes in the area include river discharge, water temperature, and sedimentation, while land cover changes include urbanization, resource extraction, infrastructure, drying wetlands, and forest fires. These multiple interacting factors form the basis of a ‘messy’ social-ecological system and necessitate response and adaptation by communities in the watershed. The goals of the test case are to measure hydrological, landscape and associated social changes on the Kenai Peninsula. Another important goal is to measure societal

impacts of the changes and to identify the factors contributing to adaptive capacity as a response to these changes and consequences. The Alaska ACE project will be presenting a local outreach event to area stakeholders including college employees and the general public, at 6 p.m. on Oct. 16 in KRC’s McLane Commons. There will be a series of presentations given by local experts, including the following confirmed to participate: Jim Powell will talk about human dimensions and will share what he has found after conducting focus groups in the Kenai area, looking at decision-making in regards to the health of the Kenai River. Molly McCarthy will speak about aquatic ecology and will discuss her work coring two lakes in the Kenai Watershed and studying 2,000 years’ worth of salmon population. Brett Wells will present information on hydrology and speak to his work monitoring sites across the Kenai River and sharing the results he has seen so far. The project coordinators invite the public to explore collected data and provide feedback on developed products. The community is also encouraged to participate in project surveys and to share any traditional knowledge they might have. For more information and to review current initiatives and other scheduled activities visitalaska. edu/epscor.

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Tuesdays and Wednesdays, from Sept. 16–Oct. 8, at the Soldotna Connections Office, from 12:10-1:10 p.m. An RSVP is required so please reserve your spot ASAP. The first five RSVPS will receive a mystery prize! This is planned for students, parents are welcome to drop their student off or stay. If you have any questions or ideas please email or call the Soldotna Connections Office 714-8880. sfurlong@kpbsd.k12.ak.us Please note: This special learning time is open to all Kthird students. Bring a piece of completed school work to share and a piece to work on. Pack a light lunch to nosh while we learn and share together. (Miss Shelli always has extra.) Dolphin Tale 2 Movie at Orca Theater on K-Beach at noon on Wednesday. Cost is $5 per person. Connections has another fun activity for families! The event is open to anyone and everyone! Bring your friends, family, other homeschool families to enjoy the activity. Please pay at the Connections office by noon on Monday (cash or checks made out to Orca Theater) We must have at least 50 participants in order for the event to take place. Tickets will be sold at the door if there is space available (193 max). Safe Sitter Course — Do your children babysit siblings or other children? Connections and Central Peninsula General Hospital are partnering together to offer the Safe Sitter class for homeschoolers. This nationally recognized class is a great way to prepare our children to care for each other as well as become certified to babysit other children. This is a two day class and will be offered Sept. 29 and 30 from 9 a.m.-3:30 p.m.. Safe Sitter® (created by pediatrician Patricia A. Keener, M.D.)can teach you the skills to do it well! Children need to be between the ages of 11 and 13 to attend. Each class has room for 13 students. The cost is $50 and may be reimbursable by Connections. Each child will receive a backpack with tools that they will know how to use upon completion of the class. For more information go tosafesitter.org or cpgh.org click on quick links, go to community programs and click on safe sitter. Please register by Friday to attend. For more information, or help registering, please contact Marcia Knowlton 598-0950(Instructor/Parent contact) or Sheila or Roberta 714-4775(Hospital contacts). Please feel free to invite other homeschool families who are not currently with Connections. We look forward to hearing from you as space is limited. Please register with the Hospital Cashier to reserve your child’s seat today!

will be in red, black, and white. Lunchtime activities take place every day this week during lunch. Each class is busy with its float decorations and looking forward to our parade on Friday. Homecoming royalty will be announced at the pep assembly Thursday afternoon. The Homecoming Parade starts behind Arby’s at 6 p.m. Friday and ends about 6:30p.m. in the high school front parking lot. We’ve got some pretty creative floats this year, so you won’t want to miss this parade! Immediately following the parade will be our Powder Puff football game and bonfire which features fun contests, and of course, a big fire. Watch the Homecoming Football games Saturday afternoon — JV plays at 11 a.m. and varsity plays at 2 p.m. Be sure to be there to cheer the Kenai Kardinals to victory! All KCHS alumni out there grab those old letterman jackets and put on Kardinal colors to come out and cheer on the KCHS football team! The Martin Scholarship Barbecue will also be happening on Saturday during the football games so come eat some excellent food and contribute to a great cause! Our Homecoming festivities end with our “Mardi Gras” Homecoming Dance, Saturday night from 8–11 p.m. in the auditorium commons at the high school. A big thanks to all of the parents and community members for helping us make Homecoming Week a success. To help with float or hallway decoration judging, be on parade patrol, or to donate anything as a prize, please call us at 907-283-7524. Catch the Homecoming Spirit and come join us for our festivities!

Kenai Middle

Congratulations to our Character Counts winners- Paulyne Catacutan and Tyler Neill. There is a lot going on this week at Kenai Middle! Be sure to come out to support your fellow students at the sporting events happening in town this week! Go Kossacks! Nurse Dixie is conducting a Mass Health Screening for vision and hearing as well as TB Testing for seventh graders on Sept. 22. Coach Johnson’s “B” soccer team will travel to Chapman to compete on Monday at 3 p.m. The Rolph/ Beck 6th grade team will take a trip to Exit Glacier on Tuesday and the Fischer/ Bressler team will go on Friday. Tuesday is the 1st round of Soccer Boroughs. The Cross Country Borough Meet will be held at Skyview on Friday, beginning at 3 p.m. Soccer Borough Finals will begin at 10:00 am on Saturday at Nikiski. IDEA Home-school Sixth grade students are continuing with their IDEA Homeschool is open for enrollment! swimming unit. Be sure to call ahead if you are Stop by the office or call for more information. picking up a sixth grade student early. Enrollments can be completed onlineideafamilies.org . IDEA has several activities coming up! Mountain View Elementary There is a family picnic on Friday at Soldotna Monday — Picture day. Picture packets were Creek Park from noon-2 p.m. IDEA will provide hot dogs, condiments and water. Families are wel- sent home last week and are also available at come to come and celebrate the beginning of the the office. Orders may also be placed online at new school year. Bring a side dish to share! There mylifetouch.com. Miss Fischer is inviting Mountain View famiis a field trip to the Museum of Science and Nature in Anchorage on Oct. 3. The office is open lies to “Get Up and Move!” on Friday from to browse curriculum, fill out enrollment papers, 5:30–7 p.m. This is a new event giving famichat with staff, or fill out ILP’s, which are due. lies an opportunity to participate in moving and These are only a few of the great opportunities at learning about the importance of healthy bodies IDEA. Check out our website for more informa- by walking/running around our “track.” Students will earn a chain and pendants/beads. We will tion! also pizza for sale! We hope to see you here! We will have a volunteer orientation on Oct. Kaleidoscope School Of Arts and 7 at 9 a.m. If you would like to volunteer in your Science child’s classroom or participate in a classroom field trip, please plan to attend one of these orin Monday — APC work session at 4 p.m. entation sessions. All volunteers are required to to discuss enrollment for the 2015-2016 school pass a background check through the KPBSD year, including what grade levels to offer website. Volunteers are very important and apn Thursday — APC special meeting at 4 p.m. preciated here at Mountain View Elementary! to vote on Enrollment for 2015-2016 and what grades levels will be offered for that school year n Friday — The APC ballots for the special Nikiski Middle-High election will be mailed, one per household n Monday — C Team Football at Nikiski vs. Reminders SoHi at 3 p.m. n The Life Skill we are focusing on this week n Tuesday — Middle School Borough Socis Personal Best: To do one’s best given the cir- cer at Nikiski at 3:30 p.m.; Volleyball at Nikiski cumstances and available resources. vs. Homer C Team at 4 p.m., JV at 5 p.m., Varn Volunteer training is now online! If you sity at 6:30 p.m. would like to volunteer at Kaleidoscope or on a n Thursday — Powder Puff Game at 5:30 Study Trip, you will need to complete an online p.m. district background check and complete volunn Friday — Middle School Cross Country teer training. Go to kaleidoscope.blogs.kpbsd. Boroughs at Skyview Middle School at 3 p.m.; k12.ak.us/wpmu/volunteers. The background Football at Nikiski vs. Barrow at 5 p.m. Bonfire check can take up to 2 weeks to be approved. to follow ending at 10 p.m. n Please call school by 2:30 p.m. if you need n Saturday — High School Cross Counto make a change to your child’s after school try Running Regions at Kodiak; Homecoming plan Dance at 8: p.m.–midnight. Cost is $8 per person

Kalifornsky Beach Elementary Friday is School Picture Day. Sibling photos will be from 11:30a.m.-noon. Mr. Daniels’s class will be working on the Wind Gizmo project. It’s an engineering challenge that is school district sponsored. The goal is to create a vehicle that uses only wind to move. The winners of the class competition may move on to the school and district competitions. Good luck junior engineers!

Kenai Alternative High M & M Students of the week who were recognized for Motivation & Maturity were: Devin Hoffman, Tommy Nicholson, Keenan Segura and Tia Bodley. Students recognized for their good citizenship were: Cody Vaught, Cameron Bovee and Tommy Nicholson. First rotation ends on Oct. 3 and the second rotation begins Oct. 6. Students interested in attending KAHS for the second rotation are asked to call the school at 907-335-2870 to schedule an appointment.

Kenai Central High Homecoming week — Monday will be class colors day. Tuesday we expect lots of hippies dressed in tie-dye running around! Wednesday is senior citizen Day so don’t forget your slippers and reading glasses! Thursday is Super Hero Day and Friday is our Spirit Day — everyone

or $15 a couple. Pictures will be taken by Kelly Reilly Photography. Order forms are available at the office. Homecoming! Homecoming week is Monday — Saturday n Monday — Pajama day n Tuesday — Fictional character day or class color day: seniors — purple, juniors — blue, sophomores — fuchsia or pink, freshmen — green n Wednesday — Western day n Thursday — Nerdy neon day n Friday — Spirit day

Nikiski North Star Elementary Picture retake day will be on Thursday in the library. We welcome all parents and guardians to become members of the NNS PTA. This year’s PTA board consists of: Samantha Playle, President; Emily Brigham, Vice President; Michelle Maguire, Secretary and Jennifer Chamberlain, Treasurer. The PTA teacher reps this year are Michelle Burnett, Emily Mayberry and Brianna Redfern. In order to vote on PTA issues you must be a PTA member. Forms are available to print off on Facebook or you can ask any of the board members for assistance. Meetings will be monthly and announced when a specific time and date is set. The annual Fall carnival will be held in October and if you are interested in volunteering, please contact a PTA board member. For more information please call the office at 776-2600. C

Redoubt Elementary n Sept. 23 — School pictures: siblings 11:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m., retakes Oct. 29. Order packets will be sent home with students prior to picture day. n Oct. 1 — Drop date for Free and Reduced Lunches. New applications must be submitted prior to Oct. 1 to avoid a lapse in benefits.; Walk Your Child to School Day — Meet at the Catholic Church on Fireweed and Redoubt at 7:45 a.m. Snacks will be served and prizes awarded at the church between 7:45 a.m. and 8:15 a.m. before departing to walk to Redoubt. Soldotna Montessori and Soldotna Elementary will be joining us for this fun family event. All students must be accompanied by an adult. n Oct. 11 — Redoubt Elementary 4th Annual Fun Run will be held to raise money for the sixth grade field trip to Peterson Bay. Walkers and runners must register. Registration forms are available at the school office. Registration/ Check-in and Bib Pick-Up will be 9-9:45 a.m. with the run starting at 10 a.m. n Oct. 16 — Fun Fest It is important that your child arrives at school on time every day. Students should come to school nourished and rested. Please try to avoid picking up your child early unless it is absolutely necessary. It is interruptive to teachers and students when we have to call students out of the classroom during school hours. Many teachers are giving important information and instructions to students at the end of the school day. Thank you for your help in making sure that your child is given the best opportunity for a quality education. Box Tops winners last week were; Gage Trent and Jesse Allen. Keep those Box Tops for education coming, weekly drawings are held so don’t forget to have your child put their name on the back of each Box Top. School fundraiser — Great American Opportunities — Starts Sept. 30, packets and information will be sent home with students. Completed order forms and money are due back by Oct. 14. Redoubt staff and students would like to take this opportunity to welcome Naomi Parrish, fifth grade teacher and Rebecca Cole, first grade teacher, Redoubt’s newest additions. We are excited to have them join our Redoubt family.

Skyview Middle 2014-2015 Yearbooks on sale! Price is $30 before Oct. 31. Personalization available on front cover for an additional $5. Order forms are available at the Front Office. The Skyview Middle School Student Council is facilitating our Six Minute Snack program. Any student who is hungry can pick up a free granola bar snack during our extended passing period each day. Donations of granola bars or funds to help purchase those items are needed. Many thanks to our adult and student volunteers, as well as our community donors who support this program. If you have questions or would like to volunteer, please contact Mrs. Pothast at spothast@kpbsd.k12.ak.us or call 260-2500. Important — Current contact information is essential for effective communication with parents/guardians during the school day. If a student has a change in address or phone number, please contact the Front Office to update. Thank you! Final week for Soccer and Cross Country! Good luck to all teams! n Tuesday — First Round of Borough Soccer Tournament n Friday — Cross Country Borough Meet at Skyview Middle at 3 p.m. n Saturday — Finals of Borough Soccer Tournament at Nikiski at 10 a.m. Intramural Basketball begins on Oct. 6.

Soldotna Elementary This year SOEL has decided to mix things up a bit with a new fundraiser. We are excited to be offering discount cards which will produce a higher per-item return to our school. Each card is sold for $20 and has the unlimited potential for savings at participating local businesses. Monies earned from this fundraiser will help support a visiting artist-in-residence and to purchase technology for our classrooms. This year our artist is Eddie Woods, a drummer and storyteller. All our children will get the opportunity to learn and experience his amazing talents and craft. If you pre-ordered cards, they can be picked up at the office. Like us on Facebook: Soldotna Elementary and the parents’ pack National Custodian’s Day is Wednesday, October 1st. We are so thankful for our amazing custodial staff! Not only are they capable and diligent in their work, but they are some of the finest people you could ever meet. Thank you Miss Renee, Miss Mercedes, Mr. Ted, and Mr. Bob for all your kindness and the cleanliness of our school! Every week we have a box top drawing, and the winner receives a fruit bar. One box top is worth 10 cents to our school, and I know it doesn’t sound like much. Consider that we have over 300 students, and if all the parents are saving box tops, that adds up to a considerable amount of money. You don’t have to have children who attend our school to collect box tops for us. We are equal opportunity box tops collectors. Feel free to bring your box tops to our office any school day. This week is School Picture Day! Wednesday is the day. Also Hat Day is Friday. Sign up or renew your Club Card today! Your participation can mean hundreds of dollars for our school! Go to escrip.com/safeway and follow the instructions to sign up. It’s free and easy. If you are already participating, you must renew to keep earning for our school. Go to escrip.com and click on “Yes! Renew.” Effective November 1, 2013, you may earn from Safeway using any form of payment EXCEPT credit cards. See their website for detailsescrip.com/safewaystores/safeway/details.jsp. Want to get rid of your aluminum cans? Just crush and bag them and bring them to us, and we will happily deliver them to the landfill. We are encouraging everyone to recycle those cans and SOEL will receive a check. Last year we won

second place in the Medium School Division and received a check for $602.

Soldotna High On Oct. 8, Juniors and Seniors will have the opportunity to visit two college campuses. The SoHi counseling department will be taking a bus of 40 students up to Anchorage to tour the University of Alaska Anchorage (UAA) and Alaska Pacific University (APU). The cost of the trip is $5 per student and both breakfast and lunch will be provided. The bus will leave at 6 a.m. and return at approximately 5:30 p.m. For more information please contact our College and Career Guide, Emily Knight, at 907-260-7083. We are collecting pictures to get a jump start for graduation. For the senior video, we are looking for school activities (sports, academics, etc.). We also need baby pictures/senior pictures for the slide show. The best format is to scan them and send to dgordon@kpbsd.k12.ak.us The Library Media Center is open until 5 p.m. Monday–Friday and most Saturdays 8-11:30 a.m. Tutoring is available. If you would like your student to take a bus home at 4:15 p.m. (Monday through Friday only) please contact Tamra Wear at 260.7036 or twear@kpbsd.k12.ak.us to talk about route availability. Note: there are NO buses running yet at the 4:15 p.m. time slot. ATOSS tutoring will start in the Library on August 25th and run until May 4 from 2:30-3:30 p.m. Pool Schedule: n Morning lap swim 5:30-7:30 a.m. MondayFriday n Evening lap swim 6-7 p.m. Monday, Wednesday and Friday n Evening Open swim 7-8:45 p.m. Monday, Wednesday and Friday Sport Calendar — arbiterlive.com/ Teams?entityId=21192 SoHi will be locking the Parking lot entrance Door during the following hours: n 7:40 a.m.-11:55 a.m. n 12:30 p.m.-2:15 p.m. Also note that during school hours the only open door will be the Front Entrance Commons/ Flag Pole doors. The above is to improve our overall school security. There are two ways to order a transcript. Each way serves a different purpose. If you need a transcript sent to a college or NCAA or a similar agency, then you will need to log on to: parchment.com to order transcripts to be sent. The request is then forwarded to SoHi. After processing, it then goes through cyberspace… rather than the US mail… to get to its destination, which is much faster! ALL transcripts that are headed for NCAA, colleges, etc. have to be processed this way! Final transcripts! A final transcript is one that shows your second semester grades. If you order your transcript when we are IN second semester, you will need to make sure you choose “next grading period” when you go on to Parchment that way your transcript request will wait until the grades are in at the end of the year before it is sent.

Soldotna Prep Native Youth Leadership Club in Room 10 the first and third Wednesday of every month. Poetry Out Loud meetings in Room 10 the 2nd and 4th Wednesday of every month. After School Tutoring Monday through Thursday 2:15-3 p.m. Robotics Meeting Monday through Thursday 5:30–7 p.m. and Tuesdays and Thursdays 2:30-4 p.m. Wednesday — The Manhattan School of Music Filed trip for all team 2 members is from 9:30-10:30 in the choir room. This presentation is titled Thunder Drums — how early music was a form of communication not just entertainment. Homecoming Week Sept. 22-27 Assemblies each day at SoHi. Students who ride the bus will board at SoHi this week. Students who are picked up by parents can be picked up at SoPrep at 2:25 p.m. n Monday — PJs day n Tuesday — Superhero day and Peach Fuzz Volleyball at 6:30 p.m. n Wednesday — Freshman color day — green n Thursday — Twin day n Friday — Spirit day: Purple, blue and white. Bonfire from 8-10 p.m. at Soldotna Regional Sports Complex n Saturday — Football 11 p.m. and 2 p.m. and Dance from 7:30-10:30 p.m. Cost $15 per person. There will be a photographer for picture purchases. Please check Soldotna Prep’s school web page soldotnaprep.blogs.kpbsd.k12.ak.us/wpmu/ daily for important information.

Tustumena Elementary Sept. 29 — Site Council Meeting at 4 p.m. Oct. 16 — Picture Retakes Oct. 21 — PTO Meeting at 4 p.m. Oct. 21 and 22 — Lynx Track Activity Oct. 27 — Site Council Meeting at 4 p.m. Oct. 29 — Early Release at 2:05 p.m. Oct. 30 and 31 — Parent Teacher Conferences; Trunk or Treat from 5-7 p.m. Oct. 31 — Halloween Carnival from 6-8 p.m.

Wings Christian Academy This week at Wings, the Bike-a-thon was rescheduled for this Monday due to the weather. If the weather is still not cooperating, the students will participate in Bike-a-thon festivities inside the gym. This alsomeans the T-shirt contest and date to turn in pledge sheets is extended until then. The winners of the “Clean Desk of the Week Award” last week are Ethan Berga and Sara Brubaker. Good job! Upcoming news: Students will be participating in a field trip to Bear Creek Weir near Seward on Sept. 29. Dress code is PE clothes and rubber boots or shoes that can get wet. We will leave from Wings Christian Academy around 9 a.m. Student need to bring a sack lunch and a warm coat. Permission slips for the trip will be sent home in the Communication Envelope this week.

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News about cheating boyfriend is an unwelcome revelation game- playing, he was always the quietest guy and has never been disruptive. But since he and this girl got together, they have been disturbing the entire house with their noisy lovemaking. It starts with a few bangs against the wall that become constant, and then the screams start. I have no idea how to approach this respectfully and professionally. Please give Abigail Van Buren me your thoughts. — BOTHERED IN BOZEMAN, MONT. DEAR BOTHERED: Write the tenant a short letter explaining that there is now a noise problem that didn’t exist before. Explain that the screams of ecstasy have awakened you and your boyfriend more than once, and ask him to “lower the volume.” If an accommodation can’t be reached, the DEAR ABBY: My boyfriend and I live in a duplex. lovebirds might want to consider moving to a place We manage it, live in the lower unit and have three of their own. tenants upstairs. One of them, whose bedroom is directly above ours, DEAR ABBY: I have been frugal all my life. I have recently got a girlfriend. Aside from some loud video managed to accumulate a cushion should I become ill

or need money for emergencies. My oldest daughter is the exact opposite. She makes stupid financial decisions and has lost thousands of dollars. She recently called, begging me to get her out of a financial jam she has gotten herself into. I refused because the amount she needs would cost me almost all of my savings. Now my other children have stopped speaking to me. They say I should give her the money. What are your thoughts on this? — PRUDENT MOM IN FLORIDA DEAR PRUDENT MOM: My thoughts are the same as yours. If your other children are determined that their sister should be bailed out, then they should pool their money and give it to her. But for you to give her your life savings with no guarantee that it will be repaid would be a bad financial decision on your part. I hope you won’t allow yourself to be blackmailed into what could literally be sacrificing your future. Dear Abby is written by Abigail Van Buren, also known as Jeanne Phillips, and was founded by her mother, Pauline Phillips. Contact Dear Abby at www. DearAbby.com or P.O. Box 69440, Los Angeles, CA 90069.

Rubes

GEMINI (May 21-June 20) HHH You will play it low-key, as others seem to step up the pace. A friend might respond in the most unexpected way; try to gain an understanding of what is going on with this person. You might want to discuss a change in your perceptions. Tonight: Listen to the other side of an issue. CANCER (June 21-July 22) HHHH You’ll speak your mind, and others might become upset. You have a lot to share that needs to come out. Understanding comes only after others share their innate ambivalence and issues. You will see the correct pathway once the air clears. Tonight: At a favorite haunt. LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) HHH Your focus on a money matter will point you in a new direction and toward a new possibility. You’ll be willing to do whatever it takes to be comfortable with your situation. Expect to shift around plans in order to keep your priorities in order. Tonight: Not to be found. VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) HHHHHWhateversecretyetreasonable desire you have could be carried out successfully, as your creativity seems to be at its peak. Why not go for what you want? A loved one, dear friend or close associate might be surprised. Tonight: The world is your oyster! LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) HHHH Honor what is going on within your immediate surroundings. Your sense of humor will emerge when dealing with a difficult family member. It would be wise to keep your impressions to yourself; the hassle might not be worth it. Tonight: Make it a personal night.

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SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) HHHYou could jump to conclusions quickly. Your logic rarely fails, but it might today. A premise on which you based your conclusions could change suddenly, but you don’t know it yet. You are more flexible than you realize. Trust yourself. Tonight: A friend has a lot to share. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) HHHHYou might want to do more listening than sharing, if only to win brownie points with those around you. Honor a financial change that forces you to move with speed and demonstrate how quickly you can think on your feet. Tonight: Out till the wee hours. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) HHHHH Be willing to break precedent. Take a hard look at your actions and behavior. A change here could unlock a situation and make it much better than you could have imagined. You are only at the beginning of what could be an unusually dynamic period. Tonight: Think big. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) HHHHHRelatetoalovedonedirectly. You will get better results than you could have anticipated. Think in terms of change, and pursue a better relationship with someone you care about. You are on stronger ground than you realize. Tonight: Visit with a loved one over dinner. PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) HHHH Just as you are about to accomplish a desired objective, you suddenly could shift gears. You have changed since you made that decision. Revisit your goals more often, and you will feel better about your choices. Tonight: You could get an earful.

A recipe that’s not served Dear Readers: Here is this week’s sound off, about nutritional information on packaging: “My Sound Off is about recipes. It seems when I find one I really like, it will list the nutritional information per serving but not tell you how many servings it makes or the size of a serving. It makes it very difficult to count calories this way.” — Donna F., Elkhorn, Neb. This can be a real pain! Usually this happens with older recipes, just like many I have from my mother and grandmothers. They don’t have any nutritional info! In cases like these, you just have to guess! — Heloise

Plastic lids Dear Heloise: I use the domed plastic lids that come on frozen cream pies to put under my flowerpots to catch the extra water. I like them better than the ones you can buy because they are deeper. — Millie F., Elida, Ohio

SUDOKU

By Tom Wilson

By Dave Green

Sudoku is a number-placing puzzle based on a 9x9 grid with several given numbers. The object is to place the numbers 1 to 9 in the empty squares so that each row, each column and each 3x3 box contains the same number only once. The difficulty level of the Conceptis Sudoku increases from Monday to Friday.

2 4 9 8 5 6 3 1 7

7 6 1 2 4 3 8 5 9

8 5 3 7 1 9 2 6 4

6 3 5 1 9 4 7 8 2

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Previous Puzzles Answer Key

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Fast Facts Dear Readers: Hints for decluttering your home: * Clean out the bottom of a closet. * Go through and toss outdated makeup. * Clean out kitchen drawers! Just one at a time. * Donate old books. * Clear the “junk” from a side/coffee table. — Heloise

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A baby born today has a Sun and Moon in Virgo if born before 10:29 p.m. (PDT). Afterward, the Sun will be in Libra. HAPPY BIRTHDAY for Monday, Sept. 22, 2014: This year you will have to learn to be more flexible. As a result, you will see how well your year will work out. You have enormous creativity that you have yet to express to its fullest capacity. You will start to be more inventive, especially if you give up a certain amount of rigidity. If you are single, you could discover that you are attracted to different types of people from now until the end of the year. Hold back on making any commitments. If you are attached, you will benefit by spending more one-on-one time together. Give more private time to your relationship. LIBRA sometimes finds you to be threatening. The Stars Show the Kind of Day You’ll Have: 5-Dynamic; 4-Positive; 3-Average; 2-So-so; 1-Difficult ARIES (March 21-April 19) HHH You have a strong sense of what others expect of you, yet you might decide to do what you want instead. You could surprise your immediate circle and even cause someone to stop in his or her tracks. Tonight: Deal with an ornery authority figure directly. TAURUS (April 20-May 20) HHHHHYour creativity provides you with many practical ideas, and you will be able to visualize the big picture and see its ramifications. You will gain a better understanding of someone you deal with nearly daily. Use the information well. Tonight: Off to the gym.

Hints from Heloise

Jacqueline Bigar’s Stars

Tundra

Shoe

9 8 9 7 1 5 4 4 2 8 6 1 8 9 4 1 5 6 8 7 1 3 9 8 7 6 8 5 6 3 9 4

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9/22

By Chad Carpenter

By Chris Cassatt & Gary Brookins

Mother Goose and Grimm

By Michael Peters

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DEAR ABBY: What are the ethics in outing a cheater? Someone I know has been cheated on by her boyfriend for two years — about as long as she has been with him. I know this because the woman he has been cheating with is someone I know. Last week, I told the girl her boyfriend has been cheating. Now I am suddenly a pariah and outcast. I felt she had the right to know, but was I wrong? Should I not have told her? — ANNOYED IN CHICAGO DEAR ANNOYED: In this age of social diseases, I don’t think it’s wrong to tell someone that a boyfriend/girlfriend is cheating so he or she can be tested. However, as you have discovered, doing it is risky. There’s a saying, “Don’t shoot the messenger,” that’s been around forever. It implies that a person who delivers unwelcome news will be blamed for it. While you and I would want to be told that we were being betrayed, obviously, your former friend didn’t, which is why you’re being punished.

By Eugene Sheffer

B-8 Peninsula Clarion, Monday, September 22, 2014