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THURSDAY, DECEMBER 4, 2014 Kenai Peninsula, Alaska

Vol. 45, Issue 56

School pool discussion makes waves

Question Did you go shopping during the Thanksgiving holiday weekend? n Yes, we hit the Black Friday sales; n Yes, we shopped at some local small businesses; n Yes, we visited craft fairs/bazaars; n All or a combination of the above; n No.

By RASHAH McCHESNEY Peninsula Clarion

In the Kenai Peninsula Borough School District, schoolmaintained swimming pools could be sapping valuable education resources or saving lives, depending on who is talking about the facilities. During a Tuesday meeting on the pools, Kenai Peninsula Board of Education members heard a proposal to cut costs by centralizing management of the district’s pools which include facilities in Seldovia, Ninilchik, Kenai, Soldotna, Homer and Seward. Assistant Superintendent Dave Jones told board members

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that the pools were consistently falling short of budget goals — but that it could be a necessary expense. “That $769,000 deficit that you see there, what’s within that deficit is the fact that ... it’s an unwritten rule in schools that you’re going to have a deficit associated with your pools if you’re going to teach kids to swim,” Jones said. “You’re not going to have kids drowning. So, if we say ‘it’s costing us money, we’re going to shut our pools down. We’re not going to teach them to swim and have them drown.’ Now we’ve put a price on kids.” Jones said the district needed See POOL, page A-12

Superintendent shares progress

In the news

By IAN FOLEY Peninsula Clarion

Parnell gas line member takes energy committee job JUNEAU (AP) — A member of former Gov. Sean Parnell’s gas line team has taken a job working with U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski. Murkowski says Mike Pawlowski will join the Senate energy committee’s Republican staff, focusing on energy and natural resources issues important to Alaska and the West. Pawlowski most recently served as a deputy state Revenue commissioner and was a public face of Parnell administration efforts to set state participation in a liquefied natural gas project. Parnell left office Monday, after losing re-election. Murkowski spokesman Robert Dillon said Murkowski was looking for smart people to join the staff as she prepares to take over as chair of the committee. He called Pawlowski one of the smartest people around. Murkowski also announced that Colin Hayes will serve as the committee’s deputy staff director.

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A dog stands guard over Emerald Road Wednesday in Nikiski.

Interim Kenai Peninsula Borough School District Superintendant Sean Dusek had mostly positive news about the current state of the school district during a speech on Wednesday. Speaking at a joint Kenai and Soldotna Chambers of Commerce luncheon held at the Kenai Visitor Center, Dusek focused on district enrollment, student performance and budgets.

Dusek recently took over from former superintendent Steve Atwater, who had left the district to for a position with the University of Alaska. After introducing himself to members of the community, Dusek spoke of the district’s student enrollment. While district-wide enrollment had been decreasing since before the 2010 fiscal year, that trend has reversed as enrollment started to increase in the 2014 fiscal year. Dusek said See SCHOOL, page A-12

NOAA gives Kachemak Bay special designation By MICHAEL ARMSTRONG Morris News Service-Alaska/ Homer News

Scientific research in Kachemak Bay could get more federal funding thanks to its recent designation as a Habitat Focus Area by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Part of NOAA’s habitat blueprint initiative to identify ecologically rich areas that merit research and other attention, Kachemak Bay is the first

region in Alaska to be identified as a Habitat Focus Area and only the eighth in the nation, said Julie Speegle, a NOAA Fisheries spokesperson. Kachemak Bay already is a state of Alaska critical habitat area and a NOAA National Estuarine Research Reserve under the federal Coastal Zone Management Act. By designating Kachemak Bay a Habitat Focus Area, NOAA also will work more collaboratively with partners like the state of Alaska,

NOAA said in a Nov. 19 press release. One such collaboration, the Kachemak Bay Research Reserve, looks to be on firmer ground as the state moves forward to designating an agency partner with NOAA in the research reserve. While a Memorandum of Agreement needs to be signed, the University of Alaska Anchorage has agreed to be the new state fiscal agent with NOAA, said acting KBRR director Jessica Ryan-Shepherd.

“They’re looking at it as a real opportunity for the university to branch out from the terrestrial research they do to the near aquatic,” Ryan-Shepherd said of UAA becoming a new partner. Ryan-Shepherd also praised designating Kachemak Bay a Habitat Focus Area and the expanded collaboration with NOAA “They have a mission that’s very similar to ours,” she said of NOAA. “We’re extremely

excited and fortunate to be heading in this direction. We look very much forward to collaborating with them.” Under its funding agreement for the KBRR, the state needs to match 30 percent of total research reserve funding, or about $175,000. Currently, the Alaska Department of Fish and Game is KBRR’s state fiscal agent. Earlier this year, Fish and Game officials had said KBRR would be moved out of See BAY, page A-12

Kasilof prowler caught on video How do you count Alaska’s governors? By DAN BALMER Peninsula Clarion

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By BECKY BOHRER Associated Press

JUNEAU — This week, Bill Walker became the 13th governor of Alaska. Or the 11th. Or 16th. Depends on how you count. As it turns out, the state of Alaska doesn’t appear to have an official way of counting governors and their terms. Since statehood in 1959, two men, Bill Egan and Wally Hickel, served nonconsecutive terms. Three — Egan, Jay Hammond and Tony Knowles — served back-to-back terms. When asked which number Walker holds, the state historian, Jo Antonson, said she was unaware of how

Alaska counts governors. The director of the state Division of Libraries, Archives and Museums, Linda Thibodeau, didn’t know, either. Antonson suggested the Division of Elections might know, but director Gail Fenumiai said her “totally uneducated” guess would be that if governors were elected in non-consecutive terms, they would be counted as new governors. That would make Walker Alaska’s 13th governor. But in the Hall of Governors — on the third floor of the state Capitol, outside the governor’s office — 14 portraits hang, including Walker’s. The first two portraits are See COUNT, page A-12

Alaska State Troopers are looking for help in identifying an unknown male caught on camera who attempted to break into the Kasilof Mercantile store early Sunday morning. Camera footage captured a man presumably in his 30s, about 6 feet tall wearing a knit mask over his face with a black jacket and blue jeans with a backpack walk up to the store and attempt to gain entry at about 3 a.m. Trooper spokesperson Megan Peters said the man damaged the building in an attempt to gain entry but left after several minutes. The investigation is ongoing. Kasilof Mercantile employee John Smith said employees noticed footprints coming out of the woods to the door on the first night of fresh snowfall. No damage was done to the buildC

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An unknown man attempted to burglarize the Kasilof Mercantile on the Sterling Highway Sunday at about 3 a.m. Anyone with information on the attempted burglary is encouraged to contact the Soldotna troopers at 907-262-4453.

ing, he said. the prowler.” “It could only be one of three Smith said this is the first things,” Smith said. “Looking attempted burglary at the store See VIDEO, page A-12 at the video it’s hard to identify

A-2 Peninsula Clarion, Thursday, December 4, 2014

AccuWeather 5-day forecast for Kenai-Soldotna

Barrow -2/-11

Today

Friday

Cloudy; some snow at night

Saturday

Hi: 34 Lo: 20

Cloudy

Some rain, ice and perhaps snow

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10 a.m. Noon 2 p.m. 4 p.m.

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Daylight Length of Day - 6 hrs., 9 min., 12 sec. Daylight lost - 3 min., 6 sec.

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24 hours through 4 p.m. yest. Trace Month to date ........................... 0.13" Normal month to date ............. 0.14" Year to date ............................ 18.20" Normal year to date ................ 17.00" Record today ................. 1.82" (1998) Record for Dec. ............. 3.96" (1988) Record for year ............ 27.09" (1963) Snowfall 24 hours through 4 p.m. yest. .. 0.3" Month to date .............................. 1.9" Season to date ........................... 4.9"

Juneau 32/19

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Kodiak 43/38

Sitka 36/30

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45 at Annette -15 at Barrow

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Rain will fall from Texas to Missouri and the Ohio Valley today. Areas of rain will also extend from Idaho to Arizona and New Mexico, as well as from northern California to western Washington state.

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Valdez Kenai/ 33/23 Soldotna Homer

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Anchorage 31/22

Bethel 28/20

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Talkeetna 30/20 Glennallen 17/1

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Anaktuvuk Pass 2/-8

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Orion launch has NASA flying high By MARCIA DUNN AP Aerospace Writer

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — With the imminent debut of its Orion spacecraft, NASA is on a high not felt since the space shuttle days. Shuttle veterans, in fact, are leading the charge in Thursday morning’s two-orbit, 4½-hour test flight, meant to shake out the capsule before astronauts climb aboard — eventually, perhaps, to visit Mars. “We haven’t had this feeling in a while, since the end of the shuttle program,” said Mike Sarafin, the lead flight director stationed at Mission Control in Houston. “Launching an American spacecraft from American soil and beginning something

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new, in this case exploring deep space.” Orion is set to fly farther than any human-rated spacecraft since the Apollo moon program, aiming for a distance of 3,600 miles, more than 14 times higher than the International Space Station. That peak altitude will provide the necessary momentum for a 20,000-mph, 4,000-degree entry over the Pacific. Those 11 short minutes to splashdown is what NASA calls the “trial by fire,” arguably the most critical part of the entire test flight. The heat shield at Orion’s base, at 16.5 feet across, is the largest of its kind ever built. Navy ships were stationed near the recovery zone off the Mexican Baja coast. “It’s an exciting time,” Jeff Angermeier, ground support mission manager, said from Florida’s Kennedy Space Center. “You can feel the buzz.” An estimated 26,000 guests were expected to jam Kennedy

for the sunrise launch, as well as 650 journalists. (Actually, the unmanned rocket will blast off from the adjoining Cape Canaveral Air Force Station.) The space center press site was packed Wednesday with outof-town reporters not seen here since the last shuttle flight in 2011. NASA’s Orion program manager, Mark Geyer, puts the capsule’s inaugural run on a par with the formative steps of Apollo and the space shuttles. “In the sense that we are beginning a new mission, it is, I think, consistent with ... the beginning of shuttle, the beginning of Apollo,” Geyer said. “It’s a new mission for us, starting in the region of the moon and then beyond.” Noted NASA Administrator Charles Bolden Jr.: “For the first time in more than 40 years, this nation is going to launch a spacecraft intended to carry humans beyond low-Earth orbit. That’s a big deal.” Unlike the first space shuttle

flight in 1981 — helmed by two pilots — Orion will not carry astronauts before 2021. NASA wants to test the most critical parts of the capsule on this $370 million shakedown cruise, including the heat shield, parachutes and all the sections jettisoned during ascent and entry. The capsule also will travel through the high-radiation Van Allen belts surrounding Earth; engineers want to gauge the effects on the on-board computers. A Delta IV rocket is hoisting Orion this time around. For Orion’s next flight, around 2018, the capsule will fly atop the megarocket still in development by NASA — SLS, short for Space Launch System. Only after that will humans climb aboard; NASA hopes to send an Orion crew to an asteroid corralled in lunar orbit in the 2020s and to Mars in the 2030s. Flying this one without humans on board took some of the edge off NASA’s first-flight jitters.

Peninsula Clarion, Thursday, December 4, 2014

Obituary Arthur Francis Snell Arthur Francis Snell passed away peacefully from a heart attack with his wife Judy at his side on Tuesday, Dec. 2, 2014. Art was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota on Oct. 31, 1939, to parents Francis and Marie Snell. He grew up in Prior Lake where he distinguished himself in sports and was inducted with his team into the Baseball Hall of Fame. A couple of years later he was again inducted into the Hall of Fame for his excellence in football, basketball and baseball. He received all-conference awards in all three of these sports. (He would be beyond happy if he knew I was bragging him up now because I used to hide his scrapbook so he wouldn’t bore people with his exploits.) Art always had a great curiosity for Alaska and visited two times before moving his young family here in 1968. He was an avid fisherman and moose and caribou hunter. When the family first moved here they basically subsisted on moose, caribou, salmon (before he discovered halibut) and whatever fowl he could kill. Art was a man of many names, among them, Husband, Father, Grandpa, Great-Great-Grandpa, Uncle, and was proud of all of them. He started working in 1968 for ENSTAR when it was called Anchorage Natural Gas and retired from there 28 years later. Their favorite summer activity for the next 10 years was fishing and camping either in their motorhome or on their boat the “Hey Jude” One of Art’s favorite sayings was, “I was raised a Lutheran but I’m Catholic by environment,” which lead to his next saying, “The next time I get married I’m not going to marry a Catholic.” Then he’d shift his eyes to see if anyone was listening. Before he joined the Catholic Church he and Judy took several engaged couples through the church’s program to help prepare engaged couples for the Sacrament of Matrimony. Art was an organ donor and Judy talked to them after he died and among other things he will donate is his corneas, which brings me to a comment by one of my kids after I told them that their father and I had this thing when we were in a crowded room and made eye contact he would wink at me. They joked, what if one of dad’s corneas caused someone to wink across the room at just anyone just out of reflex? We are grateful for the years we had of him and bless him to allow someone to see again. A memorial mass will be at noon Saturday at Our Lady of Perpetual Help Catholic Church in Soldotna. Father Roger Bergkamp, OMI will officiate. Luncheon will follow at the church. Art was preceded in death by his son Brett and his parents. He is survived by his wife of 54 years, Judy; his children, Cindy (Jake) Nagle, Ken Snell and Maribeth Snell; his grandchildren, Jacob Nagle and Kristen Nagle; and the star of the family, his great-grandson Peyton Lowe.

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JOINT BASE ELMENDORF-RICHARDSON (AP) — About 50 Alaska Air National Guard members have been deployed to the Horn of Africa. The airmen are members of the Guard’s 211th Rescue Squadron, 176th Operations Support Squadron, 176th Maintenance Group and 176th Medical Group. Guard officials say in a release that part of the mission is to support partner nation operations in East Africa in the fight against extremist organizations. Kalei Rupp, a spokeswoman with the Alaska Department of Military and Veterans Affairs, says the Guard members are set to return in early April. Another group of Guard members are set to deploy to the Horn of Africa in early 2015.

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Tryouts for volleyball team slated

Peninsula Midnight Sun Volleyball Club is holding tryouts at Kenai Central High School Dec. 15-16 from 7:30-9:30 p.m. Holiday lighting contest in Nikiski for its 18U, 16U and 14U teams. Practices are held two nights As part of the community beautification plan, the Nikiski per week and tournaments take place once or twice per month Community Council is promoting its annual holiday lighting from January through the end of March. For further informacontest, “Nikiski Night Lights.” The community is encouraged tion, contact Heath McLeod at pmsalaska@outlook.com. to “light up the winter nights” with holiday displays and also to enter their neighbors and local businesses into the contest. Three categories will be considered: business, residential tra- Lifeguard training offered ditional and residential animated. Entry forms are available on A Red Cross lifeguard class will be offered at the Kenai the Council’s website at http://www.nikiskicc.com/, and the Central High School pool from 8 a.m.-5 p.m. Dec. 22, 23, Nikiski Post Office. December 15 is the deadline to submit an 29 and 30, and possibly Dec. 31. The cost for the class is entry, with judging to begin on December 16. Contest winners $200. Participants must be 15 (16 to be hired by the school will be announced on the Council’s website. Prizes are pro- district); swim 300 yards continuously using front crawl, vided by Homer Electric Association (energy credits toward breaststroke or a combination of both; within 1 minute, 40 the winners’ electric bill) and Nikiski Community Council. seconds, swim 20 yards and dive 7 to 10 feet deep to retrieve Questions, nominations and forms can be sent to nikiskiisbeau- a 10-pound block, swim back to the starting point with both tiful@gmail.com or Nikiski Community Council, P.O. Box hands on the block and exit the pool without using the lad7011, Nikiski, AK 99635. der; and tread water for 2 minutes using only legs. ParticiQuestions? Call Bonita Miller at 776-8555. pants must sign up in advance. Call the pool at 283-7476 for more information.

Harlem Ambassadors coming to Sterling

The Harlem Ambassadors, a comedy basketball team, will play the Sterling Crown G’s, an eclectic group of local leaders and celebrities, at 6 p.m. Sunday at Sterling Elementary School. Admission is $15 for adults and $10 for students. Tickets will be sold at the Soldotna Safeway Thursday and Friday, and will be available at a meet and greet event Saturday at 6 p.m. at Hooligan’s Lodge in Soldotna. The event is a fundraiser for Sterling Crown Studio, which aims to provide a place to teach area youth music and culinary arts. For more information or tickets, call 907-252-8748.

Garden Club to learn about Kantishna mining history On Dec. 9 at 7 p.m., the Central Peninsula Garden Club will host a presentation on “The Gardens and Pioneer Life of Fannie Quigley,” presented by author and historian Jane Haigh. Haigh will share her extensive research of Quigley, a pioneer, mining woman who lived for 40 years in the remote Kantishna mining district, now at the end of the Denali Park Road. Fannie was famous for her enormous gardens grown under very challenging conditions, and for her hunting and trapping. All of her skills went into the cooking so that many visitors to the park over the years waxed eloquent about the fabulous meals they were served, miles from civilization. Haigh is the author of a number of Alaska history books. In 2009 she joined the faculty at KPC after completing a PhD in U.S. History at the University of Arizona in Tucson. The program will take place at the Cook Inlet Aquaculture Building, Mile 16.5 Kalifornsky Beach Road. It is free and open to the public. For more information, call Marion Nelson, 283 4632.

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Today 8 a.m. • Alcoholics Anonymous As Bill Sees It Group, 11312 Kenai Spur Highway Unit 71 (Old Carrs Mall). Call 398-9440. 8:30 a.m. • TOPS AK No. 220 Kasilof weigh-in at CES Station 6, 58260 Sterling Highway. Meeting starts at 9 a.m. Call 262-7319 or 2523436. 10 a.m. • TOPS AK No. 164 Soldotna weigh-in at First Baptist Church, 159 S. Binkley. Meeting starts at 11 a.m. Call 262-7339. • Narcotics Anonymous PJ Meeting, 11312 Kenai Spur Highway, Unit 71, Kenai. Noon • Alcoholics Anonymous recovery group at 11312 Kenai Spur Highway Suite 71 in the old Carrs Mall in Kenai. Call 262-1917. 5:30 p.m. • Free Seated Zumba Gold at the Kenai Senior Center. New participants, active older adults, and chair-bound or limited mobility participants are encouraged. 6 p.m. • Family Story Time (PreK and up) at the Soldotna Public Library in the Children’s Area. Bring the whole family out to listen to stories and sing songs. Younger and older siblings are always welcome with adult supervision. Call 262-4227. • AA Step Sisters women’s meeting at Our Lady of Perpetual

KPC Student Union plans celebration The Kenai Peninsula College Student Union will host a free community celebration of the holidays at the Kenai River Campus McLane Commons in Soldotna on Dec. 13, from 3-5 p.m., with cookies, hot cocoa and picture with Santa. For more information contact Cheryl L. Tuttle at 907-420-7737.

Parks advisory board to meet The Southern Peninsula State Parks Advisory Board will meet on Dec. 17 from 5:00 – 7:00 p.m, in Ninilchik at 66590 Oil Well Road. For more information please contact the Kenai Area State Parks Office, 262-5581.

Luau benefits SoHi hoops teams An authentic Polynesian dance show and luau-style dinner to benefit the Soldotna High School basketball teams will take place Saturday in the Soldotna High School commons. The dinner starts at 6:30 p.m. and entertainment starts at 7 p.m. A silent auction will run from 6:30-7:30 p.m. Tickets are $20, $10 for children 5-12 years old. Tickets are available at Trustworthy Hardware and Fishing in Soldotna or by calling coach Kyle McFall at 252-0872.

Christmas trees available from 4-H clubs Area 4-H clubs are selling fresh-cut local Christmas trees at the corner of Kalifornsky Beach and Bridge Access roads. Call 394-0888 if you would like on delivered or for more information.

Help Catholic Church, O’Neill Hall, 222 W. Redoubt, Soldotna. Call 262-2304. • TOPS AK 20, Soldotna, weigh-in at Christ Lutheran Church, 128 North Soldotna Avenue, Soldotna. Meeting starts at 6:30 p.m. Call 262-1557. • Celebrate Recovery, Midnight Son Seventh-day Adventist church on the corner of Swires Rd. and Kenai Spur Hwy in Kenai. Dinner is at 6 p.m.; Recovery Lesson at 6:30 p.m.; Open Share groups at 7:15 p.m. Email rking4@mac.com or call 260-3292. 7 p.m. • Narcotics Anonymous Support Group “Dopeless Hope Fiends,” 11312 Kenai Spur Highway, Unit 71, Kenai. • Narcotics Anonymous Support Group “Sterling Group,” Moose River RV Park, Mile 81.5 Sterling Highway, Sterling. • Square dance group at Ninilchik Senior Center. • Alcoholics Anonymous “Unity Men’s Group” meets downstairs the Salvation Army building in Soldotna. 8 p.m. • AA Attitude of Gratitude at URS Club, 405 Overland Drive. Call 283-3777. • AA North Roaders Group at North Star Methodist Church, Mile 25.5 Kenai Spur Highway. Call 242-9477. • Alcoholics Anonymous Ninichick support group at United Methodist Church, 15811 Sterling Highway, Ninilchik. Call 907-567-3574. The Community Calendar lists recurring events and meetings of local organizations. To have your event listed, email organization name, day or days of meeting, time of meeting, place, and a contact phone number to news@peninsulaclarion.com.

USS Anchorage to retrieve Orion ANCHORAGE (AP) — When NASA’s new state-of-theart space capsule returns from its first orbit of the Earth, a Navy ship carrying the name of Alaska’s largest city will be there to pluck it out of the ocean. The USS Anchorage, a San Antonio-class amphibious transport dock ship, left San Diego on Monday for the retrieval mission, the Navy said in a release. Orion will be launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida, on Thursday morning on an unmanned orbital test flight. The inaugural Orion will carry no crew during the 4 1/2hour test flight and be confined to Earth’s orbit. But it will aim

for a high point of 3,600 miles on the second loop of the planet, setting the spacecraft up for a 20,000-mph, 4,000-degree reentry. Splashdown will occur in the Pacific, 600 miles southwest of San Diego. A specially-trained bridge crew will be on the USS Anchorage for the mission, and the Navy says divers will be in small boats to get close to the capsule once it splashes down. Divers plan to rig tending lines to guide the capsule back to the larger ship. “It is a very complex, highlyintegrated team of Navy divers, meteorologists, flight crews, the well-deck personnel and the bridge watch standers on An-

chorage,” Lt. Keith Tate, operations officer, said in a statement. “All of this will hopefully culminate with the historic capsule recovery, which is something the Navy hasn’t been involved with for almost 40 years.” Crewmembers on the USS Anchorage have been training for the mission for several months. NASA will track Orion and guide the USS Anchorage to the recovery point then the sailors bringing the capsule back

onto the ship. Once it has been secured, the Navy said a team from Lockheed Martin will download data off Orion. “All of us who have been here since the beginning are excited to see this day come,” Tate said. “We’re hoping for a safe, successful evolution. It’s something historic and we’re all proud to be a part of it.” The USS Anchorage was commissioned in May 2013 during a ceremony in its namesake city.

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Much to learn from 1998 rape case Assuming she’s willing to participate,

and it sounds as if she is, Brenda Tracy could become a memorable teacher for students — not to mention staff members and administrators — at Oregon State University. Tracy is the subject of a riveting three-part series by Oregonian sports columnist John Canzano. Here’s the gist of the story: In June 1998, Tracy, then a 24-year-old waitress, reported to police that she had been sexually assaulted by four men. Two of her alleged assailants were OSU football players. Police asked Tracy to get a rape examination, and she did so. Then prosecutors didn’t press charges because Tracy decided not to participate in the case, a decision she said she now regrets. Tracy came forward to Canzano in large part because she was still haunted by the words of Mike Riley, then wrapping up his first stint as coach of the Oregon State football coach. At the time, Riley said he thought the two players had made a “bad choice.” Riley, now in the midst of his second term as the Beavers coach (after the 1999 season, he left the Beavers for a stint with the San Diego Chargers), today regrets that choice of words. He has extended an invitation to Tracy to come and speak to his football team. In a comment he posted on The Oregonian’s website, Riley wrote: “Her experiences would be a powerful message and one I know our whole team would take to heart.” That’s undoubtedly true. It’s a message OSU officials should extend well beyond the football team. As Canzano’s series has rolled out, OSU officials have said all the right things. OSU President Ed Ray apologized to Tracy in a statement, and ordered a review of the university’s response in 1998 — and, although it will be a while until we see the results of that review, it would appear a safe bet that the university could have done a better job with this case back then. Ray also has asked his staff to review the police reports in the case to see if there are additional steps the university could take, although it’s not clear what those might be, considering that the statute of limitations for rape is six years, and the Corvallis Police Department has disposed of the evidence in the case, as per its policy. Nevertheless, it’s gratifying to see OSU officials reviewing what happened 16 years ago — and how the case could have been better handled. It’s also fair to note that OSU has a different structure in place these days to deal with this sort of issue and has rolled out a new program aimed at preventing sexual assaults. In that regard, Tracy’s willingness to speak out about her experiences could provide a galvanizing real-life example of how these “bad choices” leave real lives shattered. Tracy, it would appear, finally has managed to put together the pieces of her life, in part by going public with her story. The next step for OSU officials is simple, yet potentially profound: It should extend the widest possible welcome to Tracy — in a way it did not do 16 years ago. — Corvallis Gazette-Times, Nov. 24

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By GARRY TRUDEAU

The Ferguson charade

The White House response to Ferguson wouldn’t be complete without a meeting with Al Sharpton, the infamous agitator who has become President Barack Obama’s “go-to man on race,” in the words of a Politico headline from last August. So Sharpton was inevitably one of the civil-rights leaders at a White House meeting Monday. The president no doubt passed up the opportunity to direct Sharpton to the Treasury Department up the street, which would surely love to have him visit and make good on all the taxes he has avoided paying through the years. A New York Times report found that there are $4.5 million in state and federal tax liens against him and his businesses. If the rest of the country had Sharpton’s accountant, there would be no reason for anyone to call for tax cuts. Our complex and onerous tax code would be rendered irrelevant by simple nonpayment. Despite a disdain for the Internal Revenue Service that would make the average anarcho-libertarian blush (among other embarrassments and scandals), Sharpton has leveraged himself into respectability with the Democratic establishment by making himself central to any national racial controversy. By rights, he should have given up any pretense to criminal forensics after his defamatory role in the Tawana Brawley hoax in the 1980s, but there he was at Ferguson, Mo., suggesting the worst despite what turned out to be strong evidence that Officer Darren Wilson acted lawfully.

When the grand jury found there was insufficient evidence to indict Wilson, Sharpton pronounced that the Ferguson protesters had lost the battle, but not the war. What are they going to do to win, go out Rich Lowry and find another cop to falsely accuse of a racial assassination and attempt to railroad into an indictment and conviction? The Ferguson story has progressed from the tragedy of the initial incident to the outrage of the violence of the protests to a new phase of charade. The federal government must pretend to do something because it must ... do something. But what national initiative is going to stop police officers from defending themselves when they feel as if they are under mortal threat, as Officer Wilson says he did? The Justice Department investigation of Wilson on civil-rights grounds will almost certainly lead nowhere. The standard for such a prosecution is high, and if the evidence didn’t merit a routine criminal prosecution, there is no way it can reasonably support a civil-rights charge. President Obama is ordering the streamlining of the rules for providing surplus military equipment to police departments. Fine. But the militarization of the police had nothing to do with the original con-

frontation between Wilson and Michael Brown, and nothing to do with the ensuing violent protests in Ferguson, which rolled on regardless of the posture of the police. The president wants funding for more body-worn cameras for local police, a worthy-enough experiment. But such a camera, assuming that what it captured was consistent with the most credible evidence, would have served to vindicate Wilson’s version of events rather than the protestors’ narrative of an extralegal killing. The most needful reform in Ferguson and surrounding communities, per the excellent reporting of Radley Balko of The Washington Post, is the end of the obnoxious and parasitic practice of squeezing revenue out of residents with fines from traffic and other petty offenses. This creates an incentive for police to hassle motorists and is especially burdensome to poor residents. Since this issue is exceedingly local and dull, almost no one talks about it. The facts have stopped mattering in Ferguson, if they ever did. It is probably destined to live on in the roll call of locales, like Selma and Birmingham, that are bywords for civil-rights abuses. Never mind that this distorts what happened in Ferguson and belittles the memory of past civilrights battles. There are too many people too vested in the myth, with Al Sharpton leading the way. Rich Lowry can be reached via e-mail: comments.lowry@nationalreview.com.

GOP White House prospects clash on foreign policy By STEVE PEOPLES Associated Press

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WASHINGTON — An intensifying foreign policy debate is exposing new divisions among the Republican Party’s most ambitious leaders, with high stakes for the 2016 presidential contest and, potentially, the nation’s role in global affairs. The intra-party clash pits the GOP’s national security hawks against libertarianminded conservatives whose influence is growing in Republican politics. Largely an afterthought in the last presidential contest, the foreign policy debate is playing out across the country this week as likely contenders jockey for position before officially launching White House bids. “It’s very tempting to want to think America can hide behind our oceans and pretend that the world is going to become magically a safer place,” Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal said Wednesday. “America must be willing to lead. We are the indispensable nation.” Jindal was one of the featured speakers at a Wednesday foreign policy forum that was among several events and speeches this week highlighting GOP fissures in the early stages of the 2016 presidential primary season. The GOP’s 2008 presidential nominee, Arizona Sen. John McCain, earlier in the day offered a more positive review of Democrat Hillary Rodham Clinton’s foreign policy than that of Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul, a likely Republican presidential contender who favors a smaller American footprint in the world. “I don’t think he has any credibility,” McCain said of Paul, who the day before charged that McCain favors “15 more wars.” Asked about the foreign policy of Clinton, the former secretary of state, McCain responded, “I think she’s OK.” While no one has yet to announce a bid, the 2016 presidential contest is expected to feature a new generation of conservative leaders who favor a limited role for America abroad — Paul and Texas Sen. Ted Cruz among them — and establishment-minded C

Republicans like former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, whose father and brother launched military conflicts in the Middle East. “It seems the whole world is on fire right now,” Cruz said Wednesday in his second foreign policy address in as many days. In his first, he suggested he would favor U.S. military action only as a last resort. “If and when we have to, it should be with a clear, stated objective up front,” Cruz said. “We should go in with overwhelming force. And then we should get the heck out.” Paul on Wednesday formally introduced a “declaration of war” against the Islamic State — a move designed to paint himself as a strict constitutionalist as he explores a White House bid. The largely symbolic resolution would expire after one year, allowing ground combat forces only to shield Americans from imminent danger and to gather intelligence or pursue high-level targets. Paul, one of the leaders in what critics call the GOP’s “isolationist wing,” lashed out at Republicans who favor a dramatic increase in military spending with little regard for the national deficit. “There are conservatives who (say), ‘I’ll spend anything and I don’t care if it bankrupts the world.’ ... That’s wrong,” Paul said this week. “I truly believe that the No. 1 threat to our national security is our debt.” The foreign policy focus comes as violence rages across the Middle East and tensions intensify across Eastern Europe. As would-be presidential candidates seek a leadership role in the debate, others are scrambling to strengthen their international credentials. Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker is expected to visit Israel for the first time early next year, and New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie heads to Canada on an official trade mission later in the week — his second foreign trip in recent months. Polling suggests that war-weary voters may welcome candidates like Paul and

Cruz. A CNN/ORC poll in September found that nearly 6 in 10 Americans think the United States should not play a leading role among other countries in trying to solve the world’s problems. But Bush, a favorite of establishmentminded Republicans, this week cited “a growing awareness that we can’t withdraw from the world.” “The United States needs to lead. Lead with humility, lead with respect — but lead,” Bush told a group of prominent Cuban-American leaders in Miami on Tuesday. “We are not an equal partner in a so-called community of nations. We are a leader among equals.”

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Nation Move “tramples” U.S. Constitution Multistate coalition sues over Obama’s immigration order By WILL WEISSERT Associated Press

AUSTIN, Texas — Texas is leading a 17-state coalition suing over President Barack Obama’s recently announced executive actions on immigration, arguing in a lawsuit filed Wednesday that the move “tramples” key portions of the U.S. Constitution. Many top Republicans have denounced Obama’s unilateral move, which was designed to spare as many as 5 million people living illegally in the United States from deportation. But Texas Gov.-elect Greg Abbott took it a step further, filing a formal legal challenge in federal court in the Southern District of Texas. His state is joined by 16 other mostly conservative states, largely in the south and Midwest, such as Alabama, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana and the Carolinas. The states aren’t seeking monetary damages, but instead want the courts to block Obama’s actions. The lawsuit could make things awkward come Friday, when Abbott travels to Washington to meet with Obama as part of a group of newly elected governors. Under Obama’s order, announced Nov. 20, protection from deportation and the right to work will be extended to an estimated 4.1 million parents of U.S. citizens and legal permanent residents who have lived in the U.S. for at least five years and to hundreds of thousands more young people. The lawsuit raises three objections: that Obama violated the “Take Care Clause” of the U.S. Constitution that Abbott said limits the scope of presidential power; that the

‘In effect, his action placed a neon sign on our border, assuring people that they could ignore the law of the United States.’ — Texas Gov.-elect Greg Abbott

federal government didn’t follow proper rulemaking procedures; and that the order will “exacerbate the humanitarian crisis along the southern border, which will affect increased state investment in law enforcement, health care and education.” Abbott said Obama’s actions “directly violate a fundamental promise to the American people” and that it was up to the president to “execute the law, not de facto make law.” Republican presidents, including Ronald Reagan, have issued past executive orders pertaining to immigration. Abbott said those were in response to actions by Congress — unlike Obama, who Abbott said acted in lieu of congressional approval. Overwhelmingly elected governor last month, Abbott has been Texas attorney general since 2002. Wednesday marks the 31st time he has sued the federal government since Obama took office. Many of those were over environmental regulations or the White House’s signature health care law, however. The only other high-profile lawsuit against Obama’s executive or-

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Texas Attorney General and Gov.-elect Greg Abbott speaks against President Barack Obama’s executive order on immigration at the Price Daniel Building in Austin, Texas, on Nov. 24, 2014. Abbott is again vowing to sue the Obama administration for lifting the threat of deportation from millions of immigrants living illegally in the United States.

der has come on behalf of Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio. Earlier this week, House Majority Leader John Boehner told lawmakers the GOP-led House may vote to undo Obama’s executive action, but the move would be mostly symbolic, as Obama would certainly veto such legislation and the Democratic-led Senate wouldn’t go for it, either. Potential 2016 presidential candidate and current Texas Gov. Rick Perry, who leaves office in January, also spoke out against the executive order earlier Wednesday, saying it could trigger a new flood of people pouring across the Texas-Mexico border and create chaos that could be exploited by drug- and people-smugglers. Perry said hours before Abbott’s announcement that Obama’s 2012 executive order delaying the deportation of children brought into the U.S. illegally by their parents trig-

gered an unprecedented wave of unaccompanied minors and families, mostly from Central America, crossing into the U.S. this summer. “In effect, his action placed a neon sign on our border, assuring people that they could ignore the law of the United States,” said Perry, who has deployed up to 1,000 National Guard troops to the border. Abbott said his state can already predict the future effects of Obama’s executive action based on the 2012 order. “Texas has been at the epicenter of the results of the president’s executive action,” Abbott said. The federal lawsuit involves the following states: Alabama, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Kansas, Louisiana, Maine, Mississippi, Montana, Nebraska, North Carolina, South Carolina, South Dakota, Texas, Utah, West Virginia and Wisconsin.

NYC cop in videotaped death: No intent to harm By TOM HAYS and COLLEEN LONG Associated Press

NEW YORK — A white New York City police officer was cleared Wednesday in the chokehold death of an unarmed black man stopped on suspicion of selling loose, untaxed cigarettes — a case that sparked outrage and drew comparisons to the deadly police shooting in Ferguson, Missouri. The decision by the Staten Island grand jury not to indict Officer Daniel Pantaleo heightened tensions that have simmered in the city since the July 17 death of Eric Garner. In the neighborhood where Garner died, people reacted with angry disbelief and chanted, “I can’t breathe!” and “Hands up — don’t choke!” His stepfather, Benjamin Carr, urged calm but said the ruling made no sense. “It’s just a license to kill a black man,” he said, calling the justice system “not worth a damn.” In his first public comments on the death, Pantaleo said he prays for Garner’s family and hopes they accept his condolences. “I became a police officer to help people and to protect those who can’t protect themselves,” he said in the written statement. “It is never my intention to harm anyone and I feel very bad about the death of Mr. Garner.” Police union officials and Pantaleo’s lawyer argued that the officer used a takedown move taught by the police department, not a banned maneuver, because Garner was resisting arrest. They said his poor health was the main reason he died. Staten Island District Attorney Daniel Donovan said the grand jury found “no reasonable cause” to bring charges. The grand jury could have considered a range of charges, from murder to a lesser offense such as reckless endangerment. “I am actually astonished based on the evidence of the videotape, and the medical examiner, that this grand jury at this time wouldn’t indict

for anything,” said a lawyer for Garner’s family, Jonathan Moore. Garner’s family planned a news conference later in the day with the Rev. Al Sharpton. Mayor Bill de Blasio canceled his planned appearance at the annual Rockefeller Christmas tree lighting to hold a news conference at a Staten Island church while citywide protests started to gather steam. “Today’s outcome is one that many in our city did not want,” he said in a statement. “Yet New York City owns a proud and powerful tradition of expressing ourselves through nonviolent protest.” A video shot by an onlooker and widely viewed on the Internet showed the 43-year-old Garner telling a group of police officers to leave him alone as they tried to arrest him. Pantaleo responded by wrapping his arm around Garner’s neck in what appeared to be a chokehold, which is banned under NYPD policy.

The heavyset Garner, who had asthma, was heard repeatedly gasping, “I can’t breathe!” A second video surfaced that showed police and paramedics appearing to make no effort to revive Garner while he lay motionless on the ground. He later died at a hospital. As with 18-year-old Michael Brown’s death in the St. Louis suburb of Ferguson, the Garner case sparked protests, accusations of racist policing and calls for federal prosecutors to intervene. But unlike the Missouri protests, the demonstrations in New York remained mostly peaceful. After the grand jury decision came down, several dozen demonstrators at the site of the arrest scattered cigarettes on the ground in homage to Garner, and lit candles. “Cold-blooded murder!” said Jennie Chambers, who works nearby and saw Garner daily. “We saw it on TV, it’s on video. The whole world saw it. Ferguson, now us.”

Daniel Skelton came from Rahway, New Jersey, after hearing the news. “I’m tired of the police harassment and killing of innocent African-American men,” he said. “You’ve got a lot of evil police officers hiding behind the good of the badge.” In Times square a crowd of at least 200 people held signs saying, saying “Black lives matter,” ‘’Fellow white people, wake up” and “Once again, no justice.” The case prompted Police Commissioner William Bratton to order officers at the nation’s largest police department to undergo retraining on use of force. The medical examiner ruled Garner’s death a homicide and found that a chokehold contributed to it. A forensic pathologist hired by Garner’s family, Dr. Michael Baden, agreed with those findings, saying there was hemorrhaging on Garner’s neck indicative of neck compressions.

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Around the World Air bag maker defies US government, rejects call for expanded, coast-to-coast recall WASHINGTON — Japan’s Takata Corp. rejected federal regulators’ demand Wednesday for an expanded, nationwide recall of millions of air bags, setting up a possible legal showdown and leaving some drivers to wonder about the safety of their cars. Amid the standoff, Honda Motor Co. decided to act on its own and recall cars with the potentially defective equipment in all 50 states. But other automakers have yet to make a decision. At issue are air bags whose inflators can explode with too much force, hurling shrapnel into the passenger compartment. At least five deaths and dozens of injuries have been linked to the problem worldwide. Over the past six years, Takata and 10 automakers issued a series of recalls covering 8 million cars in the U.S., mostly in high-humidity areas such as the Gulf Coast, because of evidence that moisture can cause the propellant to burn too quickly. But after incidents in California and North Carolina, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration began pressing for the recall of 8 million more vehicles from coast to coast — a demand that Takata flatly rejected. “There’s not enough scientific evidence to change from a regional recall to a national recall,” Hiroshi Shimizu, Takata senior vice president of global quality assurance, told a House subcommittee on Capitol Hill.

Cleared of charges in adopted daughter’s death, couple leaves Qatar; heads home DOHA, Qatar — An American couple left the Gulf nation of Qatar on Wednesday after being cleared of charges in their adopted 8-year-old daughter’s death, ending a nearly twoyear legal saga they contend was rooted in confusion over cross-cultural adoption. The Los Angeles couple, Matthew and Grace Huang, caught international attention after they were arrested in January 2013 on murder charges following the death of their African-born daughter Gloria. The Huangs, who are of Asian descent, had adopted Gloria in Ghana when she was 4 years old, and are the parents of two other African-born adopted boys. Throughout the case, the family’s representative continuously expressed concern that there were cultural misunderstandings underpinning the charges against the Huangs in a nation where Western-style adoptions and cross-cultural families are relatively rare. An initial police report raised questions about why the Huangs would adopt children who did not share their “hereditary traits.” And prosecutors also raised suspicions that the children were part of a human trafficking operation or were “bought” for organ harvesting, the family’s website said.

Michael Brown’s stepfather apologizes for comments made after jury announcement FERGUSON, Mo. — The stepfather of Michael Brown has apologized for angry comments he made after the grand jury decided not to indict the police officer who killed his stepson, but said his remarks had nothing to do with the arson and looting that ravaged Ferguson and the surrounding area. Louis Head said Wednesday in a statement that he was full of emotion on the night of Nov. 24, when he yelled “Burn this bitch down!” in a crowd of protesters. St. Louis County police said Tuesday they are investigating Head’s comments as part of a broader inquiry into the arson, vandalism and looting. Twelve commercial buildings were destroyed in the hours after the grand jury decision. Head does not have a listed phone number, and there was no answer when an Associated Press reporter knocked at his listed address Wednesday.. Brown, 18, was shot and killed by Ferguson officer Darren Wilson on Aug. 9. Wilson, who is white, told the grand jury he fired because his life was in danger, but some witnesses said Brown, who was black and unarmed, was trying to surrender.

Aspiring teacher, 7-year-old girls, among those killed in crash of 2 school buses KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — An aspiring teacher with two children of her own and a little girl who loved to read were among those killed when two Tennessee school buses carrying children home for the day crashed on Tuesday. A preliminary investigation by Knoxville police found that the buses were traveling in opposite directions on the Asheville Highway when the driver of a bus carrying children from an intermediate school made a sudden left turn across the concrete median and crashed into the other bus. The second bus, taking children home from a primary school, flipped onto its side. Three people in that bus died, and another three suffered serious injuries. — The Associated Press

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Rain falls for a second day on parched California By CHRISTOPHER WEBER Associated Press

LOS ANGELES — A second day of much-needed rain fell across drought-stricken California on Wednesday, but the storm so far had produced few of the problems such as flooding and mudslides that threatened areas left barren by wildfires. Residents and authorities, however, kept a cautious watch on saturated slopes as scattered showers fell in Southern California, where the heaviest torrents fell a day earlier. Inland areas east of Los Angeles were expected to see the strongest downpours. One location, Yucaipa Ridge in the San Bernardino Mountains, had received an exceptional 8.38 inches of rain by 4 a.m. Wednesday, the National Weather Service said. Despite the storm’s scale, experts said it would take many more similar storms to pull the state out of a three-year drought. Across California, the storm

likely opened a sinkhole in San Francisco, dropped snow in mountains key to the water supply and awakened signature waterfalls at Yosemite National Park, including the 2,425-foot Yosemite Falls that had dried to a trickle by mid-July. “With the precipitation, they are looking good. They are flowing nicely,” park spokeswoman Ashley Mayer said. Flash flood watches were extended for wildfire burn areas, where worries about debris flows and flooding that did not immediately materialize. About 50 miles northwest of Los Angeles, gushing water and muddy debris poured from hillsides Tuesday, forcing the evacuation of about 75 homes in Camarillo Springs for much of the day. When the order was lifted, authorities urged people to stay away voluntarily. No major damage was reported. In Orange County, southeast of Los Angeles, about 60 homes in rural Silverado Canyon also were under a voluntary evacuation notice. The area burned

over the summer and has been the site of previous mudslides. In San Francisco, an overnight deluge likely caused a 10-foot-wide, 8-foot-long sinkhole, but no injuries were reported. The rain, expected to last through Thursday, has brought most of the San Francisco Bay Area within or beyond normal rainfall totals to date for the first time in years. Just before the storm arrived, the Sierra Nevada snowpack — which counts for most of the state’s water supply — was at just 24 percent of normal for this time of year. But snow was building rapidly with reports of 10 inches of snowfall at elevations of 8,000 feet. Meanwhile, Southern California coastal residents faced another problem: a thick tangle of trash that washed from city streets into storm drains and onto beaches. Crews in the city of Long Beach were busy clearing the garbage washing ashore, lifeguard captain Scott Dixon said.

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Crews work around a sinkhole that formed in the Richmond district after a night of heavy rains, Wednesday, in San Francisco. A second day of much-needed rain fell across drought-stricken California on Wednesday, but the storm so far had produced few of the problems such as flooding and mudslides that threatened areas left barren by wildfires.

Court grants Texas prisoner, Panetti, execution reprieve By MICHAEL GRACZYK Associated Press

HUNTSVILLE, Texas — A federal appeals court halted Wednesday’s scheduled execution of a Texas killer whose attempt to subpoena Jesus Christ as a trial witness and other behavior led his attorneys to argue he is too mentally ill for capital punishment. Scott Panetti, who was diagnosed with schizophrenia some 14 years before fatally shooting his estranged wife’s parents in 1992, was granted the reprieve less than eight hours before he was set to receive a lethal injection. In stopping the execution, the 5th U.S. Circuit Court

of Appeals acknowledged the legal complexity of putting a mentally ill inmate to death. In a two-sentence ruling, the court said it needs time to “fully consider the late arriving and complex legal questions at issue in this matter” and that it will schedule briefings and hearings to consider arguments. The Texas attorney general’s office said it has no immediate plans to appeal and that state attorneys will present arguments to the 5th Circuit once the court sets a date for them. Panetti’s lawyers described him as delusional and argued that he was too mentally ill to qualify for capital punishment and they sought the delay so

Panetti could undergo new competency examinations. Panetti, who acted as his own trial lawyer, testified as an alternate personality he called “Sarge” to describe the slayings of Joe and Amanda Alvarado. He wore a purple cowboy outfit, including a big cowboy hat, during trial and largely ignored a standby attorney the judge appointed to assist him. Appeals also were before the U.S. Supreme Court, which has said mentally ill people cannot be executed if they don’t have a factual and rational understanding of why they’re being punished. The high court took no action once the lower court stopped the punishment.

Panetti, 56, was still at a prison outside Livingston when the ruling came. He had not been moved to Huntsville, where executions are carried out, Texas Department of Criminal Justice spokesman Jason Clark said. The Hayward, Wisconsin, native, who was convicted and sentenced in 1995, had been diagnosed with schizophrenia in 1978. He had been hospitalized more than a dozen times for treatment in the decade before the shootings. Panetti’s appeals lawyers said they are grateful for the reprieve that will allow “a careful review of the issues surrounding his competency.” “Mr. Panetti has not had a

competency evaluation in seven years, and we believe that today’s ruling is the first step in a process which will clearly demonstrate that Mr. Panetti is too severely mentally ill to be executed,” Greg Wiercioch and Kathryn Kase said in a statement. Both visited with Panetti in prison in the past few weeks and said his mental condition had worsened. Wiercioch said Panetti told him devices implanted in his teeth by prison system dentists were sending messages to his brain. Panetti also has insisted Satan is working through prison officials to execute him to keep

him from preaching the Gospel. State attorneys said records showed no significant change since Panetti’s last competency examination. During his trial and subsequent appeals, no court has found him incompetent or insane. Panetti’s estranged wife and her 3-year-old daughter had moved in with the Alvarados at their home in Fredericksburg, about 60 miles north of San Antonio. She obtained a court order to keep Panetti away. Enraged, he dressed in camouflage clothing and armed himself with a rifle, a sawed-off shotgun and knives. He broke into the home and shot the couple.

President Obama’s plan aims to help young American Indian youth By BLAKE NICHOLSON and NEDRA PICKLER Associated Press

WASHINGTON — Pledging to fulfill a “sacred responsibility,” President Barack Obama unveiled an initiative Wednesday aimed at improving dire conditions and creating opportunities for American Indian youth, more than a third of whom live in poverty. Obama’s Generation Indigenous initiative calls for programs focused on better preparing young American Indians for college and careers, and developing leadership skills through

the Department of Education and the Aspen Institute’s Center for Native American Youth. Members of the president’s staff also plan to visit reservations next year. “Nothing gets me angrier than when I get a sense that our young people early in life are already feeling like opportunities are foreclosed to them,” Obama said. “Because that’s not who we are.” The White House did not provide a cost estimate for the initiative, but a spokeswoman said the administration plans to fund it with existing money and the help of nonprofit and phil-

anthropic organizations. The announcement, made as part of the White House Tribal Nations Conference that Obama hosted on Wednesday, comes five months after the president and his wife visited the impoverished Standing Rock Indian Reservation in the Dakotas. The 3,600-square-mile reservation is home to about 8,500 people, many of whom live in run-down homes, and where the unemployment rate runs as

high as 20 percent. The suicide rate for American Indians aged 15 to 24 is more than twice the national rate. Vice President Joe Biden said in a morning appearance before the conference that for Obama, helping Indian youth is “something that he came back from his June visit fired up about doing something about.” Obama reflected on that visit during his own speech to the conference, recalling stories that children told him there about challenges

they faced on the reservation, such as depression and alcohol abuse. “We walked away shaken, because some of these kids were carrying burdens no young person should have to carry, and it was heartbreaking,” Obama

said. Wednesday’s conference involved leaders from 566 federally recognized tribal nations, along with 36 White House Youth Ambassadors chosen from around the country through an essay contest.

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Kobani war clinic treats anti-IS fighters KOBANI, Syria (AP) — Like much of this battered Syrian Kurdish border town on the front lines in the battle against the Islamic State group, most of its hospitals and clinics now lie in ruins. Only one is still working — but its location is kept secret for fear it could be targeted by the militants. Inside the tiny field clinic, saving lives and dealing with horrifying wounds of war comes first, and concerns such as keeping operating rooms sterile and cleaning up after surgery are on the back burner. Blood is splattered across most of the beds and floors, and a small team of only three doctors and five nurses are providing the only remaining medical services in the town. They are sometimes forced to operate by torchlight since power generators regularly fail. They treat a seemingly unend-

ing flood of wounded Kurdish fighters and members of the Free Syrian Army, just meters (yards) away from the front lines. The Spartan clinic only has the very basic equipment and regularly runs out of supplies. Those with more critical wounds must make a mad dash for the border with Turkey, and wait there for a transport to a better hospital in the neighboring country. But losing precious time in the perilous journey often diminishes their chances for survival. “If we had a mobile operating unit, we wouldn’t have to leave our wounded at the Turkish border to wait for six or 10 hours where they sometimes die,” said Mohammed Aref, a doctor at the Kobani clinic. An exclusive report shot by videojournalist Jake Simkin inside Kobani late last month of-

fered a rare, in-depth glimpse of the destruction that more than two months of fighting has inflicted on the Kurdish town in northern Syria by the Turkish border. The Kurdish fighters of Kobani, backed by a small number of Iraqi peshmerga forces and Syrian rebels, are locked in what they say is a fight to the end against the Islamic State group, which swept into the town in mid-September. The militants’ advance was part of a summer blitz after the Islamic State group overran large parts of Syria and neighboring Iraq. Kobani, which once had a population of about 50,000, has seen some of the fiercest urban warfare in Syria’s civil war, now in its fourth year, and has paid a heavy price for battling the Islamic State extremists. Aref and the others at the Kobani clinic say the immobility of their facility slows them down,

since they cannot venture far outside and treat the wounded at the scene — as paramedics and mobile doctors elsewhere do in combat situations. Still, Aref is dedicated to saving Kobani’s wounded as best he can and dreams of someday rebuilding the town clinics and working in a safe operating theater. Helped by more than 270 airstrikes from a U.S.-led coalition and an American airdrop of weapons, the fighters in Kobani have succeeded in halting the militants’ advance and believe that a corner has been turned. But the fight against the Islamic State is not slowing down. “We know that the number (of wounded) will increase and more injured will come so we have to be ready,” said Aref. “The most important thing for us is having an operating room.”

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In this Nov. 21 photo, Dr. Mohammed Arif helps to deal with a wounded patient at a field hospital in Kobani, Syria. Like much of this besieged Syrian border town, most of its medical clinics are now in ruins. Only one still stands — its location a secret for fear it will be targeted. A small team of three doctors and five nurses work at this aid station, treating the flood of Kurdish and Free Syrian Army fighters who are holding the Islamic State militants at bay.

Mass killings raise security concerns in Kenya By JASON STRAZIUSO and TOM ODULA Associated Press

NAIROBI, Kenya — When Kenya sent troops to Somalia in 2011 to fight Islamic extremists, the al-Qaida-linked group al-Shabab threatened to retaliate by bringing down Nairobi’s skyscrapers. The buildings still stand, but a series of mass killings in which non-Muslims were singled out for slaughter has increased pressure on Kenya to improve security along a porous border and explain why its army should remain in Somalia. Al-Shabab quickly claimed responsibility for the latest chilling assault: Gunmen invaded a quarry in northern Kenya, lined up 36 non-Muslim laborers, and killed them early Tuesday. That followed a similar massacre on Nov. 22, when al-Shabab killed 28 Kenyans on a bus, again sparing the Muslims among the passengers. The group’s most notorious attack was on the Westgate shopping mall in Nairobi last year, when it also targeted nonMuslims, although the four gunmen killed people of all

faiths. At least 67 died in that siege in the capital of the East African nation. Kenya sent its military forces into Somalia in hopes of creating a secure buffer zone between Somalia’s internal chaos and Kenyan territory. But the series of attacks by al-Shabab has left Kenyans demanding change, and President Uhuru Kenyatta responded Tuesday by shaking up the leadership of his security team. “We went into Somalia without a clear plan. If we had a plan, we would have anticipated the blowback and ensure our borders are secured,” said Abdullahi Boru, an independent East Africa security analyst who formerly worked for the International Crisis Group. “We are terrible at this job (of internal security) ... and al-Shabab knows our weak points.” Among those weak points, Boru said, is endemic corruption “across all government agencies” in Kenya, a point that security analysts and citizens agree on. Allegations that al-Shabab fighters bribed police to let them cross the Somalia-Kenya border are common. But because the border is so long and

unguarded, that’s not even necessary. Al-Shabab once controlled most of Somalia’s capital, but has steadily been losing territory to the African Union forces. That makes the group more likely to hit back elsewhere, and Kenya’s ethnic and political disunity and its ill-equipped security forces make it an easy target, said Sarah Tzinieris, an analyst at Maplecroft, a risk assessment firm. The border area will remain susceptible to al-Shabab attacks due to its remoteness and inadequate security patrols, Tzinieris said. “Soft targets” like the Westgate Mall also remain vulnerable, she said. Kenya has carried out numerous “counterterrorism” operations in Nairobi and Mombasa, often against Muslim populations or at mosques. Those actions have raised

Muslim-Christian tensions — a situation that Tzinieris says increases the likelihood of homegrown attacks from al-Shabab sympathizers. Besides creating fear among non-Muslim residents of northern Kenya who are demanding that authorities ensure their safety, the killings have opened up Kenyatta’s government to criticism. The political opposition group CORD called Tuesday’s attack “another senseless slaughter.” It blamed “corruption within our security, political, intelligence and military leadership.” For months, CORD has been calling for an overhaul of the country’s security apparatus. Kenyatta on Tuesday finally fired the interior minister, who was ridiculed for a slow response to the Westgate Mall attack, and accepted the resigna-

tion of the police chief. Although some in Kenya advocate withdrawing its troops from Somalia, Kenyatta said that was not his plan. “We shall continue to inflict painful casualties on these terrorists until we secure our country and region. Our stability and prosperity depends on a secure neighborhood,” he said. Boru, the security analyst, said the country lacks a longterm strategy in Somalia. “We need to set out a clear window on when we are leaving,” Boru said. “The window between when Kenya being considered liberators and that of being regarded as invaders has closed.” Boniface Mwangi, one of the country’s most vocal activists, criticized Kenyatta for replacing Interior Minister Joseph

Ole Lenku with another man from Kenya’s Maasai community, Joseph Nkaissery, a retired military major general. Mwangi posted on Twitter the results of a government Truth, Justice and Reconciliation report that recommended Nkaissery be investigated for human rights abuses during his military service. “The fish rots from the head,” he said. “When the president makes an appointment thinking about his political survival and overlooking merit, then there is the problem.” He said Kenya’s “ruling elite is out of touch with reality.” “They have motorcades and bodyguards, and they are telling us that security is our responsibility. That’s telling us that we all should be vigilantes,” Mwangi said.

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Mexico federal police, troops to patrol Acapulco MEXICO CITY (AP) — Federal police and soldiers will take over policing duties in the resort of Acapulco to ensure the safety of tourists amid a wave of violence and protests that has scared away visitors, Mexican authorities said Wednesday. Troops and federal police will also take over policing in 20 more townships north of Acapulco in a region known as Tierra Caliente, or the Hot Lands, which is plagued by drug cultivation, trafficking and cartels. The region covers parts of the states of Guerrero, Michoacan, Morelos and Mexico State. A similar federal policing plan had already been implemented in 16 townships, including Iguala, where 43 teachers college students disappeared in September. National Security Commissioner Monte Alejandro Rubido said the patrols in Acapulco and the 36 townships will be under the command of the army and are aimed at fighting drug cartels and rebuilding municipal police forces plagued by gang infiltration. “The effect of illegal activities combined with weak institutions has led to the violation

‘The effect of illegal activities combined with weak institutions has led to the violation of citizens’ rights. The effort is restore security and re-establish the rule of law.’ — National Security Commissioner Monte Alejandro Rubido of citizens’ rights,” Rubido said in Iguala. “The effort is restore security and re-establish the rule of law.” Most of Iguala’s municipal police force, which purportedly collaborated with a drug gang, has been arrested or sent out of state for training and background checks. More municipal police in the region will be sent to the army-run facility for similar vetting. The once-glamorous resort of Acapulco has been hit by reservation cancellations because of violence and protests following the Sept. 26 disappearance of the students. In late November, the U.S. Embassy advised U.S. citizens to defer non-essential travel to Acapulco. Demonstrators have blocked

highways to Acapulco, hijacked buses and blockaded the city’s airport to demand the government find the students. Prosecutors say local police probably turned the students over to gang members, who may have killed them and burned their bodies. In early November, demonstrators blocked Acapulco’s airport for hours, causing hotel reservations on a subsequent three-day holiday weekend to fall by about 35 percent, said Javier Saldivar, head of Acapulco’s business chamber. “Federal forcesa will take over public safety duties in Acapulco, with a specific strategy of setting up permanent security ... but on a more immediate basis, to ensure that visitors can safely enjoy their vacations,” Rubido said.

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Firefighters try to extinguish burning vehicles in front of the state congress building after protesting teachers torched them in the state capital city of Chilpancingo, Mexico, Nov. 12. Violent protests over the disappearance of 43 college students continue and are now threatening tourism in the nearby resort city of Acapulco ahead of a major holiday weekend when Mexicans traditionally flock to the beach, business leaders said Wednesday. Investigators say the 43 students from a rural teachers college were rounded up by local police, turned over to a drug gang and apparently killed, their corpses charred into ash and dumped into a river.

Iran launches airstrikes in Iraq against Islamic State militants By KEN DILANIAN and VIVIAN SALAMA Associated Press

WASHINGTON — Iranian jets have carried out airstrikes against Islamic State militants in Iraq in recent days, Pentagon officials and independent analysts say, underscoring the strange alliances generated by the war against the extremist group that has beheaded Americans and killed and terrorized Iraqi civilians. Washington and Tehran are locked in tough negotiations over Iran’s nuclear program. But the two adversaries have been fighting parallel campaigns on the same side in Iraq to defend the Shiite-dominated government — and the region’s Kurds — from IS militants who seized a large section of the country. It has long been known that Iranian troops and advisers have been fighting alongside Iraqi forces, but until this week there had been no confirmation of Iranian air activity. The timing and nature of the strikes are not clear, but a senior U.S. official said they occurred in Diyala province, which extends from northeast Baghdad to the Iranian border. The official spoke only on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to disclose that information.

‘I think it’s self-evident that if Iran is taking on ISIL in some particular place, and it’s confined to taking on ISIL, and it has an impact, its net effect is positive, But that’s not something we’re coordinating. — Secretary of State John Kerry

The Qatari-based broadcaster Al-Jazeera filmed a jet flying over Iraq on Nov. 30 that was identified by Jane’s Defence Weekly as an American-made F-4 Phantom. The Phantom, a twin-engine fighter bomber that was sold to Iran’s U.S.-backed shah in the 1970s, was last produced by McDonnell Aircraft Corp. in 1981. Iran in the 1980s fought a brutal, ultimately stalemated war with Iraq when that country was led by Saddam Hussein and his Sunni-controlled Baath Party. But the U.S.-led invasion that toppled Saddam left an Iraqi government closely aligned with Iran. A majority of Iraqis are Shiite, as are most Iranians. The Islamic State group, which also controls parts of Syria, is led by Sunni extremists and has attracted many Sunnis who felt disenfranchised by Baghdad. In public, U.S. officials have walked a careful line over the

strikes, while Iranian officials have flatly denied them. Neither side has an interest in appearing to cooperate with the other. America’s Arab allies in the fight against the Islamic State, including Sunni-led Saudi Arabia and Qatar, would not want to be seen as fighting alongside Shiite Iran against a group of Sunni militants. Rear Adm. John Kirby, the Pentagon’s chief spokesman, said Tuesday he had seen “nothing that would dispute” that Iran has carried out airstrikes in eastern Iraq. The U.S. was “not taking a position” on the strikes, he said. Speaking in Brussels on Wednesday, Secretary of State John Kerry said that Iranian attacks on IS militants would represent a positive development. “I think it’s self-evident that if Iran is taking on ISIL in some particular place, and it’s confined to taking on ISIL, and it

has an impact, its net effect is positive,” Kerry told reporters. “But that’s not something we’re coordinating.” In Iran, a spokeswoman for the foreign ministry, Marzieh Afkham, denied that Iran has cooperated with the U.S.-led coalition, but she neither confirmed nor denied Iranian airstrikes against IS in Iraq. Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi, also sensitive to the US-Arab coalition that has been carrying out airstrikes against IS and training the Iraqi military to take IS on itself, told reporters Wednesday, “I’m not aware there were Iranian airstrikes.” Hakim al-Zamili, a Shiite Iraqi lawmaker who heads the Security and Defense Committee in Parliament, said Iran

“is serious in fighting Daesh,” using the Arabic acronym for the Islamic State group. “It has advisers in country. It provides Iraq with weapons and ammunition,” al-Zamili said, adding that he had no knowledge of whether Iranian airstrikes had been carried out. “If Iran has carried out airstrikes against Daesh, in coordination with the Iraqi government, it is a welcomed step,” he said. It is unlikely to be welcomed, however, by Republicans in Congress who accuse the Obama administration of not being tough enough on Iran, which the U.S. calls a state sponsor of terrorism. Iran supports the Syrian government of Bashar Assad, which the U.S. wants to re-

move. American officials have expressed hope that Iran could play a role in negotiating an exit for Assad and help bring an end to a Syrian civil war that fueled the growth of the Islamic State group. While most of the territory controlled by the group in Iraq lies along the western border with Syria, Diyala province along the Iraq-Iran border has been the scene of fierce fighting between security forces and the militants. Last month, Iraqi troops backed by Shiite militiamen and Kurdish security forces recaptured Jalula and Saadiya, seized by the militants in August. Heavy clashes continue in Diyala, with some pockets of resistance outside the two towns.

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Brown Bears fall at Coulee Region Staff report

The Kenai River Brown Bears’ problems with consistency have followed them all the way on the road to the Midwest. Coming off a solid weekend of earning three of four points in alwaystough Wenatchee, Washington, the Bears fell 6-2 to the Coulee Region (Wisconsin) Chill on Wednesday. “It’s exactly what I told the guys, ‘We’re tired of being up and down,’” Brown Bears head coach Geoff Beauparlant said. “Our preparation wasn’t good. Our intensity wasn’t good like it was last week.” The Bears fall to 11-14-1 and remain in fourth place in the North American Hockey League Midwest Division, ahead of the Minnesota Magicians by a point.

The Chill move to 13-7-4 and are seven points ahead of the Bears in third place in the division. If the season were to end today, the Bears would be in the playoffs. But a measure of their inconsistency comes in their 69-102 goals for-against tally. That 102 goals against is the secondmost in the league. “This isn’t physical stuff that guys can’t do,” Beauparlant said. “It’s being mentally prepared.” The coach said two major areas haunted the Bears on Wednesday, poor defensive zone coverage and not finishing opportunities. Beauparlant said goalie Josh Creelman, who had 41 saves, was not the problem. Coulee’s Blake Kelley had the lone goal of the first period, but early in the second Jack Gessert, assisted by Evan

Butcher, tied it for the Bears. Gessert is tied for the league lead with 16 goals. Adam Lovick put Coulee back up 2-1 just 35 seconds after Gessert’s goal, but the Bears appeared to get a boost when Matt Rudin, assisted by Ben Campbell, scored with just 59 seconds left in the second period. “The end of the second period was the game in a nutshell,” Beauparlant said. “We tie the game at 2-2 with however much time left, then with 10 seconds left in the period we give up a three-on-one. “That’s just not being mentally consistent.” Coulee didn’t convert on the threeon-one, but it was a harbinger of things to come in the third. The Chill outshot the Bears 18-8 en

route to a 47-41 advantage in the game. within themselves and making smart, Richard Zehnal had a pair of goals in simple plays. the final 20 minutes, while Sean Lang Wednesday and Garrett Riebling added tallies. Chill 6, Brown Bears 2 “Even the college scouts that I talk- Kenai River 0 2 0 —2 1 1 4 —6 ed to here all said we showed a lack of Coulee Region intensity, effort and focus,” Beaupar- First period — 1. Coulee Region, Kelley (DiPietro, Florian), 6:11. Penalties — Kenai River 1 for 2:00; lant said. Coulee Region 2 for 4:00. The Bears stay in La Crosse for Second period — 2. Kenai River, Gessert (Butcher), games Friday and Saturday at 4 p.m. 4:21; 3. Coulee Region, Lovick (Zehnal), 4:56; 4. Kenai River, Rudin (Campbell), 19:01. Penalties — KeAST. nai River 1 for 2:00; Coulee Region 2 for 4:00. “There were numerous NHL and Third period — 5. Coulee Region, Lang (Zehnal, college scouts in the stands,” Beau- Lovick), 0:23; 6. Coulee Region, Zehnal (MatsushiLovick), 4:44; 7. Coulee Region, Riebling (un.), parlant said. “Anytime we come to the ma, 12:34; 8. Coulee Region, Zehnal (Luka), en, 19:33. Midwest, it’s an opportunity to show- Penalties — Coulee Region 2 for 4:00. Shots on goal — Kenai River 10-23-8—41; Coulee case the guys. Region 12-17-18—47. “I expect a much better effort on Goalies — Kenai River, Creelman (46 shots, 41 Friday.” saves); Coulee Region, Thomas (41 shots, 39 The coach said the bright spot of saves). the game was young defensemen Jack Power plays — Kenai River 0 for 6, Coulee Region Nickels and Will Schwartz playing 0 for 2.

Blackhawks topple Blues By The Associated Press

CHICAGO — Kris Versteeg scored 59 seconds into the third period, Patrick Kane added two more goals, and the Chicago Blackhawks beat the St. Louis Blues 4-1 on Wednesday night for their fourth consecutive victory. Marcus Kruger also scored for Chicago, and Antti Raanta had 40 saves in his first start since Corey Crawford was sidelined by a left foot injury. Versteeg also had the primary assist on each of Kane’s goals. Back at home after a 5-1 road trip, Chicago killed off each of St. Louis’ six power plays and won for the seventh time in eight games.

goalie Carey Price, who made 33 saves. The Canadiens are 1-3-1 in their past five games. Playing with heavy hearts one day after the death of Hall of Famer Jean Beliveau, the Canadiens dedicated the game to the longtime captain who won 10 Stanley Cup titles as a player and seven more as an executive. All Montreal players wore No. 4 on their helmets.

DUCKS 5, FLYERS 4, SO ANAHEIM, Calif. — Jakob Silfverberg and Corey Perry scored in the shootout, and Anaheim rebounded from Wayne Simmonds’ late tying goal for a victory over spiraling Philadelphia. Simmonds scored his second goal with 2.6 seconds left in regulation for the Flyers, who lost their ninth consecutive road game.

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Duke’s Justin Winslow, front, and Wisconsin’s Duje Dukan go after a loose ball during the first half of an NCAA college basketball game Wednesday in Madison, Wis.

Jones, Duke shoot down Badgers By The Associated Press

MADISON, Wis. — Tyus Jones scored 22 points, Rasheed Sulaimon added 14 and No. 4 Duke shot 65 percent to beat No. 2 Wisconsin 80-70 on Wednesday night in a highly anticipated matchup of college basketball heavyweights. With 17 points, Wisconsin senior Frank Kaminsky outscored Duke freshman Jahlil Okafor (13 points) in a test for the two of the nation’s top big men. But it was another touted freshman, Jones, who helped open things up for the Blue Devils (8-0) in the second half. The lightning-quick guard beat defenders into the lane and added two 3-pointers against the Badgers (7-1).

16 and Virginia turned up the defense to Maryland its first loss. The Cavaliers (8-0) and Terrapins (7-1) played twice a year for decades when both were in the Atlantic Coast Conference. Now in its first year as a member of the Big Ten, Maryland trailed throughout against its longtime rival in the ACC/Big Ten Challenge.

No. 10 VILLANOVA 84, LA SALLE 70 PHILADELPHIA — Darrun Hilliard and Dylan Ennis each scored 15 points to lead Villanova past La Salle. Josh Hart and JayVaughn Pinkston each added 12 points for the Wildcats (7-0), who shot 7 of 14 from 3-point range.

IOWA 60, No. 12 N. CAROLINA 55

CHAPEL HILL, N.C. — Mike Gesell hit a driving layup through contact for the go-ahead threeCOLLEGE PARK, Md. — point play with 1:16 left, helping Malcolm Brogdon scored 18 Iowa upset North Carolina in the points, Justin Anderson added ACC/Big Ten Challenge.

No. 7 VIRGINIA 76, No. 21 MARYLAND 65

Gesell finished with 16 points for the Hawkeyes (6-2), who outfought the Tar Heels (5-2) on a night when both teams struggled to shoot straight.

NOTRE DAME 79, No. 19 MICH. ST. 78, OT SOUTH BEND, Ind. — Jerian Grant scored a career-high 27 points and Demetrius Jackson added a career-best 22 to help Notre Dame beat Michigan State in overtime in the ACC/Big Ten Challenge. In the first meeting between the schools in 35 years, Jackson’s three-point play 2:19 into overtime put the Fighting Irish (7-1) ahead by five. His free throw with 5 seconds left helped seal the victory.

No. 23 BUTLER 77, INDIANA STATE 54 TERRE HAUTE, Ind. — Kellen Dunham and Roosevelt Jones each scored 14 points to lead Butler past longtime rival Indiana State.

The Bulldogs (6-1) climbed into the Top 25 for the first time in nearly 22 months this week and ended a two-game losing streak in Terre Haute, where they won for the first time since 2002. Indiana State (3-4) lost its third in a row. Devonte Brown scored 16 to lead the Sycamores.

No. 25 UTAH 69, No. 8 WITCHITA ST. 68, OT SALT LAKE CITY — Delon Wright hit a go-ahead jumper in the lane with 14 seconds left in overtime to boost No. 25 Utah over No. 8 Wichita State, snapping the Shockers’ regular-season winning streak at 35 games. Wright, Utah’s do-everything guard, scored five of his 13 points in the extra period as Utah (6-1) withstood a late Shockers comeback and three missed free throws in the final 3.2 seconds. Brandon Taylor had 17 points and Dakarai Tucker scored 13 for the Utes, who hadn’t hosted such a highly ranked team since toppling No. 1 Alabama 51-49 on Dec. 30, 1999.

ST. PAUL, Minn. — Jason Zucker and Jason Pominville scored improbable goals to lift Minnesota over Montreal. Darcy Kuemper stopped 18 shots after allowing four goals in each of his last two starts. Minnesota has won seven of 10. Alex Galchenyuk scored in the final minute after Montreal pulled

JETS 3, OILERS 2, OT WINNIPEG, Manitoba — Mathieu Perreault scored 17 seconds into overtime, and Winnipeg sent Edmonton to its 11th straight loss. Perrault tipped Jacob Trouba’s point shot past goalie Ben Scrivens to win it. Trouba and Dustin Byfuglien also scored for the Jets.

Browns will stick with QB Hoyer By The Associated Press

BEREA, Ohio — Brian Hoyer came dangerously close to losing his dream job for good. But after getting them into playoff contention, the Browns decided that despite his imperfections and recent mistakes, Hoyer is still their starting quarterback over rookie Johnny Manziel, who may be their future but isn’t ready to handle the present. The Browns are Hoyer’s team for at least one more Sunday. “I want to see this thing through,” Hoyer said. “I want to finish this strong.” Cleveland’s struggling veteran will start again this week against Indianapolis after first-

year coach Mike Pettine and his staff decided Hoyer would be the better option down the stretch than Manziel, who flashed some Johnny Football magic last week in a loss at Buffalo. Hoyer’s poor performance against the Bills — he was pulled for Manziel with 12 minutes left in a 26-10 loss — raised the possibility that Cleveland (7-5) would make another switch at the position. The Browns have had 20 starting quarterbacks since 1999. Cook speaks up for Ferguson 5 ST. LOUIS — Jared Cook said he’d “absolutely” repeat the “Hands Up, Don’t Shoot” See NFL, Page A-10

Sixers avoid tying record for worst start in NBA history By The Associated Press

MINNEAPOLIS — The Philadelphia 76ers avoided tying the record for the worst start to a season in NBA history, ending their 0-17 skid with an 85-77 victory over the Minnesota Timberwolves on Wednesday night. Michael Carter-Williams had 20 points, nine rebounds and nine assists and Robert Covington added 17 points to keep Philadelphia from tying the 0-18 start by the New Jersey Nets in 2009-10. CELTICS 109, PISTONS 102, OT BOSTON — Jeff Green scored 32 points, including a 3-pointer as Boston opened overtime with eight straight points, and snapped a five-game losing streak. The loss was the 10th in a row for Detroit. Greg Monroe scored 15 of his 29 points after the 3:13 mark of the fourth, when the Pistons erased an 11-point deficit. But Detroit never recovered after giv-

ing up the first three baskets — including to end the third quarter was the deciding a pair of 3-pointers — to start the extra blow for Atlanta, which led by 10 in the period. first quarter, 14 in the second and pushed the margin to 88-72 going into the final 12 minutes.

NETS 95, SPURS 93, OT

NEW YORK — Mirza Teletovic had a season-high 26 points and a career-best 15 rebounds starting in place of Kevin Garnett, and Brooklyn snapped San Antonio’s eight-game winning streak. The Nets regrouped in overtime after blowing a 14-point lead in the final 5 minutes of regulation and beat a team with a winning record for the first time this season.

CLIPPERS 114, MAGIC 86

LOS ANGELES — Blake Griffin scored 21 points and J.J. Redick had 20 before both sat out the fourth quarter, and the Clippers won their sixth straight. Chris Paul had 19 points and 10 assists for the Clippers, who have won their last four by an average margin of 21.6 points. DeAndre Jordan finished with 16 rebounds and blocked three shots. The two-time defending Pacific Division champions, who HAWKS 112, HEAT 102 finished with a total of 32 assists, are 84MIAMI — Jeff Teague scored 27 14 when they get 30 or more since Paul points, Kyle Korver scored 18 and Atlanta joined the club. handed Miami another home loss. Dennis Schroder scored 16 and Paul MAVERICKS 107, BUCKS 105 Millsap finished with 14 for the Hawks, MILWAUKEE — Monta Ellis hit a who beat the Heat for the second time in two meetings this season. An 18-5 run wild, fallaway jumper at the buzzer, lifting C

Dallas past Milwaukee. 22 shooting as Toronto sent Utah to its A night after Ellis starred in a double- seventh straight loss. overtime win at Chicago, he scored 23. Greivis Vasquez and Lou Williams He had eight in the final two minutes on each had 17 for the Raptors. what otherwise had been a bad shooting night for the Mavericks’ top scorer, playROCKETS 105, GRIZZLIES 96 ing against his former team. HOUSTON — James Harden scored 21 points, and Trevor Ariza and Jason BULLS 102, HORNETS 95 Terry added 16 each to help short-handed CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Pau Gasol had Houston cruise past Memphis. 19 points and 15 rebounds, Joakim Noah The Grizzlies had won five in a row, and Nikola Mirotic each posted double- and their two previous losses this season doubles, and Chicago handed Charlotte its had been by a combined five points. 10th straight loss. Noah had 14 points and 10 rebounds, WIZARDS 111, LAKERS 95 and Mirotic added 11 points and 12 rebounds as the Bulls bounced back from a WASHINGTON — Bradley Beal double- overtime loss to Dallas on Tues- scored 27 points, John Wall had 17 points day night. and 15 assists, and Washington beat Kobe Bryant and the Lakers. The Wizards won their third straight and prevented the Lakers from getting RAPTORS 123, JAZZ 104 their first three-game winning streak in SALT LAKE CITY — Kyle Lowry more than a year. scored a season-high 39 points on 13-ofBryant finished with 29 points.

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last year. That’s when Brandon and several Bills players went pubContinued from page A-9 lic in questioning the competitive edge the team was losing gesture he and four teammates in giving away home-field admade during Sunday’s game. vantage by playing in front of Even if he’s receiving threats small and relatively indifferent or it costs the St. Louis Rams crowds in Toronto. some fans. The tight end was designated Bills’ Spiller returns to spokesman Wednesday for the practice five-player group that made the ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. — gesture before Sunday’s win over Six weeks after breaking his Oakland. He explained it was not collarbone, Buffalo Bills runjust a show of solidarity for Fer- ning back C.J. Spiller returned guson protesters but for peaceful to practice Wednesday in a demonstrations everywhere. move that opens the possibility Asked in hindsight whether of him being eligible to resume the group might have taken a playing in two weeks. different tack that wouldn’t Though Spiller remains on have antagonized law enforce- reserve/injured designated to ment officials, he answered: return list, he was allowed back “We could have, absolutely. But on the field after being activated would we? Absolutely not.” by the Bills earlier in the day. The Bills have two weeks to deBills ditch Toronto termine whether to add Spiller ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. — to the active roster before they No, Canada. play at Oakland on Dec. 21, or Buffalo Bills president Russ place him on the season-ending Brandon announced Wednesday injured reserve list. that the team is done playing Spiller has been out since beannual regular-season “home” ing hurt in the second quarter of games in Toronto after reaching a 17-16 win against Minnesota an agreement with Rogers Com- on Oct. 19. He was tripped up munications to terminate the four from behind during a 53-yard remaining years of the series. run and fell awkwardly on his The decision did not come left shoulder while tumbling as a surprise after the Bills had out of bounds. a 1-5 record since the series was established with a fiveTitans’ Mettenberger says year agreement in 2008. The he will play Sunday Bills and Rogers then reached NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Tenanother five-year deal in 2013 nessee rookie quarterback Zach to extend the series. Mettenberger says he “definiteLast month, new Bills own- ly” will play Sunday against ers Terry and Kim Pegula told the New York Giants despite a The Associated Press they were sprained right shoulder. negotiating to cancel the series. Mettenberger said WednesIn March, the Bills and Rogers day it’s his body and he feels postponed playing this year’s fine as he works through the game to evaluate and determine soreness. Both the X-rays and how to improve the atmosphere MRI exam were negative, and of games played in Toronto’s the sixth-round draft pick out of downtown domed Rogers Cen- LSU isn’t trying to prove he’s tre. tough. This is his NFL audition “We greatly appreciate the with the Titans (2-10). support we’ve received over the “Right now this is my team,” past seven years from all of the Mettenberger said. “I can’t tremendous people at Rogers think about next year. All I have Communications,” Brandon said is the opportunity to play this in a statement released by the Sunday and who knows what team Wednesday. “We will con- could happen. I could get hurt tinue to work hard to solidify our or whatever. But right now my footprint in southern Ontario.” opportunity is to play this SunThe series’ days were num- day and show that yeah, I’m the bered immediately following a best guy for this team and hope34-31 overtime loss to Atlanta fully for the future as well.”

Scoreboard Basketball NBA Standings EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division W L Toronto 15 4 Brooklyn 8 9 Boston 5 11 New York 4 15 Philadelphia 1 17 Southeast Division Washington 12 5 Atlanta 11 6 Miami 9 9 Orlando 7 14 Charlotte 4 15 Central Division Chicago 12 7 Cleveland 9 7 Milwaukee 10 10 Indiana 7 11 Detroit 3 16

Pct GB .789 — .471 6 .313 8½ .211 11 .056 13½ .706 .647 .500 .333 .211

— 1 3½ 7 9

.632 .563 .500 .389 .158

— 1½ 2½ 4½ 9

WESTERN CONFERENCE Southwest Division Memphis 15 3 Houston 14 4 Dallas 15 5 San Antonio 13 5 New Orleans 8 8 Northwest Division Portland 14 4 Denver 9 9 Oklahoma City 5 13 Utah 5 14 Minnesota 4 13 Pacific Division Golden State 15 2 L.A. Clippers 13 5 Phoenix 11 8 Sacramento 9 9 L.A. Lakers 5 14

.833 .778 .750 .722 .500

— 1 1 2 6

.778 .500 .278 .263 .235

— 5 9 9½ 9½

.882 .722 .579 .500 .263

— 2½ 5 6½ 11

Wednesday’s Games Washington 111, L.A. Lakers 95 Chicago 102, Charlotte 95 Atlanta 112, Miami 102 Boston 109, Detroit 102, OT Brooklyn 95, San Antonio 93, OT Houston 105, Memphis 96 Dallas 107, Milwaukee 105 Philadelphia 85, Minnesota 77 Toronto 123, Utah 104 L.A. Clippers 114, Orlando 86 Thursday’s Games Cleveland at New York, 4 p.m. Indiana at Portland, 6 p.m. New Orleans at Golden State, 6:30 p.m. All Times AST

SOUTH Davidson 92, Charlotte 86< ETSU 96, W. Carolina 89< FAU 72, East Carolina 63< IPFW 87, Stetson 76< Iowa 60, North Carolina 55< Jacksonville St. 79, Winthrop 76, OT< Longwood 74, Dartmouth 73< Louisiana-Lafayette 76, Jackson St. 53< McNeese St. 74, Southern NO 63< Murray St. 102, Bethel (Tenn.) 66< North Florida 63, Bethune-Cookman 56< Old Dominion 75, George Mason 69< Richmond 68, William & Mary 67< Southern Miss. 78, N. Dakota St. 65< Tennessee Tech 84, Lipscomb 79< UNC Wilmington 105, St. Andrews 47< UT-Martin 71, N. Kentucky 56< Valparaiso 72, E. Kentucky 66< Virginia 76, Maryland 65< W. Kentucky 62, Bowling Green 52< Wofford 66, Presbyterian 45< MIDWEST Butler 77, Indiana St. 54< Dayton 66, Miami (Ohio) 62< Duke 80, Wisconsin 70< E. Illinois 61, Ball St. 54< Georgia Tech 66, Northwestern 58< Milwaukee 65, UMKC 56< Notre Dame 79, Michigan St. 78, OT< Oakland 84, Rochester (Mich.) 52< S. Dakota St. 89, Wayne (Neb.) 55< S. Illinois 79, SIU-Edwardsville 67< Toledo 59, Cleveland St. 54< Tulane 83, Loyola of Chicago 70< SOUTHWEST Houston Baptist 58, Rice 55< Oklahoma St. 87, North Texas 61< Prairie View 64, Schreiner 48< Texas A&M 66, Sam Houston St. 63< Texas St. 72, Texas Lutheran 31< Texas Tech 46, Auburn 44< Tulsa 77, Creighton 64< FAR WEST

Men’s Scores EAST American U. 66, Brown 49< Army 73, Delaware 69< Boston U. 77, Binghamton 65< Canisius 60, St. Peter’s 57< Fairleigh Dickinson 89, Princeton 85< Harvard 60, Northeastern 46< Holy Cross 74, Albany (NY) 57< Lehigh 61, St. Francis (Pa.) 59< Mass.-Lowell 71, NJIT 67< New Hampshire 72, LIU Brooklyn 56< Penn 57, Navy 46< Penn St. 61, Virginia Tech 58< Rider 69, CCSU 56< Sacred Heart 71, Colgate 70< Saint Joseph’s 58, Temple 56< St. Bonaventure 72, Buffalo 63< Towson 84, Coppin St. 76< Vermont 81, Hartford 69< Villanova 84, La Salle 70< Yale 67, Bryant 60<

Keane named MVP By GREG BEACHAM AP Sports Writer

LOS ANGELES — While Robbie Keane was grateful to accept Major League Soccer’s MVP award on Wednesday, he never stopped thinking about the other trophy he intends to raise a few days later. The Irish striker added another achievement to his dynamic season with the LA Galaxy, who face the New England Revolution in the MLS Cup this weekend. Keane is going after his third MLS title in four seasons stateside, a desire that dwarfs his interest in individual awards. “It’s been a great season for me personally, but it would be even better if we won on Sunday,” Keane said. “To get this award is a great privilege. It’s so nice to be recognized. It could have gone to the other two lads.” New England’s Lee Nguyen and Seattle’s Obafemi Martins were the other finalists, but Keane beat them out with his most impressive season since arriving in Southern California more than three years ago. The 34-year-old Keane had 19 goals and 14 assists in 29 games while leading the Galaxy’s MLS-best offense, providing dangerous attacking and steady leadership for the MLS Cup finalists. With speed, skill and a daredevil flair for big moments, Keane scored or assisted on 33 of the Galaxy’s 69 goals this season. Only Chris Wondolowski ever managed more in MLS history, contributing to 34 goals during his 2012 MVP season with San Jose. “We think Robbie is special because of his consistency,” Galaxy coach Bruce Arena said. “He sets the tone for our team each and every day. I’ve watched Robbie for years, and I always (thought) this is the kind of player we want in this league, and on my team.” C

Air Force 59, Grambling St. 34< Arizona St. 77, UNLV 55< California 78, Montana 76, 2OT< Colorado 72, San Francisco 55< Colorado St. 65, UTEP 62< Fresno St. 72, UC Irvine 63< Idaho 77, Washington St. 71< Long Beach St. 68, Nevada 57< Montana St. 79, S. Dakota Mines 41< New Mexico 62, New Mexico St. 47< Oregon 94, Concordia (Ore.) 63< Pacific 80, Cal St.-Hayward 51< Portland 83, Portland St. 71< Southern Cal 77, Loyola Marymount 61< UC Davis 70, San Jose St. 56< UCLA 73, Cal St.-Fullerton 45< UTSA 88, N. Arizona 83, OT< Utah 69, Wichita St. 68, OT<

Women’s Scores EAST

American U. 77, UMBC 51 Bucknell 79, Morgan St. 50 Delaware 69, Temple 58 Duquesne 86, Kent St. 60 Fairfield 60, Siena 55 Indiana 76, Boston College 67 La Salle 75, Robert Morris 61 Maine 72, CCSU 58 Mass.-Lowell 69, Columbia 59 New Hampshire 67, Boston U. 55 Providence 51, Villanova 49 Sacred Heart 76, Vermont 66 St. Francis (NY) 57, Stony Brook 55 St. John’s 65, Xavier 42 West Virginia 80, Fairleigh Dickinson 52 SOUTH ETSU 84, George Mason 71 Evansville 93, Murray St. 83, OT Furman 90, Coastal Carolina 56 James Madison 79, Richmond 68 Kentucky 82, N. Kentucky 64 LSU 73, Louisiana Tech 59 Md.-Eastern Shore 58, Mount St. Mary’s 43 Middle Tennessee 69, Clemson 28 Minnesota 60, NC State 55 Old Dominion 75, Howard 54 South Florida 78, Stetson 62 Tennessee 111, St. Francis (Pa.) 44 Troy 76, Samford 67 Tulane 77, Nicholls St. 44 Vanderbilt 63, MVSU 37 MIDWEST Colorado St. 69, Drake 56 Dayton 79, Wright St. 76 DePaul 92, Butler 76 Florida St. 67, Purdue 64, OT Ill.-Chicago 63, SIU-Edwardsville 52 Illinois 86, Virginia 63 Miami (Ohio) 82, Valparaiso 59 Michigan 83, Wake Forest 69 Missouri 56, Loyola of Chicago 45 Nebraska 60, Duke 54 Notre Dame 92, Maryland 72 Ohio 87, Morehead St. 67 Pittsburgh 78, Ohio St. 74 Seton Hall 79, Creighton 74 SOUTHWEST Baylor 96, Texas-Pan American 42 Houston 59, Rice 58 SMU 62, North Texas 55 Saint Louis 63, Tulsa 58 Texas 86, New Mexico 36 Texas A&M 75, Northwestern St. 42 Texas Tech 61, Abilene Christian 44 FAR WEST Arizona 65, Grambling St. 51 CS Bakersfield 80, UC Irvine 70 Cal St.-Fullerton 78, Denver 61 California 107, Sacramento St. 94 Long Beach St. 78, Pepperdine 69 Utah 63, Utah St. 57

Hockey NHL Standings EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division GP Tampa Bay 26 Montreal 27 Detroit 25 Toronto 24 Boston 26

W L OT Pts GF 17 6 3 37 92 17 8 2 36 70 14 6 5 33 77 13 8 3 29 81 14 11 1 29 63

GA 69 68 65 72 63

Florida 23 10 7 Ottawa 24 10 9 Buffalo 25 9 14 Metropolitan Division Pittsburgh 24 17 5 N.Y. Islanders 25 18 7 N.Y. Rangers 24 11 9 Washington 24 10 10 New Jersey 25 9 12 Philadelphia 25 8 13 Carolina 24 8 13 Columbus 24 7 15

6 26 50 58 5 25 63 66 2 20 45 77 2 36 0 36 4 26 4 24 4 22 4 20 3 19 2 16

82 80 71 68 58 66 56 54

55 67 70 69 72 81 69 84

WESTERN CONFERENCE Central Division Nashville 24 St. Louis 25 Chicago 25 Winnipeg 26 Minnesota 24 Dallas 25 Colorado 25 Pacific Division Anaheim 27 Vancouver 25 Calgary 26 Los Angeles 25 San Jose 26 Arizona 26 Edmonton 26 NOTE: Two points overtime loss.

16 6 16 7 16 8 13 9 14 9 9 11 9 11

2 34 2 34 1 33 4 30 1 29 5 23 5 23

65 67 78 55 67 73 67

48 55 49 58 56 89 79

16 6 5 37 76 72 17 7 1 35 79 69 16 8 2 34 83 66 13 7 5 31 67 57 12 10 4 28 70 71 10 13 3 23 64 81 6 15 5 17 58 90 for a win, one point for

Wednesday’s Games Anaheim 5, Philadelphia 4, SO Minnesota 2, Montreal 1 Chicago 4, St. Louis 1 Winnipeg 3, Edmonton 2, OT Thursday’s Games Vancouver at Pittsburgh, 3 p.m. Washington at Carolina, 3 p.m. New Jersey at Toronto, 3:30 p.m. N.Y. Islanders at Ottawa, 3:30 p.m. Dallas at Detroit, 3:30 p.m. Buffalo at Tampa Bay, 3:30 p.m. Columbus at Florida, 3:30 p.m. St. Louis at Nashville, 4 p.m. Colorado at Calgary, 5 p.m. Los Angeles at Arizona, 5 p.m. Boston at San Jose, 6:30 p.m. All Times AST

Transactions BASEBALL MLB — Announced the resignation of executive vice president, business and CEO of MLB Enterprises Tim Brosnan, effective at the end of January 2015. American League BALTIMORE ORIOLES — Agreed to terms with RHP Eddie Gamboa on a one-year contract. KANSAS CITY ROYALS — Agreed to terms with RHP Luke Hochevar on a two-year contract. MINNESOTA TWINS — Agreed to terms with OF Torii Hunter on a one-year contract. SEATTLE MARINERS — Traded OF Michael Saunders toe Toronto for LHP J.A. Happ. TORONTO BLUE JAYS — Agreed to terms with 1B Justin Smoak on a one-year contract. National League ATLANTA BRAVES — Agreed to terms with RHP Jim Johnson on a one-year contract and OF Nick Markakis on a four-year contract. PITTSBURGH PIRATES — Agreed to terms with LHP Clayton Richard on a minor league contract. BASKETBALL National Basketball Association

MEMPHIS GRIZZLIES — Recalled F-C Jarnell Stokes from Iowa (NBADL). FOOTBALL National Football League CHICAGO BEARS — Signed K Jay Feely. Waived/injured WR-KR Chris Williams. CLEVELAND BROWNS — Signed RB Shaun Draughn. Placed WR Miles Austin on injured reserve. JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS — Placed OT Austin Pasztor on injured reserve. Signed LB A.J. Edds. NEW ENGLAND PATRIOTS — Signed DB Justin Green, LB Deontae Skinner and DB Daxton Swanson to the practice squad. NEW YORK JETS — Signed DL Kona Schwenke to the practice squad. TENNESSEE TITANS — Signed DB Jemea Thomas from the St. Louis practice squad. Waived CB Brandon Ghee. HOCKEY National Hockey League NHL — Suspended Pittsburgh D Robert Bortuzzo two games for interference against New Jersey F Jaromir Jagr during a Dec. 2 game. ANAHEIM DUCKS — Signed G Ilya Bryzgalov to a pro tryout contract. ARIZONA COYOTES — Assigned F Brendan Shinnimin to Portland (AHL). DALLAS STARS — Recalled LW Curtis McKenzie and G Jussi Rynnas from Texas (AHL). LOS ANGELES KINGS — Agreed to terms with D Alec Martinez on a six-year contract extension. NEW YORK ISLANDERS — Recalled D Griffin Reinhart from Bridgeport (AHL). Placed D Johnny Boychuk on injured reserve, retroactive to Nov. 27, and D Lubomir Visnovsky on injured reserve, retroactive to Nov. 28. TAMPA BAY LIGHTNING — Reassigned F Vladislav Namestnikov to Syracuse (AHL). SOCCER Major League Soccer NEW YORK RED BULLS — Signed F Bradley Wright-Phillips as a designated player ahead of the 2015 season. TORONTO FC — Declined the 2015 contract options on MF Dwayne De Rosario, D Ryan Richter, MF Jeremy Hall and F Andrew Wiedeman. defender Ryan Richter, midfielder Jeremy Hall and forward Andrew Wiedeman. COLLEGE BUFFALO — Named Brian Borland defensive coordinator, Andy Kotelnicki offensive coordinator, Daryl Agpalsa offensive line coach and Alan Hensell offensive assistant coach. Retained running backs coach Matt Simon and defensive line coach Chris Cosh. DELAWARE — Named Frantzer Le Blanc assistant athletics director for facilities. GUILFORD — Named Chris Johnson assistant baseball coach. VANDERBILT — Fired offensive coordinator Karl Dorrell, wide receivers coach Marc Lubick and conditioning coach Bill Hughan.

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Pigskin Pick‘em Sultan looks to rebound from turkey of a week

he column’s first losing week (7-9) in over two months has left the Sultan of Sides desperate for answers. Can I just blame the Turkey coma for my troubles? How do you explain the New York Giants, three-point favorites over the utterly pathetic Jacksonville Jaguars, jumping out to a 21-0 advantage and not covering the spread? The Chicago Bears were healthy dogs in Detroit. Jay Cutler and company jumped out to a 14-3 lead before getting waxed 31-3 the rest of the game. Fun! The capable canned tuna of Miami traveled to New York to face the Jets as touchdown favorites. The Jets threw eight passes the entire game and covered! Only Rex Ryan could pull off that feat. Our season mark now sits at 103-88-1 on the year. A respectable record, but not as good as we hoped after a brilliant beginning. With winter doldrums already setting in we can only hope for better results the last quarter of the schedule.

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Steelers win 20-17

St. Louis Rams @ WASHINGTON REDSKINS +3 I always follow the Rams closely (they’re in Seattle’s division). St. Louis, in the Jeff Fischer era, has looked the part of a team turning the corner many times. The Rams are perennially on the cusp of being good at football, and every time you think they’re there, they lay an egg. That’s exactly what will happen this week. The Rams played Denver tough, barely lost a game in San Diego, and crushed the Oakland Raiders 52-0. St. Louis should roll the Washington Native Americans right? Wrong. Redskins win 28-20

NEW YORK GIANTS @ Tennessee Titans +1.5

Puke. Giants win 2-0 via an unforced safety. … That’s the only way this game should end. Carolina Panthers @ NEW ORLEANS SAINTS -10 I’ve said it all year. I have no idea what to do with this Saints team. Every time I think they’re good they lose. Every time I think, “Hey, maybe the Saints really are this bad,” Dallas Cowboys they win. I have no clue! This week I’m sid@ CHICAGO BEARS +3.5 ing with New Orleans. That’s your cue to bet Thursday Night Football kicks off the farm (including the chickens) on the road Week 14 with a battle of teams that find side. Saints win 33-9 curious ways to lose. The 8-4 Cowboys are still in the thick of the NFC playoff New York Jets picture, but sailing is never smooth for the @ MINNESOTA VIKINGS -6 Fighting Jerry’s. A couple of recent bizarre losses have left the Cowboys in a precariMy policy of always fading the Jets so ous position. Dallas cannot afford to drop long as Rex Ryan is coaching the team this game. Thankfully, the scheduling gods backfired miserably last week when Gang have presented the Cowboys with a Bears Green nearly pulled off the upset against team that has spent most of Jay Cutler’s a decent Miami Dolphins team. The safe career in hibernation. It’s a game Dallas money says the Jets won’t cover two should win, but history tells us that doesn’t weeks in a row. Not with one of the worst mean a thing. Bears win 27-24 quarterbacks of all time under center. Jets GM John Idzik demanded Geno Smith be reinserted into the starting lineup to give PITTSBURGH STEELERS the team additional time to evaluate the @ Cincinnati Bengals -3.5 young passer. If you need “additional” Andy Dalton is terrible at throwing time to evaluate Geno Smith you should the football. In fact, the Red Rocket is be fired immediately. Any fat guy with a M a disgrace to rocket technology! His beer on the couch can see that Smith is horrendous. Vikings win 21-3 K passes have the velocity of an empty can of silly string. Dalton has been so bad recently that I find it impossible to BALTIMORE RAVENS lay a field goal to side with the Bengals. @ Miami Dolphins -3 This Pittsburgh team is full of flaws, but at least their quarterback has a pulse. The Ravens and Dolphins meet in

P igskin P ick ’E m N olan Rose sunny South Florida in what amounts to be a playoff elimination game. Both teams are 7-5, living life on the edge of the AFC playoff bubble. A loss this Sunday would be crippling. The edge goes to the team with an experienced, Super Bowl winning quarterback. Joe Flacco has his warts, but who do you trust more in a must-win game, Flacco or Ryan Tannehill? Ravens win 26-23

INDIANAPOLIS COLTS @ Cleveland Browns +4

I’ll boycott the NFL. That’s not true. I love it too much, but you get the point. Watt has been electrifying. He stops the run, he sacks the passer, the bats down balls and scores touchdowns. There is nothing Watt can’t do. Reggie White is the last defender I’ve watched dominate offenses at this level. That’s pretty lofty company. As long as nerd quarterback, Ryan Fitzpatrick, doesn’t turn the ball over excessively Houston is going to give the Jungle Kittens a problem. Texans win 27-13

Buffalo Bills @ DENVER BRONCOS -10 Nobody circles the wagons like the Buffalo Bills! Unfortunately, Buffalo’s season is about to end. The Bills are 7-5, still in the playoff hunt, but visiting the Denver Broncos and Lord Manning is not the best place to look for a necessary eighth win. Stopping Manning is an incredible challenge in itself, but now that the Broncos have developed something that resembles a running game, Denver will be next to impossible to defeat. Broncos win 31-17

The 7-5 Browns are rapidly returning to Earth. Quarterback Brian Hoyer was replaced in the second half of last week’s defeat in Buffalo by darling rookie Johnny Manziel, but Hoyer has been named the starter for this week’s tilt against the Colts. Hoyer has played miserably for nearly a month. The incumbent has thrown just a single TD vs. six interceptions in his last KANSAS CITY CHIEFS three games. That’s not good. It’s especially not good when you’re upcoming op@ Arizona Cardinals -1 ponent is led by Andrew Luck. This game The Desert Bats return to the dark, is going to get ugly, leading to Manziel’s promotion to the starting lineup next week. cold cave of mediocrity will continue this Sunday. After a series of improbable Colts win 35-14 outcomes led Arizona to a 9-1 mark, the Cardinals have dropped two consecutive games. The first defeat in Seattle is exTampa Bay Bucs plainable. Losing to the wingless Atlan@ DETROIT LIONS -10 ta Falcons is a sign of impending doom. Tampa Bay was surprisingly competi- Kansas City has experienced issues of tive last week when hosting the Cincinnati their own in recent weeks, but the Chiefs Bengals. What are the odds of the hapless are the stronger, healthier, team. Chiefs Bucs playing good football two weeks win 21-17 in a row? The 8-4 Lions righted the ship last Sunday defeating the Chicago Bears SEATTLE SEAHAWKS 34-17. Oddly, Detroit’s offense has strug@ Philadelphia Eagles -1 gled for large parts of the schedule, but if they’re anything close to par this week, The Eagles have proven they can still that will be enough. Detroit’s front seven on defense is fearsome. Tampa’s backup fly against average defenses with Mark quarterback is in line to get a lot work. Li- Sanchez at quarterback, but facing the top-ranked Seattle Seahawks defense is ons win 30-7 another challenge. Seattle has held consecutive division rivals to three points! HOUSTON TEXANS The defense hasn’t given up a touchdown in nearly a month. Don’t look now (espe@ Jacksonville Jags +6 cially you Broncos fan), but the Seahawks If Houston’s J.J. Watt doesn’t win the are starting to resemble their championDefensive Player of the Year Award then ship self. Why? They’re getting healthy.

The return of Bobby Wagner, Kam Chancellor, Jeremy Lane and Byron Maxwell in recent weeks has been the difference. Offensively, Marshawn Lynch has been on an absolute tear running the read-option with quarterback Russell Wilson. Winning in Philadelphia is a tough task, but the Seahawks are equipped to get the job done. Don’t forget, Seattle’s coach Pete Carroll was coaching at USC when Mark Sanchez was the Trojans quarterback. If there’s a defensive mind in the league that knows how to get to Sanchez it’s Carroll. Seahawks win 30-20

San Francisco 49ers @ OAKLAND RAIDERS +9 Let me get this straight. The Oakland Raiders, fresh off their first win of the season against the competent Kansas City Chiefs, got beat by the St. Louis Rams 52-0 last week? The NFL is so predictable! San Francisco got their hearts crushed on Thanksgiving by my beloved Seattle Seahawks, all but ending insane head coach Jim Harbaugh’s career by the bay. The 49ers, led by the thoroughly overrated Colin Kaepernick, have finally fallen apart. Raiders win 20-19

NEW ENGLAND PATRIOTS @ San Diego Chargers +4 The odds of Darth Belichick and the Brady Bunch losing two straight contests? Zero. After dropping a game they could have easily won in frigid Green Bay a week ago, there’s every reason to expect a strong performance by the beach. The Chargers are battling for their playoff lives, but a visit from an angry Tom Brady isn’t exactly what the doctor ordered. Patriots win 35-17

Atlanta Falcons @ GREEN BAY PACKERS -12.5 I would side with Green Bay if this was a 20-point spread. Aaron Rodgers has officially claimed the title of best quarterback in the league. Rodgers has thrown 20 touchdowns and zero interceptions at home this season. That’s supposed to be impossible. Atlanta is the worst divisionleading team in the history of the NFL. I’m prone to exaggeration, but that’s not far off the mark. Green Bay might become the first team to score 60 points in a game this season. Packers win 48-14

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that he expects more growth in the future. “I would expect that this would continue to change to the positive as we keep moving forward,” Dusek said. Dusek said that the Skyview High School transition to Soldotna High School has been smoother than anticipated. “With all indications, a lot of positives have been happening,” Dusek said. “The discipline problems that some people thought would happen haven’t happened. It’s been a pretty good transition academically, as well.” Dusek went on to discuss student performance. According to statistics provided by Dusek, KPBSD students had higher proficiency levels in reading, writing, math and science compared to students from other areas of the state. “(The reading scores are) outstanding and it certainly leads the way for the state,” Dusek said. He said the state of Alaska is developing the Alaska Measures of Progress, a new way to assess student development. “How do we compare to Anchorage, Kodiak or Mat-Su? We beat them,” Dusek said. We have beaten them every year.” While Dusek was proud of the test scores, he said schools should also focus on teaching students how to think, communicate and be good employees. “One bubble test should not

‘I believe our state’s most valuable resource (is our students). So, that’s where I believe we should put our money.’ — Interim Superintendent Sean Dusek define how good or bad (students) are,” Dusek said. While the talk of student enrollment and student progress was positive, Dusek did have some concerns, particularly about the district’s budget. “We’ve been running a deficit for a while, and we continue to dip into our savings, which is concerning.” Dusek said. “I’d like to see a long-term fix from the state level.” The cost of health care has been increasing every year, leading the KPBSD to spend more than 80 percent of its budget on personnel and benefits. “What we want to do when we budget is maintain at least the same level of service, but where that becomes problematic, you know, is our costs never go down,” Dusek said. “Our costs are going up, and I believe our state’s most valuable resource (is our students). So, that’s where I believe we should put our money.” Reach Ian Foley at Ian.foley@peninsulaclarion.com.

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Smith said. “It wouldn’t be smart to break in here because everybody is armed.” Continued from page A-1 Anyone with information about the incident is encourthis year. He said they don’t aged to contact the Soldotna expect to make any security troopers at 907-262-4453. changes because the camera seemed to deter the prowler. Reach Dan Balmer at dan“The system works and the iel.balmer@peninsulaclarion. owner lives on the property,” com.

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for Egan, who initially served between January 1959 and December 1962. Alaska was officially admitted into the union in January 1959. His second portrait is for his term from December 1962 to December 1966. Hickel was elected in 1966 but left during his term to serve as U.S. Secretary of Interior. Keith Miller, who replaced Hickel, is shown on the fourth spot in the hall. Egan is shown again in the fifth slot for serving from 1970 to 1974. Under the constitution, a governor who serves two full successive terms cannot serve again until a full term has passed. A term is defined as four years, beginning and ending at noon on the first Monday in December. Hammond and Knowles are represented on the wall by one photo for their consecutive terms. Hickel has two photos for his non-consecutive terms. The National Governors Association, on its website, lists

11 entries for governor of Alaska but doesn’t assign numbers to the office holders. Scott Buchanan, an associate professor of political science at The Citadel, said as far as he can tell, it’s up to each state to decide how it counts its governors. All but one of the original 13 states count from independence — South Carolina’s count begins before that — while states 14 through 50 tend to count from statehood, he said. State Sen. Dennis Egan, son of the late Bill Egan, had no idea why there are photos for each of his father’s back-to-back terms, but he considers his father the first, second and fifth governor. Egan thinks governors should be counted by their terms. If that’s the case, Walker would be the 16th governor. Or maybe the 17th, if you counted the year-plus that Sean Parnell served as governor after Sarah Palin resigned during her first term in addition to the full term Parnell served. In the end, Egan said it doesn’t really matter. “They were governor,” he said.

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to look at the role of its swimming pools in schools and in the surrounding communities. “It’s hard to put a specific value on a pool and it’s hard to put a specific value on a gym and it’s hard to say as a school district because when you look at the buildings that we provide the communities — we’re also providing a value to those communities to provide an opportunity for the members of the community to use those to stay healthy and keep our kids fit and active.” It is the second time in recent years that the district has considered ways to reduce the expense of maintaining its pools. During its 2013-14 budget planning process, nearly $200,000 for the yearly operation of the Skyview High School pool was eliminated from the budget, with the district facing a $4.5 million deficit.

Reaction from the surrounding community was immediate. More than 200 people signed a petition to keep the facility open and the Soldotna City Council voted to spend $50,000 toward that goal. Ultimately, funding was restored, but some Board of Education members said the issue needs to be considered again as the district faces decreasing enrollment and increasingly large budget deficits. “We believe that if we looked at a centralized manager and coordinated schedules and looked at those things, we probably think we could do it more efficiently,” Jones said. Some benefits to centralized management could be a schedule that fits community use and needs better than the current schedules which are set by and tailored to each school individually. “Right now, open swim is determined on each pool level. They may do it at the same time, they may do it at different times. If we had a district

Defense bill includes land-transfer provisions JUNEAU — A proposal intended to make final the land claims of an Alaska Native regional corporation in southeast Alaska has been added to a federal defense authorization bill. U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski on Wednesday announced agreement by members of the House and Senate to tack on a package of lands bills — including the transfer of land to Sealaska Corp. — to the defense bill. But some Senate Republicans were critical of the add-on, which also includes designation of 245,000 acres of new wilderness areas and new park units. The package should come up for a vote before Congress breaks for Christmas, Murkowski spokesman Robert Dillon said. It includes provisions that would provide Sealaska with just over 70,000 acres owed to Southeast tribes under the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act. According to a release from Murkowski’s energy committee staff, Sealaska is owed 85,000 acres in the Tongass National Forest. But as part of a compromise Murkowski worked out, it will accept less in exchange for more than 68,000 acres available for logging, as well as land for renewable energy and tourism projects and cemetery and historic sites. The measure also includes about 150,000 acres of oldgrowth timber in new conservation areas. “We took great care to fulfill the promises made to Sealaska shareholders while at the same time addressing the concerns of all Southeast residents who utilize the Tongass for everything from subsistence to fisheries and recreation,” Murkowski said in the release. Sen. Mark Begich said that while the overall bill isn’t perfect, “we have been able to move forward on development interests that advance Alaska’s economy.” Other Alaska provisions in the lands package include allowing Anchorage to sell the Egan Convention Center property and two other downtown parcels for redevelopment, according to the release.

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Fish and Game to another agency. The research reserve’s funding had been threatened during the last legislative session when the House Subcommittee on Fish and Game zeroed out a $175,000 appropriation to KBRR, but that funding was restored in the final budget. The Habitat Focus Area designation means that NOAA will concentrate resources from its offices on clearly defined habitat objectives in Kachemak Bay, NOAA said in its release. Not only is Kachemak Bay an ecologically rich area, it also

Billingslea said. She suggested that the district raise prices slightly, or consider having school personnel — who currently use the facilities free of charge — pay as well. Board member Dan Castimore said the schools that had pools got more money than those without and the pools were draining resources that could be used to fund teachers. “I’m not suggesting we close (the pools). But, we’re going to cut teachers this year. We’re going to cut quite a few teachers this year,” Castimore said. “So are we going to cut teachers and then we’re going to keep the pools open? My kid gets a worse education because now we’ve eliminated all of these teachers. At some point we have to say that recreation is not more important than teachers in the classroom and I think we’re missing that.” Rashah McChesney can be reached at rashah.mcchesney@ peninsulaclarion.com.

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view of open swim we probably should have one pool do it in the morning, one pool do it in the evening. Currently we’re not very efficient in how we do that,” Jones said. Another issue pools face is staffing of lifeguards. Jones said individual school pool managers handle staffing and often compete for lifeguards. Several community members and school principals sat in the audience as the board mulled over alternative funding options and the value of the pools to the students and the surrounding towns. Freddie Billingslea said the Skyview Pool was heavily utilized and she didn’t want to see the board consider closing it again. “I’ve been using the Skyview pool ever since it was open, close to 25 years or something like that, and I’ve graduated in my physical activities from mountain climbing to crosscountry skiing to the pool. That’s the life for me now and I would hate to see it go,”

has a lot of scientific data collected, Speegle said. “We already have research and education programs right there. We’re already working with partners,” she said. “It seemed like the perfect area to designate as a Habitat Focus Area.” In another state collaboration, NOAA runs the Kasitsna Bay Laboratory near Seldovia with the University of Alaska Fairbanks School of Fisheries and Ocean Sciences. The NOAA ships Fairweather and Rainier also have done research expeditions in Kachemak Bay, including mapping of the seafloor and coastline. More federal dollars could mean putting some of that information together. “We haven’t been able to

FAIRBANKS — The family of a student who claimed he was sexually assaulted by a Fairbanks public school tutor has settled a lawsuit against the school district for $920,000. Attorneys for the two sides reached an agreement Monday after a nine-hour mediation session in Seattle, the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner reported. The Fairbanks North Star Borough School Board approved the settlement Tuesday night. The lawsuit focused on behavior by Claude Fowlkes III, 35, a Hutchison High School tutor and correspondence teacher charged in March with multiple counts of sexual abuse of a minor. He is awaiting trial and remains jailed at Fairbanks Correctional Center. Fowlkes denied the allegations to Alaska State Troopers. The family sued last spring, claiming the district ignored warning signs of inappropriate behavior by Fowlkes. Michael Kramer represented the family is the civil lawsuit. “While this financial settlement cannot undue the pain endured by this young man, it can provide them some small comfort and long-term security during their difficult recovery,” Kramer wrote in an email. The settlement must be reviewed and approved by the judge presiding over the lawsuit. Borough insurance would cover $670,000 of the settlement, and the school district would pay the remaining $250,000. Most of the money will go into a trust to help cover the cost of the victim’s future educational and counseling needs, Kramer said. “This case highlighted some systemic problems within the district and provided the impetus for changes necessary to protect our children,” Kramer said. “All of us who currently have children in public schools can be comforted knowing the district has made significant institutional and personnel changes that will help ensure that those mistakes are not repeated.” School board President Heidi Haas said the district will continue to improve how it investigates allegations against employees. — The Associated Press

synthesize that data and learn from it,” she said. A team of staff from NOAA’s National Ocean Services, National Weather Service and National Marine Fisheries Service and from the state of Alaska selected Kachemak Bay from seven state candidate areas. “In the end, Kachemak Bay was the top choice, the unanimous choice of everyone on that panel,” Speegle said. The transition from Fish and Game to UAA for the research reserve will happen over the next six months, hopefully by July 1, Ryan-Shepherd said. UAA has already designated funds from within its budget. KBRR will continue some ties with Fish and Game through

the State Wildlife Grant Program. That program is a federal pass-through for funds received through the national wildlife grant program. KBRR has received some of the State Wildlife Grant Program funding for research on salmon in the Anchor River and the harmful species program. That funding source will continue, and Fish and Game will pass some of it on to KBBR. “While we’re moving on to a different partner, they’re going to continue to fund those research activities that meet their mission,” Ryan-Shepherd said of Fish and Game. Michael Armstrong can be reached at michael.armstrong@homernews.com.

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What’s Happening Best Bets n Triumvirate Theatre presents a free community performance of “A Charlie Brown Christmas” at 4 p.m. Saturday in Soldotna Creek Park, followed by a ceremonial lighting of the city Christmas tree in the park at 4:30 p.m. Dress for the weather. Free hot chocolate and cookies available.

Events and Exhibits n The Peninsula Art Guild will host a First Thursday Opening Reception at 6 p.m. today for two December exhibits at the Kenai Fine Arts Center, 816 Cook Avenue in Old Town Kenai. “Dreams are Real,” a solo exhibit of works by Pati Deuter, and the “Annual Kids Art Exhibit” will both feature some exceptional local art. Art center hours are Wednesday-Saturday, noon-5 p.m. The Kenai Fine Arts Center will be open through Dec. 23 only to view these two great exhibits. Call 283-7040 for more information. n A exhibition of work by students Sue Covich, Jessica Isenman-Bookey, Alisah Kress, Chelsea Springer and Sandra Sterling is on display in the Gary Freeburg Gallery at Kenai Peninsula College through Jan. 1. There will be an artists’ reception from 4:30-6 p.m. Dec. 11. The gallery is open from 8:30 a.m.-7:30 p.m. Monday through Thursday and from 8 a.m.-5 p.m. on Friday. n A community choir, The Kenai Peninsula Singers, is open to everyone who wants to be there, whether it is their first time singing or they sang at The Met. The choir will rehearse every Tuesday night from 6:30 to 8 p.m. in the Kenai Central High School choir room. Call or email for more details: 907283-2125 or simjnissen@gmail.com. n The Triumvirate Theatre on the Kenai Spur Highway just north of Kenai presents two live shows during the holiday season. “A Charlie Brown Christmas” shows at 7 p.m. on Dec. 12 and Dec. 26, and 3 p.m. on Dec. 13 and Dec. 27. “A Christmas Carol” dinner theater presentation is at 6 p.m. Dec. 5-6 and Dec. 19-20. (These shows include a delicious holiday dinner). A show-only presentation of “A Christmas Carol” is at 7 p.m. Dec. 18. For tickets visit www.triumviratetheatre.org. n Kenai Peninsula Orchestra is pleased to present “An Evening of Christmas” on Dec. 19 at 7 p.m. at Renee C. Henderson Auditorium, Kenai Central High School. This program of holiday music features solos, ensembles, Central Peninsula Community Orchestra directed by Mellisa Nill, Redoubt Chamber Orchestra directed by Tammy Vollom-Matturro, introducing Kenai Peninsula Singers under the direction of Simon Nissen, and our always popular sing-alongs! Admittance is $10 for adults, $5 for children under 12 and $25 for families at the door.

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At 4:00 p.m. Saturday, December 6, the Soldotna Chamber of Commerce will present “Christmas in the Park” at Soldotna Creek Park. The event, which is being held for the first time, will feature a theatrical performance, Christmas tree lighting and refreshments. The Triumvirate Theatre will kick off the event at the park’s pavilion with a performance of “A Charlie Brown Christmas.” Because the event is held outside, the Soldotna Chamber of Commerce will be prepared for the cold, said Michelle Glaves, the Executive Director

of the Soldotna Chamber of Commerce. “We will have heaters set out for the audience and cast members,” Glaves said. Free hot chocolate, cookies and coffee will also be made available at the event, which is sponsored in part by several local businesses. After the Triumvirate’s performance, a ceremonial lighting of Soldotna’s Christmas tree will bring holiday spirit to the city. Glaves said the tree would be a perfect addition to the park, which has been under renovation for the past few years. “When they built the park, they built a place for the tree,” Glaves said. “It lights up - it has thousands and

thousands of lights on it. It will light up the park.” Glaves said the city is anticipating a couple hundred people to attend the event. One of those is Santa Claus, who will also make an appearance at the event. Glaves said the event was perfect for Soldotna. “It’s a way to use the park in the winter. We’re Alaskans, so to be outside, in the park and have a play – it totally fits.” “Christmas in the Park” is free and open to the public. Reach Ian Foley at Ian.foley@peninsulaclarion.com

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n The Flats Bistro on Kalifornsky Beach Road has live music with Garrett Mayer on Tuesdays from 6:30-8:30 p.m. and Raymond Machen-Gray on Mondays from 6:30-8:30 p.m. n Veronica’s Cafe in old town Kenai has open mic from 6:309 p.m. Friday, and live music with Jesse Tauriainen Saturday at 6:30 p.m. n Join Steve and Fern Holloway for karaoke every Saturday night at the Kenai Moose Lodge. Singing starts at 9 p.m. and everyone is welcome. n An all acoustic jam takes place every Thursday. The jam is at Christ Lutheran Church in Soldotna on the first Thursday of the month, and at the Kenai Senior Center during the rest of the month. Jam starts at 6:30 p.m. See ARTS, page B-2

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The Soundless Invaders By Dee Rusin, Kenai A fragile flake Came floating down It was alone As it hit the ground Without a sound More lacy shapes Swirled around Swishing seductively All over town Their beauty enticed As they hit the ground Without a sound Soon joining were many No one could count Covering everything Left lying about Without a sound These fragile droplets Formed a tight group Before you knew it There was a large troop Without a sound Next thing that came You just had to stay While the troublesome Gang held you at bay Without a sound So the flakes That looked pretty Now covered the city Like soundless invaders Oh what a pity Without a sound

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

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This image hows, from left, Kowalski, voiced by Chris Miller, Skipper voiced by Tom McGrath, Rico, voiced by Conrad Vernon and Private voiced by Christpher Knights in a scene from, “The Penguins of Madagascar.”

‘Penguins’ packed with family fun “Penguins of Madagascar” DreamWorks Animation 1 hour, 32 minutes There’re a couple of new kids movies coming out that I have been particularly leery of, despite being more than a little amused at their trailers. Next summer’s “Minions” is one, and this week’s “Penguins of Madagascar” is the other, both films appearing to be the epitome of Hollywood’s tendency to take a good idea and completely run it into the ground. Both feature side characters from enormously popular films — characters who normally are not asked to maintain any sort of character arc. That would be like building an entire separate show around that crazy alien guy who showed up in one episode of “Happy Days.”* That actually worked out pretty well, to tell the truth, and, against all odds, the “Penguins of Madagascar” does OK, too. The story revolves around four zany penguins — Skipper, Rico, Kowalsky, and Private, who consistently manage to rise above whatever trouble they find themselves in, all the while tripling the trouble for everyone else. They were scene stealers in each of three “Madagascar” movies, and now find themselves wrapped up in international intrigue. The film takes us back to their childhood days in Antarctica, and starts strong with a great bit about the constant desire for documentarians to film wild penguins, featuring acclaimed director Werner Herzog. Through a series of mishaps, the quartet break free of their flock, finding their way first to the Central Park Zoo, and then

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them of their life. Their schtick is a kind of regimented devil-may-care bravado. They’re a lot of snappy one-liners and little else. And, as I was afraid, the weakest element of the film is the way Private learns to be a valued member of the family. Never fear, however, this film is so jampacked with jokes and pratfalls that a little bit of forced lesson learning doesn’t really damage the whole. And thankfully, the humor rarely turns crude, making this one a safe bet for even the youngest of viewers. Though the film is sharply written, distinguishing it from other second tier family flicks like “Planes” or “The Nut Job,” “Penguins” is certainly light, so I wouldn’t bet on it winning any Oscars. The jokes are fast, but kind of scattershot, reminiscent of “Airplane” or “The Naked Gun,” but for kids. For more a more impressive film, I’d recommend “Big Hero 6,” which was moving and funny, and very creative. There are parts that may be a little scary, but overall it’s a great time at the movies. Or, if you don’t want to go out, just let your kids watch “The Lego Movie” again. You know that’s what they really want to anyway. Grade: B+ “The Penguins of Madagascar” is rated PG for mild action and some truly slight rude humor. *If you don’t get the “Happy Days” reference or have no memory of “Mork and Mindy,” then I am truly getting old.

to Madagascar, and eventually to Europe, which is where the last film ended, with all the animals performing in a circus that the penguins happened to buy. That’s a little complicated, but more to the point, it’s zany, which is what these movies are all about. Ditching the circus, the birds decide to break into Fort Knox where an angry Octopus, voiced gamely by John Malkovich, is waiting to capture them. Dave, as he’s known, wants revenge on all the domesticated penguins in the country reasoning that the cute and cuddly flightless birds are the reason his own zoo popularity wained. Dave and his army of angry cephalopods are going to hit the penguins right where it hurts, in their appearance. He’s developed an anti-cuteness ray which will turn all the penguins into hideous monsters. And just when all hope seemed lost, out of nowhere comes “The North Wind,” an elite secret agency tasked with helping animals in tough situations who can’t help themselves. Naturally our heroes resent having someone else show up to steal the show, and wackiness ensues. Chris Jenness is a freelance graphic deI was really afraid tying any sentimental- signer, artist and movie buff who lives in ity or moral to these characters would rob Nikiski.

Visualize three-and-a-half steps Bookworm Sez Three-and-a-half steps. Visualize it: that’s how big your home is. Back against the wall, three-and-a-half steps until you can’t go anymore. Arms straight out at your sides, fingers touching both walls, cement floors. Hardly a palace. Now you head outside any time you want, day or night, to do what you want to do. But picture bars on your doors and someone telling you when to eat and when to sleep. Then grab the new book “Prison Noir,” edited by Joyce Carol Oates, and read other tales of doing time. Imagine the difficulty of choosing the best fifteen of a hundred exceptional prison stories, a challenge that faced author-editor Joyce Carol Oates in pulling this book together. That the enC

tries she read were “well-crafted” should be no surprise; after all, each of them was written by someone who is or has been in prison, which lends a “disconcerting ring of authenticity” to tales like these. You know if you’ve been incarcerated, for instance, that having cellies can be a thorny issue, but in the first story, “Shuffle” by Christopher M. Stephen, even segregation doesn’t mean “true solitary confinement” anymore. Yes, roommates and block mates can be trouble – but they can also keep a person sane, as in “I Saw an Angel” by Sin Soracco. Conversely, as in “Bardos” by Scott Gutches, the person two cells down can make you really think – especially when he’s dead just shy of his release date. In prison, there is no privacy. There is no esSee SEZ, page B-2

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Rockefeller Center Christmas tree arrives By MICHAEL RUBINKAM Associated Press

BLOOMSBURG, Pa. — An 85-foot Norway spruce that belonged to a central Pennsylvania family of “Christmas elves” will serve as Rockefeller Center’s Christmas tree this year. Workers cut down the 13ton tree and a crane hoisted it onto a trailer Wednesday morning for the 155-mile journey to midtown Manhattan. It’ll be illuminated for the first time on Dec. 3 in a ceremony that’s been held since 1933. The tree was donated by Dan Sigafoos, 38, and Rachel Drosdick-Sigafoos, 29, who live in a century-old farmhouse about three hours west of New

York City. “I am a big Christmas elf. My whole family are Christmas elves,” said Drosdick-Sigafoos, a diving coach at Susquehanna University who also works part-time at a hospital. “So for me, this is just literally beyond my wildest dreams.” Erik Pauze, the head gardener at Rockefeller Center, was driving on Interstate 80 several years ago when he spied the tree from the highway. “I said, “’Whoa! Check that out,’” Pauze recalled. He got off the highway and took pictures. But the tree wasn’t quite ready, and the owner of the home didn’t want to part with it. When the Sigafooses pur-

chased the farmhouse two years ago, the former owner’s real estate agent mentioned that Rockefeller Center had been interested in the massive 90-year-old spruce next to the barn. Once it’s hoisted into place at 30 Rockefeller Plaza, the tree will be decorated with more than 45,000 LED lights and a 9½-foot-wide Swarovski star. The annual tree-lighting event at Rockefeller Center attracts tens of thousands of people and is watched by millions more on television. After Christmas, the tree will return to Pennsylvania and its wood will be used to build homes for Habitat for Humanity, Drosdick-Sigafoos said.

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The 2014 Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree is raised by crane on Rockefeller Plaza, in New York, in this, Nov. 7 photo. On Wednesday evening,the air will reverberate with the voices of Lady Gaga, Tony Bennett, Mariah Carey, Cyndi Lauper and other music stars for the nationwide live broadcast of the lighting ceremony.

PEN American Center auction raises $1 million Hi HILLEL ITALIE, AP National Writer

NEW YORK — Philip Roth was the star attraction, by words alone. Annotated copies of the novels “Portnoy’s Complaint” and “American Pastoral” brought in more than $130,000 Tuesday night at a PEN American Center benefit auction hosted by Christie’s. PEN raised $1 million overall, a major boost for

‘It was a great night for literature. People keep saying the book is dead, but that clearly isn’t true.’ — Robert Caro, Pulitzer Prize-winner the literary and human rights organization, which officials say has an annual budget of around $4 million. Other popular items included annotated editions of

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n AMVETS Post 4 is open to all military veterans and their families for support and camaraderie. Join us for Friday night tacos, or Saturday night steaks with Karaoke. Sunday afternoon its super hamburgers. Not a member? Stop by and we can show you how to become a part of this special veteran’s organization. AMVETS is located in the Red Diamond Center next door to IDEA Schools. n Sharpen your dart skills with a fun tournament every Sunday during the season at the AmVets in the Red Diamond Center. The number of players will determine the game. Sign up begins at 1:00 p.m. For more information call 262-3540. n Odie’s Deli in Soldotna has live music Friday from 6-8 p.m. and Pub Quiz night every Wednesday from 6-8 p.m. n The Bow bar in Kenai has karaoke at 9 p.m. Thursdays and live music Fridays, Saturdays at 10 p.m. n Hooligans Saloon in Soldotna has poker Tuesdays and Thursdays starting at 5:30 p.m. and live music Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday nights. n The Duck Inn on Kalifornsky Beach Road has karaoke at 9 p.m. Thursdays and Fridays, and DJ Arisen on Saturdays. n Mykel’s in Soldotna has live music Thursdays from 6-9 p.m. with Robb Justice, and Fridays and Saturdays from 6:30-9:30 p.m. with Bob Ramponi and Dave Unruh. n The Duck Inn will have live music from 7 to 10 p.m. every Wednesday with Robb Justice and Trio. n The Pinochle Club, formerly from Kasilof, plays at Hooligans Bar & Restaurant in Soldotna Saturdays at 12:30 p.m. Questions? Call Jay Vienup at 907-252-6397.

Markets, fairs and bazaars n The Central Peninsula Hospital Auxiliary Annual Holiday Bazaar will be held Thursday from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. and Friday from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. The bazaar will be held in the Denali Conference Room at the hospital. n Nikiski Community Recreation Center is now taking vendor registration for annual Christmas Craft Fair on Dec. 13. For additional information, please call 776-8800.

Films n Call Orca Theaters at 262-7003 for listings and times. n Call Kambe Cinemas at 283-4554 for listings and times.

Down the Road n The Pratt Museum in Homer is open Tuesday-Sunday from noon to 5 p.m. For more information and a schedule of events, visit www.prattmuseum.org. Submissions may be emailed to news@peninsulaclarion.com. The deadline is 5 p.m. Mondays.

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And she’s right. But she forgot the word “riveting.” Indeed, it’s hard to turn away from what you’ll read inside “Prison Noir.” There’s sadness here, frustration, resignation, and a surprising sense of slyness. You’ll find fiction, perhaps, or maybe it’s all real – possibilities of which you’ll squirmingly have to remind yourself. Either way, the fifteen contributing authors didn’t seem to be holding anything back which, for the right reader, can be some powerful seat-glue. Beware, before you pick up this book, that it’s filled with exactly what you’d expect from prison literature. I enjoyed it quite a bit, but I wouldn’t begin to call it nice. With that caveat in mind, I think that no matter what side of the bars you live on, “Prison Noir” is worth doing time with.

caping the sound of the echoing clink of “hundreds of doors closing at the same time.” There can be language barriers that lead to huge misunderstandings. In prison, as in “Milk and Tea” by Linda Michelle Marquardt, there are people just trying to get by and get beyond a crime that surprised even them. And behind bars, there’s danger – not just to others but, as in “There Will Be Seeds for Next Year” by Zeke Caliguiri, there’s danger to the inmate himself… In her introduction, Joyce Carol Oates says that there were some stories in this anthology that she read multiple times, and she admits that there were others she didn’t quite understand. She calls them “… stark, The Bookworm is Terri somber, emotionally driven… raw, crude, and disturbing ma- Schlichenmeyer. Email her at terial…” bookwormsez@gmail.com.

Don DeLillo’s post-World War II epic “Underworld,” which had a winning bid of $57,000, and Robert Caro’s Pulitzer Prize-winning biography of municipal builder Robert Moses, “The Power Broker,” purchased for $26,000. “It was a great night for literature. People keep saying the book is dead, but that clearly isn’t true,” Caro said afterward, adding that he had been nervous enough about the appeal of “The Power Broker” to delay his arrival until bidding for it was over. The actual bids Tuesday brought in just under $920,000, but a PEN supporter, who the organization declined to identify, kicked in enough to bring the total to $1 million. The auction was called “First Editions/Second Thoughts,” for which writers and visual artists reflected upon previous works and added notes and illustrations. The 75 offerings ranged from an old Woody Allen stage and film comedy, “Play It

Again, Sam,” to Gillian Flynn’s million-selling thriller “Gone Girl.” Roth, who has announced his retirement from both fiction writing and public speeches, was not in attendance. But his “American Pastoral,” a Pulitzer winner released in 1997, was easily the most popular work, selling for $80,000. Many of the bidders were PEN officials, collectors or professional book dealers. Rick Gekoski, a London-based rare books dealer with a full beard and a clear voice, snapped up “Gone Girl,” Jhumpa Lahiri’s “Interpreter of Maladies” and numerous other books. “It went very well. It was very reasonable,” he said later. The tastes of the room often had little to do with the fame of the writer or the popularity of the book. The debut poetry collection of Paul Muldoon, “Knowing My Place,” sold for $13,000, more than the combined top bids for Khaled Hosseini’s “The Kite Runner,” Sue Grafton’s “A is for Alibi” and Amy Tan’s “The Joy Luck Club.” An early James Salter novel, “The Hunters,” was purchased for $8,000. Malcolm Gladwell’s best-selling “The Tipping Point” went for $3,500. Marilynne Robinson’s “Housekeeping” had a final bid of $24,000, Allen’s “Play

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It Again, Sam” just $4,000, perhaps because Allen himself dismissed it in his notes as a “junky play.” Some contributors became so absorbed by the PEN project that they kept adding and revising annotations right up to auction time. Playwright Tony Kushner had already donated a copy of his celebrated “Angels in America,” and threw in marked up portions of the shoot-

ing script for “Lincoln,” the Steven Spielberg film that starred Daniel Day-Lewis. Kushner’s works sold for $32,000. Before getting to Yoko Ono’s “Acorn,” a collection of instructions in verse form, auctioneer Tom Lecky reminded bidders that an inscription in the catalog was incorrect. The proper wording was “Imagine Peace & Remember Love! Love, Yoko 2013.”

U2 announces 19-city tour next May NEW YORK (AP) — U2 says it will hit the stage in Vancouver next May to open a 19-city tour, playing indoor arenas after a decade of larger outdoor shows. Promoter Live Nation announced the rock band’s “iNNOCENCE + eXPERIENCE” tour on Wednesday. Tickets go on sale on Monday. The tour swings through North America next summer before heading to Europe in September 2015. U2 is obviously hoping for a complete recovery by lead singer Bono, who was hurt in a bicycle accident in New York City last month. During a surprise gig in New York’s Times Square this week, Bruce Springsteen and Chris Martin filled in for the vocalist. The band will play two AP Photo/Joel Ryan, File nights in each city, with four In this June 24, 2011 file photo, Bono, of British rock band U2, performs at Glastonbury Music dates in New York, Los Ange- Festival in Glastonbury, England. U2 on Wednesday, said it will hit the stage in Vancouver in May 2015 to open a 19-city tour, playing indoor arenas after a decade of larger outdoor shows. les and London.

NBC’s Snyderman returns with an apology By DAVID BAUDER AP Television Writer

NEW YORK — NBC News medical reporter Nancy Snyderman apologized on the “Today” show Wednesday for violating her quarantine for Ebola exposure, saying she failed to appreciate how frightened Americans were of the disease. It was Snyderman’s first on-air appearance in a month and a half, and she followed her talk with Matt Lauer by reporting a story on women and depression. NBC had kept her off the air following an angry public reaction to her broken promise: After saying she’d stay in her New Jersey home until the danger for symptoms of the disease had passed, she was spotted in a car getting takeout food. “I’m very sorry for not only scaring my community and the country, but adding to the C

‘I’m very sorry for not only scaring my community and the country, but adding to the confusion of terms that came as fast and furious as the news about Ebola.’ — Nancy Synderman, surgeon, NBC News confusion of terms that came as fast and furious as the news about Ebola,” said Synderman, a surgeon who has worked for NBC News since 2006 after a long stint at ABC. Snyderman had been reporting on the Ebola outbreak in Liberia in October and worked briefly with cameraman Ashoka Mukpo, who came down with the deadly virus. Mukpo came back to the United States for treatment and has since recovered, and no one else from NBC was infected.

Snyderman said she and fellow crew members were taking their temperatures several times a day to check to see if they were developing symptoms. But within 72 hours of agreeing to a 21-day quarantine, Snyderman left her home, compelling New Jersey authorities to then make her quarantine mandatory. “We knew the risks in our heads,” Snyderman, “but we didn’t really appreciate and frankly were not sensitive to how absolutely frightened

Americans were.” She said “good people make mistakes and I stepped outside the boundaries of what I promised to do and what the public expected of me, and for that I’m sorry.” Snyderman said she would be willing to go back to Africa tomorrow to cover Ebola. Left unsaid was whether NBC would take her off the story given the furor over her violation. There was genuine doubt among NBC executives about whether Snyderman would be allowed to return at all. NBC said Wednesday it was not commenting beyond Snyderman’s interview. More than 100 public comments about Snyder’s apology were posted on the “Today” show website by early Wednesday afternoon. They were overwhelmingly negative, although there was some suggestion that she deserved some sympathy.

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Jacqueline Bigar’s Stars A baby born today has a Sun in Sagittarius and a Moon in Taurus. HAPPY BIRTHDAY for Thursday, Dec. 4, 2014: This year you often find that you are challenged by others; they don’t hesitate to be bold and blunt. Fortunately, you won’t personalize the less-friendly comments. You will be able to bottom-line problems. Recognize that you have a short fuse, and refuse to have a knee-jerk reaction when you’re angry or going over a problem in your mind. If you are single, you might meet someone who intrigues you. Know that this relationship will be quite good. If you are attached, learn to respect your differences. TAURUS often is more even-tempered than you are. 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) HHHH Read between the lines if someone seems overly concerned about something. You could sense some awkwardness, so make a point of finding out what is going on with this person. A friend could become pushy and irritable. Tonight: Do some shopping on the way home. TAURUS (April 20-May 20) HHHHH Go after what you want with a greater sense of confidence. You also might want to indulge a family member, roommate or loved one. Make it OK to be spontaneous. Take some time to have an important chat with a loved one. Tonight: Share some munchies. GEMINI (May 21-June 20) HHH Others might be trying to make your life easier, even though you

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HHHH Use caution when dealing with people on the homefront. Be careful with how you handle any domestic or personal issue right now. Something you shrug off today could ignite an argument in the next few weeks. Tonight: Go along with a loved one’s plans. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) HHHHYou’ll convey your good intentions. Step back and take an overview of a private matter that’s close to your heart. Someone might find your words offensive, when that was not your intention. This person could be having a bad hair day. Tonight: Hang out at a local haunt. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) HHH You might have some insight into a situation that you won’t want to share with others just yet. Your finances could be flashing a yellow light. Although you typically have a lot of self-discipline, you easily could go overboard if you aren’t careful. Tonight: Think “weekend.” AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) HHHHToday Mars, the planet of energy, moves into your sign. As a result, you are likely to express more vitality and draw many people toward you. If you feel frustrated, your temper could explode. Release any tension before you become angry. Tonight: Head home first. PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) HHHH Others might want to lure you into their way of thinking. Listen to their opinions, but know that you don’t have to give immediate feedback. A friend or loved one could seem a bit touchy. Do yourself a favor and wait to discuss this matter. Tonight: Catch up on a friend’s news.

Vinegar takes on winter windows Dear Heloise: In the wintertime, I spray the outside glass on my vehicle with vinegar. In case it gets below freezing and snows, the ice and snow won’t stick to the windows. When the other cars’ windows are covered with ice and snow, mine are clear. — Marvin O. in Montana This is an old, classic Heloise hint. You want to mix either white or cider vinegar with water (a ratio of 3 parts vinegar to 1 part water) before using on car windows. This hint is one of many in my Heloise’s Fantabulous Vinegar Hints and More pamphlet. To order one, which includes some favorite recipes and other money-saving hints, please send $5 and a long, self-addressed, stamped (70 cents) envelope to: Heloise/Vinegar, P.O. Box 795001, San Antonio, TX 78279-5001. I keep a microfiber cloth under the front seat and one in the glove box. When stuck at a loooong (yes, I spelled it loooong!) light, I figure, why waste that time? I dust a window or two, the control panel and any surface I can reach. — Heloise Family Tree Dear Heloise: I have the solution for family-photograph Christmas cards. I now have two trees — one traditional and the other with lights and only photographs cut to size. Florist wire makes quick hangers, and you can put on enough lights so you can call it your “family tree.” It’s one-of-a-kind. I have been doing this for years, and during our open house, people spend more time looking at all the pictures than at my Nativity sets. — Catherine T., Conroe, Texas

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By Michael Peters

2014 Conceptis Puzzles, Dist. by King Features Syndicate, Inc.

DEAR ABBY: You mentioned in a recent column that few people write to follow up on what happened since their original letter was published. You printed mine April 1, 2001. I am “Hurting in Houston,” the son who, with his partner, was suddenly no longer welcome in his parents’ home after they moved to a retirement community, because they were afraid their neighbors would shun them if they discovered they had a gay son. You advised that I should live my own life and, maybe, someday they would come around — and that is what I did. After a number of years, I received a call from a sibling informing me that my father was ill with only a short time left, and I should fly to their city to see him. I asked if I was wanted, and he said, “It doesn’t matter, just come!” So I swallowed my pride, flew there and made my way to the hospice house. Although my mother received me well, Dad did not, and we never had a good moment before he died a few days later. I told my mother I was staying for the funeral whether she liked it or not and had my partner fly in. After the service there was a gathering at my mother’s house with all their friends. I introduced my partner to them and everyone was as kind as could be. Many mentioned their own gay siblings or relatives.

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