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Soldotna council considers changes By KAYLEE OSOWSKI Peninsula Clarion

In the news Body of Anchorage man recovered from Seward harbor

ANCHORAGE (AP) — The body of a 51-year-old Anchorage man has been recovered from the Seward small boat harbor, and a search for his companion continues. KTUU says the body of Patrick Richard was found Saturday morning after divers were alerted that a man’s body was floating in the harbor. Police Chief Tom Clemons says Richard’s body was found completely submerged in the water near a boat he was staying on. Richard and the unidentified companion were visiting Seward, and were reported overdue for a charter bus back to Anchorage Saturday morning. Police were alerted by a friend who went to the boat searching for Richard and found the body. Clemons says it’s not clear whether drugs, alcohol or foul play were factors in Richard’s death.

Inside ‘It is hoped that a thoughtful, global, creative approach to budget challenges will result in the utilization and maintenance of the resources and facilities with which we have been blest.’ ... See page A-4

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nies pursuing the liquefied natural gas pipeline project — BP, ConocoPhillips and ExxonMobil Corp. — all lobbied for the tax change. Pruitt said he wants people to recognize “we don’t get gas unless we have oil.” For the companies, the money is in oil, and without a “positive” oil tax structure, the likelihood for them making significant investments in gas is limited, he said. Pruitt said he considers the Legislature taking up tax and royalty terms related to the gas line project something they must do this

Soldotna council member Keith Baxter is introducing an ordinance on the council’s Wednesday consent agenda to amend a section of Soldotna’s code concerning special assessment district projects. The section of the code proposed to be amended deals with the weight of consideration given to property owner objections to SAD projects — projects in which affected property owners pay a portion of the costs. According to the original code 3.18.100 section D, “if written objections are filed by the owners of parcels bearing one-half or more of the estimated cost of the improvement, the city council may not proceed with the improvement.” If the council is able to pass the special assessment district with a three-fourths majority vote or is able to revise the district so that the property owners objecting to the project are responsible for less than 50 percent of the district, then the council may move forward in the process, according to the code. With districts in which the city is funding 75 percent of

See AGENDA, page A-8

See CITY, page A-8

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Thinning ice

Two blocks of ice placed in front of Sweeney’s in Soldotna slowly melt as the sun shines down Monday. Above average temperatures for Jan. 20 reached up to 45 degrees in Soldotna. Store owner Mike Sweeney said ice sculptor Scott Hanson would not be able to work on the sculpture until the temperatures dropped near freezing. Sweeney said the sculptures will be a leprechaun and penguin. The National Weather Service calls for partly cloudy skies with a chance of rain for Tuesday in Soldotna with temperatures highs in the mid 30s. The forecast remains the same for Kenai the next few days with a chance of snow showers mixed with rain.

Spending, oil and gas on agenda By BECKY BOHRER Associated Press

JUNEAU — State spending, education funding and plans for advancing a major gas line project are among the big issues facing lawmakers when they return to Juneau for the new session. When the Legislature reconvenes Tuesday, it will be the first time in several years that oil taxes aren’t on the docket. The issue, however, figures to loom large in discussions about state spending and the gas line project.

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Voters in August will be asked to decide whether to repeal the oil tax cut passed last year. Critics fear the crash in unrestricted general fund revenue forecast for this year and next is the tip of the iceberg if the new tax stands. Supporters argue the state is better protected at current prices under the tax change, which they also say is helping to spur investment.

The Department of Revenue has cited several factors for the revenue decline, including lower-than-expected oil prices, declining production, residual effects of the outgoing tax system, such as a closeout of credits, and higher-than-expected deductible lease expenditures. Provisions of the new tax kicked in Jan. 1. House Majority Leader Lance Pruitt, R-Anchorage, said he doesn’t believe the state will get a gas line if it reverts to the old tax system, which would happen if the referendum were successful. Oil and gas compa-

Senator speaks out against Pebble Mine By BECKY BOHRER Associated Press

JUNEAU — U.S. Sen. Mark Begich has come out against the proposed Pebble Mine, calling the massive gold-and-copper project “the wrong mine in the wrong place for Alaska.” In a statement released by his office Monday, Begich said he has long supported Alaska’s mining industry and believes continued efforts must be made to support resource-development industries that help keep Alaska’s economy strong. But

he said “years of scientific study (have) proven the proposed Pebble Mine cannot be developed safely in the Bristol Bay watershed.” “Thousands of Alaskans have weighed in on this issue, and I have listened to their concerns,” he said. “Pebble is not worth the risk.” In 2011, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency initiated a review of large-scale mining in the Bristol Bay region in response to concerns about the impact of the proposed Pebble Mine on fisheries.

‘Thousands of Alaskans have weighed in on this issue, and I have listened to their concerns. Pebble is not worth the risk.’ — U.S. Sen. Mark Begich The agency released its final report last week, concluding that large-scale mining in the Bristol Bay watershed posed significant risks to salmon and Alaska Native cultures that rely on it. The region is home to a world-premier sockeye salmon

fishery. The report did not recommend any policy or regulatory decisions. But EPA regional administrator Dennis McLerran said it would serve as the scientific foundation for the agency’s response to the tribes

and others who petitioned EPA to use its authority under the Clean Water Act to protect Bristol Bay. Mine opponents have been pressing the agency to take steps to block or limit the project. Begich, a Democrat, is the only member of the state’s congressional delegation to outright oppose the project, and his position, first reported by the Anchorage Daily News, won praise from Pebble critics on Monday. Sen. Lisa Murkowski and See PEBBLE, page A-8

Budget analysis lays out weighty deficit impacts By BECKY BOHRER Associated Press

JUNEAU — Fall-back options, such as large cuts in capital budgets, imposing state sales or income taxes or cutting Permanent Fund dividends, may not eliminate future deficits, according to a newly released analysis by the Legislative Finance Division. The division, in an overview of Gov. Sean Parnell’s budget plan, says current spending levels are unsustainable without additional revenue, and simply constraining spending growth is insufficient.

Without reserves, the report says the budget would have to be reduced by $2.5 billion annually for the state to live within its means. The report made assumptions based on the fall revenue forecast, including no growth in agency and statewide operations after next year and capital budgets set at $800 million in unrestricted general funds annually. It says state reserves would last until fiscal year 2024 if the forecast and assumptions held. Legislative Finance Director David Teal said there would be a comparable outcome whether

the state stayed on its current schedule for paying on its unfunded pension liability or went with the governor’s proposal to move $3 billion from savings toward paying down the obligation. “In just a few short years, the bottom-line fiscal question facing Alaska legislators has changed from ‘How much can we save this year?’ to ‘How large is the deficit?’ “ the report states. Alaska relies heavily on oil revenues to fund state government, but production has long been on a downward trend. Higher prices in recent years C

helped to fatten state coffers and mask the fiscal impact of the decline. The Legislature last year passed an oil tax cut in the hopes it would lead to more production. That tax cut will be the subject of a referendum that voters will decide in August. Parnell has said the state is on strong financial footing and will exercise spending restraint and use savings to get by while oil prices are lower. Parnell’s budget office, in laying out various scenarios of its own, showed funds in the statutory and constitutional budget reserve funds could be gone by fiscal year 2022 — or the state

could still have billions saved up by 2024, depending on factors like oil prices, production and spending. According to the Legislative Finance report, the statutory budget reserve fund, which is the easier of the two funds for lawmakers to access, is projected to close out the current year at about $2.8 billion. That is after a projected draw of about $1.9 billion for this year’s budget to account for lower-thanexpected revenue. There is projected to be about $12.2 billion in the constitutional budget reserve at the See BUDGET, page A-8

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Clarion Question Results The Clarion question for last week was:

Do you think building roundabouts is a good solution to traffic issues in the area? The following selected comments were submitted by our readers: Results are not scientific

“Roundabouts are absolutely not a good idea for Soldotna. If we could “vote” on it, I’d definitely say no! Far too the three mentioned intersections would be an upgrade dangerous. After all, this isn’t Anchorage, this is a small to your community especially when those “pesky tourists” family-based community here in Soldotna. Why not just put deluge your summer streets.” in a few more traffic lights and then maintain them.” “I have used roundabouts in New Zealand, Europe and “I have witnessed a controversial, when first suggest- the USA, they work great! Those who are against them ed, roundabout in Kihei, Hawaii. I was one of the skeptics! have probably not had any experience with them.” In fact, I wrote an editorial suggesting it was a complete waste of taxpayers’ money. I was wrong! It was and is a “I believe that this is a bad idea. A roundabout at Kobuk godsend moving traffic though a busy intersection safely and Redoubt would be a real mess with all the school bus and efficiently. I lived in Soldotna for 37 years prior to mov- traffic.” ing to Hawaii and can honestly say, mini-roundabouts at

Wedding insurance expands as nuptials get pricier By MICHAEL MELIA Associated Press

HARTFORD, Conn. — Worried about the groom getting cold feet? There’s an insurance policy for that. With the cost of the average American wedding reaching about $26,000, insurers have been selling a growing number of policies to protect against losses from extreme weather, illness and, in one firm’s case, even a sudden change of heart. Cheryl Winter spent $500 for Hartford-based Travelers Cos. Inc. to cover her daughter’s $50,000 destination wedding last October in New Orleans, where her biggest concern was a potential hurricane. The weather cooperated, but the limousine never showed up. Her daughter took a taxi cab to the church, and they used the insurance policy to claim the deposit money they couldn’t get back from the limo driver. “No one wants to be walking in the French Quarter in a long gown and high heels,” said Winter, who lives in the Houston area. The insurance is offered by a small number of U.S. companies. Insurers declined to provide data on the number of customers beyond saying they are C

growing steadily. It can cover losses from issues ranging from bankrupt wedding halls to cancelations forced by unexpected military deployments. Travelers says issues with vendors account for about a quarter of the claims, with most of those related to issues with photographers or videographers. For Travelers, an insurance giant with annual revenue of $26 billion, the policies will not make or break the bottom line. But the wedding insurance it began selling in 2007 is also a way to connect with a couple who might later think of the company for home insurance and other life milestones. “It could be the beginning of a relationship with a young couple,” said Ed Charlebois, a Travelers vice president for personal insurance. Wedsafe, backed by Aon, also offers wedding insurance, which differs little from the specialty insurance that firms may offer for other kinds of events and celebrations. For parents concerned about a relationship souring before the exchange of vows, Fireman’s Fund Insurance Co. offers change of heart insurance. It’s been available since 2007, but the program administra-

tor said the fraud rate soared in the early years as policies were bought for couples who were known to be fighting.

That coverage now applies only if the bride or groom calls off the wedding more than nine months beforehand.

Peninsula Clarion, Tuesday, January 21, 2014

Obituary

Free swim session on the schedule

Scarlett Olivia Zuyus, born Dec. 4, 2007, passed away Thursday, Jan. 16, 9:40 p.m., at her home in Tulsa, Okla. She was holding her Dad’s hand when she smiled and peacefully went into God’s open arms. Scarlett had just turned 6 and lost a long battle to a rare form of brain cancer. Several of her summers were spent on the Kenai Peninsula visiting her extended family.

The Central Peninsula Change Club invites the public to a free swim hosted by Central Peninsula Health Foundation Jan. Central Peninsula Habitat 27, 3-6 p.m. at Skyview High School. Children under 5 years opens home application period old are required to be accompanied by a swimming adult. Lap Central Peninsula Habitat for Humanity is seeking qualified swimmers and play swimmers are welcome! For more inforapplicants for the 2014 summer build in Kenai. Local famimation call the Cooperative Extension Service at 262-5824. lies in need of safe, affordable housing can see qualification details at www.hfhcentralpeninsula.org or call Sharon at 907Shape up at Triumvirate book store 283-7797 or 907-262-7534. The application period closes Feb. The Triumvirate Theater Book Store in the Peninsula Center 14, 2014. Mall in Soldotna is having a January Shape Up, with books on topics such as Adkins to Weight Watchers, Aerobics to “Ys” RurAL CAP accepting applications Ways For Your Heart, Children’s Health and Mental Health RurAL CAP is now accepting applications for their available. 2014 Mutual Self Help Housing Project. There will be 11 lots available in the Soldotna City Limits. Space will fill up LeeShore class canceled fast, so those interested should contact Mi’shell or Valerie at The LeeShore Center’s Changing Patterns class is canceled 260-3451 to apply and to obtain more information. RurAL Jan. 21. The class will resume the following week. For further CAP also offers credit counseling services for those who are interested in participating in this program, but may need information call 283-9479. some additional assistance in this area. All information is kept strictly confidential. Please call 907-260-3451 or stop Learn about home safety by their office at 131C Warehouse Avenue in Soldotna for The UAF Cooperative Extension Service is starting off more information. RurAL CAP is an equal housing opporthe New Year thinking about home safety and will be hosting tunity program. Brad Nelson, of Central Emergency Services, who will deliver a lively presentation on “Fire, from Chimney Care to Smoke Have a photogenic pet? Alarms.” Mr. Nelson will provide information on the how, Send the Clarion a picture where and why of caring for the systems that keep us warm, Pet photos run on the Pets page every Tuesday. They can be cozy and safe. This free class is Jan. 23. Class size is limited; pre-registration is required. Call the Cooperative Extension color or black and white and may include people. Limit one photo per household. They may be e-mailed to news@peninsuService at 262-5824 to register. laclarion.com, dropped off at the Kenai office or mailed to the Clarion at P.O. Box 3009, Kenai, 99611. A brief explanation of Hospice winter fundraiser tickets available the photo, the pet’s and owner’s names, owner’s address and Hospice of the Central Peninsula is selling tickets for its phone number must be included. Photos with an address written on the back will be returned. 18th annual Winter Wine Taste and Auction. Call the Hospice office at 262-0453 from 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Monday-Thursday for For more information, call 907-335-1251. more information and tickets. The Winter Wine Taste Event Submit announcements to news@peninsulaclarion.com. will be held Feb. 22 at the Kenai Senior Center at 6 p.m. The

Today 9 a.m. • TOPS meets at the Kenai Senior Center for a weigh-in from 9 to 10:15 a.m., and a meeting at 10:30. Call Darlene at 907-283-3451. Noon • Alcoholics Anonymous recovery group at URS Club, 405 Overland Drive. Call 907-262-1917. • Kenai Bridge Club plays party bridge at the Kenai Senior Center. Call 907-252-9330 or 907-283-7609. 1 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. • Weight Watchers, Woodruef Building, 155 Smith Way, Soldotna. Doors open at 5:15; joining members should arrive by 5:30; Getting Started session for newcomers at 6:30. Call 907-262-4892. • ICAN (International Cesarean Awareness Network) meets in Old Town Kenai. Contact Niki at 394-9166 for directions. Kids are welcome at this potluck type event. 6:30 p.m. • Narcotics Anonymous Support Group at Central Peninsula Hospital, Redoubt Room, Soldotna. 7 p.m. • Lost & Found Grief Self Help Group at Christ Lutheran Church, 128 Soldotna Ave. For more information, call 907420-3979. 8 p.m. • Narcotics Anonymous Support Group “It works” at URS Club, 405 Overland Drive, Kenai. • AA North Roaders Group Step and Traditions Study at North Star Methodist Church, Mile 25.5 Kenai Spur Highway. Call 907-242-9477. • Alcoholics Anonymous Ninichik 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. M

evening will be filled with gourmet appetizers, dinner and dessert along with paired wines for each course, as well as a silent and live auction and fun raffles. To donate to this event, please call Mary Green at 398-1600 or the Hospice office.

Scarlett Olivia Zuyus

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Aussies plan winter Brooks Range crossing By TIM MOWRY Fairbanks Daily News-Miner

FAIRBANKS (AP) — An Australian surfer who has a love affair with Alaska is trying to do something no Alaskan has ever done — ski across the length of the Brooks Range in the winter. John Cantor and Evan Howard, both from Australia, are attempting to ski a little more than 1,000 miles — or 1,700 kilometers in Australia speak — across the north side of the Brooks Range. They are traveling west to east, starting in Kotzebue on Jan. 7. Their destination is Kaktovik, a tiny, Inupiaq village on the north coast near the Canadian border. Cantor and Howard are towing sleds behind them with their food and gear. They expect the trip to take two months. They will pass through only two villages — Noatak and Anaktuvuk Pass — and their only resupply points will be in Anaktuvuk Pass, at the Dalton Highway crossing and a few other locations where they have arranged to have snowmachines drop supplies. Cantor is no stranger to Alaska or the Brooks Range. He successfully hiked across the Brooks Range in summer 2012, his fourth attempt at doing so. His first attempt in 2008 ended after just four days because of a bout of constipation, but he kept coming back until he was successful. “Realizing I was banging my head against a wall, I took 2011 off and adopted a completely different approach to the expedition,” Cantor said. “I broke the expedition down into little battles and worked on perfecting each element.” He completed the 1,600mile trip — 600 miles hiking and 1,000 floating in a packraft — in 311/2 days, crossing the Brooks Range in the winter was “a natural progression” after his successful summer trip, Cantor said. “During my summer traverse I was thinking to myself, ‘This is probably it for a long time; I’m not going to come back here,’” Cantor said in a video on his website talking about the

‘I am realizing that this winter traverse idea was really stupid, but I am stoked I had that moment of idiocy, and that Evan was dumb enough to agree to come along.’ — John Cantor, trekker trip. “Within 16 days of being back home, I was craving to be back out in the Brooks Range, so it seemed like a natural progression to try and cross it in the winter.” This is the first known attempt of a full traverse of the Brooks Range during the winter, according to Cantor’s research. Cantor bills himself as an adventurer, writer, filmmaker and corporate speaker who doesn’t take himself too seriously. He grew up surfing on the Sunshine Coast near Noosa Heads, Queensland, and somewhere along the line became “enamoured” with Alaska, he said on his Facebook page. His biggest claim to fame besides his successful Brooks Range traverse two years ago is a bit in a Nissan X-Terra commercial playing famous adventurer Bear Grylls’ stunt double. Compared to the winter expedition, his summer traverse “seems like a fun weekend hiking trip,” Cantor said. To get ready for it, Cantor and Howard spent two weeks skiing and camping in the Brooks Range last March. The video of their training trip last March on Cantor’s website shows he and Howard towing sleds through deep snow and climbing a mountain somewhere in the Brooks Range. When they reach the top, they strip off their shirts and highfive each other. Back in Australia, Cantor said he has been taking halfhour ice baths to prepare his body for the cold, which he says could bottom out at 60 degrees below zero Fahrenheit. The two Aussie adventurers have hightech, cold-weather clothing and camping gear from sponsors like Berghaus, Trek & Travel, Hilleberg, Garmin and Baffin

that they say will keep them comfortable and help them navigate. Though he doesn’t have much winter experience in Alaska other than a little bit of snowboarding and last year’s two-week training trip, Cantor is well aware that this trip will be very different than his summer traverse. “It’s so much more difficult (in the winter),” said Cantor. “The only similarities are the place and the length. Other than that the two expeditions have very little in common.” The trip started out on a tough note. After flying to Kotzebue from Fairbanks, the two Aussies spent their first three days battling strong headwinds from Kotzebue to Noatak, where they spent two days resting. “We expected the leg to Noatak to be an easy 2 days but it has been a brutal 3,” Cantor wrote on his Facebook page. While in Noatak, Cantor and Howard spoke with children at the village school about their expedition and what it’s like living in Australia. They plan to do the same when they reach Anaktuvuk Pass and Kaktovik. While in Noatak, the two Australians enjoyed the hospitality of local residents Rob and Tanya Kirk, who gave them a place to stay and went over maps of the area with them. Cantor and Howard were a little battered when they got there after fighting the wind for three days but they were in good spirits, Tanya Kirk said. “Involving the Native people in our trip is giving it so much more importance,” Cantor said before the trip. “We feel like we’re not just going there and using their land and not giving anything back.” The temperature was 29 de-

grees below zero when they left the village early Sunday morning and headed up the Noatak River. “We left Noatak Village under clear skies and minus 34 degrees Celsius,” Cantor reported on his Facebook page earlier this week. “It was a perfect day and we skied 20 kilometers up the Noatak River to a hunting cabin that Tanya and Robbie Kirk have kindly let us use tonight.” On Tuesday, the two adventurers were still making their way up the Noatak and the realization of what they had gotten themselves into seemed to be hitting them. “Evan and I are working well together and we made good distance today,” Cantor wrote. “The weather is cold but clear and windless, which is a blessing. I am realizing that this winter traverse idea was really stupid, but I am stoked I had that moment of idiocy, and that Evan was dumb enough to agree to come along.” Howard said he has “full confidence” the two Australians will complete the traverse. “I believe it’s an achievable goal,” he said on the video on Cantor’s website. “It’s going to take an extreme amount of hard work and suffering, but I deem it not as impossible.”

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What Others Say

Gun control struggle a constitutional one Didn’t we fight the Civil War over

whether federal law prevails over states’ rights? Now, conservative lawmakers in several states are attempting to organize defiance of certain federal laws, beginning with gun control. Their idea is that if enough states band together, they can overwhelm Uncle Sam’s enforcement power. A measure introduced last week in the Missouri Legislature seeks to prevent some federal gun control regulations from being enforced. State law enforcement officers who attempt to enforce the federal rules would be subject to civil and criminal penalties. That body came within one vote of passing a similar measure last year. This year’s proposal, The Associated Press reported, delays the effective date of the rebellious rules to give other states time to join the cause. Sounding for all the world like a Confederate organizer, one Missouri senator said, “We continue to see the federal government overreach their rightful bounds, and if we can create a situation where we have some unity among states, then I think it puts us in a better position to make that argument.” Courts have consistently ruled that states do not have the power to nullify federal laws, but that doesn’t keep the restless from trying. Last year, for example, a federal appeals court struck down a 2009 Montana law that would bar federal regulation of guns that are made in that state and which remain within its borders. Open defiance is not the right path. The proper arena for this struggle is neither Fort Sumter nor the Supreme Court, but Congress. Obviously, many Americans sympathize with the objection to gun control laws, so let their elected representatives sort this out, using the procedure spelled out in the U.S. Constitution. — The Paris (Tenn.) Post-Intelligencer, Jan. 13

The shame of Benghazi

When anything bipartisan comes out of a polarized Washington, one should be grateful. That’s why a Senate Intelligence Committee report on the September 11, 2012 attacks in Benghazi, Libya, that killed U.S. Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans represents progress of sorts. The committee, chaired by Sen. Dianne Feinstein, (D-CA), faults the State Department and intelligence community for failing to prevent the attacks. The committee determined that the U.S. military command did not know about a CIA annex in Benghazi and that, writes The Washington Post, “...the Pentagon didn’t have the resources in place to defend the State Department compound in an emergency.” This communications failure between agencies, supposedly solved after the September 11, 2001 attacks, had not been. If it had, the report found, Benghazi likely could have been prevented. Sen. Feinstein criticized some Republicans on the committee for adding a section in the report called “additional views” in which they intimate that then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was culpable in the attacks. In a statement, Feinstein, wanting the record clear, said the accusation was “patently false” and that Clinton was “not mentioned a single time in the 58-page bipartisan section of our Benghazi report.” Yet, in an October 16, 2012 interview with CNN in Peru, Clinton said about Benghazi, “I take responsibility. I’m in charge of the State Department’s 60,000plus people all over the world, 275 posts.” So, Clinton was “in charge,” but not at fault, is that it?

In her additional views entry, Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME), said, “To be clear, the responsibility for the attack lies with the attackers themselves. Unfortunately, the promises of the president and other senior Cal Thomas administration officials to bring any of the attackers to justice have ringed hollow thus far. The report finds that more than a year after the attack, the terrorists who perpetrated the attack have still not been brought to justice.” The Times reported in September 2013, “Intelligence officials have a general idea of where they are hiding. And the military has a contingency plan to snatch them... But the fledgling Libyan government, which has little to no control over significant parts of the country ... has rebuffed the Obama administration’s efforts to arrest the suspects.” The report contradicts claims by the administration that the attacks were sparked by an anti-Muslim video and concludes that individuals associated either directly with al-Qaida or one of its affiliates were involved and likely planned and carried out the attacks. What is needed is for Speaker John Boehner to appoint a select committee, modeled after the Senate Watergate Committee, with subpoena powers to question under oath witnesses and those in charge. According to an exclusive report from Breitbart.com, three relatives of those

killed in Benghazi, including Pat Smith, the mother of Foreign Service Officer Sean Smith, have written Boehner asking that he name a special committee. Co-signers include “scores of conservative and military leaders.” Pat Smith has said President Obama and Secretary Clinton promised her they would find out what happened to her son. So far she has heard nothing. A New York Times’ editorial writes, “The report, parts of which were blacked out, says there is no indication that the CIA ... knew of a time or place for a specific attack. It describes the attack as ‘opportunistic’ and not ‘a highly coordinated plot.’ This dovetails with an investigation by The Times, which found that the attack was triggered in part by spontaneous anger over an anti-Islamic video.” The Times has a lot invested in its incorrect position and to issue corrections might take gallons of ink. In the “alternative” media universe truth can still be found. If media elites awarded prizes to Fox News, that network’s chief intelligence correspondent, Catherine Herridge, would deserve one. Her tenacious and accurate reporting kept the Benghazi story alive when mainstream media appeared to have lost interest. In an email to me, Herridge writes about those who died in Benghazi: “We cannot bring them back, but we can honor them with the facts.” It’s a shame the Obama administration does not seem to share her attitude. That’s why Speaker Boehner must name a special committee to uncover what the administration appears to be covering up. Readers may e-mail Cal Thomas at tcaeditors@tribune.com.

Quotable “I’m the best corner in the game. When you try me with a sorry receiver like Crabtree, that’s the result you gonna get. Don’t you ever talk about me!” — Seattle defensive back Richard Sherman in a postgame interview after he broke up a pass intended for San Francisco receiver Michael Crabtree, preserving the Seahawks’ 23-17 win in the NFC championship game.

Doonesbury Flashback

By GARRY TRUDEAU

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Alaskans should learn from mistakes made elsewhere As a life-long outdoors man and fisherman in Washington State, I have seen the West Coast sport and commercial salmon industry disappear in my life time. As a child, I thrilled to the seasonal news of ‘Columbia River hogs’ and ‘Skagit River C

kings.’ Today, my grandchildren know nothing of the once great salmon runs of our coastal rivers. The great salmon runs of uncountable Washington, Oregon and California coastal rivers and streams where “...you could walk across the river on the backs of king salmon” are just a memory today. So, it is with great hope that I watch Alaska manage its precious remaining sport and commercial salmon resources. I say to Alaskans: Come to Washington and walk along the banks of our empty and sterile salmon streams and then manage your salmon for salmon — not commercial fishermen or sports fishermen. Lou Scharbau Woodinville, Wash.

Skyview pool a valuable community asset Hopefully, KPBSD Superintendent Steve Atwater’s suggestion to close the Skyview High School pool as a cost cutting measure will be examined thoughtfully and rejected for three important reasons. 1. Closing a Borough asset that addresses a health and safety issue is unthinkable. The drowning rate in Alaska is ten times higher than the overall U.S. rate and drowning is the second leading cause of unintentional injury deaths among children ages 1-19. 2. Since Skyview will be a middle school next year, student swimming proficiency can become part of the seventh/ eighth grade course requirements and a focus for the school. Swimming and this pool can, in fact, enhance the middle school experience by providing challenges, more course offerings and a healthy outlet for students. Utilizing the pool in such a manner will also serendipitously free up high

school student schedules for an additional specialized elective! 3. Skyview is widely utilized presently. The Skyview pool provides a means for healthy activities not only for students but for community members, senior citizens, intellectually and physically impaired persons of all ages, athlete swimmers and those just learning to swim. Other area pools cannot adequately meet the needs of all these user groups. It is hoped that a thoughtful, global, creative approach to budget challenges will result in the utilization and maintenance of the resources and facilities with which we have been blest. Carolyn Cannava Soldotna

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Nation & World Around the World Iran starts implementing nuclear deal; Europeans, US swiftly lift some sanctions TEHRAN, Iran — Iran unplugged banks of centrifuges involved in its most sensitive uranium enrichment work on Monday, prompting the United States and European Union to partially lift economic sanctions as a landmark deal aimed at easing concerns over Iran’s nuclear program went into effect. The mutual actions — curbing atomic work in exchange for some sanctions relief — start a six-month clock for Tehran and the world powers to negotiate a final accord that the Obama administration and its European allies say will be intended to ensure Iran cannot build a nuclear weapon. In the meantime, the interim deal puts limits on Iran’s program — though it continues low levels of uranium enrichment. Tehran denies its nuclear program is intended to produce a bomb. The payoff to Iran is an injection of billions of dollars into its crippled economy over the next six months from the suspension of some sanctions — though other sanctions remain in place. In part a reflection of a thaw between Washington and Tehran, the moves coincidentally occurred on the 33rd anniversary of the end of the Iran hostage crisis. The holding of 52 Americans for 444 days by radical Iranian students that ended Jan. 20, 1981 was followed by more than three decades of U.S.-Iranian enmity that only began to ease last year with signs that Iran was ready to meet U.S. demands and scale back its nuclear activities.

Family of man held in North Korea both worried and encouraged by news conference SEATTLE — The family of an American missionary held more than a year in North Korea was heartbroken and encouraged by a brief news conference in which Kenneth Bae, wearing a gray cap and inmate’s uniform with the number 103 on his chest, apologized and said he committed antigovernment acts. “Our end goal is to see Kenneth reunited so he can recover emotionally and physically. He has chronic health problems,” family friend Derek Sciba told The Associated Press. Sciba is a friend of Bae’s sister, Terri Chung of Edmonds, and part of a group pushing for Bae’s release. “On the one hand it’s heartbreaking to see him in a prison uniform at the mercy of folks in North Korea, but on the other hand it’s encouraging to see him and that he’s able to speak,” Sciba said. Bae made the comments at what he called a press conference held at his own request. He was under guard during the appearance. It is not unusual for prisoners in North Korea to say after their release that they spoke in similar situations under duress. Bae spoke in Korean during the brief appearance, which was attended by The Associated Press and several other members of the foreign media in Pyongyang. C

Themes of civil rights struggle still resonate on MLK Day, 50 years later ATLANTA — As the nation remembered and reflected Monday on the legacy of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., leaders and everyday Americans talked about how far the country has come in the past 50 years and how much more is to be done. At Ebenezer Baptist Church in King’s hometown of Atlanta, civil rights leaders and members of King’s own family spoke about poverty, violence, health care and voting rights, all themes from the civil rights struggle that still resonate to this day. “There is much work that we must do,” King’s daughter Bernice King said. “Are we afraid, or are we truly committed to the work that must be done?” The event in Atlanta featured music, songs and choirs and was one of many celebrations, marches, parades and community service projects held Monday across the nation to honor the slain civil rights leader. It was about 50 years ago today that King had just appeared on the cover of Time magazine as its Man of the Year, and the nation was on the cusp of passing the Civil Rights Act of 1964. King would win the Nobel Peace Prize later that year. Georgia Gov. Nathan Deal said not many states could boast a native son that merited a national holiday. “But we Georgians can,” he told the audience.

Several key surveillance changes are hampered by legal, logistics complications WASHINGTON — Several of the key surveillance reforms unveiled by President Barack Obama face complications that could muddy the proposals’ lawfulness, slow their momentum in Congress and saddle the government with heavy costs and bureaucracy, legal experts warn. Despite Obama’s plans to shift the National Security Agency’s mass storage of Americans’ bulk phone records elsewhere, telephone companies do not want the responsibility. And the government could face privacy and structural hurdles in relying on any other entity to store the data. Constitutional analysts also question the legal underpinning of Obama’s commitment to setting up an advisory panel of privacy experts to intervene in some proceedings of the secret Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, which oversees the NSA’s data mining operations. Obama has asked Congress to set up such a panel, but senior federal judges already oppose the move, citing practical and legal drawbacks. The secret courts now operate with only the government making its case to a federal judge for examining someone’s phone data. Civil libertarians have called for a voice in the room that might offer the judge an opposing view. “The devil is in the details of how the government collects and retains phone records,” said Anthony Romero, the executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union, “and I think we’re going to see pretty quickly the lack of specificity behind some of the president’s promises.”

Christie administration: Hoboken being treated no differently than other NJ cities TRENTON, N.J. — Republican Gov. Chris Christie’s administration on Monday pushed back against a claim that Superstorm Sandy relief funding was withheld from a severely flooded city because its Democratic mayor wouldn’t sign off on a politically connected real estate venture. — The Associated Press

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2 dead in Nebraska explosion By JOSH FUNK Associated Press

Eds: Updates with authoritieOMAHA, Neb. — An explosion Monday morning that brought down part of an animal feed processing plant in Omaha left two people dead and 10 others seriously hurt, authorities said. The search for bodies in the crippled International Nutrition plant progressed slowly Monday, but the death toll wasn’t likely to get bigger. Omaha Police Lt. Darci Tierney said Monday evening that all 38 of the workers who were in the building at the time had been accounted for. Through much of the day, authorities declined to say how many died while they sorted out what happened. Officials say two died, 10 were hospitalized and seven were hurt but refused treatment. The other 19 workers escaped. Search-and-rescue experts worked into Monday evening to stabilize the building. It wasn’t immediately clear whether their work would continue into Tuesday. “We haven’t cleared the building yet because of the significant risk to our people,” Interim Omaha Fire Chief Bernie Kanger said. Authorities don’t know what caused the blast, but Kanger noted that there were no hazardous chemicals at the plant. International Nutrition makes products that are added to livestock and poultry feed to make them more nutritious.

AP Photo/Nati Harnik

Firefighters stand outside the International Nutrition plant in Omaha, Neb., Monday, where a fire and explosion took place Jan. 20. At least nine people have been hospitalized and others could be trapped at the animal feed processing plant.

The Occupational Safety and Health Administration will determine the cause. The explosion knocked out the lights in the building and sent workers scrambling for safety. Nate Lewis said he was on the first floor when he heard the explosion. The building went dark, so the 21-year-old used light from his cellphone to make his way across the production floor and outside. “I was a production line worker, although I don’t know if I want to be that anymore,” said Lewis, who’s worked at International Nutrition for about four months. Worker Jamar White said he

heard a loud crack and looked up to see the back wall of the building collapsing. “I ran at least 150 feet,” White said. “I ran far enough to make sure nothing else would keep falling.” Afterward, White said, he could see inside the third floor of the building where at least two co-workers were screaming for help. There appears to be structural damage to the top of the building, which sits in an industrial area visible from Interstate 80, which bisects Nebraska’s largest city. There are no residences nearby and no other buildings were evacuated after the explosion.

Diane Stout said she’d heard from her husband, a manager on the plant maintenance crew, so she knew he was OK. The workers all know each other well, Stout said, so she was hoping to hear good news about friends there. White’s wife, Sarah White, said she was at home with her four children when her husband called her after the explosion. “I could hear the panic in his voice,” she said. “But he said he was OK.” She said he’d been watching trucks unload from outside the building when the blast occurred. “That’s where he works every day. That could have been him,” White said.

UN rescinds invitation to Iran to attend talks RYAN LUCAS and ZEINA KARAM Associated Press

from Tehran that it accepted the ident Bashar Assad’s family ing his government with advispremise of the talks. since 1970, and Iran is Assad’s ers, money and materiel since Syria has been ruled by Pres- strongest regional ally, supply- the uprising began in 2011.

GENEVA — A last-minute U.N. invitation for Iran to join this week’s Syria peace talks threw the long-awaited Geneva conference into doubt Monday, forcing U.N. chief Ban Ki-moon to rescind his offer under intense U.S. pressure after the opposition threatened to boycott. With the invitation withdrawn, the main Westernbacked opposition group said it would attend the talks aimed at ending Syria’s ruinous threeyear civil war. The opposition said the conference should seek to establish a transitional government with full executive powers “in which killers and criminals do not participate.” The surprise invitation, extended Sunday by the U.N. secretary-general, set off a flurry of diplomatic activity to salvage the talks. The U.S. said the offer should be rescinded, and the opposition threatened to skip the event entirely. The conference is set to begin Wednesday in the Swiss luxury resort city of Montreux, with high-ranking delegations from the United States, Russia and close to 40 other countries attending. Face-to-face negotiations between the Syrian government and its opponents — the first of the uprising — are to start Friday in Geneva. The uproar over Iran’s invitation put the entire event at risk of being scuttled. The Syrian National Coalition, which had voted late Saturday to attend after months of rancorous debate, issued an ultimatum, saying that Iran must commit publicly within hours to withdraw its “troops and militias” from Syria and abide by a 2012 roadmap to establish a transitional government. Otherwise, the group said, the U.N. should withdraw its invitation for Tehran to take part. The confusion surrounding the Iranian invitation underscored the tenuous nature of the diplomatic effort to end the bloody conflict, which has morphed from peaceful protests into a vicious civil war with outside powers backing rebels who are fighting not only the government but rival insurgents as well. It is not clear what exactly motivated Ban to issue the invitation, but it came hours after he said he had received assurances C

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Sports

Belichick says Welker tried to take out Talib By The Associated Press

FOXBOROUGH, Mass. — The collision that knocked Aqib Talib out of the AFC championship game reverberated Monday when Patriots coach Bill Belichick said Wes Welker tried to “take out” the star cornerback. Belichick took the shot at his former wide receiver after viewing video of the second-quarter play in the Denver Broncos’ 26-16 win on Sunday. Coming from opposite sides, the players ran into each other. No penalty was called. It “was a deliberate play by the receiver to take out Aqib, no attempt to get open,” Belichick said during his opening statement at his season-ending news conference.

“I’ll let the league handle the discipline on that play. It’s not for me to decide, but it’s one of the worst plays I’ve seen. That’s all I’m going to say about that.” NFL spokesman Greg Aiello said Monday, “If there is any discipline for plays in (Sunday’s) games, it will be determined by Merton Hanks later in the week.” Hanks is the league’s vice president of player operations. Welker, who had a cool relationship with Belichick before leaving New England as a free agent last offseason, was not available for comment Monday. But after the game, he said, “it was one of those plays where it’s kind of

a rub play and I was trying to get him to go over the top, and I think he was thinking the same thing and wanted to come underneath and we just kind of collided. ... It wasn’t a deal where I was trying to hit him or anything like that.” After Talib left with a knee injury, Broncos quarterback Peyton Manning took advantage of having the much shorter Alfonzo Dennard covering receivers Talib normally would handle. The previous season, a thigh injury ended Talib’s day in the first quarter of the AFC championship game, a 28-13 loss to Baltimore. Denver coach John Fox said he hadn’t seen Belichick’s comments but called Welker “a great player, high in-

tegrity. I can say that we were not do- in time to practice as early as Wednesing anything with intent.” day. Carroll said that was based on how Harvin was feeling over the Harvin should play in Super weekend, but there were still “a couple Bowl of clearances” needed before he could RENTON, Wash. — Wide receiver practice. Percy Harvin could be back to practice later this week for the Seattle SeaCarroll has talk with Sherman hawks and is expected to be available RENTON, Wash. — Pete Carroll for the Super Bowl. pulled Richard Sherman aside on MonHarvin missed Sunday’s NFC day and made sure his fiery cornerchampionship game win over San back understood that his rant against Francisco after suffering a concussion San Francisco’s Michael Crabtree was a week earlier in the divisional play- overshadowing the Seattle Seahawks off win over New Orleans. Harvin was reaching their second Super Bowl in not cleared by doctors in time to play franchise history. against the 49ers. Sherman seemed to get Carroll’s Seattle coach Pete Carroll said message. See NFL, Page A-7 Monday that Harvin could be cleared

On fire

Toronto topples Coyotes

Creighton hits 21 3s vs. Villanova

By The Associated Press

GLENDALE, Ariz. — Jonathan Bernier stopped 39 shots and the Toronto Maple Leafs had another big scoring night to beat the Phoenix Coyotes 4-2 Monday for their first fivegame winning streak in seven years. Phil Kessel had a goal and an assist to extend his points streak to six games for Toronto, which last won five straight from Jan. 27-Feb., 2007. Jake Gardiner and Nazem Kadri each had a goal and an assist, and Carl Gunnarsson scored his first goal in nearly a year. The Maple Leafs have 20 goals during their winning streak. The Coyotes sent a flurry of shots at Bernier after fall-

By The Associated Press

See NHL, Page A-7 AP Photo/Alik Keplicz

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Kikkan Randall from the U.S., followed by Canada’s Perianne Jones and Russia’s Svetlana Nikolaeva, compete during the World Cup Cross Country Ski 1.5-kilometer Sprint Free event in Szklarska Poreba, Poland, Saturday.

Fans show alarming behavior Being a fan of Randall means watching races deep in the night NATHANIEL HERZ Anchorage Daily News

ANCHORAGE, Alaska — Early one recent Saturday morning, Kikkan Randall’s parents sat groggily in front of a pair of laptop computers in an East Anchorage condominium. Their 31-year-old daughter was seconds from starting a ski race 5,000 miles away, in a resort town in the Czech Republic. But their live stream of a Eurosport TV channel was showing ski jumping instead. “OK, come on,” Deborah Randall, Kikkan’s mother, said impatiently. Kikkan hadn’t competed in three weeks, and that race was her first since she’d suffered a back injury 12 days earlier. She was facing tough competition in her sprint heat, and if it didn’t go well, her day could be over after just three

minutes of racing. Justifiably, her parents were nervous. Finally, the feed switched over, just in time for the Randalls to see their daughter cross the finish line in front of five other women, qualifying her for the next round of sprinting. It was 6:03 a.m., with another hour of racing still to come. Time for some coffee. In less than a month, Randall will be contending for a gold medal at the Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia. WATCHING FROM AFAR Millions of Americans will likely tune in to watch Randall’s exploits on tape-delayed prime time television — just like they do every four years for Olympic athletes. But for the last three winters, a small group of intensely loyal cross-country ski fans in

Anchorage has been following all along. Friends, family members and even coaches tune in to unpredictable video streams just to catch a glimpse of Anchorage athletes such as Randall and Holly Brooks competing 10 time zones away in Europe. And they do it at midnight, at 1 a.m. or 2 a.m. or 3 a.m., so that they can watch live. “I always stay up,” said Ronn Randall, Kikkan’s father. Deborah chimed in: “I would never miss her race.” On this Saturday morning, Deborah was wearing a pink fleece, her daughter’s trademark color. Ronn was wearing a Kikkanimal Fan Klub sweatshirt. As Kikkan prepared for her semifinal heat, her parents recalled the days before video streaming, when they had to

rely on rare cable television broadcasts of snippets of races, or a bare-bones live timing application that would pop up with skiers’ names and times. Even that was futuristic technology compared to what was available to earlier generations of athletes. Nina Kemppel, an fourtime Olympian from Anchorage who competed internationally during the 1990s and early 2000s, said she used to update a couple dozen of her friends, family and sponsors with spare, text-based emails. Slow Web connections wouldn’t allow for photos. When there was no Internet, “my parents didn’t know how I raced until I was able to find a phone and dial, $4 a minute, back home,” Kemppel said. “It was a different time.” Now, Kemppel says, she occasionally joins the ranks See FAN, Page A-7

PHILADELPHIA — Ethan Wragge tied a school record with nine 3-pointers for all 27 points, Doug McDermott hit five 3s and scored 23 points, and Creighton set a team mark with 21 3-pointers in a 96-68 victory over No. 4 Villanova on Monday night. The Bluejays (16-3, 6-1 Big East) topped the school record of 20 3s set in 2005 against Chattanooga. Kyle Korver hit nine 3s against Evansville on Jan. 15, 2003. The Bluejays, in their first season in the Big East, set a conference record for most 3s in a game. They hit their first nine 3s and never looked back against Villanova (16-2, 5-1) which had romped its way toward its highest ranking in four years. They made 21 of 35 3-pointers and led by as many 40 points. Wragge hit eight 3s in the first half as Creighton built a 28-point lead. James Bell scored 19 points for the Wildcats. No. 8 KANSAS 78, No. 24 BAYLOR 68 LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) — Andrew Wiggins scored 17 points, most of them coming at the free throw line, and Kansas pulled away in the second half. Wiggins was 10 of 12 from the free throw line, and the Jayhawks (14-4, 5-0 Big 12) were 27 of 29 as a team, allowing them to put away Baylor for their fifth straight win — the last four over Top 25 opponents. They are the first team to accomplish that feat since North Carolina in 1997.

NEBRASKA 68, No. 17 OHIO ST. 62 LINCOLN, Neb. — Shavon Shields and Terran Petteway both scored 18 points as Nebraska handed Ohio State its fourth straight loss. The Cornhuskers (9-8, 1-5 Big Ten), who ended a five-game losing streak, survived after squandering a 14-point first-half lead. They used a 16-5 run late in the second half to regain control and made 13 of their last 16 free throws to hold off the Buckeyes (15-4, 2-4).

Hawks overcome 30 from James to beat Heat By The Associated Press

New York rivalry at a game apiece.

Making a triumphant return from London ATLANTA — Paul Millsap scored 26 points and the Atlanta Hawks overcame and completing a three-game, three-country LeBron James’ 30 points to beat the Mi- road trip, the Nets improved to 7-1 in 2014 and avenged last month’s blowout loss. ami Heat 121-114 Monday night. DeMarre Carroll added 19 points and Pero Antic had 17 for the Hawks, who BULLS 102, LAKERS 100, OT snapped a nine-game losing streak in CHICAGO — Taj Gibson made a layup their series with the Heat.

PACERS 102, WARRIORS 94 OAKLAND, Calif. — Paul George scored 23 points, Roy Hibbert had 14 points and 13 rebounds and the NBA-leading Pacers built a big lead before holding off the Warriors for their fifth straight win. The Pacers (33-7) went ahead by 20 in third quarter, watched the Warriors whittle the lead to two and then regrouped in the closing minutes to open a five-game West Coast trip with a victory.

at the buzzer in overtime, lifting Chicago to victory over Los Angeles. With nine-tenths of a second left, Mike Dunleavy inbounded from underneath the basket and found Gibson cutting down the middle. The athletic forward then muscled toward the hoop for the winning basket, which was confirmed in a video review by the officials.

ROCKETS 126, TRAIL BLAZERS 113

HOUSTON — Chandler Parsons scored a season-high 31 points and Dwight Howard NETS 103, KNICKS 80 added 24 points to help Houston snap PortNEW YORK — Joe Johnson scored 25 land’s five-game winning streak. The Rockets won their second straight, points and Brooklyn sent the Knicks to a fourth straight loss, evening this season’s building a big lead early and answering evC

ery time Portland made a run.

scored 21 of his 27 points in the second half and grabbed 10 rebounds to help New Orleans beat Memphis and snap an eight-game CLIPPERS 112, PISTONS 103 losing streak. Tyreke Evans added 15 points, AUBURN HILLS, Mich. — DeAndre 11 in the fourth quarter, and seven assists. Jordan had 16 points and 21 rebounds, and Los Angeles breezed past Detroit. WIZARDS 107, 76ERS 99 Jordan made his first seven shots — almost all on dunks. Blake Griffin added 25 WASHINGTON — Bradley Beal had 22 points and Jamal Crawford scored 26 for the Clippers, who are 6-2 since losing star point points, nine rebounds and eight assists, Marcin Gortat added 19 points and 11 rebounds, guard Chris Paul to a shoulder injury. and Washington beat Philadelphia to reach .500 for the fourth time this season. Washington has lost each of the previMAVERICKS 102, CAVALIERS 97 ous times it reached .500. On Wednesday CLEVELAND — Monta Ellis scored 22 against Boston, the Wizards will try to get points, Shawn Marion added 18 and Dallas over .500 for the first time since they were held off Cleveland’s late rally. 2-1 on Oct. 31, 2009. Cleveland roared back from a 24-point deficit in the first half and trailed by three BOBCATS 100, RAPTORS 95 with 2.8 seconds remaining, but the Cavaliers were called for a five-second violation CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Al Jefferson when Jarrett Jack failed to get the ball in- had 22 points and 19 rebounds, and Charbounds. Ellis put the game away with two lotte held on to beat Toronto for the seventh free throws with 1.1 seconds left. straight time at home. Jefferson became the first Bobcats player to have a double-double in the first quarter PELICANS 95, GRIZZLIES 92 with 10 points and 10 rebounds, sending MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Anthony Davis Charlotte to a 26-11 lead.

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of the hardy few who stay up to watch the races. Or, she’ll wake up the next morning to read reports online, or watch footage that’s been archived on any number of websites. SET YOUR ALARM Other avid fans include junior skiers at Randall’s home club, Alaska Pacific University. And friends like Laura Gardner, who used to room with Randall and ski raced with her at East High School. Gardner described her viewing habits with a mix of enthusiasm and fatigue — especially when recalling how she tuned in to last winter’s Tour de Ski, a stage race that included seven

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“He was really clear that the last thing he wanted to do was take something away from our team, what we had accomplished,” Carroll said. Sherman became the focal point of attention — both positive and negative — after Seattle beat San Francisco 23-17 on Sunday to win the NFC championship. Sherman was already going to be in the spotlight for what he did on San Francisco’s final offensive play, twisting his body to deflect a pass intended for Crabtree into the air and allowing time for teammate Malcolm Smith to run over and make an interception in the end zone to clinch the Seahawks victory. The athleticism on the play was worthy of praise. But Sherman’s antics from that point drew praise from some for being honest and unfiltered, and criticism from others for being too harsh and combative. Bowman tears knee ligaments SANTA CLARA, Calif. — NaVorro Bowman tore the anterior cruciate and medial collateral ligaments in his left knee when

events in nine days. “I don’t know how I did it,” she said. “I felt like I was doing the Tour de Ski, because it was so many nights of being up at 4 a.m.” Gardner said that one of her friends is already planning a late-night viewing party for the Olympics. The time difference between Anchorage and Sochi is 11 hours, and most of the races are scheduled between midnight and 5 a.m. in Alaska. It’s the middle of that time frame that’s the worst, Gardner said. “There’s no getting up early; there’s no staying up late,” she said. “You just have to set your alarm for the middle of the night.”

her family, including her husband, Jeff Ellis. She cited video, but also Skype, a free application that allows users to video chat. “I don’t know how skiers did it before, because Skype was essential,” Randall said in a phone interview from Europe, where she was sitting near two other people who were using the application to talk with their families. The increasing availability of video, Randall added, has raised the profile of her sport. “When I was a kid in Alaska, I think all I ever saw was what was printed in the paper, and what happened in the Olympics,” she said. “When you hear OVERNIGHT INSPIRATION that a 14-year-old boy somewhere Since she’s been competing, Ran- watches your winning race every night dall said that the advances in technol- before he goes to a ski race the next ogy have allowed her to stay closer to day, for inspiration, that’s just incred-

he went down during Sunday’s NFC championship loss at Seattle, a person with direct knowledge of the injury said Monday. The person said that Bowman would have surgery for the ACL tear but that the MCL is likely to heal with rest and he is expected to be ready for the 2014 season. “It’s not as bad as feared,” the person said, speaking on condition of anonymity to The Associated Press because the team hadn’t made an announcement regarding the results of tests on Bowman’s knee. Coach Jim Harbaugh said after Sunday’s 23-17 season-ending loss to the Seahawks that Bowman was believed to have torn his ACL, and Harbaugh wasn’t to address the media again until Tuesday. Kansas City’s Derrick Johnson was chosen Monday to replace Bowman in the Pro Bowl. In addition, left guard Mike Iupati broke his left ankle in the loss. He says he doesn’t know whether he will need surgery, but is scheduled to be further evaluated Tuesday. “This is a bad-luck year,” said Iupati, who missed four games with a left knee injury. “I’ll probably be in a cast for a while. I’ll be here rehabbing. It’s day by day and wish for the best.”

Soldotna High School’s Sadie Fox won the Under-16 and over, five-kilometer classic race on Sunday in Besh Cup 4 action in Homer. Fox finished in 19 minutes, 38 seconds to take the title. Abby Amick was second at 19:48. Fox now is tied for second with Sarrissa Lammers on the Besh Cup points list headed into the final two races. Fox and Lammers have 280 points, while leader Taryn Hunt-Smith has 340 points. Also from the area, Soldotna’s Hannah Pothast was 18th at 21:47 and Skyview’s Mika Morton was 38th at 23:40. In the men’s Under-18 and over, 10-kilometer classic race, Tanner Ramey reigned with a time of 30:59. Kenai’s Travis Cooper paced area skiers by taking ninth in 33:12. Also from the area, Homer’s Brian Rowe was 20th in 36:10, SoHi’s Levi Michael was 26th in 38:18 and Soldotna’s Tanner Best was 32nd in 43:59. Matthew Hoefler won the boys Under-16, five-kilometer classic race in 16:29. James Butler of Kenai Central led area skiers by taking 19th in 19:01, while John-Mark Pothast was 20th in 19:08 and Addison Downing was 22nd in 20:23. Molly Gellert won the Under-12 and Under-14, three-kilometer classic race in 10:11. Addison Gibson led the area by taking sixth in 11:24. Also from the area, Riana Boonstra was eighth in 12:19. In the boys Under-12 and Under-14, three-kilometer classic race, Ti Donaldson picked up the win in 8:44. Jeremy Kupferschmid led area skiers by taking fourth in 9:14. Also from the area, David Michael was eighth at 9:50, Caleb Rauch was 22nd at 11:43 and Ben Kettle was 29th at 13:52.

Bears’ Butcher named Star of Week

Nikolaevsk boys topple Kodiak ESSS The host Nikolaevsk boys notched a 65-30 victory over Kodiak ESSS on Monday in Peninsula Conference action. The Warriors led 21-15 after one quarter and 31-21 at halftime before putting the game away with a 20-7 third quarter. Jaruby Nelson poured in 23 points for the Warriors, while Jonah Fefelov pitched in with 10. Kodiak ESSS was led by Cody Robustellini with nine points. Monday boys Warriors 65, Kodiak ESSS 30 15 21

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KODIAK ESSS (30) — G. Nelson 1 0-0 3, Peterson 0 0-0 0, S. Reft 0 0-0 0, D. Reft 3 1-5 7, Robustellini 3 2-5 9, E. Nelson 2 3-5 7, Elvetigem 0 0-0 0, Melendez 2 0-2 4, Aga 0 0-0 0, Bircher 0 0-0 0. Totals — 11 6-17 30. NIKOLAEVSK (65) — Lasiter 3 0-0 6, Molodih 2 1-2 5, Nelson 10 1-1 23, Trail 2 0-0 4, Yakunin 0 0-0 0, N. Fefelov 3 0-0 7, Gordeev 3 0-0 6, J. Fefelov 3 4-6 10, Kalugin 2 0-0 4. Totals — 28 6-9 65. 3-point goals — Kodiak ESSS 2 (G. Nelson, Robustellini); Nikolaevsk 3 (Nelson 2, N. Fefelov). Team fouls — Kodiak ESSS 9, Nikolaevsk 12. Fouled out — none.

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Albany (NY) 66, Binghamton 60 Boston U. 72, Loyola (Md.) 58 Creighton 96, Villanova 68 Delaware 90, Drexel 77 Hartford 69, Mass.-Lowell 51 Marist 70, St. Peter’s 63 Marquette 80, Georgetown 72, OT Stony Brook 81, UMBC 62 Vermont 57, New Hampshire 40

The top 25 teams in The Associated Press’ college basketball poll, with first-place votes in parentheses, records through Jan. 19, total points based on 25 points for a first-place vote through one point for a 25th-place vote and last week’s ranking:

SOUTH Belmont 62, Fairfield 53 Jackson St. 84, Texas Southern 80 Morgan St. 80, Hampton 71 NC A&T 66, Delaware St. 55 NC State 65, Maryland 56 Norfolk St. 83, Coppin St. 71 Prairie View 83, Grambling St. 82 SC State 69, Bethune-Cookman 67, OT Savannah St. 79, Florida A&M 68 Virginia 76, North Carolina 61 Wofford 71, W. Carolina 60 MIDWEST Kansas 78, Baylor 68 Nebraska 68, Ohio St. 62 Xavier 84, DePaul 74 SOUTHWEST Alcorn St. 71, Ark.-Pine Bluff 45 FAR WEST Weber St. 65, Idaho St. 59

Women’s Scores EAST

Kenai River Brown Bears forward Alec Butcher was named the Midwest Division Star of the Week on Monday by the North American Hockey League. It is the fifth time this season a Brown Bears player has earned the honor, and the second time Butcher has been honored. Butcher, 19, of Anchorage had the game-winning goals in both games as the Bears picked up a weekend sweep of the Minnesota Magicians at the Soldotna Regional Sports Complex. Butcher also had an assist in both games. Butcher, listed at 5-foot-11, 175 pounds, is the leading scorer in the NAHL, with 48 points in 41 games. “I thought Alec and his line was very consistent all weekend and did not make a lot of mistakes,” Kenai River head coach Geoff Beauparlant said in a released statement. “He prepares very well. He had a solid week of practice and it showed in the games. He finds the areas in the offensive zone to create offense.” Rookie forward Matt Rudin also had a big weekend for the Bears and received honorable mention. Rudin had a pair of goals in each game to up his totals to 12 goals and 13 assists in 40 games played.

between her and the pack. The British announcers had earlier pronounced her “on fire,” and now they were calling her the Olympic favorite. “Oh, no way. Oh, my God. Now look at her!” Ronn said. Deborah jumped and shrieked as Randall crossed the finish line first, racking up a $16,500 paycheck and sending a message that the three-week break hadn’t left any rust. “Now that’s what I love!” Deborah said. The family will be reunited in February, when the Randall parents travel to Russia to watch their daughter compete for a medal. For now, a congratulatory text message from Deborah would have to suffice. Fifteen minutes later, one came back from the Czech Republic: “Whoopee!”

22 saves for the Blues. Gustav Nyquist scored for Detroit. Jimmy Howard stopped 22 shots before being replaced by Petr Mrazek midway through the second period because of a lower-body injury. Mrazek made 13 saves.

help the Islanders avoid a fourgame, season-series sweep versus the Flyers. Tavares also scored a powerplay goal in regulation for the Islanders.

ISLANDERS 4, FLYERS 3, SO

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Roman Josi had a goal and an assist to lead Nashville over Dallas. Nick Spaling, Shea Weber, and Mike Fisher also scored for Nashville, which has won three of four. Cody Eakin scored for Dallas, which has lost of nine of 10.

UNIONDALE, N.Y. — Kyle Okposo scored the tying goal on a power play late in regulation and then netted the decisive tally in the shootout to lift New York to a rare win over Philadelphia. The Islanders used a dominant third period to erase a 3-1 deficit and force overtime. Brock Nelson made it a onegoal game at 8:16, and Okposo tied it with 2:58 left in regulation on a lunging push with his stick after the puck struck his skate. The goal was confirmed by video replay. Frans Nielsen and John Tavares also scored in the fourround shootout against Ray Emery, who made 40 saves through overtime. Anders Nilsson turned aside Vincent Lecavalier and Sean Couturier in the tiebreaker to

PREDATORS 4, STARS 1

BRUINS 3, KINGS 2 BOSTON — Brad Marchand continued his recent hot scoring stretch with a pair of goals, lifting Boston over Los Angeles. Marchand, who also had two in Boston’s shootout loss in Chicago on Sunday, has scored six in his past four games. Torey Krug had the other goal for the Bruins, who won at home for the 11th time in 13 games.

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‘NOW, LOOK AT HER!’ Back in Anchorage, Randall’s parents grew more and more tense as Kikkan advanced through the sprint rounds. “This one’s going to be a real test,” Ronn said, as his daughter lined up for a heat with Norwegian, Swedish and German skiers. During the final round, Deborah clasped both hands to her face as the women wound their way around a narrow strip of snow. Midway through the race, Randall accelerated up a hill, leaving a big gap

pre-Olympic stretch of eight games out of 10 at home. Jiri Hudler and Kevin WestContinued from page A-6 garth scored for the Flames, who have lost four straight ing behind 3-0 and matched a games and 11 of 13. Karri team record by scoring a pow- Ramo made 24 saves. er-play goal in eight straight games when Mike Ribeiro PANTHERS 5, PENGUINS 1 scored early in the third period. PITTSBURGH — Drew Antoine Vermette also Shore scored twice for the first scored a short-handed goal for multi-goal game of his career Phoenix, which had numerous and Florida ended Pittsburgh’s near-misses. club-record 13-game home winning streak. SHARKS 3, FLAMES 2 Jonathan Huberdeau, Dmitry Kulikov and Shawn Matthias SAN JOSE, Calif. — Joe also scored for the Panthers, Pavelski scored two goals to move into a tie for the second who beat Pittsburgh for the secmost in the NHL this season ond time in three meetings this and lift San Jose over Calgary. season. Scott Clemmensen stopped Pavelski scored on a deflection in the first period and on 35 shots in his first start in three the power play in the second to weeks, ending Florida’s twogive him five goals in his past game losing streak. two games and 18 in the past 20 BLUES 4, RED WINGS 1 to tie Anaheim’s Corey Perry DETROIT — Magnus Paarwith 27 on the season. Washington’s Alex Ovechkin has 35. jarvi, Barret Jackman, Kevin Tommy Wingels also scored Shattenkirk and Jay Bouwand Antti Niemi made 21 saves meester scored and St. Louis for the Sharks, who returned beat Detroit to snap a two-game home from a perfect three- skid. Alex Steen added two asgame road trip with a win over struggling Calgary to open a sists and Jaroslav Halak made

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ible.” Remote spectators for Saturday’s race included not just Randall’s parents, but also her coach, Erik Flora, who said he watched from the airport in Salt Lake City on his way back from national championship races.

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Albany (NY) 66, Binghamton 36< Bryant 61, St. Francis (NY) 58< Iona 70, Manhattan 52< LIU Brooklyn 86, Fairleigh Dickinson 64< New Hampshire 60, Vermont 45< Robert Morris 74, Wagner 63< Sacred Heart 77, CCSU 59< St. Francis (Pa.) 81, Mount St. Mary’s 66< Stony Brook 66, UMBC 62< FAR WEST California 79, Arizona 64< Stanford 80, Arizona St. 56< UCLA 66, Oregon St. 63< SOUTH Bellarmine 72, S. Indiana 62< Bethune-Cookman 71, SC State 53< Chattanooga 62, Furman 44< Coppin St. 71, Norfolk St. 52< Georgia College 78, GRU Augusta 59< Hampton 99, Morgan St. 45< Jacksonville St. 84, Tennessee St. 76< Kentucky St. 81, Stillman 69< Morehead St. 62, SE Missouri 59< NC A&T 50, Delaware St. 47< Notre Dame 86, Tennessee 70< Prairie View 72, Grambling St. 61< Samford 64, Wofford 52< Savannah St. 80, Florida A&M 68< Texas Southern 73, Jackson St. 48< UT-Martin 102, Tennessee Tech 78< Wake Forest 68, Clemson 61< MIDWEST Austin Peay 77, SIU-Edwardsville 67< E. Illinois 80, Murray St. 74< Gustavus 77, St. Catherine 67< Macalester 80, Carleton 63< N. Iowa 68, Missouri St. 60< St. Mary’s (Minn.) 54, Augsburg 49< St. Olaf 69, Bethel (Minn.) 57< Wichita St. 88, Drake 55< Wis.-Parkside 51, Lewis 50<

The AP Top 25

Record Pts Prv 1. Arizona (61) 18-0 1,621 1 2. Syracuse (4) 18-0 1,559 2 3. Michigan St. 17-1 1,497 4 4. Villanova 16-1 1,377 6 5. Wichita St. 19-0 1,368 5 6. Florida 15-2 1,303 7 7. San Diego St. 16-1 1,211 10 8. Kansas 13-4 1,117 15 9. Wisconsin 16-2 1,074 3 10. Iowa 15-3 1,041 14 11. Oklahoma St. 15-3 971 9 12. Louisville 16-3 804 18 13. UMass 16-1 781 16 14. Kentucky 13-4 769 13 15. Cincinnati 17-2 736 19 16. Iowa St. 14-3 644 8 17. Ohio St. 15-3 549 11 18. Duke 14-4 447 23 19. Saint Louis 17-2 421 24 20. Pittsburgh 16-2 419 22 21. Michigan 13-4 362 — 22. Kansas St. 14-4 221 — 23. Memphis 13-4 201 17 24. Baylor 13-4 170 12 25. Oklahoma 14-4 111 25 Others receiving votes: Creighton 98, UConn 62, Gonzaga 59, California 44, Colorado 26, UCLA 23, Harvard 12, George Washington 8, Missouri 6, Texas 5, Xavier 4, SMU 2, New Mexico 1, Virginia 1.

The Women’s Top 25

The top 25 teams in The Associated Press’ women’s college basketball poll, with first-place votes in parentheses, records through Jan. 19, total points based on 25 points for a first-place vote through one point for a 25th-place vote and last week’s ranking: Record Pts 1. UConn (36) 19-0 900 2. Notre Dame 16-0 847 3. Duke 18-1 824 4. Stanford 16-1 810 5. Louisville 18-1 742 6. Maryland 16-1 735 7. North Carolina 16-3 642 8. Oklahoma St. 16-1 613 9. Kentucky 15-3 592 10. South Carolina 17-2 567 11. Tennessee 14-3 557 12. Baylor 14-3 551 13. Penn St. 13-4 422 14. Arizona St. 15-2 403 15. LSU 14-4 341 16. Vanderbilt 16-3 340 17. Texas A&M 15-4 306 18. West Virginia 16-2 255 19. California 12-4 244 20. Iowa St. 14-3 190 21. Nebraska 13-4 170 22. Purdue 13-5 166 23. NC State 16-3 161 24. Florida St. 14-4 84 25. Gonzaga 16-3 75

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Others receiving votes: Middle Tennessee 41, Michigan St. 36, Colorado 20, Michigan 19, Rutgers 19, St. John’s 7, San Diego 4, Bowling Green 3, Indiana 3, Chattanooga 2, Saint Joseph’s 2, Southern Cal 2, DePaul 1, Georgia Tech 1, Iowa 1, Saint Mary’s (Cal) 1, Wichita St. 1.

USA Today Top 25 Poll

The top 25 teams in the USA To-

day men’s college basketball poll, with first-place votes in parentheses, records through Jan. 19, points based on 25 points for a first-place vote through one point for a 25th-place vote and previous ranking: Record Pts Pvs 1. Arizona (30) 18-0 798 1 2. Syracuse (2) 18-0 769 2 3. Michigan State 17-1 736 4 4. Wichita State 19-0 695 5 5. Villanova 16-1 657 6 6. Florida 15-2 639 7 7. San Diego State 16-1 594 11 8. Wisconsin 16-2 506 3 9. Louisville 16-3 493 14 10. Iowa 15-3 455 16 11. Kansas 13-4 454 18 12. UMass 16-1 444 15 12. Oklahoma State 15-3 444 8 14. Kentucky 13-4 371 12 15. Ohio State 15-3 326 9 16. Cincinnati 17-2 253 23 17. Iowa State 14-3 246 10 18. Duke 14-4 245 20 19. Pittsburgh 16-2 218 21 20. Saint Louis 17-2 176 — 21. Gonzaga 16-3 140 24 22. Memphis 13-4 134 17 23. Baylor 13-4 129 13 24. Creighton 15-3 99 19 25. Michigan 13-4 88 — 25. Oklahoma 14-4 88 — Others receiving votes: Kansas State 81, California 23, Colorado 18, Missouri 16, UConn 12, Virginia 12, Oregon 11, George Washington 7, UCLA 7, Southern Miss. 5, Texas 5, Toledo 3, Harvard 1, Stephen F. Austin 1, Xavier 1.

NBA Standings EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division W L Toronto 20 20 Brooklyn 17 22 New York 15 26 Boston 14 28 Philadelphia 13 28 Southeast Division Miami 29 12 Atlanta 21 19 Washington 20 20 Charlotte 18 25 Orlando 11 30 Central Division Indiana 33 7 Chicago 20 20 Detroit 17 24 Cleveland 15 26 Milwaukee 7 33

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WESTERN CONFERENCE Southwest Division San Antonio 32 9 Houston 28 15 Dallas 25 18 Memphis 20 20 New Orleans 16 24 Northwest Division Portland 31 10 Oklahoma City 31 10 Denver 20 20 Minnesota 19 21 Utah 14 28 Pacific Division L.A. Clippers 29 14 Golden State 26 17 Phoenix 23 17 L.A. Lakers 16 26 Sacramento 14 25

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Monday’s Games Dallas 102, Cleveland 97 L.A. Clippers 112, Detroit 103 Washington 107, Philadelphia 99 Charlotte 100, Toronto 95 Brooklyn 103, New York 80 New Orleans 95, Memphis 92 Atlanta 121, Miami 114 Chicago 102, L.A. Lakers 100, OT Houston 126, Portland 113 Indiana 102, Golden State 94 Tuesday’s Games Orlando at Brooklyn, 3:30 p.m.

Boston at Miami, 3:30 p.m. Portland at Oklahoma City, 4 p.m. Sacramento at New Orleans, 4 p.m. Minnesota at Utah, 5 p.m. All Times AST

Hockey NHL Standings EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division GP W L OT Pts GF GA Boston 49 31 15 3 65 141 109 Tampa Bay 50 29 16 5 63 146 123 Montreal 49 27 17 5 59 126 120 Toronto 51 26 20 5 57 145 154 Detroit 49 21 18 10 52 122 134 Ottawa 49 21 19 9 51 139 155 Florida 49 19 23 7 45 116 148 Buffalo 47 13 27 7 33 86 133 Metropolitan Division Pittsburgh 49 34 13 2 70 157 120 N.Y. Rangers 51 27 21 3 57 128 128 Philadelphia 50 25 19 6 56 137 144 Columbus 48 24 20 4 52 138 135 Washington 49 22 19 8 52 142 150 New Jersey 50 20 19 11 51 115 123 Carolina 48 20 19 9 49 117 137 N.Y. Islanders 51 20 24 7 47 142 166

WESTERN CONFERENCE Central Division Chicago 51 32 8 11 75 184 139 St. Louis 48 33 10 5 71 170 108 Colorado 48 31 12 5 67 142 122 Minnesota 51 27 19 5 59 125 125 Nashville 51 22 22 7 51 125 152 Dallas 49 21 20 8 50 137 152 Winnipeg 50 22 23 5 49 141 150 Pacific Division Anaheim 51 37 9 5 79 175 126 San Jose 50 32 12 6 70 161 123 Los Angeles 50 29 15 6 64 128 103 Vancouver 50 25 16 9 59 127 127 Phoenix 49 23 17 9 55 141 149 Calgary 50 16 27 7 39 111 159 Edmonton 51 15 30 6 36 131 181 NOTE: Two points for a win, one point for overtime loss. Monday’s Games N.Y. Islanders 4, Philadelphia 3, SO Boston 3, Los Angeles 2 Florida 5, Pittsburgh 1 St. Louis 4, Detroit 1 Nashville 4, Dallas 1 Toronto 4, Phoenix 2 San Jose 3, Calgary 2 Tuesday’s Games Florida at Buffalo, 3 p.m. St. Louis at New Jersey, 3 p.m. N.Y. Islanders at N.Y. Rangers, 3 p.m. Carolina at Philadelphia, 3 p.m. Ottawa at Washington, 3 p.m. Los Angeles at Columbus, 3 p.m. Minnesota at Dallas, 4 p.m. Toronto at Colorado, 5 p.m. Vancouver at Edmonton, 5:30 p.m. Winnipeg at Anaheim, 6 p.m. All Times AST

Tennis Australian Open

Tuesday At Melbourne Park Melbourne, Australia Purse: $29.72 million (Grand Slam) Surface: Hard-Outdoor Singles Women Quarterfinals Li Na (4), China, def. Flavia Pennetta (28), Italy, 6-2, 6-2. Eugenie Bouchard (30), Canada, def. Ana Ivanovic (14), Serbia, 5-7, 7-5, 6-2.

Transactions BASEBALL National League MILWAUKEE BREWERS — Agreed to terms with 1B Lyle Overbay on a minor league con-

tract. NEW YORK METS — Agreed to terms with RHP Dillon Gee on a one-year contract. Signed LHP John Lannan and INF Omar Quintanilla to minor league contracts. BASKETBALL National Basketball Association CHICAGO BULLS — Re-signed F Cartier Martin to a second 10-day contract. HOUSTON ROCKETS — Reassigned G Isaiah Canaan to Rio Grande Valley (NBADL). WASHINGTON WIZARDS — Assigned G Glen Rice to Iowa (NBADL). FOOTBALL National Football League NEW ENGLAND PATRIOTS — Signed OL Braxton Cave and R.J. Mattes, T Jordan Devey, WRs Reggie Dunn and Greg Orton, RB Sam McGuffie and LB Taylor Reed to reserve/future contracts. TENNESSEE TITANS — Named Ray Horton defensive coordinator and Louie Cioffi defensive backs coach. WASHINGTON REDSKINS — Named Ike Hilliard receivers coach. Canadian Football League CALGARY STAMPEDERS — Resigned CB Fred Bennett. HOCKEY National Hockey League NHL — Suspended Vancouver coach John Tortorella for 15 days, without pay, for trying to enter the Calgary locker room during the first intermission of their game on Saturday, Jan. 18. Fined Calgary coach Bob Hartley $25,000 for his responsibility for the incident that took place off the opening face-off of their game on Saturday, Jan. 18, MINNESOTA WILD — Recalled D Jonathon Blum and G Johan Gustafsson from Iowa (AHL). MONTREAL CANADIENS — Recalled F Louis Leblanc from Hamilton (AHL). OTTAWA SENATORS — Recalled F Stephane Da Costa from Binghamton (AHL). WASHINGTON CAPITALS — Reassigned G Philipp Grubauer to Hershey (AHL). SOCCER Major League Soccer FC DALLAS — Named Dan Hunt president. COLLEGE CHOWAN — Named Lindsay Austin assistant trainer. ELON — Named Damian Wroblewski offensive coordinator and offensive line coach. FRESNO STATE — Agreed to terms with men’s football coach Tim DeRuyter to extend his contract through the 2018 season. INDIANA — Named Brian Knorr defensive coordinator. LIMESTONE — Named Izzy Trottier assistant softball coach. MONTANA TECH — Fired athletic director Charles Bradley. Announced the resignation of women’s basketball coach DeAnn Craft and women’s assistant basketball coach Kesha Watson. Named Bob Green interim athletic director. Named Lindsie Wilson women’s interim basketball coach. SOUTH DAKOTA TECH — Announced it is joining the Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference.

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the total estimated cost, it sets an impossible standard for the property owners to object to the cost of the project by 50 percent, Baxter said. “It didn’t really sit right with several members of the council, myself included,” Baxter said. Baxter’s ordinance revises the code so that written objections by property owners pertain to the assessed cost to the property owners of the im-

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session. An agreement between the state, companies, TransCanada Corp., and the Alaska Gasline Development Corp., setting out a roadmap for moving ahead on the project, is contingent upon enabling legislation passing. Republican Gov. Sean Parnell plans to propose such legislation. House Speaker Mike Chenault, R-Nikiski, said he believes the project is heading in the right direction. But he said he wants to see Parnell’s specific proposal and how that might fit with ideas some legislators have been working on. He didn’t elaborate on those. Senate Minority Leader Hollis French, D-Anchorage, said the time to negotiate with the industry on a gas line project was when oil taxes were still on the table. French opposed the tax cut. “I think industry senses they won on oil taxes and now they

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Rep. Don Young, both Republicans, last week expressed concerns that the EPA report could be used to pre-emptively veto the project, saying that would set a bad precedent. “If the EPA has concerns about the impact of a project there is an appropriate time to raise them - after a permit application has been made, not before,” Murkowski said in a

provement instead of the total cost of the improvement. “With that clarification … their objections will carry more weight as they’re intended to,” Baxter said. He said council discussed the section of code the proposed amendment addresses at its Jan. 8 work session about the SAD procedure as well as at other work sessions specific to the proposed Lord Baranof Street and North Aspen Drive districts, which the council recently voted down. With those two projects, the council took objections into consideration when making its

decision, Baxter said. Council member Linda Murphy said the city-initiated districts are troubling to her. “When we go into neighborhoods and the city says, well, we’re going to pave your road whether you want us to or not and you’re going to pay for part of it, I don’t think that’s right,” she said. If there is opposition from the majority of the people bearing the cost of the improvements, the council shouldn’t move forward with the project. However, if there is great public interest for the project or there are safety reasons to

make improvements or the primary benefit is to the city, the city should take on the cost, Murphy said. City Manager Mark Dixson said the administration hasn’t discussed bringing forward any changes to the code or made a decision on whether or not to move forward with the failed districts as city funded projects. The city council meeting is at 6 p.m. on Wednesday at Soldotna City Hall.

can win again with a very oil industry-friendly administration,” he said. The Legislature needs to understand exactly what is in the agreement, he said. Rep. Chris Tuck, D-Anchorage, worries the issue might get rushed so people can say they voted for a gas pipeline. Many legislators are up for re-election this year. Besides gas line-related issues, French expects considerable time to be spent on education funding. “We’re coming up short, and I think people are eager to engage in, What’s the right level of education funding?” he said. The House Task Force on Sustainable Education, in drafting a presentation last month, agreed with language stating that to provide for a sustainable future, state spending levels must to be reduced and a portion of revenue set aside for future generations. Members clashed, however, over proposed language that in the current budget environment, education funding needs to be reduced, too. The language ultimately included stated that the

public should be made aware that current education spending is not sustainable. The debate stoked fears of education spending cuts. Pruitt said that’s not something his caucus has laid out. “I think education is in the same boat that every single one of our departments are in, and that’s that we have to look at them all equally,” he said. “Does that mean they may stay flat? Will there be cuts in certain departments? Yeah, but I don’t think education has been pulled out specifically as something to be targeted at all.” The overall goal is to get a better handle on costs for operating state government, he said. Parnell has said the state remains on strong financial footing, with billions in reserves, but will need to “tighten our belt” on spending and use savings to get by with oil prices lower than in recent years. Parnell’s budget office expects a need to move $1.9 billion from savings to balance this year’s budget because of lower-than-expected revenue.

Parnell’s spending plan for next year would require a $1.1 billion draw from savings to balance. Chenault said part of the spending discussion will be Parnell’s proposal to move $3 billion from savings to help pay down the state’s pension obligation. The state currently is on a payment schedule that’s expected to top $1 billion before dropping. Parnell argues that staying on that track will put too much pressure on the state budget. French said he expects the focus of that debate to be on what such a draw would do to the state savings accounts “and how much closer that moves to the present day the fiscal cliff that’s coming.” But he thinks the idea — similar to what Democrats supported previously — is a good one, likening it to paying down one’s mortgage. “I don’t think that we’re so political that we will oppose the same idea we liked coming from one of our colleagues coming from somebody else,” he said.

release. Under section 404c of the Clean Water Act, the EPA has the authority to restrict, prohibit, deny or withdraw use of an area as a disposal site for dredged or fill material if the discharge would have “unacceptable adverse” effects on things like municipal water supplies or fisheries, according to an EPA fact sheet. The agency says it has issued just over a dozen final veto actions since 1972. Mike Heatwole, a spokesman for the Pebble Limited

Partnership, the group behind the project, said Pebble is disappointed that Begich had “come out against thousands of new jobs, hundreds of millions in state revenue, and potentially billions in economic activity for Alaska.” Heatwole said in a statement that it is “no secret that there is a substantial difference of opinion regarding the science of EPA’s recent Bristol Bay Assessment. Not many Alaskans think EPA is impartial.” He said there is a process that

exists for evaluating a project, and there is no environmental harm in allowing Pebble to follow that permitting process. Begich told The Associated Press that one of the complaints he hears from the mining industry is that it needs to know what federal agencies want before getting too far along in the permitting process. He said if Pebble intends to apply for a permit, the watershed assessment provides a framework for what to respond to before the permit process starts.

Kaylee Osowski can be reached at kaylee.osowski@ peninsulaclarion.com.

HEA lineman recovering from accident By MICHAEL ARMSTRONG Morris News Service-Alaska Homer News

A Homer Electric Association lineman was medevaced to Seattle Jan. 8 following an electrical accident. Jacob Adams, 33, of Anchor Point, was at the burn unit of Harborview Medical Center, Seattle, but was released Jan. 12, a medical center spokesperson said. Adams is getting outpatient care from Harborview and will continue to get care with the goal of returning to Alaska as soon as doctors feel that’s safe, said HEA spokesperson Joe Gallagher. “Our prayers and thoughts are with the lineman and his family,” Gallagher said. “We’re working very closely with Jacob’s family to make sure they have everything they need to get through the immediate circumstances.” Adams received an electrical shock while he and two other linemen were doing maintenance work on electrical equipment on Timmerman Court, a side street off Kay Court at the west end of Diamond Ridge Road.

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end of this year, June 30, according to the report. Parnell, in his 2015 budget plan, proposed moving $3 billion from that fund toward paying down the state’s roughly $12-billion unfunded pension liability, an approach that he said would allow for flat, $500 million payments. He has said the current payment schedule, which calls for increasing payments that would top $1 billion before declining, will put too much pressure on the state budget. The Legislative Finance report says state assistance for retirement, under the current

At about 4:35 p.m. Jan. 8, a coworker made a mayday call on a radio in an HEA vehicle to the HEA dispatcher in Kenai, Gallagher said. The dispatcher called 911. The two linemen provided immediate emergency medical care to Adams. The HEA dispatcher lost radio contact with the lineman because he had stepped away from the truck, but called on a cell phone to get further information for emergency responders. Alaska State Troopers and Kachemak Emergency Services arrived at the scene shortly thereafter. In a release, troopers said Adams was conscious and alert but had significant injury when they arrived. KES medics took Adams to South Peninsula Hospital, where he was stabilized. He was flown by a LifeMed fixedwing airplane from the Homer Airport directly to Seattle. Gallagher said he did not know the nature of Adams’ injuries. “He’s being monitored this morning by expert medical staff at Harbor View,” Gallagher said last week. Adams is a member of the International Brotherhood of

Electrical Workers Local 1547 and would have health insurance under the union contract between IBEW and HEA, said Michael Hodson, IBEW business manager. IBEW has reached out to Adams’ family, he said. “We’re evaluating the situation and hoping for the best,” Hodson said. “Our IBEW family is so caring and compassionate. The members themselves go out of their way when a member is in hardship.” The other HEA linemen followed emergency procedures in responding to Adams’ injury, Gallagher said. That would include making sure it was safe to

payment schedule, “constitutes a major portion of projected deficits.” Senate Finance Committee co-chair Kevin Meyer said lawmakers knew deficit spending was coming, which is one reason for the push to change oil taxes. Meyer, R-Anchorage, said he believes the tax cut will lead to more production, which will lead to more revenue, but he said that could take a couple years. He said he doesn’t see legislators talking about other possible sources of revenue, like taxation, at this point. Nothing legislatively has been proposed, either, that would try to reduce or eliminate Permanent Fund dividends. C

treat Adams. “They are highly trained professional linemen. They would follow the procedures they have gone through in years of training,” he said. HEA has started an investigation into the incident and will cooperate with other agencies in their investigations, Gallagher said. “Safety is the number-one priority within the company,” Gallagher said. “We work very hard to instill a culture of safety. That’s always been our numberone goal and will continue to be our number-one goal. This is a very serious and tragic incident at this point.”

Around Alaska Thayer named Administration commissioner JUNEAU — Curtis Thayer has been named commissioner for the Alaska Department of Administration. Gov. Sean Parnell named Thayer to the position Monday. Thayer had been filling in as acting Commissioner since last month following the resignation of Becky Hultberg. Before that, Thayer served as deputy Administration commissioner. His responsibilities as deputy commissioner included the divisions of general services, personnel and labor relations, administrative services, and motor vehicles. According to Parnell’s office, Thayer’s prior work includes serving as a deputy commissioner in the state commerce department, working for ENSTAR Natural Gas Co. and serving as a congressional aide.

New director for school sought FAIRBANKS — State officials say a new director is being sought to run Mount Edgecumbe High School in Sitka. The Fairbanks Daily News-Miner says the state boarding school enrolls 400 students. The state Board of Education runs the school.

Sealaska Corp. plans to restart exploration JUNEAU — Sealaska Corp. plans to resume its mineral exploration program on Prince of Wales Island, executives with the regional Native corporation said. The Juneau-based corporation had halted the program in 2000 after a steep decline of metal prices. Sealaska, however, continued to conduct small-scale mineral assessments on its POW lands, the Juneau Empire reported Monday. Stronger prices and progress made on Niblack and Bokan mines on the island helped the corporation decide to restart the program, according to Rick Harris, executive vice president of Sealaska. He said mineral deposits continued to be found as the company conducted its POW timber harvesting. “In the communities it seems there’s a pretty high degree of receptivity to seeing well done mineral exploration and possible mineral development,” he said. “We felt that all of these things were coming together ... so we decided that it was time to re-engage and look into our mineral properties.” Steve Buckley, Sealaska’s new minerals manager, said the corporation is planning a community outreach to address concerns that could include what the impacts of the program could be.

Man accused of striking village officer ANCHORAGE — Alaska State Troopers arrested a 29-year-old Manokotak man who is accused of striking a village police officer. Troopers say Garrett Kashatok was arrested by the Village Public Safety Officer Sunday on charges of assault on a peace officer, disorderly conduct, endangering the welfare of a child and possessing alcohol in a dry community. Court documents say Kashatok is charged with misdemeanor assault. It’s unclear if he has an attorney. Troopers say the VPSO responded to a disturbance at Kashatok’s home, where there were several children. According to troopers, Kashatok was intoxicated. Troopers say that while he was being detained, Kashatok struck the village police officer, who also was helping at the scene. — The Associated Press

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Homer Electric Association, Inc., is seeking a highly qualified individual to fill the position of Member Support Representative in the Kenai office. Member Support Representatives are our first line of contact with members. Friendly and courteous service is a must when working with members on billing issues and providing information on a variety of subjects relating to membership, electric services, utility regulations and tariffs. Qualified applicants will have a minimum of two years of office based customer services experience, with high-volume public contact both in person and by telephone. This position requires 2 years of college level, or formal business education which can be substituted by an additional 4 years of progressively responsible customer service experience. The position also requires 10-key by touch and a familiarity with various computer database applications. An individual with prior utility experience is preferred. Applications may be completed on line at http://homerelectric.applicantpro.com/jobs. If you are an individual with a disability and would like to request a reasonable accommodation as part of the employment selection process, please contact Human Resources at (907) 235-3369 or hr@homerelectric.com. HEA is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Applications will no longer be accepted after January 24, 2014.

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Hope Community Resources is hiring on the Peninsula! Join our team as a Care Coordinator! Hope Community Resources, Inc. [Hope] is a private, non-profit agency that provides services to people who experience intellectual and developmental disabilities. Through in-home supports and community activities, people supported by Hope have the opportunity to live a full life in the community of their choice. More information regarding Hope’s mission and corporate culture is available at www.hopealaska.org

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UOSS is a merit shop construction contractor serving the Kenai Peninsula and Alaska for over 40 years. We are accepting applications for current openings on the Kenai Peninsula for JOURNEYMAN ELECTRICIANS for work offshore and onshore including overtime. If you want to become a part of an established company that puts their employees first, conducts their business with integrity, makes safe execution a priority, and shares success with their employees along with a great benefits package then we want to hear from you. Please send a copy of your resume with work history and any other information to kenaireception@udelhoven.com or fax (907) 283-5929.

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QUALIFICATIONS REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS Two years work exp in social services or case management Bachelor’s in Health/Social Science, Psychology, Special Education or closely related field AND one year of full time, paid work experience with human services recipients- Experience may substitute for education on a 2 for 1 basis DESIRED QUALIFICATIONS One year of case management experience Experience working with individuals who experience disabilities OTHER Ability to lift 25 lbs. from a squat-and-kneel position Possess a valid Alaska driver license and proof of insurance Provide driving record that meets agency guidelines Pass a criminal background check under state regulation

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POSITION: Maintenance Worker (Cabin Crew) WG-4749-05 SALARY: Starting at $21.09 per hour ORGANIZATION: Kenai National Wildlife Refuge, Soldotna, Alaska DUTIES : Performs construction work at remote sites within Kenai National Wildlife Refuge, performs routine maintenance of historic and public use cabins and repairs historic log cabins. WHO MAY APPLY: Any qualified U.S. citizen who has lived or worked in or near Alaska public Lands and has special knowledge or expertise concerning the natural and cultural resources of the public lands and their management. Application must be received by January 29, 2014 For full announcement and how to apply, visit <http://www.fws.gov/uploadedFiles/WG4749-05_job_notice_full.pdf> or call (907) 262-7021.

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Brussels Griffons (to breed) Are loved for their humanly expression and comical disposition. Also referred to as the monkey face breed. If your looking for your own "Ewok" you've come to the right place! Litter whelped October 29th, 2013. 2 Females available (1 black SOLD, 2 beige color Available )Rough coats meaning wiry fur and non shedding. AKC registered, parents both on site! Tails docked, declawed, to breed standard, and up to date on shots. This will be my female’s last litter as she is 5 years old and it's not healthy to breed past that age. This is her 4th litter. $1,000. each. For more information please call, text or e-mail me. Tyliencorlis@yahoo.com (907)953-9284. Thank you for your interest. Kind regards -Tylie

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Vets deserve thanks even when it seems unwelcome

DEAR ABBY: I just read the letter from “Twice Bitten in Washington” (Nov. 4), who had thanked veterans for their service to our country and received several negative responses. I’m a retired vet, dying from Agent Orange poisoning. I served two tours in Vietnam, and when I returned from Nam, I was called a baby killer, spat upon and refused taxi service because I was in uniform. America has had a change in attitude since the Vietnam War. Today, many folks appreciate what the military is doing. I have been thanked several times while wearing my Vietnam Veterans hat and it makes me feel great, to the point my eyes water. Tell “Twice Bitten” to continue thanking the military vets. It means a lot, especially to vets like me. Sure beats being called a baby killer. — VIETNAM VET DEAR VIETNAM VET: I received many letters like yours from Vietnam vets who were also not thanked for their service when they returned home. Like you, they very much appreciate hearing a “delayed” thanks for their service. I would like to thank you and all the readers who responded to that column with such emotional and sometimes gut-wrenching stories. Read on: DEAR ABBY: I would like to offer “Twice” an explanation for the reaction she received. I served two tours in Iraq and lost some good friends. When vets return home from war, home is a scary place. The life we lived and breathed is no longer. After spending so much time fearing the un-

known and protecting ourselves physically and emotionally, we can’t stop. Many of us came home feeling guilty that we lived while others died — ashamed that we might not have done enough, that we should have been the one who was laid to rest, that maybe if we had looked harder, fought harder, we wouldn’t have lost a soldier. When I returned home, I reAbigail Van Buren acted the way “Twice” described. I was resentful that someone would take the time to honor me, but not the friends I lost. It was a long time before I realized that by honoring me with their sincere thanks, they were honoring every soldier we have ever lost. Now when I am thanked, I shake hands, I hug, and I thank them for their respect. To “Twice”: Never stop! Do not be afraid. We are not hateful or angry. We are scared and sad. Your expression of thanks means more than any parade, any medal or any award could ever mean. — BRANDON IN INDIANA DEAR ABBY: As a soon-to-be-retired career Army officer, I am one of those who feel awkward when people thank us for doing our jobs. The Army was a career I chose,

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knowing the hardships and what would be asked of me. The military is filled with all kinds of people, and even though I may not always be in the mood for a stranger to approach me when I’m out and about, deep down inside it is refreshing to know that what I do is appreciated. — PHIL IN WASHINGTON STATE DEAR ABBY: One day while walking in a cemetery, we saw an elderly gentleman leaning on the arm of his caregiver, and we realized he was looking at a veterans memorial. My wife approached and asked if he was a veteran. He looked at her and said “Yes,” and she said, “Thank you very much for your service and your bravery.” He immediately teared up and croaked out a “Thank you.” His caregiver rolled her eyes. My wife got into her face and said, “You have a hero on your arm, so show him some respect!” The veteran cried harder, grabbed my wife’s hand and said, “No one has ever said that to me, ESPECIALLY my caregiver.” — KIMIT IN THE MIDWEST DEAR READERS: May I suggest some other ways to thank vets and those currently in the military? Volunteer at a veterans hospital and bring flowers and toiletries. If you live near a base, volunteer to support the USO at your local airport to make travel more comfortable for our servicemen and women. Donate to Wounded Warriors or similar organizations, or the Veterans of Foreign Wars or Disabled American Veterans.

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Jacqueline Bigar’s Stars HAPPY BIRTHDAY for Tuesday, Jan. 21, 2014: This year opportunities stem from your ability to know what you want from a situation. Sharing some of your wilder schemes will be better received than you might think. Others find your imagination fun and invigorating. If you are single, you could meet someone very gentle and kind. You might want to pinch yourself, as this person will seem to be unbelievable. If you are attached, the two of you thrive off the unexpected. LIBRA admires your imagination, and entices your romantic side. The Stars Show the Kind of Day You’ll Have: 5-Dynamic; 4-Positive; 3-Average; 2-So-so; 1-Difficult ARIES (March 21-April 19) HHH You will feel great, and a partner might appear to be in the same mood — at least until a hot issue is broached. Then, you could find out otherwise. Your ability to draw out others emerges. You know the right move to make. Tonight: Say “yes” to an offer. TAURUS (April 20-May 20) HHH Your efforts make a difference, yet an associate could have a negative attitude. Fortunately, this person does not rule the world. A friend might share his or her thoughts. Listen carefully, as he or she will be coming from an intuitive level. Tonight: Get some exercise. GEMINI (May 21-June 20) HHHH You will find a situation provocative. You might feel as if a boss is making assumptions that may not be grounded. Know that

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ers seem to demand that rules be loosened up some. You might feel somewhat vulnerable and choose to withdraw within. You can’t control others, nor should you try. A psychic thought will come your way. Tonight: Early to bed. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) HHH You will be focused on a key matter revolving around a friend or a significant meeting. How you handle it and the end results could color your thinking about the whole situation. Emphasize what you want, and speak your mind. Tonight: Where the gang is. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) HHHHYou might want to get to know someone in power better. You both have very different approaches that are effective. A family matter or a domestic issue could trigger unexpected happenings. Go with the flow. Tonight: Burn the candle at both ends. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) HHHH You might feel more in harmony with someone at distance than you do with many other people. You can’t deny what exists between you. You are intuitive with this person, as is he or she with you. An unexpected call makes you smile. Tonight: Catch up on a friend’s news. PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) HHHH You succeed best when you work closely with someone else. You know what is workable and what needs to happen. Though you tend to come up with ideas from out of left field, this person sees value in them. Tonight: Visit with a favorite person over dinner.

Don’t pin your hopes on this Dear Readers: A recent column offered safety hints for using an ATM (automated teller machine). Many of you wrote in with a “safety hint” you wanted to see added to that list. However, the hint is not correct and could even be dangerous to use. The hint you shared is about putting your ATM PIN (personal identification number) in backward to help contact police if you are forced to use the ATM by a criminal. The “hint” reports that supposedly the money comes out, and the police do, too. But the robber has no idea that the police have been contacted and are on the way. Sorry, folks, this is not so. While it is true that the technology exists, a Federal Trade Commission study found that it just did not make sense to have it installed in ATMs. Also, the research suggested it may actually be more dangerous to have this system available, and that ATMs are safe enough. So, DO NOT attempt to put your PIN in backward if you are in danger. Give the person what he or she wants, get to a safe place and contact police ASAP. — Heloise Better bookmark Dear Heloise: Why do we always use a bookmark to mark just the pages we are between? I came upon this hint: Place a two-sided bookmark horizontally across the print where you stop reading. My bookmark has printing on the side that I leave next to the print in the book, and a picture on the other side. The bookmark protrudes from the side instead of the top of the book, and I can always find just where I stopped reading. Now I save time by not reading the same paragraph again until I find where I left off. — Samantha H. in Texas

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Big dog helps teach middleschoolers good behavior By NATALIE GROSS Lubbock Avalanche-Journal

LEVELLAND, Texas — It’s not often one gets to take his four-legged friend to school — especially not one as big or as hairy as Tango the Leonberger. But Tango, a 120-pound behemoth of an animal, isn’t walking the halls of Levelland Middle School for show and tell. Through her calm, confident and caring temperament, she’s actually teaching the students in D’Nae Wilson’s classroom basic social behaviors. Wilson calls Tango her “coteacher” for the Mutt-i-grees class the pair began last semester. Mutt-i-grees — a curriculum being used in schools across America — uses children’s natural affinity for animals to teach values such as loyalty and respect and also basic human skills like greeting strangers and respecting others’ space. It can also be classified as an anti-bullying class in that the overarching goal is to teach students to have empathy for others, Wilson told the Lubbock Avalanche-Journal (http://bit. ly/1dzyTET ). On Wednesday, Jan. 15, Wilson used her dog to show

students how personality differences among peers should be valued and not the cause for unkindness or discrimination. Tango’s temperament was laid back, which wouldn’t make her a good search and rescue dog, Wilson said. In the same way, a group of friends, classmates or co-workers needs various personalities working together to function. As the students took a written personality assessment, Tango wandered the aisles, pausing to receive affection from outstretched hands. Wilson said she first met Tango as a puppy when dog breeder Waltraut “Val” Zieher — a woman who brought the Leonberger breed to the U.S. with her from Germany — took Tango, now 4, to the veterinary clinic where Wilson was working. The two women bonded over their love for the breed, and Wilson soon had a part in raising some of Zieher’s puppies, she said. Zieher and Tango used to visit nursing homes and children’s hospitals using animal therapy to provide companionship and comfort to the patients. But Zieher was sick herself and frequently left town to seek cancer treatments, leaving

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Students Adaline Utley, 11 from left, Miranda Villegas, 13, Bryan Gonzaless, 14, and Trinity Ramos, 13, take a moment to pet Tango a 4 year old Leonberger in D’Nae Wilson’s Mutt-I-Grees Class at Levelland Middle School, Jan. 15.

Tango in Wilson’s care. When Zieher died last year, Wilson adopted the dog as her own, adding to her already large collection of animals which in-

cludes five dogs, one cat and four horses. Tango still goes to nursing homes on Fridays when she’s not at school with Wilson.

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