The Iola Register, Oct. 7, 2022

Elementary, my dear Watson

By VICKIE MOSS The Iola Register

“The game is afoot.” Get ready for a wild run.

Allen Community College Theatre offers a hilarious, modern reinvention of the classic detective story in “Ms. Holmes and Ms. Wat son, Apt. 2B.” The play will be performed at 7:30 tonight through Saturday at the Bowlus Fine Arts Center.

It’s an empowering and darkly comic tale about complex, clever women who solve a complicated puzzle filled with cyber crime, re venge porn, smoke bombs, sexual tension, betrayal and, of course, murrrrrder (Da. Da. Dummmm.)

Allen’s Nautianna Go forth is delightful as she portrays the exuberant Sher lock “Shirley” Holmes, who welcomes the easily exasper

ated Dr. Joan Watson as her new roommate. Goforth’s lanky flexibility lends itself to physical comedy.

Maddie Hodgden, as Wat son, is the perfect foil for Goforth’s frenetic and pre tentious charm. Hogden delivers just the right notes

N. Korea flies warplanes near S. Korea after missile launches

By HYUNG-JIN KIM and KIM TONG-HYUNG The Associated Press

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea flew 12 warplanes near its border with South Korea on Thurs day, prompting the South to scramble 30 military air craft in response, Seoul of ficials said. The highly un usual incident came hours after North Korea fired two ballistic missiles into the sea in its sixth round of missile tests in less than two weeks.

Eight North Korean fight er jets and four bombers

flew in formation and were believed to have conducted air-to-surface firing drills, South Korea’s military said.

The military said South Korea responded by scram bling 30 fighter jets and oth er warplanes, though they didn’t engage in any clash with the North Korean air craft.

The North Korean planes were probably dozens of kilometers away from the border, South Korean media said.

North Korea has previ ously sent military aircraft

of irritation, hiding an un derlying sense of pain and trauma.

Mariah Stackhouse as the landlady, Mrs. Hudson, seems to relish her role as she cheerfully introduces the two, embellishing Holmes’s exploits with a great deal of

flattery.

The setting, it should be noted, is an elaborate and eclectic apartment with gar ish wallpaper, clutter every where and a skeleton wear ing a horned Viking helmet. Home sweet home. As the scenes change, it’s easily and impressively disguised.

Watson quickly gets sucked into Holmes’s latest mystery when Lestrade, a police detective played by an eager Joseph Leach, asks for help solving a suspicious death. His boyish enthusi asm gives way to frustra tion as the trio examines the crime scene, with Holmes and Watson climbing into a clawfoot bathtub to study the corpse.

The victim’s widow, a very versatile Emily Ator, is no challenge for the ace detec

Balance of power on the ballot

By RACHEL MIPRO Kansas Reflector

TOPEKA — In November, six of Kansas’ seven Su preme Court judges are up for retention votes, and two constitutional amendments will be decided.

Advocacy groups say these choices on the Novem ber ballot offer voters an opportunity to shift Kansas’ political landscape.

One state constitution amendment focuses on re ducing the governor’s exec utive power and the other on protecting the elected po sition of sheriffs across the state. The amendments have been criticized for pushing partisan agendas by the American Civil Liberties Union of Kansas, but some legislators and law officials say more oversight of exec

Allen volleyball plays at home

Keeping ‘em straight

LaHarpe PRIDE members Danny Ware Jr., left, and Harry Lee Jr. affix wires to several pieces

rebar Wednesday. The rebar will be used as reinforcement for concrete bases at the LaHarpe City Park to support a pair of light poles for the sand volleyball court.

LUKEN

Nautianna Goforth, as Sherlock Holmes, meets her new roommate, Dr. Joan Watson played by Maddie Hodgden in “Ms. Holmes and Ms. Watson, Apt. 2B.” Allen Community College Theatre will present the hilarious dark comedy at 7:30 tonight through Saturday at the Bowlus Fine Arts Center. REGISTER/VICKIE MOSS

Molly Comfort oozes sensuality as the “lady of the night,” Irene Adler.

Iranian women at home and abroad cut their hair in protest

By SARAH PARVINI Los Angeles Times/TNS

LOS ANGELES —

Standing before her bathroom mirror, Elnaz Rahimpour fluffed her curly hair before braid ing the tendrils into four pieces.

She reached for the scissors and cut each dark lock with tears in her eyes, as an old Ira nian resistance anthem streamed over the vid eo she posted to Insta gram — her own gesture of protest in solidarity with the movement that has coursed through Iran in the weeks since a 22-year-old woman, Mahsa Amini, died at a Tehran hospital after reportedly being bru talized by the country’s morality police.

Amid protests across Iran, many women in the country have adopt ed the political symbol ism of cutting their hair — at once a statement against oppression and the rules of compulsory hijab for women, and an act of defiance in hon or of Amini, who was arrested for allegedly violating the Islamic Re public’s modesty laws.

“So many others of my friends are still there dealing with this,” said Rahimpour, 29, a student at Marshall University in West Vir ginia. “I wanted to show how horrible it is to kill someone because of something as simple as hair.... Only because of her hair, Mahsa died. To me, it just felt like the right thing to do.”

The protests that erupted across Iran on Sept. 16 have been led by women encompassing broad cross-sections of Iranian society — and quickly tapped into wid er discontent over wom en’s rights and govern ment corruption. The Norway-based nonprofit Iran Human Rights es timates that at least 154 people have been killed during the protests. Hundreds more have been arrested in violent crackdowns.

Videos of protests in Iran show women — most of them young — waving their hijabs in the air, some of them throwing their head scarves into bonfires; others defiantly leave

their hair uncovered as they pour into crowds that chant “zan, zende gi, azadi” — “woman, life, freedom,” a rallying cry of the movement — or call for “Death to the dictator!”

Young schoolgirls and high school students have also grown into a force in the movement.

Videos posted on Twit ter showed students heckling a paramilitary officer while taking off their head scarves, and several images shared across social media appear to show girls at school protesting in front of classroom chalkboards with their hair flowing down their backs.

Yet it is the symbol ism of hair-cutting that has persisted not only in Iran, but also around the world.

Videos circulating on TikTok, Twitter and Instagram show a woman cutting her hair over her brother’s cof fin during his funeral, slamming her locks on top of the flowers that cover his casket. Video captions assert that her brother was killed while protesting.

A photo circulating on Twitter and Insta gram appeared to show a young woman, her head shaved, standing beside her mother’s grave while holding the

hair she’d cut in her hand.

In Los Angeles, an Iranian American pro tester sat on the steps to City Hall and snipped her hair, crying out, “For Iran!” In Istanbul, media coverage showed an Iranian woman cut ting off her ponytail during a demonstration outside the Iranian Con sulate.

To some, the practice evokes rituals described in ancient Persian po etry and literature in which women cut their hair in mourning or protest. In “Shahnameh: The Persian Book of Kings,” the poet Fer dowsi refers to the hero Siavash’s wife cutting “her musky tresses” and binding them to her waist to protest his death. For others, it is a demonstration of power that shows that women cannot be controlled by the hair on their head.

Scholars following the current protests in Iran say that the movement is distinct because it has unified Iranians across socioeconomic lines, geographic regions, eth nicity and gender under the banner of women’s rights and the need for systemic governmental change.

“It’s about compulso ry hijab, it’s about the subjugation of wom en’s bodies by the state,

by the Islamic Repub lic. There are slogans against the oppression of the Islamic Republic, so this brings together all the previous protests against autocracy and despotism in Iran,” said Mohammad Ali Kad ivar, an assistant pro fessor of sociology and international studies at Boston College.

“This protest start ed with the death of a Sunni, Kurdish woman, which brings together again the intersection of women’s issues, and also ethnic minorities,” he added, referring to the Shiite Muslim-ma jority population of Iran.

The protests are also global, he said, noting this month’s demon strations in solidarity with Iran that spanned roughly 150 cities, from Los Angeles to London.

The protests differ from Iran’s 2009 Green Movement, during which many Iranians disputed a presidential election they argued was fraudulent, Kad ivar said. Those pro tests prompted a violent crackdown in which dozens were killed and thousands arrested. Authorities tortured prisoners and held Sta lin-style show trials in which defendants were forced to confess they were foreign agents.

Sweden seizes evidence of Baltic Sea pipeline leak

COPENHAGEN, Den mark (AP) — Sweden’s domestic security agen cy said Thursday that its preliminary inves tigation of leaks from two Russian gas pipe lines in the Baltic Sea “has strengthened the suspicions of serious sabotage” as the cause and a prosecutor said evidence at the site has been seized.

The Swedish Secu rity Service said the probe confirmed that

“detonations” caused extensive damage to the Nord Stream 1 and Nord Stream 2 pipelines last week. Authorities had said when the leaks off Sweden and Denmark first surfaced that explo sions were recorded in the area.

The agency, which said what happened in the Baltic Sea was “very serious,” didn’t give de tails about its investiga tion.

But in a separate

statement, Swed ish prosecutor Mats Ljungqvist said “sei zures have been made at the crime scene and these will now be inves tigated.”

Ljungqvist, who led

the preliminary inves tigation, did not identi fy the seized evidence. Ljungqvist said he had given “directives to tem porarily block (the area) and carry out a crime scene investigation.”

“The discourse of that movement was a reform ist discourse, it was not calling for a full break from the framework of the Islamic Republic,” he said. “Women were present in 2009.... Wom en’s issues were I think articulated in 2009. But they didn’t have the leading role that they have now.”

Watching Iranian women rallying in the streets inspired Nicole Ansari to post an Insta gram video of herself cutting her hair. She watched as her counter parts in Iran reached for the scissors and felt that she also needed to take action.

“I thought, what am I doing here? You know, here I am so privileged. What can I do to ampli fy the voices other than just reposting things that are happening there?” said Ansari, an actor and director who lives in New York. “I read in one of the posts the significance of cut ting your hair and how it’s a sign of mourning, and it comes from an ancient Persian tradi tion before Islam. And I thought, let me at least do that.”

As she snipped away the highlighted light brown hair hanging at her neck, she felt “liber ated.” Like many in the diaspora, she believes this protest differs from previous move ments even if she doesn’t know what the outcome will be.

Ansari, who hasn’t visited Iran since she was a child — during the shah’s reign be

fore the 1978-79 revolu tion — said that watch ing the protests from afar has been “an emo tional roller coaster.”

“I am in mourning for those women who have given their lives, those people who give their lives for freedom of expression, freedom of speech, freedom of choice to wear the head scarf or not,” she said.

It’s not just women who are cutting their hair. Both in Iran and abroad, men are also shaving their heads in solidarity and standing beside women as they call for equality and free dom. That kind of sup port sets this round of protests apart from oth er movements in Iran, said Abbas Milani, direc tor of Iranian studies at Stanford University.

“More and more, men are saying, yes, if we really want democracy in Iran, we have to fix this problem. Women’s rights are the most im portant measure of de mocracy everywhere,” Milani said. “And men have finally, I think, in the largest ever num bers, recognized that if they don’t fight for wom en and for their equality, you’re never going to have a democracy.”

Arash Mofakham, who moved to Califor nia from Iran to pursue his master’s degree, felt that shaving his head and posting about it on line was the best way to raise awareness about the protests — even if doing so was outside his comfort zone.

“It actually worked well, because a lot of people started reading about the news in Iran after they saw the video that I posted,” said Mo fakham, who was born and raised in Tehran.

“They came to me and they gave sympathy and they just shared their feelings about what’s go ing on. And they hugged me. I thought, this is kind of like what I was looking for.”

The 36-year-old said he lived in Iran in 2009 and regularly protest ed during the Green Movement. The images he sees online today re mind him of his experi ence 13 years ago.

“Even though it’s a different purpose right now, it’s a different gen eration, I think we all fight for the same reason at the end of the day,” he said. “We want to have the freedom of speech, rights and basically re form and change the re gime.”

Hundreds of people gather in front of the Sherman Oaks Galleria in memory of Mahsa Amini, 22, who died in police custody after allegedly being arrested for violating Iran’s hijab rules, on Sept. 25, in Sherman Oaks, CA. (GARY CORONADO/LOS ANGELES TIMES/TNS)

22 dead, dozens missing a er migrant ships sink

KYTHIRA, Greece (AP) — Bodies floated amid splintered wreckage in the wind-tossed waters off a Greek island Thursday as the death toll from the separate sinkings of two migrant boats rose to 22, with many still missing.

The vessels went down hundreds of miles apart, in one case prompting a dramatic overnight rescue effort as island residents and firefighters pulled shipwrecked migrants to

safety up steep cliffs.

The shipwrecks further stoked tension between neighbors Greece and Turkey, who are locked in a heated dispute over maritime boundaries and migration.

Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis voiced “deep sorrow for the tragic loss of life,” and praised rescuers’ “heroic” efforts.

The coast guard on Greece’s eastern island of Lesbos said the bod-

ies of 16 young African women, a man and a boy were recovered after a dinghy carrying about 40 people sank.

Ten women were rescued, while 12 other migrants were believed to be missing, coast guard officials said.

The last body to be recovered, of a man, was found by divers from the European Union’s Frontex border agency who helped in the search and rescue operation, the coast guard said.

“The women who were rescued were in a full state of panic so we are still trying to work out what happened,” coast guard spokesman Nikos Kokkalas told Greek state television. “The women were all from African countries, aged 20 upward. ... There is a search on land as well as at sea, and we hope that survivors made it to land.”

The second rescue effort was launched sever-

al hundred kilometers (miles) to the southwest, off the island of Kythira, where a sailboat struck rocks and sank.

The bodies of at least four migrants were seen amid floating debris from the yacht under the cliffs. The deaths would be officially recorded when the bodies were recovered, officials said. They added that 80 people, from Iran, Iraq and Afghanistan, had been rescued while a search continues for as

many as 11 still believed to be missing.

With winds in the area reaching 45 mph overnight on Kythira, survivors clinging to ropes were pulled to safety up steep cliffs as others were buffeted by waves as they waited their turn on tiny areas of rock at the bottom.

“All the residents here went down to the harbor to try and help,” Martha Stathaki, a local resident told The Associated Press.

Votes: Constitutional amendments, judges on Nov. 8 ballot

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utive agencies is needed.

The proposed legislative veto

The Kansas Legislature currently has the ability to overturn executive rules and regulations by a two-thirds majority vote and a signature from the governor. This amendment would change that, authorizing the Legislature to revoke or suspend policies from the state executive by a simple majority vote, with no governor signature required. The amendment would shift power away from the governor and toward the legislature.

Critics say the amendment is a reaction to Gov. Laura Kelly’s policies.

Attorney General Derek Schmidt, who is running against Kelly in the race for governor, first proposed it in February 2021, following Kelly’s decision to temporarily close schools at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic. Schmidt has used Kelly’s handling of the pandemic as a key part of his platform during his gubernatorial campaign, saying her pandemic-era lockdowns and mandates hurt Kansas students.

“A legislative veto would enable the Legislature to reject specific agency rules and regulations in a targeted manner, acting as a check-and-balance over regulatory sprawl and making the Legislature itself more accountable to the people of Kansas for how agencies use the power the Legislature has given them,” Schmidt said in release supporting the amendment. “This is a victory for regulatory accountability and citizen control of state government, and I am hopeful Kansas voters will approve the proposed amendment in November.”

If Kelly is reelected and the amendment passes, the Republican-dominated Senate and House would have veto power over any executive branch action, including power over the state agencies under Kelly’s jurisdiction.

Amii Castle, a constitutional law professor at the University of Kansas, said during a League of Women Vot-

ers of Johnson County discussion the proposed amendment had worrying implications.

“This amendment, if passed, would take the governor completely out of the equation,” Castle said. “And so that if 51% of our legislature decides that they want to revoke that regulation, they can do it with a simple majority. Fifty-one percent and it never goes to the governor. There’s no veto power. So it’s basically taking power from the executive branch, those administrative agencies that the governor oversees, taking power from the executive branch and giving it to 51% of our state legislators.”

Micah Kubic, executive director of the ACLU of Kansas, said the amendment threatened constitutional rights, and would create a dangerous power imbalance.

“What this really does is set up a permanent state of conflict and chaos between the governor, whoever they are, and their ability to implement laws and the legislature in perpetuity,” Kubic said. “I think that is really a sign of instability and creates uncertainty in the state government in a way that I think is really, really dangerous for democracy.”

The Kansas Supreme Court ruled against a similar measure in 1984 that would have allowed the Legislature to suspend or revoke administrative rules, calling it

unconstitutional and a violation of the separation of powers.

Sheriff election and recall proposal

The amendment on the Kansas county sheriff election and recall could help keep controversial Johnson County Sheriff Calvin Hayden in his position. The amendment says counties that elected sheriffs in January 2022 can continue to elect sheriffs — meaning the sheriff’s position would be fixed as an elected position, instead of an appointed position for all but one of Kansas counties.

The amendment comes after discussion about making the sheriff’s position appointed in Johnson County, following some of Hayden’s actions. Hayden is leading a criminal investigation into alleged election fraud in the 2020 elections, and has also said he would form an “army” of his employees to defend Kansans against the Internal Service Revenue if needed.

The amendment also stipulates the county sheriffs can only be removed from office by a recall election or if the attorney general challenges their right to hold office. Schmidt has supported the amendment, saying the sheriff’s office had “deep historical roots,” in April, when the amendment was voted on by the Legislature.

Under the current Kansas system, district attorneys, along with the attorney general,

can initiate legal proceedings if they believe there’s been misconduct in the sheriff’s office, with a judge ultimately deciding whether or not there has been misconduct. The amendment would take away this power from all 104 district attorneys in the state, leaving only the attorney general with the ability to investigate misconduct.

Castle said the amendment can lead to abuse of power, since the attorney general could play favorites and not investigate sheriffs they liked.

“It puts the power with the person who sits in Topeka for most

days,” Castle said. “The only person who has power to initiate an investigation into a sheriff will be solely with the attorney general, and it will take away power from our local district attorneys to even initiate an investigation into a sheriff.”

Hayden supports the amendment, saying voters should be able to choose their elected officials.

“The politicians want to get rid of the sheriff’s position because we’re in the way,” Hayden said during a September meeting on election fraud.

Retention of judges

Kansas currently operates a merit-based Supreme Court judicial selection process, in which a nine-person panel nominates candidates and sends them to the governor, who makes the final selection. After the judge serves for a year, the public votes in a general election whether or not to keep them in the position. If the judge is approved, they serve for six years on the Supreme Court.

In the November election, six of the seven Supreme Court justices are up for retention, and seven of the 14 Kansas Court of Appeals judges are up for retention.

The state Supreme Court voted to uphold abortion rights in 2019, when a majority hearing the case ruled the Kansas Bill of Rights protected the right to an abortion. Pro-life activists are now campaigning to unseat these judges and create an anti-abortion court.

“The big money that you will see mobilizing trying to get people to fire the Kansas Supreme Court is 100% about abortion and about the right to choose,” Kubic said. “Various real people in real life may be upset about different things. But the folks that were organizing and mobilizing and raising millions of dollars to try and defeat them, their only interest here is on the abortion issue.”

In November, ve of Kansas’ six Supreme Court judges are up for retention votes, and two constitutional amendments will be decided. KANSAS REFLECTOR/TIM CARPENTER

Biden pardons marijuana convicts

WASHINGTON (AP)

— President Joe Biden is pardoning thousands of Americans convicted of “simple possession” of marijuana, as his administration takes a dramatic step toward decriminalizing the drug and addressing charging practices that disproportionately impact people of color.

He is also calling on governors to issue similar pardons for those convicted of state marijuana offenses, which reflect the vast majority

of marijuana possession cases.

Biden said the move reflects his position that “no one should be in jail just for using or possessing marijuana.”

“There are thousands of people who have prior Federal convictions for marijuana possession, who may be denied employment, housing, or educational opportunities as a result,” he said. “My action will help relieve the collateral consequences arising from these convictions.”

Barges grounded by low water

By JIM SALTER The Associated Press

The unusually low water level in the lower Mississippi River is causing barges to get stuck in mud and sand, disrupting river travel for shippers, recreational boaters and even passengers on a cruise line.

Lack of rainfall in recent weeks has left the Mississippi River approaching record low levels in some areas from Missouri south through Louisiana.

The U.S. Coast Guard

said at least eight “groundings” of barges have been reported in the past week, despite low-water restrictions on barge loads.

One of the groundings happened Friday between Louisiana and Mississippi, near Lake Providence, Louisiana. It halted river traffic in both directions for days “to clear the grounded barges from the channel and to deepen the channel via dredging to prevent future groundings,” U.S. Army Corps of Engineers spokesperson

Sabrina Dalton said in an email.

As a result, dozens of tows and barges were lined up in both directions, waiting to get by. The stoppage also brought a halt to a Viking cruise ship with about 350 passengers on board, said R. Thomas Berner, a Penn State professor emeritus of journalism and American studies, and one of the passengers.

The Viking ship was originally supposed to launch from New Orleans on Saturday, but the water there was so low that the launch was moved to Baton Rouge, Louisiana, Berner said.

By Tuesday, the ship was halted near Vicksburg, Mississippi, due to the backup caused by the grounding. It wasn’t near a dock so passengers couldn’t leave. The ship’s crew kept people entertained as much as possible with music, games and other activities.

“Some of us are taking naps,” Berner joked.

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tive. Ator gets to showcase a range of emotions, from grief to the pain of betrayal and finally, murderous anger.

The murder is soon solved… or is it?

Holmes believes greater forces are leading them toward a mastermind, perhaps someone even more clever than she.

Enter a dangerously outraged Austin Morris as a southern American billionaire and social media mogul, who is being blackmailed by the “lady of the night” Irene Adler, played with sizzling sensuality by Molly Comfort.

The seductive Irene seems to have Holmes under her spell as the adventure winds its way toward an intricate climax where virtually no one is who they seem and everyone seems to have an ulterior motive.

And, just as Holmes suspects a larger force is at work, so does the play’s riotous humor hide subtle truths and

trauma. A rare serious moment touches on the struggle of medical professionals during the pandemic. Even the vulgar Irene shows moments of feminine vulnerability. There are digs at social media, socio-economic structures and the dark underworld of the internet.

THE PLAY is the debut of ACC’s new theater director, Tricia Stogsdill.

An Allen alum, Stogsdill studied with longtime instructors Tony Terri Piazza. She then earned her bachelor’s degree in theater from Emporia State University, and her master’s degree in theatrical design and production from the University of Cincinnati-College Conservatory of Music.

After graduation, Stogsdill worked across the nation in professional theater, including at the Tony Award-winning Guthrie Theatre in Minneapolis, Minn.

That’s where she met the playwright Kate

Hamill who wrote “Ms. Holmes and Ms. Watson, Apt. 2B.” She saw the world premier of the play at the Kansas City Repertory Theatre this past spring.

“It was such a joyous time in the theater. It’s innovative and modern but just classic at the same time,” she said.

“It’s a laugh riot. Everybody knows Sherlock Holmes, but you’ve never seen it like this.”

Before joining Allen’s faculty this fall, Stogsdill worked as associate professor of theater at Neosho County Community College.

She wanted the play to be her first produc-

tion at Allen, but it was difficult to get the rights because the play was so new. She was able to secure the performance because she knew Hamill, the playwright.

Most of the students involved with the play are in their first year at ACC. They’re a young cast, but very diverse.

“They’re wonderful students who come from all over,” she said.

For example, the stage manager, Titlope Oyelami, is from Nigeria.

“English is not even her first language, but she’s done a wonderful job bringing everyone together,” Stogsdill said.

This particular play is serendipitous in that way.

“What this play says is that we don’t always have to have the answers, as long as we have a few good people on our side and a lot of laughs on the journey.”

TICKETS are available at bowluscenter.org or at the door.

Tickets cost $7 for adults and $5 for students and children.

The stuck barges were freed midday Tuesday. Berner said the cruise ship restarted Tuesday night, but the restart didn’t last long: Viking told passengers in a letter Wednesday that the rest of the scheduled two-week trip was being called off, citing low water problems causing additional closures.

Viking made arrangements to get passen-

gers home and the letter said they would get a full refund.

Nearly all of the Mississippi River basin, from Minnesota through Louisiana, has seen below-normal rainfall since late August. The basin from St. Louis south has been largely dry for three months, according to the National Weather Service.

The timing is bad because barges are busy carrying recently harvested corn and soybeans up and down the river.

Lucy Fletcher of the agricultural retailer AGRIServices of Brunswick, who serves on the board for the St. Louis-based trade association Inland Rivers, Ports & Terminals, said navigation woes on the Mississippi, Missouri and other major rivers have some shippers looking at other means of transportation.

“Can they divert to rail?” Fletcher asked.

“Well, there’s not an abundance of rail availability. And usually people are booking their transportation for fall early in the season. So if they haven’t booked that freight already, you’re going to see people in dire straits.”

Fletcher said that with the supply chain still snagged following the COVID-19 pandemic, trucks also are largely booked and unavailable.

Mike Steenhoek, executive director of Soy Transportation Coalition, said 29% of the nation’s soybean crop is transported by barge.

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Lestrade, a police detective played by Joseph Leach, watches as Sherlock Holmes (Nautianna Goforth) talks about how she solved the case after Mrs. Drebber (Emily Ator) faints. REGISTER/VICKIE MOSS

Opinion

Attorney general race between showboat and problem-solver

Just when you’re ready to swear off politics, some one gives you pause.

That would be Chris Mann, the Democrat run ning for Kansas Attorney General, who is “turning my pain into purpose,” in his first-time quest for elective office.

His story is compelling.

In 2002, Mann was work ing as a young police officer in Lawrence when one late night he had pulled over a driver whose car’s taillight was broken. While on the side of the road, Mann was hit by a drunk driver trav eling an estimated 50 mph. The impact flung Mann’s body 30 feet. His injuries from the accident were such that Mann’s hopes of following in his father’s footsteps as a police officer were derailed.

His desire to serve, how ever, remained, propelling him to Topeka’s Washburn Law School. From there he became a prosecutor with the Wyandotte County Dis trict Attorney’s Office. In 2014, he served as a special prosecutor with the Kan sas Securities Commission focusing on white collar crimes such as fraud, em bezzlement, elder exploita tion and pyramid schemes. In 2017, Mann started his own law firm.

Because of his personal tragedy, Mann has advo cated for laws that prevent drunk drivers from getting behind the wheel. In 2017, he and LeAnn Briggs, a volunteer with Mothers Against Drunk Driving, testified before the state Senate Judiciary Commit tee on the value of ignition interlock devices for re peat offenders.

For the better part of 20 years Mann has vol unteered with MADD. In 2011, he served as chair of its state advisory board and in 2014 was appoint ed to the MADD national board of directors, serving as board chair until 2020.

Mann has led discus sions on DUI issues with law enforcement agen cies, the National Football League and crime victims across the United States.

As an attorney, Mann fre quently defends victims of drunk driving accidents.

THE CONTRASTS be

tween Mann and his oppo nent, Republican Kris Ko bach, are stark.

Mann is a working attor ney; Kobach, a figurehead.

If elected, Mann has said he would shift his fo cus to the needs of all Kan sans.

“I have said from day one that I think this office should be about public safety, not politics.”

And Kobach’s agenda?

“I’ll wake up every morning having my break fast, thinking about what our next lawsuit against Joe Biden is going to be,” Kobach said at an earlier debate, going so far as to establish a litigation di vision solely to fight the Biden administration.

So, current AG Derek Schmidt on steroids.

In his 12-year tenure as attorney general, Schmidt has signed Kansas on to countless lawsuits against the federal government in cluding those that seek to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election, void the Affordable Care Act, contest the COVID-19 vaccine, repress voter par ticipation, protest the curb of greenhouse gases and stop the partial forgive ness of student loan debt.

How has that helped Kansas? Not a whit.

We also know from Ko bach’s previous stint as secretary of state, 20112019, what we could expect from him as attorney gen eral.

At the conclusion of his tenure, Kobach left the state with $1.9 million in legal fees in the defense of his misguided voter ID law that prevented more than 35,000 eligible voters from participating in elections.

With no proof of wide spread voter fraud, Kobach lost the five-year legal bat tle, with Kansas taxpayers picking up the tab.

THE OFFICE of attor ney general should be about enforcing the law, consumer protection, and criminal prosecution. That’s Mann’s bailiwick.

The choice is between a firebrand out to promote himself or someone who has dedicated his service to others.

We’ll go with Mann. — Susan Lynn

A look back in t me.A look in t me.

40 Years Ago October 1982

John Knorp removed all the Tylenol products from his shelves this morning at Knorp Drug as did phar macists at Iola Pharma cy. Cyanide-contaminated Extra-Strength Tylenol is being linked to five deaths.

The product has been re called nationwide. The com pany believes the problem is limited to Chicago, where all the deaths occurred.

Cook County investigators found that the capsules tak en by the victims had been “pried open” and laced with the deadly poison before they were sold.

Sifers Chemicals, which

celebrated its 75th anniver sary in Iola last year, will close its facilities here next week. Shirley Baldwin, an employee, said its equip ment will be shipped to a new complex at Lenexa. Baldwin said costs associ ated with loading aerosol cans with propellants pre cipitated the move.

Earl Sifers, Jr., president of the company, and other mem bers of the Sifers family all live in the Kansas City area. Sifers Chemicals has been in the building on West Jackson since 1906. Before that it was the Grand The ater. Sifers began as a can dy company but after World War II became a chemicals company.

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Why Americans suffer from both hunger and obesity

By FAYE FLAM Bloomberg Opinion/TNS

Scientific understanding is challenging the conventional wisdom about hunger — now framing it as a scourge that afflicts not only people who get too few calories, but also those who consume mostly sugar and refined starch. Un der this new understanding, people eating the wrong kind of diet can suffer from both hunger and obesity.

A more scientifically accu rate view of hunger and obe sity couldn’t come at a better time. Obesity affects about 40% of the U.S. population, almost one in four Americans had trouble affording food in 2021, and the price of food has risen more than 11% since this time last year.

So nutrition experts rightly applauded last week’s White House Conference on Hun ger, Nutrition and Health, since the discussion steered away from helping people get enough calories and instead focused on getting people enough real food. That’s also the focus behind a multi-bil lion dollar Joe Biden adminis tration initiative to end hun ger in America by 2030.

The idea that the kind of food matters more than the number of cal ories consumed started as a heretical mi nority view but has gradually become main stream. The old thinking that all calories are alike and obesi ty was caused by lack of willpow er couldn’t ex plain why pov erty, food deserts and obesity have been concentrated in the same communities.

is correct, it means hunger has actually contributed to the dramatic rise in obesity over the last 30 years — a 70% increase in adults, and an 85% rise in children.

Scientists still disagree over exactly what constitutes the best human diet — clash ing over whether people should eat a higher propor tion of fat or carbohydrates. But emerging from the fray is some agreement about the kind of diet that’s harmful to human health. Unfortunate ly, it includes the food that’s cheapest, most convenient, most available in poor areas, and most heavily marketed — foods and drinks that are high in sugar or corn syrup, and starchy foods such as white bread, chips and fries.

David Ludwig, an endocri nologist at Harvard School of Public Health and Boston Children’s Hospital, is lead author of a new paper that explains how hunger and obesity might be directly con nected. It’s all based on the hormone insulin.

for a very different solution to America’s hunger and obe sity problems than the con ventional view that people gain weight because they lack self-control and eat too much.

It wouldn’t be the first time our understanding of obe sity got a major overhaul. Older conventional wisdom also held that dietary fat was the cause of obesity and that people should steer toward a higher carbohydrate diet. That view may have actually made people sicker and heavi er.

“How long do you stick with a paradigm that’s based ulti mately on eat less and move more, in one form or another, when it’s not working?” Lud wig asked.

How could it be that people who were hun gry or didn’t seem to have enough money to buy food could be obese?

— Walter Willett, Harvard School of Public Health

The paper, published in the European Journal of Clinical Nutrition, and including Wil lett as a co-author, details the way different forms of carbo hydrates act in the body. When in the form of fruits, vege tables, beans or some whole grains, they are absorbed slowly because of the fibrous plant material sur rounding the carbohydrates, but in white bread or sug ary cereal or soda they’re ab sorbed fast and generate spikes of insulin. That insulin causes people to feel hungrier and put on weight.

IT’S TIME TO RETIRE the old trope that for most of human evolution our species struggled for every calorie and caused us to be wired to be constantly hungry. In that narrative, only those with the most willpower and self-disci pline stay thin. The narrative seems obvious the same way it must have seemed obvious for a long time that the Earth was the center of the universe.

It’s much more likely that prehistoric people ate the right kinds of food — what humans are well-adapted to eat to be strong, healthy and energetic. That includes meat, fish, dairy, fruit, vegetables and, after farming was in vented, whole grains such as brown rice and wheat berries.

“That puzzled me for many years — how could it be that people who were hungry or didn’t seem to have enough money to buy enough food could be more overweight or obese than people who had lots of resources,” said Wal ter Willett, professor of epi demiology and nutrition at the Harvard School of Public Health.

Calories measure the amount of energy available from food, but the human body can’t be fueled up the way a car can. “We have learned a lot over the years. There are multiple lines that connect poverty, food insecurity and obesity,” Willet says. “One of the most important connec tions is just simply poor food quality.”

If this new scientific view

It makes sense, Ludwig told me, if you think of this pro cess as analogous to a teen ager getting hormonal sig nals that spur growth. Those hormones trigger teens to eat voraciously and to use the excess calories for growth. Something similar happens in pregnancy when hormones trigger a woman to feel hun grier; the extra energy goes into growth of the fetus and placenta.

“We argued the same thing is true for obesity — that when fat cells in the body get triggered to take in too many calories, there are too few cal ories for the rest of the body, and that’s why we get hun gry,” Ludwig said. “That’s surprising for people, but it’s well demonstrated.”

If that idea is right, it calls

There can be a lot of vari ety in a healthy diet: Ludwig points out that traditional cultures from the Inuit to Laplanders to Plains Indi ans ate diets high in animal fat during much of the year, while other cultures thrive on mostly plants. What nobody seems to thrive on is sugar, white flour, soda and fries. In his experience, people choose the wrong foods for economic reasons. “Many low-income families would love to have ac cess to healthier whole foods.”

Humans are diverse in our shapes and sizes — we don’t all have to be skinny to be healthy, and some obese peo ple may be suffering from hunger. Can a government initiative really end hunger by 2030 — just eight years from now? The Biden admin istration might need more help from Congress for such an ambitious goal, but any effort that starts with a sci ence-based approach will help save and improve many lives.

About the writer: Faye Flam is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist covering science. She is host of the “Follow the Science” podcast.

A breakfast of fresh fruit, nuts, yogurt and whole grains stays with the body longer than one based on refined sugar and processed grains.

37 dead, mostly preschoolers, in Thai day care rampage

BANGKOK (AP) — A for mer policeman facing a drug charge burst into a day care center in northeastern Thai land on Thursday, killing dozens of preschoolers and teachers before shooting more people as he fled in the deadliest rampage in the na tion’s history.

The assailant, who was fired from the force earlier this year, took his own life af ter killing his wife and child at home.

A witness said staff at the day care locked the door when they saw the assailant

approaching with a gun, but he shot his way in. At least 37 people were killed in the attack in one of the poorest parts of Thailand, according to police spokesman Archay on Kraithong.

“The teacher who died, she had a child in her arms,” the witness, whose name wasn’t given, told Thailand’s Kom Chad Luek television.

“I didn’t think he would kill children, but he shot at the door and shot right through it.”

A video taken by a first re sponder arriving at the scene

of the single-story day care in the rural town of Nong bua Lamphu showed rescu ers rushing in to the building past the shattered glass front door, with drops of blood visi ble on the ground.

In footage posted online after the attack, frantic fam ily members could be heard weeping outside the building, and one image showed the floor of a room smeared with blood where sleeping mats were scattered. Pictures of the alphabet and other color ful decorations adorned the walls.

Koreas: Saber rattling ensues

near the border, but Yonhap news agen cy said this is likely the first time it has mobilized so many warplanes for such a provocative flight and firing exercises.

Tensions have risen sharply on the Korean Peninsula as North Ko rea’s recent barrage of missile tests prompted South Korea, the Unit ed States and Japan to conduct joint drills in response.

Earlier Thursday, North Korea launched two short-range ballis tic missiles toward its eastern waters. The launches came after the United States rede ployed an aircraft car rier near the Korean Peninsula in response to North Korea’s launch of a nuclear-ca pable missile over Ja pan earlier this week.

North Korea has con ducted a record num ber of missile tests this year. South Korean of ficials said the North may further raise ten sions by testing an in tercontinental ballistic missile or conducting its first nuclear test ex plosion since 2017, fol lowing an old pattern of heightening animos ities before trying to wrest outside conces sions.

Some experts say North Korean leader Kim Jong Un is deter mined to expand his nuclear arsenal in de fiance of internation al sanctions. They say North Korea’s goal is to eventually win recognition as a legit imate nuclear state from the United States and the lifting of sanc tions, though Washing ton and its allies have shown no sign of doing so.

The latest missiles were launched 22 min utes apart from North Korea’s capital region and landed between the Korean Peninsula and Japan, South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff said in a statement.

Japanese Defense Minister Yasukazu Hamada said the sec ond missile was pos sibly launched on an “irregular” trajectory. It is a term that has been used to describe the flight characteris tics of a North Korean weapon modeled after Russia’s Iskander mis sile, which travels at low altitudes and is de signed to be maneuver able in flight to improve its chances of evading missile defenses.

U.S., South Korean and Japanese destroy ers launched joint drills later Thursday off the Korean Pen insula’s east coast to horn their abilities to

search, track and in tercept North Korean ballistic missiles, South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff said.

The U.S. destroyer is part of the strike group led by the nuclear-pow ered aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan, which returned to the waters in what South Korea’s military called an attempt to demon strate the allies’ “firm will” to counter North’s continued provocations and threats.

The strike group was in the area last week as part of previous drills between South Korea and the United States, and the allies’ other training involving Ja pan. North Korea consid ers such U.S.-led drills near the peninsula as an invasion rehearsal and views training involv ing a U.S. carrier more provocative.

South Korean Presi dent Yoon Suk Yeol and Japanese Prime Min

ister Fumio Kishida spoke by phone Thurs day and agreed that North Korea’s recent missile tests are “a seri ous, grave provocation” that threatens interna tional peace, according to Yoon’s office. Kishida said the two reaffirmed the importance of the deterrence capability of the Japan-U.S. and South Korean-U.S. alliances, as well as security cooper ation among the three countries.

Moon Hong Sik, a South Korean Defense Ministry spokesperson, said North Korea’s accel erating tests also reflect an urgency to meet Kim Jong Un’s arms develop ment goals.

Kim last year de scribed an extensive wish list of advanced nu clear weapons systems, including more power ful ICBMs, multiwar head missiles, under water-launched nuclear missiles and tactical nu clear arms.

Police identified the sus pect as 34-year-old former police officer Panya Kamrap.

Police Maj. Gen. Paisal Lue somboon told PPTV in an in terview that he was fired from the force earlier this year be cause of the drug charge.

In a Facebook posting, Thai police chief Gen. Dumrong sak Kittiprapas said the man, who had been a sergeant, was due in court on Friday for a hearing in the case involving methamphetamine posses sion, and speculated that he may have chosen the day care because it was close to his

home.

Earlier, Dumrongsak told reporters that the main weap on used was a 9mm pistol that the man had purchased him self. Paisal said he also had a shotgun and a knife.

Thailand’s Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha, who plans to travel to the scene on Fri day, told reporters that initial reports were that the former officer was having personal problems.

“This shouldn’t happen,” he said. “I feel deep sadness toward the victims and their relatives.”

Nobel honors French writer

STOCKHOLM (AP)

— This year’s Nobel Prize in literature has been awarded to French author Annie Ernaux.

Ernaux, 82, was cit ed for “the courage and clinical acuity with which she uncovers the roots, estrange ments and collective

restraints of personal memory,” the Nobel committee said.

Mats Malm, perma nent secretary of the Swedish Academy, an nounced the winner Thursday in Stock holm, Sweden.

A week of Nobel Prize announcements kicked off Monday with the

award in medicine hon oring a scientist who unlocked the secrets of Neanderthal DNA.

Three scientists jointly won the prize in physics Tuesday for showing that tiny particles can retain a connection with each other even when sepa rated.

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Yates Center splits at Pleasanton

PLEASANTON — The Yates Center High School volleyball team traveled to Pleasanton on Tuesday to face off in a trischool meet.

The Wildcats (10-16; 3-4) won their first matchup against Oswego in two sets, 25-19 and 25-12.

“We had everything clicking together and played very well in a fresh rotation,” said Yates Center head coach Carrie Cummings.

Yates Center went down in their second matchup to Pleasanton in two sets, 25-16 and 2511.

“We played a whole other team than what we saw earlier. They had everything clicking on their side and left us wondering what exactly happened,” Cummings said. “We need to get back to the basics of volleyball and play smart, fundamental matches.”

Yates Center will hit the road to take on Crest next Tuesday.

K-State v. Iowa State Saturday

By ERIC OLSON The Associated Press

The same template has been used to build Iowa State and Kansas State, and both have earned reputations for rising up and challenging the Big 12 football hierarchy.

Two years after the Cyclones (3-2, 0-2) reached the conference championship game for the first time, 20th-ranked K-State (4-1, 2-0) is looking to make a run of its own.

The Wildcats’ next step is a visit to Ames, Iowa, on Saturday night for the 106th renewal of “Farmageddon,” an appropriate nickname for a series between a couple of hard-working programs from agricultural states.

“It’s not the easiest place to win in Manhattan. It’s not the easiest place sometimes to win in Ames,” K-State coach Chris Klieman said. “And you have to have the right kind of guys, and you have to have guys that believe in what you’re doing and believe in each other and believe in the culture.”

Over the last five years, according to 247Sports, Kansas State has signed one four-star recruit and Iowa State has signed six. Texas and Oklahoma, meanwhile, have

Lady Red Devils fall late to Indy

By QUINN BURKITT The Iola Register

The Allen Community College volleyball team slipped up to Independence Community College on Wednesday night at home.

Allen (13-9; 3-4) began by getting in front with a 25-13 victory. After Independence took a 25-19 win, the Lady Red Devils went ahead two sets to one in a 25-15 third-set victory.

The Pirates then took the final two sets in a come-frombehind win, 25-17 and 15-13.

The Lady Red Devils were led offensively by Veronica Agostini’s 14 kills, Gabriela Dominguez’s 11 kills and Abby Altic’s nine kills. Alycia Shaw also managed seven kills while Lexi Deweese knocked

six kills.

“Veronica hadn’t really played a significant amount until a week ago,” said Allen head coach Whitney Shaw. “She has a really strong volleyball IQ. It’s good for us, as we get late into the season. We need different people to step up. Gabriela has been a threat, we know that and other teams know that. We rely on her to do that.”

Sofia Otero dominated from the serving line where she registered 42 aces, followed by Andrea Maldonado’s nine aces and Aurivette Santos’s three aces.

Lady Red Devil Arlette Becerra notched three solo blocks while Katherine Harris, Deweese and Shaw each made one solo block.

“In the first and third sets we had some good serving runs that put us ahead. We struggled to shut down their best player,” said Shaw. “We should have put the ball away more and been a little stronger in all aspects.”

Agostini led with 18 points to help get Allen the pair of match victories while Dominguez totaled 11 points and Altic had 10 points. Shaw ripped 8.5 points as Becerra hit 7.5 points.

Allen will play again on Thursday night as they host Northeastern Oklahoma A&M at 6 p.m.

“We should know what to expect. We need to do a better job of shutting them down than we did last night,” Shaw said.

Big 12 action: KU faces TCU

By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

NO. 17 TCU (4-0, 1-0 Big 12) at No. 19 Kansas (5-0, 2-0), Saturday, 1 p.m. ET (FS1) Line: TCU by 7, according to FanDuel Sportsbook.

Series record: TCU leads 259-4.

WHAT’S AT STAKE?

TCU and Kansas will be playing to stay atop the Big 12 when they meet Saturday at Memorial Stadium. Who would have thought that would be the case before the season? The Jayhawks are 5-0 for the first time since 2009, when they went on to lose their last seven games, while the Horned Frogs are coming off a blowout of Oklahoma.

The last time Kansas won its first six was 2007, when it went 12-1 and won the Orange Bowl.

The Horned Frogs have not won their first five since 2017, when they started 7-0 before finishing 11-3 with a win in the Alamo Bowl.

KEY MATCHUP

TCU quarterback Max Duggan against Kansas counterpart Jalon Daniels. Sure, the two won’t match up in the literal sense, but the team that wins will probably be the one that gets better quarterback play. Duggan leads the nation in pass efficiency and is third in completion percentage at 74.5, and he’s thrown 11 touchdown passes without an interception. Daniels has thrown for 983 yards with 11 touchdowns and one pick while rushing for a team-best 335 yards and five more scores.

PLAYERS TO WATCH TCU: RB Kendre Miller

leads active Power 5 players at 7.43 yards per carry for his career, and he did nothing to hurt those numbers against Oklahoma. Miller carried 13 times for 136 yards with TD runs of 15 and 69 yards in the 55-24 romp. Kansas limited Iowa State to 26 yards on the ground last week.

Kansas: RB Devin Neal will take on additional work after the Jayhawks lost running mate Daniel Hishaw to an injury against the Cyclones. Neal carried 12 times for 72 yards against the Cyclones while surpassing 1,000 yards for his career.

FACTS & FIGURES

TCU has won nine of 10 games against Kansas as members of the Big 12. The

SCC wins big

MELVERN — The Southern Coffey County volleyball team picked up two match victories at Marais des Cygnes Valley High School School on Tuesday.

The Titans (18-6) were ranked eighth in last week’s KVA poll in the 1A Division III and second in the league standings behind Lebo. The team should move up in the rankings with the wins this week before they travel to Uniontown this weekend.

Southern Coffey County knocked off Olpe High School with set scores of 21-25, 25-21 and 25-6.

On a quality serving night, Madeline Spencer led from the line with eight aces and a 96.7% serving rate. Josie Weers also knocked two aces and went 90.9% from the serving line.

In fact, the Titans managed to serve to the tune of a 95% success rate through both matches.

“We fell behind and lost the first set in both of our matches, but the girls showed a lot of heart and determination to come back and win both of those matches. We struggled at times with our passing, but had some really good serving,” said Southern Coffey head coach Jeff True.

Weers also led offensively where she hit 15 kills, followed by Ross Snovelle’s 13 kills and Spencer’s seven kills.

Defensively, Weers and Snovelle made two blocks apiece while Spencer made four digs. Weers also ripped two digs while Kyla Houston and Snovelle each knocked one dig.

Southern Coffey defeated Marais des Cygnes Valley in three sets, 20-25, 25-17 and 25-23.

Spencer and Weers led again at the serving line with three aces apiece while Weers finished with a perfect 100% serving rate and Spencer had a 93.3% serving rate. Weers led offensively with 13 kills, followed by Snovelle’s 12 kills.

“I am extremely proud of how the girls battled last night to pull out the wins. The girls seem to be improving each week, and have been a lot of fun to watch,” True said.

Defensively, Snovelle managed two blocks while Spencer, Weers and Karley Ohl also each made one block.

Southern Coffey County hosts Marmaton Valley on Saturday in LeRoy.

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mandates immediate eye surgery

DEAR DR. ROACH:

My eye doctor told me I’m in danger of an “acute attack” of narrow angle glaucoma and that I need iridotomy in both eyes right away. He also said this may be related to my headaches. I wanted to get a sense of whether to go ahead with it pretty quickly or to possibly get a second opinion, since this ophthalmologist is new to me. I’m kind of nervous about it, since it seems that only about 65% of folks are “cured,” with others sometimes needing a follow-up surgery later on. — G.M.

ANSWER: Glaucoma is a disease of the retina,

Dr. Keith Roach

most often associated with elevated pressures inside the eye. The fluid inside the eye (in the part of the eye called the aqueous humor) drains through structures in the eye called the trabecular meshwork. In some people, the flow of fluid in the aqueous humor is limited, and can even be completely obstructed by the root of the iris (the colored part of the

eye), causing very high pressures and an immediate threat to sight. Unless the pressure is relieved, vision can be lost permanently within hours.

I have had patients who have been told they need laser surgery right

away to prevent acute closure, and I have always advised them to get the procedure.

The procedure uses a laser to make a tiny hole in the iris to allow fluid to go through, even if the angle closes the trabecular mesh.

This prevents an emergency from happening in the first place. Moreover, people like you who are at risk for acute closure of the angle may gradually develop vision loss they won’t even realize, since the vision loss in glaucoma is at the periphery

of one’s vision, where it may not be noticed. Finally, doing the laser iridotomy before scarring occurs gives a better prognosis, making it less likely to need daily medication afterward or a follow-up surgery (90% of people treated early did not need medication or follow-up surgery in one study).

Until you get surgery, you should avoid medicines that contain warnings for people with glaucoma: This especially includes cold medicines with pseudoephedrine (Sudafed) and similar decongestants, some antidepressants, and some antihistamines.

BY JAY BOBBIN

“Alaska Daily” brings you back television in a period when you seem to be doing more work there, especially in limited series. Was that the plan for you?

go where the good stories are, just like a journalist. I follow great stories with great ts, and if I want to tell them, it doesn’t matter where they’re told just that they told. I’m really grateful to the people who give these stories homes, and I keep ying to honor that.

Did you know the movie work of “Alaska Daily” creator and executive oducer Tom McCar thy, who won Oscar for co-writing “Spotlight,” before signing up for the series?

Oh, sure. It was the draw for me to step into this. “The Station Agent,” I loved that movie; it was super-unique and ahead of its time, and I like the mix of quirky drama and levity that he brings to his work.

I asked him what his goal was for making this show and one of them was the impor tance of showing good journalism and of showing what the plight of a journalist is now There’s such sensationalism out there, it’s easy to flip through things and just get quick snippets, but where’s the whole thing? It’s an interesting time for that profession.

Though you’ve made movies set in Alaska, you hadn’t actually been there before star ting “Alaska Daily.” Did you have a concept of the state?

It was ver y dif ferent than I imagined. I grew up in the Pacific Nor thwest, so I had evergreens around me as far as the eye could see and I imagined that was what Alaska looked like, just with more depth, but it doesn’t. It does look like another planet, like a tundra, nothing I’d ever seen before.

If spouse cheats, does the other get freebie a air?

Adapted from an online discussion.

Dear Carolyn: My wife cheated on me recently, and it hurts. I can’t get the image out of my head. It feels like the worst conversation ever: “Hey, I really like you and want to be with you,” to which they respond, “Hey, I would rather be with someone else.”

I feel like I should have the chance to have an affair of my own. I know that sounds ugly, but I miss the time when I thought she loved me as much as I love her — and I don’t know that’s true anymore if I think there’s nobody else I want to be with and she thinks, well, obviously not that.

She says that would be the end of our relationship, so I feel stuck. And I can’t go to my family for advice because they aren’t on board with my sexuality (which is a whole different problem). Please help.— Anonymous Anonymous: I’m sorry. What an awful feeling.

Infidelity is all the things you say — a slap in the face to you, an existential threat to your marriage, a mental image you never wanted and fear you will never shake — but can also be more complicated, too. For example, she could theoretically love you

as much as you love her — for all we know, right? — and the cheating could be an expression of her own mental state more than anything else. Not saying this with any certainty and not to defend it even a little bit, but there can be an element of self-destruction to infidelity that often gets overlooked in the first big mess of hurt feelings.

Adding more mess and hurt feelings by taking your “turn” hardly seems like the road to glory.

So please get some help sorting it all out — therapy, if it’s accessible to you. Find someone who will help you look out for you.

You are not stuck and you are never stuck — you can leave, you can stay as a choice, you can postpone any decisions until your emotions settle, but whatever you decide, it’s your call alone to make.

Carolyn: Thank you for acknowledging my feelings and yeah, therapy is on the to-do list. I want to stay because we do have a great time together, but it feels hard if I don’t have the chance to explore an affair, too?

To make sure we feel the same? To reassure myself I will be okay and find someone else

if things do end someday, which is something I never thought about before? — Anonymous

again

Anonymous again:

Then separate, and date. Be brave. Don’t do the thing that is undoing all the things.

And file these away for when you’re ready to do some thinking. If things do end someday, is “find someone else” the only way you will be okay?

And is dating another person the only way you can see how you feel?

And how would you know, even if you have an affair and notice how you feel, whether that’s the same as how your wife feels?

And is “a great time together” reason enough to stay married? Is she the only “great time” source? Even now, postaffair? Are “single” and “happy” mutually exclu-

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K-State: Iowa State share keys

combined for 13 fivestars and 146 four-stars.

While Iowa State and K-State are fixtures in the bottom half of the annual Big 12 recruiting rankings, both are in the top half for number of conference wins since 2019.

The current Wildcats’ offense is built around Adrian Martinez and Deuce Vaughn, who have combined for more than 1,100 yards rushing. Martinez was a four-star recruit who signed with Nebraska in 2018 and the Cornhuskers’ starter for four losing seasons before he transferred. Vaughn, the 11th-ranked threestar in the Wildcats’ 2020 recruiting class, is the Big’s leading rusher.

“It’s not always the five-star kids,” said Klieman, who has won three of four games against Oklahoma since he took over in 2019. “It’s the kids that want to play their tail off for their school and for their brother.”

Iowa State has a fourstar recruit in quarterback Hunter Dekkers. His favorite target, Xavier Hutchinson, was a three-star who has been a top-three Big 12 receiver for three years since transferring from a junior college. Defensive end Will McDonald, who could have declared for the NFL draft after last season, was a three-star who is only

the fourth Big 12 player to record at least 30 sacks.

“Investment in kids, attitude and effort, belief and process, I think those are all things that we worked really hard to build,” Cyclones coach Matt Campbell said. “When you watch their team, those are the things that jump out to you. So yeah, I think a lot of parallels in terms of how the infrastructure of the programs were built.”

RUNNING BACK SHORTAGE

The Cyclones are dinged up at running back. Starter Jirehl Brock was hurt on the fourth play from scrimmage at Kansas last week, and Cartevious Norton has been out since the opener.

Deon Silas or Eli Sanders would be in line for his first start if Brock can’t play. Silas carried 12 times for 29 yards and caught four passes for short gains in the 14-11 loss.

“Deon Silas played the best game of his career,” Campbell said. “Really proud of what he did and certainly what he can continue to do for us.”

TURNOVERS, BIG PLAYS

K-State’s 1.8-to-1 turnover margin is second-best in the nation, with eight of its 11 takeaways coming against Missouri and Texas Tech.

“That’s a big recipe for success when the wins and losses happen, us finding ways even though we’re giving up too many explosive plays,” Klieman said.

K-State has allowed seven runs of 20 yards or longer, most in the Big 12, and three passes of at least 50 yards, tied for most in the conference.

MAGNIFICENT MARTINEZ

Martinez, with a combined 319 rushing yards against Oklahoma and Texas Tech the last two weeks, joined Louisville’s Lamar Jackson and Auburn’s Cam Newton as the only Power Five quarterbacks the last 15 years with 300 yards and seven touchdowns over consecutive games.

BEHIND THE LINE

K-State has recorded 10 or more tackles for loss in three of its first five games for the first time since 2012. The Wildcats have 37 and are on pace to surpass the 90 TFLs they had last season. Star defensive end Felix Anudike-Uzomah leads the team with seven.

FAMILIAR FOES

Iowa State and K-State have played every year since 1917, with the Cyclones leading the series 52-49-4. ISU will try to beat the Wildcats a third straight time.

Royals re Matheny and pitching coach

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Manager Mike Matheny and pitching coach Cal Eldred were fired by the Kansas Cty Royals on Wednesday night, shortly after the struggling franchise finished the season 6597 with a listless 9-2 loss to the Cleveland Guardians.

The Royals had exercised their option on Matheny’s contract for 2023 during spring training, when the club hoped it was turning the corner from also-ran to contender. But plagued by poor pitching, struggles from young position players and a lackluster group of veterans, the Royals were largely out of playoff contention by the middle of summer.

The disappointing on-field product led owner John Sherman last month to fire longtime front office executive Dayton Moore, the architect of back-toback American League champions and the 2015 World Series title team. He was replaced by one of his longtime understudies, J.J. Picollo, who made the decision to fire Matheny hours after the season ended.

“Managing the Royals has been a true privilege,” Matheny said in a statement. “I’m thankful to so many, primarily Dayton Moore, and the coaches and players I’ve worked with. I would like to thank Mr. John Sherman and the ownership group for the opportunity to manage their team, and everyone involved in this great organization.

Matheny spent parts of seven seasons managing the St. Louis Cardinals, finishing each with a winning record and winning the National League pennant in 2013. But after his firing midway through 2018, he was hired by the Royals in an advisory role, and then tapped to succeed longtime manager Ned Yost when he retired before the 2020 season.

Put in charge of a rebuild in the works, Matheny went 26-34 during a COVID-19shortened first season, then appeared to show progress last season, when the Royals ushered forward a slew of young prospects and finished 74-88.

to the future of the club is 29 — the number of players that made their Major League debut during his tenure.

“We are grateful to Mike for leading us through some unusual times these last three seasons,” Picollo said in a statement. “He met those challenges head on and helped us move forward in a positive manner. We thank him for his leadership and know his influence will have a positive impact moving forward.”

Matheny became the fifth big league manager to be fired this year.

The Horned Frogs won 31-28 on a 25-yard field goal in the closing seconds last season. ... The last time the Horned Frogs were 4-0, current coach Sonny Dykes was on staff as an offensive analyst. Dykes is the first TCU coach to win his opening four games since Francis Schmidt in 1929. ... TCU has not trailed since the first 24 seconds of the second quarter of its opener against Colorado. ...

The Horned Frogs are second nationally in scoring (48.5 points per game) and total offense

(549.5 yards per game).

... TCU had four TDs of at least 62 yards in its win over Oklahoma. ... Kansas has not beaten a ranked team since No. 15 Georgia Tech in 2010. It has not beaten a ranked conference opponent since No. 12 Missouri in 2008. ...

The Jayhawks have not beaten a ranked opponent at home while also ranked since Nov. 24, 1973 (No. 19 Missouri 14-13). ... The Jayhawks have allowed two sacks this season. ... Kansas tops the Big 12 in red zone defense.

“I came to the Royals knowing it was an organization of excellence and care, and was shown that care every single day. Royals fans should be excited about this group of players, and I look forward to watching them continue to grow.”

The expectation was another step forward this season, but the Royals instead spent September fighting off 100 losses.

Matheny finished 165-219 during his time with the Royals, though the number that perhaps is more important

Philadelphia’s Joe Girardi was replaced on June 3 by Rob Thomson, who engineered a miraculous turnaround to get the Phillies into the playoffs.

The Angels replaced Joe Maddon with Phil Nevin four days later, Toronto’s Charlie Montoyo was succeeded by John Schneider on July 13 and the Rangers’ Chris Woodward by Tony Beasley.

Kansas City Royals manager Mike Matheny (22) walks to the dugout during a game against the Minnesota Twins at Kau man Stadium in Kansas City in 2021. ED ZURGA/GETTY IMAGES/TNS