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Bullet shatters man’s dresser; neighbor arrested ANCHORAGE — A man suspected of firing shots in his backyard, including one that penetrated a neighbor’s wall, has been charged with weapons misconduct. Anchorage police say 49-year-old Fredrick Knipe is also charged with violating conditions of release. He’s jailed in Anchorage. Online court documents do not list his attorney. A neighbor at around 8:30 p.m. Tuesday reported he was sitting on his bed at his home in east Anchorage when he heard shots. One round passed through the wall of his mobile home and shattered a dresser mirror. Police determined the shots had been fired by Knipe from his yard behind the man’s home. Police seized the gun fired by Knipe and a second gun inside Knipe’s home that had been reported stolen in a 2016 home burglary.

Utqiagvik voters reject proposed soda tax UTQIAGVIK — Voters in the nation’s northernmost community have rejected a proposal to impose Alaska’s first tax on sugary sodas and other sweetened beverages. Voters in Utqiagvik turned down the ballot measure Tuesday. According to unofficial city results, 497 votes were cast against it and another 126 supported it. The measure called for a 1-cent tax per 1 ounce of soda, energy drinks and sugar-sweetened beverages sold in the community. Fountain drinks also would have been taxed by volume. The proposal did not cover 100% fruit or vegetable juices, milk products, medicinal drinks, baby formula, weight-loss drinks or alcohol. Zerocalorie sodas and bottled water also would have been exempt. Most of the tax proceeds would have been reserved for youth programs and activities sponsored or conducted by the city.

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PFD: Impact on state wide-ranging By Victoria Petersen Peninsula Clarion

A majority of Alaskans will wake up Thursday morning $1,606 richer as the Alaska Permanent Fund dividend check is distributed across the state. The PFD check means different things to different people. For some, the annual check means a new TV, help with bills or the ability to make ends meet. Researchers are finding that the check also impacts many aspects of

socioeconomic life in Alaska. Researchers at the University of Alaska Anchorage are beginning to understand how the annual check impacts residents’ behavior and spending habits. At the University of Alaska Anchorage’s Institute of Social and Economic Research, social scientists are analyzing “the causal effect” of the PFD on a variety of socioeconomic outcomes, including employment, consumption, income inequality, health and crime. Associate professor of

economics at the institute, Mouhcine Guettabi, published a report in May exploring the socioeconomic effects of the annual PFD check. Since 1982, Alaskans have received a PFD check every year. The smallest payout was $331.29 in 1984. The highest was $2,072 in 2015, though, in 2008 the year’s $2,069 PFD check included an additional one-time payment of $1,200. A surplus of state natural resource revenues were

More info Applicants who filed a paper application, or require a paper check will be eligible for payment on Oct. 24. To be eligible for the PFD check, an applicant must have been an Alaska resident for an entire calendar year preceding the date they applied for a dividend.

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Trump rails against Dem inquiry Impeachment standoff: The president sees it as a hoax; Democrats key on stonewalling. By Lisa Mascaro, Mary Clare Jalonick and Jonathan Lemire Associated Press

WASHINGTON — Agitated and angry, President Donald Trump squared off against House Democrats on Wednesday, packing his increasingly aggressive impeachment defense with name-calling and expletives. Quietly but just as resolutely, lawmakers expanded their inquiry, promising a broad new subpoena for documents and witnesses. Democratic leaders put the White House on notice that the wide-ranging subpoena would be coming for information about Trump’s actions in the Ukraine controversy, the latest move in an impeachment probe that’s testing the Constitution’s system of checks and balances. They said they’d be going to court if necessary. Amid the legal skirmishing, it was a day of verbal fireworks. The president complained that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi was handing out subpoenas “like cookies,” railed against a government whistleblower as “vicious” and assailed the news media as corrupt and the “enemy.” All that alongside a presidential tweetstorm punctuated with an accusation that congressional Democrats waste time and money on “BULL——.”

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President Donald Trump speaks during a meeting Wednesday with Finnish President Sauli Niinisto in the Oval Office of the White House.

Pelosi said Democrats had no choice but to take on the most “solemn” of constitutional responsibilities to put a check on executive power after the national security whistleblower’s complaint that recently came to light. The administration and Congress are on a

collision course unseen in a generation after the whistleblower exposed a July phone call the president had with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy in which Trump pressed for an investigation of Democratic political rival Joe Biden and his family. “We take this to be a very sad

time” for the American people and the country, Pelosi said. “Impeaching the president isn’t anything to be joyful about.” Standing beside her, intelligence committee Chairman Adam See trump, Page A2

Local agencies take control of Swan Lake Fire By Brian Mazurek Peninsula Clarion

Management of the Swan Lake Fire is now back in the hands of local agencies as fire activity remains minimal. The Swan Lake Fire is currently at 90% containment, and as of Wednesday the Kenai Kodiak Office of the

Alaska Division of Forestry took command from the Alaska Type 3 Team. The only area of the fire that has not been fully contained is Division Kilo, located at the southeast corner of the fire just east of Skilak Lake. Crews from the Division of Forestry will continue monitoring that area for any potential growth or hot spots,

but the rugged terrain has made full containment difficult. The fire is 167,182 acres in size, according to the latest mapping of the area. Only one engine and eight personnel remain staffed on the fire, which has cost approximately $49 million to manage according to the latest Incident Management Situation

Report from the National Interagency Coordination Center. Division of Forestry Prevention Officer Darren Finley said in a video update from Oct. 1 that over 2,000 personnel have been a part of suppression efforts for the Swan Lake Fire since it first started See fire, Page A3

Portion of Nikiski dock collapses in Cook Inlet By Brian Mazurek Peninsula Clarion

A portion of the Offshore Systems Kenai (OSK) dock in Nikiski collapsed Wednesday, spilling approximately 300 gallons of diesel fuel into the Cook Inlet and prompting a suspension of operations. “The Coast Guard is temporarily closing the north portion of the dock as a precaution to protect life and property as well as reduce further impact to the environment,” Coast Guard Captain of the Western Alaska Port Sean Mackenzie said in a Wednesday news release from the U.S. Coast Guard. Coast Guard pollution responders

from Marine Safety Detachment Homer responded Wednesday to a report that heavy seas caused a 50-foot wide section of the OSK dock to fall into the Cook Inlet. Pollution responders are working with the responsible party and state authorities to mitigate further pollution caused by the collapse. The dock continues to erode, but all remaining oil and hazardous material have been removed. All operations on the north face of the pier are suspended until permanent repairs can be made, according to the release. Members of the public who find oil or other signs of the pollution in the area should report it to the National Response Center by calling 1-800-424-8802.

U.S. Coast Guard courtesy photo

Heavy seas caused an Offshore System Kenai (OSK) earth and fill dock, with fuel lines, to collapse, resulting in the discharge of approximately 300 gallons of oil. Inspectors from Coast Guard Marine Safety Detachment Homer responded to the incident and are coordinating with the responsible party and state authorities to mitigate further pollution. The dock continues to erode, but all remaining hazardous materials have been removed.

Thursday, October 3, 2019

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AccuWeather 5-day forecast for Kenai-Soldotna ®

Today

Friday

Saturday

Sunday

Monday

Mostly cloudy

A couple of afternoon showers

Rain and drizzle in the afternoon

Periods of sun; breezy in the p.m.

Some sun

Hi: 51

Lo: 41

Hi: 54

Lo: 39

Hi: 49

Lo: 34

Hi: 47

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43 49 52 51

First Oct 5

Today 8:14 a.m. 7:32 p.m.

Full Oct 13

Daylight Day Length - 11 hrs., 17 min., 9 sec. Daylight lost - 5 min., 31 sec.

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

Yesterday Hi/Lo/W 52/43/c 51/42/r 35/29/pc 52/43/sh 54/47/c 58/40/pc 37/35/sh 37/31/c 54/34/c 51/48/c 41/37/sn 39/33/sn 50/30/c 46/27/pc 54/46/sh 51/41/pc 53/45/c 52/48/r 37/28/c 53/23/c 55/46/r 58/44/s

Moonrise Moonset

Hi: 47

Tomorrow 8:17 a.m. 7:28 p.m.

Last Oct 21

Today 3:26 p.m. 9:47 p.m.

City Kotzebue McGrath Metlakatla Nome North Pole Northway Palmer Petersburg Prudhoe Bay* Saint Paul Seward Sitka Skagway Talkeetna Tanana Tok* Unalakleet Valdez Wasilla Whittier Willow* Yakutat

Kotzebue 43/37

Lo: 29

Unalakleet 48/38 McGrath 48/42

New Oct 27

Tomorrow 4:38 p.m. 10:27 p.m.

Yesterday Hi/Lo/W 43/38/c 44/27/c 54/49/r 47/43/c 39/37/sh 41/31/sh 46/38/r 48/46/r 35/30/c 53/48/c 52/42/pc 57/47/r 52/46/sh 48/42/r 40/23/pc 40/32/c 47/34/c 53/38/sh 47/40/r 49/42/pc 47/39/r 55/45/sh

Anchorage 51/44

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Albany, NY Albuquerque Amarillo Asheville Atlanta Atlantic City Austin Baltimore Billings Birmingham Bismarck Boise Boston Buffalo, NY Casper Charleston, SC Charleston, WV Charlotte, NC Chicago Cheyenne Cincinnati

74/70/sh 79/55/pc 83/63/t 91/65/pc 96/74/s 96/70/s 96/73/pc 98/71/pc 48/29/sf 103/74/pc 41/39/r 60/35/s 79/69/r 67/63/r 49/34/t 91/69/pc 92/66/pc 99/71/s 62/58/r 63/34/pc 94/68/pc

Cleveland Columbia, SC Columbus, OH Concord, NH Dallas Dayton Denver Des Moines Detroit Duluth El Paso Fargo Flagstaff Grand Rapids Great Falls Hartford Helena Honolulu Houston Indianapolis Jackson, MS

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84/70/c 97/70/s 94/68/pc 69/63/r 95/75/s 94/72/pc 65/40/sh 61/55/r 71/69/r 48/46/sh 84/63/pc 46/41/r 67/34/s 64/59/r 45/16/s 83/67/t 54/27/s 89/75/pc 92/74/s 92/70/pc 99/70/s

78/55/t 99/73/s 90/54/t 57/42/c 94/73/pc 89/52/t 69/42/s 59/42/pc 69/51/r 48/37/c 82/66/t 48/36/pc 70/41/s 64/46/r 54/31/c 56/49/r 55/33/c 88/77/pc 92/72/s 81/52/t 95/71/t

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Precipitation

From the Peninsula Clarion in Kenai

24 hours ending 4 p.m. yest. . Trace Month to date .......................... 0.26" Normal month to date ............ 0.22" Year to date ............................ 10.22" Normal year to date .............. 13.07" Record today ................ 0.63" (1952) Record for Oct. ............. 7.36" (1986) Record for year ........... 27.09" (1963)

Valdez 53/35

Juneau 54/37

(For the 48 contiguous states) High yesterday Low yesterday

Kodiak 54/41

105 at Marion, Ala. 2 at Bridgeport, Calif.

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90/65/pc 63/48/c 87/80/sh 88/61/s 94/63/pc 82/59/s 94/57/pc 96/66/s 89/79/pc 89/66/pc 65/49/c 54/40/c 97/63/s 94/76/s 59/57/r 87/73/pc 75/57/sh 59/42/s 90/69/s 67/60/r 95/71/s

Sitka 54/42

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Ketchikan 55/45

58 at Cordova and Kodiak 16 at Anaktuvuk Pass

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85/69/pc 66/61/sh 62/40/pc 45/37/sh 67/33/s 79/42/s 58/44/pc 94/74/pc 74/55/s 76/50/s 76/45/s 64/44/c 50/46/r 56/31/pc 69/68/r 93/74/s 81/62/r 89/63/s 92/75/pc 98/73/pc 89/71/t

84/54/t 56/45/pc 61/49/r 57/39/s 70/36/s 77/47/s 71/50/s 93/72/pc 73/58/s 70/51/s 73/51/pc 59/49/r 52/36/s 52/39/pc 55/43/r 93/71/c 65/48/c 91/66/s 74/59/c 82/66/c 61/54/pc

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92/77/t 85/66/s 57/48/sh 107/77/s 55/46/r 90/80/pc 82/64/s 67/45/pc 58/45/s 75/54/s 38/27/sf 75/56/t 55/52/c 61/41/pc 62/55/pc 77/64/pc 76/69/r 88/78/c 77/55/s 82/72/pc 59/45/r

87/78/t 82/71/pc 57/51/c 103/69/s 55/40/sh 89/79/s 79/58/s 74/53/s 59/53/pc 79/50/pc 40/25/pc 73/55/t 52/40/r 66/54/pc 58/50/pc 76/50/t 81/62/pc 88/78/sh 82/62/s 82/75/pc 57/48/sh

As heat holds over much of the South, much cooler air will expand in the Midwest and push into the Northeast today. Storms will rumble over the southern Plains as rain returns to the Northwest.

Shown are noon positions of weather systems and precipitation

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Weather(W): s-sunny, pc-partly cloudy, c-cloudy, sh-showers, t-thunderstorms, r-rain, sf-snow flurries, sn-snow, i-ice.

High .............................................. 51 Low ............................................... 36 Normal high ................................. 50 Normal low ................................... 34 Record high ....................... 60 (2018) Record low ........................ 18 (1957)

Glennallen 46/32

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National Extremes

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Almanac

Seward Homer 53/40 52/43

Cold Bay 54/44

Unalaska 53/44

Internet: www.gedds.alaska.edu/ auroraforecast

Kenai/ Soldotna 51/41

Kenai/ Soldotna Homer

Dillingham 52/46

Today’s activity: ACTIVE Where: Auroral activity will be active. Weather permitting, auroral displays will be visible overhead from Utqiagvik to Anchorage and Juneau, and visible low on the horizon from King Salmon and Prince Rupert.

Prudhoe Bay 38/27

Fairbanks 43/33

Talkeetna 50/36

Bethel 50/41

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Aurora Forecast

Anaktuvuk Pass 34/24

Nome 46/34

* Indicates estimated temperatures for yesterday Today Hi/Lo/W 52/45/c 51/44/c 40/31/c 50/41/sh 54/44/c 56/37/c 42/28/c 41/32/c 52/46/c 53/45/pc 43/33/c 42/30/c 46/32/c 47/30/c 56/38/c 52/43/c 54/37/c 55/45/pc 42/35/c 56/45/pc 56/42/pc 54/41/pc

Utqiagvik 40/31

Trump From Page A1

Schiff accused Trump of “an incitement to violence” with his attacks on the unnamed whistleblower, who is provided anonymity and other protections under federal law. He said the investigation is proceeding “deliberately” but also with a sense of “urgency.” Unlike Trump, Schiff never raised his voice but said firmly: “We’re not fooling around here.” Pelosi, in a “Good Morning America” interview that will air Thursday, said Trump is “scared” of the impeachment inquiry and the arguments that can be made against him. Democrats are now talking of basing an impeachment charge of obstruction on the White House’s slow-walking of documents and testimony — administration actions that echo the months of resisting Congress in its other investigations into special counsel Robert Mueller’s report and Trump’s business dealings. Ahead of the new subpoena, the chairmen of three House committees accused the administration of “flagrant disregard” of previous requests for documents and witnesses and said that refusal could be considered an impeachable offense. The standoff took on a defiant tone this week when Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said he would not stand for Democrats “bullying” his employees into appearing before the congressional committees, even as he acknowledged that he, too, had been among those U.S. officials listening on the line during the Trump’s phone call with the Ukraine leader. Pompeo’s admission is complicating his situation, and House leaders now consider him a “witness” to Trump’s interaction with Ukraine. One former State Department official, Kurt Volker, a former special envoy to Ukraine, will appear Thursday for a closed-door interview with House investigators. He is said to be eager to tell his side of the story. That’s ahead of next week’s deposition of ousted U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Maria “Masha” Yovanovitch. The circumstances of Yovanovitch’s sudden recall from Ukraine are the subject of conspiracy speculation, and the State Department’s Inspector General Michael Steve Linick sought an “urgent” meeting Wednesday to brief staff of several committees. During that private session, Linick told them he received a packet of materials from the State Department’s Counsel T. Ulrich Brechbuhl, according to one

Susan Walsh / Associated Press

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, joined by House Intelligence Committee Chairman Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., speaks during a news conference Wednesday on Capitol Hill.

person granted anonymity to discuss the closed-door session. Rep. Jamie Raskin, D-Md., said the package contained information from debunked conspiracy theories about Ukraine’s role in the 2016 election. Trump has long pursued those theories, a topic he discussed with Zelenskiy in the phone call that sparked the impeachment inquiry. It was unclear where the package originated, but it was in a White House envelope and included folders from Trump hotels, according to another person familiar with the briefing, a Democrat. That person said the White House sent the envelope to Pompeo and it contained notes from interviews that took place in the New York City office of Trump’s personal lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, with various Ukrainians about the debunked conspiracies. “It raises more questions than it answers,” said Raskin. Brechbuhl has also been called to give a deposition to the House. Trump, in appearances in the Oval Office and a joint press conference with the president of Finland, displayed an unusual show of anger as he defended what he has called his “perfect” phone call with Zelenskiy and decried the impeachment inquiry. At one point, he demanded that a reporter pressing him on his dealings with Ukraine move on, labeling the journalist “corrupt.” Earlier in the day he said even though he popularized the phrase “fake news,” he now preferred to say “corrupt” news. “This is a hoax,” Trump said. Later he called himself, as he has before, a “very stable genius” who always watches what he says in conversations. Trump has tweeted in recent days that he wants to “find out about” the whistleblower and question him or her, though

the person’s identity is protected by the Whistleblower Protection Act. Schiff’s spokesman acknowledged that the whistleblower had come to the intelligence committee before filing the formal complaint but said the staff advised the person to contact an inspector general and seek counsel, and at no point did the committee review or receive the complaint in advance. Trump suggested, without any evidence, that Schiff “probably helped write” the whistleblower’s complaint. The whistleblower’s lawyers said the person had never met or spoken with Schiff about the matter. The new subpoena coming Friday from House Oversight and Reform Chairman Elijah Cummings will be directed toward acting chief of staff Mick Mulvaney and request 13 separate batches of documents concerning the July call and related matters. The call came against the backdrop of a $250 million foreign aid package for Ukraine that was being readied by Congress but stalled by Trump. The whistleblower alleged in August that the White House tried to “lock down” Trump’s July 25 phone call with the new Ukrainian president because it was worried about the contents being leaked to the public. The acting director of national intelligence eventually made the complaint public. In recent days, it has been disclosed that the administration similarly tried to restrict information about Trump’s calls with other foreign leaders, including Russia’s Vladimir Putin and Saudi Arabia’s Mohammed bin Salman, by moving memos onto a highly classified computer system. In Russia, Putin said scrutiny over the phone call showed that Trump’s adversaries are using “every excuse” to attack him.

Peninsula Clarion

PFD From Page A1

distributed as the additional $1,200 when then Gov. Sarah Palin signed Senate Bill 4002. Recent research from the institute shows that Alaskans spend significantly more on services and nondurable goods — which include clothing, fuel, food and cosmetics — in the month of the dividend payment. The excess consumption persists over the first quarter after the dividend payment. According to the May report, evidence indicates that the PFD has a positive, but modest effect on birth weight, particularly with low-income mothers.

Another recent paper in the report shows that there is strong evidence the PFD check reduces childhood obesity for 3-year-olds. “An additional $1,000 decreases the probability of being obese as a child by 4.5 percentage points,” the report said. When it comes to poverty, the PFD has substantially reduced poverty for rural Alaska Natives, especially in the elderly, the report said. However, as regional corporation dividends have increased in size over time, the poverty reducing effect of the PFD has declined. In 2000, the PFD lifted 12.4% of the rural Alaska Native population out of poverty, the report said. While the PFD has shown to reduce poverty, recent evidence suggests the PFD increases income inequality in both the short and long term, the report said.

The report finds that in the weeks following PFD distribution, substance abuse related incidents increase and property crime related events decrease. With an increase in payment size, both substance abuse and medical assist instances increase, the report found. There is about a 10% increase in substance abuse incidents and an 8% decrease in property crime in the four weeks after the PFD is issued, with no average change in violence, the report said. Applicants who filed a paper application, or require a paper check will be eligible for payment on October 24, 2019. To be eligible for the PFD check, an applicant must have been an Alaska resident for an entire calendar year preceding the date they applied for a dividend.

around the peninsula Clay on Display: Kenai Pottery Guild’s October Exhibit Come in and enjoy the 1st Thursday “Clay on Display” opening. Artists from the Kenai Pottery Guild are providing a dazzling array of work. Included in the exhibit will be a challenge category. Each artist was challenged to create a full place setting. Free and open to the public, the 1st Thursday evening includes music and appetizers from 5-7 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 3. Located on 816 Cook St. in Old Town Kenai across from Oiler’s Bingo Hall. If you miss the opening come in and see the exhibit all month long, Tuesday-Saturday noon-5 p.m.

Caring for the Kenai reschedules teacher in-service The annual Caring for the Kenai Teacher In-Service scheduled for Tuesday, Sept. 17 has been rescheduled for Thursday, Oct. 3 at the Challenger Learning Center of Alaska. The purpose of the in-service, paid for entirely by CFK sponsors, is to allow teacher collaboration and information on how to succeed in the environmental awareness competition that annually awards cash prizes to students and their classrooms.

Evening of Classics The Redoubt Chamber Orchestra will present the annual Evening of Classics concert on Friday, Oct. 4 at 7 p.m. at Christ Lutheran Church in Soldotna. This annual fundraiser, hosted by Simon Nissen, is for the Kenai Peninsula Orchestra and will feature several selections by the Redoubt Chamber Orchestra under the direction of Tammy Vollom-Matturro, along with soloists and other ensembles. We will again auction off the baton for a chance to conduct the last piece in the program, and an art auction for a piece by Olya Silver. Join us for a funfilled evening of quality music and lots of laughs. Cost is $15. Youth 18 and under are free. Tickets available at the door.

Community Education & Recreation classes Mindful Strength: Tai Chi, Pilates, Yoga and Aerobics combined in one class to increase overall strength of the body and ease the mind. Thursdays, noon to 1 p.m. Starts Oct. 3. Alaska Herbal Solutions: Join us for four free classes to learn about the food and medicine that grows in your back yard. Tuesdays, 6:30-7:30 p.m.. Starts Oct. 8. Cross Stitching: Learn how to cross-stitch by completing a beginner’s project. Aida cloth, floss and needles are provided. Students must bring a 5-6’ hoop, scissors, reading glasses if needed. Tuesdays 6:30-8 p.m. Starts Oct. 8. For more information call 907-714-1211. www.soldotna.org.

Caregiver Support Meeting Soldotna Senior Center will host Caregiver Support Meeting-Training DVD on Caregiving: Vital Signs on Tuesday, Oct.8, 2019, 1 p.m. This program helps caregivers learn how temperature, pulse, respiration, blood pressure and pain assessment provide valuable information about their care partner’s health. Please join us to share your experiences as a caregiver, or to support someone who is a caregiver. Call Sharon or Judy at (907) 262-1280, for more information.

Soldotna Historical Society board meeting Soldotna Historical Society board meeting, Monday, Oct. 7, 4:30 p.m. at the Homestead Museum, 461 Centennial Park Road. Questions? Carmen 262-2791.

PROPS meeting The Cook Inlet Regional Citizens Advisory Council’s PROPS (Prevention, Response, Operations and Safety) Committee meeting will be held in Kenai on Friday, Oct. 11 at 10 a.m. at the Cook Inlet Aquaculture Association building, 40610 Kalifornsky Beach Road. The public is welcome to attend. For an agenda, directions or more information call 907-283-7222 or 800-652-7222.

40th Annual Original Christmas Boutique The Kenai Senior Center will host the 40th Annual Original Christmas Boutique on Saturday, Oct. 12 from 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Includes distinctive handcrafted gifts created by 12 local artisans and craftspeople.

Trapping and Snaring Orientation classes The Kenai National Wildlife Refuge (Refuge) will hold its 2019 trapping orientation class and snaring seminar on Saturday, Oct. 26 from 9 a.m.-5 p.m., at the Refuge Environmental Education Center on Ski Hill Road in Soldotna.

To obtain a permit to trap on the Refuge, it is mandatory to attend at least one Refuge trapping orientation. Trappers who have previously attended the trapping and snaring orientation do not need to re-attend; however, all refuge trappers are welcome. Starting Oct. 7, trapping permits for the 2019-20 season will be available at the Refuge Headquarters, on Monday through Friday from 8 a.m.-4:30 p.m. For additional information, please contact Refuge Officer Joe Williams at 907-260-2852.

Spooky Seasons The Kenai National Wildlife Refuge Visitor Center will host a Spooky Seasons event on Saturday, Oct. 26 from 11 a.m.-3 p.m. Explore owls, bats, bugs and more creepy-crawlies of the forest at this annual, interactive event for all ages.

Al-Anon support group meetings Al-Anon support group meetings are held at the Central Peninsula Hospital in the Kasilof Room (second floor) of the River Tower building on Monday at 7 p.m., Wednesday at 7 p.m. and Saturday at 9 a.m. Park around back by the ER and enter through the River Tower entrance and follow the signs. Contact Tony Oliver at 252-0558 for more information.

Breast cancer awareness fundraiser VFW 10046 Auxiliary is sponsoring a Breast cancer awareness fundraiser. Raffle tickets are $5. Drawing is Oct. 31. Winner will receive custom totes and zip bags by SUE, Coffee cups and gift card, 2 liters Pink Ribbon Vodka, beautiful jewelry, watch, Breast Cancer Aware socks, caps, pins, hair clips and much, much more. For tickets see a member or stop at the post. More info 262-2722. ALL proceeds will directly assist local VFW Family Members fighting breast cancer.

Equipping grandparents Sterling Grace Community Church is presenting “Equipping Grandparents,” a series on how to be a more involved as a grandparent. The series teaches how to know your grandchild better; how to influence the lives of your grandchildren; how to speak Christ into their lives, and how to leave your spiritual legacy to them. We will also discussing obstacles to relationships with grandchildren. Parents can also benefit from this series. The series will be held Wednesday evenings at the Sterling Senior Citizen Center at 6 p.m. Call Dr. Roger Holl at 862-0336 for more information.

Hospice direct care and office volunteers Are you looking for a way to better help our community, want to volunteer but aren’t sure where you might fit? Hospice of the Central Peninsula is looking for direct care and office volunteers! Come take the 22-hour training and figure out where you fit with Team Hospice. Fall training will be held October 4, 5, 11, 12. Must attend all four days. Register online at www.hospiceofcentralpeninsula.com or call the office at 262-0453 and speak to Toni.

Nikiski Senior annual fall fundraiser The Nikiski Senior Center will be holding its annual fall fundraiser on Saturday, Oct. 5 at 50025 Lake Marie Ave., Nikiksi. The event benefits the senior citizens in our community as well as providing scholarships to high school seniors. Seats are limited. Call 907-776-7654 to purchase your ticket now or stop by our office. Dinner will be your choice of chicken cordon bleu or prime rib. Tickets are $40.

SCI women’s, youth bird hunt SCI women’s and youth bird hunt will take place Saturday, Oct. 5 at 9:30 a.m. near Soldotna. For all experience levels. Must be age 12 or older. We provide birds, lunch, shotguns, ammo, dogs, shooting instruction, and clay pigeon practice. Hunt with bird dogs. RSVP to Billie Hardy 907-398-9224 text or email jnbhardy@yahoo.com; include your email address & cell number. Space is limited, reservations on a first come, first served basis. Volunteers also needed. Sign up now for this fun event!

Soldotna Historical Society board meeting Soldotna Historical Society board meeting will take place Monday, Oct. 7 at 4:30 p.m. at the Homestead Museum, 461 Centennial Park Road. Contact Carmen at 262-2791.

Focusing on adult career success workshop NETS (Necessary Education, Technology and Skills) is a free five-week workshop to help adults gain skills, explore careers, and find a job! The workshop is every Tuesday and Thursday from 9:30-10:30 a.m. from Oct. 8-Nov. 7, in the Learning Center at Kenai Peninsula College. The course, taught by Terri Cowart, will focus on community service, learning about resources, and career/college awareness. Everybody is invited to attend (ages 18+) For more information, call 262-0327.

October is Domestic Violence Awareness Month INTIMIDATION:  Making their partner afraid by using looks, actions, and gestures.  Smashing things.  Destroying property.  Abusing pets.  Displaying weapons.

For help contact The LeeShore Center Crisis Line - 283-7257 The LeeShore is proud to be a United Way Agency.

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on June 5 of this year. Heat has also been identified along Skilak Lake Road and is being addressed by crews as they continue to clear fallen and fire-weakened trees, Finley said in the update. Additional areas of the Kenai National Wildlife Refuge have been reopened as of Wednesday. The Emergency Closure Order already in place has been modified to reflect changes in fire behavior and is now limited to areas within the fire perimeter. The following areas and facilities are now open on the Refuge: The entirety of Skilak Lake Road, Hidden Lake, Watson Lake, the Kenai River, the East Fork Moose River, Upper Ohmer Cabin, Doroshin Bay Cabin, Hidden Creek Trail, Skilak Lookout Trail, Bear Mountain Trail, Vista Trail, Watson Lake Campground and Hidden Lake Campground. The following areas and facilities remain closed: Mystery Creek Road, Engineer Lake, Kelly Lake, Petersen Lake, Kelly Lake Cabin, Engineer Lake Cabin, Big Indian Cabin, Trapper Joe Cabin, Kenai River Trail, Hideout Trail, Seven Lakes Trail, Marsh

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Alert issued after wolf kills dog

FAIRBANKS — State wildlife officials are warning residents northwest of Fairbanks to protect pets and livestock after a dog was killed by a wolf. The Fairbanks Daily NewsMiner reports the dog was found dead Monday and a wolf was seen nearby. Department of Fish and Game area biologist Tony Hollis it’s normal for wolves to be in the area but unusual for them to kill a dog. Residents reported four wolves Tuesday just south of where the dog died. The department says wolves occasionally enter towns and kill dogs but it’s mostly in winter when natural prey is scarce. The department recommends indoor shelter for domestic animals after dark. The department also recommends dog yards be protected by chain link or electric fences, lights, noise makers and a perimeter cleared of vegetation.

State proposes lifting limits on helicopter skiing permits ANCHORAGE — Alaska has proposed removing a limit on permits for commercial skiing reached by helicopter or snowcat to eliminate a perceived monopoly on ski services to part of the Chugach

Lake Trail, Skyline Trail, Fuller Lakes Trail, Surprise Creek Trail, Upper and Lower Skilak Campgrounds, Kelly Lake Campground, Petersen Lake Campground, Jean Lake Campground, Lower Ohmer Lake Campground and Engineer Lake Campground. These closures will remain in effect through Nov. 1, but could be extended or rescinded as conditions change. Deputy Refuge Manager Steve Miller said that he anticipates more areas will reopen within the next 30 days. Upper and Lower Skilak Campgrounds remain closed even though they are outside the burn perimeter due to a high volume of beetle-killed trees in the areas. Refuge managers expect those campgrounds to open around the middle of October, according to the emergency closure order. Unless conditions change drastically, the Division of Forestry will no longer be issuing daily updates on the fire. The estimated containment date is set for Dec. 31 due to the deep pockets of duff and heavy fuels that will continue to smolder in some locations for several weeks and possibly months, according to the incident overview from the National Wildfire Coordinating Group. The latest information on the Swan Lake Fire can be found at kpboem.com.

Mountains, officials said. The state Department of Natural Resources proposal would open an area near Girdwood called the Glacier/ Winner Creek Special Use Area, Alaska Public Media reported Monday. The lone permit for the area has been granted to Chugach Powder Guides for about 20 years, officials said. The department rewrote the permitting rules because there was not a good process for considering more than one applicant. The change was prompted after another company sought a permit last year, natural resources officials said. A department official would not identify the company, but Alaska Public Media identified the applicant as Silverton Mountain Guides. Owner Aaron Brill said he became frustrated that multiple companies were not permitted in the special use area. “If they’re not using the lands appropriately, in a safe and proficient manner, or not using them at all and just using a permit to exclude others, that shouldn’t be allowed, and that’s what transpired prior to now,” Brill said. A Chugach Powder Guides official Henry Munter disagreed with the description of the company holding a monopoly. “We’ve always understood that if somebody else wanted to throw their hat in the ring for it, that there was an established process for how they would award that permit,” Munter said. Public comment on the proposal is expected to remain open until Oct. 14. — Associated Press

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China’s Communist Party not immune to change

hina’s Communist Party on Tuesday marks the 70th anniversary of its 1949 revolution, and the fireworks and military parades will celebrate the country’s rise to become the world’s second largest economy. Yet there is no denying that this anniversary comes with a paradoxical unease about China’s place in the world. China is more powerful but less free than it was a decade ago and the world views its external aggression with growing concern. China’s rise since Deng Xiaoping set the Party on the path of market reform 40 years ago has few historical parallels. China has taken advantage of open markets in the West, and the lure of its domestic market of 1.4 billion people to foreign investors, to lift hundreds of millions out of poverty and become an export and increasingly a technology behemoth. The U.S. and the world have for the most part benefited from this development. Imagine the alternative if China had remained stagnant and its people sought to emigrate in the millions. For a time, even after the massacre at Tiananmen Square, it seemed possible that China might also evolve to tolerate more political freedom. Lawyers were allowed to represent dissidents and more religious worship was tolerated. Tens of thousands of Chinese educated abroad returned home with a taste of economic and political freedom. The hope was that China might evolve, if not into a Western or Japanese democracy, perhaps into a state on the Singapore model of relatively tolerant and uncorrupt one-party rule. Those hopes have been dashed, starting in the years of Hu Jintao and especially in the ascendancy of President Xi Jinping. At home, economic reforms have stalled as the Party maintains political control over finance and refuses to reform state-owned industries. Donald Trump’s policies have exposed a vulnerability in China’s exportdependent economic model that relies too much on theft and predatory behavior against foreign companies. Beijing must impose currency controls to stop capital flight by Chinese who want a safe haven abroad. This retrenchment in economic reform has coincided with increasingly draconian political control at home. Selfconfident regimes don’t jail human-rights lawyers, crack down on churches or create a Great Firewall and employ tens of thousands of censors to control the internet. Most horrifying has been the effort to eliminate the culture and religion of the Uighur Muslim population in the western region of Xinjiang. The use of AI and facial recognition to control the public calls to mind Orwell’s nightmare of state control. Then there is China’s attempt to dominate the AsiaPacific, often by bullying its weaker neighbors. It has illegally occupied islands in the South China Sea and turned them into de facto military bases. Its burgeoning navy harasses foreign ships in international waters. The attempt to renege on China’s promise of autonomy for Hong Kong fits the pattern. Even its use of soft power via its Belt and Road initiative comes with the catch of excessive debt that has left China in control of foreign ports. Many Chinese leaders, and citizens who see only state-controlled media, view all of this as the return of the Middle Kingdom to its rightful prominence in global affairs. After two centuries of internal upheaval and subjugation by foreign powers, they believe China will dominate the 21st century as America recedes amid its democratic chaos and cultural decline. But Chinese leaders also know that their behavior is producing a global backlash that they should not underestimate. Mr. Trump’s policy reflects a new bipartisan American consensus that China’s economic abuses must be confronted. The last three U.S. administrations have worked to build a loose alliance of states, notably Japan and India, to counter Chinese military power. This will not change no matter who is U.S. President in 2021. We are not among those who believe that China’s economy must be decoupled from America’s or that China must be “contained” a la the Soviet Union. At least not yet. China’s economy can’t be sent into recession without damaging consequences for American workers and companies. The U.S. needs to co-exist with a rising China, cooperating when it makes sense but pushing back when China violates global norms. This will be the great test of statesmanship for a generation or more. Yet how this drama turns out will depend more on how China’s ruling Communist Party behaves. The Party’s legitimacy depends on economic growth that will be harder to sustain as it must innovate to prosper. The rest of the world will no longer let China steal its way to dominance, and it will not passively allow the Indo-Pacific to become part of a modern Chinese dynasty. China will prosper more if it plays by the rules of world order. The Party’s larger challenge is the aspirations of its own people. The attempt to craft a hybrid part-market, part-socialist economy has saddled China with rampant corruption, endemic pollution and unsafe food. Worse is coming as the one-child policy the Party enforced for decades burdens China with a rapidly aging population. Perhaps the Party can use the modern tools of state surveillance and control to maintain power for years to come. No one should assume that the Party’s fall is imminent. But we also know from history that authoritarians often seem stronger than they are. The Party’s insistence on total political control may be the seed of its undoing. — The Wall Street Journal, Sept. 30

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Time to rethink halibut bycatch regulations

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he North Pacific Fishery Management Council (Council) is meeting in Homer this week for the first time in 36 years. A major item up for discussion is Bering Sea/ Aleutian Island Halibut Abundance Based Management (BSAI Halibut ABM). The action would link the amount of halibut bycatch allowed in other groundfish fisheries to halibut abundance. Halibut bycatch is limited at a fixed amount which comes off the top of the allowable catch under the current management structure. Thus, when halibut abundance declines, the proportion to the bycatch users increases and the amount to the directed halibut users decreases. The Bering Sea/Aleutian Island halibut bycatch limits are fixed at a total cap of 3,515 tons (over 7.7 million pounds) for all sectors, trawl, longline and pot, with the bulk of the bycatch allowance allocated to trawl fisheries. The trawl fleet operates well under the cap utilizing multiple methods to reduce halibut bycatch. That said, the fixed bycatch allowance does not reflect today’s halibut resource. It is time for a change. Homer, the Halibut Capital of the World, is an ideal setting to discuss new ways to protect this valuable resource. I encourage community members to come, listen to the

discussion and share their experiences. That is what the Council process is designed to do: to listen to stakeholders, to provide insight and to understand the issues not only from a scientific, analytical perspective, but also from the perspective of fishermen and community members. I believe it is imperative, as a matter of conservation and equity, that the Council continue to move forward and develop an abundancebased management approach that provides the ability for bycatch cap to go up and down based on stock abundance. The fixed cap, under today’s halibut stock status, is both outdated and inequitable. A 2013 scenario gave us a perfect example of this. The total amount of halibut that could be removed, as determined by the scientific stock assessment at the IPHC, was less than the prospective amount of halibut bycatch allowed. In other words, we didn’t have enough fish in the water to cover allowable bycatch and there would have been no directed fishery. Only emergency negotiations preserved opportunity for directed fishermen. Incidents such as this should catalyze us to pursue changes in fisheries management plans and to seek solutions reflective

of current conditions. Directed halibut users are often small-scale fishermen harvesting halibut one hook at a time. Many operations are family owned and contribute to the livelihoods of captains, crews, vessel owners, and communities throughout Alaska. Halibut fishing is one of the last commercial fisheries that one can participate in with minimal gear and a skiff. Many fishermen across Alaska began their fishing careers as halibut skiff fishers. Therefore, if we want small boat fisheries to remain viable and to support sustainable fishing practices and economic opportunities for Bering Sea and Aleutian Island fishing communities, we need to design management plans to do that. The Council will be discussing BSAI Halibut ABM on Thursday afternoon, Oct. 3, at Land’s End. There will be an opportunity for public testimony and I encourage you to come and share your thoughts. Find more information on this issue and the Homer meeting at npfmc.org. Josh Wisniewski is a small boat commercial fisherman and a cultural anthropologist. He sits on the Board of Directors for the Alaska Marine Conservation Council, and lives on the south side of Kachemak Bay.

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2020 Dems put focus on guns amid inquiry fever By Kathleen Ronanye and Michelle L. Price Associated Press

LAS VEGAS — Democratic presidential candidates reiterated their call for gun control Wednesday and urged Americans to keep up the fight for change, sidestepping the issue of impeachment in Washington and whether it will divert lawmakers. At a gun policy forum in Nevada, Cory Booker said the National Rifle Association and the corporate gun lobby are not the only forces stopping progress on gun control. “Change never comes from Washington. It comes to Washington by Americans that demand it,” the New Jersey senator said. He added later that “Every one of us in America, right now, by doing nothing, we are implicated in this. …. We all have to take responsibility.” The forum _ located about 2 miles from the Las Vegas Strip, the site of the deadliest mass shooting in modern American history _ was held amid an effort to keep gun violence front and center of the debate and gave 2020 presidential candidates a chance to showcase their plans to combat the epidemic. Negotiations between President Donald Trump’s administration and lawmakers have halted over background checks legislation passed by the Democratic-controlled House, an effort that faced long odds even before the impeachment inquiry began. “This president has gotten nothing done about much of anything,” California Sen. Kamala Harris said Wednesday, adding that Trump will use impeachment as an excuse to avoid action. Former Vice President Joe Biden made a similar prognosis, saying, “Nothing is going to change until we

get this guy out of office.” They were among nine White House hopefuls to speak at the forum Wednesday, two years to the day after a man rained gunfire from the window of a high-rise hotel onto a country music festival below, killing 58 people. The forum was hosted by MSNBC, March for Our Lives and Giffords, the advocacy organization set up by former Arizona congresswoman Gabby Giffords, who was shot and gravely wounded during a constituent meeting in 2011 in Tucson. Giffords opened the event with brief remarks calling for Democrats, Republicans and independents to come together and fight for change. “Stopping gun violence takes courage. The courage to do what’s right. The courage of new ideas,” Giffords said. In addition to Booker, Harris and Biden, the other candidates who spoke were South Bend, Indiana, Mayor Pete Buttigieg; former Obama Housing Secretary Julián Castro; Minnesota Sen. Amy Klobuchar; former Texas Rep. Beto O’Rourke; Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren; and businessman Andrew Yang. Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders was expected to attend, but he ended up undergoing a heart procedure for a blocked artery. His campaign said he was canceling appearances “until further notice.” O’Rourke recast his campaign around gun control after the August shooting in his hometown of El Paso, Texas, where a gunman targeting Hispanics killed 22 people. O’Rourke vowed to ban assault weapons, saying at a debate in Houston in September, “Hell, yes, we’re gonna take your AR-15, your AK-47, and we’re not going to allow it to be used against your fellow Americans anymore.”

That’s a shift from his position during his 2018 U.S. Senate campaign, when he did not support mandatory buybacks. O’Rourke criticized Buttigieg for saying that a mandatory government gun buyback program has “mixed results” and likening it to a “shiny object” that makes it harder to pass other gun control policies. “I was really offended by those comments, and I think he represents a kind of politics that is focused on poll testing and focus group driving and triangulating and listening to consultants before you arrive at a position,” O’Rourke told reporters later. O’Rourke himself was criticized earlier in the day by Booker, who said O’Rourke only supported a gun licensing program after the shooting in his hometown. While Buttigieg didn’t endorse mandatory gun buybacks, he did speak in support of banning assault weapons, saying it’s not true that the Second Amendment bars the government from banning certain weapons. “In America, it is already the case that, anybody, as far as I know, can have a slingshot. And nobody can have a nuclear weapon,” he said. “If you think about it, that means we have already decided, as a society, consistent with our Constitution, within the boundaries of the Second Amendment, that there’s a line.” Booker and Harris also said they support some type of mandatory buyback program. Castro said he’s open to hearing arguments for a mandatory gun buyback, “but I think there are 15 things _ different things _ that we can do.” Most candidates have focused on expanding background checks and banning the future manufacture and sale of certain high-powered weapons.

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Pompeo says he was on Trump call By Matthew Lee, Lisa Mascaro, Mary Clare Jalonick and Jonathan Lemire Associated Press

WASHINGTON — Secretary of State Mike Pompeo acknowledged on Wednesday that he was on the July phone call between President Donald Trump and the Ukraine president that’s at the center of the House impeachment inquiry. But Pompeo continued to push back against what he said was Democrats’ “bullying and intimidation.” The Trump administration has set a defiant tone, resisting Congress’ access to impeachment witnesses, even as House Democrats warned such efforts themselves could amount to an impeachable offense. Pompeo has tried to delay five current and former officials from providing documents and testimony in the inquiry that could lead to charges against Trump. But Democrats were able to set closed-door depositions for Thursday for former special envoy to Ukraine Kurt Volker and next week for ousted U.S. Ambassador Marie Yovanovitch. Pompeo acknowledged at a news conference in Rome on Wednesday that “I was on the phone call” on July 25 between Trump and the Ukraine

president, saying that as America’s chief diplomat he was well-versed in U.S. policy toward Ukraine. But he continued to sound a defiant note on the House impeachment probe, asserting that House investigators contacted “State Department employees directly” and told them not to contact State Department lawyers for advice. He said the State Department would “do our Constitutional duty to cooperate” with Congress but wouldn’t tolerate “bullying and intimidation.” The escalating exchange of accusations and warnings signaled yet another stiffening in the confrontation between the executive and legislative branches amid the Democrats’ launching of the impeachment inquiry late last week. That followed a national security whistleblower’s disclosure of Trump’s phone call seeking help from the new Ukrainian president in investigating Democratic political rival Joe Biden and Biden’s son Hunter. On Wednesday, the State Department’s inspector general is expected to brief congressional staff from several House and Senate appropriations, oversight, foreign affairs and intelligence committees on their requests for information and documents on Ukraine, according to an aide familiar with the planning. The inspector general acts independently from Pompeo.

In a Tuesday evening tweet, Trump cast the impeachment inquiry as a coup “intended to take away the Power of the People, their VOTE, their Freedoms, their Second Amendment, Religion, Military, Border Wall, and their Godgiven rights as a Citizen of The United States of America!” In fact, a coup is usually defined as a sudden, violent and illegal seizure of government power. The impeachment process is laid out in the U.S. Constitution. Some Trump supporters cheered Pompeo’s muscular response to the Democrats. But it also complicated the secretary’s own situation, since he listened in during Trump’s July phone call with Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelenskiy that helped trigger the impeachment inquiry. “Any effort to intimidate witnesses or prevent them from talking with Congress — including State Department employees — is illegal and will constitute evidence of obstruction of the impeachment inquiry,” said three House chairmen, Adam Schiff of the intelligence committee, Eliot Engel of Foreign Affairs, and Elijah Cummings of Oversight. They said that if he was on Trump’s call, “Secretary Pompeo is now a fact witness in the House impeachment inquiry.” And they warned, “He should immediately cease intimidating Department witnesses in order to protect himself and the President.”

Gene editing video stirs designer baby talk By Marilynn Marchione Associated Press

A new video showing people casually discussing gene editing and designer babies is making waves because of its source: the governmentfunded group leading efforts to set standards for the ethically dicey science. The National Academy of Sciences posted the video earlier this week along with a tweet it later removed. The tweet read: “Dream of being stronger? Or smarter? Do you dream of having a top student or star athlete? Or a child free of inheritable #diseases? Can human #GeneEditing eventually make this and more possible? #TheScienceBehindIt Take the quiz !” It included emojis of a brain, bulging muscles, a professor and an athlete. “I am disappointed by this,” said Alta Charo, a University of Wisconsin, Madison ethicist involved in past academy panels on gene editing. She said the tweet and video could further misunderstanding about editing’s most important uses or wrongly suggest that it’s possible now to bestow traits like intelligence. The video gives the inaccurate impression that gene editing can give positive traits without any potential downsides — “the definition of hubris,” said Harvard Medical School dean Dr. George Q. Daley, who also has been involved in academy work. “We are not there yet.” Making designer babies has long been feared by opponents of gene editing that alters DNA in embryos, eggs or sperm, in part because such changes can pass to future generations. Last year, a Chinese researcher’s claim to have done this in twin girls was widely denounced and led to new calls for oversight. The academy and the World Health Organization separately formed scientific panels to consider that. The new video is part of a series aimed at improving public understanding of the science behind complex issues, said academy spokeswoman Molly Galvin. The tweet was replaced by one noting the academy’s position that gene editing should only be done to treat or prevent disease.

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People discuss gene editing and designer babies in a video from the National Academy of Sciences.

She did not respond to requests for more information, such as whether public money paid for the video. The academy is a private group Congress created to advise the federal government, and about 85% of its funding comes from there. The video includes a clip of gene editing pioneer Jennifer Doudna of the University of California, Berkeley, discussing the science. The video opens with people putting notes on a diagram of a body while saying “I guess I would like to be taller,” “I would like to change body fat,” “let’s prevent baldness” and “take away dyslexia.” The script says: “This type of gene editing is still in the realm of science fiction. But it might not always be.” It says five “everyday people” were asked to consider pros and cons. One man says, “create the perfect human being … that’s pretty cool,” while others shake their heads and say no. “You want the best qualities to be put into your offspring,” one man says. “I want my child to be the best version of not just me but him or her. So

if I can control that or have some control over that, I don’t mind it. I don’t hate it.” A woman says she has ADHD, which some consider a disability but she does not. “If I had the chance to choose the best DNA for my child, I would definitely want her to be smart,” another woman says. A man talks about problems that have plagued his family — high blood pressure, diabetes and heart attacks — and says, “so I would take that out, for sure. I don’t want my kids to deal with it.” The video and tweet suggest “a cavalier attitude toward this serious topic,” said Paul Knoepfler, a University of California, Davis biologist who criticized them on Twitter. University of Minnesota bioethicist Leigh Turner said the video portrayed serious issues with a “reality television feel” and “in this bubbly, superficial way.” “I’m trying to imagine what was going on in their minds,” he said of those responsible for the video. “It’s kind of funny and cringe-inducing at the same time.”

Poll: Most say whites treated more fairly by police By Errin Haines and Hannah Fingerhut Associated Press

Majorities of Americans across racial lines say white people are treated more fairly than black people by the police, according to a new poll from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research. But the poll finds a disconnect between white Americans who identify disparate treatment of people of color by the police, but who don’t see police violence as a serious problem — a contrast on display this week as many black Americans welcomed the guilty verdict against former Dallas officer Amber Guyger as a singular victory, rather than proof of changing attitudes. About 7 in 10 black Americans, and about half of Hispanics, call police violence against the public very serious, compared with about a quarter of white Americans. Roughly another third of white Americans call it a moderately serious problem. The dynamic has played out in the wake of the Black Lives Matter movement, which began in 2014 with the fatal shooting of unarmed 18-yearold Michael Brown by white, former Ferguson, Missouri, police officer Darren Wilson. The work of activists around the issue of policing in communities of color has helped to raise awareness, said poll respondent Warren Miller, a 62-year-old realtor living in Fairview, Michigan, who said his black friends helped him realize that white people are treated more fairly by police. But Miller, who is white, also said he doesn’t believe police violence against the public is a

Poll: Force against black person more likely A majority of Americans say police in most communities are more likely to use deadly force against a black person than a white person, according to a new AP-NORC Center poll. Q: In general, do you think the police in most communities are more likely to use deadly force: Against a black person

Against a white person

Race does not affect use of force

All 55%

3 41

White 46%

1 52

Black 84%

3 11

Hispanic 62%

Q: How serious a problem do you think police violence against the public is in the United States? Extremely/Very serious

Moderately serious

All 36% White 26%

Not too/Not at all serious

Black 72%

Hispanic 51%

7 20

Q: How serious a problem do you think violence against the police is in the United States? Extremely/Very serious

Moderately serious

Not too/Not at all serious

All 46%

White 47%

Black 41% Hispanic 49%

19 18 28

Results based on interviews with 1,286 U.S. adults conducted Sept. 20-23. The margin of error is ±3.8 percentage points for the full sample, higher for subgroups. Numbers are rounded. SOURCE: AP-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research

serious problem. Asked why, he responded: “In northern Michigan, we don’t have as many problems, the city issues. It’s small town America, where everybody knows everybody. That could’ve influenced part of my perception as well.” “White folks are trying to grapple with the

difference between what they want to and need to believe about their country, and what their eyes increasingly are telling them is true,” said anti-racist author and educator Tim Wise, adding that for many black and brown Americans, the notion that racism is systemic and not limited to individual instances is easier to accept “because it’s their lived experience.” “For white folks, there’s a need to hold on to the myth that America is an equal justice kind of place,” said Wise, who is white. “People of color have never had to, nor have they ever been able to, buy into the fiction of liberty and justice for all.” Overall, about a third of Americans think police violence against the public is a very serious problem in the U.S., though another third call it moderately serious. By comparison, close to half say violence against police is very serious. But the poll also finds 55% of Americans say they think police in most communities are more likely to use deadly force against a black person compared with a white person. “I think there’s a misconception that black citizens are inherently more dangerous or more likely to react violently to a police encounter,” said Gabe Wood, 49, of Wilmington, North Carolina. The Democrat, who is white, cited “a laundry list of issues that go back a long time” like stereotypes about different races and the threats they present. “I do think in some areas of the country and some parts of towns, I think police officers are quicker to resort to deadly force because of a perceived and sometimes unreal threat,” Wood said.

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Dallas cop gets 10 years for killing her neighbor DALLAS — The brother of a black man who was shot dead by a white Dallas police officer who said she mistook the victim’s apartment for her own forgave the officer and embraced her Wednesday as she sobbed after being sentenced to a decade in prison. As people outside of the courtroom reacted angrily to the 10-year sentence given to Amber Guyger for killing Botham Jean in his apartment, believing it was too lenient, his brother was allowed to address her directly from the witness stand. Brandt Jean told Guyger that he thinks his brother would have wanted her to turn her life over to Christ, and that if she can ask God for forgiveness, she will get it. “I love you as a person. I don’t wish anything bad on you,” he said to the 31-year-old Guyger, before adding, “I don’t know if this is possible, but can I give her a hug?” The judge said he could, and Brandt and Guyger stood up, met in front of the bench and embraced while Guyger cried.

Sanders has heart procedure, cancels campaign events WASHINGTON — Bernie Sanders’ campaign said Wednesday that the Democratic presidential candidate had a heart procedure for a blocked artery and was canceling events and appearances “until further notice.” The 78-year-old Sanders experienced chest discomfort during an event Tuesday and sought medical evaluation, according to a campaign statement. It said two stents were “successfully inserted” and that Sanders “is conversing and in good spirits.” His campaign manager, Faiz Shakir, was on a telephone call with supporters Tuesday night but didn’t mention any health concerns about the candidate. Shakir said the “state of the campaign is strong” and he played up Sanders’ strong fundraising total for the third quarter. Sanders was among 10 Democratic candidates scheduled to appear later Wednesday at a forum on gun control in Las Vegas. He recently canceled some appearances in South Carolina because he lost his voice. The campaign said at the time he felt fine.

WWII-era bomber crashes; at least 7 dead WINDSOR LOCKS, Conn. — A World War II-era B-17 bomber with 13 people aboard crashed and burned at the Hartford airport after encountering mechanical trouble on takeoff Wednesday, and a state official said at least seven were killed. The four-engine plane struggled to get into the air and slammed into a maintenance shed at Bradley International Airport as the pilots circled back for a landing, officials and witnesses said. It had 10 passengers and three crew members, authorities said. The state official who gave the death toll was not authorized to discuss the investigation and spoke on condition of anonymity.

Feds to judge: Don’t rush fate of tax returns NEW YORK — U.S. Justice Department lawyers urged a federal judge Wednesday not to rush to judgment in deciding whether an accounting firm should be allowed to turn over President Donald Trump’s tax returns to state prosecutors. The lawyers weighed in on jurisdictional issues in an ongoing effort by Trump to nullify a grand jury subpoena seeking the records from his longtime accounting firm. The announcement last week by federal prosecutors that they might want to have a role in the case came just hours before a judge was to decide whether to temporarily block the turning over of the records. They did not indicate then whether they might submit written arguments to support Trump’s claims that Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus R. Vance Jr. should not be allowed to see the records as part of a criminal probe stemming in part from the Trump Organization’s involvement in buying the silence of two women who claimed to have had affairs with the president. — Associated Press

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N. Korea confirms submarine-launched missile By Deutsche Presse-Agentur GmbH

SEOUL, South Korea — North Korea confirmed it fired a submarine-launched ballistic missile from waters off its east coast, the official KCNA news agency said Thursday. The new type of ballistic missile, known as Pukguksong-3, was fired in “vertical mode” from the waters

off Wonsan Bay in the East Sea, also known as the Sea of Japan, on Wednesday morning, KCNA reported. The launch followed announcements by the United States and North Korea that they would hold fresh negotiations over Pyongyang’s nuclear weapons program within a week. On Wednesday, the Joint Chiefs of Staff said that the missile

was launched at 7:11 a.m. local time and flew around 280 miles in an easterly direction, South Korea’s Yonhap news agency reported. The agency cited the body as saying that the projectile reached a maximum altitude of about 565 miles, saying that the missile could have traveled much farther had it been fired at a lower angle. The Japanese government, which

said that a ballistic missile fell into the country’s territorial waters, condemned the launch. “The launch of ballistic missiles violates U.N. Security Council resolutions. We sternly lodge a protest over the launch and strongly condemn it,” Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe told reporters. “We will do the utmost to protect the safety of the people and stay on

high alert while coordinating with the United States and the international community,” he added. KCNA said that the missile had “no adverse impact on the security of neighboring countries,” adding that the launch “ushered in a new phase in containing the outside forces’ threat to (North Korea) and further bolstering its military muscle for self-defense.”

Protests escalate in Iraq: 9 dead, hundreds injured By Qassim Abdul-Zahra Associated Press

BAGHDAD — At least seven people were killed and dozens were wounded in clashes that spread across several Iraqi provinces Wednesday as security forces fired live ammunition and tear gas for the second day to disperse antigovernment protesters demanding jobs, improved services and an end to corruption. The deaths brought the overall number of protesters killed in two days of violence to nine. Protests on Tuesday had left two dead — one in Baghdad and another in the city of Nasiriyah — and more than 200 wounded. The renewed clashes occurred despite a massive security dragnet mounted by the government in an effort to quash the economicallydriven protests. Hundreds of heavily armed security forces and riot police deployed on Baghdad streets, blocking all intersections leading to a major central square Wednesday to prevent a repeat of Tuesday’s protests. Parked armored personnel carriers and SUVs stood guard and by mid-afternoon, residents said authorities had shut down social media platforms such as Facebook, Twitter and WhatsApp. Groups of protesters continued

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Anti-government protesters set fire and block roads Wednesday in Baghdad, Iraq. Security forces fired in the air and used tear gas Wednesday to disperse groups of demonstrators in Baghdad Wednesday, killing and injuring civilians in renewed protests after violent confrontations between protesters and police a day earlier, officials said.

to take to the streets, some of them calling for toppling the government. Thick black smoke hung over the city as demonstrators set fire to tires and garbage containers. Bursts of heavy gunfire could be heard intermittently. At night, protesters closed the road leading to Baghdad’s airport with roadblocks and burning tires, keeping the way into the city open for arrivals. The confrontations quickly

spread to at least seven other provinces in the country, with an estimated 3,000 demonstrators taking to the streets in the southern city of Basra in a largely peaceful protest on Wednesday evening. Protests and clashes were also reported in Najaf, Nasiriyah, Waset, Diwaniyah and in other places. The violence was some of the worst between protesters and security forces in Iraq, signaling that the

war-weary country could be facing a new round of political instability. Iraq has been caught in the middle of U.S.-Iran tensions in the Middle East, putting an additional strain on the fragile government in Baghdad that hosts thousands of U.S. troops and powerful paramilitary forces allied with Iran. The U.S. Embassy in Baghdad called for restraint from all sides. “The right to demonstrate peacefully is a fundamental right in all democracies, but there is no place for violence in demonstrations from any side,” it posted on Twitter. The protests, organized on social media, started in Tahrir Square on Tuesday, initially driven by economy woes. They began peacefully, calling for an end to corruption, improved basic services and more jobs. But they soon turned violent after security forces fought back demonstrators with water cannons, tear gas and live ammunition. Protesters responded by calling for toppling the government, throwing stones at security forces and setting tires and trash containers on fire. At least two protesters were killed and more than 200 were wounded. A few dozen protesters tried to reach Tahrir Square again on Wednesday morning but were met with scores of riot police who formed a human barrier and

soldiers who blocked roads, sometimes with barbed wire. Security forces again fired tear gas and live ammunition into the air to disperse the protesters, chasing them away, according to officials. Saadoun Street, a major commercial thoroughfare leading to Tahrir Square, was deserted and all the shops and restaurants were closed. Smoke could be seen near Tahrir and intermittent gunfire could be heard, as well as ambulance sirens. “They have transformed Tahrir Square into Tahrir barracks,” said Hussein Saleh, 24. “There are more security forces than there are protesters,” he added, standing with a small placard that read: “I am protesting to take my rights.” Security and medical officials said three protesters were killed in Baghdad Wednesday and four in Nasiriyah, about 200 miles (320 kilometers) southeast of the capital. All officials spoke on condition of anonymity in line with regulations. In Zaafaraniyah, a 10-year-old girl was also killed when she was hit by a car speeding away from a checkpoint amid protests. Security officials said authorities imposed a curfew in several southern Iraqi cities including Nasiriyah, Amara and Hilla after protesters attacked government buildings there. They spoke on condition of anonymity in line with regulations

Europe praises Ukraine deal, but opposition sees a betrayal By Yuras Karmanau and Nataliya Vasilyeva Associated Press

KYIV, Ukraine — Russia and European powers, eager to end a protracted military conflict in wartorn eastern Ukraine, welcomed a new accord between Ukraine and Russia-backed separatists, but many in Ukraine dismissed the election agreement Wednesday as a capitulation to Moscow. In the deal signed Tuesday, Ukraine, Russia and mediators Germany and France agreed a local

election could be held in Ukraine’s rebel-held east, where a grinding five-year conflict between the separatists and Ukrainian troops has killed more than 13,000 people. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy praised the accord as a major step toward resolving the conflict. The election pledge was seen as the final hurdle to Zelenskiy, Russian President Vladimir Putin and the leaders of France and Germany setting a summit for peace talks. But other Ukrainian politicians raised alarms about the accord,

saying it opens the door to cementing Russia’s presence in the region. “This is capitulation to Russia,” former Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko, now a member of parliament, told reporters. Poroshenko said the deal is “playing into Russia’s hands” because Ukraine committed to holding the local election but did not receive any guarantees that it would regain control over of all of its border with Russia. A 2015 peace agreement, brokered by France and Germany and signed in Minsk, Belarus,

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Putin: Climate activist being manipulated MOSCOW — Russian President Vladimir Putin has suggested 16-year-old Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg may have been manipulated to serve the interests of others. Speaking at an energy forum in Moscow on Wednesday, Putin said: “I don’t share exultation about Greta Thunberg.” The Russian leader called Thunberg a “kind and sincere girl” who doesn’t understand complex global issues such as the barriers to cleaner energy in developing countries. Putin added, “It’s deplorable when someone is using children and teenagers in their interests.” He didn’t elaborate. Thunberg inspired other students by skipping school for weekly climate change protests. At a United Nations climate summit last month, she rebuked world leaders for not doing enough and asked them, “How dare you?” Putin says Russia has fulfilled its obligations under an international agreement to tackle global warming.

Vatican cardinal skeptical about married priests for Amazon VATICAN CITY — A top Vatican cardinal has expressed skepticism about ordaining married men to address the priest shortage in the Amazon, defending the value of priestly celibacy on the eve of a big Vatican meeting where the issue is officially up for debate. Cardinal Marc Ouellet held a rare press conference Wednesday to launch his book “Friends of the Bridegroom: For a Renewed Vision of Priestly Celibacy,” which speaks openly about the challenges facing priests today amid a decline in vocations and

reputational damage from sex abuse scandals. Ouellet, a Canadian who heads the Vatican’s bishops’ office as well as the Holy See’s commission for Latin America, acknowledged that the Amazon region was suffering from a priest shortage and that he was open to debate about how to address it during this month’s Amazon synod. But he said he was skeptical about the proposal to ordain married men, noting that the region doesn’t even have enough catechists to teach lay people about their faith, much less train indigenous deacons or priests. “I ask myself the question. I am skeptical. And I think I’m not the only one,” he said. “And above me there is someone who is even more skeptical who has authorized the debate, and that’s OK,” he said, in an apparent reference to Pope Francis.

Morocco: Journalist’s abortion sentence stirs rights protest RABAT, Morocco — Prominent activists and journalists have rallied in Morocco’s capital for the release of a journalist sentenced to prison for having premarital sex and an abortion, which are both illegal in the country. Demonstrators gathered in front of the parliament building in Rabat on Wednesday chanted slogans protesting Hajar Raissouni’s conviction and called it a threat to women’s rights. The 28-year-old Raissouni denied she had an abortion and claimed she was married to her Sudanese fiancé under Islamic law. The fiancé and the doctor accused of performing the abortion were also convicted. Colleagues and relatives of the doctor attended the protest. While in custody, Raissouni said she was mostly interrogated about her work as a journalist. Her supporters suspect she was targeted for prosecution because of her reporting. — Associated Press

envisaged Ukraine regaining full control of its border with Russia only after the rebel regions receive broad autonomy and elect local and regional leaders and legislatures. Ukraine and the West say the border has served as a conduit for Russian troops and weapons. The Minsk deal’s provision for the rebel regions to have wide autonomy met broad criticism in Ukraine, effectively thwarting the agreement Zelenskiy now seeks to resuscitate. Lawmaker Andriy Parubiy, former parliament speaker, said he would push for hearings into the peace

deal, accusing Zelenskiy’s new administration of sidelining society from the decision-making process in such a crucial development. Zelenskiy’s party holds a majority in parliament after resoundingly defeating Poroshenko and Parubiy’s allies in an election this summer. About 1,000 people protested Wednesday on the Maidan in central Kyiv, the iconic capital square that symbolizes two uprisings against Russian influence. The protesters then they marched to the presidential headquarters to vent their anger over the local election accord.

Today in History Today is Thursday, Oct. 3, the 276th day of 2019. There are 89 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: On Oct. 3, 1863, President Abraham Lincoln proclaimed the last Thursday in November Thanksgiving Day. On this date: In 1226, St. Francis of Assisi, founder of the Franciscan order, died; he was canonized in 1228. In 1789, President George Washington declared Nov. 26, 1789, a day of Thanksgiving to express gratitude for the creation of the United States of America. In 1941, Adolf Hitler declared in a speech in Berlin that Russia had been “broken” and would “never rise again.” ‘’The Maltese Falcon” -- the version starring Humphrey Bogart and directed by John Huston -- premiered in New York. In 1942, President Franklin D. Roosevelt established the Office of Economic Stabilization. In 1955, “Captain Kangaroo” and “The Mickey Mouse Club” premiered on C-B-S and A-B-C, respectively. In 1961, “The Dick Van Dyke Show,” also starring Mary Tyler Moore, made its debut on CBS. In 1967, folk singer-songwriter Woody Guthrie, the Dust Bowl Troubadour best known for “This Land Is Your Land,” died in New York of complications from Huntington’s disease; he was 55. In 1995, the jury in the O.J. Simpson murder trial in Los Angeles found the former football star not guilty of the 1994 slayings of his former wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and Ronald Goldman (however, Simpson was later found liable for damages in a civil trial). In 2001, the Senate approved an agreement normalizing trade between the United States and Vietnam. In 2003, a tiger attacked magician Roy Horn of duo “Siegfried & Roy” during a performance in Las Vegas, leaving the superstar illusionist in critical condition on his 59th birthday. In 2008, O.J. Simpson was found guilty of robbing two sports-memorabilia dealers at gunpoint in a Las Vegas hotel room. (Simpson was later sentenced to nine to 33 years in prison; he was granted parole in July 2017 and released from prison in October of that year.) In 2017, President Donald Trump, visiting Puerto Rico in the aftermath of Hurricane Maria, congratulated the U.S. island territory for escaping the higher death toll of what he called “a real catastrophe like Katrina;” at a church used to distribute supplies, Trump handed out flashlights and tossed rolls of paper towels into the friendly crowd. Ten years ago: Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad hit back at President Barack Obama’s accusation that his country had sought to hide its construction of a new nuclear site, arguing that Tehran reported the facility to the U.N. even earlier than required. Eight U.S. soldiers were killed, 22 wounded, when their outpost in Afghanistan’s Nuristan province was attacked by hundreds of militants. Five years ago: An Internet video was released showing an Islamic State group militant beheading British hostage Alan Henning, the fourth such killing carried out by the extremist group being targeted by U.S.-led airstrikes. One year ago: The Federal Emergency Management Agency conducted its first-ever national wireless emergency alert test, causing electronic devices across the country to sound, with a message that carried the subject, “Presidential Alert.” (Some people got as many as four alerts on their phones, while others didn’t get any.) Researches at Columbia University presented evidence that astronomers for the first time may have found a moon outside our solar system, orbiting a planet as big as Jupiter about 8,000 light-years away. Peru’s Supreme Court overturned a medical pardon for former President Alberto Fujimori and ordered the 80-year-old to be returned to jail to serve out a long sentence for human rights abuses. Today’s Birthdays: Composer Steve Reich is 83. Rock and roll star Chubby Checker is 78. Actor Alan Rachins is 77. Former Sen. Jeff Bingaman, D-N.M., is 76. Magician Roy Horn is 75. Singer Lindsey Buckingham is 70. Jazz musician Ronnie Laws is 69. Blues singer Keb’ Mo’ is 68. Former astronaut Kathryn Sullivan is 68. Baseball Hall of Famer Dave Winfield is 68. Baseball Hall of Famer Dennis Eckersley is 65. Civil rights activist Rev. Al Sharpton is 65. Actor Hart Bochner is 63. Actor Peter Frechette is 63. World Golf Hall of Famer Fred Couples is 60. Actor-comedian Greg Proops is 60. Actor Jack Wagner is 60. Actor/musician Marcus Giamatti is 58. Rock musician Tommy Lee is 57. Actor Clive Owen is 55. Actress Janel Moloney is 50. Singer Gwen Stefani (No Doubt) is 50. Pop singer Kevin Richardson is 48. Rock singer G. Love is 47. Actress Keiko Agena is 46. Actress Neve Campbell is 46. Actress Lena Headey is 46. Singer India.Arie is 44. Rapper Talib Kweli is 44. Actress Alanna Ubach is 44. Actor Seann (cq) William Scott is 43. Actress Shannyn Sossamon is 41. Rock musician Josh Klinghoffer (Red Hot Chili Peppers) is 40. Actor Seth Gabel is 38. Rock musician Mark King (Hinder) is 37. Actor Erik Von Detten is 37. Singer-musician Cherrill Green (Edens Edge) is 36. Actress Tessa Thompson is 36. Country singer Drake White is 36. Actress Meagan Holder is 35. Actor Christopher Marquette is 35. Actress-singer Ashlee Simpson is 35. Rapper A$AP Rocky is 31. Actress Alicia Vikander is 31. Actor Noah Schnapp (TV: “Stranger Things”) is 15. Thought for Today: “Life has got a habit of not standing hitched. You got to ride it like you find it. You got to change with it.” -- Woody Guthrie, American folk singer-songwriter (1912-1967).

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Diaz’s 2 HRs help Rays beat A’s in AL Wild Card By Janie McCauley AP Baseball Writer

OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — Yandy Diaz slugged baseball’s lowest spender into a matchup with mighty Houston, Charlie Morton silenced the powerful Athletics on the mound, and the Tampa Bay Rays beat Oakland at its own game 5-1 in the AL wild-card round Wednesday night. After playing in only one game since late July, Diaz hit a leadoff homer and went deep again in the third inning. Avisail Garcia hit a tworun drive in the second, and Morton had all the support he needed as Tampa Bay advanced to face the AL West champion Astros in a best-offive Division Series. Game 1 is Friday at Houston, which racked up a major league-best 107 wins this season. “We have a tough road ahead of us, Houston’s a great team, but we played them well this year. It’s going to be a dogfight,” Tommy Pham said. Pham homered in the fifth for the 96-win Rays, who had the smallest payroll in the majors at $66.4 million. And in a playoff meeting between creative, small-budget teams that make the most of limited resources, it was Tampa Bay that came out on top. The Rays were unfazed by a towelswirling Oakland crowd of 54,005 that established a wild-card record, having recently played at Dodger Stadium and on the road against the Yankees and Red Sox in the season’s final two weeks. Tampa Bay players raced out of their dugout to celebrate when Marcus Semien struck out to end it, and then started putting on fresh

playoff T-shirts and caps. “It’s a beautiful thing having the lowest payroll in baseball and having the success we did,” center fielder Kevin Kiermaier said before the game. “It always feels good to stick it to the man any time you’re able to in this game, and that’s something to be very proud of.” The A’s have lost nine straight winner-take-all games since 2000, going 1-15 with a chance to advance to the next postseason round. Their only win was in 2006 against the Twins before being swept in the AL Championship Series by the Tigers. A year ago in the wild-card game, Oakland’s first time back in the playoffs since 2014, the A’s fell behind fast and lost 7-2 at Yankee Stadium. They won 97 games again to earn a wild card. This game had a far different feel in the familiar, friendly confines of the Coliseum, but the A’s dug themselves another quick hole. And the visitors were the ones putting on a happy home run show this time. Oakland, which hit a franchise-record 257 homers, is 0-6 in winner-take-a ll playoff games at home since 2000. Even a day earlier, Rays manager Kevin Cash wasn’t sure Diaz would play given how much time he missed with a foot injury during the second half of the season. Diaz returned for the season’s final game at Toronto after being sidelined since July 23. He played in just 79 games this season, 22 of those at first base with 17 starts. “He probably caught us off guard a little bit with how quickly he turned around over the last five, six days,”

Tampa Bay Rays’ Yandy Diaz watches his solo home run against the Oakland Athletics during the third inning of an American League wild-card baseball game in Oakland, Calif., Wednesday. (AP Photo/Ben Margot)

Cash said. Never one to shy from the unorthodox _ the Rays used four outfielders against Matt Olson Cash started Diaz at first to make sure his best bat against lefties was in the lineup. “I just was trying to get good pitches to hit and luckily they went out,” Diaz said through a translator. Pham was impressed. “Kudos to him. He kept himself game-ready for as long as he’s been down,” Pham said. “We really need him. I’ve been saying it all year _

he’s such a good bat, doesn’t strike out much, knows the strike zone. Hits the ball hard.” Kiermaier noted Diaz is “just one of those guys, he just wakes up out of bed and rakes. Everyone knows him for his muscles and what he can do in the weight room and stuff like that, but the guy finds the barrel so much throughout this whole season, and any time we’re able to have him available, we’re happy.” Morton, with a career-high 16 wins and his best ERA yet of 3.05

this season, counted on his playoff experience giving him an edge. He won Game 7 of the World Series for the Astros in 2017. Morton gave up five hits without an earned run over five innings. He struck out four and walked three in his seventh playoff start and eighth appearance, having spent the last two seasons with Houston. The right-hander walked Mark Canha to load the bases with two outs in the first before retiring Jurickson Profar on a flyball and had already thrown 32 pitches.

Defending Stanley Cup champion Blues lose NHL opener ST. LOUIS (AP) — Jakub Vrana scored at 2:51 of overtime to give the Washington Capitals a 3-2 victory over the Stanley Cup champion St. Louis Blues on Wednesday night in the opener for both teams. Vrana beat Jordan Binnington with a wrist shot to the upper corner for his first point in five career games against the Blues. Alex Ovechkin and Dmitry Orlov also scored, and Braden Holtby made 21 saves for the Capitals. Sammy Blais and Alex Pietrangelo scored for the

Blues, and Binnington made 31 saves. The Blues raised their Stanley Cup banner during a pregame ceremony that featured a video of members of the team celebrating with the cup during the offseason and highlights of the postseason run.

MAPLE LEAFS 5, SENATORS 3 TORONTO (AP) _ Auston Matthews scored twice in Toronto’s four-goal second period against Ottawa. Matthews gave Toronto a 3-2

lead at 8:02 of the second and made it 4-2 on a power play with 5:10 left in the period. He has nine goals and two assists in the four season-opening games, starting with a fourgoal game against the Senators in his NHL debut in 2016. Ilya Mikheyev had a goal and an assist in his NHL debut, Frederik Gauthier and Trevor Moore also scored, and Frederik Andersen stopped 23 shots. Scott Sabourin scored in his NHL debut for Ottawa, Brady Tkachuk, and Bobby Ryan added goals, and Craig Anderson made 37 saves.

Former Toronto assistant D.J. Smith made his debut as an NHL head coach.

GOLDEN KNIGHTS 4, SHARKS 1 LAS VEGAS (AP) _ Reilly Smith had two goals, Cody Glass scored the first of his career and Vegas beat San Jose in the opener for both teams. Mark Stone also scored for the Golden Knights. MarcAndre Fleury made 21 saves to earn the win in the 799th game of his career. Fleury, now in his 16th

season, improved to 10-5-0 in openers. The victory tied him with Curtis Joseph (10-2-0) and Martin Brodeur (10-5-3) for the most season-opening wins in NHL history. Vegas, which will play in San Jose on Friday, improved to 6-1-2 all-time against the Sharks in the regular season. Marcus Sorensen scored for San Jose. Martin Jones made 31 saves.

OILERS 3, CANUCKS 2 EDMONTON, Alberta (AP) _ Leon Draisaitl had a goal and two assists, Connor

McDavid snapped a thirdperiod tie and Edmonton topped Vancouver in Dave Tippett’s debut as Oilers coach. McDavid broke a 2-all deadlock with 5½ minutes to play, splitting the defense before beating goalie Jacob Markstrom on a strong solo effort. Zack Kassian also scored for the Oilers. Mike Smith made 31 saves in his first game with Edmonton. Alexander Edler and Tanner Pearson had the goals for the Canucks, who won their previous five openers.

Britain gains 1st female sprint world champ, college star takes men’s hurdles By Eddie Pells AP National Writer

DOHA, Qatar — Most of the prime contenders in the women’s 200 had dropped out before the race even began. In the men’s 110 hurdles, the favorites waited to start tumbling until they neared the finish line. Two gold medals. Two ways to win them. Dina Asher-Smith took the easier road Wednesday to become Britain’s first female sprint world champion, while Grant Holloway outran the demolition derby to his left to become only the sixth man to capture NCAA and world titles in the same year. “Those barriers don’t care about your body,” Holloway said. “They’re there to slow you down. Our goal is to go full-fledged over all 10 of them.” Some of the biggest hurdles facing Asher-Smith on her quest to make history in her home country had disappeared before her race even began. The 200 field was missing 100 champion Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce (tired), two-time defending champion Dafne Schippers (injured), Olympic titlist Elaine Thompson (injured), and the 2019 world leader, Shaunae Miller-Uibo (running the 400), just to name a few. When the eight-woman final was finally set, AsherSmith found herself listed as a 1-10 favorite at some of the sports books back home,

where they always pay close attention to their track stars. All of which made this feel like anything but a breeze. “Normally I’m quite chatty and full of energy, but it’s a different thing with everyone saying you’re the favorite,” she said. “You’re only the favorite if you go out and perform how people expect you to.” Using her trademark fast start, Asher-Smith blasted out of the blocks in Lane 7 and was moving past the outside runners and into a three-step lead at the 150-meter mark. The rest was just a matter of time. Asher-Smith’s 21.88 _ good for a .34-second margin over America’s Brittany Brown _ established a British national record, just as her 10.83 did three nights earlier in the 100, when she finished second to Fraser-Pryce. Asher-Smith joined Linford Christie (1993) as only the second British runner to win a sprint at world championships. How big a deal was this? Well, it actually got loud for a minute after Asher-Smith crossed the finish line at the half-full Khalifa International Stadium. A few pockets in the British contingent waved the Union Jack, clanged cowbells and went crazy in the air-conditioned venue that had sounded more like a library only minutes before, while Poland’s Pawel Fajdek was wrapping up his fourth straight world hammer throw gold.

It will certainly be louder a year from now at the Tokyo Olympics, where expectations will be higher, and the field will almost certainly be deeper. Asher-Smith is

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Morton, Castillo (6), Anderson (8), Pagán (9) and d’Arnaud; Manaea, Petit (3), Diekman (5), Luzardo (6), Hendriks (9) and Murphy, Phegley. W_Morton 1-0. L_Manaea 0-1. HRs_Tampa Bay, Díaz (2), García (1), Pham (21). Tuesday’s Games Washington 4, Milwaukee 3 Wednesday’s Games Tampa Bay 5, Oakland 1 Thursday’s Games St. Louis (Mikolas ) at Atlanta (Keuchel ), 1:02 p.m. Washington at L.A. Dodgers, 4:37 p.m. Friday’s Games Tampa Bay at Houston, 10:05 a.m. St. Louis at Atlanta, 12:37 p.m. Minnesota at N.Y. Yankees, 3:07 p.m. Washington at L.A. Dodgers, 5:37 p.m. All Times ADT

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National Hockey League Standings EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division GP W L OT Pts GF GA Toronto 1 1 0 0 2 5 3 Florida 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Montreal 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Buffalo 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Tampa Bay 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Boston 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Detroit 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Ottawa 1 0 1 0 0 3 5 Metropolitan Division Washington 1 1 0 0 2 3 2 Carolina 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 N.Y. Rangers 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Columbus 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Philadelphia 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 New Jersey 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 N.Y. Islanders 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Pittsburgh 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 WESTERN CONFERENCE Central Division St. Louis 1 0 0 1 1 2 3 Minnesota 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Colorado 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Winnipeg 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Dallas 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Nashville 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Chicago 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Pacific Division Vegas 1 1 0 0 2 4 1 Edmonton 1 1 0 0 2 3 2 Anaheim 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Los Angeles 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Calgary 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Arizona 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 San Jose 1 0 1 0 0 1 4 Vancouver 1 0 1 0 0 2 3

already looking ahead. “Still getting stronger, still learning a lot more physically and mentally,” she said. “So, hopefully, there’s a lot more to come.”

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NOTE: Two points for a win, one point for overtime loss. Top three teams in each division and two wild cards per conference advance to playoffs.

Saturday, May 18 — x-Monster Energy Open, Concord, N.C. (Kyle Larson) Saturday, May 18 — x-Monster Energy All-Star Race, Concord, N.C. (Kyle Larson) Sunday, May 26 — Coca-Cola 600, Concord, N.C. (Martin Truex Jr.) Sunday, June 2 — Pocono 400, Long Pond, Pa. (Kyle Busch) Monday, June 10 — FireKeepers Casino 400, Brooklyn, Mich. (Joey Logano) Sunday, June 23 — Toyota/Save Mart 350, Sonoma, Calif. (Martin Truex Jr.) Sunday, June 30 — Camping World 400, Joliet, Ill. (Alex Bowman) Sunday, July 7 — Coke Zero Sugar 400, Daytona Beach, Fla. (Justin Haley) Saturday, July 13 — Quaker State 400, Sparta, Ky. (Kurt Busch) Sunday, July 21 — Foxwoods Resort Casino 301, Loudon, N.H. (Kevin Harvick) Sunday, July 28 — Gander RV 400, Long Pond, Pa. (Denny Hamlin) Sunday, Aug. 4 — Go Bowling at The Glen, Watkins Glen, N.Y. (Chase Elliott) Sunday, Aug. 11 — Consumers Energy 400, Brooklyn, Mich. (Kevin Harvick) Saturday, Aug. 17 — Bass Pro Shops NRA Night Race, Bristol, Tenn. (Denny Hamlin) Sunday, Sept. 1 — Bojangles’ Southern 500, Darlington, S.C. (Erik Jones) Sunday, Sept. 8 — Big Machine Vodka 400 at the Brickyard, Indianapolis (Kevin Harvick) Playoff Races Sunday, Sept. 15 — South Point 400, Las Vegas (Martin Truex Jr.) Saturday, Sept. 21 — Federated Auto Parts 400, Richmond, Va. (Martin Truex Jr.) Sunday, Sept. 29 — Bank of American ROVAL 400, Concord, N.C. (Chase Elliott) Sunday, Oct. 6 — Drydene 400, Dover, Del. Sunday, Oct. 13 — 1000Bulbs.com 500, Talladega, Ala. Sunday, Oct. 20 — Hollywood Casino 400, Kansas City, Kan. Sunday, Oct. 27 — First Data 500, Martinsville, Va. Sunday, Nov. 3 — AAA Texas 500, Fort Worth, Texas Sunday, Nov. 10 — Bluegreen Vacations 500, Avondale, Ariz. Sunday, Nov. 17 — Ford EcoBoost 400, Homestead, Fla. x-non-points race

15. Kurt Busch, 2056. 16. Erik Jones, 2009.

Wednesday’s Games Toronto 5, Ottawa 3 Washington 3, St. Louis 2, OT Edmonton 3, Vancouver 2 Vegas 4, San Jose 1 Thursday’s Games Montreal at Carolina, 3 p.m. Buffalo at Pittsburgh, 3 p.m. Florida at Tampa Bay, 3 p.m. Winnipeg at N.Y. Rangers, 3 p.m. Minnesota at Nashville, 4 p.m. Boston at Dallas, 4:30 p.m. Calgary at Colorado, 5 p.m. Arizona at Anaheim, 6 p.m.

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WNBA PlayoffS Finals (Best-of-5; x-if necessary) Washington 1, Connecticut 1 Sunday, Sept. 29: Washington 95, Connecticut 86 Tuesday, Oct. 1: Connecticut 99, Washington 87 Sunday, Oct. 6: Washington at Connecticut, 11:30 a.m. Tuesday, Oct 8: Washington at Connecticut, 4 p.m. x-Thursday, Oct. 10: Connecticut at Washington, 4 p.m. All Times ADT

RACING

NASCAR Monster Energy Cup 2019 Schedule (winners) Sunday, Feb. 10 — x-Advance Auto Parts Clash, Daytona Beach, Fla. (Jimmie Johnson) Thursday, Feb. 14 — x-Duel 1 at Daytona, Daytona Beach, Fla. (Kevin Harvick) Thursday, Feb. 14 — x-Duel 2 at Daytona, Daytona Beach, Fla. (Joey Logano) Sunday, Feb. 17 — Daytona 500, Daytona Beach, Fla. (Denny Hamlin) Sunday, Feb. 24 — Folds of Honor QuikTrip 500, Hampton, Ga. (Brad Keselowski) Sunday, March 3 — Pennzoil 400, Las Vegas (Joey Logano) Sunday, March 10 — TicketGuardian 500, Avondale, Ariz. (Kyle Busch) Sunday, March 17 — Auto Club 400, Fontana, Calif. (Kyle Busch) Sunday, March 24 — STP 500, Martinsville, Va. (Brad Keselowski) Sunday, March 31 — O’Reilly Auto Parts 500, Fort Worth, Texas (Denny Hamlin) Sunday, April 7 — Food City 500, Bristol, Tenn. (Kyle Busch) Saturday, April 13 — Toyota Owners 400, Richmond, Va. (Martin Truex Jr.) Sunday, April 28 — Geico 500, Talladega, Ala. (Chase Elliott) Monday, May 6 — Gander RV 400, Dover, Del. (Martin Truex Jr.) Saturday, May 11 — Digital Ally 400, Kansas City, Kan. (Brad Keselowski)

Points Leaders Through Sept. 29 1. Kyle Busch, 3046. 2. Martin Truex Jr, 3041. 3. Denny Hamlin, 3030. 4. Joey Logano, 3029. 5. Kevin Harvick, 3028. 6. Brad Keselowski, 3024. 7. Chase Elliott, 3024. 8. Kyle Larson, 3006. 9. Alex Bowman, 3005. 10. Ryan Blaney, 3004. 11. William Byron, 3001. 12. Clint Bowyer, 3000. 13. Aric Almirola, 2081. 14. Ryan Newman, 2070.

TRANSACTIONS

BASEBALL American League BALTIMORE ORIOLES — Named T.J. Brightman as senior vice president and chief revenue officer. Promoted Jennifer Grondahl to senior vice president of community development & communications, and Greg Bader to senior vice president of administration & experience. BASKETBALL NBA G LEAGUE CAPITAL CITY GO-GO — Named Dan Tacheny, associate head coach, Phil Goss, assistant coach, David Noel, assistant coach, Mike Williams, director of player development and Jimmy Bradshaw, assistant coach. FOOTBALL National Football League ARIZONA CARDINALS — Signed DL Zach Kerr. CINCINNATI BENGALS — Signed WR Stanley Morgan from the practice squad. Placed WR John Ross on IR. HOUSTON TEXANS — Signed T Elijah Nkansah to the practice squad. NEW ENGLAND PATRIOTS — Signed DB Jordan Richards. Placed K Stephen Gostkowski on IR. Signed WR Kelvin McKnight to the practice squad. SAN FRANCSICO 49ERS — Promoted S Marcell Harris from the practice squad. Released DB Antone Exum Jr. WASHINGTON REDSKINS — Signed WR Cam Sims from the practice squad. Signed WR Darvin Kidsy to the practice squad. HOCKEY National Hockey League ARIZONA COYOTES — Signed G Darcy Kuemper to a two-year contract extension through the 2021-22 season. Recalled F Christian Fischer and D Kyle Capobianco from Tucson (AHL). Recalled G Adin Hill from Tucson. Assigned G Antti Raanta to Tucson. WASHINGTON CAPITALS — Placedd G Pheonix Copley on waivers. SOCCER USL Championship USLC — Suspended Orange County’s Michael Orozco two games; Birmingham’s Brian Wright, Tampa Bay’s Jordan Doherty, Tulsa’s Tobenna Uzo, Ottawa’s Wal Fall, Indy’s Ayoze, Charlotte’s Kevan George, New Mexico’s Juan Guzman, OKC’s Callum Ross, San Antonio’s Walter Restrepo, Austin’s Xavier Baez, Pittsburgh’s Robbie Mertz, Swope Park’s Ethan Vanacore-Decker, Loudoun’s Ted Ku-Dipietro, Indy’s Paddy Barrett, and ATL UTD’s Andrew Carleton one game each. COLLEGE BIG TEN CONFERENCE — Suspended Nebraska football player Khalil Davis one game and issued a public reprimand for violating the Big Ten Sportsmanship Policy. PENN STATE — Promoted Kristina Petersen to associate athletics director for strategic communications.

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Pigskin prognosticator falls on hard times with wild picks Cardinals @ BENGALS -3

By Nolan Rose For the Peninsula Clarion

The fourth week of the NFL season was filled with upsets and baffling performances. Raise your hand if you had the Tampa Bay Bucs hanging 55 points on the Los Angeles Rams in LA. The Rams had only allowed 49 points in their first three games combined! How about the previously 1-2 Philadelphia Eagles waltzing into Green Bay and knocking off the then undefeated Packers? Even the hapless Denver Broncos lost at home to the Jacksonville Jaguars. Oh wait, that’s not surprising at all. Our dwindling bankroll took another hit amidst the madness of a 5-10 week against the spread. That drops our season total to 25 wins and 37 losses. We can’t even afford $2 steak and eggs at this point. Bad Beat of the Week: There wasn’t much to complain about this week with very few lines coming down to the final minutes of action. I guess Donkey backers could be disappointed that their side couldn’t hold a 17-3 advantage in the first half, only needing to cover a field goal. Of course, even that is pretty far down the list of things Denver fans have to complain about.

Rams @ SEAHAWKS -1 Seattle has been a house of horrors for visiting teams since Pete Carroll took over nearly a decade ago. That challenge gets even tougher on a short week. The Rams are trying to rebound from last week’s stunning letdown against the Bucs. I’m worried the Rams bounce back but my heart won’t let me go in that direction. Seahawks win 30-27

I have no clue who is going to win the football game and neither does anyone else reading this column. Both of these trainwrecks are awful and should be seriously considered for contraction. Hard to think the Desert Bats can win a road game. When in doubt side with the home team, that’s the play. Bengals win 27-20

Bills @ TITANS -3 The Bills will likely be without starting QB Josh Allen after he suffered a vicious hit to the head last Sunday. Allen is bad at passing a football, it’s uncertain if his absence will hurt or help the Bills. Tennessee has been a hard team to figure out through four weeks. The Titans have a pair of impressive wins over the Browns and Falcons sandwiching two uninspiring efforts. Titans win 19-13

BEARS @ Raiders +5 The Bears defense is incredible, if Chicago can field a competent offense, they’ll be a tough out in January. That offense improved last week thanks to starting QB Mitchell Trubisky’s injury. His replacement, Chase Daniel is better, and is reportedly playing this week. This game is being played in London, England. That nugget may or may not matter. Bears win 20-7

BUCS @ Saints -3.5 I’m siding with the team that just dropped 55 points on the LA Rams. If the Bucs can manage half that total on the Bayou it should be enough to cover the spread. The Saints have been incredibly impressive without star QB Drew Brees

the last two weeks. New Orleans knocked off the Seahawks in Seattle prior to beating the Dallas Cowboys last Sunday. Are the Saints due for a letdown? Bucs win 31-20

Vikings @ GIANTS +5.5 What a difference a change at quarterback makes! The Giants were abysmal in the opening two weeks with Eli Manning’s archaic arm leading the way. Enter rookie passer Daniel Jones and the Giants are suddenly a team on the rise. The Norwegians appear lost at sea with Kirk Cousins captaining the ship. The Vikes win a close one but fail to cover the number. Vikings win 23-20

Jets @ EAGLES -13.5 I don’t even know who the Jets QB is anymore? The one dude contracted mono, not sure if he’s back or not. The next guy got hurt. I’m sure they have someone that is capable of throwing the ball forward still, but that skill alone won’t be enough to keep pace with a resurgent Eagles team in Philly. Eagles win 35-13

RAVENS @ Steelers +3 Things can change quickly in the NFL. The Ravens were the darling of the NFL after two weeks, but consecutive defeats have left Edgar Allen Poe fans scratching their collective heads. The Steelers started the season with three straight losses, before Monday’s taming of the Bengals. A victory over Baltimore this Sunday would leave both rivals at 2-3. Ravens win 24-19

PATRIOTS @ Redskins +15.5

Washington drafted Ohio State Buckeye QB Dwayne Haskins in the first round of last year’s NFL draft. You may wonder if they’re regretting that decision now. Haskins replaced an also ineffective Case Keenum last Sunday and the results were less than impressive. Fortunately, for DC fans, the Redskins have kept pace for the number one selection in next year’s draft by losing every game they’ve played. It’s “Tank for Tua” time in the Capital. Patriots win 38-7

JAGUARS @ Panthers -3.5 Anytime you have a chance to side with Minshew Magic, and receive more than a field goal in points, you have to take it. Summoning passing powers from the strength of his mustache, Minshew has led Jacksonville to back-to-back victories and enabled a vagabond fanbase to dream of glory once again. Until that stache is clipped you’d be a fool to bet against the Jags. Jaguars win 27-20

Falcons @ TEXANS -5.5 If the Falcons continue their slide, coach Dan Quinn may not make survive the winter. The Dirty Birds are 1-3 after a puzzling home loss to the Tennessee Titans last week and can’t afford a fourth defeat in five games. The Texans need to get star receiver DeAndre Hopkins the ball. His lack of production has been killing my fantasy team the last three weeks. Texans win 30-24

BRONCOS @ Chargers -6.5 The Donkey’s have yet to win a game, but two of those defeats have been the result of last-second field goals. The play here is that Denver

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still has a little fight left in them. San Diego is fighting to keep pace with the undefeated Chiefs in the AFC West. A third loss could possibly leave the Chargers, a team with Super Bowl aspirations, scrambling for a wild card bid. Chargers win 20-12

Packers @ COWBOYS -3.5 The Fighting Jerry’s dropped their first game of the year in New Orleans last Sunday night. After three weeks of brilliant offensive play the Cowboys barely reached double digits against the Saints. Can the Packers find a way to repeat that performance? In what should be a close game, Packers star QB Aaron Rodgers has seemingly lost some of his fourth quarter magic in recent seasons. Cowboys win 26-19

COLTS @ Chiefs -11 The Chiefs have continued their winning ways but have failed to cover the number in recent weeks. The problem with having Patrick Mahomes on your roster is your almost always going to need to cover large spreads. The Horses blew a great chance to reach 3-1 by losing a home game to the lowly Oakland Raiders last Sunday. Chiefs win 30-20

BROWNS @ 49ers -3.5 Cleveland impressed dominating the Ravens in Baltimore a few days ago. Can the Dawg Pound head out west to wine country and repeat history? The 49ers aren’t an undefeated team in the NFL. They just aren’t that good. The smart money sides with a Keystone drinking Baker Mayfield, not the Pinot Grigio sipping Jimmy Garoppolo. Browns

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‘Lucy in the Sky’ an interesting mess By Lindsey Bahr Associated Press

The words “inspired by real events” are some of the first you see on screen in “Lucy in the Sky .” But that loose tie to reality becomes more of a noose than a help for the story that director Noah Hawley is trying to tell. Hawley and screenwriters Elliott DiGuiseppi and Brian C. Brown cherry pick facts from former astronaut Lisa Nowak’s strangerthan-fiction story to reach some larger point about the metaphysical and psychological effects of space travel. But the significant and seemingly random changes, embellishments and omissions make you wonder why they even needed the tether of Nowak in the first place. And no, I’m not talking about diapers or the lack thereof. Nowak was a Naval Academy graduate, a mother of three and an accomplished astronaut who in July 2006 went to the International Space Station as a mission specialist on the shuttle Discovery. Less than a year later, in the midst of an affair with a fellow astronaut, she made national news by driving 900 miles to confront her lover’s other girlfriend. She wore a wig and a trench coat and had in her car a knife, a BB pistol, a steel mallet and surgical tubing. She became the butt of many jokes, lost her job and was discharged from the Navy. The headlines often summed up the situation as a torrid love triangle. Some wondered why a woman with a family and so many professional accomplishments

would risk everything for an affair. Love makes you crazy, many concluded. But “Lucy in the Sky” foists an alternate narrative on the situation: What if it wasn’t really a jealous lover’s rage? What if 12 days, 18 hours and 36 minutes in space changes a person’s composition in ways that for all of our years of space travel we have yet to really reconcile with? It’s a fascinating question, but one that “Lucy in the Sky” only kind of deals with. Natalie Portman assumes the role of the protagonist who the movie calls Lucy Cola for perhaps no other reason other than having the excuse to use The Beatles song. She is a no-nonsense scientist who has spent her life striving to be the best, overcoming such professional handicaps as being a woman and not having an Ivy League education. She has a thick southern accent, an inexplicable Dorothy Hamill haircut, a sweet and doting husband, Drew (Dan Stevens) who can’t open jars without her help, and, in this account, no children. She does, however, have a teenage niece (Pearl Amanda Dickson) who she often has to look after. We meet Lucy in space and it’s a powerful moment. Portman’s almond eyes tear up and submit to the overwhelming enormousness of being wholly alone in the darkness. She sees her small life on earth as though in a trance. And suddenly it’s over and she’s back to doing school pickups and opening jars and running laps. It’s a comedown that she’s not prepared for, which is part of the reason why

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“Lucy in the Sky” HH Rating: R, for language and some sexual content she finds herself in an extramarital dalliance with a fellow astronaut, Mark Goodwin (Jon Hamm), who has also had a life changing experience in space and come back somewhat broken. There are moments of intense beauty in “Lucy in the Sky,” mostly when Hawley zooms in on his star’s evocative face. But Portman alone can’t save this muddled

endeavor. In his feature directorial debut, the creator of the “Fargo” and “Legion” television series tries to do too much to make everything more interesting (like changing the aspect ratio of the frame more than a few times and forcing an eye-rolling butterfly metaphor into the story). In the end, too, neither Lucy nor Lisa is redeemed or made more remarkable. The film still

settles for a sensationalist climax in an airport parking lot with Portman in a wig and a trench coat confronting Mark and his new girlfriend Erin (Zazie Beetz in a mostly thankless role). It’d be too easy to try to blame all the men involved, but in the past few years we’ve had a number of quite interesting, nuanced and entertaining looks at tabloid scandals including “Molly’s Game,” ”I, Tonya” and even this year’s “Hustlers” — two of which were written and directed by men. The “Lucy” team just missed the mark.

Funny how? In ‘Joker’ a villain turns ’70s anti-hero By Jake Coyle Associated Press

An air of menace and a cloud of controversy accompany the arrival of Todd Phillips’ “Joker” like a thick perfume. That, in itself, could be something to celebrate. Danger isn’t a quality often found in the sanitized corporate-made movies of today, least of all in the safe, fan-friendly world of comicbook films. “Joker,” though, is a calculatedly combustible concoction, designed, like its chaos-creating character, to cause a stir. To provoke and distort. I wish it was as radical as it thinks it is. Instead, “Joker” is a mesmerizing, misjudged attempt to marry the madness of a disturbed individual to today’s violent and clownish times. It’s a shallow, under-examined movie that renders the dark descent of a troubled man with an operatic fervor. That this feels so familiar, like the backstories of countless unhinged gunmen that so populate our tragedy-filled newspapers, could be seen as a powerful and grim reflection of today. Since the film has already so stuck a nerve, perhaps it is. But conjuring psychosis for the sake of a pre-determined origin story, make “Joker” feel cavalier and opportunistic. Its danger, really, is no deeper than a clown’s make-up. The template of “Joker” isn’t anything from the comics (Phillips wrote the film with Scott Silver) but a pair of Martin Scorsese films

Events and exhibitions ■■ Kenai’s 4th Annual Fall Pumpkin Festival will take place Saturday, Oct. 12 from noon-3 p.m. at Millennium Square (415 Spur View Dr., Kenai). Introducing, for the first time this year, the $2 Pumpkin Pick which includes a Hay Maze and Pumpkin Painting. There will also be food trucks, scarecrows, music, hay rides, petting zoo, face painting and more family fun for everyone! Call Kenai Parks, Recreation & Beautification Department at 907-2838262 for additional information. You can also find this event on our Facebook page. ■■ Sterling Community Center Oktoberfest will take place Saturday, Oct. 12. Doors open at 5:30 p.m. Brats, beer, pork and cider. With live music provided by the Alaska Polka Chips. Tickets $20. Silent and live auction. Call 907-262-7224 for more info or tickets. ■■ KDLL Adventure Talks has a presentation on biking the Hebridean Way — 250 miles along the islands off the northwest coast of Scotland. Tune in at 10 a.m. Oct. 16 for a discussion with Matt and Sarah Pyhala about the planning and logistics of an international biketrip. Then come to the live presentation at 6:30 p.m. Oct. 17 at the Kenai Visitors and Cultural Center. Admission is free for KDLLmembers, $5 for nonmembers.

about twisted loners: “Taxi Driver” and “The King of Comedy.” To make the point, Phillips has cast Robert De Niro, the star of both of those films, as a late-night host whose show Arthur Fleck (Joaquin Phoenix), our Joker-to-be, dreams of being on. Phillips, the maker of male comedies about clung-to adolescence (“Road Trip,” “Old School,” “The Hangover”), has elevated the Joker from DC Comics villain to ’70s-movie anti-hero. The Arthur we meet is a clownfor-hire and a wannabe stand-up. In the opening scene, he’s caking his face with makeup in front of a mirror. His smile already has a plainly forced, unnatural form. It’s the crooked outward manifestation of Arthur’s anguish. Laughter is the symptom of his heavily medicated disturbia (“All I have is negative thoughts,” he tells his social-services case worker), a product, we learn, of a childhood of abuse. To those who look at him strangely he hands a card informing them that he laughs inappropriately, like a condition of Tourette’s. We are, immediately, in a realm very far from the spandexed world of superhero movies. Where there is usually superficial shine, in the human-sized, adult-oriented “Joker” there is grit and grime. It’s 1981 in Gotham, but the fictional city has never been so unmistakably New York, home also to Scorsese’s Travis Bickle and Rupert Pupkin. Due to a strike, garbage has piled up on the sidewalks. Reports of “super ■■ True Tales, Told Live and KDLL public radio has a storytelling event at 6 p.m. Oct. 25 at Odie’s Deli in Soldotna. The theme is “Tail Tales: Stories of Animal Encounters,” with live music by Recess Duty. Admission is free. For more information or to sign up to tell a story,check out True Tales, Told Live on Facebook, or call Jenny Neyman with KDLL at 907-394-6397. ■■ True Tales, Told Live and Soldotna Parks and Rec offer a storytelling workshop from 6 to 8 p.m. Tuesday nights in November at theSoldotna Regional Sports Complex. Learn how to craft a story from start to finish in this four-week series. The cost is $15 for the entireworkshop or a $5 weekly drop-in fee. Sign up at Soldotna. org. For more information, visit True Tales, Told Live on Facebook, or callJenny Neyman at 907-394-6397. ■■ The KDLL Fall Membership Drive will be held Oct. 24, 25 and 26 on air at 91.9 FM. Volunteers are needed. Contact Jenny Neyman atjneyman@kdll.org or 907-394-6397 ■■ The Kenai Performers annual murder mystery dinner theater will take place Friday-Saturday, Sept. 27-28, and FridaySaturday, Oct. 4-5. We are thrilled to present the world premiere of “Crab Cakes and Murder,” written and directed by Mike Druce. At Kenai Performers PAC, 44045 K-Beach (Behind Subway). Doors

“Joker” HH Rating: R, for strong bloody violence, disturbing behavior, language and brief sexual images. rats” have hit the tabloids. While twirling a sign on the sidewalk (“Everything Must Go”), Arthur is harassed by a group of teenagers and then beaten and mugged in a nearby alleyway. For Arthur, everything has already gone. His life is pitiful and unrelentingly bleak. Athur lives with his mother (Frances Conroy). His tenuous grip on employment slips away when a gun, given to him by a coworker after the mugging, slides out of his pants while entertaining children at a hospital. Phoenix, among the finest actors working, is dramatically thinner here, turning him sinewy and sinister. His face and movement holds the movie together. It’s impossible to look away from an actor so fully, so hypnotically throwing himself into a character, even if there’s an acting-class self-consciousness to the whole production — one surely indebted in spirit to Heath Ledger’s wholebody transformation in “The Dark Knight.” But Phoenix has also been better with similarly broken souls in films like “The Master” and “The Immigrant.” In close-up, Phoenix’s smiles are ghastly. He chokes on his laughter. He’s been raised to smile through

calendar open at 6 p.m. Dinner at 6:30 p.m. Show at 7:30 p.m. $45 per person. Tickets available at: River City Books, at the door, or online at https://squareup.com/store/kenaiperformers. Menu: crab cakes, build your own tacos (chicken or beef), salad bar, black beans, brown rice, cake. ■■ The Redoubt Chamber Orchestra will present the annual Evening of Classics concert on Friday, Oct. 4 at 7 p.m. at Christ Lutheran Church in Soldotna. This annual fundraiser, hosted by Simon Nissen, is for the Kenai Peninsula Orchestra and will feature several selections by the Redoubt Chamber Orchestra under the direction of Tammy Vollom-Matturro, along with soloists and other ensembles. We will again auction off the baton for a chance to conduct the last piece in the program, and an art auction for a piece by Olya Silver. Join us for a fun-filled evening of quality music and lots of laughs. Cost is $15. Youth 18 and under are free. Tickets available at the door. ■■ Spelman Evans Downer Ecotopia North Painting Exhibition will be hosted at Gallery Turquoise North at Mile 49.5 Sterling Highway, Cooper Landing from Oct. 5-13, 4-8 p.m. Additional viewings

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pain, tragically divorcing himself from expressing his emotions. “Joker” is driven not by any outside force but the ominous sense of something bad welling up in the unloved Arthur. Having won our sympathy through endless indignities, we begin to almost root for him to lash out. When he does, one night on a nearly empty subway (a subterranean gloom pervades the whole film), Arthur has, in a troubling way, self-actualized. This is, of course, who he’s meant to be. And it’s that leap, from self-pity wallowing to wanton revenge meted out on a sick society, that has made “Joker” rightfully debated. Rather than surround Arthur’s horrifying transformation with context, alternatives or rays of light — whether they fall on him or not — “Joker” simply hitches a ride on his freefall in mania.

There’s a moment when the film could have charted a different path toward a deeper character study. Instead, it gets on with what needs to happen, the chaos necessary to unlock, with a coldblooded smothering and pointblank shooting. Arthur’s pain and psychosis has been offered up, in the end, not to lead to any understanding of his condition, but for its violent release, and to link to the required comic-book architecture. It’s a testament to the potency of Phillips’ vision that “Joker” has already become such a talking point. Phillips and Phoenix have made something to reckon with, certainly, and that alone makes it a bold exception in a frustratingly safe genre. But its biggest danger is in not illustrating but catering to a world gone mad. You have to ask, in the end, why so serious?

by appointment. Contact 310-261-5383 or visit Spelman Evans Downer on Facebook. 25% of the proceeds will benefit Trout Unlimited to support their work with the Save Bristol Bay organization. ■■ Sterling Community Center FallFest 2019: Mark your calendar for our Fall Craft and Vendor Fair on Saturday, Oct. 26, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Open to the public. There will be vendors, local crafts, food and drink, craft workshops, and much more! To reserve a space or for more information, please call 907-262-7224 or stop in Monday-Friday between 9:00 a.m. and noon, 38377 Swanson River Road, Sterling.

■■ Acapulco, 43543 Sterling Highway in Soldotna, has live music at 5 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays. ■■ A bluegrass jam takes place on the first Sunday of the month at from 1-4 p.m. at the Mount Redoubt Baptist Church on South Lovers Loop in Nikiski. ■■ Veronica’s in Old Town Kenai has Open Mic from 6-8 p.m. Friday. Call Veronica’s at 283-2725. ■■ The Alaska Roadhouse Bar and Grill hosts open horseshoe tournaments Thursday nights at the bar on Golddust Drive. For more information, call 262-9887. ■■ An all acoustic jam takes place every Thursday. The jam takes place at Christ Lutheran Church in Soldotna on the first Thursday of the month, and at the Kenai Senior Center during the rest of the month. Jam starts at 6:30 p.m. ■■ Odie’s Deli in Soldotna has live music Friday from 6-8 p.m. and Pub Quiz night every Wednesday from 6-8 p.m. ■■ AmVets Post 4 has reopened in its brand new building on Kalifornsky Beach across from Jumpin’ Junction. Eligible veterans and their families are invited to stop by to find out more about AmVets and their involvement in the Veteran community. ■■ The Bow bar in Kenai has karaoke at 9 p.m. Thursdays.

Entertainment ■■ The Flats Bistro in Kenai presents live dinner music Thursday and Friday from 6:30-8:30 p.m., featuring Garrett Mayer on Thursdays and Mike Morgan & Matt Boyle on Fridays. For reservations (recommended) please call The Flats Bistro at 907-335-1010. Please watch this space for more music at The Flats this fall. ■■ Don Jose’s Restaurant in Soldotna features live music every Thursday from 6-9 p.m. Please call 907-262-5700 for reservations and info. ■■ The Place has Karaoke starting at 9 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 5.

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Eddie Murphy shines in vulgar, heartfelt ‘Dolemite’ By Lindsey Bahr Associated Press

For the amount of cursing, vulgarity and nudity in “Dolemite Is My Name,” it might come as a surprise that it’s actually a rather sweet and heartfelt film. “Dolemite” is not here to shock and scandalize. It’s simply a loving, R-rated portrait of Rudy Ray Moore, a nobody who had the guts to believe in himself when no one else did, featuring a killer comeback Eddie Murphy performance. The self-proclaimed “Godfather of rap,” Moore was an Army veteran, standup comedian, musician and born performer who in the 1970s came to niche prominence for his rhythmic and raunchy Dolemite act. That character would beget both standup albums and the 1975 Blaxploitation film “Dolemite,” a low-budget production (reports say it cost around $100,000 to make) that made some $10 million at the box office. But it’s almost irrelevant whether you know Moore’s name well, and how he inspired the likes of Dr. Dre and Snoop Dogg, or are learning about him for the first time: “Dolemite Is My Name” is just a good piece of entertainment. And it’s the kind of film that will help his legacy live on (Moore died in 2008 at age 81). It makes sense that the script comes by way of screenwriters Scott Alexander and Larry Karaszewski, who did something similar for the cult filmmaker Ed Wood. Directed by Craig Brewer

“Dolemite Is My Name” HHH½ Rating: R, for some sexuality, full nudity and brief language (“Hustle & Flow”), “Dolemite Is My Name” transports you to Moore’s 1970s Los Angeles, thanks to Ruth E. Carter’s evocative costumes and Clay Griffith’s production design. There’s nothing terribly interesting about the way it’s told, it’s just a straightforward underdog story with a big beating heart. Murphy plays Moore with a wide-eyed eagerness we typically only see on screen in much younger characters. He’s constantly told no or to stay in his lane. Even his friends (Craig Robinson, Mike Epps and Tituss Burgess among them) look at him with that kind of half-pitying/halfsupportive smile that will leave the audience wondering if this is just a big dreamer who might not actually make it. But he has an eye for talent and at a low point borrows some material from a local homeless man about a larger-than-life character named Dolemite, and, finally he’s got people’s attention. But there are still many, many no’s he’ll have to overcome to get an album made and then released. And we haven’t even gotten to the cult classic movie yet. While it’s a joy spending time with Moore as he ascends in the

Eddie Murphy stars in “Dolemite Is My Name.”

comedy world, the film really kicks into gear when he gets the idea to make a film one night after he and his buddies decide to see a movie — something funny — and are left scratching their heads at a packed showing of Billy Wilder’s 1974 remake of “The Front Page” with Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau, wondering what the appeal is. So they decide to make something that they want to see (kungfu, nudity and action are a few of the requirements). Moore scrapes

together money, friends, acquaintances, some strangers (a playwright played by Keegan-Michael Key, and actor D’Urville Martin, played by Wesley Snipes) and a few film school students and sets off to make a feature. The only problem? None of them really know how to make a movie. But they do their best which is often funny and always endearing. Aside from Murphy, who eases back into stardom seamlessly, the other standout performance

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comes from Da’Vine Joy Randolph, a Tony-nominated stage actress who bursts off the screen as comedian Lady Reed. Moore “discovers” her one night on tour as someone with presence. “Some people walk around with their own personal spotlight,” Murphy’s Moore tells her. The same could be said of Randolph, or Moore himself and it’s a lovely thing to have a very good film like “Dolemite Is My Name” to show off both.

Jessye Norman, international opera star, dies at 74 By Mesfin Fekadu Associated Press

NEW YORK — Jessye Norman, the renowned international opera star whose passionate soprano voice won her four Grammy Awards, the National Medal of Arts and the Kennedy Center Honor, has died, according to family spokesperson Gwendolyn Quinn. She was 74. A statement released to The Associated Press on Monday said Norman died at 7:54 a.m. EDT from septic shock and multi-organ failure secondary to complications of a spinal cord injury she suffered in 2015. She died at Mount Sinai St. Luke’s Hospital in New York, and was surrounded by loved ones. “We are so proud of Jessye’s musical achievements and the inspiration that she provided to audiences around the world that will continue to be a source of joy. We are equally proud of her humanitarian endeavours addressing matters such as hunger, homelessness, youth development, and arts and culture education,” the family statement read. Funeral arrangements will be announced in the coming days. Norman was a trailblazing performer, and one of the rare black singers to attain worldwide stardom in the opera world, performing at such revered houses like La Scala and the Metropolitan Opera, and singing title roles in works like “Carmen,” “Aida” and more. She sang the works of Wagner, but was not limited to opera or classical music, performing songs by Duke Ellington and others as well. “I have always been drawn to things other people might

consider unusual. I’m always taken by the text and beautiful melody. It’s not important to me who has written it. It’s just more reasonable to have an open mind about what beauty is,” Norman said in a 2002 interview with the Chicago Sun-Times. “It’s important for classical musicians to stretch and think beyond the three B’s (Bach, Beethoven and Brahms). They were wonderful composers, but they went to the great beyond a long time ago. There’s lots of music that will live for a very long time.” In that same interview she profoundly said, “Pigeonholing is only interesting to pigeons.” Norman certainly knew no boundaries or limits. She broke barriers and had hoped her industry would see more faces like hers. “It is a more diverse place, thank goodness,” Norman said of the opera world in a 2004 interview with NPR, “I wish it were even more diverse than it is.” Norman was born on September 15, 1945 in Augusta, Georgia, in segregationist times. She grew up singing in church and around a musical family that included pianists and singers. She earned a scholarship to the historically black college Howard University in Washington, D.C., to study music, and later studied at the Peabody Conservatory and the University of Michigan. Eventually she made her operatic debut in 1969 in Berlin, wowing audiences around the world on stages in Milan, London and New York thanks to her shining vocals, no matter the language. The New York Times described her voice as “a grand mansion of sound.” “It defines an extraordinary space. It has enormous

dimensions, reaching backward and upward. It opens onto unexpected vistas. It contains sunlit rooms, narrow passageways, cavernous falls,” the Times’ Edward Rothstein wrote. The Met Opera called Norman “one of the great sopranos of the past half-century” in a statement. “Starting with her Met debut as Cassandra in Berlioz’s Les Troyens on Opening Night of the Met’s centennial 1983-84 season, Norman sang more than 80 performances with the company, dazzling audiences with her beautiful tone, extraordinary power, and musical sensitivity,” the statement read. Former Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams said: “Farewell to the beloved Jessye Norman, a woman of vision, adventure and joy. A glorious voice and beautiful soul has winged towards Heaven. Her legacy lives on in music and the children who greet art in her name each day.” And Broadway legend Audra McDonald wrote on Twitter, “UGH! Nooooooo! This is awful. I was literally supposed to spend time with her next week. RIP most magnificent amazing brilliant Diva.” In 1997, at age 52, Norman became the youngest person ever to earn the Kennedy Center Honor in the organization’s 20-year history at the time. She received her National Medal of Arts from former President Barack Obama and has earned honorary doctorates from a number of prestigious schools, including Juilliard, Harvard and Yale. She is a member of British Royal Academy of Music and Georgia Music Hall of Fame. Norman even has orchid named after her in France, and the country also made her a

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American opera singer Jessye Norman performing on the Stravinski Hall stage at the 44th Montreux Jazz Festival, in Montreux, Switzerland, on July 4, 2010. Norman died, Monday in New York. She was 74.

Commander of the Order of Arts and Letters. She’s earned 15 Grammy nominations throughout her illustrious career, picking up her first at the 1985 show for best classical vocal soloist performance for “Ravel: Songs Of Maurice Ravel.” She earned Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 2006. Norman also gave back, raising funds to help students attend school, championing the arts in schools and championing diversity. “I look at symphony orchestras around this country and I want those orchestras to look more like the demographic they’re meant to serve. I would like to see more African-Americans on the stage at the Metropolitan Opera here in New York. There are certainly some, but not nearly enough, and I come across so many singers who are terribly gifted and that would be an asset to these opera companies around our country. But we

still have these people who are just a little bit hesitant, and perhaps not as openhearted ... as I’d like them to be,” she said. “I look forward to the day when we do not think about color of skin when we’re looking to have a person do a job, whatever that job is.” The Jessye Norman School of the Arts opened in 2003 in Augusta to provide a free fine arts education to disadvantaged children. The Augusta Chronicle reported that Norman was set to attend the Oct. 11 street-naming ceremony in her hometown on Eighth Street, where the school is located. It will be named Jessye Norman Boulevard. In 1990, Augusta opened the Jessye Norman Amphitheater to honour the opera icon. Norman released her memoir, “Stand Up Straight and Sing!,” in 2004. She is survived by two remaining siblings, James Norman and Elaine Sturkey.

Placido Domingo resigns as general director of LA Opera By Jocelyn Gecker Associated Press

SAN FRANCISCO —Opera star Placido Domingo resigned Wednesday as general director of the Los Angeles Opera and withdrew from all future performances, following multiple allegations from women who say the legendary tenor sexually harassed them there and at opera companies around the country over a period of decades. Domingo’s departure from LA Opera raises questions about his future career in the United States, where he has been removed or has stepped down from all scheduled appearances since the allegations were first published by The Associated Press. In two reports published Aug.

13 and Sept. 5 , the AP spoke to more than 20 women who accused Domingo of sexual harassment or other inappropriate, sexually charged conduct. Placido Many said Domingo Domingo tried to pressure them into sexual relationships and sometimes punished them professionally if they rejected him. All said they feared reporting him because of his power to make or break their careers, and that his behavior was an open secret in the opera world. The accusers’ stories laid out strikingly similar patterns of behavior that included Domingo persistently contacting them — often calling them repeatedly at

home, late at night — expressing interest in their careers and urging them to meet him privately for a drink or meal, at his apartment or a hotel room, under the guise of offering professional advice. Several women said they took extreme measures to avoid Domingo, hiding from him in dressing rooms, not answering their phones or asking male colleagues to walk them to their cars so they wouldn’t be alone. In a statement Wednesday, Domingo said that his ability to continue at LA Opera was “compromised” by the accusations against him. “I hold Los Angeles Opera very dearly to my heart and count my work to create and build it as among my most important legacies,” said Domingo, 78, who

helped found the company in the 1980s and is credited with raising its international profile. “However, recent accusations that have been made against me in the press have created an atmosphere in which my ability to serve this company that I so love has been compromised,” Domingo said, adding that he would continue to work to clear his name but decided “it is in the best interests of LA Opera for me to resign as general director and withdraw from my future scheduled performances at this time.” Domingo had been scheduled to headline six performances of “Roberto Devereux” in February and March. The resignation comes a week after the Metropolitan Opera’s bombshell announcement that

Domingo would not be taking the stage in the season premiere of “Macbeth” and possibly ever again. Three other companies — the Philadelphia Orchestra, San Francisco Opera and Dallas Opera — had already removed Domingo from upcoming performances in the wake of the AP stories. One singer, Angela Turner Wilson, told AP that Domingo reached into her robe and forcefully grabbed her breast in a makeup room during a 1999 production at the Washington Opera. Another singer said when she worked with Domingo at LA Opera in the mid-2000s, he stuck his hand down her skirt after asking her to sing for him at his apartment. Others said he forced wet kisses on their lips.

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In the Heat of the Night In the Heat of the Night JAG ‘PG’ JAG ‘PG’ Blue Bloods ‘14’ Blue Bloods ‘14’ Blue Bloods ‘14’ M*A*S*H M*A*S*H In the Heat of the Night In the Heat of the Night JAG ‘PG’ JAG ‘PG’ Blue Bloods ‘14’ Blue Bloods ‘14’ Blue Bloods ‘14’ Dog’s Most Wanted ‘14’ In the Heat of the Night In the Heat of the Night In the Heat of the Night In the Heat of the Night In the Heat of the Night Dog the Bounty Hunter Dog Dog Dog Dog In the Heat of the Night In the Heat of the Night JAG ‘PG’ JAG ‘PG’ Blue Bloods ‘14’ Blue Bloods ‘14’ Blue Bloods ‘14’ Last Man Last Man In the Heat of the Night In the Heat of the Night JAG ‘PG’ JAG ‘PG’ Blue Bloods ‘14’ Blue Bloods ‘14’ Blue Bloods ‘14’ Last Man Last Man Slimming and Shaping LOGO by Lori Goldstein “10th Anniversary” (N) ‘G’ Jayne & Pat’s Closet (N) (Live) ‘G’ Lisa Rinna Collection - Fashion “Fashion” (N) ‘G’ PM Style With Amy Stran (6:00) Denim & Co. 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Stooges (:25) The Walking Dead (:26) The Walking Dead (:27) The Walking Dead (:28) The Walking Dead (:29) The Walking Dead “XXX: State of the Union” (2005) Ice Cube, Willem Dafoe. (:14) The Walking Dead “Last Day on Earth” ‘MA’ (9:47) The Walking Dead (10:53) The Walking Dead (11:59) The Walking Dead “XXX” (2002) Vin Diesel. A spy tries to stop an anarchist with weapons. (:06) The Walking Dead “Service” ‘MA’ (:31) The Walking Dead (:32) The Walking Dead (:43) The Walking Dead ‘MA’ (:13) The Walking Dead ‘MA’ (:40) The Walking Dead ‘MA’ Ben 10 ‘Y7’ Teen Titans Teen Titans Teen Titans Teen Titans Total Drama Gumball Gumball Gumball Gumball Total Drama Victor Mao Mao Mao Mao Gumball Gumball Ben 10 ‘Y7’ Teen Titans Teen Titans Teen Titans Teen Titans Total Drama Gumball Gumball Gumball Gumball Total Drama Victor Teen Titans Teen Titans Gumball Gumball Ben 10 ‘Y7’ Teen Titans Teen Titans Teen Titans Teen Titans Total Drama Gumball Gumball Gumball Gumball Total Drama Victor Teen Titans Teen Titans Gumball Gumball Ben 10 ‘Y7’ Teen Titans Teen Titans Teen Titans Teen Titans Total Drama Gumball Gumball Gumball Gumball Total Drama Victor Teen Titans Teen Titans Gumball Gumball Ben 10 ‘Y7’ Teen Titans Teen Titans Teen Titans Teen Titans Total Drama Gumball Gumball Gumball Gumball Total Drama Victor Teen Titans Teen Titans Gumball Gumball Dr. Dee: Alaska Vet Dr. Jeff: RMV The Zoo ‘PG’ Secret Life-Zoo Pit Bulls and Parolees Pit Bulls and Parolees Varied Programs Mickey T.O.T.S. ‘G’ Puppy Pals Puppy Pals Muppet Giganto Vampirina Elena Rapunzel Transylvania Academy Ladybug Amphibia Big City Big City Big City Mickey T.O.T.S. ‘Y’ Puppy Pals Puppy Pals Muppet Giganto Vampirina Elena Rapunzel Transylvania Academy Ladybug Amphibia Big City Big City Big City Mickey T.O.T.S. ‘Y’ Puppy Pals Puppy Pals Muppet Giganto Vampirina Elena Rapunzel Transylvania Academy Ladybug Amphibia Big City Big City Big City Mickey T.O.T.S. ‘Y’ Puppy Pals Puppy Pals Muppet Giganto Vampirina Elena Rapunzel Transylvania Academy Ladybug Amphibia (:45) “Monsters, Inc.” (2001) Mickey T.O.T.S. ‘G’ Puppy Pals Puppy Pals Vampirina Giganto Vampirina Elena Rapunzel Transylvania Academy Ladybug Amphibia Big City Big City Big City Bubble Abby PAW Patrol PAW Patrol Ryan PAW Patrol Blaze Ricky Zoom PAW Patrol PAW Patrol “The Smurfs” (2011, Children’s) Hank Azaria. 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Gap pal encroaches on man’s relationship with girlfriend DEAR ABBY: My friends, but he needs to boyfriend and I have set some boundaries? been together for — FED UP IN NEW nearly a year. He has YORK several female friends I have met and like very DEAR FED UP: Your much. However, one of boyfriend is allowed to be them texts him every friends with anyone he day, even while we are wishes. However, because together. She also sends you think the attention Facebook messages and he’s receiving from this Dear Abby sometimes calls him at woman infringes on Jeanne Phillips work. Sometimes she your time with him, you “drops in” at his home. should say that to him. Abby, this woman is married If you do, perhaps he may tell her to with a family of her own, but she tone it down. seems to be obsessed with my boyfriend. I have expressed my DEAR ABBY: I volunteer at a concern about her behavior and county no-kill animal shelter. I love told my boyfriend that while I trust doing the work and helping people him completely, I feel she is overly find a pet that’s right for them, if I emotionally attached to him, and can. what she’s doing is disrespectful to Every week, people come in our relationship as well as the one looking for a lost pet. “What did he she has with her husband and family. look like?” “How old was she?” And He just continues to repeat that there then the burning question, “Was is nothing going on. How can I make your pet microchipped?” Often— too him understand that they can still be often — the answer is “No.”

Please remind your readers that if they care about Buddy or Fluffy and love them and consider them family, to PLEASE have them microchipped. Any veterinarian’s office can do it. A county shelter can do it, too. It’s not expensive. It will give people a much better chance of having their friend returned, even if they are far away. — ANIMAL LOVER IN UTAH DEAR ANIMAL LOVER: I’m glad you wrote. I hope my animalguardian readers will heed your advice. Furry family members are sometimes stolen, and they often like to roam when they see an opportunity. If pets are microchipped, it increases the odds of them being recovered. DEAR ABBY: Can you please explain the guidelines for reciprocating invitations? We have invited the “Smiths” to our home three times. Each time they said they were busy and would be for several weeks, so we stopped extending

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invitations. Then they had us over, and we had a really good time. This week I tried to reciprocate and, again, they are busy. Should I keep trying? Or is this a signal that the Smiths don’t want to come to us for whatever reason? — GOOD TIMES IN CALIFORNIA DEAR GOOD TIMES: No rule of etiquette requires you to continue trying to coax this couple to your home. After three refusals, it’s reasonable to conclude that — for whatever reason — they prefer to do the entertaining. While some might regard their refusals as a snub, I don’t think you should because they did reach out and invite you over. Because you feel obligated, try inviting them out to dinner, and see if that brings better results. Dear Abby is written by Abigail Van Buren, also known as Jeanne Phillips, and was founded by her mother, Pauline Phillips. Contact Dear Abby at www.DearAbby.com or P.O. Box 69440, Los Angeles, CA 90069.

Jacqueline Bigar’s Stars

ARIES (March 21-April 19) HHHHH Try for an overview. New information comes forward that encourages you to think through an already-made decision. You could be questioning a problem in which stories vary because of anger and perspective. Tonight: Let Lady Luck lead.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20) HHH One-on-one relating takes you down a new path. Use caution

GEMINI (May 21-June 20) HHHH Continue to defer to others and allow more give-and-take. How you deal with a dear friend might surprise a close family member. You might be forced to rethink your decision. Opportunities pop up out of left field. Tonight: Accept an invitation.

CANCER (June 21-July 22) HHHH Take a deep breath; rethink a decision involving your daily life. You could be a lot happier with a different schedule or another change. A conversation could become more animated than you anticipated. Tonight: Squeeze in a walk or exercise session.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) HHHHH You can use your high libido energy creatively at work or with a hassle. Certainly, someone who makes your eyes twinkle whenever you see him or her senses your mood. True to form, you manage to have it all, if you plan well. Tonight: Act like a teenager again.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) HHHH You need to understand that when dealing with someone from whom you want more, his or her reactions could startle you. How you approach this person needs to be done with care, especially if you don’t know him or her well. Tonight: Order in.

Dear Heloise: I read the recent letter from the lady in Austintown, Ohio, who discovered two old men at the meal after her sister’s funeral who were not related to anyone. They saw the note in the local paper and heard about the meal, and they came to eat. The lady wrote: “They go to places to see where they can get a free meal. Very sad!” It is sad to think that these two elders are reduced to looking for free meals to eat. Poor guys! I’m sure there was enough food for two senior citizens looking for a hot meal. — Linda in San Antonio

UNIFORMLY GREAT Dear Heloise: I read your column in my newspaper, the Rapid City (South Dakota) Journal, about what was appropriate for summer dress at places of business. I thought it interesting, but I must confess that I’ve never had to concern myself with having to make any choices. For the past 52 summers, I have proudly worn the green and gray uniform of a Na-

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HHHH Take your time when dealing with a personal matter. You often don’t discuss what’s on your mind. You might need to take a break or sign up for a yoga class to get distance from any agitation. You’ll be amazed at the results. Tonight: Early to bed.

HHHH You could be tired of having to explain yourself when you feel that you’re perfectly clear. Assume that someone could have a block on this topic and that it needs to be approached differently. Stay calm. Tonight: Make weekend plans.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) HHHH Your willfulness emerges when you’re dealing with a partner. You want to have your way, as does the other person. Perhaps putting the disagreement to bed and continuing with your normal interaction will give you some insight. Tonight: Where your friends are.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) HHH Be aware of the costs of continuing as you have been. You might want to make an adjustment to your style and spending. You’ll be much happier in the long run. A friend or loved one lets you know how much he or she disagrees with you. Tonight: Don’t worry about the budget now.

HHHH Your emotional nature draws others toward you. You often hear true confessions, although you might prefer not to. A friend could become a drag or quite needy. You might need to distance yourself for a while. Tonight: Letting off steam.

HHHH You surprise others with your attitude. You might be changing how to present your assets, both

SHOE GURU Dear Heloise: Take it from a 60-year-old guy whose shoes don’t stink despite the fact that I choose to not wear socks most of the time, even with golf shoes! I started going sockless in college and quickly figured out the following: 1. I wash my feet well (with soap) when I shower. 2. I don’t wear the same pair of shoes two days in a row. This allows the inside to dry between wearings, and it extends the life of the shoes. (I read that in a pamphlet that came with the first pair of nice dress shoes I purchased as an adult.) 3. If you break these rules and the shoes get funky, wash or clean them thoroughly and let them dry before wearing them again. — A Reader in Texas

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PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20)

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21)

tional Park Ranger, the best summer wardrobe ever! — Don F., Hot Springs, S.D. Don, how wonderful! Thank you for your service in our beautiful National Parks. — Hugs, Heloise

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CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19)

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22)

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latent talents as well as financial matters. Keep a sense of self-discipline and you’ll have more choices later. Tonight: Your spontaneity delights others.

Conceptis Sudoku | DaveByGreen Dave Green SUDOKU Solution

2 6 5 8 3 7 1 4 9

7 1 9 2 5 4 6 8 3

3 8 4 9 1 6 5 7 2

6 2 8 3 4 9 7 1 5

4 5 7 1 2 8 9 3 6

9 3 1 6 7 5 8 2 4

1 7 2 5 9 3 4 6 8

Difficulty Level

B.C. | Johnny Hart

8 9 3 4 6 1 2 5 7

5 4 6 7 8 2 3 9 1

4 3 6 8

3 7 8 1 2

Difficulty Level

Ziggy | Tom Wilson

Tundra | Chad Carpenter

Garfield | Jim Davis

Take it from the Tinkersons | Bill Bettwy

1 2 8

3 7 9

10/02

Shoe | Chris Cassatt & Gary Brookins

Mother Goose and Grimm | Michael Peters

1 6 7 6 5

3 9 5 4 10/03

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This year, your determination proves to be the vehicle that allows you to achieve several key goals. Before you launch into action and go for it, review the goal. Your desires could have changed. If single, you could meet someone who’s exciting to be with but less amusing to live with. Proceed with care. Don’t commit unless you’re sure of your choice. If attached, you might find that daily life with your sweetie is strenuous. Try to honor differences rather than fight over them. Be less demanding; eye changes more easily. You might even move. SAGITTARIUS cheers you on no matter what you’re up to! The Stars Show the Kind of Day You’ll Have: 5-Dynamic; 4-Positive; 3-Average; 2-So-so; 1-Difficult

when dealing with a financial partner or agreement. Anger could become an issue when you’re dealing with a child or loved one. Tonight: Opportunity knocks on your door.

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HAPPY BIRTHDAY for Thursday, Oct. 3, 2019: