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• Birds to blame for two recent power outages, utility says

  06-09-2016 23:00 via ktoo.org
  Alaska Power and Telephone says “animal vandalism” was the cause of two of three power outages that all happened within the last three weeks.
  The frequency of outages recently has been unusual, AP&T’s local manager Darren Belisle in Skagway said, but the timing seems to be a coincidence.
  The most recent outage was about 3 p.m. Monday.
  A raven got into AP&T’s main power transformer in Haines, Belisle said.
  The corvid interference caused the
  
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• Coast Guard Foundation awards scholarship to Kodiak student

  06-09-2016 22:00 via ktoo.org
  
  One Kodiak Coast Guard daughter is pursuing her degree in Florida with help from The Coast Guard Foundation.
  The Kodiak recipient is Katelyn Izzo, the daughter of Anthony Izzo, aviation maintenance technician senior chief.
  She’s chosen to attend Florida Gulf Coast University in Fort Myers.
  According to the university website, it’s one of the 12 public universities which belong to the State University System of Florida.
  A representative from Rushton Gregory Communication over email wr
  
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• Army Corps doesn’t oppose temporary halt to Dakota Access Pipeline

  06-09-2016 22:00 via ktoo.org
  
  Native Americans protest the Dakota Access oil pipeline near the Standing Rock Sioux reservation in southern North Dakota. (Photo by James MacPherson/Associated Press)
  The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers says it does not oppose the temporary halt of construction on the Dakota Access Pipeline, a $3.8 billion oil pipeline slated to run through four states, including North Dakota.
  As we’ve reported, the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe opposes the pipeline because it fears it could disturb sacred sites
  
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• Tuskegee Airman, Martin Luther King Jr. bodyguard dies at 93

  06-09-2016 21:00 via ktoo.org
  
  In June 2013, Tuskegee Airman Dabney Montgomery waves to the crowd as he is introduced before the start of a baseball game in New York. (Photo by Kathy Willens/Associated Press)
  Dabney Montgomery fought for America on two battlegrounds: in southern Italy, during World War II, and in the American South, during the civil rights movement.
  Montgomery, who died on Saturday at the age of 93, was a ground crewman with the Tuskegee Airmen. He went on to be a bodyguard for Martin Luther King Jr., guardin
  
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• Federal grants awarded to combat opioid use in Alaska

  06-09-2016 21:00 via ktoo.org
  
  Prescribing of oxycodone and other opioid pain pills rose sharply after 2000.
  (Photo by John Moore/Getty Images)
  Three multi-year federal grants focused on combating opioid use have been awarded to the Alaska Department of Health and Social Services.
  The grants will amount to an estimated $3 million annually. One three-year grant from the Center for Disease Control totals $750,000, and will focus on data collection, analysis, policy review and public education on opioid overdoses.
  The
  
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• Video: Anchorage professor bets on bio-insulation made from mushrooms

  06-09-2016 20:15 via ktoo.org
  
  From underneath the roads to inside our homes, insulation is everywhere in Alaska.But traditional foam board is energy intensive to produce and often ends up as plastic litter in oceans and waterways.A group of researchers at the University of Alaska Anchorage are working to develop an environmentally friendly alternative. 
  Professor Philippe Amstislavski stands in front of a group of students from the Alaska Native Science and Engineering Program.
  “This is all experimental, nobody h
  
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• Fox News will pay Gretchen Carlson $20M to settle sexual harassment suit

  06-09-2016 20:00 via ktoo.org
  
  In July, Gretchen Carlson filed a lawsuit accusing then-Fox News Chairman Roger Ailes of sexual harassment. The network is settling the suit for a large sum of money and will offer an apology, a source tells NPR. (Photo by Noam Galai/Getty Images for GIFF)
  Two months after former Fox & Friends co-host Gretchen Carlson accused Fox News’ then-Chairman Roger Ailes of sexual harassment, the network has agreed to pay Carlson $20 million and make a “highly unusual public apology,&rdquo
  
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• Alaskan Book Review – “The Arctic Whaling Journals, Volume III, Voyages of 1817, 1818 and 1820″

  06-09-2016 19:54 via ktoo.org
  
  
  Commentator Dee Longenbaugh reviews “The Arctic Whaling Journals, Volume III, Voyages of 1817, 1818 and 1820”by William Scoresby, edited by C. Ian Jackson with the appendix by Fred Walker, and published by the Haklluyt Society.http://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/ktoo/2016/09/BOOK205.mp3
  
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• Juneau Afternoon – 9-6-16

  06-09-2016 19:40 via ktoo.org
  
  Tuesday on A Juneau Afternoon, Ben Brown hosts.
  We’ll get an update on Library activities with Beth Wiegel;
  We’ll find out about this week’s Planetarium presentation;
  We’ll learn about the Board of Education’s Open House.
  That, Writer’s Almanac, Bird Note, music and more, today on A Juneau Afternoon, live at 3 on KTOO-News, repeated at 4 on KRNN, and available on demand on-line at ktoo.org
   
  
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• Aerial silk artists will teach others to reach new heights

  06-09-2016 19:30 via ktoo.org
  
  Instructor Bridget Doran practicing aerial silk art above Kachemak Bay.
  (Photo courtesy of Kammi Matson)
  Summer may be over, but three “circus art” classes are set to begin this week at the Homer Council on the Arts.
  Homer resident Kammi Matson is one of the class instructors. She’s been practicing aerial silk arts since 2011.
  Aerial silk work is a type of performance art that uses long strips of fabric suspended from the ceiling.
  Performers wrap themselves in the fabric,
  
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• Foundation receives grant to fund Native language courses

  06-09-2016 19:00 via ktoo.org
  
  FAIRBANKS — An Alaska foundation is hoping to revitalize five Athabascan languages through online education with help from a $900,000 grant.
  The Fairbanks Daily News-Miner reports that the Doyon Foundation recently announced the grant awarded by the nonprofit group Administration for Native Americans.
  The foundation will use the money to create 280 online lessons focusing on Holikachuk, Denaakke, Benhti Kenaga, Han and Dinjii Zhuh Kyaa languages. The courses will be available for educators
  
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• For lizards, climate change is a deadly — and complex — threat

  06-09-2016 19:00 via ktoo.org
  
  The spiny lizard, like other lizards, relies on sunshine and shade to regulate its body temperature. That makes the animals particularly vulnerable to climate change. (Photo by Michael Angilletta, Arizona State University, Michael Sears, Clemson University)
  Lizards are expected to be hard-hit by climate change — and a new study suggests it might be even worse for some the creatures than scientists thought.
  Lizards and other reptiles are sensitive to global warming because they regulate the
  
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• Glacier Highway water main break may cause outages for customers north of Randall Road

  06-09-2016 18:43 via ktoo.org
  
  Some CBJ water customers may be without water as utilities crews work to repair a water main break on Glacier Highway. (Photo by Heather Bryant/KTOO)
  The City and Borough of Juneau Utilities Division is repairing a water main break near mile marker 19 on Glacier Highway.
  Customers north of Randall Road may be without water during the work.
  The division’s water crew began work at about 8:30 a.m. Tuesday.
  Contact CBJ Utilities Division at 586-0393 for more information.
  
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• Nonprofit ending services for disabled in southeast Alaska

  06-09-2016 18:00 via ktoo.org
  
  JUNEAU — A nonprofit organization that serves people with intellectual and developmental disabilities is pulling the plug on its southeast Alaska operations due to financial troubles.
  The Juneau Empire reports that Hope Community Resources’ CEO, Roy Scheller, says the decision was prompted by the state’s current downturn. The Anchorage-based organization is shutting down in Alaska’s southeast region at the end of the month.
  The Juneau and Ketchikan offices serve about 36
  
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• FDA bans 19 chemicals used in antibacterial soaps

  06-09-2016 02:00 via ktoo.org
  
  Consumers don’t need to use antibacterial soaps, and some of them may even be dangerous, the Food and Drug Administration says.
  On Friday, the FDA issued a rule banning the use of triclosan, triclocarban and 17 other chemicals in hand and body washes. which are marketed as being more effective than simple soap.
  Companies have a year to take these ingredients out of their products or remove the products from the market, the agency said.
  “If the product makes antibacterial claims, chan
  
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• An even deadlier opioid, carfentanil, is hitting the streets

  06-09-2016 00:00 via ktoo.org
  
  First responders have found that standard doses of naloxone aren’t always enough to counteract the powerful sedating effects of carfentanil. (Photo by Ted Horowitz/Getty Images)
  A powerful drug that’s normally used to tranquilize elephants is being blamed for a record spike in drug overdoses in the Midwest. Officials in Ohio have declared a public health emergency, and the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration says communities everywhere should be on alert for carfentanil.
  The synthet
  
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