September 3, 2016

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Hermine Heads North

After Slamming Florida, Hermine Threatens East Coast Brothers Trey Bowers,10 and Tyler Bowers,12, are splashed with salt water from a crashing wave from Tropical Storm Hermine, Friday, Sept. 2, 2016, in Charleston, S.C. (AP Photo/The Post and Courier, Grace Beahm)

Associated Press DEKLE BEACH, Fla. (AP) — The first hurricane to hit Florida in more than a decade wiped away beachside buildings and toppled trees onto homes Friday before plowing inland on a path that could send it rolling up the densely populated East

Coast with heavy rain, high winds and flooding.

Hermine (her-MEEN) quickly weakened to a tropical storm as it spun through Georgia and the Carolinas.

But the National Hurricane Center predicted it would regain hurricane strength after emerging over the At-

lantic Ocean. The system could then lash coastal areas as far north as Connecticut and Rhode Island through Labor Day. “Anyone along the U.S. East Coast needs to be paying close attention this weekend,” said Dennis Feltgen, a spokesman for the

National Hurricane Center.

In Florida, Hermine’s main impact came in the form of power outages and damage from storm surges. A homeless man south of Gainesville died when a tree fell on him, Gov. Rick Scott said. An estimated 325,000 people were with-

out power statewide and more than 107,000 in neighboring Georgia, officials said. At 5 p.m., the storm was centered 30 miles southwest of Charleston, South Carolina, and moving northeast at 20 mph.

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EU foreign ministers seek unity on Turkey relations

From left: Miroslav Lajcak, Foreign Minister of Slovakia, Lazar Comanescu, Foreign Minister of Romania, Witold Waszczykowski, Foreign Minister of Poland, Federica Mogherini, High Representative of the EU, Frank-Walter Steinmeier, Foreign Minister of Germany, Ioannis Kasoulidis Foreign Minister of Cyprus pose for a group photo during an informal meeting of EU Foreign Ministers in (AP Photo/Hans Punz) Bratislava, Slovakia on Friday, Sept. 2, 2016.

GEORGE JAHN Associated Press BRATISLAVA, Slovakia (AP) — European Union foreign ministers on Friday looked for a way to speak with one voice on relations with Turkey amid concerns over human rights that could sink a key deal with Ankara meant to keep refugees away from European shores.

The relationship with Turkey is only one of several items on the agenda for the two-day, 28-nation meeting. The ministers are also set to discuss joint efforts to combat terrorism and plan to focus on developing the EU’s global strategy during their talks. Much of the strategy focuses on advancing joint EU defense capabilities and Federica Mogherini, the EU’s chief diplomat, was optimistic, saying plans have moved from general discussions to having “first operational results” by spring.

“Now is the time for real

stuff,” she told reporters.

“The European army is not something that is going to happen any time soon.

But what can happen very soon is member states are committed to advance in the field of European defense with very concrete measures.”

Still, arrival comments from participants clearly indicated that how to balance relations so they can pressure Ankara on its human rights record without jeopardizing the refugee pact was the main issue on their minds.

And with the EU split on how hard to push Turkey, a solution appeared some distance away.

Turkey is pushing for visafree travel in the EU for its citizens and is threatening to walk away from the migrant deal if its demands aren’t met.

But Brussels says it will only allow that if Ankara rolls back a crackdown targeting wide segments of soci-

ety in the wake of the midJuly abortive coup against President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.

The agreement commits Turkey to take back migrants from Syria and elsewhere attempting to enter the EUfrom Turkey illegally and has strongly reduced the migrant influx into the EU since it was fully implemented in March.

Ankara is also angry over calls by several EU government officials to suspend, or even end, years of talks on Turkey’s entry into the EU, again because of concerns about the state of human rights. Erdogan’s flirtation with reintroducing the death penalty and a terrorist law that extends to journalists are some of the issues eliciting EU apprehension.

Austrian Foreign Minister Sebastian Kurz, among the EU hard-liners, said “we don’t see Turkey as a member of the European Union,” adding that Aus-

tria’s call for an end to talks with Turkey on EU membership is shared by many of his colleagues.

He also said Turkey had to meet demands for European human right standards if it hopes for EU visa liberation concessions, and “for now, the conditions are not met.”

“We believe that developments that have taken place in Turkey in the time after the (attempted) coup are very negative,” he said. “It is clear that there has to be a reaction, but cleansing and silencing those who think differently is the wrong way.”

In contrast, Foreign Minister Miroslav Lajcak of Slovakia, which holds the rotating EU presidency, said his country favored continuing talks on Turkey’s EU membership, describing them as “the best leverage the EUcould have” with Ankara — a position others lined up behind. “We should be very clear both in our support to the Turkish authorities against the attempted coup d’etat and on asking Turkish authorities to respect the rule of law and the fundamental human rights,” said Italian Foreign Minister Paolo Gentiloni.

“But I don’t think it is helpful to say no more negotiation with Turkey.”

German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier said the ministers also would discuss Turkey’s ongoing incursion into Syria, as it battles both the Islamic State group and Kurdish fighters it considers a threat.

“We all must have an interest that there is no permanent military conflict on Syrian soil,” he said.

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Putin says Russia didn’t hack US Democratic Party MOSCOW (AP) — President Vladimir Putin says Russia wasn’t involved in the hacking of emails of the U.S. Democratic Party, but thinks the release of the information was a benefit.

Some American officials

have claimed that Russian military intelligence was behind the hacking, which provoked a political scandal in the U.S. by revealing apparent prejudice in the Democratic National Committee against Hillary

Clinton’s challenger for the presidential nomination, Bernie Sanders.

“At the state level, we certainly weren’t involved in this,” Putin said in an interview with the Bloomberg news service, according to

a transcript released Friday by the Kremlin.

Putin said it wasn’t important who conducted the hacking, but “what’s important is that there was material that was released to the public.” q

Philippines says Chinese barges in disputed shoals DAVAO, Philippines (AP) — President Rodrigo Duterte said Friday the Philippine coast guard has observed Chinese barges at a disputed shoal in the South China Sea, possibly indicating that Beijing is planning new construction that could ratchet up tensions.

Still, Duterte said he wouldn’t raise the territorial dispute at an Asian summit in Laos next week that will be attended by several world leaders, including China’s.

“The coast guard made some little trips near them and there are a lot of barges. ... What is the purpose of a barge?” Duterte said in a speech in southern Panabo city in Davao del Norte province, adding that the intelligence report “was unsettling.”

Duterte said the barges were sighted in Bajo de Masinloc, the Filipino name for Scarborough Shoal off the northwestern Philippines that Chinese government ships seized in 2012 following a standoff with Philippine vessels.

“They suspect that’s going to be another construction somewhere,” he said. “It could be a potential flashpoint, this China Sea.” In the last three years, China has transformed seven disputed reefs into islands that other claimant countries and the United States say could become military bases to support Beijing’s territorial claims.

The tough-talking Duterte said war is not an option at this time given the weak Philippine military, and his government’s priority is to hold talks and reinvigorate trade and economic ties with China. But he said the Philippines can take only so much, with China insisting that it owns the contested territories and refusing to recognize a July 12 ruling by an international tribunal that invalidated Beijing’s territorial claims in the South China Sea based on historical grounds. “You cannot be slapped everyday with that kind of words,” Duterte said.q

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U.S. NEWS A3 FBI publishes notes on Clinton’s use of private email Saturday 3 September 2016

MICHAEL BIESECKER ERIC TUCKER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Hillary Clinton told the FBI she relied on her staff not to send emails containing classified information to the private email server she relied on as secretary of state, adding that she was unclear about a classification marking on official government documents.

The revelation came Friday as the FBI, in a rare step, published scores of pages summarizing interviews with Clinton and her top aides from the recently closed criminal investigation into her use of a private email server in the basement of her Chappaqua, New York, home.

The Democratic presidential nominee told the FBI she never sought or asked permission to use a private server or email address during her tenure as the nation’s top diplomat from 2009 to 2013. A prior review by the State Department’s internal watchdog concluded the practice violated several polices for the safekeeping and preservation of federal records.

The latest developments highlight competing liabilities for Clinton. Either she made a conscious effort to prevent a full public accounting of her tenure at State or she was nonchalant about decisions with national security consequences and risks. The first scenario plays into Republican arguments and voter concerns about her trustworthiness and transparency, while the second casts doubt on her pitch as a hyper-competent, detaildriven executive.

Clinton campaign spokesman Brian Fallon said Friday the campaign was pleased the FBI had released the documents.

“While her use of a single email account was clearly a mistake and she has taken responsibility for it, these materials make clear why the Justice Department believed there was no basis to move forward with this case,” Fallon said.

GOP presidential nominee

Donald Trump countered that Clinton’s “answers to the FBI about her private email server defy belief.”

“After reading these documents, I really don’t understand how she was able to

tors she “did not explicitly request permission to use a private server or email address,” the FBI wrote. Clinton said no one at the State Department raised concerns during her ten-

er was set up. It is the first disclosure of details provided by Bryan Pagliano, the technology staffer who set up and maintained Clinton’s IT infrastructure. Pagliano secured an immu-

In this 2011 photo, then-Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton checks her Blackberry from a desk inside a C-17 military plane. In a rare step, the FBI on Friday, Sept. 2, 2016, published scores of pages about confidential interviews with Hillary Clinton and others from its recently closed investigation into the former secretary of state’s use of a private email server.

(AP Photo/Kevin Lamarque, Pool)

get away from prosecution,” Trump said in a statement. Clinton has repeatedly said her use of private email was allowed. But over a 3½-hour interview in July, she told investiga-

ure, and she said everyone with whom she exchanged emails knew she was using a private email address.

The documents also include technical details about how the private serv-

nity agreement from the Justice Department after previously refusing to testify before Congress, invoking his constitutional right against self-incrimination.

Large portions of the FBI

documents were censored. The FBI cited exemptions protecting national security and investigative techniques. Previous government reviews of the 55,000 pages of emails Clinton returned to the State Department found that about 110 contained classified information. Clinton and her legal team deleted thousands more emails she claimed were personal and private. The FBI report details steps taken by Clinton’s staff that appear intended to hamper the recovery of deleted data, including smashing her old Blackberry smartphones with a hammer and using special software to wipe the hard drive of a server she had used. Friday’s release of internal investigative documents by the FBI was a highly unusual step, but one that reflects extraordinary public interest in the investigation into Clinton’s server. The FBI focused on whether Clinton sent or received classified information using the private server, which was not authorized for such messages. q

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NEWS LOCATED ACROSS FROM THE OCCIDIENTAL HOTEL ON PALM BEACH

After slamming Florida, Hermine threatens East Coast Continued from front

A woman walks past pleasure boats that were washed into Riverside Dr., when Hurricane Hermine came ashore Friday, Sept. 2, 2016, in Steinhatchee, Fla. (AP Photo/Chris O’Meara)

Maximum sustained winds were 50 mph.

The system was forecast to strengthen back into a hurricane by Monday morning off the Maryland-Delaware coast before weakening again as it moves north.

Tropical storm watches and warnings were posted up and down the coastline.

Amtrak says it has cancelled or altered some service on the East Coast as the storm approaches.

Back in Florida, a storm surge at Dekle Beach damaged numerous homes and destroyed storage buildings and a 100yard fishing pier. The area is about 60 miles southeast of St. Marks, where Hermine made landfall at 1:30 a.m. in the Big Bend area, where Florida’s peninsula and panhandle meet.

Nancy Geohagen walked around collecting photos and other items for her neighbors after the storm scattered them.

“I know who this baseball bat belongs to,” she said plucking it from a pile of debris.

An unnamed spring storm that hit the beach in 1993 killed 10 people who refused to evacuate. This time, only three residents stayed behind. All escaped injury.

In nearby Steinhatchee, a storm surge crashed into Bobbi Pattison’s home. She wore galoshes and was covered in black muck as she stood in her living room amid overturned furniture and an acrid smell. Tiny crabs darted around her floor.

“I had a hurricane cocktail

party last night and God got even with me,” she said with a chuckle. Where her bar once stood was now only wet sand and rubble. Pattison and two neighbors managed to set upright a large wooden statue of a sea captain she had carved from wood that washed ashore in the 1993 storm.

In Keaton Beach, about two dozen people waited on a road just after sunrise Friday, trying to get to their homes. Police blocked the road because of flooding.

Dustin Beach, 31, rushed there from a hospital in Tallahassee where his wife gave birth to a girl Thursday night to see if his home still stood.

“When my wife got up this morning, she said, ‘Go home and check on the house. I need to know where we’re going after we leave the hospital,’” Beach said.

Cindy Simpson was waiting near her car, hoping her beach home and boats survived. “It’s a home on stilts so I put everything upstairs. We have two boats in the boat house, and I hope they’re still there,” she said.

High winds knocked trees onto several houses in Tallahassee, injuring people inside.

It was sometime after midnight when Alan Autry, 48, started hearing the large pines in his Tallahassee neighborhood start to crack and fall to the ground.

Then he heard one come down on the top floor of his house. The tree didn’t initially crash through the roof, and Autry and his wife went to a neighbor’s house.q

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Saturday 3 September 2016

Swimmer’s sex assault sentence spurs debate over prison plan DON THOMPSON Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — A November ballot measure backed by Gov. Jerry Brown would allow earlier parole for thousands of California inmates, but critics say it could result in the very situation that led to public outrage in the case of former Stanford University swimmer Brock Turner.

The proposal is aimed at controlling overcrowding in state prisons and reining in costs, and is limited to nonviolent offenders. But in California, “nonviolent” is broadly defined.

It applies to certain rapes and sexual assaults, such as Turner’s conviction, along with vehicular and involuntary manslaughter, assault with a deadly weapon, domestic violence, exploding a bomb with intent to injure and other crimes.

Because of that, the ballot measure could mean less time in prison for people like Turner, prosecutors say. The one-time Olympic hopeful swimmer was released Friday after completing half of a six-month jail sentence for sexually assaulting an unconscious woman behind a trash bin near a fraternity house hosting a party.

Many already were upset that the law allowed him to avoid hard time.

But under Brown’s initiative, Turner would have been eligible for earlier parole consideration even if he had been sentenced to prison, said Ventura County District Attorney Greg Totten, speaking on behalf of the California District Attorneys Association, which opposes the Democratic governor’s plan.

“It’s being represented as something that applies only to nonviolent offenders, and really nothing

could be further from the truth,” Totten said.

Supporters say the ballot measure promotes rehabilitation programs and allows corrections officials to decide who gets early pa-

where.”

Turner originally was charged with raping an intoxicated or unconscious person, which also is considered a nonviolent crime because, according to

trafficking involving a minor, criminal threats, hate crimes and shooting at an occupied building, vehicle or aircraft.

Turner faced a minimum two-year prison sentence,

Brock Turner leaves the Santa Clara County Main Jail in San Jose, Calif., on Friday, Sept. 2, 2016.

Turner, whose six-month sentence for sexually assaulting an unconscious woman at Stanford University sparked national outcry, was released from jail after serving half his term.

(Dan Honda/Bay Area News Group via AP)

role and who stays behind bars.

Turner’s brief jail term sparked an outcry from numerous politicians, sexual assault survivors and others who are now seeking to recall Santa Clara County Superior Court Judge Aaron Persky.

“I think that this really raises the same concern that’s at the heart of the recall campaign, which is how the legal system treats sexual assault and violence against women,” said recall campaign chairwoman Michele Dauber, a Stanford University law professor who is friends with the woman Turner assaulted. “Treating any kind of sexual assault of an unconscious person as a nonviolent offense, that’s an injustice to women every-

California law, it does not involve force.

State law considers 23 crimes to be violent, including murder and kidnapping. But Dan Newman, a spokesman for the campaign in favor of the ballot measure, called the list “merely a starting point.”

Under Proposition 57, the state corrections department could administratively rule out registered sex offenders like Turner for early release, and parole officials could reject anyone with a dangerous history, Newman said. He noted the violent crimes list includes any felony in which a gun is used or that causes great bodily injury.

Other crimes are considered nonviolent, including solicitation to commit murder, injuring a child, human

and prosecutors sought six years. Persky cited “extraordinary circumstances” in following a probation department recommendation and sentencing him to jail.

The judge is stepping aside from hearing criminal cases. The outcry also prompted legislation sent to Brown last week that would effectively require prison for anyone convicted of raping or sexually assaulting an unconscious or intoxicated person.

National organizations representing lawmakers and law enforcement could not say if other states consider such crimes nonviolent. What constitutes a violent crime varies widely across the nation and even within states, according to the Washington,

D.C.-based Justice Policy Institute, a nonprofit group that advocates for reducing incarceration.

Nearly a quarter of California’s 130,000 prison inmates could be eligible for earlier parole if the measure passes, according to the nonpartisan Legislative Analyst’s Office.

The initiative expands on an existing federal court order requiring earlier parole consideration for some offenders convicted of nonviolent and nonsexual crimes. Brown’s administration calculates that the initiative would require immediate parole hearings for 1,300 inmates, about half of whom are likely to be released earlier.

Additionally, the legislative analyst projects that about 7,500 new convicts each year could seek reduced sentences. They could be considered for release about 18 months into a typical two-year sentence.

Newman referred to San Diego County District Attorney Bonnie Dumanis to counter criticism from other prosecutors. But she, too, expressed reservations in a statement, after declining an interview.

“Nothing is perfect, and there are clearly some issues and language that need to be addressed,” Dumanis said.

Dumanis, a Republican and the sole district attorney to publicly support the governor’s plan, praised another part of the ballot measure that would give corrections officials broad authority to award sentencing credits, including to inmates convicted of violent crimes, if they complete rehabilitation programs. The initiative would require judges instead of prosecutors to decide if juveniles should be tried in

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NEWS

Maine hopes to save its Vacationland image amid boycott call PATRICK WHITTLE Associated Press PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Protectors of Maine’s image as Vacationland — an identity so dear that it’s on

week for a Democratic lawmaker.

David Weeda, owner of the Williams Pond Lodge bed and breakfast in Bucksport, said LePage’s be-

nearly 100,000 people. The sector is riding high, having grown during LePage’s administration to a $5.6 billion industry last year, according to the Maine Office of

Sunlight streams through the clouds at daybreak as Mike Suprin digs clams Friday, Sept. 2, 2016, at Cape Porpoise in Kennebunkport, Maine. Protectors of Maine’s image as ‘Vacationland’ want to make sure their outspoken governor doesn’t turn off tourists.

(AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty)

the state’s license plates — want to make sure their outspoken governor doesn’t turn off tourists.

The concern over Republican Gov. Paul LePage has cropped up among people who make their living persuading people to come to Maine — either to work or to play — since he made racially charged remarks and left an obscene, threatening voicemail last

havior frequently comes up for discussion among his guests. He just hopes it doesn’t start keeping them away.

“If anybody thinks the world does not watch these sort of antics when they play out on the national stage, let me assure people that the world is watching,” he said.

Tourism is vital to Maine’s economy, employing

Tourism.

The state has also struggled to attract major employers, and employment has been slow to recover since the recession.

The words “Worth a visit, worth a lifetime” appear on highway road signs near the state border, projecting an attitude that is friendly toward relocating workers.

The governor’s comments

could damage that reputation, said Charles Colgan, professor emeritus of economics at University of Southern Maine.

“I think all the attention that the governor’s remarks have gotten has not helped — they’ve been noticed by people who might come here and become part of the workforce,” he said.

LePage’s office did not respond to a request to comment for this story.

The governor, elected in 2010, vowed Wednesday never to talk to reporters again.

David Goldberg, an advertising and public relations executive for a firm in Portland that manages some prominent Maine brands, said the LePage controversy represents a “brand crisis” for the state.

But he said it’s one Maine is prepared to weather if business leaders put the state’s best face forward to potential newcomers.

“People are paying attention now, directly or in their minds, about what’s going on up there in Maine,” he said. “Getting out in front of this thing and having strong leadership, that matters a lot.”

Greg Dugal, director of government affairs for the Maine Restaurant Association and the Maine Innkeepers Association, said the state’s tourism industry needs to lean on the ma-

jority of its tourists who are repeat visitors.

Tourists who are hooked on Maine won’t be easily dissuaded from returning, Dugal said.

“People will continue to come based on the product and not on anything any politician says,” he said.

But some people are already saying they will stay away because of the governor. Dozens of people have posted on Twitter using #boycottmaine since Aug. 24.

That was the day LePage, who’s white, said during a town hall meeting that he keeps a three-ring binder of photos from drug busts and most “are black and Hispanic people from Waterbury, Connecticut; the Bronx; and Brooklyn.”

Some occasional Maine tourists interviewed by The Associated Press said they are canceling plans or avoiding coming to the state because of LePage’s actions. One, Greg Mercer of Arlington, Massachusetts, even said he would avoid Maine lobster.

“His most recent words and actions are building to a crescendo, and people are looking for new ways that they can effect change,” said Collin Rees, a Washington, D.C., resident who changed his Labor Day weekend travel from Maine to New Hampshire. q

Annual New Mexico Hispanic fiesta draws Native American ire RUSSELL CONTRERAS Associated Press SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — It’s a week-long event that draws together generations of northern New Mexico Hispanic residents, some who can trace their roots to the 1600s.

For centuries, northern New Mexico Hispanic residents have held an elaborate festival in Santa Fe to honor Spanish conquistador Don Diego De Vargas, who reclaimed the city following an American Indian revolt.

There is music, dancing, a parade and the reenactment of De Vargas’s “peaceful reoccupation”

of what is now New Mexico’s capital.

But after 301 years, an emboldened group of Native American activists said it’s time to change a celebration centered on the conquest of New Mexico’s Pueblo tribes. They say the annual Santa Fe Fiesta ignores the horrors inflicted on the indigenous population during the colonial era.

“I would like to see fiesta celebrated as a reconciliation of all the different groups of people who make up Santa Fe today, and less Eurocentric (and) less focus on settler colonialism on conquest,” said

Elena Ortiz, of group Spirit of Po’pay that is planning to hold a protest at the event that begins Friday.

“We should welcome all community members.”

Hispanic residents say the fiesta is more about honoring their Spanish heritage and paying homage to their Catholic faith.

“We’d like to just make it something that’s just peaceful now,” said Santa Fe Fiesta council member Cecilia Tafoya.

“I think so many people were hurt both on the Native American and on the Spanish side of it.”

The city has hosted some

annual celebrations of Vargas since the early 1700s.

According to the story, Vargas came to Santa Fe 12 years after Spanish settlers were forced out due to the Pueblo Revolt.

He returned with a woodcarved Virgin Mary known as “La Conquistadora” and negotiated the return of Spanish rule with Native Americans, who sought to keep their villages and some of their traditions.

Members of the Pueblo tribes became Catholic and adopted some Spanish traditions, but some fought against the Spanish rule and later were forced

into slavery.

The re-enactment of the entrada, or entry, is the climax of the week-long celebration that also features the burning of a six-foot puppet.

The annual burning of Zozobra, a towering figure stuffed with shredded paper, is meant to help drive away the doom and gloom of the previous year.

Santa Fe Mayor Javier Gonzales had once served as the entrada’s Vargas.

He said he understands concerns from Native Americans who want the event to be more inclusive.q

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Saturday 3 September 2016

US Financial Front:

Hiring slowed in August, yet Americans’ outlook brightens C. S. RUGABER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. employers slowed their hiring in August after two blockbuster months and barely raised their workers’ pay, a pullback that may lead the Federal Reserve to leave interest rates alone until late this year.

But several surveys suggest that Americans are growing more optimistic about the job market, a trend that could boost spending and energize the economy in coming months.

Employers added 151,000 jobs in August, a modest gain after an increase of 275,000 in July, the most in eight months, and 271,000 in June. The unemployment rate remained at 4.9 percent for a third straight month, the Labor Department reported Friday.

Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen and other Fed officials highlighted the economy’s improvement at a conference last month. Vice Chair Stanley Fischer suggested that the job market was close to full health, an assessment that typically might prompt a rate hike.

Yet the August job figures may lead the Fed to hold off at its next meeting, Sept.

20-21, and await further economic data. Investors foresee only a 21 percent chance of a rate increase this month, according to futures markets, down from 24 percent on Thursday.

The Fed held its benchmark short-term rate at a record low near zero for seven years to support the economy after the financial crisis erupted in 2008.

Its policymakers raised their key rate modestly in December but have stood pat since. Lower

rates can encourage more borrowing and spending and thereby stimulate the economy.

Stock investors seemed pleased that Friday’s modest jobs data might have lessened the likelihood of a September Fed rate increase.

Higher borrowing rates tend to weigh down stock prices. The Dow Jones industrial average closed up about 73 points.

If a relatively tepid pace of hiring keeps the Fed on the sidelines, the continuation of ultra-low rates could sustain growth, some analysts suggested.

“This is a healthy thing if the (job) gains slow down a little bit, because that reduces the risk that the Fed will quickly raise rates and choke off the expansion,” said Josh Wright, chief economist at iCIMS, a recruitment software company and former Fed staffer.

Still, modest hiring means it could take longer to fully heal the scars of the Great Recession. The proportion of Americans who are ei-

Raisa Rickie waits in line to apply for a job with Aldi at a job fair in Miami Lakes, Fla. On Friday, Sept. 2, 2016, the U.S. government issued the August jobs report.

(AP Photo/Lynne Sladky)

ther working or looking for work has been flat for about two years but is still near a 40-year low.

The nation’s 4.9 percent unemployment rate also remains low. A broader barometer, which counts not only the officially unemployed but also parttime workers who want full-

time work and people who have given up their job hunts, is 9.7 percent. That’s down from a peak of 17.4 percent in 2009, just after the recession ended.

The steady hiring of the past six years appears to be imbuing Americans with a brighter outlook, a shift from the widespread gloom that

long persisted even as the economy grew.

The Conference Board’s consumer confidence survey this month found that the percentage of Americans who consider jobs “plentiful” has reached a nine-year high. And overall confidence has touched an 11-month high.q

US factory orders up 1.9% in July, best in 9 months

MARTIN CRUTSINGER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Orders to U.S. factories increased in July by the largest amount in nine months, propelled by a big jump in demand for commercial aircraft. The key category that tracks business investment plans posted the best increase since January.

Factory orders rose 1.9 percent in July, the Commerce Department reported Friday. It was the biggest one-month gain since last October and was led by a surge in orders in the

volatile category of commercial aircraft. Orders in the category that serves as a proxy for business investment increased 1.5 percent, the best showing since January.

Economists are hoping that after a period of weakness, business investment will begin to rebound in the second half of this year.

Supporting that view, demand for oil field equipment rose for a third month.

The oil field and mining machinery category jumped by 45.6 percent in July but even after three months of

strong gains, total orders in this category are 59.9 percent lower in the first seven months of this year compared to last year. The energy sector had cut back sharply on drilling and exploration in response to the huge drop in oil prices and this sector is only now starting to stabilize.

Orders for durable goods, everything from airplanes to appliances, rose 4.4 percent in July, the same as the estimate the government made in an advance report. Orders for nondurable goods such as chemi-

cals and paper dropped 0.5 percent in July after rising 0.8 percent in June.

The 1.5 percent rise in orders in the investment category marked the third straight monthly increase, supporting forecasts that business investment will start providing support for the overall economy rather than holding back growth.

American manufacturers have struggled this year with a strong dollar, which has hurt exports and a drop in investment spending, particularly in the energy sector.q

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WORLD NEWS

Pakistan hit by attack on Christian colony and court bombing

RIAZ KHAN Associated Press PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) — Northwestern Pakistan was struck by two separate militant attacks hours apart on Friday that left at least 13 people dead.

Gunmen wearing suicide vests stormed a Christian colony near the town of Peshawar, killing one civilian in that attack.

A suicide bomber struck a district court in the town of Mardan, killing 12 people and wounding 54 others.

Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif issued statements condemning both attacks, saying that “these cowardly attacks cannot shatter our unflinching resolve in our war against terrorism.”

U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon condemned the two “terrorist attacks” and called for the perpetrators to be brought to justice.

Ban also extended “heartfelt condolences” to the victims and their families, and expressed “solidarity with the people and government of Pakistan,” his spokesman Stephane Dujarric said.

In the Peshawar assault,

militants stormed the Christian neighborhood early in the morning, triggering a shootout in which four attackers were killed and one Christian died, police and

in a statement that the attack was quickly repulsed and that security forces were searching for any accomplices.

Local police official Shau-

one Christian in the neighborhood. It was not immediately clear if any of the suicide bombers had detonated their explosives.

The quick response from

Pakistani army troops surround a site of a bombing in Mardan, Pakistan, Friday, Sept. 2, 2016.

Northwestern Pakistan was struck by two separate militant attacks on Friday, when gunmen wearing suicide vests stormed a Christian colony near the town of Peshawar, killing one civilian, and a suicide bomb attack on a district court in the town of Mardan.

(AP Photo/Mohammad Sajjad)

the military said. Three security officials and two civilian guards were wounded in the attack.

Army spokesman Lt. Gen. Asim Saleem Bajwa said

kat Khan said four suicide bombers entered the Christian colony. One of them went into a church, but no one was there at the time.

He said the attackers killed

the local civilian guards and security forces prevented more deaths, Khan said.

Ahsanullah Ahsan, a spokesman for Jamaat-ul-

Ahrar, a breakaway Taliban faction, claimed responsibility for the attack.

In the town of Mardan, some 40 kilometers (25 miles) from Peshawar, a suicide bomber threw a grenade at the district court before detonating his explosives, according to government spokesman Mushtaq Ghani.

A rescue official, Bilal Jalal, said at least 12 people were killed and another 54 wounded in the suicide attack at the court, among them lawyers, policemen and passers-by. He said some of the wounded in a critical condition.

A local police official, Ijaz Ahmed Khan, said the attacker apparently wanted to target a gathering of lawyers at the bar room but was thwarted by police.

When a policeman asked the attacker to stop, the attacker threw a grenade at him, killing the officer, Khan said. A second policeman then opened fire at the attacker, who detonated his explosives.

Lawyer Adil Hussain confirmed the police account.

No group immediately claimed responsibility for the court attack.q

Minister says French migrant camp to be dismantled, no date ELAINE GANLEY Associated Press PARIS (AP) — The French government has decided to dismantle the overcrowded migrant camp in the northern port city of Calais “in a controlled operation” as soon as possible, Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve said on Friday.

Cazeneuve made the announcement during a visit to Calais, but gave no date for the closure.

His visit came three days before local businesses, dockers, truckers and farm-

ers block a major highway to demand that the camp now holding record numbers of migrants, most trying to cross the English Channel, be shut down.

The minister met with local officials, business representatives and some of the 2,000 police officers who man roadways, the Eurotunnel train site and the port to keep migrants from hopping trucks to Britain.

“I think we must now take a supplementary step, proceeding with this dismantling for humanitarian

reasons ... in a controlled operation as rapidly as possible,” Cazeneuve said after the talks.

The state estimated the number of migrants living in the makeshift camp in August at nearly 7,000, while aid groups put the count at more than 9,000.

The camp was reduced in size by half in March, when the southern sector was razed.

Authorities have said the camp must be fully dismantled, but protesters want a date. They say migrants

have become an economic drain on the city and a stain on Calais’ image.

Even without saying when, Cazeneuve’s announcement was the fullest account yet of the state’s intentions regarding the squalid camp. It appeared likely that his reference to a “controlled operation” means that housing — outside the Calais region — would be found before the camp is destroyed.

The minister said in an interview published Friday in the Nord Littoral newspaper

that dismantling the camp is the goal but he wants it done “in stages.” The bid to demolish the 72 shops and restaurants in the makeshift camp was a first step, he said.

A court halted the plan but the state has appealed.

“It’s more than a relief,” said Calais Mayor Natacha Bouchart. She has long asked the state to bring in the army to deal with migrants who each night venture into the roadways to try to hop trucks cross the English Channel to Britain.q

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Syrian government sees grinding siege tactics pay off

Syrians leave the Moadamiyeh suburb of Damascus, Syria, on Friday, Sept. 2, 2016. Dozens of Syrians living in a besieged rebel-held suburb of the capital, Damascus, have begun evacuating the area following a deal struck with the government that grants amnesty to gunmen and restores state control.

(AP Photo)

PHILIP ISSA Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — Once hubs of the Syrian uprising, the country’s rebellious capital suburbs are submitting to government control at a quickening pace, in a sign that the military’s grinding siege tactics are paying off.

The latest Damascus suburb to fall was Moadamiyeh, which relented after three years of siege as food supplies dwindled for its estimated 28,000 residents and key infrastructure like hospitals were destroyed.

On Friday, implementation began in the deal, under which rebel fighters will move to opposition-held territory in the north and government security forces will move into the town, just a short drive southwest of the capital. The neighboring suburb, Daraya, surrendered and came under government control last week.

The accelerating pace of such surrenders points to how the Syrian military is tightening the screws on besieged areas, stepping up attacks on civilian infrastructure and refusing entry of critical medical supplies, despite sharp criticism by

the U.N., which has tried to bring in humanitarian aid.

Surrender under such deals is “bitter salvation,” forced on residents through collective punishment, said a former resident of the besieged mountainside town of Zabadani.

“The regime’s strategy is clear,” said Ibrahim Abbas, an opposition activist who was exiled to rebel-held Idlib province as a condition to receiving treatment for a war wound. “A suffocating siege to foment hatred (among residents) toward activists and fighters, then an offer to evacuate.”

The deals at Daraya and Moadamiyah free up Syria’s military resources for other fronts, including the defense of the central city of Hama, which came under unexpected attack by rebels this week, and the siege of opposition areas in the capital’s eastern suburbs.

The ultimate goal appears to be to wipe out the relatively isolated rebel-held pockets around central Syria, effectively leaving just the main oppositionheld heartland of Idlib province in the northwest and enclaves in the south.

The governor of the Damascus countryside province, Alaa Munir Ibrahim, said deals with other rebellious suburbs are under discussion. At least 16 areas around the country — home to more than a halfmillion people — are under siege, almost all by government forces except for a few locations.

A U.N. humanitarian official warned Thursday that the town of Madaya, northwest of Damascus, and alWaer, the last opposition neighborhood in the central city of Homs, could be the next to capitulate under siege, along with Foua

and Kafraya, two pro-government towns in the north besieged by rebels.

Jan Egeland in Geneva said the U.N. had failed to neutralize what he has previously called a “medieval” tactic.

“A siege is not broken by the population giving up after starvation and bombing; a siege is lifted by humanitarian access and freedom of movement, in and out, by the civilian population,” said Egeland.

Daraya residents say the destruction of the suburb’s only remaining hospital earlier this month in a government strike was one

factor compelling them to leave their homes in a surrender.

An offensive launched this June against Daraya aggravated a siege in place since 2012. Last week, the remaining residents of the suburb — about 4,000 people out of an original population of 200,000 — were removed under the surrender agreement, drawing criticism that it was a forced displacement. On Monday, it was announced that Homs’ al-Waer neighborhood had entered into talks with the government, though no agreement has yet been reached.q

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Brazil:

NEWS

Ousted president blasts process, talks about future

Brazil’s ousted President Dilma Rousseff listens to a reporter’s question during a press conference at the official residence Alvorada Palace, in Brasilia, Brazil, Friday, Sept. 2, 2016.

(AP Photo/Eraldo Peres)

The Associated Press Associated Press BRASILIA, Brazil (AP) — Former President Dilma Rousseff on Friday slammed the process that led to her ouster this week, promising to provide a strong opposition voice to the new government.

In comments to foreign

media, Rousseff said next week she would be moving back to her hometown of Porto Alegre in southern Brazil. She has 30 days to vacate the presidential palace.

On Wednesday, the Senate voted to remove Rousseff for breaking fiscal responsibility laws in her man-

agement of the federal budget. Brazil’s first female president denies wrongdoing, and has frequently pointed out that previous presidents have used similar accounting measures.

Rousseff said she had not developed long-term plans for what comes next, but won’t shy away from pub-

lic life.

“I don’t have political plans for office, but I do have political plans. I’m going to oppose this government,” she said.

Rousseff also had sharp words for Michel Temer, who was her vice president before taking over in the wake of her removal. The two were allies who turned into enemies, with Rousseff accusing Temer of being the ringleader behind her ouster.

She said that if he doesn’t govern on the platform the two ran on in 2010 and 2014, people will see his government as illegitimate.

Rousseff also said she would be quick to raise her voice if Temer’s government tries to crackdown on protesters. Since her ouster, a handful of small anti-Temer demonstrations have been broken up by police.

On Thursday, Rousseff appealed her removal from office to the country’s highest court. It’s unclear when the court will rule, but several appeals during the months-long impeachment process were rejected. q

Argentines protest Macri ‘s job cuts, subsidy reductions A. CALATRAVA Associated Press BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — Argentina’s unions brought tens of thousands of people into the capital’s streets Friday to protest government job cuts, the elimination of subsidies and other policies of President Mauricio Macri.

Closing out three days of demonstrations that included road blockages across the country, columns of protesters waving blue and white Argentine

flags converged in front of the presidential palace to voice their anger at Macri’s government.

“If they don’t hear our clamor, if they don’t give us answers, there will be a social conflict,” said Pablo Micheli, secretary general of the Argentine Workers’ Union. “If they don’t listen to us, sooner or later, there will be a nationwide strike.”

Thousands of state employees have been fired since Macri came to power in December vowing to cut

bloated spending. The job cuts and the slashing of utility subsidies have stoked unrest in a nation with a long tradition of providing generous state jobs and benefits. Macri says the measures are needed to revive Argentina’s frail economy and end economic distortions that have led to years of spiraling consumer prices. But unions and human rights groups, which organized Friday’s protest, say workers are being indiscriminately fired

while Argentines continue to lose purchasing power to one of the world’s highest inflation rates.

“This is the response of social sectors that feel harmed,” said Mariel Fornoni, who heads the Buenos Airesbased Management & Fit consultancy. “The poverty and the economic recession can be seen on the streets.”

Inflation remains stubbornly high and is one of the biggest concerns for Argentines. q

Philippines blast leaves 12 people dead, 24 injured DAVAO, Philippines (AP) — An explosion killed at least 12 people and wounded at least 24 at a night market in President Rodrigo Duterte’s hometown in the southern Philippines, a region under a heightened security alert because of a military offensive against Abu Sayyaf militants, officials said. Regional military commander Lt. Gen. Rey Leonardo Guerrero said it was not immediately clear what caused the explosion at a massage section of the market, which was cordoned off by police bomb experts and investigators.

Police Chief Superintendent Manuel Gaerlan said witnesses gave contrasting accounts, with some saying that a cooking gas tank exploded while others suggested it may have been some kind of an explosive.

Police set up checkpoints in key roads leading to the city, a regional gateway about 980 kilometers (610 miles) south of Manila.

TV footage showed plastic chairs strewn about at the scene of the blast, where witnesses said the bodies of some of the dead lay scattered a few hours after the explosion. Ambulance vans drove to and from the area following the blast.

Police forces in the capital Manila went on full alert at midnight following the deadly blast. Duterte, who served as a longtime mayor of Davao before assuming the presidency in June, was in the region but has not issued any statement.

His spokesman, Ernesto Abella, urged the public to be vigilant. “While no one has yet claimed responsibility it is best that the populace refrain from reckless speculation and avoid crowded places,” q

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Cuba reports remarkable success in containing Zika virus M. WEISSENSTEIN Associated Press HAVANA (AP) — Six months after President Raul Castro declared war on the Zika virus in Cuba, a militarized nationwide campaign of intensive mosquito spraying, monitoring and quarantine appears to be working.

Cuba is among the few countries in the Western Hemisphere that have so far prevented significant spread of the disease blamed for birth defects in thousands of children.

Only three people have caught Zika in Cuba. Thirty have been diagnosed with cases of the virus they got outside the island, according to Cuban officials.

Many are now watching to see whether Cuba is able to maintain control of Zika or will drop its guard and see widening infection like so many of its neighbors. The battle against Zika is testing what Cuba calls a signal accomplishment of its single-party socialist revolution — a free health-care system that assigns a family doctor to every neighborhood, with a focus on preventive care and maternal and pediatric health. That system has come under strain in recent years as thousands of specialists emigrate to the U.S., Europe and South America for higher pay and the allied government of Venezuela reduces the flow of subsidized oil that has been keeping Cuba solvent.

U.S. government scientists fly to Havana in November for a two-day meeting on animal-borne viruses such as Zika, the first conference of its kind since the re-establishment of diplomatic relations a year ago.

American researchers say they are eager to learn more and help incorporate

Cuba into U.S.-backed international health programs after a half-century without significant professional interaction.

“Probably in the last decade we’ve had two people that have gone down there for anything,” said F. Gray Handley, associate director for international research affairs at the U.S. National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. “It has been pretty much of a black box.”

So far, there have been about 40 cases of Zika caused by mosquito bites in Florida. Health officials don’t expect widespread outbreaks in the mainland U.S. but there are thousands of cases in Puerto Rico and countries such as Brazil and Venezuela are struggling with large-scale infection.

International medical experts familiar with Cuba say other countries can learn from Cuba’s intense focus on preventing disease, which led the government to decimate the mosquito population by spraying virtually every neighborhood in Cuba this spring.

“Cuba’s response has been strong and effective,” said Dr. Cristian Morales, the World Health Organization’s representative in Cuba. “It has to do with the capacity to organize the population. Applying it to other countries, other contexts, would be extremely difficult.”

Other elements of Cuba’s success so far against Zika may simply not apply to other nations because they are inextricably tied to a form of government unique in the Western hemisphere.

Most aspects of life in Cuba are controlled by a single-party state that rigorously monitors citizens’ activities.q

A government fumigator sprays a home for mosquitos in Havana, Cuba. Cuba’s massive bureaucracy has been deployed with remarkable success in the battle against Zika. Every Cuban returning from a country with Zika is tracked and quarantined if they show symptoms, with more than 6,000 hospitalized so far this year.

(AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)

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NEWS

Punishing months-long Haiti doctor strike ends DAVID McFADDEN Associated Press PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Haiti’s longest and most punishing strike by medical professionals officially came to an end Thursday

poor majority.

Dr. Clerfort Michel, an anesthesiology resident, said all the striking doctors and other staff were back at work Thursday after the government agreed earlier

who died outside the State University hospital’s gates, have been attributed to the strike. But authorities acknowledge there have almost certainly been others.

Viellard Ylfauker lies down outside the emergency room as he waits for treatment at the State University Hospital of Haiti, in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Thursday, Sept. 1, 2016. Haiti’s lengthiest and most punishing strike by young doctors and other medical workers has come to an end. Resident doctors at Port-au-Prince’s General Hospital first walked off the job in March. Nurses and support staff followed. Waves of strikes then spread to 12 other government-run hospitals across Haiti. ( AP Photo/Dieu Nalio Chery)

with young doctors returning to their jobs at the nation’s biggest hospital after a nearly five-month walkout.

Residents at Port-auPrince’s Hospital of the State University of Haiti first walked off the job in March. Nurses and support staff followed. Waves of strikes spread to 12 other government-run hospitals.

They were protesting chronic shortages of even the most basic medical supplies, dismal pay and unsafe working conditions.

They called for systemic changes to a severely under-resourced public hospital system that serves Haiti’s

in the week to satisfy pay demands and improve conditions.

“The strike is over today. We never expected it would last so long,” Michel told The Associated Press at the State University hospital.

A new agreement calls for a gradual pay adjustment for residents, who were making some $120 a month when the strike began. Later this year, they expect to get as much as $460 per month. Michel said the interim government was already replacing beds and funding other improvements.

At least three deaths, including a pregnant woman

A medical staff strike was the last thing Haiti needed.

Malnutrition and numerous diseases are widespread.

Dr. Vanessa Mehu, a thirdyear anesthesiology resident, said some exasperated residents have migrated out of Haiti during the lengthy strike.

The State University hospital was packed with people on Thursday.

The return of the staff was a huge relief for Alme Cesar, one of four shackled prisoners who were chained to beds for months during the strike.

They were kept alive by visiting relatives and missionaries.q

Trinidad orders assets frozen under terrorism law PORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad (AP) — Authorities in the twin-island nation of Trinidad and Tobago have frozen the assets of three people and 75 entities under the anti-terrorism act.

Attorney General Faris alRawi says the High Court recently approved the designations based on le-

gal submissions from his office. The people and entities were not identified in a statement issued by the attorney general late Thursday.

Trinidad’s government has now designated 80 “terrorist” entities in the country.

The attorney general says more are expected as a re-

sult of investigations involving local and international agencies.

The U.S. State Department has said that more than 70 nationals of Trinidad and Tobago are believed to have joined Islamic State and a recent issue of the group’s magazine featured a fighter from Trinidad. q

Pena Nieto: Trump proposals a ‘threat’ to future of Mexico

PETER ORSI Associated Press MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico’s president said that Donald Trump’s proposals represent a threat to the future of his country and that he agreed to a widely criticized meeting with the Republican candidate to open a space for dialogue.

President Enrique Pena Nieto has been ridiculed in his country for inviting Trump, as well as for not confronting him more directly about comments calling migrants from Mexico criminals, drug-runners and “rapists,” and Trump’s vows to build a border wall and force Mexico to pay for it.

Speaking at a town hall late Thursday where he fielded questions from young people, Pena Nieto sought to defend his decision. He said the easier path would have been to “cross my arms” and do nothing in response to Trump’s “affronts, insults and humiliations,” but he believed it necessary to open a “space for dialogue” to stress the importance of the U.S.-Mexico relationship.

“What is a fact is that in the face of candidate Trump’s postures and positions, which clearly represent a threat to the future of Mexico, it was necessary to talk,” Pena Nieto said hours after his annual state-ofthe-nation report was delivered to congress. “It was necessary to make him feel and know why Mexico does not accept his positions.”

He acknowledged Mexicans’ “enormous indignation” over Trump’s presence in the country and repeated that he told him in person Mexico would in no way pay for the proposed border wall.

The president came under fire for not responding to Trump’s mention of the wall during a joint news conference Wednesday, something he has since sought to correct. Earlier Thursday, after Trump tweeted that Mexico would pay for the wall, Pena Nieto fired back his own tweet saying that would “never” happen.

Pena Nieto also rejected a recent investigative report that found large portions of his law thesis 25 years ago were copied from other sources, although he allowed that some authors were “probably” not cited properly.

“I remember very clearly the studies I carried out, what I researched and what I formulated in my thesis. Nobody can tell me I plagiarized my thesis,” the president said. “I may have committed some methodological error, but not with the aim of wanting to make someone else’s ideas mine.”

Aristegui Noticias’ report about the thesis last month was the latest bad news in what analysts say has been a very tough year for Pena Nieto. An Aug. 11 poll by Reforma put his approval rating at about 23 percent, lower than for any Mexican president since the newspaper began conducting the survey 21 years ago.

Homicides are on the rise after falling early in his term.

The economy has been struggling due to low oil prices and other factors. The Treasury Department recently lowered Mexico’s GDP growth forecast yet again to between 2 percent and 2.6 percent.

There have also been allegations of torture and human rights abuses by police and troops prosecuting Mexico’s offensive against the drug cartels, and earlier this year a group of independent experts issued a scathing report discrediting government investigators’ account of what happened to 43 students who disappeared in 2014 after being taken by state police.

In his annual state-of-the-nation report, and in a video broadcast before he took questions, Pena Nieto mostly tried to put forth a rosier vision for Mexico. q

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Saturday 3 September 2016

Green Aruba Conference VII Set for November! annual Green Aruba Conference!

Join us in further exploring

-An expert level platform for information exchange on sustainability.

ORANJESTAD - Green Aruba conference was created as a result of the vision of the Prime Minister of Aruba, Mike Eman, for a green and sustainable Aruba. It all started in the year 2009 and highlighted its commitments with the first annual Green Aruba Conference in 2010.

It is important to keep this information exchanging opportunity on a yearly basis: -to showcase goals achieved from previous year, -to exhibit the experiences and knowledge of other institutions and island nations in this field, and -to get a chance to communicate and set new objectives.

In November 16-17-18, 2016, Aruba will host its 7th

and discussing in this year’s Green Aruba Conference, which will again enhance

the exchange of knowledge and information, on the growth path of the “Transformation to a Sustainable Energy Mix”.

Please visit our website and register to the Green Aruba VII and be part of the events surrounding this year’s conference.

Please visit our website at www.greenaruba.org and register to the Green Aruba VII and be part of the events surrounding this year’s conference.q

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Loyal Guests Honored at the Divi Phoenix Beach Resort EAGLE BEACH - Recently the Aruba Tourism Authority had the great pleasure of honoring a group of special guests as Distinguished Visitors at the Divi Phoenix Beach Resort. The symbolic honorary title is presented in the name of the Minister of Tourism as a token of appreciation to guests who visit Aruba for 10-to-19 consecutive years.

The honorees were Mr. Ed and Mrs. Michelle Mari, and Mr. Steven and Mrs. Joann Nellos.

These special visitors and their families are regular guests of the Divi Phoenix Beach Resort and they love Aruba very much because of the friendly people, the weather, the beaches, the restaurants and the relaxation. They say being on Aruba and staying at the Divi Phoenix Beach Resort is like being home for them. The certificate was presented by Mr. Ricardo Croes representing the Aruba Tourism Authority together with Ms. Avril and associates from the Divi Phoenix Beach Resort.q

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Saturday 3 September 2016

Emerald Ambassador Honored at the Aruba Beach Club!

PALM BEACH - Recently the Aruba Tourism Authority had the great pleasure of honoring a very special woman who is loyal and friendly visitor of Aruba at the Aruba Beach Club as

an Emerald Ambassador!

The symbolic honorary title is presented in the name of the Minister of Tourism as a token of appreciation to guests who visit Aruba for 35-or-more consecu-

tive years. The honoree was Mrs. Doris Pachano, of Merida, Venezuela, visiting for her 38th consecutive year! Mrs. Pachano is a loyal member of the Aruba Beach Club, and she loves

Aruba very much because of the extremely friendly people, the weather, the beaches and the restaurants. She says the Aruba Beach Club is like a second home for her and her

family. The certificate and commemorative coin were presented by Ms. Marouska Heyliger representing the Aruba Tourism Authority, together with associates from the Aruba Beach Club.q

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Aruba Invites Travelers to “Vote Happy” This Election Season

ORANJESTAD - With the US Presidential race heating up, Aruba invites U.S. travelers to “vote happy” this election season through an irresistible campaign to visit the One happy island.

This is one decision Americans won’t have to debate – as 10 hotel candidates are offering a $200 resort

credit for all trips booked Sept. 1 – 14, with travel occurring from Sept. 1 – Dec. 20.* “Whether you’re from a red state or blue state, Aruba wants to help voters escape to a happy state of mind,” said Ronella Tjin Asjoe-Croes, CEO of Aruba Tourism Authority. “Aruba’s

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Late appeal moves NFL concussion case to Supreme Court MARYCLAIRE DALE Associated Press PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A last-minute appeal in the NFL concussion case, filed by the son of an NFL All-Star and civil rights activist, has sent the proposed settlement to the U.S. Supreme Court and delays payouts for at least several months.

The family of the late Buffalo Bills fullback Carlton “Cookie” Gilchrist asked the high court Tuesday to review whether the judge should have approved the potential $1 billion settlement without a full challenge to the scientific evidence presented jointly by both sides. “This enormous settlement was settled without a shred of evidence (presented) by the NFL. It’s just astounding ... because there’s so much at stake here,” lawyer Jared Beck said Wednesday.

The appeal, for instance, questions why more money is awarded for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, or ALS, than for chronic traumatic encephalopathy, or CTE, which some researchers link more closely with football concussions.

At least two sets of other plaintiffs were granted extensions of the Tuesday deadline and can appeal through next month.

Players’ lawyers who support the 2013 settlement negotiated with the league on behalf of 21,000 NFL retirees insist their clients need financial and medical help now. Lawyer Jim Acho of Detroit, who sent a letter to clients Tuesday that said no further appeals had been filed and the payouts were imminent, called the Gilchrist appeal “unbelievable.”

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BULL RUN

Nadal continues cruising in New York

Rafael Nadal, of Spain, reacts after defeating Andrey Kuznetsov, of Russia, during the U.S. Open tennis tournament, Friday, Sept. 2, 2016, in New York.

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Marina Alex leads LPGA Manulife Classic in Canada CAMBRIDGE, Ontario (AP) — Marina Alex eagled her final hole for an 8-under 64 and the second-round lead Friday in the LPGA Manulife Classic.

Alex played the final five holes in 5 under for the lowest score in her LPGA Tour career, setting up the 18-foot eagle putt with a 5-wood approach on the par-5 ninth.

“Super happy,” Alex said.

“Just kind of everything fell together, ball-striking, putting. I actually left a couple of putts out there, but I’m not going to complain about the score that I shot.”

The 26-year-old former Vanderbilt player had a 10-under 134 total at Whistle Bear for a one-stroke lead over Thailand’s P.K. Kongkraphan and South Korea’s Hyo Joo Kim. Second-ranked Ariya Jutanugarn was four strokes back after a 68 in her bid to win three straight events for the second time this season. Using a driver in competition for the second straight day after shelving it for months, the 20-year-old Thai player had an eagle, six birdies, two bogeys and a double bogey.

She began the streak at the Women’s British Open, and rebounded from a knee injury that forced her to withdraw during the Rio Olympics to win the Canadian Pacific Women’s Open on

after a 71. She eagled the par-5 12th and closed with a birdie.

“Not exactly what I was looking for,” Henderson said. “That birdie on my last hole kind of made me feel a lot better about the day, which is always nice, and 3-under par, I can’t complain too much.”

Sunday in Alberta.

Playing in the second group of the day off the 10th tee, Alex took advantage of calmer conditions than she faced Thursday afternoon in a first-round 70.

“I think we were fortunate,” Alex said. “Right now, it’s totally scorable.”

She had eight birdies and two bogeys.

“It actually is a pretty wide-open course, which is sometimes for me a little challenging because it’s hard to pick out targets,” Alex said. “But I’m trying really hard to focus, be as narrow as possible off the tee and into the green and

just be very specific with what I’m trying to do.”

Kongkraphan had a bogey-free 66. She recently went through coaching and club changes.

“I have a problem with my iron pretty bad,” Kongkraphan said. “I tried to get better, so I switched the club and changed the coach. ... From last week I have so much more confidence.”

Kim closed with a birdie for a 67. She won the seasonopening event in the Bahamas.

South Korea’s Mi Hyang Lee was 8 under after a 67.

She had a hole-in-one on the fifth hole.

“I think just less wind and the greens more better condition,” Lee said. “So just everything is perfect.”

U.S. Open champion Brittany Lang, second last year at Whistle Bear after winning the inaugural event in 2012 at Grey Silo, was 6 under after a 71.

First-round leader Chella Choi also was 6 under after a 72. The South Korean player three-putted three times. “Hope tomorrow is better,” Choi said.

Defending champion Suzann Pettersen had a 71 to reach 4 under.

Canadian star Brooke Henderson, playing alongside Jutanugarn, was 3 under

The 18-year-old Henderson beat top-ranked Lydia Ko in a playoff in June in the KPMG Women’s PGA for her first major title, and successfully defended her Portland Classic title in early July.

Ko was 2 under after a 72.

“I putted much better today, so it was good to see some putts go in,” Ko said.

“Without the putter, I don’t think I would have been able to shoot even par.”

Alena Sharp was the top Canadian, shooting a 70 to reach 5 under. She tied for fourth last week at Priddis Greens for her best finish on the tour.

“I didn’t make many putts,” Sharp said. “It was tough to get it close to the pins.

I thought they were a little trickier today. The greens are definitely firming up, so you got to hit high shots in.”

Michelle Wie missed the cut by a stroke with her second 72. She has missed 12 of 20 cuts this season and is 112th on the money list with $55,375.q

Conti wins 13th Vuelta stage, Quintana leads before Pyrenees URDAX, Spain (AP) — Valerio Conti successfully broke away Friday to win the Spanish Vuelta’s long 13th stage, while Nairo Quintana kept his overall lead.

Conti, riding for LampreMerida, separated from a small group of escapees and rode alone to finish the hilly 213.4-kilometer (132.6mile) route in 5 hours, 29 minutes, 4 seconds.

It was the 23-year-old Italian’s first win at a grand tour.

Danilo Wyss was second — almost a minute behind —

followed by Sergey Lagutin.

The stage, which was the longest of this year’s edition of the race, started in Bilbao and ended in Urdax after a brief dip into France.

Led by Quintana’s Movistar, the peleton took the stage at a leisurely pace and crossed the finish line more than half an hour after Conti.

For a second straight day, Quintana and nearest challenger Chris Froome refrained from attacking one another with the tough, and potentially decisive,

high mountains looming.

Quintana has a 54-second advantage over secondplaced Froome heading into Saturday’s daunting 196-kilometer (121.7-mile) course that traverses the French Pyrenees.

Race organizers say the 14th stage, which includes three category-one ascents before a summit finish at the special-category Col d’Aubisque, is “one of the most demanding stages in the history of the Vuelta.”

The three-week race ends in Madrid on Sept. 11.q

Lampre’s Team Valerio Conti of Italy, celebrates on the podium after winning the 13th stage between Bilbao and Urdax Dantxarinea, 213,4 kilometers (132,6 miles), of the Spanish La Vuelta cycling race that finish in Bilbao, northern Spain, Friday, Sept. 2, 2016.

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Saturday 3 September 2016

Sock of U.S. overwhelms 2014 Open champ Cilic set before edging Japanese teenager Naomi Osaka 7-5, 4-6, 7-6 (3).

Asked whether she considered this the top comeback of her young career, the 21-year-old Keys replied: “For sure. Hands down.”

She’ll now face two-time U.S. Open runner-up and former No. 1 Caroline Wozniacki, whose ranking is all the way down to 74th after a series of losses and injuries but followed up her

Jack Sock, of the United States, reacts after defeating Marin Cilic, of Croatia, during the third round of the U.S. Open tennis tournament, Friday, Sept. 2, 2016, in New York.

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HOWARD FENDRICH AP Tennis Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Before Jack Sock took on 2014 U.S. Open champion Marin Cilic in the third round, the 23-year-old American acknowledged that, as of a couple of years ago, simply making it that far would have made him, to use two of his words, “satisfied” and “excited.” Now Sock wants more. He thinks his game and his mindset are ready for deep Grand Slam runs. And the way he overwhelmed the No. 7-seeded Cilic 6-4, 6-3, 6-3 in a little more than 1 1/2 hours on Friday to reach the fourth round at Flushing Meadows for the first time, who would doubt Sock? “Just all around, I think I’m putting things together, better and better,” said the 26th-seeded Sock, who celebrated his victory with a racket-asfoil jousting move in tribute to his friend and fellow U.S. Olympian, bronze medalist fencer Miles Chamley-Watson. “I definitely feel more confident out there in everything I’m doing.”

Rightly so. Against Cilic, who followed up his title with a semifinal appearance a year ago, Sock won all 14 of his service games, never facing so much as one break point. Not much of a surprise there on a hard court for a guy whose

game is best known for two parts — “’serving and forehand’ is what I hear all the time,” he said with a hint of a smirk.

But on this windy afternoon, Sock showed off other improving parts of his repertoire. Sure, he delivered 10 forehand winners, but he also produced four on the backhand side (Cilic only had two). And as good as his serving was, with a top speed of 138 mph and 86 percent of first-serve points won, Sock’s returns were in fine form, too: He broke Cilic four times. “He’s a very dangerous guy in these kind of conditions,” Cilic said, “where the ball is coming off pretty fast, off the court.” Sock’s second career appearance in the fourth round at a Grand Slam tournament — the other came at the 2015 French Open on clay — will come against No. 9 JoWilfried Tsonga of France.

Tsonga, the runner-up at the 2008 Australian Open, moved on Friday with a 6-3, 6-4, 7-6 (4) victory over No. 23 Kevin Anderson.

Other men into the round of 16 included No. 1-seeded and defending champion Novak Djokovic, No. 10 Gael Monfils, No. 24 Lucas Pouille, and 2006 Australian Open finalist Marcos Baghdatis, who ended the career-best showing

of American qualifier Ryan Harrison by beating him 6-3, 7-6 (4), 1-6, 6-1. Rafael Nadal played against Andrey Kuznetsov on Friday night, to be followed by a women’s match between No. 2-seeded Angelique Kerber of Germany against 17-yearold American CiCi Bellis.

Djokovic did not expend much energy yet again, playing for only 31 minutes before his opponent, Mikhail Youzhny, stopped because of a strained left hamstring while trailing 4-2.

On Wednesday, the man Djokovic was supposed to play in the second round, Jiri Vesely, withdrew before the match even began because of an arm injury.

“It’s not great, for neither players nor the fans,” said Djokovic, who went back out on court in Arthur Ashe Stadium for an hour’s practice session with coach Boris Becker after the abrupt ending to Friday’s contest.

“But it is what it is. I’ll take it.

I’m moving on and focusing on the next one.”

That will be against either No. 20 John Isner of the United States or Kyle Edmund of Britain, with a place in the quarterfinals at stake. Friday’s most stirring turnaround came in Ashe in the afternoon, when No. 8 Madison Keys of the U.S. was down 5-1 in the third

win over 2004 champion and No. 9 seed Svetlana Kuznetsova by defeating Monica Niculescu 6-3, 6-1.

Other women who won included No. 7 Roberta Vinci, who stopped Serena Williams’ Grand Slam bid a year ago in New York, twotime Wimbledon champion Petra Kvitova, No. 13 Johanna Konta and Anastasija Sevastova, the player who beat French Open champion Garbine Muguruza in the second round.q

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Saturday 3 September 2016

MLB Capsules

Braves complete 1st home sweep this season, beat Padres 9-6 The Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Freddie Freeman homered and the Atlanta Braves broke it open with a five-run fifth inning, beating the San Diego Padres 9-6 on Thursday to complete their first threegame sweep at Turner Field this season.

One day after Minnesota dipped below Atlanta to the worst record in the majors, the Braves kept on winning behind six solid innings from Mike Foltynewicz (8-5) and another strong showing from their hitters. They scored at least seven runs for the fifth straight time at home.

Freeman put Atlanta up in the third with his 28th homer, a two-run liner into the right-field seats off Jarred Cosart (0-2). After Hector Sanchez homered for the Padres in the fifth, the Braves finished off Cosart in the bottom half. Freeman walked with the bases loaded, followed by tworun singles from both Matt Kemp and Anthony Recker.

The Padres scored three runs in the ninth off Chaz Roe before Jim Johnson came on to get the final out for his 14th save.

MARLINS 6, METS 4 NEW YORK (AP) — Chris-

San Diego Padres’ Jarred Cosart (55) walks back to the mound after walking Atlanta Braves’ Freddie Freeman, left, with bases loaded allowing Mike Foltynewicz, center, to score during the fifth inning of a baseball game, Thursday, Sept. 1, 2016, in Atlanta.

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tian Yelich hit a three-run homer that helped Miami beat shaky Jacob deGrom to end its season-worst fivegame losing streak.

Yelich homered and singled twice, drove in four runs and stole two bases.

He also made a dashing, diving catch in center field

with the bases loaded and two outs. That made up for him later dropping a routine fly for an error.

Jose Urena (3-5) outpitched deGrom (7-8) as Miami averted a four-game sweep. Down 6-1, the Mets made it close, boosted by pinch-hitter Asdrubal Ca-

brera’s two-run homer in the ninth off Fernando Rodney.

The Mets fell two games behind idle St. Louis for the second wild-card spot, with the Marlins another game back.

CUBS 5, GIANTS 4 CHICAGO (AP) — Addison Russell hit a two-run single with the bases loaded in the seventh inning to lead Chicago.

The Cubs spoiled a shaky Jeff Samardzija’s return to Wrigley Field and started September on a winning note after going 22-6 to match the 1932 team for the best August in franchise history.

The major league leaders also moved a season-high 39 games over .500 and 15 1/2 games ahead of St. Louis in the NL Central — their largest lead in the standings since the 1907 team finished 17 games ahead of Pittsburgh, according to the Elias Sports Bureau.

The Cubs were trailing 4-3 going into the seventh when Hunter Strickland (32) gave up a leadoff single to Dexter Fowler and walked Kris Bryant.

Will Smith walked Ben Zobrist with one out to load

the bases before retiring Jason Heyward on a pop fly. But Russell then blooped a two-run single to left off Cory Gearrin.

That gave Chicago a 5-4 lead and made a winner of Joe Smith (2-4), who worked two scoreless innings in relief after returning from a strained left hamstring.

sixth tournament in a row, which I don’t think I’ve ever done in my entire career on the PGA Tour. I’m getting some positive momentum going into these events. How I’ve been doing it these last few years kind of wasn’t working so I decided to change it up and play a lot more and make a final push and then I know I get a little break.

“It seems to be working,

whatever was.”

TWINS 8, WHITE SOX 5 MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Byron Buxton homered in his return to the majors, and Trevor Plouffe continued his resurgence with a two-run shot as Minnesota ended a 13-game losing streak.

Minnesota got to Chicago starter Jose Quintana, who entered the day leading the American League with a 2.77 ERA. Quintana (1110) allowed seven runs and seven hits in five innings and saw his ERA rise to 3.05.

Ervin Santana (7-10) escaped trouble to win for the fourth time in five decisions. He gave up 11 hits and two walks, but allowed just two runs as the Twins snapped their losing streak, one off the franchise record for a season.

Brandon Kintzler recorded his 13th save in 14 chances.q

Moore, Hahn share lead in Boston DOUG FERGUSON AP Golf Writer NORTON, Mass. (AP) — Ryan Moore changed his schedule to pile up tournaments at the end of the year with hopes of getting into a rhythm going into the FedEx Cup playoffs.

He has no complaints with the results.

Moore backed up a good start to the playoffs with a 6-under 65 on Friday to share the first-round lead with James Hahn on a day when hardly anyone seemed too far away. After one round at the TPC Boston, 37 players were separated by three shots.

Phil Mickelson would be an exception.

Mickelson, who leads the PGA Tour in adjusted scoring average and said he

wanted to win the Vardon Trophy for the first time in his career, took two swipes out of high grass in a water hazard to no avail, finally took a drop and made a quadruple-bogey 8 on the sixth hole. That sent him to 75 and in third-to-last place.

Moore and Hahn played bogey-free on a breezy day that allowed for good scoring, even though no one went terribly low. They were one shot ahead of Paul Casey and Fabian Gomez.

The average score was 69.67 as 80 of the 97 players in the field were at par or better. As usual, there were Ryder Cup implications. Jim Furyk, J.B. Holmes and Daniel Berger were in the group at 67, all of them to make an impression before Ryder Cup captain Davis Love

III starts filling out the U.S. team with three picks in 10 days. Holmes finished 10th in the standings, while Furyk was at No. 15 even though he four months recovering from wrist surgery.

Love has said every American in the Deutsche Bank Championship would be on his radar, though Moore isn’t even thinking about it.

His main goal is to get to the Tour Championship for the FedEx Cup finale, and this stacked schedule at the end of the year is working in his favor.

Along with a victory in the John Deere Classic, he tied for seventh last week at The Barclays to move to No. 11 in the FedEx Cup. “I like how I’ve been feeling with my game,” Moore said. “This is actually the

that

decision

Emiliano Grillo and Adam Scott played together and each shot 67, though they finished differently. Grillo hit a 4-iron into the hazard on the par-5 18th, took a drop and holed out with a wedge for birdie, looking blankly as the crowd roared before throwing down his club in mock surrender.q

SPORTS A21

Saturday 3 September 2016

Earnhardt to miss rest of NASCAR season with concussion CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) -Dale Earnhardt Jr. will miss the rest of the NASCAR season - 18 races total - as he continues to recover from a concussion.

NASCAR’s most popular driver first began experiencing concussion-like symptoms in late July. He has been undergoing treatment from Dr. Micky Collins at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center Sports Medicine Concussion Program. He’s also being treated by Charlotte neurosurgeon Dr. Jerry Petty.

“To say I’m disappointed doesn’t begin to describe how I feel, but I know this is the right thing for my longterm health and career,” Earnhardt said in a statement Friday. “I’m 100 percent focused on my recovery, and I will continue to follow everything the doctors tell me.”

Earnhardt said doctors have seen progress in his recovery, and he plans to be back in the car next February for the seasonopening Daytona 500.

Joey Logano said he understands how difficult this choice was to make for Earnhardt.

“I look up to him for what he’s doing. I know how hard that is to look out and want to be inside that racecar,” Logano said.

“Your life and your health is not worth risking for the sport.”

Elliott Sadler, who drives for Earnhardt’s Xfinity program, said he had mixed feelings about his friend’s absence. He knows how desperately Earnhardt

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“The Supreme Court is not going to hear these,” said Acho, who represents about two dozen clients, including former Bears star Gale Sayers. “It’s just dragging this out unnecessarily, because the settlement is fair.”

The player lawsuits had initially accused the NFL of

In this Aug. 5, 2016, file photo, Dale Earnhardt Jr. listens to a question about his concussion while addressing the media at Watkins Glen International racetrack in Watkins Glen, N.Y. Earnhardt will miss the rest of the NASCAR season as he continues to recover from a concussion.

wanted to return this season.

“The flip side is I’m happy and proud of him to take a step back and get everything in line from the medical side,” Sadler said.

Jeff Gordon and Alex Bowman will continue to share seat time in the No. 88 Chevrolet for Hendrick Motorsports. Gordon will drive four races, including Sunday at Darlington Raceway for the Southern 500, as well as Richmond, Dover and Martinsville. Bowman will finish the year with eight more starts.

“Jeff and Alex will give us a great opportunity over the

rest of the season,” team owner Rick Hendrick said.

“Jeff is one of the best of all time and knows our system. He brings things to the table that no one else can.

Alex is a young driver with a lot of talent, and he will give us a fresh perspective.

We know they’re not only capable of running up front and giving us a chance to win, but they’ll help us get better.”

Jamie McMurray said those in the Sprint Cup garage miss having Earnhardt around, but the sport will continue to thrive no matter how long he may be out.

“You don’t show up at the track for two or three weeks, not that you’re forgotten, but it’s crazy how things move on,” he said.

Earnhardt has struggled with concussions before, including the 2012 season when he missed two races after suffering a pair of concussions over a sixweek span. NASCAR has been updating its focus on concussions and treatment programs, beginning in 2002 in part because Earnhardt admitted he was unable to fully concentrate or communicate with his crew chief after an accident at California. He self-diag-

nosed himself with a concussion, which he revealed weeks later.

NASCAR then said doctors at infield care centers could require drivers to undergo CT scans or MRIs if they suspected a concussion. Clearance to race after suffering a concussion is not given until after a driver obtains a medical release.

More than a decade later, Earnhardt also spurred a baseline testing program that is now required of all drivers every preseason.

“I know how hard Dale has worked and how frustrating this is for him,” Hendrick said. q

hiding what it knew about the link between concussions and CTE. The settlement awards up to $5 million for those with ALS; $4 million for past CTE deaths; and $3.5 million for advanced Alzheimer’s disease. The average payouts would be closer to $190,000.

Critics complain the settlement, approved by Senior U.S. District Judge Anita B. Brody in Philadelphia,

does not cover future CTE cases even though it may be able to be diagnosed in the living within 10 years.

The lead negotiators said they instead set aside compensation for treatment for some CTE symptoms. That does not include the depression, aggression and mood swings reported by some former players who experienced repeated concussions.

Gilchrist’s attorney said the

lead lawyers are simply eager to divide fees expected to top $112 million.

Gilchrist, an early civil rights activist, led a 1965 boycott that moved the American Football League’s All-Star game to Houston after black players were denied restaurant and taxi service in New Orleans. His 2011 death was attributed to cancer, but he was posthumously found to have CTE, Beck said.

Gilchrist died penniless in a Pittsburgh-area nursing home after battling psychological, emotional and personal problems that Beck linked to CTE. “He was a man of extraordinary character and determination,” the Miami lawyer said. “His son Scott has taken up the mantle. In many ways, he sees this as a vindication of his father’s strengths and beliefs.”q

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Saturday 3 September 2016

SPORTS

Column: Hoping Kaepernick gets another chance to take a knee PAUL NEWBERRY AP National Writer No matter what happens when the final cuts are made, Colin Kaepernick already had the best preseason of anyone in the NFL. He sparked vehement outrage.

He drew steadfast support.

He got us talking.

That is America — and its athletes — at their very best.

We’re not putting Kaepernick in the same league as Muhammad Ali, whose decision to not fight in Vietnam cost him more than three years in the prime of his career. Or mentioning the San Francisco 49ers quarterback in the same breath with Tommie Smith and John Carlos, who were sent home in disgrace from the 1968 Mexico City Olympics for giving a black power salute on the medal stand.

But Kaepernick is certainly following in the footsteps of those giants, who bravely protested this country’s injustices even when they knew it would come at enormous personal cost.

For the past week, we’ve debated — in coffee shops, at work, on talk radio shows, around the dinner table — the merits of Kaepernick’s decision not to stand for the national anthem before games, his way of protesting the centuries-long short end of the stick that people of color have been getting in America, especially at the hands of the so-called justice system.

grievances.

That, in a way, makes Kaepernick’s stance even more admirable. He decided to take on a much greater cause than football with his professional future in doubt, fully aware that it might affect his chances of staying with the team or, should he be cut, catching on with someone else.

“What makes an act truly patriotic and not just lip-service is when it involves personal risk or sacrifice,” basketball Hall of Famer Kareem Abdul-Jabbar wrote this week in The Washington Post.

San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick greets fans after the 49ers’ 31-21 win over the San Diego Chargers during an NFL preseason football game Thursday, Sept. 1, 2016, in San Diego.

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Maybe you don’t like his tactics, feel he is being disrespectful to what this country stands for — or, at least, is supposed to stand for.

That’s fine.

This is America. You’re free to express your opinions.

So is Kaepernick, who, it should be noted, wasn’t up in anyone’s face or being disruptive — not there’s anything wrong with those tactics, either.

The biracial quarterback simply refused to stand for “The Star-Spangled Banner,” a gesture that actually went unnoticed for a couple of preseason games before someone finally realized what was up.

Kaepernick, to his credit, didn’t back down when

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called out. He explained his motives thoughtfully, saying he wanted to draw attention to the discrimination that undeniably still exists in this country and continues to hold back so many of our fellow citizens.

“We have a lot of people that are oppressed,” he said after Thursday’s final preseason game in San Diego. “We have a lot of people that aren’t treated equally, that aren’t given equal opportunities. Police brutality is a huge thing that needs to be addressed.

There are a lot of issues that need to be talked about, that need to be brought to life, and we need to fix those things.”

He’s no longer alone, either.

In San Diego, Kaepernick took a knee along with teammate Eric Reid, who decided this was a cause worth following. So did Seattle Seahawks cornerback Jeremy Lane, who sat on the bench while the an-

them was played before another preseason game in Oakland.

Once we get to the regular season, look for more and more players to follow Kaepernick’s lead — even if he’s only there in spirit.

You see, Kaepernick’s future with the 49ers was still up in the air Friday. The once-dynamic quarterback who led San Francisco to the 2013 Super Bowl lost his starting job a year ago, and there’s no guarantee that he’ll get it back.

Or even make the team, for that matter.

New 49ers coach Chip Kelly has been vague on his intentions, saying only that Kaepernick will be judged like everyone else when the 53-man roster is set Saturday. Of course, it’s foolish to think Kelly won’t at least consider how much of a distraction it would be to keep a quarterback who has made it clear that he intends to keep pressing ahead with his off-the-field

Now, it should be noted that Kaepernick’s $11.9 million salary for this year is fully guaranteed, whether or not he makes the 49ers.

But his future earnings could surely take a hit.

“Kaepernick’s choice not to stand during the national anthem could create a public backlash that might cost him millions in future endorsements and affect his value as a player on his team, reducing salary earnings or even jeopardizing his job,” Abdul-Jabbar wrote. “If team ticket sales seriously dipped as a result, he would pay for his stance.”

Invoking those giants of the 1960s, Abdul-Jabbar got to the heart of the matter.

“What should horrify Americans is not Kaepernick’s choice to remain seated during the national anthem,” he wrote, “but that nearly 50 years after Ali was banned from boxing for his stance and Tommie Smith and John Carlos’s raised fists caused public ostracization and numerous death threats, we still need to call attention to the same racial inequities.

Failure to fix this problem is what’s really un-American here.”

That’s what Kaepernick has been saying all along.

He loves America. He just wants to make it a better place.

Let’s hope Kaepernick gets another chance to take a knee.

If he does, we should all stand with him.q

TECHNOLOGY A23

Saturday 3 September 2016

Samsung recalls Galaxy Note 7 after battery explosions YOUKYUNG LEE AP Technology Writer SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Samsung recalled its Galaxy Note 7 smartphones on Friday after finding some of their batteries exploded or caught fire.

Samsung’s Note 7s are being pulled from shelves in 10 countries, including South Korea and the United States, just two weeks after the product’s launch. Customers who already bought Note 7s will be able to swap them for new smartphones in about two weeks, said Koh Dongjin, president of Samsung’s mobile business.

He apologized for causing inconvenience and concern to customers.

The recall, the first for the new smartphone though not the first for a battery , comes at a crucial moment in Samsung’s mobile business. Apple is expected to announce its new iPhone next week and Samsung’s mobile division was counting on momentum from the Note 7’s strong reviews and higherthan-expected demand.

Samsung said it had confirmed 35 instances of Note 7s catching fire or exploding. There have been no reports of injuries related to the problem.

The company said it has not found a way to tell exactly which phones may endanger users out of the 2.5 million Note 7s already sold globally. It estimated that about 1 in 42,000 units may have a faulty battery.

Samsung’s official statement was silent on whether customers should stop using their phones, and it didn’t say whether the problems happened while the phones were charging or during normal use.

“The ball is in Samsung’s court to make this right.

Consumers want information about what’s going on and peace of mind that this is not going to happen again,” said Ramon Llamas, who tracks mobile devices at research firm IDC. “No one wants to wake up at 1, 2 or 3 (in the morning) and find out your smartphone’s on fire.”

A Samsung Electronics Galaxy Note 7 smartphone is displayed at the headquarters of South Korean mobile carrier KT in Seoul, South Korea, Friday, Sept. 2, 2016.

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He added that while phone combustions are unusual, “35 instances are 35 too many.”

This summer, Samsung ran into a quality-control issue with another smartphone, a niche model called the Galaxy S7 Active. Consumer Reports found that the phone didn’t live up to its water-resistance promises.

Samsung said that relatively

few phones were affected and that it had identified and fixed the manufacturing problem. Samsung said it would replace devices under warranty if it failed, but it declined to let customers swap phones otherwise or to issue a broader recall.

On the Note 7, after complaints surfaced online, Samsung found that a

Tweet NY Public Library an emoji, get a related image back NEW YORK (AP) — While brainstorming ways to highlights it digital image archive, The New York Public Library came up with — the emoji bot.

If you tweet an emoji to NYPL Emoji Bot (@NYPLEmoji) , you will get an automatic reply with a related image from its vast digital collection.

So if you tweet clinking beer glasses, you might get a response showing two people clinking wine glasses. An emoji of a birthday cake icon might generate an image of two people blowing out candles on a huge cake.

The emoji project came about as the library sought to highlight its more than 694,000-item digital image archive.

Digital Experience Producer Lauren Lampasone says it began with a spreadsheet of existing emoji characters and matching images added over several months.q

battery cell made by one of its two battery suppliers caused the phone to catch fire. Koh refused to name the supplier.

“There was a tiny problem in the manufacturing process, so it was very difficult to figure out,” Koh told reporters at a news conference. “It will cost us so much it makes my heart ache. Nevertheless, the

reason we made this decision is because what is most important is customer safety.”

Customers’ reports of scorched phones prompted Samsung to conduct extra quality controlling tests and delay shipments of the Note 7s this week before the recall.

South Korean high school teacher Park Soo-Jung said she had rushed to buy the new phone, pre-ordering and then activating it on Aug. 19, its official launch date.

The 34-year-old living in the port city of Busan said that she was bruised when she rushed out of bed after her phone burst into flames, filling her bedroom with smoke stinking of chemicals.

She’s having second thoughts about buying another newly released device, especially after losing all her personal data stored in the destroyed Note 7, she said.

“If the exploded phone had burned near my head, I would not have been able to write this post,” she said in a popular online forum Thursday, where she shared a photo of the scorched Note 7 and described dousing the flames.

China is not affected by the sales suspension. The company said it used a battery made by another supplier for the Note 7s sold in China.q

Facebook adds ‘instant video’ option to texts in messenger NEW YORK (AP) -- Facebook is adding an “instant video” feature to text messages within its Messenger app. This means users can send each other videos while they are texting in the app, in case words are not quite enough.

This is different from video calls, which have been available in Messenger since 2015. The latest feature is for those times when you don’t necessarily want to make a full-fledged video call, but find that a photo or text won’t do. Maybe you’re walking by a prolific street performer and want to share a video with a friend you’re texting, or share a baby giggle with your partner.

To send instant video, both you and the recipient have to have Messenger open. Tap on the video icon to start sharing real-time video.q

A24 BUSINESS

Saturday 3 September 2016

Stocks rise as tepid jobs report stokes hopes for low rates MARLEY JAY AP Markets Writer NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. stocks rose Friday as investors found some positive aspects in a middling employment report. Job growth slowed in August, and traders hope that will convince the Federal Reserve to wait before raising interest rates.

Stocks started the day with big gains following the Labor Department’s job report. Energy companies rose more than the rest of the market as oil prices broke out of a fourday slump. The gains were broad, but the stocks that rose the most were utilities, which would stand to benefit if interest rates remain low.

Kate Warne, investment strategist for Edward Jones, said the jobs report was good but not great. That actually helped send the market higher because a very strong report could have pushed the Fed to raise interest rates as early as this month. Some investors fear that could jeopardize an uneven economic recovery.

“It falls right in the sweet spot of what the market wanted,” she said. “It wasn’t so strong as to make (higher interest rates) seem necessary but it wasn’t so

Specialist Frank Masiello, right, works with traders James Riley, left, and Peter Tuchman, center, on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. U.S. stocks rose Friday as investors found some positive aspects in a middling employment report.

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weak as to make a rate increase this year unlikely.”

The Dow Jones industrial average added 72.66 points, or 0.4 percent, to 18,491.96. The Dow rose as much as 125 points in the morning. The Standard & Poor’s 500 index rose 9.12 points, or 0.4 percent, to 2,179.98. The Nasdaq composite gained 22.69 points, or 0.4 percent, to 5,249.90.

Compared to the last few months, job gains slowed in most major industries in August and wages only

rose a little. While the U.S. is on a long streak of job growth, reports over the last few months have been inconsistent. Growth was weak in April and May, but picked up in June and July and seems to have slowed again last month.

The Federal Reserve raised interest rates slightly in December and wants to gradually bring them back closer to where they were

before the financial crisis of 2008. But most investors didn’t expect rates to rise this month, and the jobs report appeared to confirm that.

U.S. benchmark crude oil rose $1.28, or 3 percent, to $44.44 a barrel in New York.

Brent crude, the benchmark for international oil prices, added $1.38, or 3 percent, to $46.83 a barrel in London. U.S. crude had

fallen 9 percent over the last four days. Anadarko Petroleum added $2.95, or 5.5 percent, to $56.49 and Chevron picked up 72 cents to $100.93.

Utilities made even bigger gains. They’re seen as steady investments, and their high dividends make them more appealing when bond yields are low.

NextEra Energy gained $2.13, or 1.8 percent, to $123.13 and American Electric Power rose 83 cents, or 1.3 percent, to $65.24.

Household goods makers also traded higher.

Colgate-Palmolive, which makes toothpastes, soaps, and pet foods, rose 62 cents to $74.89. Tyson Foods, the largest meat and poultry processing company in the world, gained 96 cents, or 1.3 percent, to $76.44.

Cigarette makers also did well, as Reynolds American and Altria Group gained ground.

Carnival Corp. and Royal Caribbean Cruises both skidded. Morgan Stanley analyst Jamie Rollo said demand for cruises seems to have gotten weaker in August and bookings for late 2016 and early 2017 have slowed down. q

Ownership change voids Lockheed contract KEN RITTER Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — Federal officials have rescinded a $5 billion contract awarded to a firm that had been a subsidiary of defense contractor Lockheed Martin Corp., just days after announcing the company would manage a vast former nuclear proving ground north of Las Vegas.

National Nuclear Security Administration officials declined Friday to provide details about the Department of Energy announcement that it’s renewing the process to award a 10-year contract to operate the Nevada National Security Site.

After declaring Aug. 26 that the contract went to Nevada Site Science Support and Technologies Corp., the government said, it

learned the company was no longer a Lockheed Martin subsidiary but had been sold to Virginia-based Leidos Innovations Corp.

The statement said failure to notify the contracting officer about the ownership change raised “substantial questions” about the bid and award.

Leidos spokeswoman Melissa Koskovich said in an email that her firm was disappointed but stands behind its contract proposal and hopes to resolve the issue. She noted the award announcement called the winning bid the “best value to the government.”

Managing the 1,360-square-mile facility has interest from major firms including Bechtel and the current operator, National Security Technologies LLC. That’s a Northrop Grum-

man joint-venture with three partners.

The award statement had said the Lockheed Martin affiliate was partnering with a subsidiary of engineering and construction company Fluor Corp., and with Las Vegas-based Longenecker & Associates.

Officials with National Securities Technologies declined to comment.

Its contract had been set to expire Sept. 30, but it will continue managing the site until a new manager is picked, the Energy Department said.

As the Nevada Test Site, the area hosted more than 1,000 nuclear detonations from 1951 to 1992.

It is now used for experiments and safety training related to the nation’s nuclear stockpile. q

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Retailers scramble as shipper bankruptcy puts goods in limbo A. D’INNOCENZIO R. JABLON Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Some major retailers are scrambling to work out contingency plans to get their merchandise to stores as the bankruptcy of the Hanjin shipping line has thrown ports and retailers around the world into confusion.

They don’t have a lot of time. Giant container ships from the South Koreanbased Hanjin shipping line are marooned with their cargo of what experts say are lots of TVs and printers, but also loads of home furnishings and clothing.

Hanjin, the world’s seventhlargest container shipper, filed for bankruptcy protection Wednesday and stopped accepting new cargo. With its assets being frozen, ships from China to Canada were refused permission to offload or take aboard containers because there were no guarantees that tugboat pilots or stevedores would be paid. It’s also been a factor in shipping rates rising and could hurt some trucking firms with contracts to pick up goods from Hanjin ships.

The South Korean giant represents nearly 8 percent of the trans-Pacific trade volume for the U.S. market.

While some retailers may already have merchandise for the holiday season affected, experts say what’s most important is that the issue be resolved before the critical shipping month of

South Korea’s Hanjin Shipping Co. container ship Hanjin Montevideo, top, is anchored outside the Port of Long Beach in Long Beach, Calif., on Thursday, Sept. 1, 2016. The South Korean shipping giant filed for bankruptcy protection on Wednesday, Aug. 31, and stopped accepting new cargo.

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October.

“Retailers always have robust contingency plans, but this degree of uncertainty is making it challenging to put those plans in place,” said Jessica Dankert, senior director of retail operations for the Retail Industry Leaders Association, a trade alliance with members including companies like Best Buy, Wal-Mart and Target.

J.C. Penney said Hanjin is one of several ocean freight carriers that it uses and when it learned there might be an issue it began to divert and reroute its containers.

It said it uses “a variety of transportation methods and ports” and right now does not expect a significant

effect on the flow of merchandise.

Target Corp. said it is watching the situation closely and Wal-Mart said it is waiting for details about Hanjin’s bankruptcy proceedings and the implications to its merchandise before it could assess the effect.

As of Friday, 27 ships had been refused entry to ports or terminals, said Hanjin Shipping spokesman Park Min. The Seoul-based company said one ship in Singapore had been seized by the ship’s owner.

At the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach, the nation’s busiest port complex, three Hanjin container ships ranging from about 700 feet to 1,100 feet (213 meters

to 304 meters) long were either drifting offshore or anchored away from terminals on Thursday. A fourth vessel that was supposed to leave Long Beach on Thursday morning remained anchored inside the breakwater.

“Hanjin called us and said: ‘We’re going bankrupt and we can’t pay any bills — so don’t bother asking,’ “ said J. Kip Louttit, executive director of the Marine Exchange of Southern California, which provides traffic control for the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach.

That’s meant cargo headed to and from Asia is in limbo, much to the distress of merchants looking to stock

shelves with fall fashions or Christmas toys. “Someone from the garment industry called earlier today asking: ‘How long is this going to go on, because I’ve got clothing out there,’” Louttit said.

Chris Rogers, a research analyst at Panjiva, which tracks international imports to the United States, said the situation isn’t yet dire but could become so. October is the busiest month for cargo from South Korea to the U.S., accounting for about 11.5 percent of the annual total.

But South Korea’s maritime ministry said Hanjin’s troubles would affect cargo exports for two to three months, given that AugustOctober is a high-demand season for deep-sea routes.

The Retail Industry Leaders Association wrote to U.S. Secretary of Commerce Penny Pritzker and Federal Maritime Commission Chairman Mario Cordero on Thursday, urging them to work with the South Korean government, ports and others to prevent disruptions. It said the bankruptcy is rippling through the global supply chain and could cause significant harm to consumers and the U.S. economy. “There (are) millions of dollars’ worth of merchandise that needs to be on store shelves that could be impacted by this,” said Jonathan Gold, the National Retail Federation’s vice president for supply chain and customs policy.q

Yum to sell stake in China unit ahead of spinoff NEW YORK (AP) — Yum Brands says it will sell a stake in its China unit, which the parent company of KFC and Pizza Hut is spinning off later this year.

The company said Friday that it struck deals to sell stakes to private equity firm Primavera Capital Group, and online and mobile financial services provider Ant Financial Services Group for a total of $460 million.

It said Primavera founder Fred Hu will also become non-executive chair of Yum China’s board.

The deal and the spinoff are expected to be completed on Oct. 31.

The company says shares of Yum China will begin trading on the New York Stock Exchange the next day under the ticker “YUMC.” Yum Brands Inc. previously announced the spinoff of its China business, which has come under pressure after food scares and marketing missteps that hurt sales at KFC and Pizza Hut. Last year, sales at established locations were 4 percent for the China unit, following a 5 percent decline

the previous year.

Yum has more than 7,000 KFC and Pizza Hut and locations in China, a key region for the company that accounts for about half its revenue.

That’s because the company owns its restaurants, while it franchises considerably more in other parts of the world, including the U.S. Yum, based in Louisville, Kentucky, also owns Taco Bell.

Yum Brand shares rose 72 cents to $91.48 in morning trading Friday.q

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FDA bans antiseptic chemicals for soaps; no proof they work MATTHEW PERRONE AP Health Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The federal government Friday banned more than a dozen chemicals long-used in antibacterial soaps, saying manufacturers failed to show they are safe and kill germs.

“We have no scientific evidence that they are any better than plain soap and water,” said Dr. Janet Woodcock, the Food and Drug Administration’ drug center director, in a statement.

Friday’s decision primarily targets two once-ubiquitous ingredients — triclosan and triclocarban — that some limited research in animals suggests can interfere with hormone levels and spur drug-resistant bacteria.

The 19 banned chemicals have long been under scrutiny, and a cleaning industry spokesman said most companies have already removed them from their soaps and washes.

The FDA said it will allow companies more time to provide data on three additional chemicals, which are used in most antibacterial soaps sold today.

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Where’s Zika going next? Maybe China, India, or Nigeria MARIA CHENG AP Medical Writer LONDON (AP) — Scientists trying to predict the future path of Zika say that 2.6 billion people living in parts of Asia and Africa could be at risk of infection, based on a new analysis of travel, climate and mosquito patterns in those regions.

Some of the most vulnerable countries include India, China, the Philippines, Indonesia, Nigeria, Vietnam, Pakistan and Bangladesh, according to the research.

Experts caution that the study could overestimate the number of people at risk because they don’t know whether Zika had already landed in some of these countries in the past and allowed people to develop immunity. More than two-thirds of people infected with Zika never get sick, and symptoms are mild for those who do, so surveillance systems may have missed cases.

Although Zika was first identified in 1947, the virus wasn’t considered a major health threat until a major outbreak in Brazil last year revealed that Zika can lead to severe birth defects when pregnant women are infected.

In February, the World Health Organization declared the spread of Zika a global emergency, and epidemics have been sparked in at least 70 countries. In the last few weeks, it has sickened more than

A pest control worker fumigates drains at a local housing estate where the latest case of Zika infections were reported from on Thursday, Sept. 1, 2016 in Singapore.

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100 people in Singapore and started spreading in Florida.

Zika is mostly spread by a specific species of tropical mosquito, but it can also be spread by sex and through blood transfusions.

Researchers hope their new study will help officials plan ahead to possibly avoid some of the worst effects of Zika.

“For countries with a finite amount of resources, this may help them use those resources as efficiently as possible,” said Dr. Kamran Khan, an infectious diseases physician and scientist at St. Michael’s Hospital in

Toronto, the study’s senior author.

To figure out where Zika might gain a future foothold, researchers examined patterns of people traveling from infected regions in the Americas to Africa and Asia and combined that with an assessment of local conditions, including mosquito populations.

They used the spread of a related virus, dengue, as a model for Zika since the same mosquito species transmits both diseases.

Dengue is not spread by sex, like Zika, but mosquitoes are responsible for the

vast majority of Zika cases globally.

The study was published online Thursday in the journal, Lancet.

Some experts pointed out that the expected impact of Zika will depend largely on whether people have any previous exposure to the virus — and that is unknown.

“No one has ever looked, so we don’t know if there is any pre-existing immunity to the virus,” said Dr. Abraham Goorhuis of the University of Amsterdam, an author of a commentary that accompanies the Lancet study. The virus in

the Americas is an Asian strain that was responsible for a large outbreak in French Polynesia and other Pacific Islands in 2013 and 2014.

“If there was broad circulation of this virus in Asia, then it could be that the risk of Zika spreading to Asia won’t be as bad as we think,” Goorhuis said.

He said another big unknown was whether people who might have been exposed to the African strain of Zika might be protected once the slightly different Asian version arrives.

It’s unclear how widely the original 1947 strain found in Africa may have spread.

Goorhuis also noted it was possible Zika might eventually burn itself out after about a year or so of circulation, the way a related virus, chikungunya, recently did.

Others said scientists should seize the chance now to prevent Zika from becoming entrenched elsewhere.

Ben Neuman, a virology professor at the University of Reading, said that once the virus has started to spread by mosquitoes locally, and not just by travelers, it can become entrenched in animals as well as people and be extremely difficult to eradicate. “We have the opportunity right now to prevent (Zika’s) spread and by doing so, halting the spread of unnecessary suffering,” he said.q

PEOPLE & ARTS A29 Jon Favreau takes on virtual reality with ‘Gnomes & Goblins’ Saturday 3 September 2016

In this April 13, 2016, file photo, Dave Hollis, executive vice president of theatrical distribution for Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures, discusses the studio’s Marvel brand of films during their presentation at CinemaCon 2016, the official convention of the National Association of Theatre Owners (NATO), at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas.

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Disney shutting down ‘Marvel: Avengers Alliance’ games LOS ANGELES (AP) — Avengers, disassemble.

Disney announced plans Thursday to shut down the “Marvel: Avengers Alliance” online game series at the end of the month.

“Marvel: Avengers Alliance” originally launched on Facebook in 2012 alongside the first “Avengers” film.

The popular turn-based role-playing game

spawned a sequel and versions for mobile devices.

The games featured Marvel superheroes such as Iron Man, Black Widow, Cyclops, Spider-Man and SheHulk. Disney said in a statement it was ending the game because it is shifting its “development focus towards other online and mobile play experiences.”

The games will go offline Sept. 30.q

‘Big Brother’ streaming edition to premiere Sept. 28 LOS ANGELES (AP) — An online-only edition of “Big Brother” will begin streaming late this month.

CBS announced Thursday the new take on the longrunning reality TV competition will be titled “Big Brother: Over the Top” and is set to debut Sept. 28.

“Big Brother: Over the Top” will feature a new cast of houseguests competing over 10 weeks for $250,000 — not the show’s usual $500,000 grand prize.

The series will feature live feeds and a weekly elimination.

The show is among three new projects set to debut on the CBS All Access streaming service, joining the sci-fi series “Star Trek: Discovery” and a spinoff of the legal drama “The Good Wife.”

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DERRIK J. LANG AP Entertainment Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Jon Favreau has brought talking animals and smartalecky superheroes to the big screen. For his next project, he’s luring miniature goblins into virtual reality to become one of the first major filmmakers to create an original work using VR. The filmmaker, who worked on promotional VR tie-ins to his recent live-action adaptation of “The Jungle Book,” is collaborating with VR studios Wevr and Reality One on “Gnomes & Goblins,” an interactive series based on an original Favreau creation.

“I like making movies,” said Favreau at a Wednesday preview of the VR title. “This — for me, personally — was more about what would be the most fun thing to create in VR.” The room-scale VR experience, which will initially be available for the HTC Vive system, casts users as a human-sized avatar that can move around in an enchanted forest and interact with an adorable tiny goblin.

For instance, plucking an acorn off a tree and handing it to the little guy could win over his affection. “I didn’t want this to feel like you’re playing a VR game, but I didn’t want it to just feel like you’re watching a movie, either,” said Favreau. “It was really finding

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that balance, so the interactivity was intuitive but not a puzzle. Ultimately, we put most of our brainpower into creating a goblin that felt organic.” While many studios and networks have developed VR experiences to promote films and TV shows, Favreau is among the first of established Hollywood filmmakers to embrace the immersive medium and craft an original VR title. “Jon was very handson with his pitch,” said “Gnomes & Goblins” creative director Jake Rowell, who previously worked on “theBlu” VR series. “He envisioned this entire ‘Legend of Zelda’ and Tolkien-esque world with sketches and diagrams. We ultimately brought it to one location with that world.”

Unlike filmmaking, Favreau expects users’ reaction to the “Gnomes & Goblins” preview will affect how he and the crew approach future installments of the 360-degree series.

“This is all new territory for me,” said Favreau. “I’ve never done anything like this and don’t know what’s going to happen. I just know I’m having a really good time.”q

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to be broadcast on CBS. The series hosted by Julie Chen is currently airing its 18th season.q

NEW YORK (AP) — Larry Wilmore says the cancellation of his late night Comedy Central talk show was like being in a relationship, but “you were the one who didn’t know it was over.”

Wilmore told Stephen Colbert on CBS’ “Late Show” Thursday that he’s “very disappointed” in Comedy Central’s decision last month to abruptly end the “Nightly Show” because he thought the program would last through the November

presidential election. Wilmore adds that he’s hopeful he “can do something like” the show again. Wilmore replaced “The Colbert Report” in the 11:30 p.m. slot on Comedy Central ahead of Colbert’s move to CBS last year. Thursday’s “Late Show” opened with Wilmore coming out to deliver the monologue , quipping to Colbert that he thought “whoever leaves 11:30 at Comedy Central just gets the ‘Late Show.’”q

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& ARTS ‘Birth of a Nation’ star, rape survivor faces complex issues In this June 26, 2016, file photo, Gabrielle Union, from left, Nate Parker and Aja Naomi King present the award for Dr. Bobby Jones best gospel/ inspirational award at the BET Awards at the Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles.

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LINDSEY BAHR AP Film Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — As a rape survivor, victim’s advocate and an actress in “The Birth of a Nation,” Gabrielle Union has found herself in an impossible position. Union recently, along with the much of the world, learned that her film’s director, writer, producer and star, Nate Parker, was accused and acquitted of rape 17 years ago.

She collected her thoughts in a nuanced opinion piece for the Los Angeles Times Friday, writing that while she cannot take the allegations lightly, the film also addresses and raises important questions about this very matter.

It’s also the latest high-profile complication for a film that just a month ago was presumed to be one of the year’s most vital — a powerful awards contender and a possible antidote for the #OscarsSoWhite Hollywood diversity crisis.

Yet the film, which fetched a record acquisition price at the Sundance Film Festival in January, is now in the shadow of persistent controversy just weeks away from its Oct. 7 release.

In the film, about Nat Turner’s 1831 slave rebellion, Union’s character is raped, though it’s not depicted on screen. It’s why the actress took the part, she writes. She wanted to give voice to women of history, especially black women, who have for so long been silenced on the matter.

“I knew I could walk out of our movie and speak to the audience about what it feels like to be a survivor,” Union wrote.

Union, who was raped at gunpoint in the backroom of a Payless shoe store 24

years ago, says she’s been “in a state of stomachchurning confusion” since learning of Parker’s 1999 rape case.

The rape allegation came while Parker was a student and wrestler at Penn State University. Parker was acquitted, though his college roommate Jean Celestin (who co-wrote “The Birth of a Nation) was initially found guilty of sexual assault. That conviction was later overturned when the accuser declined to testify for a trial.

The case garnered a lot of attention at Penn State.

Parker and Celestin allegedly harassed the accuser on campus. The incident spawned a civil lawsuit by the woman against the college, with a settlement of $17,500.

The recently renewed focus on the case also brought to light the fact the accuser committed suicide in 2012, which Parker, now married with five daughters, learned about from media reports. He wrote on hisFacebook page that he was “filled with profound sorrow” and regretted that he didn’t “show enough empathy.” Parker also recently spoke to Ebony magazine about how he’s taking steps to grow and educate himself.

It remains unclear how all this might affect the release of the film, its public perception or even its awards chances. Distributor Fox Searchlight is proceeding with the October release and will still take the film, and Parker, to the Toronto International Film Festival this month. But things look very different from just a month ago when Parker was happily accepting a Sundance Vanguard Award and taking meetings in the White House.

Union’s op-ed “is certainly bad news for Searchlight, in that it keeps the focus firmly on this issue going into Toronto,” said David Poland, the editor in chief of MovieCityNews.com and a longtime industry observer.

“I can’t say that the film won’t do business. It might.

But half of what it might have. And its awards prospects are on their death bed.”

Yet Poland says one positive is that Union hasn’t quit on the film or its promotion.

“That’s an implicit endorsement of Nate and the film, though with clear reservations,” he said. “That the rest of the cast will stick with the film at TIFF is also critical for Searchlight, which is holding on by its fingertips on this.”

Union, for her part, says that she has read the 700 pages of court transcript from the case and doesn’t know for sure what happened that night.

Instead of speculating on guilt or innocence, Union is using the platform to advocate for education and conversation on the topic of rape, consent and aggression, something she is also trying to do at home with her young son.

“I believe that the film is an opportunity to inform and educate so that these situations cease to occur,” Union wrote. “Sexual violence happens more often than anyone can imagine.

And if the stories around this film do not prove and emphasize this, then I don’t know what does. It is my hope that we can use this as an opportunity to look within.”

Representatives for Fox Searchlight and Parker did not immediately respond to requests for comment.q

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Saturday 3 September 2016

Filmmaker Ava DuVernay conquers TV with ‘Queen Sugar’ FRAZIER MOORE AP Television Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The new family drama “Queen Sugar” follows three estranged siblings in a rural Louisiana town as they struggle to make sense of their lives while preserving a family legacy: a failing sugarcane farm.

Nova (Rutina Wesley, “True Blood”) is a fiery journalist and activist. Charley (Dawn-Lyen Gardner, “Unforgettable”) is the wife and no-nonsense manager of an NBA star. Ralph Angel (Kofi Siriboe, “Awkward”) is a devoted young father with a criminal past.

The series, which premieres on OWN network Tuesday and Wednesday at 10 p.m.

EDT, is based on the novel

by Natalie Baszile, and is executive produced by Oprah Winfrey and Ava DuVernay (the acclaimed filmmaker of the Oscarnominated “Selma” and a new documentary, “The 13th”), who is also the series’ creator as well as one of its writers and directors.

Here, in edited remarks, is what DuVernay and her three stars had to say recently about “Queen Sugar”: — WHY THIS PROJECT? “I love good family dramas,” said DuVernay. “Not super plot-driven, but character-driven stories. And I thought, ‘Gosh, I wish I could see that with some black folk.’”

A while back, Winfrey handed her Baszile’s novel to read on holiday.

“Oprah sent me to Maui,” DuVernay laughed, “and I

ended up with work.”

The book — up close and personal, yet broad in scope — sparked the series she had always wanted to see. “Charley is dealing with her family in the South while she’s pursuing a professional life in Los Angeles.

With Ralph Angel, what a great opportunity to get to know a formerly incarcerated black man — the second-class citizens we make them. And in this incredible Black Lives Matter moment, which I think parallels in so many ways the civil rights movement, it’s incredible to have a character in Nova who embodies that spirit. “I fell in love with the possibilities.”

— GROWING POSSIBILITIES DuVernay first envisioned “Queen Sugar” as an 8-episode limited series. Then it grew to 13 episodes. Then it was picked up for a 16-episode second season, with no end in sight.

One challenge for DuVernay in adapting to openended series TV: keeping audiences hooked from week to week — or even during each commercial break. “Most people aren’t going to walk out of a theater, but it’s really easy for them to turn to another channel,” she noted. “I knew there had to be heightened moments which are probably bigger than I usually do. I had to find the humanity within the more melodramatic moments, and it was important to find actors that could bring reality to situations that might otherwise feel hyper-real.

In this Tuesday, Feb. 10, 2015, file photo, director Ava Duvernay poses for photographers on the red carpet for the film Selma at the 2015 Berlinale Film Festival in Berlin.

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“But I’m really married to this project,” she added. “I have story ideas for Season 4!”

— TRUTH FROM FICTION “Ava is incredibly loyal and committed to story,” Dawn-Lyen Gardner said.

“She really is interested not just in turning out episodes — she is dedicated to the truth of story, to the truth of character, to the truth of a world that our show is creating.” Rutina Wesley: “Ava’s very detailed in her work, as we see in her films, so she just brought that right to TV. She creates such a safe environment, and her intention — not just about the show, but the way that we’re gonna create it — is so strong that it guides everything.” Kofi Siriboe: “It seems so personal, the

story she wants to tell and what she wants people to get from it.” “We’re making sure every character has a life,” DuVernay agreed.

“We’re ‘pretending life,’ so we have to approximate the human condition. Within the epic, what is the intimate moment that makes it matter?”

— EVERYONE MIRRORED Gardner: “The series is so generous with sharing very specific cultural realities and cultural nuances, and I think in that specificity people are going to see themselves, see something universal. The series shares these very intimate details and dynamics that people who aren’t African-American maybe wouldn’t be privy to. But once they experience it, I think they will

recognize it.”

“Just watch it with open eyes,” said Siriboe, “and if you can’t see yourself, then see your mother, your sister, your uncle. Just see the people around you in this world that you usually would just walk by. Watch it from here” — he tapped his chest — “and you’ll get something from it.”

“We experience those stories through actors who don’t look like us and don’t share our experience — and yet we still sink into the story,” DuVernay said.

“People of color have been doing that forever!

“Why don’t people who AREN’T of color try it for a little while?” proposed the auteur of this equal-opportunity new series. “Come join us!”q

Jon Polito, prolific character actor, dead at 65.

The Associated Press Jon Polito, the prolific and raspy-voiced character actor whose more than 200 credits ranged from “Homicide: Life on the Street” and “Modern Family” to the Coen Brother films “Barton Fink” and “The Big Lebowski,” has died. Polito died Thursday at City of Hope Hospital in Duarte. California, according to his manager, Maryellen Mulcahy.

Polito was 65 and was being

treated for multiple myeloma, Mulcahy told The Associated Press on Friday. He is survived by his partner, Darryl Armbruster. A native of Philadelphia and graduate of Villanova University, the short, mustachioed Polito had loved movies and television since childhood and was inspired by the overthe-top acting he first spotted in old horror films and melodramas. With no pretentions to being a leading

man, he became one of the busiest TV and movie actors of the past three decades, averaging several projects a year since the mid1980s. He worked in crime stories (“Homicide: Life on the Street,” ‘’The Gangster Chronicles”), drama (“Flags of Our Fathers”), comedies (“The Freshman,” ‘’Modern Family”) and in the Coens’ genre-defying projects. He also was a award-winning stage actor, winning an

In this Jan. 7, 2013 file photo, Jon Polito attends the LA premiere of “Gangster Squad” at the Grauman’s Chinese Theater in Los Angeles.

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Obie in 1980 for his perfor-

mances with two different theater companies.

Mulcahy said he continued to act right up to the end of his life. Even if you didn’t know his name, you probably saw his face, whether as the “private snoop” confronting Jeff Bridges in “The Big Lebowski” or as the agitated landlord with the strands of hair across his forehead in the “Reverse Peephole” episode of “Seinfeld.” q