February 5, 2016

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Democratic presidential candidates Hillary Clinton, left, and Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt, pose for a photo before debating at the University of New Hampshire Thursday, Feb. 4, 2016, in Durham, N.H. Associated Press

Democratic race down to just two: Clinton, Sanders face off

NANCY BENAC LISA LERER Associated Press DURHAM, New Hampshire (AP) — Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders tangled in their first one-on-one debate Thursday night over how to achieve liberal goals such as health care for all and a better education system.

Clinton dismissed Sanders’ proposals as “just not achievable,” while Sanders countered that Clinton was willing to settle for less than Americans deserve.

“I do not accept the belief that the United States of America can’t do that,” Sanders said of his plan for universal health care and of his efforts to take on “the rip-offs of the pharmaceutical industry.” Clinton insisted they both want the same thing, “the disagreement is where do we start from and where do we end up.” The race for the Democratic nomination, once seen as a sure thing for Clinton, intensified this week after Sanders held the former secretary of state to a whis-

per-thin margin of victory in Iowa’s leadoff caucuses.

The tone of their back-andforth has become increasingly sharp, and the candidates agreed to add four more debates to the primary season schedule.

The debate is the last before Tuesday’s first-in-thenation New Hampshire primary, and Sanders holds a big lead in polls in the state.

In fresh evidence of the tightening race, Clinton reported that her campaign had raised $15 million in January — $5 million

less than Sanders and the first time she’s been outraised by her opponent.

Her finance director called the numbers “a very loud wake-up call” in a fundraising email to supporters.

Heading into the debate, Sanders was eager to lower expectations for his finish in New Hampshire, casting himself as an underdog against “the most powerful political organization in the country.” Clinton, for her part, signaled her determination to at least narrow the gap before Tuesday’s

vote in the state where she defeated Barack Obama in 2008 before ultimately losing the nomination to him. Her prospects are much stronger in primaries and caucuses after New Hampshire, as the race moves on to states with more diverse electorates that are to her advantage.

The Durham debate is the first faceoff for Clinton and Sanders since former Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley dropped out of the race after a poor showing in Iowa.q

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U.S. struggling to build anti-Islamic State strategy in Libya ROBERT BURNS Associated Press JOSH LEDERMAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration is struggling to find the right mix of military and diplomatic moves to stop the Islamic State in Libya, where the extremist group has taken advantage of the political chaos in the country to gain a foothold with worrying implications for the U.S. and Europe — particularly Italy, just 300 miles (500 kilometers) away.

U.S. officials have publicly warned of the risks of Libya becoming the next Syria, where the Islamic State flourished amid civil war and spread into Iraq.

No large-scale U.S. military action is contemplated in Libya, senior administration officials said, but Obama last week directed his national security team to bolster counterterrorism efforts

White House press secretary Josh Earnest speaks during the daily news briefing at the White House, in Washington, Thursday, Feb. 4, 2016. Earnest discussed that the number of Islamic State group fighters has dropped in Iraq and Syria, but is rising in Libya, and other topics.

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there while also pursuing diplomatic possibilities for solving Libya’s political crisis

and forming a government of national unity. While the Islamic State has emerged

in other places, including Afghanistan, Libya is seen as its key focus outside of Syria and Iraq.

“We’ve been mindful of this risk for more than a year and a half now,” White House spokesman Josh Earnest said. “We’re going to continue to watch how the threat in Libya evolves, and we’re going to continue to be prepared to take action.”

Other administration officials, speaking on condition of anonymity to discuss internal deliberations, said military options under consideration include raids and advisory missions by U.S. special operations forces and narrowly targeted airstrikes like the November hit on a command center near the port city of Darnah that killed Abu Nabil, a longtime al-Qaida operative believed by U.S. officials to have been the senior Islamic State leader in Libya.

Since 2014, Libya has been split between two rival authorities, each backed by different militias and tribes.

At a conference earlier this week in Rome, U.S., European and Arab officials resolved to “stand ready” to support Libya once it establishes a long-awaited government of national unity. Italy has said it will

take the international lead in providing security support to a Libyan government, with the U.S. and others chipping in.

For Obama, the growth of the Islamic State in Libya is the result, in part, of his decision in 2011 to join a European-led air campaign to topple dictator Moammar Gadhafi. By contemplating a return to some form of military action in Libya, the administration is acknowledging how little progress has been made in restoring security in a country with major oil resources.

“The last thing in the world you want,” Secretary of State John Kerry said Tuesday, “is a false caliphate with access to billions of dollars of oil revenue.”

That could haunt Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, who advocated for the intervention as secretary of state. Clinton has argued it was necessary to prevent mass civilian atrocities, but Republicans have argued the downward spiral that followed only fueled further insecurity.

The U.S. military is closely monitoring Islamic State movements in Libya, and small teams of U.S. military personnel have moved in and out of the country over a period of months.

British, French and Italian special forces also have been in Libya helping with aerial surveillance, mapping and intelligence gathering in several cities, including Benghazi in the east and Zintan in the west, according to two Libyan military officials who are coordinating with them.

The Libyan officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak to the press. The U.S. officials predicted it would be weeks or longer before U.S. special forces would be sent, citing the need for more consultations with European allies. Additional intelligence would help refine targets for any sort of military strikes, but surveillance drones are in high demand elsewhere, including in Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan.q

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Obama says U.S. to help Colombia rebuild JOSH LEDERMAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Nudging Colombia toward a peace deal that’s finally within reach, President Barack Obama committed the United States on Thursday to helping the battle-scarred nation rebuild after half a century of guerrilla conflict.

Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos came to the White House on the verge of a historic truce with the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC, that promises to end Latin America’s longest-running armed conflict. Facing the daunting task of reconstruction, Santos secured promises of financial help from Obama, who said the U.S. “will be your partner in waging peace.”

“In short, a country that was on the brink of collapse is now on the brink of peace,” Obama said, hosting Santos for a reception after an Oval Office meeting. “In Colombia today, there is hope.”

Obama said he planned to ask Congress for some $450 million in U.S. assistance for Colombia in his final budget, acceding to Santos’ request that the U.S. increase its aid to the country this year. He announced that the 15-yearold Plan Colombia, a $10 billion U.S. program to fight insurgency and the narcotics trade, would soon conclude.

In its stead, Obama said the U.S. would launch a new program called Peace Colombia aimed at helping reintegrate FARC members into society and expand the government’s reach into blighted areas that had long been ceded to the guerrilla group.

The president’s bid to shore up an elusive peace accord came at a pivotal time for Colombia, with billions needed in the coming years to build roads, schools and health care facilities as it completes its transformation from violence and chaos to relative stability and prosperity.

For the U.S., it’s a moment of reflection, with Plan Colombia’s record of helping stabilize the country tainted by a legacy of extrajudicial killings by Colombia’s military and human rights abuses the U.S. says are still a matter of profound concern.

“We all know that it’s easier to start wars than to end them,” Obama said. “But after half a century of wrenching conflict, the time has come for peace.”

As part of the nascent Peace Colombia, the U.S. will team up with Norway on a de-mining effort aimed at ridding Colombia of land mines within five years. The White House also said the U.S. would partner with Colombia on joint research into the Zika virus, which it little understood but stoking widespread fear as it spread across Latin America.

Along with appeals for cash, Santos brought another request with him to the Oval Office: the removal of the FARC from the U.S. list of terrorist groups once a deal is struck. As part of the talks, the FARC has renounced kidnapping and declared a unilateral truce while demanding its removal from the terror list, which includes al-Qaida and the Islamic State.

Bernard Aronson, the U.S. special envoy to the talks, said the U.S. would consider removing FARC once it has renounced violence, given up weapons and ceased hostile actions toward American citizens and interests — but not before.

Although Congress must approve any funds that Obama requests, aid for Colombia has traditionally enjoyed bipartisan support, as the U.S. seeks to back stability in the country that become America’sstaunchest ally in the region. Of the $450 million, about $390 million would be in foreign aid, with the rest of the funds in humanitarian assistance and Pentagon counter-narcotic programs.

Ahead of the visit, Santos didn’t disclose the exact sum he was seeking from the U.S., but he appeared satisfied with Obama’s offer, which represents an increase over recent years.q

President Barack Obama shakes hands with Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos during their meeting in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, Thursday, Feb. 4, 2016.

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NEWS

Former Turing Pharmaceuticals CEO Martin Shkreli, center, listens as his lawyer Benjamin Brafman, left, speaks to reporters as they leave court in New York, Wednesday, Feb. 3, 2016. Shkreli, who has become the poster child of pharmaceutical-industry greed after hiking the price of an anti-infection drug by more than 5,000 percent, is scheduled to appear at a congressional hearing on Thursday.

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Drug exec takes the Fifth on Capitol Hill, angers lawmakers MARCY GORDON AP Business Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Infuriating members of Congress, a smirking Martin Shkreli took the Fifth at a Capitol Hill hearing Thursday when asked about his jacking up of drug prices, then promptly went on Twitter and insulted his questioners as “imbeciles.”

The brash, 32-year-old entrepreneur who has been vilified as the new face of pharmaceutical-industry greed was summoned by the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, which is investigating soaring prices for critical medicines.

Four times, he intoned: “On the advice of counsel, I

invoke my Fifth Amendment privilege against selfincrimination and respectfully decline to answer your question.”

Lawmakers erupted. Rep. Elijah Cummings of Maryland, the top Democrat on the committee, all but told Shkreli to wipe the smile off his face. “I call this money blood money ... coming out of the pockets of hardworking Americans,” he said as Shkreli sat through the lecture.

“I know you are smiling, but I am very serious, sir,” Cummings said. “I truly believe you can become a force of tremendous good. All I ask is that you reflect on it.

No, I don’t ask, I beg that you reflect on it. “ The former hedge fund manager with a frat-boy swagger has been reviled in recent months for buying Daraprim, the only approved drug for a rare and sometimes deadly parasitic infection, and unapologetically raising its price more than fiftyfold.

Shkreli is out on $5 million bail after being arrested in New York in December on securities-fraud charges unrelated to the price increase. Shkreli, wearing a sport jacket and opencollar shirt, was dismissed less than an hour into the hearing, but not before chairman Rep. Jason Chaffetz, R-Utah, shouted down a request by Shkreli’s attorney to speak. Lawmakers instead took turns denouncing his conduct and attitude. Minutes after he left — and even before the hearing had ended — Shkreli thumbed his nose at the committee.

“Hard to accept that these imbeciles represent the people in our government,” the former CEO of Turing Pharmaceuticals tweeted.

Shkreli’s attorney Benjamin Brafman later said in his defense: “He meant no disrespect, but in truth, statements made by some of the members of the committee were wrong, unfair and difficult to listen to without responding.”q

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General says troop cuts constrain Afghan training mission RICHARD LARDNER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The ability to train and advise the still green Afghan security forces will be constrained if the U.S. troop level is cut to 5,500 as President Barack Obama has proposed, the senior American commander in Afghanistan said on Thursday.

Army Gen. John F. Campbell told the Senate Armed Services Committee that “very little” training will be done with fewer American forces.

Campbell, who is expected to retire soon, sparred with the committee’s chairman, Republican Sen. John McCain of Arizona, and other senators over the wisdom of the troop reductions.

McCain, one of Obama’s harshest critics on national security issues, wanted to know whether the troop number is adequate to perform the training mission as well as counterterrorism operations as Obama has said it would be.

Campbell said much will depend on how quickly the Afghan forces improve.

If they don’t, he said, the number of American troops will most likely need to increase.

But Campbell, who is planning to retire from military service, said he is preparing to go down to 5,500 “as

I am ordered.” He said the decision to announce the troop withdrawals was a policy decision and not a military one.

Campbell acknowledged that publicly revealing the troop cuts could allow the enemy to “wait us out.”

At the same time, he said, openly debating and disagreeing with the decision “hurts us as well.”

“Ultimately the president makes the decision, and that’s the policy that we follow,” Campbell said.

“We follow orders. If it’s not immoral, (if) it’s not illegal, then you’ve got to do to the best of your ability to make sure that you can accomplish the mission.”

McCain said it’s unrealistic to expect a reduced force to handle the dual mission of training the Afghans and counterterrorism. “This smaller American force will inevitably be forced to shoulder a higher level of risk to themselves, to their mission and to the national security of the United States,” McCain said.

Initially, Obama said he would trim the U.S. force in Afghanistan to 5,500 troops by the end of last year, and then down to 1,000 by the end of 2016. But Obama backtracked, saying the situation remained too fragile for such a rapid withdrawal.

The current U.S. force of

U.S. Forces-Afghanistan Commander and Resolute Support Commander Gen. John Campbell testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, Feb. 4, 2016, before a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing about the situation in Afghanistan.

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about 9,800 would stay in place through most of 2016, Obama said in October 2015 during remarks from the Roosevelt Room in the White House. The reduction to 5,500 would occur “by the end of 2016,” Obama said, although he didn’t specify exactly when. The smaller force would still be expected to handle the twin duties of training the Afghans and counterterrorism.

“I want to keep 9,800 as long as I can before I drop down to 5,500,” Campbell said.

Sen. Jack Reed, D-R.I., the committee’s ranking Democrat, agreed with McCain that any further withdrawals of U.S. troops should be based on the situation in Afghanistan, using the

military phrase “conditions based.”

Reed also said he wants to hear from the officer Obama selected to replace Campbell as the U.S. commander in Afghanistan, Army Lt. Gen. John Nicholson Jr. During a hearing last week, Nicholson said he would immediately conduct a rigorous assessment of troop requirements. Reed said Nicholson’s review should be given “extraordinary weight.”

The committee approved Nicholson’s selection Thursday, and the full Senate backed the nomination on a voice vote later in the day.

Obama’s critics said leaving the Afghans without enough American military trainers would imperil the

gains made since 2002, when the U.S. committed to rebuilding the country.

Nearly $64 billion has been allotted so far for training and equipping the Afghan army and police.

Yet patience among other lawmakers is fraying with the finish line so far away.

The Afghans won’t be able to independently sustain their security forces until 2024, according to Campbell.Campbell also testified Tuesday before the House Armed Services Committee. During both appearances, he described the Afghan security forces as becoming increasingly competent. Yet significant hurdles remain, and persistent training and advising is required to overcome them, he said.q

Judge: U.S. citizen serving as foreign diplomat can face trial LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A U.S. citizen serving as a foreign diplomat from the Dominican Republic is not immune from criminal prosecution in a United Nations bribery scandal, a judge ruled Thursday. U.S. District Judge Vernon Broderick said Francis Lorenzo can be prosecuted in a bribery case that also resulted in the arrest of a former president of the U.N. General Assembly and a billionaire Chinese

businessman. Lorenzo, who has pleaded not guilty and is free on bail, had claimed he was entitled to diplomatic immunity as an ambassador from the Dominican Republic.

The judge said Lorenzo’s interpretation of law would mean he could not be criminally prosecuted for any crime as a U.S. citizen even though the Department of State had not granted him diplomatic immunity. Broderick said diplomatic immunity was not

designed to give diplomats with dual citizenship a “get out of jail free card.”

Broderick said Lorenzo could still claim immunity from prosecution for official acts taken in connection with his diplomatic position. He noted that Lorenzo is not subject to expulsion from the United States, as a non-U.S. citizen would be if he were accused of criminal acts. “We are extremely disappointed,” said defense lawyer Brian Bieber.

He noted that his immunity

argument was the first time the 2nd Circuit had confronted the question. He said lawyers now planned to review 1.3 million pages of evidence turned over by prosecutors and “move forward with our motion to dismiss the indictment on ‘officials act’ immunity grounds.” Lorenzo, who lives in the Bronx, has been suspended from his position as deputy U.N. ambassador from the Dominican Republic.

Lorenzo was arrested in

the fall on charges that he participated in a conspiracy that prosecutors say caused more than a million dollars in bribes from Chinese businessmen to be given to John Ashe, a former diplomat from Antigua and Barbuda who served in the largely ceremonial post as head of the 193-nation assembly from September 2013 to September 2014.

Ashe, who is free on bail, has pleaded not guilty to tax fraud charges brought against him in the fall.q

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NEWS Columbus joins airports boosting human trafficking awareness

This image provided by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) shows a poster part of the Blue Campaign to raise public awareness of human trafficking.

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ANDREW WELSH-HUGGINS Associated Press COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — The Columbus airport is joining its counterparts nationwide in training employees to recognize signs of human trafficking in an effort to curb exploitation.

Beginning this month, all 400 employees at Port Columbus International Airport will view a 30-minute video on spotting signs of trafficking. Workers include police officers, maintenance workers and people staffing information booths.

The awareness campaign in Columbus joins those at

13 airports across the country including JFK and LaGuardia in New York, Chicago-O’Hare and Los Angeles International Airport where the Department of Homeland Security has posted messages on video monitors and airport shopping bags. Other industries, including hotels and trucking, also are increasing efforts to detect trafficking.

In Ohio, airport workers will see a film that defines human trafficking, gives examples of cases in the state and lists tips for recognizing trafficking. Signs of trafficked individuals in-

clude people who: —Have few or no personal possessions and aren’t in control of their own money, financial records or bank account.

—Aren’t in control of their identification documents and aren’t allowed to speak for themselves.

—Can’t move freely in an airport or on a plane or are being controlled, closely watched or followed.

Other clues include people who can’t give details of their location or flight information, and have lost track of time.

“We certainly hope that it’s going to be productive and result in helping some of the victims out of this very horrible situation,” said Ron Borden, chief operations officer of the Columbus Regional Airport Authority.

The Homeland Security messages pose a number of scenarios. They include: “Does she seem controlled and afraid?” asks a question superimposed over the photograph of a young woman.

“Is he forced to work for little or no pay?” says a second question over a picture of a teenage boy.

Law enforcement officers with the Transportation Security Administration and U.S. Customs and Border Protection also get regular training on how to recognize and prevent trafficking, as do TSA agents who screen travelers.

Other industries have ramped up trafficking awareness.

Coloradobased Truckers Against Trafficking trains drivers to recognize the signs and encourages cooperation with police to stop it.

Polaris, a Washington, D.C., anti-trafficking organization, works with the hotel industry to prevent trafficking, including a current initiative with the American Hotel and Lodging Association to provide training for hotel employees in Baltimore.

The hotel and lodging association is educating the employees on human trafficking, establishing procedures for reporting suspected cases and encouraging other companies to join the fight.

The nonprofit Airline Ambassadors International has offered training at two dozen airports in the U.S. as well as Kiev, Ukraine.

Last month, San Francisco International Airport trained about 220 employees who come in contact with the public, including baggage handlers and maintenance workers, the first in a series of sessions for Bay-area airports.

The training targeted potential trafficking ahead of Sunday’s Super Bowl, but the airport is using the event to focus attention on the overall problem.

“Human trafficking is not a new issue, it’s not here

just because of the Super Bowl,” said spokesman Doug Yakel. “It’s a 365-daya-year type of issue that we need to work through.”

Cleveland Hopkins International Airport has trained its police officers and likely will expand training to other employees ahead of this summer’s Republican National Convention.

Last March, a Cleveland man was indicted on prostitution charges in a case involving a woman allegedly brought in from China through the airport. Charges were dropped after a witness couldn’t be located.

The Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport has investigators trained to detect trafficking and has also trained employees to look for signs, said spokesman Bobby Spann.

Other airports where Homeland Security antitrafficking messages were displayed last summer: Baltimore-Washington; Boston’s Logan International; Ontario International in San Bernardino, California; San Diego International; Minneapolis-St. Paul International; Pittsburgh International; Miami International; and Ronald Reagan National Airport in Washington, D.C. Similar messages are currently on display in the Houston, Jacksonville, Florida, and San Francisco airports.q

Navy ship eyed for Maine-to-Nova Scotia ferry service TOM BELL AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) — The new operator of a ferry service between Maine and Nova Scotia is having such a hard time finding a vessel that it’s asking the U.S. Navy for help.

Bay Ferries Ltd. is eying a mothballed high-speed vessel owned by the Navy.

Harold Pachios, an attorney for the company, said the vessel was formerly used as a private ferry and later acquired by the U.S. government and turned over to the Navy. He said

the Navy has never put the vessel into service.

The Nova Scotia government last fall selected the Canadian company to run the service between Portland, Maine, and Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, but the upcoming summer season is in jeopardy unless the company quickly lines up a vessel.

Nova Star Cruises ended the service in October after two years. Nova Scotia taxpayers spent $40.5 million (Canadian) subsidizing the

service, which failed to attract enough passengers to sustain operations without high subsidies.

The province has selected Bay Ferries for the 2016 season, but the company’s inability to find a suitable vessel has stalled contract negotiations with the province.

The delay is making it difficult for Bay Ferries to market the service to bus tour operators, who sell tickets months in advance.

The Canadian news service CBC News reported

Wednesday that a tour operator from Connecticut has canceled dozens of room reservations at the Rodd Grand Hotel in Yarmouth over concerns there may not be a ferry service between Nova Scotia and Maine this summer.

Pingree said in an email to The Associated Press she is doing everything she can to restore the ferry service.

“If there is a surplus Navy vessel that can be put to work in Portland it would be a win for Maine and a win for the Navy,” she said.

King in an email said the ferry service is a significant economic driver for the region and the state.

“I will do all that I can to help the City of Portland position itself to resume the service as soon as possible, including advocating on the City’s behalf to the U.S. Navy to explore vessels that could be put toward that use,” he said.

Pachios said officials at Bay Ferries are confident they will secure a vessel before the start of the summer season.q

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No one submits verified claim for $63 million lotto jackpot ROBERT JABLON Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — Luck may have run out for the winner of a California Lottery jackpot: The person has apparently let $63 million slip away.

Nobody showed up at a state lottery office by 5 p.m.

Thursday with the ticket or submitted a verified claim for the prize, lottery spokesman Alex Traverso said.

A lawsuit filed Wednesday in Los Angeles seeks to have a judge declare a winner. Brandy Milliner contends he already turned in the ticket, but officials told him it was too damaged to be processed.

Traverso said the lottery is looking into the claim.

“We do have some claims to investigate,” he said in an email shortly before the

5.p.m deadline. “So we can say as of right now, no one has come forward with the winning ticket.

But we have had lots of inquiries and the potential for more claims.”

If none of the claims pan out, it will be the largest unclaimed prize in California Lottery history and the money will go to the state’s schools.

Lottery officials had sent out repeated calls for the winner to contact them, and media coverage ramped up as the deadline dwindled to days and then hours.

“If by some miracle you happen to find this extremely valuable piece of paper, the California Lottery urges you to sign your ticket in ink and get it to one of our lottery district of-

fices,” a Wednesday statement said.

The SuperLotto Plus ticket was sold on Aug. 8 at a 7-Eleven store in Los Angeles. The winning numbers were: 46-1-33-30-16 and the Mega number: 24.

A California winner also has not come forward to share in the Jan. 13 multistate Powerball prize of $1.6 billion. Two other winning tickets were sold in Florida and Tennessee, but only the Tennessee winners have claimed their cash so far.

Those claiming to be California Lottery jackpot winners routinely face an investigation to determine their credibility. “Especially when you’re talking about millions and millions of dollars, those aren’t just processed through with a rub-

In this Jan. 13, 2016 file photo, customers wait to buy lottery tickets at the Blue Bird liguor store in Hawthorne, Calif.

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ber stamp,” Traverso said Wednesday.

The previous largest unclaimed California Lottery prize was $28.5 million. It’s harder to determine the largest unclaimed prize for a lottery game in U.S. history, but one must certainly be the $77 million Powerball jackpot won in Georgia in 2011.

Between $20 million and $30 million in prizes from various California games go unclaimed every year, Traverso said. Last year, the total was about $27.1 million.

That seems like a huge figure, but Traverso said the lottery paid out $3.9 billion in prizes last year on sales of $5.5 billion.q

Police: 6 found dead in Chicago home in apparent homicide DON BABWIN IVAN MORENO Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) — Chicago police on Thursday found the bodies of four men, one woman and a child inside a home on the city’s South Side in what police said was being investigated as an apparent multiple homicide.

Interim Chicago Police Superintendent John Escalante said it appeared to be an isolated incident and there was no wider threat to the community, but police added extra patrols in the neighborhood as a precaution. Asked whether it could have been a murder-suicide, he said it was “a possibility.”

Standing in the street in the

Gage Park neighborhood, Escalante told reporters that police checked the house Thursday afternoon after receiving a call from a co-worker worried about someone who lived there.

The person had missed two days of work, which was “highly unusual and very suspicious,” Escalante said.

Police arrived at the singlefamily brick home just after 1 p.m. They looked inside and saw one body, entered and found five more bodies. The bodies had signs of trauma, but authorities have not determined the cause of death.

Authorities were still working to identify the dead. Escalante said it’s probable they were all family members and police were try-

Chicago police investigators work outside a home where the bodies of six people were found after police performed a well being check Thursday, Feb. 4, 2016, in Chicago.

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ing to locate relatives. The child is thought to be 10 to 12 years old.

A relative of the family

who lived in the home said Thursday evening that the family seemed happy. She said living in the home were

a couple, their son, their daughter and the daughter’s two children.

“They were a normal family. Everything was fine,” Noemi Martinez, 29, said from Dallas during a phone interview in Spanish. She said her husband was a nephew and cousin of the home’s residents.

Martinez said the father worked at a factory in Chicago and the mother was a housewife. They were originally from the Mexican state of Guanajuato and had lived in Chicago for about a decade, Martinez said.

“Right now we just want to know who did this. They didn’t deserve this. We don’t understand what happened,” she said. q

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Assange finds surprising ally but it may not be enough GREGORY KATZ JAN M. OLSEN Associated Press LONDON (AP) — WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has found a surprising ally — a little known United Nations panel that has decided he has been unfairly detained in Britain while seeking to avoid extradition to Sweden to answer allegations of sexual misconduct.

But it’s not clear if the findings of the five members of the U.N. Working Group on Arbitrary Detention, to be officially announced in Geneva Friday, will lead to a change in Assange’s legal status. The sun-starved computer hacker has holed up inside the Ecuadorean Embassy in London for more than three years, and as things stand now he still faces arrest if he steps outside.

Swedish officials said Thursday the UN panel report concludes Assange has been a victim of an “arbitrary detention,” apparently because he has been unable to leave the embassy without fear of being immediately taken into custody by British police armed with a European arrest warrant.

British and Swedish officials have indicated they will not be swayed by the U.N. panel’s report, which is not binding and has no legal authority.

In this Thursday, Dec. 20, 2012, file photo, Julian Assange, founder of WikiLeaks speaks to the media and members of the public from a balcony at the Ecuadorian Embassy in London.

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Swedish prosecutors want to question Assange over allegations of rape stemming from a working visit he made to the Nordic country in 2010 when WikiLeaks was attracting international attention for its secretspilling ways. They haven’t charged him with any crime so far, but Assange has refused to return to answer questions — saying he fears the whole thing is an elaborate setup designed to send him to the United States to face espionage charges there. British police also accuse Assange of

jumping bail.

The unexpected panel finding in Assange’s favor confounded some experts who have followed the case. Ove Bring, a professor of international law at Stockholm University, said he was very surprised.

“First of all I don’t think it’s a detention. Secondly, it’s not arbitrary,” Bring said.

He said Assange’s situation “is definitely not a case of unlawful detention” since the WikiLeaks-founder has chosen to stay at the embassy.

He could at any time have

agreed to be questioned in Sweden, after which the prosecutor most likely would have been forced to abandon the case due to a lack of evidence, Bring said.

Assange, 44, has demanded via Twitter that he be given back his passport — held by British authorities — in light of the U.N. panel’s conclusion.

The panel’s finding, based on a claim filed by Assange and his lawyers more than a year ago, could increase pressure on prosecutors to drop proceedings against

Assange.

Per E. Samuelsson, a Swedish lawyer for Assange, told The Associated Press that prosecutors should “revoke” the arrest warrant and “set him free” in light of the panel’s conclusion.

Samuelsson said: “If it happens that way, it will be a victory.”

So far, there are no indications that prosecutors are ready to end an inquiry into rape allegations. Sweden’s prosecution authority noted Thursday that the statement from the working group has no formal impact on the ongoing investigation, according to Swedish law.

Sweden and Britain may also choose to appeal the panel’s decision, a process that could take months.

Two women accused Assange of the sexual misconduct in 2010, leading Swedish police to open an investigation and seek him for questioning. Last year, prosecutors dropped investigations of less serious allegations into alleged sexual assault as their statute of limitations expired, but were not willing to do so with the more serious rape allegation, which centers around a woman’s claim that Assange had sex with her when she was asleep, which can be considered rape in Sweden.q

Man admits killing Dutch exminister over euthanasia law

MIKE CORDER Associated Press THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — A man accused of killing a former Dutch health minister admitted the slaying at a court hearing Thursday, claiming it was an “order from God” because she was responsible for the Netherlands’ euthanasia law.

The suspect, identified only as Bart van U. because of privacy rules, made the confession during a closed hearing, Rotterdam Court spokesman Pelle Biesmeijer said in a telephone inter-

view.

Former health minister Els Borst, who drafted the nation’s landmark 2002 law legalizing euthanasia, was stabbed to death at her home two years ago.

News of the motive behind her death sent shockwaves through Borst’s former political party, D66.

“My worst fears have been realized,” said current party leader Alexander Pechtold. “The suspect’s motive is shocking and confrontational. Els was killed because of her socially and politically groundbreaking

work on euthanasia.”

Prosecution spokeswoman Jeichien de Graaff said Van U.’s statement in court would be taken into account in a psychiatric assessment that aims to help judges decide if he can be held criminally responsible for his actions.

Van U. was arrested last year on suspicion of stabbing his sister to death, De Graaff said. Prosecutors say that during the investigation into that slaying, he gave DNA samples that were found to match traces of DNA found at the

In this Saturday, Feb. 8, 2014 file photo, Els Borst, foreground, applauds after a speech from Alexander Pechtold, during a D66 party congress in Amsterdam.

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scene of Borst’s slaying.

Van U. is charged with mur-

der or, alternatively, manslaughter in both slayings.q

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Friday 5 February 2016

Protests, EU demands add pressure on Greece’s Tsipras DEREK GATOPOULOS NICHOLAS PAPHITIS Associated Press ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Tens of thousands joined anti-government protests across Greece Thursday as the country was crippled by a general strike against painful pension reforms demanded by bailout lenders.

In Athens, police said some 40,000 people joined rallies that ended with a brief outbreak of violence when anarchist protesters hurled rocks and petrol bombs at police outside Parliament.

The general strike presented the most widespread opposition to Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras’ government so far, shutting down everything from schools to funeral homes, and uniting a disparate group of professions, including artists, taxi drivers, lawyers, doctors, vets, engineers and sea-

men.

Coffee shop owners closed their stores in protest in the central city of Larissa, while farmers maintained highway blockades and drove tractors through the center of Greece’s second largest city, Thessaloniki.

Protests occurred in at least a dozen cities, amid mounting union anger at Tsipras’ left-wing government which has promised to spare pensioners further cuts in the short term but hike income contributions to bolster the ailing system.

Despite the pledge, Athens retiree Yannis Kouvalakis said he felt let down by Tsipras’ year-old government.

“They said they’d help pensioners and the unemployed and look what happened: Things got worse,” he said. “They’re fooling us.”

The pension overhaul is

part of Greece’s a latest 80 billion euro ($89 billion) international bailout and is currently being negotiated in Athens between the government and inspectors from Eurozone lenders and the International Monetary Fund.

Adding pressure on Tsipras, a report released by the European Commission Thursday warned that pension reforms and new tax hikes would still not be enough to meet bailout targets.

“Further measures will be needed in 2016 and 2017 in order to reach the program’s primary (budget) surplus targets,” it said, predicting that Greece will slip back into mild recession this year and that the national debt will climb to 185 percent of gross domestic product.

The disruption from the strike was wide-ranging. Schools and many private business-

A riot policeman clash with protesters during a 24-hour nationwide general strike in Athens, Thursday, Feb. 4, 2016. Sporadic clashes broke out in central Athens Thursday as tens of thousands marched to the Greek Parliament during a general strike called to protest planned pension reforms that are part of the country’s third international bailout.

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es were closed while transport, including flights and ferry services, faced delays and cancellation. The strike also stopped the flow of thousands of migrants and refugees travelling from the Greek islands where they make landfall.

State-run hospitals ran on emergency staff, while farmers maintained their blockades of highways that forced motorists into lengthy detours.

Police officers are planning a demonstration in central Athens Friday.q

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Friday 5 February 2016

NEWS

Seoul, Tokyo threaten to intercept N. Korean rocket debris HYUNG-JIN KIM Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea and Japan vowed to shoot down any debris that falls on their territories from a long-range rocket that North Korea plans to fire this month, with Seoul saying Thursday that it has detected launch preparations by Pyongyang.

North Korea has informed international organizations that it will launch an observation satellite aboard a rocket between Feb. 8 and 25. South Korea, the United States and others say such a move would be a cover for a banned test of a missile that could strike the U.S. mainland.

The launch announcement follows an outpouring of global condemnation over the North’s fourth nuclear test on Jan. 6. If North Korea’s past patterns are any clue, angry warnings by Seoul, Washington and their allies probably won’t dissuade a coming launch.

South Korea’s Defense Ministry said Thursday that the North is pushing ahead with the launch plans at its west coast Tongchangri launch site. Spokesman Moon Sang Gyun said South Korea is using Aegisequipped destroyers, aircraft, sophisticated radars and other surveillance assets to monitor the North’s launch preparations but refused to provide further details.

Recent commercial satellite images showed an increased number of vehicles at North Korea’s Sohae launch station on Feb. 1, compared to a week earlier. This suggests that

Japan’s Maritime Self-Defense Force “Oosumi” carries PAC-3 missile interceptors as the transport vessel sails through Seto Inland Sea off Kure, Hiroshima prefecture, western Japan Thursday, Feb. 4, 2016 to prepare for a planned rocket launch by North Korea.

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the North is preparing for a space launch in coming weeks, according to 38 North, a North Koreafocused website run by the U.S-Korea Institute at Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies.

However, the website said it was impossible to tell from the satellite imagery whether a space launch vehicle was present.

South Korean and U.S. officials said a launch would threaten regional security and violate U.N. Security Council resolutions that ban the North from engaging in any nuclear and ballistic activities.

Diplomats at the U.N. Secu-

rity Council have already pledged to pursue fresh sanctions on North Korea over its recent nuclear test.

South Korea’s president on Thursday called for strong U.N. sanctions that will make North Korea realize it cannot survive if it does not abandon its weapons programs.

There are questions, however, over whether any sanctions will force real change in the North because China, the North’s last major ally and a veto-wielding U.N. Security Council member, is reluctant to join in any harsh punishment against the North.

Beijing on Wednesday

urged restraint over North Korea’s announcement of its launch plans, and expressed skepticism over the U.S. calls for tough new sanctions.

U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said the North Korean announcement “will further aggravate the profound concerns that the international community already has in the wake of the recent nuclear test,” a spokesman said.

In South Korea and Japan, there are fears about falling debris, although nothing landed in their territories during the North’s most recent launches. Seoul officials estimated the first stage of the rocket would

fall off the west coast of South Korea, more debris would land near the South’s Jeju Island, and the second stage would land off the Philippines’ east coast.

Moon, the South Korean military spokesman, said that South Korea would fire missiles to intercept the North Korean rocket or its fragments if they threaten to fall on its territories. Japan’s defense minister said Wednesday he issued a missile-shoot-down order and deployed Aegis destroyers and PAC-3 missile defense units to around Tokyo and Okinawa in case debris fall on the Japanese territory.

Seoul and Tokyo issued similar plans before North Korean rocket launches in recent years.

North Korea has spent decades trying to develop operational nuclear weapons along with missiles capable of striking the mainland United States.

North Korea’s last longrange rocket launch, in December 2012, was seen as having successfully put the country’s first satellite into orbit after a string of failures.

Each new rocket launch improves North Korea’s missile technology, which is crucial for its goal of developing a nuclear-armed missile capable of hitting the U.S. mainland.

North Korea, an autocracy run by the same family since 1948, is estimated to have a handful of crude nuclear devices and an impressive array of shortand medium-range missiles, but it closely guards details about its nuclear and missile programs.q

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Friday 5 February 2016

Lawyer: Mexican actress willing to talk about drug capo E.J. TAMARA E. EDUARDO CASTILLO Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — An attorney for actress Kate del Castillo said Thursday she is willing to talk to Mexican authorities about her encounters with Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman and felt “betrayed” by actor Sean Penn, who wrote a lengthy article about his meeting with the drug kingpin after the actress introduced the two men. The comments

by Harland Braun, del Castillo’s U.S. lawyer, came after prosecutors in her native country issued an order for her to be located and brought in for questioning as part of a probe of possible money-laundering involving Guzman and the actress’ tequila business.

She is officially considered a witness and has not been accused of any crime. The clandestine meeting took place last October as del Castillo explored the possibility of developing a movie about the capo, and Penn’s Rolling Stone interview was published Jan. 9, a day after Guzman was recaptured in a raid in the city of Los Mochis.

“She didn’t know Penn was going to write for Rolling Stone. Would you meet with ‘El Chapo’ and approve to have the interview for publication?” Braun said. “After the interview she had no choice about it. Once Penn and Guzman agreed on the article, what was she going to do?

She signed off after they had done so.”

“That’s what made her feel really betrayed by these people,” he said, referring to Penn and two people who accompanied him.

While Mexican officials

have not sought to question Penn, Braun assured that his client is willing to talk. “In the course of the investigation they are going to talk to her, right?”

Braun said. “If we receive proper information and credentials, she’ll talk to them. She’s not hiding anything.” Earlier Thursday, two Mexican security officials said federal prosecutors had issued the search order because the movie and telenovela star did not voluntarily appear before authorities to give a statement as requested. They spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the matter publicly.

The officials said the order applies only to Mexican territory and added that if del Castillo were found to be in the country, she would be detained to make a statement as a witness and then released after doing so.

Braun said del Castillo, a naturalized U.S. citizen, was currently in Los Angeles, where she has lived for years and feeling “a bit disappointed.” He declined to comment on her legal situation in Mexico or whether he had been contacted by U.S. authorities.

“All she wanted to do is a movie, and people are making a big deal about it,” Braun said.

Del Castillo recently sought a court injunction that would bar Mexican authorities from detaining her, although the judge asked her lawyers for more specifics before proceeding with the case. In mid-January she tweeted that many people were making up “items they think will make good stories and that aren’t truthful,” and that

she looked forward to telling her side of the story.

Mexican authorities say the October meeting between Guzman, del Castillo and Penn in the mountains of northwestern Mexico helped them locate the cartel leader, though he escaped arrest on that occasion. The Mexican newspaper Milenio recently published a series of text messages between del Castillo and “El Chapo” in which the drug lord showed more interest in the actress than in Penn.

The two had planned to meet again.

A federal official confirmed the messages were authentic. Del Castillo has

In this July 31, 2012 file photo, actress Kate del Castillo poses during a photo call to promote the documentary Esclavos Invisibles or “Invisible Slaves” in Spanish, at a local movie theater in Mexico City.

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appeared in movies and TV shows produced in the United States, Mexico and elsewhere including

“Weeds” and “La Reina del Sur,” in which she portrayed a powerful cartel boss.q

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Friday 5 February 2016

NEWS

Latin America scrambles to squash Zika-spreading mosquito JENNY BARCHFIELD MALCOLM RITTER Associated Press RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — With no hope for a vaccine to prevent Zika in the near future, authorities are focusing on the most effective way to combat the virus: killing the mosquito that carries it.

Fumigation is one method; another is seeking out and draining standing water where the insect lays its eggs. Other strategies are possible, including larvaedevouring fish, genetically modified insects and even lasers.

But officials agree that it won’t be easy.

The battle is focused on Aedes aegypti, a formidable foe. It carries not only Zika, but other diseases like dengue, yellow fever and chikunguya. Well adapted to humans, it lives largely inside homes and can lay eggs in even a bottle-cap’s worth of stagnant water.

The dishes beneath potted plants are a favorite spot, as are abandoned tires, bird feeders and even the little puddles of rainwater that collect in the folds of plastic tarps.

“This mosquito really is a bear to deal with,” said Thomas Scott, professor of entomology and epidemiology at the University of California, Davis. “It’s almost like a cockroach of the mosquito world.”

Scientists are also trying to determine if, and how easily, Zika could be spread by sex or by blood transfusions. But the virus is usually transmitted through mosquito bites.

Brazil’s first case of Zika — a virus that was first identified in Uganda in 1947 and subsequently spread to parts of Asia — was recorded in the middle of last year.

Researchers don’t know exactly how it made the jump, but two theories suggest it may have arrived with tourists visiting the country for the 2014 World Cup soccer tournament or an international canoeing competition the same year.

Thanks to Aedes aegypti, the disease quickly spread across Brazil and to more

In this Feb. 1, 2016 photo, a technician from the British biotec company Oxitec, inspects the pupae of genetically modified Aedes aegypti mosquitoes, a vector for transmitting the Zika virus, in Campinas, Brazil.

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In this Feb. 1, 2016 photo, Guilherme Trivellato, from the British biotec company Oxitec, releases genetically modified Aedes aegypti mosquitoes, which are a vector for the spread of the Zika virus, in Piracicaba, Brazil.

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than 20 countries in the region, the Caribbean and beyond, leading the World Health Organization this week to declare an international emergency.

The concern is not the disease itself — Zika’s immediate effects are mild, consisting mostly of a moderate fever and a rash, and only a fifth of those afflicted notice any symptoms. But Brazilian authorities say also they have detected a spike in cases of microcephaly, which leaves infants with unusually small heads and can result in brain damage and a host of developmental and health problems.

The link between Zika and microcephaly is as yet unproven.

Brazil is pouring money into

the development of a vaccine against Zika. But a viable vaccine is years away, and public health experts say for now, slashing the mosquito population is key.

“The most important thing,” said Jayme Souza-Neto, a researcher at Sao Paulo State University who studies interactions between viruses and mosquitoes, is to “try to prevent mosquitoes from reaching adulthood.”

The country had success against Aedes once before, when a nationwide campaign to drain standing waters and spray the insecticide DDT led to a steep fall in dengue and yellow fever in the late 1950s. But as the crusade faded, the insect drifted back in from neighboring countries.

While DDT has been shown to harm the environment, new insecticides “really are pretty safe environmentally,” said Charles Apperson, a professor emeritus of entomology at North Carolina State University. But as with DDT, there’s still the issue of insects developing resistance, so new insecticides must continually be developed, he said.

Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff has pledged to send some 220,000 members of the armed forces door-to-door to help ferret out the spots of standing water. But Scott said while campaigns aimed at eliminating stagnant water can help, they’re not enough.

Pesticides are needed too,

he said. This week, Florida Gov. Rick Scott declared a state of emergency in four of his state’s counties in response to reports of nine cases of Zika, all believed to be travelers who contracted the disease outside of the country. The order allows Florida’s agriculture department to use mosquito spray more in those areas.

Oxitec, a British biotech firm, says its genetically modified mosquitoes could be another part of the solution. It raises male mosquitoes that have been modified to produce offspring that do not live. These males are released into the target area, where they compete with wild males to mate with the wild females.

The company said tests begun last April as part of a dengue-fighting program in the small southeastern city of Piracicaba suggested the release of the GM males reduced the wild Aedes larvae population in the target neighborhood by more than 80 percent.

Oxitec officials insist the company — which has also done projects in Panama and the Caiman Islands — has the capacity to scale up the program to tackle large cities such as Recife, a sprawling seaside metropolis of 1.5 million that’s the epicenter of Brazil’s Zika outbreak.

Still, with Zika already recorded in 19 Brazilian states and widely expected to continue spreading, some experts doubt that Oxitec’s GM mosquitoes offer a realistic solution.

In this Jan. 29, 2016 photo, Tamires da Costa, 16, who’s four months pregnant, stands in a street with standing flood water next to her home in the Parque Sao Bento shantytown of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

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LOCAL A13

Friday 5 February 2016

Paseo Herencia Mall hosts a red carpet premiere for the all-Aruban film

“Siñami stimabo” - “Teach Me to Love You”

Cinematographer Omar Brown, managing director of Across the Waves production company, on their

A glittering, glamorous event welcomed the premiere of the film “Siñami stimabo” - “Teach Me to Love You” - at the Paseo Herencia Mall in Palm Beach on Friday evening, January 29.

The production was written, directed and produced by the multi-talented Marilyn.

S. Richardson, who drew from her own experience of sexual abuse as a child for a recurring theme running through the heart-wrenching but hopeful film. Ms. Richardson also wrote the touching musical tracks for

the production; the principal song performed by her son, rapper Malaghy Richardson, artistically known as “Freddy Richardson.”

Vera de Peralta sang three of the other numbers in the movie.

Lisette Malmberg, President of the Foundation RM Arts & Entertainment, who was a principal sponsor of the movie, addressed the gathering of fans and filmgoers. “Aruba has talent!” she declared, complimenting Ms. Richardson and

relentless efforts to see the film realized, despite an extremely limited budget of just over $5,000.

The cast of over 25 were volunteers; many of them acting for the first time before the camera.

They all acquitted themselves admirably! The film even included a Member of the Aruban Parliament, Donny Rasmijn in a demanding leading role. His wife, Marketing Director of Paseo Herencia, Candy Rasmijn, also performed in the film.

The shopping center also sponsored the production,

expressing it carried “a very important message about family issues that we often refuse to acknowledge and rectify.” This movie in Papiamento with English subtitles, promulgates an important message of abuse, mistakes, love and forgiveness will be promoted in the entire region.

Lisette Malmberg expressed that those involved have every intention of continuing to produce movies and promote art in a more general sense that express hope and have a positive impact on culture.q

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Friday 5 February 2016

Loyal visitors honored at the Divi Village Golf Resort

On the pictures Mr. Ricardo Croes from ATA together with Angelo & Linda and also David & Linda with Gloria from the Divi Village.

Recently the following visitors were honored as follow : Angelo & Linda Bracco were honored as an ambassador of goodwill for the island of Aruba after visiting for more than 20 years consecutive and also David and Linda Muir

were honored as an distinguished visitor for Aruba.

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 between 10 and 20 years consecutive.

Mr. Ricardo Croes representing Aruba Tourism Authority conducted the ceremony at the Divi Village Golf Resort.

Angelo commented that he will never change his vacation island for any

other island ,top reason for returning provided by the honorees were they consider Aruba to be the “Hap-

py Island”, the great weather,and Friendly Aruban Hospitality, white sand beaches and the local food. q

Pat & Rose Marie Fuschetto honored at the Caribbean Palm Village

On the pictures Mr. Ricardo Croes from ATA together with Pat & Rose Marie and also Daisy Gomez from the Caribbean Palm Village

Recently Pat & Rose Marie Fuschetto were honored as an ambassador of goodwill for the island of Aruba after visiting for more than 20 years consecutive.

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 between 10 and 20 years consecutive.

Mr. Ricardo Croes representing Aruba Tourism Authority conducted the cer-

emony at the Caribbean Palm Village Pat commented that he will never change his vacation island for any other island ,top reason for returning provided by the honorees were they consider Aruba to be the “Happy Island”, the great weather,and Friendly Aruban Hospitality, white sand beaches and the local food. q

LOCAL A15

Friday 5 February 2016

Loyal visitors honored at the Marriott Ocean Club

Recently the Aruba Tourism Authority had the great pleasure of honoring a group of loyal and friendly Visitors of Aruba, at the Marriott Ocean Club as Distinguished Visitors and Ambassadors of Goodwill.

The symbolic honorary titles are presented in the name of the Minister of Tourism as a token of appreciation to guests who visit Aruba for 10 to 19 and 20 to 34 consecutive years.

The honorees were Mr.

Robert and Mrs. Audrey Kaye from Short Hills NJ, Mr. Edward and Mrs. P. Lynn Doherty , Mr. Richard and Mrs. Deborah Olschefski from Yorik PA and Mr. Gordon and Mrs. Cathy Carpenter from Yoric PA.

All the honorees are loyal members of the Marriott Ocean Club and they love Aruba very much because of the friendly people, the climate, beaches, restaurants, and being on Aruba and staying at the Ocean

Club is like being home for them. The certificates were presented by Mr. Ernest Giel representing the Aruba Tourism Authority together with Mr. Erwin Noquera GM of the Marriott Ocean Club.q

A16 LOCAL

Friday 5 February 2016

MR. & MRS. DONNELLY CELEBRATED THEIR 50TH WEDDING ANNIVERSARY WITH A ROMANTIC RENEWAL CEREMONY AT THE ARUBA MARRIOTT.

PALM BEACH, ARUBA – February 2, 2016 –Mr. Donald and Mrs. Maryann Donnelly recently celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary together with their family on their absolute favorite place on earth, Aruba.

The couple from Queensvillage New York have known

each other from since Donald was in Kindergarten and went to school with Maryann’s brother. The two were engaged when Maryann was only 17 years old and married when she was 18 and he was 22.

Mr. and Mrs. Donnelly had a beautiful and intimate

wedding ceremony on the beach at the Aruba Marriott Resort & Stellaris Casino followed by a lovely dinner with their closest family and friends right after a stunning sunset. Unique details such as playing their wedding song “When I Fall in Love” during the ceremony and bringing along the couple’s original wedding champagne goblets and cake topper perfectly tied everything together and truly made this a memorable experience for years to come.

About Aruba Marriott Resort & Stellaris Casino: Aruba Marriott Resort & Stellaris Casino boasts 411 guestrooms -- the most spacious on the island -each with large, private balconies overlooking lush landscape and the sparkling waters of the Caribbean Sea. On property, nine restaurants and bars

provide fare from light to elegant, while the largest casino in Aruba, a 6,500 square-foot spa, free-form swimming pool, the H2Oasis adults-only pool and high-energy health club offer entertaining diversions.

To obtain more information call the Aruba Marriott Resort & Stellaris Casino at 1.800.228.9290 or visit www. arubamarriott.com. Connect with the Aruba Mar-

riott’s official Facebook fan page by visiting www. facebook.com/ArubaMarriott and follow on Twitter @ ArubaMarriott.

CONTACT Stacey Banfield, Marketing Communications Manager Aruba Marriott Resort & Stellaris Casino 520-6654 stacey.banfield@marriotthotels.com q

SPORTS A17

Friday 5 February 2016

SUNSET KIDS Rory McIlroy of Northern Ireland plays a shot on the 10th hole during 1st round of the Omega Dubai Desert Classic golf tournament in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, Thursday, Feb. 4, 2016.

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McIlroy shoots 4-under 68 in 1st round in Dubai

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Rory McIlroy started the defense of his Dubai Desert Classic title with a bogey but battled back to post a 4-under 68 on Thursday, leaving him two shots off the lead.

McIlroy bogeyed two of the easiest holes on the course — the par-5 10th, which was his first hole, and the driveable par-4 second — but also had six birdies to put him close behind leader Alex Noren of Sweden.

“I thought I did well, considering the start and having some of the shots I hit throughout the round,” McIlroy said. “A 68 was probably a fair reflection of how I played. I don’t feel like I could have really gone any lower than that but at the same time, I gave myself enough chances to make some birdies.” Ernie Els, the most successful player in the history of the tournament with three titles and eight other top-10 finishes, matched McIlroy’s 68. The four-time major champion hit 17 greens and putted well with his new grip.

Continued on page 18

Manning’s final chapter can match Elway’s finale In this Jan. 31, 1999, file photo, Denver Broncos quarterback John Elway celebrates the Broncos 34-19 win over the Atlanta Falcons in Super Bowl XXXIII in Miami. Elway is one of the very few to say he won it all, then simply walked away. Now, Peyton Manning is trying to follow in Elway’s footsteps, wearing the same Broncos uniform Elway wore when he walked off into the sunset nearly 20 years ago.

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Friday 5 February 2016

Lindsey Vonn has complaints about downhill course NESHA STARCEVIC AP Sports Writer GARMISCH-PARTENKIRCHEN, Germany (AP) — Lindsey Vonn left the finish area with plenty of complaints about the state of the Kandahar course and thinking she still had the fastest time in Thursday’s training for a World Cup downhill.

Officially, she didn’t, because late starter Romane Miradoli of France beat her by .20 seconds. But Miradoli, with the No. 38 bib, missed two gates. Since it was only a training run, her result will stand, although it meant little.

By the time Miradoli came down, Vonn had already left with her father Alan.

The training run was twice delayed to allow organizers to better prepare the course left in bad condition by mild weather and rain over the past week. A men’s giant slalom on the same hill had to be canceled on Sunday. Fresh snow overnight added to the problems.

“It was good to get a training run in, although it was on the limit of safety,” Vonn said. “But I am glad we got it in. I didn’t really ski that great, nothing special, more of high-speed inspection.”

Racers are required to

Lindsey Vonn, right, celebrates on the podium with second placed Tina Weirather after winning the women’s World Cup super-G, in Cortina D’Ampezzo, Italy, Sunday, Jan. 24, 2016.

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have at least one training run before a downhill race, so they are now clear to race on Saturday, weather permitting.

Another training run is scheduled for Friday, but it is likely to be canceled to allow the organizers to prepare and preserve the course.

Rain is predicted for Friday but Vonn thought that

could be a good thing if it allows organizers to smooth out the bumpy course.

“Maybe they can work some magic with the rain,” the American said. “The course is really bally, in some turns there is no surface underneath.”

Vonn has won four of five downhill races this season, while crashing out in one, and also leads the overall

World Cup standings by 45 points over Lara Gut of Switzerland, who also missed a gate in training.

Vonn clocked 1 minute, 49.70 seconds for her run.

Viktoria Rebensburg of Germany, winner of the last two giant slalom races, was third, with Breezy Johnson of the United States fourth. Johnson was another late starter but didn’t skip any gates.

“The course is soft, with room for improvement,” Rebensburg said. “The crew still has a lot to do.”

Tina Weirather of Liechtenstein, who won the race last year, was sixth in training, behind Corinne Suter of Switzerland.

“It’s very bumpy, somewhere it’s hard, somewhere it’s soft,” Weirather said. “It’s a miracle that we were able to come down today.”q

Dubai

Continued from page 17 Four players were tied at 5-under 67 — Sweden’s Peter Hanson, Spain’s Rafael Cabrera-Bello, Australia’s Brett Rumford and South African Trevor Fisher Jr. Henrik Stenson of Sweden, playing alongside McIlroy, opened with a 3-under 69.

The new changes in the course, where the fairways have been made firmer and grass has been shaved off the fringe of the greens, troubled McIlroy, who has never finished outside the top 10 in his last six starts at the Emirates Golf Club.

On McIlroy’s first hole, his second shot landed on the green and rolled off

into the back bunker, from where he needed two shots to come out. Then, on the par-5 dogleg 18th, he hit a towering draw with his driver but the ball went through the fairway and into the water hazard. McIlroy then hit a great third shot from 198 yards and walked away with an unlikely birdie.

“All in all, a decent day, decent score,” he said.

“I think with the way the weather conditions are, it’s made the golf course quite tricky out there. I don’t think I’ll ever hit as many bunker shots.”q

SPORTS A19

Friday 5 February 2016

NBA Capsules

Curry lights up Wizards for Warriors’ 8th straight win The Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Stephen Curry scored 51 points, equaling his career high with 11 3-pointers and leading the Golden State Warriors over the Washington Wizards 134121 Wednesday night for their eighth straight win.

Curry made 13 of his first 14 shots and had 36 points by halftime.

The defending champion Warriors (45-4) tied the 1966-67 Philadelphia 76ers for the best 49-game start in NBA history.

John Wall led the Wizards with a season-high 41 points and 10 assists.

THUNDER 117, MAGIC 114 OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Russell Westbrook posted his third straight tripledouble with 24 points, a career-high 19 rebounds and 14 assists as Oklahoma City held off Orlando.

Kevin Durant hit a 3-pointer with a half-second left to cap a 37-point performance and give the Thunder their fifth straight win.

Victor Oladipo scored 37 points for the Magic, who have lost 14 of 16.

SPURS 110, PELICANS 97 SAN ANTONIO (AP) — LaMarcus Aldridge scored 36 points and San Antonio improved to 27-0 at home this season by beating New Orleans.

The Spurs have won 36 in a row at home overall, dating to last season.

Anthony Davis had 28 points and 10 rebounds for the Pelicans.

HORNETS 106, CAVALIERS 97 CHARLOTTE, North Carolina (AP) — Jeremy Lin scored 24 points and Charlotte ended Cleveland’s fivegame winning streak.

Michael Kidd-Gilchrist had 11 points and 13 rebounds for the Hornets, who overcame a nine-point halftime deficit.

Kyrie Irving had 26 points and LeBron James added 23 for the Cavaliers.

HEAT 93, MAVERICKS 90

DALLAS (AP) — Chris Bosh scored 20 points, Dwyane Wade bounced back with 18 after matching the worst shooting half of his career and Miami beat Dallas.

The Heat improved to 9-1 against the Mavericks with their fourth sweep in five seasons since losing to Dallas in the 2011 NBA Finals.

Wade scored 16 points in the second half after going 1 of 11 before halftime, his first points coming with just 48 seconds left in the second quarter.

Dirk Nowitzki scored 28 for Dallas.

CELTICS 102, PISTONS 95 BOSTON (AP) — Isaiah Thomas had 17 points and seven assists to help Boston beat Detroit.

Avery Bradley had 15 points for the Celtics, who have won six straight home games and seven of eight overall.

Pistons guard Kentavious Caldwell-Pope left with a strained right groin in the second quarter after he appeared to slip on a wet spot on the court. He didn’t play in the second half.

PACERS 114, NETS 100 NEW YORK (AP) — C.J. Miles had 27 points, Paul George scored 17 and Indiana sent Brooklyn to its fifth straight loss.

Brook Lopez had 21 points and Joe Johnson had 20 points and nine assists for the Nets.

HAWKS 124, 76ERS 86 PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Tim Hardaway Jr. and Mike Scott each had 13 points and Atlanta coasted past Philadelphia.

All 13 of the Hawks players scored.

Nik Stauskas had 17 points for the 76ers, who dropped to 7-42.

JAZZ 85, NUGGETS 81 SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Derrick Favors had 16 points, 10 rebounds and six blocked shots to power Utah over Denver, extending its season-best winning streak to four games.

The Jazz, who also got 16 points from Gordon Hayward, have won five straight against the Nuggets.

BULLS 107, KINGS 102 SACRAMENTO, California (AP) — E’Twaun Moore scored a career-high 24 points while starting in place of injured Jimmy Butler, and Chicago overcame a sloppy finish to beat Sacramento.

Pau Gasol added 16 points, 13 rebounds and made two free throws with 4.3 seconds remaining to help the Bulls to their first win in Sacramento since December 2011. q

Golden State Warriors guard Stephen Curry (30) shoots between Washington Wizards forward Otto Porter Jr., left, and center Marcin Gortat (13), from Poland, during the second half of an NBA basketball game, Wednesday, Feb. 3, 2016, in Washington.

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Like Elway, Manning has chance to tie things up with a title what I was seeing and what I was feeling.”

The signs of Elway’s slowdown toward the end were visible — he missed four starts in 1998 with hamstring, rib and other injuries.

“Physically, I was breaking down a little bit,” Elway said. But the ravages of age on him weren’t as glaring as what Manning has displayed at times this season. His 17 interceptions before going to the sideline with a foot injury in November were hard to watch.

That he has rebounded and guided the Broncos to the Super Bowl (And yes, there was that remarkable In this March 20, 2012, file photo, Denver Broncos quarterback Peyton Manning and executive vice president of football operations John Elway pose during an NFL football news conference at the team’s headquarters in Englewood, Colo.

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EDDIE PELLS AP National Writer SANTA CLARA, California (AP) — The last time the world saw John Elway in a Broncos uniform, he was facing the stands, both hands aloft, holding his helmet in his left hand, and his right hand clenched into a tight, celebratory fist. He flashed that toothy smile, knowing that a few minutes later, he would be cradling his second Super Bowl trophy.

He went out on top. No matter what happened after that — and Elway has gone on to accomplish plenty — his last meaningful moments on a football field had resulted in a victory in the biggest game of all.

“It’s a very nice thing to have,” Elway said this week, “knowing you can always look back and have a real positive thought.”

Now, Elway runs the team he used to play for. In 2012 he signed Peyton Manning, who, at 39, is even older than Elway was when he played his last game in 1999.

And now, it’s Manning who could be taking that same walk into the sunset as Elway did. He has a chance to win his second Super Bowl, peel off his Broncos jersey and never come back.

By the accounts of both

men, the topic of Manning’s retirement has not been broached.

It’s hard to think those conversations won’t pick up steam over the next few weeks.

Manning has already told Patriots coach Bill Belichick, in a not-so-private exchange at midfield two weeks ago, that this might be his last rodeo. He has refused to expand on that, keeping with the theme that he’s soaking in every moment, and he’ll worry about tomorrow when tomorrow comes.

“We haven’t talked about anything past Sunday,” said Manning’s brother, Eli. “We kept it on this week, the last few weeks, but nothing past the game.”

When the game is over, Peyton will have an all-star lineup from which to glean advice. It includes Eli, of course; their father, Archie, who spent 14 years in the NFL; their brother, Cooper, who has long been one of Peyton’s best sounding boards. And Elway. Chances are, Manning will be seeking what Elway sought when he went to his father, Jack, a longtime scout and personnel man, after the second Super Bowl title.

“I was fortunate to be able to talk to my dad about what he thought,” Elway said. “Because I didn’t want it to be different than

12-yard run against the Patriots) is a testament to his guile and smarts more than any physical prowess.

“I feel I can still move the chains,” Manning said.

“Maybe in different ways.

It’s being able to adjust.”

If he leads Denver to a victory against Carolina on Sunday, Manning’s ability to set aside the glow of winning the title, and to listen to candid advice, will set the framework for his decision. His inner-circle’s ability to give it to him straight will be every bit as important for the quarterback, whose contract extends through next year.q

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Losing in the Super Bowl haunts some players BARRY WILNER AP Pro Football Writer SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The pain of losing a Super Bowl never really disappears. It drives players who have experienced it to get back and get it right.

Ricky Proehl has been to four Super Bowls as a player, going 2-2. He won and lost with the St. Louis Rams, lost with the Carolina Panthers, and got the second ring in his final NFL season, 2006 with the Indianapolis Colts.

He’s at the big game again as Carolina’s wide receivers coach, buoyed by memories of earning those rings, haunted by remembrances of the two failures.

“Anger, disbelief, shock,” Proehl said on Wednesday of his reactions to walking off the field a Super Bowl loser.

“And then they rush you off like it’s a cattle drive so they can set up a stage for the winning team. You sometimes don’t even get a chance to congratulate the winners.

“It’s painful.”

Proehl has relayed those sentiments to some Panthers, emphasizing just how good the opposite feelings are.

“You are on top of the world, on top of your profession,” said the former receiver who played for six teams in a 17-year career, the first nine of which he didn’t reach the postseason.

“You start out with a common goal and you’re going with guys to attain a dream, and then you are hoisting the Lombardi Trophy. Everyone in this league should be able to feel that feeling with their teammates.”

But only four players who will suit up on Sunday have had that joy, just one current Denver Bronco: Peyton Manning with the Colts.

Carolina’s Michael Oher and Ed Dickson earned rings with Baltimore, Roman Harper with New Orleans.

And the guys who have fallen short, including Manning, have used that let-

In this Saturday, July 27, 2013 file photo, Carolina Panthers receivers coach Ricky Proehl throws a pass during an NFL football training camp practice in Spartanburg, S.C. The pain of losing a Super Bowl never really disappears. It drives players who have experienced it to get back and get it right. Ricky Proehl has been to four Super Bowls as a player, going 2-2. He won and lost with the Rams, lost with the Panthers, and got the second ring in his final NFL season, 2006 with Indianapolis.

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In this Feb. 6, 2011, file photo, Green Bay Packers’ Tramon Williams, left, breaks up a pass intended for Pittsburgh Steelers’ Emmanuel Sanders during the first half of the NFL football Super Bowl XLV in Arlington, Texas. Sanders, who is now with the Denver Broncos, felt the sting of defeat in the Super Bowl as a rookie.

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down as motivation.

“We got beat by a hot team and a better team that night,” Manning said of the 43-8 whipping Seattle put on Denver two years ago. “It was disappointing. It was a tough pill to swallow.”

And it doesn’t matter if the result was lopsided or in the last minute.

Antonio Smith, a 12-year veteran, has reached his second Super Bowl. He was with the Arizona Cardinals when they lost to the Pittsburgh Steelers in the final

minute in 2009.

The defensive end, in his first season with Denver, has a memento from that season that reminds him why he strives each day to go one step beyond.

“Every time I look at the NFC Championship ring,

that’s what I think: I left that field a loser,” Smith said on Wednesday just before learning his father passed away after recently undergoing heart surgery. “So I have been focusing in on what I need to do here for me to walk off with a better result.

“I love this game of football, I love putting it on the line every week. But in the end, you’re doing it to have the opportunity to be called champion.”

Broncos receiver Emmanuel Sanders joined the Steelers two years after that thrilling victory. Against Green Bay in 2011, he felt the sting of defeat as a rookie.

Five seasons later, as Sanders has developed into a top receiver, he still shudders when thinking about coming up short.

“I’ve been here and I have a loss,” said Sanders, who has become one of Manning’s go-to guys. “I can’t suffer that again?”

Suffer?

“Yeah, man,” Sanders added, the smile disappearing from his face. “Does it ever hurt.”

And there’s no way of ever easing the hurt unless you return to the Super Bowl and pull off the victory.

Asked how he thought the Buffalo Bills of the 1990s must have felt when they fell four straight times in the Super Bowl, Sanders simply shook his head.

Proehl sees little to no difference in working the sideline or being in the coaches’ box as opposed to performing on the field.

Coaches go through the same kind of preparation and routine as the players.

They carry a similar burden, and experience the same kind of exhilaration or dejection.

“You know, it takes a special group, and not just guys with talent,” he said.

“It takes a selflessness. Every Super Bowl team I have been a part of has had that.

“You want it for them.”

Yet, Proehl can find some positive out of not winning that final game on the schedule.q

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NHL Capsules

Tampa Bay Lightning right wing Nikita Kucherov (86), of Russia, scores past Detroit Red Wings goalie Petr Mrazek (34), of the Czech Republic, during the third period of an NHL hockey game Wednesday, Feb. 3, 2016, in Tampa, Fla. Looking on is Red Wings’ Kyle Quincey (27) and Lightning’s Ondrej Palat (18), of the Czech Republic.

Associated Press In this Feb. 29, 1960 file photo, U.S. Olympic Hockey coach Jack Riley is welcomed back to U.S. Military Academy at West Point, N.Y. Associated Press

Bishop earns 100th Jack Riley, U.S. hockey coach win with Lightning, beats Red Wings 3-1 at 1960 Olympics, dies at 95 The Associated Press TAMPA, Florida (AP) — Ben Bishop made 24 saves to get his 100th win with Tampa Bay and Nikita Kucherov scored his 21st goal to help the Lightning beat the Detroit Red Wings 3-1 on Wednesday night.

J.T. Brown and Tyler Johnson also scored for the Lightning, who have won nine of 10.

Gustav Nyquist had Detroit’s lone goal. Petr Mrazek stopped 20 shots and had his seven-game road winning streak end.

SABRES 4, CANADIENS 2 MONTREAL (AP) — Jamie McGinn, Johan Larsson and Brian Gionta all scored in Buffalo’s big third period and the Sabres rallied for a comeback victory over the slumping Montreal Canadiens.

Marcus Foligno also scored for Buffalo, which played its first game since the All-Star break and led 2-1 heading into the final period. The Sabres, last in the Atlantic Di-

vision, are 6-4-0 in their last 10 games.

Dale Weise and Alex Galchenyuk scored for Montreal, which has lost four in a row and is 1-8-1 in its last 10.

FLAMES 4, HURRICANES 1 CALGARY, Alberta (AP) — Sean Monahan had a goal and three assists to lead the Calgary Flames to a 4-1 victory over the Carolina Hurricanes.

Calgary broke a 1-1 tie midway through the second period when Monahan set up goals 38 seconds apart

by All-Stars Mark Giordano and Johnny Gaudreau.

Dougie Hamilton also scored for Calgary, which ended a three-game losing streak and climbed to within six points of the thirdplace Anaheim Ducks in the Pacific Division.

Elias Lindholm had the lone goal for Carolina, opened a three-game road trip and started the night 7-2-1 in its last 10.q

JOHN KEKIS AP Sports Writer Jack Riley, the Army coach who in 1960 guided the U.S. to its first Olympic gold medal in hockey, has died.

He was 95.

Riley died Wednesday on Cape Cod in Massachusetts, the U.S. Military Academy said Thursday. He regularly attended Army home games into his early 90s.

“He lived a great life, and although he is known as a hockey coach to many people, he was a great husband, father, grandfather and friend to all,” said son Brian Riley, the current Army hockey coach.

Jack Riley compiled a 542-343-20 record at West Point during a 36-year college coaching career that started in 1950, transforming the Black Knights into an Eastern power. He led the Black Knights to 29 winning seasons, including a school-record 28 victories during the 1983-84 season.

He was the NCAA coach of the year in 1957 and 1960.

When he retired in 1986, Riley was second all-time in NCAA victories and currently ranks 18th.

“He did have a little bit of an Irish temper at the rink and on the golf course,”

Brian Riley said. “He was a fierce competitor. He did not like to lose, but at home he was a softie.”

In 1986 and 2002, Jack Riley won the Lester Patrick Award for outstanding service to U.S. hockey. He was elected to the United States Hockey Hall of Fame in 1979 and was inducted into the International Hockey Hall of Fame in 1998. He also was a member of the Army Sports Hall of Fame’s inaugural class in 2004.

“Jack’s imprint on the game was enormous,” USA Hockey executive director Dave Ogrean said in a statement. “While to many he is best known as the head coach of the 1960 gold medal team, he devoted his entire career and life to coaching and developing young men.”

Riley was born in Boston, played left wing on the hockey team at Dartmouth and was a member of the 1948 U.S. Olympic team.

Twelve years later, he coached the U.S. team to the gold medal, with the Americans upsetting the Soviet Union and going undefeated at the 1960 Squaw Valley Games in California. It was a startling victory that came 20 years

before coach Herb Brooks, the last player cut by Riley in 1960, led the “Miracle on Ice” triumph by the U.S. at the 1980 Lake Placid Games. The Squaw Valley gold medal was dubbed “The Forgotten Miracle” in a documentary.

“He pushed his guys,” Brian said. “For the 1960 Olympics he brought his team back to West Point to train.

He knew on paper they probably weren’t the favorites, but he was going to have the best-conditioned team and kind of skated the guys into the ice to make sure they were going to be in great shape. Obviously, they were.”

Riley kept a reminder of that moment — his gold medal — in a dresser drawer buried under T-shirts, Brian said.

The West Point men’s hockey team has been coached by a member of the Riley family since Jack took the job in 1950. His son Rob succeeded him for 18 seasons and Brian became coach in 2004-05.

Jack Riley said of all his accomplishments he was perhaps proudest of being a Navy pilot in the Pacific Theater during World War II.q

TECHNOLOGY A23 Microsoft wants you using Windows 10, like it or not Friday 5 February 2016

ANICK JESDANUN AP Technology Writer NEW YORK (AP) — If you’re running an older version of Windows, you might suddenly find Microsoft’s Windows 10 upgrade already downloaded on your machine.

You never requested it, so why are you getting it?

The automatic download is part of Microsoft’s aggressive push to get Windows 10 on as many devices as possible. Since last July, Microsoft has distributed the free upgrade on request.

But starting this week, it’s also pushing it out to those who haven’t requested it — and who might not want it.

Microsoft isn’t actually installing Windows 10 automatically, but installation is just a click or two away.

If you’re not careful, you might suddenly find the new system on your old machine.

Is this good for you? ___ THE BENEFITS OF WINDOWS 10 Windows 10 has many improvements over its predecessors — especially Windows 8. It’s much easier to use than Windows 8, and it offers more modern controls — akin to mobile devices — than Windows 7. (There is no Windows 9.)

Windows 10 also paves the way for multiple devices to work together.

You might be able to buy an app once to run on your PC, phone and Xbox game machine, for instance. The

app’s layout would automatically reconfigure to the given screen size.

New apps are being designed for Windows 10, so if you have an older system, you might find yourself shut out. ___ BENEFITS FOR MICROSOFT Microsoft is reducing reliance on software sales in favor of services such as the Bing search engine, OneDrive storage and Skype for communications.

Windows 10 was designed to steer users to those services. Microsoft makes money from ads and premium features that cost money — such as additional OneDrive storage.

Microsoft can also encourage app makers to write more software for Windows 10 if a lot of people are using it. It’s similar to how Apple pushes its users to upgrade to the latest iPhone and Mac systems. App developers know they can enable the latest features without worrying about abandoning too many users of older devices. ___ WHY HOLD OUT? System upgrades aren’t always smooth, especially on older machines with slower processors, less memory and less storage space available. Microsoft’s Get Windows 10 app will verify that you meet minimum system requirements — but minimum doesn’t mean speedy.

Older machines also might have software that won’t work on Windows 10, so

In this Jan. 21, 2015, file photo, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella speaks at an event demonstrating the new features of Windows 10 at the company’s headquarters in Redmond, Wash. If you’re running an older version of Windows, you might suddenly find Microsoft’s Windows 10 upgrade already downloaded on your machine. The automatic download, beginning the first week of February 2016, is part of Microsoft’s aggressive push to get Windows 10 on as many devices as possible.

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you’d have to spend money upgrading those programs, if upgrades are available at all. Printers, scanners and other accessories also might need new controlling software, called drivers. If a driver update isn’t available, you might find yourself with a dead accessory.

And once you upgrade to Windows 10, you might be ceding control over future upgrades to Microsoft. The company is offering incremental updates to Windows 10 on a regular basis, and it won’t always give you a choice on whether to accept. ___

Cisco to buy Jasper in move into ‘Internet of Things’ SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) — Cisco Systems Inc. is buying Jasper Technologies for $1.4 billion in cash in a move to help its customers connect, automate and manage billions of Internetconnected devices ranging from cars to jet engines to implanted pacemakers.

Cisco said Wednesday that privately held Jasper has developed the industry’s

leading platform for what’s known in technology parlance as the “Internet of Things” that encompasses a growing range of connected devices, appliances and machines.

Cisco, which makes computer networking equipment, says it plans to add new Internet of Things services including enterprise

Wi-Fi, security for connected devices, and advanced analytics to better manage device usage.

Jasper, based in Santa Clara, California, has more than 3,500 customers in 100 countries.

Cisco of San Jose, California, will pay Jasper additional but unspecified “retention-based incentives.”q

HOW TO KEEP THE OLDER WINDOWS Microsoft is treating Windows 10 as a type of security update it regularly pushes to users. Microsoft is now reclassifying Windows 10 as “recommended” rather than “optional.” In doing so, those who have set their machine to automatically get important updates will get Windows 10, too. You can avoid this by turning off automatic updates in the settings under Windows Update. That’s not recommended, though, because

you might miss important security fixes.

If you work for a large company, your system administrators are likely monitoring these updates, so Windows 10 won’t automatically download without their OK. Plus, Microsoft isn’t offering Windows 10 for free to larger companies.

Microsoft will support Windows 7 until 2020 and Windows 8 until 2023, after which time it will stop fixing any security problems. By then, it might be time for a new computer anyway.q

A24 BUSINESS

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Dunkin’s preps for a deal fight as customer visits slip

CANDICE CHOI AP Food Industry Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Dunkin’ Donuts, feeling sidelined by a discounting fight in the fast-food industry, is planning to jump into the game with its own deals.

The coffee-and-doughnut chain said Thursday that customer visits slipped at U.S. stores open at least 18 months in the last three months of the year.

Dunkin’ CEO Nigel Travis blamed the loss on aggressive promotions at burger chains, which he said were sparked by McDonald’s highly anticipated rollout of all-day breakfast.

Wendy’s, for instance, launched a “4 for $4” deal in October, which Burger King later one-upped with a “5 for $4” offer. McDonald’s more recently introduced its “McPick 2” deal that lets people pick two items for $2.

To win back customers, Travis said Dunkin’ is planning three national value promotions of its own for

In this Thursday, Feb. 14, 2013, file photo, a girl has a doughnut and a beverage at a Dunkin’ Donuts in New York. Dunkin’ Brands reports financial earnings on Thursday, Feb. 4, 2016.

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2016, and meeting with franchisees next week to finalize plans. He compared the situation to the political system, noting that presidential candidates such as Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders, if elected, would

need to get Congress to go along with their plans.

“We have to figure out how to bring franchisees along,” Travis said.

His remarks were a reference to the tensions that pricing can cause be-

Orders to U.S. factories fell sharply in December MARTIN CRUTSINGER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Orders to U.S. factories fell sharply in December, closing out a year in which demand for American manufactured goods retreated for the first time in six years.

Factory orders dropped 2.9 percent in December, the fourth decline in the past five months, the Commerce Department reported Thursday.

Orders were down 6.6 percent for the full year, marking the first annual fall since 2009, a year when the country was struggling to emerge from the Great Recession.

The 2015 decline underscores the problems American manufacturers are facing from spreading global weakness and the rising strength of the dollar.

The big December decline was led by a plunge in de-

mand for commercial aircraft, a volatile category.

But orders in a key category that tracks business investment also fell sharply.

Orders for durable goods, items intended to last at least three years such as cars and home appliances, dropped 5 percent in December.

The figure was revised slightly from an advance report last week that pegged the drop at 5.1 percent.

Demand for nondurable goods, items including chemicals, paper and petroleum products, dropped 0.8 percent in December. It was the latest in a string of declines that have been influenced in part by the falling price for energy products.

The key category of nondefense capital goods excluding aircraft, which serves as a proxy for businessinvestment plans,

dropped a sharp 4.3 percent in December after a 0.9 percent decline in November.Business investment has been held back this year by the steep drop in oil prices, which has triggered big cutbacks in at energy companies.

For December, orders for mining and oil field machinery plunged 78.2 percent.

Orders for commercial aircraft dropped 29.4 percent in December. Demand was also down sharply for defense aircraft, which fell 68.7 percent.

Total machinery orders dropped 5.6 percent, while demand for computers was down 16 percent.

Earlier this week, the Institute for Supply Management reported that its key gauge of manufacturing activity remained below 50 in January, indicating manufacturing was contracting.q

tween fast-food companies and their franchisees.

Companies make money by getting a percentage of sales at restaurants, while franchisees have to think about whether the prices they charge will cover costs like food ingredients. As such, franchisees don’t always like discounts.

Subway Chief Advertising Officer Chris Carroll, for instance, said he got support for a $6 Footlong promotion this month by telling franchisees it was a onetime offer to “kick traffic into restaurants.” He said it wouldn’t be a recurring promotion like the chain’s famous $5 Footlong, which was introduced in 2008

and was last advertised nationally two years ago.

For Dunkin’, finding the right national price promotion could be tricky because the popularity of its menu items varies more by region. In the Northeast, the company sells more drinks, while other markets rely more heavily on doughnuts.

Some offers around the country could provide clues on what Dunkin’ has in store. The chain has been offering sandwiches for $2.99 in the afternoons in Boston. In Chicago, it has been advertising an “All Day Value Menu” that features 99-cent hash browns and a muffin for $1.49. It has also been offering two egg-and-cheese sandwiches for $3 in the city.

Travis noted that even in the afternoons, Dunkin’s breakfast sandwiches outsell its lunch sandwiches.

“Breakfast is something people are willing to have all day.

Not many people are willing to have a hamburger at 6 a.m.,” he said.

For the last three months of the year, Dunkin’s sales at established U.S. stores fell by 0.8 percent. The chain forecast sales would rise up to 2 percent for 2016.

Dunkin’ Brands Group Inc. reported a loss of $8.9 million, or 10 cents per share, for the fourth quarter. Excluding one-time items, earnings were 52 cents per share.q

Buffett’s firm now owns nearly 14 percent of Phillips 66 OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Berkshire Hathaway has purchased nearly 1.7 million more shares of Phillips 66 to give it ownership of almost 14 percent of the oil refiner.

The conglomerate led by Warren Buffett reported the latest stock purchases this week. Berkshire now owns 73.98 million Phillips 66 shares worth roughly $5.9 billion.

Berkshire revealed owning over 10 percent of Phillips 66 stock in August when it disclosed a stake of 55 million shares. But before Berkshire began its recent string of purchases in January it owned only 61.49 million Phillips 66 shares. Berkshire Hathaway owns about 90 subsidiaries in a variety of industries, including insurance, utilities, railroads, retail and manufacturing. It also holds major investments in Coca-Cola Co., Wells Fargo & Co., IBM and American Express Co.q

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In this Thursday, Jan. 7, 2016, file photo, Chinese pedestrians walk past a giant U.S. dollar note on a display board of a bank in Beijing.

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Report: China’s yuan to erode, not end, dollar’s dominance PAUL WISEMAN AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — China’s yuan will chip away at the U.S. dollar’s dominance over the next decade but is unlikely to supplant it as the world’s top currency, says a report from a federal watchdog.

The study Thursday by the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission predicts the yuan will gain ground at the expense of the Japanese yen, euro and British pound and “may slightly erode” the dollar’s status.

Written by Cornell University economist Eswar Prasad, the report predicts that China will allow its tightly controlled financial system to “become largely open within the next three to five years. ” But Beijing must enact broader reforms before the yuan can join the dollar as a “safe haven” currency, sought after by investors in times of crisis, according to the study.

China has aggressively promoted the use of the yuan in global commerce.

It has, for example, allowed yuan-denominated bonds to be issued in Hong Kong

and permitted some banks to offer yuan deposit accounts outside China.

But the yuan still is used in fewer than 3 percent of cross-border financial transactions, compared to nearly 44 percent for the dollar and 29 percent for the euro. Beijing won a symbolic victory last year when the International Monetary Fund decided to include the yuan to a basket of currencies used in the IMF’s operations.

The commission report Thursday also predicted that Chinese investment in the United States will begin to change as more Chinese households, businesses and institutional investors take advantage of growing opportunities to invest abroad. Largely because of Chinese government purchases of Treasurys, China is the biggest foreign owner of U.S. government debt. In the future, Chinese investors increasingly will sink money into U.S. stocks, real estate and businesses.

The commission was created by Congress in 2000 to monitor the national security implications of the U.S.-China economic relationship. q

This Monday, Aug. 24, 2015, file photo, shows the New York Stock Exchange. U.S. stocks opened slightly lower early Thursday, Feb. 4, 2016, as retail companies slipped. Energy stocks climbed early as the price of crude oil recovered.

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U.S. stocks end modestly higher after a day of wavering KEN SWEET AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. stocks posted modest gains Thursday as investors await Friday’s closely watched jobs report, which could offer insight about the U.S. economy and help determine whether the Federal Reserve raises interest rates again next month.

Many believe the likelihood of another rate increase in March has faded because of recent signs of weakness in the global economy.

That has sent the dollar lower against other currencies, a welcome change for U.S. exporters whose overseas sales have been hurt by the appreciation of the dollar over the last year and a half.

The Dow Jones industrial average rose 79.92 points, or 0.5 percent, to 16,416.58.

The Standard & Poor’s 500 index rose 2.92 points, or 0.2 percent, to 1,915.45 and the Nasdaq composite rose 5.32 points, or 0.1 percent, to 4,509.56.

Stocks oscillated between gains and losses the whole day, and got some traction in the last couple hours of trading. Industrial and materials companies were among the biggest gainers, helped by a weaker

dollar.

Investors are getting ready for Friday’s payroll numbers. Economists surveyed

by FactSet forecast that U.S. employers created 200,000 jobs in January and the unemployment rate held steady at 5 percent.

Over the past couple of weeks, investors have scaled back expectations that the Fed will continue raising interest rates amid signs that the global slowdown in growth is beginning to hurt the U.S. economy.

On Wednesday, a private survey found that the U.S. service sector grew in January at the slowest rate in nearly two years. Fed fund futures, a security that allows investors to bet on which way the Fed will move interest rates, are indicating that the next best chance the Fed will raise rates is not until early 2017.

“The market is starting to price in a small chance of recession, not some realistic chance, but enough of a chance to give investors pause and reposition,” said Khoa Le, who co-heads a derivatives trading desk at Credit Suisse.

Diminished expectations of a March Fed rate hike have continued to weaken

the dollar. The euro rose 0.9 percent to a three-month high of $1.1208 while the dollar fell 1.1 percent against the Japanese yen to 116.79 yen.

Le said the large move in the dollar in recent days is partially related to a great unwinding of positions by both large investors and companies who might hold significant amounts of cash overseas.

Many investors were “buying into this thesis of a strong dollar,” Le said. “Now that the Fed is less likely to raise rates, we are seeing clients reposition.”

U.S. government bond prices rose. The yield on the 10-year Treasury note fell to 1.85 percent from 1.89 percent.

In other company news, mobile video camera maker GoPro plunged 93 cents, or 9 percent, to $9.78 after the company reported a wider-than-expected fourth quarter loss. GoPro shares are down 46 percent in 2016.

Viacom rose $1.11, or 2 percent, to $48.68 after the company announced that its 92-year-old majority shareholder, Sumner Redstone, was stepping down as CEO to be replaced by CBS CEO Les Moonves.q

A26 COMICS

Friday 5 February 2016

Mutts

Conceptis Sudoku

6 Chix

Blondie

Mother Goose & Grimm

Baby Blues

Zits

Yesterday’s puzzle answer

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Friday 5 February 2016

Mystery meat: Was it really woolly mammoth on the menu?

FRANK ELTMAN Associated Press When members of the Explorers Club gathered for their lavish annual dinner in New York City in 1951, one account said they feasted on meat from a prehistoric wooly mammoth that had been preserved in a glacier.

The banquet menu said the long-extinct mystery meat was actually giant sloth.But Yale researchers using DNA analysis on surviving bits of the meat have now reached what could be the final word on the story: Neither is true.

The meat that was served was nothing more than modern-day sea turtle.

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A28 SCIENCE

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Report: Climate change threatens food fish in Northeast PATRICK WHITTLE Associated Press PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Fish and shellfish that humans rely on for food and that are important to the economy are on a list of Northeastern marine species considered most vulnerable to climate change, a federal government report released Wednesday and published by the journal PLOS ONE said.

The study ranged from Cape Hatteras, North Carolina, to the Gulf of Maine and is the first “multispecies assessment” of the vulnerability of marine fish and invertebrates to climate change, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said. A series of similar assessments will follow in other regions of the U.S. NOAA’s report assigned a “climate vulnerability score” to 82 Northeastern fish and shellfish species. It listed types of scallop and quahog and the Atlantic salmon as the most vulnerable in the region, as well as eastern oysters, a $175 million fishery in 2014.

Also, certain types of herring, a vital part of the

Hare said researchers studied how vulnerable the species are to changes in the ocean’s temperature, acidity, salinity and other features.

In this Thursday, Jan. 7, 2016 photo redfish are displayed at the Portland Fish Exchange in Portland, Maine. Fishermen are being forced to start adapting more quickly to changing fish stocks in ocean and market new species based on what is available. As a result, more former “trash” fish such as redfish, dogfish and skate are the wave of the future in sustainable fishing.

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ocean’s food web and commercially important as bait, were found to be highly vulnerable to climate change.

Lead author Jon Hare, a NOAA oceanographer based in Rhode Island, said scientists found that most of the species they studied will be affected by climate change in some way.

In addition, Hare said, “Those effects are going to continue into the future.

We’ve seen impacts in the past, but this study provides support for the idea that those changes are going to continue.”

The 82 species represent every commercially managed marine fish and in-

vertebrate species in the Northeast; the list also includes some popular recreational marine fish and all marine fish listed or under consideration for protection under the Endangered Species Act. Changing ocean conditions impact marine animals’ reproduction, predation and ability to grow.

Also among their findings were: —About half of the 82 species studied are either highly vulnerable or very highly vulnerable to climate change. About half will likely be negatively affected by climate change and 20 percent will be positively affected by it. The impact on others appears to be neutral, Hare said.

—Some already challenged species such as winter flounder are at risk.

Winter flounder have declined from a 15.3 million pound fishery in 2001 to 4.4 million pounds in 2015.

Peter Baker, director of Northeast U.S. oceans for the Pew Charitable Trusts, said the report should be a motivator for fishing managers to protect more ocean habitat and preserve marine species.

“We can better protect the ocean habitat where fish find food and shelter and reproduce,” he said.q

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Friday 5 February 2016

Coldplay to honor past, present and future at Super Bowl MESFIN FEKADU AP Music Writer SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Coldplay lead singer Chris Martin says the band’s Super Bowl halftime show will try to honor the past, present and future.

At a press conference Thursday, the band said that they will have the Youth Orchestra of Los Angeles there to represent the future and Beyoncé — whose 2013 performance they adore — for the past.

“We’ve watched all of the other halftime shows many times and most of them are fantastic,” Martin said.

“I think we’re going to try to celebrate those other years and hopefully make a show as memorable as some of our favorites.”

Coldplay, whose wellknown songs include “Yellow,” ‘’Speed of Sound,” ‘’Viva la Vida” and “Magic,” was mum about the other performers set to the hit the stage Sunday

at Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara, California. Martin alluded to Bruno Mars, who performed at the Super Bowl in 2014, joining the big stage in a recent interview.

“Well most of them have been leaked by Pepsi, I think,” he said when asked about who else would perform. When a reporter asked Martin if his children, Apple and Moses, would watch, he said: “I hope they’ll watch. What else is on that day?” He added that his son designed two pairs of shoes for him — one he wore Thursday at the conference and the other is for Sunday’s big performance.

Though Beyonce is performing Sunday, the band did say they wouldn’t perform their new collaboration with the diva called “Hymn for the Weekend,” which they recorded for their latest album, explaining that it only recently came out. “I don’t think it

would be quite right,” said Martin.

But they reiterated they are big Beyonce fans. “We love Beyonce’s music. She’s one of our all-time favorites and she’s one of the greatest performers I’ve ever witnessed,” said Martin.

The band, which includes Jonny Buckland, Guy Berryman and Will Champion, said they spoke at length with one another about what their performance should represent.

“We decided we wanted to make it about togetherness, acceptance and the things we believed in. Then we called the right guests, so we know that we have great people joining us,” Martin said.

Asked how they would fit 16 years of music into just 12 minutes, the frontman joked: “We decided we’d play all our No. 1s and then work out how to fill the other 10 minutes.”

The 17-minute conference

Jonny Buckland, left to right, Guy Berryman, Chris Martin and Will Champion of Coldplay answer questions during a halftime news conference for the upcoming NFL Super Bowl 50 football game Thursday, Feb. 4, 2016, in San Francisco.

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took some political turns: As Martin and his bandmates entered the stage, the singer said: “Thank you, everybody. I feel like Donald Trump.” And when a reporter asked if the band had to campaign to get the Super Bowl gig, he said: “We started in Iowa three years ago. We had a bus, a small bus...” It earned Martin a loud applause at the end of his comments.

The Carolina Panthers will face the Denver Broncos at Super Bowl 50, but Coldplay would not be drawn into revealing who they’re rooting for.

“I think we’re firmly spit down the middle between those of us who know absolutely nothing about football and those of us who know almost absolutely nothing about football,” Buckland said.q

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Friday 5 February 2016

& ARTS Multi-Ethnic Media Coalition wants full Hollywood diversity In this Saturday, Jan. 30, 2016 file photo, Taye Diggs, left, presents Viola Davis with the award for outstanding female actor in a drama series for “How to Get Away with Murder” at the 22nd annual Screen Actors Guild Awards at the Shrine Auditorium & Expo Hall in Los Angeles.

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LYNN ELBER AP Television Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Organizations representing Hispanics, Asian-Americans and Native Americans, who joined with the NAACP in 2000 to increase minority hiring in the TV industry, are broadening their focus to the big screen.

The Multi-Ethnic Media Coalition called Thursday on Sony, Warner Bros., Fox, Universal, Paramount and Disney to enter discussions aimed at bringing full diversity to on- and off-camera jobs, including the executive ranks.

The uproar over this year’s all-white cast of Academy Award acting nominees helped set the stage for the new effort, coalition leaders said. Latino representation in the nominees was only behind the camera, led by the Mexican filmmakers of “The Revenant”: director Alejandro Inarritu and cinematographer Emmanuel Lubezki.

“Now is the time, while there’s a lot of attention focused on this,” said Daniel Mayeda, co-chair of the Asian Pacific American Media Coalition, one of the umbrella group’s members.

While the movie academy hastily adopted new rules aimed at breaking up future white monopolies for the Oscars, the studios and their hiring practices are the root of the problem, he said.

“We can have the most diverse set of awards voters, but we’re not going to have any nominations or wins for people of color if there are no roles,” Mayeda said.

Alex Nogales, president and CEO of the National

Hispanic Media Coalition, agreed.

The Oscars and other awards “are the last in the line of this whole thing called show business. The real culprits are at the very top, with the film studios first and foremost,” Nogales said. The battle isn’t the same for every ethnic group.

While all minorities struggle to gain a foothold in films, it’s non-blacks who face the stiffest challenge. Last Saturday’s Screen Actors Guild Awards offered a dramatic illustration: There were a number of minority winners, including Idris Elba, Uzo Aduba, Queen Latifah and Viola Davis, all of them black.

“Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to diverse TV,” Elba, who won two trophies, said onstage.

Mayeda called their recognition “fantastic,” but said the diversity discussion has become “a little binary, a little black and white.”

Don Cheadle made a similar point during a recent interview with The Associated Press.

“Diverse doesn’t just mean more black people,” he said during the Sundance Film Festival last month.

“Diverse means more representation from the entire diaspora of what the United States has to offer, not just one particular minority group.” Nogales also lauded the winners. But he chides those who claim such instances represent progress for minorities in general, rather than one group in particular.

“When I hear ‘people of color’ it angers me, because when I look at who they’re talking about, it’s African-Americans,” he said. “C’mon, guys, let’s be real here. African-Americans are doing much better than any other minority in front of and in back of the camera.”

Neither he nor Mayeda cast the demand for more inclusiveness as a zero-sum game that risks pitting one minority group against an-

other. Instead, they said, the pressure is on the industry to expand opportunities for all.

The NAACP has committed its support to the new initiative but was unable to take part in its announcement because of other commitments, the coalition said. The black civil rights group did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

There’s much work to do, Mayeda said, given how stubbornly the industry clings to tired practices. He cited minority characters that were either played by white actors — Emma Stone as an Asian-American in “Aloha,” Ben Affleck as a Hispanic in “Argo” — or ethnic roles that were rewritten to accommodate white actors.

Studios ultimately must change as America does or lose out, Mayeda said.

The country’s demographic shift to a non-white majority is predicted within three decades.

“This is not affirmative action. We’re talking about how you make more money. More people would buy tickets if you featured people who look like us or reflect modern society,” he said. Coalition leaders said they are heartened by TV’s increased diversity, from shows that feature minority casts (“black-ish,” ‘’Jane the Virgin,” ‘’Fresh Off the Boat”) to more non-white writers and directors. But there is inequality: Three of the four major networks have a higher percentage of blacks in prime-time shows than exist in the general population, while all other minorities are underrepresented to varying degrees, The Associated Press reported last year.

The coalition is calling on studios to do with films what the group has pressed them to do for TV, including tracking minority employment and implementing or expanding “pipeline” programs to develop minority writers, directors and others.q

PEOPLE & ARTS A31 Earth, Wind & Fire founder Maurice White dead at 74 Friday 5 February 2016

DAVID BAUDER HILLEL ITALIE Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Earth, Wind & Fire founder Maurice White, whose horndriven band sold more than 90 million albums and made hits like “September,” ‘’Shining Star” and “Boogie Wonderland,” died Wednesday at his home in Los Angeles, his brother Verdine said.

White, who was 74, suffered from Parkinson’s Disease and had retreated from the public even as the band he founded kept performing.

“My brother, hero and best friend Maurice White passed away peacefully last night in his sleep,” Verdine White, also a member of the band, told The Associated Press on Thursday.

“While the world has lost another great musician and legend, our family asks that our privacy is respected as we start what will be a very difficult and life changing transition in our lives. Thank you for your prayers and well wishes.”

Earth, Wind & Fire, a ninepiece band centered featuring the two White brothers, singer Philip Bailey and the distinctive horn section, were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2000. The band’s most successful period started with the 1975 album “That’s The Way of The World” and continued through the rest of the decade. Other hits included “Serpentine Fire,” ‘’That’s the Way of the World” and a cover of the Beatles’ “Got to Get You Into My Life.”

White publicly revealed he had Parkinson’s at the time of the band’s Hall of Fame induction, but he had shown symptoms of the neurological disease back in the 1980s. He stopped touring with the band in 1995 because of weariness from the road combined with his health problems.

White said in an interview with The Associated Press in 2000 that he wanted the band’s music to inspire instead of just entertain.

“That was the whole objective, to try to inspire

In this July 7, 2003 file photo, Maurice White, of Earth, Wind, & Fire, appears at an induction ceremony at the Hollywood Rock Walk in the Hollywood section of Los Angeles. White, the founder and leader of Earth, Wind & Fire, died at home in Los Angeles, Wednesday, Feb. 3, 2016, said his brother, Verdine White. He was 74.

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young people to believe in themselves and to follow through on their ideas,” he said. “We’ve touched so many people with these songs.”

A former session drummer, White founded the band Salty Peppers in the Chicago area in the late 1960s and had some modest success in the Midwest.

After relocating to Los Angeles and ditching all of the band members except Verdine, he renamed the outfit Earth, Wind & Fire after the three elements in his astrological chart.

Bailey’s bright falsetto defined many of Earth, Wind & Fire’s hits. “We experienced pure magic together,” Bailey said during the band’s

Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction, standing next to White.

The band’s early sound was jazzy, but evolved into an exuberant, horn-driven mix of jazz, funk, gospel and Big Band music. Their appeal wasn’t just on records but on stage, their concerts a whirl of dancing, fog machines, multi-

colored lights and glittery costumes. Earth, Wind & Fire performed everywhere from the Super Bowl to the White House.

Maurice White also had a substantial side career producing other artists, including Barbra Streisand and Cher. In the 1970s, he cowrote and co-produced the Emotions’ No. 1 hit “Best of My Love.”

White was born in Memphis in 1941, the son of a doctor and grandson of a New Orleans piano player. He showed musical gifts at an early age, studying at the Chicago Conservancy.

During the 1960s, he backed Muddy Waters, the Impressions and others and worked as a session drummer in Chicago.

The band performed in the movie, “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band” and had hits with the ballad “After the Love Has Gone,” ‘’All ‘n’ All,” ‘’Let’s Groove” and “Fall in Love With Me.” The band took a four-year hiatus in the 1980s and then returned, its primary success then on the road.

“We live in a negative society,” White told Newsweek at the height of the band’s success. “Most people can’t see beauty and love. I see our music as medicine.”q

Chris Stapleton to lead B.B. King tribute at Grammys NEW YORK (AP) — Country singer Chris Stapleton will join Gary Clark Jr. and Bonnie Raitt at the Grammy Awards later this month for a tribute to the late blues master B.B. King.

The Grammys announced a handful of other performers on Thursday for the Feb. 15 ceremony. Justin Bieber will join Diplo and Skrillex to perform their hit “Where Are U Now.” Alice Cooper, Johnny Depp and Joe Perry will debut their rock group the Hollywood Vampires.

Pitbull also plans a performance together with Travis Barker and Robin Thicke. q

In this Nov. 4, 2015 file photo, Chris Stapleton, winner of the awards for new artist of the year, album of the year for “Traveller,” and male vocalist of the year, participates in an interview in the press room at the 49th annual CMA Awards at the Bridgestone Arena in Nashville, Tenn.

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A32 FEATURE

Friday 5 February 2016

Glitter, feathers, paint: New Orleans preps for Mardi Gras REBECCA SANTANA Associated Press NEW ORLEANS (AP) — It’s glitter season in New Orleans. A time for feathers, paper mache, sequins, paint, bailing wire, bones, and just about any other item that can be used for decoration. Across garages, kitchen tables and warehouses, residents are feverishly sewing elaborate costumes, painting floats and decorating custom throws.

Outside of New Orleans, Mardi Gras has often been perceived as a raucous time of drinking too much beer, throwing beads and nudity. But to those who live here and essentially put on the show

the Extra-Terrestrial” and ride bikes, and Krewe du Who, which celebrates the TV show Dr. Who. “For a lot of people who have never experienced Mardi Gras they think it’s like girls gone wild.

There’s the cheap plastic beads. There’s a bunch of people who get really drunk,” said Ballard. “But that’s really not what Mardi Gras is about. Mardi Gras is about, it’s an art form ... We’re making the universe one little drop bet-

Bruce “Sunpie” Barnes, head of the Mardi Gras North Side Skull & Bone Gang, poses with his accoutrements for upcoming Mardi Gras day, in New Orleans, Tuesday, Feb. 2, 2016.

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Chanel Lafargue decorates coconuts, gorgeous pieces often referred to as “Golden Nuggets,” inside her studio in New Orleans, Tuesday, Jan. 5, 2016. Lafargue has decorated tens of thousands of coconuts for her husband and his friends over the years.

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for the world, it’s a wildly creative time of personal expression, rich history and family fun. Behind the parades and pageantry are regular citizens who spend all year and often a lot of their own money to transform the city and themselves for a few days.

The Associated Press talked to some of the men and women who make the magic happen. ___ Cari Rhoton uses glitter as a verb. In the garage of her Kenner, Louisiana, home she and her friends gather

his first suit and in 1980 he became the chief of the Mohawk Hunters, the only tribe on the Mississippi River city’s west bank.

Casby said the Indian outfits are, in part, a tribute to the Native Americans who would hide runaway slaves. But the drumbeats, singing and chanting are also an expression of the African culture from which they came. At the beginning, the outfits were made out of whatever people could find, and were

Sunday evenings to glitter shoes and decorate boots, ballet flats and stilettos. Rhoton is a member of the all-female Krewe of Muses whose 1,030 members will parade on Feb. 4.

The women throw beads and other “throws” to the crowd, but the real prizes are the roughly 30 customdesigned shoes that each woman is encouraged to make and hand out to lucky parade watchers.

Rhoton gathers shoes all year round. Friends drop them off at her house or she finds them at garage sales

or thrift stores. Sunday evenings she sits in her “Glitterage” — a two-car garage where she has organized boxes of different colors of glitter, sequins and beads, a glue gun and boxes of embellishments that she’ll put on the shoes.

“They’re little pieces of folk art I believe,” she said.

“You hand them off the float to people who come to the parade and it is a treasure. Once you give a shoe to someone you want to keep making shoes every year.” ___ Like all good New Orleans creative projects, the Intergalactic Krewe of Chewbacchus was conceived in a bar, said Ryan Ballard, who is the group’s “Overlord.” Ballard and a friend were talking about how there was no crossover between the science fiction and fantasy fans who dressed up for events like Comic-Con and Mardi Gras.

The name is a mash-up of Chewbacca, the furry Wookiee from “Star Wars” who was longtime friend to Han Solo, and Bacchus, the god of wine. Started six years ago, as a small group of sci-fi fans, Chewbacchus has grown into a parade of roughly 2,500 people and includes such diverse sub-krewes as the Rolling Elliotts, who dress up as Elliott from the film “E.T.

A costume worn by Chief of the Mohawk Hunters Mardi Gras Tribe Tyrone Casby in 2009 greets visitors to his home in New Orleans, Monday, Jan. 18, 2016. This costume depicts the white buffalo, a sacred animal in Native American lore. The Mohawk Hunters Mardi Gras Tribe is an African American group that celebrates Mardi Gras by dancing and performing in a newly created hand-made costume each year.

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ter by doing this crazy, silly, whimsical thing we do.” ___ For Tyrone Casby it was the sound of the drums that lured him in. Casby is the big chief of the Mohawk Hunters, a Mardi Gras Indian tribe in New Orleans. As a young boy, he remembers sneaking off to watch and listen to his brother practice the drums with his tribe. In 1967 he made

burned after Mardi Gras, said Casby. But over time, they have evolved into elaborate works of art that take months to complete and are often preserved for posterity.

Come Fat Tuesday morning, the tribe will congregate at one spot in their outfits, and commence the day by singing “Indian Red,” a prayer asking God to guide them.q