February 6, 2016

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Debris and a mangled crane lie in the street in New York’s Tribeca neighborhood in Lower Manhattan following a deadly collapse on Friday, Feb. 5, 2016.

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Obama, Xi discuss NKorea amid signs of rocket launch preps This image provided by the U.S.-Korea Institute at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies via 38 North and via a satellite image from Centre National d’Études Spatiales and Airbus Defense & Space / Spot Image, shows a satellite image captured Feb. 4, 2016, of the Sohae lauch facility on the west coast of North Korea, in Cholsan County, North Pyongan Province.

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MATTHEW PENNINGTON Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The presidents of the U.S. and China agreed Friday that a planned rocket launch by North Korea would violate U.N. sanctions, the White House said, amid signs the isolated nation was moving closer to blastoff.

Commercial satellite imagery analyzed by U.S. researchers showed tanker trucks at the launch pad at the Sohae facility on North Korea’s west coast. That is likely to fill fuel and oxidizer tanks, in preparation for what North Korea says is the launch of an Earth observation satellite but which the U.S. calls a ballistic missile test.

North Korea this week announced the launch would take place between Feb. 8 and 25. It would follow the government’s announcement of a purported hydrogen bomb test last month that has deepened international concern over its progress toward having a nuclear bomb that can be mounted on a longrange missile.

President Barack Obama and Chinese President Xi Jinping spoke by telephone Friday and agreed

that the launch would be another “provocative and destabilizing” action in violation of multiple U.N. Security Council resolutions, a White House statement said.

They reaffirmed their refusal to accept a nucleararmed North Korea, as well as their commitment to the “complete and verifiable” denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula. The leaders also emphasized the need for a united international response to North Korea’s actions, including through the U.N. Security Council, the statement said.

But the U.S. has appeared more eager than China, the North’s only ally and its main source of economic support, to crank up sanctions.

Chinese state news agency Xinhua, in its dispatch about the call between the two leaders, said Xi stressed that the current situation on the peninsula is “complicated and sensitive.”

A North Korean launch is considered a violation of U.N. sanctions as similar technology can be used for ballistic missiles.

The North Korea-focused website, 38 North, said in an analysis the evidence from satellite imagery taken on Wednesday and Thursday doesn’t mean the North has starting filling a rocket with fuel, but is probably taking a preparatory step.

It says that in the past, such activity has happened one to two weeks before blastoff.

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1 dead, 2 seriously hurt in Manhattan crane collapse COLLEEN LONG Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — A huge construction crane being lowered to safety in a snow squall plummeted onto a Lower Manhattan street Friday, killing a Wall Street worker and leaving three people hurt by debris that scattered as the rig’s lengthy boom fell, officials said.

The mobile crane’s boom landed across an intersection, smashed several car roofs and stretched much of a block after the accident around 8:25 a.m. at a historic building about 10 blocks north of the World Trade Center.

Robert Harold heard a crashing sound as the rig fell right outside his office window at the Legal Aid Society.

“You could feel the vibration in the building,” said Harold, who recounted seeing onlookers trying to rescue someone trapped in a parked car and seeing a person lying motionless on the street. After the collapse, the crane’s big cab lay upside-down in the snow with its tank-like tracks pointed at the sky.

The collapse killed David Wichs, a mathematical whiz who worked at a computerized trading firm, his family said. Born in Prague, he had immigrated to the United States as a teenager and graduated from Harvard University, said his sister-in-law, Lisa Guttman.

“He really created a life for himself. He literally took every opportunity he could find,” she said through tears.

Mayor Bill de Blasio initially said the person killed in the collapse was in a car, but police later said he was on the sidewalk. De Blasio said two people were seriously

injured, while a third suffered more minor injuries.

A bystander video taken through a window high above the ground showed the arm descending, then taking the entire crane to the ground.

The accident happened as workers were trying to secure the crane against winds by lowering the boom, officials said. Because the crane was being lowered, workers were directing pedestrians away from it on a street that otherwise would likely have been teeming with people.

“Thank God we didn’t have more injuries and lose more people,” de Blasio said.

“It’s something of a miracle that there was not more of an impact.”

Officials were working to determine why the crane fell. An employee who answered the phone at the offices of crane owner Bay Crane would say only that an investigation was underway and wouldn’t give his name.

City building inspectors had been at the site only Thursday because the boom was being extended so it could reach farther onto the roof, de Blasio said.

Buildings Commissioner Rick Chandler said inspectors found no problems then with the crane but would investigate further.

A spokesman for the building’s owners said in a statement that they were “saddened by the injuries and loss of a life.”

Crane safety came under scrutiny in the city after two tower cranes collapsed in Manhattan within two months of each other in 2008, killing a total of nine people. The accidents spurred fueled new safety

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In this photo provided by the FDNY, firefighters and emergency personnel respond to the scene of a crane collapse on Friday, Feb. 5, 2016.

The crane landed across an intersection and stretched much of a block in the Tribeca neighborhood, about 10 blocks north of the World Trade Center.

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Seeking applause line, Jeb Bush struggles with voters SERGIO BUSTOS Associated Press DERRY, New Hampshire (AP) — Jeb Bush was once believed to be a virtual shoo-in for the Republican nomination in a crowded field of political newcomers and outsiders. But going into the second state in the primary process next week, he’s doing anything he can to keep his flagging campaign on the rails.

He’s begging some for votes and bear-hugging others who say they’ll consider it. This week, he whispered “please clap” after delivering a commanding speech about leadership

Florida governor to convince voters that he’s best suited for the Oval Office, arguing that the three top finishers in the Iowa caucuses —Ted Cruz, Donald Trump and Marco Rubio — aren’t up to the job.

Barbara Bush, right, jokes with her son, Republican presidential candidate, former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, while introducing him at a town hall meeting at West Running Brook Middle School in Derry, N.H., Thursday Feb. 4, 2016.

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— a phrase that has since gone viral on social media.

In New Hampshire, he’s been joined by his mother, former First Lady Barbara Bush, who is working to convince voters that her son is “decent and honest.”

But Bush is ultimately banking on his experience as a businessman and former

But many observers say Bush has an extremely tough battle ahead of him.

It’s “the end of the road for the Bush dynasty” if he can’t pull out a second place finish in New Hampshire’s Feb. 9 primary, said Boston University political scientist Tom Whalen.

Bush’s campaign began 2016 with less than $7.6 million in the bank, less than what Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz had available. His well-financed super PAC, an outside funding group that can accept limited donations, meanwhile, had plenty of cash left to burn.

Right to Rise, which attracted million-dollar checks

from dozens of donors, started the year with roughly half of the $118 million it amassed in 2015.

Early preference polls do not bode well. Voters in New Hampshire are notoriously late deciders, but even some of those gathered at Bush events — he’s done more than 90 town halls — say they’ve got their sights set on others.

At his town hall events, Bush carefully answers every question, often in detail, describing himself a proud “policy wonk.” He also makes it a point, without being asked, to talk about his famous political family, embracing the legacy of his father, George H.W. Bush, and older brother, George W. Bush.

“I’m proud of my dad. I’m proud of my brother. I’m proud of being a Bush,” he told a large crowd Thursday night in Derry.q

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Police officials quarrel over effort to raise bar on force TAMI ABDOLLAH Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A police group’s proposal that law enforcement officers be required to do more than what’s minimally required by law in violent encounters has spurred anger and pushback from leading national groups representing chiefs and rankand-file sworn officers.

The Police Executive Research Forum, a Washington-based think tank, last week unveiled its 30 newprinciples that re-envision how officers use force after national outrage over questionable shootings and violent arrests initially sparked by the fatal shooting of 18-year-old Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, police in 2014. Since then, incidents from New York to Texas — often caught on bystander or police camera — have resulted in soulsearching among officers as a wary public recoils from the violence that’s sometimes inherent in policing and frequently permitted by law.

The police research group’s recommendations include an unprecedented acknowledgement by police professionals that officers should go beyond the Supreme Court-adopted basic legal standard that asks what a reasonable officer would do in such situations, and encourage officers to focus on preserving all lives, not just their own.

Two of the most influential police groups, the International Association of Chiefs of Police and Fraternal Order of Police, said they have problems with the proposals.

Setting different policies and standards would lead to confusion and hesitation by police, endangering officers and the public, the police chiefs’ group said.

It emailed its 19,000 members in the United States this week to say it was “extremely concerned” about the recommendations.

The group’s president, Police Chief Terry Cunningham of Wellesley, Massachusetts, said such a proposal needs more research

and involvement from police, plus a recognition that officers are under scrutiny and asked to deal with social issues on the streets, such as mental illness.

“Using force is an unfortunate part of the job,” Cunningham said. He said police are confronting people responsible for murders.

“Usually those are really dangerous people, clearly, and those are people usually the police have to deal with and bring them into custody.”

The Police Executive Research Forum, or PERF, developed its proposals after about 18 months of research. Law enforcement officials even went to Scotland to observe Scottish officers, who are nearly all unarmed, back away from suspects with their hands up, for example, to defuse situations without violence.

“We don’t believe that we should just move headlong based on PERF having taken a trip to Scotland, that we should just turn policing in a country, God knows how many times bigger than Scotland, totally on its head,” said Jim Pasco, executive director of The Fraternal Order of Police, which represents 335,000 sworn officers.

He added: “We’re not going to stand by and let police officers be sacrificed on the altar of political correctness.”

PERF’s executive director, Chuck Wexler, said the Supreme Court case was the “floor” and not the “ceiling” and that law enforcement officers need to do better.

“We aspire to have a higher standard in terms of preventing these unfortunate situations from happening at all. That’s what this is about,” Wexler said. “This is about the difference between legal versus moral.”

The 1989 Supreme Court ruling, Graham v. Connor, by which officers are judged in court notes that an officer makes split-second decisions and relies only on what police know in the moment of decision about whether to use force.

For years it was rare for a

In this Jan. 29, 2016, photo, nearly 200 law enforcement leaders gather in Washington, to discuss 30 new guiding principles on when and how police should use force.

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chief to determine that an officer had violated department policy if the officer met that legal standard. In recent years, departments from Los Angeles to Milwaukee have more

frequently disciplined officers for violating its force policy even if no charges were filed.

But such varying standards leave a police department open to civil liability

and claims. Training — and adhering to it — becomes more critical, said retired Los Angeles Police Department Sgt. Lou Salseda, an expert and former police academy instructor.q

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Utah legislators back plan to declare porn a health crisis BRADY McCOMBS MICHELLE L. PRICE Associated Press SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A state senator in the predominantly Mormon state of Utah wants to declare pornography a public health crisis, echoing an argument made by many conservative religious groups as porn becomes more accessible on smartphones and tablets.

Republican Sen. Todd Weiler, a Mormon, contends children are being exposed at young ages to pornography, leading them to engage in riskier sexual behavior. He has said recent research from the United Kingdom found that people who compulsively view porn showed similar brain activity as seen in drug addicts.

Weiler’s proposal wouldn’t regulate or ban anything, but it has attracted attention, including being debated on talk show “The View.” He said he’s been “mocked internationally”

In this March 5, 2015, file photo, Todd Weiler, a Republican senator from Woods Cross, speaks during a committee hearing, in Salt Lake City.

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but feels it’s triggered an important conversation.

“It’s not just a kooky thing that some, you know, politician from Mormon Utah came up with,” Weiler said.

“When I was a kid, people might sneak a Playboy magazine and look at it.

Now, you’ve got all kinds of horrible, graphic images that are available to anyone with an Internet con-

nection one or two clicks away.”

Four Republicans and one Democrat on a Utah Senate health committee agreed with Weiler and endorsed the resolution Friday afternoon in Salt Lake City after an hour-long meeting where they heard from anti-pornography activists, a marriage therapist and residents who said they or

loved ones struggled with pornography addictions.

More than half of Utah’s 3 million residents belong to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, among religions in recent years that have worked to shed light on what they consider the harms of pornography.

Here, the cultural aversion to scantily dressed women is evident. Magazines or TV commercials featuring women wearing low-cut shirts or bikinis are considered by some to be soft pornography, and lingerie catalogs have been called “gateway porn.”

Republican Gov. Gary Herbert supports Weiler’s resolution. This week he suggested it may be worth developing a 12-step program for porn addicts.

Dr. Carl Shubs, a psychologist in Beverly Hills, California who specializes in issues of sexuality, said calling pornography a public health crisis is “way off on so many levels.”

Shubs said anything can be

addictive, but that many people find pornography enjoyable and use it in a healthy way. Some couples watch it to enhance their relationships, and some without partners view pornography it to fill a void, he said.

The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops last year expressed distress over what it considers the widespread problem of pornography in American culture.

It reiterated that making or watching pornographic videos is a sin.

The Mormon church launched a website in 2013 devoted to helping its members overcome pornography addiction. Last year, the religion made a video to give children tips to avoid pornography.

In 2013, the American Academy of Pediatrics offered guidance that parents should keep phones out of children’s bedrooms, in part to stop them looking at pornography.

L.A. doctor gets 30 years to life for prescription drug deaths

In this March 16, 2012 file photo, Dr. Hsiu-Ying “Lisa” Tseng sits in a Los Angeles courtroom during her arraignment.

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AMANDA LEE MYERS Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — A Los Angeles-area doctor convicted of murder for prescribing exorbitant amounts of painkillers that

left a dozen patients dead was sentenced Friday to 30 years to life in prison.

The conviction of Dr. HsiuYing “Lisa” Tseng and her long prison sentence are rare for a doctor in the U.S. Minutes before she was sentenced, Tseng apologized in court to the families of her dead patients and others who became addicted to prescription drugs under her care.

“I suffer every day from the impact and I will do everything I can to take responsibility,” she said. “I have learned a very hard lesson on this that will stay with me forever.”

In handing down the harsh sentence, Los Ange-

les County Superior Court Judge George Lomeli said he found it egregious that Tseng continued to write reckless prescriptions even after learning her patients were dying. “(She’s) a person who seemingly did not care about the lives of her patients in this case but rather appeared more concerned about distributing dangerous controlled substances in an assembly line fashion so as to collect payments which amounted to her amassing several million dollars,” Lomeli said.

The mother of two children will be over 70 before she has a chance at release.

Tseng had asked Lomeli for

a 15-year prison term.

Tseng prescribed “crazy, outrageous amounts of medication” to patients who didn’t need the pills, Deputy District Attorney John Niedermann told jurors during her trial.

“Something is wrong with what you’re doing if your patients are dying,” Niedermann said.

Twelve of Tseng’s patients died but she was charged with just three murders because other factors were involved in the other deaths, including drugs prescribed by other doctors and a possible suicide.

Tseng’s lawyer, Tracy Green, has said the 46-year-

old doctor had been naive to prescribe so many medications and didn’t think her patients would abuse them. Tseng’s patients often hid addictions to painkillers and Tseng she thought she was helping ease their pain, she said.

The powerful painkillers Tseng prescribed included oxycodone, sold as Percocet and other brand names, and hydrocodone, popularly known under the brand name Vicodin.

The first of her patients to die had received prescriptions from Tseng two days earlier for oxycodone, the anti-anxiety drug Xanax and the muscle-relaxer Soma, prosecutors said.

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Widow of slain American missionary headed back to Africa TERRY SPENCER Associated Press HOLLYWOOD, Florida (AP) — The widow of an American missionary said Friday that she believes it is God’s plan for her to return to the African country where al-Qaida fighters killed her husband last month, and she has no hesitation about doing so.

Amy Riddering told a news conference she will return this month to Burkina Faso and the orphanage, school, clinic and women’s center she ran with Michael Riddering, who was killed along with 29 others in the Jan. 15 attack on a hotel and cafe in the capital Ouagadougou. Riddering, 45, was the only American to die in the attack, which targeted Westerners. Burkina Faso, a former French colony, is a majority Muslim country but has a sizeable Christian minority.

“God did not only call Mike

to Burkina Faso, he called me, too,” she told reporters in a chapel at Hollywood Community Church, where a memorial service for her husband is scheduled for Saturday. Speaking in a calm, relaxed and cheerful voice, she said, “Our following God’s call and our work with orphans and widows is the most rewarding thing I can imagine.”

Michael Riddering had run a yacht outfitting company before he and his 49-yearold wife, a graphic designer, sold their possessions in 2011 to move to Burkina Faso, where their facility, 70 miles (110 kilometers) outside the capital, houses about 40 children and 70 widows. He was buried in Burkina Faso.

Riddering’s older brother, Jeff, had been going to Africa for 13 years when he took him to Burkina Faso.

Amy Riddering said her husband had often joked

that if God wanted him to dig wells in Africa, that’s what he would do. During Michael Riddering’s visit to Burkina Faso, the missionary seeking someone to run the facility made a passing comment that they had $40,000 to dig wells. Amy Riddering said they took that as a sign from God they were meant to go.

During their four years there, the Ridderings opened the medical clinic and the women’s center. They became the Burkina Faso charity for a shoe company, passing out 50,000 pairs a year.

Jeff and Amy Riddering both said they have no ill feeling toward the people of Burkina Faso. They noted that last month’s terrorist attack was the first of its kind in the country and was likely executed by outsiders.

Jeff Riddering called the people of Burkina Faso “the meekest, gentlest, kindest

Amy Riddering, center, widow of Michael Riddering, an American missionary, killed by al-Qaida fighters in Africa last month, smiles as her brother-in-law Jeff Riddering relates a story about him during a news conference at the Hollywood Community Church, Friday, Feb. 5, 2016, in Hollywood, Fla. Associated Press

people on the Earth.” He said his brother had made Muslim friends, who were saddened by his death and angered by the al-Qaida attack.

Amy Riddering said she has given no real thought

about increasing security at the facility.

“You can walk out your front door and get hit by a car. You can get cancer. In America, we had 9/11. You have to follow God,” she said.

Astronaut Edgar Mitchell, 6th man on moon, dies JOHN PAIN CURT ANDERSON Associated Press MIAMI (AP) — Apollo 14 astronaut Edgar Mitchell, who became the sixth man on the moon when he and Alan Shepard helped NASA recover from Apollo 13’s “successful failure” and later devoted his life to exploring the mind, physics and unexplained phenomena such as psychics and aliens, has died in Florida.

He was 85.

Mitchell died Thursday night at a West Palm Beach hospice after a short illness, his daughter, Kimberly Mitchell, said. Mitchell’s passing coincides with the 45th anniversary of the Apollo 14 mission, which ran from

Jan. 31-Feb. 9, 1971.

Mitchell, one of only 12 humans to set foot on the moon, was not a typical strait-laced astronaut: In later years, he said aliens visited Earth and faith healers were legit. He attempted to communicate telepathically with friends at home during his Apollo mission. He had an “epiphany” in space that focused him on studying consciousness, physics and other mysteries.

“What I experienced during that three-day trip home was nothing short of an overwhelming sense of universal connectedness,” Mitchell wrote in his 1996 autobiography. “It occurred to me that the mol-

ecules of my body and the molecules of the spacecraft itself were manufactured long ago in the furnace of one of the ancient stars that burned in the heavens about me.”

His passion for exploration led him to become an astronaut, and he joined NASA in 1966. He helped design and test the lunar modules that first reached the moon in 1969 with Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin.

Shepard, the first American in space in 1961, picked Mitchell to be on Apollo 13’s three-person crew. But they were bumped to the next mission so Shepard would have more time to train — he had been grounded for years because of an inner

ear disorder.

The delay was an unexpected benefit: Apollo 13’s astronauts were nearly killed when an oxygen tank exploded as they neared the moon in 1970.

They made it home safely, but never set foot on the moon. A year later, Shepard, Mitchell and Stu Roosa were the first crew to try again amid falling support for the moon missions from President Nixon, Congress and the public.

“Had we blown it, had it failed for whatever reason, that would probably have been the end of the Apollo program right there,” Mitchell said in 1997. But they didn’t let that get to them: “When you’re car-

In a Sept. 5, 2007 file photo, former astronaut Edgar Mitchell arrives for the premiere of the “In the Shadow of the Moon,” at the Hayden Planetarium at the Museum of Natural History in New York.

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rying that personal load, you just don’t have room to carry a national load as well.”

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Syrian troops push ahead in offensive, take another village KARIN LAUB Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — Syrian government forces and allied militias, backed by what an aid official said were “hugely increased” Russian airstrikes, pushed ahead with a major offensive in northern Syria on Friday, moving a step closer to encircling contested Aleppo, Syria’s largest city.

The offensive near the Turkish border, which began earlier this week, has sent tens of thousands of residents fleeing.

Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said Friday about 15,000 Syrians reached Turkey’s borders and that tens of thousands more could be on the way.

Davutoglu promised Turkey would not leave the displaced “without food or shelter” but did not say whether Turkey would admit them.

A Turkish charity said the number of Syrians at one border crossing alone had risen to 50,000 since Thursday.

In recent days, pro-government forces have captured several towns and villages north of Aleppo, driving a deep wedge into rebel-held areas and cutting off a rebel supply road to Turkey.

Nobel Peace Prize winner Malala Yousafzai, left, from Pakistan and 17-year-old Syrian refugee Mazoun Almellehan, during the first focus event on education at the ‘Supporting Syria and the Region’ conference at the Queen Elizabeth II Conference Centre in London, Thursday, Feb. 4, 2016.

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Aleppo, once Syria’s thriving commercial center, has been carved up between government- and rebelcontrolled districts since the summer of 2012.

A government siege of Aleppo and its rebel strongholds could isolate tens of thousands of civilians and potentially cut off aid deliveries from Turkey. It would also deliver a devastating blow to the morale of opposition groups fighting for the past five years to top-

ple President Bashar Assad.

In other fighting Friday, the government also retook a town in southern Syria, close to the provincial capital of Daraa.

The Russian bombing campaign, meanwhile, drew new criticism from the West, which has sharply criticized Moscow for its military support of Assad. Airstrikes that mainly target opposition forces are “undermining efforts to find a political solution to the conflict,” NATO

Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said Friday.

Prospects for meaningful peace talks are increasingly dim.

Earlier this week, a U.N.-led attempt to launch indirect talks between a government delegation and opposition representatives in Geneva was adjourned after several days of acrimonious bickering. U.N. envoy Staffan de Mistura announced Wednesday there would be a “tempo-

Morocco unveils massive solar plant

SAMIA ERRAZZOUKI Associated Press OUARZAZATE, Morocco (AP) — Morocco’s King Mohammed VI unveiled one of the world’s biggest solar plants Thursday, taking advantage of the Sahara sunshine and a growing global push for renewable energy.

The $3.9-billion project in the southern town of Ouarzazate, also known as Noor I, is the first phase of a project expected to provide 1.2 million Moroccans with power. Row after row of solar panels glisten in the sunlight, surrounding a power station in the center.

Climate Investment Funds, a global agency investing $435 million in the project, said it will be the world’s biggest concentrated so-

lar plant, meaning that it will store power to generate when the sun isn’t shining. It said Morocco was chosen for the project in part because of its political stability, and because the government created a solar energy agency and introduced measures in 2012 to phase out fossil fuel subsidies.

“Morocco was more advanced in terms of the regulatory framework and having the building blocks in place, whereas Tunisia and Egypt went through the Arab Spring,” said Mafalda Duarte, manager of the fund.

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Aerial view of the solar plant of Ouarzazate, central Morocco, Thursday, Feb.4, 2016. Morocco unveils what’s billed as the world’s biggest solar plant, taking advantage of the Sahara sunshine and a growing push for renewable energy.

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avert upheaval. “The king and the government have sustained their leadership role,” she said.

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rary pause,” but that the process will resume Feb. 25.

However, the opposition’s chief negotiator, Mohammed Alloush, told The Associated Press late Thursday that his delegation is unlikely to return to Geneva because of the “merciless” bombing campaign

by Russia and the Syrian air force.

Russia began launching air strikes in Syria in late September, ostensibly to target militants of the extremist Islamic State group, which controls large areas of northeastern Syria. However, critics have said Russian warplanes have struck a wide range of opposition targets.The international aid group Mercy Corps, which has been delivering food and other necessities to civilians in northern Syria, had to stop distributions in opposition-held areas of Aleppo earlier this week because the sole access road became too dangerous, said Rae McGrath, head of operations in Turkey and northern Syria.

He said Russian airstrikes north of Aleppo have “hugely increased” in the past two weeks. McGrath said he believes the air strikes “have been targeting areas where you could say this would force people to move.”

The Turkish Islamic charity IHH said about 50,000 people arrived since Thursday at the Bab al-Salam border crossing between Syria and Turkey.

Serkan Nergis, a spokesman, said the group is setting up tents on the Syrian side of the border to provide temporary shelter.

The charity runs about 10 camps for displaced Syrians along the frontier.

The border was closed Friday, and it was not clear if any of the refugees would be admitted to Turkey.

In Friday’s fighting, progovernment troops retook the village of Ratyan north of Aleppo, one of several communities they captured in the area this week, according to the state news agency SANA and the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.q

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After much upheaval Danish TV has a request: “Don’t hate us” JAN M. OLSEN Associated Press COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Danish television has a request for the world: “Don’t hate us!”

Several high profile events — from the killing of Marius the giraffe and his very public dissection at the Copenhagen Zoo to a recently passed law that allows police to seize valuables from migrants — has led to a barrage of negative publicity as the world began questioning whether something was indeed rotten in the state of Denmark.

Now this small Scandinavian nation of 5.6 million is fighting to gain back its reputation, which includes twice grabbing top spots on the United Nation’s World Happiness Report.

Embassies have rushed to post online facts about the European immigration crisis seen from Denmark and public broadcaster DR aired an English-language satirical video with a clear message.

“We’re very sorry, but Denmark isn’t such a bad place,” says the thick Danish accented voice on the

DR3 clip Denmark Propaganda — Don’t hate us!

The two-and-half-minute tongue-in-the-cheek sequence with a thick Danish accented voice-over enumerates what has made Denmark famous: design, bacon, multi-colored Lego building bricks and fairy tale writer Hans Christian Andersen who “always wrote about ugly, poor, disabled, tiny creatures who (were) accepted at the end.”

The video reminds viewers that that Denmark embraces both neo-Nazis and a freewheeling hippie enclave in Copenhagen, and was the first country in the world to legalize pornography, in 1969, and to allow homosexuals to enter registered partnerships twenty years later. It notes that the national dish is fried lard and white milk sauce with parsley and that beer is cheaper than water.

“There was a need to come up with something to correct Denmark’s bad reputation. This was a way to sum up who Danes are, including the good and bad stuff,” Irene Stroeyer,

head of the DR3 channel, said laughing.

There has also been some effort made to clarify the situation around migrants and their assets.

The law that brought asylum-seekers in line with welfare rules for Danes, who must sell assets worth above 10,000 kroner ($1,500) before they can receive social benefits, was the latest to draw a deluge of negative online reactions.

“Sometimes things are misunderstood like we were going to take people’s jewelry. We will not take jewelry,” Kristian Jensen, Denmark’s foreign minister, said in a television interview.

In this January 26, 2016 file photo, Denmark’s Minister of Integration from the Liberal Party Inger Stoejberg sits in Parliament, in Copenhagen. Recently, Denmark has seen avalanches of harsh and negative comments against the Scandinavian nation because of tightening of its immigration law, zoos culling healthy animals to avoid inbreeding, among others.

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While the public relations efforts might quiet some critics, more viral condemnation can be expected as ordinary people all over the world can voice their indignation on social media,

said Vincent F. Hendricks, a philosophy professor with the University of Copenhagen. “Some people don’t even want to listen to the facts if the facts do not fit into their agenda.”q

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Belgium to hire 1,000 more police to combat radicalism JOHN-THOR DAHLBURG Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — The Belgian government on Friday approved a sweeping plan to combat Islamic radicalism and the threat of extremist violence by hiring 1,000 new police officers over the next four years.

The plan, presented by Interior Minister Jan Jambon, calls for adding 300 officers this year, and more than 500 by 2017.

“The impact that we are looking for is to maximize security in this country and in Brussels and in all of the other cities of the country,” Jambon told The Associated Press. The government’s decision, he said, will mean “a lot more police officers in the battle against terrorism.”

The November attacks that killed 130 people in Paris were staged from Belgium, and subsequent official investigations have revealed how ineffective the surveillance of suspected radicals in the country has often been.

Belgium has also been one of the prime European recruiting grounds for foreign fighters enlisted by the Islamic State extremist group.

In this Monday, Nov. 16, 2015 file photo, armed police guard a street in Brussels.

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Jambon said 300 new officers will be added in Molenbeek and other neighborhoods of greater Brussels with a history of radical Islamist activity. Ninety-six police investigators will be hired, and 260 TV cameras positioned to monitor movements on the highways.

The plan also includes funds for more judges, police snipers, computer equipment, DNA scanners, prison guards and training of Mus-

lim religious leaders.

Law enforcement personnel will also be reinforced at Belgian airports and on the country’s North Sea coast.

Prime Minister Charles Michel told a joint news conference with Jambon and other members of the federal government that 103 new hires will be made in the Belgian state security services.

In a tweet, the prime minister put the overall price tag of Belgium’s security up-

grade at 300 million euros ($334 million).

Molenbeek, the gritty industrial district in western Brussels that was home to suspected Paris attack ringleader Abdelhamid Abaaoud and three other attackers, became the symbol of the presence of Muslim radicalism in Belgium and the inability of authorities to stamp it out. Jambon said 50 of the new police hires will quickly be deployed there.

Francoise Schepmans, Molenbeek’s mayor, expressed satisfaction at the decision. The new arrivals, she told AP, “are going to assist the local officers, the police who collect information on the ground and investigate who lives where.”

Molenbeek’s mayor said the Belgian federal government will also be supporting the local force’s administrative cell in “deciphering the activities of individuals and places connected to radicalism.”

On Monday, the prime ministers of Belgium and France and their top justice, police and intelligence officials held an extraordinary meeting in Brussels, and agreed to step up cooperation in the counterterrorism field.

According to Jambon, the priorities in Belgium’s ramped up effort will be combatting the foreign fighter phenomenon; shutting down illegal commerce in firearms, drugs and forged documents that is often linked to the extremists; drying up their other sources of revenue; and fighting attempts to radicalize Belgians, including through mosques or prayer rooms.q

Gunmen shoot boxing fans at

Dublin hotel; 1 dead, 2 wounded

A police (Garda) cordon outside the Regency Hotel in Dublin, Ireland, after one man died and two others were injured following a shooting incident at the hotel, Friday Feb. 5, 2016.

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SHAWN POGATCHNIK Associated Press DUBLIN (AP) — Gunmen wearing disguises opened fire on boxing fans at a Dublin hotel Friday, killing one man and wounding two others in an attack that could reflect tensions within Ireland’s top cocaine-

smuggling gang.

Fans attending the weighin ceremonies for a Dublin boxing event fled in terror as at least one group of gunmen opened fire inside the Regency Hotel.

Mel Christle, president of the Boxing Union of Ireland, said the gunfire started

within seconds of the final weigh-in ceremony. He said he saw one gunman, holding a handgun and dressed as a woman, flee through the crowd as two others dressed as policemen opened fire in the lobby. Other witnesses said at least one of those attackers was armed with an assault rifle. Christle, who was still at the event podium in a conference room off the lobby, said more than 200 fans — among them many young children and relatives of the boxers — ran or fell to the ground as others fleeing gunfire in the hotel lobby ran through the ceremony. He said the attack involved the targeting of specific individuals.

“There’s no doubt about

that. This was not indiscriminate,” Christle said in a phone interview.

Christle said as the crowd cleared and he exited the ballroom, he could see the slain man’s body slumped beside the hotel reception desk. “He was riddled,” he said.

Police said two other men were hospitalized with gunshot wounds. They said all three victims, men in their 20s or 30s, were believed to be members of the same group.

Detectives said it was too early to specify a motive.

But suspicion immediately fell on a deadly criminal feud involving the family of the boxer headlining Saturday’s planned fight, Jamie Kavanagh.

The 25-year-old Dubliner was scheduled to contest the vacant WBO European lightweight title Saturday night. It was to be his first fight in Dublin since the gangland killings of his father, Gerard, and uncle Paul, both of whom were henchmen in the drugsmuggling empire of Christy Kinahan.

Gerard Kavanagh was gunned down inside an Irish bar in Spain’s Costa del Sol in September 2014.

Paul Kavanagh was shot to death behind the wheel of his parked car in Dublin in March 2015. Both men were suspected of pocketing money being collected from Dublin dealers on behalf of Kinahan’s Spainbased cocaine empire.q

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Top Colombian far-right warlord Ramon Isaza freed LIBARDO CARDONA Associated Press BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — Ramon Isaza, a 75-year-old patriarch of the far-right paramilitary bands that killed thousands in Colombia, has been released from prison after serving less than 10 years, it was announced Friday.

Isaza, who was freed Jan. 29, was a founder of the militias created in the late 1970s and early 1980s by ranchers and traffickers seeking to protect themselves from guerrilla kidnappings and extortion.

The militias became deeply involved in the drug trade.

The groups, often in collusion with members of Colombia’s armed forces, went on the form death squads that targeted suspected rebel sympathizers,

union activists and representatives of landless farmers.

The chief prosecutor’s office estimates they were responsible for at least 156,000 killings from 19802004.

The paramilitaries received training from Israeli and British mercenaries. Some became hit men for traffickers, including Pablo Escobar.

Much of that training occurred in the Middle Magdalena River valley where Isaza lived and presided over a criminal empire that police said was handed down to his sons. He was so powerful that he even went to war with Escobar in the early 1990s for control of his home region.

Isaza surrendered to authorities in 2006 under a

TOKYO (AP) — One of Japan’s most active volcanos erupted spectacularly Friday evening with a fiery blast that sent lava rolling down its slope.

Japan’s Meteorological Agency said Sakurajima on the southern island of Kyushu erupted at around 7 p.m. (1000 GMT).

Japanese television showed an orange burst out of the side of the volcano, near the summit, accompanied by lightning-like flashes. Dark gray smoke billowed into the sky.

The Meteorological Agency banned entry to the area, expanding an existing no-go zone around the crater to a 2-kilometer (1.2mile) radius, according to public broadcaster NHK. There were no immediate reports of injuries.

Friday’s eruption, while dramatic, was average compared to Sakurajima’s past eruptions, Kyoto University volcanologist Kazuhiro Ishihara told NHK. The mountain’s last major eruption was in September.

He said rocks spewing out of the crater were expected to fall within the 2-kilometer (1.2-mile) zone from the crater. Smoke and ash rose 2 kilometers (1.2 miles) into the air, about half the height measured in 2013 in one of the mountain’s biggest explosions in recent years, he said.

“I don’t think there will be any serious impact from the explosion,” Ishihara said. “But of course we must keep monitoring the volcanic activity.”

The Japanese archipelago sits atop the Pacific “Ring of Fire,” an arc of

peace pact promoted by then-President Alvaro Uribe that stipulated that paramilitary warlords confess their crimes in exchange for prison terms of no more than eight years.

Too hot handle for Uribe, most of the top warlords were extradited to the United States two years later on drug-trafficking charges.

The top prosecutor in the Justice and Peace unit that handled such cases, Luis Gonzalez, said in a 2007 newspaper interview that Isaza had told prosecutors that he would confess to responsibility for 567 murders.

But when his time came to confess, Isaza complained of serious memory lapses.

Since May, five top paramilitary bosses have been released from Colombian

In this Feb. 7, 2006, file photo, Ramon Isaza, center, paramilitary commander of the Magdalena Medio Bloc, speaks with his men before turning in their weapons during a disarmament ceremony in Puerto Triunfo, Colombia.

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prisons after serving similarly truncated terms.

The judge who ordered Isaza released stipulated that he wear an electronic ankle bracelet to track his whereabouts.

The aging warlord had originally been ordered released in late December but his freedom was delayed by an arrest warrant in the 2001 murder of an oil workers’ union leader.q

Sakurajima volcano erupts spectacularly in southern Japan

Japan Meteorological Agency volcanology division director Sadayuki Kitagawa speaks about the eruption of Sakurajima during a news conference at the agency headquarters in Tokyo Friday, Feb. 5, 2016.

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volcanoes and fault lines in the Pacific Basin, and

has more than 100 volcanoes. The 2014 eruption of

Mount Ontake in central Japan killed 57 people.q

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NEWS

Drought-stricken Zimbabwe declares state of disaster

In this photo taken Sunday Jan. 29, 2016, Last Zimaniwa feels the broken ground at a spot which is usually a reliable water source that has dried up due to lack of rains in the village of Chivi , Zimbabwe.

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FARAI MUTSAKA Associated Press MASVINGO, Zimbabwe (AP) — Cattle, thin like their owners, wander in a

parched riverbed. Desperate villagers barter a few fish for maize because there is no money for food.

In this drought-stricken area

of Zimbabwe, some people allege that who you know determines whether you’ll get state food aid, with those out of favor with

local officials going hungry.

Underscoring the severity of the drought linked to the El Nino weather pattern hitting much of southern Africa, Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe declared a state of disaster Thursday, with the hope of speeding up the flow of aid to needy communities.

The drought has devastated crops. The situation is especially acute in Zimbabwe, where a declining economy and rising unemployment have made life hard for many people in a country once known as a regional breadbasket.

Mugabe’s declaration makes it easier for the World Food Program and other agencies to mobilize assistance for Zimbabwe, Eddie Rowe, WFP country director, said Friday. Lack of such a declaration puts Zimbabwe on the periphery, given the competing demands for humanitarian assistance worldwide, Rowe said.

The number of Zimbabweans in need of urgent food aid has spiked to about one quarter of the population of 13 million people, according to the WFP, a United Nations agency.

That number could go even higher and the food crisis could spill into next year, said Prisca Mupfumira, Zimbabwe’s minister for public service, labor and social welfare.

Families are going up to two weeks without a solid meal in Madan’ombe, a village in Masvingo province in southern Zimbabwe.

Loveness Ndlovu and her six children prepare smoked fish on a fireplace in a round hut devoid of any other food. The children, who last tasted meat a month ago, know better than to salivate over the six catfish caught in a lake by their father, Zimaniwa.

“They can only touch the fish, they cannot eat,” Ndlovu said. “It’s two weeks now since I last had a proper meal. If it gets worse, I will have to beg from other villagers so I can at least feed my kids.”

The parents plan to barter the fish for other foodstuffs such as maize. Ordinar-

ily, the entire family would be busy in the fields, weeding a knee-high maize crop. Now they can only watch as skinny donkeys graze on failed crops. Vast fields lie dry and fallow.

A nearby shopping center is packed with food items such as rice, the staple maize meal and cooking oil, mostly imported from neighboring South Africa.

But with mines and other industries closing because of economic problems, people can’t afford to buy them.

Some villagers, however, trade maize for fish.

“There is not much circulation of cash here so we have to rely on barter trade,” Zimaniwa said.

Most Zimbabweans rely on agriculture for a living, and Mupfumira, the Cabinet minister, said the government plans to import 700,000 tons of maize to distribute to the needy.

Some Zimbabweans believe they won’t get a share because they don’t know the right people. Mugabe has been in power for decades, his government holding a tight grip amid periodic accusations of human rights abuses and voter fraud.

“Only those close to the (district) councilor get to eat,” said Sydney Makabe, a resident in Masvingo province, whose capital has the same name.

“Rations that are coming now are supposed to be given to the elderly. But many times, we see young people who don’t qualify getting the food,” said Makabe, adding that he is not involved in politics.

The Zimbabwe Peace Project, a non-governmental group, said reports indicate food is being used in some cases as a political weapon to punish the opposition. It cited 135 cases of “food violations” from September to December.

In Gwanda, a town southwest of Harare, the residents’ association is encouraging people to buy ruling ZANU-PF party membership cards and attend party meetings to enhance chances of getting government-funded food aid.q

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High Light: scenes San Nicolas from Lighting Parade

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Martin Stundel honored at the Costa Linda tive years. Martin hails from New Jersey and love the island especially for the “genuine people” that he has met here thru out the years. The ceremony was held at the Costa Linda in the presence of Gloria and Miriam from the Member Relations department.

Matt Gamache honored at the Hilton

Recently Jonathan Boekhoudt with Aruba Tourism Authority had the great pleasure to present Martin Stundel with the “Goodwill Ambassador Certificate”

This honorary title is presented in the name of the Minister of Tourism to loyal visitors who have been calling Aruba their home away from home for 20 consecu-

Recently Matt Gamache was presented with the “Distinguished Visitor Certificate” This honorary title is presented by Aruba Tourism Authority to loyal visitors who consecutively have been choosing Aruba as their favorite vacation destination for 10 years. The ceremony was conducted

by Jonathan Boekhoudt at the Hilton in the presence of Germaine from the concierge department and staff. Matt is from Massachusetts and loves Aruba especially for the weather and beaches.

William and Angela Bakker honored at the Playa Linda Recently Jonathan Boek-

houdt with Aruba Tourism Authority had the honor to present William “Bill” and Angela Bakker with the “Goodwill Ambassador Certificate” The honor-

ary title is presented in the name of Aruba Tourism Authority and the Ministry of Tourism commemorating 20 consecutive years’ visits to our island. The ceremony was held at the Playa Linda in the presence of friends and Yvette Tromp from the concierge department. Bill and Angela are part of a 4th generation family that has been calling Aruba their “home away from home” for over 40 years. They are from New York and love Aruba specifically because of the people.

John and Linda Allen honored at the Tamarijn Recently John and Linda Allen from Cape Cod MA were presented with the “Distinguished Visitors certificate” This to commemorate 10 consecutive years’ visits to Aruba. The ceremony was held at the Tamarijn and was conducted

by Jonathan Boekhoudt with Aruba Tourism Authority. Their longtime friends from the Tamarijn staff Francis, Kathlyn and Jose were present during the ceremony. John and Linda love Aruba especially for the weather, beaches and the Divi properties.

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Loyal visitors honored at the Marriott Surf Club

Recently the Aruba Tourism Authority had the great pleasure of honoring two very nice couples whom are loyal and friendly as Dis-

tinguished Visitors of Aruba, at the Marriott Surf Club.

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 consecutive years.

The honorees were Mr. Jeffrey and Mrs. Juliann Lat-

timer from Fairfield NJ, also honored were Mr. Richard and Mrs. Diane Schwerer from Fort Salonga NY. Both couples are loyal members of the Marriott Surf Club and they love Aruba very much because of the friendly people, the climate, beaches, restaurants, relaxation and being on Aruba and staying at

the Surf Club is like being home for them.

The certificates were presented by Mr. Ernest Giel representing the Aruba Tourism Authority together with Ms. Jenny Boekhoudt and Mr. Franklin Lugo who is a very good friend of Richard and Diane and Mr. Joop Bangma GM of the Marriott Surf Club.q

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On the pictures Mr. Ricardo Croes from ATA together with Carol & Lindsay Altieri and also manager from the Hyatt Regency Resort & Casino.

Carol & Lindsay Altieri honored at the Hyatt Regency Resort & Casino Recently Lindsay and Carol Altieri was 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 ceremony at the Hyatt Regency Resort.

Lindsay 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.

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Saturday 6 February 2016

Will Manning’s dream scenario come true in Super Bowl?

SANTA CLARA, California (AP) — It’s the perfect scenario, a Hollywood-type script: Peyton Manning emulates John Elway and rides off into the sunset with the Super Bowl trophy in his grip.

Will it happen?

For Manning to take the Denver Broncos to their first NFL title on Sunday since the team’s current general manager, Elway, did in 1999 before retiring, seems the sentimental choice.

Like Elway, Manning has had a taste of losing in the big game, going 1-2. He won a championship with the Indianapolis Colts in 2007, lost with the Colts in 2010, and lost again with the Broncos in 2014. Elway dropped his first three Super Bowls, then won his final two. Manning is the only five-time Most Valuable Player in NFL history, one of the faces of the league and, at 39, the oldest starting quarterback to lead a team in the Super Bowl. Slowed by age and injury, he is no longer the record-breaking passer he once was. He’s still as good as anyone at diagnosing defenses and changing things up - or appearing to, anyway - at the line of scrimmage. But Manning is not quite as capable as he was when it comes to putting the football exactly where he wants it, especially on deep routes.

He’s had difficult recent seasons, missing 2011 entirely because of neck surgeries, then struggling in last year’s playoffs. This season, the bad far outweighed the good, including 17 interceptions to only nine touchdown passes in the regular season, missing six games with injuries, Continued on Page 20

Denver Broncos quarterback Peyton Manning (18) passes during an NFL football practice in Stanford, Calif., Wednesday, Feb. 3, 2016.

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Houston Texans Defensive End J.J. Watt appears at a Super Bowl event promoting the Verizon Virtual Reality Game Winner Experience on Thursday, Feb. 4, 2016, in San Francisco.

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J.J. Watt feels concussions are an expected injury JOHN CARUCCI Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Houston Texans defensive end J.J. Watt says he knew concussions were a risk when he decided to play football, so he’s not any more alarmed by the studies of prolonged head trauma suffered by NFL players.

“I think there’s this big perception that players have been shocked by the concussion news that has come out,” Watt told The Associated Press Thursday at a Verizon event promoting the #minute50 VR Experience.

While head trauma in football comes as no surprise,

the conversation intensified after the recent film, “Concussion,” which brought to light that some former players suffered from the asymptomatic brain disease Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy, or CTE. “While we are all learning a lot about and do understand there are serious implications that come with it, I don’t think any of us got into this game thinking we were not going to hit in our heads,” Watt said.

Watt actually said he expects it.

“I know for a fact that every time I go out to practice I am going to hit my head. It’s just like a firefighter knows he may have to

go into a fire at some point, or a soldier knows he may get shot at some point,” Watt said.

He added: “You do everything you can to make sure that you are safe and that you are sound, but I’m not going to pretend that I didn’t know that was a possibility.”

Watt was in San Francisco for Super Bowl week, but will not attend the game.

He still has a bitter taste from losing to the Kansas City Chiefs in the wild card game.

“You never get that taste out of your mouth until you get to a Super Bowl, so I’m looking forward to get towards it again.q

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getting relegated to backup duty in the NFL for the first time, and vehemently denying a report linking his wife to banned human growth hormone.

“My role has been different and my contributions are different,” Manning says.

“But I’m fortunate and grateful that I have the opportunity to contribute still, in some way. And it’s a great honor to be going back to the Super Bowl.”

Receiver Demaryius Thomas can envision the proper ending to this drama for Denver.

“It’s amazing to play for Peyton,” Thomas says.

“He’s one of the best to have ever done it, a future Hall of Famer, and he has done so much for me.

I’m excited about it, and

Dream scenario

Denver Broncos quarterback Peyton Manning (18) stands on the field during an NFL football practice in Stanford, Calif., Thursday, Feb. 4, 2016.

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hopefully we can get this win, and if he decides to retire then he can go out with a bang.”

Standing in their way, though, is simply the best team in the league.

The Carolina Panthers have the most prolific offense, and a big-play defense. That defense doesn’t match the stats of the Broncos, who ranked first overall, but it’s just as impactful.

The offense is led by Cam Newton who, as opposed to Manning, is getting his career going, is just 26, and making his debut in the big game. He also is expected to earn league MVP honors for the first time, part of a new breed of dual-threat quarterbacks as good at running as they are at throwing.

“I sound like a broken record, but yet for a dream to play out as it has through the ups and downs, it just means the world for us to get what you prepare for,” says Newton, finishing off his fifth and, by far, best pro season.

Carolina is a 5 1/2-point favorite to become only the third team to go 18-1 for the season and win the Su-

per Bowl.

Both defenses will have their moments. Denver’s is just too good to be dominated for very long, producing a dynamic pass rush led by Von Miller and DeMarcus Ware, and with superb coverage backs.

Carolina’s Luke Kuechly, Josh Norman, Thomas Davis (ready to play after surgery last week on a broken right arm) and Kawann Short are game-changers.

Carolina is far more likely to find balance on its offense; Jonathan Stewart is the best running back on either roster, and Newton’s power and breakaway ability toting the ball are unmatched for the quarterback position.

One area the Panthers are superior, perhaps vastly so, is on the offensive line.

So the Broncos’ relentless pursuit of the quarterback may not be as fruitful as it was against New England’s Tom Brady in the AFC Championship game.

It all adds up to Cam and Company spoiling another Super Bowl for the Broncos, leaving Manning to ponder if he wants to leave the NFL after losing his final game.q

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Both kickers hoping Super Bowl 50 comes down to them ARNIE STAPLETON AP Pro Football Writer SANTA CLARA, California (AP) — It may not be the mighty legs of Cam Newton or the beautiful mind of Peyton Manning that will decide who wins Sunday when the Carolina Panthers and Denver Broncos meet in the Super Bowl.

It could come down to the big right toe of either Brandon McManus or Graham Gano.

Both are more than ready.

They’ve been envisioning a last-second kick to win the Super Bowl ever since they were kids.

While fans might be freaking out — just ask Minnesota fans who watched Blair Walsh miss a 27-yarder in the NFC playoffs last month — these kickers are icy cool and confident.

“I’ve been thinking about that since I first starting playing,” said Gano, Carolina’s sixth-year kicker. “So, hopefully it does come down to that.”

“The end of the game could end up on my foot,” said McManus, Denver’s second-year kicker. “I’m super excited it might happen.”

Both had their speed bumps during the season — Gano had four kicks blocked, including three field goals and McManus missed kicks in five consecutive games — and each missed an extra point, but both are 7-for-7 on field goals in the playoffs.

McManus bounced back in a big way, making a pair of long field goals and history in the opener to get back in his teammates’ good graces a year after his sideline erupted in anger when he shanked a short field goal, costing him his job.

McManus won his job back from Connor Barth last summer, then joined St. Louis kicker Greg Zuerlein as the only players in NFL history to make two field goals of 56 yards or longer in the same game in Denver’s win over Baltimore in the season opener.

McManus began tinkering with his kicking mechanics to eliminate a jab-step

Denver Broncos kicker Brandon McManus tosses a pass during NFL football practice, Friday, Jan. 29, 2016, in Englewood, Colo.

The Broncos are preparing to face the Carolina Panthers in Super Bowl 50 on Sunday, Feb. 7, in Santa Clara, Calif.

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and improve his accuracy to salvage his NFL career.

That work paid off when he reclaimed the kicking job from Barth with a spectacular summer that included a 70-yard field goal in camp.

He went on to make 30 of 35 field goals.

Gano was 30 of 36.

Now each is one win away from fulfilling their childhood dream.

“All kids dream of the biggest moment to win a championship,” Gano said. “I was no different.

Watching guys do it over the years, especially Adam Vinatieri — although unfortunately one of them was against us. But he’s a great clutch kicker. Everybody dreams of that moment.”

Vinatieri is the patron saint of kicking visionaries, the antithesis of Scott Norwood, whose miss against the Giants sent the Bills on a run of four consecutive Super Bowl losses in the 1990s.

Vinatieri, the Colts’ 43-yearold kicker, has played in five Super Bowls, winning four rings, three with New England and one with Indy.

He had winning kicks in the final seconds of the Patriots’ Super Bowl wins over the Rams in 2002 and the Panthers in 2004.

Gano has been envisioning himself as Vinatieri since high school.

“Every opportunity, every practice it is in the back of your mind, the chance to make that winning kick,” Gano said. “The opportu-

nity to do that, that is what every position dreams of — the quarterback dreams of throwing the winning TD pass, same as a running

back scoring the winning touchdown, the cornerback dreams of making that interception return.”q

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Plaintiffs in NHL concussion case now count 105 ex-players

DAVE CAMPBELL AP Sports Writer ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Long after the end of his NHL career, Steve Payne is living an empty-nest life with his wife and three dogs in western Wisconsin.

There is one problem: His brain has aged about a decade ahead of his body.

“I’ve been examined by several experts, and they’ve come to the same conclusion — that I am starting to show the signs and the symptoms of multiple concussions,” said Payne, who played for the Minnesota North Stars from 1978-88. “So it has started to cause some dysfunction for me. I’m 57 years old, and I’m at a level of someone in his late 60s.”

Payne is one of 105 former NHL players who have joined the class-action lawsuit against the league, alleging it had the resources to better prevent head trauma, failed to properly warn players of such risks and promoted violent play that led to their injuries.

The case, which was consolidated from several similar complaints in August 2014, has inched through the federal court system in Minnesota since then with no resolution expected soon. The timeline for arguments on class certification is spelled out through May 19, 2017.

The plaintiffs’ primary request is medical monitoring for the roughly 4,800 living former players, plus additional unspecified re-

In this Feb. 11, 2006 file photo, Boston Bruins’ Dan LaCouture, left, celebrates his short-handed goal with Patrice Bergeron (37) during the third period of their NHL hockey game against the Tampa Bay Lightning in Boston.

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lief. There is no dollar figure on the lawsuit, but the NFL’s pending $1 billion concussion settlement with retired players could provide a benchmark.

Payne and his fellow plaintiffs have heard the assumptions, naturally, that the case is a cash grab to compensate for the lesser salaries they earned during their playing days.

“I personally hope the NHL doesn’t have to spend a dime on me,” Payne told The Associated Press. “That means that I haven’t suffered like a lot of the other guys have and are going to.”

The 133-page complaint is packed with anecdotes

of former players suffering from a variety of neurodegenerative conditions.

Their attorneys contend the problems can be tied to hits to the head they experienced on the ice.

Dan LaCouture, one of seven proposed class representatives, is described as having had close to 20 concussions over 11 years in the NHL plus numerous “subconcussive” injuries to the head.

“Mr. LaCouture currently suffers on a daily basis from headaches, irritability, sensitivity to light, change of personality, sleeping problems, and severe depression,” the complaint reads.

NHL Commissioner Gary

Bettman, who was deposed for testimony last July, has said the lawsuit is “without merit.” The league’s first attempt to dismiss the claims was denied last year by U.S. District Judge Susan Richard Nelson.

There is another pending motion for dismissal, based on an argument that the issues should be addressed through collectively bargained arbitration instead of court.

The players seem to have plenty of chilling arguments on their side. The NHL has its share of legal defenses, too. For one, correlating current cognitive problems to specific NHL collisions

could be difficult for players who have played hockey their whole lives.

“Both sides clearly want to make the game safer and they’ll work toward policies that accomplish that, but assigning liabilities for prior injuries is a much harder call,” said Michael McCann, a sports law professor at the University of New Hampshire.

Bettman angered many former players last May with comments following the death of former NHL defenseman Steve Montador at age 35.

Montador suffered from a degenerative brain disease, chronic traumatic encephelopathy (CTE).

His family filed a lawsuit against the league that was recently consolidated with this case.

“From a medical and scientific standpoint,” Bettman said of the purported link between concussions and CTE, “there is no evidence yet that one leads to the other.”

Further details in the legal fight could become public soon. The players have complained that more than 300,000 documents and 2.5 million pages were marked protected by the league, and U.S. Magistrate Judge Janie Mayeron agreed that some should be public. NHL senior vice president Colin Campbell argued his “colorful, crusty and sometimes crude” language would only be appreciated by “hockey people” and embarrass the league if revealed.q

Bash Brother to Cash Brother: Canseco hits Japan bank plan

This June 3, 2010, file photo shows Jose Canseco talking with reporters in Washington. A Japanese economic plan has prompted Jose Canseco to jump into a whole new field, financial advice.

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The Associated Press A Japanese economic plan has prompted Jose Canseco to jump into a whole new field — financial advice.

The former slugging outfielder went on a Twitter rant late Wednesday night, saying the Bank of Japan’s idea of negative interest rates “is blowing my mind.”

“Bank of Japan should call them willie wonka bonds

“YOU GET NOTHING. yOU LOSE!” he posted.

Canseco, who once let a ball bounce off his head for a home run, frequently speaks his mind. He was among the first players to admit steroid use, and has tweeted his thoughts on space travel and other topics.

Last week, the Bank of Japan said it hopes a small fee on some new commer-

cial bank deposits would spur more lending and stimulate the economy.

“Who is advising Japan?”

Canseco tweeted, adding the plan was a “dumb move.”

The 51-year-old Canseco last played in the major leagues in 2001. He was one of the Bash Brothers when the Oakland Athletics won the World Series in 1989.q

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Saturday 6 February 2016

LinkedIn shares tumble on weak forecast for 2016 BRANDON BAILEY AP Technology Writer SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — LinkedIn shares plunged as much as 28 percent in after-hours trading Thursday after the company reported better-than-expected results for the fourth quarter but provided a weak forecast for 2016.

The professional networking service’s adjusted earnings and revenue beat Wall Street’s estimates for the last three months of 2015, thanks to strong demand for its hiring and recruiting software. But it issued a forecast that was far below what analysts were expecting.

LinkedIn also said it will phase out a new online advertising product that hasn’t worked out as planned, which will cause it to forego roughly $50 million in near-term revenue.

Mountain View, California-based LinkedIn Corp. reported a loss of $8.4 million, compared with a $3 million profit a year earlier.

That amounted to a loss of 6 cents a share in the latest quarter, but the company said it earned 94 cents a share after adjusting for stock compensation and other one-time items. Analysts surveyed by FactSet were expecting adjusted earnings of 78 cents a share on revenue of $857 million.

Fourth-quarter revenue rose 34 percent to $862 million.

Despite the strong finish for 2015, the company disappointed investors by forecasting adjusted earnings for the current period will be 55 cents a share on revenue of roughly $820 million. Analysts were expecting first-quarter adjusted

earnings of 75 cents a share on sales of $868 million.

The company also forecast revenue for the full year will be $3.6 billion to $3.65 billion, lower than analysts’ estimates of $3.9 billion. Among other things, LinkedIn said growth in a key segment of its “Talent Solutions” division, which provides software tools for employers and recruiters, will slow from 30 percent last year to mid-20 percent in 2016. It blamed an economic downturn in Europe and Asia.

The online company also said a new advertising program called “Lead Accelerator” would be discontinued because it “required more resources than anticipated.”

LinkedIn is often described as a social-networking service like Facebook or Twitter, which make money primarily from digital ads.

But LinkedIn has a different business model: It gets more than 60 percent of its revenue from fees that employers and recruiters pay to use its platform, while advertising and premium subscriptions contribute the rest.

The company has seen steady revenue growth over the last five years, but it often reports a net loss because of big stock grants that it awards to employees.

Shares of LinkedIn have been on a roller-coaster over the last year. The stock plunged last spring when the company lowered its revenue forecast and warned of short-term costs associated with its $1.5 billion purchase of online education company Lynda.com. Shares

In this Nov. 6, 2014, file photo, LinkedIn CEO Jeff Weiner speaks during the company’s second annual “Bring In Your Parents Day,” at LinkedIn headquarters in Mountain View, Calif. LinkedIn reports quarterly financial results on Thursday, Feb. 4, 2016.

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surged again in the fall, but dropped more than 20 percent again in the last three months.

LinkedIn’s membership grew 19 percent in the last quarter, to 419 million, and executives say they expect to continue growing in

China and other markets.

They’re also counting on more revenue from online training courses and software that commercial sales representatives can use to drum up business from their LinkedIn contacts.

But analysts warn LinkedIn

could face more competition from companies like GlassDoor, which shows job postings and workers’ ratings of companies, or Facebook, which recently launched a service for workers to communicate with their colleagues.q

Apple now accepting your banged-up iPhone NEW YORK (AP) — Apple for the first time is accepting banged up iPhones as a trade-in from those wanting to upgrade.

Until now, Apple offered credit to iPhone owners only if the device had an intact screen and working buttons. Apple hopes that with more leeway, applicable only to iPhone 5 and later models, more people will upgrade to new iPhones.

Apple Inc. has told investors that it may book its first revenue decline in 13 years when it reports quarterly earnings in April due in part to weakness in the global economy. But the smartphone market has matured as well after a yearslong streak of blistering hot demand.

Apple relies on the iPhone for two-thirds of its revenue.

This Aug. 26, 2015 photo shows an Apple iPhone with a cracked screen after a drop test from the DropBot, a robot used to measure the sustainability of a phone to dropping, at the offices of SquareTrade in San Francisco.

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Tech blogs have speculated about an iPhone 7 to be released in the fall with dual cameras and wireless earbuds.

Apple pays up to $350 for phones without cracked screens or broken buttons.

For damaged phones, it will pay $50 for a 5S, $150 for a 6 and $200 for a 6 Plus.

The changes, first reported on the tech blog 9to5Mac, were confirmed Friday by Apple spokesman Nick Leahy. q

A24 BUSINESS

Saturday 6 February 2016

Many see cause for optimism despite slower U.S. job growth JOSH BOAK AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Consider looking past January’s so-so job growth.

At first glance, Friday’s government report on U.S. hiring was a downer — 151,000 added jobs, well below the pace of the previous few months.

Yet once you take a fuller view, a brighter picture of the job market emerges: A sub-5 percent unemployment rate. Healthy pay raises. And a stream of people who grew confident enough in the job market to start looking for work.

That seems especially true given that the job gains come at a delicate time for the U.S. economy. Analysts have warned that the economy faces a growing risk of another recession within a year or two after having recovered only gradually from the Great Recession. Economic weakness overseas and reeling financial markets have slowed growth and squeezed manufacturers.

Last month’s pay raises and the addition of retail jobs suggest that consumers have the resilience to bolster growth. Average hourly wages have jumped 2.5 percent over the past 12 months, evidence that years of steady job growth are finally helping generate pay raises for more Americans.

The strong fundamentals in

In this Wednesday, Jan. 27, 2016, photo, Angelo Falcone, left, is interviewed by Eric Larkee for a bartender job at a job fair held by The Genuine Hospitality Group, in Miami. The restaurant group is expanding in South Florida and is hiring for all positions at its restaurants. On Friday, Feb. 5, the U.S. government issues the January jobs report.

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the jobs report could make the Federal Reserve somewhat more likely to raise rates again this year — a prospect that likely contributed to a sharp sell-off in stocks. The Dow Jones industrial average tumbled 211 points or about 1.3 percent. “The wage numbers were the most encouraging bit of news all around,” said Carl Tannenbaum, chief economist at Northern Trust.

Tannenbaum said the figures gave him “extra comfort that the expansion wasn’t sliding toward an untimely conclusion.”

With the unemployment rate now 4.9 percent — its lowest level since 2008 — many workers have managed to gain raises because their employ-

ers have had to offer better incentives to compete for talent. The unemployment rate dipped in January even though a sizable 502,000 more people began hunting for jobs.

That reversed a trend in which the unemployment rate had been dropping for a discouraging reason: Jobseekers had stopped

looking for work and were no longer counted as unemployed.

Wage growth is a crucial indicator for the Fed, which is weighing whether to raise interest rates in the face of global risks that could imperil broader economic growth. The Fed wants to see earnings accelerate after years of sluggish gains.

In December, the Fed boosted rates from record lows. But investors have largely dismissed the likelihood of a rate hike at the next Fed meeting in March. The January jobs report, with a slowdown in job growth but a pickup in wages, complicates the outlook for the Fed. “Nobody really knows what to do with this jobs report — and ultimately for the Fed it may not matter because we’ll get another jobs report before the March meeting,” said Megan Greene, chief economist at Manulife Asset Management.

January’s hiring, though

modest, followed robust job growth of a seasonally adjusted 280,000 in November and 262,000 in December. Last month, companies shed education, transportation and temporary workers but stepped up hiring in manufacturing, retail and food services.

The number of people working or seeking work rose last month, while the number of unemployed slipped from 7.9 million to 7.8 million, which caused the unemployment rate to dip from 5.0 percent.

January’s income growth meshed with retailers hiring a seasonally adjusted 57,700 workers. Restaurants and bars added 48,800 jobs in a sign of robust consumer demand.

With low gas prices leaving more money in people’s wallets and borrowing costs low, most economists expect Americans to spend at a decent pace this year and provide support for economic growth that offsets any global headwinds.q

Chinese-led investors plan to buy Chicago Stock Exchange JOSEPH PISANI AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The Chicago Stock Exchange, founded more than a century ago, said it has agreed to be acquired by a Chinese-led investor group.

The buyers are considering opening a stock exchange in southwest China and also hope to list Chinese stocks in the U.S., Chicago Stock Exchange CEO John Kerin said in an interview Friday. The exchange needs the cash

This Friday, Feb. 5, 2016, shows the building that houses the Chicago Stock Exchange in Chicago.

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from the buyout to launch its new trading products and platforms, Kerin said.

Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Kerin will continue as CEO after the deal closes.

Leading the investor group is Chongqing Casin Enterprise Group, a holding company based in Chongqing, China. Efforts

to reach Chongqing Casin Enterprise Group were unsuccessful.

Kerin said the other investors are mostly based in China but their names are not being made public.

The Chicago Stock Exchange was founded in 1882, about 90 years after the New York Stock Exchange. q

BUSINESS A25 Stocks lose more ground as jobs report disappoints Saturday 6 February 2016

KEN SWEET AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks posted steep losses Friday, ending the week with broad declines, as investors fretted over a report showing that U.S. job creation slowed last month.

Technology stocks fell especially hard, and shares of LinkedIn had their worst day in history.

Energy and consumer discretionary stocks fell as oil prices declined and investors continued to worry that the risk of the U.S. economy slipping into recession, while low, is growing.

The Dow Jones industrial average fell 211.75 points, or 1.3 percent, to 16,204.83.

The Standard & Poor’s 500 index lost 35.43 points, or 1.9 percent, to 1,880.02 and the Nasdaq composite dropped 146.41 points, or 3.3 percent, to 4,363.14.

Stocks were mostly lower throughout day, but losses accelerated as the end of trading approached. With Friday’s losses, the Dow was down 1.6 percent for the week, the S&P 500 fell 3.1 percent and Nasdaq

lost 5.4 percent.

Investors were discouraged by a report that showed U.S. employers added 151,000 jobs last month, a sharp deceleration from recent months as companies shed education, transportation and temporary workers. That was below economists’ forecasts of 185,000 new jobs, according to data from FactSet. The report included some positive signs, however. The unemployment rate fell to 4.9 percent from 5 percent, the lowest level since February 2008. Average wages jumped 2.5 percent over the past year to $25.39 an hour, evidence that the past years of job growth are helping to generate larger pay raises.

“It’s a rather difficult report to interpret. It confirms there has been some deceleration in the U.S. economy. We’re not falling off the cliff, but it clearly shows the U.S. economy is not immune to the global slowdown,” said Russ Koesterich, global market strategist with asset manager BlackRock.

The jobs report, while less than what economists were looking for, still showed that the U.S. economy is growing, albeit slowly. The report caused the dollar to strengthen against other currencies, reversing some of the last two days of declines.

The report also raised a new worry about Federal Reserve interest rate policy.

Investors had been betting in recent weeks that a slowing U.S. economy might prompt the Federal Reserve to delay plans to raise interest rates. But the Fed could see the data showing the growth in hourly wages as an early sign of inflation, which in turn might cause them to keep raising rates even in a slowing economy, Koesterich said.

Technology stocks were hit hard by disappointing results from professional social network company LinkedIn and data analysis company Tableau Software. LinkedIn shares dropped $83.90, or 44 percent, to $108.38, its worst single-day performance

Trader George Baskinger, center, works on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange, Friday, Feb. 5, 2016.

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in the company’s history.

The company provided a weak outlook for 2016 and announced it was winding down an advertising platform that was supposed to be anew venture.

Tableau Software plunged $40.40, or 49 percent, to $41.33 after the data ana-

lytics company reported a wider-than-expected loss and its software license revenue missed analysts’ predictions. Tableau’s dismal results spread to other software companies, like Salesforce.com, which fell 13 percent, and Adobe Systems, which fell 8 percent.

U.S. government bond prices were mostly unchanged. The yield on the benchmark 10-year Treasury note remained at 1.84 percent.

The dollar rose to 116.89 yen from 116.71 yen. The euro fell to $1.1164 from $1.1214, inching back from its highest level in more than three months.

In the energy markets, U.S. crude fell 83 cents to $30.89 a barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange.

Brent crude, the international benchmark, fell 40 cents to $34.06 a barrel in London. Heating oil fell 2 cents to $1.059 a gallon, wholesale gasoline fell 3.6 cents to 99.27 cents and natural gas rose 9 cents to $2.063 per thousand cubic feet.

In precious and industrial metals trading, gold edged up 20 cents to $1,157.70 an ounce, silver fell 7 cents to $14.78 an ounce and copper fell 3 cents to $2.10 a pound.

A26 COMICS

Saturday 6 February 2016

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Saturday 6 February 2016

UN chief: 34 groups now allied to Islamic State extremists

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EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Thirty-four militant groups from around the world had reportedly pledged allegiance to the Islamic State extremist group as of mid-December — and that number will only grow in 2016, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said in a report Friday.

Ban said U.N. member states should also prepare for an increase attacks by IS associated groups from countries such as the Philippines, Uzbekistan, Pakistan, Libya and Nigeria, traveling to nations. “The recent expansion of the ISIL sphere of influence across west and north Africa, the Middle East and south and southeast Asia demonstrates the speed and scale at which the gravity of the threat has evolved in just 18 months,” Ban said, using another abbreviation for the group.

Adding to the threat, IS is “the world’s wealthiest terrorist organization,” Ban said, citing estimates the group generated $400$500 million from oil and oil products in 2015, despite an embargo. According to the U.N. mission in Iraq, cash taken from bank branches located in provinces under IS control totaled $1 billion.

The mission also estimates that a tax on trucks entering IS controlled-territory generates nearly $1 billion a year, he said.q

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A28 SCIENCE

Saturday 6 February 2016

South African rangers seek to track rhinos in wildlife park CHRISTOPHER TORCHIA Associated Press KRUGER NATIONAL PARK, South Africa (AP) — A heavily pregnant rhino lay in the scrub in a South African wildlife park, sedated by rangers who attached a tracking device to the threatened animal as part of efforts to stop poaching in a country with most of the world’s rhinos.

Journalists witnessed the operation last weekend in Kruger National Park, where poachers have killedrhinos in record numbers to meet consumer demand for their horns in parts of Asia, particularly Vietnam.

Such tracking devices will allow rangers to monitor rhino movements and develop better ways to protect them, said Markus Hofmeyr, a senior veterinar-

In this photo taken Saturday, Jan. 30, 2016, a sedated rhino lies on the ground in the Kruger National Park after rangers darted it so they could attach a tracking device to the animal in efforts to stop poaching.

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ian for South Africa’s national parks service.

“We’re going to be intensively monitoring a certain percentage of the rhinos because that will give us coverage of where other rhinos are as well,” Hofmeyr said. He requested that media not report

details about the tracking device, saying poachers search for information that could help their illegal activities.

The black female rhino that was sedated Saturday was at least 15 years old and had been pregnant for about a year. The gestation period is about 16 months.

The sleeping rhino snorted at times, eyes covered with a cloth to reduce the chance that she would awaken.

The total population of critically endangered black rhinos is about 5,000, roughly one-quarter of the whiterhino population.

Black rhinos breed less quickly and are less adaptable to new environments than white rhinos, Hofmeyr said. Many people think rhinos are solitary, but they often socialize at night in groups of half a dozen, he said. The darted rhino had been accompanied by a male rhino and a calf.

“As soon as she wakes up, she’ll go looking for them,” Hofmeyr said. “It’s not a crisis because she’s in her area that she knows.”q

PEOPLE & ARTS A29 Adele might not like it, but Trump can use her music Saturday 6 February 2016

MARK KENNEDY AP Entertainment Writer NEW YORK (AP) — While waiting for Donald Trump to take the stage this week at a campaign rally in Exeter, New Hampshire, fans listened to a few hit songs by Adele, “Skyfall” and “Rolling in the Deep.”

That has apparently hit all the wrong notes with the British superstar: She has said she’d like Trump to quit playing her songs at political rallies.

But mega-best-selling Adele may not be able to stop The Donald here.

Legally, the Republican presidential candidate has paid for the right to blast pretty much any music he wishes, as long as he does it correctly.

“Mr. Trump’s campaign paid for and obtained the legal right to use these recordings,” said Hope Hicks, a Trump spokeswoman.

Copyright experts say campaigns don’t need an artist’s permission to play their songs at rallies as long as the political organization or the venue has gotten what’s known as a blanket license from the performing rights organizations ASCAP and BMI. The license isn’t for a single artist but for all the music in the licensing group’s repertoire, which is staggering.

ASCAP represents over 10 million musical works from over 525,000 songwriters and composers. BMI represents 10.5 million musical works created by more than 700,000 songwriters. The license is for the right to perform the song publicly.

“When the campaign bus pulls into a town square in Iowa and starts blaring music, most times they’ve learned to get a license for that so they’re not violating a copyright,” said Lawrence Y. Iser, a partner and expert in copyright law at the Santa Monica, California-based firm Kinsella, Weitzman, Iser, Kump & Aldisert.

The campaign then must pay a small fee to the performing rights organizations.

BMI, for

In this Feb. 24, 2013 file photo, singer Adele performs during the Oscars at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles.

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example, charges 6 cents for every campaign rally attendee at an event where the music is played.

A portion of the 6 cents goes to the artist.

But the use of the music can’t escalate much past the rally without more permissions. A political campaign, even with a blanket license, couldn’t use Adele’s music in a campaign commercial for TV or YouTube without permission and a separate license.

A long list of musicians, including Jackson Browne, Don Henley and David Byrne, have sued political campaigns for using copyrighted songs without permission in commercials or videos — but not for playing their music at rallies.

Even so, artists have some recourse when it comes to blanket permission.

“We built into the license agreement a provision which allows a BMI songwriter or publisher to object to the use of their songs and, if so, we have the ability to exclude it from the license,” said Mike Steinberg, senior vice president for licensing at BMI. That’s how Aerosmith frontman Steven Tyler last year got Trump to stop using the power ballad “Dream On” at campaign

events. He sent a ceaseand-desist letter to the Republican presidential candidate and BMI told the campaign that it would yank the tune. (Trump tweeted that he wouldn’t be playing the Aerosmith song anymore since he found a “better one to take its place.”)

Iser, who has represented Jackson Browne and Talking Heads frontman David Byrne when their songs were used in campaign ads, has been called in again this political cycle to represent songwriter Sean Altman in a dispute with the Rand Paul campaign over the use of Altman’s “Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego?” in a campaign ad.q

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Saturday 6 February 2016

& ARTS

Victoria Justice talks ‘Rocky Horror’ at Super Bowl

Victoria Justice attends a Super Bowl event promoting the Verizon Virtual Reality Game Winner Experience on Thursday, Feb. 4, 2016, in San Francisco.

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JOHN CARUCCI Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — “Dammit, Janet,” there’s another musical coming to television, and Victoria Justice could not be happier to hear those words.

The television star will play Janet Weiss in a “re-imagined” version of “The Rocky Horror Picture Show,” a classic stage musical and cult film.

“It’s been an amazing experience so far to be a part of such an iconic classic film. Kenny Ortega is direct-

ing it. Laverne Cox is starring in it. Adam Lambert is going to be in it,” Justice told The Associated Press on Thursday at a Super Bowl event promoting Verizon’s #minute50 VR event in San Francisco.

Richard O’Brien brought “The Rocky Horror Show,” to life on the London stage in 1973, and Broadway two years later. But it was the 1975 film version, aptly titled, “The Rocky Horror Picture Show” that immortalized it as a cult classic.

Justice joins a list of notable

actresses that have played the part of Janet including Julie Covington and Alice Ripley in the stage versions, and Susan Sarandon in the film.

“I’m excited so far to bring my own character, my own choices to Janet Weiss, but also still being true and paying homage to the classic. I love the music. Music and acting are my two favorite things. To be able to combine the two again, for me, is incredible. I can’t wait to get to Toronto and start rehearsing and start filming,” Justice said.

That’s because unlike the recently aired “Grease” and “The Wiz,” this one will be shot on a soundstage.

“Rocky Horror” is not going to be live. It’s kind of a reimagining of the film so I’m excited about that aspect of it,” Justice said.q

PEOPLE & ARTS A31

Saturday 6 February 2016

In this Oct. 8, 2015 file photo, actor Joseph Gordon-Levitt poses for the media on top of the Empire Tower before the premiere of ‘The Walk’ at the Moscow International Business Center, Russia.

Associated Press In this Sept. 16, 2015 photo released by DolphinProject.com, Ric O’Barry stands at the Taiji Harbor in Taiji, Wakayama prefecture, western Japan. Japan has ordered the deportation of the star of the Oscar-winning documentary “The Cove,” about a dolphin-killing village in Japan.

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Japan deports star of Oscarwinning dolphin documentary YURI KAGEYAMA Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — The star of an Oscar-winning documentary that shows how dolphins are hunted in a Japanese village was deported to the U.S. on Friday after Tokyo airport officials barred his entry and he was held in detention for more than two weeks.

Ric O’Barry said he was determined to come back to Japan and keep fighting to save the dolphins, working with Japanese people.

“The work will continue,” he told The Associated Press from aboard his plane.

“Taking me out of the picture won’t stop it.”

Japan’s government rejected an appeal of a decision by immigration officials to deny O’Barry entry, according to his lawyer, Takashi Takano.

O’Barry, 76, had been held in a detention facility at Tokyo’s Narita airport since he landed on Jan. 18. He and his lawyer said officials accused him of lying during his past visits to Japan. He denies that, and said he is a tourist who came for dolphin watching.

O’Barry starred in “The

Cove,” which won the 2009 Academy Award for best documentary. In it, dolphins are herded by fishermen into a cove in Taiji, Japan, and speared to death, turning the waters red with blood.

As the dolphin trainer for the “Flipper” TV series, O’Barry has long felt responsible for dolphin shows and aquariums.

He regularly visits Taiji.

“They are trying to shut me up. But they are creating a tsunami of attention for this issue,” he said earlier this week from the detention facility.

“It breaks my heart to be deported,” he said. “I never violated Japanese law.

I never lied to Japanese authorities.”

Immigration officials do not comment on individual cases.

Officials and fishermen in Taiji have defended the hunt as traditional, saying that eating dolphin meat is no different than eating beef or chicken.

O’Barry said officials questioned him daily in what he described as an effort to get him to fall for trick questions and end up confessing to wrongdoing.

He said he felt weak and had not slept well, adding that food at the detention center did not agree with him so he ended up eating candy bars and chips. He was taken to his plane in a wheelchair, flanked by guards, he said.

The lies he is alleged to have told immigration officials were technical, he said, such as initially saying he wouldn’t go to a demonstration when he later went, but that was because at that time he had not yet been invited.

He was also initially accused of having ties to anti-whaling group Sea Shepherd.

O’Barry heads his own group, Dolphin Project, which aims to peacefully protect dolphins worldwide.

He is working with Japanese in communities that have previously relied on dolphin hunts to help them switch to new types of businesses, such as scuba diving and dolphin watching.

“This is a slap in the face to the freedom of speech,” O’Barry said of his treatment. “But this has not shaken my love for Japan.”q

Joseph Gordon-Levitt gets some roast with his Hasty Pudding CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (AP) — Joseph Gordon-Levitt is getting a little roast along with his pudding.

In keeping with tradition, “The Walk” actor is set to be feted — and roasted — as Harvard University’s Hasty Pudding Theatricals Man of the Year on Friday evening.

The collegiate theatrical organization says it selected the 34-year-old Gordon-Levitt as its 2016 honoree because he’s a “talented actor” and “visionary entrepreneur.”

The actor who as a kid played Tommy on “3rd

Rock from the Sun” will portray Edward Snowden in Oliver Stone’s upcoming movie about the man who leaked classified National Security Agency documents.

Gordon-Levitt also developed Hitrecord. org, which helps people collaborate on creative projects.

Previous winners include Clint Eastwood, Robert De Niro and Harrison Ford.

Chris Pratt won last year.

“Scandal” actress Kerry Washington was honored as Woman of the Year last month.q

John Scofield goes back to the future on Grammynominated CD CHARLES J. GANS Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Jazz guitarist John Scofield went back to the future on his Grammy-nominated CD “Past Present,” reuniting members of his acclaimed quartet from the early 1990s to play his new compositions.

Though nominated twice before, the 64-year-old Scofield has never won a Grammy. But at the Feb. 15 awards ceremony in Los Angeles, he’s up for two

Grammys — for best jazz instrumental album and best improvised jazz solo for the CD’s title track, which the guitarist describes as “futuristic blues.”

Scofield credits his wife and manager, Susan, for coming up with the album’s title, which he says has multiple meanings.

Most of the compositions were written when Scofield’s son, Evan, a writer and poet, returned to the family’s home in Katonah, New York.q