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Largest U.S. immigration raids in a decade net 680 arrests

By ROGELIO SOLIS and JEFF AMY Associated Press MORTON, Miss. (AP) — U.S. immigration officials raided numerous Mississippi food processing plants Wednesday, arresting 680 mostly Latino workers in what marked the largest workplace sting in at least a decade.

The raids, planned months ago, happened just hours before President Donald Trump was scheduled to visit El Paso, Texas, the majority-Latino city where a man linked to an online screed about a “Hispanic invasion” was charged in a shooting that left 22 people dead in the border city.

Workers filled three buses — two for men and one for women — at a Koch Foods Inc. plant in tiny Morton, 40 miles (64 kilometers) east of Jackson.

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Two people are taken into custody at a Koch Foods Inc. plant in Morton, Miss., on Wednesday, Aug. 7, 2019.

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Giant emoji painted on house roil California community MANHATTAN BEACH, Calif.

(AP) — A Southern California seaside community is in an uproar after a home was given a new paint job featuring two huge emoji on a bright pink background.

Manhattan Beach residents railed against the makeover during a City Council meeting Tuesday night, citing problems with spectators and asserting that it was done with bad intent. One speaker called the paint job graffiti and another said it was an attack on neighbors.

The new paint job appeared after neighbors reported the home was being used for short-term rentals and the homeowner was fined $4,000.

“This all got started because a neighbor was try-

Painted emoji are seen on a house in Manhattan Beach, Calif. on Wednesday, Aug. 7, 2019.

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ing to help the city enforce

the rules,” resident Dina

Doll told the council.

The home in the city’s El Porto neighborhood stands out dramatically on a steep street that descends toward a pleasant beach usually filled with surfers.

Both bright yellow emoji are cross-eyed and have distinctly big eyelashes. One has a goofy expression with its tongue hanging out.

The other has its mouth zippered shut.

Owner Kathryn Kidd told KABC-TV she didn’t realize short-term rentals weren’t allowed and she denied the redecoration is retaliation.

“Oh no, no. Never,” she told the station, while acknowledging that it may not fit in the neighborhood.

“Some people may like it,” she said. “Some people don’t like it.”q

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Largest U.S. immigration raids in a decade net 680 arrests Continued from Front

They were taken to a military hangar to be processed for immigration violations. About 70 family, friends and residents waved goodbye and shouted, “Let them go! Let them go!” Later, two more buses arrived.

A tearful 13-year-old boy whose parents are from Guatemala waved goodbye to his mother, a Koch worker, as he stood beside his father. Some employees tried to flee on foot but were captured in the parking lot.

Workers who were confirmed to have legal status were allowed to leave the plant after having their trunks searched.

“It was a sad situation inside,” said Domingo Candelaria, a legal resident and Koch worker who said authorities checked employees’ identification documents.

The company did not immediately respond to an emailed request for comment.

About 600 agents fanned out across the plants involving several companies, surrounding the perimeters to prevent workers from fleeing. They occurred in small towns near Jackson with a workforce made up largely of Latino immigrants, including Bay Springs, Carthage, Canton, Morton, Pelahatchie and Sebastapol.

Matthew Albence, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s acting director, told The Associated Press that the raids could be

the largest such operation thus far in any single state.

Asked to comment on the fact that the raid was happening on the same day as Trump’s El Paso visit, Albence responded, “This is a long-term operation that’s been going on. Our enforcement operations are being done on a racially neutral basis. Investigations are based on evidence.”

The sting was another demonstration of Trump’s signature domestic priority to crack down on illegal immigration. While planned months ago, it coincided with the day that Trump was to visit El Paso to offer his condolences to the majority-Latino city after a gunman linked with an anti-Hispanic post online fatally shot 22 people on Saturday.

Such large shows of force were common under President George W. Bush, most notably at a kosher meatpacking plant in tiny Postville, Iowa, in 2008.

President Barack Obama avoided them, limiting his workplace immigration efforts to low-profile audits that were done outside of public view.

Trump resumed workplace raids, but the months of preparation and hefty resources they require make them rare. Last year, the administration hit a landscaping company near Toledo, Ohio, and a meatpacking plant in eastern Tennessee. The former owner of the Tennessee plant was sentenced to 18 months in prison last month.

A hangar at the Mississippi National Guard in Flowood,

near Jackson, was set up with 2,000 meals to process employees for immigration violations on Wednesday.

There were seven lines, one for each location that was hit. Buses had been lined up since early in the day to be dispatched to the plants.

“I’ve never done anything like this,” Chris Heck, resident agent in charge of ICE’s Homeland Security Investigations unit in Jackson, told The Associated Press inside the hangar.

“This is a very large worksite operation.”q

A man is taken into custody at a Koch Foods Inc. plant in Morton, Miss., on Wednesday, Aug. 7, 2019.

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Thursday 8 August 2019

NEWS

House Judiciary sues to force McGahn to testify

By MARY CLARE JALONICK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The House Judiciary Committee took another step toward possible impeachment proceedings, filing a lawsuit in federal court on Wednesday aimed at forcing former White House counsel Donald McGahn to testify about his interactions with President Donald Trump.

McGahn was a star witness in special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation who — under Trump’s orders — has refused to testify before the panel. The Democratic lawsuit challenges the White House rationale that McGahn and other witnesses have “absolute immunity” from appearing and can defy subpoenas.

The legal action comes at a time when more than half of House Democrats have said they support beginning an impeachment inquiry. Pelosi has so far resisted that step, saying she wants to wait to see what happens in court. The McGahn lawsuit is a central part of Pelosi’s strategy of

In this Sept. 27, 2018, file photo, then-White House counsel Don McGahn listens as Supreme court nominee Brett Kavanaugh testifies before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington.

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“legislate, investigate, litigate,” but could delay any final decisions on impeachment for several months.

The lawsuit says the committee has reached a deal with the White House to review documents from McGahn, but it is still seeking

his testimony in person. It says the Judiciary panel is “now determining whether to recommend articles of impeachment” based on Mueller’s report, and McGahn is “the most important witness, other than the president, to the key events that are the focus of the Judiciary committee’s investigation.”

The complaint adds: “Every day that the Judiciary committee is without McGahn’s testimony further delays its ability to pursue its inquiries on issues of national importance before the current Congress ends.”

McGahn’s lawyer, William A. Burck, in a statement said “McGahn is a lawyer and has an ethical obligation to protect client confidences” and does not believe he witnessed any violation of law.

“When faced with competing demands from coequal branches of government, Don will follow his former client’s instruction,

absent a contrary decision from the federal judiciary,” Burck said.

McGahn was a vital witness for Mueller, who detailed the president’s outrage over the investigation and his efforts to curtail it in his April report.

In interviews with Mueller’s team, McGahn described being called at home by the president on the night of June 17, 2017, and being directed to call the Justice Department and say that Mueller had conflicts of interest and should be removed. McGahn declined the command, deciding that he would resign rather than carry it out, the report said.

Once that episode became public in the news media, the report said the president demanded that McGahn dispute the reports and asked him why he had told Mueller about it and why he had taken notes of their conversations. McGahn refused to

back down. It’s unclear if McGahn’s testimony, should Democrats succeed in court, would include any new revelations beyond what Mueller has already released. Mueller concluded that he could not exonerate Trump on obstruction of justice, but also that there was insufficient evidence to prove a criminal conspiracy between Trump’s campaign and Russia.

An aide for the Judiciary panel said the committee believes there is more to McGahn’s story. The aide, who discussed the thinking of committee officials on condition of anonymity, did not elaborate.

The committee has struggled in its efforts to highlight Mueller’s report, as McGahn and other officials have defied subpoenas and as a highly anticipated hearing with Mueller himself failed to produce new revelations. Some Democrats — almost 120 so far — hope to speed up the pace of investigations by starting an impeachment inquiry.

In a contrast to Pelosi, House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler insists that the committee is essentially already doing the work of impeachment, with or without a formal House vote to begin an inquiry. Nadler has also made it clear that he’d favor beginning official proceedings, saying last month that Trump “richly deserves” impeachment.

Nadler laid out an aggressive timeline this week, saying he hopes to be able to have resolution in court by the end of October.

“If we decide to report articles of impeachment we could get to that in the late fall, perhaps in the latter part of the year,” Nadler said Monday on MSNBC.q

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32 busted in federal drug crackdown in San Francisco

By JANIE HAR and SAMANTHA MALDONADO Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The first step in a sweeping crackdown on crime ranging from drugs to sex trafficking in a notorious San Francisco neighborhood yielded 32 arrests of mostly Honduran nationals tied to two international operations that poured heroin and cocaine into the community, U.S. prosecutors announced Wednesday.

It’s not uncommon to see people shooting up or snorting powder in the Tenderloin neighborhood, which contains City Hall, several federal buildings, a large population of homeless and is just minutes from tourist-heavy Union Square.

The neighborhood has long been a public safety problem in a city famous for its permissiveness, and leaders are divided on how to address the drug epidemic.

But in his first news conference since being appointed by President Donald Trump in January, U.S. Attorney David Anderson said he could no longer stand by as tourists, government workers and residents wade through a daily slog of crime. He said an enforcement initiative by more than 15 federal agencies would not affect “innocent” homeless people or drug users but would tackle high-level drug dealing, fraud, identity theft and firearms.

“My belief is that the Tenderloin, in fairness, deserves the rule of law every bit as much as other fine neighborhoods in San Francisco,” he said. “This is not an immigration initiative. This is not a deportation initiative.

This is a public safety initiative.”

Still, San Francisco is a city that strongly opposes federal immigration sweeps, and immigration agents are among those joining the FBI, the Drug Enforcement Administration, U.S. Marshals Service and others in the effort. San Francisco was a sanctuary city before the rest of California largely pledged not to

work with federal authorities on deporting people in the country illegally.

San Francisco Supervisor Matt Haney, whose district includes the Tenderloin, said residents are fed up with dealers using the neighborhood as a dumping ground for drugs. He supports assistance focused on top-tier investigations but says the city needs to remain vigilant on immigration.

“I hope that this isn’t a way to get around San Francisco sanctuary laws,” he said. “There can be an important role for the U.S. attorney in going after higher level individuals, and I hope that is where they would put their focus.”

Bill Ong Hing, a former member of the city’s police commission and director of The Immigration and Deportation Defense Clinic at the University of San Francisco School of Law, said the initiative should not affect San Francisco’s sanctuary policies so long as federal officials stay clear of city help.

“The police department will not partner with them on that activity,” he said.

“At least, they’re not supposed to.”

Mayor London Breed has also been a vocal supporter of improving the Tenderloin district. Her office did not return requests for comment. Officer Robert Rueca, a police spokesman, said they welcome collaboration but added the department “does not and will not provide assistance for any” federal immigration operations or “raids.”

Chris Nielsen, special agent in charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration in San Francisco, said an investigation launched in late 2017 uncovered two independent operations stretching from Mexico to Seattle in which mostly Honduran nationals living on the eastern side of the San Francisco Bay Area commuted daily to the Tenderloin to sell drugs.

He said the “commuter drug dealers” acted like “independent contrac-

tors,” selling drugs in exchange for housing.

“Each morning, drugs were dropped off with dealers in the East Bay and then commuted into the city to sell to people from all over the area,” he said.

The federal crackdown, however, was criticized by San Francisco’s Coalition on Homelessness, whose officials say the Trump administration is targeting immigrants and the poor. “We are deeply concerned that low level offenders, drug users and individuals who do not have homes and are therefore more likely to come in contact with law enforcement will be disparately impacted,” said Sam Lew, the coalition’s policy director.

Others say the neighborhood desperately needs help. Andrea Fogelbach

In this July 25, 2019, file photo, sleeping people, discarded clothes and used needles are seen on a street in the Tenderloin neighborhood in San Francisco.

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opened her “Slingshot Cafe” coffee shop two months ago in the neighborhood, where discarded needles litter the streets and people sleep in tents or out in the open.

“It’s pretty bad. They’re just shooting up right in front of you,” she said. “I’m afraid for my dog stepping on needles most of the time. If I had children, I don’t think I could live here.”q

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El Paso, with deep Mexican American past, rallies amid pain

By RUSSELL CONTRERAS and JOHN L. MONE Associated Press EL PASO, Texas (AP) — The massacre that killed 22 people at a Walmart in El Paso struck a city that has long been the cradle of Mexican American culture and immigration and suffered through bloody episodes of racial violence in the past.

The suspected gunman, who is white, apparently wrote an anti-Hispanic rant before opening fire with an AK-47-style rifle on Walmart shoppers — many of them Latino — rattling a city that has helped shape Mexican American life across the U.S. for generations.

Many Mexican Americans in Los Angeles, New Mexico, Texas, Colorado and beyond can trace their families’ roots to El Paso, sometimes called the “Ellis Island” of the border.

The city served as a port of entry where immigrants from the interior of Mexico had to come to gain entry into the United States before World War II. Mexican Revolutionary leader Pancho Villa visited the city. Country artist Marty Robbins famously sang in 1959 about falling “in love with a Mexican girl” here. It is the birthplace of civil rights lawyer Oscar Zeta Acosta, journalist Ruben Salazar and poet Pat Mora. The city is also a geographic center of sorts for Mexican Americans, sitting about the same distance to Los Angeles as it is to Houston.

“El Paso has a deeper history than what you see on the news,” said Sergio Troncoso, an El Paso-born nov-

elist who now lives in New York City. “That manifesto shows that white nationalists continue to reduce El Paso to immigration and a

chose El Paso as his target remains a mystery. But the online rant investigators have attributed to him speaks of a “Hispanic inva-

ritory during the U.S. Civil War. A century ago, El Paso was also the site of notorious racial violence — a history that resonated with

People show up in masses Monday, Aug. 5, 2019, to pay their respects to those who lost their lives in Saturday’s attack in El Paso, Texas.

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place of foreigners. It’s so much more than that.”

In the last year, El Paso has garnered attention because of the rapid rise of migrants from Central America coming to seek asylum.

The city also has been a testing ground for immigration enforcement, with the government spending millions of dollars on agents, barriers and border security technology and equipment.

President Donald Trump, who visited the city Wednesday, has cited El Paso’s crime rate as proof for why his border wall is needed, despite FBI statistics that show the city routinely has a violent crime rate below the national average. Crime statistics also show the city to be safer than other municipalities the same size in population.

Why the alleged shooter

sion of Texas” and theories of non-white immigrants replacing whites.

Anthony Medrano, an El Paso resident, said he wished the shooter would have paused and thought just a moment before hurting people shopping in the predominantly Mexican American city of 700,000.

“We would have shown him what a great place this is ... where you can walk out at night and not get mugged,” Medrano said.

The El Paso area was settled in the late 1500s after the arrival of Spanish conquistador Juan de Oñate during an expedition through current-day New Mexico to establish a colony as part of New Spain.

It became an important northern hub of the Spanish empire and later a key spot in the American Southwest as the railroads expanded into what was disputed ter-

residents after last weekend’s massacre.

In 1916, white mobs and drunken U.S. soldiers attacked innocent Mexican Americans in the city after Villa’s soldiers in Mexico killed 19 white engineers and staff from an American mining company. El Paso white police also are believed to have sought revenge and set fire to Mexican American inmates in the El Paso jail, killing 27.

U.S. officials at a border bridge in El Paso in the early 1900s routinely deloused and sprayed the clothes of Mexicans crossing into the U.S. with Zyklon B — a poisonous pesticide invented in Germany in the 1920s.

“There were many cases of racial violence in El Paso targeting Mexican Americans,” said Monica Muñoz Martinez, the author of “The Injustice Never Leaves You: Anti-Mexican Violence in

Texas” and an American studies professor at Brown University.

“The memories of those acts live on.”

After World War II, however, returning Mexican American veterans helped elect in 1957 Raymond L. Telles Jr. — the first Mexican American mayor of a major U.S. city. He sought to include Mexican Americans in key positions like police chief and outlined a blueprint for civil rights leaders to follow in other cities with sizable Latino populations.

The city is credited with shaping modern Mexican American political activism and with giving birth to the “pachuco” — a word that describes a Mexican American youth subculture associated with zoot suits and gang life. (The city’s nickname is “El Chuco.”)

In 1966, Texas Western (now the University of Texas at El Paso) generated excitement in the Mexican American city by becoming the first college team to take an all-black basketball team to an NCAA championship — and win.

Daniel Chacon, a novelist who was raised in Fresno, California, but whose father was from El Paso, said the climate since the Telles years gave birth to a booming Mexican American literacy and artist scene.

“It became a bedrock of (American) Southwest culture. It’s an American city,” said Chacon, who now chairs the creative writing department at the University of Texas at El Paso. “The only invasion that has happened here in the last 100 years is the one at Walmart this Saturday.”q

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Thursday 8 August 2019

Kansas imposes toughest online tax collections in the nation

By JOHN HANNA AP Political Writer TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas plans to impose what some tax experts said Wednesday would be the nation’s most aggressive policy for collecting state and local taxes on online sales, possibly inviting a legal battle.

The state Department of Revenue issued a notice last week saying any “remote seller” doing business with Kansas residents must register with the department, collect state and local sales taxes and forward the revenues to the state, starting Oct. 1. It cites a U.S. Supreme Court decision last year allowing states to collect sales taxes on Internet sales.

Most states now have policies to collect such taxes, but almost all set minimum annual sales or transaction thresholds to exempt small businesses, according to groups tracking tax laws.

Kansas is the first to attempt to collect the taxes without exempting any businesses, they said.

The Republican-controlled Legislature included provisions on taxing Internet sales in two tax-cutting bills this year, but Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly vetoed both measures, saying they would destabilize the state’s finances. The Department of Revenue is imposing its new policy under an existing tax law that applied to out-of-state businesses but wasn’t being enforced because past court decisions prevented it.

“I think they’re insane,” said Diane Yetter, founder of the Sales Tax Institute in Chicago. Later, she added, “I just think Kansas is setting itself up for a lawsuit — and embarrassment, truthfully.”

Kansas Revenue Secretary Mark Burghart, a veteran tax attorney himself, said during an interview that the department is obligated to enforce existing tax laws consistently. He said it’s not fair to Kansas businesses to require them

Kansas Revenue Secretary Mark Burghart discusses a new policy that will require out-of-state businesses to collect the state’s sales tax on online sales to Kansas residents, during an interview with reporters, Wednesday, Aug. 7, 2019, in Topeka, Kan..

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to collect sales taxes from consumers and not require out-of-state businesses to do the same after the U.S. Supreme Court decision last year.

Burghart also said he does not feel the department has the authority to exempt some small, out-of-state businesses from collecting sales taxes. Legislators must set the thresholds, he said.

“We have to move forward with implementation of the law as it is in place,” he said.

Kansas Senate President

Susan Wagle, a conservative Wichita Republican who is a frequent Kelly critic and is running for the U.S. Senate, termed the department’s policy an “abuse of power.” Other top Republicans were less harsh but said Wednesday that they worried about the risk of lawsuits — and lawmakers are likely to take up the issue again next year.

Legislators also have felt pressure to collect more taxes from online sales to prevent local businesses from facing a competitive

disadvantage. There’s also the potential budget upside: The department believes the state will collect between $20 million and $40 million a year in additional tax revenues.

Wagle asked Attorney General Derek Schmidt, also a Republican, to weigh in on the policy’s legality.

His spokesman Wednesday would say only, “We are aware of the situation.”

Yetter and other tax policy experts said the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision isn’t permission to tax all remote sales from out-ofstate businesses.

“They’re pushing a lot of envelopes in their approach,” said Jared Walczak, director of state tax policy for the conservative Tax Foundation, who deems Kansas’ policy the “most aggressive” in the nation.

The high court overturned a previous ruling that states could not collect their sales taxes unless a business had a physical presence within their borders, allowing tax collections if businesses had an economic presence. It upheld a South Dakota law requiring businesses to collect its taxes if they had $100,000 in sales or 200 transactions in the state within a year.q

Lawyer: Iraqi refugees removing tethers to avoid deportation DETROIT (AP) — Some Iraqi refugees in Michigan are removing GPS tethers to evade immigration officials and deportation before their court cases are heard, according to an attorney representing nearly two dozen refugees.

Detroit-based lawyer Shanta Driver told The Detroit News that at least seven Iraqi nationals have removed tethers in Michigan over the past month.

The men have spent most of their lives in the United States, raising children, working and establishing roots, said Shanta Driver, national chair of the civil and immigration rights group By Any Means Necessary.

They cut their tethers because they “get to a point of desperation,” said Driver, who represents 23 Iraqi nationals.

A number of Iraqi nationals were caught up in 2017 immigration raids and are being deported for crimes the government believes violate U.S. immigration laws, the

newspaper reported. The American Civil Liberties Union of Michigan has argued in federal court against repatriation to Iraq, saying refugees face torture or death because of their Christian faith, for having served in the U.S. military or for seeking U.S. asylum.

Ali Al-Sadoon, 33, removed his ankle GPS tracker in July on the day he was to be deported. Al-Sadoon later was arrested at his home in suburban Detroit and is being held in a county jail in northern Michigan.

He now faces criminal charges for removing the tether, in addition to removal orders for breaking and entering, for which he was sentenced in 2013.

“The only reason Ali cut his tether was because he was scared,” said his wife, Belqis Florido. “They sentenced him to death.”

ICE officials also arrested Wisam Hamana, 39, of Hazel Park, and Baha Al-Said, 35, of Ann Arbor, after both cut their tethers.q

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Thursday 8 August 2019

NEWS

Canadian police say 2 bodies found, believed to be fugitives

By ROB GILLIES Associated Press TORONTO (AP) — Canadian police said Wednesday they believe two fugitives suspected of killing a North Carolina woman and her Australian boyfriend as well as another man have been found dead in dense brush in northern Manitoba.

Authorities located two male bodies and are confident they are 19-year-old Kam McLeod and 18-yearold Bryer Schmegelsky, said Royal Canadian Mounted Police Assistant Commissioner Jane MacLatchy.

She said an autopsy will confirm their identities and causes of death.

Critical evidence found last week when police discovered items directly linked to the suspects on the shoreline of the Nelson River helped locate the bodies, MacLatchy said. Following that discovery, authorities were able to narrow down the search.

Police sent in specialized teams and began searching high-probability areas.

On Wednesday morning, police located the two bodies within 1 kilometer (0.6 miles) from where the items were found and approximately 9 kilometers (5.6 miles) from where they left a burnt-out vehicle on July 22.

“We are confident that these are the bodies of the two suspects wanted in connection with the homicides in British Columbia,”

Royal Canadian Mounted Police Assistant Commissioner Jane MacLatchy speaks at a news conference in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Wednesday, Aug. 7, 2019.

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MacLatchy said.

McLeod and Schmegelsky were charged with second-degree murder in the death of Leonard Dyck, a University of British Columbia lecturer whose body was found July 19 along a highway in British Columbia.

They were also suspects in the fatal shootings of Australian Lucas Fowler and Chynna Deese of Charlotte, North Carolina, whose bodies were found July 15 along the Alaska Highway about 300 miles (500 kilometers) from where Dyck was killed.

A manhunt for the pair had spread across three provinces and included the

Canadian military. The suspects had not been seen since the burned-out car was found on July 22.

The bodies were found near Gillam, Manitoba — more than 2,000 miles (3,200 kilometers) from northern British Columbia.

“This is like travelling from London to Moscow coupled with the fact that they were travelling in areas that are not highly populated,” British Columbia RCMP Assistant Commissioner Kevin Hackett said.

Police had said Tuesday they were investigating all possibilities including the possibility that the suspects might have drowned.

A police helicopter initially

spotted a damaged boat along the Nelson River last week and a followup search in the area uncovered the items directly linked to the two in what MacLatchy described as “very tough terrain.”

MacLatchy said there is a sense of relief for families of the victims involved and the communities in the area.

“It’s huge to be able to hopefully give some people the opportunity to exhale and to hopefully go back to being normal and not be afraid of who is out in the woods,” she said.

Deese’s brother, British Deese, said the family needed time to process

the news that the suspects’ bodies were apparently found.

“We are speechless,” he said in a text message, declining further comment.

Gillam Mayor Dwayne Forman said people in the community have been on an emotional roller-coaster and are relieved the manhunt is over.

“The closure is here for Gillam and the Fox Lake area.

But the closure for the victims’ families is far from over,” he said.

The separate discoveries of three bodies and burning cars shook rural northern British Columbia and Manitoba.

Hackett said it will be “extremely difficult” for authorities to ascertain a motive.

He said there is significant evidence that links both murder scenes.

Schmegelsky’s father, Alan Schmegelsky, said last month that he expected the nationwide manhunt to end in the death of his son, who he said was on “a suicide mission.” McLeod and Schmegelsky themselves were originally considered missing persons and only became suspects later.

Police were investigating a photograph of Nazi paraphernalia allegedly sent online by one of the suspects. Schmegelsky allegedly sent photographs of a swastika armband and a Hitler Youth knife to an online friend on the videogame network Steam. q

Police patrol Rome’s Spanish Steps to enforce sitting ban

A Police officer asks a girl not to sit on the Spanish Steps, in Rome, Wednesday, Aug. 7, 2019.

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By DOLORES HINCKLEY Associated Press ROME (AP) — Gregory Peck and Audrey Hepburn perched there without a care in the 1953 film “Roman Holiday.” But the Spanish Steps in Rome are no longer a place for sitting.

Enforcing an ordinance that took effect last month, police officers patrolled the famed stone staircase Wednesday to tell locals and visitors “Please, no sitting” on one of the Eternal City’s most recognizable landmarks.

The 137 steps built in the 1720s have long been a popular spot to people watch, hangout and pause for a breath. Rome’s official tourism website describes the steps as a passageway “but even more so a place for meeting and a pleasant rest.”

But as of July 8, sitting, eating and drinking on them is illegal and can result in a fine of up to 400 euros ($450.) The ordinance also applies to other photogenic sites in Rome, like the Trevi Fountain.

The city government said

the law has been applied in full since its effective date, it wasn’t until this week that police officers in yellow vests were deployed to the Spanish Steps to visibly enforce it.

Watching officers motion for seated visitors to get up, Italian tourist Tommaso Galletta said he disagreed with the sitting ban.

“This monument is so beautiful. There was a child sitting who was tired, sitting down with his father a few minutes ago, and the traffic officer asked them to stand up,” Galletta said.q

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Thursday 8 August 2019

UN official says over 100,000 detained and missing in Syria

By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Reports suggest that more than 100,000 people in Syria have been detained, abducted or gone missing during the eight-year conflict, with the government mainly responsible, the U.N. political chief said Wednesday.

Rosemary DiCarlo urged all parties to heed the Security Council’s call for the release of all those arbitrarily detained, and to provide information to families about their loved ones as required by international law.

She told the Security Council that the U.N. can’t verify the figure of more than 100,000 because it has been unable to gain access to places of detention and detainees in Syria. She said its information comes from accounts corroborated by the Commission of Inquiry on Syria authorized by the U.N. Human Rights Council and human rights organizations since the conflict started in 2011.

In this Saturday, July 27, 2019 photo, Syrian workers remove rubble from damaged shops in the old city of Aleppo, Syria.

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DiCarlo also reiterated U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres’ call for the Syria conflict to be referred to the International Criminal Court, saying accountability for serious violations of international human rights and humanitarian law “is central to achieving and maintaining durable

peace in Syria.”

DiCarlo spoke at an open meeting following the Security Council’s unanimous approval in June of its firstever resolution focused on the many thousands of people missing in conflicts around the world. The International Committee of the Red Cross, which was

mandated by the 1949 Geneva Conventions to address and oversee the issue of missing persons in conflicts, said it registered over 45,000 missing cases in countries around the world in 2018 alone.

The council meeting, initially requested by the United States, offered a rare op-

portunity for the U.N.’s most powerful body to hear directly from families of the detained.

Dr. Hala Al Ghawi and Amina Khoulani, who both campaign for freedom and justice for Syrian detainees, criticized the council for its failure to end the war and urged its deeply divided members to adopt a new resolution to pressure all warring parties to reveal the names and whereabouts of all those detained — and release all those arbitrarily detained.

Al Ghawi said she left Syria at the end of 2011 after her husband was detained and held in a cell “so tiny that he didn’t have space to sit down.” He was released but she said her brother, father-in-law and some cousins remain missing.

Al Ghawi said many medical colleagues were also detained by the Syrian government for helping wounded protesters, and “some of them were killed under torture while in detention.”q

Greece, Cyprus, Israel, US discuss energy cooperation

By ELENA BECATOROS Associated Press ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Greece, Cyprus, Israel and the United States are deepening their cooperation in the energy sector, officials from the four countries said Wednesday, noting that energy issues can foster closer ties, not just tensions, in the eastern Mediterranean.

Tensions have been mounting between Turkey and Cyprus over gas exploration in the region and a second Turkish ship started drilling for gas off eastern Cyprus on Wednesday, Turkey’s state-run news agency reported.

At a meeting Wednesday in Athens, Cyprus Energy Minister Georgios Lakkotrypis said he briefed his counterparts “on the recent violations of Turkey, its illegal actions within Cyprus’ exclusive economic zone and more recently inside its territorial waters.”

“The ministers and the United States reiterated their full support and solidarity for the Republic of Cyprus in exploring and developing its resources in its Exclusive Economic Zone and express their concern with recent provocative steps underway in the Eastern Mediterranean,” the four nations said in a joint state-

ment. “The United States also reaffirmed its position that the island’s oil and gas resources should be shared equitably between both (Cypriot) communities in the context of an overall settlement,” it said.

In June, a Turkish ship started drilling in waters where Cyprus has exclusive economic rights. The government of the ethnically divided east Mediterranean island nation says the activity is illegal and the European Union announced sanctions against Turkey.

Ankara insists it is protecting its rights and those of Turkish Cypriots in Cyprus’ breakaway north to the area’s

Israel’s Energy Minister Yuval Steinitz, right, speaks next to U.S. Assistant Secretary of State of Energy Francis Fannon during a summit in Athens, on Wednesday, Aug. 7, 2019.

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hydrocarbon deposits.

Turkey’s state-run Anadolu Agency on Wednesday quoted Turkish Energy Minister Fatih Donmez as say-

ing the Yavuz began drilling operations in an area off the Karpas peninsula that are expected to last up to three months. q

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Thursday 8 August 2019

NEWS

Taliban suicide blast in Kabul kills 14 people, 145 wounded

By RAHIM FAIEZ CARA ANNA Associated Press KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — A Taliban car bomb aimed at Afghan security forces ripped through a busy Kabul neighborhood on Wednesday, killing 14 people and wounding 145 — most of them women, children and other civilians — shortly after the extremist group and the United States reported progress on negotiating an end to Afghanistan’s nearly 18-year war.

The bombing during morning rush hour was one of the worst attacks in Kabul this year, and it again raised fears among Afghans about what will happen once the estimated 20,000 U.S. and NATO troops in their country go home.

The explosives-packed car detonated at a security checkpoint outside police headquarters in a minority Shiite neighborhood in western Kabul, police spokesman Firdaus Faramarz said. The Taliban said they had targeted a recruitment center for security forces.

Ninety-two of the wounded were civilians, Deputy Interior Minister Khoshal Sadat told reporters. Four police officers were among those

Afghan security men stand guard after an explosion near the police headquarters in Kabul, Afghanistan, Wednesday, Aug. 7, 2019.

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killed, he said.

The attack took place as many Kabul residents were preparing for the Muslim holiday Eid al-Adha, which begins Sunday. A large plume of smoke rose over the city. Some nearby buildings were left in rubble. Shopkeepers later swept up broken glass.

“I was having breakfast in a restaurant when the explosion happened,” said Mohmmad Qasem. As windows shattered, he and others rushed into the busy

street.

Even as the U.S.-Taliban peace talks continue and the Taliban say they will do more to protect civilians, a growing number of them are being killed.

July saw the highest number of civilian casualties in a single month since 2017, with more than 1,500 killed or wounded as insurgent attacks spiked, the United Nations said earlier this month.

Any Taliban attack is a barrier to the peace process,

presidential spokesman Sediq Seddiqi told reporters, vowing that “Afghan security forces are strong and can protect the Afghan population.”

President Ashraf Ghani’s government said such attacks apparently are meant to strengthen the Taliban position at the negotiating table but would not succeed.

On Tuesday the Taliban warned Afghans to boycott the Sept. 28 presidential election and avoid cam-

paign rallies which “could become potential targets.”

The vote already has been delayed for months over security and organizational concerns.

The Taliban have been staging near-daily attacks against Afghan forces across the country, saying the war will continue as long as U.S. and NATO forces are still in Afghanistan.

The Taliban now control roughly half of the country and are at their strongest since 2001, when the U.S.-led invasion toppled their government after it harbored al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden.

Another round of U.S.-Taliban talks continues this week in the Gulf Arab state of Qatar, where the insurgents maintain an office.

Zalmay Khalilzad, the U.S. envoy tasked with finding a peaceful resolution to America’s longest war, this week reported “excellent progress” in the talks. A Taliban official said differences had been resolved over the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Afghanistan and Taliban guarantees that they will cut ties with other extremist groups. The U.S. wants to make sure that Afghanistan will not become a launching pad for attacks against it.q

Russian couple face losing custody of child after protest

By VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV Associated Press MOSCOW (AP) — Moscow’s children’s rights ombudsman and other public figures have reacted with outrage to Russian prosecutors’ moves to remove a 1-year-old boy from his parents because they allegedly took him to an unauthorized protest.

Prosecutors claimed that Dmitri and Olga Prokazov endangered the child by taking him to the July 27 rally in the Russian capital that was violently dispersed by police, and that they handed him to another man who is now being sought on charges of organizing mass riots.

The case against the parents follows a tough police

In this file photo dated Saturday, July 27, 2019, protesters hold posters that read: “I have the right to my candidate” during an unsanctioned rally in the center of Moscow, Russia.

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crackdown on rallies protesting the exclusion of opposition candidates from September’s city council election. Police detained more than 1,400 people during the July 27 protest

and rounded up a further 1,001 during another demonstration on Saturday, according to an independent monitoring group.

Children’s rights ombudsman Yevgeny Bunmovich

harshly criticized the prosecutors’ action, denouncing what he called “political blackmail involving children.” He said he has written to Moscow’s prosecutor urging him to drop the charges.

Members of the presidential human rights council also criticized the prosecutors’ action, which comes amid a slew of criminal cases launched in the wake of protests that challenged the Kremlin.

Most of those detained were released within hours, but some have remained in custody and face criminal charges that may carry prison terms.

Speaking on independent Dozhd TV late Tuesday, Dmitri Prokazov denied that

the couple had taken part in the rally and said they had simply gone for a walk across central Moscow. He said they were aware of the protest and sympathized with the demonstrators, but didn’t want to take part in it since they were walking with their child.

Prokazov insisted that they did nothing wrong by letting a close friend carry their child. The man is now being sought by authorities on charges of inciting riots, and the investigators have claimed that he used the child as a shield to cross police lines.

Prokazov denied that, saying they weren’t anywhere near police cordons and the child was never in jeopardy.q

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Thursday 8 August 2019

China warns Hong Kong facing biggest crisis since handover

By CHRISTOPHER BODEEN JOHNSON LAI Associated Press HONG KONG (AP) — Hong Kong is facing its “most severe situation” since its handover from British rule in 1997 following weeks of demonstrations and the central government is considering what measures to take next, the head of Beijing’s Cabinet office responsible for the territory said Wednesday.

Zhang Xiaoming was speaking to Hong Kong residents attending a seminar in the mainland city of Shenzhen just across the border from the Asian financial hub that has been wracked by daily protests against the administration of Chief Executive Carrie Lam. Those protests are getting increasingly violent and having “an increasingly broad impact on society,” Zhang told the 500 attendees, who included members of the Hong Kong and central government legislative and advisory bodies.

“It can be said that Hong Kong is facing the most severe situation it has faced since the handover,” Zhang said.

Officials in Beijing were “highly concerned” and studying the situation to decide on measures to take, he said.

Hong Kong was returned to China under the framework of “one country, two systems,” which promised the city political, civil and economic freedoms not allowed under Communist Party rule on the mainland.

However, many Hong Kong residents feel Beijing

A man carries an umbrella and wears a face mask as lawyers gather for a protest march in Hong Kong, Wednesday, Aug. 7, 2019.

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has been increasingly encroaching on their freedoms. The protests were set off by proposed extradition legislation that if passed would have allowed some suspects to be sent to China, where critics say they could face possible torture and unfair trials.

China so far has not visibly intervened in the situation, though in editorials and statements from officials it has condemned demonstrators and protest organizers as criminals, clowns and “violent radicals” and alleged that they have been inflamed by politicians from the U.S., Taiwan and elsewhere.

Speculation that the military could be deployed grew after Chinese officials pointed to an article in Hong Kong law that allows troops already stationed in

the city to help with “public order maintenance” at the Hong Kong government’s request.

Hong Kong authorities have said they don’t anticipate any need to bring in troops or police from China to help impose order. Observers say Beijing will likely try to wait the protesters out, hoping rising violence and inconvenience will turn the tide of public opinion against them.

Lam reappeared Wednesday at the opening of an exhibition marking the 70th anniversary of the founding of the Communist state.

“Over recent months, conditions in Hong Kong society have been extremely unstable,” Lam said in remarks distributed by her office. “The special administrative region government will certainly join with all of

you to deal with it calmly, restore social order, safeguard rule of law and cherish Hong Kong, cherish ‘one country, two systems,’ and cherish our home.”

Pro-democracy lawmakers continued to criticize Lam’s handling of the protests.

Claudia Mo told reporters that Beijing and Lam were employing a two-pronged strategy of using the police force to handle the protesters physically while also attacking them ideologically by labeling their movement as seeking to destroy the “one country, two systems” framework.

“We all know this (Hong Kong) administration has become completely untrustworthy and this is just so sad for Hong Kong,” Mo said.

With Hong Kong’s crucial travel industry suffering as

tourists put off their visits, Australia became the latest country to issue a travel safety warning to its citizens.

Australians should “exercise a high degree of caution,” in Hong Kong, the notice said. It said there was a risk of violent confrontation between protesters and police, or “criminally linked individuals,” and visitors should avoid large gatherings, especially at night and on weekends.

Ireland, Britain, and Japan have already issued Hong Kong travel warnings.

Protesters have come from all professions and age groups. On Wednesday, several hundred lawyers sought a meeting with Secretary of Justice Teresa Cheng and staged a silent protest. The authorities have refused to open a dialogue with protesters and there was no immediate response from Cheng’s office. Margaret Ng, a lawyer and a former lawmaker, said they wanted to meet Cheng and the director of public prosecution to seek an assurance that there was no political motive in prosecution of those detained in the protests.

More than 500 people have been arrested since the protests began in June and dozens have already been charged with rioting, which carries a maximum prison sentence of 10 years.

“One of the most important things about the rule of law is prosecution must not be abused because if abused, it is the most powerful instrument of oppression,” Ng said.q

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Thursday 8 August 2019

NEWS

Venezuela talks in the balance as US ups pressure on Maduro

By JOSHUA GOODMAN Associated Press BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — For weeks, representatives of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and his would-be successor, opposition leader Juan Guaidó, have been shuttling back and forth to Barbados trying to agree on a common path out of the country’s prolonged political standoff.

The meetings have been slow-going and shrouded in mystery, with neither side disclosing details. But now Maduro’s supporters are accusing the U.S. of trying to blow up the fragile process.

The purported explosive: sweeping new sanctions that freeze all of the Maduro government’s assets in the U.S. and even threaten to punish companies from third countries that keep doing business with his socialist administration.

“They’re trying to dynamite the dialogue,” Foreign Minister Jorge Arreaza said Tuesday at a news conference to denounce comments by U.S. National Security Adviser John Bolton defending the asset freeze.

“But nobody, not even 1,000 Trumps or 500 Boltons ... will make us abandon the negotiating table.”

Building on its role as a facilitator of Colombia’s peace process, Norway in May managed to over-

Cuba’s President Miguel Diaz-Canel, left, Venezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro, center, and Venezuelan Socialist Party President Diosdado Cabello, right, attend the closing ceremony of the Sao Paulo Forum at Miraflores presidential palace in Caracas, Venezuela, Sunday, July 28, 2019.

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come deep distrust arising from past failed attempts at dialogue and bring the two sides together in Oslo.

Talks have since moved to the Caribbean island of Barbados, where the fifth round wrapped up last week.

Neither side has said much about what is being discussed, although speculation has swirled in political and diplomatic circles that Maduro’s envoys have expressed a willingness to call an early presidential election under a revamped electoral board and foreign observation.

The U.S. has insisted Maduro must give up power before any elections can be deemed credible.

Three people involved in the talks from different sides have described the environment as serious and cordial, with each delegation dining and traveling back and forth to the island from Caracas separately.

All three insist progress has been made, even if the thorny topic of elections is being left for last and an allencompassing deal based on a six-point agenda is some way off.

The people agreed to

speak to The Associated Press only on the condition of anonymity because they weren’t authorized to divulge details of the talks.

Such insider accounts differ sharply from the assessment of Bolton and other hardliners inside the Trump administration who have accused Maduro of using the talks to buy time.

“We will not fall for these old tricks of a tired dictator,” Bolton declared Tuesday at a meeting in Peru of more than 50 governments aligned against Maduro.

“No more time for tap, tap, tapping.

Now is the time for action.” To be sure, nobody in the Trump administration has disavowed the talks, and some analysts believe Bolton’s “bad cop” persona and his threats of more punitive actions to come may even provide a boost to the mediation effort.

David Smilde, a sociology professor at Tulane University who has studied Venezuela for over 25 years, said similar strong-armed tactics by the U.S. failed to prevent a negotiated end to the civil wars in Central America in the 1980s.

Then, as the Cold War was still raging, U.S. funding of the contra army in Nicaragua in direct defiance of a regional peace plan actually increased international support for it.

“Ironically, obnoxious, bald actions by Bolton to sabotage the talks could end up favoring negotiations,” said Smilde.

Like Maduro, Guaidó, who heads the opposition-controlled congress, has shown no willingness to ditch the talks despite pressure to do so from hawks inside his coalition who accuse him of turning a blind eye to Maduro’s alleged torturing of opponents.

“We are doing everything possible to continue the Norwegian mechanism,” Guaidó said Tuesday when asked whether talks would continue.q

Brazil’s Lula da Silva to be transferred to penitentiary

By MAURICIO SAVARESE Associated Press SAO PAULO (AP) — A judge on Wednesday ordered the transfer of former Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva from a lockup in the south of the country to a penitentiary for common criminals in Sao Paulo state. Attorneys of the leftleaning leader said they would challenge the move in court.

Judge Paulo Sorci ruled the former president should be transferred from an isolated single room in federal police facilities in the city of Curitiba to the Tremembe penitentiary, 95 miles (155

Supporters of imprisoned former President of Brazil Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, place a banner with the image of the former president and with text written in Portuguese that reads “Freedom for Lula, “Lula innocent, Lula Political Prisoner”, at a bus station in Brasilia, Brazil, Thursday, Aug. 1, 2019.

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kilometers) northeast of Sao Paulo.

The date of the transfer is yet to be set and it is not clear what kind of cell the 73-year-old da Silva would be put in.

Earlier, Judge Carolina Lebbos authorized the move at the request of Brazil’s federal police, who said da Silva’s supporters are troubling neighbors of the prison in Curitiba. She hadn’t specified which prison would receive him.

Da Silva’s attorneys said they weren’t consulted about the transfer and said it would be a risk to his security.

The Tremembe penitentiary is known for holding highprofile prisoners. Sao Paulo state’s prison authority says it has a capacity of 408 inmates.

Da Silva’s Workers’ Party said in a statement that the move “is yet another illegality and gesture of persecution against Lula, for it arbitrarily denies him the prerogative of a former president and former commander-in-chief of the armed forces.”

Da Silva has been serving his 12-year sentence for corruption and money laundering in Curitiba since April 7 of last year. q

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Thursday 8 August 2019

Happy Community Initiative supports Heart-centered Leadership Foundation

“By empowering the young generation, you get great adults”

this to Aruba. “The intention was to have 100 leaders from organizations and schools participating. We brought this program to the schools. Parents saw amazing improvement in their child and requested it for their other children.”

Nathan started volunteering because he can find himself in this work. “I was looking for some meaning in my life. It brings me joy, the smiles on people’s faces is rewarding. It feels good to help others. If you educate the young generation, you get great adults not only on school results but in empathy, loveliness and resilience.” AshnaThijsen is youth coordinator and always has felt like serving the community.

“We as citizens have a responsibility to care and emphasize and help out.

Everyone needs people, guidance and support. By donating you are contributing and investing in the young generation. In their future, and in a progression of the island. If this is your second home and you love Aruba you would like to care about it, right? You help building this society strong by contributing.”q

SAN NICOLAS —The Heart-centered Leadership Foundation is a non-profit educational foundation dedicated to assist and empowering schools, youthserving organizations, teachers, and parents to better serve our world’s youth and prepare them to lead healthy, fulfilling and successful lives. Through the recently-launched Happy Community Initiative (HCI) you can support this foundation and help build our youth strong.

Project coordinator Keyla Rojas: “We focus on personal development and offer different programs like after school programs, seminars, counseling and coaching.

We envision a new generation of young people who are responsible, resilient and respectful.” The foundation focused on a secondary school drop-out prevention program and worked in three different schools over the last five years. “We identify risk factors as in the individual, the family, the pull and push out flows. This can be the school climate (rules, teachers support and so on), pregnancy or teenage fathers and financial crises within the family. We work together with the school counselors and care coordinators in this.” Most students wanted to participate and it went very well. Nathan Tromp, volunteer: “Drop-out is often an attack to the self-esteem, creating feelings like I am not enough, I cannot do it. In my volunteer work for the foundation I want to be that person that turns this around.”

Some Facts Millions of people around the world love Aruba, the ONE HAPPY ISLAND and the home away from home! Tourism in Aruba is performing well. However, in Aruba, about 6 of 10 youngsters between the ages of 12 and 18 are alone, or without adult supervision after school. In most cases, it is because their parents are working. In addition to this, many of Aruba’s youngsters experience boredom.

Often there is a lack of activities during vacation and limited opportunity to travel. Furthermore, 4-outof-10 Aruban youngsters do not complete secondary school. This is a very big issue that will eventually have a detrimental impact on Aruba’s future economy and the tourism industry. A recent study found at least 60% of Aruba’s youth is asking for afterschool programs, aimed at sports; cooking; art programs, and a safe place to hang out with their friends.

The Heart Siouxsie Kock, founder of the Heart-Centered Leadership Foundation in 2008, comes from the education system.

From working with older teens she saw the necessity for these programs based on heart-centered leadership.

Keyla: “They lead from the heart; decisions are made by feeling unique and having integrity. Not by personal gain but what I can do for others.”Kock saw the Achievements and Commitment to Excellence Program (ACE) in Los Angeles school area and was determined to bring

Our Newest Column is All about YOUth and Happiness ORANJESTAD — Our newest column Happy Community Initiative is published bi-weekly on Thursdays in Aruba Today.

We inform you about these dynamic, new projects from a different angle to give you a complete feel so follow us and stay engaged!

The Happy Community Initiative is a visitor charity program that you can help strengthen Aruba’s community by donating to good causes. CEDE Aruba, a dynamic community foundation, and the Aruba Timeshare Association (ATSA) collaborates in this platform for visitors who would like to make a donation, but also volunteer in the future. The priority is

set to support projects for Aruban youths.

CEDE Aruba will make sure that the donations reach meaningful projects of local non-profits, based upon quality and transparency of finances of the offered programs. In this manner, you can be assured that your donation will reach its goal! With your donation, you support Aruban children with after school programs, mentorship activities and social support.

You can donate at the kiosks in the lobby of several hotels (Costa Linda, Playa Linda, Paradise Beach Villas and La Cabana) or you can donate on the website: https://happycommunityaruba. org/donate.

Copyright CEDE Aruba

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Thursday 8 August 2019

Renaissance Aruba Resort & Casino is leveling up

The 3rd edition of ‘Rosé All Day’ will take place on August 10

ORANJESTAD - This year Renaissance Aruba Resort & Casino will host the 3rd edition of ‘Rosé All Day.’ This is the event where all the wine lovers gather for an afternoon of relaxation, good music, and delicious Rose comparable to an international ‘picnic’ where you can just be barefoot and relax with a group of friends. ‘Rosé All Day’ will take place at Iguana Beach on Renaissance Island.

The concept ‘Rosé All Day' has proven itself to be an exceptional experience for all participants each year, so far. A boat trip to the private Island, live music, featuring Robin and The Rebels; and DJ Lee-Croes with Joyride, will get the party started, right. This year, a VIP deck on the water has been added. It will, surely, be the center of attention.

This edition is expected to surpass all expeatations, and will be very exciting for the tourist and locals, alike.

Upon arrival, each visitor will get a backpack, including their own rosé cup, a cooler bag, a blanket and $10 rosé wine credit to spend. There will be several food stations on location, all different Renaissance Aruba Resort & Casino restaurants, serving the per-

fect bites to pair with your favorite bubbly. The main attraction is the bar from the Arion Wine Company, where visitors can order select wines such Whispering Angel, Champagne Bollinger, Ti Amo and also The Palm Rose. The organization has really thought of all the details to make this edition of 'Rosé All Day' as memorable as possible. There will be different scenes during the event where you can take pictures and share them on Instagram. Get ready to Eat, Slay and Rosé on August 10th at the Renaissance Island.

Tickets are already on sale at the Navigator desks in the lobby of the Renaissance Marina Hotel and at Renaissance Ocean Suites for $40 including a swag-bag, cooler-bag, a blanket’ and also $10 wine credit. They also have a VIP ($600) which include the entire general package plus personal service, 2 bottles of wine, a snackplatter and a high-boy on a VIP deck all this for 6 persons. Availability is limited. For more information about the 'Rose All Day,’ please call 523-6115 or visit the Facebook page of Renaissance Aruba Resort & Casino. Dress code for this event is white or pink.q

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Thursday 8 August 2019

Ling & Sons: Grand Opening Cosmetics Shop ORANJESTAD — Super Center Ling & Sons has a huge make-over going on that is in its final phase. The successful supermarket has a solid position on the island and a trustworthy image that makes customers feel like they are shopping at home. This Saturday between 5 to 7 PM you are invited to celebrate the Grand Opening of their NEW Cosmetics Shop. Don’t miss out on this opportunity!

The celebration will also launch the Beauty Week running from August 10th to August 17th. Make-up and beauty stand central during this week and Saturday you can already enjoy various specials, free gifts with your purchase, demo’s and make-overs by professional make-up artists. There is also a beauty bar where clients can learn more about make-up. The renowned brands like L’Oreal, Maybelline, Revlon, Max Factor, Cover Girl, Nivea, Biore, Clean & Clear and Neutrogena are available but there is much more to discover. Come on over to explore the first ready-renovated department of the number 1 supermarket on the island!

Ling and Sons IGA Super Center Schotlandstraat #41, Oranjestad Tel: +(297) 521-2370 Facebook Instagram https://www.lingandsons.com/

Mark Your Calendar Every Tuesday: 20 % discount fruits and veggies Every Wednesday: 3 % discount for seniors Every Thursday: 20 % discount on meat Every Friday: Start of the Weekly Specials September 26: Food Show at the Marriott & Stellaris Casino Resort Aruba

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Thursday 8 August 2019

Bohemian Restaurant: Tonight live Violinist Angela A garden full of strong trees and dressed up in New York-style industrial-look elements creates a cosmopolitan vibe while at the same time the tropical breeze and outside dining connect to the Caribbean.

Waiters with French barrettes and pant suspenders service you with a happy and loose style with on the background the sounds of underground chill music varied with French classics.

ONLY French owned Restaurant The French are famous for their culinary art.

Bohemain is the ONLY French owned restaurant on Aruba and offers you Grande gastronomy in a hip decor. French classics like Coq-au-Vin, Beef tartare, Escargot, Duck Foie Gras Terrine, Bouillabaisse Fish Soup, Tuna-Tartare, Quinoa-Salad, Rib-Eye Butter Maître-D, Crème Brulee, Chocolate Lava Cake and Pineapple Carpaccio are on the menu. Mediterranean inspired dishes like Ras el Hanout Fish Kebbab, Honey and Rosemary Lamb Shank, Moroccan PALM BEACH — Avant-garde from France, nonconformist in style and ethnic in cuisine. That is what the new kid in town is about. Bohemian Restaurant is different, unconventional and a rebel with a cause. The cause is to make you feel king in this hidden garden with outstanding dishes that connect you to the European liaisons of Aruba. TONIGHT has an extra magic: the live Violinist Angela performs! From traditional French and Italian famous melodies to more upbeat pop and rock and roll. A taste for everyone.

Lamb sausages, Mediterranean Sea Bass and Grilled Local Catch are other finger licking options. Directly imported wines from wineries in Europe make up for a perfect pairing. You are welcome to enjoy the Happy Hours and Daily Early Birds from 5 to 7 PM. Bon appetite!

Free Parking available at the parking lot in front of Barcelo Resort. q Make your reservations through their website: https://bohemianaruba.com.

Call them at 00 297 280 8448.

Facebook: Bohemian.

Honoring loyal visitors at La Quinta beach Resort EAGLE BEACH — Recently, Darline de Cuba had the great pleasure to honor a Loyal and friendly visitors of Aruba as Distinguished Visitors at their home away from home. The symbolic honorary title is presented on behalf of the Minister of Tourism, as a token of appreciation to the guests who visit Aruba between 10-20-35 and more consecutive years.

The honored were Eugene & Amy Dalusio residents of Newberg Florida visiting the Island for 15 years consecutively. The lovely couple mentioned that reasons for returning all those years to our island are because of the warm inviting sun, the gracious treatment from everyone, the absolute feeling of safety everywhere/anytime and the unending selection of Restaurants Ms. De Cuba thanked them for choosing Aruba as their vacation destination and as their home away from home for so many years together with the members of La Quinta Beach Resort.q

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Thursday 8 August 2019

BLAST OFF In this Dec. 11, 2017, file photo, Miami Dolphins owner Stephen M. Ross watches his team before an NFL football game against the New England Patriots in Miami Gardens, Fla. Associated Press

Dolphins’ receiver, owner at odds on support of Trump

By STEVEN WINE AP Sports Writer MIAMI (AP) — Miami Dolphins owner Stephen Ross is defending his support of longtime friend Donald Trump after being criticized about it by one of his players.

Receiver Kenny Stills’ comments Wednesday followed a report by the Washington Post that Ross plans to host a fundraiser for the president.

Stills tweeted a screen capture from Ross’ anti-racism RISE initiative’s website and wrote, “You can’t have a non-profit with this mission statement then open your doors to Trump.”

The mission statement says RISE “educates and empowers the sports community to eliminate racial discrimination, champion social justice and improve race relations.”

Ross’ fundraiser is scheduled for Friday at his home on Long Island, the Post said.

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Greinke wins Astros debut with HR help, tops Rockies 11-6 Houston Astros Yuli Gurriel connects for a one run RBI single during the sixth inning of a baseball game against the Colorado Rockies Wednesday, Aug. 7, 2019, in Houston.

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Thursday 8 August 2019

Woods rested, back not entirely ready for FedEx Cup playoffs

In this Sept. 28, 2017, file photo, Tiger Woods looks on before the first round of the Presidents Cup golf tournament at Liberty National Golf Club in Jersey City, N.J. Associated Press

By DOUG FERGUSON AP Golf Writer JERSEY CITY, N.J. (AP) — Tiger Woods is plenty rested going into the FedEx Cup playoffs.

Whether he’s ready is day to day.

Woods stopped hitting full shots on the back nine of Liberty National on Wednesday during his proam round for The Northern Trust, a precautionary move during a year in which he repeatedly has said he can’t always predict how his back is going to feel.

“Just feeling stiff, being smart about it,” Woods said. “As I said to you guys all year, this is how it is.

Some days I’m stiffer than others. Yesterday I was out there hitting it great. Today I’m stiff. Hopefully, I’m not that way tomorrow.”

He also didn’t sound overly concerned.

Woods is willing to accept that a 43-year-old back that has gone through four surgeries in the last five years is not going to feel like it once did. He also looked back to the spring, when he took an extra week off in March, and then chipped and putted when he arrived at Augusta National for nine holes. And by the end of the week, he was the Masters champion.

As much as Woods has tried to take time off, he can only hope he faces the busiest part of the year.

The Northern Trust begins the lucrative FedEx Cup playoffs, starting with two tournaments with $9.25 million purses, ending at the Tour Championship for the top 30 players competing for the $15 million prize.

Woods is at No. 28, the lowest position of the four major champions, primarily because he hasn’t played

all that much. Since he won a fifth green jacket at the Masters, he has played just four times, three of them majors. Now he faces three straight weeks if he gets to the Tour Championship, a goal for reasons other than a shot at $15 million. Woods completed his remarkable comeback last year at East Lake by winning for the first time in five years, a big moment for him and for golf.

But he has to play well to get there.

Points are quadrupled for the playoff events to add volatility. That means Pat Perez, who earned the 125th and final spot in the postseason by two points, could win this week and move to as high as No. 2 in the standings.

The top 70 advance next week to Medinah for the BMW Championship, and the top 30 make it to the Tour Championship. Woods

sounded as concerned about getting to East Lake as what it would take to reach the FedEx Cup finale.

“If you’re missing cuts, who cares? You’re taking weekends off and a couple extra days of rest,” he said.

“But I’m trying to get myself where I’m in contention, where it takes a toll on you, and that’s what I want to feel. I want to feel that type of tiredness where I have a chance to win. That’s a good feeling.”

PGA champion Brooks Koepka is the No. 1 seed and coming off his third victory of the season at the FedEx St. Jude Invitational, his first World Golf Championship title. Koepka has established himself firmly as No. 1 in the world, which guarantees nothing over the next three weeks. Only two players who started the FedEx Cup playoffs at No. 1 wound up winning —

Jordan Spieth in 2015 and Woods in 2007 and 2009.

For Woods, it was a different level of uncertainly the last time he was at Liberty National. He was an assistant captain in the 2017 Presidents Cup, still recovering from a fourth surgery that fused his lower back.

He was asked if he could see a scenario in which he would not return to competition and Woods replied: “Yeah, definitely. I don’t know what my future holds for me.”

He started full swings a few weeks later, played in his holiday event in the Bahamas at the end of the year, was contending in March and won in September. It was an aggressive return for someone who had completed just seven rounds in the previous 27 months before coming back.

Woods first worked his way back into the top 50 to become eligible for World Golf Championships. He made such a strong push at the end of the year that Woods played eight times in 11 weeks — five of the last six, including the Ryder Cup. “I learned a lot last year by playing too much,” Woods said. “Coming back from my procedure and not really knowing what to expect, I pushed it pretty hard — vowed I would never do that again. I’ve cut back the schedule quite a bit, and that’s the challenge now. ... We’ve got a more condensed season, and it’s trying to figure out how to stay sharp, practice and also have my back feeling good all the time. It’s a challenge.”

Liberty National is a course he has played well. He was a runner-up to Heath Slocum in 2009 and Adam Scott in 2013. It was the 2013 event where Woods first started feeling back spasms, dropping to his knees after some shots on the back nine. He had the first of four back surgeries seven months later.

He returns as the Masters champion, No. 5 in the world and not entirely sure what his back will allow him to do.q

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Thursday 8 August 2019

Special guest: Krzyzewski stops

by USA Basketball practice

By TIM REYNOLDS AP Basketball Writer LAS VEGAS (AP) — Gregg Popovich somehow only met Mike Krzyzewski for the first time about four years ago, when the two coaching greats saw their paths finally cross when they were together at a USA Basketball event.

They’re a whole lot closer now. USA Basketball’s coaching past was alongside its present Wednesday, when Krzyzewski — who led the national team to an 88-1 record over his 12 years at the helm — was alongside Popovich for Day 3 of the team’s training camp in advance of the FIBA World Cup. And Popovich made no effort to hide how happy he was to have his predecessor in the gym to watch practice and some scrimmages.

“We were anxious to get Coach K in town to spend a couple days,” Popovich said. “I’ve already talked to him, as you might imagine, gotten advice. But to have him here, seeing the scrimmage, now we can all go back and talk about what we think needs to happen.

Having him here with that added experience is invaluable.”

Popovich wasn’t the only one in the gym feeling a boost from Krzyzewski’s presence on Wednesday.

Among the others: USA Basketball forwards Mason Plumlee and Jayson Tatum, both of whom said they relished the chance to spend some extra time with their coach from Duke.

“It was great, man,” Plumlee said. “I try to see Coach once or twice a summer, so for him to come out here ... he didn’t come for me, but it was great to see him.”

Tatum chatted with Krzyzewski for a few minutes after practice, and said he got some advice.

“Confidential,” Tatum said.

“But it was good advice.”

Krzyzewski won five gold medals in his tenure as national team coach — including three at the Olympics and two from the world championships,

now known as the World Cup — started Wednesday in a morning meeting with Popovich and other coaches. He walked into practice at UNLV alongside Popovich and was expected to take part in more meetings before departing later this week.

“He’s really the only guy that Pop can relate to in trying to bring this together so fast,” Plumlee said.

Krzyzewski, who politely declined an interview request through USA Basketball, first met Popovich around the time that the longtime San Antonio Spurs coach was accepting an invitation to replace the Duke coach at the helm of the U.S. program. They were brought together in Las Vegas by USA Basketball managing director Jerry Colangelo during preparations for the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Olympics. Colangelo wanted to hire Krzyzewski’s replacement long before Rio, just to eliminate incessant speculation during the Olympic cycle about who would take over the program. He wasn’t aware at the time that the coaches had never gotten acquainted.

“Once they got to know each other, they were like bonded immediately,” Colangelo said. “Pop was in all the meetings and the practices after they met. I wanted him to get his feet wet just to see how we had done things under Mike.

And I think it was a great way to get him started. But I thought that was amazing, that they had never met each other.”

Krzyzewski and Popovich are loaded with similarities: Both went to service academies, both played for Bob Knight (Krzyzewski played for Knight at Army, and Knight was Popovich’s coach at the 1972 U.S. Olympic trials, a few years before Popovich got his first head coaching job at Division III Pomona-Pitzer).

Both have five championships from their ‘real’ jobs — Krzyzewski at Duke, Popovich in San Antonio. They are both considered basket-

ball royalty, the top of the top of their profession.

All that only adds to the oddity that they didn’t know each other until a few years ago. “I’m a Division III guy at heart and that’s where I spent most of my time until I somehow woke up in San Antonio and never left,” Popovich said. “We never played Duke when I was at Pomona-Pitzer.”

NOTES: USA Basketball said Boston’s Marcus Smart is out with a left calf injury, and he will be re-evaluated when the team gets to Los Angeles for the second part of training camp next week. ... In two 10-minute scrimmage periods Wednesday between the national team candidates

Former USA Basketball coach Mike Krzyzewski talks with Boston Celtics forward Jayson Tatum after the U.S. training camp practice Wednesday, Aug. 7, 2019, in Las Vegas. Tatum played for Krzyzewski at Duke.

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and the select team — the younger NBA players brought into practice to compete against the varsity — there was no winner.

Both periods ended in a tie, with Milwaukee’s Khris Mid-

dleton making three free throws with 0.7 seconds left in the first one to save his team. ... Camp continues with Day 4 on Thursday, followed by an open scrimmage Friday night.q

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Thursday 8 August 2019

2 senators ask MLB for data on foul ball injuries

By BEN NUCKOLS AP Sports Writer Illinois’ two senators continued their pressure campaign on Major League Baseball to be more proactive about fan safety at ballparks, urging greater transparency about how often and how seriously fans are hurt by foul balls.

Democratic Sens. Dick Durbin and Tammy Duckworth said in a letter to baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred this week that MLB should “collect and report data about fan injuries.” Durbin and Duckworth have previously called on all 30 major league teams to extend protective netting to the foul poles at their stadiums. “We currently rely on media coverage about foul ball injuries, which can lead to misinformation and confusion,” the senators wrote in the letter, sent Tuesday. “The creation of an injury registry would help provide the public a better understanding of fan inju-

In this July 6, 2015, file photo, a fan is helped after being hit by a foul ball during the ninth inning of a baseball game between the Milwaukee Brewers and the Atlanta Braves in Milwaukee.

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ries at MLB stadiums and help evaluate the voluntary safety measures that many teams are implementing.”

Last month, the Chicago White Sox became the first major league team to extend protective netting

from foul pole to foul pole.

The safety measure was announced a week after a foul ball at the park sent a woman to the hospital with her head bleeding.

Several fans, including a 2-year-old girl in Houston,

have been injured by hardhit foul balls this season, and several teams have said they plan to extend netting or are studying how to do it.

Manfred, however, has resisted mandating that all

teams extend netting to the foul poles, saying different ballpark configurations make a blanket rule impossible. “We have opted to work with the individual clubs over a period of time to extend netting,” Manfred said at this year’s AllStar Game. “I think one of the reasons that we have had progress is that we have not put clubs in an impossible position by adopting a one-size-fits-all rule.”

In their letter, Durbin and Duckworth cited a 2014 report by Bloomberg News estimating that 1,800 fans are hurt by foul balls each season, a rate of roughly two fans injured for every two games played. They noted the report is five years old and leaves many unanswered questions, such as which areas of ballparks are the safest in which to sit, that MLB could address by disclosing data.

Michael Teevan, an MLB spokesman, declined to comment on the letter.q

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Thursday 8 August 2019

Astros hits 4 HRs, make a winner of Greinke in debut

By The Associated Press HOUSTON (AP) — Zack Greinke labored through six innings but wound up with a win in his Astros debut as Houston hit four home runs Tuesday night to beat the Colorado Rockies 11-6.

Playing in front of a seasonhigh crowd of 43,243, the AL West leaders won their fifth straight. Yuli Gurriel hit two homers, Yordan Alvarez added a two-run drive and Carlos Correa homered and drove in three runs.

Greinke (11-4), a six-time All-Star who was traded from Arizona on Wednesday, yielded seven hits and five runs with two walks and two strikeouts. He left with the game tied at 5, tagged

by Raimel Tapia’s three-run homer in the sixth.

But Houston scored two runs in the bottom of the inning, highlighted by Correa’s home run, to give Greinke his first win since July 5.

Charlie Blackmon hit a solo shot off Astros reliever Chris Devenski in the seventh to cut it to 1. But Houston tacked on four more runs in the bottom of the frame.

Colorado starter German Márquez gave up eight hits and five runs in five innings.

Chi Chi Gonzalez (0-4) allowed one hit and two runs without getting an out in the sixth for the loss.

YANKEES 9, ORIOLES 4 BALTIMORE (AP) — New York continued its home run binge against Baltimore, hitting six more and getting three RBIs from Austin Romine in its 14th consecutive win at Camden Yards.

One night after going deep five times, the Yankees went one better against the Orioles’ beleaguered pitching staff. Mike Tauchman and DJ LeMahieu went back-to-back in the third inning and Brett Gardner and Cameron Maybin did the same in the ninth.

Didi Gregorius also connected, and Romine contributed a solo shot and a two-run double.

The Yankees have hit 38 home runs at Camden Yards, extending their major league single-season record for most by a visiting

team in one ballpark.

Asher Wojciechowski (2-5) took the loss.

Nestor Cortes Jr. (5-0) pitched 2 1/3 scoreless innings and Adam Ottavino got the final six outs for his first save.

WHITE SOX 5, TIGERS 3, 1ST GAME TIGERS 10, WHITE SOX 6, 2ND GAME DETROIT (AP) — Miguel Cabrera had three hits and scored twice to help Detroit win the second game and split a doubleheader with Chicago.

Drew VerHagen (2-2) allowed one run in five innings for Detroit in the nightcap, then left the game after a 61-minute rain delay. Héctor Santiago (1-1) yielded four earned runs in 4 2/3 innings.

Detroit scored two runs in the second, then Cabrera led off the bottom of the third with a double and scored on a sacrifice fly by Dawel Lugo to put the Tigers up 3-0. Cabrera led off the Detroit fifth with a single and eventually came home on a single by Travis Demeritte. Gordon Beckham added an RBI single to make it 5-1, and the rain delay began before the fifth inning ended.

Jordy Mercer hit a two-run homer for Detroit in the seventh.

In the first game, José Abreu homered and drove in three runs and Dylan Cease pitched five solid innings to lift Chicago.

Welington Castillo also homered for Chicago, and Jake Rogers went deep for Detroit.

Cease (2-4) allowed two runs and seven hits, striking out six with one walk. It was his second career victory, and both have come against the Tigers, who are 10-45 since the start of June.

Three relievers finished for the White Sox. Alex Colomé allowed a run in the ninth but held on for his 22nd save in 23 chances.

Daniel Norris (3-9) allowed four runs in 5 2/3 innings.

ROYALS 6, RED SOX 2 BOSTON (AP) — Jorge Soler hit a pair of long two-run homers over the Green

Houston Astros starting pitcher Zack Greinke, right, walks back to the mound as Colorado Rockies’ Raimel Tapia, back left, rounds the bases after hitting a three-run home run during the sixth inning of a baseball game Tuesday, Aug. 6, 2019, in Houston.

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Monster, Jakob Junis pitched six effective innings and Kansas City snapped a seven-game losing streak.

Ryan O’Hearn also homered for Kansas City, which had lost eight in a row to the Red Sox — its longest slump ever against Boston.

Christian Vázquez had two hits with an RBI double for Boston, which halted its eight-game losing skid a night earlier.

The Red Sox also were held without a home run, ending a club-record stretch of at least one homer in 18 straight games in Fenway Park.

Junis (7-10) escaped a couple of early jams and gave up one run on seven hits, striking out four with one walk.

Andrew Cashner (10-7) gave up six runs on seven hits — three of them hom-

ers — over 5 1/3 innings, dropping his record to 1-4 since being traded from Baltimore to the Red Sox. PADRES 9, MARINERS 4 SEATTLE (AP) — Dinelson Lamet took a no-hit bid into the seventh inning for the only major league team that’s never pitched one, leading San Diego over Seattle.

Omar Narvaez lined a single with one out in the seventh to break up Lamet’s try. The Padres, who began play in 1969, are still looking for that elusive first no-hitter.

Lamet (1-2) struck out 12 and gave up two hits in seven shutout innings for his first win since 2017.

Rookie Fernando Tatis Jr. hit his 20th home run as the Padres sent Seattle to its fifth straight loss.

Eric Hosmer added a tworun homer in the eighth and

Josh Naylor later homered.

The Mariners rallied for four runs off the bullpen in the eighth inning, spurred by Tim Lopes’ two-run homer, his first major league hit.

RAYS 7, BLUE JAYS 6, 10 INNINGS ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) — Kevin Kiermaier scored the winning run on a wild pitch with two outs in the bottom of the 10th inning as Tampa Bay rallied from six runs back.

Kiermaier led off the 10th by stretching a hit into a double off Buddy Bosher (0-2), and scored the game-ending run after a walk and Willy Adames’ bunt. First baseman Brandon Drury fielded the bunt and threw to third in an unsuccessful attempt to force Kiermaier. After two strikeouts, Bosher’s pitch to Austin Meadows bounced through catcher Danny Jansen and Kiermaier scored.

Diego Castillo (2-6) got the win after one inning of relief.

Avisail Garcia, Willy Adames and Meadows hit two-run homers for the Rays.

BRAVES 12, TWINS 7 MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Ronald Acuña Jr. and Freddie Freeman hit first-pitch homers off Minnesota ace Jose Berríos and Atlanta routed the Twins.

The first three batters in Atlanta’s lineup — Acuña, Ozzie Albies and Freeman — combined to go 10 for 16 with nine runs and eight RBIs. Acuña scored four runs and Freeman drove in four.

It was one of the worst starts of Berríos’ career. He allowed a career-high nine runs in the loss and slipped to 10-6.

Braves righty Mike Foltynewicz (3-5) allowed just two hits through five innings but was tagged for three runs, including two homers, in the sixth.

Minnesota’s Nelson Cruz hit his 31st and 32nd home runs of the season, homering in the sixth and seventh innings. He has six multihomer games this year, tying Harmon Killebrew in Twins’ history for the most in a season.q

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Thursday 8 August 2019

Wheeler lifts Mets over Marlins 5-0 for 12th win in 13 games

By The Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Zack Wheeler pitched eight efficient innings, Wilson Ramos and Pete Alonso homered, and New York won for the 12th time in 13 games.

Wheeler (9-6) cruised through eight innings on 99 pitches against the Marlins, allowing eight hits and striking out five.

Todd Frazier had an RBI double in the first inning and Ramos added a threerun shot in the third. Alonso smoked a solo shot in the fifth, his second connection in two games after going nine without one. Alonso has 36 homers for the season. Miami right-hander Héctor Noesí (0-1) allowed five runs over five innings in his first major league appearance since 2015.

New York will try to complete a four-game sweep of the Marlins on Wednesday.

BREWERS 4, PIRATES 3 PITTSBURGH (AP) — Yasmani Grandal had two doubles and an RBI and Milwaukee, without a resting Christian Yelich, beat Pittsburgh for its second straight win.

Grandal drove in Ryan Braun with a double to leftcenter, the first hit off Pirates starter Steven Brault, in the fifth inning, before scoring when Trent Grisham grounded into a double play as the Brewers moved out to a 2-0 lead.

Bryan Reynolds homered

New York Mets starting pitcher Zack Wheeler delivers during the first inning of the team’s baseball game against the Miami Marlins, Tuesday, Aug. 6, 2019, in New York.

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and Francisco Liriano (4-3) took the loss, for Pittsburgh, which is 4-20 since the AllStar break.

Junior Guerra (4-3) picked up the win and Matt Albers earned his second save.

The day off was intended to manage a nagging back injury Yelich has been dealing with this season, manager Craig Counsell said.

ATHLETICS 11, CUBS 4 CHICAGO (AP) — Lefty Jon Lester was tagged for a career high-tying 11 runs in only four innings, with Dustin Garneau and Stephen Piscotty hitting three-run homers that led Oakland.

Garneau’s drive to the back row of the bleachers in left field was the big blow in an eight-run, second-inning burst. The A’s went on to their seventh win in nine games.

Kris Bryant homered as the

NL Central-leading Cubs had their four-game winning streak end.

Lester (9-8) allowed 11 runs — 10 of them earned — on 10 hits and three walks.

Cubs catcher Taylor Davis pitched a scoreless ninth.

Brett Anderson (10-7) cruised to his first win in month, scattering seven hits over six innings. He also contributed two singles at the plate. Matt Olson had two RBIs and Mark Canha and Chad Pinder each drove in a run for the A’s.

REDS 8, ANGELS 4 CINCINNATI (AP) — Tucker Barnhart hit two of Cincinnati’s five home runs, Aristides Aquino included one among his three hits and came up with a clutch catch, helping complete a two-game sweep of Los Angeles.

José Iglesias hit a two-run

homer and Eugenio Suárez added a solo shot, helping Cincinnati overcome home runs by Justin Upton and Mike Trout and send the Angels to their sixth consecutive loss, matching their season-worst losing streak. Anthony DeSclafani (7-6) allowed five hits and four runs with three walks and five strikeouts in 5 1-3 innings to collect the win, the Reds’ third straight and fourth in five games.

José Suarez (2-3) set season highs by giving up six runs and 10 hits with one walk and three strikeouts in five innings.

NATIONALS 5, GIANTS 3 SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Kurt Suzuki hit a two-run homer and RBI single during a three-hit night, Trea Turner added a solo drive to help back Anibal Sanchez, and Washington beat San Francisco.

Sanchez (7-6) allowed one earned run on four hits in six innings, struck out three and walked one to win his seventh straight decision since a loss at the Dodgers on May 10.

Nationals closer Sean Doolittle earned his 25th save in 29 chances.

Conner Menez (0-1) allowed five runs on six hits in six innings, struck out four and walked three.

DIAMONDBACKS 8, PHILLIES 4 PHOENIX (AP) — Eduardo Escobar and Alex Avila

Dolphins’ receiver Continued from Page 17

“I always have been an active participant in the democratic process,” Ross said in a statement.

“While some prefer to sit outside of the process and criticize, I prefer to engage directly and support the things I deeply care about.”

Ross and Trump have been friends for 40 years. Both are New York real estate billionaires with homes in Palm Beach, Florida.

In the wake of last weekend’s mass shootings in Texas and Ohio, Trump’s critics have blamed his incendiary rhetoric for in-

flaming political and racial tensions.

Said Ross in his statement: “I have been, and will continue to be, an outspoken champion of racial equality, inclusion, diversity, public education and environmental sustainability, and I have and will continue to support leaders on both sides of the aisle to address these challenges.”

Stills has been kneeling during the national anthem before Dolphins games since 2016 and has been vocal in discussing racial inequality and other issues.

Last season Trump said NFL players who refuse to stand

In this Dec. 9, 2018, file photo, Miami Dolphins wide receiver Kenny Stills (10) stands along the sideline during the first half of the team’s NFL football game against the New England Patriots in Miami Gardens, Fla. Associated Press

for the anthem should be suspended without pay,

and he also retweeted a photo that showed Stills

homered and drove in three runs, and Arizona rallied to beat Philadelphia.

David Peralta also homered for Arizona, which has won three of four as it fights for a National League wildcard spot.

The Diamondbacks scored five runs off Phillies relievers Ranger Suarez and Blake Parker and turned a 3-2 deficit into a comfortable lead. Andrew Chafin (1-2) worked two-thirds of an inning to get the win, with Suarez (3-1) the losing pitcher.

Mike Leake, in his Diamondbacks debut after being acquired in a trade with the Seattle Mariners on July 31, allowed two earned runs on 11 hits. The Phillies left 10 men on base.

DODGERS 3, CARDINALS 1 LOS ANGELES (AP) — Clayton Kershaw struck out nine in seven strong innings, Justin Turner had two hits and drove in the game-winning run and Los Angeles beat St. Louis for its seventh win in eight games.

Kershaw (11-2) allowed only one run on four hits.

The left-hander is unbeaten in 21 straight regular-season starts at Dodger Stadium dating to last season.

Kenley Jansen pitched the ninth to earn his 26th save.

Miles Mikolas (7-12) went 6 2/3 innings and surrendered two runs on six hits with seven strikeouts. The Cardinals have dropped four straight and five of seven.q kneeling as the anthem played. Ross is one of several NFL owners who publicly support Trump.

The group includes New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft and New York Jets’ Woody Johnson, who has been U.S. ambassador to Britain since 2017.

As Ross drew criticism from one of his players, the National Football Foundation and College Hall of Fame announced the Dolphins owner will be inducted into its Leadership Hall of Fame on Aug. 28.

“Stephen Ross has built a reputation as one of the top business leaders in our country today,” NFF chairman Archie Manning said in a statement Wednesday.q

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Thursday 8 August 2019

Sofia Kenin, of the United States, serves to Ashleigh Barty, of Australia, during the Rogers Cup women’s tennis tournament Tuesday, Aug. 6, 2019, in Toronto.

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Defending Rogers Cup champ Halep edges qualifier Brady TORONTO (AP) — Wimbledon champion Simona Halep of Romania beat American qualifier Jennifer Brady 4-6, 7-5, 7-6 (5) on Wednesday in the second round of the Rogers Cup on Wednesday.

The winner last year in Montreal, Halep lost a 4-0 lead in the third set when Brady won five straight games.

The No. 4 Halep broke the 76th-ranked Brady for a third time in the set to go up 6-5, but the former world No. 1 was broken right back to set up the tiebreak.

“It was a very, very tough

one,” Halep said. “I expected it because I knew that she’s going to serve big and also the forehand is big. I didn’t feel 100 per cent ready for the tournament because I had a long break (after Wimbledon).

But I’m really pleased with the way it was today, the fact that I fought till the end.”

The 26-year-old Halep will face either Svetlana Kuznetsova or Donna Vekic in the third round.

Serena Williams played later Wednesday against Elise Mertens. q

Defending champ Rafael Nadal wins Rogers Cup opener

Rafael Nadal of Spain tosses the ball to serve to Daniel Evans of Britain during the Rogers Cup men’s tennis tournament Wednesday, Aug. 7, 2019, in Montreal.

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MONTREAL (AP) — Topseeded Rafael Nadal opened his Rogers Cup title defense Wednesday, beating England’s Daniel

Evans 7-6 (6), 6-4 in a second-round match delayed by rain three times.

After rain delays of six and 30 minutes, Nadal fought off two set points in the first-set tiebreaker. Play was stopped for 1 hour, 56 minutes with Nadal leading 2-0 in the second set.

“All the matches are difficult here,” Nadal said. “It was a tough first set. Then in the second, I was able to take advantage at the beginning, but then he broke me back.”

The 33-year-old Spanish star, a four-time Rogers Cup champion, will face Argentina’s Guido Pella in the third round. Pella beat Moldova’s Radu Albot 6-3, 2-6, 7-6 (2). q

Tour de France winner Egan Bernal waves to the crowd as he is welcomed home to Zipaquira, Colombia, Wednesday, Aug. 7, 2019.

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Tour de France champion gets homecoming fiesta in Colombia

By MANUEL RUEDA and IVAN VALENCIA Associated Press ZIPAQUIRA, Colombia (AP) — Thousands of screaming fans held a victory party for Tour de France champion Egan Bernal in his Colombian hometown on Wednesday, celebrating the first Latin American to win cycling’s most prestigious race.

Bernal rode his bike into the central square of Zipaquira wearing the Tour de France’s iconic yellow jersey while some 3,000 supporters dressed in the same color chanted his name.

The 22-year-old won the Tour last month ahead of Ineos teammate and defending champion Geraint Thomas, becoming the youngest rider to win the race since World War II. Bernal’s victory has been widely celebrated in Colombia, which has produced several world-class riders but had never won the Tour.

As Bernal flew home from Europe, a Colombian airline crew spotted him on their plane and celebrated his presence with a toast and free champagne for passengers. Then he was flown in a helicopter to his hometown of Zipaquira, about 30 miles (50 kilometers) outside Bogota, Colombia’s capital.

“If someone would’ve come to my neighborhood a few years ago and told me I was going to win the Tour de France, I wouldn’t have believed it,” Bernal said on a stage set up for the party that was decorated in yellow, with fresh flowers arranged in the shape of a bicycle. “Today I feel very proud to be Colombian and bring the yellow jersey home.”

Bernal’s victory especially resonates with the residents of neglected mountainous

areas, which are home to the country’s top riders.

Bernal grew up in Zipaquira, an oxygenstarved town about 9,200 feet (2,800 meters) above sea level. His father was a security guard at the local tourist attraction, a salt mine that houses a large cathedral. His mother labored at a local flower farm.

Bernal’s friends said he set ambitious goals from an early age, training hard to make it onto the international cycling circuit, and benefiting from training in the high altitude of Colombia’s mountains.

“He had an insatiable hunger for victory,” said Felix Baron, a childhood friend and professional cyclist who drove two hours from his farm to attend Bernal’s victory party. “He is like an eagle that puts his eye on a goal and doesn’t let go.”

As a teenager, Bernal enrolled in a local college to study journalism, but a mentor convinced him to drop his studies and devote his time to cycling after seeing his potential. The mentor promised to pay for Bernal’s university studies if his sports career floundered.

Bernal won several regional mountain bike competitions and then focused on road cycling. He first started to race in Europe with Androni, an Italian squad that signed him at age 18.

On Wednesday, Zipaquira Mayor Luis Rodriguez described Bernal as an example for Colombian youth.

“Thanks to you, they have seen that great triumphs are possible, with humility and hard work,” he said. “With your pedaling, you made our hearts vibrate at the same rhythm.”q

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Thursday 8 August 2019

In this March 25, 2019, file photo, Jennifer Bailey, vice president of Apple Pay, speaks about the Apple Card at the Steve Jobs Theater during an event to announce new products in Cupertino, Calif.

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The Apple credit card is here

By ANICK JESDANUN AP Technology Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The Apple credit card designed primarily for mobile use is here.

Some iPhone users who requested a notification about Apple Card will get invites Tuesday to apply through Apple’s Wallet app. The company plans to expand sign-ups more broadly in the coming weeks. The card, announced in March in partnership with Goldman Sachs, is available only in the U.S. Apple promises quick signups and the elimination of most fees. Customers typically get 2% cash back when using Apple’s app to pay. Industry experts say financial benefits of card mirror many of those already out there for consumers.

What sets Apple Card

apart from other cards is its reliance on the iPhone.

Though customers can request a physical card for free, an iPhone is required to apply, check statements and pay balances.

The app will offer tools to manage spending and suggest payment amounts based on past payments and spending. And cash back rewards return to customers through an Apple Cash account, which can be used for other purchases, credit card payments and transfers to traditional bank accounts.

Goldman will be in charge of approving applications and monitoring transactions for fraud. Apple says it isn’t getting transaction data and has agreements that bar Goldman from using data for other purposes, such as advertising and marketing Goldman’s other services.q

Panels overturns settlement approval in Google privacy suit

By RANDALL CHASE AP Business Writer DOVER, Del. (AP) — A federal appeals court has rejected a settlement in a class-action lawsuit alleging that Google spied on users' online activity using tracking "cookies," even when privacy settings were set to prevent the snooping.

A three-judge panel ruled Tuesday that a Delaware judge erred in approving the settlement in 2017.

The settlement called for Google to stop using the cookies for Safari browsers and to pay $5.5 million to cover plaintiffs' legal expenses, incentive awards to class representatives, and contributions to data privacy organizations, some with prior ties to Google.q

A Virgin Mary painting, flags and flowers adorn a makeshift memorial for the victims of Saturday’s mass shooting at a shopping complex in El Paso, Texas, Sunday, Aug. 4, 2019.

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AP Explains: What is the online forum 8chan?

NEW YORK (AP) — An anonymous online forum called 8chan has drawn attention in the wake of mass shootings in Texas and Ohio because violent U.S. extremists have used it to share tips and encourage one another.

The site suffered sporadic outages Monday after its cybersecurity provider cut off support for what it called a “cesspool of hate.”

WHAT IS 8CHAN? The online message board dates back to 2013. Under the banner of free speech, it allows users to post graphic and extremist content and doesn’t censor posts.

The site has been linked to violent extremists. Police are investigating commentary posted on 8chan believed to have been written by the suspect in a shooting Saturday that killed 22 people in El Paso, Texas.

If there is a connection, it would be the third known instance of a shooter posting to the site before going on a rampage. In March, the gunman in mass shootings at two New Zealand mosques posted a rambling manifesto to the site, as did another who injured several people and killed one at a California synagogue

in April. 8chan’s founder, Fredrick Brennan, is no longer running the site. In an interview with The New York Times on Monday, he said the site wasn’t doing any good and called for it to be shut down .

WHY DID 8CHAN GO DOWN? The site went down briefly after security provider Cloudflare said it would stop supporting the site.

Without Cloudflare, the site was vulnerable to outside hackers who shut down the site.

“8chan has repeatedly proven itself to be a cesspool of hate,” Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince wrote. “They have proven themselves to be lawless and that lawlessness has caused multiple tragic deaths.”

CAN 8CHAN BE SHUT DOWN? 8chan’s popularity rose after the similarly named but unaffiliated site 4chan cracked down on more extreme posts. Because the U.S. doesn’t specifically outlaw domestic terrorism the way it does foreign-sponsored extremism, such sites enjoy broad protection from government oversight under the U.S. Constitution’s First Amendment.

Even if that weren’t the case, content on sites like

8chan are also difficult to stamp out because users can simply move on if moderators grow stricter or if a site shuts down.

“Dealing with incitement to violence and hatred online goes well beyond any one platform,” the Anti-Defamation League’s Oren Segal said.

“These hate and racist posts will find another way to get their message out and another site with less scruples will pop up to host them,” added Tim Bajarin, a technology columnist and president of Creative Strategies.

“The internet has always been a Wild, Wild West medium with very little controls to keep this type of harmful commentary from seeing the light of day.”

WHAT ABOUT REGULATION? Mutale Nkonde, a fellow at the Berkman Klein Center at Harvard, said it’s time to think about creating a legal definition for harmful speech that could be regulated.

“We need to seriously balance do we want to be secure as a nation and have the ability to go to Walmart or we want to protect the speech of those who want to destroy our country from within?” she said.q

BUSINESS A25

Thursday 8 August 2019

Stocks slide as rate cuts stoke fear of an economic slowdown

By DAMIAN J. TROISE STAN CHOE Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. stocks fell broadly in midday trading Wednesday as central banks around the world cut interest rates and increased fears that global growth is being crimped by the U.S.-China trade war.

Every major U.S. index fell and put stocks back on a course for losses after briefly breaking a six-day losing streak on Tuesday.

The losses eased as the day progressed, though investors remained in a defensive mode and headed for relatively safe holdings.

Bond prices spiked again, sending the yield on the 10-year Treasury down to 1.64% from 1.74% late Tuesday, a large move. Yields are at their lowest level in nearly three years. That benchmark yield has retreated from its recent high of 3.23% last November as expectations of economic growth have steadily faded.

“The Treasury market is trading much higher this morning as investors continue to seek a safer haven, completely unsure as to what may happen next,” Kevin Giddis, head of fixed income capital markets at Raymond James wrote in a report.

Banks sustained some of the worst losses. Lower bond yields mean lower in-

In this Aug. 6, 2019, file photo trader Jonathan Mueller works on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange.

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terest rates on mortgages and other kinds of loans, which mean lower profits for banks. JPMorgan Chase fell 3.1% and Bank of America fell 3.3%.

The dimming expectations for global growth also send the price of crude oil sharply lower. Benchmark U.S. crude plunged 4.5% at $51.20 a barrel. That helped pull energy sector stocks lower. Occidental Petroleum gave up 3.3%.

Big technology stocks, longtime investor favorites, also posted hefty losses.

IBM lost 1.8%.

Safe-play stocks, including consumer staples and utili-

ties, held up far better than the rest of the market.

The S&P 500 index fell 0.5% as of 11:12 a.m. Eastern time. The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 238 points, or 0.9%, to 25,790. It was down as much as 589 earlier.The Nasdaq fell 0.1% China on Monday allowed its currency, the yuan, to weaken against the U.S. dollar in response to U.S. threats to add more tariffs to Chinese goods. China stabilized the yuan on Tuesday and that helped lift U.S. stocks a day after they endured their worst day of the year. The volatile trading has already put a dent

in the major indexes yearly gains. The S&P 500 is down 3.8% for August.

Central banks in New Zealand, India and Thailand cut key interest rates Wednesday and investors around the world fear that the escalating trade war between the U.S. and China will severely damage global growth.

After the surprise interestrate cuts, bond yields sank around the world as investors scrambled for safety.

They also poured into gold, which jumped to its highest price in more than six years.

“There is almost a paranoia amongst central bankers

to avoid any potential financial hiccups that might hurt the real economy and cause a slowdown,” Jefferies strategist Sean Darby wrote in a report.

U.S. stocks have been on a wild ride since Jan. 22, 2018, when Trump first imposed tariffs on solar products and washing machines to help U.S. manufacturers, but they’re virtually back to where they started. The S&P 500 closed at 2,832.97 that day and has since been down as much as 17% and up as much as 7%, with moves often driven by waxing and waning worries about the trade war.

On Wednesday morning, the S&P 500 sat at 2,862.45, up 1% from that early 2018 starting point.

Since Trump tweeted in March 2018 that “trade wars are good, and easy to win” after raising tariffs on steel and aluminum, the S&P 500 is up 6.3%, though that gain has nearly halved in the last couple weeks as worries about the trade war have surged.

A key gauge of fear in the marketplace surged 6.2%. The VIX index, which measures how much traders are paying to protect themselves from swings in the S&P 500, was still below where it was at the start of the year, when recession fears were surging, but it’s close to its highest level of the year.q

SoftBank’s profit nearly quadruples on fund investments

By YURI KAGEYAMA Associated Press TOKYO (AP) — Japanese technology company SoftBank Group Corp. reported Wednesday its fiscal first quarter profit nearly quadrupled to 1.122 trillion yen ($10.6 billion) as its fund investments boosted income.

Tokyo-based SoftBank’s April-June profit the previous year had totaled 313.7 billion yen. Quarterly sales climbed nearly 3% to 2.226 trillion yen ($21 billion).

The SoftBank Vision Fund has invested in dozens of companies including American entrepreneur-

ships such as work messaging service Slack, ridehailing Uber, office-sharing company WeWork and delivery business Doordash.

Dragging on earnings was U.S. mobile operator Sprint.

But SoftBank said Sprint will merge with T-Mobile and will no longer be its subsidiary. The U.S. Department of Justice approved the merger with conditions last month.

“It is still not in the final stages of a deal, and there may still be problems, but it was a big step forward,” SoftBank Chief Executive Masayoshi Son told reporters.

SoftBank also has stakes in

Arm of Britain and Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba Group, and its subsidiary owns Yahoo Japan. It has developed the talking companion robot Pepper, was the first to offer the iPhone in Japan and is a leader in the solar energy business.

The company has recently announced a second $108 billion investment fund called Vision Fund 2, with SoftBank earmarking nearly 4 trillion yen ($38 billion).

Other investors have signed on, including Apple, FoxConn Technology Group, Microsoft Corp. and Japanese banks and other com-

People stand at the entrance to a SoftBank shop in Tokyo, Wednesday, Aug. 7, 2019. Japanese technology company SoftBank Group Corp.

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panies. Son said the total investment may grow be-

cause talks were ongoing with other investors. q

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Yellowstone officials warn of dangerous behavior with bison

By MEAD GRUVER Associated Press CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — A man reaches over a railing to pet a bison on the head in yet another example of dangerous behavior by visitors to Yellowstone National Park.

A video shows the bison stepped away from the man standing on a crowded boardwalk near a thermal area. Nobody was hurt but Yellowstone officials warned Wednesday the outcome could have been different if the ani-

mal had charged. Similar incidents happen several times a year, sometimes with harmful results. Bison injure a handful of people in Yellowstone every year on average.

The man demonstrated “an incredible lack of judgment and common sense,” park Superintendent Cam Sholly said in a statement.

“Not only did he put himself and others at risk, he violated regulations designed to keep these animals wild.

We expect better from our visitors.”q

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Is pot safe when pregnant? Study seeks answer, draws critics

By LINDSEY TANNER AP Medical Writer CHICAGO (AP) — Pregnancy started out rough for Leslie Siu. Morning sickness and migraines had her reeling and barely able to function at a demanding New York marketing job, so like rising numbers of U.S. mothers-to-be, she turned to marijuana. “l was finally able to get out from under my work desk,” said Siu, who later started her own pot company and says her daughter, now 4, is thriving.

There’s no proof that cannabis can relieve morning sickness, and mainstream medicine advises against use in pregnancy because of studies suggesting it might cause premature birth, low birthweight and infant brain deficits. But the National Institute on Drug Abuse is pressing for more solid evidence. Many of those studies were in animals or complicated by marijuana users’ other habits and lifestyles.

“I don’t want us to cry wolf,” said Dr. Nora Volkow, the agency’s director. “We have to do these studies in a way that can identify risks.”

With nearly $200,000 from her agency, University of Washington scientists in Seattle are seeking clearer answers in a new study investigating potential effects on infants’ brains.

The agency is supporting three similar studies in other states.

In Seattle, they’re enrolling pregnant women during their first trimester who are already using marijuana for morning sickness. Researchers don’t provide the pot, and the use of other drugs, tobacco and al-

In this Friday, July 26, 2019 photo, Leslie Siu poses for a portrait next to her cannabis products geared toward women on display in Groundswell dispensary in east Denver.

Associated Press cohol isn’t allowed. Infants will undergo brain scans at 6 months and will be compared with babies whose mothers didn’t use marijuana while pregnant.

For government and university authorities, it’s worthy research that takes advantage of a booming trend. Recent data show the number of pregnant U.S. pot users has doubled since 2002, with 7% reporting recent use and higher rates in some states.

But some opponents of recreational marijuana who think the science is settled have complained to the university and the federal government, calling it bogus research that endorses drug use and needlessly endangers fetuses.

The criticism underscores the challenges of investigating how drugs of any kind affect pregnant women and their offspring.

“There are so many reasons NOT to study drugs

— particularly fear of causing birth defects. But the results would be no studies of the drugs’ efficacy during pregnancy, or the risks to the fetus,” said Dr. John Lantos, director of pediatric bioethics at Children’s Mercy hospital in Kansas City, Missouri. “It’s risky to do studies of potentially risky drugs but it’s risky not to do studies.”

Among the most tragic examples is thalidomide, a drug developed in Germany in the 1950s as a sedative. It was later widely promoted and prescribed to treat morning sickness, mostly in western Europe and Canada, despite a lack of research in pregnant women.

It soon became linked with severe birth defects and was removed from most markets by the early 1960s.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration never approved thalidomide for morning sickness because of safety concerns. The agency has approved a

synthetic version of THC, the part of marijuana that causes a high, for AIDSrelated appetite loss and a similar drug for nausea caused by cancer drugs, but has not approved it for morning sickness.

Scientist Natalia Kleinhans is leading the University of Washington’s study, aiming to recruit 35 pregnant marijuana users and 35 pregnant women who didn’t use pot.

The pot users are asked to buy from licensed dealers and photograph it so researchers can calculate the THC and CBD, another compound that doesn’t cause a high. Participants are paid $300 but can quit using anytime and remain in the study.

Medical and recreational marijuana are legal in Washington state, and Kleinhans says women who use it for morning sickness are different from pregnant pot users in years past, who often did other drugs, smoked or drank.

“They’re making a choice that people might not agree with. But it’s not out of desperation. It’s an informed choice,” said Kleinhans, a brain imaging specialist who studies the brain and behavior.

Study opponents contend that researchers are recruiting marijuana addicts, that payment encourages participants to keep using, that women aren’t being adequately informed of risks, and that babies will be harmed by being tested.

Researchers say MRI brain scans are safe and that infants will be tested while sleeping so won’t need potentially risky sedatives.

While more than 30 states have legalized marijuana for medical and/or recreational use, opponents also note that the federal government still considers pot an illegal drug — a stance that scientists say has hampered research.

Dr. Pat Marmion, an OBGYN in southern Washington, says he helped coordinate efforts to file complaints with the university and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, which oversees the National Institutes of Health. An HHS spokesperson declined comment.

“We should be encouraging women who are pregnant to not use marijuana instead of incentivizing them to continue,” Marmion said.

Under U.S. law, research that involves humans must be approved by review boards to make sure participants’ rights and safety are protected.

Karen Moe, director of the university’s human subjects division, said authorities there investigated the critics’ concerns and concluded that most were unfounded.

But she said they agreed to provide a handout on possible risks from marijuana use in pregnancy, not just links to similar information online, and also reworded recruitment materials to clarify that participants could quit using marijuana and still receive full payment.q

PEOPLE & ARTS A29

Thursday 8 August 2019

‘Chernobyl’ miniseries sends curious tourists to Lithuania

By LIUDAS DAPKUS Associated Press VISAGINAS, Lithuania (AP) — An HBO miniseries featuring Soviet-era nuclear nightmares has sparked global interest in the 1986 Chernobyl disaster and boosted tourism in Lithuania.

The Baltic country, which served as the filming location for “Chernobyl,” has become a destination of so-called atomic tourism since the program aired earlier this year.

At Ignalina nuclear power plant, Mikhail Nefedyev was staring grimly at the row of blinking green lights on a control panel when another group of curious visitors poured into his realm.

The 64 year-old engineer explained to them what exactly happened when a similar reactor exploded in Chernobyl, Ukraine, 33 years ago.

The Ignalina plant is of the same prototype as the one in Chernobyl. It has similar blueprints and the same water-cooled graphitemoderated reactors with a capacity of 1,500 megawatts of power. Ignalina was shut down a decade ago. Closing and decommissioning it were key con-

In this photo taken on Tuesday, July 16, 2019, a tourist take a picture of a model of the Ignalina nuclear power plant (NPP) at the information center of NPP in Visaginas some 160km (100 miles) northeast of the capital Vilnius, Lithuania.

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ditions of Lithuania’s entry to the European Union in 2004. In 1986, Lithuania, then part of the Soviet empire, was one of the republics affected by the nuclear disaster. Thousands were sent to clean up the mess in Chernobyl. Many of them are dead.

Today, the nuclear disaster is helping Lithuania grow as a tourist destination.

“Chernobyl,” a highly-rat-

ed miniseries, continues to send curious watchers to the filming locations in the capital Vilnius and at Ignalina, where glowing uranium rods cool in concrete pools. The plant, which is still open for tourists, drew 2,240 visitors in 2018. By July, 1,630 had visited the plant.

And demand is growing, plant officials said.

“They have made a good movie, I guess. But what

happened long ago does not bother us now. I think looking backward is not good,” Nefedyev said, after explaining how the RBMK-type reactor blew up. Tourists who come to this Baltic coastal country of 3 million to see the HBO filming locations first visit the KGB museum in downtown Vilnius where interrogation scenes were shot. They are taken to a Soviet-era dis-

trict of gray condos built in the mid-1980s that look somewhat like Pripyat, a nuclear city that served the Chernobyl plant.

“People come to see these places that we never used to promote. This is very new and unusual to see them not in the Old Town taking photos of Baroque churches, but sporting selfies here,” said Inga Romanovskiene, general manager at Go Vilnius agency.

Already a popular moviemaking destination, Lithuania has benefited economically from the HBO miniseries. The amount of foreign capital spent on filming reached 45.5 million euros ($50.6 million) last year.

After locations in Vilnius, atomic tourists may opt to travel 160 kilometers (100 miles) north and join a three-hour tour of the nuclear plant. They are given dosimeters, plastic helmets, white clothes and shoes before venturing through a maze of long, poorly lit corridors, reactor halls, turbine hangars and the control center with the red button which was pushed just before the explosion. Cellphones, cameras, eating, drinking and smoking are strictly off limits.q

Clinton impeachment is FX’s next ‘American Crime Story’

By LYNN ELBER Associated Press BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. (AP) — The next chapter of FX’s “American Crime Story” will dramatize Bill Clinton’s impeachment with a focus on Monica Lewinsky, Linda Tripp and other women central to the scandal.

The miniseries will air within weeks of the 2020 presidential election.

Lewinsky, who was a White House intern when she had an affair with Clinton, will be a producer on the project, FX Networks CEO John Landgraf said in announcing the project at a Television Critics Association meeting Tuesday. Clinton initially denied the affair before admitting to it in 1998.

The series is scheduled to air on Sept. 27, 2020, about

In this Monday, Oct. 30, 2017, file photo, former President Bill Clinton listens during a panel discussion in Baltimore.

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five weeks before the Nov. 3 election. Landgraf, asked whether the proximity gave the network pause, defended the timing and cautioned those who might judge the project sight unseen.

“I believe very, very strongly

in what we’re making. I’ve read it (the script), I think it’s great. I don’t believe it’s going to determine who’s the next president of the United States. I think that’s a little hysterical,” he said.

“American Crime Story” producers, including Ryan

Murphy, have brought nuance and perspective to events dramatized in the series’ previous installments, “The People v. O.J. Simpson” and “The Assassination of Gianni Versace,” Landgraf said.

In a statement to Vanity Fair magazine published online Tuesday, Lewinsky said her initial hesitation at joining the project was overcome after Murphy demonstrated “how dedicated he is to giving a voice to the marginalized in all of his brilliant work.” Beanie Feldstein (“Booksmart”) portrays Lewinsky, with Emmy-winning “American Crime Story” alumna Sarah Paulson as Tripp, whose secretly recorded tapes triggered the scandal. Annaleigh Ashford plays Paula Jones, who accused Clinton of unwanted

sexual advances. Additional casting, including for the former president, was not announced.

The passage of time and the rise of the #MeToo movement have changed how women whose lives were entwined in the scandal are perceived, Landgraf said. He credited writer Sarah Burgess’ interpretation of the story from their viewpoint with getting the project back on track after a pause. Lewinsky’s involvement is evidence of the quality of the material and the “vibrancy of this sort of revisionist history that that material can provide now,” he said. Asked about FX’s standards for factchecking, he expressed confidence that there would be a careful filter on the drama’s accuracy.q

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Thursday 8 August 2019

& ARTS

New live-action ‘Dora’ features a more grown up explorer

By CLAUDIA TORRENS Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Actress Isabela Moner says she didn’t expect so much action when she signed up for “Dora and the Lost City of Gold ,” the upcoming film about the adventurous Latina explorer.

Moner said she thought it would be a funny film, with Dora in a “fish out of water” kind of situation as she starts high school.

“It’s a whole ‘Tomb Raider’ meets ‘Indiana Jones’ movie,” Moner, 18, said during a recent interview.

“It just kind of takes you on this journey that has so many layers and so many characters and it’s wonderful. What I want, what I hope for is for not only kids but adults to really connect to the movie too, as well as people my age.”

While the live-action film is based on a popular chilThis image released by Paramount Pictures shows Isabela Moner in “Dora and the Lost City of Gold.”

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dren’s cartoon character that debuted in 2000, “Dora and the Lost City of Gold” presents a new, older version of the character. The film’s Dora is encountering society for the first time in years when she is sent to California for high school. “It’s nothing like the TV show,” director James Bobin said. “We have nods to the TV show, but the TV show is education for kids.

This is a kind of adventure comedy that happens to feature the character of Dora you may know from the TV show. And in fact, plays with the idea that you do who she is and how she would behave if she were a real person.”

The film, which is in theaters Friday, features a large Latino cast, a rarity for a major Hollywood production.

Mexican actor Eugenio Derbez, also a producer of the movie, plays a mysterious explorer; while Eva Longoria is Dora’s mom and actor Michael Peña is Dora’s dad. Jeff Wahlberg, who is of Dominican descent, plays Dora’s famous cousin, Diego. And Benicio Del Toro is the voice of Swiper, the fox that steals Dora’s things in the animated series.

Longoria said that it was an honor to participate in “such a positive portrayal of a young Latina who is smart, and kind and brave and fearless and speaks Spanish and really celebrates that”.

“It’s definitely the biggest budget movie I have ever done so to see a studio invest in our (Latin) community like this was really, really

cool to see”, she said.

“She is a Latina heroine, I think in many ways, and I think that’s so underrepresented in filmmaking. This film feels like an ‘Indiana Jones’ starring a girl who’s 16 and Latina, and that would never have happened 20 years ago,” Bobin said.

A kidnapping whisks Dora, Diego and two other teens to the jungle, where they must work to help save her parents and solve the mystery of a lost city.

For Moner, who was born in Cleveland and learned Spanish as a first language through her Peruvian mom, playing Dora presented the opportunity to explore her own heritage.

The movie contains several lines in Spanish as well Quechua, prompting Moner to call her great aunt in Peru during filming so she could ask about some words in the indigenous language, spoken in the Peruvian Andes and the highlands of South America.

“I felt closer to my culture, my roots,” Moner said.

With the live-action movie, Derbez expects moviegoers to have fun.

“It has a lot of comedy so everyone is going to laugh.

It is not one of those movies that you go with your kids and you get bored”, said Derbez.q

Laverne Cox sees best and worst of times for trans people

By MICHAEL CIDONI LENNOX Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — Laverne Cox sees this as a best of times, worst of times moment for transgender people.

"We've never ever been more visible than we are right now and yet we are under attack by this administration," she told The Associated Press in a recent interview.

The Trump administration has moved to revoke newly won health care protections for transgender people, restrict their presence in the military, and withdraw federal guidance that trans students should be able to use bathrooms of their choice.

The "Orange is the New Black" co-star said she has no plans to slow down as an activist for her transgender community now that the Netflix series has

In this June 13, 2019, file photo, actress Laverne Cox poses for a portrait in Los Angeles to promote the seventh season of "Orange is the New Black."

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reached its end.

"There's so many things to celebrate right now, and then there's so many things to mourn and to grieve over and to be in pain over and to fight for at the same time," she said.q

PEOPLE & ARTS A31

Thursday 8 August 2019

Actor Rutger Hauer, of ‘Blade Runner’ fame, has died at 75

By MARK KENNEDY Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Dutch film actor Rutger Hauer, who specialized in menacing roles, including a memorable turn as a murderous android in “Blade Runner” opposite Harrison Ford, has died. He was 75.

Hauer’s agent, Steve Kenis, said Wednesday the actor died July 19 at his home in the Netherlands.

Hauer’s roles included a terrorist in “Nighthawks” with Sylvester Stallone, Cardinal Roark in “Sin City” and playing an evil corporate executive in “Batman Begins.”

He was in the big-budget 1985 fantasy “Ladyhawke,” portrayed a menacing hitchhiker who’s picked up by a murderer in the Mojave Desert in “The Hitcher” and won a supporting-actor Golden Globe award in 1988 for “Escape from Sobibor.”

Filmmaker Guillermo del Toro in a tweet called Hauer “an intense, deep, genuine and magnetic actor that brought truth, power and beauty to his films.” Gene Simmons, the KISS bassist who starred opposite Hauer in “Wanted: Dead or Alive,” described his former co-star as “al-

This Jan. 19, 2013 file photo shows actor Rutger Hauer at the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah.

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ways a gentleman, kind and compassionate.”

In “Blade Runner,” Hauer played the murderous replicant Roy Batty on a desperate quest to prolong his artificially shortened life in post-apocalyptic, 21stcentury Los Angeles.

In his dying, rain-soaked soliloquy, he looked back at his extraordinary existence.

“All those moments will be lost in time. Like tears in rain.

Time to die,” he said.

“It’s so much fun to playful-

ly roam into the dark side of the soul and tease people,” the actor told The Associated Press in 1987. “If you try to work on human beings’ light side, that’s harder.

What is good is hard. Most people try to be good all their lives. So you have to work harder to make those characters interesting.”

Hauer’s ruggedly handsome face, blue eyes and strong physique drew the attention of American producers in such international

successes as “Turkish Delight,” ‘’Spetters” and “Soldier of Orange.”

The offers from the United States came as a surprise to Hauer, who faced the same uncertain future experienced by other Dutch film actors.

“We make about 10 films a year, all in Dutch,” he recalled.

“You act for your own community, basically, which is fine. But you can’t live on it. There is also the danger

of overexposure; you can’t be too greedy.” After the world recognition for “Soldier of Orange,” a friend suggested Hauer might be able to find work in American films.

Hauer was born in the Netherlands village of Breukelen. His parents were actors but he had little concentration for school and at 15 ran away as a seaman on a freighter. That didn’t take, nor did a stint in the army, and his parents decided he was destined to follow the family profession. Rutger enrolled in acting school.

Hauer spent five years with a small troupe bringing theater to rural Holland.

He made his film debut in the saucy “Turkish Delight,” nominated for an Oscar as best foreign language film of 1973.

Earlier in his career, a Hollywood agent suggested changing his name to something easier for the American public to learn. The actor declined.

“If you’re good enough, people will remember your name,” he explained.

He is survived by his wife of 50 years, Ineke ten Cate, and a daughter, actress Aysha Hauer, from a previous marriage.q

Is there ‘Sex in the City’ for women in their 50s?

By ANN LEVIN Associated Press “Is There Still Sex in the City?” (Grove Press), by Candace Bushnell Carrie’s back! Or at least her reallife alter ego, Candace Bushnell, whose loosely autobiographical newspaper columns and book about the dating adventures of single women in their 30s became the basis of the hit HBO show “Sex in the City.” This time, Bushnell and her posse are hurtling toward their 60s, dealing with a range of middle-aged problems including broken marriages, second careers and vaginal dryness. Only this time the gang is bigger than Carrie, Miranda, Samantha and Charlotte.

There are at least six gal pals, plus friends and acquaintances, making their stories a little harder to keep track of in “Is There Still Sex in the City?” But their trials and tribulations and outrageous escapades — on Tinder, with men 20 or 30

years younger, in the high-priced salons of Madison Avenue — are narrated in the smart, sassy voice that legions of fans came to love during the six-year run of the show in the late 1990s and early 2000s.

“Is There Still Sex in the City?” begins with a brisk update on Bushnell’s real life since she got famous — a marriage, divorce and a couple of shrewd real estate deals that gave her the means to acquire a small apartment in Manhattan and “a quaint run-down farmhouse” in the Hamptons.

Much of the action takes place in the latter, where she ultimately meets a smart, sexy, age-appropriate guy who becomes her MNB — “my new boyfriend” — one of several acronyms in the book that indicate a type or a condition. The book is dedicated to him, which suggests that everything worked out happily ever after, as it did for Carrie when she ended

up with Mr. Big. But it would be a mistake to dismiss this book as romantic fluff. Bushnell’s style may be arch and breezy, but many of the characters deal with disappointment, heartbreak and perhaps just as lethally, resignation. A young woman who regularly uses Tinder asks Bushnell wistfully, “What were dates like when you were young?”

A 40-something divorcee’s decision to marry for money the second time around is seen by her friends as “payback for men using women for, well, just about everything.”

A rich but not particularly attractive 75-year-old man blithely assumes that women will sleep with him because “society colludes to tell men they’re a little bit better than they actually are while it tells women they’re a little bit worse.”

From Cosmos to rose, her current beverage of choice, Bushnell may drink pink. But she knows how to write dark.q

This cover image released by Grove Press shows “Is There Still Sex in the City,” by Candace Bushnell.

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A32 FEATURE

Thursday 8 August 2019

Renewable resort: Greek island to run on wind, solar power

By ILIANA MIER Associated Press TILOS, Greece (AP) — When the blades of its 800-kilowatt wind turbine start turning, the small Greek island of Tilos will become the first in the Mediterranean to run exclusively on wind and solar power.

The sea horse-shaped Greek island between Rhodes and Kos has a winter population of 400. But that swells to as many as 3,000 people in the summer, putting an impossible strain on its dilapidated power supply.

This summer, technicians are conducting the final tests on a renewable replacement system that will be fully rolled out later this year. It will allow Tilos to run exclusively on high-tech batteries recharged by a wind turbine and a solar park.

The European Commission says Tilos will be the first autonomous renewable green island in the Mediterranean. It plans to use the project as a blueprint for other small islands across the European Union that have limited grid connection to the mainland. The EU has largely funded the project, providing 11 million euros ($12.5 million) of the total 13.7 million-euro ($15.7 million) cost.

“The innovation of this program and its funding lies in the batteries — the energy storage — that’s what’s innovative,” project manager Spyros Aliferis said. “The energy produced by the wind turbines and the photovoltaics will be stored in batteries, so that this ener-

In this Thursday, Aug. 9, 2018, photo a road leads past a wind turbine stands on the Aegean island of Tilos, Greece.

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gy can be used for the grid when there is demand.”

The batteries store power during sunny and windy conditions, releasing it during periods of heavy demand and lower production — such as at nighttime and the peak tourist season — to keep the grid powered up.

Named TILOS — Technology Innovation for the Local Scale Optimum Integration of Battery Energy Storage — the project uses a prototype battery system that improves storage of the excess energy generated until it’s needed.

To work, it required an overhauled grid with smart meters installed in homes and businesses to calculate times of peak demand.

Currently, Tilos gets its energy from an underwater cable that runs from Kos

In this photo dated Monday, Aug. 6, 2018, people eat in a tavern in the Aegean island of Tilos, Greece.

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to the island of Nisiros and on to Tilos. That creates an erratic, outage-prone service that routinely breaks appliances and has forced many businesses to rely on diesel generators.

While lacking the dazzle of other Greek islands like Mykonos and Santorini, Tilos — a 14-hour ferry ride from the mainland — is a quiet vacation spot that sees an average of 13,000 visitors a year. It’s known as a green island, popular with hikers and bird watchers, and most of it is now a protected nature reserve.

Mayor Maria Kammas saw a green energy system as the island’s natural next step.

“For many years now, Tilos has plotted a course that is dedicated to protecting the environment,” she said.

“We are seeking visitors — tourists actually — people who will visit our island who love the environment and want to protect it and nature as it was given to us.”

Tourism is the main source of revenue for the island.

But businesses have been plagued by lengthy blackouts, leaving hotels without air conditioning and restaurants without light or power, forcing them to discard food from warm refrigerators.

Hotel owner Sevasti Delaporta has closely followed the project since its incep-

tion over two years ago.

There were initial doubts about the idea among Tilos residents, but tests have run smoothly, even during peak times this summer.

The grid is expected to be fully operational in a few months.

“I’m very optimistic about this project because there are few negative consequences as a business, and for the guests of the hotel that I run,” says Delaporta.

“People are pleased with the service because they have no problem with their fridges and they have no problem with their air conditioning. They are happy.”

With long sunny days and average temperatures of 33 degrees Celsius (91 degrees Fahrenheit) during the summer, tourists spend their mornings at the beach and afternoons napping.

The island comes alive in the evening, when businesses open and residents and tourists alike flock to bars and cafes.

Eva Lemaier has visited the island every year for more than two decades.

Coming from the Netherlands, which has one of the world’s highest environmental standards, she says Tilos’ green policies stand out in Greece.

“I’m also a little bit proud of Tilos about what they are doing now, with the renewable energy,” she said. “I think it’s good for the island not to be dependent on other islands.”q

In this Thursday , Aug. 9, 2018, photo, a solar park on the Aegean island of Tilos, Greece.

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