June 15, 2015

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Hillary 2.0 Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton speaks to supporters during a rally, Sunday, June 14, 2015, in Des Moines, Iowa.

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Monday 15 June 2015

Man linked to Dallas police HQ shooting had violent past N. MERCHANT Associated Press DALLAS (AP) — The man linked to a violent assault on Dallas police headquarters was accused two years earlier of choking his mother, then fleeing to an East Texas town where schools were locked down out of fear he would attack them as “soft targets,” according to accounts from police and family members.

Police said the suspect, who planted pipe bombs outside the headquarters and fired at officers early Saturday from his armored van, told them he was James Boulware. He was killed hours later by a police sniper, and the medical examiner still hadn’t officially confirmed the man’s identity on Sunday.

In interviews with The Associated Press, Boulware’s father recalled his son’s seething anger at police after losing custody of his child, and his brother recalled that the family’s attempts to get Boulware help were rebuffed.

“We had tried for two

This 2013 photo provided by the Dallas County Jail shows James Boulware. Dallas Police Chief David Brown said the suspect who opened fire outside Dallas police headquarters Saturday, June 13, told authorities he was James Boulware before a police sniper shot and killed the suspect.

(Dallas County Jail via AP)

years,” his brother, Andrew Boulware, said Sunday. “I didn’t honestly think that he would ever go this far, but it was always in the back of my mind that it was a possibility.”

Authorities say it was miraculous no one else was injured in Saturday’s attack, in which the gunman

sprayed the front of the building with gunfire just after midnight.

After opening fire, the suspect drove the armored van into a squad car, still firing, then led police on a chase to a restaurant parking lot in the suburb of Hutchins.

The police sniper shot him during the standoff, but it took several hours to confirm his death out of fear that he had loaded his van with more explosives.

Police on Sunday said they had put 14 officers involved in the incident on administrative leave pending an investigation.

Boulware was arrested for family violence in Dallas two years ago, in a case that was later dismissed.

According to a Dallas police report, a witness says Boulware was in his mother’s house and “began talking rudely about religion, Jews and Christians.” The report says Boulware then grabbed his mother by the neck for 2-3 seconds until a third person could pull him off. The two men fought un-

til Boulware left the house.

The police report says he was then reported the same day to be in Paris, Texas, about 100 miles away, where he grabbed weapons and body armor and talked about “shooting up schools and churches.” Andrew Boulware and his father, Jim, confirmed the incident.

Andrew Boulware accused authorities in Dallas of ignoring family members’ statements that James was mentally unstable.

“They diagnosed him as sane in 15 minutes,” Boulware said.

He remembers James claiming that he had dreamed about the shootings at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, and other disasters before they had happened. He also remembers pleading with James Boulware to get medical help, and going to a local official but being ignored.

“He never was properly diagnosed,” Andrew Boulware said. “He could be the nicest guy in the world.

He tried to help friends out whenever he could. He was not a bitter person.”

His mother, Jeannine Howard, said in a statement to local media that she considered her son “lost to mental health” long before his death.

“We hope something good can come from this, and that people will reach out to hurting souls around them and unite to build up others, rather than tearing them down,” she added.

“We hope that people with mental illness will receive the care they need to avoid situations like this in the future.”

Boulware lost custody of his son, something that his father, Jim, said weighed on him deeply and caused him to distrust police.

The day before the shooting, Boulware spent several hours at his father’s home in the Dallas suburb of Carrollton. He was talking about the armored van he had just purchased days earlier, having taken a bus to Georgia to pick it up and drive it back.q

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Monday 15 June 2015

NEWS

Clinton Officially Kicks Off 2016 Presidential Bid LISA LERER Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Hillary Rodham Clinton formally kicked off her presidential campaign this weekend with an enthusiastic embrace of her potential to become the first woman to win the White House, asking supporters gathered at her first major outdoor rally on Saturday to join her in building an America “where we don’t leave anyone out, or anyone behind.”

With the downtown New York skyline and new World Trade Center over her shoulder, Clinton offered herself as a fierce advocate for those still struggling to recover from the Great Recession.

Democratic presidential candidate former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton waves to supporters with her husband former President Bill Clinton, Chelsea Clinton, and her husband Marc Mezvinsky, on Roosevelt Island in New York.

(AP Photo/Frank Franklin II)

She promised to carry on the liberal legacies of President Barack Obama, and former Presidents Franklin D. Roosevelt and Bill Clin-

ton, her husband, saying “real and lasting prosperity must be built by all and shared by all.”

While Clinton ended her

first campaign for president in 2008 by conceding she and her backers “weren’t able to shatter that highest, hardest glass ceiling,” she vowed Saturday to push ahead toward an “America where a father can tell his daughter: Yes, you can be anything you want to be — even president of the United States.”

“I think you know by now that I’ve been called many things by many people,” Clinton said to cheers and laughter from the crowd of roughly 5,500 gathering on Roosevelt Island in the East River. “Quitter is not one of them.”

Clinton is the dominant front-runner for the nomination in a race that also includes Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont, former Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley and former Rhode Island Gov. Lincoln Chafee.

The 67-year-old former secretary of state, first lady and Democratic senator from New York did not make her gender a core element in 2008, but it provided the cap to the first major speech of her 2016 bid.

“I will be the youngest woman president in the history of the United States.

And the first grandmother as well,” she said.

Two months after starting her campaign with a simple video that showed her only briefly,Clinton outlined a broad vision intended to attract the coalition of young and minority voters that propelled Obama to two victories. It was her first major campaign speech after she spent weeks in intimate listening sessions in early voting states.

In her roughly 45-minute speech, Clinton laid out a wish list of Democratic policies: universal pre-kindergarten education, in-

creased regulation of the financial industry, paid sick leave and equal pay for women, a path to citizenship for immigrants living in the country illegally, campaign finance reform and a ban on discrimination against gay people and their families.

In doing so, Clinton tried to cast the 2016 election as a choice about the economic future of the middle class.

The Republican candidates, she said, want to give Wall Street banks free reign, take away health insurance, “turn their backs” on gay people and ignore the science of climate change.

Republican candidates jumped on Clinton’s decision to cite her ties to Obama and were trying to raise money off the speech almost as soon as it ended.

In an email appeal asking for donations, former Texas Gov. Rick Perry wrote, “We want to look toward a brighter future, not backward at the failed policies of the Obama-Clinton years.”

As part of an effort to reintroduce herself to the public, Clinton stressed her career of advocacy — a calling she said was inspired by her mother’s difficult upbringing.

After the rally, she headed to Iowa, whose caucuses lead off the state-by-state nominating contests, for a campaign event Saturday night. In a tour of early voting states, she will focus on her relationship with her mother and her father’s background as a veteran and small businessman.

Clinton’s aides said she plans to give a policy address almost every week during the summer and fall.q

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Bush still with much to prove in wide GOP race

Former US Governor Jeb Bush speaks in Berlin.

(AP Photo/Michael Sohn)

STEVE PEOPLES JULIE BYKOWICZ Associated Press PARK CITY, Utah (AP) — When Jeb Bush finally says on Monday that he’s running for president, he’ll begin the campaign with much to prove.

Back in December, the former Florida governor said he was exploring a 2016 run, an announcement that by itself had the power to kick off the campaign.

In the six months since, Bush probably has shattered a fundraising record as well as pioneering a new approach to White House campaigning. He has just completed a wellreviewed trip through Europe.

Supporters had hoped that this son of one president and brother of an-

other would by now hold a commanding position in an unwieldy Republican field. Yet he has not broken away from the pack.

On the Democratic side, former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, who had a high-profile campaign kickoff on Saturday in New York, holds a commanding lead over Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders and two lesser-known rivals.

“I know that I’m going to have to go earn this,” Bush said this past week. “It’s a lot of work and I’m excited about the prospects of this.

It’s a long haul. You start wherever you start, and you end a long way away from where we are today, so I just urge everybody to be a little more patient about this.”

Bush, 62, planned to make his candidacy official during a Monday afternoon speech and rally at Miami Dade College, the nation’s largest university.

He has failed to scare any potential rival from the race, except perhaps 2012 nominee Mitt Romney. He is unpopular among some of his party’s most passionate voters and little known beyond his home state despite the Bush name.

“I thought Jeb would take up all the oxygen,” said Ohio Gov. John Kasich.

“He hasn’t.” Emboldened

by Bush’s slow rise, Kasich acknowledged this weekend that he is stepping up preparations for a possible campaign.

Bush is one of 11 major Republicans in the hunt for the nomination. Kasich and

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a few others are still deciding whether to join a field that could end up just shy of 20.

But few among them entered the race with such a high expectations of success as did Bush. Those expectations have seemed a burden at times.

Take, for example, the question of whether Bush will report raising $100 million for his campaign in the first six months of the year.

Lost amid the “will he or won’t he” is that Bush probably will have taken in far more than anyone else.

Even if he does not reach the $100 million mark, Bush will have amassed more in six months than Mitt Romney and his allies at a super political action committee raised for the entire year before the 2012 election.q

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Monday 15 June 2015

NEWS

Prosecutor says escaped killers used contractors’ tools

JOHN KEKIS Associated Press DANNEMORA, New York (AP) — The two killers who cut their way out of a maximum-security prison apparently used tools routinely stored there by contractors, taking care to return them to their toolboxes after each night’s work so that no one would notice, a prosecutor said Sunday.

District Attorney Andrew Wylie also said that Joyce Mitchell, the prison tailoring shop instructor charged with helping the men escape, had agreed to pick them up in her car and drive off with them but

backed out at the last minute because she still loved her husband and felt guilty for participating.

“Basically, when it was gotime and it was the actual day of the event, I do think she got cold feet and realized, ‘What am I doing?’” said Wylie. “Reality struck.

She realized that, really, the grass wasn’t greener on the other side.”

Wylie said there was no evidence the men had a “Plan B” once the getaway driver backed out, and no vehicles have been reported stolen in the area.

That has led searchers to believe the men are still

near the Clinton Correctional Facility in Dannemora, where the manhunt was in its ninth day Sunday, with hundreds of law enforcement officers slogging through mosquito-infested woods, fields and swamps close to the Canadian border for escapees Richard Matt and David Sweat.

At the same time, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo cautioned that for all anyone knows, the convicts could be in Mexico by now.

Wylie said it apparently took a long time for the killers to complete their plan, working methodically between midnight and 5 a.m.

Joyce Mitchell is arraigned in City Court in Plattsburgh, N.Y. Mitchell is accused of helping two convicted killers escape from Clinton Correctional Facility in Dannemora.

(AP Photo/Mike Groll, Pool)

over many nights.

“They had access, from what we understand, to other tools left in the facility by contractors under policy and were able to open the toolboxes and use those tools and then put them back so nobody would notice,” the prosecutor said.

He also said the men had been scouting out the tunnel system under the prison at night for the best way to get out.

The convicts used power tools to cut through the back of their adjacent cells, broke through a brick wall, then cut into a steam pipe and slithered through it, finally emerging outside the prison walls through a manhole, authorities said.

Mitchell, 51, was charged Friday with supplying hacksaw blades, chisels, a punch and a screwdriver.

Her lawyer entered a not guilty plea on her behalf, and her son Tobey told NBC she would not have helped the inmates break

out.

Wylie told CNN that the two inmates planned to have Mitchell drive them about seven hours away to an unknown destination.

Local residents were very much on edge, with some saying they were keeping guns handy. There was an outpouring of support for the search effort. A restaurant urged people to tie blue ribbons around trees and mailboxes.

“The locals have been awesome,” said Sgt. Barry Cartier of the Franklin County Sheriff’s Department, part of a crew from a neighboring county working 12-hour shifts. “They come around with food all the time. We’ve got too much to eat.”

Sweat, 35, was serving a life sentence without parole for killing a sheriff’s deputy. Matt, 48, was doing 25 years to life for the 1997 kidnap, torture and hacksaw dismemberment of his former boss.

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Monday 15 June 2015

Prosecution of charges deferred in Waldorf Astoria gunfire NEW YORK (AP) — The prosecution of charges in a gunfire incident at the famous Waldorf Astoria hotel is being put on hold while the investigation continues, a spokesman for the Manhattan district attorney said Sunday.

The New York Police Department had said earlier in the day that a man had been arrested after a gun in his pocket went off Saturday night, injuring four people. Another man had also been arrested.

“Prosecution of this case is deferred while the investigation continues into the circumstances surrounding the discharge of the firearm and its removal from the scene,” said Patrick Muncie, spokesman for

Manhattan District Attorney Cy Vance.

Police had said Vladimir Gotlibovsky, 42, was arrested on charges including assault, reckless endangerment, and tampering with physical evidence. Another man, Felix Gotlibovsky, 51, was also arrested, on charges of criminal possession of a weapon and tampering with physical evidence.

Authorities said the Brooklyn men were at the Park Avenue hotel Saturday night as a wedding was taking place. Police did not immediately say whether the two men are related.

Exactly what caused the gun to fire was unclear.

Police said the 9mm Ru-

A taxi passes in front of the fabled Waldorf Astoria hotel in New York. A police source said a wedding guest’s gun went off accidentally at New York’s Waldorf Astoria Hotel, Saturday, June 13, 2015, and a few people suffered minor injuries from debris.

(AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)

ger was in Vladimir Gotlibovsky’s pocket when it went off and hit the floor.

Muncie said Vladimir Gotlibovsky has a permit to possess and carry the weap-

on.

Police said four people were hit by shrapnel from the bullet or debris such as marble or glass. A 55-yearold woman had a graze

wound to the forehead; a 59-year-old man had a fragment wound to his right leg; a 45-year-old woman had fragment wounds to both legs, and a 37-yearold woman had injuries to both legs. All were taken to hospitals where they were treated and released.

Authorities said the weapon was recovered from a different location.

The Waldorf Astoria is one of New York’s best-known hotels, and where the president stays during the United Nations General Assembly.

No one answered the phone at a number listed for Vladimir Gotlibovsky.

A woman hung up when reached at a number for Felix Gotlibovsky.q

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Monday 15 June 2015

WORLD NEWS

Greek bailout talks end without breakthrough in Brussels

DEMETRIS NELLAS Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Commission said Sunday that weekend talks to find common ground between international creditors and Greece were unsuccessful and left a wide rift that needs to be closed within two weeks to avoid a possible Greek default.

An EU Commission official, who refused to be identified because of the sensitivity of the negotiations, said that “the talks did not succeed as there remains a significant gap between the plans of the Greek authorities and” the demands of the international creditors.On top of that, the official said that, for the EU’s executive, “the Greek proposals remain incom-

A supporter of the Greek Communist party’s labor union PAME takes part in an anti-austerity rally at central Syntagma square in Athens, Greece. The European Commission said Sunday that weekend talks to find common ground between international creditors and Greece were unsuccessful.

(AP Photo/Yorgos Karahalis)

plete.” The official refused to be more precise. European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker “remains convinced that with stronger reform efforts on the Greek side and political will on all sides, a solution can still be found before the end of the month,” the official said. Finance ministers from the 19 nations using the euro currency have a meeting next Thursday in Luxembourg which has already been billed as decisive to see if a bailout deal for Greece can be found.

The rift after the weekend’s talks amounted to “the order of 0.5-1 percentage of GDP,” the EU official said.

Greek Deputy Prime Minishter Yannis Dragasakis said disagreements remained over the cuts in pensions and increases in value added tax.

However, he said Greece has made “supplementary proposals that totally cover the fiscal gap and primary surpluses” and open “the way to a final deal.”

Greece’s 240 billion-euro ($270 billion) bailout expires June 30, at which point the country will lose access to the rescue loans it desperately needs to repay debts and avoid a default that could force it out of the euro. The country’s creditors — which include fellow eurozone states, the European Central Bank and the International Monetary Fund — want the country to commit to new economic reforms before they disburse the last 7.2 billion euros ($8.2 billion) left in Greece’s bailout fund.

Fears that the two sides were still too far apart to clinch a deal on such issues as pensions and the budget already saw the main stock index in Athens close 5.9 percent lower on Friday.q

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Monday 15 June 2015

Thousands of Syrians flee into Turkey amid intense fighting LEFTERIS PITARAKIS BASSEM MROUE Associated Press AKCAKALE, Turkey (AP) — Thousands of Syrians cut through a border fence and crossed over into Turkey on Sunday, fleeing intense fighting in northern Syria between Kurdish fighters and jihadis.

The flow of refugees came as Syrian Kurdish fighters closed in on the outskirts of a strategic Islamic Stateheld town on the Turkish border, Kurdish officials and an activist group said, potentially cutting off a key supply line for the extremists’ nearby de facto capital.

Taking Tal Abyad, some 80 kilometers (50 miles) north

of the Islamic State stronghold of Raqqa, would deprive the militant group of a direct route to bring in new foreign militants or supplies. The Kurdish advance, coming under the cover of intense U.S.-led coalition airstrikes in the area, would also link their two fronts and put even more pressure on Raqqa. In this Turkish border village, the refugees took by surprise the Turkish troops stationed there, who were overwhelmed by the large number of people crowding the crossing. Thousands of people had been gathering for more than a day on the Syrian side of the Akcakale border crossing before they broke through Sunday afternoon.

A Syrian refugee carries a baby over the broken border fence into Turkey after breaking the border fence and crossing from Syria in Akcakale, Sanliurfa province, southeastern Turkey, Sunday, June 14, 2015. The mass displacement of Syrians across the border into Turkey comes as Kurdish fighters and Islamic extremists clashed in nearby city of Tal Abyad.

(AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis)

People threw their belongings over the fence while

others passed infants into Turkey over barbed wires

before following through a several-meter wide opening in the border fence.

Turkish troops later brought in reinforcements and gathered up the refugees on the Turkish side of the border, preventing them from going deeper into Turkey.

Earlier Sunday, Turkish Deputy Prime Minister Numan Kurtulmus speaking on the refugee situation at the crossing between in Tal Abyad and Akcakale, claimed that those refugees were not fleeing fighting between Kurds and the Islamic State group, but were rather trying to escape to Turkey in case their villages are hit by U.S.-led coalition bombings.q

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Monday 15 June 2015

NEWS

Israelis go on offensive ahead of UN conflict report JOSEF FEDERMAN Associated Press JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel on Sunday launched a pre-emptive assault on an upcoming U.N. report into last year’s war in the Gaza Strip, saying the report is unfairly biased and issuing its own report that blames Gaza’s Hamas militant rulers for the heavy civilian casualties.

The diplomatic offensive set the stage for what is expected to be a contentious showdown with U.N. officials over allegations that Israel committed war crimes during the 50-day war.

Israel has long had a contentious relationship with the United Nations, saying

the world body is biased.

A similar report conducted by the U.N.’s Human Rights

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu chairs the weekly cabinet meeting with Cabinet Secretary Avichai Mandelblit, right and Transportation Minister Yisrael Katz, left, at the Prime Minister’s office in Jerusalem, Sunday, June 14, 2015.

(Gali Tibbon/Pool Photo via AP)

Council following a 20082009 war against in Gaza was harshly critical of both Israel and Hamas.

But this time around, the stakes are higher. The Palestinians have joined the International Criminal Court and are pursuing war crimes charges against Israel. The council’s new report, expected as soon as this week, could play a key role in the case against Israel.

“Having on the record our view of this war is extremely important, and we have nothing to hide,” Dore Gold, the new director of Israel’s Foreign Ministry, told reporters at a special brief-

ing held to unveil Israel’s own 242-page investigation into the war.

Gold was accompanied by the country’s Deputy Foreign Minister, Tzipi Hotovely, and governmental and military legal experts who worked on the report.

Israel launched its offensive in Gaza last July 8 in response to heavy rocket fire from Hamas and other militant groups in the territory.

More than 2,200 Palestinians, including hundreds of civilians, were killed during the fighting, according to U.N. and Palestinian officials, while 73 people died on the Israeli side.q

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Monday 15 June 2015

Pakistan halts closure of Save the Children ZARAR KHAN Associated Press ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistan’s Interior Ministry has halted an order it made closing the office of the international aid group Save the Children in Islamabad, an official said Sunday.

The senior Interior Ministry official, who spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity as he wasn’t authorized to discuss the decision, did not elaborate.

Saeed Ahmed, a spokesman for Save the Children in Pakistan, said they had no word from the government on the decision.

“We would appreciate relevant government authorities to communicate to us officially,” Ahmed told the AP. On Thursday, Pakistan shuttered the group’s main office in the capital for allegedly “violating its charter.”

By Friday, the organization had shut all its offices across the country.

At the time, Pakistan said it would not allow any nongovernment organization to work against its interests, without elaborating. q

Thousands rally in Hong Kong democracy showdown KELVIN CHAN Associated Press HONG KONG (AP) — Thousands of people, many holding yellow umbrellas, marched in Hong Kong on Sunday to urge lawmakers to vote down Beijingbacked election reforms that sparked huge street protests last year, although the turnout was lower than organizers had expected.

With a crucial vote on the southern Chinese financial hub’s political future days away, pro-democracy supporters marched to city government headquarters to rally support for a veto of the government’s electoral reform package.

At issue is how Hong Kongers will choose their top leader, who’s currently hand-picked by a panel of Beijing-friendly elites. Under the reforms to be put before lawmakers starting Wednesday, the government proposal would allow direct elections for the first time but also require screening of candidates by the panel.

Pro-democracy activists — who caught the world’s attention last autumn by occupying parts of the city for 11 weeks to demand

Protesters carry yellow umbrellas during a rally as people march in a downtown street to support for a veto of the government’s electoral reform package in Hong Kong, Sunday, June 14, 2015.

The rally was held ahead of a crucial vote by lawmakers on Beijing-backed election reforms that sparked huge street protests last year.

(AP Photo/Vincent Yu)

greater electoral freedom, turning umbrellas and the color yellow into symbols of their movement — have blasted the proposals as “sham democracy” and called for genuine universal suffrage.

The organizers of the protest, including the Civil Human Rights Front, student groups and pro-democracy political parties, esti-

mated that 3,500 people took part, far less than the 50,000 expected. Police said 3,140 joined.

People marching in the blazing afternoon heat chanted “I want genuine democracy” and “Veto fake universal suffrage.”

A large yellow banner mounted on a truck read “The citizens against pseudo-universal suffrage cam-

paign.”

“I hope that they will bring out another proposal that can be accepted by Hong Kong people,” said Louis Cheung, a 54-year-old writer.

“It’s impossible to have an election without the Hong Kong public’s opinion and say Hong Kong has universal suffrage. This is impossible to accept.”q

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Monday 15 June 2015

NEWS

Cuban artist puts on hair competition to bolster black pride A. RODRIGUEZ Associated Press HAVANA (AP) — A young Afro-Cuban performance artist transformed a Havana cultural center into the stage of a black hairstyle competition this weekend in a rare public commentary on racial beauty standards in Cuba, where prejudice remains widespread and largely undiscussed.

Politics, particularly detente with the U.S., is a common subject matter at this year’s international art fair. Few works touch on discrimination against black and mixed-race Cubans, which remains commonplace more than a half-century after the island’s socialist revolution promised to eliminate racism.

Susana Delahante, an internationally known 30-year-old Havana artist, invited black and mixedrace women to compete in three hair categories — natural, braided and dreadlocked.

After a two-hour competition in which 70 women competed Saturday evening, the audience of about 300 people voted by applause, handing the natural-hair prize to 72-year-old Felicia Solano, whose white outfit dramatically set off her halo of white hair, and the braids award to Marbelys Gonzalez, 15, with a cascade of tight braids decorated in brightly colored beads.

There were no entries in the dreadlocks category.

Delahante and partici-

Women laugh while they attend an Afro hair contest in Havana, Saturday, June 13, 2015. Sociologists say black Cubans’ reluctance to identify themselves as such is a powerful indication of lingering prejudice.

(AP Photo/Desmond Boylan)

pants in the competition described it as a way of rebuilding pride among AfroCuban women in a society where kinky hair and black skin often are seen as less beautiful than straight locks and pale complexions.

“This is a first step in reclaiming this type of hair,” said competitor Ania de Armas, a 22-year-old art history graduate who competed in the natural hair category.

Contemporary Cubans are descended mostly from Spanish colonists and their West African slaves, and Cubans categorize themselves as black, white or mixed-race. Sixty-four percent of Cubans identified themselves as white in the country’s last census in 2012, 26.6 percent as mixed-race and 9.3 percent as black — figures that wildly undercount the number of Cubans identified as black by themselves and others in their daily lives. Sociologists say black Cubans’ reluctance to

identify themselves as such is a powerful indication of lingering prejudice.

“I wanted to do something that legitimized my hair, this undervalued type of hair,” said Delahante, who wears her hair in a tight Afro style.

“This competition is about something that has merit and needs to be rewarded.”

The socialist revolution brought large numbers of black Cubans into the middle and upper ranks of government, academia and professional fields but the Afro-Cuban population still generally has worse housing, transportation and food than whites. The Cubans who fled the island after the revolution were heavily from the white elite class, and so their hundreds of millions of dollars of remittances sent back to relatives on the island each year tend to go to white Cubans.

Behind closed doors and even in public, white Cubans have been known to

talk disparagingly about black Cubans in ways that have become socially unacceptable in many other countries, describing them as criminals and forbidding their children from dating Afro-Cuban schoolmates.

Black Cubans also have been the losers in President Raul Castro’s economic reforms, in which Cubans with capital from overseas have been able to open profitable businesses serving increasing numbers of international tourists. Black Cubans are notably absent even on the lower rungs of those new private businesses, such as in service jobs like wait staff positions that bring in big tips from foreign customers.

People of predominantly Afro-Cuban descent also are underrepresented on Cuban television and in much of the contemporary music world, making many black Cubans feel they have to straighten their hair to be considered beautiful.q

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Monday 15 June 2015

Thanks to “Aruba Ray’s” Comedy Show and YOU:

Aruba’s Special Athletes are... Laughing their Way to Los Angeles!

PALM BEACH - What began as a brief island escape for noted New York comedian Ray Ellin became a love affair with a destination for which he felt a real connection. The host of the shows “Worth The Wait,” “LateNet with Ray Ellin,” and “Gong Show Live,” has been returning on a monthly basis for over three years, and soon began bringing his hip New York style of stand-up to the island. At least four times a year he is accompanied by some of his equally popular comedic friends, for “Aruba Ray’s Comedy Show” at the Aruba Marriott Resort & Stellaris Casino.

In a show of solidarity for his “home away from home,” Ray Ellin is committing his wit and resources to assist what he considers a very worthy cause: raising the funds for the Special Olympics Aruba Foundation to send a delegation of athletes to the World Games 2015. This year they take place in Los Angeles, California.

Special Olympics were originally founded by the late Ethel Kennedy decades

past. It grew into an international event, conducted once every four years. Beginning July 25, over 7000 special athletes from 170 countries will be competing in dozens of sports disciplines as they go for the gold. “Through sports training and competitions, Special Olympics helps people with ID find joy, accep-

tance and success. As their lives open up, athletes gain the confidence that comes with achievement. They feel empowered. They are ready to take on new challenges to make use of their new abilities;” this is the purpose of the program.

Both Ray and the Aruba Marriott Resort & Stellaris Casino are very enthusias-

tic about contributing their time, effort and expense to Aruba’s athletes compete.

Not only is the Stellaris Casino crew 100% behind Ray’s efforts, but the Marriott Resort hosted an exquisite fundraising gala dinner/ dance on May 29. Marriott donated both their ballroom and a buffet dinner to raise funds and awareness of the work of Aruba Special Olympics Foundation.

If you love to laugh, you will enjoy a terrific show on Wednesday, June 17. An

extra performance at 10 PM has been added on to the schedule, of which 100% of the proceeds will be donated to the special athletes’ travel fund.

The price of a ticket is $50, which includes two drinks.

Joining Ray on stage will be Brian Scott McFadden, who can be seen regularly at New York’s most popular comedy clubs. He has appeared on “Late Show with David Letterman” and the “Craig Ferguson Show,” and in a number of films, including the hit “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty.”

Dan Naturman has appeared many times on “The Tonight Show,” “Conan,” “Letterman,” and is well known to fans of NBC’s “America’s Got Talent.”

He is that very rare entry, a comedian who made it all the way to the semi-finals during the 2014 season.

From his audition to his last appearance, he had the audience and the judges roaring with laughter; you will too.

Tickets can be purchased online at www.ArubaComedy.com for this single charity performance or at the door of the Amsterdam Showroom at 9:45 PM. Continued on Page 16

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Monday 15 June 2015

Live Tango Performance TONIGHT!

Cuba’s Cookin’ Brings Latin American Dance to Dinner!

ORANJESTAD - It’s been 16 years since Cuba’s Cookin’ opened its doors here in Aruba and we feel it has always been our mission to bring Cuban hospitality, art, music and dance to Aruba.

The history of the compatibility of these two island cultures goes way back to the turn of the century when many Arubans went to Cuba in search of opportunities. What many of them found was backbreaking work in the sugarcane fields.

Many of those Arubans also married and returned to their homeland with Cuban wives, strengthening those deep ties between the big and the small islands.

In our years as proprietors of Cuba’s Cookin’ we have had a great time meeting so many of you and sharing our love of this rich culture: a love for dance, traditional Cuban music – salsa, bolero, cha-cha-cha – and, of course, the great food and art!

Therefore tonight at Cuba’s Cookin’ there will be a live steamy hot Salsa demonstration given with real Latin dancers.

Come and join Cuba’s Cookin’ tonight at 8:00pm for this special Salsa performance, enjoy dinner and

some truly thrilling moments that only this culture has to offer. For reservations please call: 588-0627.q

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Presented by Nuevo Mundo Festival & Academy:

Free Concert Series Finale At Cas Di Cultura Tonight!

ORANJESTAD - Under the direction of Simon Gollo, the famous Venezuelan/ Swiss violinist, the Nuevo Mundo Festival & Academy (NMFA) will have its last free concert at Cas di Cultura today.

For the Faculty’s concert, Jihye Chang, (Korea), Piano; Jorge Montilla, (Venezuela), Clarinet and Ger-

man Marcano, (Venezuela), Cello will play Johannes Brahms’ Trio For Clarinet, Cello and Piano in A Minor, Op.114 (1891) consisting of four movements.

As is customary, the students’ concerts are not announced ahead of time and remain a surprise.

And what a pleasant surprise they have been.

Tomorrow the Nuevo Mundo Festival and Academy will present its Gala Concert to bring to a close this year’s festival. The final concert will be performed in the main hall of the Cas di Cultura. The charge for admission to the Gala Concert featuring the NMFA Chamber Orchestra will be US$20.00 or AFLS 35.00.

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Seating is quite limited, so it is recommended to reserve well in advance. Call 749-4363 for more information.

Join Ray, Brian and Dan for this great “feel good” show, particularly knowing that every laugh is helping to send a delegation of Aruba’s special athletes to the World Games. They have participated four times in the past. On every occasion, Aruba’s tiny delegation has returned with no less than a dozen gold,

silver and bronze medals.

This year, they will participate in seven sport disciplines, including soccer.

“I am pleased and proud to be able to do this for Aruba’s special athletes,” commented Ellin when meeting with some who will be traveling in July. “I have found out that the event will be extensively covered by ESPN, and I really look forward to seeing the Aruban flag flying over the winners’ podium when they stand up to accept their medals! I invite everyone to join me and share that special feeling of knowing I helped make

it happen by attending this show. We know the athletes will do their best and Dan, Brian and I will do the same to provide a fun night

to show our support. It’s for a great cause, so the entire audience is obligated to laugh.” DONATIONS CAN BE MADE DIRECTLY to the

Special Olympics Committee Aruba to this account: --Aruba Bank # 2463850290 --Address: Piedra Plat 86a.q

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Blackhawks return home just 1 win away from title JAY COHEN AP Sports Writer CHICAGO (AP) — While Jonathan Toews and Patrick Kane have struggled to find any room in the Stanley Cup Final against Tampa Bay, the Chicago Blackhawks have used their depth to move within one victory of their third NHL title in six seasons.

Playing alongside two other players who have been a healthy scratch this postseason, veteran Kris Versteeg assisted on Antoine Vermette’s winning goal in Chicago’s 2-1 victory on Saturday.

“I think it’s always about staying ready,” Versteeg said Sunday. “I guess that starts in practice. Whether it be myself or (Bryan Bickell) or Vermy or whoever is not in the lineup on any given night, we all feel we’re good players, we all feel we’re players that can contribute. I don’t think that confidence is lost in us.”

The Blackhawks’ third and fourth lines are a big reason why they can clinch the Stanley Cup at home for the first time since 1938 with a victory in Game 6 on Monday night. But the Lightning won Game 3 in Chicago and are confident they can do it again.

“We’ll find a way,” captain Steven Stamkos said.

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MAD MAX

Scherzer K’s Nats-record 16 in 1-hitter

Washington Nationals starting pitcher Max Scherzer reacts after being doused with chocolate syrup by teammate Drew Storen after a baseball game against the Milwaukee Brewers Sunday, June 14, 2015, in Milwaukee.

Scherzer threw a complete game onehitter as the Nationals won 4-0.

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Inbee Park wins third consecutive Women’s PGA Championship PAT EATON-ROBB AP Sports Writer HARRISON, N.Y. (AP) — Inbee Park shot a final round 68 and finished at 19-under par to win the KPMG Women’s PGA Championship for the third consecutive year and retake the No. 1 ranking in women’s golf.

The 26-year-old from South Korea made five birdies and shot a bogey-free round at the Westchester Country Club, finishing the season’s second major five strokes ahead of 22-yearold compatriot Sei Young Kim on Sunday.

Park, who shot a 273 for the tournament, tied the Tour record for the lowest score in a major in relationship to par and finished the four rounds with 22 birdies and just three bogeys.

It was her fifth major championship in the last 12 played on the LPGA Tour since the beginning of 2013.

“I played great the last three days,” she said. “I couldn’t believe myself. I made no bogeys for three days.” This is Park’s sixth major title. She ties Annika Sorenstam (2003-2005) as the only golfers who have claimed this championship in three consecutive years.

Park’s last birdie came on the final hole. She chipped her second shot to within 5-feet of the pin, then sank the ensuing putt and threw her arms in the air as a fan yelled “three-peat.”

It was her 56th consecutive hole without a bogey.

The rookie Kim, who was trying to win her first major, started the day two strokes back She bogeyed

the third and the hole. She her shot fourth holes, but well short of the pin, then reeled off but it took one big four consecutive bounce then rolled birdies, including the rest of the way long birdie putt into the cup. She finon the eighth to ished in a three-way pull within a shot tie for ninth place at of the lead.

8-under par, a stroke That was as close behind Suzann Petas she would get. tersen and Hall of A three-stroke Famer Karrie Webb, swing on the ninth who each shot a fihole put Park in nal round 72. charge. She hit a Sandra Gal shot birdie putt, then a 7-under 66 after watched as Kim starting the day at three-putted for even par. She findouble bogey. ished with a 285, “Everything fell good enough for apart at the ninth 12th. hole,” Kim said “The greens were through an internot too crazy firm, so preter. you could hold the American Lexi pins,” she said. “You Thompson ended just need to hit the up in third place. fairways, which I did She had eight today.” birdies on her first With the current No. 13 holes Sunday 1 Lydia Ko missing and shot a 66 to the cut for the first finish at 12-under time in 54 tries, No. 2 par.

Park needed to finThe now 20-yearish just 29th or betold former child ter to retake the top prodigy began Inbee Park, of South Korea, holds the PGA Women’s Championship Trophy after win- spot she last held in the day at 5-un- ning the KPMG Women’s PGA golf championship at Westchester Country Club on February. It will be Sunday, June 14, 2015, in Harrison, N.Y. Park won Women’s PGA Championship for the der par. She got third consecutive time. her third stay at the within two strokes Associated Press top of the rankings. of the lead after She was to the No. her birdie on the 1-ranked female a lot and I’m going to take with Morgan Pressel at 10 13th, her eighth of the day. a lot of confidence going under par. The prize mon- golfer in the world for 59 But she missed a chance into my upcoming tourna- ey will help in Henderson’s weeks in 2013. on the par-5 15th hole, hit- ments.” quest to earn a Tour card Park takes home $525,000 ting her tee shot well right Brittany Lincicome, who for next year. She needs to with the win. and scrambled to make won the first LPGA major of either win a tournament or She joins Sorenstam, Se Ri par. She then bogeyed the the year at the ANA Inspira- finish with an equivalent of Pak, Patty Sheehan, Nan16th to end her chances. tion, finished in fourth place a top-40 on the money list cy Lopez, Kathy Whitworth “(I) just take a lot of posi- at 11-under par. She shot a to avoid qualifying school and Mickey Wright as the tives from it knowing that final-round 68 that included after being denied an age only players to win what I can pull off a round on a birdie on the final hole. was formerly the LPGA exemption.

Sunday here at the KPMG Seventeen-year-old Cana- The shot of the day came Championship at least Women’s PGA Champion- dian Brooke Henderson fin- from Hyo Joo Kim, who three times. Wright won it ship,” she said. “It means ished in a tie for fifth place aced the 149-yard 14th four times.q

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St. Jude Classic

Fabian Gomez wins 1st PGA Tour title

TERESA M. WALKER AP Sports Writer MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — Fabian Gomez of Argentina won his first PGA Tour title Sunday at the St. Jude Classic, beating England’s Greg Owen by four strokes.

Gomez, 36, started the round tied with Owen atop the leaderboard at 9 under with 23 players within four strokes. Gomez shot 4-under 66 for a 267 total for the win. He carded a five birdie-one bogey round for his first PGA title in his 70th start in a season already featuring three top 25s.

Taking home the winner’s check of $1.08 million is a nice turnaround for Gomez who had to earn back his tour card through the Web. com Tour last year. When he rolled in a 30-footer for birdie on No. 18 for the final margin, Gomez celebrated by holding up his putter and pumping his right fist.

Owen finished with a 70 for the round.

Phil Mickelson remains winless since the 2013 as he tied for third (65-272). He finished with a flourish, rolling in a 25-footer for birdie that nearly lipped out on No. 18. Mickelson finished tied with Seung-Yul Noh (65), Michael Thompson (66), Matt Jones (68) and Brooks Kopeka (70).

Boo Weekley (65), Billy Horschel (65), Russell Knox (66) and Chad Campbell

(68) all tied for seventh at 273.

Mickelson used this event at TPC Southwind, sponsored by FedEx, to tune up his game for the U.S. Open at Chambers Bay in Washington. He carded eight birdies Sunday with three bogeys and says he got the confidence boost he wanted.

“I’m feeling a lot better about heading into the U.S. Open after this week than I did after last,” Mickelson said.

This event belonged to Gomez who honed his game with tips from his mentor Jose Coceres along with many rounds with Angel Cabrera. He already had won twice on the PGA Tour Latinoamerica in Buenos Aires in 2013 and 2014. The last time he had a piece of the 54-hole lead on the PGA Tour, he tied Jordan Spieth for second at the 2013 Puerto Rico Open.

Starting with the lead this time, Gomez fell a stroke back of Owen with his lone bogey of the day on No. 5 and was two strokes behind before Gomez birdied the par 3 No. 8. He tied Owen at 10 under when the Englishman bogeyed No. 9.

Gomez took the lead for good at 11 under when he stuck a shot within 8 feet on the par-3 11th with the island green. He clinched his victory on the par-5 16th with his fourth birdie despite hitting into the greenside bunker. Gomez blasted out to within 2 feet for the tapin birdie and a three-stroke lead.

Jones was only two strokes behind Gomez after a birdie on No. 13, but the Australian couldn’t roll in a birdie putt from 10 feet on the par-3 14th and then had a bogey on No. 15 after hit-

Fabian Gomez, of Argentina, celebrates with his caddie, Coco Monteros, left, after sinking a birdie putt on the 18th green to win the St. Jude Classic golf tournament, Sunday, June 14, 2015, in Memphis, Tenn.

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ting into the rough twice.

That left Owen with the only chance to run down Gomez.

The veteran playing his 214th PGA event just missed

rolling in a 30-footer for birdie on 13, and he couldn’t get up and down from a greenside bunker on No. 14 after hitting 12 feet past the hole. Owen rolled his

par attempt just right of the hole for third bogey, giving Gomez a three-stroke lead with four holes to play.

Owen birdied No. 15, but it wasn’t enough.

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Scherzer throws 1-hitter, Nationals beat Brewers

MILWAUKEE (AP) — Max Scherzer struck out a Nationals-record 16 batters and pitched a one-hitter, losing his perfect-game bid on a single that barely fell in bounds during the seventh inning to lead Washington to a 4-0 win over the Milwaukee Brewers on Sunday..

Carlos Gomez got Milwaukee’s only hit, leading off the seventh with a brokenbat looper to right field just beyond the outstretched glove of second baseman Anthony Rendon. Scherzer looked the other away after the ball dropped.

After losing his last two starts, Scherzer (7-5) rebounded with the most overpowering game of his career, which includes a Cy Young Award, two AllStar selections and a lot of strikeouts. In the first season of a $210 million, sevenyear contract, Scherzer got his second complete game in his 211th career start.

Scherzer set a career high for strikeouts and broke the Washington mark of 14 set

by Stephen Strasburg.

The Nationals scored two runs off rookie Taylor Jungmann (1-1), who labored through five innings in his second career start. Clint Robinson added a two-run double with two outs in the seventh off Jeremy Jeffress.

BLUE JAYS 13, RED SOX 5 BOSTON (AP) — The Toronto Blue Jays won their 11th straight game to equal the team record, routing Boston as Ryan Goins homered, doubled and drove in five runs.

Danny Valencia also homered as the highest-scoring

Washington Nationals starting pitcher Max Scherzer throws during the seventh inning of a baseball game against the Milwaukee Brewers Sunday, June 14, 2015, in Milwaukee.

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club in the majors completed a sweep at Fenway Park and sent Boston to its season-worst sixth straight loss.

This is the fourth time Toronto has won 11 in a row, most recently in 2013. The Blue Jays can set the team mark Monday night when they visit the New York Mets.

Goins’ three-run homer capped a six-run fourth inning as the Blue Jays roughed up rookie Eduardo Rodriguez (2-1).

Marco Estrada (4-3) gave up five runs in five innings.

David Ortiz hit a three-run homer for Boston, which fell 10 games under .500.

PIRATES 1, PHILLIES 0, 11 innings PITTSBURGH (AP) — Josh Harrison singled home Neil Walker with two outs in the 11th to lift Pittsburgh.

Walker singled off Jonathan Papelbon (1-1) to start the late rally. Jose Tabata reached when Philadel-

phia shortstop Freddy Galvis threw a routine grounder into the stands. Harrison followed with a crisp shot up the middle as the Pirates won their fourth straight.

Antonio Bastardo (2-1) picked up the win with an inning of scoreless relief.

The Pirates have swept six series this season, the most of any team in the majors.

Former teammates A.J. Burnett and Cole Hamels spent most of the afternoon overwhelming opposing batters. Burnett, who spent a forgettable season with Philadelphia in 2014 before returning to Pittsburgh in the offseason, scattered five hits in nine shutout innings to drop his ERA to 1.89.

Hamels was just as dominant, giving up four singles in seven innings to go with one walk and 12 strikeouts.

DIAMONDBACKS 4, GIANTS 0

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Rubby De La Rosa took an eight-hitter into the ninth as Arizona chased Chris Heston after five innings in his first start coming off a nohitter.

Heston pitched his gem against the New York Mets on Tuesday in his 13th major league start. His shot at matching Johnny Vander Meer’s record of throwing consecutives no-hitters in 1938 ended with one out in the second when Jake Lamb doubled.

The rookie right-hander gave up three runs — two earned — on seven hits. He walked four and struck out two. Heston (6-5) had won four of his previous five decisions.

Chris Owings drove in two runs for Arizona.

De La Rosa (5-4) won for the first time since May 12, a span of six starts. He gave up eight hits, walked two

and struck out six in eightplus innings.

RAYS 2, WHITE SOX 1 ST. PETERSBURG, Florida (AP) — Asdrubal Cabrera hit a two-run homer off Chris Sale in the seventh inning, helping Tampa Bay complete a three-game sweep.

Sale (6-3) struck out 12 over 6 2/3 innings to became the first pitcher since Boston’s Pedro Martinez in 2001 to strikeout 12 or more in four straight starts. The left-allowed two runs and three hits during a 125-pitch outing.

After Steven Souza Jr. opened the seventh with a walk, Cabrera hit a high fly into the left-field seats off Sale to make it 2-1. It was Cabrera’s third homer this season, and first since May 19. He has just two extrabase hits over his last 19 games.

C.J. Riefenhauser (1-0) threw a scoreless seventh to get his first major league win. After Steve Geltz pitched the eighth, Kevin Jepsen got the final three outs for his fifth save.

YANKEES 5, ORIOLES 3 BALTIMORE (AP) — John Ryan Murphy had the Yankees’ only hit in a three-run fifth inning, helping salvage the finale of a three-game series.

Mark Teixeira drove in a run and scored one to help the first-place Yankees end Baltimore’s six-game winning streak.

New York starter Adam Warren was pulled with two outs in the fifth and replaced by Chasen Shreve (3-1), who went 1 1/3 innings.q

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Continued from page 17 “There’s really no choice that we have.”

Stamkos and Kane are still looking for their first goal of the series, and Toews has contributed one goal and two assists. But Vermette has two game-winning goals in the final, Teuvo Teravainen scored in each of the first two games, and Andrew Shaw has a goal

kita Kucherov crashed into the Chicago net in the first period, leading to a bigger role for speedy rookie Jonathan Drouin and breaking up the Lightning’s successful “Triplets” line.

Kucherov, who turns 22 on Wednesday, flew with the team to Chicago, and coach Jon Cooper said he was “in considerably better shape today than he was last night.”

“We’ll have an optional skate tomorrow, so don’t

in the first period Saturday night that handed a goal to Patrick Sharp.

“I thought he played an exceptional game,” Cooper said of Bishop, who had 27 saves. “We’re sitting here giving up two goals or less a game. You can’t ask for much more than that from your goaltenders.”

Versteeg, who has appeared in just 11 of Chicago’s 22 playoff games, played in each of the first two games against the

Chicago Blackhawks center Antoine Vermette (80) celebrates with left wing Teuvo Teravainen, center, and defenseman Kimmo Timonen after Vermette scored a goal against the Tampa Bay Lightning during the third period of Game 5 of the NHL hockey Stanley Cup Final, Saturday, June 13, 2015, in Tampa, Fla. Associated Press

and two assists.

In an incredibly tight battle for the Stanley Cup — only the second final to begin with five one-goal games — the contributions from Chicago’s role players are making a difference.

“We know that one of our strengths as a team and organization is our depth,” coach Joel Quenneville said. “Sometimes you use it.”

Tampa Bay’s depth was tested Saturday night when second-leading scorer Ni-

read anything into it if he’s not on the ice,” Cooper said.

“To be honest, I thought there was a chance he was coming back last night,” Cooper added. “But it didn’t work out. These two days will give him the rest he needs.”

Cooper also said goaltender Ben Bishop was feeling much better. Bishop missed Game 4 with an undisclosed injury and then had a big collision with defenseman Victor Hedman

Lightning, and then was replaced by Bickell for Game 3. After Bickell struggled, Quenneville turned to Versteeg again, and it looks as if he is growing stronger as the final goes along.

“I loved his response, in this series particularly,” Quenneville said.

Quenneville’s smart use of his roster is one reason Chicago is 42-14 in Games 4-7 of playoff series since the former NHL defenseman took over in October 2008. The Blackhawks also

have won 15 of their last 19 potential series clinching games, according to STATS, setting the stage for what will be a raucous atmosphere at the United

Center on Monday night.

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Kurt Busch wins rain-shortened NASCAR race in Michigan

By NOAH TRISTER AP Sports Writer BROOKLYN, Mich. (AP) -Kurt Busch won his second NASCAR Sprint Cup race of the season, a rain-shortened event at Michigan International Speedway on Sunday that was called 62 laps short of its scheduled distance.

The fourth weather-related red flag of the day came after lap 138 of a scheduled 200. Busch was leading at the time, and he was declared the winner after heavy rain soaked the track. Dale Earnhardt Jr. was second, followed

by Martin Truex Jr. With the rain approaching, Kyle Larson did his best to stay in the lead, but with fuel running low, he came to pit on lap 133, giving up the lead to Busch.

The first three red flags, on laps 14, 20 and 46, delayed the race for a total of over two hours.

Kevin Harvick led for 63 laps, but a tire problem knocked him well back.

He finished 29th, only the second time all year he’s been out of the top 10.

Harvick did stay atop the

Kurt Busch celebrates with teammates after winning the NASCAR Sprint Cup series auto race at Michigan International Speedway, Sunday, June 14, 2015, in Brooklyn, Mich.

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Cup standings, leading by 15 points over Truex.

Pole winner Kasey Kahne was 15th.

Busch’s victory in his No. 41 Chevrolet was part of a

huge weekend for Chevy, which took the top three spots in this Cup race while also winning in the IndyCar Series and in the GTE Pro category at the 24 Hours of

Le Mans.

This was Busch’s third career Cup win at MIS and first since 2007. It’s his first multi-win season in NASCAR’s top series since 2011.

This was supposed to be a 400-mile, 200-lap race, but the weather made that a tough task from the start.

The first red flag delayed the race for about an hour, and the second stoppage came not long after that.

Laps 12 through 28 were all under caution, and the third red flag came during a competition caution.

Almost immediately after the race went green following the third red flag,

Kyle Busch went into the wall. That was the end of his race.

The bad weather held off for a while after that - until the rain returned with a vengeance. First came the yellow flag, then red. The grandstands were evacuated, and the rest of the race was eventually canceled.

Busch was already in good shape to make the Chase for the Sprint Cup, having won at Richmond in April.

The shortened Michigan race was a missed opportunity for several drivers with no wins, like Larson, Kahne and Jeff Gordon.q

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Twitter’s twists and turns _ can it keep flying?

AP Technology Writers NEW YORK (AP) — The Pope is on Twitter, along with the Dalai Lama, world leaders and, of course, Kim Kardashian.

The short-messaging service can bring fleeting fame, instant ignominy and get you fired. It has been credited for sparking revolutions and, like Facebook, transforming the way the world communicates.

But despite the buzz generated by thousands of chatty journalists, athletes and celebrities, Twitter has never turned a profit. Its user base of 302 million is dwarfed by rivals such as Facebook, which counts 1.44 billion.

Facebook has grown into an Internet powerhouse, while Twitter in many aspects remains a niche social network, unable to convince the masses that they need its service to keep up with what’s happening in the world. Lots of people sign up but not a lot stick around.

That likely had much to do with last week’s announced exit of Twitter Inc. CEO Dick Costolo, who gave way to co-founder, and former CEO, Jack Dorsey while the San Francisco company looks for a new leader.

Despite the executive turmoil and a stock price that

This Nov. 4, 2013 file photo shows the icon for the Twitter app on an iPhone in San Jose, Calif. Despite executive turmoil and a stock price that has fallen 30 percent since late April 2015, industry experts _ not to mention loyal users _ see potential in the company. But first it needs to address some of its biggest problems.

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has fallen 30 percent since late April, industry experts — not to mention loyal users — see potential in the company.

But first it needs to address some of its biggest problems. Here are some of Twitter’s most pressing challenges, along with possible fixes.

WHERE ARE THE USERS? Its user growth is stalling and there are a lot of competitors. Besides its old rival Facebook, Twitter is feeling the heat from mobile messaging apps such as WhatsApp, Line and Viber, not

to mention Snapchat, Instagram and a bevy of others only your cool middleschool niece might have heard of. Twitter grew from 204 million active users in the first quarter of 2013, to 255 million a year later and 302 million in the first three months of 2015. In comparison, Facebook-owned WhatsApp announced in April that it has reached 800 million monthly active users.

MAKE IT EASIER TO USE Almost one billion users have tried Twitter and not stuck around, according to

tech investor Chris Sacca, a longtime Twitter backer who wrote a lengthy critique of the service and posted it online this month.

Sacca suggested the service could offer more features to engage visitors — including special channels or tabs focused on live events, topics of interest or even a user’s geographic location. He also recommended more “nudges,” including feedback, polls and other interactive features that would make newcomers feel less “lonely.”

DEAL WITH TROLLS Twitter has long had a problem with trolls, the online bullies and blowhards whose abuse has been an ongoing issue that has alienated established and potential users. It has tried to make it easier to report threats and in April updated its policy against violent threats to include not just specific threats but people promoting violence against others. It’s too early to say if this has helped.

MORE APPS AND OPTIONS Twitter is well-known around the globe, but it must do more to capitalize on its own brand, said Brian Blau, a tech analyst at the Gartner research firm. Twitter could be offering users more specialized apps for various activities, in the way that Facebook has built a stable of apps for messaging, consuming news and sharing photos, he said. Twitter’s Periscope app, which lets users share live video, is an example of “exactly the kind of thing Twitter should be doing,” Blau added. But he noted that Facebook, Snapchat and other companies have invested heavily in direct-messaging capabilities, which can make money by showing ads, selling animated adornments or enabling users to play oneon-one games.q

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Family Affair:

A look at the Murdoch boys’ club: Who’s in and out

RYAN NAKASHIMA AP Business Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Sibling rivalries. A quest for power.

An affair. A scandal. The turbulent lives of 84-yearold billionaire Rupert Murdoch and his heirs returned to the spotlight this week as the aging magnate took steps to hand over control of the media empire he built nearly from scratch.

The Murdoch family — whose assets include The Wall Street Journal, Fox News and the 20th Century Fox movie studio — in some places garners the type of paparazzi coverage its global outlets have bestowed on royals.

But unlike with royals, in the Murdoch family, the eldest child’s inheritance is never ensured.

Once it was Lachlan, then it was James, and now both seem to be positioned to soon control the media behemoth that split into two separate entertainment and publishing companies two years ago: News Corp. and 21st Century Fox. And in the wings operates spurned daughter Elisabeth, whose independent voice and fortune have made her one of London’s top socialites and a media power in her own right.

“Between who’s on top and who’s arriving and who’s departing — that’s always changing,” says Michael Wolff, a Murdoch biographer and author of “The Man Who Owns The News: Inside the Secret World of Rupert Murdoch.” ‘’But because you remain a Murdoch, you are always in the mix.”

The latest twist in the family drama came Thursday with news that James Murdoch, the 42-year-old second son, would take over as CEO of Twenty-First Century Fox Inc., leapfrogging 43-yearold first son Lachlan in the line of succession. Accord-

ing to a person with direct knowledge of the matter, Lachlan would become co-executive chairman, his father executive chairman — while keeping his direct report from Fox News CEO Roger Ailes. The person spoke on condition of anonymity and wasn’t authorized to speak publicly.

The appointment, expected to be confirmed at a board meeting in the coming weeks, creates “an enormous amount of complexity,” Needham & Co. stock analyst Laura Martin said.

While the bake-off isn’t over, it’s clear the males in the family are in line for control.

“This cements the complete exclusion of Elisabeth from the gig, as well as Prudence,” said Claire Enders, a media and telecoms analyst and founder of London-based Enders Analysis Ltd. “This is basically a typical patriarchal succession.”

Here’s a look at who’s in and who’s out at 21st Century Fox and its sister publishing company, News Corp.: WHO’S IN: —James Murdoch, incoming CEO of 21st Century Fox. Formerly chief executive of News Corp.’s international operations, James is credited with helping expand the Sky satellite TV brand to Italy and Germany, stakes later sold for $9.3 billion.

Briefly in charge of British newspapers, James was tainted by the phone hacking scandal that forced the closure of the tabloid News of the World in 2011. British media regulator Ofcom questioned his competence, saying his failure to act was “difficult to comprehend and ill-judged.” In 2012, he resigned as chair of London-based satellite broadcaster BSkyB to distance it from the scandal.

He relocated to New York and was named co-chief operating officer of 21st Century Fox in March 2014.

—Lachlan Murdoch, incoming co-executive chairman of 21st Century Fox. One-time executive director at News Corp. and deputy chief operating officer in 2000. He made a notoriously bad investment in Australian telecommunications company called One.

author of “Rupert Murdoch: An Investigation of Political Power.” Returned to the fold in March 2014 when he was named non-executive co-chairman of Fox and News Corp.

WHO’S OUT: —Elisabeth Murdoch, 46, angel investor in media and technology startups.

In 2001, she founded Shine Group, a TV production

in Britain and Australia, but otherwise has little to do with the media companies. However, she shares with James, Lachlan and Elisabeth a single vote in the family trust that will own 38.4 percent of voting shares in both News Corp. and Fox upon Rupert Murdoch’s death.

—Grace, 13, and Chloe, 11, are the children of Rupert Murdoch and his third ex-

News Corp. CEO Rupert Murdoch speaks in San Francisco. Sibling rivalries. A quest for power. An affair. A scandal. The turbulent life of the 84-year-old billionaire and his heirs has emerged back in the spotlight as the aging media magnate readied to hand over the keys to his empire. The media circus around the Murdochs shares many parallels with paparazzi coverage of the royals, including the family’s seats of power in the U.K. and in Commonwealth nation Australia, but the jostling for control in Murdoch’s family is different. The eldest child’s inheritance is never ensured.

(AP Photo/Noah Berger)

Tel, which subsequently collapsed, losing hundreds of millions. But an investment in Australian online real estate company REA Group in 2000, reportedly worth $11 million, ballooned. The value of News’ stake is $3.1 billion today. Lachlan abruptly left News Corp. in 2005 after reportedly clashing with his father. In one telling, executives went over Lachlan’s head, “and, very foolishly, Rupert Murdoch didn’t back his son up,” said David McKnight,

company that made shows like “The Biggest Loser” and “MasterChef.” She sold Shine to News Corp. for around $600 million in 2011, triggering shareholder lawsuits that accused Rupert Murdoch of nepotism. She later told a Guardian newspaper media event she had “no ambition” for the top job.

—Prudence MacLeod, Murdoch’s first child, born in 1958. She’s married to Alasdair MacLeod, a former News Corp. executive

wife Wendi Deng. The couple divorced in 2013 amid high-profile reports of her alleged affairs with former British Prime Minister Tony Blair and Google executive chairman Eric Schmidt, including a diary entry obtained by Vanity Fair last year in which she pined over Blair’s “good body.”

Deng reportedly clashed with Murdoch over her children’s inheritance, which amounts to nearly 11 million non-voting shares in the two media companies.q

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S&P warns Britain over rating amid EU referendum fears PAN PYLAS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Standard & Poor’s warned this weekend that it may downgrade its credit rating on Britain sometime in the next two years following the government’s decision to hold a referendum on the country’s membership in the European Union.

The referendum, which is due to take place before the end of 2017, “represents a risk to growth prospects for Britain’s financial

services and export sectors, as well as the wider economy,” the agency said in a statement.

It also said that economic policymaking “could be at risk of being more exposed to party politics than we had previously anticipated, similar to the situation in the U.S. when we lowered that sovereign rating in 2011.”

As a result, S&P has put the outlook on Britain’s AAA rating on negative. That basically means that there’s a 1 in 3 chance of a down-

grade within two years.

The recently elected Conservative government is to hold a referendum on Britain’s EU membership by the end of 2017 after a renegotiation process where it hopes to win concessions from its partners including limits to the welfare benefits EU migrants can claim.

Prime Minister David Cameron only has a slender majority in the House of Commons and has to tread carefully in the run-up to the referendum as many

in his Conservative Party are likely to vote for a withdrawal. Outside of Parliament, he will also be facing a concerted campaign for exit from the UK Independence Party, which won around 12.5 percent of the vote in the recent election but only gained one seat.

The EU has been a source of contention in Britain for years with many in the country blaming it for high levels of immigration, economic stagnation and low levels of pay. Others think

that it is a source of great benefit, not least because membership offers access to the world’s most lucrative single market.

Opinion polls suggest that Britain will vote to remain a member regardless of what Cameron manages to negotiate.

Still, the recent referendum on Scottish independence and the surprise election victory for the Conservatives shows how opinion polls can change — or just be plain wrong.q

Economy hit as MERS keeps Koreans indoors, deters tourists YOUKYUNG LEE AP Business Writer SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — For a South Korean tour agency, the outbreak of Middle East respiratory syndrome feels like a bigger threat to business than a North Korean attack or nuclear reactor meltdown.

Kim Chun Choo’s company, which has provided tour services for the last quarter century, is going through its worst year ever.

Following the outbreak last month, most tourists from China, Hong Kong and Taiwan, who account for about half of Kim Travel’s clients, cancelled tours to Seoul. Almost all international conferences, which were set to bring in participants who would use his company’s tour services, were cancelled or post-

A couple wears masks as a precaution against Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) as they pass by street vendors wait for customers at Dongdaemoon market in Seoul, South Korea. South Korea’s central bank lowered its key interest rate to a historic low on Thursday, responding to a slump in exports and the prospect that the outbreak of the deadly MERS virus could slow the economy.

(AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)

poned.

“Even after the Yeonpyeong Island shelling and Japan’s Fukushima crisis, it

wasn’t this bad,” said Kim, referring to the North Korea’s shelling of a South Korean island in 2010 and

Japan’s nuclear accident in 2011.

Kim said revenue in June is expected to plunge to less

than 30 percent of what it was a year earlier. The massive cancellations are dealing a blow to business for July and August as well, which are usually high-demand months.

“It’s a step backward for South Korea which has built a good image,” he said. “I just hope that the outbreak ends quickly so that business in the fall wouldn’t be hurt.”

Efforts to foster stronger growth in Asia’s fourthlargest economy have been set back by the MERS outbreak, which is denting tourism and spending by locals. Eleven people have died and more than 120 people in South Korea have been diagnosed with the disease since the country reported its first case on May 20. q

EU launches antitrust investigation into Amazon over e-books LONDON (AP) — The European Union has launched an antitrust investigation into online retailer Amazon over its distribution of e-books, which have become increasingly popular in recent years.

The European Commission said late last week it will investigate certain clauses in Amazon’s contracts with publishers, including a requirement for publishers to inform the company about arrangements it has with Amazon competitors.

Amazon, which is the largest distributor of e-books in Europe and owns the pop-

ular Kindle e-book device, has already faced pressure from the commission over its tax structures, specifically over whether its European operations enjoyed an unfair competitive advantage by being based in low-cost Luxembourg.

Margrethe Vestager, the commission’s top official on competition policy, stressed that the investigation, which will center on the largest markets of English and German e-books, doesn’t call into question Amazon’s successful and comprehensive service.

“However, it is my duty to

make sure that Amazon’s arrangements with publishers are not harmful to consumers, by preventing other e-book distributors from innovating and competing effectively with Amazon,” she said. “Our investigation will show if such concerns are justified.”

If the European Commission finds that Amazon’s arrangements limit competition and reduce consumer choice, then it could be violating antitrust rules in Europe that prohibit companies from abusing their dominant market position.

The firm could be fined or

forced to change its business practices.

Amazon said it is confident that its agreements with publishers are legal and “in the best interests of readers,” and added that it will “cooperate fully during this process.”

Amazon faces competition from a number of distributors, including Apple’s iBooks. There are many other rival offerings too from much smaller firms including Foyles, one of Britain’s most venerable book chains.

Without directly referencing Thursday’s probe, Foyles

CEO Paul Currie said he supported any move “that creates a more equal business environment for all retailers of books, be it bricks and mortar or digital, is very welcome.”

This isn’t the first time that the commission has investigated the e-books sector.

In December 2011, it raised concerns that Apple and five international publishing houses may have colluded to limit price competition. By July 2013, those companies had offered a number of commitments to address the commission’s concerns.q

A26 COMICS

Monday 15 June 2015

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People help a hippopotamus escape from a flooded zoo in Tbilisi, Georgia, Sunday, June 14, 2015. Tigers, lions, a hippopotamus and other animals have escaped from the zoo in Georgia’s capital after heavy flooding destroyed their enclosures, prompting authorities to warn residents in Tbilisi to stay inside Sunday.

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Zoo animals escape amid flooding in Georgian city D. MISHA Associated Press TBILISI, Georgia (AP) — Severe flooding in the Georgian capital left at least 12 people dead Sunday and triggered a big-game hunt across the city for lions, tigers, a hippopotamus and other dangerous animals that escaped from Tbilisi’s ravaged zoo.

Residents were warned to stay indoors as police conducted the hunt, but fear deepened as night fell on the city of 1.1 million with some of the animals still on the loose.

“The daytime wasn’t bad,” said resident Khariton Gabashvili, “but tonight everyone has to be very careful because all the beasts haven’t been captured.

They haven’t been fed, and in their hungry state they might attack people.”

Heavy rain turned a normally pleasant city stream into a fierce torrent that destroyed or damaged hundreds of homes in the former Soviet republic. Officials said 12 people were known to have died and about two dozen others were missing.

There were no immediate reports that any of the dead were killed by the animals, which ran off after the floodwaters destroyed their enclosures. Among the beasts that escaped were bears, wolves and monkeys.

A hippopotamus — an extremely aggressive animal

with the ability to run faster than humans in short bursts — was spotted lumbering through a flooded square not far from the zoo and was shot with a tranquilizer dart.

Other animals were hunted down and killed.

The carcasses of at least a lion, a boar and a tiger were seen, and zoo authorities said six wolves were also dead.

Authorities said the animals may have fled to just about any corner of Tbilisi, including the forests on the steep hills in the city’s heart.

“I feel frenzied. The youngsters can’t go out and walk around. I sat on the balcony with them and played games, so they could breathe some fresh air,” said 25-year-old Khatuna Bolkvadze, a mother of two who lives near the zoo.

Zoo spokeswoman Mzia Sharashidze said a count of the escaped animals was not immediately possible because so many of the zoo’s enclosures were under water. But she said five lions were unaccounted for and many monkeys had escaped.

Three zoo workers were found dead on its grounds, including a woman who less than a month ago lost an arm in a tiger attack.

Her husband was also reported dead.

The floodwaters gouged huge chunks out of roads and swamped numerous homes. q

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A28 SCIENCE

Monday 15 June 2015

Spacecraft that landed on comet finally wakes up

FRANK JORDANS Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — To scientists’ relief and delight, the Philae spacecraft that landed on a comet last fall has woken up and communicated with Earth after seven long months of silence, the European Space Agency announced Sunday.

Philae became the first spacecraft to settle on a comet when it touched down on icy 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko in November. But the solar-powered probe came down with a bounce and ended up in the shadow of a cliff instead of in direct sunlight.

As a result, Philae managed to conduct experiments and send data to Earth for only about 60 hours before its batteries ran out and it was forced to shut down its systems and go silent.

Scientists had hoped the probe would wake up again as the comet approached the sun, enabling Philae’s solar panels to soak up enough light to charge the craft’s main battery.

But there were fears its mission would be cut short.

This artist impression from Dec. 2013 by ESA /ATG medialab , publicly provided by the European Space Agency, ESA, shows Rosetta’s lander Philae (front view) on the surface of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko.

Associated Press

Those fears were dismissed at 10:28 p.m. (2028 GMT; 4:28 p.m. EDT) on Saturday, when the lander sent a signal back to Earth.

“I’m not really surprised it happened, but if you wait for several months and then suddenly in the middle

of the night you get a call saying, ‘We have a signal from Philae,’ it’s exciting,” said Stephan Ulamec, project manager at the German Aerospace Center, or DLR. “We’re very happy.”

The brief burst of communication contained 300 packages of data that were relayed by the probe’s mother ship, Rosetta, which is orbiting the comet.

“We only received data for about 85 seconds. These data are housekeeping and system data from the lander,” Ulamec said. But it

was enough to tell scientists that the probe is doing well and getting sufficient sunlight to keep communicating.

Ulamec said the probe appears to have been awake for several days before it called home.

Scientists will now work to change Rosetta’s orbit so that the link to the lander lasts longer and they can start sending commands for it to carry out new measurements. The next opportunity to communicate with Philae should come on Sun-

day night, Ulamec said.

Scientists also hope that Philae’s restart will allow them to pinpoint where on the 2.5-mile (4-kilometer)wide comet the washing machine-size probe landed. Its exact location has been a mystery.

On Aug. 13, the comet will reach the point at which it is closest to the sun before swinging back out again.

Ulamec said the lander should get enough sunlight to operate until October, when it will once again fall silent, possibly forever.q

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Monday 15 June 2015

Actor Dempsey finishes 2nd in Le Mans amateur race ing Le Mans for the fourth time, but this was his first top-three finish. He has also competed in the Rolex 24 at Daytona endurance race.

The actor was emotional

when speaking to French television after the race.

“I think it’s hard to put into words how much it means to be on the podium in Le Mans. Phenomenal effort and support from Porsche,”

Dempsey said. “It’s an amazing accomplishment, you always dream about moments like this. I’ve worked really hard over the last three years to make this happen and I’m here. q

Foo Fighters cancel shows after singer injures leg on stage U.S. actor Patrick Dempsey celebrates during the 83rd 24-hour Le Mans endurance race podium ceremony of the LM GTE AM category, as his team finished at the second place, in Le Mans, western France, Sunday, June 14, 2015.

Associated Press

LE MANS, France (AP) — Actor Patrick Dempsey finally got on the podium at the 24 Hours Le Mans endurance race, finishing second in the GTE Amateur category on Sunday.

The 49-year-old Ameri-

can, a long-time star of “Grey’s Anatomy,” was one of three drivers in the Dempsey-Proton Porsche 911 RSR team. They finished behind the winning Ferrari.

Dempsey is a huge motorsports fan and was driv-

STOCKHOLM (AP) — Foo Fighters have decided to cancel two shows in Europe after the band’s frontman Dave Grohl fell off the stage during a concert in Sweden and broke a leg, the band said Saturday.

Grohl fell off the stage during the concert in Goteborg, Sweden, on Friday.

A hospital visit after the show confirmed he had sustained at least one fracture in the fall, although the

full extent of the injuries are still being determined, the band said.

As a result, the band has been forced to cancel its June 14 show at the Pinkpop Festival in the Netherlands as well as its June 16 concert in St. Gallen, Switzerland.

Videos posted on social media Friday showed Grohl walking across the stage in Goteborg when he appeared to trip and plunge

over the edge.

“I think I just broke my leg. I think I really broke my leg,” he told the crowd, lying on his back in front of the stage. The rest of the band resumed playing as Grohl was taken away for medical attention. But he was later carried back on stage on a stretcher with his right foot bandaged and continued the concert sitting down or supporting himself on crutches.q

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‘Jurassic World’ bites off biggest global debut of all time LINDSEY BAHR AP Film Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Dinosaurs are anything but extinct at the box office.

“Jurassic World,” the fourth film in the series, became the highest global opener of all time with a staggering $511.8 million in its first days in theaters. It also devoured a number of domestic box office records with a $204.6 million take, the Rentrak media-measurement company estimated on Sunday.

In addition to setting a record for 2015, “Jurassic World” is now the secondhighest domestic opening of all time, right behind “Marvel’s The Avengers” which took in $207.4 million in 2012. By the time Monday actuals roll in, there is a chance the film could dethrone “Avengers.”

It has been 14 years since there has been a new “Jurassic” film in theaters, and the combination of cinematic grandeur, nostalgia and awareness helped “Jurassic World” far surpass analyst predictions going into the weekend, which had the film on track for a $125 million opening.

“This over-performed in a way that I’ve never seen,” Rentrak’s Senior Media Analyst Paul Dergarabe- This photo provided by Universal Pictures shows, Nick Robinson, left, as Zach, and Ty Simpkins as Gray, in dian said. “It broke a scene from the film, “Jurassic World,” directed by Colin Trevorrow, in the next installment of Steven Spielberg’s groundbreaking “Jurassic Park” series. the box office Associated Press sound barrier.” $150 million, PG-13 rated quadrant turned out to see ous 7.”

Universal Pictures and Legfilm. Audiences in every the film in theaters. Accord- No studio even tried to endary co-financed the ing to exit polls, 39 percent compete with the unbeatwere under the age of 25, able dinosaurs this weeksignifying the massive inter- end, and thus holdovers est of both a new genera- populated the rest of the tion and the continued en- top five. Melissa McCarthy’s thusiasm of those who saw “Spy” earned $16 million in “Jurassic Park” in 1993. its second weekend in theAlso, audiences shelled out aters, bringing its domestic the extra money to see the total to $56.9 million. “San film in the biggest format Andreas” added another possible. About 48 percent $11 million, and “Insidious of domestic audiences Chapter 3” and “Pitch Peropted for 3D. fect 2” took the fourth and “It is extraordinary. The film fifth spots, with $7.3 million has resonated with audi- and $6 million, respectively. ences around the world,” The dino-sized debut of said Nick Carpou, Univer- “Jurassic World” is of utmost sal’s president of domestic importance to the industry, distribution. too, which has seen three Directed by Colin Trevorrow consecutive down weekand executive-produced ends in what was supposed

by Steven Spielberg, “Ju- to be a record-setting sumrassic World” is the third in mer. a series of blockbusters for “We got the wind back in star Chris Pratt, who also the summer sails,” said Derstarred in the 2014 box of- garabedian, citing upcomfice hits “Guardians of the ing films like “Inside Out,” Galaxy” and “The Lego ‘’Mission: Impossible-Rogue Movie.”

Nation” and “Ted 2” as “He’s like Jimmy Stewart some of the big films on the with a leather vest and way. “This gets the summer muscles,” Dergarbedian back on track.”q said. “He’s a great modernday action hero.”

This is also likely not the last “Jurassic” film audiences will see. Pratt has stated in interviews that he has signed on for future installments. But right now, Universal is focusing on what’s in theaters.

“Jurassic World” is just the latest hit for Universal in 2015, following “Fifty Shades of Grey” and “Furi-