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Health Care Scare

Nathan Auldridge of Salem, Va. introduces Health and Human Service (HHS) Secretary Sylvia Burwell for a news conference at the HHS in Washington about goals for the Obama administration’s final health care open enrollment. The Obama administration confirmed Monday that premiums will go up sharply next year for health insurance sold to millions of consumers through HealthCare.gov.

(AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Obama Administration Confirms Double-Digit Premium Hikes

Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Premiums will go up sharply next year under President Barack Obama’s health

care law, and many consumers will be down to just one insurer, the administration confirmed Monday.

That’s sure to stoke another

“Obamacare” controversy days before a presidential election. Before taxpayerprovided subsidies, premiums for a midlevel bench-

mark plan will increase an average of 25 percent across the 39 states served by the federally run online market, according to a re-

port from the Department of Health and Human Services.

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Trump Rejects ‘Phony’ Polls, Insists ‘We are Winning’ STEVE PEOPLES JONATHAN LEMIRE Associated Press ST. AUGUSTINE, Fla. (AP) — A defiant Donald Trump blamed his campaign struggles on “phony polls” from the “disgusting” media on Monday, fighting to energize his most loyal supporters as his path to the

presidency shrinks.

With just 14 days until the election, the Republican nominee campaigned in battleground Florida as his team conceded publicly as well as privately that crucial Pennsylvania may be slipping away to Democrat Hillary Clinton. That would leave him only a ra-

zor-thin pathway to the 270 electoral votes needed to win the White House on Nov. 8.

Despite continued difficulties with women and minorities, Trump refuses to soften his message in the campaign’s final days to broaden his coalition. Yet he offered an optimistic

front in the midst of a threeday tour through Florida as thousands began voting there in person.

“I believe we’re actually winning,” Trump declared during a round table discussion with farmers gathered next to a local pumpkin patch.

A day after suggesting the

First Amendment to the Constitution may give journalists too much freedom, he insisted that the media are promoting biased polls to discourage his supporters from voting.

“The media isn’t just against me.

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FRONT

Iraqis press toward Mosul amid heavy clashes US: Philippines’ President Duterte QASSIM ZAHRA, JOSEPH KRAUSS Associated Press BARTELLA, Iraq (AP) — U.S.backed Iraqi forces fought their way inside two villages Monday as they crept closer to Mosul a week into an offensive to retake the Islamic State-held city, but

I don’t know — Russians, Pakistanis.”

They had forced children to go to religious school and military training, and everyone had to attend prayers five times a day, he added.

In the days before the offensive, Antar said the village ran low on food and

that hit the women’s section of a Shiite mosque in the town of Daquq.

The strike happened amid a large Islamic State assault on nearby Kirkuk that appeared aimed at diverting attention from the fight for Mosul, Iraq’s secondlargest city.

Iraq’s elite counterterrorism forces prepare to attack Islamic State positions as fighting to retake the extremist-held city of Mosul enters its second week, in the village of Tob Zawa, outside Mosul, Monday, Oct. 24, 2016. A convoy of special forces advanced toward the village of Tob Zawa, Monday, encountering roadside bombs and trading heavy fire with the militants. Loudspeakers on the Humvees blared Iraqi patriotic music as they pushed toward the village.

(AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed)

they also faced questions over a suspected airstrike on a mosque that killed 13 people.

Iraqi special forces shelled militant positions before dawn near Bartella, a historically Christian town east of Mosul that they had retaken last week.

With patriotic music blaring from loudspeakers on their Humvees, they then pushed into the village of Tob Zawa, about 9 kilometers (5½ miles) from Mosul, amid heavy clashes.

Until now, most of the fighting has been in largely uninhabited towns and villages, but the special forces found more than 70 civilians sheltering in Tob Zawa.

They will encounter many more civilians as they get closer to Mosul, still home to more than 1 million people.

Abdeljabar Antar, who had remained in Tob Zawa with his wife and four children, said the IS militants had included foreign fighters “who spoke languages

supplies, and that residents had to get permission from IS to leave.

“I hope life will return to the way it was before 2014,” he said, referring to the summer when IS militants swept across northern and central Iraq, capturing Mosul and surrounding towns.

The Iraqi Federal Police, a military-style force, pushed into a second village in the Shura district south of Mosul, where they fired a large anti-aircraft gun and rocket-propelled grenades.

They later appeared to have secured the village, a cluster of squat homes on a desert plain, and handed out water and other aid to civilians.

The U.S.-led coalition said it had carried out six airstrikes Sunday near Mosul, destroying 19 fighting positions and 17 vehicles, as well as rocket and mortar launchers, artillery and tunnels.Human Rights Watch called for an investigation into last week’s purported airstrike in northern Iraq

The IS attack on Kirkuk, 170 kilometers (100 miles) southeast of Mosul, lasted for two days and killed at least 80 people, mainly members of the Kurdish security forces that took control of the city in 2014 as Iraqi forces crumbled amid an IS advance.

Human Rights Watch said Daquq’s residents believe Friday’s attack was an airstrike because of the extent of the destruction and because planes could be heard overhead. The New York-based group said at least 13 people were reported killed.

The coalition and the Iraqi military, which are waging the offensive, are the only parties known to be flying military aircraft over Iraq.

Col. John Dorrian, a U.S. military spokesman, said the coalition had “definitively determined” it did not conduct the airstrike that killed civilians in Daquq and had shared its findings with the Iraqi government, which is doing its own investigation.

sparking distress around the world JIM GOMEZ Associated Press MANILA, Philippines (AP) — A top American diplomat for Asia said Monday that Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte’s controversial remarks and a “real climate of uncertainty” about his government’s intentions have sparked distress in the U.S. and other countries.

Daniel Russel, the assistant secretary of state for East Asian and Pacific affairs, said he also relayed to Philippine Foreign Secretary Perfecto Yasay Jr. international concern over continuing killings under Duterte’s crackdown against illegal drugs. In addition, Secretary of State John Kerry spoke by phone Sunday with Yasay about “recent challenges” in bilateral relations, the State Department said.

Russel’s visit to the Philippines, part of a three-nation trip to Southeast Asia, comes amid increasing uncertainty about Washington’s treaty alliance with Manila. The brash Duterte, who took office on June 30, has displayed antagonism toward America, declaring his desire to scale back military engagements with the U.S. and telling President Barack Obama to “go to hell.”

Duterte’s administration, however, has not formalized his public declarations to remove U.S. counterterrorism forces from the volatile southern Philippines and stop large-scale joint exercises involving American forces, creating confusion among even his Cabinet officials.

Duterte sparked diplomatic alarm when he announced during a state visit to Beijing last week his “separation” with the United States.

Upon returning home the next day, Duterte said he did not mean he was severing diplomatic ties with Washington but only wanted to end a foreign policy that’s overly oriented toward the U.S. “I’ve pointed out to Secretary Yasay that the succession of controversial statements, comments and a

real climate of uncertainty about the Philippines’ intentions has created consternation in a number of countries, not only in mine,” Russel told reporters in Manila after an extended meeting with Yasay.

The unease, Russel said, was also palpable “not only among governments, but also ... in other communities, in the expat Filipino community, in corporation boardrooms as well.”

“This is not a positive trend,” he said, adding that the U.S. remains committed to continuing a solid alliance with and providing assistance to the Philippines, including in fighting drug crime.State Department spokesman John Kirby, however, said both Kerry and Russel came away from their discussions “feeling that we are going to be able to work through this period.” Kirby said the U.S. remains committed to its mutual defense treaty with the Philippines.

Coinciding with Russel’s visit, the U.S. military turned over a refurbished C-130T cargo plane as part of Washington’s effort to help modernize the underfunded Philippine military, which has struggled to deal with Muslim and communist insurgencies and natural disasters.

Outgoing U.S. Ambassador Philip Goldberg said at the turnover ceremony that the U.S. was trying to clarify Duterte’s remarks in relation to existing policies, including their impact on planned joint military exercises. Despite the concerns, Goldberg said the U.S. rebalance to Asia would proceed.

“It’s a historical relationship, it has its ups and downs,” Goldberg told reporters.

While he remains optimistic, Goldberg said “some of the language we’ve heard is inconsistent with that friendship.”

Asked if joint combat exercises with the Americans would continue despite Duterte’s declared opposition to them, Yasay could not give a categorical answer. q

U.S. NEWS A3 Trump rejects ‘phony’ polls, insists ‘we are winning’ Tuesday 25 October 2016

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wThey’re against all of you,” Trump told cheering supporters later in St. Augustine. “They’re against what we represent.”

In more bad news for Trump, a new poll shows young voters turning to Clinton now that the race has settled down to two main candidates. Clinton now leads among likely voters 18 to 30 years in age by 60 percent to 19 percent, according to a new GenForward survey.

Young black voters already were solidly in her corner, and now young whites are moving her way, according to the survey by the Black Youth Project at the University of Chicago with the Associated PressNORC Center for Public Affairs Research.

With Trump on the defensive, Democrat Clinton worked to slam the door on his candidacy in swing state New Hampshire while eyeing a possible Democratic majority in the Senate. The former secretary of state campaigned alongside New Hampshire Gov. Maggie Hassan, who is running for the Senate, and Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren, who was merciless as she seized on recent revelations of Trump’s predatory sexual language and several allegations of sexual assault.

“He thinks that because he has a mouth full of Tic Tacs, he can force himself on any woman within groping distance,” Warren charged. “I’ve got news for you Donald: Women have had it with guys like you.”

Trump has denied all of a recent allegations, and he addressed a new one Monday in an interview with WGIR radio in New Hampshire.

He called the accusations “total fiction” and lashed out at former adult film performer Jessica Drake, who said Saturday that he had grabbed and kissed her without permission and offered her money to visit his hotel room a decade ago.

“One said, ‘He grabbed

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump arrives to speak to a campaign rally, Monday, Oct. 24, 2016, in St. Augustine, Fla. A defiant Donald Trump blamed his campaign struggles on “phony polls” from the “disgusting” media on Monday, fighting to energize his most loyal supporters as his path to the presidency shrinks.

(AP Photo/ Evan Vucci)

me on the arm.’ And she’s a porn star,” Trump said. He added, “Oh, I’m sure she’s never been grabbed before.”

With Election Day two weeks away, Trump’s electoral map looks bleak.

The Republican National Committee ignored him altogether in mailers to New Hampshire voters set to be distributed later this week, according to material obtained by The Associated Press. The mail focuses in-

stead on Clinton’s credibility, featuring a picture of her and former President Bill Clinton and the words, “No More of The Lying Clintons.”

Trump’s campaign manager Kellyanne Conway outlined a path to 270 elec-

toral votes on Sunday that banks on victories in Florida, Ohio, Iowa and North Carolina along with New Hampshire and Maine’s 2nd Congressional District.

Assuming Trump wins all of those — and he currently trails in some — he would earn the exact number of electoral votes needed to win the presidency and no more.

Noticeably absent from the list was Pennsylvania, a state that a top adviser privately conceded was slipping away despite Trump’s aggressive courtship of the state’s white workingclass voters. The adviser spoke on the condition of anonymity to share internal discussions. Florida was largely the focus on Monday as in-person early voting began across 50 counties, including the state’s largest: Broward, Duval, Hillsborough, Miami-Dade, Orange and Palm Beach.

Remaining counties will start in the coming week.

Early voting by mail has been underway for weeks.

Nearly 1.2 million voters in Florida have already mailed in ballots.q

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Tuesday 25 October 2016

NEWS

Aide: Christie knew mayor thought traffic might be payback NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — Questions over what Republican Gov. Chris Christie knew about the George Washington Bridge lane closings were raised again Monday as a former ally testified she told him a Democratic mayor had expressed concern the resulting traffic jams in his city were political retribution.

Ex-aide Bridget Anne Kelly testified in her criminal trial that she told Christie about Fort Lee Mayor Mark Sokolich’s concern while the lanes were closed in September 2013. She said Christie lied three months later when he said at a news conference no one on his senior staff knew.

Kelly said that when she shared Sokolich’s concern with Christie, he told her it was a Port Authority of New York and New Jersey project and to “let Wildstein handle it,” referring to David Wildstein. Wildstein, an executive at the Port Authority, pleaded guilty to his role in a scheme to punish Sokolich for not endorsing the governor’s reelection effort.

“I said, ‘He’s talking about government retribution,’”

Bridget Anne Kelly and her attorney Michael Critchley Jr. walk towards the Martin Luther King Jr. Federal Court in Newark Monday, Oct. 24, 2016. Kelly testified Monday that she told the governor that the Democratic mayor prosecutors say was targeted by the George Washington Bridge lane closures had complained about retribution while they were going on.

(Kevin R. Wexler/The Record-Northjersey.com via AP)

Kelly testified. “(Christie) said, ‘It’s a Port Authority project. Let Wildstein handle it.’” Christie has consistently denied any knowledge of the plot or the lane closures while they were going on and has not been charged. Christie spokesman Brian Murray has said the governor had “no knowledge prior to or during these lane re-

alignments” and “no role in authorizing them.” Murray added that anything said to the contrary “is simply untrue.” Kelly maintains she believed the lane closures were part of a traffic study, but she testified Monday she became confused on their final day after Port Authority Executive Director Patrick Foye ordered the lanes reopened even

though Wildstein said the study was a success.

Kelly is accused of plotting with Wildstein and another former Christie ally, Bill Baroni, to close lanes on the bridge, which connects Fort Lee and New York, as revenge against Sokolich. Kelly and Baroni have pleaded not guilty and have said the government has twisted federal

law to turn their actions into crimes. Kelly on Friday testified that Christie approved of the idea for a traffic study of the bridge, and she testified she spoke with the governor a third time about the lane closures while they were going on. One of Christie’s top political advisers, Mike DuHaime, testified Friday that he told Christie ahead of a December 2013 news conference that Kelly and his campaign manager, Bill Stepien, knew about the lane closures. Christie then told reporters that no one in his administration was involved in the closures.

Kelly said that the news conference was “like an alternate world.”

“I just knew that it wasn’t going to be a good thing for me,” she said.

Kelly on Monday also testified that Christie said that he had told Democratic New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo to have Foye back off in the days after Foye had testified to New Jersey lawmakers that the lane closures were ordered by Wildstein and that he had no knowledge about any traffic study.q

Obama administration confirms double-digit premium hikes Continued from front

Some states will see much bigger jumps, others less.

Moreover, about 1 in 5 consumers will only have plans from a single insurer to pick from, after major national carriers such as UnitedHealth Group, Humana and Aetna scaled back their roles. “Consumers will be faced this year with not only big premium increases but also with a declining number of insurers participating, and that will lead to a tumultuous open enrollment period,” said Larry Levitt, who tracks the health care law for the nonpartisan Kaiser Family Foundation. Republicans pounced on the numbers as a warning that insurance markets created by the 2010 health overhaul are teetering toward a “death spiral.” Sign-up season starts Nov. 1, about

The HealthCare.gov 2017 web site home page as seen in Washington, Monday, Oct. 24, 2016. The Obama administration is confirming that premiums will go up sharply next year for health insurance sold to millions of consumers through HealthCare.gov.

(AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

a week before national elections in which the GOP remains committed to a full repeal.

“It’s over for Obamacare,” Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump said at a campaign rally

Monday evening in Tampa, Florida. Trump said his Democratic rival, Hillary Clinton, “wants to double down

and make it more expensive and it’s not gonna work. ... Our country can’t afford it, you can’t afford it.” He promised his own plan would deliver “great health care at a fraction of the cost.” The new numbers aren’t too surprising, said Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, who chairs a committee that oversees the law. It “does little to dispel the notion we are seeing the law implode at the expense of middle-class families.”

HHS essentially confirmed state-by-state reports that have been coming in for months. Window shopping for plans and premiums is already available through HealthCare.gov. Administration officials are stressing that subsidies provided under the law, which are designed to rise alongside premiums, will insulate most customers from sticker shock.q

U.S. NEWS A5

Tuesday 25 October 2016

Ex-attorney general sentenced to jail, then cuffed in court MARYCLAIRE DALE Associated Press NORRISTOWN, Pa. (AP) — Former state Attorney General Kathleen Kane, once a rising star in state politics, left a courtroom in handcuffs on Monday after getting a 10- to 23-month sentence for a retaliation scheme a judge linked to her all-consuming ego.

Kane, 50, also was sentenced to eight years of probation by a Montgomery County judge, who said Kane’s need for revenge led her to break the law and then lie to a grand jury. Kane, who was accused of leaking secret investigative files to embarrass a rival prosecutor, was convicted of perjury and obstruction.

Judge Wendy DemchickAlloy said Kane assumed an “off with your heads” mentality as she ran the state’s top law enforcement agency. The judge called Kane a political “neophyte” who failed to make the transition from politician to public servant when she took office in 2013.

Kane, the first woman and first Democrat elected as the state’s top prosecutor, was released Monday after posting $75,000 cash

bail. She can remain free while her legal team appeals her conviction.

“I really don’t care what happens to me,” Kane told the judge. “There is no more torture in the world than to watch your children suffer and know you had something to do with it.”

Kane had been a stayat-home mother in the Scranton area and a former assistant prosecutor in Lackawanna County before using $2 million of her husband’s trucking fortune to run for statewide office in 2012.

The judge told her: “Your children are the ultimate ... collateral damage. They are casualties of your actions. But you did that, not this court.”

Kane didn’t testify at her trial. She was convicted in August of two felony counts of perjury and seven misdemeanor charges, and she resigned the next day.

Earlier Monday, Kane’s 15-year-old son, Chris Kane, pleaded for leniency while her former deputies described an office demoralized by her leadership and terrorized by “Nixonian espionage.”

Kane argued that the loss

of her career, law license and reputation was punishment enough. She had asked the judge to sentence her to probation or house arrest so she could

eral said her younger son, 14-year-old Zachary Kane, did not attend Monday’s sentencing because “he couldn’t even bear it.”

Prosecutors called her

800-person office and the wider law enforcement community, burning bridges among state, local and federal agencies.“Through a pattern of systemic firings

Former state Attorney General Kathleen Kane leaves court in handcuffs after her sentencing at the Montgomery County Courthouse in Norristown, Pa., Monday, Oct. 24, 2016. Kane is sentenced to 10-to-23 months in county prison and 8 years probation. In August, Kane was found guilty of felony perjury and an assortment of misdemeanors related to a leak of secret grand jury materials.

(Dan Gleiter/PennLive.com via AP)

be home to raise her sons.

She and her husband are now estranged and share custody of the teenage boys.

The one-term attorney gen-

crimes “egregious” and pushed for jail time after the defense sought probation or house arrest. They said a paranoid Kane ruined morale in the

and Nixonian espionage, she created a terror zone in this office,” said Erik Olsen, a career prosecutor who’s now the chief deputy attorney general. q

Guard seeks federal aid for soldiers told to return bonuses ALISON NOON Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Members of Congress and veterans leaders on Monday called for federal action to absolve the debts of nearly 10,000 California soldiers who have been ordered by the Pentagon to repay enlistment bonuses a decade after they signed up to serve in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Lawmakers from California expressed outrage, including Democratic Sens.

Dianne Feinstein and Barbara Boxer; House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy, a Republican; and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, a Democrat.

Maj. Gen. Matthew Beevers said the California National Guard is working with members of Congress to introduce legislation that,

if approved and signed by the president, would order the National Guard Bureau to clear the debts of soldiers who were wrongly told they were eligible for bonuses of $15,000 or more.

The total amount given out in bonuses is not clear, but $22 million has been recovered so far, The Los Angeles Times reported.

“This is how you destroy all faith in a Pentagon that

is supposed to have your back,” Brian Duffy, head of the national service organization Veterans of Foreign Wars, said in an emailed statement.

“Instead of seeking repayment, the Pentagon owes them a debt of thanks and an apology for insulting their honorable service to our nation.”

The Guard offered the bo-

nuses and student loan aid to re-enlist at the height of the two wars in the 2000s.

The Pentagon demanded the money back after audits revealed overpayments by the California Guard under pressure to fill ranks and hit enlistment goals. If soldiers refuse, they could face interest charges, wage garnishments and tax liens, The Los Angeles Times reported .q

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Tuesday 25 October 2016

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NEWS

Suspect in killings, carjackings, cop shootings on the run

This June 8, 2010 photo provided by the Kay County Detention Center shows Michael Vance. Authorities are searching for Vance, who is suspected in a double slaying and accused of shooting and wounding multiple police officers near Oklahoma City on Sunday, Oct. 23, 2016.

(Kay County Detention Center via AP)

SEAN MURPHY Associated Press OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Authorities are hunting for a man suspected of killing his aunt and uncle, shooting two police officers, stealing a patrol car and carjacking other vehicles in a violent rampage in the Oklahoma City area, all while apparently taunting law enforcement via social media.

The officers were shot Sunday night as they responded to a report of shots fired in the town of Wellston, 35 miles northeast of Oklahoma City, according to the Lincoln County Sheriff’s Office. The officers’ injuries weren’t life-threatening, and both are expected to recover, said Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation spokeswoman Jessica

Brown.

The sheriff’s department said one person was arrested after the shooting but that a second suspect, 38-year-old Michael Vance, fled in a patrol car.

Vance is suspected of later shooting at a woman and stealing her vehicle at a mobile home park near Wellston, then driving 8 miles to the home of his

MICHAEL BALSAMO Associated Press BRENTWOOD, N.Y. (AP) — Officials in suburban New York say they will install dozens of license plate readers in response to brutal gangrelated killings involving teenagers and others.

The high-tech readers represent one step that law enforcement officials say

will help them stem the violence in the middle-class Long Island community east of New York City.

Nearly three dozen suspected gang members have been rounded up in recent weeks following the deaths of four Brentwood High School teens, a former student and a 34-year-old man. Some of the victims

were known members of the MS-13 street gang, and two of the victims were teenage girls.

The recent arrests include five suspected gang members who are expected to face federal racketeering charges. Officials have yet to identify them or the specific charges pending against them, citing the on-

aunt and uncle in Luther, and killing them, Oklahoma County Sheriff’s Office spokesman Mark Opgrande said.

Officers found the bodies of Ronald Everett Wilkson, 55, and Valerie Kay Wilkson, 54, at their mobile home Sunday evening, Opgrande said.

Opgrande said authorities also believe Vance posted two live videos Sunday night on Facebook documenting his run from police before he went to the home of his aunt and uncle.

In one video, a man wearing a backward baseball cap and a shirt that appears to be covered in blood says he’s about to steal another vehicle and that it’s “gonna be intense.” In another that seems to be filmed inside a second vehicle, the same man says: “Letting y’all know, look, this is real,” before panning across the vehicle to show a long gun on the passenger seat.

He said: “If you want to know what’s up next, stay tuned to your local news.”

Ronald Wilkson’s body was discovered outside the mobile home with a bullet wound and stab wounds to his neck “consistent with an attempt to sever his head,”

Oklahoma County Sheriff’s Deputy Michael Belanger wrote in an arrest affidavit.

Valerie Wilkson was found inside the mobile home with similar wounds to her neck along with defensive wounds on her arms, the affidavit states.

Investigators found a large knife covered in blood inside the home, along with a blood-stained shirt that Vance appeared to be wearing when he filmed the Facebook videos. Authorities also found two shell casings from a round typically fired from an AK47-style assault rifle.

An Oklahoma County judge issued an arrest warrant Monday for Vance for two counts of first-degree murder, unauthorized use of a motor vehicle and possession of a firearm after former conviction of a felony.Vance also is suspected of shooting a man at a convenience store in an attempted carjacking early Monday morning in the western Oklahoma town of Sayre, about 30 miles from the Texas border.

Sayre Police Chief Ronnie Harrold said the man, who was shot in the leg at the Flying J Travel Plaza about 2:30 a.m. Monday, identified Vance as the man who shot him.q

going investigation.

orated.

Authorities said the license plate readers will not be used for traffic infractions or traffic warrants.

Police in NY to deploy license plate readers amid slayings Three of those found dead had been reported missing months ago and were found as part of the ongoing investigation. Suffolk County Police Commissioner Timothy Sini has said, “you don’t stumble upon skeletal remains by accident,” but he has not elab-

Officers would be required to have a specific case number and articulate a reason they need to access the camera information, officials said.q

U.S. NEWS A7

Tuesday 25 October 2016

US Financial Front:

Is sneaker production making a return sprint to America? trend, has recently talked of establishing more of a North American manufacturing presence.

Some never left, such as Boston-based New Balance Athletic Shoe Inc., which makes its sneakers in Massachusetts and Maine, and smaller companies that Powell said have long made New England the country’s historic shoe in-

A pair of Under Armour SpeedForm Gemini 2 running shoes are displayed in New York.

(AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)

MATT O’BRIEN Associated Press PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — Crafting the latest trends in global footwear used to be the pride of U.S. shoe industry workers, but most of those jobs left long ago for Asia.

Now, the American sneaker factory could be coming back — with robots doing most of the work.

Reebok said Monday it plans to open a new hightech laboratory in Rhode Island to make sneakers by pouring liquid plastic.

“Our idea was, if the U.S. is where the innovation is, let’s make the product that’s the most innovative here as opposed to overseas,” said Bill McInnis, who holds the job of “head of future” for the sportswear company, based in Canton, Massachusetts.

Cheaper labor costs drove athletic shoe production to Asia in the 1970s, but it’s beginning to regain a foothold in the United States.

The reasons include rising production costs as Chi-

na’s middle class grows; technological innovations helping to automate a historically labor-intensive craft; and a desire to get sneakers made closer to where they’re bought.

“Brands want to move closer to the U.S. to get products to market faster,” said Matt Powell, a sports industry analyst with The NPD Group. “Today when you make a shoe in Asia, it spends months on an ocean freighter.”

Germany’s Adidas AG, which bought Reebok in 2005, is opening its first U.S. factory in Georgia next year, and another in Germany.

The factory, near Atlanta in Cherokee County, will be mostly automated but employ at least 150 people.

Baltimore-based Under Armour Inc. this year opened a new design and manufacturing center in its home city to develop its footwear and apparel lines, and even Oregon-based athletic giant Nike Inc., a symbol of the outsourcing

dustry hub.

McInnis said 100 percent of Reebok’s products are made in Asian countries such as China, Vietnam and Taiwan, but that could change if the company’s Rhode Island experiment succeeds.

He described the new Burrillville, Rhode Island, facility as a “small-batch” factory that will make thousands

of shoes, as opposed to the hundreds of thousands made in Asian plants.

Among its most important goals is to accelerate the shoe-molding process, which can be painstaking, labor-intensive and costly.

McInnis, a former NASA engineer, said an industrial robot will draw ribbons of liquid that quickly harden into an outsole.q

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Tuesday 25 October 2016

WORLD NEWS

France moving more than 6,000 migrants from makeshift camp ELAINE GANLEY Associated Press CALAIS, France (AP) — France began the mass evacuation Monday of the makeshift migrant camp known as “the jungle,” a mammoth project to erase the humanitarian blight on its northern border, where thousands fleeing war or poverty have lived in squalor, most hoping to sneak into Britain.

Before dawn broke, long lines of migrants waited in chilly temperatures to board buses in the port city of Calais, carrying meager belongings and timid hope that they were headed to a brighter future, despite giving up their dreams of life across the English Channel in Britain.

Closely watched by more than 1,200 police, the first of dozens of buses began transferring them to reception centers around France where they can apply for asylum. More police patrolled inside the camp, among them officers from the London police force.

Authorities were expected to begin tearing down thousands of muddy tents and fragile shelters on Tuesday as the migrants vacated them.

Migrants have flocked to the Calais region for nearly two decades, living in minijungles. But the sprawling camp in the sand dunes of northern France became emblematic of Europe’s migrant crisis, expanding

ported by aid groups, and a black eye on France’s image.

“It’s not good, the jungle,” said 31-year-old Mahmoud Abdrahman of Sudan.

“Eating not good. Water not good, shelter not good,

gesturing to a black knapsack that was all packed to go as proof he was ready.

Ultimately, Abdrahman said, he wanted one thing more than anything else.

“I need peace,” he said.

“Anywhere.”

Riot police push back migrants as they line up to register at a processing center in the makeshift migrant camp known as “the jungle” near Calais, northern France, Monday Oct. 24, 2016.

French authorities are beginning a complex operation, unprecedented in Europe, to shut down the makeshift camp, uprooting thousands who made treacherous journeys to escape wars, dictators or grinding poverty and dreamed of making a life in Britain.

(AP Photo/Thibault Camus)

as migrant numbers grew and quickly evolving into Europe’s largest slum, sup-

no good toilets.” He said he would leave Tuesday when lines were shorter,

Home to migrants from Afghanistan, Sudan, Eritrea, Syria and elsewhere, the

closing of the camp fell like a stone on many as the reality of the evacuation sunk in and plans had to be made. Uncertainty and a lack of precise information left many fearful.

“What should I do?” asked a 14-year-old newly arrived Afghan.

“It is really hard because we have found some good friends over here,” said Tariq Shinwari, a 26-yearold Afghan.

The camp shutdown left some, like Imran Khan, an Afghan who was fingerprinted in another country before coming to France, with a tough choice — get on a bus and risk expulsion or go on the run as winter approaches. Under European rules, asylum seekers must be returned to the country where they were fingerprinted on arrival.

“I will decide tomorrow what to do,” the 35-yearold said.

By nightfall on Monday, French Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve said 1,918 people had been processed and sent to 80 centers around France.

Another 400 unaccompanied minors were being housed in heated shelters at the camp. q

EU, Canadian leaders say free trade deal still possible RAF CASERT Associated Press BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union and Canada tried to remain upbeat Monday about the prospects for their trans-Atlantic free trade pact despite a small Belgian region persisting in its refusal to back the deal under the current conditions.

After the setback early Monday, EU President Donald Tusk and Cana-

dian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau spoke by telephone and the EU leader said afterward “there’s yet time” to find a compromise solution.

A joint summit for signing the long-delayed trade deal is scheduled for Thursday, offering the two leaders and Belgian officials little time to persuade the Wallonia region to drop its opposition.

Without all Belgian regions

supporting the agreement, Belgium cannot sign and the EU needs unanimity from all of its 28 member states.“We think Thursday’s summit still possible,” Tusk said in a Twitter message.

“We encourage all parties to find a solution.”Canada’s International Trade Minister Chrystia Freeland says she, too, is still hopeful that a Canada-EU trade deal can be salvaged, but “the ball is in Europe’s court.”

“Canada’s job is done,” Freeland told a hastily assembled news conference in the foyer of Canada’s House of Commons.

The expressed optimism that a deal could be secured within days came as a surprise since Wallonia had said it has too many concerns with the pact to overcome by Thursday.

The EU’s inability to sign would be a major embarrassment and undermine

the belief that the world’s biggest trading bloc is a trustworthy partner as it seeks similar deals with nations like the United States and Japan.Prospects for a signing ceremony on Thursday looked as good as dead on Monday afternoon when Belgian Prime Minister Charles Michel admitted he could not get unanimity amid Belgium’s half dozen regions and legislatures. q

WORLD NEWS A9

Tuesday 25 October 2016

In renewed Aleppo attacks, Syrian troops capture high ground

Syrian Civil Defense workers search through the rubble in rebelheld eastern Aleppo, Syria. Syrian government forces and their allies on Monday captured strategic high ground in embattled Aleppo as Russia said it was not planning more “humanitarian pauses” in the fighting in the city’s eastern, rebel-held districts.

(Syrian Civil Defense- White Helmets via AP)

BASSEM MROUE Associated Press BEIRUT (AP) — Syrian government forces and their allies on Monday captured strategic high ground in embattled Aleppo as Russia — a key ally of Syrian President Bashar Assad — said it was not planning more “humanitarian pauses” in the fighting in the city’s eastern, rebel-held districts.

The fighting in Aleppo came as airstrikes hit towns in the northwestern province of Idlib, killing at least 13 people, according to the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights and the Local Coordination Committees.

They said the people killed were in the towns of Kfar Takharim and Khan Sheikhoun, where a market was hit.

Fighting resumed in Aleppo over the weekend, following a days-long lull announced by Moscow that was meant to allow rebels and civilians to leave the eastern districts. The rebels rejected the Russian offer and none of the civilians left.Government troops launched a fresh offensive and on Monday took the

hilltop of Bazo on the southern edge of Aleppo, near military bases, and shelled the rebel neighborhoods, according to opposition activists.

The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said Bazo was taken amid heavy bombardment. Both the Observatory and the Aleppo Media Center, an activist collective, reported government shelling in eastern parts of the city.

A video released by the Syrian army showed tanks and cannons pounding rebel positions in the area. The state SANA news agency, meanwhile, said the rebels shelled government-held neighborhoods in western Aleppo, killing one person and wounding seven.

A pro-opposition media outlet circulated footage of a powerful and hardline Islamist rebel coalition known as Jaish al-Fatah announcing that the campaign to break the government’s siege of the city’s east would begin “within hours.”

Syrian troops have besieged rebel-held parts of Aleppo for weeks, subjecting the districts to some of

the worst air raids since a cease-fire brokered by the United States and Russia collapsed on Sept. 19. Opposition activists say more than 600 people have been killed in Aleppo and neighboring villages since then.Jaish al-Fatah commander Ali Abu Odai alAloush told the Qasioun News Agency that “zero hour has drawn near,” and that his militants had begun moving toward Aleppo. It was unclear when the interview was recorded.

A spokesman for the Nour el-Din al-Zinki rebel faction in Aleppo said an opera-

tion to break the government’s siege of the rebelheld eastern districts of Aleppo was “coming.”

The spokesman, Yasser al-Yousef, said the rebels would not intentionally target civilians in Aleppo’s government-held districts, but warned of collateral damage from the anticipated operations.

In Moscow, Russia’s deputy foreign minister Sergei Ryabkov said Russia wasn’t planning another humanitarian pause in Aleppo anytime soon.“In order to resume it, our opponents need to make sure the

anti-government groups behave properly,” he said in comments carried by Russian news agencies, blaming the rebels for the fact that medical evacuations from eastern Aleppo, planned during the pause, were scrapped at the last moment.“What needed to happen didn’t happen ... that’s why resuming a humanitarian pause is not on the agenda,” Ryabkov said. He also said that Moscow doesn’t expect any new round of Syria peace talks in the Swiss city of Lausanne until after the U.S. elections. q

A10 WORLD

Tuesday 25 October 2016

NEWS

North Korea lashes out at threat of more sanctions

Pang Kwang Hyok, vice director of the department of international organizations at the North Korean Ministry of Foreign Affairs, speaks during an interview with The Associated Press Television in Pyongyang, North Korea, Monday, Oct. 24, 2016. North Korean officials lashed out Monday at efforts in the United Nations to strengthen sanctions following the North’s latest missile launches and nuclear test in September.

(AP Photo)

PYONGYANG, North Korea (AP) — North Korean officials lashed out Monday at efforts in the United Nations to strengthen sanctions following the North’s latest missile launches and nuclear test in September.

The officials told an Associated Press Television crew in Pyongyang that sanctions targeting the nuclear and missile tests are “crimi-

nal documents” and accused the United States of orchestrating the condemnation.

The United Nations has imposed sanctions on North Korea since 2006 for its nuclear tests and rocket launches. Last week, the U.N. Security Council called on members to “redouble their sanction efforts.”

“The sanction resolutions of

the U.N. Security Council are illegal criminal documents,” Pang Kwang Hyok, vice director of the department of international organizations at the North Korean Ministry of Foreign Affairs, told the APTN crew in Pyongyang.

The North’s mission to the U.N. issued a similar statement that was distributed

by North Korean state me-

dia on Monday.

“These resolutions determined that our nuclear tests and satellite launches pose threats to international peace and security, but then the problem is why has the U.N. Security Council never taken issue with the nuclear tests and satellite launches conducted by other countries?” Pang said.

The issue has intensified since the United States and South Korea said they detected two failed North Korean missile launches this month, possibly of Musudan intermediate-range ballistic missiles.

The U.N.’s most powerful body, in a statement approved last week by its 15 members, deplored all North Korean missile tests, saying they contribute to the country’s “development of nuclear weapons delivery systems and increase tension.”

Security Council members called on all countries “to redouble their efforts” to implement sanctions and expressed regret that Pyongyang is diverting resources when its citizens “have great unmet needs.”q

South Korea’s Park proposes revising presidential system HYUNG-JIN KIM Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea’s president on Monday proposed revising the country’s constitution, which limits leaders to a single five-year term. Critics immediately called it an attempt to divert attention from corruption scandals involving her associates.

President Park Geun-hye’s office said there was no possibility that she would use the constitutional amendment to extend her rule or run for office again.

Park pledged during her presidential campaign four years ago to try to change the system.

South Korea adopted the current system in 1987,

ending decades of military-backed dictatorships, including one by Park’s father, Park Chung-hee. Under the current system, a president is barred by law from seeking a second term. Park’s five-year term ends in early 2018.

Park said in a speech before parliament that the

current system makes it difficult for the government to maintain a continuity of its policies, including those dealing with rival North Korea, which regularly threatens nuclear war against its southern rival.

Park said her government would launch an organization to create a draft revision.q

Gunmen attack police training in south Pakistan QUETTA, Pakistan (AP) — Gunmen stormed a police training center in the restive southwestern province of Baluchistan Monday, leaving at least 14 people wounded, hours after another attack killed two customs officers and wounded a third, authorities said.

No one immediately claimed responsibility for either attack. Baluchistan is the scene of on an ongoing low-intensity insurgency by Baloch separatist groups, who have claimed such hit-and-run attacks on security forces and government officials in the recent past. Islamic militants also have presence in the province bordering Afghanistan. In Monday night’s attack, between four and six gunmen attempted to enter the hostel of a police training center in a suburban area of the provincial capital Quetta. Authorities said eight trainees were wounded by gunshot, two of whom were in critical condition. The remaining six were injured when jumping off a roof and climbing a wall. Local television reported that two explosions were also heard, but it was not immediately clear what caused them.

Government spokesman Anwaul Haq said about 250 trainees were in the center at the time of the attack, and that most had been evacuated.

Baluchistan police chief Ahsan Mahboob told reporters that four gunmen attacked the training center, attempting to enter a hostel housing the trainees.q

WORLD NEWS A11

Tuesday 25 October 2016

China’s Xi seeks to enforce will at Communist Party meeting CHRIS BODEEN Associated Press BEIJING (AP) — Having punished more than a million Communist Party members for corruption, Chinese President Xi Jinping will use a key conference this week to drive home the message that his signature anti-graft campaign is far from done and his authority remains undiminished.

The Central Committee plenary gathering, which began Monday, also begins preparations for next year’s party congress that will kick off Xi’s second fiveyear term as head of the ruling party. At next year’s gathering, Xi is expected to place trusted lieutenants into the party’s top bodies, including the all-powerful Politburo Standing Committee, five of whose seven current members are, by custom, due to step down.

Only Xi and Premier Li Keqiang, with whom he doesn’t always see eye-to-eye, are expected to remain.

This week’s meeting comes as Xi is riding high as China’s most powerful leader since Deng Xiaoping led the country in the 1980s and gaining kudos at home for his assertive foreign policy, including the leveraging ofChina’s political and economic heft to open a rift between the Philippines and its longstanding treaty ally, the United States.

Yet Xi’s domestic challenges are legion, ranging from slowing economic growth to massive layoffs resulting from the closure of steel and coal mines and other heavy industries in an effort to reduce industrial overcapacity. The state sector still is an outsize part of the economy, debt is soaring and the potentially volatile wealth gap continues to broaden.

Xi, the son of a former vice

premier, has sought to exercise near total control by heading-up a collection of party “leading groups” including a newly created National Security Council that are seen as further eroding the legitimacy of established government institutions. Few political reforms have been mooted and Xi has drawn fire overseas for waging a sweeping campaign against activist lawyers and government critics resulting in a series of televised confessions reminiscent of Josef Stalin’s show trials.

Official sources have offered little insight into this week’s discussions bringing together the more than 350 Central Committee members and their alternates at a military guesthouse in western Beijing. The official Xinhua News Agency reported their theme would be “strengthening and standardizing intra-party political life,” while seeking to “primarily resolve problems of Party leadership fatigue and slackness in party governance and discipline observation.”

That indicates Xi is experiencing difficulty keeping the rank and file on-program and establishing himself as the party’s “core,” said Zhang Lifan, an independent political commentator in Beijing.

“The (meeting’s) agenda ... indicates that resistance within the system is persistent and the leader needs to crack the whip,” Zhang said. “If he fails to get it done now, it will be even harder to achieve in future.”

Xi’s main goal at the gathering is to get rid of “governance by personality and hidden rules,” said Beijing Institute of Technology political scientist Hu Xingdou.q

Visitors walk past images of China’s past and present leaders, from left, Mao Zedong, Deng Xiaoping, Jiang Zemin, Hu Jintao and Xi Jinping on display at an exhibition on the Long March at the military museum in Beijing, Monday, Oct. 24, 2016.

(AP Photo/Andy Wong)

A12 WORLD

Tuesday 25 October 2016

NEWS

Maduro meets pope as Vatican steps into Venezuela crisis

Venezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro stands with Spain’s former Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero, left, and former Dominican Republic President Leonel Fernandez, during a photo opportunity after a meeting at Miraflores presidential palace in Caracas, Venezuela. Venezuela’s government says Pope Francis met with Maduro at the Vatican on Monday, Oct. 24, 2016.

(AP Photo/Fernando Llano)

JOSHUA GOODMAN Associated Press CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro met Monday with Pope Francis as the Vatican took a more active role trying to defuse a tense political standoff in the South American nation.

Maduro spoke with the Pope in a private meeting on his way back to Venezuela following a tour of oilproducing nations of the Middle East.

As news of the surprise papal meeting surfaced, back in Venezuela Monsignor Emil Paul Tscherrig,

who Francis dispatched to Caracas in a bid to jumpstart dialogue between the government and the opposition, announced that representatives of the two sides would meet Oct. 30 on the Venezuelan island of Margarita under the auspices of the Vatican and

the Union of South American Nations.

“It’s important to have light, a lamp to guide us through this tunnel of a fight that we’ve entered,” opposition alliance chief Jesus Torrealba said prior to his meeting with the Tscherrig, the Vatican’s representative to Francis’ native Argentina. “We’re embarking on a process of struggle that will be complex and difficult.”

When Maduro arrives back to Venezuela in the coming hours he’ll be stepping into a political crisis months in the making that hadn’t yet erupted when he went abroad. Shortly after he left Thursday for Azerbaijan, electoral authorities suspended a recall referendum seeking his removal, prompting the oppositioncontrolled congress to call for demonstrations and declare that the government had carried out a coup.

The Vatican said the pope urged Maduro to courageously take the path of “sincere and constructive dialogue” to alleviate the suffering of the Venezuelan people, especially the poor. He called on Maduro

Police in Rio seek 10 suspects in gang rape of woman RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Police in Brazil are looking for at least 10 men in connection with the gang rape of a woman on the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro.

A police statement said the 34-year-old victim was assaulted by several men in a bar and on a street of the city of Sao Goncalo, in Rio’s metropolitan area.

Investigator Debora Rodrigues said the alleged crime took place a week ago and asked that the victim be put into a protection program.

Investigators are now an-

Activists shout slogans and hold signs that read in Spanish “Stop violence against women” during a march against gender violence in La Paz, Bolivia. Police in Brazil are looking for at least 10 men in connection with the gang rape of a woman on the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro.

(AP Photo/Juan Karita)

alyzing security camera footage. The police statement was released Sunday.

In January, seven men in Rio were charged in the gang rape of a 16-year-old in a case that shocked Brazil. That case made international headlines because videos showing men posing with the unconscious victim were shared on social media.The attacks are part of a series of brutal sexual assaults that have sparked marches against gender violence across Latin America. q

to promote a climate of renewed social cohesion that would allow everyone to look to the future with hope, the Vatican said in a statement.

It’s not clear how much influence the Vatican has in bringing the two sides together. The opposition is promising a large protest on Wednesday and as soon as the meeting was announced socialist strongman Diosdado Cabello was already accusing his opponents of using the dialogue as a smoke screen to hide its intent to violently force Maduro from power.

Tscherrig said the talks scheduled for next week are aimed at building confidence and a mechanism for peacefully resolving disputes. As such, he said the two sides had agreed to work together so that demonstrations in the coming days are safe and peaceful.“Today the national dialogue has begun,” Tscherrig said.The decision to halt the referendum process scuttles the opposition’s best chance of peacefully removing Maduro from office before his term ends in 2019.

Polls show three out of four Venezuelans want Maduro to leave office this year, blaming him for a collapse in living standards caused by triple-digit inflation and widespread food shortages.Many of Venezuela’s neighbors are also expressing concern. On Friday, 12 nations, including the U.S. and even leftist-run governments like Uruguay and Chile, issued a statement saying the referendum’s suspension and travel restrictions on the opposition leadership hurt the prospect for dialogue and finding a peaceful solution to the nation’s crisis. q

LOCAL A13

Tuesday 25 October 2016

Innovative Green Aruba Conference VII Set for November!

- Green Aruba Conference VII is an expert level platform for information exchange on sustainability.

ORANJESTAD - Green Aruba conference was created as a result of the vision of the Prime Minister of Aruba, Mike Eman, for a green and sustainable Aruba.

It all started in the year 2009 and highlighted its commitments with the first annual Green Aruba Conference in 2010.

It is important to keep this information exchanging opportunity on a yearly basis: -to showcase goals achieved from previous year, -to exhibit the experiences and knowledge of other institutions and island nations in this field, and -to get a chance to communicate and set new objectives. In November 1617-18, 2016, Aruba will host its 7th annual Green Aruba Conference!

Join us in further exploring and discussing in this year’s Green Aruba Conference, which will again enhance the exchange of knowledge and information, on the growth path of the “Transformation to a Sustainable Energy Mix”.

Conference organizers recently announced one of the events’ featured sessions, a Panel Discussion on the topic “living labs as energy transition catalyst.”

The energy transition under consideration does not only require large-scale Renewable Energy Sources but also nation-wide adoption of sustainable solutions in areas such as energy efficiency, distributed generation and electric mobility. In this context,

real life testing, demonstration and monitoring of social attitudes is a must to move sustainable technologies from concept to practical application and wide-scale adoption.

It is imperative that this is best done in a living lab environment.

This panel session brings together experiences form three living lab consortia. It will highlight both research plans and/or technical results as well as organizational aspects of multilateral stakeholder collaboration between municipalities, knowledge institutions

and private enterprise (open innovation).

Session Panelists include Albert van den Noort, Project Manager, DNV/Power Matching City II, The Netherlands; Kosol Kiatreungwattana, Senior Engineer, NREL, Hawaii Kaupuni Village; Robert Jan Moons, Programme Manager, TNO, Smart Community Aruba; Moderated by Thomas Hodge, Executive Director, CARILEC. For any other information please visit our website www.greenaruba. org or contact us at info@ greenaruba.orgq

A14 LOCAL

Tuesday 25 October 2016

An Aruban in Libya

Stories of my years (1966 – 1973) with ESSO in Tripoli

Chapter 10 – Pork, Ghadafi’s other prohibition

answered him, relieved that my searching would now end, “I’m looking for some cans of Spam.”

“Spam”!? he asked sarcastically, “Spam!?”, he exclaimed interrogatively,

face exploded in a big smile of satisfaction and he exclaimed cheerfully, “Ah, there’s hope yet!”and from that moment his demeanor changed completely.

Besides Spam, I also

Sumptuous Harrod’s Food Halls.

Although Islamic Sharia prohibits the Muslims from eating pork, before Ghadafi came to power it was available in all Italian owned stores and markets in Libya. To the Muslims, pork meat was unclean and they would not touch it, but there were many Italian pig farmers and butcher shops where fresh pork meat was always available. At any Italian grocery store one could also buy sandwich fillings like sliced salami, bologna, ham and canned ham. And at pizza places one could get Hawaian (ham and pineapple) and pepperoni topping.

Then Ghadafi decreed a prohibition of pork products also, albeit not as strict as that for alcohol. Raising pigs and importation of all pork meat and pork products were stopped immediately, but merchants were allowed to sell what they had in their inventories.

Christians were allowed to bring a reasonable amount of canned pork products

for their own consumption with them when they returned from a trip abroad.

This gave way to some interesting anecdotes.

When I went to London on a business trip in 1970 a friend told me that at the Harrod’s Foodhalls I could get Spam®, a very popular product with the expats, especially after the revolution. Forbidden fruit syndrome? Spam had never been in high esteem among the gourmet crowd, butthe scorn I experienced at Harrod’s for wanting to buy this item was one I will never forget.

Harrod’s, at one time the property of the family of Dodi Al-Fayed who died with Princess Diana, was arguably the most famous gourmet store in Europe.

Certainly one of the classiest. Seeing me search in vain, a floor manager impeccably dressed like a Maitre d’ at a 5 star restaurant in Paris, approached me with an air of nobility and asked me if he could be of assistance. “Yes”, I

not making any attempt to hide his scorn. “Bloody Americans, coming to Harrod’s to get Spam”!

But, like a programmed butler, he dutifully accompanied me to the shelves where the cans of Spam® and similar products were almost hidden and watched me arrogantly.

When saw that I had finished picking the cans, he asked me very sarcastically, “Anything else, .....Sir?” My answer shocked him.

“Yes! As a matter of fact I need to buy a couple of sides of Scottish smoked salmon”. Scottish smoked salmon is an expensive and cherished delicacy in any gourmet store in Europe. His eyes lit up, his

tral European immigrants.

One afternoon as my wife was preparing dinner for some special friends, she received a phone call just as she had finished opening the can of the Krakus ham she was going to serve. She left the ham on the kitchen bar and rushed to the living room to take the call. The neighbor’s dog, a large Shepherd that had been visiting us, did not hesitate. It reached over the bar, took a bite out of the ham and ran to the backyard. After excited deliberations, Bea and I decided we would cut off the piece that the dog had touched and use the rest. The ham was too big and precious to be sacrificed. We consoled each other saying that we could have lost the whole ham, but I almost turned into a dog killer that afternoon.

Another incident related to

Scottish smoked salmon was an extremely expensive delicacy in Europe.

brought back a couple of large cans of Krakus® Polish cooked ham. Krakus® ham was very well known in Europe and in the States, especially among the cen-

the prohibition of pork took place in the international airport of Tripoli.

Continued on Page 15

This is the tenth of 22 chapters in English of my book originally published in Papiamento. After the last chapter has been published, they will be compiled into a book to be published and sold for the benefit of the Queen Wilhelmina Cancer Foundation of Aruba. All profits, 100%, will go to that foundation. If you want to reserve a copy, you can do so by contacting the author at the email address below. Because of space constraints, the material that is published weekly (text and pictures) might not be as extensive as what eventually will appear in the book. Alumni of the Oil Companies School of Tripoli and members of the former Libya expatriate community have expressed an interest in the English version. Convinced that the Aruba Today readers also would be interested in the stories of an Aruban on the shores of Tripoli and eager to support the Queen Wilhelmina Cancer Foundation, the editorial management of this newspaper has agreed to make space available to have one chapter published every week. If you would like to have future (and past) chapters sent to you in your electronic mailbox when you are back home, just send me your email address. I’ll be happy to add you to my subscribers. I would also welcome your comments. clydeharms@yahoo.com

LOCAL A15

Tuesday 25 October 2016

An Aruban in Libya Continued from Page 14

With a flight of the Jugoslavenski Aerotransport (JAT) from Belgrade, a Yugoslav construction worker arrived with a whole roasted piglet (peÄ?ena prasadi) in a brown paper bag. Many Yugoslav construction workers had been brought to Libya to carry out the building projects that Ghadafi had begun as part of an agreement stemming from the strong friendship of Ghadafi with Tito, two prominent members of the Third World movement.

The Yugoslav showed the little animal to the Customs agent, but the Muslim would not get near it, never mind touching it, and waved the traveler on.

That was exactly what the Yugoslav had expected and he rushed towards the exit doors.

But his luck was running out.

All of a sudden there was

Shlivovitsa, Plum brandy was the Yugoslav national drink.

a lot of noise in the arrival hall and the strong smell of ĹĄlivovica (shlivovitsa) started to permeate the whole building. Nervous and excited in his rush to reach the exit doors, the Yugo-

slav national drink that had been hidden in the belly of the piglet, fell out. The poor man cried like a child. The police took him away and was soon back on a JAT flight back to Belgrade.q

A16 LOCAL

Tuesday 25 October 2016

Loyal Guests Honored at the Costa Linda Beach Resort ORANJESTAD - Recently the Aruba Tourism Authority had the great pleasure of honoring a very nice group of loyal and friendly visitors of Aruba at the Costa Linda Beach Resort as Goodwill Ambassadors.

The symbolic honorary title is presented in the name of the Minister of Tourism as a token of appreciation to guests who visit Aruba for 20-to-34 consecutive years.

The honorees were Mr. Robert and Mrs. Patricia Bonugli, Mr. Frank and Mrs. Beverly Haus, and Ms. Majorie Hagerty from New Jersey. This fun group visits Aruba and the Costa Linda Beach Resort every year, and they love the island very much because of the friendly people, the safety, the climate, the beaches, the restaurants and the diversity of the island. Aruba feels like a second home to these special guests and

the people here are like a family to them. The certifi-

cate was presented by Mr. Ricardo Croes representing

the Aruba Tourism Authority together with associ-

ates from the Costa Linda Beach Resort.q

SPORTS A17

Tuesday 25 October 2016

Chicago Cubs baseball fan Robert Lyons, who lives in Los Angeles and was raised in Berwyn, Ill., shows his World Series tickets outside Wrigley Field Monday, Oct. 24, 2016, in Chicago.

Associated Press

Want to see World Series at Wrigley? It will cost thousands DON BABWIN Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) — Fans hoping to see the Cubs play in the World Series for the first time since 1945 are finding a seat could cost them more than what their grandparents paid for their houses.

The euphoria from Saturday night’s victory over the Los Angeles Dodgers gave way Monday to the realization that history doesn’t come cheap.

Box seats on ticket-selling sites such as StubHub were $50,000 and up, with one seller asking $100,000 for

a seat and another asking for just under $1 million.

But there are lots of box seat tickets in the $5,000 to $10,000 range. Tickets to just get into the park and stand behind those with actual seats were going for more than $2,200 each. List prices for World Series tickets at Wrigley range from $85 to $565, according to Major League Baseball figures.

World Series tickets cost a lot more in Cleveland, too — well above the $83 to $750 list price range that MLB provided for Progressive Field — but are not as

expensive as those in Chicago.

And there are indications that Cubs fans, getting a look at what they’d pay at Wrigley versus Progressive, are buying two tickets: one for a plane and one for a game.

Ticket brokers were being flooded with calls from fans looking for tickets and, as of Monday, they were willing to pay as much as $12,000, said Dan Makras of Classic Tickets in Chicago.

But he said prices might climb because Cubs fans are proving to be reluctant to sell no matter how much

money they’re offered.

“People have waited so long for this,” he said.

How long? Well, the last time the Cubs were in the World Series, a ticket in the upper grandstand was $6.

That pent-up desire might explain why more than 2.6 million people — about the population of Chicago — signed up for a drawing for a chance to buy the few thousand tickets the Cubs are now selling themselves.

Fans with more creativity than luck or money are making some unusual pitches to pry tickets from the hands of their owners.

In Southern California, Annie Coffman posted on Craigslist an offer to exchange no fewer than two tickets for a week at her ski cabin near Big Bear Lake.

“Rental for a week is about $9,000,” said Coffman, who grew up near Chicago.

Not only that, but her sister owns a ski cabin near Lake Tahoe and would be willing to sweeten the offer.

“If someone wants to make it a whole tour of California, we could do that,” Coffman said.

Continued on Page 19

A18 SPORTS

Tuesday 25 October 2016

NHL Capsules

Oilers overcome melting ice, Jets to win 3-0 WINNIPEG, Manitoba (AP) — Cam Talbot made 31 saves and Mark Letestu scored the first of three second-period goals, lifting the Edmonton Oilers over the Winnipeg Jets on Sunday in an outdoor game delayed almost two hours by sunlight melting the ice.

The Heritage Classic victory extended Edmonton’s winning streak to three in front of 33,240 at Investors Group Field. Fans wore both Jets and Oilers jerseys to the league’s 19th outdoor game.

Zack Kassian had a goal and an assist and Darnell Nurse also scored for Edmonton.

Connor Hellebuyck, who had a tuque attached to his helmet, stopped 29 shots for Winnipeg.

Edmonton Oilers’ goaltender Cam Talbot (33) stops the puck with Winnipeg Jets’ Patrik Laine (29) at the side of the net during second period action at the NHL Heritage Classic at Investors Group Field in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Sunday, Oct. 23, 2016.

Associated Press

The NHL said the start of the Heritage Classic game was delayed “due to intermit-

Eli Manning denies yelling ‘Trump’ to signal audible

LONDON (AP) — Eli Manning says he wasn’t using Donald Trump’s name in order to signal an audible during the New York Giants’ victory over the Los Angeles Rams in London on Sunday.

The Giants quarterback was caught by microphones yelling out something that sounded a lot like “Trump” ahead of a snap in second quarter of the 17-10 win. The play was a run up the middle that gained a yard.

Some on Twitter speculated that the call was a signal for blockers to form a wall for the ball carrier in reference to the Republican presidential nominee’s plan to build a wall along the border between the U.S. and Mexico.

Manning denied saying

New York Giants quarterback Eli Manning (10) warms up before an NFL football game between New York Giants and Los Angeles Rams at Twickenham stadium in London, Sunday Oct. 23, 2016 Associated Press

Trump’s name after the game, telling reporters that they have a call that’s “very similar.”q

tent sunlight on the playing surface” and “in the interest of player safety.”

ISLANDERS 6, WILD 3 John Tavares had two goals and an assist, Johnny Boychuk scored for the second straight game and New York beat Minnesota.

Calvin de Haan, Alan Quine and Thomas Hickey also scored to help New York get its highest scoring total of the year and win for the third time in four home games after opening with two road losses.

Thomas Greiss stopped 26 shots for his first win in two starts this season.

Islanders rookie Anthony Beauvillier had two assists, giving the 19-year-old at least a point in three straight games.

Zach Parise scored twice for Minnesota to top 300 goals for his career, and Nino Niederreiter also scored.

Second-string goalie Darcy Kuemper made 27 saves.

RANGERS 3, COYOTES 2 Dan Girardi scored 1:55 into the third period and

New York beat Arizona.

Josh Jooris and J.T. Miller also scored for New York, which has won consecutive games to improve to 4-2-0. Henrik Lundqvist made 27 stops.

Radim Vrbata had both of Arizona’s goals, and Louis Domingue made 23 saves.

The Coyotes have lost their first four games on a sixgame trip since beating Philadelphia in overtime at home to start the season.

Girardi put the Rangers ahead with a slap shot

from the right point.

The veteran was paired with rookie Brady Skjei in his first game after missing New York’s previous three with a strained groin, and Skjei assisted on the goal.

DUCKS 4, CANUCKS 2 ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) — Nick Ritchie scored the tiebreaking goal on a rebound with 8:36 to play, captain Ryan Getzlaf had three assists and Anaheim finally opened its home schedule with a victory over Vancouver.

Andrew Cogliano, Cam Fowler and Corey Perry also scored for the Ducks, who have won two straight after a four-game winless start. John Gibson made 17 saves in the Western Conference’s final home opener, thanks to a schedule that forced Anaheim to play in five teams’ home debuts this month.

Henrik Sedin scored the tying goal early in the third period for the Canucks, who lost in regulation for the first time this season.

Bo Horvat scored a shorthanded goal, and Loui Eriksson had two assists.Ryan Miller made 33 saves in his first outing since opening night for the Canucks.q

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Tuesday 25 October 2016

Cubs pondering World Series return for slugger Schwarber JAY COHEN AP Sports Writer CHICAGO (AP) — Moments after Chicago closed out the National League Championship Series, the biggest question for the Cubs shifted all the way across the country to Arizona, where Kyle Schwarber is making an impressive comeback from major left knee surgery in April.

Game 1 of the World Series is Tuesday in Cleveland, and the Cubs say Schwarber is a possibility for the showdown with the Indians.

“We’re not ruling anything out or anything in at this point, and we’re not going to get ahead of ourselves, either,” president of baseball operations Theo Epstein said.

Schwarber went 0 for 3 with a walk while serving as the designated hitter for the Solar Sox on Saturday in the Arizona Fall League. He watched the Cubs’ clinching 5-0 victory over the Los Angeles Dodgers on a tablet in the dugout between at-bats.

Schwarber was ruled out for the year after he tore two knee ligaments in an outfield collision with Dexter Fowler in Chicago’s third game of the season.

But he had an encouraging checkup last Monday, clearing the way for the Cubs to take a closer look at the catcher/outfielder.

If Schwarber has no setbacks in Arizona, the possibility of putting his powerful lefty swing on the World Series roster might be too

tig said. “Maybe there’s somebody looking for an experience versus a monetary gain.”

Some Chicago fans apparently are going with Plan B and heading to Cleveland.

Cameron Popp of StubHub said a quarter of the tickets being sold on the site for Game 1 in Cleveland on Tuesday are being paid for with credit cards associated with Illinois ZIP codes.

In comparison, only about 2 percent of the sales to Game 3 at Wrigley are coming from Ohio.

No wonder. Papp said the

average ticket price for Game 1 is about $1,000.

Such a bargain does not tempt Tom Wilbeck of Chicago.q “Tickets to Wrigley are three times as much and I asked myself if the experience is three times as cool,” said Wilbeck, 38, who is willing to go as high as $20,000 for two Chicago at-home tickets.

“And the answer is yes. So many people died wishing the Cubs would win the World Series at Wrigley and you can’t let this pass you by.”q

In this March 25, 2016, file photo, Chicago Cubs’ Kyle Schwarber swings against the Milwaukee Brewers during a spring training baseball game in Mesa, Ariz.

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tempting for Epstein to resist, even if returning for the Fall Classic after so much time off seems like a daunt-

ing task.

Schwarber hit .333 with a franchise-record five homers in nine playoff games

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Jesse Altig, a firefighter in Portland, Oregon, who grew up watching Cubs games on television with his dad in the 1980s, also took to Craigslist.

He placed an ad offering to show whoever gives him a ticket a tour that includes Mt. Hood, the coast of the Pacific Ocean and the fire station where he works.

“I am a regular guy with a family and mortgage and these prices for tickets are kind of astronomical,” Al-

last year, and the Indians had 10 right-handers on their staff for the NLCS against Toronto.

“Playing an American League team in their stadium, being able to utilize a designated hitter and a quality hitter in Schwarber, it would be a big boost for us,” pitcher Jake Arrieta said. “If he’s ready, obviously. Nobody wants to see a guy as important as Schwarber is to this organization go down again. But if he’s capable, if he’s in a position strength-wise to be able to help us in that situation, obviously that would be huge for our team.”

Schwarber had a couple of decent at-bats on Saturday as he adjusted back to playing.

“I have full confidence in my knee,” he said. “My knee doesn’t bother me. It was my hands that hurt the worst. I’ve got about eight blisters on them. I guess I should have kept rubbing a bat or something.”

He stayed around the team after he got hurt this April, making the most of Wrigley Field’s revamped home clubhouse and earning praise from manager Joe Maddon and his teammates for the way he attacked his rehab.

“It wouldn’t surprise me if he is ready,” Arrieta said.

“It’s just in a moment like that, it’s different than working out and being in the training room and being a hundred percent there. Not that he can’t be a hundred percent, it’s just a little scary situation for me. But if he’s ready to go, having that bat, that’s hard to turn away if it’s ready.”q

In this Oct. 22, 2016, file photo, Chicago Cubs fans celebrate outside Wrigley Field after the Cubs defeated the Los Angeles Dodgers 5-0 in Game 6 of baseball’s National League Championship Series in Chicago.

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Tuesday 25 October 2016

Indians embrace underdog role in World Series against Cubs TOM WITHERS AP Sports Writer CLEVELAND (AP) -- Any other year, against any other team, the Cleveland Indians would be the sentimental choice in this year’s World Series.

You know, because of that long championship drought and all.

But not against the Chicago Cubs. The lovable Cubbies, who captured the nation’s heart by exorcising curses and winning their first NL pennant since 1945 on Saturday night and are aiming for their first Series title since 1908, are a popular pick.

The oddsmakers in Las Vegas have pegged the Cubs as heavy favorites going into Game 1 on Tuesday night.

Heck, even First Fan Barack Obama, a die-hard White Sox supporter, said he was happy to see the North Side of Chicago rocking.

Well, all the love toward the NL champions has left the Indians as underdogs a role they’ve embraced this October.

“We believe in each other,” first baseman Mike Napoli said Sunday before the Indians held a workout and simulated game at Pro-

Cleveland Indians manager Terry Francona talks during a news conference for baseball’s upcoming World Series against the Chicago Cubs on Monday, Oct. 24, 2016 in Cleveland.

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gressive Field. “We believe that if we go out there and play the game the right way, play as a team like we’ve done, we can win a game on any night. We’ve shown in the past two series we can’t be taken lightly.

We play as a team.

“We’re a confident group.”

And that assuredness has only grown. Cleveland wasn’t supposed to beat

Boston, but the Indians swept Big Papi into retirement and the Red Sox into their offseason sooner than expected.

Cleveland’s pitching staff followed that by whittling Toronto’s big bats down to toothpicks in the AL Championship Series.

Now on deck are the Cubs, who won 103 games during the regular season, have

three aces at the top of the rotation and a flamethrowing closer and seem to have a date with destiny. The Indians, though, know they can match up with anyone. “They’re a good team from top to bottom,” said supreme setup man Adam Miller, who has spent the postseason toying with hitters. “They have three guys that might be

Cy Young (winners). We’re going to be going against a good team, that’s not a surprise. If you want to count us out, that works for us.”

Many of the Indians watched Chicago’s historic win, which was followed by a street party outside Wrigley Field that nearly lasted until dawn.

As it unfolded, Napoli found himself pulling for former Red Sox teammates Jon Lester, John Lackey and the Cubs. The more he thought about a Cleveland-Chicago series, the more he liked it.

“I was rooting for them,” Napoli said, wearing one of his popular “Post Party At Napoli’s” T-shirts. “I thought it would be one of the coolest World Series to be a part of.” The Indians are looking to end their own 68-year title drought, and they spent the past few days resting while the Cubs and Los Angeles Dodgers finished their series. The down time has allowed Cleveland to get healthier, but manager Terry Francona revealed a new injury for his team, which has spent much of the season dealing with sprains, strains and even a few stitches.q

Second City son: Indians 2B Kipnis has cubs in his blood

BY TOM WITHERS AP SPORTS WRITER CLEVELAND (AP) -- Jason Kipnis was raised on Chicago’s North Side, and like so many other kids, he grew up idolizing Ryne Sandberg, watching Sammy Sosa smash home runs and listening to Harry Caray.

He bled Cubs blue.

And he never once blamed Steve Bartman - they went to the same high school, by the way.

“We have a joke,” the Indians second baseman said, referring to the infamous fan vilified in Chicago for a failed attempt to catch a postseason foul ball. “The only thing I’m mad at Bartman for is missing an easy flyball.”

Kipnis finds himself in a unique situation in his first World Series, facing the

team that helped shape his life. The Cubs are in his DNA. They’re the team he learned to love, the one that taught him the game and the one that often broke his heart. But while Kipnis’ family and friends intend to remain true to their Cubbies over the next week, his loyalties are not divided. “There’s zero conflict at all,” he said Tuesday on the eve of Game 1.

“Let’s be clear about that.”

Kipnis, though, said watching the Cubs wrap up their first AL pennant since 1945 on TV was emotional. Some of his friends were at Wrigley Field on Saturday night and when the last out was recorded, part of Kipnis was there, too.

“I didn’t know how to handle it,” he said. “I didn’t know if I was happy, mad,

Cleveland Indians second baseman Jason Kipnis warms up during a team practice for baseball’s upcoming World Series against the Chicago Cubs on Monday, Oct. 24, 2016 in Cleveland.

sad. I was emotional. I was choked up, I was like, ‘Oh, no what does this mean right now?’ But it’s nothing more than excitement for the games.”

He was 11 in that magical summer of 1998 when Sosa and Mark McGwire seemed to belt a home run in every at-bat. Baseball was bulked up and boom-

ing and Kipnis was under its spell.

As he reminisced during an interview session, the twotime All-Star seemed to remember every swing.

“That’s when I was really watching baseball closely and turning into a baseball fan,” said Kipnis, who is dealing with a sprained left ankle sustained in Cleveland’s ALCS celebration.

“In the ‘98 season, it was ‘Hey, Sammy’s up, get to a TV every time.’ And on WGN there were always recaps of the games. That’s pretty much what I grew up on.”

He was in high school when Bartman, innocently sitting in a front row seat down the left-field field lane, became an unintentional celebrity in Game 6 of the NL Championship.q

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Tuesday 25 October 2016

Manny Pacquiao takes a break from politics for boxing TIM DAHLBERG AP Boxing Writer LAS VEGAS (AP) — Up until last week, Manny Pacquiao was concentrating on trying to get the death penalty restored in the Philippines.

Now he’s focusing on something not nearly as controversial — his return to the ring for a Nov. 5 fight with Jesse Vargas.

“Working in the Senate is not easy while you’re training,” said Pacquiao, a freshman senator in the Philippines.

“You manage your time and that’s what I did in training for this fight.”

Pacquiao won’t have to juggle two jobs for at least a few weeks, with the Senate now out of session. He arrived in Los Angeles over the weekend, eager to finish final preparations for yet another fight in a pro career that has stretched 21 years.

What remains to be seen

is how eager boxing fans are to see him against a relatively unknown boxer who isn’t given much of a chance to beat him.

“You can say what you want about Pacquiao and Vargas,” promoter Bob Arum said. “I think it’s competitive, other people don’t.

That’s their opinion.”

Pacquiao joined Arum on a conference call Monday to discuss the latest reinvention of the fighter-turnedpolitician. The talk veered from boxing into politics, and to Pacquiao’s two biggest goals as a freshman senator — forming a boxing commission in the Philippines and restoring the death penalty eliminated in the country 30 years ago.

“I’m enjoying working hard in the Senate while performing my job as a boxer,” Pacquiao said. “I’m enjoying both.”

Pacquiao, who was dropped by Nike earlier this

year after saying people in gay relationships were “worse than animals,” is an ally of new Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte, who has suggested recently that his country might be better off without its close alliance with the United States.

Pacquiao seemed unconcerned that the comments might cost him some fans in the country where he has made millions of dollars.

“Everything is fine,” Pacquiao said. “He has clarified everything about the relationship between the U.S. and the Philippines.”

Trainer Freddie Roach said everything is also fine with Pacquiao’s boxing career, which was on hold after a temporary retirement last year. He was impressive in April in dominating Timothy Bradley in their third fight, and Roach said he has spent weeks training in the Philippines for Vargas.

In this April 28, 2016, file photo, boxing star Manny Pacquiao addresses supporters as he campaigns for a seat in the Philippine Senate in San Pablo city, Laguna province, Philippines.

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Most of those training sessions were at night, as Pacquiao fulfilled a campaign pledge to be in the Senate each day it was in session.

“This is the best I’ve seen Manny in a long time,” Roach said. “He’s been a lot more aggressive. The old Manny Pacquiao is coming out.”

Pacquiao’s star has faded some since he lost in box-

ing’s richest fight ever to Floyd Mayweather Jr., and putting him in the ring with Vargas is a tough sell. Arum has added three title fights to the undercard and is going on his own in trying to sell it on pay-per-view.

As part of that sales job, Arum is holding out the possibility that Pacquiao will fight unbeaten Terrence Crawford next spring should he beat Vargas.q

Cut above: Kuznetsova resorts to scissors to beat Radwanska SANDRA HARWITT Associated Press SINGAPORE (AP) — Svetlana Kuznetsova snipped off part of her braid with scissors during a changeover before going on to beat defending champion Agnieszka Radwanska 7-5, 1-6, 7-5 Monday at the season-ending WTA Finals. The sheared hair remained on her chair for the rest of the match.

Trailing 2-1 and down a break in the third set, Kuznetsova, without the benefit of a mirror, took scissors to the back of her head and chopped away.

“It was bothering me a lot,” said the Russian, who asked the umpire to have scissors brought to the court.

“When I was hitting forehands, every time I would hit a good shot it would hit my eye.”

She added: “I thought, ‘Okay, what’s more im-

portant now, my hair which I can let grow or the match?’”

Although it was an unusual sight for fans, Kuznetsova isn’t the first player to cut their hair on court.

Andy Murray cut the front of his hair during a defeat to Rafael Nadal at the year-ending 2015 ATP Finals in London. Boris Becker trimmed his bangs during a four-set Wimbledon semifinal win over Ivan Lendl in 1988.

It worked for Kuznetsova, who immediately broke Radwanska’s serve after the impromptu haircut.

After dropping her serve again in the fifth game, in which she received a time violation, Kuznetsova appeared to cry into her towel on the changeover.

Kuznetsova saved a match point on Radwanska’s serve near the end of the encounter. She eventually

Svetlana Kuznetsova of Russia makes a backhand return to Agnieszka Radwanska of Poland during their singles match at the WTA tennis tournament in Singapore, Monday, Oct. 24, 2016.

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prevailed on a third match point to break her opponent’s serve in the nearly three-hour match.

“At some point I was just ready to let it go, just lay on the court and let them take me out of here,” Kuznetsova told the cheering crowd. “I was just trying to stay in there.”

The drama continued in the second match when Karolina Pliskova, who was up by a set and a break, came back from 2-5 down in the third set to defeat Garbine Muguruza 6-2, 6-7 (4) 7-5.

Muguruza had one match point at 5-2, 40-30, but couldn’t close down Plis-

kova, who won 20 of the final 24 points.

“I’m very happy that I made it,” said Pliskova, making her WTA Finals debut this week in singles and doubles. “This doesn’t happen every day.”

Kuznetsova and Pliskova stand at 1-0 in White Group action, while Radwanska and Muguruza are 0-1.

The physically spent Kuznetsova was the last player to earn a berth in the eight-player, year-end championships when she defended her Moscow title on Saturday.

The Russian arrived in Singapore on Sunday afternoon after a grueling four weeks of chasing a spot in the WTA Finals for the first time since 2009.

Kuznetsova played three tournaments in China ahead of taking a wildcard into the Moscow tournament.q

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SPORTS

In the NBA, foreign players try to understand social issues JON KRAWCZYNSKI AP Basketball Writer Andrew Bogut grew up in a richly diverse area of Melbourne, Australia, and has estimated that he went to school with people from nearly 100 different nationalities.

He has fondly referred to his home as a tolerant and inclusive community, one largely devoid of racial tension that many of his NBA teammates faced growing up in the United States. But Bogut and other international players have been on the periphery, if not part of, discussions in locker rooms as their teammates address social issues like police brutality and racial profiling, concerns that prompted Colin Kaepernick to begin kneeling during the nation anthem in September.

When Bogut reported to training camp with the Dallas Mavericks and the subject of anthem protests started to surface, he said he couldn’t really identify with the plight of some of his African-American teammates who were considering joining the San Francisco 49ers quarterback and others in the demonstrations.

“I think it’s a country that prides itself on free speech,” Bogut said of the U.S. “And if ... they want to do that it’s more than their right. On a personal level, I

In this Jan. 6, 2015, file photo, then-Phoenix Suns’ Goran Dragic attempts a layup over thenMilwaukee Bucks’ Zaza Pachulia during an NBA basketball game in Milwaukee.

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know there’s a lot of history here that goes centuries back that I don’t really relate to too much growing up in Australia.”

Miami Heat guard Goran Dragic, who is from Slovenia, doesn’t fully grasp it either.

“It’s kind of hard for me to understand, since I’m coming from a different country,” Dragic said. “But if those things were happening in my country, of course I would have something to say while being true to the country, because that’s where I grew up and they gave me everything.”

Officials in teams’ front offices and at league headquarters have had ongoing discussions with the players union about what do. Both sides appear to be more focused on developing programs to address social injustices rather than demonstrations like Kaepernick’s public displays during the anthem.

But that doesn’t mean there won’t be protests as the league tips off its latest season on Tuesday night. The NBA has long embraced a reputation for being the most socially conscious league in the

United States, but there is a rule in the collective bargaining agreement that requires players to stand respectfully for the anthem.

Many of the roughly 22 percent of the league’s players who come from outside the U.S. are white Europeans or Australians and do not have the same perspectives that their African-American teammates had growing up here even though racial inequality is a problem that exists throughout the world.

Dragic had conversations with several of his black teammates before the

Heat decided to lock arms during the anthem in the preseason in a show of unity. It is sensitive, complex ground to navigate and requires a deep understanding of the issues before teammates feel comfortable enough to put themselves out there.

“I understand that we’re putting a message out there for society to be better,” Dragic said. “But at the same time, we don’t disrespect the flag or the national anthem and I think that’s good. We don’t want to be too aggressive but at the same time we want to let people know that something wrong is happening out there and we want to correct those things.” LeBron James, Carmelo Anthony, Chris Paul and Dwyane Wade got things started with a call for action at the ESPY awards in July, and Anthony organized a town hall forum later that month.

There have been many other efforts, including the Chicago Bulls hosting their second annual basketball tournament geared toward creating dialogue between the police and the community and new Memphis Grizzlies coach David Fizdale helping revive the city’s Police Athletic League, which helps mentor law enforcement on how to become coaches in youth leagues.q

NBA TV host Kristen Ledlow says she was robbed at gunpoint ATLANTA (AP) — NBA TV personality Kristen Ledlow was robbed at gunpoint at her home, she said.

The host of “NBA Inside Stuff” said on Twitter and Instagram on Sunday that she was held up the day before “by three men who knew who I was, where I lived and were waiting for me when I got home.”

She says in addition to stealing her Corvette, purse

and phone, the thieves took her “sense of security.”

She says she’ll be taking a break from social media as a result, but she “will not become a slave to fear.”

Ledlow told police the group of men got out of a silver sedan and approached her shortly after she pulled into her apartment complex.

One of the men pointed a gun and stole her red 2016

Corvette, Atlanta police spokeswoman Kim Jones told The Atlanta JournalConstitution. Police were called to the area shortly after 3 p.m. Saturday, Jones said. Using the car’s tracking device, police located the Corvette in southwest Atlanta about 25 minutes later, police said. No arrests have been reported.

NBA TV is based in Atlanta.q

In this Feb. 13, 2015, file photo, Kristen Ledlow, right, hugs Mo’ne Davis as they are announced before the NBA All-Star celebrity basketball game in New York.

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Tuesday 25 October 2016

Robots at center of China’s strategy to leapfrog rivals

NOMAAN MERCHANT Associated Press BEIJING (AP) — The Canbot can say its name, respond to voice commands, and “dance” as it plays Michael Jackson’s “Billie Jean.” Other robots China is displaying at the World Robot Conference can play badminton, sand cell phone cases and sort computer chips.

China is showcasing its burgeoning robot industry at the five-day exhibition in Beijing, part of a national effort to promote use of more advanced technologies in Chinese factories and create high-end products that redefine the meaning of “Made in China.”

Apart from the cool factor, China’s sweeping plans to upgrade its factories and production lines depend on building and better using advanced robots. Automation is crucial for industries facing rising labor costs and slowing growth in the work force thanks to the “one-child” policy era and aging of the population.

China will have to make big strides to leap ahead of Germany, Japan and other nations whose robots are generations ahead.

Infinities International Group, based in eastern China’s Shandong, adver-

In this photo taken Thursday, Oct. 20, 2016., Luo Binyi, right, and Peng Zhihui, second right, pose for photos with Ares, a humanoid bipedal robot they helped designed with fundings from a Shanghai investment company, displayed during the World Robot Conference in Beijing, China.

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tises its Canbot U-Partner as a service robot that could be programmed to run in shopping malls, restaurants and banks.

But it’s modeled on the “Pepper” robot made by Japan’s SoftBank.

Nearby, Peng Zhihui and Luo Binyi stood with “Ares,” a human-sized robot they designed with exposed metal arms and hands and

a wide range of uses in mind, from the military to performing basic tasks in a home.

Peng and Luo, both 24, developed the mannequinlike Ares while attending college in southwestern China’s Sichuan province.

A Shanghai investment company pitched in some funding.

“Many robots aren’t very

useful right now, but will show their true value when they are used in homes in the future,” Peng said.

Thousands of factories in southern China’s industrial centers which long were manned by low-cost migrant workers, are now turning to robots. China has become the world’s top consumer of industrial robots and will soon have the

most commercial robots in operation of any country.

Foxconn, the Taiwanese firm that assembles Apple’s iPhones in China, has installed 40,000 robots in its factories.

China made robotics a focal point of its recent “Made in China 2025” plan, and has set national goals of producing 100,000 industrial robots a year and having 150 robots in operation for every 10,000 employees by 2020, a figure known as robot density.

Currently, China ranks 28th in the world for robot density, behind Portugal and Indonesia. Chinese suppliers sold about 20,000 robots last year to local companies.

“There has never been such a dynamic rise in such a short period of time in any other market,” the International Federation of Robotics said in an analysis of China’s robot industry published earlier this year.

Steve Wyatt, head of sales and marketing for Switzerland-based ABB Robotics, said his company employs more than 1,600 people in China and has seen its sales in China grow by a factor of 50.

But the country remains behind in terms of the complexity of tasks Chinesemade robots can handle, Wyatt said.q

Blurring effect comes to iPhone 7 Plus with software update ANICK JESDANUN AP Technology Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Apple’s iPhone 7 Plus is getting a new camera capability — the blurring of backgrounds to focus attention on people or other objects in the foreground.

Apple first announced the “portrait mode” feature in September but it wasn’t available until the company released its iOS 10.1 software update Monday.

It replicates an effect typically limited to larger cameras known as SLRs. While SLRs accomplishes this by controlling how wide the lens opens, the iPhone uses

software adjustments.

Portrait mode requires an iPhone 7 Plus because it uses the phone’s two lenses to sense depth. Other iPhones have only one camera lens. The software update will still be available for other iPhones because it also comes with bug fixes and other improvements.

To use the feature, slide the mode at the bottom of the camera app to “portrait.”

It’s between “photo” and “square.”

Then take a few steps back, as the feature taps the zoom on the iPhone 7 Plus’s second lens, meaning images are enlarged

two-fold. The screen will guide you to move closer or farther from the subject, or in some cases, find a setting with more light. When shooting multiple people, make sure everyone’s the same distance from the camera to keep them all sharp.

Apple is calling this deptheffect feature a beta, which means it’s a work in progress. The iPhone will also save the unadjusted shots by default.

Huawei’s dual-lens P9 phone also has a similar feature.

The update comes three days before Apple holds a

In this Friday, Sept. 16, 2016, file photo, a customer sets up his new iPhone 7 Plus, right, as he switches from an iPhone 6 at the Apple Store on Michigan Avenue during the release of the Apple iPhone 7 and the latest Apple Watches, in Chicago.

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product event in Cupertino, California, during which the company is expected to unveil new Mac computers.

Separately, Apple announced Monday that a Nike edition of Apple Watch will come out Friday, starting at $369. q

A24 BUSINESS

Tuesday 25 October 2016

Wave of deals lead US stocks higher; tech firms jump MARLEY JAY AP Markets Writer NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. stocks rose Monday as investors were cheered by a spate of corporate dealmaking over the weekend.

Technology companies made the biggest gains.

But investors were doubtful the biggest deal, AT&T’s agreement to buy Time Warner, will happen.

Companies announced almost $100 billion in deals over the last few days. Investors had mixed reactions to the moves, but they were pleased the companies were willing to spend.

“Any time you see a lot of IPOs, a lot of merger activity, it boosts confidence,” said Karyn Cavanaugh, senior markets strategist for Voya Investment Strategies.

Big-name technology companies including Apple and Alphabet, which owns Google, rose ahead of reporting their earnings this week. Amazon also rose, giving other consumer companies a boost.

Energy companies slipped with the price of oil.

The Dow Jones industrial average gained 77.32 points, or 0.4 percent, to 18,223.03. The Standard & Poor’s 500 index rose 10.17 points, or 0.5 percent, to 2,151.33. Thanks to the big gains for tech companies, the Nasdaq composite climbed 52.42 points, or 1 percent, to 5,309.83.

Over the weekend telecom giant AT&T agreed to pay $85.4 billion for Time Warner, the entertainment conglomerate that owns HBO, CNN and Warner Bros. Time Warner jumped almost 8 percent Friday but remains far below the $107.50 a share AT&T agreed to pay.

Both presidential tickets

have already expressed skepticism about the deal and it’s not clear if regulators will let the companies

well Collins agreed to buy commercial aircraft and business jet maker B/E Aerospace for $62 a

bine with competitor Scottrade at a time when investors are choosing index funds over stock picking. In

Specialist Charles Boeddinghaus, center, works with traders on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange, Monday, Oct. 24, 2016. U.S. stocks rose Monday as investors were cheered by a spate of corporate dealmaking over the weekend.

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combine. The concern is that the combined company might favor its own media properties at the expense of those owned by rivals. In recent months the government has stepped in to stop a series of big deals, including two major health insurance mergers.

“Any deal is seen as reducing competition and unfair to the consumer,” said Cavanaugh, who said there can be major benefits to such deals.

For their part, investors also worried about the price AT&T is paying. The company, which bought DirecTV for $48.5 billion last year, already has about $117 billion in long-term debt.

AT&T fell 63 cents, or 1.7 percent, to $36.86 while Time Warner lost $2.74, or 3.1 percent, to $86.74.

Elsewhere, aviation electronics company Rock-

share, or $6.4 billion in cash and stock. B/E Aerospace climbed $8.28, or 16.4 percent, to $58.89 while Rockwell Collins gave up $5.25, or 6.2 percent, to $79.21.

Tech stocks have done very well over the last few months and that could continue as more companies report their earnings.

S&P Global Market Intelligence says analysts think earnings for tech companies will grow 6 percent in the third quarter. Overall earnings for companies in the S&P 500 index are expected to rise less than 1 percent.

Microsoft, which is trading at all-time highs after strong earnings last week, rose $1.34, or 2.2 percent, to $61. Alphabet picked up $11.68, or 1.4 percent, to $835.74 and Apple added $1.03 to $117.63.

TD Ameritrade will com-

a related transaction, TD Bank will also combine with Scottrade Bank. The two deals were valued at $4 billion together. TD Ameritrade slid $1.62, or 4.4 percent, to $35.46.

China Oceanwide Holdings agreed to buy Genworth Financial for $5.43 per share, or $2.7 billion.

The financial services firm traded at $25 a share at the end of 2007, before the financial crisis, and its stock hasn’t recovered. It’s taken steep losses the last few years and on Monday it lost 42 cents, or 8.1 percent, to $4.79.

Benchmark U.S. crude lost 33 cents to $50.52 a barrel in New York after falling more than 2 percent earlier in the session. Brent crude, the international standard, fell 32 cents to $51.46 a barrel in London.q

Philips net profit up 18 percent thanks to health care THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — Dutch electronics and health care giant Philips says net profit rose 18 percent to 383 million euros ($417 million) in the third quarter from the same three months last year as

its health care technology portfolio recorded solid sales growth.

The company, which is in the process of spinning off its lighting business, says that sales edged higher to

5.9 billion euros ($6.4 billion) from 5.8 billion euros ($6.3 billion) in the same period last year.

Philips CEO Frans van Houten reiterated Monday that the company expects

further improvements in its earnings in the final three months of the year, but said that “going forward, we remain concerned about risk due to volatility in the markets in which we operate.” q

Visa 4Q results rise 28 percent, helped out by Visa Europe KEN SWEET AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Credit card processing giant Visa said its fiscal fourth-quarter results rose 28 percent from a year earlier, as the company processed more payments on its namesake network. The company’s results were also buoyed by the recent purchase of Visa Europe.

On Monday, Visa reported net income of $1.93 billion for the period ended Sept.

30, compared with $1.51 billion in the same period a year earlier. On a per-share basis, Visa earned 79 cents per share compared with 62 cents per share in the same period a year earlier.

The results beat expectations, with analysts surveyed by FactSet expecting earnings of 73 cents per share.Visa is in a transition period, with Visa working to integrate its purchase of Visa Europe, which closed June 21, and the unexpected announcement last week that its CEO Charlie Scharf would retire at the end of the year.

Visa processed $1.857 trillion on its payment network in the quarter, a closely watched metric by investors, up 47 percent from a year earlier. That includes the $467 billion processed on the Visa Europe network in the quarter. Excluding Visa Europe, the company processed $1.39 trillion compared with $1.264 trillion in the same period a year earlier. Visa makes the majority of its revenue by charging a fee for every transaction processed on their network.

The global payments processor posted revenue of $4.26 billion in the period.

Visa’s fiscal year runs Oct. 1 to Sept. 30, so the company also reported its full-year results on Monday. The San Francisco-based company earned $5.99 billion, down from $6.33 billion, largely due to the stronger dollar and the acquisition costs related to Visa Europe.

On a per-share basis, Visa earned $2.48 for the full year compared with $2.58 per share a year earlier. q

BUSINESS A25

Tuesday 25 October 2016

Genworth shares fall after agreeing to Chinese buyout offer NEW YORK (AP) — A Chinese holding company has agreed to buy U.S. insurer Genworth Financial for about $2.7 billion, another example of China’s intense interest in American commerce.

Genworth shares fell sharply a day after the deal was announced.

The buyer, China Ocean-

wide Holdings Group Co., is based in Beijing and owns other financial services companies. It also has real estate investments in New York, California and Hawaii.

China Oceanwide says it plans to keep Genworth operating separately out of its Richmond, Virginia, headquarters and doesn’t expect its day-to-day op-

erations to change. Genworth sells mortgage insurance, as well as long-term insurance.

The deal is expected to close in the middle of next year.

As they look to grow, Chinese companies have been investing heavily in the U.S. On Monday, for ex-

ample, Chinese company HNA Group said it was paying $6.5 billion for about a 25 percent stake in hotel chain Hilton.

China Oceanwide Chairman Lu Zhiqiang said in a statement Sunday that buying Genworth gives the holding company “longterm growth opportunities.”

China Oceanwide said it

will pay $5.43 in cash for each share of Genworth.

In addition, China Oceanwide will give Genworth $600 million for debt maturing in 2018 and $525 million to help boost its U.S. life insurance businesses.

Shares of Genworth Financial Inc. fell 38 cents, or 7.2 percent, to $4.84 in afternoon trading Monday. q

Merged Yoox Net-A-Porter aims to be as mobile as shoppers A. D’INNOCENZIO AP Retail Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The merged luxury group Yoox Net-A-Porter Group is aiming to be as mobile as its shoppers.

Since the two joined last year, CEO Federico Marchetti has invested in new technology, added services like seaplanes to drop off rush orders to the Hamptons, and plans to expand same-day services in key markets like Dubai.

Now the world’s largest online luxury retailer, the company has launched a television shopping app with Apple TV and is making a big push into the Middle East and China.

“One of my biggest objectives is to transform the company into a mobileonly company,” Marchetti, formerly CEO of Milanbased Yoox, told The Associated Press. “It’s a new luxury conglomerate of the digital era.”

Marchetti expects business from smartphones and tablets will account for three-quarters of total sales by the end of 2020. Right now, it’s less than half. And these shoppers spend big.

Its 2.6 million customers plop down an average of 335 euros ($366) per order.

are complementary. He organized the company into three separate businesses — current season, under Net-A-Porter and the men’s brand Mr. Porter; offseason, which is under The Outnet and Yoox businesses; and online flagship sites that include Giorgio Armani and Jimmy Choo.

This photo provided by Net-A-Porter shows an image from the company’s “The Sporty Jacket” campaign. The merged luxury group Yoox Net-A-Porter Group is aiming to be as mobile as its shoppers. CEO Federico Marchetti is investing in new technology and adding more services like same-day delivery in new markets like Dubai. He says he wants to transform the online company into a mobile-only venture.

(Courtesy of Net-A-Porter via AP)

The global luxury business has become increasingly competitive online.

Neiman Marcus bought MyTheresa, a fashion ecommerce site last year, while Saks Fifth Avenue is offering more services for its online shoppers. And sites like renttherunway.com let customers rent designer outfits.

But Yoox Net-A-Porter is op-

timistic. It’s laid out plans that call for net revenue growth of 17 percent to 20 percent every year through 2020. That’s much higher than the 2 percent to 3 percent global luxury growth forecast from consulting firm Bain & Co. through that same year.

Yoox Net-A-Porter, which delivers to customers in more than 180 countries,

generated sales of $1.7 billion euros ($1.88 billion) in the fiscal year that ended in December. Marchetti says its so-called EIPs (Extremely Important People) make up about 2 percent of its customer base but account for more than a third of annual revenue.

Marchetti says Yoox and London-based Net-A-Porter, both founded in 2000,

Net-A-Porter is a fashionmagazine themed site focused on regular prices, and the merchandise comes in elaborate black boxes with ribbons. Yoox and Outnet sell out-ofseason goods, frequently at discounts, but Marchetti calls the experience much higher-end than shopping at a designer outlet mall.

Geographically, Net-APorter was much stronger in the U.S., the United Kingdom and Hong Kong, while Yoox’s strength had been in Continental Europe, Japan and Asia.

The combined company’s largest business is the U.S. accounting for nearly one third of annual sales, followed by the United Kingdom and Italy.

“Net-A-Porter is becoming a one-stop shop for fashion consumers and a source of editorial content. q

Another bid from China for US hotel; $6.5B for Hilton stake NEW YORK (AP) — HNA Group is snapping up a 25 percent ownership stake of the Hilton hotel chain for about $6.5 billion, the latest attempt by a Chinese interest to acquire real estate in the U.S. HNA will appoint two directors at Hilton, expanding the board to 10 members, and

will have partial ownership of Hilton’s planned spinoffs of Park Hotels & Resorts and Hilton Grand Vacations, expected to conclude by the end of the year.

HNA’s deal for Hilton is expected to close not long after that, in early 2017.

With real estate investors looking to cash out of a

red hot market over the last several years, Chinese interests have stepped in, seeking a safe place to keep cash.

Anbang Insurance Group bought the flagship Waldorf Astoria in New York two years ago from Hilton.

It tried unsuccessfully to acquire Starwood Hotels in a

$14 billion deal.

Late last year, the Starwood Capital Group sold the 50-story Baccarat Hotel, just north of Rockefeller Center in Manhattan, to the Sunshine Insurance Group of China.

Last week China Life Insurance Co., the country’s biggest life insurance compa-

ny, took an approximately $2 billion stake in U.S. hotels owned by Starwood.HNA Group runs hotels, airlines, airports and financial services and real estate businesses. Earlier this year, a wing of HNA acquired Carlson Hotels, which owns Radisson, Country Inns & Suites and other chains. q

A26 COMICS

Tuesday 25 October 2016

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CLASSIFIED A27

Tuesday 25 October 2016

One-fourth of US cancer deaths linked to smoking LINDSEY TANNER AP Medical Writer CHICAGO (AP) — Cigarettes contribute to more than 1 in 4 cancer deaths in the U.S. The rate is highest among men in Southern states where smoking is more common and the rules against it are not as strict. The American Cancer Society study found the highest rate among men in Arkansas, where 40 percent of cancer deaths were linked to cigarette smoking. Kentucky had the highest rate among women — 29 percent.The lowest rates were in Utah, where 22 percent of cancer deaths in men and 11 percent in women were linked with smoking.

“The human costs of cigarette smoking are high in all states, regardless of ranking,” the authors said.

They analyzed 2014 health surveys and government data on smoking rates and deaths from about a dozen smoking-linked cancers. Lung, throat, stomach, liver, colon, pancreas and kidney cancers were among those included, along with leukemia. The researchers estimated how many cancer deaths were likely attributable to smoking, and compared that with deaths from all cancers. Results were published Monday in. JAMA Internal Medicine While U.S. smoking rates have been falling, 40 million U.S. adults are cigarette smokers and smoking is the top cause of preventable deaths, according to the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

NUMBERS The study found that at least 167,000 cancer deaths in 2014 — about 29 percent of all U.S. cancer deaths — were attributable to smoking. A government estimate based on different methods says 1 in 3 U.S. cancer deaths are linked with smoking, and the study authors acknowledge they may have underestimated the true burden posed by cigarettes.

Most of the 10 states with the highest rates of smoking-attributable cancer

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A patron smokes a cigarette inside a bar in New Orleans. A study released by the American Cancer society on Monday, Oct. 24, 2016 shows cigarettes contribute to more than one in four cancer deaths nationwide and the rate is highest _ nearly 40 percent _ among men in southern states where smoking and relatively lax tobacco control policies are more common.

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deaths were in the South, while most of the 10 states with the lowest rates were in the North or West.

Among men, where smoking is generally more common, the cigarette-linked cancer death rate was highest in blacks at 35 percent, compared with 30 percent for whites and 27 percent for Hispanics.

Among women, whites had the highest cigarettelinked cancer death rate — 21 percent, compared 19 percent for blacks and 12 percent for Hispanics.

EXPLANATIONS The researchers say nine of 14 states with the least comprehensive smokefree indoor air policies are in the South. The average cigarette excise tax in major tobacco states, mostly in the South, is 49 cents,

compared with $1.80 elsewhere. The tobacco industry heavily influences these policies and most of the U.S. tobacco crop is grown in the South, the researchers said. The region also has relatively high levels of poverty, which is also linked with smoking.

REACTION Dr. Hilary Tindle of Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee, said the results reflect what she sees as a tobacco researcher and internal medicine specialist in the South. She was not involved in the study.

Smoking is more of a social norm there, and while her medical center has an indoor smoking ban, she said it’s not unusual to walk through cloud of cigarette smoke outside the entrance.q

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A28 SCIENCE

Tuesday 25 October 2016

Slippery slope: Study finds little lies lead to bigger ones SETH BORENSTEIN AP Science Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Telling little fibs leads down a slippery slope to bigger lies — and our brains adapt to escalating dishonesty, which makes deceit easier, a new study shows.

Neuroscientists at the University College London’s Affective Brain Lab put 80 people in scenarios where they could repeatedly lie and get paid more based on the magnitude of their lies. They said they were the first to demonstrate empirically that people’s lies grow bolder the more they fib.

The researchers then used brain scans to show that our mind’s emotional hot spot — the amygdala — becomes desensitized or used to the growing dishonesty, according to a study published online Monday in the journal Nature Neuroscience .

“You can think of this as a slippery slope with what begins as small acts of dishonesty escalating to much larger ones,” said study lead author Neil Garrett , now a neuroscience researcher at Princeton University. “It highlights the potential dangers of engaging in small acts of dishonesty on a regular basis because these can escalate to much larger ones further down the line.”

And during this lying, brain scans that show blood

In this Nov. 26, 2014 file photo, a brain-scanning MRI machine at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh.

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supply and activity at the amygdala decrease with increasing lies, said study co-author and lab director Tali Sharot.

“The more we lie, the less likely we are to have an emotional response” — say, shame or guilt — “that accompanies it,” Sharot said.

Garrett said he suspects similar escalation factors happen in the “real world,” which would include politics, infidelity and cheating, but he cautioned that this study was done in a controlled lab setting so more research would be needed to apply it to other situations.

University of Massachusetts psychology and brain sciences professor Robert Feldman wasn’t part of the study but praised it: “The results provide clues as to how people may become more convincing liars with practice, and it clearly suggests the danger of tolerating small, white lies, which can escalate into greater and greater levels of deception.”

Garrett, Sharot and colleagues arranged for 80 people to go through an experiment where they would see a photo of a jar full of pennies. The subject would advise a partner

in another room — someone who was looking at a photo that was less clear — how much money they should guess was in the jar.

But the more the partner overestimated the bonus, based on the subject’s advice, the higher the reward.

The researchers did a couple variations of the experiment. In one version the test subject was told he and the partner would share in overestimating rewards; in that case, the subject’s lies were even bigger.

But in another scenario, the test subject would benefit more from overestimating and the partner would

benefit less.

That second scenario showed the increase in the magnitude in lying. The people went from lying on average worth 4 British pounds (about $5) at the beginning to about 8 pounds ($10) near the end of about 80 repetitions — thus going from “little lies to bigger and bigger lies,” Sharot said.

And of those 80 test subjects, 25 of them, chosen randomly, did their estimates while an MRI machine scanned their brain.

It showed how we get used to the lying, much like someone no longer noticing the smell of their own perfume over time and thus using more, Sharot said. It shows people’s brains adapting to their own wrongdoing. It was so noticeable that the researchers were able to predict growing dishonesty based on the dropping activity in the amygdala.

Shaul Shavi, who runs the Behavioral Ethics Lab at the University of Amsterdam, said scientists had long suspected this slippery slope in lying existed, but there was limited proof until this “elegant” and “important” study. And the brain scan showing a neurological link with increased lying is novel, added Maurice Schweitzer, who studies deception at the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School of Business.q

PEOPLE & ARTS A29

Tuesday 25 October 2016

Former Red Sox pitcher joining conservative Breitbart news NEW YORK (AP) — Former Major League pitcher Curt Schilling is joining the Breitbart News Network as host of the conservative organization’s first online radio show.

The former Boston Red Sox World Series hero, who has said he’s considering a challenge to Democratic U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts, will start his two-hour call-in show on Tuesday at 9 a.m. ET. Schilling called Breitbart “the last bastion of actual journalism.”

In April, Schilling was fired as an analyst by ESPN for his Facebook comments about transgender people.

Schilling starred for the Philadelphia Phillies, Arizona Diamondbacks and Red Sox. q

In this Aug. 3, 2012, file photo, former Boston Red Sox pitcher Curt Schilling looks on after being introduced as a new member of the Boston Red Sox Hall of Fame before a baseball game between the Red Sox and the Minnesota Twins at Fenway Park in Boston.

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President of struggling MTV out after a year NEW YORK (AP) — MTV’s president is out after only a year as the network once at the center of youth culture continues to struggle for relevance.

Sean Atkins, who came to MTV from Discovery, quit Monday after the network’s parent company installed another executive over him. Chris McCarthy, who’s had some success overseeing sister networks VH1 and Logo, will now supervise MTV as well.

MTV has fought for attention with a youthful audience whose allegiances change quickly. The network averaged 1.48 million viewers in prime time at the end of 2011, and was down to 550,000 for the three months that ended Sept. 31, the Nielsen company said.

During the past year,

viewership declined 16 percent, and 23 percent among MTV’s target audience of people aged 18 to 34, Nielsen said.

Its most popular shows — “Teen Mom,” ‘’Teen Wolf” and “Are You the One?” — have been around for a few years.

Atkins said he’d stay on the job as a consultant until January.

McCarthy was given the promotion by Doug Herzog, president of the Viacom Music and Entertainment Group. As leader of VH1 since last year, McCarthy has seen ratings go up while targeting an audience of older millennials.

VH1 is planning a cooking series co-starring Martha Stewart and Snoop Dogg, a series called “Daytime Divas” starring Vanessa Williams and a revival of

In this April 21, 2016 file photo, MTV President, Sean Atkins participates in MTV’s 2016 Upfronts in New York.

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“America’s Next Top Model.”

McCarthy has had a determined rise at Viacom, starting at the college network mtvU.q

A30 PEOPLE

Tuesday 25 October 2016

& ARTS

Bill Murray honored as he accepts Mark Twain prize for humor BEN NUCKOLS Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — In an evening filled with jokes about Bill Murray’s elusiveness and quirky personality, it was David Letterman who provided the most touching moment as Murray was honored with the nation’s top prize for comedy.

Murray, 66, received the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor on Sunday

night at the Kennedy Center, joining several other “Saturday Night Live” alumni to win the annual award. After he was presented with a bust of Mark Twain, Murray handed it to a man in the first row of the audience and urged the crowd to pass it around.

Known for living outside the Hollywood bubble, Murray admitted he was uncomfortable sitting in a box with his family while more than

Bill Murray arrives at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts for the 19th Annual Mark Twain Prize for American Humor presented to Bill Murray on Sunday, Oct. 23, 2016, in Washington.

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a dozen of his co-stars and collaborators spoke warmly about his body of work.

“It’s really hard to listen to all those people be nice to you for two days,” Murray said. “You just get real suspicious.”

His acceptance speech followed a heartfelt tribute by the bearded Letterman, who made a rare public appearance since his late-night show ended last June. Murray was a guest on Letterman’s shows 44 times over the years, and the two grew close, even spending time together at Letterman’s vacation home in Montana.

After an appearance in 2003, Letterman told Murray that his then-infant son would be christened that weekend. An hour later, Letterman said, a package was delivered to his office containing a handmade Irish linen christening gown.

“That Saturday, my son, in Bill Murray’s christening gown, was christened at St. Ignatius in Manhattan, and we have this memory, we have this gift, we have this gesture for the rest of our lives,” Letterman said.

There were plenty of laughs at Murray’s expense in eve-

ning that took on the tone of a gentle roast. Jimmy Kimmel, Aziz Ansari, Sigourney Weaver and Steve Martin were among those who ribbed Murray for being aloof, unpredictable and difficult to reach — and somehow still lovable.

“I think you and I are about as close as two people can be, considering that one of them is you,” Martin said in a video tribute.

The show, which was taped for broadcast Friday on PBS, had one major stumble, courtesy of Miley Cyrus, who cursed repeatedly and made an excuse about smoking too many cigarettes after she botched the lyrics to a version of “My Way.” Despite not having a microphone, Murray came to her rescue, joking with the crowd from his seat as Cyrus and the crew set up for a second attempt at the song, which went more smoothly.

After getting his break on “Saturday Night Live,” Murray went on to star in some of the most successful comedies of the 1980s and 1990s before transitioning into more dramatic roles.

He was nominated for an Oscar for his soulful turn as

a washed-up actor in Sofia Coppola’s “Lost in Translation.”

He’s become a folk hero in the social-media era by turning up unannounced at wedding receptions, kickball games and house parties. He’s also a regular at Chicago Cubs games and celebrity golf tournaments.

This weekend, he got to meet President Barack Obama. And what did the two men talk about? “Putting,” Murray said before the show.

Murray lives in South Carolina, doesn’t have an agent or a publicist and rarely does in-depth videos. He famously forces people offering him scripts to call an 800 number and leave a voicemail. He said he would have been happy to skip the festivities surrounding the prize, especially if his beloved Chicago Cubs hadn’t already advanced to the World Series.

“If this could all have been done in a letter that I received, that would have been enough,” Murray told The Associated Press on the red carpet. “It’s hard to stand still for this. It’s a squirm-a-thon for me.”q

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Tuesday 25 October 2016

1960s pop singer Bobby Vee has died at age 73 JEFF BAENEN Associated Press MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Pop idol Bobby Vee, the boyish, grinning 1960s singer whose career was born when he took a Midwestern stage as a teenager to fill in after the 1959 plane crash that killed rock ‘n’ roll stars Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and J.P. “The Big Bopper” Richardson, has died. He was 73.

Vee, whose hits included the chart-topping “Take Good Care of My Baby” and who helped a young Bob Dylan get his start, died Monday of advanced Alzheimer’s disease, said his son, Jeff Velline. Vee was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease in 2011, and performed his last show that year.

Vee had been in memory care at The Wellstead of Rogers & Diamondcrest in Rogers, about 25 miles northwest of Minneapolis, for the past 13 months and

in hospice care in recent weeks, his son said.

Vee died peacefully surrounded by family, Velline said, calling it “the end of a long hard road.”

He said his father was “a person who brought joy all over the world. That was his job.”

Born Robert Velline in Fargo, North Dakota, Vee was only 15 when he took the stage in Moorhead, Minnesota, after the Feb. 3, 1959, plane crash in Iowa that killed Holly, Valens and Richardson on their way to the concert. That dark day in rock history was commemorated by singersongwriter Don McLean in his 1972 pop song “American Pie” as “The Day The Music Died.”

The call went out for local acts to replace Holly at his scheduled show at the Moorhead National Guard Armory. Vee and his 2-week-old band vol-

In this Dec. 18, 2013 file photo, Bobby Vee poses at the studio console at his family’s Rockhouse Productions in St. Joseph, Minn.

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unteered, along with three or four other bands. The show’s emcee, Charlie Boone, then a disc jockey at KFGO Radio, turned to Vee and asked him the name of his band. Vee looked at the shadows of his bandmates on the floor and answered: The Shad-

ows.

“I didn’t have any fear right then,” Vee recalled in a 1999 interview with The Associated Press. “The fear didn’t hit me until the spotlight came on, and then I was just shattered by it. I didn’t think that I’d be able to sing. If I opened my

mouth, I wasn’t sure anything would come out.”

Vee called his debut a milestone in his life, and “the start of a wonderful career.”

Within months the young singer and The Shadows, which included his older brother Bill on lead guitar, recorded Vee’s “Suzie Baby” for Soma Records in Minneapolis. It was a regional hit, and Vee soon signed with Liberty Records.

He went on to record 38 Top 100 hits from 1959 to 1970, hitting the top of the charts in 1961 with the Carole King-Gerry Goffin song “Take Good Care of My Baby,” and reaching No. 2 with the follow-up, “Run to Him.” Other Vee hits include “Rubber Ball,” ‘’The Night Has A Thousand Eyes,” ‘’Devil or Angel,” ‘’Come Back When You Grow Up,” ‘’Please Don’t Ask About Barbara” and “Punish Her.”q

A32 FEATURE

Tuesday 25 October 2016

Sweet Cheese & Almond Dumplings: a signature Hanukkah dish SARA MOULTON Associated Press Many of the signature dishes of Hanukkah involve either cheese or frying in oil — or both! Since I like to have it all, I created these fried sweet cheese and almond dumplings featuring both ingredients.

Happily, they are easy to make and require no special equipment other than a deep fat thermometer.

Basically, these are blintzes in wonton wrappers. The filling consists of ricotta, cream cheese, an egg, sugar and spritzes of lemon and vanilla, all combined with almond paste. If anyone in your home is allergic to nuts, just leave out the almond paste.

As noted, the filling is encased in wonton wrappers, which can be found alongside the grocer’s Asian produce, or in the dairy or frozen foods sections. They’re a great and versatile item, but they tend to dry out quickly. Be sure to always keep them covered in plastic wrap, unwrapping only a few at a time as you stuff them.

This recipe won’t require a whole package of wrappers. If you carefully wrap and freeze the unused ones, they’ll be good to go in a future recipe.

Shaping the wrappers into triangles is the only time-consuming part of this recipe. You want to be sure to seal the edges of each triangle tightly so the filling doesn’t spill out into the hot oil. The glue is provided by the white of a single egg. If one of your triangles should happen to split as it fries, just lift it out gently, park it on the side until you’ve finished frying the sealed wontons, then give it another shot in the oil. Split triangles seem to reseal themselves as they rest.

As always with deep-frying, be sure that your pan is deep and filled with no more than 2 inches of oil, and that the temperature is maintained at 325 F. Also, don’t crowd the pan with too many wontons it’ll make the temperature dip and you’ll end up with sog-

This Oct. 12, 2015 photo shows sweet cheese and almond dumplings being assembled in Concord, N.H. This dish is from a recipe

by Sara Moulton.

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gy triangles.

The raspberry sauce is a speedy little delight made from defrosted frozen raspberries that are crushed, then flavored with a bit of sugar. You’re welcome to swap in blueberries, strawberries, finely chopped peaches, or any of your favorite fruits. If you have the time and inclination to refine this part of the recipe, you can puree the berries, then put them through a sieve to remove the seeds before adding the sugar.

Whatever you do, don’t skip the sauce; it provides a tart balance to the sweet wontons. ___ FRIED SWEET CHEESE AND ALMOND DUMPLINGS Start to finish: 1 1/2 hours Makes about 36 wontons 1 cup thawed frozen raspberries 2 tablespoons plus 1 to 2 teaspoons sugar, divided 1 1/2 ounces almond paste 4 ounces cream cheese

1 cup whole milk ricotta cheese 1 large egg, separated 2 teaspoons grated lemon zest 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract Hefty pinch table salt Cornstarch 36 square (3-inch) wonton wrappers Vegetable or canola oil, for frying In a small bowl, use a fork to mash the raspberries, then stir in 1 to 2 teaspoons of the sugar, or to taste. Set aside.

In a medium bowl, use a fork to mash the almond paste. Add half the cream cheese; mash until fairly smooth. Add the remaining cream cheese, the ricotta, remaining 2 tablespoons of sugar, the egg yolk, lemon zest, vanilla and salt; mix well. (There will still be small lumps of almond paste left in the mixture).

In a small bowl, use a fork to beat the egg white. Line

a baking sheet with kitchen parchment and sprinkle with cornstarch.

On a cutting board or work surface, arrange several wonton wrappers. Mound 2 level teaspoons of the filling in the middle of each wrapper, then use a pastry brush dipped in the egg white to moisten the edges of the wrappers. Fold one of the corners of each wrapper over the filling until it meets the opposing corner and forms a filled triangle. Press the edges together to form a tight seal, then gently transfer the filled wrappers to the prepared baking sheet. Repeat with remaining ingredients.

In large, deep saucepan over medium-high, heat 2 inches of oil to 325 F. When the oil is hot, use a slotted spoon to carefully lower 4 to 5 dumplings into the oil. Fry, carefully turning them several times, until golden brown, about 4 minutes. Use the slotted

spoon to transfer them to paper towels to drain. Repeat with the remaining dumplings.

When they are all cooked, you can return them briefly to the hot oil in batches, for about 15 seconds, to reheat before serving. Serve hot with the raspberry dipping sauce.

Nutrition information per dumpling: 80 calories; 40 calories from fat (50 percent of total calories); 4.5 g fat (1.5 g saturated; 0 g trans fats); 15 mg cholesterol; 70 mg sodium; 7 g carbohydrate; 0 g fiber; 1 g sugar; 2 g protein. ___ EDITOR’S NOTE: Sara Moulton is host of public television’s “Sara’s Weeknight Meals.” She was executive chef at Gourmet magazine for nearly 25 years and spent a decade hosting several Food Network shows, including “Cooking Live.” Her latest cookbook is “Home Cooking 101.”q