January 26, 2016

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US East Coast Endures Slippery Start to Work Week

MICHAEL R. SISAK VERENA DOBNIK Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. East Coast residents clobbered by the weekend blizzard trudged into the workweek Monday amid slippery roads, spotty transit service and mounds of snow that buried cars and blocked sidewalks after some cities got an entire winter’s snow in two days.

For others, the weekend extended into Monday

Johna McVey, of Falmouth, Mass., shovels out her car in front of her home in Falmouth. A massive winter storm buried much of the U.S. East Coast in a foot or more of snow over the weekend.

(AP Photo/Steven Senne)

because of closed schools and government offices.

The storm dropped snow from the Gulf Coast to New

England, with near-record snowfalls tallied from Washington, D.C. to New York City. At least 37 people

have died as a result of the storm; the deaths occurred in car accidents, from carbon monoxide poisoning,

and from heart attacks while shoveling snow.

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EU police warn more attacks by IS militants likely LORI HINNANT JOHN DAHLBURG Associated Press PARIS (AP) — Europe’s top police agency issued a stark warning Monday: Islamic State extremists will keep attempting lethal attacks on soft targets in Europe as the militant group increasingly goes global.

Some 2½ months after suicide bombers and gunmen killed 130 people in Paris, the Europol agency said,

leased by the Islamic State group celebrating the killers who carried out the Nov. 13 attacks in the French capital — while also threatening fresh bloodshed.

The grisly recording ends with one militant holding a severed head, footage of British Prime Minister David Cameron giving a speech, and an IS warning that whoever stands with the unbelievers “will be a target for our swords.”

The Nov. 13 attacks targeted a packed concert hall, a restaurant and cafe, and a soccer match at the French national stadium.

The video glorifying the Kalashnikov-wielding gunmen and suicide bombers responsible for that carnage was probably also meant as a recruitment tool.

French Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve said Monday’s Europol report did not go markedly beyond

Armed police officers stand guard at the Houses of Parliament in London. Europe’s top police agency issued a stark warning Monday: Islamic State extremists will keep attempting lethal attacks on soft targets in Europe.

(AP Photo/Frank Augstein)

“there is every reason to expect that IS, IS-inspired terrorists or another religiously inspired terrorist group will undertake a terrorist attack somewhere in Europe again, but particularly in France, intended to cause mass casualties among the civilian population.”

The sobering conclusions reached by experts from the European Union’s chief agency for law enforcement cooperation and EU member states make clear that many, perhaps virtually all in Europe, may be at risk.

“Without reliable intelligence on the intentions, activities and contacts and travels of known terrorists it is nearly impossible to exactly predict when and where the next terrorist attack will take place, and what form it will take,” the Europol report said.

Hours before the report was issued, a new video was re-

The 17-minute video, released Sunday, shows the extent of the planning that went into the multiple attacks in Paris, which French authorities have said from the beginning were planned in Syria. All nine men seen in the video died in the Paris attacks or their aftermath.

All but two of the attackers were from Belgium and France and spoke fluent French. The two others — identified by their noms de guerre as Iraqis — spoke in Arabic.

Seven of the militants, including a 20-year-old who was the youngest of the group, were shown standing behind bound captives, described as “apostates,” who were either beheaded or shot.

“Soon on the Champs-Elysees,” says Samy Amimour, who was raised in a Paris suburb, as he holds a captive’s head aloft.

previous warnings and was not intended to sow fear but “to look lucidly at reality.”

Gilles Kepel, a political scientist who wrote “Terrorism in France,” said even if Islamic State extremists carry out new attacks in Europe, the video shows the group is increasingly desperate and likely on the wane — in part because of the indiscriminate killings Nov. 13.

“They emphasize their ability to be cruel, to kill all their opponents and to terrorize everyone. But what is very striking is that I do not believe that they will have a significant amount of new sympathizers after those videos,” he said.

“I believe that it’s not really a display of strength. It’s rather a display of weakness. Terrorism has its political economy of sorts. You have to terrorize people.

On the one hand, you have to spread terror, but

at the same time you have to gather sympathizers. If you’re not able to have the two going together, then the model fails,” he added.

But releasing the video draws attention anew to attacks that terrorized central Paris and shows the group’s ability to turn Europeans against their homelands in a relatively short time, said Magnus Ranstorp, a counterterrorism expert at the Swedish National Defence College. The youngest of the group, a 20-year-old, had been in Syria only since February.

“They were not only battlehardened but they were cruel. Their threshold for killing was low. They wouldn’t blink to kill,” Ranstorp said.

He said the video’s release two months after the attacks fell into a typical delay by Islamic State’s propaganda apparatus.

Expert reviews conducted

by Europol on Nov. 29 and Dec. 1 concluded that the Islamic State “is preparing more terrorist attacks,” including copycats of the so-called Mumbai method of coordinated bombings and shootings by multiple teams of assailants that claimed 164 lives in India’s financial capital in November 2008.

“The attacks will be primarily directed at soft targets, because of the impact it generates,” the Europol report said.

“Both the November Paris attacks and the October 2015 bombing of a Russian airliner suggest a shift in IS strategy toward going global.”

Numerous independent analysts have conjectured that as Islamic State has increasingly lost ground in Iraq and Syria, including to a U.S.-led international coalition and the Russian military, it has lashed out at its foes abroad.

IS commanders are given tactical freedom depending on local circumstances, making it much harder to detect plots, the report said. That degree of liberty, it said, makes it harder for law enforcement “to detect such plans and identifying the people involved at an early stage.”q

AP Report:Toronto cop found guilty of attempted murder TORONTO (AP) — A Toronto police officer has been found guilty of attempted murder in the shooting death of a teen in 2013.

The killing, caught on video, sparked protests in Canada’s largest city after it was posted online.

Const.

James Forcillo, however, was cleared of second-degree murder Monday in the death of 18-year-old Sammy Yatim.

A murder charge against a police officer in Canada is rare.

The video shows Yatim holding a knife inside a streetcar, with police outside. Yatim goads police while officers yell, “Drop your knife!” Shortly after, three shots are fired. After a pause, six more shots are fired. The second-degree murder charge against the officer relates to the first three shots he fired, while the attempted murder charge pertains to the second volley. Some lawyers who followed the case said it appeared jurors tried to reach a compromise.

“This has been reflective of a sea change of where we’re going in terms of police accountability,” said Julian Falconer, the lawyer for the Yatim family. “Video has made police accountable.” Forcillo told the court he believed the knife-toting teen was about to come off the streetcar to attack him, which was why he fired.

Prosecutors had argued that Forcillo was a “hothead and a bully” who ignored other viable use-offorce options when he shot Yatim.

The case prompted the city’s police chief to launch a review of officers’ use of force and their response to emotionally disturbed people.

It wasn’t immediately clear how much jail time, if any, the officer will receive.

Forcillo’s lawyer Peter Brauti indicated he will try to have the proceedings stayed — which happens after a finding of guilt but before a conviction is registered. q

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Tuesday 26 January 2016

Kerry dismisses posturing ahead of peace talks on Syria MATTHEW LEE AP Diplomatic Writer PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) — U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry on Monday dismissed Syrian government claims and opposition complaints as posturing ahead of U.N.led peace talks that are to begin Friday and last six months.

Monday’s scheduled start in Geneva has been pushed back to Friday due to disagreements over which groups can represent the opposition.

Kerry said that during his short stay in Laos earlier Monday, he had spoken to the U.N. special envoy for Syria and the foreign ministers of Russia, Saudi Arabia, France and Turkey. The goal is to reach a consensus on how the talks will be run and a planned ceasefire would proceed.

“We’re going to have the meeting and (the talks) are going to start,” Kerry told reporters. “But what we are trying to do is to make absolutely certain that when they start everyone is clear about roles and what’s happening so you don’t go there and wind up with a question mark or a failure.

You don’t want to start Day One by not being able to make progress.”

U.N. Special Envoy Staffan de Mistura, who announced in Geneva that the negotiations would start Friday, told reporters the sides will not talk directly to each other to begin with.

Kerry said any disagreements arising in the Geneva talks would be addressed by another meeting of the 20-odd member International Syria Support Group that is tentatively scheduled for Feb. 11.

Syrian officials have said they will make no concessions at the negotiating table. Opposition figures have complained that they are being forced into the talks.

Kerry said those recent statements reflect only “tensions” and “rumors.”

He dismissed suggestions of disunity among countries that back the opposition and said U.S. support

for foes of Syrian President Bashar Assad remains solid.

“I think these are just tensions. These are things you hear as people are worried,” he said.

Over the weekend, a senior official in Assad’s ruling Baath party said the government would not make any new concessions in the peace talks at a time when the Syrian army with the help of Russia is making progress in different parts of the country.

“We are not going to give today what we did not give over the past five years,” Hilal al-Hilal said late Saturday, during a visit to troops in areas they recently captured from insurgents outside the capital, Damascus.

Kerry said that claim was inconsistent with the positions of Russia and Iran. Assad’s main backers have agreed to a U.N.-supported political transition process that is to form a new government over the next 18 months.

“That doesn’t make sense,” Kerry said. “If that’s their attitude, the war does not end. That is not the Russian attitude. The Russians say (the Syrians) are going to go and they are going to negotiate.”

He added, however, that nothing was certain. “We are going to know very quickly, in a month or two or three, whether these guys are serious.”

Separately, Turkey’s foreign minister, Mevlut Cavusoglu, warned that any participation of Kurdish forces in the Geneva talks would spell the end of the initiative.

Kerry, who met with the chief opposition negotiator in Saudi Arabia on Saturday, also addressed complaints from Assad foes who say the U.S. and others are giving in to demands from the government and its supporters.

“The position of the United States is and hasn’t changed. We are still supporting the opposition, politically, financially and militarily,” he said, adding later: “We completely empowered them. I don’t know where this is coming from.”q

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry speaks to U.S. Embassy staff in Vientiane, Laos, Monday, Jan. 25, 2016. Kerry is in Laos on the third leg of his latest round-the-world diplomatic mission, which will also take him to Cambodia and China.

(AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, Pool)

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NEWS US East Coast endures slippery start to work week

Tuesday 26 January 2016

A plow truck and a pickup truck try to squeeze through a snowy side street in Towson, Md., Monday, Jan. 25, 2016. East coast residents continued to dig themselves out after a massive weekend snowstorm.

(Photo by Steve Ruark) Continued from front

In Brooklyn, only one teacher at the BedfordStuyvesant New Beginnings

Charter School called out, despite more than two feet (60 centimeters) of snow in New York City.

“A lot of teachers are taking the train instead of driving,” said Wanda Morales, director of operations at

the school, as she stood outside while maintenance workers spread salt and parents dropped off their children.

Amtrak operated a reduced number of trains on all its routes, serving many people who couldn’t get around otherwise, spokesman Marc Magliari said.

Bus and rail service was expected to be limited around the region into Monday.

Flying remained particularly messy after airlines canceled nearly 12,000 weekend flights and hundreds more Monday. Airports resumed limited service in New York City, Baltimore, Philadelphia and in the Washington area. But delays reverberated around the country, with more than 2,500 flights delayed or canceled Monday.

Airports resumed limited service in New York City, Baltimore, and Philadelphia, which said it got an entire winter’s snow in two days. In the Washington area, Reagan National Airport tweeted that it saw its first flights Monday, and Dulles International Airport expected to resume flights late in the day The snow began Friday, and the last flakes fell just before midnight Saturday. In its aftermath, crews raced all day Sunday to clear streets and sidewalks devoid of their usual bustle.

But one day wasn’t enough to clear many roads.

Cars parked in neighborhoods were encased in snow, some of it pushed from the streets by plows.

Sidewalk entrances were blocked by mounds of snow.

New York Mayor Bill de Blasio encouraged people to leave their plowed-in cars all week. Some didn’t have a choice; plows clearing streets buried cars under a mound of ice and snow.

Broadway reopened after going dark at the last minute during the snowstorm, but museums remained closed in Washington, and the U.S. House of Representatives postponed votes until February, citing the storm’s impact on travel.

Overall snowfall of 26.8 inches (68 centimeters) in Central Park made it New York’s second biggest winter storm since records began in 1869, and Saturday’s 26.6 inches (67.6 centimeters) made for a single-day record in the city.

Washington’s records were less clear. The official threeday total of 17.8 inches (45 centimeters) measured at Reagan National Airport was impossibly short of accumulations recorded elsewhere in the city. An official total of 22.4 inches (56.9 centimeters) landed at the National Zoo, for example.

The zoo remained closed through Monday but a video of its giant panda Tian Tian making snow angels got more than 54 million views.q

Flight cancellations and delays persist in wake of U.S. blizzard NEW YORK (AP) — Airlines canceled around 1,600 flights Monday, and another 1,200 experienced delays, in the aftermath of a massive weekend blizzard that slammed into the eastern U.S., wreaking havoc on travel in the nation’s busiest cities.

Even as the airlines resumed operations, the remnants of the storm posed problems.

For instance, Delta said snow continued to hamper operations at LaGuardia and Newark airports.

On Monday, airports in the New York City area and

Washington D.C. metro areas suffered the highest number of cancellations.

For some travelers in those locations, getting home continued to be an adventure. Newark Liberty International listed 260 canceled flights and 48 delays as of Monday afternoon, the most of any U.S. airport, according to the flight tracking service FlightAware. Meanwhile, LaGuardia listed 177 canceled flights and 30 delays with John F. Kennedy airport listing 46 cancellations and 40 delays. q

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Tuesday 26 January 2016

US court won’t let North Dakota enforce tough abortion law JAMES MacPHERSON Associated Press BISMARCK, North Dakota (AP) — The U.S. Supreme Court refused on Monday to review lower court rulings overturning North Dakota’s ban on abortion at six weeks of pregnancy — before many women know they’re pregnant.

The justices turned away the state’s appeal of decisions striking down the 2013 fetal heartbeat law as unconstitutional. The law never took effect, and abortion-rights supporters said it was the strictest anti-abortion measure in the country. The high court last week rejected Arkansas’ bid to enforce its own fetal heartbeat law, banning some abortions at 12 weeks. Both measures had been struck down by a unanimous panel of three judges appointed by President George W. Bush to the St. Louis-based 8th U.S. Cir-

cuit Court of Appeals. “We knew it was unlikely and it came as no surprise,” North Dakota Attorney General Wayne Stenehjem said of the high court’s refusal to review the case.

The Supreme Court gets about 7,500 requests each year but takes on fewer than 100 cases.

“It was a long shot,” Stenehjem said. “And it’s the end of our litigation on this issue.

Even some of staunchest pro-life groups agree there isn’t much more we can do at this point.”

The appeals panel judges said the laws were inconsistent with the standard set by the Supreme Court that generally ties abortion restrictions to the viability of the fetus. But they urged the Supreme Court to re-evaluate its abortion cases to take account of changes in medicine and science, and the wishes of elected state lawmakers.q

Grand jury indicts leader behind Planned Parenthood videos PAUL J. WEBER Associated Press AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — A Houston grand jury investigating undercover footage of women’s health care provider Planned Parenthood found no wrongdoing Monday by the abortion provider but instead indicted antiabortion activists involved in making the videos that provoked outrage among Republican leaders.

David Daleiden, founder of the Center for Medical Progress, was indicted on a felony charge of tampering with a governmental record and a misdemeanor count related to purchasing human organs. Another activist, Sandra Merritt, was also indicted on a charge of tampering with a gov-

ernmental record.

The Center for Medical Progress is the anti-abortion group that released covertly shot videos of Planned Parenthood officials discussing the sale of aborted fetuses for research. A phone message left with the group wasn’t immediately returned.

Planned Parenthood officials swiftly hailed the indictment as just.

“This is absolutely great news because it is a demonstration of what Planned Parenthood has said from the very beginning, we follow every law and regulation and these anti-abortion activists broke multiple laws to try and spread lies,” said spokeswoman Rochelle Tafolla of Planned Parenthood Gulf Coast.q

Pro-abortion rights signs are seen during the March for Life 2016, in front of the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington. The Supreme Court will not allow North Dakota to enforce a law banning abortions when a fetal heartbeat is detected as early as six weeks into a pregnancy.

(AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

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Candidates seek final edge in unpredictable race JOSH LEDERMAN CATHERINE LUCEY Associated Press IOWA FALLS, Iowa (AP) — The 2016 presidential candidates opened their final push Monday before primary voting begins, seeking any edge in a race brimming with unpredictability for both Democrats and Republicans.

Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders, locked in an unexpectedly tight race, delivered their final-stretch pitches Monday evening in a televised town hall forum, while President Barack Obama delivered his own blunt assessment of their contest. Obama praised Sanders for energizing liberals while saying that Clinton’s perceived dominance in the race had been both an advantage and a burden.

Republicans who have spent months courting voters in Iowa, where the primary season begins, working to ensure their supporters make it to the caucuses next Monday. With insurgent candidates Donald Trump and Ted Cruz battling for victory in Iowa, the remaining Republican contenders are hoping that a better-than-expect-

President Barack Obama speaks in Detroit. During an interview with Politico posted on its website Monday, Jan. 25, 2016, Obama was extremely cautious in discussing the presidential campaign to avoid showing explicit favor in the Democratic race.

(AP Photo/Paul Sancya)

ed performance can provide a momentum boost heading into New Hampshire, where the Feb. 9 primary will provide the best opportunity for an alternative to the front-runners to rise.

Adding a new flavor of uncertainty was word over the weekend that former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg is considering an independent bid, eyeing an opportunity if Trump and Sanders should end

up as the Republican and Democratic nominees.

Bloomberg’s assessment of the race underscores concerns in both parties about whether they can win a general election with outside-the-box candidates like Sanders and Trump.

Obama, in an interview with Politico, praised Clinton as “wicked smart” but said she faced enormous expectations that had taught her to be more cautious. Carefully avoiding

the appearance of favoritism in the race, Obama said Sanders had clearly tapped into many Democrats’ hunger for a candidate who speaks bluntly and loudly about liberal values.

“You know, that has an appeal,” Obama said. “And I understand that.”

Sanders, who has been on an aggressive Iowa tour in the final days, returned his focus to his plan for government-run health care.q

US court upholds 4-year-old energy savings program SAM HANANEL Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. Supreme Court has upheld a 4-year-old federal program that pays large electric customers to save energy during times of peak demand.

The justices ruled 6-2 on Monday that the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission had the authority to issue directives aimed at conserving energy and preventing blackouts.

The ruling is a win for the Obama administration, environmental groups and other supporters who said the plan saved billions in energy costs, improved reliability of the power grid and reduced air pollution since it was put in place in 2011. Utility companies challenging the rule argued it was too generous and trampled state rights over retail electricity sales.

A federal appeals court ruled 2-1 last year that the plan intrudes on state power over retail electricity sales.

Federal law gives the commission authority to regulate wholesale markets, while retail sales are governed by states.q

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Tuesday 26 January 2016

US Financial Front:

Business economists expect slower sales, economic growth C. S. RUGABER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Business economists are more pessimistic about their firms’ future sales and profits than they were last fall, and more predict slower economic growth, a survey found.

At the same time, a majority of economists surveyed by the National Association for Business Economics said their firms plan to raise wages in the January-March quarter. That is the largest proportion that expects to raise pay since mid-2014.

Aside from the planned pay rise, the survey paints a mostly gloomy view of

the economy at the start of 2016. Fewer than half the economists expect sales at their firms to rise in the first quarter, the smallest proportion since January 2015.

And nearly 20 percent expect profits to fall, the most in more than a year.

For the first time in three years, more than 25 percent of the economists forecast that growth will slip below 2 percent over the next year. As recently as April, 30 percent expected growth would top 3 percent in the following 12 months. That figure fell to just 4 percent in the current survey.

The survey was conduct-

An iron worker works on a building under construction in Philadelphia. Business economists are more pessimistic about their firms’ future sales and profits than they were in the fall of 2015, and more predict slower economic growth at the start of 2016, a survey found.

(AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

ed from Dec. 17 through

Ford cites market conditions, pulls out of Japan, Indonesia TOM KRISHER AP Auto Writer DETROIT (AP) — Ford Motor Co. is pulling out of Japan and Indonesia, saying that market conditions in each country have made it difficult to grow sales or make sustained profits.

“Japan is the most closed, developed auto economy in the world, with all imported brands accounting for less than 6% of Japan’s annual new car market,” spokesman Neal McCarthy wrote in an email message.

The 12-nation Trans Pacific Partnership trade agreement in its current form will not improve Ford’s ability to complete there, he said.

Congress could vote on the pact this year.

Neither market is large for the Dearborn, Michigan, automaker. Last year Ford sold only 6,100 cars and trucks in Indonesia and only 5,000 in Japan, where it has accused the

government of protecting domestic brands. The company in an emailed statement said that the decision was communicated to employees and dealers on Monday. Ford will exit the countries before the end of the year and plans to explain to customers its commitment to servicing cars, providing parts and making warranty repairs.

McCarthy said auto sales are expected to decline in Japan in the coming years.

Analysts have said that’s due to an aging population and declining interest in cars among younger people in urban areas. In Indonesia, it was difficult for Ford to compete without local manufacturing and vehicles to sell in key market segments, McCarthy said. Ford has restructured its business there but still has less than 1 percent of the market with “no reasonable path to sustained profitability,” he said.q

Jan. 5, mostly before the

big stock market drops that have occurred since the year began, and 148 economists responded.

There were some positive signs in the results. In addition to the planned wage increases for the first quarter, nearly half of the economists said their firms had already raised pay in the final three months of 2015.

That’s the highest percentage in more than a decade.

And one-third of respondents said their firms planned to add jobs in the next three months, up from 29 percent in the fall. The number planning to cut jobs also rose, to 15 percent.q

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EU ministers consider isolating Greece and its migrants

MIKE CORDER Associated Press AMSTERDAM (AP) — European Union nations took a step Monday toward isolating Greece amid acrimony over Athens’ failure to stem the flow of migrants at its Mediterranean island borders. Despite choppy seas and wintry conditions, more than 2,000 people

are arriving in Greece daily, according toEU figures.

Athens is under pressure to register and keep those coming in. Several EU nations have said that they could isolate Greece by closing off their borders so that incoming refugees would have to remain there. The member states “gave a clear signal” that

if they can’t stop the migrants reaching Greece, they would consider helping Greece’s neighbor Macedonia to better seal its border to slow the movement of migrants into other European countries, said Dutch State Secretary Klaas Dijkhoff. Greek Immigration Minister Ioannis Mouzalas conceded his country was

struggling to cope with the flow, but blamed EU member states for failing to provide enough manpower and boats to patrol Aegean Sea islands just a few kilometers (miles) from Turkey’s coast and not honoring pledges to relocate migrants. Mouzalas told reporters Athens wanted 1,800 officers from the EU border patrol force known as Frontex, but got only 800. Of the 28 coast guard ships requested by Greece, only six have arrived, he added.

Mouzalas called the idea of sending Frontex officers to the Greek-Macedonian border to halt migrants there “illegal” and insisted more Frontex officers should be sent to his country instead.

Ministers arriving for the meeting at Amsterdam’s Maritime Museum were met by protesters in two boats, one full of showroom dummies wearing red life vests similar to those worn by migrants crossing from Turkey and another with a large sign saying: “Leaders of Europe, it’s not the polls you should worry about. It’s

ROME (AP) — Italy’s premier said Monday that Iranian President Hassan Rouhani, kicking off the first state visit to Europe by an Iranian president in nearly two decades, “can play a fundamental role in the stability” of the Middle East.

Matteo Renzi told reporters after meeting privately with Rouhani that the landmark deal on curbing Iran’s nuclear activities “is just a

first step for a new season of peace and prosperity, not just in Iran, but in all the region.”

“If we reached a nuclear deal, we can reach a deal on Syria. We must reach a deal on Syria,” Renzi said.

Rouhani’s four-day visit to Italy and France is part of efforts by Iran to reach out to its old partners following the implementation of the nuclear deal, and Rouhani

is eager for foreign investments after the lifting of international sanctions. The trip was originally planned for November but postponed by the attacks in Paris.

After their meeting, Rouhani and Renzi looked on as business counterparts from the two countries signed a series of agreements for future cooperation.

Rouhani told reporters the

political talks leading to the nuclear deal could provide the blueprint for pursuing peace in the Middle East.

“The question of security for our region can’t be resolved with military solutions,” he said. “We need to work through the political channels,” he said, calling for the European Union to contribute to a solution “to find peace and security for our region.”q

Amnesty International activists protest against the ongoing migrants crisis with a boat filled with mannequins wearing life vests outside the Maritime Museum, rear, during an informal meeting of EU Justice and Home Affairs ministers at the Maritime Museum in Amsterdam, Netherlands, Monday, Jan. 25, 2016.

(AP Photo/Peter Dejong)

Iran’s Rouhani begins 4-day European visit

the history books.”

The meeting comes only days after European Council President Donald Tusk warned that Europe’s passport-free travel area, known as Schengen, could break apart if the migrant strategy isn’t sorted out within two months.

Meanwhile in Brussels, Denmark’s foreign and immigration ministers sought to ease tensions over government plans to seize some of the assets of asylumseekers to pay for their food and lodging.

Under the plan, people would be allowed to keep 1,300 euros ($1,400). Any assets or cash beyond that amount could be taken unless the items hold sentimental value, like wedding rings. “Those people who can manage by themselves shouldn’t have assistance from the state,” Migration Minister Inger Stoejberg told EU lawmakers.

The new plan, which has been criticized by rights and refugee groups as well as migrants themselves, is to be debated in the Danish parliament on Tuesday.

Denmark received 21,300 asylum-seekers, one of the highest rates per capita in the EU, last year, and has introduced tougher border controls until at least early next month. European Commissioner Frans Timmermans told Dutch broadcaster NOS on Monday that 60 percent of migrants entering Europe are “from countries that you can assume they have no right to asylum.” He said such “economic migrants” should be sent home more quickly, to ease pressure. q

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Tuesday 26 January 2016

UN envoy lowers expectations ahead of Syrian talks on Friday JAMEY KEATEN Associated Press GENEVA (AP) — Lowering expectations about his ability to help end Syria’s civil war, the U.N. special envoy announced talks between government and opposition representatives will start on Friday to embark on a six-month process that he hopes will include civil society and women’s groups.

Staffan de Mistura raised nearly as many questions as he answered in a news conference in Geneva on Monday, the day when talks had originally been set to begin before tensions over who would be invited, involving countries like Russia and Turkey, forced a delay. He also confirmed comments from U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry last week that the two main sides won’t meet face-to-face initially in the “proximity” talks.

De Mistura insisted he was sticking to Security Council decisions to shun some groups like the Islamic State group and al-Qaida-affiliate Nusra Front, but refused any clarification beyond that. He said invitations would go out Tuesday, but declined to specify his criteria about deciding who receives them.

“We want to make sure that when and if we start, to start at least on the right foot,” said de Mistura, who succeeded Kofi Annan and Lakhdar Brahimi as the top U.N. envoy for Syria. “It will be uphill anyway.”

The step-by-step approach testifies to the immense difficulties that many diplomats and world powers have faced in efforts to end the nearly five-year war that has cost more than 250,000 lives, forced millions to flee their homes to places like Europe, and opened the way for IS to seize vast territory in Syria and Iraq.

“The first priority will be the focus of the talks of what most Syrians — if not all — want to hear: The possibility of a broad cease-fire, and the possibility of stopping the threat of ISIL, and therefore, thanks to a broader cease-fire, an increase of humanitarian aid,” he said, using another acronym for IS. Learning from past failures and missteps, de Mistura jettisoned an initiative of four “working groups” on various aspects of Syria’s crisis led by Europeans which he launched last summer. q

Putin denounces Soviet founder Lenin

Russian President Vladimir Putin addresses a regional meeting of pro-Kremlin United Peoples’ Front in Stavropol, on Monday, Jan. 25, 2016. Putin has criticized Soviet founder Vladimir Lenin for placing a “time bomb” under the state and denounced brutal repressions by the Bolshevik government.

(Alexei Druzhinin/Sputnik, Kremlin Pool/AP)

V. ISACHENKOV Associated Press MOSCOW (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday criticized Soviet founder Vladimir Lenin, accusing him of placing a “time bomb” under the state, and sharply denouncing brutal repressions by the Bolshevik government.

The harsh criticism of Lenin, who is still revered by communists and many others in Russia, is unusual for Putin, who in the past carefully weighed his comments about the nation’s history to avoid alienating some voters.

At the same time, he signaled that the govern-

ment has no intention of taking Lenin’s body out of his Red Square tomb, warning against “any steps that would divide the society.”

Putin’s assessment of Lenin’s role in Russian history during Monday’s meeting with pro-Kremlin activists in the southern city of Stavropol was markedly more negative than in the past.

Putin denounced Lenin and his government for brutally executing Russia’s last czar along with all his family and servants, killing thousands of priests and placing a “time bomb” under the Russian state by drawing administrative borders along ethnic lines.

As an example of Lenin’s

destructive legacy, Putin pointed at Donbass, the industrial region in eastern Ukraine where a pro-Russia separatist rebellion flared up weeks after Russia’s March 2014 annexation of Ukraine’s Crimean Peninsula. More than 9,000 people have been killed in the conflict since April 2014, and clashes have continued despite a February 2015 peace deal.

He said that Lenin and his government whimsically drew borders between parts of the U.S.S.R., placing Donbass under the Ukrainian jurisdiction in order to “increase the percentage of proletariat” in a move Putin called “delirious.” Putin’s criticism of Lenin could be part of his attempts to justify Moscow’s policy in the Ukrainian crisis, but it also may reflect the Kremlin’s concern about possible separatist sentiments in some Russian provinces.

Putin was particularly critical of Lenin’s concept of a federative state with its entities having the right to secede, saying it heavily contributed to the 1991 breakup of the Soviet Union. “It was a time bomb under our state,” he said, adding that Lenin’s was wrong in a dispute with Josef Stalin who advocated a unitary state model.q

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Tuesday 26 January 2016

NEWS

Amid heavy security, Egypt marks 5th anniversary of uprising

Supporters of the ousted Islamist President Mohamed Morsi chant slogans and raise their hands with a four-fingered antigovernment gesture that commemorates the deadly crushing by police of a 2013 Islamist protest camp, in the Faysal district of Cairo, Egypt, Monday, Jan. 25, 2016. Poster reads, “Military rule is a shame and a betrayal.”

(AP Photo/Belal Darder)

HAMZA HENDAWI MAGGIE MICHAEL Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — Amid heavy security Monday, Egypt marked the fifth anniversary of the uprising that toppled longtime autocrat Hosni Mubarak, with activists taking to social media — but not the streets — to express frustration that their demands for freedom and democracy had not been realized.

Many activists instead posted photos from 2011 of Cairo’s Tahrir Square —

the epicenter of the demonstrations — showing it filled with tens of thousands of protesters during the 18day uprising. Next to them, they posted photos of the square on Monday, showing it empty except for several dozen supporters of President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi. Since 2011, when Mubarak fell after nearly three decades in power, Egypt has seen much upheaval: the rise of President Mohammed Morsi and his once-banned Muslim Brotherhood; the ouster of Morsi by el-Sissi, a former general; and el-Sissi’s launch of one of the harshest crackdowns in years, with the jailing of thousands of Islamists and scores of liberal, pro-democracy activists. Despite the heavy police presence Monday, supporters of the Brotherhood held at least two small demonstrations, with participants numbering in the low hundreds — both in Cairo’s twin city of Giza.

Brotherhood demonstra-

tions of this size have taken place since 2013, but are restricted to back streets of poor or middle class neighborhoods, away from the eyes of the police in landmark squares and major thoroughfares.

In the Mediterranean port city of Alexandria, police dismantled two bombs and arrested 15 people when they dispersed small protests by Brotherhood loyalists, according to the official MENA news agency.

In the October 6 suburb of Cairo, police killed two suspected militants in a raid.

Explosives and firearms were found in the raided apartment, MENA reported. Later, in Bani Suef province south of Cairo, police shot and killed a suspected militant when he tried to storm a checkpoint.

The crackdown under elSissi has forced many who took part in the 2011 uprising, along with hundreds of Morsi supporters, to flee Egypt or abandon political activism altogether.q

Libyan parliament rejects the UN-backed unity government RAMI MUSA Associated Press BENGHAZI, Libya (AP) — Libya’s internationally recognized parliament on Monday rejected a U.N.sponsored unity government with rival authorities based in Tripoli, dealing a blow to months of efforts aimed at bridging a political divide that has undermined the fight against Islamic militants.

House of Representatives member Abu Bakr Beira said 89 out of 104 members who attended Monday’s session rejected the

Cabinet formed by the U.N.-sponsored unity presidential council. He said the council would be dissolved if it failed to meet a 10-day deadline to form a new, smaller Cabinet. Another parliamentarian earlier said 90 out of 140 lawmakers rejected the deal. The parliament endorsed the political agreement underpinning the new government, but objected to an article that would dismiss Gen. Khalifa Hifter, a divisive figure who was appointed military chief by the internationallyrecognized government.q

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Tuesday 26 January 2016

AP: International community appeals for Haiti dialogue DAVID McFADDEN Associated Press PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — The international community appealed for dialogue and calm in Haiti after its presidential and legislative runoff was put on hold indefinitely.

The United Nations, international election observers and foreign governments urged the volatile Caribbean country’s feuding political actors to negotiate a solution to an electoral impasse that threatens to soon become a constitutional crisis.

Haiti’s charter requires a new government to take power Feb. 7, but election authorities say there is now no chance the country will meet that deadline to pick the next president. It is unclear whether an interim government will be set up, or another solution may be reached.

In a statement, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon urged Haitians to work toward “peaceful completion of the electoral process without delay.”

Government officials have not addressed the impasse publicly since Friday afternoon, when the Provisional Electoral Council postponed the runoff a second time without naming a new date for the vote.

The splintering council cited what it called a “deteriorating security environment” to explain its decision.q

UN OKs mission to monitor cease-fire in Colombia CARA ANNA Associated Press UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. Security Council on Monday unanimously approved a resolution to establish a political mission to monitor and verify a future cease-fire in Colombia that would end Latin America’s longest-running guerrilla conflict.

The resolution welcomes the progress in negotiations between Colombia’s government and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia and notes their joint request last week for a U.N. monitoring mission.

In a rare move for the often-divided council, all 15 members co-sponsored the resolution.

The request sent a strong signal that a March 23 deadline to wrap up peace talks could be within reach.

“Finally, our continent will have life without conflict,” the country’s foreign minister, María Ángela Holguín

Ivan Marquez, chief negotiator of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, right, and Colombia’s Government Peace Commissioner Sergio Jaramillo shake hands after a joint announcement in Havana, Cuba. At the request of the negotiators, the U.N. Security Council on Monday unanimously approved a political mission to monitor and verify a future cease-fire in Colombia.

(AP Photo/Desmond Boylan)

Cuéllar, told reporters. She said her country hopes to meet the March deadline.

The resolution establishes a political mission for 12 months, and the council can consider an extension if asked by the two parties.

The mission will be made up of unarmed observers

from Latin American and Caribbean nations.

Decades of fighting between guerrillas, right-wing paramilitaries and the armed forces has left more than 220,000 dead, some 40,000 disappeared and over 5 million driven from their homes.

“It isn’t common for a country to refer itself to the council. But it’s exactly the kind of role the United Nations should be playing” in conflict resolution, British Ambassador Matthew Rycroft said. “I hope today will mark the start of the final stage of peace talks.”

The resolution notes that the Colombian government and the FARC foresee a final peace agreement including “a tripartite mechanism” — comprising the government, FARC and an “international component” — to monitor a cessation of hostilities and the laying down of arms.

It recognizes that the two sides have asked the U.N. to participate as the “international component.”

The resolution asks U.N. Secretary-General Ban Kimoon to present detailed recommendations on the political mission’s size and operation to the council for its approval within 30 days of a cease-fire. q

Puerto Rico gov. warns of fallout from failed utility

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Gov. Alejandro Garcia Padilla has warned of grave consequences for island consumers and businesses if a deal to restructure its troubled electric utility’s $8.2 billion bond debt is not completed.

The governor said in a statement this weekend that without the deal, the Puerto Rico Electric Pow-

er Authority won’t have enough cash to continue normal operations, increasing the risk of power outages and rate hikes. The deal’s collapse also imperils hundreds of jobs and complicates talks with Puerto Rico’s other creditors.

“Time is short,” the governor said.

The accord with creditors fell apart after a missed Fri-

day deadline to approve a bill setting conditions for a bond swap that would have forgiven $600 million of PREPA debt and relaxed terms on another $700 million. Bondholders offered to extend the legislative deadline, but wanted to change terms of a $115 million loan that would have provided liquidity to PREPA, but the authority found the

new conditions unacceptable.

“I call on the legislative leadership to act with the diligence and speed that the circumstances demand,” Garcia said.

Despite the accord’s collapse, PREPA officials and bondholder representatives have said they are willing to continue negotiating.q

A12 WORLD

Tuesday 26 January 2016

NEWS

Dominican economy lures Puerto Ricans in crisis

DANICA COTO EZEQUIEL LOPEZ Associated Press SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic (AP) — Carlos Gonzalez already had noticed the growing number of empty chairs and increasingly quiet slot machines at the Puerto Rico casino where he worked as he mulled a job offer in the Dominican Republic.

It was 2013, and Puerto Rico’s economy had been in a downward slide for nearly a decade. Gonzalez didn’t know it at the time, but the once-popular casino where he worked as a marketing manager would soon close.

He thought of his family and friends and the reasons he moved back to Puerto Rico in the first place after spending more than 20 years in New Jersey. It took him several months to make a decision — “It’s not easy to leave your land,” the Puerto Rico native said — but he finally did.

“I never imagined it. Never!” Gonzalez said with a laugh. “I even asked myself 2,000 times whether I really was moving to the Dominican Republic. I told myself it was crazy.”

The flow of migrants through the 80 miles (130 kilometers) of churning waters that separate Puerto Rico and the Dominican Republic has typically moved in one direction for more than half a century: toward the U.S. territory. But the island’s deep economic crisis is reversing this trend, with a growing number of financially strapped Puerto Ricans moving to the neighboring Caribbean country to open businesses and escape economic chaos that has scared away even many Dominican migrants.

Officials say it’s hard to quantify exactly how many

Puerto Ricans have moved to the Dominican Republic in recent years because they fall under the general category of U.S. citizens, but they say the trend is undeniable.

“It used to be extremely rare for a Puerto Rican to stop by and seek a work

gest in the Latin American and Caribbean region. The government has credited vigorous performances in banking, construction and tourism, noting that a record 5.6 million tourists visited the Dominican Republic last year.

There’s also been a big

rate and a $72 billion public debt load the governor has said is unpayable and needs restructuring. About a third of people born in Puerto Rico now live on the U.S. mainland, seeking to escape tax increases, higher utility bills and dwindling job opportunities.

Workers measure luggage size as passengers wait to board a ferry headed for the Dominican Republic, in San Juan, Puerto Rico. A growing number of financially strapped Puerto Ricans are moving to the neighboring Caribbean country to open businesses and escape economic chaos that has scared away even many Dominican migrants.

(AP Photo/Danica Coto)

visa,” said Franklin Grullon, the Dominican consul in the Puerto Rican capital of San Juan. “There’s been a surge in all types of visas, and we believe this flow will only increase.”

The majority of Puerto Ricans seeking business visas are young to middle-aged men, and many request permission to work in the tourism sector because they speak English and find it easy to get a job, Grullon said. They are drawn by the Dominican Republic’s robust economy, which grew 7 percent in 2015 for the second consecutive year, making it the stron-

increase in Puerto Rican professionals such as architects and engineers traveling to the Dominican Republic to work because of that country’s booming construction sector, said German Monroig, executive director of the office of Puerto Rican affairs.

“There’s been a considerable change in the last two years,” he said.

It’s hard for Puerto Rican professionals to find steady jobs given the island’s economy, which has stagnated for nine years as the U.S. territory of 3.5 million people struggles with a 12 percent unemployment

“Puerto Rico became very, very difficult for the casino sector,” the 48-year-old Gonzalez said. “I left just in time. ... All my friends tell me that the best thing I did was to leave, that Puerto Rico’s situation is crazy.”

Puerto Ricans aren’t the only ones leaving.

Grullon said Dominicans are increasingly moving back to their country, and he noted that the flow of Dominicans entering the U.S. territory illegally also has decreased dramatically: The U.S. Coast Guard detained 1,565 Dominicans in 2004, compared with 133 in 2014.

“What’s surprising about this trend is that up until now, the migration had been from the Dominican Republic to Puerto Rico, and the main motive was a difference in salary and more jobs,” said Jorge Duany, an anthropology professor at Florida International University who has long studied migration patterns between the two.

In the early 1900s, Puerto Ricans were moving to the Dominican Republic to work in the country’s thriving sugar industry until the Great Depression hit. Then Dominican migrants began moving to Puerto Rico in the 1960s and 70s because of the island’s booming industrial sector. Roughly 200,000 Dominicans are now estimated to live in the U.S. territory, though there are no precise figures because many live on the island illegally.

Now, it’s the lure of more jobs and a powerful economy in the Dominican Republic that is attracting Puerto Ricans, including 51-year-old Francisco Perez.

He worked more than 20 years for an insurance company in Puerto Rico, but began to see his income shrink as car sales on the island plummeted. When a job opportunity presented itself in late 2014 to work for a Puerto Rican company in the Dominican Republic that paid in U.S. dollars, he took it.

“I told myself I had to do what I had to do given the importance I have as my family’s provider,” said the father of four. “When I got here and saw that it was like Puerto Rico back in the 90s, that the economy was doing well, I stayed. I know there are a lot of Puerto Ricans looking over this way to grow their businesses.”q

LOCAL A13

Tuesday 26 January 2016

Gold Coast Vacation Villas Earn Booking.com’s Guest Review Award 2015

MALMOK - Gold Coast Vacation Villas received a Guest Review Award from Booking.com just recently, which proves that guests clearly love the way the property conducts its business and appreciate the way they are treated there, while on vacation in one of the condos, townhouses

tors on vacation. The residence boasts a multinational environment, where permanent residents and transient visitors share a vibrant community, in a vacation village atmosphere.

Booking.com, one of the world’s most popular booking engines lists Gold Coast Vacation Villas among its

and luxury villas available for rent. Gold Coast Residence widely recognized as Aruba’s premier masterplanned neighborhood, with more than 200 private homes completed and occupied, now features over 80 condos, townhouses and luxury villas in its rental pool, hosting transient visi-

Aruba offerings. The continuous efforts made by property staffers and the consistency in managing and providing exceptionally high-quality accommodation and amenities, earned it this important international recognition, especially since it combines with professional and per-

sonalized service. Booking.com honors top-rated lodging businesses, as reviewed by travelers on the website. To qualify for the award Gold Coast Vacation Villas had to maintain an average rating of 8.0 or higher, out of a possible 10, by December 31st at 09:00AM CET. The criteria also include the volume of reviews and how recently they have been submitted. The accolade

is extended to qualifying businesses worldwide, and Gold Coast Vacation Villas would like to thank all wonderful guests who were motivated to comment and rate the residence on line, making the award possible. As a community, Gold Coast Residence also enjoys many local Arubans some retired, some raising families who live on the property full time. They freely mix and

mingle with second-home owners, who are repeat visitors to the island. While owners get a handsome return on their real estate investment, the properly benefits from that bustling activity and unlike many other master planned communities without permanent populations, Gold Coast Residence exudes a genuine village ambiance, with anywhere from 500 up to 1,200 individuals calling the lushly landscaped complex, home.

Gold Coast Residence will proudly display the award icon on social media, and on its website. Booking. com delivers real guests, real experiences and real reviews, which can be relied on while looking for a place to stay on vacation, in Aruba.q

A14 LOCAL

Tuesday 26 January 2016

Visiting from Boston:

Sandy & Stephanie Enjoy Art by Aruba’s Sandra Van Der Linde

ORANJESTAD - While visiting the island of Aruba, you may encounter a small woman standing in front of a huge painting. This woman is local artist Sandra Van Der Linde. She started painting after a dream inspired her so much that she went out and bought a canvas and paints and to her surprise, the dream became a reality. When viewing her paintings, you may feel like you are being transported to Heaven.

One of her inspired paintings now hangs in the reception area of the Dr. Horacio Oduber Hospital.

The name of this work is ‘Divine Light.’

Another painting, a four foot face of Jesus was featured by her as she stood along the highways and rotundas as traffic passed by. Most of Van Der Linde’s paintings are life size and while viewing them you might just walk into a path that leads you right to Heaven. For more information: sandra_vanderlinde@ hotmail.com, or call (297) 662-3222.q

LOCAL A15

Tuesday 26 January 2016

Loyal Visitors Honored by ATA at La Cabana Resort EAGLE BEACH - Recently the Aruba Tourism Authority had the great pleasure of honoring a group of loyal and friendly visitors of Aruba at La Cabana Beach Resort as Distinguished Visitors and Goodwill Ambassadors!

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

The honorees were Mr. Steven and Mrs. Sarabeth Lemoine as Distinguished Visitors, and Mr. Leo and Mrs. Shirley Wcisel as Goodwill Ambassadors.

Steven, Sarabeth, Leo and Shirley are regular guests of La Cabana and they love Aruba very much because of the friendly people, the weather, the beaches, the restaurants, the Casinos, and just about everything else! They say Aruba feels

like a second home where the people are like family to them, and La Cabana

is truly their ‘home-awayfrom-home.’ The certificates were pre-

sented by Mr. Jonathan Boekhoudt representing the Aruba Tourism Authority

together with friends and family from La Cabana Beach Resort. q

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Tuesday 26 January 2016

The little jeep tour that could…

If You Are a Thrill Seeker, Jump Into the Deep Blue Sea From a Cliff!

PALM BEACH - The small, family business of ABC Tours continues to prove that it is truly the ‘little tour company that could’. Created 20 years ago by the husband and wife team of Marvin and Sharla Kelly, it excels through commitment to the simple ideal of stellar customer care, while sharing Aruba’s most spectacular attractions. Today’s excursions are exclusive, using top-of-the-line transportation, while offering the same warm, personal charm with the promise of an adventure beyond comparison.

“We started small, guiding the tours ourselves, and with the goal of sharing what we love most about

our island with guests,” explains Sharla. “Nowadays, we are still very much involved, managing the company and making sure the feeling of being part of the family is intrinsic to each tour.

What sets us apart is that our tours are made up of small groups so that the safari stays fun and personalized, giving our Tour Guides the flexibility to honor special requests on each tour and that means more value for your money.”

Guests who take part in any one of ABC Tours options quickly learn that this is not just another island tour. Each tour is filled with interesting information, and presented by enthu-

siastic guides, whose high energy helps provide for both excitement and fun.

The choice of stops is also unique, with ABC Tours taking guests past the island’s most breathtaking sceneries, and on to discover the hidden beauty of secluded beaches and dramatic rock formations as well as to well-known sites such as Baby Beach and the Natural Pool.

To take even greater pleasure in the off-road experience, guests also have the opportunity to drive one of our 4x4 Land Rovers for a pure 4-wheel fun.

All of ABC Tours’ Land Rovers are specially equipped vehicles, with comfortable seats, that easily traverse island roads, and safely deliver you to each stop.

Thrill seekers also have the option to cliff jump at The Natural Pool, only available on selected tours at ABC. The unique ABC Tours experience extends to the menu, with a homecooked recipe for lunch or dinner as a part of each tour. Traditional meals are provided by Waka Waka restaurant, which uses secret, family recipes, passed down through four generations and provided by Sharla’s own grandmother. The restaurant provides a true taste of Aruba, whether enjoying a meal after an unforgettable tour or simply stopping by, at any time, to try out any one of “Machi (Grandma) Betty’s” delicious offerings, from delectable appetizers to scrumptious desserts.q

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Tuesday 26 January 2016

Upping the Andy

Andy Murray of Britain celebrates after defeating Bernard Tomic of Australia during their fourth round match at the Australian Open tennis championships in Melbourne, Australia, Monday, Jan. 25, 2016.

(AP Photo/Vincent Thian)

Murray Advances, Raonic Beats Wawrinka in Australia JOHN PYE AP Sports Writer MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — In the darker moments, when the medical needs of his family were becoming more urgent, Andy Murray thought about leaving the Australian Open before the fourth round.

The stress was obvious Monday, when an agitated Murray yelled and berated himself repeatedly and had trouble dealing with Bernard Tomic’s unusual

style before advancing to the quarterfinals with a scrappy 6-4, 6-4, 7-6 (4) win.

“The last few days were very, very tough. A lot of emotions, things sort of changing all of the time in my head,” Murray said. “It’s been a stressful few days, but I’ll try to rest up the next few days to get ready for the next one.”

Murray’s wife, Kim, is due to have their first baby next month and he promised he’d fly back to Britain at

any time if she went into labor — even if it meant missing a chance at a droughtbreaking fifth Australian final. The two-time major winner was playing in the third round on Saturday when his father-in-law, Nick Sears, who was in Melbourne as Ana Ivanovic’s coach, needed sudden medical in a nearby stadium. Sears had to be taken from Rod Laver Arena, where he was watching Ivanovic play, to a nearby hospital by am-

bulance and was admitted overnight.

“I just can’t believe something like that happened a few days ago. It’s shocking,” Murray said. “Nige is an unbelievably fit guy.

Very, very scary.”

Murray reported that his father-in-law had been released from the hospital, was feeling OK and was heading home. Murray was staying, for now.

“To be honest, when I woke up I felt quite drained, quite

tired,” he said. “As the day went on and I decided to play, I started to focus a little better. Certainly I was trying to just concentrate on the match when I was out there, but, like I said, it’s been a hard, hard few days.”

Next up for Murray will be No. 8 David Ferrer, a twotime semifinalist, who held off No. 10-seeded John Isner 6-4, 6-4, 7-5.

Continued on page 20

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Tuesday 26 January 2016

Denver’s defense carries Manning back to the Super Bowl ARNIE STAPLETON Associated Press DENVER (AP) — Peyton Manning is glad he doesn’t have to face Denver’s dizzying defense. Tom Brady wasn’t so lucky.

The Broncos bashed Brady throughout a 20-18 dethroning of the New England Patriots in the AFC championship Sunday that sent Denver to a recordtying eighth Super Bowl.

Von Miller’s monster performance led the way for a dominant defense that hit Brady 23 times and forced him into 29 incompletions, two fourth-down flops and two costly interceptions, one of them on a failed 2-point try that would have tied it with 12 seconds left.

“Von played phenomenal today,” safety T.J. Ward said. “I have never seen a performance like that from one player.”

Miller had 2 1/2 sacks, four quarterback hits, a pass breakup and a takeaway that turned into a touchdown.

“I tell you, I can do it all,” Miller said with a wry smile.

“I’m just playing.”

But he wasn’t kidding.

Denver’s defense is no joke. “Defense wins championships,” Chris Harris Jr. said, repeating the mantra in case anybody still doubts Denver.

DeMarcus Ware added seven hits on Brady, including a sandwich sack with Miller, and Derek Wolfe set the early tone with a huge,

Denver Broncos tight end Owen Daniels (81) catches a 21-yard touchdown pass from quarterback Peyton Manning during the first half the NFL football AFC Championship game between the Denver Broncos and the New England Patriots, Sunday, Jan. 24, 2016, in Denver. The Broncos beat the Patriots 20-18.

jaw-rattling hit, a batted down pass and a sack.

“He was rattled,” said Aqib Talib, whose deflected pass on Brady’s 2-point try settled into Bradley Roby’s hands. “I don’t think I’ve ever seen anybody put that much pressure on Tom — ever. So, I think we did a hell of a job getting that pressure on him. That’s why we’re going to the ‘ship.”

Along with Manning, who was hit just four times and threw two TD passes to tight end Owen Daniels.

Manning is seeking his second ring and his third for his

boss, John Elway.

“Me, personally, I think he still has it, although the critics say he doesn’t have it,” receiver Emmanuel Sanders said. “You want to talk about a guy that started the season off 7-0 and is now he is going to the Super Bowl. At age 39 or 40 or 70 or how ever old he is, no matter what, he gets the job done.”

Two months shy of 40, he’s also trying to supplant Elway as the oldest QB ever to win a Lombardi Trophy.

Standing in their way is Cam Newton and the Car-

olina Panthers (17-1), who throttled the, Arizona Cardinals 49-15 to reach their first Super Bowl.

“I’ve enjoyed playing on the same team as that defense,” Manning said of his teammates. “I’m glad I haven’t had to face them this season, I’ll say that.

They’ve been challenging to go against in practice.”

Brady praised not only Denver’s front seven, but its star-studded secondary.

“It was just tough for us to ever get in a rhythm,” said Brady, who fell to 11-6 in his storied rivalry with Manning, including 1-3 in conference championships.

Other takeaways from Denver’s second AFC title in three years: NOT SO AUTOMATIC: The reliable Stephen Gostkowski missed a rare extra point early in the game, one that haunted the Patriots the rest of the way.

He took it hard after the

game, too.

“You want to help the team win. You don’t want to be the reason you lose,” said Gostkowski, who had made an NFL-record 523 consecutive PATs before sending fluttering one wide right in the first quarter. “It’s not a good feeling. I deserve all the blame that I get and I’ll try to hold my head up high.”

Gostkowski’s teammates refused to blame him for failing to get Brady and Bill Belichick their 23rd playoff win.

“No one is perfect. That’s just life. We’re all going to make mistakes,” cornerback Malcolm Butler said.

“We’re in this together.”

GRONK CRAMPS UP: In the second half, with the Patriots trying to mount a comeback, Rob Gronkowski was on the sideline, face-down, while a trainer massaged his legs.

The best tight end in the game had fallen victim to the mile-high air and a bad case of the cramps.

He came back and made more than his share of plays — most notably the 40yard catch down the seam on fourth-and-10 during New England’s late scoring drive, then the 4-yard grab for a touchdown that gave the Patriots a chance to tie the game.

Eight catches for 144 yards is nothing to apologize for.

Still, the loss — and those cramps — will hurt Gronk for a while.

“As an athlete, you just don’t want that to happen,” he said.

KEO’S K.O. — Street free agent Shiloh Keo has more than made up for surrendering the game-winning TD in a 15-12 loss to Oakland five days after joining Denver’s defense when an injury epidemic took out several of their safeties.q

SPORTS A19

Tuesday 26 January 2016

Newton, Panthers rout Cardinals, 49-15 for NFC title BARRY WILNER Associated Press CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — For all his daring and dabbing and Superman persona, Cam Newton quickly reminds everyone that football is all about team.

And his Carolina Panthers are headed for the big game.

“For everyone who wears the blue and black, it has been a long time coming,” Newton said after another virtuoso performance Sunday with two touchdown passes and another two TD leaps — minus the Superman cape —in a 49-15 destruction of the Arizona Cardinals for the NFC championship. “It’s a question you got to ask: Why not us? “We’ve been dreaming about this moment since Day 1. Our pen has a lot more ink left.”

The Panthers (17-1) have written quite a story so far. They manhandled two prominent defenses in the playoffs, Seattle (at least for a half) and then Arizona (14-4). They led the league in points (500) during the regular season, and against the Cardinals’ top-ranked offense they forced six turnovers by Carson Palmer.

So now it’s on to the Bay Area to face Peyton Manning and the Denver Broncos (14-4) in Super Bowl 50. Manning, a five-time league MVP, will play in his fourth Super Bowl and Denver in a record-tying eighth. Carolina, a loser 12 years ago to New England, gets its second trip.

“When I was growing up,” said All-Pro linebacker Luke Kuechly, who had a 22yard interception return touchdown to give Carolina the most points in an NFC championship, “it was Peyton Manning and the Colts putting up big num-

Carolina Panthers’ Cam Newton leaps into the end zone for a touchdown run during the second half the NFL football NFC Championship game against the Arizona Cardinals Sunday, Jan. 24, 2016, in Charlotte, N.C. The Panthers beat the Cardinals 49-15.

(AP Photo/Mike McCarn)

bers. He was the guy and still is the guy that everyone looks at. It’s going to be a lot of fun.”

Some memorable things from the Panthers’ romp: CAM OF STEEL: Newton’s superhero image was enhanced by yet another fabulous performance. On both of his TD runs, he laid out the ball or himself to get into the end zone.

And one of his TD passes was an 86-yard catchand-run by Philly Brown, helped by Rashad Johnson’s botched tackle.

Newton set an NFL mark with 45 touchdowns: 35 passes and 10 runs. On Sunday, all of those talents were on display.

“We knew from the getgo when he first got here,” said center Ryan Kalil, like Newton an All-Pro, “we had something special.

Watching him grow each and every year, it’s been incredible, and this has been a big year for him?”

You think?

But it’s not enough, the fifth-year quarterback admitted.

“Yeah, we are going to the Super Bowl. We are not going just to take pictures,” Newton said.”We are trying to finish this thing off.”

BIG-PLAY DEFENSE: Denver was practically overwhelming defensively in edging the Patriots 18-16 for the AFC crown. Carolina WAS overwhelming against Arizona.

Palmer threw four interceptions and lost two fumbles; a seventh Carolina takeaway came on special teams.

Kurt Coleman, who had an NFC-best seven picks during the season, grabbed two. Tre Boston had one and Kuechly got the capper.

There were also three sacks.

Kawann Short forced a fumble on his, and so did Charles Johnson. Kyle Love had the

other sack.

“They can do it all,” Palmer said. “It’s a very solid group.

They have a lot of young guys and then a lot of experience, too.”

GINNED UP: Ted Ginn Jr. spent a very unproductive 2014 with the Cardinals, who quickly released him after that season. He

hooked back up with Carolina, where Ginn spent 2013.

Ginn has had his best year, and against Arizona he had one of his best games.

His 32-yard punt return set up his darting, weaving 22-yard TD run. He had 52 yards in receptions, and he tracked down All-Pro cornerback Patrick Peterson to prevent a touchdown on an interception return.

Man, that felt good.

“I felt like deep down inside they felt like I couldn’t do it,” Ginn said of the Cardinals. “They sent me back out to the wolves.

“Yes, it was personal,” Ginn said. “My team knew it was personal.”

DISTRESSING POSTSEASON: After going 13-3 and looking like the league’s most balanced team, the Cardinals played inconsistently in outlasting the Packers in overtime in the divisional round. They were awful on the final step toward the Super Bowl.

“This is as low as you can feel,” Palmer said. “You put so much in and you come in here with such high expectations. To leave the way we’re leaving, it just hurts.”q

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Murray Advances, Raonic Beats Wawrinka in Australia Continued from page 17 In the other quarter of the draw, Milos Raonic persevered with his serve-andvolley game plan and withstood a strong comeback from 2014 champion Stan Wawrinka for a 6-4, 6-3, 5-7, 4-6, 6-3 win.

Wawrinka was the only man to beat top-ranked Novak Djokovic in a Grand Slam match last year — the French Open final — and the last man to beat him at Melbourne Park since 2010.

Raonic lost to Djokovic in the quarterfinals here last year. This time, he’ll be facing No. 23 Gael Monfils, who reached the last eight in Australia for the first time in 11 trips with a 7-5, 3-6, 6-3, 7-6 (4) win over Andrei Kuznetsov.

Monfils delighted the crowd with his acrobatic game, including a fullstretch dive onto the hard court that resulted in him

Milos Raonic of Canada makes a forehand return to Stan Wawrinka of Switzerland during their fourth round match at the Australian Open tennis championships in Melbourne, Australia, Monday, Jan. 25, 2016.

(AP Photo/Vincent Thian)

needing an injury timeout for treatment on his right hand.

On the women’s side,

two-time Australian Open champion Victoria Azarenka advanced with a 6-2, 6-4 win over Barbora

Strycova 6-2, 6-4. A growing favorite for the title in a strong comeback from two injury-interrupted seasons,

Azarenka next faces No. 7 Angelique Kerber, who beat fellow German Annika Beck 6-4, 6-0.

Two nights after her dramatic win over Ivanovic, Madison Keys followed her out of the tournament.

Keys needed medical attention on her upper left leg while up a set against Chinese qualifier Zhang Shuai, and limped through the end of a 3-6, 6-3, 6-3 defeat.

Zhang, who was 0-14 in Grand Slam matches entering this tournament, will play Johanna Konta, who had a 4-6, 6-4, 8-6 win over 2015 semifinalist Ekaterina Makarova and became the first British woman since Jo Durie in 1983 to advance to the quarterfinals in Australia. He said he felt fitter, faster and more confident going to the net more frequently, and all that combined to produce his first win in five matches against No. 4-ranked Wawrinka.q

SPORTS A21

Tuesday 26 January 2016

Australian Open:

What to Watch on Tuesday, Day 9 DENNIS PASSA AP Sports Writer MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — A lop-sided rivalry contested over more than a decade, and a newer but just as compelling one highlight the featured quarterfinals at the Australian Open on Tuesday.

Defending champion Serena Williams takes a 17-match winning streak into her last-eight encounter with Maria Sharapova that is a rematch of last year’s final at Melbourne Park. Williams is 18-2 in their head-to-head encounters that began in 2004, and Sharapova hasn’t beaten Williams since the WTA season-ending championships that year.

Top-seeded Novak Djokovic and No. 7 Kei Nishikori first played at the French Open in 2010, where Djokovic won in straight sets, and the Serbian player holds a 5-2 edge overall. Their only previous meeting at a Grand Slam came at the 2014 U.S. Open, where Nishikori won in four sets en route to the final.

Four-time champion Roger Federer plays Tomas Berdych in the other men’s quarterfinal, while fourthseeded Agnieszka Radwanska takes on No. 10 Carla Suarez Navarro in the second women’s quarterfinal in the top half of the draw.

Here’s a look at the matches: WILLIAMS VS. SHARAPOVA: The oldest woman to hold the No. 1 ranking — 34-year-old Williams — is also the most confident heading into yet another match with Sharapova. “I just feel like I’m really confident in my game right now,” Williams said, “not against her or against any other opponent — I’m just really looking at me right now. And I feel like if I can just continue to play well, then it could be good.” Good could be another Grand Slam singles title which would pull her level with Steffi Graf’s 22. Sharapova is trying to play positive mind games to rid herself of that dreaded record of having not beaten Williams in such a long time.

“It’s not like I think about, ‘What can I do worse?’”

Sharapova said.

DJOKOVIC VS. NISHIKORI: Djokovic had, by his lofty standards a shocking performance in his fourth-round match against Gilles Simon, making 100 unforced errors in a five-set win over a veteran who loves to keep the ball in play.

“Too many unforced errors today,” Djokovic said after the match. “I’m going to make sure that I decrease that number at least more than half and hope for the best.

We’ve (he and Nishikori) played many times in the big tournaments.” Asked to comment on Djokovic’s strengths — before Djokovic’s match against Simon — the Japanese player possibly jinxed his quarterfinal rival: “I think the biggest thing is he doesn’t miss. I have to be the one to dictate.”

FEDERER VS. BERDYCH: Federer is playing in his 12th Australian Open quarterfinal and holds a 15-6 edge over Berdych, although the Czech player beat Federer in four sets the last time they played in a Grand Slam in the 2012 U.S. Open quarterfinals.

“I think the court suits him (Berdych)... this sort of flatter bounce and faster court is good for his serves, good for his returns,” Federer said of Rod Laver Arena, where the two have a day match scheduled.

Berdych, who is playing his sixth consecutive quarterfinal here, says: “I mean, it’s Roger, so it’s always going to be a huge challenge to play him. “

Zhang’s run continues with win over Keys

JUSTIN BERGMAN Associated Press MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Nine days ago, Zhang Shuai was nearly on a plane back to China before the Australian Open began.

The French veteran Virginie Razzano was serving for the match against her in the final round of qualifying, but

first major after defeating an injured Madison Keys 3-6, 6-3, 6-3 on Monday.

Keys, who broke through to reach her first Grand Slam semifinal in Melbourne last year, dominated the first set with powerful groundstrokes that Zhang had trouble returning, breaking the Chinese player at love

leg to serve and looked increasingly in pain as the match wore on.

She later said she kept playing because “One, I hate retiring.

Two, you don’t want to do that to someone who is trying to get into the quarterfinals.”

At the start of the third set,

Zhang Shuai of China makes a backhand return Madison Keys of the United States during their fourth round match at the Australian Open tennis championships in Melbourne, Australia, Monday, Jan. 25, 2016.

(AP Photo/Vincent Thian)

Zhang was able to break back and win the third set 8-6 — along with a spot in the main draw.

Now, the No. 133-ranked Zhang, who considered retiring from tennis after a dismal 2015 season, is into the quarterfinals of the season’s

in the opening game of the match.

But she began to feel pain in her left leg early in the second set and, after taking a medical timeout to have her upper thigh wrapped, had difficulty putting any weight on her

she broke Zhang to take a 2-1 lead. But the trainer returned soon after to treat Keys’ abductor again and she finished the match slicing shots into the court with no power behind them, tears streaming down her face.

Football fan Azarenka into quarterfinals JOCELYN GECKER Associated Press MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Victoria Azarenka’s “dream final” has come true, the Denver Broncos against the Carolina Panthers. For another day at the Australian Open, tennis collided with football in Azarenka’s arena. She has been “dabbing” for days now after each victory and on Monday informed fans that she is a strong supporter of both NFL teams heading to the Super Bowl.

After quickly polishing off her fourth-round match Monday, beating Barbaro

Strycova 6-2, 6-4, Azarenka had a question for the crowd. “Can someone please tell me, did Broncos win?” the two-time Australian Open champion asked, taking over her on-court TV interview that was ostensibly meant to be about tennis. When she heard the Broncos had beaten the New England Patriots in the AFC title game, she shouted.

“Yesssss!!!!” — then she stepped back and raised both arms — “I’m so happy now.” Her interviewer posed an apt follow-up question: Are you happier

about the Broncos’ win or your own?

“Both, both, both,” said Azarenka, who faces No. 7 Angelique Kerber in the quarterfinals. She told the crowd at Rod Laver Arena she had been so nervous all morning — not about tennis — about the football games playing Sunday night in the U.S. around the time of her Monday morning match Down Under.

When told the Panthers had won the NFC decider, she was equally elated: “It’s going to be my dream final. I can’t wait to see that!”

A22

Tuesday 26 January 2016

Extra Time:

SPORTS

PSG’s dominance removes drama from French league JEROME PUGMIRE AP Sports Writer PARIS (AP) — Fuelled by funding from Qatar, Paris Saint-Germain’s crushing dominance this season has removed all suspense from the French league with 16 matches remaining.

Unless you are a PSG fan, the excitement factor has evaporated. PSG already leads closest rival Monaco by a colossal 21 points and has only setting domestic records to worry about.

At the current rate, PSG will finish on 104 points — smashing its own record by 15 — while coach Laurent Blanc’s side is on course to score around 100 league goals and concede the least ever in a season.

A second straight domestic treble is odds-on, with PSG playing in the League Cup semifinals on Tuesday, and if PSG avoids defeat at Saint-Etienne on Sunday it will equal the longest unbeaten league run of 32 games, set by Nantes 21 years ago.

PSG’s Qatari owners, Qatar Sports Investments, have pumped hundreds of millions of dollars into the club since taking over in June 2011 in a bid to join Europe’s elite.

The club is worth around €480 million in terms of revenue, making it the fourth richest behind Manchester United, Barcelona and No. 1 Real Madrid, according to Deloitte’s rankings.

It’s all too easy, meaning that Blanc’s side will ultimately be judged on how well it does in the Champions League — having lost in the quarterfinals for the past three seasons — rather by how many points it wins its fourth straight title by. Therefore, it is understandable that Blanc has spent the past two weeks talking about the importance of being ready to face Chelsea in the last 16 — even though the first leg is not until Feb. 16.

But in doing so he may as well grab a megaphone and tell everyone how weak the domestic competition is.

Saturday’s 5-1 hammering of Angers extended an unbeaten league run dating back to March 15, matched a club record for 11 straight wins and improved PSG’s whopping goal difference to + 46. At the ripe age of 34, Zlatan Ibrahimovic is on course for his best ever tally — he has 17 league goals so far, despite missing five games —

bia’s World Cup star James Rodriguez to Real Madrid, France midfielder Geoffrey Kondogbia to Inter Milan, speedy winger Yannick Ferreira Carrasco to Atletico Madrid, lynchpin defender Aymen Abdennour to Valencia, and rising star Anthony Martial to Manchester United — as well as letting once-feared striker Radamel Falcao join

Dreyfus is increasingly keen to sell — the asking price is around € 85-100 million euros — with potential buyers from Kazakhstan, Kuwait and China showing an interest, according to a report Sunday on football show Telefoot.

However, any buyer would have to invest considerably more to attract the likes of Di Maria and Edinson Ca-

PSG’s Lucas, center, celebrates with Zlatan Ibrahimovic, right, and Blaise Matuidi, after scoring during the League One soccer match between Paris Saint Germain and Angers, at the Parc des Prince stadium in Paris, Saturday, Jan. 23, 2016.

(AP Photo/Thibault Camus)

while winger Angel di Maria has already beaten his league scoring record as well as setting up the most goals in Ligue 1.

PSG’s only defeat anywhere was 1-0 away to Real Madrid in the Champions League on Nov. 3.

In boxing terms, PSG’s dominance would be the equivalent of a heavyweight champion knocking out petrified middleweights within a minute of the opening round.

Seven-time French champion Lyon and nine-time champ Marseille did challenge last season, but both languish 30 points behind.

Monaco threatened to upstage PSG after a massive cash outlay under Russian billionaire owner Dmitry Rybolovlev three years ago, but then did everything to undermine that bid.

In the past two seasons, Monaco has sold Colom-

United on loan.

For a club hoping to challenge PSG, that is a funny way of showing it.

Instead, Monaco has now become purely a profitmaking club — and a very good one — using its vast scouting network to recruit exceptionally talented young players and sell them for a profit.

Even if Monaco does finish second, it would be hard to bet against the club selling more of its promising assets.

Monaco has achieved one thing PSG never has, though — reaching the Champions League final, in 2004 — and Marseille won it in 1993.

But Marseille only has an outside shot of qualifying for next season’s Champions League and, having spent several seasons clearing debts, it has scant funds available.

Owner Margarita Louis-

vani — PSG’s €64-million striker who now sits on the bench.

Buying Marseille comes with another snag: the Stade Velodrome is owned by the city and mayor Jean-Claude Gaudin does not want to sell it.

“As long as I’m mayor of Marseille, it won’t change,” he told Telefoot.

The example of Lens should be a warning sign to clubs hoping for a miracle investor, too.

Having secured considerable backing from major shareholder Hafiz Mammadov of Azerbaijan, all seemed promising when the northern club won promotion back to the first division two seasons ago.

That was until the league’s financial watchdog (DNCG) spotted a 10-million euro hole in the club’s proposed budget for 201415. q

Fowler eyes major to merit inclusion in golf’s new elite STEVE DOUGLAS AP Sports Writer ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Golf’s new “Big Three” has been around for only a few months, and already there’s talk of the exclusive group being expanded.

Rickie Fowler is back in the conversation after his fourth worldwide victory in the last nine months, over a stellar field at the Abu Dhabi HSBC Championship.

On Monday, the American found himself at a careerhigh No. 4 in the rankings, with only Jordan Spieth, Jason Day and Rory McIlroy above him.

But to merit inclusion in the sport’s golfing elite, Fowler knows he needs to add a major to his increasingly impressive resume.

He gets his first chance at the Masters in April.

“I’d like to jump in and be a part of that crew,” said Fowler, sitting beside the huge Falcon Trophy awarded to the Abu Dhabi champion.

“The goal right now with where my game’s at — it’s the best it’s been this early in the season in my career — I’m working on getting ready for Augusta.

“I’d like to have my shot at getting the green jacket there.”

Fowler had never previously won a tournament in the first four months of a year.

He’s been a slow starter to seasons — he tied for 66th in Abu Dhabi in 2015, 17 shots behind unheralded French winner Gary Stal — making the Masters even tougher to win.

But this is a different Fowler, who acknowledges that his work on the range with celebrated coach Butch Harmon is starting to pay off.

His playoff win at The Players Championship last May started his winning run that has also taken in the Scottish Open and the Deutsche Bank, and made him believe more in himself.q

TECHNOLOGY A23

Tuesday 26 January 2016

Google will pay $140M in back taxes in Britain MICHAEL LIEDTKE AP Technology Writer SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Google will pay about $140 million in British back taxes in a concession driven by a shift in how the Internet company will measure its success in the United Kingdom. The amount translates into 130 million pounds.

The accord disclosed this weekend comes amid mounting criticism that Google and other major U.S. companies have been scrimping on their tax bills with a variety of accounting maneuvers that have rankled governments around the world.

In the United Kingdom, for instance, Google has been facing accusations that it hasn’t been paying its fair share of taxes in a country that represents its second largest market outside the U.S. Similar complaints have been leveled against at Facebook, Amazon.com and Starbucks in the U.K. Google has been minimizing its tax bill for years in the U.K. by keeping its headquarters in Ireland, where rates are lower. The strategy has helped Google boost its profits and its stock price and fatten its bank accounts. Google and its recently formed parent company, Alphabet Inc., have about $73 billion in cash.

The tax-reduction tactics spurred a six-year inquiry into Google’s practices by an arm of the British government, Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs, or HMRC. Although Google insists it never broke any laws, the company says it agreed with the HRMC on a change that reflects the “size and scope” of its U.K. operations.

The accounting switch, retroactive to 2005, requires Google to base its U.K. tax bill on ad revenue generated in the country instead of just profit.q

Mumbai;

Travelers log on as Google starts train station Wi-Fi

MUMBAI, India (AP) — Google Inc. has begun offering free Wi-Fi to Mumbai train passengers in hopes of boosting its role in the Indian market.

Giggling groups of students, bored commuters and snack-shop vendors were all logging on over the weekend at Mumbai Central Train Station, the first of 400 stations the company plans to eventually reach with the service.

“If my train is leaving, and I need to search, don’t know where to go, then immediately I will get the answer,” student Divya Patel said excitedly while waiting for a train to her hometown of Ahmedabad in the western state of Gujarat. “This is very good, and good for everyone.”

Free Wi-Fi is rare across India. Most of the country’s 300 million Internet users pay for personal access and often rely on slowloading smartphone connectivity.

With a massive 1.25 billion population in India, including 6 million new Internet users every month, Silicon Valley tech giants such as

A volunteer from Google Inc. helps Indian travellers log on to a free WiFi service at Mumbai Central Train Station in Mumbai, India. Google Inc. has begun offering free WiFi to Mumbai train passengers in hopes of boosting its role in the Indian market.

(AP Photo/Rajanish Kakade)

Google, Facebook and Microsoft have set sights on expanding in the Indian market. Online retailers Amazon and eBay have also launched services in the country.

Indian also has homegrown online commerce companies but small businesses are still catching

on. Fewer than 5 percent of the 50 million or so small businesses in India have a web page.

With more than 23 million people riding Indian railways every day, Google said free Internet in train stations will give high-speed access that many can’t afford. It also hopes to di-

versify India’s user base, given that less than a third of Internet users in India are women, and has been upgrading its services in Hindi and other languages spoken across India.

“Most of India is still not online,” Google CEO Sundar Pichai told reporters last month in New Delhi.q

Twitter says 4 executives leaving the company NEW YORK (AP) — Twitter says that four executives are leaving the company.

CEO Jack Dorsey posted a statement to the microblogging service saying that Alex Roetter, Skip Schipper, Katie Stanton and Kevin Weil are exiting the company.

Dorsey said he wanted to address employees later this week, but issued a statement due to ‘inaccurate press rumors’ about the departures.

Roetter served as senior vice president of engineering, Schipper was vice president of human resources, Stanton was vice president of social media and Weil was senior vice president of product.

Dorsey said that Chief Operating Officer Adam Bain would be taking on some additional responsibilities on an interim basis.

Chief Technology Officer Adam Messinger will also be assuming some responsibilities.

After a long streak of robust growth that turned it into one of the Internet’s hottest companies, Twitter’s growth has slowed dramatically during the past year-and-half to leave the San Francisco-based company scrambling to catch up with social networking leader Facebook and its 1.5 billion users.

Twitter Inc.’s malaise resulted in the departure of Dick Costolo as the company’s CEO last July and ushered in the return of Dorsey, who had been ousted as the company’s leader in 2008.

Dorsey helped invent Twitter in 2006 and imposed a 140-character limit on messages so the service would be easy to use on cellphones that had 160-char-

acter limits on texts at that time. Those texting limits on phones faded away several years ago as the advent of smartphones enabled people to use other Internet

messaging services. Twitter may be looking to expand beyond its 140 character tweets in a bid to make its service more appealing to wider audience.q

A24 BUSINESS

Tuesday 26 January 2016

Stocks slip as oil skids 6 percent, hitting energy companies MARLEY JAY AP Markets Writer NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. stocks fell Monday as the price of oil slumped again, giving up some of the ground it gained late last week. That forced energy companies lower.

The stock market opened lower and stayed in the red all day. The selling accelerated in the last hour of trading. The biggest losses came in the energy sector and companies that make chemicals and paper goods. The Dow Jones industrial average fell 208.29 points, or 1.3 percent, to 15,885.22. The Standard & Poor’s 500 index shed 29.82 points, or 1.6 percent, to 1,877.08.

The Nasdaq composite index lost 72.69 points, or 1.6 percent, to 4,518.49.

Plunging oil prices have been decimating profits at energy companies and getting investors worried that the global economy is

A bicyclist rides on Wall Street in front of Federal Hall in New York’s Financial District, Monday, Jan. 25, 2016. U.S. stocks fell Monday as the price of oil slumped again, giving up some of the ground it gained late last week.

(AP Photo/Richard Drew)

slowing down. Companies that mine metals, especially copper, face the same problem. Low oil prices are also hurting banking stocks because some banks hold large amounts of loans from energy companies, and investors fear they may not get paid back.

The price of benchmark

U.S. crude fell $1.85, or 5.7 percent, to $30.34 a barrel in New York. Brent crude, a benchmark for international oils, lost $1.68, or 5.2 percent, to $30.50 a barrel in London. U.S. oil jumped 9 percent Friday after setting 12-year lows earlier in the week. Exxon Mobil lost $2.59, or 3.4 percent,

to $73.98 and Chevron fell $2.65, or 3.2 percent, to $80.89. Chesapeake Energy lost 56 cents, or 16 percent, to $2.95.

Paper and packaging companies fell on concerns about product prices falling. WestRock gave up $5.63, or 14.9 percent, to $32.11 and International Paper declined $3.87, or 10.6 percent, to $32.58.

Mark Wilde, managing director BMO Capital Markets, said stocks in that sector are falling because an influential trade publication estimated that prices for containerboard, an important product, fell sharply in January. “I think it confirms people’s fears,” Wilde said.

“Falling prices are going to mean lower earnings.”

Friday was the best day for the S&P 500 since early December. It was the biggest gain for the Nasdaq composite index since September. That helped stocks make their first weekly gain

in the last four.

The shaky global outlook helped push companies to make a slew of big deals last year, and that trend continued as Tyco International and Johnson Controls said they will combine.

Tyco makes fire suppression systems and Johnson Controls makes ventilation systems, auto seating and car batteries. Both stocks have struggled as investors worried about their growth.

Tyco jumped $3.56, or 11.6 percent, to $34.15, the biggest gain in the S&P 500.

Johnson Controls lost $1.39, or 3.9 percent, to $34.21.

Companies spent a record $5 trillion on acquisitions and other deals last year, a big jump from 2014. While few deals have been announced in the first weeks of 2016, business technology company Intralinks that will change. It thinks global deal value will rise 3.5 percent, to a total of almost $2.3 trillion.q

Breakfast bump: McDonald’s US sales jump 5.7 percent CANDICE CHOI Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Breakfast around the clock is helping shake McDonald’s out of its slump.

The world’s biggest hamburger chain says the launch of an all-day breakfast menu and unseasonably warm weather helped lift sales by 5.7 percent in the U.S. for the final three

months of the year.

It’s the second straight quarter of domestic growth as McDonald’s fights to win back customers, and the best showing since early 2012. Globally, sales rose 5 percent at established locations.

Shares headed for an alltime high before the market opened Monday.

McDonald’s, which has

more than 36,000 locations around the world, is working to turnaround its businessunder CEO Steve Easterbrook, who will mark one year on the job in March.

One of the biggest changes under Easterbrook was to make the Egg McMuffin and other select breakfast foods available past normal breakfast hours in the U.S. — an option many customers had long desired.

The changes come after McDonald’s executives conceded they failed to keep up with changing tastes and saw sales slide.

In 2015, guest counts at established McDonald’s locations in the U.S. fell 3 percent.

That followed a 4.1 percent drop the previous year.

Guest counts declined globally as well during the period.

The latest sales jump in the U.S. marks the best showing since the first quarter of 2012, when comparable-stores sales rose 8.9 percent.q

BUSINESS A25

Tuesday 26 January 2016

Exxon says oil and gas will still dominate energy in 2040

This photo shows an Exxon sign at a mini-mart in Dormont, Pa. The way oil giant Exxon Mobil sees it, the global energy landscape won’t be radically different in 2040 than it is today, with oil and gas remaining king of the energy supply.

(AP Photo/Nick Ut)

DAVID KOENIG AP Business Writer DALLAS (AP) — The way oil giant Exxon Mobil sees it, the global energy landscape won’t be radically different in 2040 than it is today.

Oil and gas will remain king, accounting for an even slightly larger share of the energy supply. Coal will fall behind natural gas to become the third-largest source of energy.

Exxon forecasts that emerging renewables such as solar and wind power will triple but remain small — just 4 percent of the world’s energy. And carbon emissions will continue rising until around 2030, when cuts in industrialized nations gain traction lead an overall reduction.

Those are some of the highlights in the long-range outlook that Exxon Mobil Corp. released Monday. It is not likely to win an enthusiastic response from environmentalists, including some of the company’s dissident shareholders, who want a quicker pivot away from oil, gas and coal and faster progress to bring down carbon emissions.

Exxon officials say it is a dispassionate forecast, not a political document.

“Exxon Mobil uses the outlook to develop business strategies that underpin our billion-dollar investment decisions,” William Colton, the oil giant’s chief strategist, said in an interview. “We have every incentive to get it right.”

A great deal has happened since Exxon’s last long-term

outlook in December 2014.

Oil prices have plunged lower for longer than anyone expected. International sanctions that kept Iran largely out of the world oil market were lifted. And international negotiators meeting in Paris reached an unprecedented agreement to reduce the growth in emissions linked to climate change.

Yet Exxon’s new forecast is strikingly similar to the old one. Its main predictions: — Global energy demand will rise 25 percent from

2014 to 2040, led by developing nations in Asia, Latin America and the Middle East. The International Energy Agency recently forecast a one-third increase by 2040.

— Oil use will grow 25 percent in that period, although it will account for a slightly smaller share of overall energy, and use of natural gas will jump 56 percent.

— Together, oil and gas will account for 57 percent of the world’s energy, up from 56 percent in 2014.

— Coal’s share will slide from will slip to 20 percent from 26 percent.

—Nuclear and biomass will each account for 8 percent of energy in 2040, hydro 3 percent, and other renewables 4 percent.

Exxon thinks alternative fuels will become a staple in power generation but grow more slowly in transportation because of technology and cost issues.

— Carbon emissions will rise about 11 percent between 2014 and 2040. Emissions will fall 21 percent in industrialized nations but rise 32 percent in developing

ones, notably India and countries in Latin America.

Exxon sees a slightly smaller increase in carbon emissions than it forecast in December 2014 after adjusting for the earlier study’s different time period; 2010 to 2040. Technology and climate-change policies are among the reasons.

Energy researcher Jonathan Koomey of Stanford

University called the Exxon emissions forecast “pretty typical of fossil-fuel industry and government forecasts,” which he said fail to consider the implications of meeting climate-change goals. At Paris, nearly 200 nations vowed to limit global warming below 2 degrees Celsius (3.6 degrees Fahrenheit) compared with pre-industrial levels.q

A26 COMICS

Tuesday 26 January 2016

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A28 SCIENCE

Tuesday 26 January 2016

Implanted coils help some lung disease patients, study says LINDSEY TANNER AP Medical Writer CHICAGO (AP) — A novel, minimally invasive way to treat severe breathing problems caused by lung disease showed modest but promising benefits in a small French study.

The technique involves inserting several small metal alloy coils through a scope into the lungs, aiming to tighten diseased tissue and open up healthy airways.

It’s among experimental alternatives to major lungreduction surgery for patients with emphysema, a common feature of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, or COPD. The treatment helped patients to walk further and reduced symptoms including coughing and breathlessness, the French researchers reported. The coil manufacturer, London-based BTG PLC, announced similar benefits

This photo depicts an X-ray of lungs following the PneumRx Endobronchial Coil treatment procedure. A novel, minimally invasive way to treat severe breathing problems caused by lung disease showed modest but promising benefits in a small French study.

(BTG PLC via AP)

last month in preliminary results from a U.S. study.

The French results suggest that coil treatment may

provide real benefits for a select group but won’t work for many COPD patients, said Dr. Ravi Kalhan,

a Northwestern University lung specialist who was involved in the U.S. study.

“Every little increment of something that could work in COPD is significant. There are a lot of people with this disease,” Kalhan said.

COPD, which includes emphysema and chronic bronchitis, causes normally elastic airways to stiffen and sometimes swell. It affects 65 million people worldwide, including at least 15 million mostly older Americans, and is a leading cause of death and disability.

Patients often have difficulty climbing stairs, showering or even dressing without feeling out of breath.

Usual treatment may include inhaled medicine, often steroids, exercise, breathing assistance with portable oxygen tanks, or sometimes major surgery to removed diseased lung tissue.

Drug industry, governments to combat superbugs LINDA A. JOHNSON Associated Press TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — Dozens of makers of medicines and diagnostic tests have joined together in an unprecedented effort to tackle “superbugs” — infections that increasingly don’t respond to drugs and threaten millions of people in countries rich and poor.

Altogether, 74 drugmakers, 11 makers of diagnos-

tic tests and nine industry groups have signed a groundbreaking agreement to work with governments and each other to prevent and improve treatment of drug-resistant infections. The effort is sorely needed. Many common infections no longer respond to conventional drugs, mainly due to overuse of antibiotics, few new drugs to fight bacteria, viruses,

parasites and fungi, and declining industry research in the field. A key factor driving those problems is the relatively low prices infection-fighting medicines bring, compared to many drugs patients take for years for chronic conditions. Bacteria and other microbes can naturally develop resistance to drugs, particularly when patients don’t take all of their pre-

scriptions and the stronger microbes survive and multiply. Taking antibiotics for viruses and other nonbacterial infections also contributes to resistance. And widespread use of antibiotics to spur faster growth of livestock raised for food exacerbates the problem.

Meanwhile, in poor countries, many people can’t afford these medications and die unnecessarily.q

Implanted coils and valves, another minimally invasive treatment, are used abroad but are considered experimental in the United States.

Results from the study were published recently in the Journal of the American Medical Association.

The French health ministry paid for the study. Two of the researchers reported involvement in previous research funded by the coil maker, along with travel and speaker fees.

The study involved 100 patients randomly assigned to receive usual care or coil treatment at 10 hospitals in France.

Coil patients each got about 20 of the devices.

The coils are a few inches long outstretched but spring into a circular shape in the lungs.

After six months, patients were given a six-minute walking test to see they could walk at least 59 yards (54 meters) farther than they did at the start.

Only 18 coil patients achieved the goal, but that was twice as many as in the usual treatment group.

At six months, coil patients could walk on average 23 yards (21 meters) farther than the other group.

Their scores on a questionnaire about symptoms and quality of life were also better than the other group, although that wasn’t the study’s main measure.q

PEOPLE & ARTS A29

Tuesday 26 January 2016

Exhibit of Jewish artists’ Holocaust works opens in Berlin K. GRIESHABER Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — Nelly Toll was 8 years old when she and her mother went into hiding in 1943 in Poland to escape the Nazis’ death camps.

The Jewish girl spent long hours in her tiny hideaway at a Christian family’s home writing stories, keeping a diary and creating wonderful, bright paintings of a lost world.

Today, her art is on display in the center of Berlin at a special exhibition of Art from the Holocaust that opened at the German Historical Museum on Monday.

“I hope that generations to come will look at this and know what atrocities made me do this,” Toll told The Associated Press at the opening.

Toll’s paintings are among 100 artworks created by Jewish artists during the Holocaust on display, the first time the collection from

the Yad Vashem memorial in Jerusalem has been shown outside Israel.

The exhibition includes work by Jewish artists in hiding, in concentration and labor camps, and in ghettos. Of the 50 artists featured, 24 were killed by the Nazis. Alongside the mostly unknown names are acclaimed artists such as Felix Nussbaum and Ludwig Meidner.

Toll is the only artist represented in the show who is still alive. One of her paintings, “Girls in the Field,” shows two girls, dressed in bright blue, red and yellow-dotted dresses walking across a sunny lawn confined by lush green trees.

“I made 60 paintings while in hiding and all of them express happiness,” said Toll, who lost her father and brother in the Holocaust.

She emigrated to the United States with her mother after the war.

Like many Jews who cre-

Artist Nelly Toll poses between two of her paintings during the exhibition ‘Art from the Holocaust - 100 Works from the Yad Vashem Collection’ at the German Historic Museum in Berlin, Germany, Monday, Jan. 25, 2016.

(AP Photo/Michael Sohn)

ated art while being surrounded by death, fear and suffering, painting was a way for Toll to break free and escape from the Holocaust’s harsh reality to

imaginary places of beauty and happiness.

“I would have conversations with the characters in my paintings for hours,” Toll remembered.

Not all the works show an escape into a happy imagination. Some artworks are shocking in their depictions of life in the ghetto, daily discrimination and fear of being killed by the Nazis.

Halina Olomucki’s 1939 pencil work, “After the Shearing of the Beards,” shows two orthodox men with bandages around their heads after their beards had been torn or burned off by Germans in the Warsaw ghetto.

Leo Haas’ “Transport from Vienna” shows the arrival of a train full of elderly Jews at the Theresienstadt ghetto in 1942. Painted in dark, monochrome India ink, people with faces like hollow skulls can be seen tumbling out of cattle cars, many lying lifeless on the ground as a soldier keeps pulling more people off the train.

The show’s curator, Yad Vashem’s Eliad MorehRosenberg, called the

A30 PEOPLE

Tuesday 26 January 2016

& ARTS

Tina Fey returns as Sarah Palin on ‘SNL,’ Oscars parodied NEW YORK (AP) — Tina Fey returned to “Saturday Night Live” to reprise her impression of Sarah Palin and give a rambling, sometimesrhyming endorsement to Donald Trump.

The sketch kicked off the cold open to “SNL” on Saturday, with Fey and Darrell Hammond skewering the former Alaska governor’s endorsement speech in Iowa on Tuesday. As Palin, Fey said she had come to

Iowa to break from “my full-time career of writing things on Facebook.”

“SNL” also parodied this year’s all-white Oscar nominees in a mock award show that nominated white actors playing bit roles in African-American dramas.

Last week, the only Oscar nominations that the “Rocky” sequel “Creed” and the N.W.A biopic “Straight Outta Compton” received were for white

This Saturday, Jan. 23, 2016 image shows Tina Fey, left, as Sarah Palin and Darrell Hammond as Donald Trump during the “Palin Endorsement Cold Open” sketch on “Saturday Night Live.” The sketch kicked off the cold open to “SNL” on Saturday, with Fey and Hammond skewering the former Alaska governor’s endorsement speech in Iowa on Tuesday.

people: Sylvester Stallone for “Creed,” and “Compton” writers Jonathan Herman and Andrea Berloff.

In the sketch, an award was given to “all the white guys” in predominantly

black films modeled after “Creed,” ‘’Compton” and “Beasts of No Nation.” The roles were barely cameos, like: “White Man With Camera” and “Unseen Voice On Phone.” “Saturday

Night Live,” however, has also been much-criticized in the past about its own diversity. Following an uproar in 2013, it added Sasheer Zamata, Leslie Jones and writer LaKendra Tookes.q

JK Rowling to be honored with PEN award HILLEL ITALIE AP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) — J.K. Rowling’s latest honor isn’t only for her writing.

The “Harry Potter” author is to receive the PEN/Allen Foundation Literary Service Award, PEN America told The Associated Press on Monday.

Rowling will be presented her award May 16 at the literary and human rights group’s annual spring gala in New York.

Previous winners include Toni Morrison, Salman Rushdie and Tom Stoppard.

In its announcement Monday, PEN cited Rowling’s advocacy for free expression; her founding of the charitable trust Volant, which supports multiple sclerosis research and other causes; and her nonprofit organization Lumos, which works to reconnect institutionalized children with their families.

“I’m deeply honored to receive this award and humbled that my work has been recognized as having moral value by an organization I so admire,” Rowling told the AP in a statement. “I’ve long been a supporter of PEN, which does invaluable work on behalf of imprisoned writers and in defense of freedom of speech.” Rowling’s own Potter books have been the targets of censorship and attempted censorship, with the fantasy series’ feats of wizardry leading to worldwide allegations that the author advocates witchcraft and the occult.

PEN America president and prize-winning author Andrew Solomon said in a statement that Rowling’s writing provides a wealth of “imagination, empathy, humor, and a love of reading, along the way revealing moral choices that help us understand ourselves.”

“Through their experiences with Rowling both on and off the page, countless children have learned not only the power of speaking their own minds, but the critical importance of hearing others,” Solomon said.

In May, PEN also will honor CEO Michael Pietsch of Hachette Book Group, the U.S. publisher of Rowling’s detective novels written under the pseudonym Robert Galbraith.

Pietsch has edited Donna Tartt, David Foster Wallace and many other writers and is working with PEN to oppose censorship of books in China.

“As a leader in the fight against pervasive censorship, he has painstakingly reaffirmed literature as more than a consumer good: as a cultural currency in need of vehement protection,” PEN Executive Director Suzanne Nossel said in a statement. q

PEOPLE & ARTS A31

Tuesday 26 January 2016

Stillman tries Jane Austen in charming ‘Love & Friendship’ LINDSEY BAHR AP Film Writer PARK CITY, Utah (AP) — Whit Stillman, one of our best chroniclers of the modern leisure class, has gone back to the 18th century in “Love & Friendship,” an effervescent comedy about a deviously ambitious social climber.

The film premiered Saturday night at the Sundance Film Festival.

In the film, Stillman’s “Last Days of Disco” stars Kate Beckinsale and Chloë Sevi-

gny have traded their early ‘80s sequins and Lacoste for bustles and petticoats.

Beckinsale is Lady Susan Vernon, recently widowed and on the prowl for status, money and comforts, while Sevigny plays a married American all too willing to associate with the notorious Lady Susan.

We enter the story when Lady Susan takes up an extended visit at the estate of her sister-in-law, Mrs. Catherine Vernon (Emma Greenwall). There she begins

a flirtation with Catherine’s younger brother, Reginald De Courcy (Xavier Samuel).

No one is particularly keen on the developing relationship between Lady Susan and the young Reginald De Courcy, and that sentiment is especially exaggerated when her neglected and marriage-aged daughter, Frederica (Morfydd Clark), shows up too.These are only half the players in the game, and it’s fun to watch them scheme and spread rumors and make delicious-

ly biting remarks about their supposed friends and family for a brisk 92 minutes.

Overall, the film is a charming lark, and a definite departure for Stillman as he evolves here beyond his famously precise, formal language which is usually applied to a more modern setting, whether it be early ‘80s discos or present day dorm rooms (“Damsels in Distress”). Stillman seems a perfect fit for Victorian comedy and the language and customs of Austen,

and it works well, although it does have the effect of burying some of Stillman’s distinctiveness.

“It’s very early Jane Austen. She was in a very funny mode when she wrote this,” Stillman said before the Festival. “It’s not very sentimental.”

Unlike many Sundance features, “Love & Friendship” had a deal in place with Amazon prior to its premiere — it’ll also get a theatrical run from Roadside Attractions. q

Spike Lee’s Michael Jackson doc a tribute to his music SANDY COHEN AP Entertainment Writer PARK CITY, Utah (AP) — As a young artist, Michael Jackson knew he wanted to be legendary.

“I will be magic,” he wrote as a teenager, outlining his plans for his career. “I will be better than every great actor roped in one.”

Jackson’s drive to succeed and his striking talent as a singer, dancer and songwriter are the focus of Spike Lee’s new documentary, “Michael Jackson’s Journey from Motown to ‘Off the Wall,’” which made its world premiere Sunday at the Sundance Film Festival.

“This film is all about love toward Michael Joseph Jackson,” Lee said as he introduced the film, which is dedicated to Jackson’s children Prince, Paris and “Biji” (formerly Blanket), along with family matriarch Katherine Jackson.

Beginning with the Jackson 5’s earliest songs with Motown Records — featuring a charismatic 9-year-old

Michael on lead vocals — the film explores Jackson’s growth as an artist and the perfectionist nature that fueled his work ethic.

Archival footage of the Jacksons’ performances on “The Ed Sullivan Show,” ‘’American Bandstand” and their “Destiny” tour is interspersed with interviews with music industry talents from then and now. Sammy Davis Jr., Gene Kelly, Berry Gordy, Quincy Jones and Questlove, along with contemporary music producers Mark Ronson and Rodney Jerkins, are among dozens of voices in the film.

Jackson’s brothers Marlon and Jackie also appear on screen, but sisters Janet and LaToya do not.

“Everyone was invited to participate, but we used those who wanted to participate,” said Jackson’s longtime attorney John Branca, now executor of Jackson’s estate and a producer of the film. “Certain (members) of the Jackson family are not quite big

This image shows director Spike Lee whose documentary film, “Michael Jackson’s Journey from Motown to Off the Wall,” is included among the documentaries premiering at the 2016 Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah. The festival runs Jan. 21-31, 2016.

(Kerwin DeVonish/SI/Optimum Productions/AP)

fans of (fellow attorney) John and I, but that’s fine.

We’re trying to do right by Michael.” This film makes viewers miss Jackson’s dynamic dancing and mellifluous voice while deepening their appreciation of his talents and endless efforts to hone them.

“I do believe deeply in perfection,” Jackson says in a 1976 interview.

It captures Jackson’s evolution from a breakout child star to a multifaceted adult entertainer determined to transcend barriers of race and genre. Even as a teenager, he dreamed

of being able to “translate my music to different countries: Japan, Sweden... even Australia.”

“He took black music to a place where it became human music,” Pharrell Williams says in the film. “My music would not be here if it wasn’t for his music.”q

Transgender men find their style, themselves in ‘Suited’ doc SANDY COHEN AP Entertainment Writer PARK CITY, Utah (AP) — Derek needed a suit for his wedding. Aiden needed something for his bar mitzvah. Everett wanted a sharp interview outfit.

All three found their fit at Bindle & Keep, a custom clothier that specializes in dressing people across the gender spectrum. The New York-based company and

its clients are the subject of “Suited,” a documentary premiering Monday at the Sundance Film Festival.

The film introduces viewers to people rarely seen onscreen — transgender men — and shows how finding a suit that highlights their masculinity profoundly affects how they feel and see themselves.

Lena Dunham and Jenni Konner produced the film,

the third documentary from their Casual Romance production company. It is directed by Jason Benjamin, who also works as the boom-mike operator on Dunham’s HBO show, “Girls.” Benjamin was inspired by a newspaper article about the suit-makers, expecting the moment someone put on a perfectly fitted suit for the first time would be a happy one.

“In reality,” he said, “it turned out to be a much more complex moment that had happiness folded into it.”

That’s what makes “Suited” so much more than a movie about clothes. It’s really a story about people, image and gender identity. Benjamin follows his subjects beyond the tailor’s office and into the world, exploring the challenges they face

as they try to get married, grow up or get jobs.

Being fitted for a suit is an intimate process — especially when one is trying to minimize features that don’t fit their self-image.

Derek wanted to be sure he would blend in with the other men at his wedding.

Everett, an attorney, needed a suit that wouldn’t prompt his colleagues to question his gender. q