ANGLETON — For gen-erations, Sonnen Ranchhas been a place for rais-ing livestock — where ani-mals, though treated hu-manely, were destined tobe used for meat or dairyproducts. Now, after sever-al rounds of fundraising,the ranch has been trans-formed into Rowdy GirlSanctuary, a safe havenfor farm animals, allow-ing the creatures to liveout their lives without dis-tress.

The sanctuary’s devel-opment was the brain-child of Renee King-Son-nen, who moved to theranch when she andThomas Sonnen remar-ried.

“I’m a Texas girlthrough and through,grew up eating barbecue,wearing boots, going to

the rodeo,” King-Sonnentold The Facts of BrazoriaCounty. “Until I moved outhere to the ranch, therewas no connection to theanimals that ended up onmy plate. I’d experimentedwith vegetarianism, rawfood diets, but never reallycalled it ‘vegan.’ It all hap-pened as a result of meliving here.”

Being in the presence offarm animals — and see-ing their reaction aftercalves were sold — wasenough to change hermind about her diet andlifestyle, King-Sonnensaid.

“The cows were so de-pressed,” she said. “Iwasn’t prepared for theway it happened. And ev-ery year, it got harder forhim to sell the calves, be-cause he didn’t want meto see, wanted to hide it

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Mexican authoritiessaid they discovered threetraining camps used bysuspected gunmen in a ru-ral area across the borderfrom Zapata County.

The Mexican army saidTuesday they located thecamps on kilometer mark-er 176 of the Nuevo Lare-do-Reynosa Highway,which is also known asCarretera Ribereña.

Mexico’s attorney gen-eral’s office announced ithas opened an investiga-tion into the discovery ofthe camps and the seizure

of 20 firearms from the lo-cation.

While on patrol, soldierscame across a rural roadthat led them to the threecamps, which were be-lieved to be used for phys-ical training.

Soldiers said they alsodiscovered a cooler, wherethey found the 20 firearms.Troops said they seized 15assault rifles, one 5.45-cali-ber rifle and four .223-cali-ber rifles.

An investigation is un-derway.

Investigator Joe E. Bae-za, LPD spokesman, said

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NEW YORK — Asdrivers, shippers and air-lines continue to enjoylower fuel prices, the oilindustry is responding tomuch lower profits withsharp cuts in spendingand employment that arehurting economicgrowth.

Low oil and gas pricesare good for the overalleconomy because theyreduce costs for consum-ers and business. U.S. ec-onomic growth was high-er in the second quarter,and economists say thatwas partly fueled by con-sumers spending some oftheir savings on gasolineat stores and restaurants.

But with oil pricesdown around 50 percentfrom last year, major oilcompanies are cuttingback, offsetting some ofthis good news. For in-stance, Exxon Mobil saidFriday it cut spending by$1.54 billion in the sec-ond quarter, while Chev-ron announced it is lay-ing off 1,500 workers. Un-til about six months ago,booming U.S. oil and gasproduction was helpingthe country’s economygrow during a time of ec-onomic sluggishness.

David Kelly, chief glob-al strategist at J.P. Mor-gan Asset Management,said this week that a $29billion decline in oil ex-ploration and mining ac-

tivity in the U.S. cut eco-nomic growth by 0.7 per-cent in the secondquarter, a sizable chunkfor an economy thatgrew 2.3 percent.

Investors also feel thepain. Lower oil profitshave an outsized effecton stock markets be-cause the companies areso enormous. Analysts atRBC Capital Marketswrote that when oil pric-es drop by 10 percent,earnings for the overallS&P 500 fall by 1 percent.

Industry layoffs seemto be accelerating. RoyalDutch Shell, while an-nouncing Thursday thatprofits fell 25 percent inthe second quarter, saidit would cut its globalworkforce by 6,500. Chev-ron’s quarterly profit fell90 percent and CEO JohnWatson said the compa-ny is reducing its work-force “to reflect lower ac-tivity levels going for-ward.”

Layoffs at three of thebig oil and gas servicecompanies are near60,000 after two of them,Halliburton and BakerHughes, revealed furtherlayoffs in quarterly fil-ings last week.

BP CFO Brian Gilvarytold investors Thursdaythat the company hasbeen cutting workers“and I think you’ll seemore of that before weget to the end of the

NATURAL RESOURCES

In this Dec. 17, 2014, file photo, oil pump jacks work behind anatural gas flare near Watford City, North Dakota.

Photo by Eric Gay | AP file

Oil slumptaking a tollon industry

With prices down 50 percent, major companies cutting backBy JONATHAN FAHEY

ASSOCIATED PRESS

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NEW YORK — In one of hisfirst forays into policy as a presi-dential candidate, Republican Do-nald Trump calls for the deporta-tion of all 11 million people esti-mated to be living in the countryillegally while allowing the “reallygood people” to return.

It’s a plan Trump offers withfew specifics — and one compli-cated by the messy realities of thenation’s immigration system.

Such an effort may be more dif-ficult than Trump realizes be-cause deporting so many people

means finding them first. The gov-ernment does not know the identi-ties of many of the millions of peo-ple who have come into the coun-try illegally or remained aftertheir legally issued visas expired.Locating immigrants who don’thave a legal immigration statushas stymied officials for decades.

Deporting them all “is imprac-tical and is opposed by a large ma-jority of Americans,” said ClintBolick, an Arizona lawyer who co-authored a book on immigrationpolicy with former Florida Gov.Jeb Bush, himself a GOP presi-dential candidate.

During an interview Wednes-

day on CNN, Trump said the“good ones” could return via an“expedited” process and then re-main in the country legally.

The billionaire businessmanand former reality television starhas shot to the top of polls in thecrowded race for the Republicanpresidential nomination in largepart because of his hardlinestance on immigration.

“I want to move ‘em out, andwe’re going to move ‘em back inand let them be legal,” he toldCNN.

As for his plans for the “bad

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Donald Trump, the real estate mogul and reality television personality, waves fromhis motorcade after leaving a news conference in Laredo on July 23. Trump’s tripto this border town to push his anti-immigration cause drew the type of mediacircus the Republican presidential hopeful craves.

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SATURDAY, AUGUST 1Planetarium shows at TAMIU La-

mar Bruni Vergara Planetarium from 2to 5 p.m. 2 p.m.: Accidental Astro-nauts; 3 p.m.: Wonders of the Uni-verse; 4 p.m.: New Horizons; 5 p.m.:Led Zeppelin. General admission is$3. Call 956-326-DOME (3663).

Used book sale at First UnitedMethodist Church, 1220 McClellandAve. Hardcovers $1, paperbacks $.50,magazines and children’s books $.25.Open from 8:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. Thepublic is welcome.

The Laredo Northside MarketAssociation will hold its monthly mar-ket from 9 a.m. to 1 pm. on the park-ing lot of North Central Park. The as-sociation will present school suppliesto Sacred Heart Children’s Home. Theassociation will also raffle 12 packag-es of pre-K to K school supplies.

TUESDAY, AUGUST 4Grief Support Group “The Com-

fort Café” meets the first Tuesday ofevery month at 6:30 p.m. at Danny’sRestaurant, 2406 Jacaman Road. Forthose 18 and older who are experi-encing the loss of a loved one. Con-tact Yesenia Dickey at 740-9374 oremail her at yeseniadickey@gmail.comto reserve a seat or for more infor-mation.

The Alzheimer’s support groupwill meet Tuesday Aug. 4 at 7 p.m. inmeeting room 2, building B of the La-redo Medical Center. The supportgroup is for family members andcaregivers taking care of someonewho has Alzheimer’s. For information,call 956-693-9991.

Les Amies Birthday Club meet-ing, 11:30 a.m. at the Ramada Plaza.Hostesses are Christina Garza, Hermi-nia Molina and Thelma Sanchez. Hon-orees are Ma. Olivia Salinas and Car-men Santos.

THURSDAY, AUGUST 6Renacer Couple’s Club meeting

at Northtown Professional Plaza, 6999McPherson Rd. Suite 221, from 6:30to 9 p.m. Free and open to the pub-lic. Contact Rosario Navarro at ross-navarro83@gmail.com.

TUESDAY, AUGUST 11Texas A&M International Univer-

sity is hosting no-cost, one-day work-shops for K-5 educators interested inteaching computer science. Curricu-lum guide and supplies will be provid-ed. Contact Pat Abrego at TAMIU at326-2302.

WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 12The Webb County Heritage

Foundation will host a public present-ation and book-signing on “BorderContraband: A History of SmugglingAcross the Rio Grande” by George T.Diaz from 6–8 p.m. at the Villa Anti-gua Border Heritage Museum, 810 Za-ragoza St. Books will be available forpurchase at the event. For more infor-mation, contact the WCHF at 956-727-0977 or visit www.webbheritage-.org or their Facebook page.

THURSDAY, AUGUST 13Inspire Social Business Club

meeting at Northtown ProfessionalPlaza, 6999 McPherson Rd. Suite 211,at 6:30 p.m. The public can discussideas, hear keynote speakers and sup-port one another in business ven-tures. Contact Victor Navarro at vna-varro@texaslakeinc.com.

FRIDAY, AUGUST 14Veterans, their wives and their

children are invited to “Salute to Vet-erans” Day from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. atUnitrade Stadium, 6320 Sinatra Park-way. For more information please call235-0673.

TUESDAY, AUGUST 18“Moving Forward in the Grief

Journey.” This workshop provides in-sight into what can keep one frommoving forward. From 6 – 7:30 p.m.at Laredo Public Library ConferenceRoom, 1120 E. Calton Rd. To registeror if you have any questions pleasecontact 210-757-9425 ext. 1703 or mi-chelle.ramirez@gencure.org.

FRIDAY, AUGUST 21South Texas Food Bank Empty

Bowls IX fundraiser, 6 p.m. dinner, 8p.m. concert, Laredo Energy Arena.Concert by Kansas. Table (of 10)sponsorships start at $1,500, on salefrom South Texas Food Bank staff324-2432. Concert tickets only $10,$15, $25 available at LEA box officeand Ticketmaster.

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Today is Saturday, August 1,the 213th day of 2015. Thereare 152 days left in the year.

Today’s Highlight in His-tory:

On August 1, 1975, a 35-na-tion summit in Finland con-cluded with the signing of adeclaration known as the Hel-sinki Accords dealing withEuropean security, humanrights and East-West contacts.

On this date:In 1714, Britain’s Queen

Anne died at age 49; she wassucceeded by George I.

In 1876, Colorado was ad-mitted as the 38th state.

In 1907, the U.S. Army Sig-nal Corps established an aero-nautical division, the forerun-ner of the U.S. Air Force.

In 1913, the Joyce Kilmerpoem “Trees” was first pub-lished in “Poetry: A Magazineof Verse.”

In 1936, the Olympicsopened in Berlin with a cere-mony presided over by AdolfHitler.

In 1944, an uprising brokeout in Warsaw, Poland, againstNazi occupation; the revoltlasted two months before col-lapsing.

In 1957, the United Statesand Canada agreed to createthe North American Air De-fense Command (NORAD).

In 1966, Charles JosephWhitman, 25, went on a shoot-ing rampage at the Universityof Texas in Austin, killing 14people. Whitman, who had al-so slain his wife and motherhours earlier, was gunneddown by police.

In 1971, the Concert for Ban-gladesh, organized by GeorgeHarrison and Ravi Shankar,took place at New York’s Madi-son Square Garden.

In 1981, the rock music vid-eo channel MTV made its de-but.

In 1994, Michael Jacksonand Lisa Marie Presley con-firmed they’d been secretlymarried 11 weeks earlier.(Presley filed for divorce fromJackson in January 1996, cit-ing irreconcilable differences.)

In 2007, the eight-lane Inter-state 35W bridge, a major Min-neapolis artery, collapsed intothe Mississippi River duringevening rush hour, killing 13people.

Ten years ago: Saudi Ara-bia’s ruler, King Fahd, died;Crown Prince Abdullah, theking’s half-brother, became thecountry’s new monarch.

Five years ago: The UnitedStates announced that itwould provide Pakistan with$10 million in humanitarianassistance in the wake of dead-ly flooding.

One year ago: PresidentBarack Obama, in a televisednews conference, said that theUnited States had “tortured”al-Qaida detainees captured af-ter 9/11, adding, “We did somethings that were contrary toour values.” A medical exam-iner ruled that a New YorkCity police officer’s chokeholdcaused the death of Eric Gar-ner, whose videotaped arrestand final pleas of “I can’tbreathe!” had sparked outrage.

Today’s Birthdays: SingerRamblin’ Jack Elliott is 84.Singer Michael Penn is 57.Rapper Coolio is 52. ActorJohn Carroll Lynch is 52. Mov-ie director Sam Mendes is 50.Country singer George Ducasis 49. Actor Charles MalikWhitfield is 43. Singer AshleyParker Angel is 34. Actor Eli-jah Kelley is 29.

Thought for Today: “Asscarce as truth is, the supplyis always greater than the de-mand.” — “Josh Billings”(Henry Wheeler Shaw), Amer-ican author (1818-1885).

TODAY IN HISTORY

AUSTIN — The top boss over the Texastrooper who arrested Sandra Bland saidthere was reason to pull her over for failingto signal a lane change and told lawmakersThursday that the trooper remains on thestate payroll because the investigation is stillplaying out.

Bland was found dead in the Waller Coun-ty jail on July 13, three days after her arrest.Authorities say she hanged herself with agarbage bag, a find her family has ques-tioned. Her family and others also have crit-icized the traffic stop that led to Bland’s ar-rest.

“There was a reason, if you look at it froma traffic violation standpoint,” Texas Depart-ment of Public Safety Director SteveMcCraw said, responding to sometimes

pointed questions from lawmakers during ahearing at the state Capitol. “But again, Idon’t want to prejudge. I don’t know whatthe trooper is going to say in terms of whenhe’s interviewed. When the investigation isover with, I’ll be able to assess.”

He later told reporters that while he hadnot yet spoken to Trooper Brian Encinia, theTexas Rangers and FBI have interviewed thetrooper.

The confrontation between Bland and En-cinia swiftly escalated after she objected tobeing told to put out her cigarette. Bland,who was black, eventually was arrested forallegedly assaulting the white trooper.

Bland’s death came after nearly a year ofheightened national scrutiny of police andtheir dealings with black suspects, especiallythose who have been killed by officers or diein police custody.

AROUND TEXAS

Texas Department of Public Safety Deputy Director Steve McCraw, left, talks with Victoria County Sheriff T. Michael O’Con-nor, center, and Jackson County Sheriff A.J. "Andy" Louderback, right, before the Texas County Affairs Committee hearing todiscuss jail standards in the wake of Bland’s case Thursday in Austin.

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Boss defends trooperBy PAUL J. WEBERASSOCIATED PRESS

Woman who ran adoptionagency accused of fraud

HOUSTON — A Houstonwoman who operated a fostercare and child placement agencyhas been accused of adoptionfraud. Simone Swenson was ar-rested Friday. Swenson ownedSans Pareil Center for Childrenand Family Services LLC.

Prosecutors say Sans Pareildefrauded couples seeking toadopt by promising the same ba-by to multiple families.

Charges filed against ex-surgeon for two deathsDALLAS — A former neuro-

surgeon whose medical licensewas revoked after two patientsdied now faces potential prisontime. Officials say the 44-year-oldDr. Christopher Duntsch in 2012botched two surgeries that re-sulted in significant blood lossand ultimately the deaths of thepatients. They say four others heoperated on suffered disablinginjuries.

Sheriff’s deputy faces jailin drug-smuggling caseSAN ANTONIO — A South

Texas jailer has been accused ofsmuggling drugs to inmates.

Officials say 22-year-old Depu-ty Termaine Elliott was arrestedFriday at work in San Antonio.

Undercover investigators be-lieve Elliott was transportingdrugs and other contraband toinmates. Authorities declined toidentify what drugs were in-volved.

Nebraska pilot criticallyburned in plane crashSULPHUR SPRINGS — Au-

thorities say a 46-year-old pilotfrom Nebraska has been critical-ly burned in the crash of hissmall plane at an East Texas air-port. David German of Ogallala,Nebraska, was at Parkland Me-morial Hospital in Dallas on Fri-day. Sulphur Springs police saythe crash happened Thursdaynight at Sulphur Springs Munici-pal Airport.

200 neglected horses toremain in SPCA care

CONROE — About 200 ne-glected horses seized from aHouston-area ranch will remainwith an animal protection groupand the owners must pay$485,000 in care costs.

The SPCA provided the esti-mated cost of caring for thehorses, which were seized onJune 24. Experts say many of thehorses were starving or had ne-glect-related health issues.

8-year-old fatally shotafter playing with gunHOUSTON — An 8-year-old

boy has died in an apparent acci-dental shooting at a home inHouston. The victim and an 11-year-old boy found two unse-cured firearms Thursday in oneof the home’s upstairs bedrooms.Police said the two boys weretossing a pistol back and forthwhen it suddenly fired, strikingthe younger boy in the head.

— Compiled from AP reports

U. of Cincinnati shootingputs spotlight on policePROVIDENCE, R.I. — When

an Ohio prosecutor charged acampus police officer with mur-der in the death of a driver dur-ing a traffic stop, he offered aharsh judgment on University ofCincinnati police, saying theschool should not be in the busi-ness of law enforcement at all.

That statement and the cir-cumstances of the shooting nearcampus have raised questionsabout college police departments,which often possess powers thatextend beyond their schools’boundaries.

Facebook’s Zuckerbergand wife are expectingSAN FRANCISCO — Face-

book CEO Mark Zuckerberg andhis pediatrician wife, PriscillaChan, are expecting a baby.

The co-founder of the world’slargest social network used a

Facebook post Friday to an-nounce that Chan is pregnantwith a healthy baby daughter. Hedidn’t say when the baby is due.

Zuckerberg, 31, also said thecouple had suffered three mis-carriages over the last two years.He acknowledged in his post that

many people are reluctant tospeak publicly about miscarriag-es. But he said he and Chan, 30,decided to share the informationafter hearing from friends whohad similar experiences and ulti-mately were able to have kids.

— Compiled from AP reports

AROUND THE NATION

Former University of Cincinnati police officer Ray Tensing appears at HamiltonCounty Courthouse for his arraignment in the shooting death of motorist SamuelDuBose, Thursday in Cincinnati. Tensing pleaded not guilty to charges of murder.

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WACO — A man andwoman who dated morethan 70 years ago were re-united Thursday afternoonat a Waco Luby’s Cafeteriaafter Jeanette GoochGreen, 90, found a U.S. Na-vy ring he gave to herwhile on leave duringWorld War II.

Robert Storey Jr., 95, metGreen in Waco on a blinddate in 1944, and, after thetwo drifted apart for thebetter part of seven dec-ades, it took a jewelry box,an old photo of Storey inuniform in Cameron Parkand a little investigating tobring them back together.

Both went on to marryother people and raise fam-ilies. Green is now a wid-ow and Storey a widower.

The Waco Tribune-Her-ald (http://bit.ly/1fP81np )reports the two were allsmiles Thursday as theysat among each other’schildren and grandchil-dren at the restaurant onGreen’s 90th birthday.

“Well, I’m glad you keptit all this time,” Storeysaid, looking at the ringwhile Green placed it onhis finger. “It’s been a long

time.”Green read a story in

2014 about her formerflame in the Tribune-Her-ald, and her two daughtersfound Storey, who lives inMart, on Google and con-tacted him so that the twocould reconnect.

The two first met on ablind date with friends,and they went to a night-club called Casa Blancanear Lake Waco, Greensaid.

“It was a place youcould go dance and drinkand have a good time,” shesaid.

On Thursday, over icedtea, fried okra, liver andonions, the two sat side byside for more than twohours reminiscing aboutthe times they shared andcatching up on seven dec-ades spent apart.

Storey returned over-seas not long after his firstdate with Green, but thetwo say they never forgoteach other. In the mean-time, Green dated othermilitary men.

“She would go dancingat the bases on Saturdaynight,” Green’s daughterDiane Birdwell, 54, said.

Green said some of themen she dated took her to

play miniature golf, see amovie or stroll down Aus-tin Avenue.

“She’s 90 on the outside,but she’s still about 16 onthe inside,” said herdaughter Janet Rizovi, 59.

“You’re still young com-pared to me,” Storey saidof Green.

“She was a good-lookinggirl,” he added, looking ata photo of Green when shewas a teen. “That’s a pret-ty girl right there.”

By the time Storey re-turned to the Waco area af-ter his wartime service,Green had moved.

“I was living in Dallasand he was living in Waco,and never the twain shallmeet,” she said.

Storey did visit Greenonce after the war, theysaid, but they never start-ed dating again.

In the six years heserved in the U.S. Navy,Storey spent most of it onthe USS Salt Lake City,known as the “One-ShipFleet” and “The SwaybackMaru,” the Tribune-Heraldreported in 2014.

His ship took part in theDoolittle Raid and the Bat-tle of the Komandorski Is-lands, which took place offthe eastern coast of Rus-

sia’s Kamchatka Peninsu-la.

Storey’s first encounterwith enemy forces oc-curred the day after the in-famous Dec. 7, 1941, attackon Pearl Harbor. Storeyand his shipmates were ap-proximately 200 miles outfrom the harbor.

“It was a sick sight, I’lltell you,” he said in 2014.“Everything we had wasgone … guys floating inthe water, dead.”

Green said she was veryglad she was able to returnStorey’s ring after all thistime.

“I, of course, gave it toher to keep,” Storey said,but Green insisted he beable to pass the heirloomon to his grandchildren.

Both sat Thursday look-ing at an old photo ofStorey and chatting, whileLuby’s employees tooktheir picture and other pa-trons came over to thankhim for his service.

“You don’t ever get tosee people like that after 70years,” said Storey, whopresented Green with abirthday card that sang,“Thank you for being afriend.”

“We’re good friends,”Green said, smiling.

Jeanette Gooch Green, 90, right, returns a service ring to Robert Storey Jr., 95, left, during a reunion after 70 years at a local restaurant,Thursday, in Bellmead. The two met on a blind date in 1944 and drifted apart for the better part of seven decades.

Photo by Rod Aydelotte/Waco Tribune-Herald | AP

Woman, vet reunite after 70 yearsBy OLIVIA MESSER

WACO TRIBUNE-HERALD

Boys & Girls Clubs ofZapata County is seekingpassionate, responsible,and dedicated individualsinterested in fightingsummer learning loss andmaking a difference inyoung people’s livesthrough the AmeriCorpsnational service program.

As an AmeriCorpsmember, you will beplaced at a local Boys &Girls Club to act as anAmeriCorps academicsuccess coach.

Utilizing the provenProject Learn theory of“making learning fun”members will complete675 hours of service focus-ing on providing home-work help, one-on-one tu-toring and high yieldlearning opportunitieswithin the Boys & GirlsClubs after-school pro-gram.

Members will serve onaverage 20 hours eachweek. Service start andend dates are Sept. 8 toJune 3, 2016, and are non-negotiable. Members mustbe available to serve theentire term.

For more informationor to apply please contactRamiro Hernandez at 956-765-3892.

Service commitment isas follows:

Sept. 8, 2015 to June

3, 2016 675 hours of service

(approximately 20 hourseach week)

Monday-Friday afterschool; 4 hours per day.

Qualifications:At least 17 years old

with high school diplomaor ability to get a highschool diploma by the endof the service term

U.S. citizen, U.S. na-tional, or lawful perma-nent resident

Proficient in reading,writing and speakingEnglish.

Ability to interactwith and relate to at-risk,minority youth

Interest in and abilityto support youth academ-ic success

Available for entireservice term.

Commitment to ser-vice and "Getting ThingsDone"

Benefits:$4,894 Total Living

Allowance paid in equalinstallments of $275.98 onthe 15th and 31st of eachmonth.

$2,182.78 scholarshipawarded at the end of ser-vice upon successful com-pletion of service term.

Scholarship can beused towards current andfuture education costs in-cluding tuition and books.Can be used to pay backstudent loans.

AmeriCorpsseeks members

SPECIAL TO THE TIMES

ZCISD is hosting its2nd Annual Sharing theVision Back-to-School Par-ent Academy.

Businesses and organi-zations are encouraged toreserve a space and set upa table.

The event will take

place Aug. 5 from 3 p.m.to 7 p.m. at Zapata HighSchool. All students fromPre-K to 12th grade arewelcome and all partici-pants will receive a Kid’sKit full of art supplies.

For more information,contact Cynthia L. Villar-real at 285-3825 or cvillar-real2@zcisd.org.

ZCISD hostsparent academy

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Current quibbling overwhat Jeb Bush meantwhen he said it’s time tophase out and replaceMedicare — as opposed to“attacking the seniors,” asone woman at a recentevent bellowed out — willsoon seem quaint againstthe realities of our future.

Never mind projectionsthat the program will beable to finance only 86 per-cent of its obligations by2030. Or that by 2050, thenumber declines to 80 per-cent, according to a re-cently released Social Se-curity and MedicareBoards of Trustees report.

These are relativelycomforting numbers com-pared with new projec-tions from the Alzheimer’sAssociation. By 2050, thegroup says, 13.8 millionAmericans may have Alz-heimer’s disease, at a costof $1.1 trillion per year,mostly to Medicare andMedicaid.

Today, by comparison,5.3 million have the dis-ease.

“Basically, it will bank-rupt Medicare,” said Rob-ert Egge, the Alzheimer’sAssociation’s chief publicpolicy officer. I met withEgge and chief science of-ficer Maria Carrillo dur-ing the association’s re-cent international confer-ence in Washington.

The 2015 cost of care forAlzheimer’s and all otherdementias is estimated at$226 billion, with 68 per-cent being paid by Medi-care and Medicaid, Eggesaid.

This total includes onlydirect costs for the care ofAlzheimer’s sufferers —there currently is no treat-ment — and doesn’t takeinto consideration unpaidcare by families. Withinthe next 10 years, 19 stateswill see at least a 40 per-cent increase in the num-ber of people affected.

Lest you feel over-whelmed by numbers —and demoralized by the re-duction of human suffer-ing to numerical values —suffice it to say that weare in a state of emergen-cy. Yet, even with this ob-vious urgency, relativelyfew resources have beendedicated to research forprevention and treatmentcompared with otherchronic diseases. This, de-spite the fact that Alz-heimer’s is the sixth lead-ing cause of death in theUnited States, according tothe Centers for DiseaseControl and Prevention.

Current federal re-search funding is less than$600 million annually,while top scientists saythey’ll need $2 billion ayear to meet the associ-ation’s 2025 goal of preven-tion and effective treat-ment. There’s cause forsome hope. Last month, bi-partisan House and Senatesubcommittees approvedincreasing funding to theNational Institutes ofHealth for Alzheimer’s re-

search by 50 percent and60 percent, respectively.

If this funding becomeslaw — and the associ-ation’s goals are met —costs could be reduced by$220 billion over the firstfive years and $367 billionin 2050 alone, according toan association report. Six-ty percent of those savingswould accrue to Medicareand Medicaid.

Among other scientificdevelopments reportedthis week, researchershave isolated a “commonancestor” among all formsof dementia, includingAlzheimer’s, Parkinson’sand Lewy body.

“All are caused by mis-folding proteins,” Carrilloexplained to me. Two dif-ferent “misfolded” pro-teins — amyloid beta andtau — are toxic to braincells.

I am sad to report theseproteins cannot be correct-ed with daily doses of asturdy zinfandel. There is,however, a new drug thatdelivers a molecule scien-tists have created to “chap-erone” these proteins sothat they fold correctly.

Carrillo doesn’t want tooverstate the value of thisone-target-one-moleculeapproach, though it ispromising. She suggeststhat eventually we’ll treatAlzheimer’s with a “cock-tail” that will be createdbased on an individual’sgenetic makeup and otherfactors.

Other hope-inspiringdevelopments include sixdiagnostic tools that, incombination, can be use-ful in predicting Alzheim-er’s. They include memoryand thinking tests, as wellas MRI scans that canmeasure the thickness ofthe brain’s right entorhi-nal cortex and the volumeof the hippocampus, bothof which are important tomemory.

It is reassuring thatboth policymakers and sci-entists are committed totackling these diseases.But women especiallyshould be interested in theprogress of dementia re-search. For reasons un-known, women suffer Alz-heimer’s at a higher rate— two-thirds of today’ssufferers are women. Andwomen’s function declinestwice as fast as men’s.This fall, the associationwill issue an internationalcall for research on whythis is so.

In the meantime, Con-gress should waste notime in correcting thetravesty of too-little fund-ing for a devastating dis-ease that demands our ur-gent attention. Otherwise,what to do about Medicarewill be rendered irrele-vant.

COLUMN

The comingAlzheimer’scrisis in US

“KATHLEEN PARKER

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The wrath of the Inter-net has descended uponWalter Palmer, the Min-neapolis-area dentist whohas acknowledged killingCecil, a star lion of Zim-babwe’s national park sys-tem.

So fierce were the at-tacks that Palmer’s dentaloffice abruptly shut itsdoors and its Facebookpage was made unavaila-ble. Palmer’s whereaboutswere unknown and it hasbeen reported he hashired a public relationsfirm. (Good luck withthat.)

Given the account ofZimbabwe conservationofficials — that Cecil wasillegally lured from hissanctuary, shot with anarrow and then trackedfor 40 hours before beingshot, skinned and decapi-

tated — the outrage is un-derstandable.

That’s not to suggest inany way that any harmshould come to Palmer;only that it’s fitting thatthis big-time huntermight now know a littleof what it is like to be onthe other end of things.

In a statement releasedto the Minneapolis StarTribune, Palmer ex-pressed regret, insisting

he believed his actions tobe legal.

“I had no idea that thelion I took was a known,local favorite, was col-lared and part of a studyuntil the end of the hunt.I relied on the expertiseof my local professionalguides to ensure a legalhunt,” the statementread. “I deeply regret thatmy pursuit of an activityI love and practice re-

sponsibly and legally re-sulted in the taking of thislion.”

It will be up to the au-thorities to sort out thetruth, but one has to won-der what Palmer did whenthe study collar on the li-on was detected. Appar-ently it didn’t interferewith the trophy being tak-en. Nor did it prompt any-one to notify the author-ities.

Those of us who are nothunters will never be ableto understand the attrac-tion of killing somethingas beautiful as this animal— and paying $50,000 todo so. One can hope,though, that this travestywill cause trophy huntersto do some soul-searchingabout their sport. And therest of us need to ask our-selves the hard questionof whether we would havecared about this lion if hedidn’t have a name.

COMMENTARY

The travesty of Cecil the lionBy JO-ANN ARMAO

THE WASHINGTON POST One can hope, though, that thistravesty will cause trophy huntersto do some soul-searching. Andthe rest of us need to askourselves whether we would havecared about this lion if he didn’thave a name.

WASHINGTON — Rep.Chaka Fattah joined an ig-nominious — but surpris-ingly large — club thispast week: members ofCongress indicted whilein office.

Fattah, a Democrat whohas represented West Phi-ladelphia in the Housesince 1995, was charged bythe Justice Departmentwith 29 counts of racke-teering related to his un-successful campaign forPhiladelphia mayor in2007. (He came in a dis-tant fourth.)

At the center of the in-dictment is a $1 million

loan that Fattah allegedlysought and received se-cretly from a businessmanduring that campaign.The feds say the congress-man used federal grantmoney to pay back thatloan. That, you may notbe surprised to learn,would be illegal.

Fattah, as he has doneover the years that this in-vestigation has been un-derway, denied any wrong-doing and insisted that hewas happy with news ofthe indictment.

“It’s been an eight-yearmatter, and we’ve movedfrom an investigation toan actual allegation,” asmiling Fattah told re-porters Wednesday on

Capitol Hill. “I think I’llstand by my original posi-tion, which was: As anelected official I’ve neverbeen involved in any ille-gal activity or misappro-priation of funds.”

He also noted, “It’s noteven disputed that pro-grams that I’ve initiatedhave helped at least 25million people.” Undisput-ed! Twenty-five millionpeople!

Fattah stepped down asthe ranking Democrat onan Appropriations sub-committee in the wake ofthe indictment but insist-ed that he planned to runfor reelection in Pennsyl-vania’s 2nd CongressionalDistrict in 2016.

Given how stronglyDemocratic his district is— President Barack Oba-ma won it with 90 percentof the vote in 2012 — Fat-tah might win no matterwhat happens in court.But that wouldn’t changethe fact that he is now oneof the more than two doz-en members of Congressto be indicted while in of-fice since 1980.

Chaka Fattah, for en-suring your place in thehistory books, you had theworst week in Washing-ton. Congrats, or some-thing.

(Cillizza covers theWhite House for The Wash-ington Post and writes TheFix, its politics blog.)

WORST WEEK IN WASHINGTON

Money at root of Democraticrepresentative’s problems

By CHRIS CILLIZZATHE WASHINGTON POST

SATURDAY, AUGUST 1, 2015 Nation THE ZAPATA TIMES 5A

LOS ANGELES — AsCalifornians and the com-munities they live in cutback water use and letlawns turn brown, arbo-rists and state officials areworrying about a potential-ly dangerous ripple effect:City trees going neglectedand becoming diseased oreven collapsing.

With cities ordered to re-duce water use by 25 per-cent during the state’s four-year drought, many resi-dents are turning off sprin-klers — not realizing thattrees can be permanentlydamaged by a sudden re-duction in the amount ofwater they receive.

“You don’t want to becutting back the water tothe trees,” said RubenGreen, an arborist with Ev-ergreen Arborist Consult-ants in Los Angeles. “Thetree can’t adjust.”

Across the state, 12 mil-lion trees died over thepast year due to lack of wa-ter, according to the U.S.Forest Service. While thebulk of those deaths oc-curred outside urban ar-eas, conservationists andofficials are now focusingon cities, where mandatedwater reductions are be-coming visible in dryinglimbs and scorched leaves.

Fears that parched treescould pose a danger wereheightened this week whena 75-year-old, 75-foot-tallpine tree fell on a group ofkids from a camp at aSouthern California chil-dren’s museum, leaving aboy and girl hospitalizedwith serious injuries. Anindependent arborist andanother from the city ofPasadena are conductingan investigation into thecause, which has not beendetermined to be drought-related.

Green visited the site ofTuesday’s tree collapse andsaid it appeared unlikelythe drought was to blamebecause the area aroundthe tree looked well irrigat-

ed and its root system ap-peared compromised — asign of rot, decay or injury,not necessarily thedrought.

Still, the collapse high-lighted concerns about thehealth of urban trees. LosAngeles alone has morethan 25 square miles ofparks and some 327,000trees.

Green and other arbo-rists said they have seenan increase in the numberof diseased trees in the city.As they get less water, theybecome more prone to ill-ness caused by pests. In ad-dition to bark beetles,Green has seen a newerpest drilling tunnels in thetrunks of “dozens and doz-ens of trees.”

Arborists say the num-ber of falling trees andlimbs does not appear tohave risen in Los Angeles,but there are concerns thatcould be next. They alsoare worried that if a strongEl Nino brings a wet Cali-fornia winter, already dis-tressed trees will collapsewhen a storm hits.

“We’re really right onthe brink of starting to facemore serious issues,” saidCindy Blain, executive di-rector of California ReLeaf,a nonprofit network of ur-ban and community forest-ing groups around thestate. “This is a criticaltime.”

A new six-person crewremoves potentially haz-

ardous trees from Los An-geles parks. So far thisyear, it has moved out 550trees — surpassing the 300removed in an averageyear.

“They are starting to faildue to the drought, and wewant to make sure thesetrees don’t potentially posea hazard to the public,”said Laura Baurenfeind,principal forester with thecity parks department.

Turf areas in city parksare being watered threetimes a week, down fromat least five when droughtregulations were not inplace. To help nearby treescompensate, the city andnonprofits are installingmakeshift basins to filterwater to trees.

Meanwhile, a public edu-cation campaign is under-way. California ReLeaf haspartnered with Save OurWater, a coalition of theCalifornia Department ofWater Resources and Asso-ciation of California WaterAgencies, to better informresidents about proper treecare during the drought.

Blain said many of thepeople she’s spoken withsay they have forgottenabout their trees or gottenworried and began water-ing at the tree’s base. Treesshould be watered from theedge of their canopy.

If a tree goes too longwithout enough water, itwill become unable to soakup liquid at all.

Cities eye tree woesBy CHRISTINE ARMARIO

ASSOCIATED PRESS

Volunteers water a tree at Griffith Park, in Los Angeles, on Friday.Arborists are worrying about dying trees becoming diseased.

Photo by Nick Ut | AP

OPA-LOCKA, Fla. — Af-ter hundreds of rescueworkers fanned out across amassive swath of the Atlan-tic for a full week, the CoastGuard’s search for two teen-age fishermen was to endFriday, a heart-rending deci-sion for families so con-vinced the boys could bealive they’re pressing onwith their own hunt.

Even as officials an-nounced at noon that theformal search-and-rescue ef-fort would end at sundown,private planes and boatswere preparing to keepscouring the water hopingfor clues on what happenedto the 14-year-old neighbors,Perry Cohen and AustinStephanos.

Capt. Mark Fedor calledthe decision to suspend thesearch “excruciating andgut-wrenching.” He suggest-ed what long had beenfeared by observers — thatthe boys had surpassed anyreasonable period of surviv-ability — with his offeringof “heartfelt condolences.”

“I know no statistics willease the pain,” he said in re-counting the seven-day,nearly 50,000-square-nauti-cal-mile search. “We weredesperate to find Austin andPerry.”

With volunteers ready tokeep searching all along thecoastline and about $300,000in search-fund donations byFriday afternoon, the fam-ilies promised to keep look-ing for their sons.

Nick Korniloff, the stepfa-ther of Perry, addressed ahorde of media outside hishome on a quiet street inTequesta, Florida, sayingair searches led by privatepilots would go on alongsidenew efforts led by formermembers of the militaryand others with specialtraining.

“We know there’s a win-dow here and we thinkthere’s an opportunity,” hesaid, “and we will do every-thing we can to bring these

boys home.”Those who have met with

the families believe the pri-vate search could go on atleast for weeks.

“How could you go backto normal?” said TequestaPolice Chief ChristopherElg, who has stayed in regu-lar contact with the fam-ilies. “They may very welldevote a large portion of thenext few weeks, months,maybe even years just to-ward hope and doing whatthey can to bring them-selves a sense of peace.”

The Coast Guard had dis-patched crews night and dayto scan the Atlantic forsigns of the boys. Theychased repeated reports ofobjects sighted in the water,and at times had the help ofthe Navy and other localagencies. But after the boys’boat was found overturnedSunday, no useful cluesturned up.

The families had held outhope that items believed tohave been on the boat, in-cluding a large cooler, mightbe spotted, or that the teensmight even have clung tosomething buoyant in theirstruggle to stay alive. Evenas hope dimmed, experts onsurvival said finding theteens alive was possible. TheCoast Guard said it wouldkeep on searching until offi-cials no longer thought theboys could be rescued.

The saga began July 24,when the boys took Austin’s19-foot boat on what their

families said was expectedto be a fishing trip withinthe nearby Loxahatchee Riv-er and Intracoastal Water-way, where they were al-lowed to cruise without su-pervision. The boys fueledup at a local marina around1:30 p.m. and set off, and lat-er calls to Austin’s cellphonewent unanswered. When aline of summer stormsmoved through and the boysstill couldn’t be reached, po-lice were called and theCoast Guard search began.

The boys grew up on thewater, constantly boated andfished, worked at a tackleshop together and im-mersed themselves in life onthe ocean. Their familiessaid they could swim beforethey could walk. They clungto faith in their boys’ knowl-edge of the sea, even specu-lating they might have fash-ioned a raft and spear tokeep them afloat and fedwhile adrift.

“It is a mother’s prayerthat you will be safe andsound in our arms today,”Austin’s mother, Pamela Co-hen, tweeted Friday. “Mis-sing you both more thanyou could ever imagine.”

Many unknowns aboutthe boys’ status persistedthroughout the ordeal, in-cluding whether they werewearing life jackets andwhether they had food orwater. The Coast Guard saidit tried to err toward opti-mism in deciding how longto press on.

Teen hunt is haltedBy MATT SEDENSKY AND

MARISOL MEDINAASSOCIATED PRESS

A lantern is released during a vigil for Austin Stephanos and PerryCohen on Tuesday, in Stuart, Florida.

Photo by Lynne Sladky | AP

6A THE ZAPATA TIMES Nation SATURDAY, AUGUST 1, 2015

OTTAWA, Ill. — Travel-ing at speeds of up to 240mph, 164 skydivers flyinghead-down built the largestever vertical skydiving for-mation Friday over centralIllinois, smashing the pre-vious record.

It took the internationalteam 13 attempts to beatthe 2012 mark set by 138skydivers. The formation,resembling a giant flower,floated above the ruraldrop zone in Ottawa for afew seconds before theflyers broke away, deployedtheir parachutes, andwhooped and hollered theirway to the ground to the ju-bilation of spectators.

“It’s awesome, man,”said Rook Nelson, one ofthe organizers. “It just goesto show that if you can getthe right group of peopletogether and the right sup-port team and good condi-tions, anything is possible... even on attempt number13.”

The team was selectedafter training camps inSpain, Australia and acrossthe U.S. Seven aircraft wereflown in precise formation

to ensure that the jumpersde-planed at the right place,time and altitude. The re-cord-breaking jumpers exit-ed at 19,700 feet.

Skydiving videographerstaped the jump, flyingabove, below and alongsidethe formation. The footageenabled judges on theground to verify the recordwas achieved above Sky-dive Chicago, the drop zoneand airport about 80 milessouthwest of Chicagowhere the event took place.

Three judges certified bythe Fédération Aéronau-tique Internationale — theWorld Air Sports Federa-tion — studied the videoand photos to make sureeach flyer was in a pre-de-termined slot in the forma-tion and has his or herhand in the correct posi-tion.

The record was not with-out risks.

The skydivers flew at aminimum speed of 160mph, and some reachedspeeds as fast as 240 mph.Collision at such speedscan be fatal.

Jumping from such ahigh altitude brings a riskof hypoxia — a conditionarising from a lack of ox-

ygen that can cause uncon-sciousness and other symp-toms — or even death. Toreduce the risk of fallingsick, jumpers and pilotssucked down pure oxygenonce their planes reached14,000 feet.

And with nearly 170 ca-nopies simultaneously fly-ing in the sky, there’s a riskof two parachutists flyinginto each other.

Still, of approximately3.2 million sport skydivesin the U.S. in 2014, therewere 24 fatalities, accordingto the United States Para-chute Association.

Despite the risks, flyerscame from as far away asFrance, Britain, Dubai andAustralia — one even spentthree days traveling to Chi-cago from Reunion, off thecoast of Madagascar in theIndian Ocean — to partici-pate.

“When (record) jumpswork well, it’s like there’s acertain peace to it all, acertain harmony to it all,”said Norman Kent, a long-time skydiving videogra-pher who filmed the jump.“And it’s contagious, it’slike it’s in the air and youcan feel it even from a dis-tance as a cameraman.”

Members of an international team of skydivers join hands, flying head-down to build their world recordskydiving formation Friday over Ottawa, Illinois.

Photo by Jason Peters | AP

164 skydivers smashhead-down record

By ANDREA THOMASASSOCIATED PRESS

SATURDAY, AUGUST 1, 2015 Politics THE ZAPATA TIMES 7A

KEENE, N.H. — Days be-fore Fox News announceswho will participate in thefirst GOP primary debate,Ohio Gov. John Kasich isprojecting a laid-back atti-tude toward his chances ofbeing on stage and sayinghe’s pleased with the sup-port he’s received sincejoining the race July 21.

“I’m pretty cool and calmright now,” Kasich told re-porters Friday after a townhall meeting. I’m havingfun.”

Only 10 of the 17 declaredGOP candidates will partici-pate in Thursday’s debate,the lineup determined byan average of five recent na-tional polls. Most polls showKasich, a two-term gover-nor and former congress-man, right on the cusp.

Kasich’s campaign —and the super PAC backinghim — have been makingan aggressive play to boosthis name recognition andbase of support in theweeks leading up to the de-bate. Kasich has spent fourout of the 11 days he’s beena candidate in New Hamp-shire, hosting six publictown halls and meetingbusiness owners and elect-ed officials. He’s also madecampaign stops in SouthCarolina, Iowa, Michiganand Boston since joiningthe race.

The super PAC support-ing him, meanwhile, isdropping significant cashon television and digital ad-vertising in New Hamp-shire. New Day for Americahas aired two 60-second adson New Hampshire andBoston airwaves and plansto release a third next week,bringing the PAC’s total TVspending to $4 million, offi-cials said.

The group is also target-ing likely primary votersand potential donorsthrough digital ads.

“Our ads, combined witha very successful campaignlaunch and announcementtour, are resonating withvoters and building momen-tum and support for Gov.Kasich,” said Connie Wehr-kamp, New Day for Ameri-ca’s press secretary. “Wewill continue to execute anaggressive ad strategy inNew Hampshire.”

The PAChas not airedtelevision adsin any otherstates, andKasich’s cam-paign has notlaunched anyof its own

ads.Kasich’s campaign has

four paid staff members inNew Hampshire who areworking on grassroots orga-nizing. Simon Thomson, thenewly named campaignmanager here, said thecampaign will release a listof endorsements soon.

“He’s got to press theflesh to do that, and he’sready to,” Thomson said.

Kasich will be back inNew Hampshire on Mondaynight for a GOP candidateforum hosted by the NewHampshire Union Leader.Candidates will be ques-tioned one at a time by a lo-cal radio personality andthe forum will air national-ly on C-SPAN as well as aNew Hampshire news sta-tion. For candidates on thecusp of qualifying for Fox’sdebate, it will offer a finalopportunity to boost nameID before Fox chooseswhich polls to average.

Kasich seekspre-debate boost

By KATHLEEN RONAYNEASSOCIATED PRESS

KASICH

WASHINGTON — Doz-ens of emails that traversedHillary Clinton’s private,unsecure home server con-tain national security infor-mation now deemed too sen-sitive to make public, ac-cording to the latest batch ofrecords released Friday.

In 2,206 pages of emails,the government censoredpassages to protect nationalsecurity at least 64 times in37 messages, including in-stances when the same in-formation was blacked-outmultiple times. Clinton hassaid she never sent classi-fied information from herprivate email server, whichThe Associated Press wasfirst to identify as operatingin her home in New York.

The Friday release bringsthe volume of emails public-ly released by the State De-partment to roughly 12 per-cent of the 55,000 pages Clin-ton had turned over todepartment lawyers earlierthis year. That falls short ofthe 15 percent goal set by acourt ruling in May, a lagthe State Department attri-buted to interest by the in-spector general of the U.S.intelligence community inthe possible compromise ofclassified information.

There were no obviouslystunning revelations in theemails released Friday,which reflected the work-aday business of govern-ment. Some of the docu-ments could reflect favor-ably on Clinton, such as amessage in August 2009about a 10-year-old old Ye-meni girl who had beenmarried and divorced, and

had been por-trayed as un-happy in aCNN story.

“Is thereany way wecan help her?Could we gether to the US

for counseling and educa-tion?” Clinton asked anaide, who began makingcalls.

Others could be contro-versial, such as 2009 mess-ages from former nationalsecurity adviser SandyBerger about how to pres-sure Israeli Prime MinisterBenjamin Netanyahu overnegotiations with Palesti-nians.

Some emails show the ex-tent to which her closestaides managed the details ofher image. Top Clinton aideHuma Abedin, for example,sent her an early-morningmessage in August 2009 ad-vising her to “wear a darkcolor today. Maybe the newdark green suit. Or blue.”Clinton later held a jointnews conference with theJordanian foreign minister.She wore the green suit.

Clinton’s decision not touse a State Departmentemail account has become apolitical problem for her, asRepublicans seize on thedisclosures to paint her asuntrustworthy and willingto break rules for personalgain.

There is also the matterof the classified informationthat found its way onto herinsecure email system.

Memos sent by the in-spector general of the intel-ligence community alertedthe FBI to a potential secu-rity violation.

Dozens of Clinton emails censored

By KEN DILANIAN AND LISA LERERASSOCIATED PRESS

CLINTON

WASHINGTON — Con-gress is heading out for afive-week summer recessin anything but a cheerfulvacation mood, leaving be-hind a pile of unfinishedbusiness that all but guar-antees a painful fall.

Not long after they re-turn in September, law-makers must vote on Presi-dent Barack Obama’s nu-clear deal with Iran, abrutally divisive issue thatmany lawmakers expectwill dominate voter townhalls during their annualAugust break.

And, as more videosemerge showing disturbingfetal tissue collection prac-tices, Republicans are in-creasingly focused on cut-ting off funding forPlanned Parenthood, rais-ing the prospect that Con-gress will spend Septembertied in knots over how toavoid shutting down thegovernment over that is-sue.

Later in the fall or win-ter, Congress will have toraise the federal debt limit,another issue ripe forbrinkmanship, especiallygiven the presence in theSenate of several presiden-tial candidates adamantlyopposed to an increase.

The House wrapped upits summer session by ap-proving only a three-monthextension of highway andtransit spending and au-thority, kicking negotia-tions on that into the fall,as well.

Add in deadlines to re-new authorities for theFederal Aviation Adminis-tration, child nutritionstandards and pipelinesafety, and it’s shaping upas a monster of a fall.

“If you take a look at allof the things on the list,it’ll be a lot of traffic goingthrough one toll booth,”Sen. John Barrasso, R-Wyo., said Thursday.

Republican Rep. MickMulvaney of South Caroli-na, who leads a group of 18conservatives vowing to op-pose any spending bill thatfunds Planned Parenthood,

says, “This is one of thoseline-in-the-sand-type of is-sues.”

“We have to figure out away to fund the govern-ment without giving anymore money to this institu-tion.”

The effort could preventleaders from extendingcurrent spending levelscome the new budget yearOct. 1, since Planned Par-enthood now receives morethan $500 million in gov-ernment assistance. Yet ifRepublicans try to usemust-pass spending legisla-tion to kill off the organiza-tion’s funding, they wouldhave trouble getting pastSenate Democrats and theWhite House.

And that could leave Re-publicans who took controlof Congress this yearpromising to avoid shut-downs and “fiscal cliffs”backed into a very uncom-fortable corner.

“Democrats will uniteagainst them,” says ChuckSchumer of New York, theNo. 3 Senate Democrat.“This is a Republican pathto shutdown.”

While the House lefttown Wednesday, the Sen-ate plans one more weekbefore leaving, with a cy-bersecurity bill and alargely symbolic vote ondefunding Planned Parent-hood.

Along with Iran, the gov-ernment spending issue

tops a long list of thornydisputes that threaten tohave Republicans andDemocrats at loggerheadsfor months.

The 12 annual spendingbills that fund the govern-ment are hung up on a va-riety of disagreements, in-cluding a dust-up in theHouse over the Confeder-ate flag and Democrats’ de-mands to increase domes-tic spending. That leavesCongress facing the likeli-hood of temporarily ex-tending current spendinglevels, which gets lawmak-ers back to the prospect ofa shutdown showdownover Planned Parenthood.

On Iran, Republicansare largely united againstthe nuclear deal, whilethose Democrats who’venot yet declared their posi-tion are under enormouspressure from both sides.The White House is im-ploring them to back thepresident, while groups al-lied with the Israeli gov-ernment are warningagainst the deal in apoc-alyptic terms. Congress iswidely expected to votedown the deal, at whichpoint attention would turnto whether opponentscould muster the two-thirds vote in each cham-ber to override Obama’scertain veto.

Republicans are enter-ing their recess after a nas-ty spate of intraparty

brawls laid bare the ongo-ing conflict between teaparty-backed conservativesand more pragmatic partyleaders on Capitol Hill.That fault line promises toaggravate attempts at com-promise throughout thefall. Lawmakers of bothparties point to a need forhigh-level budget negotia-tions to come up with adeal that could resolvesome of the major issues —and perhaps even include atax code rewrite and an an-swer to Democratic de-mands for domestic spend-ing increases to matchthose on the military sidepushed by Republicans.

Yet for now, nothing likethat is under way.

“We’re going to discusshow to fund the govern-ment after the August re-cess,” Senate MajorityLeader Mitch McConnell,R-Ky., said Thursday.

Republicans are painful-ly aware that each previ-ous shutdown showdownthey’ve gotten into withObama and the Democratshas ended in defeat, alongwith vows never to try itagain. Obama’s health carelaw and executive actionson immigration survivedtheir attempts to use bud-get bills to end them. ComeSeptember, it remains to beseen whether they go downthe same road withPlanned Parenthood, orfind an off-ramp.

Congress puts off messBy ERICA WERNERASSOCIATED PRESS

In this July 29 photo, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi speaks on Capitol Hill in Washington. Con-gress is heading out for a five-week summer recess in anything but a cheerful vacation mood.

Photo by Susan Walsh | AP

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8A THE ZAPATA TIMES International SATURDAY, AUGUST 1, 2015

LONDON — An experi-mental Ebola vaccine test-ed on thousands of peoplein Guinea seems to workand might help shut downthe waning epidemic inWest Africa, according tointerim results from astudy published Friday.

There is currently no li-censed treatment or vac-cine for Ebola, which hasso far killed more than11,000 people in West Afri-ca since the world’s biggestoutbreak began in the for-est region of Guinea lastyear. Cases have droppeddramatically in recentmonths in the other twohard-hit countries, SierraLeone and Liberia.

“If proven effective, thisis going to be a game-changer,” said Dr. Marga-ret Chan, Director-Generalof the World Health Organ-ization, which sponsoredthe study. “It will changethe management of thecurrent outbreak and fu-ture outbreaks.”

Scientists have struggledfor years to develop Ebolatreatments and vaccinesbut have faced numeroushurdles, including the spo-radic nature of outbreaksand funding shortages.Many past attempts havefailed, including a recentlyabandoned drug being test-ed in West Africa by Tek-mira Pharmaceuticals.

The study involved sev-eral thousand people whohad been near a new Ebolapatient or a close contactof one. They were random-

ly assigned to get the vac-cine right away or in threeweeks.

Researchers startedtracking results 10 days af-ter they set up the groupsto give time to weed outany people who might havebeen silently harboring thevirus when the study be-gan.

After that point, none ofthe people in the groupthat had been assigned toget the vaccine right awaydeveloped Ebola, versus 16people in the group eligibleto get the vaccine after 21days.

The vaccine, developedby the Canadian govern-ment, has since been li-censed to Merck & Co. buthas not yet been approvedby regulators. The studyresults were published on-line Friday in the journal

Lancet.At the moment, officials

think the vaccine wouldonly be used once an out-break starts, to protectthose at high-risk; thereare no plans to introducemass vaccination cam-paigns like those for mea-sles or polio or to createhuge stockpiles of theshots.

Merck, based in Kenil-worth, New Jersey, notedits vaccine is in what isnormally the final roundof human testing in SierraLeone, and in mid-stagetesting in Liberia.

Merck will manufacturethe vaccine if it’s approvedfor use outside patientstudies. In late-morningtrading in the U.S., Merckshares were up 62 cents, or1.1 percent, at $59.13.

Last December, Gavi, the

vaccine alliance, said itwould spend up to $300million buying approvedEbola vaccines. The pri-vate-public partnership,which often buys immuni-zations for poor countries,said Friday that it “standsready to support the imple-mentation of a WHO-rec-ommended Ebola vaccine.”

An expert group moni-toring the study’s data andsafety recommended thetrial be stopped on July 26so that everyone exposedto Ebola in Guinea couldbe immunized.

The vaccine uses anEbola protein to promptthe body’s immune systemto attack the virus.

“It looks to be about assafe as a flu vaccine,” saidBen Neuman, a virologistat the University of Read-ing who was not part of

the trial. Researchers arestill assessing possible sideeffects; the most seriousseemed to be fever and thestress experienced by pa-tients who believe suchsymptoms were due toEbola.

“This (vaccine) could bethe key that we’ve beenmissing to end the out-break,” Neuman said. “Idon’t see any reason onhumanitarian groundswhy it should not be usedimmediately.” He said fur-ther tests would be neces-sary to see if the vaccinemight also protect preg-nant women, children andadolescents; those trialsare already under way. It’salso uncertain how longprotection might last.

WHO vaccines expertMarie-Paule Kieny saidhaving an effective vaccinemight avert future disas-ters but added it wouldstill take months to get theshot approved by regula-tors.

“Using a tool like thisvaccine, we would be ableto stop the epidemic fromgoing really wild andspreading further,” shetold reporters, noting thatstamping out future out-breaks still depends onearly detection. WHO firstidentified Ebola in Guinealast March but did not de-clare the epidemic to be aglobal emergency until Au-gust, when the virus hadkilled nearly 1,000 people.

Other Ebola vaccinesare being studied else-where but the decliningcaseload is complicating ef-forts to finish the trials.

Ebola vaccine could stop virusBy MARIA CHENG

ASSOCIATED PRESS

In this March 7 file photo, a health worker, right, cleans a man’s arm before injecting him with a Ebo-la vaccine in Conakry, Guinea.

Photo by Youssouf Bah | AP file

ATHENS, Greece —Greece’s government an-nounced that the AthensStock Exchange will reopenMonday, a big step towardnormalcy as talks with in-ternational creditors shiftedinto high gear.

The exchange has beenclosed since June 29, whenthe government imposedcapital controls to prevent abanking collapse.

Finance Minister EuclidTsakalotos signed the orderFriday that also includes re-strictions for Greece-basedtraders for an unspecifiedtime period. A 60 euro limiton cash machines with-drawal will remain in place.

Tsakalotos met with leadnegotiators from the Euro-pean Union and Interna-tional Monetary Fund tostart negotiations for a thirdbailout worth 85 billion eu-ros ($93 billion), followingseveral days of preparatorymeetings between lower-lev-el officials on reforming thetax system and labor mar-ket regulations.

The third bailout will in-clude a new punishinground of austerity measuresheaped on a country reelingfrom a six-year recessionand more than 25 percentunemployment. Prime Min-ister Alexis Tsipras haspledged to back the new cut-backs, while openly admit-ting that he disagrees withthem.

“We will implementthem, yes, because we areforced to,” he said in parlia-ment Friday. “But at thesame time we will struggleto change them, to improvethem and to counter theirnegative consequences.”

The bailout talks withthe IMF, European Commis-sion, European CentralBank and European Stabili-ty Mechanism must be con-cluded before Aug. 20. That’swhen a debt repayment tothe ECB worth more than 3billion euros is due — mon-ey which Greece does nothave.

Tsakalotos said the talksare focused on how to recap-italize Greece’s batteredbanking system, whose de-posit base was badly hit inrecent months as Greeksfearing a euro exit emptiedtheir accounts. The talks al-so addressed Greece’s priva-tization commitments andbudget surplus targets.

“As you can understand,there was convergence onsome points, and less con-vergence on others,” hesaid.

Friday’s meetings camehours after Tsipras defeateda bid by dissenters in hisleft-wing Syriza party topush for an end to bailoutnegotiations and seek a re-turn to the old national cur-rency, the drachma.

The party’s governingcentral committee backed aproposal by Tsipras to holdan emergency party confer-ence in September, after thetalks have been concluded.

Dissenters had sought aconference earlier, pressingthe government to abandonthe negotiations.

In Parliament, Tsipras de-fended his flamboyant for-mer finance minister, YanisVaroufakis, who came un-der heavy fire over revela-tions that he had draftedcontingency plans for a par-allel payment system thatcould have eased a euro ex-it.

“Of course I issued per-sonal instructions to the fi-nance minister to create ateam that would work on aplan of defense in the eventof a national emergency,”Tsipras told parliament, an-swering a question from theopposition. “It would havebeen politically naive andirresponsible not to do so.Does that mean ... that I wasseeking an emergency?” hesaid, angrily rejecting accu-sations that he had intendedto take the country out ofthe 19-country eurozone.

Tsipras did not directlyaddress Varoufakis’ morecontroversial claim that hehad been planning to hackinto his own ministry’s taxrecords.

Greekstock

marketto reopen

By NICHOLAS PAPHITIS AND DEREK GATOPOULOS

ASSOCIATED PRESS

HARARE, Zimbabwe —Zimbabwe will seek theextradition of an Ameri-can dentist who killed a li-on that was lured out of anational park and causedinternational outrage, aCabinet minister said Fri-day.

In the Zimbabwean gov-ernment’s first officialcomment on the killing ofCecil the lion, the environ-ment, water and climateminister lashed out atWalter James Palmer, ac-cusing him even of tryingto hurt Zimbabwe’s image.

“Unfortunately it wastoo late to apprehend theforeign poacher as he hadalready absconded to hiscountry of origin,” OppahMuchinguri told a newsconference. “We are ap-pealing to the responsibleauthorities for his extradi-tion to Zimbabwe so thathe be made accountable.”

On Tuesday, Palmer is-sued a statement sayinghe relied on his guides toensure the hunt was legal.Two Zimbabweans — aprofessional hunter and afarm owner — have beenarrested in the killing ofthe lion, an act which hasgarnered worldwide con-demnation. Palmer haskept a low profile, but onFriday U.S. federal wildlifeauthorities said they havebeen contacted by a repre-sentative of the Minnesotadentist.

The killing of Cecilgained global attention asthe U.N. General Assemblyunanimously adopted aresolution Thursdayaimed at combatting ille-gal wildlife trafficking andpoaching, the culminationof a two-year campaign ledby Gabon and Germany.

“We very much wel-

come the decision by theGeneral Assembly whichwill help in the protectionof wildlife, of fauna andflora,” Stephane Dujarric,the spokesman for U.N.Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said.

Palmer is believed tohave shot the lion with abow on July 1 outsideHwange National Park, af-ter it was lured onto pri-vate land with a carcass ofan animal laid out on acar, Zimbabwean conser-vationists have said. Some40 hours later, the wound-ed cat was tracked downand Palmer allegedlykilled it with a gun, theysaid.

“There has been an out-cry,” Muchinguri said. “Al-most 500,000 people arecalling for his extraditionand we need this support.We want him tried in Zim-babwe because he violatedour laws.”

She did not explain the500,000 but there are on-line petitions demandingPalmer’s extradition.

“I have already consult-ed with the authoritieswithin the police forcewho are responsible for ar-resting the criminal. Wehave certain processes wehave to follow,” Muchingu-ri said at the offices of thenational parks and wildlifeauthority. “Police shouldtake the first step to ap-proach the prosecutor gen-eral who will approach theAmericans. The processeshave already started.”

She said both Palmerand professional hunterTheo Bronkhorst violatedthe Parks and Wildlife Act,which controls the use ofbow and arrow hunting.She said Palmer, who re-portedly paid $50,000 tohunt the lion, also violatedthe act through financingan illegal hunt.

Cecil the lion roams on the plains in Hwange National Park onNov. 18, 2012, in Zimbabwe.

Photo by Paula French/Zuma Press | TNS file

Lion killer’sextradition sought

By FARAI MUTSAKAASSOCIATED PRESS

SAINT-ANDRE, Re-union — Under a micro-scope and expert eyes, thewing fragment thatwashed up on the beach ofthis volcanic island couldyield clues not just to itspath through the IndianOcean, but also to whathappened to the airplaneit belonged to.

Analysts at the Frenchaviation laboratory wherethe scrap was headed Fri-day can glean details frommetal stress to see whatcaused the flap to breakoff, spot explosive or otherchemical traces, and studythe sea life that made itshome on the wing to pin-point where it came from.

French authorities haveimposed extraordinary se-crecy over the 2-meter (6-foot) long piece of wing,putting it under policeprotection in the hours be-fore it left the island of Re-union. If the fragment isindeed part of the missingMalaysia Airlines Flight370, it means the wreck-age may have drifted thou-sands of miles across theIndian Ocean to thisFrench island off the eastcoast of Africa.

Wrapped and loaded ascargo, it was headed to amilitary aviation laborato-ry near the city of Tou-louse, Europe’s aviationhub.

“With a microscope,that can learn detailsfrom the torn metal,” saidXavier Tytelman, aFrench aviation safety ex-pert. “You can tell wheth-er a crash was more hori-zontal or vertical ... Youcan extrapolate a lot.”

John Cox, presidentand CEO of Safety Operat-ing Systems and a formeraccident investigator, saidminute characteristics ofthe metal could indicateattitude and vertical speedof the aircraft when it im-pacted.

“It won’t tell you howthe plane crashed, but itwill be a step in that di-rection,” Cox said.

Barnacles encrustingthe wing’s edges would bestudied for clues to plotthe wing’s journeythrough the Indian Ocean,but Tytelman said therecould be other microscop-ic life clinging to the met-al or bottled up inside thatcould further indicatewhere the wing traveled.

“It’s been 16 monthsfrom the crash and every-

thing fits together,” saidoceanographer ArnoldGordon of Columbia Uni-versity’s Lamont-DohertyEarth Observatory. “So Ithink the probability thatit’s from 370 is prettyhigh.”

The currents from theIndian Ocean flow in acounter-clockwise waythat would take a crashfrom west of Australia toReunion Island, Gordonsaid. The amount of bar-nacles on the debris isconsistent with other de-bris that he’s seen in theocean for more than ayear. And it’s the righttype of plane.

Pictures of the “flape-ron” show that it is mis-sing its drive arm, whichdirected up-down move-ment — but there appearsto be relatively mild dam-age at the location wherethe drive arm tore away,said William Waldock, aformer U.S. Coast Guardofficer and a professor atEmbry-Riddle Aeronauti-cal University in Prescott,Arizona, who teaches air-craft search and rescue.

“One of the things Iguess is a little surprisingis how intact the flaperonis,” he said. “It arguesthat it wasn’t a very vio-lent impact, which goesalong with some of theo-ries that it just ran out ofgas and glided down.”

The French aviation ex-perts, including a legal ex-pert from the field, willstart their inquiry onWednesday, according tothe Paris prosecutor’s of-fice. On Monday, an inves-tigating judge will meetwith Malaysian author-ities and representativesof the French aviation in-vestigative agency, knownas the BEA, according tothe statement late Friday.

The statement said ashred of suitcase foundnear the wing fragmentwould also undergo foren-sic testing at a Paris-areagovernment lab, and

searchers continued Fri-day to scour the Reunioncoastline for other possi-ble debris, including theman from the beach main-tenance crew who foundthe wing fragment.

Officials hope to have atleast some answers soon,keenly aware that familiesof those on board Flight370 are desperately await-ing word on the fate oftheir loved ones.

“The most importantpart of this whole exerciseat the moment is to givesome kind of closure tothe families,” said Austra-lian Transport MinisterWarren Truss, whosecountry is leading thesearch for the plane in adesolate stretch of oceanoff Australia’s west coast.

Even if the piece is con-firmed to be the first con-firmed wreckage fromFlight 370, there’s no guar-antee that investigatorscan find the plane’s vitalblack box recorders orother debris. A multina-tional search effort hascome up empty.

Air safety investigators,including one from Boe-ing, have identified thecomponent as a flaperonfrom the trailing edge of aBoeing 777 wing, a U.S. of-ficial said. The officialwasn’t authorized to bepublicly named.

Flight 370, which disap-peared March 8, 2014, with239 people on board, is theonly missing 777.

Scanning the beach’sdistinctive black volcanicsand and stones on Friday,searcher Philippe Sidampicked up a plastic bottlefor laundry detergent.“This is from Jakarta, In-donesia,” he said, pointingto the writing on the bot-tle. “This shows how theocean’s currents bringmaterial all the way fromIndonesia and beyond.That explains how the de-bris from the Malaysianplane could have reachedhere.”

Mystery continues

Members of the French gendarmerie carry a wooden box contain-ing the wing part that was washed up on a beach, Friday.

Photo by Ben Curtis | AP

By ANDREW MELDRUM AND LORI HINNANTASSOCIATED PRESS

SENTENCIAWASHINGTON — Una

jueza federal sentenció elviernes a 18 años de cárcelpor traficar toneladas dedrogas a Estados Unidos almexicano Ediel López Fal-cón, considerado un inte-grante del Cartel del Golfo.

La jueza federal del Dis-trito de Columbia BarbaraRothstein lo multó ademáspor 15.000 millones de dó-lares, equivalente a los in-gresos percibidos por elcartel del Golfo a través desus centros de distribuciónubicados a lo largo de lafrontera entre Estados Uni-dos y México.

El Documento de Justi-cia dijo en un comunicadoque López se había decla-rado culpable el 3 de fe-brero del 2015.

ARRESTOSTrece presuntos inte-

grantes de un grupo delic-tivo en el FraccionamientoSan Valentín, de Reynosa,México, fueron detenidosesta semana, anunciaronautoridades tamaulipecas eljueves.

Elementos de Fuerza Ta-maulipas detuvieron a Artu-ro Macías Solís, José Car-los Quintero Rentería, Uli-ses Esaut Betancourt Azúa,David Alejandro López Mon-toya, José Máximo SalgadoRuiz, José Francisco GómezTreviño, José Manuel Calde-ra Ríos, Luis Pablo ReyesGómez, Daniel Wing Carma-no, Brayan Juan RaymundoIgnacio, Eduardo GómezMartínez, Martín GómezGonzález y Janeth AraceliRuiz Reyes.

El reporte indica queCaldera Ríos ya había esta-do recluido en un penal.

Autoridades aseguranque los sospechosos dije-ron que realizaban activida-des de halconeo.

Durante el arresto sedecomisaron seis armaslargas, cinco kilos y 995gramos de marihuana, tresaparatos de radiocomunica-ción, 1.233 cartuchos dediferentes calibres, 45 pon-cha llantas metálicos y 56cargadores. Un vehículoFord Expedition, color ne-gro, con placas de Texas;un vehículo Grand Caravan,color verde, con placas deTexas; y, una Toyota RunnerSR5, color negro.

SECUESTROEl martes se logró la

detención de Jesús Hernán-dez Vázquez, de 27 añosde edad, en Montemorelos,Nuevo León, México, dio aconocer el Grupo de Coor-dinación Tamaulipas.

Al sospechoso se leidentifica como el sucesorde David Piña Padrón,quien se desempeñaba co-mo jefe de plaza de ungrupo delincuencial queopera en municipios comoNuevo Padilla, San Carlos yVictoria, así como en loca-lidades como Soledad, Ba-rretal y Santa Engracia, en-tre otras.

De acuerdo a las investi-gaciones de la Policía Fede-ral, Hernández Vázquez esresponsable de secuestros,extorsiones, abigeato yotras actividades ilícitasocurridas en esos munici-pios y localidades. Tambiénestá vinculado con el se-cuestro de Ernestina Rodrí-guez Borrego, ex diputadadel PRI, ocurrido el 29 dejunio de 2014 en el ejido“La Chepina”.

Hernández Vázquez,quien cuenta con orden deaprehensión del fuero fede-ral por delincuencia organi-zada, fue puesto a disposi-ción del Ministerio PúblicoFederal adscrito a la Sub-procuraduría Especializadaen Investigación de la De-lincuencia Organizada (SEI-DO), de la Procuraduría Ge-neral de la República.

Ribereñaen Breve

Agentes de la Patrulla Fronte-riza de Estados Unidos hallaronlos cuerpos de dos inmigrantesindocumentados muertos por des-hidratación en una zona desérticadel sur de Texas, cerca de la fron-tera con México, según informóhoy BP.

Los dos fallecidos formabanparte, junto a otras 21 personasque fueron detenidas, de un gru-po de indocumentados que habíacruzado a pie la frontera.

Una llamada al teléfono deemergencias puso en alerta el pa-sado viernes a los agentes fronte-rizos, que se desplazaron a la zo-na de Carrizo Springs, a unas 30millas (48 kilómetros) de México,en busca de los indocumentados.

Según el comunicado policial,los patrulleros desplazados al lu-gar hallaron en un primer mo-mento y con la asistencia de uni-dades aéreas el cuerpo sin vida deun hombre.

Durante el operativo, “los agen-tes advirtieron rastros de huellas

pertenecientes a un gran grupo yencontraron a 21 inmigrantes in-documentados y a otro hombre fa-llecido entre la maleza”, agregó laPatrulla Fronteriza.

Una mujer que formaba partedel grupo tuvo que ser evacuadaen helicóptero a un hospital trasperder el conocimiento por deshi-dratación.

El sábado, los agentes rescata-ron en una zona cercana a otramujer que había cruzado la fron-tera junto a su hijo de 11 años yque estaba inconsciente a causa

del calor.Cada año, docenas de inmi-

grantes indocumentados muerendeshidratados o a causa de golpesde calor en su intento de ingresara pie a Estados Unidos a través dela zona desértica que une a estepaís con México.

En otro comunicado, la Patru-lla Fronteriza informó hoy quedurante el fin de semana detuvo a26 indocumentados en diversosoperativos en la región sureña delValle del Río Grande.

Información de EFE.

CARRIZO SPRINGS

Localizan cuerposLA VOZ DE HOUSTON

Zfrontera PÁGINA 9ASÁBADO 1 DE AGOSTO DE 2015

Fomentar los lazos co-merciales y económicosentre Texas y la RepúblicaCheca, fue el propósitoprincipal de una reuniónentre el Gobernador GrezAbbott y el Embajador dela República Checa paraEstados Unidos, Petr Gan-daloviè, el jueves.

Abbott y Gandaloviè ha-blaron sobre promocióndel comercio e inversiónentre la República Checay el sur de Texas, señalaun comunicado de prensa.

“Desde la primera olade inmigrantes europeos amediados del siglo XIX,los checos han sido unaparte importante de la ri-queza cultural con quecuenta la histórica de Te-xas”, dijo Abbott a travésde un comunicado deprensa. “Estoy honrado dereunirme con el Embaja-dor Gandaloviè y conti-nuar contribuyendo a laconstrucción de una rela-ción fuerte entre Texas yla República Checa, mien-tras buscamos la expan-sión de nuestros lazos eco-nómicos, culturales y di-plomáticos”.

Durante la reunióntambién se trataron pun-tos clave, estadísticas y ci-fras que existen entre Te-xas y la República Checa.

Algunos datos comer-ciales importantes, quefueron señalados en el co-municado de prensa son:

En 2014, Texas expor-tó 312.3 millones de dóla-res en bienes a la Repúbli-ca Checa, incluyendo ma-quinaria industrial,maquinaria eléctrica, he-rramientas con base demetal y productos quími-cos.

En 2014, Texas im-portó 304.3 millones enbienes de la RepúblicaCheca, incluyendo maqui-naria eléctrica, artículosde hierro y acero, maqui-naria industrial y pirotec-nia.

ECONOMÍA

Reuniónbuscaapoyar

comercio ESPECIAL PARA TIEMPO DE ZAPATA

Un subsidio estatal dio paso aque una empresa de clase mundialcambiará su base de California aTexas, dio a conocer el gobierno eljueves.

LiveOps, el líder mundial encentros de contacto y solucionesde servicio al cliente, que actual-mente tiene sus oficinas centralesen Redwood City, California, ten-drá su nueva ubicación en CedarPark, Texas, dijo el GobernadorGreg Abbott, a través de un comu-nicado de prensa.

“Gracias a nuestros impuestosbajos, bajas regulación de desarro-llo que permite a todos los nego-

cios prosperar, el Estado de Texasse ha convertido en el líder nacio-nal de la creación de empleadostecnológicos, y continuaremos ad-juntando compañías de todo elpaís y de alrededor del mundo”,dijo Abbott. “A nombre del Estadode Texas, estoy complacido de darla bienvenida a LiveOps”.

El cambio resultará en la crea-ción de 155 nuevos empleos y enuna inversión de capital de 5 mi-llones de dólares, añade el comu-nicado. Un subsidio de Texas En-terprise Fund (TEF) donde se ofre-cía 1.2 millones fue presentado aLiveOps.

“LiveOps está entrando a lanueva fase de crecimiento”, dijo

Vasili Triant, CEO de LiveOps, enun comunicado. “Texas se ha con-vertido en un centro tecnológicocon respeto internacional y man-tiene una comunidad vibrante contalento en tecnología… Creemosque esta nueva ubicación no sola-mente apoyará los planes de nues-tra organización, sino que tam-bién ofrecerá a nuestro valiosopersonal un ambiente familiarcon una gran reducción en el cos-to de vida”.

Las nuevas oficinas centralesde LiveOps serán de 25.000 pies.Todos los empleados de la compa-ñía con base en California se leshan ofrecido un puesto en las nue-vas instalaciones de Texas y otras

oficinas de LiveOps en EU, indicael comunicado.

LiveOps es el líder global en so-luciones de centros de contacto denubes y de servicio al cliente. Laempresa cuenta con más de 400empresas de todo el mundo, inclu-yendo ProFlowers, Ideal Living,Murad, Aegon, Salesforce.com,Symantec, Royal Mail Group yAmway Nueva Zelanda.

La Legislatura de Texas creó elfondo TEF en 2003 y volvió a auto-rizar el financiamiento en 2005,2007, 2009, 2011 y 2013 para ayudara atraer nuevas empresas a Texasy expandir los negocios existentespara crear más puestos de trabajoen todo el Estado.

SUBSIDIO

Empresa mundial cambia oficinas a TexasTIEMPO DE ZAPATA

ASOCIACIÓN JUVENIL DE RODEO DE TEXAS

CAMPEÓN

Garrett Talamantes, originario de Carrizo Springs, recientemente fue nombrado Campeón All Around de la Subdivisión Junior dela Asociación Juvenil de Rodeo de Texas, durante la Final de Rodeo Estatal 2015 en Gonzáles. Talamantes logró sumar 3.740 pun-tos en la temporada antes de competir en rodeos alrededor del Estado. También fue acreedor de los títulos End of Year PoleBending Championship y Finals Rodeo Pole Bending. En total, Talamantes fue galardonado con tres sillas de montar de campeo-nato, y dos hebillas.

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Autoridades mexicanas dijeronhaber descubierto tres campamen-tos de entrenamiento utilizados porsospechosos tiradores en un árearural al otro lado de la frontera conel Condado de Zapata.

El martes, el Ejército Mexicanodijo que localizaron los campos enel marcador del kilómetro 176 de lacarretera Nuevo Laredo, México-Reynosa, también conocida comoCarretera Ribereña.

La Oficina del Fiscal General deMéxico, anunció que abrió una in-vestigación en relación al descubri-miento de los campos y al decomisode 20 armas de fuego en el lugar.

Mientras se encontraban patrul-lando, los soldados atravesaron uncamino rural que los llevó a lostres campos, que se cree fueronusados para entrenamiento físico.

Los soldados también dijeronque descubrieron una hielera

donde encontraron 20 armas defuego. Los oficiales señalaron el de-comiso de 15 rifles de asalto, un ri-fle calibre 5.45 y cuatro rifles cali-bre .223.

Una investigación está en curso.El investigador Joe E. Baeza,

portavoz de LPD, dijo que las auto-ridades de éste lado de la fronteracontinúan monitoreando la situa-

ción en México.La policía de Laredo se encuen-

tra en comunicación con sus con-trapartes en México, dijo Baeza.

“Continuamos vigilantes y con-tinuamos compartiendo informa-ción con contrapartes locales, esta-tales y federales para mantener laseguridad que Laredo ha disfruta-do los últimos años”, dijo.

CARRETERA RIBEREÑA

Descubren campos, hay decomiso POR CÉSAR G. RODRÍGUEZ

TIEMPO DE ZAPATA

En la imagen se observan algunas de las armas decomisadas.

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10A THE ZAPATA TIMES SATURDAY, AUGUST 1, 2015

year.” BP’s oil and gasprofit dropped 64 per-cent from April throughJune.

Exxon Mobil’s profitfell by half, to its lowestlevel since the recessionof 2009, the companysaid Friday. Its oper-ations in the U.S. — thecenter of the global oiland gas boom — postedits second straight quar-terly loss.

“The surprise reallywas here in the U.S.,”said Brian Youngberg,an analyst at EdwardJones.

Shares of Exxon andChevron, both compo-nents of the 20-memberDow Jones IndustrialAverage, fell 4 percenton Friday after they an-nounced results.

The companies are insome ways victims oftheir own success. Asurge in oil and gas pro-duction brought on bytechnological advancesand high prices in re-cent years has floodedthe market, sendingglobal prices sharplylower.

But geopolitical forceshave also increased thepressure on prices. Ira-nian oil is poised to re-turn the world marketafter years of sanctions,the Greek debt crisis isreducing economicgrowth in Europe and ashake-up in Chinese fi-nancial markets is re-ducing demand growthin the world’s secondlargest oil consumer.

After nearly fouryears near $100 a barrel,the price of oil beganslumping a year ago,falling to $43 by March.It surged briefly all theway to $61 in June, butthen fell again. Oil trad-ed just above $47 a bar-rel on Friday.

That has translated tosharply lower fuel pric-es. The U.S. average re-tail price of gasolinethrough the first half ofthe year was 30 percentlower than during thesame period last year.On Friday the nationalaverage was $2.67 a gal-lon, 85 cents lower thanlast year at this time, ac-cording to AAA.

Retail prices for dieseland heating oil have av-eraged 27 percent lowerthan last year, and air-lines have posted someof their highest profitsin years thanks to lowerjet fuel prices.

These low prices,along with the pain forthe oil industry andpleasure for consumers,are likely to continue fora while, analysts say.There is plenty of oil instorage tanks and theglobal oil industry hasthe capacity to producemore if demand picksup.

In a report Friday, IHSEnergy analysts predictfurther declines in oilprices. IHS says oil willhave to fall into the low$40 range and stay therefor “several months” be-fore U.S. productiongrowth slows and thesupply glut eases.

“It’s not good news forproducers,” said IHSChief Economist Nari-man Behravesh. “It’s ve-ry good news for U.S.households and consum-ers.”

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ones,” Trump said: “We havea lot of bad dudes, as I said.We have a lot of really badpeople here. I want to get thebad ones out. ... And, by theway, and they’re never com-ing back.”

But Trump dodged ques-tioned in the interviewabout how he would locatethose he wants to deport.Campaign spokeswomanHope Hicks declined to an-swer questions Thursdayabout that process or howmuch it might cost.

In recent years, the Oba-ma administration has re-lied on fingerprints collectedby local jails and sent to theFBI to identify immigrantsliving in the country illegal-ly who were also arrested oncriminal charges. But thatprogram has been chal-lenged in court. Meanwhile,hundreds of local jurisdic-tions are no longer comply-ing with requests to detainimmigrants until federal au-thorities can take custody ofthem.

The nation’s immigrationcourts already face a year-slong backlog of more than451,000 deportation cases.For immigrants who choose

to fight the government’s ef-forts to remove them fromthe country, the process cantake several years.

Bolick described Trump’sideas as “nativist rhetoric”that only manages “some-thing resembling a coherentimmigration strategy.” Hesaid Trump’s suggestionssends mixed messages,sounding at once open to apath to legal status while al-so proposing to deport all of-fenders.

Beyond the logistics of acomprehensive round-up arethe political implications ofsuch an effort. During acampaign stop in centralFlorida on Monday, Bushtold a group of about 150 pas-tors and other religious lead-ers that America’s immigra-tion system is “broken” butthat deporting 11 millionpeople is not a solution.

“The idea of self-deporta-tion, of rounding people up,is not an American value,”Bush said. “Americans rejectthat idea.”

Until Wednesday, Trumplargely side-stepped ques-tions about how he wouldtackle an overhaul of the na-tion’s immigration system.

The issue is one that two-thirds of Republicans saidwas very or extremely im-portant to them in a July As-sociated Press-GfK poll andalso one Trump takes onregularly.

In his campaign an-nouncement speech, Trumpsaid the Mexican govern-ment was shipping its crimi-nals and rapists to the U.S.While those comments drewwidespread criticism, hesaid Thursday during an ap-pearance at a golf resort heowns in Scotland that he de-serves credit for bringing at-tention to the issue.

“The people are verythankful I was able to bringthat argument out,” he said.“I think you know that.”

Trump told CNN that hisbusiness credentials and ex-perience in the private sec-tor made him capable ofsolving problems others can-not.

“Politicians aren’t going tofind them because they haveno clue. We will find them,we will get them out,”Trump said. “It’s feasible ifyou know how to manage.Politicians don’t know howto manage.”

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from me.”“I’d been trying to

sneak them out whenevershe wasn’t around,”Thomas Sonnen said. “Butshe’d know anyway.”

Eventually, King-Sonnenlaid down the law: If the“red trailer” came againto take calves to the sellbarn, she’d follow it her-self.

“So he told me he wasgoing to sell the wholeherd, was getting out ofthe business,” she said.“That meant all the cowsthat had lived their liveshere were going to beslaughtered. Theywouldn’t have a chance.”

Because Sonnencouldn’t just give away thecattle, his wife asked hima simple question.

“She asked to buy themfrom me. I asked why, andshe said she would keepthem in sanctuary,” hesaid. “I thought that was

crazy. This was Texas, itwasn’t going to work. ButI said ‘OK, go for it.”’

King-Sonnen turned tothe Internet for help, blog-ging at her “Vegan Jour-nal of a Rancher’s Wife”page and starting an In-diegogo campaign to pur-chase the animals. In un-der four months, the nec-essary funds had beenraised, and the sanctuarywas founded.

“All these people acrossthe country, across theworld, were rallying andsupporting us, cheering uson,” she said. “In lessthan four months we’draised more than $36,000.”

“I didn’t know if shecould do it, but she raisedthe money and bought thecows,” Sonnen said. “Thesanctuary’s working. It’spretty incredible, all thehelp she’s gotten.”

Eventually, Sonnencame around to the vegan

lifestyle, as well — thoughfor different reasons fromhis wife.

“My dad died of a heartattack when he was 62,and I had high choleste-rol,” he said. “I’m doing itfor health reasons. Startedcooking for myself, learn-ing a little bit and wentfull-fledged vegan when Ifound ice cream andcheeses that would work.And I had my blood workthe other day. My choleste-rol’s way down.”

To keep the sanctuarysustainable and generatesome income, plans are inthe works to open a vegan-ic farm on the property,where fresh produce canbe made available to thepublic. Shelley Katz, whomet King-Sonnen afterlooking for ways to ap-proach ranchers, is hardat work growing crops forthe farm’s opening.

“I remembered reading

about Renee on the Inter-net, so I asked her how Icould approach ranchersabout turning ranches in-to produce farms,” Katzsaid. “We just kept talkingfor months, and I’ve beenhere for over two weeks,just doing what I can.”

After another success-ful crowdfunding, thistime on the website Barn-raiser, the sanctuary willbe able to purchase thenecessary tools to grow alarger and more diversecrop. For the moment,Katz is keeping herselfbusy.

“Probably 200 plantsstarted already, herbs,melons, cucumbers, allkinds of stuff,” she said.“Within two months, let-tuce and herbs should beavailable first, becausethey’re the fastest-grow-ing. The goal now is to getit off its feet, a regularyield coming in, a loyal

customer base, then pullup the numbers and seethe difference between thefarm and the cattleranch.”

King-Sonnen hopes herproject will serve as amodel to others absentany judgment, she said.

“There’s other sanctuar-ies in Texas, but as far aswe know we’re the onlybeef cattle ranch that’sgone vegan,” she said.“We’re not out here tellingeverybody they’re wrong,it’s just something wecouldn’t ethically do any-more.”

Beth Arnold, an earlycontributor to the cam-paign and a member ofthe sanctuary’s board, re-mains impressed by thespeed at which the projecthas grown.

“I can’t believe howmuch she’s done in sevenmonths,” she said. “Heroriginal goal was to save

the cows, and now it’sturning into a wholemovement. A lot of peoplebelieve in what she’s do-ing, changing the waythey view farm animals.”

Already, the sanctuaryhas received a steer froma Future Farmers ofAmerica family that couldno longer care for it, andRowdy Girl rescued a pigthat had been abandonedfor six months after thedeath of its owner. “Her-man, the Miracle Pig”prompted the first of whatcould be more expansionsfor the sanctuary, andKing-Sonnen is happy todo her part to help ani-mals in danger.

“Any animal that’s go-ing to be slaughtered, oris in harm’s way,” shesaid. “They’re treated likefamily members, and wetake care of them everyday, to let them have thelives they deserve.”

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authorities on this side ofthe border continue tomonitor the situation inMexico.

Laredo police are con-stantly communicatingwith their counterparts inMexico, Baeza said.

“We remain vigilant and

continue to share informa-tion with local, state andfederal counterparts tomaintain the safety Laredohas enjoyed over the lastfew years,” he said.

(César G. Rodriguez maybe reached at 728-2568 or ce-sar@lmtonline.com)

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WASHINGTON — U.S.wages and benefits grewin the spring at the slow-est pace in 33 years, starkevidence that strongerhiring isn’t lifting pay-checks much for mostAmericans. The slowdownalso likely reflects a sharpdrop-off in bonus and in-centive pay for some work-ers.

The employment costindex rose just 0.2 percentin the April-June quarterafter a 0.7 increase in thefirst quarter, the LaborDepartment said Friday.The index tracks wages,salaries and benefits. Wag-es and salaries alone alsorose 0.2 percent.

Both measures recordedthe smallest quarterlygains since the secondquarter of 1982.

Salaries and benefitsfor private sector workerswere unchanged, theweakest showing since thegovernment began track-ing the data in 1980.

The disappointing fig-ures come after the indexhad been pointing to apickup in wage growth af-ter nearly two years ofsteady hiring. The indexrose just 2 percent in thesecond quarter comparedwith a year earlier. That isdown from a 2.6 percentincrease in the first quar-ter, which was the biggestin six and a half years.

The slowdown suggeststhat companies are stillable to find the workersthey need without boost-ing pay, a sign the jobmarket is not yet back tofull health. That couldcause some Federal Re-serve officials to push fora delay in any increase inthe short-term interestrate they control.

“Despite a tighter labormarket, and all of the sto-ries about pay increases atvarious large firms, wagegrowth is not picking upmeaningfully,” said Jen-nifer Lee, an economist at

BMO Capital Markets.“This may not sit wellwith (Fed) policymakers.”

Employers have addednearly 3 million jobs inthe past year, lowering theunemployment rate to 5.3percent in June, downfrom 6.1 percent 12months earlier. Most econ-omists have expectedthose gains to force busi-nesses to raise pay to at-tract and keep employees.

The Federal Reservewatches the employmentcost index closely forsigns that healthy hiringis pushing up wages.Strong increases couldlead companies to raiseprices for their goods tocover higher labor costs,boosting inflation. Thatwould make the Fed morelikely to raise the short-term interest rate it con-trols. Consumer priceshave been tame in the pastyear, though in recentmonths they have movedhigher.

In some occupationswhere bonuses are com-mon, compensation fellsharply after spiking inthe first quarter. Those in-clude sales, professionalservices such as law andaccounting, and manage-ment.

The employment costindex figures now matchthe sluggish pace ofgrowth reported in the av-erage hourly pay datathat’s part of the monthlyjobs report. Average hour-ly wages were up just 2percent in June from ayear earlier, the Labor De-partment said earlier thismonth.

Yet another measure ofpay, compiled by the Fed-eral Reserve Bank of At-lanta, shows wages are ac-celerating. Hourly pay fora typical employee rose 3.2percent in June from 12months earlier, accordingto the Atlanta Fed. Whilethat is double the annualpace of 1.6 percent in Feb-ruary 2010, it is still belowthe pre-recession levels ofabout 4 percent.

Paychecksgrow at

record-slowpace in Q2

By CHRISTOPHER S. RUGABERASSOCIATED PRESS

WASHINGTON — U.S.consumer sentimentslipped this month but re-mains at healthy levels,the University of Michi-gan said Friday.

Michigan’s index ofconsumer sentiment fellto 93.1 in July from 96.1the previous month.

Richard Curtin, chiefeconomist for the survey,blamed the drop on the“disappointing pace of ec-onomic growth.”

On Thursday, the U.S.government reported thatthe economy rose at asteady but unspectacularannual rate of 2.3 percentfrom April to June.

Still, Curtin said thesentiment index has aver-aged 94.5 since December,the highest eight-monthaverage since 2004. He at-tributed the healthy level

of consumer optimism to“modestly positive newson jobs and wages.”

The index was at 81.8 ayear ago.

Employers added a sol-id 223,000 jobs last month,and unemployment hasdropped to a seven-yearlow 5.3 percent.

“Gains in home prices

and jobs have helped sta-bilize household wealth,”economists Maninder Sib-ia and Steven Wood of theEconomic Advisory Ser-vice wrote in a researchnote. “But recent head-lines about financial vola-tility in Greece and Chinamay have left consumerswith a less positive out-

look after moderate in-crease last month.”

On Tuesday, the Confer-ence Board, a business re-search group, said its con-sumer confidence indexdropped to the lowest lev-el since September, attri-buting the plunge to wor-ries about the outlook forjobs, the ongoing debt cri-sis in Greece and a stock-market freefall in China.

The U.S. economy gotoff to a bad start thisyear, growing at an an-nual rate of just 0.6 per-cent from Januarythrough March, beforegaining some momentumin the second quarter.Economists say the out-look is likely strongenough for the FederalReserve to raise short-term interest rates laterthis year. The Fed haskept short-term ratesnear zero since December2008.

Consumer sentiment dropsBy PAUL WISEMANASSOCIATED PRESS

In this June 9 photo, shopper Miguel Ramirez, left, pays AngelHernandez for his merchandise at a fruit store in Miami.

Photo by Alan Diaz | AP

NEW YORK — Stocksclosed modestly lowerFriday as oil titans ExxonMobil and Chevron led aslump in energy stocks.

The Dow Jones indus-trial average lost 56.12points, or 0.3 percent, to17,689.86. The Standard &Poor’s 500 index lost 4.71points, or 0.2 percent, to2,103.92. The Nasdaq com-posite closed littlechanged, down half apoint to 5,128.28.

It’s was a see-saw weekfor the market, but allthree major indexesclosed higher by roughly1 percent.

Shares of Exxon Mobiland Chevron, the twolargest publicly tradedenergy companies, fellroughly 5 percent each onFriday. Both companiesposted major declines intheir year-over-year prof-its largely due to the bigdrop in the price of oil.

In the case of Exxon,earnings fell 52 percentfrom a year earlier, caus-ing the company to reportits lowest quarterly profitsince June 2009. Exxonshares fell $3.80, or 4.6percent, to $79.21.

Chevron, hurt by lowoil prices and a write-offof some of its assets, re-ported its lowest profit in13 years. The company re-ported a profit of 30 centsa share, well below the$1.13 analysts expected.Chevron fell $4.55, or 4.9percent, to $88.48.

Exxon and Chevrondragged down other ener-gy stocks. The S&P 500energy sector slumped 2.6percent, its biggest dropsince January.

Energy companieshave been a major dragon corporate earnings inthe second quarter. S&P500 companies are ontrack for a 1.3 percentyear-over-year decline inearnings, according toFactSet. If energy wereexcluded, corporate prof-its would be up 5.4 per-cent.

Even with oil pricesdown more than 50 per-cent from a year ago,crude has continued tofall. Oil prices declinedsharply again Friday oncontinuing concerns overhigh global supplies andweak demand, helpingpush oil down 21 percentfor the month.

Benchmark U.S. crudefell $1.40 to close at $47.12a barrel in New York.Crude fell $12.35 a barrelduring the month, from$59.47 at the end of June.Brent crude, a benchmarkfor international oils

used by many U.S. refin-eries, fell $1.10 to close at$52.21 in London.

A disappointing eco-nomic report alsoweighed on stocks.

U.S. wages and benefitsgrew at their slowest pacein 33 years in the spring,the Labor Departmentsaid, stark evidence thatthe improving job marketis having little impact onpaychecks for most Amer-icans. The slowdown like-ly reflects a sharp drop-off in bonus and incentivepay for some workers.

The lackluster wagegrowth suggests that com-panies are still able tofind the workers theyneed without boostingpay, a sign the job marketis not yet back to fullhealth. That could causethe Federal Reserve holdof any increase in inter-est rates.

Bond prices rose afterthe report, pushing the

10-year U.S. Treasurynote down to 2.19 percentfrom 2.26 percent onThursday.

“I can’t imagine theFed is looking at (this da-ta) this morning as a rea-son to increase rates inSeptember,” said Tom diGaloma, head of ratestrading at ED&F ManCapital.

In other energy mar-kets, wholesale gasolinerose 1.3 cents to close at$1.841 a gallon. Heatingoil fell 1.4 cents to close at$1.584 a gallon. Naturalgas fell 5.2 cents to closeat $2.716 per 1,000 cubicfeet.

In currencies, the dol-lar fell 0.3 percent to123.90 yen and the eurorose 0.4 percent to $1.0985.

In metals trading, goldrose $6.50 to $1,095.90 anounce and silver rose 5cents to $14.75 an ounce.Copper fell 1 cent to $2.43per pound.

US stocks end lowerBy KEN SWEET

ASSOCIATED PRESS

In this Oct. 8, 2014, file photo, a man walks to work on Wall Street, near the New York Stock Ex-change, in New York. Global stocks were mixed Friday, with China’s stock market extending losses.

Photo by Mark Lennihan | AP file

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LOS ANGELES — Bat-man. Spider-Man. IronMan. Ant-Man.

The list of male superhe-roes starring in their ownbig-screen escapades is big-ger than Tony Stark’s ego,and the billions of dollarsthese films have generatedrival the fortunes of thewell-off tinkerer. However,in spite of Hollywood’s con-tinued fascination with su-permen, a new surge of fe-male power could finallyelectrify the genre andmore closely resemble theaudiences of comic bookadaptations.

That’s the apparent take-away from Marvel Studios’

latest release, “Ant-Man.”The film concludes with —spoiler alert — EvangelineLilly’s character, Hope VanDyne, being bestowed withher late mother’s prototypesuperhero suit and alter-ego. When she spots the en-semble, she satisfyingly in-forms her inventor father,“It’s about damn time.” Itlikely is, considering 42percent of “Ant-Man” ticketbuyers on opening week-end were women.

“It was always intention-al to end the movie thatway with Hope saying she’sgoing to be suited up in fu-ture adventures,” said Ke-vin Feige, president of Mar-vel Studios. “Over the yearsince we shot that, it’s tak-en on a greater meaning

out there in the fan com-munity. It’s more relevantnow than it’s ever been.”

Over the past sevenyears of interconnectedMarvel superhero movies,

female characters who arenot codenamed Black Wid-ow have mostly been rele-gated to the sidelines aslove interests, sidekicks,damsels in distress or all of

the above, making Hope’sparting words resonate be-yond the screen for viewerswho’ve long been dissatis-fied with the lack of femalesuperheroes in movies, de-spite their decades-long his-tories in comics.

Scarlett Johansson’sshadowy agent Black Wid-ow is no longer the soleMarvel movie heroine fol-lowing the introduction ofZoe Saldana’s alien assas-sin Gamora in last year’s“Guardians of the Galaxy,”Elizabeth Olsen’s mind-bending Scarlet Witch earli-er this year in “Avengers:Age of Ultron” and Lilly’swinged Wasp at the end of“Ant-Man.”

“Their intentions are inthe right place,” Lilly said.

“They just have to getthere. They’re breakingnew ground. I’m reallyhonored and excited to bepart of that, to be one ofthe pioneering womenwithin the superherorealm, to represent strongwomen and put more of afemale presence into thesemovies.”

Andrea Letamendi, apsychologist and comicbook expert who recentlyparticipated in a talk atSan Diego Comic-Con ti-tled, “Building the Modern(Super)Heroine,” was dis-appointed that the film-makers stopped short ofhaving Lilly’s character ac-tually don the Wasp’s get-up and help save the dayalongside Ant-Man.

Hollywood’s female superhero problemBy DERRIK J. LANGASSOCIATED PRESS

This photo provided by Disney shows Evangeline Lilly as Hope vanDyne in Marvel’s “Ant-Man.”

Photo by Zade Rosenthal/Disney/Marvel | AP

Sports&OutdoorsSATURDAY, AUGUST 1, 2015 ON THE WEB: THEZAPATATIMES.COM

FOXBOROUGH,Mass. — The New Eng-land Patriots say theyhave more to worryabout during trainingcamp than the status oftheir star quarterback’slawsuit against theNFL and the team’s im-age around the league.

The defending Super

Bowl champions aretrying to replace VinceWilfork on the defen-sive line and DarrelleRevis and BrandonBrowner in the second-ary. Linebackers JerodMayo and Dont’a Hight-ower are trying tocome back from inju-ries. New additionssuch as safety Robert

OXNARD, Calif. — DezBryant took a couple oflong pauses, first tosearch for a way to de-scribe how he has ma-tured and then to find theright word to describeskeptics who think hehasn’t changed at all.

The Dallas CowboysAll-Pro receiver could re-lax on the first day oftraining camp Thursday,thanks to the five-year,$70 million contract thatwas the only reason hewas there in the firstplace.

And as much as hewants to show he’s not

Bryant reflects on contract

Dallas wide receiver Dez Bryant, right, received a new five-year, $70 million contract extensionin the offseason.

Photo by Gus Ruelas | AP

By SCHUYLER DIXONASSOCIATED PRESS

See COWBOYS PAGE 2B

RENTON, Wash. —Russell Wilson is stick-ing around with theSeattle Seahawks.

Wilson signed a four-year contract extensionwith the Seahawks onFriday, keeping him withthe franchise that tookhim in the third round ofthe 2012 draft andwatched him become oneof the most successfulyoung quarterbacks inNFL history.

“Blessed to be w/ thisorganization for 4 more

NATIONAL FOOTBALL LEAGUE

ARLINGTON — WithCole Hamels, the TexasRangers have gotten anoth-er ace in hopes of gettingback to the playoffs — in2015 and beyond.

Texas obtained the Phil-lies left-hander in an eight-player deal completed be-

fore Friday’s non-waivertrade deadline. It took acouple of days to finalize allthe details of the agreementreached earlier in the week.

The Rangers sent left-hander Matt Harrison andfive prospects to Philadel-phia. Texas also got left-handed reliever Jake Diek-man and will receive $9.5million — $7 million in

2016 and $2.5 million in2018 — to offset part of thecontract for Hamels, who isdue $22.5 million per sea-son through 2018 with aclub option for 2019.

“I’m excited to start thenext chapter of my baseballlife,” Hamels said. “Theyhave a lot of great playersand there’s always a chancein that league. I don’t think

they are too far away, eventhis year.”

Hamels, the 2008 WorldSeries MVP, is the firstpitcher in major league his-tory traded during a seasonimmediately after throwinga no-hitter — he no-hit theChicago Cubs last Saturdayat Wrigley Field.

MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL: TEXAS RANGERS

Texas’ newest ace

Former Phillies pitcher Cole Hamels was traded to Texas as the Rangers build for the future pairing him with Yu Darvish atop the rotation.

Photo by Chris Szagola | AP

Cole Hamels joins Rangers’ pitching staffBy STEPHEN HAWKINS

ASSOCIATED PRESS

See RANGERS PAGE 2B

HOUSTON — DallasKeuchel had scarcely morethan a five o’clock shadowwhen he made his majorleague debut in 2012.

Houston’s ace has sinceturned his beard into oneof the more recognizablein sports, rivaling that ofHouston Rockets starJames Harden in an un-usual one-two punch forthis city. Like his beard,Keuchel’s popularity hasgrown, too, as he hashelped the long-sufferingAstros take the lead in theAmerican League West.

There’s Keuchel’s Kor-ner, a section of the ball-park dedicated to the left-hander, where at each of

his home starts, $35 buys agame ticket, a fake beard,a shirt with a the words“Go Beard or Go Home”and a cartoon depiction ofhis whiskers.

But there is somethingyou should know about hisfamous face adornment:Unlike Harden, Keuchelisn’t committed to keepingthe beard.

“I would definitely cut itoff,” he told The Associat-ed Press in an interviewwhere he often absent-mindedly stroked thebeard.

Shearing it would haveto mean something. He’sthought about how hecould do it and who couldbe helped with the move.

MLB: HOUSTON ASTROS

Houston pitcher Dallas Keuchel has been a major part of the As-tros’ turnaround in 2015.

Photo by Colin E. Braley | AP

Keucheldominant

Houston starter helps Astros climbabove Angels in AL West

By KRISTIE RIEKENASSOCIATED PRESS

See ASTROS PAGE 2B

In the wake of ‘Deflategate’ and quarterback Tom Brady’simpending punishment, the Patriots are trying to remain fo-cused on the upcoming season.

Photo by Charles Krupa | AP

Patriots tryto focus on

football

See PATRIOTS PAGE 2B

By PAT EATON-ROBBASSOCIATED PRESS

Seahawks extend Wilson

Seattle quarterback Russell Wilson signed a four-year contract extension with the Seahawks onFriday.

Photo by Stephen Brashear | AP

By TIM BOOTHASSOCIATED PRESS

See SEAHAWKS PAGE 2B

years! Can’t wait to get onfield w/ the fellas!” Wilsontweeted early Friday morn-ing.

The team formally an-nounced the agreementshortly before Seattle’s firsttraining camp practice, anunofficial negotiation dead-line between the sides.MMQB.com reported the ex-tension is for four years and$87.6 million. Wilson’s repre-sentatives did not immedi-ately return messages seek-ing comment.

About to begin his fourthseason, Wilson has led Seat-tle to the playoffs all threeseasons, beating Denver inthe Super Bowl in his secondseason before losing to NewEngland in the title gamelast February.

He’s also been a bargainfor Seattle financially. The2015 season was the firsttime Wilson was scheduledto make more than $1 mil-lion.

That’s about to change. Wilson’s contract status

was the biggest story inSeattle, and the more timepassed without an agree-ment the more conjecturegrew about his long-termstatus with the team. Therewas growing concern thatWilson would play out the fi-nal season of his rookie con-tract and then test free agen-

cy. The Seahawks likelywould have used the fran-chise tag to keep Wilson forthe 2016 season but at a costthat would significantlyhamper their salary cap sit-uation.

Wilson’s agent, MarkRodgers, said a number oftimes during the offseasonthat the quarterback had fi-nancially planned to beplaying for $1.5 million. Wil-son took out an insurancepolicy to protect against in-jury just in case no exten-sion was reached.

Last season, Wilson threwfor 3,475 yards and 20 touch-downs against just seven in-terceptions in the regularseason. He added another849 yards rushing and sixscores, and saved some ofhis most memorable mo-ments for the playoffs. Wil-son overcame four intercep-tions in the NFC champion-ship game against GreenBay to throw the winningtouchdown to JermaineKearse in overtime to sendSeattle to its second straightSuper Bowl.

He also had the Seahawkson the cusp of a secondstraight title. Wilson gotSeattle to the New England1-yard line in the final sec-onds of the Super Bowl, on-ly to be intercepted by Mal-colm Butler, clinching the

Patriots’ 28-24 victory. For his career, Wilson is a

63 percent passer that’s beenequally dynamic with hisarms and his feet. He holdsthe NFL records for mostwins in his first three sea-sons and was the third-youngest quarterback inleague history to win a Su-per Bowl title.

While Seattle spent the2014 offseason locking up themajority of its key pieces tolong-term deals — EarlThomas, Richard Sherman,Doug Baldwin — the Sea-hawks are facing some of theperils that come with teamsuccess.

While Wilson’s deal wasthe focus, the rookie contractof All-Pro middle linebackerBobby Wagner is also up af-ter the 2015 season. MichaelBennett made clear he wouldlike a new contract a year af-ter signing a $28 million,four-year deal to remain inSeattle after the Seahawks’first Super Bowl title. Andstrong safety Kam Chancel-lor did not report to camp onThursday, unhappy with thecontract extension he signedbefore the 2013 season.

The Seahawks have Wil-son, Marshawn Lynch, Jim-my Graham, Cliff Avril, K.J.Wright, Sherman, Thomas,Baldwin and Chancellor allunder contract through 2016.

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the same guy known earlyin his career for legal trou-bles and sideline antics,Bryant emphasized thatmoney won’t change him af-ter he threatened to skipcamp and maybe even regu-lar-season games withoutthe long-term financial se-curity he felt he waited toolong to get.

“I’m glad that it gotdone,” said Bryant, last sea-son’s NFL leader with 16touchdown catches. “I’m ex-cited I’m back with myteammates, and I think thebeautiful thing about it allis it doesn’t feel brand new.That’s great. I’m glad thatit’s the same.”

Even if he says he isn’t.Bryant credited Jay Z’s

Roc Nation talent agencywith helping him refine hiscommunication skills, al-though it was still hard forhim to illustrate how they

did it. Bryant’s representa-tives also had to work to geta deal with the Cowboys un-til the final hours before aJuly 15 deadline that wouldhave forced him to play un-der a one-year deal, or notat all.

“They gave me a boost ofconfidence. And I thankthem,” the 26-year-old said.“I’m cautious in a good wayabout the moves that Imake.”

Bryant occasionallyshowed frustration on Twit-ter about how long it wastaking for a long-term deal.But the posts were mea-sured compared to the vola-tile player who’s beencaught on camera scream-ing at players and coachesduring games, or leavingthe sideline before the clockran out in a particularlypainful loss.

Does he still have work to

do? Sure. He dropped an ex-pletive at the end of an an-swer about how he can’tpay attention when issuesarise and people “overre-act” — that’s the word hewas trying to find duringone of the pauses. He cov-ered his sheepish smilewith his hand, then pulledit away.

“I’m back,” he said, stillsmiling.

Fellow receiver Cole Beas-ley sees the same teammate.

Bryant wanted to toss afootball almost as soon ashe took the field for the firsttime. And while Beasley nolonger had to worry aboutwhether his “vocal leader”would be in camp, he didhave to make sure he didn’tthrow out his arm.

“He’s like an old kid,man,” Beasley said. “Hecomes out here and the firstthing he wants to do is

throw the ball around. It’slike he’s already loose whenhe gets out here. He can justthrow the ball 50 yardswithout even warming up.My arm’s out here hurting,trying to throw it back tohim.”

Quarterback Tony Romoalready faced the prospectof moving on without NFLrushing leader DeMarcoMurray, who signed withPhiladelphia in free agency.Trying to follow the most ef-ficient season of his careerwithout Bryant as wellwould have been daunting.

“I told him, ’It’s abouttime,”’ Romo said of hisfirst conversation withBryant after the receiversigned. “But it was out ofhis control a little bit. Ithink I was just happy tosee him.”

The lengthy negotiations— going back to last No-

vember — fueled specula-tion that the Cowboys werestill worried about off-the-field issues, which alsoplayed a role in Dallas evenhaving a chance to get himlate in the first round afterhis draft stock fell in 2010.

The Cowboys have saidthere is no language in thecontract specific to Bryant’sbehavior, and that anyclauses related to off-field is-sues are similar to the stan-dard fare in other NFLdeals.

“I actually think if thatwas I’ll say my second yearin the league, I think itwould have been crazy, itwould have been horrible,”Bryant said. “I would havebeen tweeting some crazystuff. I feel like I handled itthe right way.”

Romo agrees.“You’ve seen Dez as an

older, more mature Dez,”

Romo said. “He’s come along way since he firststepped on the field here,and I think it’s exciting tosee his growth as a player,as a person. He’s like a littlebrother to me.”

Bryant has more catches(381), yards (5,424) andtouchdowns (56) than anyreceiver in franchise histo-ry through five seasons, top-ping a list that includes Hallof Famers Bob Hayes andMichael Irvin. And his pres-ence erases a major distrac-tion for a team trying to de-fend an NFC East title andmake a Super Bowl run.

“I wasn’t really too wor-ried,” said Beasley, who alsosigned a long-term deal thisoffseason. “I knew Dezwanted to be here. I knewthey wanted him here.”

There were plenty ofsmiles to prove it in Califor-nia.

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His top choice would be todevise a plan where gettingrid of it could raise moneyfor charity, possibly in thefight against Alzheimer’s.

He’s keenly interested inAlzheimer’s research. His81-year-old grandfather, Jo-seph Keuchel, died in Sep-tember after a battle withthe disease. The elder Keu-chel was instrumental inthe 27-year-old’s early base-ball career, always braggingabout his grandson andhelping to fund trips togames and tournaments inhis youth.

“He was somebody thatwas very influential in mylife,” Keuchel said. “Andsomebody that I will neverforget.”

His bright eyes take on amomentary tinge of sadness

as he recounts watching hisgrandfather, a doctor spe-cializing in obstetrics andgynecology, succumb to theillness. Keuchel felt helpless.

“It was difficult, but at thesame time it’s one of thosethings where there wasnothing I could possibly doto reverse it,” he said.

So if someone stepped upwith a “large amount ofmoney” to go to an Alzheim-er’s charity, he’d have noqualms about a transition toclean-shaven Keuchel.

“It’s something that Iwould like to see a lot moreawareness of and that’s whyI would be willing to cut mybeard,” he said. “Hopefullyone of these days ... we canfind a cure for it.”

His attention to detail inthinking this through illus-

trates one of the reasonswhy Keuchel is such a dom-inant pitcher. The Oklaho-ma native is a perfectionist— from how agonizes overevery pitch to his perfectlyorganized closet featuring aprized Jordan collection.

That quality has helpedhim to 12 wins, which istied for the AL lead, and a2.32 ERA, ranking third inthe AL.

Manager A.J. Hinch jok-ingly called it the “stub-bornness of being great” be-fore getting serious.

“He can go three up andthree down and not be satis-fied,” Hinch said. “That hap-pens routinely for him.”

Keuchel chuckles whenasked about his perfection-ism.

“It’s kind of borderline ri-

diculous,” he said. “I’m al-ways striving to be the best.When I see guys performinglike Greg Maddux or TomGlavine or John Smoltz, itseemed to me that those guyswere just perfect pitchersand I’ve always wanted to belike them. And so with that Ido everything I possibly canin between my start days tobe as perfect as possible.”

Keuchel went 3-8 with a5.27 ERA in 16 starts in 2012,the highlight of which was acomplete game in his secondmajor league outing. He nev-er lacked confidence and atthe time believed he wasready to be in the bigleagues. The luxury of timehas shown him that that mayhave not been the case.

“That whole year I waskind of up and down ... it

was a roller coaster,” hesaid. “When I’m lookingback at my short careernow, I feel like I was a mi-nor league pitcher beinglucky enough to be in thebig leagues, I honestly didn’tbelong. There was a lot ofstuff that I needed to cleanup.”

He made his first openingday roster last season byearning the fifth spot inHouston’s rotation. That, hesays, was the shot in thearm needed to propel him tothe next level.

Last season he went 12-9with a 2.93 ERA and fivecomplete games and pickedup his first Gold Glove.Once he realized he was ca-pable of retiring the game’smost elite hitters there wasno stopping him.

“Just to get over thatmental hump was probablythe biggest thing,” he said.“And once you do that I feltlike I was almost on a jetjust taking off.”

Keuchel takes pride in hisascension to top-tier starterand appreciates the pro-gress he’s made. But he’dconsider this season all buta failure if his work doesn’thelp Houston to the postsea-son for the first time sincethey were swept by theWhite Sox in the 2005 WorldSeries.

“Because I would honest-ly feel like I didn’t doenough,” he said. “I don’tplay this game for individu-al achievements. They’renice, but at the end of theday I want a World Seriesring or I want multiples.”

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McClain are learningthe system. Some play-ers — second-year run-ning back James Whiteand defensive linemanSealver Siliga, for ex-ample — are looking forbigger roles, and othersare fighting just for aroster spot.

The official Patriotsline is that because ofthose priorities, theteam spends little timecontemplating the jus-tice of the NFL’s pun-ishment for the use ofunderinflated footballsin the AFC champion-ship game.

“I know that’s realimportant to everbodyelse, but it’s not reallyvery important to meand I don’t think it’s ve-ry important to ourfootball team,” coachBill Belichick said Fri-day.

Defensive end Chand-ler Jones said he be-lieves he speaks for ev-eryone in camp whenhe says the team doesn’tfeel it needs to validatewhat it did last year.

“The only person wehave to prove anythingto is each other, our-selves and coach Belich-ick,” he said.

Brady has not met

with reporters sincecamp opened Wednes-day, a day after NFLCommissioner RogerGoodell upheld the four-game suspension for hisinvolvement in the al-leged football deflations.

The lawsuit filed byBrady and the players’union this week is be-ing handled in NewYork and both sideshave asked a judge torule before Sept. 4, sixdays before the Patriotsopen the season againstPittsburgh.

Brady and second-year quarterback Jim-my Garoppolo bothlooked sharp Friday.Neither threw an inter-ception during 11-on-11drills.

But Belichick wouldnot talk about Garoppo-lo’s progress or addressthe prospect of the sec-ond-year player beingready to start for thePatriots in September.

“I’m not going toevaluate the playersminute to minute, dayto day,” he said. “We’vegot a lot of trainingcamp practices ahead ofus.”

Receiver Julian Edel-man said Brady hasbeen handling camp

just as any other playerwould — trying to getbetter despite distrac-tions, such as the rau-cous crowds thatshowed up this week,chanting his name,with some wearing“Free Brady” T-shirts.

On Thursday, an air-plane buzzed the prac-tice field towing a ban-ner that said: “CheatersLook Up!” and listingthe Twitter handle of aNew York Jets fan web-site. On Friday, therewas another, this onereading in part, “GoPats.”

“It’s pretty funny ac-tually to see those kindof things,” Edelmansaid. “It’s awesome tohear the fans, how theysupport everything.But, ultimately ourmind’s on just trying toget in here and get towork and try to moldour team.”

And Belichick madeit clear the team’s focusis on the field, not thesky or anywhere else.

“I don’t know whatyou’re talking about,”he said when askedabout Thursday’s flyov-er. “What plane? I’mjust trying to coachfootball.”

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The Texas debut for thethree-time NL All-Star isset for Saturday night athome against the San Fran-cisco Giants. Hamels is 6-7with a 3.64 ERA in 20 startsthis season.

Along with Harrison, thePhillies got Double-A catch-er Jorge Alfaro, outfielderNick Williams and right-hander Jake Thompson —three of the Rangers’ topprospects — and Triple-Aright-handers Jerad Eick-hoff and Alec Asher.

“We were looking fordepth and talent and we gotboth,” Phillies generalmanager Ruben Amaro Jr.said.

Hamels had a limited no-trade clause and he vetoeda deal to the Houston As-tros.

“You don’t want to say no

to anybody and you don’twant to let a city down oran organization down butyou want to do what’s bestnot just for my baseball ca-reer, but for my family,” Ha-mels said. “You just wantto make the best decision.”

Texas (49-52) went intoFriday night’s series open-er against the Giants inthird place in the AL West,eight games behind divi-sion-leading Houston. TheRangers were four gamesbehind the second AL wild-card spot, and had five oth-er teams between them andthe top two spots.

Hamels next season willbe part of a rotation thatexpects back Japanese aceYu Darvish, who had Tom-my John elbow ligamentreplacement surgery lastMarch. Left-hander Derek

Holland, who pitched onlyone inning the April 10home opener, on Thursdaybegan his minor league in-jury rehab from a strainedshoulder.

The 31-year-old Hamelshad spent his entire careerwith the Phillies, who draft-ed him with the 17th over-all pick in 2002. He was 114-90 with a 3.30 ERA over 10seasons, plus was 7-4 an in-tegral part of the greatestrun in franchise historywhen they won fivestraight NL East titles, twopennants and one World Se-ries from 2007-11.

But the rebuilding Phil-lies are a big league-worst39-64. They also traded All-Star closer Jonathan Papel-bon to Washington.

Hamels was 114-90 with a3.30 ERA in 10 seasons in

Philadelphia. He went 7-4with a 3.09 ERA in 13 post-season starts and alsoearned MVP honors in the’08 NLCS.

“It was worth every-thing,” Hamels said aboutplaying in Philadelphia. “Itgives you a way to fighteven harder . to hear thecheers, and you understandthe boos.”

Hamels has three yearsremaining in a $144 mil-lion, six-year contract, adeal that includes a $20 mil-lion club option for 2019 ora $6 million buyout. Thatoption becomes guaranteedat $24 million if he throws400 innings or more in 2017-18, including at least 200 in2018, and isn’t on the dis-abled list at end of 2018with left shoulder or elbowinjury.

Only two other playershave been traded in thesame season after throwinga no-hitter, Cliff Chambersin 1951 and Edwin Jacksonin 2010, according toSTATS. But both made an-other appearance after theno-hitter before being dealt.

Diekman is 2-1 with a5.15 in 41 appearances thisseason. He pitched in 191games for the Phillies since2012.

The 29-year-old Harrison,a 2012 All-Star, has madethree starts this season af-ter having spinal fusionsurgery last summer.

Harrison won 18 gamesin 2012 and then received a$55 million, five-year con-tract. But he made only twostarts in 2013 before two op-erations on a herniateddisk in his back. After four

starts in 2014, he was diag-nosed with significantnerve irritation and a for-ward displacement of hisvertebrae, known risks af-ter the earlier procedures.

Alfaro, 22, signed as a 16-year-old free agent from Co-lumbia in January 2010, hit.253 with five homers and21 RBIs in 49 games at Dou-ble-A Frisco this season be-fore a left ankle injury.

Williams and Thompson,both 21, were second-rounddraft picks in 2012. Wil-liams hit .299 with 13 home-rs and 45 RBIs in 97 gamesthis season at Frisco, whereThompson was 6-6 with a4.72 ERA in 17 starts.

Philadelphia will payTexas in 12 semimonthlyinstallments from Aprilthrough September in 2016and 2018.

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