MIAMI — More than anestimated 8.5 million immi-grants living in the U.S.were eligible for citizen-ship in 2012. Yet fewer than800,000 took the leap, ac-

cording to the latest De-partment of Homeland Se-curity numbers.

If statistics hold, nearly60 percent of the remaindereventually will — a per-centage that has been slow-

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ATLANTA — A nursewho fueled Ebola fears byflying to Cleveland afterbeing infected by her dy-ing patient was releasedTuesday from a hospitalisolation unit, where doc-tors defended her as a cou-rageous front-line caregiv-er.

Another nurse, held fordays in a medical tent inNew Jersey after volun-teering in West Africa,was in an undisclosed lo-cation in Maine, objectingto quarantine rules asoverly restrictive.

While world leaders ap-peal for more doctors andnurses on the front lines ofthe Ebola epidemic, healthcare workers in the UnitedStates are finding them-selves on the defensive.

Lawyers now representboth Amber Vinson, whocontracted the virus whilecaring for a Liberian vis-itor to Texas, and KaciHickox, who is challengingthe mandatory quarantin-es some states are impos-ing on anyone who cameinto contact with Ebolavictims.

The virus is still spread-

ing faster than the re-sponse, killing nearly halfof the more than 10,000people it has infected inWest Africa.

World Bank PresidentJim Yong Kim said Tues-day that at least 5,000 morehealth workers are urgent-ly needed in Liberia, Sier-ra Leone and Guinea. U.N.Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, traveling with himin Africa, said mandatoryquarantines for healthcare workers, Ebola-relatedtravel restrictions and bor-der closings are not the an-swer.

The Pentagon an-nounced Tuesday that theJoint Chiefs of Staff recom-mended to Defense Secre-tary Chuck Hagel that herequire all U.S. troops re-turning from Ebola-fight-ing missions in West Afri-ca to be kept in supervisedisolation for 21 days. Ba-lancing that and similarquarantines announced byseveral state governors,President Barack Obamasaid the Ebola responseneeds to be “based on sci-ence.”

“We’ve got to make surethat those workers who

EBOLA

HICKOX VINSON

Two nursesfight back

againstconfinementBoth object to quarantine rules, hire

lawyers to challege isolationBy RAY HENRY

ASSOCIATED PRESS

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Nine months into a fed-eral pilot program created

to reduce wait times at in-ternational ports of entry,operators of bridges on theTexas-Mexico border say itappears to be accomplish-

ing that goal. But they alsosay it’s difficult to measurewhether cars, trucks andpedestrians are moving fas-ter across the border.

Launched in late Janu-ary, the project allows localgovernments and private

BORDER BRIDGE CROSSING PROGRAM

Unsure resultsBridge operators say wait times are shorter

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NEW ORLEANS — Anew $40 million partnershipwill give money for conser-vation projects to landown-ers in states affected byBP’s 2010 oil spill in the

Gulf of Mexico, U.S. Agri-culture Secretary Tom Vil-sack says.

He said the department’sNatural Resources Conser-vation Service and the Na-tional Fish and WildlifeFoundation could eventual-ly provide a total of up to

$100 million over five years,each giving half the money.

“We know some privatelandowners who would loveto be part of that recovery,but because of restrictionsor requirements have beenleft out,” Vilsack said in abrief phone interview Mon-

day with The AssociatedPress.

Thomas Kelsch, the foun-dation’s vice president forthe Gulf, noted that it’shelping to pay for Mississip-pi’s restoration planning,which is expected to identi-fy potential ways to im-

prove areas such as Biloxi’sBack Bay and the Mississip-pi Sound. Should that studyidentify private lands thatneed wetlands restorationor invasive species control,those might be “great candi-date projects,” Kelsch said.

He said some of the foun-

dation’s share will comefrom plea deals with Trans-ocean Ltd, which owned theDeepwater Horizon drillingrig, but money for Louisia-na projects must come fromother sources. Settlement

2010 GULF OIL SPILL

Official: Program to help spill-affected statesBy JANET MCCONNAUGHEY

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THURSDAY, OCT. 30LULAC Council #12 will present

its 20th Annual Tejano Achiever AwardsBanquet at 7 p.m. at the Laredo Coun-try Club. Recognition of outstanding ci-tizens of the community and enablesLULAC Council #12 to raise funds forscholarships. Contact Ed Bueno at 763-2214 for ticket information.

Planetarium movies. From 5p.m. to 7 p.m. TAMIU Lamar Bruni Ver-gara Planetarium. Contact Claudia Her-rera at claudia.herrera@tamiu.edu orvisit www.tamiu.edu/planetarium. 6p.m. Wonders of the Universe. 7 p.m.Lamps of Atlantis.

First Annual Down SyndromeAwareness Month Event. From 4:00pmto 7 p.m. Imaginarium at Mall DelNorte. Contact Raquel Canizales at ra-quelucha56@yahoo.com for more infor-mation.

Dog Costume Contest. From 6p.m. to 7:30 p.m. Puppy Palace Etc 517Shiloh Dr. Ste. 2 .Contact Sandra Solisat puppypalaceetc@hotmail.com or visitthe website at https://www.face-book.com/puppypalaceetc.laredo.

FRIDAY, OCT. 31Feria de la Hispanidad from Oct.

31 to Nov. 2 from 10 a.m. to 9 p.m.Laredo Energy Arena. Contact MelissaSantillana at m.santillana@hispanicin-ternational.com or www.FeriadelaHispa-nidad.com.

SATURDAY, NOV. 17th Annual Dia de los Muertos

Festival. 3 p.m. to midnight in the 400and 500 blocks of Starr and 500 to700 blocks of Mesquite streets indowntown Corpus Christi. Wear a cos-tume. Contact Michelle Smythe at in-fo@kspacecontemporary.org.

Autism Ties support meeting. 10a.m. to 12 p.m. My Sunny Gardens DayRehab, 1320 Laredo St. Contact us at :255-0713 or autismties@gmail.com. Au-tism Ties is on Facebook, too.

Registration is now in progressfor the 35th Guajolote 10K Race. Reg-ister at Hamilton Trophies (1320 Gar-den), Hamilton Jewelry (607 Flores), oronline at www.raceit.com, Guajolote10K Race. For information, call (956)724-9990 or (956) 722-9463.

The Laredo North side MarketAssociation. 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. at NorthCentral Park on International Blvd. Formore information about our free Hal-loween give away on our facebookpage.

TUESDAY, NOV. 4Alzheimer’s support group. 7

p.m. Meeting room 2, building B of theLaredo Medical Center. If you have anyquestions, please leave a message at956-693-9991.

Les Amies Birthday Club. At11:30 a.m. Ramada Inn (formerly theHoliday Inn). The Honorees are AmparoGarcia and Imelda Gonzales. The host-esses are Lely Garza, Aurora Mirandaand Ma Eugenia Garcia.

SATURDAY, NOV. 81st Annual Community Remem-

brance Ceremony. From 6:30pm to 9p.m. For more information please con-tact Jaqueline Vasquez at (956) 718-3000 or jvasquez@altushospice-care.com.

SATURDAY, NOV.15Football tailgate party. 9 a.m. to

9 p.m. at El Metro Park & Ride (byHillside). Contact LULAC Council 14 atlulac14@yahoo.com or call 286-9055.

Registration is now in progressfor the 35th Guajolote 10K Race. Reg-ister at Hamilton Trophies (1320 Gar-den), Hamilton Jewelry (607 Flores), oron-line at www.raceit.com, Guajolote10K Race. For information, call (956)724-9990 or (956) 722-9463.

MONDAY, NOV. 24Monthly meeting of Laredo Par-

kinson’s Disease Support Group. 6:30p.m. to 7:30 p.m. Laredo Medical Cen-ter, Tower B, First Floor CommunityCenter. Patients, caregivers and familymembers invited. Free info pamphletsavailable in Spanish and English. CallRichard Renner (English) at 645-8649or Juan Gonzalez (Spanish) at 237-0666.

THURSDAY, NOV. 27Registration is now in progress

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Today is Wednesday, Oct. 29,the 302nd day of 2014. Thereare 63 days left in the year.

Today’s Highlight in His-tory:

On Oct. 29, 1964, thievesmade off with the Star of Indiaand other gems from theAmerican Museum of NaturalHistory in New York. (TheStar and most of the othergems were recovered; threemen were convicted of stealingthem.)

On this date:In 1787, the opera “Don Gio-

vanni” by Wolfgang AmadeusMozart had its world premierein Prague.

In 1901, President WilliamMcKinley’s assassin, LeonCzolgosz (CHAWL’-gahsh), waselectrocuted.

In 1929, Wall Street crashedon “Black Tuesday,” heraldingthe start of America’s GreatDepression.

In 1966, the National Organ-ization for Women was formal-ly organized during a confer-ence in Washington, D.C.

In 1994, Francisco MartinDuran fired more than twodozen shots from a semiauto-matic rifle at the White House.(Duran was later convicted oftrying to assassinate PresidentBill Clinton and was sen-tenced to 40 years in prison.)

In 1998, Sen. John Glenn, atage 77, roared back into spaceaboard the shuttle Discovery,retracing the trail he’d blazedfor America’s astronauts 36years earlier.

In 2012, Superstorm Sandycame ashore in New Jerseyand slowly marched inland,devastating coastal communi-ties and causing widespreadpower outages; the storm andits aftermath are blamed for atleast 182 deaths in the U.S.

Ten years ago: Four daysbefore Election Day in theU.S., Osama bin Laden, in avideotaped statement, directlyadmitted for the first time thathe’d ordered the September 11attacks and told Americans“the best way to avoid anotherManhattan” was to stopthreatening Muslims’ security.

Five years ago: PresidentBarack Obama paid a post-midnight visit to Dover AirForce Base in Delaware tohonor the return of 18 soldierskilled in Afghanistan.

One year ago: The U.N.confirmed an outbreak of po-lio in Syria for the first timein over a decade, warning thedisease threatened to spreadamong an estimated half amillion children who had nev-er been immunized because ofthe civil war.

Today’s Birthdays: Blue-grass singer-musician SonnyOsborne (The Osborne Broth-ers) is 77. Singer Melba Mooreis 69. Actor Richard Dreyfussis 67. The former president ofTurkey, Abdullah Gul, is 64.Actor Dan Castellaneta (TV:“The Simpsons”) is 57. Comicstrip artist Tom Wilson (“Zig-gy”) is 57. Singer Randy Jack-son is 53. Rock singer SA Mar-tinez (311) is 45. Musician To-by Smith is 44. ActressWinona Ryder is 43. ActressTracee Ellis Ross is 42. ActressGabrielle Union is 41. Olympicgold medal bobsledder VonettaFlowers is 41. Rock musicianChris Baio (Vampire Week-end) is 30. Actress India Eisleyis 21.

Thought for Today: “Nu-merous politicians have seizedabsolute power and muzzledthe press. Never in history hasthe press seized absolute pow-er and muzzled the politic-ians.” — David Brinkley,American broadcast journalist(1920-2003).

TODAY IN HISTORY

SAN ANTONIO — British pop star PhilCollins on Tuesday handed over his vast col-lection of artifacts related to the Battle of theAlamo and the Texas Revolution to the stateof Texas.

Collins was in San Antonio to donatewhat’s considered the world’s largest privatecollection of Alamo artifacts. It includes afringed leather pouch and a gun used by Da-vy Crockett, Jim Bowie’s legendary knifeand letters from garrison commander Wil-liam B. Travis.

“There’s things in there that will makeyour mouth drop,” Collins said.

The 1980s pop artist and Genesis singer-drummer has joked that he spent all themoney he made from music on artifacts re-lated to the 1836 battle.

The collection was given to Texas LandCommissioner Jerry Patterson, the statesteward of the Alamo who is pushing for anew historical center that would house Col-lins’ collection.

“Texans are deeply indebted to Phil Col-lins,” Patterson said. “He is giving us backour heritage. Now these Texas treasuresneed a home where all can see them andstudy from them and learn about how Tex-ans won our liberty.”

Collins, who’s a Grammy and AcademyAward winner, donated a collection of morethan 200 items for display. Five crates full ofartifacts were unloaded from a cargo truckTuesday.

“This completes the journey for me. I’m64. When I was 5 or 6 years old, this thingbegan,” Collins said of his fascination withthe Alamo.

AROUND TEXAS

Phil Collins holds a Bowie knife that belonged to Jesse Robinson who fought under Jim Bowie at the Battle of Concepciónand the Siege of Bexar on Tuesday in San Antonio. Collins has handed over his vast collection of artifacts related to the Bat-tle of the Alamo and the Texas Revolution to the state of Texas.

Photo by Bob Own/San Antonio Express-News | AP

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Man found guilty in 1980 slaying

GEORGETOWN — A man hasbeen found guilty of capital mur-der in the 1980 death of a 73-year-old Williamson County woman.

The Austin American-States-man reports a jury found 56-year-old Steven Thomas guilty of cap-ital murder Monday in the deathof Mildred McKinney.

Thomas was charged in theslaying in 2012 after investigatorssaid his DNA matched DNAfound at the scene.

Police: East Texas bankrobber jailed after search

TYLER — Police in East Texassay a bank robber has been cap-tured about eight minutes afterthe heist after officers found himout of breath about a block awayfrom the building. Riley Womackwas charged with aggravatedrobbery with a deadly weapon.Womack robbed the Austin Bankin Tyler on Monday.

Repairs begin onvandalized headstonesLONGVIEW — Work has

started to repair nearly 90 head-stones damaged by vandals at anEast Texas cemetery.

James “Rusty” Brenner, ownerof Texas Cemetery Restoration,says the work will include takingthe tombstones apart, and con-structing new foundations andreassembling the monuments.

Repair work ongoing at$60M high school stadium

ALLEN — The first phase ofrepairs to a $60 million highschool football stadium in NorthTexas is complete.

An Allen Independent SchoolDistrict administrator told theschool board Monday night thatthe stadium is on track to reopenby May 1.

The arena was built just twoyears ago and seats 18,000 people.It was shuttered in June afterstructural cracks and other prob-lems were found.

Houston-area schooldistrict suspends officer

HOUSTON — A Houston-areaschool district has suspended apolice officer demanded to smellthe socks and underwear of awoman he pulled over. A womanreported Quinn stopped her vehi-cle around 3 a.m. on Aug. 11. He-found a marijuana grinder in thecar. Quinn told her he would re-lease her if she let him lick andsmell her feet. He then asked fora piece of her underwear.

Plans continue for tollroad despite oppositionDALLAS — State transporta-

tion officials are pushing for con-struction of a toll road in NorthTexas even though many townsnear the planned route are con-demning the project.

The Northeast Gateway is partof the state’s 10-year plan fortransportation projects. It wouldextend from the Dallas suburb ofGarland northeast to Greenville.— Compiled from AP reports

NY voters to decide on digital legislation

ALBANY, N.Y. — If New Yorkvoters approve proposition No. 2on the ballot next week, their 213legislators will join the digitalage. Their desks in the ornatechambers of the Capitol willhave computers instead of thickstacks of bills they’re supposedto read.

Other states have alreadymade such efforts, but NewYork’s change has required anumber of hurdles because thestate constitution requires billsto be printed and “upon thedesks” of lawmakers for threedays before they can be passed.

The change is expected to savemillions of dollars in printing.

Large flightless birdcloses Indiana highwayPERU, Ind. — A large flight-

less bird forced the closing of anorthern Indiana highway while

police officers and motoriststried to chase it down.

The 5-foot-tall bird called arhea escaped from a farm Mon-day and ran onto U.S. 24 near Pe-ru. Rheas are native to SouthAmerica and similar to ostrichesand emus.

An animal control arrived andshot the rhea with a tranquilizerdart. The tranquillizer didn’ttake effect immediately, causingofficers to block the highway foraround 10 minutes as they at-tempted to capture it. — Com-piled from AP reports

AROUND THE NATION

Budget bills sit on legislators’ desks in the Assembly Chamber at the Capitol inAlbany, N.Y in March. If New York voters approve a proposition on the ballot nextweek, their 213 legislators will join the digital age.

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For his first step in whatmany expect to be a long po-litical climb, RepublicanGeorge P. Bush is pursuingan office that will requirehim to look out for Texasschoolchildren by extractingmoney from the very indus-tries — oil and gas — thathave fueled his family’swealth and political for-tunes.

Polls indicate Bush ispoised to coast to election asstate land commissionerand take the helm of theGeneral Land Office. Thetypically obscure agency iscertain to draw more noticeif Bush becomes responsiblefor butting heads with someof the state’s most powerfuland politically influentialinterests.

Key among the GLO’sjobs is negotiating and en-forcing leases for mineralrights on millions of acresof state-owned land. Royal-

ties feed the state’s $34 bil-lion Permanent SchoolFund, which helps cover thestate’s share of public edu-cation.

“Our top job here at theGeneral Land Office is toearn money for the schoolkids of Texas,” outgoingCommissioner Jerry Patter-son said in a statement lastmonth, announcing that theoil boom had helped pumpa record $1 billion into thefund during fiscal 2014.

Sometimes, earning thatmoney means fighting withdrilling and productioncompanies.

“I sued them over price, Isued them over environ-mental issues, I sued themover royalty payments,”said Garry Mauro, a Demo-crat who was land commis-sioner from 1983 to 1999.

Patterson told State Im-pact Texas in 2012 that he isnegotiating with two oilcompanies that may haveunderpaid royalties by up-wards of $100 million. The

agency would not name thecompanies, and has beentight-lipped about such dis-putes. It named one lawsuitit is involved in regardingroyalties but did not providedetails.

An oil and gas invest-ment consultant, Bushraised hundreds of thou-sands of dollars from Texas-based energy magnates be-

fore even announcing whatoffice he would seek. Thecontributions provided cam-paign fodder for his Demo-cratic opponent, former ElPaso Mayor John Cook,who pledged not to takemoney from companies do-ing business with the GLO.(In the latest campaign fi-nance filings, Bush hadmore than $3 million in

cash on hand, while Cookreported just over $3,000.)

In an interview, Bushsaid past land commission-ers fought with energy com-panies after taking cam-paign donations from the in-dustry, and he expects to dothe same.

“My team will be in thecourtroom, if I’m elected, tohold private producers ac-countable,” he said, addingthat “an overwhelming ma-jority of private producersof state minerals are honor-ing their obligations.”

Should he choose to runfor a higher office in the fu-ture, a good relationshipwith energy companies mayprove useful. “Oil compa-nies have a long memory,”Mauro said. “I’ve never hadan energy client since I leftoffice.”

The next land commis-sioner will also inherittasks given to the GLO aftergoof-ups by other state agen-cies, including handling bil-lions of federal dollars for

disaster recovery, and over-seeing the Alamo, whichwas transferred in 2011 af-ter allegations of misman-agement by the Daughtersof the Republic of Texas.

Then there are some un-comfortable realities on the627 miles of Texas’ publiclyowned coastline. It is slowlydisappearing under risingsea levels, and scientists sayclimate change is mostly toblame. In an interview,Bush said he’s deeply con-cerned about the coast’s ero-sion and vulnerability tostorms.

The public nature of Tex-as beaches may also be anopen question after a 2012Supreme Court ruling thatfavored private beachfrontproperty owners. WhileBush said he supports theruling, Cook opposes it. Pat-terson also opposes the rul-ing, though he said,“Whether the next commis-sioner supports it or oppos-es it, I don’t think it makesany difference.”

Bush nephew could be facing oil menBy NEENA SATIJA

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Republican George P. Bush is pursuing an office that will requirehim to look out for schoolchildren by extracting money from the oiland gas industries that have fueled his family’s wealth.

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AUSTIN — We nowhave another data point inthis sociopolitical experi-ment: Does facing 109years in prison put acrimp in a potential presi-dential campaign?

Joanne Drake, chief ad-ministrative officer of theRonald Reagan Presiden-tial Foundation, got nearthe topic Monday in Cali-fornia in introducing ourindicted governor. (“Gov.Rick Perry to Deliver Ma-jor Speech at Reagan Pres-idential Library” is howhis political team billed it.)

Drake was appropriate-ly generous in her intro,citing Perry’s public ser-vice and high visibility.

“Over the last fewmonths it has been hard towatch the evening newswithout seeing Gov. Perryas he is in the forefront ofour country’s very serioushealth scare since Texaswas the site of the first twoEbola cases within ourborders,” she said. “He’salso been traveling over-seas and making morethan a few visits to thestate of Iowa.”

He’s also been in thenews for the abuse of pow-er indictments he’s nowdefending against. How’bout that, Ms. Drake?Gonna go there?

“And oh yes,” she saidas she did, “there wassomething recently aboutthe Texas state office ofpublic integrity and a visitto an Austin courthouse.”

The line drew laughs.Go figure.

“Yes,” Drake said, “he’sbeen a busy man.”

“That was the elephantin the room,” she said ofthe indictments.

Actually, there were alot of metaphorical ele-phants in the room, thisbeing a meeting of Reaga-nites gathered at theshrine built to him.

Perry then delivered aperfectly serviceablespeech about domestic andworld affairs and devoid ofmention of his legal prob-lems. The short version ofhis speech: America good.Obama bad. Texas good.North Korea and the Is-lamic State very bad. Rea-gan very great.

I was among about 200people who watched the of-ficial livestream of theevent, which included a q-and-a session. Drake, who

funneled the questions toPerry, told him “almost ev-ery question” touched onhis aborted 2012 presiden-tial bid.

“Can you tell us somelessons you learned run-ning for president lasttime?” she said in boilingthe questions down to onefinal one.

Perry joined others inthe room in laughing.

“How much time wegot?” he asked.

“Probably not enough,”Drake replied.

Perry said the 2012 cam-paign “was one of the mostdifficult, frustrating pro-cesses I’ve ever beenthrough in my life.”

“I was probably a littlearrogant, thinking I’vebeen the governor of Texasfor three times,” he said. “Imean what can be harderthan that, right?”

More laughs, with, notat, Perry.

Citing his July 2011back surgery, he said hewas “not physically normentally at the top of mygame” back then.

Perry reported that twoyears ago he began a “verymethodical process” toprepare for a 2016 presi-dential bid. He’s beenmeeting with a variety ofexperts on a variety of top-ics. He name-dropped Hen-ry Kissinger and DallasFederal Reserve BankPresident Richard Fisher.

“I did not do that in 2011and 2012,” he said of theprep sessions. “And I willsuggest I paid a pretty sub-stantive price for that.Now, I may not run for thepresidency in 2016, but if Idon’t, the reason I don’trun is not because I’m notprepared.”

There are many reasonsfolks don’t run for thepresidency. Not that any-body seems to seriouslythink this will be Perry’sfate if convicted, but incar-ceration is among thosereasons. Presidency orprison? Free governmenthousing either way.

Ken Herman is a col-umnist for the Austin Amer-ican-Statesman. E-mail:kherman@statesman.com.

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CLASSIC DOONESBURY | GARRY TRUDEAU

Kirk Cousins, thebench. The bench, KirkCousins. Why don’t youtwo take a little while toget reacquainted?

That’s the hard realityfacing the onetime start-ing quarterback of theWashington Redskins. Hewas called into actionwhen Robert Griffin IIIgot hurt — don’t act sur-prised — in Week 2, butthe Cousins era lasted awhopping six games be-fore coming to a crashinghalt after the first half ofthe Skins game last Sun-

day against the equallywoeful Tennessee Titans.

Cousins was escorted tothe sideline after fum-bling and throwing an in-terception — his 10th and11th giveaways since tak-ing over in the Jackson-ville game. (I’m no mathmajor, but two turnovers agame ain’t so good.)

Cousins’s replacement,former University of Tex-as great Colt McCoy, camein and immediately threwa 70-yard touchdown —rallying the team to a 19-17 victory, its second winof the season.

McCoy was quicklynamed the starter for the

Redskins’ next game — anappearance on “MondayNight Football” againstthe hated Dallas Cowboys,whom Washington beat20-17.

“Right now we’re goingto move forward withColt,” Coach Jay Grudensaid before the game.

Of Cousins, Gruden of-fered this gem: “Kirk isgoing to get the reps hegets.”

Right-o.Cousins’s problem is

that Griffin is expectedback against the Minneso-ta Vikings, whom the Red-skins play Sunday. Thatmeans McCoy gets the

backup role and Cousinsgets, well, bupkis.

And not just bupkis forthis season, either. In sixweeks he went from anunproven backup with po-tential to that guy whothrows the ball to thewrong team too much. Nota big market for that guyin the NFL.

Kirk Cousins, for goingback to whence you came,you had the worst week inWashington. Congrats, orsomething.

Chris Cillizza writes“The Fix,” a politics blogfor the Washington Post.He also covers the WhiteHouse.

WORST WEEK IN WASHINGTON

QB Cousins had a bad weekBy CHRIS CILLIZZA

THE WASHINGTON POST

North Korea’s decisionthis week to free AmericanJeffrey Fowle revives hopefor the release of formerWashington state residentKenneth Bae.

Bae, 46, is one of twoAmericans still held cap-tive by the communistcountry. First arrested onNov. 3, 2012, he is the long-est-detained U.S. prisonersince the Korean War. Theformer tour operator andfather of three was sen-tenced to 15 years of hardlabor for allegedly plottingto overthrow the regime. Inan Aug. 14 Time magazinereport, Human Rights

Watch denounced the deci-sion as an overly harshmethod of punishment.

On Tuesday, U.S. StateDepartment spokeswomanMarie Harf said diplomats“remain focused on thecontinued detention ofKenneth Bae and MatthewMiller, and again call onthe (North Korean govern-ment) to immediately re-lease them.”

U.S. officials are activelyengaged behind the scenes,but that is little consolationfor Bae’s family in the Ed-monds area. Family mem-bers just want Bae releasedso he can receive medicalattention for serious backand heart problems.

In court, Bae admitted tocommitting the crimes hewas charged with. Bae’ssister, Terri Chung, is hop-ing that will lead to Bae’srelease soon.

“We know that the(Democratic People’s Re-public of Korea) wants tobe fair and has recentlyshown signs that it desiresto engage with other na-tions,” Chung said in astatement. “We hope DPRKleaders will have mercy onmy brother to show good-will to our family and tothe world.”

Since the U.S. has no for-mal diplomatic relationswith the North Korean gov-ernment, Swedish diplo-

mats are negotiating on itsbehalf. Harf says the Swed-ish diplomats played a ma-jor role in Fowle’s release.This continues to be a vitalconnection in communicat-ing with Pyongyang offi-cials, whose motives re-main unclear.

The reclusive regime’swillingness to allow a U.S.military plane to enter andtransport the 56-year-oldFowle out of the country —reportedly in exchange fornothing — is a promisingsign.

Imprisoning KennethBae serves no real purpose.

The next carrier out ofPyongyang should includethe remaining Americans.

EDITORIAL

Time to let Bae out of prisonTHE SEATTLE TIMES

When a Federal Re-serve chair talks, WallStreet listens — andsometimes quakes. WhileFed chairwoman JanetYellen’s speech Oct. 17 oneconomic inequalitydidn’t rattle the stock ex-changes, it should havecaught everyone else’s at-tention.

It’s not the first timethat a Fed chair has en-gaged the issue but Yel-len’s address in Bostonquestioned whether thegrowing gap betweenrich and poor “is com-patible with values root-ed in our nation’s histo-ry.”

Her basis for concernwas the Federal Re-serve’s latest Survey ofConsumer Finances, pub-lished last month. Thepoll of 6,000 households

confirmed more wealthand income in the UnitedStates is being concen-trated in fewer hands.

In dollars adjusted for2013, the share of U.S. in-come held by the top 5percent of households —those with at least$230,000 in gross earn-ings — rose from 31 per-cent in 1989 to 37 percentin 2013. The householdsin the bottom half of in-come distribution —$47,000 or less per year— saw their portion ofthe nation’s total incomeslide from 16 percent to14 percent.

The nation needs more— a manufacturing poli-cy to re-industrialize theUnited States and a tradepolicy to grow family-sustaining jobs. Withoutthat kind of change,more Americans willcontinue to struggle.

EDITORIAL

Concern forrich-poor gap

PITTSBURGH POST-GAZETTE

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 29, 2014 Mexico THE ZAPATA TIMES 5A

COCULA, Mexico — Fo-rensic experts combed agully in southern Mexicoon Tuesday for the remainsof 43 missing students, asfrustration mounted amongrelatives of both the disap-peared and the detained forthe lack of answers morethan a month into the in-vestigation.

Workers in protectivegear focused on a 25-by-25foot-square area below theridge of the municipaldump in Cocula, a town inGuerrero state where po-lice have been arrested andlinked to the Sept. 26 disap-pearances. But they havenot said so far how manybodies have been found orin what condition.

Parents of the studentssay they were not even no-tified of the latest remains,discovered Monday basedon the testimony of fournew detainees in the case.

“We’re angry and verytired,” said Mario CesarGonzalez, father of missingCesar Manuel Gonzalez.“We have an overwhelmingsense of helplessness.”

Attorney General JesusMurillo Karam said Mon-day that two of the detain-ees were members of theGuerreros Unidos cartelwho handled the disappear-ances of the students. Thetwo said they received alarge group of peoplearound Sept. 26, the datethe students went missing.The arrests Monday putthe total at 56 detainees sofar in the case, yet there isstill nothing concrete onthe whereabouts of the stu-dents. Authorities sawclothing but nothing resem-bling remains.

Gullycombedfor 43

studentsBy MARK STEVENSON

ASSOCIATED PRESS

MEXICO CITY — Edgardo Gal-van watched as two gravediggersshoveled muddy soil from his fa-ther’s grave until they reached aset of bones mixed with woodchips, the remnants of the coffin hewas buried in seven years earlier.

The gravediggers placed thebones in a black plastic bag andhanded them to Galvan, whoplanned to cremate them and putthe ashes in a small crypt the fam-ily bought in a church.

“I’ve had to go through two diffi-cult moments, first burying himand now unburying him,” the 42-year-old carpenter said as he stoodin the San Isidro cemetery in theMexico City borough of Azcapotzal-co.

Mexico’s capital is rapidly run-ning out of gravesites and manyresidents of this growing metropo-lis of 9 million people have to ex-hume the remains of their lovedones once the burial rights expireto make room for new bodies. Offi-

cials say there is no public landavailable for new cemeteries.

The lack of cemetery space hasprompted the city’s legislative as-sembly to propose a law that wouldreduce the time a body can remainin a grave and encourage people tocremate the bodies of their loveones, a move that critics say will

threaten Mexico’s long and richtraditions surrounding buryingand celebrating the dead.

Assemblywoman Polimnia Sier-ra, who proposed the law, said thecity’s 119 cemeteries only have71,000 gravesites available and thateach year about 30,000 people die inthe capital.

“In less than three years (thecemeteries) will be completelyfilled,” said Sierra in defense of thelaw which was passed by the as-sembly this summer but sent backby Mayor Miguel Angel Mancerawho wanted changes to its lan-guage. A vote on the revised law isexpected soon.

It would require that the citygovernment educate people aboutcremation as an option and buildmore crematoriums — there arecurrently just two public cremato-riums. It would also lower the max-imum gravesite tenure from 21years to 15 years, as long as ceme-tery rights are paid.

While other countries aroundthe world reuse graves, it is a sensi-tive issue in Mexico where cele-brating the dead is still a livingpart of the culture.

The law has become a tug-of-warbetween government officials inthe center of this sprawling me-tropolis, which is increasinglygrowing vertically, and residents ofits outer, more rural boroughs whopreserve pre-Columbian traditions.

Mexico City running out of cemeteriesBy OLGA R. RODRIGUEZ

ASSOCIATED PRESS

A coffin containing human remains is hauled away after being exhumed to free upspace for new burials at the San Isidro cemetery in northern Mexico City on Oct. 14.

Photo by Rebecca Blackwell | AP

6A THE ZAPATA TIMES State WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 29, 2014

HUNTSVILLE, Texas — Aformer gang member was putto death Tuesday evening forthe fatal shootings of three ri-vals 14 years ago in San Anto-nio.

Miguel Paredes, 32, was con-victed along with two othermen in the September 2000 slay-ings of three people with ties tothe Mexican Mafia. The vic-tims’ bodies were rolled up in acarpet, driven about 50 milessouthwest, dumped and set onfire. A farmer investigating agrass fire found the remains.

Paredes was pronounceddead at 6:54 p.m. CDT. The exe-cution was carried out after theU.S. Supreme Court turneddown a last-day appeal from at-torneys who contended Paredeswas mentally impaired and hisprevious lawyers were deficientfor not investigating his mentalhistory.

His execution was the 10ththis year in Texas, the nation’smost active death-penalty state.One other Texas inmate is setto die in December and at leastnine are scheduled for execu-tion in early 2015, includingfour in January.

Paredes’ attorney, David Dow,said the execution should havebeen stopped because Paredeshad “a significant mental dis-ease” that may have affected hisjudgment when he told his pre-vious lawyer 10 years ago not toinvestigate his family back-ground.

In a response filed Tuesdaymorning, state lawyers said Pa-redes “presented no evidencethat he is or ever has been men-tally ill or incompetent,” andthat his earlier attorney

couldn’t be con-sidered deficientwhen he “abidedby Paredes’ expli-cit instructions.”Lower courts sid-ed with the state,which also notedthat the latest ap-

peal was filed after a deadline.Prosecutors said Paredes,

who turned 18 six weeks beforethe slayings, was the most ag-gressive shooter when the threevictims showed up to collectdrug money.

They told jurors at his capitalmurder trial in 2001 that Pa-redes was suspected in severalother crimes, including otherkillings and drive-by shootings.Defense attorneys argued thathe grew up in a gang-infestedneighborhood, and the only wayto survive was to join a gang.

Paredes was convicted of fa-tally shooting Nelly Bravo andShawn Michael Cain, both 23,and Adrian Torres, 27. Prosecu-tors said the three were shotwhen they tried to collect drugmoney at the home of John An-thony Saenz, a leader in Pa-redes’ gang.

“Evidence showed Miguelseemed to be the most aggres-sive and an active shooter,” saidMary Green, the Bexar Countydistrict attorney who prosecut-ed Paredes.

Police got a break in the casewhen paperwork carryingSaenz’s name was found in thedebris with the three burningbodies.

Saenz, 32, claimed self-de-fense at his trial and avoidedthe death penalty when jurorssentenced him to life. The thirdsuspect, Greg Alvarado, 35,pleaded guilty and also is serv-ing life in prison.

Texas executesex-gang

member fordeaths of 3

By MICHAEL GRACZYKASSOCIATED PRESS

PAREDES

LUBBOCK, Texas — Republi-can gubernatorial candidateGreg Abbott said Tuesday thatthe tea-party star who’s the GOPcandidate for lieutenant gover-nor has toned down his fieryrhetoric on immigration.

Abbott and lieutenant gover-nor candidate Dan Patrick ap-peared in Lubbock ahead of nextweek’s election to encourage Re-publicans to vote. It was the firsttime since the March primarythat Abbott and Patrick havecampaigned together.

Patrick, a state senator andtalk radio host from Houston, isknown for bombastic rhetoricabout ending the “invasion” ofpeople entering the U.S. illegallyfrom Mexico. But Abbott saidthat despite Patrick’s past com-ments, he would be more inclu-sive than divisive.

Abbott, whose wife is Hispan-ic and who has worked to gainthe Hispanic vote, says he’s seena shift from Patrick.

“I have seen him tone downrhetoric like that, and I thinkthat he has and will continue totone down rhetoric like that and

cast a vision that is inclusive ofeveryone in this state,” Abbott,the state’s attorney general, saidafter he and Patrick spoke to aroom of about 200 people.

Patrick declined to speak tothe media following his com-ments to the crowd. “I do not”have time, he said, walking awaywith his back turned after sever-al attempts to get his attention.“I have some calls to make.”

Abbott, in response to a ques-tion about whether Patrick is toofar right from him, said he be-lieves the senator will be a tena-cious lieutenant governor.

“I run on my own platformsand my own positions,” Abbottsaid. “But I think Dan Patrick isgoing to be a staunch leader inhelping secure the border. Hecares deeply about improvingeducation and we will work onthose issues together.”

Patrick told the crowd Repub-licans need to do more than justwin every election for statewideoffices.

“We want to crush the Demo-crats,” he said. “I believe in myheart that we are America’s lasthope, Texas.”

Abbott told the crowd thatelecting his Democratic oppo-

nent, Wendy Davis, would be tan-tamount to bringing PresidentBarack Obama’s policies to Tex-as.

“I will not let the next fouryears in Texas look like the lastsix years under Barack Obamabecause we will win this elec-tion,” he said.

Davis spokesman Zac Petka-nas said Abbott’s record on edu-cation alone is enough reason tovote for Davis. He noted that Ab-bott’s office is defending thestate in a lawsuit brought bymore than two-thirds of itsschool districts last year as a re-sult of education budget cuts in2011.

“He cannot hide the fact thathe has spent the last year of thiscampaign being called out forhis terrible record on education,spending the last three years incourt fighting to protect $5.4 bil-lion in cuts to public educationthat have led to overcrowdedclassrooms, teacher layoffs andclosed public schools,” he said.

The gathering is one of about25 Abbott’s campaign has orga-nized during the early voting pe-riod. Abbott and Patrick werescheduled to be in AmarilloTuesday afternoon.

Texas Republican gubernatorial candidate Greg Abbott smiles during a rally in Lubbock, on Tuesday.

Photo by Shannon Wilson/Lubbock Avalanche-Journal | AP

Abbott: Patrick toned downimmigration rhetoric

By BETSY BLANEYASSOCIATED PRESS

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 29, 2014 International THE ZAPATA TIMES 7A

BEIRUT — A captiveBritish photojournalist hasbeen used by the IslamicState group to take on therole of a war correspondentin the extremists’ latestpropaganda video.

In the video, made publicon Monday, John Cantliecalmly stands before a cam-era in what he identifies asthe embattled Syrian townof Kobani. He asserts in thevideo that Islamic Stategroup fighters have pusheddeep into the town despiteairstrikes by a U.S.-led coali-tion and that they are win-ning the battle against Kur-dish forces.

The strange spectacle of aprisoner who has admittedto being afraid for his lifebeing used as a spokesmanis the latest of example ofthe IS’s attention-getting ap-proach to propagating itsmessage and its threats.

The Associated Presscould not independentlyverify the video as authen-tic, although some of theimages, including footagethe Islamic State group sayswas shot by a drone, appearto be Kobani, a town nearthe Turkish border. Sporad-ic gunfire can be heard inthe background. At onepoint in the 51/2-minute re-port, a Turkish flag can beseen flying atop a grain silo;Cantlie is not in the sameshot.

Although it was unclearexactly when the video wasrecorded, Cantlie mentionsspecific news reports andstatements by Western offi-cials from as recently as lastweek.

“Without any safe access,there are no journalistshere in the city,” Cantlie in-tones in the video. He wearsblack clothes and is beard-ed. In previous videos, hewore an orange jumpsuit —as did the hostages behead-ed by the extremists.

IS militants launched anoffensive on Kobani in mid-September, capturing doz-ens of Kurdish villages andentering parts of the town.The attack has displacedmore than 200,000 people.American officials say theU.S. has conducted dozensof airstrikes against the mil-itants in and around thetown, killing hundreds of Is-lamic State fighters.

In contrast to those ac-counts, Cantlie gave the IS’sdifferent slant on the fight-ing.

“Airstrikes did preventsome groups of mujahedeenfrom using their tanks andheavy armor as they’d haveliked, so they’re enteringthe city and using lightweapons instead, goinghouse to house,” Cantliesays in the video, a fly buzz-ing around his head. “Thebattle for Kobani is comingto an end,” he continues.“The mujahedeen are justmopping up now, street tostreet and building to build-ing. ... As you can hear, it isvery quiet — just occasionalgunfire.”

The video is entitled “In-side Ayn Al-Islam,” thename IS uses for Kobani.The Arabic name for the

predominantly Kurdishtown is Ayn al-Arab.

Since September, IS hasused Cantlie as a publicface.

“Now, I know what you’rethinking. You’re thinkinghe’s only doing this becausehe’s a prisoner. He’s got agun at his head, and he’s be-ing forced to do this.Right?” Cantlie said in thefirst Islamic State groupvideo featuring him. “Well,it’s true, I am a prisoner.That I cannot deny. But, see-ing as I’ve been abandonedby my government and myfate now lies in the hands ofthe Islamic State, I havenothing to lose.”

Cantlie said he workedfor publications includingThe Sunday Times, The Sunand The Sunday Telegraphand was kidnapped by theIslamic State group shortlyafter he came to Syria inNovember 2012. He was pre-viously held by militants forseveral days in July 2012along with a Dutch journal-ist.

Nicolas Henin, a Frenchjournalist held prisonerwith Cantlie and released inApril, expressed admirationfor his friend and his jour-nalistic skills.

Islamic State hostage‘reports’ for captors

By ZEINA KARAMASSOCIATED PRESS

In this still image taken from an undated video published on the In-ternet by the Islamic State group militants, captive British journal-ist John Cantlie speaks into a camera in what he identifies as theembattled Syrian town of Kobani.

Associated Press

VACANTE PARA POLICÍAEl Departamento de

Policía de la Ciudad de Ro-ma informa que tiene unavacante para oficial patru-llero, de tiempo completo.El oficial patrullero realizalabores para apoyar las ac-tividades policiacas de apli-cación de la ley, así comoprovee servicio a los ciuda-danos.

Con un sueldo que varíade 27.000 dólares anualesa 35.000 dólares anuales,los interesados deben po-seer diploma de Preparato-ria (High School) o su Ge-neral Education Degree(GED). Los interesadospueden acudir al Departa-mento de Policía ubicadoen 987 E Grant St. paraconocer el resto de los re-quisitos.

REUNIÓN DE BIENVENIDALa Preparatoria Ro-

ma invita a su Reunión deBienvenida 2014 (Homeco-ming), razón por la cualsolicita el apoyo de todoslos seguidores ‘Gladiator’para que apoyen al equipode casa.

El desfile está progra-mado para el jueves a par-tir de las 5 p.m., desdeGarcia Street, tomando ha-cia el norte, hasta RomaHigh School.

Los interesados en par-ticipar en el desfile puedencomunicarse con Ricky Pé-rez al (956) 847-1690. Pos-teriormente habrá un PepRally en el gimnasio de laescuela.

El partido de los Gladia-tors será el viernes a partirde las 7:30 p.m. en TheGladiator Arena. Roma reci-be a Sharyland Pioneer.

FIESTA ACCIÓN DE GRACIASEl Departamento de

Parques y Recreación de laCiudad de Roma invita a laPrimera Competencia Anualde Comida y Fiesta ‘GobbleTill Ya Wobble!’ en Acciónde Gracias Comunitaria, elsábado 22 de noviembreen el Parque Municipal deRoma. La cuota de entradaes de 150 dólares porequipo. La comunidad estáinvitada a una cena de ac-ción de gracias gratuita.

Las categorías de lacompetencia serán Fajitas,Costillas de Puerco, CarneGuisada, Frijoles, Pan deCampo y Pavo.

Pida informes acudiendoa las oficinas de la Ciudadde Roma en 77 E ConventAve. o bien llamando al(956) 849-1411.

ORACIÓN Y TALLEREl Grupo Rompiendo

Cadenas invita a Noche deOración y Taller, a celebrar-se a un costado de Lino’sPharmacy, el viernes, de 7p.m. a 9 p.m.

La invitación es realiza-da por JC’s Worship Cen-ter, a cargo de los PastoresVictor y Esmeralda Villegas.

Pida informes llamandoal 437-3850.

TALLER DE DANZA CONARNÉS

El Instituto Tamauli-peco para la Cultura y lasArtes (ITCA), a través delParque Cultural Reynosa(PCR), comenzará con eltaller de danza con arnés“Laboratorio vertical”, el 30de octubre. El taller termi-nará el 2 de noviembre.

El taller será impartidopor Bárbara Foulkes, coreó-grafa y bailarina argentina.El taller es gratuito yabierto al público, esto conla finalidad de que llegue alos artistas de la comuni-dad y adquieran herramien-tas adicionales para el de-sarrollo de su profesión.Participantes deberán tener15 años o más.

Para más informaciónpuede escribir a desarrollo-artisticoyacademi-co@gmail.com.

Ribereñaen Breve

A fin de analizar el impacto ener-gético que se prevé vivan en un fu-turo cercano Texas y Tamaulipas, ellunes se celebró una reunión entrerepresentantes de ambas entidades.

A decir del Senador Jesús Hino-josa, presidente de la Comisión Se-natorial de EU, la reforma energéti-ca que se aprobó en México recien-temente vuelve a Tamaulipas ‘unagran economía’.

“El estado de Texas está muy in-teresado, porque nosotros miramosa Tamaulipas como una gran eco-nomía en la que podemos participarjuntos para que estos beneficios lle-guen a ambas entidades”, dijo Hino-josa. “Somos líderes en EstadosUnidos haciendo trabajos y empleosbien remunerados explotando re-cursos energéticos”.

Durante la reunión celebrada enReynosa, México, el Gobernador deTamaulipas, Egidio Torre Cantú

presentó las oportunidades y benefi-cios de la Agenda Energética del es-tado.

“Las oportunidades ya están da-

das con la reforma energética y hoy,más que nunca, es importante queTexas y Tamaulipas trabajen con-juntamente para aprovecharlas”,

sostuvo Torre. "Si le va bien a Ta-maulipas, le va bien a Texas, por laestrecha relación entre estas entida-des”.

ECONOMÍA

Analizan impactoTIEMPO DE ZAPATA

De izquierda a derecha, el Senador de EU Jesús Hinojosa; el Gobernador de Tamaulipas Egidio Torre Cantú; y el Alcalde de McAl-len, Jim Darling, durante una reunión para analizar el impacto de la reforma energética en los sectores petroleros de Texas y Ta-maulipas, celebrada el lunes.

Foto de cortesía | Gobierno de Tamaulipas

PÁGINA 8A Zfrontera MIÉRCOLES 29 DE OCTUBRE DE 2014

EL CONTROL, México — Lamadre de tres estadounidensesque desaparecieron hace dos se-manas en el norte de México afir-ma que no hay información sobreel paradero de sus hijos.

Raquel Alvarado dijo el lunesque según testigos, individuos ar-mados se llevaron a Erica, de 26años, Alex, de 22, y José Angel, de21, todos de apellidos Alvarado Ri-vera, el 13 de octubre en El Con-trol, una pequeña localidad cercade la frontera con Texas, al oestede Matamoros.

Las tres víctimas, originariasde Progreso, Texas, visitaban a supadre en México.

Alvarado afirmó que los testi-gos identificaron a los individuosarmados como miembros del gru-po Hércules, una unidad de la po-licía que provee seguridad a lapresidenta municipal de Matamo-ros.

Una portavoz de la ciudad deMatamoros no estuvo disponiblede inmediato para que hiciera de-claraciones sobre el particular.

Un portavoz de la embajadanorteamericana confirmó que au-toridades estadounidenses dan se-guimiento al caso y brindan asis-tencia consular.

INVESTIGACIÓN

Buscana tres

oriundosde EU

Víctimas visitaban a su padre en México

ASSOCIATED PRESS

Los habitantes de la ciudad deZapata tendrán la oportunidad derecibir servicios médicos y denta-les gratuitos cuando los Misione-ros Médicos de la Divina Miseri-cordia de Sugar Land, realicen laFeria de la Salud en noviembre.Por quinto año consecutivo cercade 40 personas entre personal mé-dico y voluntarios traerán servi-cios de salud a la ciudad.

“Este es el quinto año que va-mos a Zapata. Cerca de 40 personasentre médicos, dentistas y practi-cantes de otras especialidades co-mo enfermería o terapia física yvoluntarios acuden a atender a ni-ños y adultos”, explicó Rebecca So-lloa, directora ejecutiva de Servi-cios Sociales Católicos de la Dióce-sis de Laredo.

Será en el salón de la iglesia ca-

tólica de Nuestra Señora de Lour-des donde los misioneros médicosestarán atendiendo a adultos y ni-ños en el horario de 8 a.m. a 4 p.m.,los días lunes 10 y martes 11, mien-tras que el miércoles 12, el horariode atención al público será única-mente de 8 a.m. a 2 p.m.

“Los servicios a proporcionarincluyen revisiones médicas gene-rales así como dentales. Aún no sa-

bemos si se incluirá revisión de lavista pero al menos estamos listospara proporcionar lentes para lec-tura en el momento”, indicó.

Agregó que también proporcio-nan los medicamentos y si son conprescripción médica ellos se encar-gan de ordenarlos para entregarlosposteriormente.

Los servicios son gratuitos y nose requiere identificación para re-

cibir atención.“Sólo requerimos que las perso-

nas se presenten a solicitar el ser-vicio. No pedimos ningún tipo deidentificación o que estén afiliadosa alguna aseguradora. Los servi-cios son completamente gratuitos”,dijo Solloa.

Cada tarde se realizarán en lasinstalaciones de la iglesia otrosservicios tales como misas de sana-ción, pláticas espirituales, unciónde enfermos y confesiones entreotros.

“Queremos que los habitantesde Zapata aprovechen esta oportu-nidad de recibir servicios médicosde calidad de manera gratuita”, fi-nalizó.

Si requiere mayor informaciónpuede llamar a Servicios SocialesCatólicos al 722-2443.

(Localice a Malena Charur en el728-2583 o en mcharur@lmtonli-ne.com)

SALUD

Misioneros ofrecerán atención médicaPOR MALENA CHARUR

TIEMPO DE ZAPATA “Queremos que los habitantes de Zapataaprovechen esta oportunidad de recibirservicios médicos de manera gratuita”.REBECCA SOLLOA, DIRECTORA EJECUTIVA DE SERVICIOS SOCIALES CATÓLICOSDE LA DIÓCESIS DE LAREDO.

ROMA

BRINDAN SOLIDARIDAD

La población de Roma, Texas,fue testigo de la caminata orga-

nizada por el Departamento deParques y Recreación de la Ciu-dad de Roma. La Primer Cami-

nata Comunitaria "CaminandoSobre el Cáncer", contó con la

participación de familias quevestían camisetas alusivas al

cáncer de seno, como apoyo alos sobrevivientes de esta enfer-medad y en memoria de aquel-

las personas que han fallecidoen la batalla. La caminata se de-sarrolló el sábado, desde el Citi-

zens State Bank hasta Guada-lupe Plaza. Las donaciones re-

caudadas durante el eventoserán destinadas a Pink Positive

Breast Cancer Foundation. Oc-tubre es el Mes de Sensibiliza-ción contra el Cáncer de Seno.

Fotos de cortesía | Ciudad de Roma

Sports&OutdoorsWEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 29, 2014 ON THE WEB: THEZAPATATIMES.COM

IRVING, Texas — Tony Romo’s dra-matic return from his latest back injurydoesn’t mean he is cleared to face thenext opponent.

Coach Jason Garrett said Tuesday thatDallas was waiting on additional testingfor an injury he says is unrelated to theherniated disk Romo sustained in Wash-ington last December, when surgery kepthim out of a season-ending loss to Phila-delphia with a playoff berth on the line.

Romo hurt his back against the Red-skins again Monday night, getting whatGarrett called a contusion on a third-quarter sack. X-rays were negative, andRomo took a pain injection before re-turning for the final series of regulationand a failed possession in overtime of a20-17 loss that snapped Dallas’ six-gamewinning streak.

After saying on his radio show earlierin the day that he anticipated Romo be-ing ready to face the Cardinals (6-1), Gar-rett was more evasive when he met withreporters. The coach said Romo “seemedgood” when they spoke by phone, but hehadn’t seen the quarterback before Romowent for a CT scan.

The Cowboys (6-2) were off Tuesday,and Romo has skipped the Wednesdaypractice every week during the regularseason as part of his post-surgery rou-tine. He had a procedure to remove a

cyst from his back in April 2013 andmissed all the offseason workouts lastyear.

“We’ve just got to wait and see how hefeels, obviously,” Garrett said. “Becausewe played late last night, we’ll be moreabbreviated anyway, more of a jogthrough-type mode.”

Garrett said it was a medical decisionto allow Romo to return, but didn’t dis-count the resolve of a quarterback wholed a comeback victory over the Red-skins while playing with the herniateddisk and did the same thing against the49ers in 2011 with cracked ribs and apunctured lung.

Romo didn’t even come close to a rallythis time. The last drive of regulation,starting at the Dallas 3, stalled after onefirst down. The game ended in the extraperiod on a four-and-out sequence whenthe Cowboys couldn’t convert second-and-2 on three straight pass plays.

The question now is whether the Red-skins took away Romo for another game,or longer.

Bailey calls it a career after 15 years in NFLDENVER — Champ Bailey has decid-

ed to retire after a 15-year NFL careerthat included 12 Pro Bowl berths, a re-cord for a cornerback.

Bailey’s agent, Jack Reale, said fromAtlanta that Bailey had opportunities toplay this season but decided to pursueother opportunities.

NATIONAL FOOTBALL LEAGUE: DALLAS COWBOYS

Romo’s status in doubtCowboys awaiting word on latest back injury for starting quarterback

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Dallas Cowboys quarterback Tony Romo was injured on this sack by Washington Redskins inside line-backer Keenan Robinson. He returned late but the Cowboys lost 20-17 in overtime.

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COLLEGE STATION, Texas —Texas A&M quarterback KennyHill may be headed for the bench.

Offensive coordinator JakeSpavital said Tuesday that Hilland freshman Kyle Allen havebeen taking snaps with the firstteam this week and a starter forSaturday’s game against Louisia-na-Monroe will be decided laterthis week.

“We opened it back up andwe’ve had some good experiencesthroughout last week in livescrimmage situations,” Spavitalsaid. “We’ve put them in differentscenarios ... and are still challeng-ing them in different ways. It’sstill wide open.”

Hill won the job over Allen infall camp and got off to a greatstart, throwing for a school-record511 yards in his debut and leadingthe Aggies to a 5-0 start. He evenearned the Kenny Trill nicknameafter two years of Johnny Footballat Texas A&M for Heisman win-ner Johnny Manziel.

Texas A&M has since dropped

three straight, including a 59-0loss to Alabama — the team’s firstshutout since 2003.

Allen has thrown for 264 yardsand three touchdowns in four

games.“I’m pleased with how he’s han-

dled the whole situation from fallcamp through those eight gamesleading up to this point,” Spavital

said of Allen. “He shows up everyday, he gets extra work in and youcan tell he’s really trying to exerthimself to try to go out there andtry to win this job.”

Spavital said Allen was stunnedwhen he called him into his officeto deliver the news.

“(He) asked me if this was forreal and I said: ‘Yeah, it is,”’ Spav-ital said. “And he was like: ‘Good,because I’m going to try to go getit.”’

The conversation with Hill,who is a sophomore, was muchmore difficult.

“That is tough, especially whenyou’ve started for eight games andthen you’re thrown in that situa-tion where your job is on theline,” Spavital said. “I think he’shandled it pretty well. He’s outthere competing. He’s motivatingthose younger guys when he’s go-ing with the No. 2 offense and Isee that as leadership.”

Hill leads the SoutheasternConference and is sixth in the na-tion with 2,649 yards passing, buthas struggled with turnovers late-ly and has seven in the last threegames combined.

Senior receiver Malcome Ken-nedy said the team is confident inboth quarterbacks and that hethinks the renewed competitionhas made each of them better.

NCAA FOOTBALL: TEXAS A&M

Texas A&M considers benching Kenny HillBy KRISTIE RIEKENASSOCIATED PRESS

Texas A&M could bench quarterback Kenny Hill after losing three straight games including a 59-0 loss to Alabama.

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STATE COLLEGE, Pa.— During a raucous spe-cial meeting Tuesday,Pennsylvania State Univer-sity trustees defeated a res-olution to reopen the con-troversial investigation in-to how school leadershandled the Jerry Sandus-ky sex-abuse scandal.

The proposal, intro-duced by alumni-backedtrustees who for more thana year have been pushingthe board to act — andpreferably reject — thedamning findings of for-mer FBI Director LouisFreeh, won the support ofonly nine of the 26 boardmembers who voted.

Opponents said that toomuch remains unknownabout Penn State’s role inSandusky’s abuse of youngboys on and off campus,and that they want to waitfor the conclusion of crimi-nal proceedings againstformer administrators onperjury, conspiracy andother charges. They alsocite pending litigation bysome Sandusky victims.

"I believe patience is theorder of the day," said onetrustee, Richard Dandrea,a Pittsburgh-area lawyer.

Freeh’s July 2012 reportsaid former Penn StatePresident Graham B. Span-ier, Athletic Director TimCurley and Vice PresidentGary Schultz had conspir-ed to cover up child-sexabuse allegations againstthe former assistant foot-ball coach to preserve theuniversity’s reputation.

Critics of the reporthave long wanted theboard to repudiate it, reo-pen the investigation andperhaps wipe clean theblemish on the late footballcoach Joe Paterno’s legacyand the other former ad-

ministrators.The alumni trustees

maintain that there is nocredible evidence of a cov-er-up. Their motion wouldhave created a board com-mittee to reinvestigateFreeh’s work and reportback to the board.

"We need to defend PennState," alumni-electedtrustee Anthony Lubrano,a Chester County business-man, told board membersduring the 90-minute meet-ing at the Nittany LionInn, spurring vigorous ap-plause from the audience."If not now, then when? Ifnot us, then who?"

Dandrea argued that thead hoc board committeebeing advocated by alumnitrustees would run into thesame roadblocks as Freeh:It would not have access tokey witnesses or subpoenapowers to get critical infor-mation.

The debate became heat-ed at times and boardchair Keith Masser, aSchuylkill County potatofarmer, ejected several au-dience members for out-bursts critical of the major-ity of trustees.

Lubrano and Al Lord,another trustee and theformer head of studentloan lender Sallie Mae,said they would press togain access to Freeh’s in-vestigatory files, throughthe courts if necessary.

"I’m going after that in-formation," Lord said afterthe meeting. "If they don’twant to do it as a group, sobe it."

Masser said after themeeting that the boardcould look foolish if it wereto take a stand only to haveevidence incriminating tothe university surface atthe criminal trials. "Thereare a lot of issues thatcould reveal facts one wayor the other," he said.

Sanduskyinvestigationwon’t reopen

By SUSAN SNYDERTHE PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER

HONOLULU — Hawaiiofficials will make arrange-ments for those living inthe path of a lava flow towatch the destruction oftheir homes.

That accommodation isbeing made to “provide fora means of closure,” Ha-waii County Civil DefenseDirector Darryl Oliveirasaid Monday. “You can on-ly imagine the frustrationas well as ... despair they’regoing through.”

Dozens of residents havebeen told they might haveto evacuate as lava fromKilauea heads toward theirhomes.

The lava was about 70yards from a home Mon-day evening, officials said.

After weeks of fitful ad-vancement, the lava cross-ed Apaa Street on Sundayin Pahoa Village, consid-ered a main town of theBig Island’s isolated andrural Puna district. It wasgetting dangerously closeto Pahoa Village Road,which goes straightthrough downtown.

The flow advanced about275 yards from Sundaymorning to Monday morn-ing, moving northeast atabout 10 to 15 yards perhour. At other times, the la-va slowed to about 2 yardsper hour or sped up toabout 20 yards per hour,depending on topography,said Janet Babb, a spokes-woman for the HawaiianVolcano Observatory.

Teams of scientists fromthe observatory were walk-ing alongside the flow dayand night to provide up-dates, she said.

Officials closed part ofPahoa Village Road to ev-eryone except residents asthe flow front moves closer.

Those living downslopeof the flow are under anevacuation advisory. Mostresidents have left, and Ol-iveira said he doesn’t anti-cipate having to issue amandatory evacuation or-der.

The couple living in thehouse closest to the flow

have left but have been re-turning periodically togather belongings, Oliveirasaid.

Apaa Street residentImelda Raras, said she andher husband are ready togo to a friend’s home if offi-cials tell them they shouldleave.

“We are still praying,”she said. “I hope our homewill be spared.”

Scientists began warn-ing the public about the la-va on Aug. 22. At the time,residents were cleaning upfrom a tropical storm thatmade landfall over the Pu-na district.

The lava has advancedand slowed as residentswaited and watched.

Kilauea volcano, one ofthe world’s most active, hasbeen erupting continuouslysince 1983.

This is not an eruptionat the caldera, the thingsthat make for stunning pic-tures as red lava spewsfrom the mountaintop.

Decomposition of vegeta-tion in the lava’s path hascreated methane gas,which if it accumulatesand is ignited by heat cancause a blast, Babb said.

“It’s not a massive explo-sion,” she said. “But it candislodge rocks. It can hurllarge rocks several feet.”

Initially, the lava seemedheaded for the KaoheHomesteads, a widespread,

sparsely populated subdivi-sion in the Puna district.

It reached vacant lots be-fore it stalled. It skirted acorner of the subdivisionand then headed towardPahoa.

Pahoa has small-towncharm, but it’s “the onlytown in a commercialsense in lower Puna,” saidstate Sen. Russell Ruder-man, who represents Punaand runs a natural foodstore in Pahoa.

Because the lava couldchange direction, any com-munity in Puna is at risk.Everyone in the districtlives on the volcano. Thelush, agricultural districtis about a 30-minute drivefrom the coastal town ofHilo.

Why would someone liveon an active volcano? Un-like Honolulu, the state’sbiggest city on the islandof Oahu, Puna has afforda-ble land and offers a morerural way of life.

Located on the island’ssoutheast side, the area ismade up of subdivisionsthat have unpaved roads ofvolcanic rock. Many liveoff the grid on solar powerand catchment water sys-tems.

Residents know therisks because there arespecial insurance require-ments to buy land in cer-tain lava zones.

Sporadic suspensions in

the lava’s movement gaveemergency crews time towork on building alternateroutes to town.

Crews near the leadingedge have been wrappingpower poles with concreterings as a layer of protec-tion from lava heat.

Raras said they beganputting their belongings instorage in September. Whatthey aren’t able to takewith them, they’re photo-graphing for insurancepurposes.

No one knows if the lavaflow will stop, change di-rection or hit homes.

In the 1990s, about 200homes were destroyed bylava flows from Kilauea.

The last evacuationsfrom the volcano came in2011. One home was de-stroyed and others werethreatened before the lavachanged course.

Kilauea is home to Pele,the Hawaiian volcano god-dess. Some residents ex-pressed anger at suggesti-ons to divert the flow. Theysay it’s culturally insensi-tive to interfere with Pele’swill.

The lava isn’t a reasonto cancel a Big Island vaca-tion because it’s an isolatedevent. But officials havewarned people to stayaway from the area andimposed flight restrictionsbecause of helicopter tourshoping to see lava.

Hawaii lava nears homes

This photo shows a Hawaii Volcano Observatory geologist mapping the margin of the June 27 lavaflow in the open field near the town of Pahoa on the Big Island of Hawaii on Sunday.

Photo courtesy of U.S. Geological Survey | AP

By JENNIFER SINCO KELLEHERASSOCIATED PRESS

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla.— An unmanned commercialsupply ship bound for the In-ternational Space Station ex-ploded moments after liftoffTuesday evening, with debrisfalling in flames over thelaunch site.

No injuries were reportedfollowing the first catastroph-ic launch in NASA’s commer-cial spaceflight effort.

Orbital Sciences Corp.’sAntares rocket blew up overthe launch complex at Wal-lops Island, Virginia, just sixseconds after liftoff. The com-pany said everyone at thelaunch site had been account-ed for, and the damage ap-peared to be limited to the fa-cilities.

Flames could be seenshooting into the sky as thesun set.

“Maintain your consoles,”Orbital Sciences’ MissionControl informed the roomfulof engineers and technicians.All data were being collectedfor use in the ensuing investi-

gation.The Cygnus cargo ship was

loaded with 5,000 pounds ofexperiments and equipmentfor the six people living onthe space station. It was thefourth Cygnus bound for theorbiting lab; the first flewjust over a year ago.

NASA spokesman Rob Na-vias said there was nothingurgently needed by the spacestation crew on that flight. Infact, the Russian Space Agen-cy was proceeding with itsown supply run on Wednes-day.

NASA is paying the Virgin-ia-based Orbital Sciences andthe California-based SpaceXcompany to keep the spacestation stocked in the post-shuttle era.

Until Tuesday, all of thecompanies’ missions hadbeen near-flawless and the ac-cident was sure to draw crit-icism in Washington. Thecommercial spaceflight pro-gram has been championedby President Barack Obama.

NASA said the six resi-dents of the orbiting lab wereinformed of the accident.

This image taken from video provided by NASA TV shows Orbital SciencesCorp.’s unmanned rocket blowing up over the launch complex at WallopsIsland, Va., just six seconds after liftoff. The company says no one was be-lieved to be hurt and the damage appeared to be limited to the facilities.

Photo courtesy of NASA TV | AP

Rocket explodesat liftoff

By MARCIA DUNNASSOCIATED PRESS

NASHVILLE, N.C. — A gunmanopened fire on two men in front ofthe courthouse in this small NorthCarolina town on Tuesday, sendingpanicked lunchtime shoppers duck-ing into shops along the normallyquiet main drag.

The suspect was caught by lateafternoon after a manhunt that in-cluded dozens of armed officerscanvassing the woods along a statehighway with a police helicopterflying overhead. A second suspectwas still on the loose. Authoritiesdidn’t offer a motive but believe thevictims were targeted. Both wereexpected to survive.

The shooting shattered the calmof the sunny lunch hours alongNashville’s main street, which isflanked by the courthouse on oneside and one-story shops across thestreet. Witnesses on the strip thatincludes a flower shop, cafe andfurniture store said violence is un-usual in the town of about 5,500.

“We heard gunshots, like: Pow!Pow! Pow! Pow! Pow!” said JudyWinstead, who works at a real es-tate office across from the court. “Itwas very loud, and when we cameout we even smelled gunpowder.”

Nash County Sheriff Dick Jen-kins said he believes the gunmantargeted his two victims when heopened fire around 11:15 a.m. Hesaid a suspect was taken into custo-dy in the late afternoon but de-clined to release his name.

He says one victim ran insidethe Nash County Courthouse andcollapsed after being hit in thehand and leg. The other victim randown the street and was found in alot with a back wound.

Both men were taken to hospi-tals, said Jenkins, who didn’t offerfurther descriptions. Nashville Po-lice Chief Thomas Bashore said thevictims didn’t work at the court-house.

Bashore said the gunman ran upin front of the courthouse, shot sev-eral times and ran away before hegot into a light-colored car and es-

caped.Officers found four or five bullet

casings at the scene. “It’s senseless to me that any-

body would shoot anything letalone in front of the courthouse,”Jenkins said.

At the real estate office nearby,Winstead said she heard the gun-shots as she sat at her desk. Sheran to the front door and locked itas an uninjured woman screamedon the courthouse steps.

Within minutes, Winstead said“there were deputies all over theplace and cop cars zooming in.”

Two shot at NC courthouseBy JONATHAN DREW

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The State Highway Patrol works at the scene of a shooting on Tuesday at the Nash-ville courthouse in Nashville, N.C. Two people were shot outside the courthouse.

Photo by Adam Jennings/The Rocky Mount Telegram | AP

FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. — The presi-dent of the Navajo Nation dealt amajor setback to a candidate forthe tribe’s top elected post when hevetoed a bill to let voters decidewhether presidential hopefuls areproficient in the Navajo language.

Tribal law requires that anyoneseeking the presidency speak fluentNavajo and understand the lan-guage inextricably tied to the cul-ture. Lawmakers amended that re-quirement last week on an 11-10vote, but Navajo President Ben

Shelly rejected the legislation Tues-day.

The decision was being watchedclosely by Chris Deschene, who hadbeen disqualified from the raceover the fluency requirement. Heceased campaigning following theveto and said he would not exploreany other legal options to stay inthe race, said his spokeswoman,Stacy Pearson.

“It is with tremendous pride inour campaign and disappointmentwith the president’s veto that thefuture of my candidacy is uncer-tain,” Deschene said in a statement.

The tribe’s general election was

scheduled Tuesday with Deschene’sname still on the ballot facing for-mer President Joe Shirley Jr. TheNavajo Supreme Court has orderedhim removed from the race and theballots reprinted with the third-place finisher from the August pri-mary election, but election officialshave yet to act on the order.

Attorneys for two men who chal-lenged Deschene’s candidacy haveasked the Supreme Court to holdelection officials in contempt for de-fying a court order. Election offi-cials said they are awaiting advicefrom the tribe’s attorney general onhow to implement the order.

Navajo president vetoes changesBy FELICIA FONSECA

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WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 29, 2014 THE ZAPATA TIMES 11A

LAGUNA BEACH, Calif.— Google is working on acancer-detecting pill in itslatest effort to push theboundaries of technology.

Still in the experimen-tal stage, the pill is packedwith tiny magnetic parti-cles, which can travelthrough a patient’s blood-stream, search for malig-nant cells and report theirfindings to a sensor on awearable device.

As many as 2,000 ofthese microscopic “nano-particles” could fit insidea single red blood cell toprovide doctors with bet-ter insights about what ishappening inside their pa-tients.

The project announcedTuesday is the latest effortto emerge from Google’s Xlab, which has been tryingto open new technologicalfrontiers to solve nettle-some problems and im-prove the quality of peo-ple’s lives. The same divi-sion is also working onseveral other outlandishprojects that have little todo with Google’s mainbusiness of Internetsearch and advertising:Self-driving cars, a com-puter called Glass thatlooks like eyeglasses, In-ternet-beam balloons andcontact lenses that canmeasure glucose in tears.

Some investors frustrat-ed with the costs of fi-nancing X’s projects ridi-cule them as expensiveflights of fancy, but GoogleCEO Larry Page likensthem to moonshots thatcould unleash future inno-vation and money-making

opportunities.It could be a decade be-

fore Google’s nanoparticleresearch pays off, accord-ing to the Mountain View,California, company.

At this point, Google be-lieves the cancer-detectingnanoparticles can be coat-ed with antibodies thatbind with specific proteinsor cells associated withvarious maladies. The par-ticles would remain in theblood and report back con-tinuously on what theyfind over time, said An-drew Conrad, head of lifesciences at Google X,while a wearable sensorcould track the particlesby following their magnet-ic fields and collecting da-ta on their movementthrough the body.

The goal is to get a full-er picture of the patient’shealth than the snapshotthat’s obtained when adoctor draws a single sam-ple of blood for tests thataren’t comprehensiveenough to spot the earlystages of many forms ofcancer.

“We want to make itsimple and automatic andnot invasive,” Conrad add-ed. Like Google is doing inthe contact lens project,the company is here look-ing for ways to proactivelymonitor health and pre-vent disease, rather thanwait to diagnose problems,he said.

Data from the sensorcould be uploaded orstored on the Internet un-til it can be interpreted bya doctor, he said. Thatcould raise questionsabout privacy or the secu-rity of patient data. Butwhen asked if Google

could use the informationfor commercial purposes,Conrad said, “We have nointerest in that.”

The effort to develop abetter way to detect can-cer was inspired by the ex-perience of Google engi-neer Tom Stanis.

After getting hit by acar while bicycling, Staniswound up in a hospitalemergency room where amedical scan looking forinternal bleeding alerteddoctors that there was atumor growing in his kid-ney.

The diagnosis probablywouldn’t have been madeat such an early stage ifStanis hadn’t been seri-ously injured, promptingGoogle’s X lab to explorebetter ways for doctors tokeep watch for earlywarning signs. Stanis,who is now cancer-free, ispart of the team workingon X’s nanoparticle tech-nology.

Conrad described theproject during an appear-ance at a tech industryconference organized bythe Wall Street Journal.He said the team workingon the nanoparticle pro-ject includes a cancer spe-cialist and other doctors,as well as electrical andmechanical engineers andan astrophysicist who hasbeen advising on how totrack the particlesthrough the body.

Google is looking forpartners who would li-cense the technology andbring products to market.“Our partners would takecare of all that stuff. We’rethe inventors and creatorsof the technology,” Conradsaid.

This Jan. 3, 2013 file photo shows Google’s headquarters in Mountain View, Calif. Google’s latest"moonshot" project, announced Tuesday involves detecting cancer by swallowing a pill. The pill ispacked with tiny magnetic particles, which can travel through a patient’s bloodstream, search for ma-lignant cells and report their findings to a sensor device that you wear.

Photo by Marcio Jose Sanchez | AP

Google working onpill that detects cancer

By BRANDON BAILEYASSOCIATED PRESS

NEW YORK — Face-book grew its advertisingrevenue by 64 percent inthe third quarter, helped bya boost in mobile ads thatare becoming an increas-ingly large chunk of the so-cial networking giant’s ad-vertising business.

The steady increase in-dicates that Facebook hassucceeded in steering ad-

vertisers to its mobile plat-form at a time when mostof its users are using Face-book on phones and tab-lets. Investors were initiallyworried about the desktopWeb era-born company’sability to succeed in mobileadvertising, but those con-cerns are long gone.

Advertising revenue atthe company totaled $2.96billion. Mobile ad revenue,a closely watched figure,was $1.95 billion, or 66 per-

cent of Facebook’s total ad-vertising revenue for thequarter. That’s up from 62percent in the second quar-ter and 59 percent in thefirst three months of theyear. The 10-year-old com-pany began offering mobileads in 2012.

Now, Facebook is ex-panding into highly lucra-tive video ads, and earlierthis year re-launched Atlas,a tool that measures howwell the ads work.

Facebook’s advertisingrevenue soars in 3Q

By BARBARA ORTUTAYASSOCIATED PRESS

are willing and able and dedicated to goover there in a really tough job, thatthey’re applauded, thanked and support-ed. That should be our priority. And wecan make sure that when they come backthey are being monitored in a prudentfashion,” Obama said after calling Vinsonfrom the White House.

Vinson’s trip home to join her brides-maids for wedding preparations was oneof several moves by doctors and nursesthat could have exposed others in theUnited States. In Ohio alone, 163 peoplewere still being monitored Tuesday be-cause of contact or potential contact withVinson in a bridal shop and on the air-planes she used. Vinson arrived in Dallason Tuesday evening, after tests showedshe is now free of the virus.

New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie said vol-untary stay-at-home measures were obvi-ously insufficient, since even doctors andnurses had moved around in public beforegetting sick. He was among the first to an-nounce mandatory 21-day quarantines foranyone who had contact with possibly in-fected people.

Vinson, 29, was infected while caringfor Thomas Eric Duncan, who died atTexas Health Presbyterian Hospital Dallason Oct. 8. She inserted catheters, drewblood, and dealt with Duncan’s bodyfluids, all while wearing protective gear.

Dr. Bruce Ribner, an infectious diseaseexpert who oversaw Vinson’s recovery atEmory University Hospital, said her doc-tors in Atlanta don’t know how she got in-fected in Dallas. He released no detailsabout her treatment and wouldn’t saywhether certain drugs are proving moreeffective. “The honest answer is we’re notexactly sure,” he said.

But Emory University Hospital spokes-woman Holly Korschun later confirmedthat Vinson received blood plasma from

Ebola survivor Kent Brantly, and saidEbola survivor Nancy Writebol also donat-ed her plasma, but it wasn’t ultimatelyneeded.

Ebola is only contagious when peoplewho carry the virus get sick, and Vinsondidn’t show symptoms before flying toOhio on Oct. 10. She reported her temper-ature to the Centers for Disease Controland Prevention, as required, on Oct. 13,and was cleared to fly back to Dallas. Thenext day, she developed a temperature,and on Oct. 15, she tested positive for Ebo-la.

Another nurse, Nina Pham, also was in-fected by Duncan, and was released Oct.24 from the National Institutes of Health.

Vinson didn’t take any questions atEmory. Instead she read a statementthanking God, her relatives and her doc-tors, appealed for privacy as she returnshome to Texas, and asked “that we notlose focus on the thousands of familieswho labor under the burden of this dis-ease in West Africa.”

Hickox, the Doctors Without Bordersvolunteer, was staying meanwhile in an“undisclosed location,” said Steve Hyman,one of her lawyers. Maine health officialsannounced she will be quarantined athome for 21 days after the last possible ex-posure to the disease, following the state’shealth protocols.

But Hyman said he expected her to re-main in seclusion for the “next day or so”while he discusses her situation withMaine health officials. Hyman said thestate should follow the Centers for DiseaseControl and Prevention guidelines, whichrequire only monitoring, not quarantine,for health care workers who show nosymptoms after treating Ebola patients.

“She’s a very good person who did verygood work and deserves to be honored,not detained, for it,” he said.

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money may be used onlyfor projects in Louisiana’smaster plan.

Another fund, whichwill get 80 percent of civilpenalties for the spill, hasbeen paying for projectson public land, while thenew partnership will helpprivate landowners inTexas, Louisiana, Missis-sippi, Alabama and Flor-ida, Kelsch said.

“It’s a way to ensurethat private landownerscan receive the right sortof incentives to undertakethe kinds of good steward-ship work that ultimatelycontribute to broader res-

toration goals for theGulf,” he said.

Vilsack and Kelsch wereinterviewed in advance ofa teleconference plannedTuesday from Norco, insuburban St. Charles Par-ish, to make the officialannouncement.

Potential projects in-clude things such as wet-lands conservation,stream and riverbank res-toration, and farm andranch land protection in-cluding practices such asno-till farming, improvingsoil health and enhancingwildlife habitat.

The total put into the

new program will dependon demand and landown-ers’ desire to put up theirshare of the cost, Vilsacksaid.

The foundation is a pri-vate nonprofit charteredby Congress in 1984 to getpublic conservation mon-ey to the most pressing en-vironmental needs, match-ing the money with pri-vate contributions.

The Deepwater Horizonrig exploded on April 20,2010, killing 11 workersand spewing millions ofgallons into the Gulf ofMexico over nearly threemonths.

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ly rising. Still, there are many hold-

outs. Immigrants give a varietyof explanations as to why, mostcommonly:

The cost of the process thatmost of the time takes sevenyears. It usually costs $680,though fee waivers are availablefor some, and the cost is oftenmultiplied by several familymembers;

A lack of English. Immi-grants must demonstrate basicknowledge of U.S. history andgovernment and pass an Eng-lish proficiency language exam,unless they are over 50, andthen certain waivers may apply.

The potential loss of bene-fits from their native land, suchas the ability to freely traveland work across Europe.

Still others say they simplydon’t see the need. Here, somelegal permanent residents ex-plain their reticence in theirown words to The AssociatedPress.

Language barrierNancy Alvarez, 35, came to

the United States a decade agofrom Havana. She ticks off thelist of jobs she’s held since then:nursing assistant, notary, child-care worker, school nutritionist.She has half a dozen diplomasand certificates, but the one shedoesn’t have: citizen. Alvarezblames her lack of Englishskills.

“I should have studied Eng-lish when I first came here,”she says. But in the Miami sub-urb of Hialeah where she firstlanded, everyone spoke Spanish.Only a few years later did shenotice that even employers do-ing business primarily in Span-ish still wanted an Englishspeaker.

By then, she was working allday, coming home to preparemeals for her husband, son andnew baby. With only one carand a spouse working nights,she says she would have had totake the bus and find someoneto watch her baby. And withcutbacks to county educationprograms, few classes were of-fered.

“Now I’m too embarrassed,”she says. Recently, she moved tothe Orlando area. Maybe withfewer Spanish speakers there,she’ll finally start learning Eng-lish, she says, and then she willthink about citizenship.

The European passport“I guess it’s an emotional

thing,” said Lena Dyring, as towhy she hasn’t sought to be-come a U.S. citizen. “I’d have torenounce my Norwegian citi-zenship. “It’s not that I don’t likethe U.S. I love it here. It wouldbe almost to renounce my fam-ily, my background.”

Dyring came to the U.S. in2005 with her husband, a natu-ralized U.S. citizen who wasborn in Colombia. The two metat a bar in Norway. She stillisn’t used to some Americancustoms: the hello hug —or inMiami, the hello kiss — and the“how are you?” greeting. In Nor-way, people don’t ask that ques-tion until halfway into the con-versation when they really wantto hear an answer, she says.

But her decision to opt out ismore than an emotional one.The Norwegian Seafarer’s laborunion representative acknowl-edges the practical benefits.

“If I wanted to live or work inEurope one day, I could do thatwithout much difficulty. Andmy children can have Norwe-gian citizenship through me.”

Although in Norway, individu-als must give up their citizen-ship to become Americans, oth-er European countries allowpeople to retain dual citizenship.

Dyring says she’d like to beable to vote, not so much forpresident but on local issues.

Still, she isn’t convinced be-coming a citizen offers her thatmuch. The blonde 39-year-oldmother of two fears neither ra-cial profiling nor deportation.

And since health care ischeaper in Norway, she wants tokeep all options.

Planned to go backMaria Jimenez has been a

U.S. resident for decades andcounsels other immigrant wom-en on becoming politically em-powered. But she rarely talksabout her own immigration sta-tus.

“I’m too ashamed to tellfriends I’ve been here so longand haven’t done it,” she says ofbecoming a citizen.

Jimenez came to the U.S.from the Jalisco, Mexico, townof San Juan de los Lagos in1986, to help her brother and hiswife care for their newborn.That year Congress passed amassive immigration bill, whichallowed millions of those in thecountry illegally to get their

green cards. Jimenez wasamong those.

“We always thought we wouldgo home. We never thought wewere going to stay. But the timekept passing,” she says. “Wetried to go back several timesbut couldn’t find work. And ourfamilies depended on us for themoney.” Besides, her three U.S.-born children didn’t feel athome in Mexico.

She keeps telling herself oneof these days she will take theplunge because she wants tohave a say in the laws that affecther.

“But my own son who is flu-ent in English and was bornhere says he wouldn’t be able toanswer a lot of the (citizenshiptest) questions, so I think ‘howcan I?”’ she says. “I’ve heard ofpeople who think they speakEnglish well and are humiliat-ed.”

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Never felt quite welcome“I thought that American girl

was extremely interesting,”Luis Sanz says of falling for hisfuture wife while she studiedSpanish in his native Madrid.When she returned home, he de-cided to visit, never imagininghe would stay. More than a dec-ade later in the U.S., the couplehas three children. Sanz worksas a website designer for theUniversity of California, River-side.

“When I came to the U.S., Ididn’t speak any English,” hesays. “And with all the processwith my papers, I felt very mis-treated, and I felt like a second-hand person. It really botheredme, so at the beginning Ithought: ‘I’ll just stay here, but Idon’t know how long.”’

They did move briefly toSpain, “but I’d become too usedto the United States, to the free-dom,” he says.

“I truly love this country. Weknow we are not moving back,”Sanz says, adding that he hasyet to take the oath of allegiancefor a combination of reasons. “Iget a little lazy, but I still keep alittle bit of that pain — and Ifeel it every day because of myaccent — and if people meet me,they still view me as a second-hand citizen. It makes me feelbad, and that I don’t want tocompletely commit.”

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companies to help pay for in-creased U.S. Customs and BorderProtection staffing at internationalports, bridges and airports duringpeak times. Texas sites chosen forthe public-private partnerships in-clude international bridges in ElPaso and South Texas and interna-tional airports in Houston and Dal-las.

“In many cases, it has been verysuccessful, particularly in the pas-senger lanes,” said Sam Vale, presi-dent of the South Texas AssetsConsortium, which runs bridges inLaredo, Cameron County, Pharr,McAllen and Rio Grande City.

For example, the program helpedtwo of the consortium’s bridgesopen additional lanes during thisyear’s Easter travel rush, reducingwait times from four hours to 40minutes, Vale said. It also helpedadd a commercial inspection laneat the Rio Grande City bridge,which increased the numbers ofvehicles inspected per hour to ninefrom just over four, he said.

Supporters of the program,which passed in 2013 with a bipar-tisan vote, said it would speed upinternational trade and travel evenas the federal government failed tokeep enough agents on duty. It alsoallows local governments and pri-vate companies to pay for improve-ments to international ports.Meanwhile, the federal govern-ment is in the process of hiring upto 2,000 additional Customs andBorder Patrol officers.

More than $100 million in eco-nomic output is lost per minuteduring bridge delays at the na-tion’s five busiest southern ports,which include El Paso, HidalgoCounty and Laredo, according to a2013 U.S. Department of Commercestudy.

Mexico is Texas’ largest tradepartner and the United States’third largest, behind Canada andChina. More than 1.8 millionnorthbound trucks passed throughLaredo in 2013, and about 739,000passed through El Paso, accordingto the U.S. Bureau of Transporta-tion.

As of late July, the program hadled to U.S. Customs and BorderProtection opening lanes andbooths for an additional 24,000hours at ports in El Paso, SouthTexas, Dallas, Houston and Miami,according to the agency.

The program, which began inTexas and Florida, is slated to ex-pand soon in those states as well asto California, Nevada, Colorado,Delaware and Pennsylvania. It of-fers local governments some flexi-bility to negotiate the terms of thepartnerships.

The city of El Paso, which oper-

ates three international bridges,uses a portion of bridge toll reve-nue to provide additional agents.As a result, pedestrians walking toor from Ciudad Juárez are movingmore quickly, said Paul Stresow, di-rector of El Paso’s bridge system.That has an economic impact be-cause many people walk over thebridge to shop in downtown El Pa-so, he said.

Wait times in El Paso have de-creased about 1.2 minutes per vehi-cle and more than four minutesper pedestrian, said U.S. Rep. BetoO’Rourke, D-El Paso, citing infor-mation he received from U.S. Cus-toms and Border Protection.

The program "has been a bigpart of it, but I also think there’sbeen a lot of increased awarenessand attention and pressure on CBPto be more effective," O’Rourkesaid.

There is limited data availableon the program’s impact on bridgewait times, so observations arelargely anecdotal, Vale said.

“There is a big hesitation to pro-vide a lot of numbers because no-body wants to be held account-able,” Vale said of bridge operatorsand federal officials.

Border wait times are difficult tomeasure, said Erik Lee, executivedirector of the North American Re-search Partnership, a nonprofit or-ganization that analyzes NorthAmerican trade information.

“The methodology is not yet anexact science,” Lee said. “Mexicohas its own history, its own set ofcustoms and its unique circum-stances.”

Many factors can affect waittimes, Stresow said, like change intraffic flows due to security con-cerns in Mexico or staffing duringearly-morning hours.

“The anomaly is that at 2 a.m.,there are only two lanes open andthe lines are longer,” he said. “Itskews the overall results.”

Stresow said El Paso is consider-ing asking manufacturers in Ciu-dad Juárez to help pay for thebridge staffing.

Lee said there is growing inter-est in the project and lauded itscreation, but also cautionedagainst expecting the private sec-tor to play an integral role tooquickly.

“The thinking is that these areindustries that provide jobs in analready economically distressed re-gion,” he said. “To burden themwith additional fees is kind of un-fair.”

He added that dealing with waittimes at bridges — though not ide-al — is better than the alternative:waiting weeks for a shipment fromChina.

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