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HOUSTON — One ofthe nation’s largest deten-tion centers for familiescaught crossing thesouthern U.S. border hasreceived a temporaryresidential child-carelicense amid discussionsover whether the federalgovernment will keepusing such facilities.

The Texas Department

of Family and ProtectiveServices granted thesix-month license lastweek to the 500-bedfacility in Karnes City,southeast of San Anto-nio, agency spokesmanPatrick Crimmins saidTuesday. The privateprison firm that runs thefacility for U.S. Immigra-tion and Customs En-forcement had requestedit after a federal judgesaid last year that kids

couldn’t stay in the cen-ters because they weren’tapproved to care forchildren.

GEO Group Inc. ob-tained its license for theKarnes City facility asapprehensions of un-accompanied immigrantchildren along the south-west border increased by78 percent for the periodfrom Oct. 1 throughMarch 31 compared to ayear earlier, and thenumber of apprehensionsof families more thandoubled.

“Licensure of theKarnes County Resi-dential Center ... repre-

sents an important stepforward in ICE’s commit-ment to enhancing over-sight and transparency ofits family residentialcenters, which play animportant role in main-taining the integrity ofour immigration system,”ICE spokeswoman Jenni-fer Elzea said in an emailTuesday.

The Karnes City facil-ity and a 2,400-bed facil-ity in Dilley, also locatedsouth of San Antonio,opened in 2014 in re-sponse to the arrival oftens of thousands ofmothers and children

KARNES CITY, TEXAS

Child-care licensegranted to centerICE looking to changehow it houses familiesBy Juan A. LozanoASSOCIATED PRE SS

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On Tuesday morning,roughly 10 percent ofNordheim residents(population 316 at lastcount) once again pulledon their yellow “Con-cerned About Pollution”T-shirts, drove two hoursnorth to Austin and toldTexas regulators thatthey did not want to livenext to an oil and gaswaste site roughly halftheir town’s size.

Many in the rural De-Witt County communityhad done some version ofthis exercise several

times over the past twoor three years. They saytheir way of life would bethreatened by a proposed143-acre facility thatwould be used to storewaste including drillcuttings, oil-based muds,fracking sand and othertoxic oilfield leftovers.

Most of the residentsfigured they’d returnhome officially defeated.They were correct.

The Texas RailroadCommission on Tuesdayvoted 3-0 to allow SanAntonio-based PyoteReclamation Systems tobuild the facility, effec-

EAGLE FORD SHALE

Callie Richmond / Texas Tribune

A sign protesting a proposed waste dump near theSouth Texas town of Nordheim is shown in 2014.

Town's residentsdisgusted by wastesite's approvalBy Jim MalewitzTEXAS TRIBUNE

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INDIANAPOLIS —Donald Trump took amajor step toward sew-ing up the Republicanpresidential nominationTuesday with a victory inIndiana’s primary elec-tion, dashing the hopes ofrival Ted Cruz and otherGOP forces who fear thebrash businessman willdoom their party in thegeneral election.

Hillary Clinton andBernie Sanders werevying for victory in theDemocratic primary,

though it was too early tocall the race as voteswere being tallied. Clin-ton already is 91 percentof the way to her party’snomination.

While Trump can’tmathematically clinch theGOP nomination with hisvictory in Indiana, hispath now becomes easierand he has more roomfor error in the remainingprimary contests. Thereal estate mogul willcollect at least 45 of Indi-ana’s 57 delegates, andnow needs less than 200more in upcoming con-tests.

2016 ELECTION

Trumpdashes TedCruz’s hopesDonald Trump on his way to Republican nomination

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Denny Simmons / AP

Ted Cruz visits withsupporters in Evansville,Indiana, Tuesday.

Joe Raedle / Getty

Donald Trump speaksduring a campaign stopin Carmel, Indiana.

OTUMBA, Mexico —This is a place whereevery donkey will have itsday — a small town justnorth of Mexico City thatgives the beasts of burdena chance on May Day tokick up their hooves.

The annual donkey fairin Otumba attracts up to40,000 people who cometo see the animals com-pete in costumes and racearound a track with jock-eys on their backs. Tour-ists squeeze through thejammed fairgroundswearing donkey ears andmunching on classic faircuisine, including thelocal version of burritos

— a dish popular bothnorth and south of theMexican border that bor-rows the Spanish wordfor donkey.

Costume themes for theanimals ranged from theride-sharing Uber to pre-Hispanic temples, andDonald Trump was acategory in of itself thisyear. Four familiesdressed their donkeys inlikenesses of the U.S.presidential candidatewho has vowed to build aborder wall to keep outMexican immigrants he’scalled “rapists.”

Adolfo Garcia Aguilar,who works on a cattlefarm, said his familypitched in to dress his

OTUMBA, MEXICO

A UNIQUE MAY DAYFESTIVAL FOR BURROS

Rebecca Blackwell / AP

A competitor falls from his donkey during a prelimary race at the annual donkey festival in Otumba, MexicoState, Mexico.

Small town holdsannual donkey fairBy Leslie MazochASSOCIATED PRE SS

Rebecca Blackwell / AP

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Today is Wednesday, May 4, the125th day of 2016. There are 241 daysleft in the year.

Today's Highlight in History:On May 4, 1916, Germany, respond-

ing to an ultimatum from PresidentWoodrow Wilson, agreed to limit itssubmarine warfare. (However, Germa-ny resumed unrestricted submarinewarfare the following year.)

On this date:In 1776, Rhode Island declared its

freedom from England, two monthsbefore the Declaration of Indepen-dence was adopted.

In 1886, at Haymarket Square inChicago, a labor demonstration for an8-hour work day turned into a deadlyriot when a bomb exploded.

In 1904, the United States took overconstruction of the Panama Canalfrom the French.

In 1932, mobster Al Capone, convict-ed of income-tax evasion, entered thefederal penitentiary in Atlanta. (Ca-pone was later transferred to AlcatrazIsland.)

In 1942, the Battle of the Coral Sea,the first naval clash fought entirelywith carrier aircraft, began in thePacific during World War II. (Theoutcome was considered a tacticalvictory for Imperial Japan, but ulti-mately a strategic one for the Allies.)

In 1959, the first Grammy Awardsceremony was held at the BeverlyHilton Hotel. Domenico Modugno wonRecord of the Year and Song of theYear for "Nel Blu Dipinto Di Blu (Vo-lare)"; Henry Mancini won Album ofthe Year for "The Music from PeterGunn."

In 1961, the first group of "FreedomRiders" left Washington, D.C. to chal-lenge racial segregation on interstatebuses and in bus terminals.

In 1970, Ohio National Guardsmenopened fire during an anti-war protestat Kent State University, killing fourstudents and wounding nine others.

In 1976, Australian Prime MinisterMalcolm Fraser announced that"Waltzing Matilda" would serve as hiscountry's anthem at the upcomingOlympic Games.

In 1980, Marshal Josip Broz Tito,president of Yugoslavia, died threedays before his 88th birthday.

In 1994, Israeli Prime Minister Yitz-hak Rabin and PLO leader YasserArafat signed an accord on Palestinianautonomy that granted self-rule in theGaza Strip and Jericho.

In 2001, Bonny Lee Bakley, wife ofactor Robert Blake, was shot to deathas she sat in a car near a restaurant inLos Angeles. (Blake, accused of Bak-ley's murder, was acquitted in a crimi-nal trial but found liable by a civil juryand ordered to pay damages.)

Ten years ago: A federal judge sen-tenced Zacarias Moussaoui to life inprison for his role in the 9/11 attacks,telling the convicted terrorist, "You willdie with a whimper."

Five years ago: President BarackObama said he had decided not torelease death photos of terroristOsama bin Laden because their graph-ic nature could incite violence andcreate national security risks. Officialstold The Associated Press that theNavy SEALs who'd stormed bin Lad-en's compound in Pakistan shot andkilled him after they saw him appear tolunge for a weapon.

One year ago: Former technologyexecutive Carly Fiorina and retiredneurosurgeon Ben Carson joined therapidly expanding 2016 Republicanpresidential class, casting themselvesas political outsiders in underdogcampaigns, eager to challenge theelite of both parties.

Today's Birthdays: The former presi-dent of Egypt, Hosni Mubarak, is 88.Opera singer Roberta Peters is 86.Katherine Jackson, matriarch of theJackson musical family, is 86. Jazzmusician Ron Carter is 79. Politicalcommentator George Will is 75. Coun-try singer Stella Parton is 67. Actor-turned-clergyman Hilly Hicks is 66.Irish musician Darryl Hunt (ThePogues) is 66. Singer Jackie Jackson(The Jacksons) is 65. Rhythm-and-blues singer Sharon Jones is 60. Violin-ist Soozie Tyrell (Bruce Springsteenand the E Street Band) is 59. Countrysinger Randy Travis is 57. Actor WillArnett is 46. Rock musician Mike Dirnt(Green Day) is 44. ContemporaryChristian singer Chris Tomlin is 44. TVpersonality and fashion designerKimora Lee Simmons is 41. Rock mu-sician Jose Castellanos is 39. Sportsreporter Erin Andrews is 38. SingerLance Bass ('N Sync) is 37. Rapper/singer Jidenna is 31. Actor AlexanderGould is 22. Country singer RaeLynn is22. Actress Amara Miller is 16.

Thought for Today: "Goodness,armed with power, is corrupted; andpure love without power is destroyed."— Reinhold Niebuhr, American theolo-gian (1892-1971).

TODAY INHISTORY

WEDNESDAY, MAY 4

1 South Texas Food Bank Cinco deMayo Fiesta. 6–11 p.m. Hal’s Land-ing, 6510 Arena Blvd. Fundraiserdonation is $10 per person. Tickets atdoor. Music by Ross and Friends, plusthree other local bands: Grupo Khar-ma, Contacto and Los Folkloricos.More than $1,000 in door prizes. Forinformation, call Salo Otero, 324-2432.

1 Screen Free Week: Petting Zoo& Pony Rides. 4–5 p.m. McKendrickOchoa Salinas Branch Library, 1920Palo Blanco St. Celebrate ScreenFree Week by visiting the petting zooand riding a pony at the library.

1 Bible study. 7–9 p.m. LighthouseAssembly of God Church, 8731 BelizeDrive. Every Wednesday. The Word ofGod has the power to comfort, healand change hearts. For more in-formation, contact Norma Perez at251-1784 or normalight1@gmail.com

THURSDAY, MAY 5

1 Cancer Friends Meet. 6 p.m.Laredo Medical Center, A.R. SanchezCancer Center, Tower A, 1st Floor.Having cancer is often one of themost stressful experiences in aperson’s life. However, supportgroups help many people cope withthe emotional aspects of cancer byproviding a safe place to share theirfeelings and challenges and learnfrom others who are facing similarsituations. For more information, callthe A.R. Sanchez Cancer Center at956-796-4725.

1 Preschool Read & Play. 11 a.m.–12p.m. McKendrick Ochoa SalinasBranch Library, 1920 Palo Blanco St.Story time and crafts for preschool-ers. For more information, contactPriscilla Garcia at priscilla@laredo-library.org or 795-2400 x2403.

1 Family Story Time & Crafts. 4-5p.m. McKendrick Ochoa SalinasBranch Library, 1920 Palo Blanco St.For more information, contact Priscil-la Garcia at priscilla@laredoli-brary.org or 795-2400 x2403.

SATURDAY, MAY 7

1 Karina M. Villarreal Scholarship5k Run/Walk. 8 a.m. TAMIU. Spon-sored by the Laredo Builders Associ-ation as a Parade of Homes kick-offevent. Those who sign up in advanceonline will receive a dri-fit shirt as athank you for their support. The costto run/walk is $20.

1 Book sale. 8:30 a.m.–1 p.m. Wid-ener Book Room, First United Meth-odist Church. No admission charge.Everyone is invited.

1 Laredo Northside Farmers Mar-ket. 9 a.m.–1 p.m. North Central Park.The market is held at the playgroundbehind the trailhead facility. Thismonth's theme is Mother's Day. Araffle for Mother's Day gifts will beheld.

1 Screen Free Week: Family GameDay & Pizza Party. 12–1 p.m. McKen-drick Ochoa Salinas Branch Library,1920 Palo Blanco St. CelebrateScreen Free Week by playing boardgames and eating pizza with yourfamily members at the library. Petadoption available.

MONDAY, MAY 9

1 Laredo Stroke Support Group. 7p.m. San Martin de Porres Church,Family Life Center. Meetings are heldthe second Monday of each monthand are open to all stroke survivors,family and caregivers. Everyone iswelcomed to share their story, en-courage and support others, and hearinformative speakers. For moreinformation on the support groups,call 956-286-0641 or 956-763-6132.

1 Chess Club. Every Monday from4–6 p.m. LBV – Inner City BranchLibrary. Free for all ages and skilllevels. Basic instruction is offered.For more information call John at956-795-2400 x2520.

TUESDAY, MAY 10

1 Knitting Circle. 1–3 p.m. McKen-drick Ochoa Salinas Branch Library,1920 Palo Blanco St. Please bringyarn and knitting needles. For moreinformation, contact Analiza Perez-Gomez at analiza@laredolibrary.orgor 795-2400 x2403.

1 Crochet for Kids. 4–5 p.m.McKendrick Ochoa Salinas BranchLibrary, 1920 Palo Blanco St. Pleasebring yarn and a crochet needle. Formore information, contact AnalizaPerez-Gomez at analiza@laredo-library.org or 795-2400 x2403.

1 Rock wall climbing. 4–5 p.m.LBV-Inner City Branch Library, 202 W.Plum St. Free. Take the challenge andclimb the rock wall! Fun exercise forall ages. Must sign release form. Formore information, contact John Hongat 795-2400 x2521.

WEDNESDAY, MAY 11

1 LEGO Robotics. 6:15–7:15 p.m.McKendrick Ochoa Salinas BranchLibrary, 1920 Palo Blanco St. Make aLEGO robot and program its move-ment. Duplo LEGO play available fortoddlers.

1 Bible study. 7–9 p.m. LighthouseAssembly of God Church, 8731 BelizeDrive. Every Wednesday. The Word ofGod has the power to comfort, healand change hearts. For more in-formation, contact Norma Perez at251-1784 or normalight1@gmail.com

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PHNOM PENH, Cambodia — The mainroad alongside Cambodia’s famed AngkorWat temple is now off-limits to cars asauthorities seek to ease traffic jams at thesite that draws 2.1 million tourists a year.

“From now on, only tourists walking byfoot or riding bicycles are allowed to travelon the road in front of Angkor Wat tem-ple,” Prime Minister Hun Sen said in aFacebook post Tuesday that announcedthe measure.

The new rule applies to a 985-footstretch of road in front of Angkor Wat.

Cars and tourist vans are still permittedon other roads in the Angkor Archeolog-ical Park, a 160-square mile complex withdozens of ancient temples.

Long Kosal, spokesman of the ApsaraAuthority, a government agency that over-sees the Angkor complex, said a newparking area has been built near the maintemple. He said the volume of traffic nearthe temple has increased so dramaticallyin recent years it raised concerns that vi-brations caused by the vehicles couldharm the temples, built between the 9thand 15th centuries.

AROUND THE WORLD

Heng Sinith / AP

In this March 21 photo, a tourist, left, takes photographs of Angkor Wat temple, in Siem Reapprovince, about 199 miles north of Phnom Penh, Cambodia.

CARS BARREDNEAR ANGKOR WAT

Prison ban onbeards ruled illegal

DALLAS — A federal ap-peals court panel has upheld aTexas prison inmate’s right to abeard and skullcap as requiredby his religious beliefs.

In a 32-page opinion filedMonday, a three-judge 5th U.S.Circuit Court of Appeals panelin New Orleans unanimouslyupheld a lower-court rulingthat David Rasheed Ali shouldbe allowed to grow a 4-inch

beard and wear a knit skullcap,called a kufi, as his faith de-mands. Ali is a Muslim inmateat the state’s Michael Unit inEast Texas near Palestine,where he is serving four con-current 20-year prison sentenc-es for arson, criminal mischiefand aggravated robbery.

The opinion written by Ap-peals Judge Edward Prado saidthat the Texas ban on inmateshaving 4-inch beards and reli-gious headwear outside a cellor religious service violates a2015 U.S. Supreme Court ruling

in an Arkansas inmate’s case.Texas officials had argued

that its ban was needed forsecurity purposes, that beardsand caps could facilitate thesmuggling of contraband anddistort the identities of inmatesand potential escapees.

The Texas Department ofCriminal Justice, which oper-ates the prison system, is re-viewing the ruling, said spokes-man Jason Clark. The depart-ment declined further com-ment.

— Compiled from AP reports

AROUND TEXAS

Author says he nowthinks father wasn’tIwo Jima flag-raiser

DES MOINES, Iowa — Theauthor of a best-selling bookabout his father and other menwho raised a U.S. flag at IwoJima during World War II saidTuesday he no longer believeshis father was in an iconicphotograph of the event.

James Bradley, who wrotethe book “Flags of Our Fa-thers,” said in a telephone in-terview that questions raisedabout the photo by two ama-teur historians, which haveprompted a Marine Corps in-vestigation, led him to thinkback on comments his fathermade about the 1945 flag-rais-ing.

Those comments by JohnBradley, who died in 1994, nowlead James Bradley to believehis father participated in anearlier flag-raising, but not theone captured in the famouspicture.

“My father raised a flag onIwo Jima,” Bradley told TheAssociated Press. “The Ma-rines told him way after thefact, ‘Here’s a picture of youraising the flag.’ He had a mem-ory of him raising a flag, andthe two events came together.”

AP photographer Joe Rosen-thal shot the photo on Feb. 23,1945, on Mount Suribachi, only

days into a bloody battle withthe Japanese that would stretchon for weeks. The picture wasdisplayed on front pages ofnewspapers across the U.S.,later was used in a war bondsale and was depicted in theMarine Corps War Memorial inArlington, Virginia.

— Compiled from AP reports

AROUND THE NATION

Joe Rosenthal / AP file

In this Feb 23, 1945 file photo, U.S. Marines raise the Americanflag atop Mt. Suribachi, Iwo Jima, Japan.

Brazil attorneygeneral seeks probesof ex-president Silva

SAO PAULO — Brazil’s Su-preme Court said Tuesday thatthe attorney general has askedit to authorize investigations offormer President Luiz InacioLula da Silva over alleged in-volvement in corruption at stateoil company Petrobras.

The court’s press office saidAttorney General Rodrigo Janotalso wants to investigate SocialCommunications Minister

Edinho Silva, Political AffairsMinister Ricardo Berzoini andJaques Wagner, who heads theoffice of President Dilma Rous-seff.

On Monday, Janot askedBrazil’s highest court to autho-rize an investigation of opposi-tion presidential candidateAecio Neves for alleged involve-ment in the Petrobras briberyscheme. Neves narrowly lost the2014 election to Rousseff.

Brazilian media reported thatJanot is also targeting top offi-cials in the opposition PMDBparty, including party chief Sen.

Romero Juca, but the attorneygeneral’s office did not confirmthat information.

Under Brazilian law, theSupreme Court must give per-mission for any investigationsof high government officials andlawmakers. The court also mustauthorize any trial of such offi-cials.

Janot based the requests ontestimony in a plea bargain bySen. Delcidio do Amaral, whowas ensnared in the sprawlingcorruption probe.

— Compiled from AP reports

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LOCAL & STATE

The Region One Edu-cation Service Center,which encompasses sev-en counties, includingZapata, will host its An-nual Educator Job Fairon Tuesday, June 7.

The fair will be held atthe Region One Educa-tion Service Center, 1900W. Schunior, in Edinburgfrom 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. forthose interested in seek-ing a teaching or an ad-ministrative position in aRegion One school dis-trict.

There is no fee to at-tend the conference forthose seeking employ-ment with a school dis-trict.

Participants are askedto pre-register for the job

fair at esc1.net/staffdevel-opment using Workshop#52226. Pre-registrationwill expedite the processfor the participant andwill help the participantto avoid long lines.

Local school districtsand charter school sys-tems have been invited toattend. Region One areaschool district principalsand personnel directorswill be on hand, pre-pared to interview appli-cants, and in some casesoffer teaching contractson the spot. The RegionOne area encompassesCameron, Hidalgo, Willa-cy, Webb, Jim Hogg, Za-pata and Starr counties.

Prospective teachercandidates are encour-aged to bring multiplecopies of their resumes,

certificates, transcripts,evaluations and recom-mendations to share withschool district repre-sentatives.

For those interested inpursuing a career ineducation, representa-tives from alternativecertification programswill be on hand to pro-vide program informa-tion. For those interestedin becoming a substituteteacher, Region One willhave information regard-ing the SubHub, sub-stitute teacher manage-ment system.

In addition to the jobfair, applicants can alsosearch the teacher re-cruitment web site atwww.schoolwork.esc1.netfor applications and jobinformation.

Educator job fair setfor Edinburg in JuneSPECIAL TO THE TIME S CIUDAD VICTORIA,

Mexico — Mexican au-thorities say they haverescued three Americancitizens who were kid-napped in the northernstate of Tamaulipas,which borders Texas.

The Tamaulipas stategovernment says the

victims were freed fromcaptivity Monday from acriminal band’s campalong the highway be-tween Ciudad Victoriaand Zaragoza. It says thealleged leader of the bandwas killed in the opera-tion and two suspectswere detained.

The Tamaulipas gov-ernment said Tuesday

that the Americans aremembers of the samefamily and are of Mex-ican descent. The threeadults are said to be fromDallas and are describedas in good condition.

They were abductedApril 13 while driving to arelative’s funeral in thecentral state of San LuisPotosi.

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ARLINGTON, Texas —A young soldier shot andwounded his wife outsidea Dallas-area store andthen gunned down afather of three whograbbed his own gun andtried to make a citizen’sarrest, authorities say.

Arling-ton policesay Antho-ny “T.J.”Antell Jr.,35, sawRicci Brad-den shootat the feet

of his wife during anargument Monday out-

side of a Walgreenswhere she works, strikingher once. She fled insidethe store to call for help.

Antell retrieved ahandgun from his vehicleand confronted Braddenin an attempt to make acitizen’s arrest, but Brad-den slapped it away andthen fatally shot Antell.

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LANSING, W.Va. — Afew years ago, social psy-chologist Sheena Iyengarasked 100 American andJapanese college studentsto take a piece of paper.On one side, she had themwrite down the decisionsin life they would like tomake for themselves. Onthe other, they wrote thedecisions they would liketo pass on to others.

The Americans filledup the side for decisionsthey want to decide forthemselves. Where to live.What job to take. Theother side was almostblank. The only “decision”they commonly wanted tohand off to others was,“When I die.”

The Japanese filled upthe back side of the sheetwith things they wantedothers to decide: whatthey wore; what time theywoke up; what they did attheir job. The Americansdesired choice in fourtimes more domains thanthe Japanese.

Americans have alwaysput great emphasis onindividual choice. Buteven by our own stan-dards we’ve had a choiceexplosion over the past 30years. Americans nowhave more choices overmore things than anyother culture in humanhistory. We can choosebetween a broader arrayof foods, media sources,lifestyles and identities.We have more freedom tolive out our own sexualidentities and more reli-gious and nonreligiousoptions to express ourspiritual natures.

This opening has pro-

duced much that is won-derful. But making deci-sions well is incrediblydifficult, even for highlyeducated professionaldecision-makers. As ChipHeath and Dan Heathpoint out in their book“Decisive,” 83 percent ofcorporate mergers andacquisitions do not in-crease shareholder value,40 percent of senior hiresdo not last 18 months intheir new position, and 44percent of lawyers wouldrecommend that a youngperson not follow theminto the law.

It’s becoming incrediblyimportant to learn todecide well, to develop thetechniques of self-dis-tancing to counteract theflaws in our own mentalmachinery. The Heathbook is a very good com-pilation of those tech-niques.

For example, they men-tion the maxim, assumepositive intent. When inthe midst of some conflict,start with the belief thatothers are well inten-tioned. It makes it easierto absorb informationfrom people you’d rathernot listen to.

They highlight SuzyWelch’s 10-10-10 rule.When you’re about tomake a decision, ask your-self how you will feelabout it 10 minutes fromnow, 10 months from nowand 10 years from now.

People are overly biasedby the immediate pain ofsome choice, but they canput the short-term pain inlong-term perspective byasking these questions.

The Heaths recommendmaking deliberate mis-takes. A survey of newbrides found that 20 per-cent were not initiallyattracted to the man theyended up marrying.Sometimes it’s useful tomake a deliberate “mis-take” — agreeing to din-ner with a guy who is notyour normal type. Some-times you don’t reallyknow what you want andthe filters you apply arehurting you.

They mention our ten-dency to narrow-frame, tosee every decision as abinary “whether or not”alternative. Whenever youfind yourself asking“whether or not,” it’s bestto step back and ask,“How can I widen myoptions?” In other words,before you ask, “Should Ifire this person?” Ask, “Isthere any way I can shiftthis employee’s role totake advantage of hisstrengths and avoid hisweaknesses?”

The explosion of choicemeans we all need morehelp understanding theanatomy of decision-mak-ing. It makes you thinkthat we should have ex-plicit decision-makingcurricula in all schools.Maybe there should be acommon course pub-licizing the work of DanielKahneman, Cass Sun-stein, Dan Ariely andothers who study the waywe mess up and the tech-

niques we can adopt toprevent error.

This is probably espe-cially important forschools that serve the lessfortunate. The explosionof choice places extraburdens on the individual.Poorer Americans havefewer resources to masterdecision-making tech-niques, less social supportto guide their decision-making and less of a safe-ty net to catch them whenthey err.

As researchers SendhilMullainathan and EldarShafir have shown, thestress of scarcity itself candistort decision-making.Those who experiencedstress as children oftenperceive threat moreacutely and live moredefensively. A schoolprincipal I met in Pitts-burgh observed that livingin an area of concentratedpoverty can close downyour perceived options,and comfortably “relieveyou of the burden ofchoosing life.” It’s hard tomaintain a feeling of agen-cy when you see nochance of opportunity.

In this way the choiceexplosion has contributedto widening inequality.

It’s important to offeropportunity and incen-tives. But we also needlessons in self-awareness— on exactly how ourdecision-making tool isfundamentally flawed,and on mental frame-works we can adopt toavoid messing up evenmore than we do.

David Brooks is a columnistfor The New York Times.

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The choice explosion

“DAVID BROOKS

An ad brought her tomy office. She was tall,pushing 50, red-haired,freckled and had a promi-nent overbite. Yet, therewas something very dif-ferent about the womanwith the ordinary nameHelen Smith.

My widely cast net inthe summer of 1971 calledfor someone to recreateour then-labeled “society”pages in the Conroe Cou-rier. We were looking fora talent that could brain-storm with us and changethe coverage and tone ofthe newspaper section.

Our idea and vision ofthe “new” section was toreflect the diverse womanemerging from the shack-les of housewifedom,swirling about looking fora challenging place in arapidly changing socialand employment worldfor the “fairer sex.” Thesection, we decided, mustreflect the woman’s emer-gence from keepinghouse, raising kids andwaltzing from the “ladies”garden club to the grocerystore to preparing a din-ner for her husband’sbusiness clients.

A little later in my no-madic journalist’s life, Imet a younger, beautifulversion of Helen andmarried her.

Helen charmed meimmediately with herintellect, her confidence,her ability and her instantgrasp of what I envisionedas The Courier’s versionof women’s news. When Idescribed for her thevision I had of an expand-ed coverage, she exuded acontrolled excitementabout my ideas and gavean immediate but briefsummary of her ideas onthe conversion. I was sold.

She came to work andafter a brief instruction onhow to produce the lastfew “society” pages whileplanning the debut ofnews for the modernwoman. Her combinationof talent, charm and confi-dence captivated her fel-low newsroom editorsand writers.

Helen’s Women’s Newslead page debut show-cased a feature story,written extraordinarilywell and enhanced by amagazine-style layoutwith large, dramatic pic-tures rather than the staidblock layout of engage-ments, weddings, teas andclubs. That news movedto the section’s insidepages and the Courier hadlaunched into a new con-cept heretofore only ap-plied by our larger breth-ren, er, sisters in thenewspaper world.

The response was over-whelmingly favorable,with a few exceptions ofstiffly corseted biddiesfrom old money society,whose boring cookie-cutter sameness club“news” had dominated thepage previously.

Phone calls of approval

poured in, a significantnumber of them frommen. A bank presidentwaved me into his officesoon after Helen’s debutand raved to me abouthow impressed he waswith our new format. “Iturn to that page firstwhen I get the papernow,” he confessed. Hewas not alone in the im-pressive masculine recep-tion and approval of thepage.

Negativism came fromonly a few of the afore-mentioned stiff-upper lipsocial mavens.

Ultimately, there was aselfishly motivated, one-man uprising in the news-room. A talented, butarrogant and self-centeredphotographer, did most ofHelen’s lead page pictures.Once he told Helen he hada conflicting assignmentwith when she’d arrangedher feature photos andthat she’d have to re-schedule. EnterprisingHelen was not about toupset the subjects of thealready-working featureso she did the shoot her-self and turned in thefilm. Side note: her pic-tures were, not surpris-ingly, excellent.

When Mr. Arrogancereturned from his con-flicting shoot and sawHelen’s pictures, hechewed her out so rough-ly that a usually unflap-pable Helen was in tears.To do that in the mannerhe did and, to my new“star,” cocked and spring-loaded me in the ticked-off position. Arrogancesteamed into my office,leaned across my deskand growled, “It’s her orme!”

I performed a physicalfeat I cannot to this dayexplain. I leaped, execut-ing two 90-degree turns inone move, and came downnose-to-nose with Arro-gance and shouted, “It’syou, Stupid! You’re fired.”

Helen’s tenure lastedonly a few months morewhen her Gulf Oil Co.executive husband wastransferred to Atlanta.That news caused me tofight back tears.

Helen went straight tothe large and reveredAtlanta Constitution andJournal and nailed down ajob that quickly led to afront page position for hercolumn.

She had star quality,packaged in a quiet, confi-dent but reserved way.Helen was great and I“discovered” her.

Willis Webb is a retiredcommunity newspapereditor-publisher of morethan 50 years experience. Hecan be reached by email atwwebb1937@att.net

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Loadedwith talent

Politics in America hasnever really been for thethin-skinned, but alwaysa rather rambunctiousand disrespectful game.

And so in that senseI’m not bothered at all byformer House SpeakerJohn Boehner calling Sen.Ted Cruz "Lucifer." It wasactually kind of funny.And it cleverly expressedin one word what many

think of this particularpresidential candidate,whose faults and qualitieshave been overlookedbecause of our focus uponhis reality TV rival.Boehner’s barb is simplypart of the tradition.

But in another sense, Iam disturbed by the in-sult. I’m disturbed be-cause it seems part of apolitical discourse, apolitical process, and apolitical communityturned toxic.

COMMENTARY

Lucifer and the age of insults in politicsBy Joshua J. WhitfieldTHE DALLAS MORNING NEWS

THE ZAPATA TIMES | Wednesday, May 4, 2016 | A5

ENTERTAINMENT

NEW YORK — ComicLarry Wilmore says his“tone didn’t fit the room”at his much talked-aboutWhite House Correspon-dents Association speechbut believes his use of aprovocative term to ad-dress President BarackObama may open an im-portant dialogue for thecountry.

The Comedy Centralhost said in an interviewTuesday that he’s willingto take the heat for hisperformance over theweekend, which skeweredmedia figures and poli-ticians. The so-called nerdprom is a big Washingtonevent in Washington, andWilmore’s roast, whichfollowed Obama’s finaladdress at the event aspresident, was televisedacross the country.

“I may have under-estimated the tone of howI was telling the jokes,”the “Nightly Show” hostsaid, although he said “allof these revelations yourealize after the fact.”

Still, he wasn’t takingback the most-discussedmoment of the speech,which came at the end.Wilmore, who is blackand, at 54, the same age asObama, said words didn’tdo justice to the idea thathe could live at the sametime a black man could beleader of the free world.

He concluded: “Yo Bar-ry, you did it, my n——a.You did it.”

Wilmore’s use of thephrase shed light on adebate among many in theblack community: thosewho feel it is an offensiveslur and shouldn’t be usedin any context, and others— including Wilmore —who feel that using it as a

term of endearmentamong blacks robs theword of its negative power.

“I knew that it would beprovocative and yes, I wastaking a big chance,” Wil-more said. “But you knowwhat, it was just a creativeexpression that I made atthe time. I don’t know if Iwould take it back.”

He said that “at thispoint, I think it may openup a dialogue that at theend of the day is probablypretty good. And if I haveto take the heat for it,that’s OK. Part of my jobis to take the heat. I cer-tainly dished out a lot ofstuff.”

He recalled that as achild, the police broke intoa neighbor’s home andthat he heard them shout,“freeze, n—-er, dead.” Hewas completely dehuman-ized by the phrase, and heand his friends would useit in humor to strip thatpain away.

Wilmore said the presi-dent was “very kind andvery warm” to him andthe White House saidMonday that Obamawasn’t offended by use ofthe phrase. Others were,including civil rights activ-ist Al Sharpton, who wasat the dinner and crit-icized it later.

Wilmore says his‘tone didn’t fit room’at White HouseBy David BauderASSOCIATED PRE SS

Susan Walsh / AP file

In this April 30 filephoto, Larry Wilmorespeaks at the annualWhite HouseCorrespondents'Association dinner.

NEW YORK — TheTony Awards are beingnicknamed this year the“Hamil-Tonys” in recogni-tion that “Hamilton” is theshow to beat. That wasproven again Tuesday.

Lin-Manuel Miranda’ship-hop-flavored biogra-phy about the first U.S.treasury secretary earned16 Tony Award nom-inations, breaking the15-nominations recordheld jointly by “The Pro-ducers” and “Billy Elliotthe Musical.” “Hamilton”earned nods in all 13 cate-gories it was eligible.

“I feel really gratefulthat they kind of spreadthe wealth,” Miranda toldThe Associated Press.“Theater requires collab-oration and I’m lucky tobe working with some ofthe best people in theirrespective fields aliveright now.”

The awards will behanded out June 12, withJames Corden playinghost from the BeaconTheatre. “Hamilton” willbe hoping to break anoth-er record: The musicalwith the most Tonys is“The Producers” with 12.

At that ceremony,“Hamilton " will competefor Broadway’s biggestcrown — best new mu-sical — with “Bright Star,”“School of Rock,” “ShuffleAlong” and “Waitress.”

The other top nomineesTuesday were “ShuffleAlong,” a show that ex-plores a groundbreaking

95-year-old musical star-ring, written and directedby African-Americans,which got 10 nominations,and the revival of “SheLoves Me,” which earnedeight.

“Hamilton” earnedseven acting nominations— Miranda, Leslie OdomJr., Phillipa Soo, DaveedDiggs, Jonathan Groff,Christopher Jackson andRenee Elise Goldsberry. Italso earned nominationsfor best musical, scenicdesign, costumes, lightingdesign, direction, choreog-raphy, orchestrations, bestbook and best originalscore.

The musical has al-ready won the PulitzerPrize for drama, a Gram-my, the Edward M. Ken-nedy Prize for DramaInspired by AmericanHistory and a MacArthurFoundation “genius”grant.

The loudest screams inMiranda’s house Tuesdaymorning were for theannouncement of Jackson,who plays George Wash-ington. Jackson was oneof the first people to audi-tion for the show in NewYork in 2002. “To see himget recognized got a par-ticularly loud screamfrom my parents and mywife and I,” Miranda said,laughing.

Goldsberry earned herfirst Tony nominationafter appearing in fourprevious Broadway showsand said she will go to thetheater Tuesday nightholding aloft the bannerof “Hamilton.”

“The 16 of us representevery single person thatworked on this show andwe’re really grateful to getto do that,” she said. Butfirst, the mother of twowill celebrate with a nap.“I’m going to nap with thehappiest smile on myface.”

There were a few sur-prises Tuesday, includingJennifer Hudson beingoverlooked in “The ColorPurple” and only a cos-tume design nominationfor “Tuck Everlasting,” awell-received musicalbased on the 1975 book byNatalie Babbitt. Also, thehit show “On Your Feet!,”which follows the lives ofGloria and Emilio Este-fan, earned just a choreog-raphy nod.

And “American Psy-cho,” an adaptation of thenovel by Bret Easton Ellisabout a materialistic serialkiller, only captured nom-inations for scenic designand lighting. Its actorsand songs by DuncanSheik were snubbed.

“Waitress ,” a musicalwith songs by singer-songwriter Sara Bareillesthat is adapted from a2007 film about a waitresstrapped in a small-towndiner and a loveless mar-riage, earned four nom-inations.

“I’m so grateful to havefound my way back to-ward the theater commu-nity. I grew up doingtheater. It’s how I learnedto listen to music,” saidBareilles, who got a nodfor music and lyrics.

“This experience of work-ing on ‘Waitress’ has sochanged my life in per-sonal ways and profes-sional ways.”

“School of Rock ,” theadaptation by AndrewLloyd Webber and JulianFellowes of the Jack Black-led movie about a wanna-be rocker who enlistsfifth-graders to form arock group, earned fournominations, includingbest musical, book, origi-nal score and best leadingman in Alex Brightman.

“It’s a funny season thisone, isn’t it,” said LloydWebber from London. “Asyou know, it’s the ‘Hamil-Tonys.’ We’ve gotten ev-erything we could havehoped for — and that’s allwe’ll get. But it’s lovely inthis season of all seasonsto get score and musicaland book. We’re terriblypleased.”

“Bright Star ,” a com-plex love story set againstthe American South bycomedy god Steve Martinand Grammy-winningsinger-songwriter EdieBrickell, earned five nom-inations and few weremore pleased than Mar-tin, who earned his firstTony nod.

“This is very, very excit-ing to me. It’s almost, likeyour emotions betray you,you don’t allow yourself toknow how excited you arebut then when it happens,the body just takes overand you think, ‘Gee, Imust have really beennervous about this!’ So Iam so pleased,” he said.

Broadwaymusical‘Hamilton’ doeswhat it alwaysdoes — stuns Joan Marcus / The Public Thearter/AP

This image released by The Public Theater showsLin-Manuel Miranda, foreground, with the castduring a performance of "Hamilton," in New York.

By Mark KennedyASSOCIATED PRE SS

ZfronteraA6 | Wednesday, May 4, 2016 | THE ZAPATA TIMES

Ribereña en breveFESTEJOS1 Durante toda estasemana, y hasta elviernes 6 de mayo secelebra la SemanaNacional de Agrade-cimiento al Maestro.Igualmente el viernesserá el Día Nacionalde la Enfermera, asícomo el día del Hé-roe de la ComidaEscolar.

STAAR

1 Hoy se aplicará elexamen STAAR enHistoria de EU; y eljueves se aplicará elexamen STAAR enBiología.

MISA AZUL

1 La Oficina del Al-guacil del Condadode Zapata invita a laMisa Azul para orarpor la seguridad delos hombres y mu-jeres dedicados a laaplicación de la ley, elrescate en incendiosy la seguridad públi-ca, quienes ponen suvida en riesgo en prodel bienestar de lacomunidad.

La misa se ce-lebrará el viernes 6de mayo, a las 10a.m., en la iglesiaNuestra Señora deLourdes, ubicada en1609 Glenn St., enZapata.

CONSULADOMÓVIL

1 El Consulado Gen-eral de México real-izará un ConsuladoMóvil en San Diego,Texas, del Condadode Duval, el 14 demayo, de 9 a.m. a 2p.m. en el 510 E.Gravis Ave.

Se proporcionaránservicios básicoscomo expedición deMatrícula Consular(ID mexicana), pasa-porte, asesoría legal yorientación al públicoen el ámbito de pro-tección.

Además se llevaráa cabo una Feria deSalud donde se pro-porcionarán algunosservicios de salud demanera gratuita queincluirán toma deglucosa, presiónarterial, índice demasa corporal, einformación sobrehigiene dental, entreotros temas.

Para mayor in-formación comun-icarse al teléfono(956) 723-0990.

RELEVO POR LAVIDA

1 El evento Relay ForLife of Zapata County(Relevo por la vidadel Condado deZapata), se llevará acabo el 20 de mayo,en la Placita delCondado de Zapatasobre la Carretera 83y calle 7a., de 6 p.m.a 12 a.m.. El temaserá “Pinta tu mundode morado”.

SOCIEDADGENEALÓGICA

1 La Sociedad Ge-nealógica NuevoSantander celebrarásu reunión el sábado21 de mayo a las 2p.m. en el ZapataCounty Museum ofHistory. Los oradoresinvitados para estaocasión son Del &Marsha Shumway,así como Viqui Uribe,con el tema “Búsque-da Familiar” (FamilySearch).

MEMORIAL DAY

1 La Cámara deComercio del Conda-do de Zapata anun-cia que el lunes 30 demayo las oficinaspermanecerán cerra-das por la celebra-ción de MemorialDay.

REYNOSA, México —Una ola de tiroteos entreautoridades mexicanas ycarteles de la droga se haextendido por esta ciudadrecientemente.

La violencia se ha der-ramado a tal punto en lascalles que forzó a los resi-dentes a buscar refugiodetrás de los mostradoresde una tienda.

Hace una semana, des-pués de dos días de esca-ramuzas, la violencia

provocó que infantes demarina en un helicópterodispararan contra losgrupos criminales en unazona de la ciudad, mien-tras que en un incidenteseparado, la marina seenfrentó con miembrosdel cartel en un centrocomercial, atrapando acientos de personas en elinterior en medio deltumulto.

Durante casi dos horas,el centro comercial fuebloqueado mientras labalacera provocaba estra-gos durante la tarde. La

dueña de una tienda habíaplaneado asistir a la firmade un acuerdo de ciudadeshermanas entre McAlleny Reynosa; en cambio,estaba atrapada en elinterior, paralizada por elmiedo.

El enfrentamiento, queiniciara en las calles, estal-ló en el centro comercialde forma inesperada, ypara evitar cualquierescape, las salidas estabancerradas con los compra-dores dentro, dijo ella.

Autoridades mexicanasinformaron de al menos 10presuntos delincuentesmuertos en tiroteos ocur-ridos en dos días.

Dueños de negocios noson los únicos que temen

por su seguridad y la desu familia.

Los residentes de todala ciudad están cada vezmás preocupados por loscontinuos brotes de vio-lencia en zonas pobladas,especialmente al acercarselas elecciones para go-bernador de Tamaulipas.

La seguridad pública hadominado el primer mesde la temporada de cam-paña, con ciudadanosansioso de salir a votar el5 de junio.

La policía local de laciudad fue disuelta pororden del gobierno federalpor cargos de corrupción;se siente ahora una pazprecaria resguardada porlos convoyes de la policía

militar y del estado quefuertemente armadosdeambulan por la ciudad.

Tamaulipas dio vida alcártel del Golfo y los Ze-tas, pero la caída de losjefes del crimen organ-izado en los últimos añosha dividido sus rangos engrupos más pequeños concambios de alianzas, cau-sando brotes de violenciaen todo el estado, en ciu-dades pequeñas ygrandes.

Meses de relativa calmaterminaron en marzo connuevos enfrentamientosentre grupos rivales delcártel y las autoridadesque paralizaron áreas deReynosa, Matamoros yCiudad Victoria.

Para poner fin a laviolencia, el ejército des-plegó 900 tropas al estado,que comparte casi 350millas de frontera con elsur de Texas.

TAMAULIPAS

Derrame de violenciaCiudades se paralizan anteola de enfrentamientos

Por Aaron Nelsen SAN ANTONIO EXPRE SS-NEWS

MIAMI — En todo elpaís, los migrantes estánentre las decenas de milesde personas que han solic-itado la ciudadanía, en unaño en el que la migraciónha tomado un lugar cen-tral en la campaña elector-al, especialmente en lasprimarias republicanas.En todo el país, las solici-tudes de naturalizaciónsubieron un 14% en losúltimos seis meses de 2015en comparación con elmismo periodo de 2014,según el gobierno.

El precandidato DonaldTrump, el favorito de lacarrera republicana, haprometido deportar a losaproximadamente 11 mil-lones de personas queviven en Estados Unidossin permiso de residencia,entre otras medidas.

Legisladores y activistasdefensores de los mi-grantes afirman que esaretórica ha llevado a mu-chos residentes nacidos enel extranjero a solicitar laciudadanía.

“Hay un temor a unapresidencia de Trump”,dijo María Ponce, de iA-merica Action.

Y el grupo de futurosciudadanos es grande.Casi 9 millones de person-as con permiso de resi-dencia o de trabajo pue-den reclamar la ciudada-nía. De ellos, unos 4 mil-lones son hispanos.

Para ser aptos, los mi-grantes deben haber esta-do en el país cinco años,completar una solicitud de21 páginas, toma de huel-las, pasar un examencívico y de inglés y pagarcasi 700 dólares en cuotas.

INMIGRACIÓN

Temorlleva atrámitesPor Sergio BustosASSOCIATED PRE SS

Tamaulipas posee unescudo propio. Del origeny sus sucesivas innova-ciones existe una versiónoficial que suprime de-talles interesantes.

Marte R. Gómez Seguraera el gobernador de Ta-maulipas. Sentía que ha-

bía que proporcionar a laentidad “su escudo dearmas”, hoy el más anti-guo en la frontera nortedel país. Según lo previs-to, debe usarse “en docu-mentos gubernamentales,en propiedades del estadoo en trofeos”. Lo anterior,“siempre como signo depertenencia o distinción”.El escudo se divide endiversos segmentos, elmodelo condensa unamuestra de los recursosproductivos del estado.

El emblema se instituyóel 9 de marzo de 1939. Enel Periódico Oficial se

publica el ordenamientorelativo. Del lado superiorizquierdo –se estipula –,“en campo de gules o rojo,figurarán varios animales,señalándose así la caracte-rística abundancia ganad-era”, mientras que al ex-tremo opuesto “aparece-rán plantas de maíz yalgodón”, símbolos de la“riqueza agrícola”.

El gobernador incumpleempero la norma que élmismo avala y promulga.Sin atender lo prevenido,invierte la secuencia, demodo que primero semuestra la “riqueza agrí-

cola”, seguida de la “abun-dancia ganadera”.

Al cabo de 39 años haycambios en la materia quepropiciaban corregir eltropiezo de manera dis-creta. Sin embargo, loocurrido de nueva cuentaestremece.

Nos referimos a lasenmiendas publicadas el27 de septiembre de 1978.Asombrosamente, se reit-era que en la mano iz-quierda, arriba, figuran“animales, señalándose lacaracterística abundanciaganadera”, y enfrente“aparecerán plantas […]

fuentes principales denuestra riqueza agrícola”.

A casi media siglo deinstituido, el emblemaregistra segundas refor-mas. Dictadas en abril de1984, hasta el 13 de juniosiguiente las difunde elPeriódico Oficial. “Lasfuentes principales […] delauge […] agrícola”, van en“la parte superior izquier-da”, y “la parte superiorderecha” se reserva a “laproducción pecuaria”.

Con permiso del autor,según fuera publicado en LaRazón de Tampico, México.

COLUMNA

Escudo de Tamaulipas tuvo complicacionesNota del Editor: Duranteel Siglo XX, las entidadesfederativas crean susescudos representativos,los cuales sintetizan larealidad de cada una.

Por Raúl SinencioTIEMP O DE ZAPATA

Las organizacionessin fines de lucro,como el Banco deAlimentos del

Sur de Texas (STFB)requieren de los volunta-rios para poder realizarsu misión

A fin de agradecer sulabor, la semana pasada,el organismo ofreció unacena en las oficinas ub-icadas en 1907 de la calleFreight, de Laredo, dondereconocieron al volunta-rios del año, al grupovoluntario del año, y alpremio excelencia envoluntariado.

“Gracias. Este añohemos tenido 55.000horas donadas por losvoluntarios”, dijo ErasmoA. Villarreal, presidentede la junta directiva delBanco de Alimentos del

Sur de Texas. “Es más demedio millón de dólaresen tiempo”.

Luis Salazar fue nom-brado el voluntario delaño. Salazar, se retiró delnegocio de restaurantestras estar ahí alrededorde 40 años. Él trabaja conla recepcionista, HopeZúñiga.

“En todos mis años deservicio nunca habíarecibido un premio comoéste”, expresó el homena-jeado.

De la misma forma,Alma Boubel, directoraejecutiva para el STFB,expreso que Salazar es unhombre quien “religiosa-mente” acude a las of-icinas como voluntariodiariamente de 9 a.m. a 5p.m., incluidos los sába-dos.

“Es una bendición paranuestra misión”, sostuvo

Boubel.El grupo varonil ACTS

en Español de la iglesiaSt. Patrick’s Church fuereconocido como el grupovoluntario del año.

Sus integrantes acuden“fielmente” un sábado almes para ayudar en elllenado de bolsas confrijol y arroz, las cualesson distribuidas a 27.000familias mensualmente,de acuerdo con un co-municado de prensa delSTFB.

Ellos son comandadospor Alejandro González.El premio fue aceptadopor Alfredo Lozano.

“Nos encanta la misióndel Banco de Alimentosdel Sur de Texas”, dijoLozano. “Gracias porpermitirnos ayudar”.

Finalmente, CharlieRomo recibió el premiode excelencia en volunta-

riado.“Charlie Romo disfruta

el dar”, dijo el director delprograma del banco dealimentos, Mike Kazen.“Él juega un papel impor-tante con nuestros volun-tarios. Él es entusiasta ymotiva a los demás”.

Con una actual tasa depobreza de más del 30por ciento, el Banco deAlimentos del Sur deTexas, proporciona ali-mentos suplementarios alas personas desemplea-das, sub empleadas y aaquellos viviendo coningresos fijos. Atiende aun área de ocho condadosdesde Del Río a RíoGrande City.

El STFB recibe donati-vos deducibles de im-puestos. Para conocermás acerca del organismovisite southtexasfoodban-k.org.

SERVICIO COMUNITARIO

VOLUNTARIO DEL AÑO

Foto por Danny Zaragoza | Laredo Morning Times

Luis Salazar, seca una lágrima después que Alma Boubel terminara de leer una carta de agradecimiento porparte del Banco de Alimentos del Sur de Texas. Salazar fue reconocido como Voluntario del Año.

Reconocen labor de quienes dan sin esperar algo a cambioTIEMP O DE ZAPATA

Sports&OutdoorsTHE ZAPATA TIMES | Wednesday, May 4, 2016 | A7

NEW YORK — TheNBA said Tuesday therewere five incorrect non-calls on the wild finalsequence in San Antonio,including a foul on Okla-homa City’s Dion Waitersthat referees earlier hadalready acknowledgedthey missed.

The league agreed withthe refs that Waitersshould’ve been whistledfor knocking Manu Gino-bili back with his elbowto create space to throwan inbounds pass, butalso ruled in its Last 2Minute report that Gino-bili first committed adelay-of-game violationby stepping on the side-line as he was defending.

The inbounds playbegan a frenzied final 13.5seconds in the Thunder’s98-97 victory over San

Antonio on Monday inGame 2 of the WesternConference semifinals.The Spurs ended upstealing Waiters’ pass toKevin Durant to start afast break but couldn’tscore, leaving the West-ern Conference semifinaltied at 1-1.

Referee Ken Mauer, thecrew chief, said after thegame that upon seeing areview of the play, thereshould have been anoffensive foul on Waiters.

On Tuesday, the refer-ees union wrote on Twit-ter that it had never seenthe play before and wouldincorporate it into itstraining moving forward.

“Waiters foul on Gino-bili was the worst missedcall in playoff history,”Hall of Famer MagicJohnson wrote on Twitterafter the game.

But the problemsdidn’t stop there.

The league determinedthat the Spurs’ KawhiLeonard and Patty Millsgrabbed and held Thun-der players, affectingtheir movement and abil-ity to get open to catchthe inbound pass.

Once the Spurs cameup with it, Mills ended upgetting a jumper from thecorner that missed. TheSpurs couldn’t get off aclean attempt on the of-fensive rebound, and theleague determined thatwas because the Thun-der’s Serge Ibaka grabbedLaMarcus Aldridge’sjersey and affected hisattempt.

Had that been called,Aldridge — who scored 41points and made all 10free throws — wouldhave attempted two shotsfrom the line to win thegame.

Game 3 is Friday inOklahoma City.

NATIONAL BASKETBALL ASSOCIATION: SAN ANTONIO SPURS

Missed calls in Game 2

Tom Reel / San Antonio Express-News

LaMarcus Aldridge scored 41 points as the Spurs lost 98-97 to the Thunder in Game 2 Monday in the franchise’s second home loss of the 2016 season.

NBA: 5 incorrect non-calls at theend of Spurs-Thunder Game 2By Brian MahoneyASSOCIATED PRE SS

Edward A. Ornelas / San Antonio Express-News

Kawhi Leonard and the Spurs were involved in a crazy finish with the ThunderMonday featuring plenty of admitted missed calls by the officials.

ARLINGTON — Al-fred Morris was watch-ing the NFL draft whenthe Dallas Cowboys se-lected Ezekiel Elliottwith the fourth overallpick.

Morris welcomes theOhio State running backdespite what it mightmean for him.

The addition of Elliottcreates a crowded run-ning backs room withveterans Morris, DarrenMcFadden and LanceDunbar fighting for whatmight end up being threejobs behind Elliott.

"I’m used to it," Morrissaid. "It’s a business atthe end of the day. Com-

petition only makes usbetter, so I get excitedabout it. It’s definitelygoing to be a big chal-lenge, but I’m excited.Looking forward to it.The only sad part, thedownside to it, is thatone of us guys is going tobe gone.

"We already have agood group of guys whoare there, and they’regoing to add one to that.It’s going to change. Theroom’s going to change.I’m sure it’s alreadychanged a lot since lastyear. It’s going to changeeven more now addinganother first-round guylike that to the room."

Morris made his firstappearance as a memberof the Cowboys, joining

several teammates at theteam’s 12th annual Tasteof the NFL to tacklechildhood hunger.

He has no regretsabout signing a two-yeardeal with the Cowboys infree agency.

"None at all," Morrissaid. "This is where I’msupposed to be, and I’mexcited about the oppor-tunity and looking for-ward to it."

Morris was coming offhis third consecutive1,000-yard season a yearago when the Redskinsdrafted Florida runningback Matt Jones in thethird round. Morris end-ed up splitting snapswith Jones and ChrisThompson, a fifth-roundpick in 2013. Last season,Morris got 385 offensivesnaps, Jones 340 andThompson 274.

"Two years in a row.I’m used to it," Morris

said with a chuckle.The Cowboys kept

four running backs ontheir active roster mostof last season, though thenames kept changing.McFadden was theteam’s only running backon the roster all 16games.

Now, they have newnames with Morris andElliott.

"We’re going to pro-mote competition on ourfootball team," Cowboyscoach Jason Garrett saidSunday night. "To have aguy like Zeke Elliottavailable to us to drafthim, we think that helpsour team. But to alsohave Darren McFaddenand Alfred Morris andLance Dunbar and someof the other guys there,it’s a really healthy run-ning back room, andwe’re excited about allthose guys."

Alex Trautwig / Getty Images File.

Former Washington running back Alfred Morrissigned a free-agent deal with Dallas in the offseasonbut instead finds himself in a crowded group led byNo. 4 overall draft pick Ezekiel Elliott.

NATIONAL FOOTBALL LEAGUE: DALLAS COWBOYS

Morris knows what RB pick meansCrowded backfield in Dallasafter Ezekiel Elliott pick

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SAN FRANCISCO —Afeni Shakur, the formerBlack Panther who in-spired the work of herson, rap icon Tupac Sha-kur, and fostered his lega-cy for decades after hewas slain, has died of anapparent heart attack,authorities said Tuesday.She was 69.

Responding to a 911 callto Shakur’s home in Sau-salito Monday night, dep-uties and firefightersperformed CPR, rushedher to a hospital and triedto revive her for about anhour, but “she had in factdied from what is believedto be some kind of cardiacevent,” Marin CountySheriff’s Lt. Doug Pittmansaid.

Born Alice Faye Wil-

liams, Shakur changedher name when she be-came politically active inthe 1960s and joined theBlack Panther movement.By 1971, she was pregnantand behind bars, accusedof conspiring to bombNew York City land-marks.

She said the chargeswere brought after thePanthers took over aschool to make a pointabout continuing to edu-cate children during ateacher’s strike in 1968.

Recalling the case yearslater, she said they wereaccused of conspiring tocommit murder and ar-son, to blow up the BronxBotanical Garden and theAbercrombie & Fitch andMacy’s department stores,and even police stations.All the charges were ulti-mately dismissed, and her

son was born soon aftershe left jail.

She named him TupacAmaru, after the lastIncan emperor, who led arebellion and refused tosurrender to Spanishconquistadors.

As Afeni Shakurbounced from New YorkCity to Baltimore to Cali-fornia, she became addict-ed to drugs and struggledas a single mother. Still,she managed to enrollTupac in arts schools andother programs where hehoned the musical andacting skills that wouldmake him a hip-hop icon.

“Arts can save children,no matter what’s going onin their homes,” she toldThe Associated Press in a2005 interview. “I wasn’tavailable to do the rightthings for my son. If notfor the arts, my child

would’ve been lost.”But Afeni Shakur left a

deep impression on herson, helping to shape aworld view that latermade him stand outamong other young rap-pers, with songs reflectinghis own rebellious atti-tude toward racism, pov-erty, violence and othersocial problems.

Tupac, in turn, reveredhis mother, praising herin his 1995 elegy, “DearMama,” a hit song manyfans recalled Tuesday intweets and posts.

“You are appreciated,”he says, rapping about thesacrifices she made forhim and his sister, Sekyi-wa Shakur. “Ain’t a wom-an alive that could takemy mama’s place.”

Tupac Shakur died in astill-unsolved drive-byshooting in 1996, at age 25.

Conspiracies about hiskillers flourished. Hismother considered them awaste of time.

“We decided to dealwith the living. This isjustice for me,” she said in2005. “I need to do whatGod has put in front of meto do, and it ain’t trying tofigure out who killedTupac.”

For the last two decadesof her life, Afeni Shakurfocused on keeping herson’s legacy alive whilemanaging his musicalcatalog.

She opened the TupacAmaru Shakur Center forthe Arts in Georgia — aproject focused on helpingat-risk youth that is nowdefunct.

She also co-produced aBroadway musical, “Hol-ler If Ya Hear Me,” thatused his songs — includ-

ing “Me Against theWorld,” ‘’California Love”and “Keep Ya Head Up” —to tell an original story byTodd Kreidler about twoyoung men dealing withlife and tragedy in a Mid-western industrial city. Itclosed quickly in 2014after playing just 38 per-formances.

And she served asexecutive producer on afilm about Tupac Shakur’slife, “All Eyez on Me,”which is set to be releasedin the fall with DemetriusShipp Jr., playing her son.

Seven years ago, shedonated a collection of herson’s writings, includingrough drafts of lyrics andpoems and a photocopy ofhis contract with SugeKnight and Death RowRecords, to the Robert W.Woodruff Library at At-lanta University Center.

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BUSINESS

Halliburton Co. andBaker Hughes Inc. wast-ed no time making clearthey will take differentpaths after the termina-tion of their merger.

“Our strategy has notchanged,” HalliburtonCEO Dave Lesar toldinvestors and analysts ona conference call Tues-day. His statement cameminutes after BakerHughes wrapped up aseparate conference callin which CEO MartinCraighead repeatedlysaid the company wasgoing to change its focusbe “more selective” inwhere it does business.

The $28 billion take-over was called off Sun-day in the face of stiffresistance from globalregulators over antitrustconcerns. Halliburton’sLesar blamed “elongatedregulatory scrutiny” andthe drop in oil prices formaking the deal uneco-nomic.

While expressing dis-appointment with thefailed bid, Lesar said he’snot backing away frommore deals and still seesselective acquisitions as

part of the company’sgrowth plan. Larger,more complicated merg-ers are struggling to gettimely approvals, Lesarsaid.

Remaining a full-ser-vice provider continuesto be key for Halliburtondespite the downturn.“It’s way better to be inevery basin with everyproduct line,” he said onthe call.

Baker Hughes, mean-while, said it will simpli-fy its organizationalstructure and pull backits pressure-pumping

business to only twobasins in North Americato weather low prices. Allother businesses will bereviewed as it looks foradded cost cuts.

“Every product linehas to earn its right,”Craighead said.

More than half of thepressure-pumping equip-ment available for frack-ing in the U.S. is notbeing used, according toindustry consultant IHSInc. Prices charged forfracking, which blastswater, sand and chem-icals underground to free

trapped hydrocarbons,are estimated to havefallen as much as 40percent since the down-turn began in late 2014,IHS said.

There will be very littleability for fracking pro-viders to force the sale ofother associated services,known in the industry asbundling, over the nexttwo to three years,Craighead said.

Outside the U.S. andCanada, the “asset-light”plan by Baker Hughescalls for offering certainof its products to local

suppliers in select coun-tries.

Growing its interna-tional business “doesn’tnecessarily have to haveBaker Hughes coverallson all the rigs runningthese tools and instru-ments,” Craighead said.“I just see it as a massiveopportunity and we ex-pect that we’re going toown that channel.”

Halliburton an-nounced the BakerHughes takeover in No-vember 2014 in a bid tobetter compete againstindustry leader Schlum-berger Ltd. as oil pricesfirst began to drop fromabove $100 a barrel. Theoil services industry isoperating at a loss inNorth America, home tothe world’s largest mar-ket for hydraulic fractur-ing. Schlumberger lost$10 million in the U.S.and Canada, excludingtaxes, during the firstthree months of the year.

Halliburton, theworld’s largest providerof fracking services, re-corded first-quarter costsof $378 million, or 44cents a share, related tothe Baker Hughes bid,according to a statementTuesday. That’s higher

than the $79 million, or 9cents a share, acquisition-related costs in the finalthree months of 2015.

The charges were oneof the factors of Hallibur-ton reporting that itsfirst-quarter loss wid-ened to $2.4 billion, or$2.81 a share, from a lossof $643 million, or 76cents, a year earlier. Ex-cluding certain items,profit was 7 cents ashare, higher than the4-cent average of 36 ana-lysts’ estimates compiledby Bloomberg. The com-pany also eliminated6,000 more jobs in thequarter to reduce costs,according to a statementApril 22.

The second- and third-largest oil-service firmshad set a deadline for theend of April to completethe deal or walk away.The U.S. Justice Depart-ment heard concernsfrom dozens of compa-nies and filed a lawsuit inearly April to stop themerger, saying it threat-ened to eliminate head-to-head competition in 23products and servicesused in oil exploration.

The government ulti-mately concluded that thedeal was “not fixable atall,” David Gelfand, dep-uty assistant attorneygeneral, told reportersMonday on a conferencecall.

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Mira Oberman / AFP/Getty file

This file photo taken on April 8, 2011 shows a Halliburton facility in PortFourchon, Louisiana.

DETROIT — Amer-ica’s love of trucks andSUVs helped push mostautomakers to healthysales gains last month asHonda and Nissan re-ported best-ever Aprilsales. Ford posted recordSUV sales, while Toyotabroke a record for SUVand truck sales.

Honda led major auto-makers with a 14.4 per-cent sales increase asboth its cars and SUVssold well, while Nissan’ssales rose 12.8 percent.Fiat Chrysler was up 6percent on record Jeepsales, and Ford rode anApril record for SUVsales to a 4 percent in-crease. Toyota sales rose3.8 percent largely be-cause of the RAV4 smallSUV, which broke amonthly record withsales up nearly 32 percent.

General Motors, Volks-wagen and Hyundai werethe only major automak-ers to report sales de-clines. GM blamed its 3.5

percent drop on a strate-gy of cutting low-profitsales to rental car compa-nies. VW sales fell al-most 10 percent as itsemissions-cheating scan-dal continued. Hyundaisales were off 8.5 percentfrom a record April lastyear.

Ford Motor Co. said itsold more than 65,000SUVs, the best April incompany history, led bythe Explorer with a 22percent increase. At Nis-san Motor Co., cars andSUVs pushed sales up,while Fiat Chrysler wasled by a 17 percent in-crease in sales of JeepSUVs. It was FCA USLLC’s best April since2005.

Analysts expect U.S.sales of new cars andtrucks to be up 4 percentover last April whencompanies are done re-porting figures on Tues-day. Car-buying site Ed-munds.com predictsApril sales of more than1.51 million, beating theprevious record for themonth set in 2005.

“I think it’s full-steamahead,” said Rebecca

Lindland, senior analystfor Kelley Blue Book whodoesn’t see any economicforces that would causecar sales to slow. Lin-dland says consumers arepulling sales up, andautomakers aren’t creat-ing demand with wildincentives or crazy leasedeals like they have inthe past.

KBB is forecastingsales to be flat from lastyear’s record 17.5 million,but Lindland says theycould even fall off a bit asGM and other automak-ers reduce sales to rental

car companies. Still, shesays retail sales to indi-vidual buyers would beup, and that is healthyfor the auto industry.

Regardless of whethersales keep growing, theoverall pace of growth isslowing. Two years ago,for example, April salesjumped 8 percent, ordouble last month’s ex-pected pace. J.D. Powerand Associates predictedthat April sales this yearwould run at an annualrate of 17.6 million.

For now, the salesoutlook is still sunny.

Consumers are on trackto spend more than $36.9billion on new vehicles inApril, surpassing theprevious record for themonth set last year, ac-cording to J.D. Power andLMC Automotive.

But there are someworrying trends for theindustry.

Buyers are flocking toSUVs and trucks, whichmight force manufactur-ers to discount cars tomove them off lots. That’sgood for buyers in theshort term, but incentivescan flood the market withcars and hurt resale val-ues.

At Fiat Chrysler, carsales fell 8 percent for themonth. Sales of the Chry-sler 200 midsize car tum-bled 60 percent toaround 7,600. Ford’s carsales fell 12 percent.Hyundai’s two top-sellingcars, the compact Elantraand midsize Sonata, eachsaw big sales declines.Elantra sales were down44 percent while theSonata was off 15 percent.

Although car sales aredropping overall, Lin-dland doesn’t see big

price wars developingbecause many auto facto-ries can now switch easi-ly from cars to SUVs.Many SUVs are built onthe same underpinningsas cars.

Some cars bucked thedownward sales trend.Sales of GM’s all-newChevrolet Malibu andHonda’s new Civic eachrose nearly 25 percent.

Sales to individualconsumers also appear tobe slowing, so automak-ers are relying more onless profitable sales torental-car companies andother fleets. J.D. Powerexpected April sales toindividual buyers to rise4 percent, while sales tofleets were expected tojump 8.7 percent.

John Humphrey, seniorvice president of J.D.Power, said consumerswill spend more on newcars and trucks than anyother April on record.But he said slowinggrowth, the shift awayfrom cars and rising fleetsales “pose significantchallenges to manufac-turers as they compete inthe marketplace.”

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In this Tuesday, Dec. 2, 2014, file photo, MikeJohnson, a sales manager at a local Honda cardealership, walks past a row of Honda CRVs inTempe, Ariz.

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HONOLULU — Afederal judge on Tuesdaysentenced a Hawaii moth-er to a month in jail andthree months under homeconfinement for assault-ing her 15-month-olddaughter on a flight fromAlaska.

Samantha LeialohaWatanabe declined tospeak at her sentencinghearing.

A jury convicted her ofassault after last year’strial where prosecutorsalleged she cursed at herdaughter, smacked her inthe head, hit her in theface with a stuffed dolland yanked out tufts ofher hair during the May2015 Alaska Airlinesflight.

Defense attorneys ar-gued the allegations werefabricated by judgmentalpassengers who didn’tlike how Watanabe lookedand dressed her child.Watanabe didn’t do any-thing beyond permissibleparental discipline duringa long flight with a fussytoddler, her attorneyssaid. Prosecutors allegedshe was unreasonablyrough with the generallywell-behaved girl.

In arguing for no jailtime, public defenderAlexander Silvert told thejudge Watanabe is breast-feeding a baby she gavebirth to prematurely lastmonth. It’s her seventhchild. She agreed to letthe boy’s father have cus-tody, but she sees theinfant frequently enoughfor nursing, Silvert ex-plained.

She doesn’t have custo-dy of her six other chil-dren, including the girlshe was traveling withwhen she was arrested.

Watanabe has led ahard life of drugs andhomelessness, Silvertsaid. But since her arrest,she has made improve-ments to her life — fromanger management tomental health and drugtreatment, he said. Silvertasked the judge not tocondemn her for that life.

“It was poor parentingskills that got us wherewe are today,” AssistantU.S. Attorney Marc Wal-lenstein said in requestingthe judge sentence herwithin a guideline rangeof four to 10 months. “Noone in any socio-econom-ic class is allowed to as-sault a 15-month-oldchild.”

In finding her guilty,jurors had to determinethat an act of striking,occurred, but it’s notknown which one theyagreed upon. It couldhave been a pinch, or aslap or something else,Silvert said: “We have noidea what the jury con-victed her of.”

Mom getsjail forassaultingtoddlerBy Jennifer SincoKelleherASSOCIATED PRE SS

DETROIT — Teacherswho closed Detroitschools for two days bycalling out sick an-nounced Tuesday thatthey would return to theclassroom after receivingassurance from the dis-trict’s manager that theywould be paid.

The move by the De-troit Federation of Teach-ers came hours afterMichigan lawmakersadvanced a $500 millionplan to restructure De-troit public schools bycreating a new district.

The vote was intendedto ease teachers’ fearsthat they might not getpaid if the district runsout of money. But theunion quickly blasted thelegislation endorsed bythe House Appropria-tions Committee. Itwould forbid existinglabor agreements fromtransferring to the newdistrict and restrict col-lective bargaining overwork schedules andschool calendars.

Terrence Martin, theunion’s executive vicepresident, said the unionwas “truly outraged” bythe proposal. He said themeasures heading to thefull House “feel like andlook like anti-teacherbills” and differ radicallyfrom legislation approvedin March by the Senatethat he described as“workable.”

“It’s just a testament tohow far apart lawmakersare right now. ... “(It’s)very discouraging to ourmembership,” Martin

said. “We’ll continue tofight.”

The union said itwould encourage mem-bers to go back to schoolWednesday based ondiscussions with thedistrict’s state-appointedtransitional manager,Steven Rhodes.

The sick-out idled45,000 children and pre-sented yet another crisiswith racial overtones fora governor and Legisla-ture already engrossed inthe water emergency inFlint, a majority-blackcity like Detroit, wheremany residents havecomplained about beingtreated like second-classcitizens.

“Teachers, you’re goingto get paid,” RepublicanHouse AppropriationsCommittee Chairman AlPscholka said before thepanel approved the planover objections that itwould not be enoughmoney and also hurt theteachers union.

The proposal thatpassed mostly alongparty lines would retirethe district’s enormousdebt by 2023 and launcha new district in July. Itwould spend less than a$700-plus million planapproved by the Senatein March.

The GOP-led Housecould vote on the idealater this week. But bigdifferences would stillneed to be resolved withthe Republican-con-trolled Senate. It wasunclear how quickly thatcould occur before theLegislature adjourns forthe summer in mid-June.

On Tuesday, the dis-trict closed 94 of its 97

schools — the same num-ber that canceled classeson Monday, when morethan 1,500 teachers didnot show up for work.

“We want to be inschool teaching chil-dren,” said Randi Wein-garten, national presi-dent of the AmericanFederation of Teachers,the union that representsDetroit teachers. “Butyou cannot in good con-science ask anybody towork without a guaran-tee they’re going to bepaid.”

The district — consid-ered the worst academi-cally of its size in thecountry — has been un-der continuous stateoversight since 2009. Ithas been led by a seriesof financial managerswho have confronteddebt and enrollment thathas declined to a third ofwhat it was a decade ago.

Current transitionmanager and formerfederal judge StevenRhodes, who oversaw thecity’s bankruptcy,warned over the weekendthat nearly $50 million inemergency spending thatthe state approved inMarch will run out byJune 30.

Teachers opting tohave their pay spreadover 12 months instead ofthe course of the school

year would not receivepaychecks in July andAugust without morehelp from the state.

The seven-bill planaims to ensure that thenewly created districtcould spend more onacademics if freed of debtpayments equaling $1,100per student.

But Republicans andDemocrats remain atodds over issues such ashow much state money isneeded and how to createa special commission toopen and close schools,including publicly fund-ed charters. Also un-resolved is the questionof when an elected schoolboard would take powerand if a financial over-sight commission wouldhave a say in hiring anew superintendent.

Rep. Henry Yanez, aDemocrat, characterizedthe legislation as “bald-faced union busting.”Other Democrats ques-tioned why it would pro-vide only $33 million forstart-up costs and cashflow when $200 millionis required.

The mass sick-outsthat started late last yearwith just a small group ofteachers, however, an-gered Republicans whocomplained that the pro-test did not help theirefforts to pass the bills.

Four bills won approvalon narrow 15-14 votes.

Rep. Earl Poleski ofJackson, who voted forthe legislation, called thework stoppages “repre-hensible.”

“Their actions havebeen grossly unprofes-sional,” he said.

But one parent whowas missing work be-cause her daughter hasbeen shut out of classsaid the blame for thedistrict’s financial mala-dies falls on the shoul-ders of the state, not theteachers.

Teachers “have beendoing the best that theycan with the resourcesthat they have,” saidMonique Baker McCor-mick, whose daughter isan 11th-grader at CassTech. “They’re just tryingto survive themselves offof what little they get. SoI don’t blame them at allfor fighting for what theydeserve.”

Asked if PresidentBarack Obama supportsthe sick-outs, WhiteHouse spokesman JoshEarnest said Tuesdaythat he was “deeply con-cerned” that studentswere not being educatedand urged teachers andlocal officials to “resolvetheir differences so thatkids can get back toschool.”

Detroit teachersto return toclassroom after2-day sick-out

Carlos Osorio / AP

Detroit Federation of Teachers President Ivy Bailey addresses teachers outsidethe school district's headquarters, Tuesday in Detroit.

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from Central America.The policy of detainingchildren has faced crit-icism from immigrantadvocates, who cite re-ports of inadequate medi-cal care and other issuesas reasons the stateshouldn’t issue child-carelicenses to the facilities.

Immigrant advocatesalso say minimum stan-dards have been loweredin order to license thesedetention centers and thefacilities don’t providegood environments forpromoting child welfare.

But ICE has indicatedin recent months that it’slooking to change how ithouses families and chil-dren caught along theU.S.-Mexico border.

It has sought potentialservice providers to runstate-licensed residentialcare facilities for familiesand children held by theagency, ideally in Arizo-na, California, New Mex-ico and/or Texas. ICEasked for information forfacilities that could ac-

commodate up to 1,000beds “which could beprovided at a single loca-tion, but would ideally becomprised of severalservice locations with upto 500 beds at each facil-ity.”

Asked during a con-gressional hearing inMarch if her agencywould stop using Karnesand Dilley for familydetention in fiscal year2017, ICE director SarahSaldaña said it probablywould convert Karnesinto housing for adultmales and possibly alsochildren. She said thefacility at Dilley “willcontinue to exist.”

An inspection at theKarnes facility in Marchbefore the temporarylicense was grantedfound six deficiencies.Those included: on oneoccasion observing achild in a bedroom with-out his or her mother ora staff member present,and discovering that anemployee was not qual-ified for their position.

The deficiencies werecorrected before the tem-

porary license was is-sued, Crimmins said. Hesaid during the six-month term of the tem-porary license, at leastthree unannounced in-spections of Karneswould take place. If anyproblems are found, theywould need to be ad-dressed before a perma-nent license could beissued.

A similar applicationfor a child-care licensefor the Dilley facility,which is run by Correc-tions Corporation ofAmerica, is still pending,Crimmins said.

An inspection in Aprilof that facility found 12deficiencies. Those in-cluded: all playgroundsshowing worn AstroTurfand exposed seams creat-ing a potential trippinghazard, and unsecuredmedical supplies such asscalpels and used syring-es seen on top of count-ers.

No temporary licensefor the Dilley facility willbe issued until theseproblems are corrected,Crimmins said.

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tively ending one of thefirst organized protestsagainst industry activityin South Texas’ EagleFord Shale.

“That’s what you call alittle town getting shiton,” 80-year-old KermitKoehler, who lives a fewmiles outside of Nord-heim, said minutes afterthe vote.

In the end, the casehighlighted gaps in bu-reaucracy that preventedthe commission, chargedwith only evaluatinggroundwater effects,from taking into accountresidents’ other quality-of-life concerns. Thoseinclude the site’s possiblefoul smell, new trucksexpected to rumble downalready cracked localroads, and the facility’sproximity to a school.

“I’ll be candid — Idon’t like the site,” saidCommissioner RyanSitton, who met withNordheim residents lastfall in an unpublicizedvisit. He was the lonecommissioner to weighin at Tuesday's open

meeting. He added, however,

that he had no otherchoice because experts atthe agency determinedthat safeguards at thefacility would properlyprotect groundwater inthe area, and becausethey could not evaluateother concerns.

The Texas Commissionon Environmental Qual-ity, the state’s air reg-ulator, has limited juris-diction over such facil-ities, and only those withcertain types of equip-ment require air permitsto operate. Once the facil-ity is up and running,however, it could be sub-ject to air nuisance laws.

No state or local agen-cy has authority to ad-dress the land use andtraffic concerns. Thefacility would borderNordheim but not sitwithin city limits.

Shortly before approv-ing the permit, Sittonissued an unusual warn-ing: “Because they’vechosen to build this siteso closely to residents,the margin of error isexceptionally small,” hetold an attorney for the

waste company. “Don’tscrew this up.”

CEO George Wom-mack told The TexasTribune that his compa-ny’s facility is “best inclass” and “the mosthighly engineered” suchlandfill that the commis-sion has ever permitted.

“We care very muchabout these people,” hesaid.

The commission ulti-mately required Pyote tobeef up groundwatersafeguards so that thewaste won't flow out ofretention ponds on siteduring worst-case flood-ing scenarios. GrantChambless, who manag-es the agency’s environ-mental permits and sup-port staff, said he "wasvery confident that therisks have been ad-dressed."

Wommack said Pyotewould iron out the addi-tional quality-of-life con-cerns with local resi-dents. “Now is the timethat we can get somestuff figured out.”

Drilling and fracking awell leaves operatorsliable for vast amounts ofliquid waste. They typ-

ically get rid of thatwaste by sending it to beinjected into disposalwells deep underground.But operators must sendsolid waste like drillcuttings, oil-based muds,fracking sand and othertoxic substances toabove-ground sites.That’s the type of wastePyote’s facility wouldhandle.

The facility wouldinclude a mix of lineddisposal pits and landtreatment cells wheremore benign wastewould be scattered andallowed to mix with soil.The company says thickclay lies beneath theland, providing an extralayer of protection for thegroundwater under-neath. Wommack saidthe spot in question isideal for waste disposal.It sits in prime EagleFord drilling acreage, notfar from the highway.And plenty of nearbydrillers still need a spotto unload their waste —even amid the industry’sepic slowdown over thepast two years.

But Nordheim doesn’twant it. Over the past

two years, more than 200people — including localstate lawmakers andDeWitt County JudgeDaryl Fowler — urgedthe commission to rejectthe permit.

State Rep. Geanie Mor-rison, R-Victoria, stoodwith her constituentsthroughout the long-winding protest. Thewaste site would “causethis community greatproblems,” she told thecommissioners. Still, sherecognized the agency’snarrow jurisdiction andvowed to work duringthe 2017 legislative ses-sion on plugging suchregulatory gaps.

The Railroad Commis-sion is already set toundergo particular scru-tiny next year, as law-makers consider recom-mendations from thestate Sunset AdvisoryCommission.

“I want to offer towork with you during thesunset process,” she saidto the commission. “Helpme make this a betterprocess.”

The acknowledge-ments and promises didnot make Nordheim resi-

dents feel any better.“My roadrunners are

going to be gone, myjackrabbits are going tobe gone, and my brotherand nephew [who livenext to the site] are goingto be gone,” Paul Bau-mann, a retiree of theDuPont chemical compa-ny who owns ranchlandbordering the site, toldthe commissioners.

After the vote, he toldthe Texas Tribune that hewas “really disappoint-ed.”

“Disgusted” is theword that Lynn Janssenkept using. Her ranchhouse sits just down adirt road from the soon-to-be waste site.

“What recourse dopeople have? This is it,”she said. “To think thatthey can permit some-thing that they don’t like,there’s something wrongwith that.”

Will Nordheim, withits aging population,survive the new devel-opment?

“No,” Janssen said.“People won’t send theirkids to school there.They’ll go somewhereelse.”

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burro in a red tie, blackboots and a blond wig.“We’ll see how we do — ifthey kick us out, donkeyand all,” Aguilar jokedbefore Sunday’s costumecompetition.

Other Trump-deckeddonkeys featured signsthat declared: “Impostor!I’m the real DonaldTrump!” and “If I win the12,000 peso prize, I’ll put awall between Otumba andTeotihuacan,” referring tothe famed pre-Aztec cityof pyramids nearby.

None of them wonmuch favor with the audi-ence at the 51st annualdonkey fest, though. Au-dience applause chose thewinners: donkeys emulat-ing a Smurf, a firefighterand an Uber ride.

Zeus Laredo, a physicsteacher who attended thefair with friends, said hebacked the eventual win-ner: a donkey dressed upas the papa Smurf whowas attended by an entou-rage of people in Smurfcostumes.

Otumba was an impor-tant donkey market dur-ing Spanish colonialtimes, standing at thecrossroads of major roadsleading to Mexico City,where the beasts pulledheavy loads and carriedtravelers.

Today, however, farm-

ers use tractors and pick-up trucks, and the donkeypopulation is in decline.

The animal that wonthe jockey race is more apet than a worker. The12-year-old winning jock-ey, Wilfrido Lemus Coro-na, learned to ride hisdonkey, Veso, when hisgrandfather plopped himon top when he was just 6to carry him across thefields, his mother PatriciaCorona Espinosa said.Family and friends threwthe tiny jockey into the airSunday after he scored histhird consecutive win. Healso took home 12,000pesos in cash, about $700.

With donkey numbersdeclining, Otumba’s Flo-res family decided to opena donation-funded sanctu-ary they named “Burro-

landia,” or Donkeyland. Itcurrently hosts 30 don-keys that German Floressaid would otherwisehave ended up at theslaughterhouse. Here theylive out the rest of theirdays grazing and can bevisited by tourists onweekends. Flores said themajority of their donkeyscame from farmers whoeither couldn’t affordthem anymore or who nolonger had room aftermoving away from theirfarms.

Fair organizer JuanCarlos Chavez said Otum-ba hopes its annual festi-val creates awarenessabout the animals.

“Donkeys are wonder-ful animals,” he said.“People say they don’tunderstand, but they do.”

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In this May 1 photo, a man dresses a donkey in a Donald Trump costume, inpreparation for the costume competition event at the annual donkey festival inOtumba.

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A pig wearing a wig and suit to resemble DonaldTrump rides in a cart pulled by a similarly-dresseddonkey, as a team mocking the U.S. presidentialcandidate parades during the costume competitionevent at the annual donkey festival in Otumba,Mexico State, Mexico.

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In this May 1, 2016 photo, men from a donkey racing team stand beside the trackentry ahead of a race heat, at the annual donkey festival in Otumba.

“Thank you Indiana,we were just projected tobe the winner,” Trumpwrote on Twitter. “Wehave won in every catego-ry. You are very specialpeople — I will neverforget!”

Cruz, who hasn’ttopped Trump in amonth, campaigned vig-orously in Indiana, se-curing the endorsementof the state’s governorand announcing busi-nesswoman Carly Fiorinaas his running mate. Buthe appeared to lose mo-mentum in the final daysof campaigning and lethis frustration withTrump boil over Tuesday,calling the billionaire“amoral” and a “bragga-docious, arrogant buf-foon.”

Trump responded bysaying Cruz “does nothave the temperament tobe president of the Unit-ed States.” Earlier Tues-day Trump had rehashedunsubstantiated claimsthat the Texan’s father,Rafael Cruz, appeared ina 1963 photograph withJohn F. Kennedy’s assas-sin, Lee Harvey Oswald— citing a report firstpublished by the NationalEnquirer.

Cruz has vowed to stayin the race through thefinal primaries in June,clinging to the possibilitythat Trump will fall shortof the 1,237 delegates heneeds and the race willgo to a contested conven-tion. But he now couldface pressure from do-nors and other Repub-licans to at least tonedown in attacks onTrump in an attempt tounite the GOP headinginto the general election.

Whether a united Re-publican Party is evenpossible with Trump atthe helm remains highlyuncertain. Even beforethe Indiana results werefinalized, some conserva-tive leaders were plan-ning a Wednesday meet-ing to assess the viabilityof launching a third partycandidacy to competewith Trump in the fall.

One outside grouptrying to stop Trumpsuggested it would shiftits attention to helpingRepublicans in otherraces. Rory Cooper, asenior adviser to theNever Trump super PAC,said the group will helpprotect “Republican in-cumbents and down-ballot candidates, bydistinguishing their val-ues and principles fromthat of Trump, and pro-tecting them from a waveelection.”

Only about half ofIndiana’s Republicanprimary voters said theywere excited or evenoptimistic about any oftheir remaining candi-dates becoming presi-dent, according to exitpolls. Still, most said theyprobably would supportwhoever won for theGOP.

Clinton, too, needs towin over Sanders’ enthu-siastic supporters. TheVermont senator hascultivated a deeply loyalfollowing in particularamong young people, agroup Democrats counton in the general election.

Sanders has concededhis strategy hinges onpersuading superdele-gates to back him overthe former secretary ofstate. Superdelegates areDemocratic Party in-siders who can supportthe candidate of theirchoice, regardless of how

their states vote. Andthey favor Clinton by anearly 18-1 margin.

Exit polls showedabout 7 in 10 IndianaDemocrats said they’d beexcited or at least opti-mistic about either aClinton or Sanders presi-dency. Most said theywould support either inNovember.

The exit polls wereconducted by EdisonResearch for The Associ-ated Press and televisionnetworks.

A fall showdown be-tween Clinton andTrump would pit one ofDemocrats’ most experi-enced political figuresagainst a first-time candi-date who is deeply divi-sive within his own party.Cruz and other Repub-licans have argued thatTrump would be roundlydefeated in the generalelection, denying theirparty the White Housefor a third straight term.

Republican leadersspent months dismissingTrump as little more thanan entertainer whowould fade once votingstarted. Cruz was amongthose who actively triedto align themselves withTrump and called him“terrific.”

As Trump began topick up wins, Cruz be-came more critical of hisrival’s policies. Still, historrent of attacks Tues-day was by far the mostpointed and personal ofthe campaign to date.

Trump has now wonseven straight primarycontests and has 80 per-cent of the delegatesneeded to secure the GOPnomination. With hisvictory in Indiana,Trump now has at least1,041 delegates. Cruz has565 and Ohio Gov. JohnKasich has 152.

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