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IMMIGRATION: Reactions as immigration plan heard > 18

OUR PRIDE: Local college student selected to visit NASA > 17

SPORTS: Seahawks cruise past Arizona 19-3 > 15

Night of entertainmentEnrique Iglesias and Calle 13 have big night at Latin Grammys > 19

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Wisdom for your decisions

ENTERTAINMENT

LAS VEGAS, Nevada (AP)

Enrique Iglesias picked up his first Latin Grammy in more than a decade Thursday,

winning three trophies including song of the year for his platinum hit, “Bailando,” while Calle 13 set a record for most Latin Grammy wins with 21.

Iglesias accepted his awards from Paris, where he was tour. “Bailando” also won best urban song and performance, beating out Latin Grammy favorites Calle 13. Iglesias won his first Latin Grammy — and only one before Thurs-day — in 2003 for best male pop vocal album for “Quizás.”

Calle 13 walked into the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas as the top competitors. Eduardo Cabra of duo was nominated for 10 awards, including pro-ducer of the year, while the group was up for nine, including album, song and record of the year — all of which they lost.

Instead, Paco de Lucia — the celebrated Mexican guitarist who died earlier this year — won album of the year for his final

effort, “Canción Andaluza.” The album also won best flamenco album, an award de Lucia won twice throughout his career.

Juanes, who was originally tied with Calle 13 with 19 Latin Grammys before Thursday, won best pop/rock album for “Loco De Amor,” giving him a career total of 20.

Calle 13 kicked off the Latin Grammys by giving a strong performance that looked like it was inside an Irish bar and wins for best alternative song for “El Aguante” and urban music album for “Multiviral,” their fifth album but first to be released on their own label.

“We are happy. We have 21 (Latin) Grammys and it is a dream. We never thought we would have this in our lives,” Calle 13 vocalist Rene Perez told reporters backstage.

A taped performance of “Bailando” from Iglesias closed the three-hour show, which aired live on Univision and was delayed about 17 minutes because of Pres-

ident Barack Obama’s speech on immigra-tion. “Bailando,” which features Gente de Zona and Descemer Bueno, has sold more than 1.2 million tracks in the United States and peaked at No. 12 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. The song is the longest-running No. 1 hit on Billboard’s Hot Latin Songs.

Jorge Drexler was a double winner Thursday night, taking home record of the year for “Universos Paralelos” with Ana Tijoux and best singer-songwriter album for “Bailar En La Cueva.” Marc Anthony, who got married earlier this month, won best salsa album for “3.0.” He performed with reggae-pop band MAGIC!, singing a Spanish version of their worldwide hit, “Rude.”

The night featured a number of collabor-ative performances: Rockers Camila, who won best contemporary pop vocal album, performed with Ricky Martin; R&B singer Chris Brown sang alongside Pitbull and Wisin; and Pitbull returned to the stage to rap next to guitar maven Carlos Santana.

Venezuelan singer-songwriter Mariana Vega won best new artist and the icon Joan Manuel Serrat, who performed, was named person of the year.

Iglesias was nominated for five awards. “Bailando” lost record of the year and his other tune, “Loco,” lost best tropical song to “Cuando Nos Volvamos A Encontrar,” Carlos Vives’ song featuring Anthony. Vives shared the win with co-writer Andrés Castro.

Vives, who was the big winner at last year’s Latin Grammys, also won best con-temporary tropical album for “Más + Corazón Profundo.”

Enrique Iglesias, Calle 13 own Latin Grammys

Rene Perez Joglar, of Calle 13, performs at the 15th annual Latin Grammy Awards at the MGM Grand Garden Arena on Thursday, Nov. 20, 2014, in Las Vegas. ON THE COVER: Carlos Santana, left,

and Pitbull perform at the annual Latin Grammy Awards ceremony in Las Vegas, Nevada.

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ENTERTAINMENT: Enrique Iglesias, Calle 13 own Latin Grammys

IMMIGRATION: Emotions rise as people hear immigration plan

OUR PRIDE: Columbia Basin College student selected to visit NASA

LATIN AMERICA: Thousands of Mexicans protest over 43 missing students

SPORTS: Seattle cruise past Arizona 19-3

NATIONAL: Bus heading to Pasco crashes and leaves 1 dead, injures dozens

COLUMN: From my Balcony: Blessed yesterday

COLUMN: Dave Says: Protecting her from herself

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IMMIGRATION

(AP)

Thousands of immigrant-rights activists, families and elected officials cheered across the

country as President Barack Obama announced on television his plan for relief from deportations for about 5 million people.

But after the initial burst of emotion Thursday evening at hastily organized watch parties and in living rooms, many said Obama’s plan was just the first step in the fight for comprehensive immigration reform. Immigrant families pointed out the plan would only cover about 5 million of the 11 million without legal status, leaving many families and individuals in limbo.

Republicans slammed the president’s action as an overreach, while advocates — including Oregon Gov. John Kitzha-ber and California Gov. Jerry Brown — praised Obama’s plan.

Earlier Thursday, advocates held rallies in support of the plan, including one outside a federal building in Seattle that

featured a series of speeches from pol-iticians, activists and immigrants. In Washington, an estimated 75,000 resi-dents will be able to apply and receive work permits.

Not everyone was happy with Obama’s action. A couple of protesters held “no amnesty” signs outside a New York union office where advocates of the president’s plan watched the speech.

A snapshot of reactions across the country:

___“This will definitely help our family

no longer live in fear, fear that we will have to drop everything if our parents are deported. But there is still fear, because this is a temporary, and we need some-thing permanent,” said Isaura Pena, 20, of Portland whose father and mother lack legal status.

___“This is how we get ready to fight for

the many excluded ones, to fight for every immigrant worker in this country. We are America. And to those Democrats and Republicans, to opinion-makers and to

those who are listening: The time is now. Our country is ripe what is right. Let’s do what is right: Let’s get immigration reform,” said Hector Figueroa, president of Service Employees International Union Local 32BJ at a watch party in the union’s New York City office.

___“This is a great day for farmworkers. It’s

been worth the pain and sacrifice,” said Jesus Zuniga, 40, who picks tomatoes in California’s Central Valley and watched

the speech at a union gathering in Fresno.___“Simply stated, you’re the only singu-

lar person in this entire country that can advance or adopt meaningful immigra-tion reform. By that very definition then, it is your singular failure alone as to why we do not yet have reform, why America con-tinues to be at risk, and new crimes and new victims are mounting each and every day in every single state,” said Sacramento County Sheriff Scott Jones, addressing the president directly in a video posted by his office Wednesday on YouTube. Jones vowed to crusade against illegal immigra-tion after the shooting rampage last month by a Mexican man with a long criminal history who was in the country illegally.

___“They’re going to have a chance to be

what they want to be and get an educa-tion,” said Maria Perez, 41, of Fresno, Cali-fornia. She is documented, but she often worries about her nieces, ages 16 and 18, who aren’t. With the president’s speech, she feels hope that her nieces now can achieve her dreams.

Emotions rise as people hear immigration plan

From left, Viridiana Carrizales of San Antonio, Texas, Jose Patino, of Phoenix, and his girlfriend Reyna Montoya of Mesa, react during a watch party for President Obama’s speech on immigration at the Puente offices in Phoe-

nix on Thursday, Nov. 20, 2014.



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PASCO, Washington

Lesly Ibarra of Columbia Basin College in Pasco has been selected to travel to NASA’s

Marshall Space Flight Center this fall to participate in the National Community College Aerospace Scholars Program (NCAS).

Ibarra has been selected as one of 40 community college students from across the U.S. to be part of NCAS.

The semester-long scholars program culminates with a three-day on-site event at Marshall Space Flight Center and offers students the opportunity to interact with NASA engineers and others as they learn more about careers in science and engineering. While at NASA, students form teams and estab-lish fictional companies interested in Mars exploration. Each team is respon-sible for developing a prototype rover, designing a 3-D model of their rover and forming a company infrastructure, including budget, communications and presentations.

The on-site experience at NASA includes a tour of facilities and briefings by NASA subject matter experts.

The National Community College Aerospace Scholars is a project based on the Texas Aerospace Scholars, originally created by the state of Texas in partner-ship with Johnson Space Center and the Texas education community. Both proj-ects are designed to encourage commu-nity and junior college students to enter careers in science and engineering in order to join the nation’s high technol-ogy workforce.

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MEXICO CITY (AP)

Tens of thousands marched in the capital Thursday demanding that authorities find 43 missing

college students, seeking to pressure the government on a day normally reserved for the celebration of Mexico’s 1910-17 Revolution.

Officials had canceled the traditional Nov. 20 Revolution Day parade, and marchers carrying “mourning” flags with Mexico’s red and green national colors substituted by black suggested the country was in no mood for celebration.

“The entire country is outraged,” said housewife Nora Jaime. “It is not just them,” she added, referring to the 43 young men who haven’t been seen since being attacked by police in a southern city Sept. 26. “There are thousands of disap-peared, thousands of clandestine graves, thousands of mothers who don’t know where their children are.”

The march in Mexico City was largely peaceful, in contrast to recent protests that have ended with the burning of gov-

ernment buildings in Guer-rero state, where the students disappeared. Whenever masked protesters tried to join Thursday’s march, dem-onstrators shouted them down with chants of “No violence!” and “Off with the masks!”

The protesters converged on the city’s main square, where families of the missing students stood on a plat-form in front of the National Palace holding posters of their relatives’ faces. Amid chants for President Enrique Pena Nieto to step down, family members repeated that they do not believe the gov-ernment’s account that the youths were killed by a drug gang.

“We’re not tired,” said one man speak-ing from the platform. “On the contrary, we are mad with this Mexican govern-ment and its entire structure, because it has not done anything but deceive the families.”

After most of the protesters left the square, a small group of masked youths began battling police with rocks and sticks. Police responded with fire extin-guishers to put out fires set by the youths and to force them off of the square.

Earlier in the day, about 200 youth-ful protesters, some with their faces covered by masks or bandannas, clashed with police as they tried to block a main expressway to the international airport.

Protesters hurled rocks, fireworks and gasoline bombs at the police, at least one of whom was hit by the projectiles. Some passengers had to walk to the termi-nal, but flights were not interrupted and expressways were reopened.

Many average people, outraged by the disappearances of the students, turned out for the march despite cool weather and some light rain.

Maria Antonieta Lugo was part of a group of housewives who joined the march “because we have children of the same age” as the missing students, who ranged from their teens to their 20s. “This could happen to our children as well,” she said.

Maria Teresa Perez held up a poster with a picture of her son, Jesus Horta Perez, 45, who was kidnapped by armed men from a storefront in a Mexico City suburb in 2009 and has never been heard from again.

“They are shouting about 43, but they should be counting in the thousands, because apart from these 43, there are 33,000 disappeared,” Perez said.

Thousands of Mexicans protest over 43 missing students

Demonstrators march on Reforma Avenue during a protest in sup-port of 43 missing Ayotzinapa students in Mexico City, November

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SPORTS

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Swarmed by the blitzing rush of the best team in the NFL, Russell Wilson scrambled, slipped, eluded

and finally got the Seattle Seahawks in the end zone.

Considering the circumstances, it was probably Seattle’s most important drive of the season as the Seahawks handed the Arizona Cardinals their second loss of the season, 19-3 on Sunday.

Wilson was sacked a season-high seven times by Arizona’s ultra-aggressive defense and the assortment of blitzes they called to confuse and fluster the Seahawks quar-terback. But when Seattle (7-4) needed a scoring drive, after squandering advanta-geous field position throughout the game, Wilson delivered.

Wilson found backup tight end Cooper Helfet on a 20-yard catch-and-run touch-down late in the third quarter in a victory that was a must for Seattle if it had any

hopes of getting back into the division race. The Seahawks entered the day trailing Arizona (9-2) by three games in the NFC West

Wilson finished 17 of 22 for 211 yards and added 73 yards rushing.

Arizona was held to a season-low 204 total yards. A week after throwing for a career-high 306 yards, Drew Stanton was 14 of 26 for 149 and one interception.

Wilson was 6 of 6 for 70 yards on the drive as Seattle moved the

pocket and made him less vulnerable to the Arizona rush. He escaped the arms of Lorenzo Alexander for a possible sack and found Marshawn Lynch open for 23 yards. Wilson also ran for 15 yards on third-and-11 to get Seattle inside the Arizona 20.

Lynch was corralled by Arizona’s third-best rush defense and held to only 39 yards on 15 carries, making it 21 straight games the Cardinals have not allowed a

100-yard rusher.Steven Hauschka hit on field goals of

27, 32, 52 in the first half and a 40-yarder in the third quarter after DeShawn Shead blocked Drew Butler’s punt.

Helping out Wilson was Seattle’s defense with a performance reminiscent of last season.

The Seahawks now travel to San Fran-cisco to take on their rival 49ers on Thanksgiving.

Seahawks cruise past Arizona 19-3

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Dear Andrew,

This is an odd scenario. It’s like taking donations from poor people because they refuse to address their own issues.

My recommendation is pretty simple. She needs to learn how to properly handle her own money. Obviously, it wouldn’t be a good idea for you to say that to your mother-in-law, so your wife should be the one who attempts to lov-ingly and carefully deliver the message. The conversation still may not be pleas-ant, but there’s a better chance she’ll listen to a daughter than to you.

I appreciate the fact that you and your wife aren’t being greedy or opportu-nistic about this situation. Setting the money aside and earmarking it for your mother-in-law later on is an honorable thing. If your wife can’t convince her mom to start taking care of her own finances, at least you can protect her from herself.

You’d still be treating the symptom instead of the problem, but if she won’t listen it may be the best you can do.

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Protecting her from herself

NATIONAL

(AP)

Authorities in northern Cali-fornia say a tour bus that had already crashed once Sunday

drifted off a freeway and overturned, killing at least one person and injuring 30 others.

California Highway Patrol Officer Jeff Borgen told the Associated Press that the bus was traveling from Los Angeles to Pasco, Wash. when the accident occurred approximately 100 miles south of the Oregon border at around 7:30 a.m. local time. The bus rolled over and came to rest upside-down on a frontage road.

Authorities did not immediately iden-tify the passenger who died in the crash, but said that he was a 33-year-old man from Parlier, Calif. Two dozen others from the bus were taken to hospitals. Most had minor injuries and were treated and released.

Earlier in the same trip and about 50 miles to the south, the bus had struck a

Denny's restaurant in Red Bluff, Borgen said. No one was injured in that crash.

Three of the injured patients were in critical condition, including one who was flown by helicopter to Mercy Medical Center in Mount Shasta with severe head injuries, hospital spokeswoman Joyce Zwanziger said.

Three people were in serious condition at the same hospital's Redding location, where most of the patients were taken, spokeswoman Heather Nichols said.

The bus, a 1996 Vanhool, was driven by Jose Victor Garcilazo, 67, of Los Angeles.

Investigators said evidence at both crash sites show that driver fatigue may have been a factor. They did not say whether drugs or alcohol may have been involved or whether any citations or charges were planned.

The bus operator, Yellow Arrow LLC, is based in Othello, Washington. It has a current license and before Sunday had no reported accidents in the past two years, according to federal records.

Bus heading to Pasco crashes and leaves 1 dead, injures dozens

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Perhaps it is time to sit and reminisce on our memories, but of course, never next to a stranger’s memory.

We must recognize our identity, try to be young forever, but at the same time trying not to forget our cherished past. We must look inside ourselves, and try to fit in this new story in which we live.

Walk in the path of our childhood and remember the games that we played by visiting the park where we did so. Let's get together with our siblings, our neighbors and our friends. Talk with them, as perhaps you never did before, and try to see how much they are like us, even without –apparently – having anything in common. That would be wonderful, especially if we have not seen for a long time.

Let us travel with our memories knowing that yesterday still exists. Let us try to understand, even while running the risk of never fully understanding it at all, of how that yesterday became today. That yester-day that we remember with every breath, that we long for and are reminded of by sounds, by the smells of food, freshly washed sheets that remind us of our mother, or by a common language. That language unfortunately many are begin-ning to lose, but we can still preserve it by practicing it at home.

Even though we may have left our home-lands in search of a better life, let us allow that blessed yesterday to enter in our hearts and fill our moments of silence and loneliness.

Have a happy week, and God Bless!

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LATIN AMERICA

MEXICO CITY (AP)

Tens of thousands marched in the capital Thursday demanding that authorities find 43 missing

college students, seeking to pressure the government on a day normally reserved for the celebration of Mexico’s 1910-17 Revolution.

Officials had canceled the traditional Nov. 20 Revolution Day parade, and marchers carrying “mourning” flags with Mexico’s red and green national colors substituted by black suggested the country was in no mood for celebration.

“The entire country is outraged,” said housewife Nora Jaime. “It is not just them,” she added, referring to the 43 young men who haven’t been seen since being attacked by police in a southern city Sept. 26. “There are thousands of disap-peared, thousands of clandestine graves, thousands of mothers who don’t know where their children are.”

The march in Mexico City was largely peaceful, in contrast to recent protests that have ended with the burning of gov-

ernment buildings in Guer-rero state, where the students disappeared. Whenever masked protesters tried to join Thursday’s march, dem-onstrators shouted them down with chants of “No violence!” and “Off with the masks!”

The protesters converged on the city’s main square, where families of the missing students stood on a plat-form in front of the National Palace holding posters of their relatives’ faces. Amid chants for President Enrique Pena Nieto to step down, family members repeated that they do not believe the gov-ernment’s account that the youths were killed by a drug gang.

“We’re not tired,” said one man speak-ing from the platform. “On the contrary, we are mad with this Mexican govern-ment and its entire structure, because it has not done anything but deceive the families.”

After most of the protesters left the square, a small group of masked youths began battling police with rocks and sticks. Police responded with fire extin-guishers to put out fires set by the youths and to force them off of the square.

Earlier in the day, about 200 youth-ful protesters, some with their faces covered by masks or bandannas, clashed with police as they tried to block a main expressway to the international airport.

Protesters hurled rocks, fireworks and gasoline bombs at the police, at least one of whom was hit by the projectiles. Some passengers had to walk to the termi-nal, but flights were not interrupted and expressways were reopened.

Many average people, outraged by the disappearances of the students, turned out for the march despite cool weather and some light rain.

Maria Antonieta Lugo was part of a group of housewives who joined the march “because we have children of the same age” as the missing students, who ranged from their teens to their 20s. “This could happen to our children as well,” she said.

Maria Teresa Perez held up a poster with a picture of her son, Jesus Horta Perez, 45, who was kidnapped by armed men from a storefront in a Mexico City suburb in 2009 and has never been heard from again.

“They are shouting about 43, but they should be counting in the thousands, because apart from these 43, there are 33,000 disappeared,” Perez said.

Thousands of Mexicans protest over 43 missing students

Demonstrators march on Reforma Avenue during a protest in sup-port of 43 missing Ayotzinapa students in Mexico City, November

20, 2014.

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