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The campaign to re-elect President Barack Obama ing its $60 million quarterly target and eclipsing said it raised $86 million from April to June, exceed- Republican White House contenders. SEE PAGE 3.

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N EW S BR IE F S ALL SEPTEMBER 11TH VICTIMS’ NAMES TO BE READ IN WTC MEMORIAL SERVICE The names of the September 11th victims who died in other states will be read for the first time at this year’s memorial service at the World Trade Center.

Relatives will read the names of victims from crashes at the Pentagon and in Shanksville, Penn., in addition to those killed at the World Trade Center.

Names of the six victims of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing will also be included.

In all, 2,983 names will be read.

President Barack Obama will attend the ceremony, which also marks the opening of the National September 11th Memorial.

The memorial opens to the public the next day.

AUTHORITIES ARREST 10 SUSPECTS IN ALLEGED BRONX DRUG RING After a yearlong investigation, the FBI held an early-morning raid in the Bronx and now has 10 city residents in custody.

Officials say the suspects belonged to the “Creston Avenue Crew” and brought nearly a ton of marijuana and five kilos of cocaine into the neighborhood.

The suspects face charges relating to drug trafficking, firearms and money laundering.

The agents also recovered three guns and an undisclosed amount of drugs.

Three other alleged crew members were arrested in San Juan, Puerto Rico.

Officials are seeking an additional 12 suspects in New York, Texas and Florida.

JUDGE PREVENTS ENFORCEMENT OF LOCAL PREGNANCY CENTER LAW A Manhattan federal judge blocked a bill that regulates so-called pregnancy centers that encourage women to carry a pregnancy to term and do not provide access to abortions.

The bill, which Mayor Michael Bloomberg signed in March and which would have taken effect tomorrow, would have crisis pregnancy centers disclose if a licensed medical professional is present and whether or not the facility performs abortions and offers emergency contraception and prenatal services.

All patient information would also be kept confidential.

In his ruling, Judge William Pauley agreed with prosecutors that the law defining itself as applying to “pregnancy services centers” was “unconstitutionally vague.”

He also said since the bill involved the hot-button topics of contraception and abortion, enforcement of the bill would likely result in discrimination.

Supporters of the bill, like City Council Speaker Christine Quinn, said the law is only intended to let women know what services are available are pregnancy centers.

New York town clerk quits over gay marriage licenses

By DAN WIESSNER HUDSON — A town clerk in western New York has resigned to avoid being forced to sign marriage licenses for gay and lesbian couples, citing religious objections to same-sex marriage.

Laura Fotusky, the town clerk in Barker, New York, said in her resignation letter that she will step down on July 21, three days before New York becomes the sixth and largest state to allow gay nuptials.

Governor Andrew Cuomo signed the same sex marriage law last month after the bill narrowly passed the Republican-led state Senate. Its approval in New York is seen as a catalyst for gay marriage elsewhere as well as helping push the issue to the forefront nationally ahead of the 2012 elections.

Much of the debate in New York focused on the scope of protections for those opposed to same-sex marriage.

The new law exempts religious groups from performing same-sex marriages but does not extend those protections to individuals, including

government employees.

Fotusky was not immediately available for comment, but in her letter, dated July 11, she said she believes the Bible takes precedence over manmade laws.

“The Bible clearly teaches that God created marriage between male and female as a divine gift that preserves families and cultures. Since I love and follow Him, I cannot put my signature on something that is against God,” she wrote.

“I would be compromising my moral conscience if I participated in the licensing procedure,” she wrote.

According to New Yorkers for Constitutional Freedoms, a conservative Christian nonprofit group that circulated Fotusky’s letter to the media, she is the first clerk in the state to resign over objections to same-sex nuptials.

But she is not the first to raise concerns. Two weeks ago, the town clerk in the Syracuse suburb of Volney cited her own religious objections and requested that outside help be brought in to sign same-sex marriage licenses.

Cuomo, who had made the legalization of same-sex marriage a top prior-

ity this year, told reporters on Tuesday that he agreed with Fotusky’s decision to resign because government workers have a responsibility to enforce the law.

“When you enforce the laws of the state, you don’t get to pick and choose the laws,” Cuomo said.

Conscientious objection among government employees has been an issue in some other states that allow gay marriage.

In Massachusetts, more than a dozen justices of the peace threatened to resign in 2004 after a state court ruled that barring same-sex marriages was unconstitutional, and at least one resigned. In 2000, the town clerk in Tunbridge, Vermont, resigned even though state law would have allowed her to appoint someone else to sign marriage licenses.

Robin Fretwell Wilson, a professor at Washington and Lee Law School in Virginia, has lobbied lawmakers in New York and other states to exempt individuals, including government employees, from providing services to same-sex couples. In a 2010 paper, she argued that the religious beliefs of marriage officers should be accommodated as long as they pose no hardship to same-sex couples.

“Forcing a public employee with a religious objection to facilitate a samesex marriage would be intolerant in the extreme when little is to be gained by such rigid demands,” wrote Wilson, who was not available for comment on Tuesday.

Thousands of security breaches at U.S. airports WASHINGTON — The nation’s airports have suffered more than 25,000 security breaches since November 2001, according to a House committee, citing information it says it received from the Transportation Security Administration.

The breaches — amounting to about seven a day, or about five per year at every airport — include everything from people who accidentally leave a bag on a checkpoint conveyor belt to those who purposefully evade security and get onto airplanes without proper screening.

A TSA spokesman did not contest the figure, but questioned its significance, saying all breaches are investigated and resolved. The agency said it did not have a breakdown of breaches by severity.

With about 25,000 of these incidents over a decade at more than 450

TSA-regulated airports, this amounts to just over five such incidents per airport per year, according to the TSA. The 25,000 breaches include: — 14,322 breaches into secure entries, passages or other means of access to the secure side of the airport.

— Approximately 6,000 breaches involving a TSA screener failing to screen a passenger or a passenger’s carry-on property, or doing either improperly.

— 2,616 instances involving an individual getting past the checkpoint or exit lane without submitting to all screening and inspections. Some 1,388 of these have occurred at the perimeter areas of airports.

The information was released by the House Oversight and Government Reform subcommittee on national security, homeland defense and foreign operations in advance of a hearing yesterday on airport perimeter security.

TSA spokesman Nicholas Kimball said the figures represent a “tiny fraction of 1% percent of the more than 5.5 billion travelers at the more than 450 airports nationwide that we have screened effectively since 9/11.”

“We take every security incident seriously and take appropriate action accordingly which is why TSA keeps close track of all ‘breaches’ — a very broadly defined set of accidental or purposeful security violations, including those where an individual is ‘caught in the act’ and immediately apprehended,” Kimball said in a statement.

Flip-flops Number One ‘don’t’ for summer work attire

By EUNJU LIE CHICAGO — Flip-flops are the Number One “don’t” when it comes to summer work attire, with miniskirts coming in second, and strapless tops third, a national U.S. workplace outlook survey found.

In the survey for employment services company Adecco, men and women were divided over their definition of appropriate summer work clothes.

While men and women respondents were united over the deeming of flip-flops as too casual, 80 percent of women thought miniskirts were inappropriate

while only 61 percent of men agreed. More than 76 percent of women believed strapless tops inappropriate, as opposed to 55 percent of men.

The survey was conducted by Opinion Research Corporation on behalf of Adecco from June 22 through June 27, and questioned 1,000 Americans 18 and older.

Flex time is the summer workplace perk the respondents want the most, with more vacation days following.

Americans are also trying to incorporate more health and fitness into their summer, with nearly 80 percent saying they were

making more health-conscious eating decisions at work.

About half of the respondents said they were trying to incorporate physical activity during, before, or after work.

The survey also asked about the U.S. economy, and found 88 percent of the respondents said unemployment and gas prices were their greatest causes of concern. A lack of available jobs followed at 86 percent.

Forty percent of respondents said they were less confident in the economy than a year ago, while 41 percent said their confidence was unchanged.

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Obama 2012 campaign breaks goal, records

By KIM DIXON WASHINGTON — The campaign to re-elect President Barack Obama said yesterday it raised $86 million from April to June, exceeding its $60 million quarterly target and eclipsing Republican White House contenders.

Obama’s 2012 campaign said it received donations from more than 552,000 people, with what it called “more grassroots support at this point in the process than any campaign in political history.”

In keeping with Obama’s 2008 winning strategy of tapping small donations, 98 percent of donations in the second quarter were $250 or less, with an average donation of around $69, campaign manager Jim Messina said in a video to supporters.

The figures confirm that Obama, a Democrat who raised a record $745 million in cash during 2008, has started the 2012 race as the cash leader despite worries about the U.S. economy and criticism from some fellow Democrats that he has tilted to the right in U.S. debt talks.

“They have smashed all records,” said Chris Arterton, a political management professor at George Washington University. “I think it is quite dramatic.”

Despite the impressive number of small donations, Arterton believes a greater share of total campaign cash will come from big donors. The campaign did not break down the

amount raised by donations of $250 or less.

In 2008, one third of the $337 million Obama raised in the general election came from individual donors giving $200 or less.

But 42 percent — the biggest portion of individual givers to Obama’s general election campaign — were from those who gave $1,000 or more,

according to the Campaign Finance Institute.

Republican front-runner Mitt Romney raised $18.25 million from April to June, and most other Republican hopefuls for the White House raised between $4 million and $4.5 million in the quarter. The fast-risMichele Bachmann will ing announce her fundraising total for the period this week.

Republican National Committee spokesman Sean Spicer chided Obama for holding dozens of fundraisers while the economy is still sputtering.

“Now if he could focus on reducing government spending,” Spicer said on Twitter.

Obama is locked in a battle with congressional Republicans to clinch a deal to allow the government to pay its bills past August 2, when the U.S. Treasury will hit a ceiling on the $14.3 trillion federal debt.

Of the total raised for Obama in the second quarter, more than $47 million went to the “Obama for America” fund and more than $38 million went to the Democratic National Committee.

Sisters sue New Jersey cemetery over grave mix-up

By JONATHAN ALLEN Evelyn and Hortense Edwards spent two decades visiting what they thought was their mother’s grave in a New Jersey cemetery only to discover it contained the remains of a stranger, according to court papers.

Now, the sisters are suing, seeking want $25 million in damages from Rosehill Cemetery in Linden, New Jersey, for emotional distress caused when they learned that their mother, Beatrice Williams, had been buried in the wrong plot.

“It was devastating for them,” Mark Crawford, the sisters’ attorney, said in a telephone interview on Tuesday.

He said they only recently discovered the mix-up after complaining to the cemetery that what they thought was their mother’s grave, which they visit regularly, was falling into disrepair. An employee looked up the plot in question.

“She said, ‘There’s a man buried there,’ and they said, ‘What do you mean there’s a man buried there?’”

Crawford said.

The complaint filed in Brooklyn Federal Court says the cemetery has acknowledged that the plot location in the sisters’ paperwork — Section 52, Row 20, Grave 103 — was incorrect.

That error caused the sisters to have “visited the wrong gravesite, sought comfort from the wrong grave, laid flowers on the wrong grave, (and) prayed and had confidential conversations at the wrong grave,” it said.

In a letter sent to the sisters last July, the cemetery said it believed their mother was in fact buried in Section 52, Row 20, Grave 132, the complaint said.

A woman who answered the telephone at the cemetery’s main office on Tuesday declined to comment before hanging up.

Crawford said the sisters believe

White House: No alternative to raising debt ceiling

By JEFF MASON and LAURA MACINNIS WASHINGTON — There is no alternative to raising the debt ceiling, and “heinous choices” about which bills would have to be paid first in the event of a default are a matter of due diligence, the White House said yesterday.

“It’s not solving the problem, it’s dealing with the consequences of a

catastrophic decision,” White House spokesman Jay Carney said, referring to the idea of prioritizing payments should Congress not raise the debt ceiling by August 2.

“There is no alternative. You either honor your obligations or you don’t, and if you don’t you make terrible choices about what bills you pay,” he said. Carney repeated the White House does not believe the United States will default on its debt.

that if the cemetery management could be mistaken once, it could be mistaken again, and are not convinced that the cemetery has not misplaced their mother’s remains.

They want the cemetery to disinter the remains at the second grave to confirm the remains there are of their mother.

The cemetery management has said it will only do so if the sisters take responsibility should the cemetery still be mistaken and, for example, the relatives of whoever is buried at Grave 132 discover their loved one’s remains were unnecessarily disinterred and decide to sue, Crawford said.

“They’re not willing to take the risk of correcting their own mistake,” he said.

The sisters, who live in the New York borough of Queens, had bought three plots at their mother’s death in the hope that they might one day be buried by her side.

Crawford said he did not know the identity of the man buried beneath Beatrice Williams’ grave marker.

Nor was he certain whether the mixup was restricted to just two sets of remains — that Grave 103 actually contains the remains that should be in Grave 132, and vice versa — or whether other plots were similarly mislabeled.

Two stun guns found in passenger luggage at JFK airport Two stun guns were found in checked luggage at New York’s John F. Kennedy International Airport just days after another stun gun was discovered in a plane at a nearby airport, officials said on Tuesday.

A screener with the Transportation Security Administration at JFK detected the two stun guns in the checked luggage of a man waiting to board Lufthansa Flight 405 to Frankfurt, Germany, on Sunday evening, said Lisa Farbstein, a TSA spokeswoman. The man was arrested.

On Friday, a cleaning crew stumbled upon a stun gun left behind in a JetBlue Airways plane that had landed at nearby Newark Liberty International Airport in New Jersey.

The passenger arrested at JFK was described only as a 53-year-old

white man, according to Sara Joren, a spokeswoman for the Port Authority of New York & New Jersey, which operates the airport.

Although the TSA generally allows fliers to pack stun guns and certain other weapons in their checked luggage, stun guns are illegal in the state of New York, Farbstein said.

Neither the TSA nor the Port Authority were able to confirm what has happened to the man since his arrest.

Meanwhile, the FBI was continuing to investigate the Newark incident, in which a stun gun resembling a cell phone was found in a seat pocket on JetBlue Airways Flight 1179 from Boston after it landed at Newark.

— Jonathan Allen

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Miss Dot was more than a neighbor THOMAS H. WATKINS

By GEORGE E. CURRY

South Sudan is born Hallelujah! Hallelujah!

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When I was very young, we moved from a three-room wooden shack at 2715-15th Street in Tuscaloosa, Alabama to McKenzie Court, a public housing development for African-Americans.

We moved to 5-D, next door to Mrs. Dorothy Corder Smith, whom we called Miss Dot. When I speak around the country, sometimes I say we were so poor that my mother couldn’t afford to have children – the lady next door had me.

Miss Dot, the lady next door, didn’t need any more children – she had 13 of her own. But that didn’t stop her from adopting every kid in McKenzie Court, including me. We all considered her our second mother and she made you feel that her house was your house. Her house was one of the few that had a television and telephone at that time. I practically lived there, showing up unannounced every day to watch my favorite cowboy, Benny Carle and the Circle 6 Ranch that was broadcast from Birmingham. It didn’t hurt that

Benny Carle came on around dinner time.

Like Mama, Miss Dot was an excellent cook. She never ran out of food and she made no distinction between her 13 kids and the rest of us. And neither did her children, who remain among my closest friends. Lu, Jean, Junior, Bettye Ann and their siblings loved my mother with the same passion that Charlotte, Chris, Sue and I had for Miss Dot. We were and always will be one big family.

Miss Dot died recently at the age of 82. I flew from Washington, D.C. to Atlanta, picked up Mama in Augusta, Ga., and drove her to Miss Dot’s funeral in Tuscaloosa. As we waited to fall in line behind the family as they assembled to file into First African Baptist Church, Bettye Ann motioned for us to walk ahead of her and most of the family. When I said we would be fine getting in line behind the others, she flashed one of those Miss Dot looks and said, “You and Aunt Martha better get in line.”

As kids, Miss Dot’s older kids and I bossed Bettye Ann around.

She said it was now her turn to

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At a time they had lost their mother, they were still being so respectful of Mama. In fact, as we prepared to head back to Augusta, Lu told Mama, “You know, you’re all we got now.”

Lu, we also have a life full of wonderful memories. Miss Dot was special and she made everyone who came in contact with her feel special. Although I ate more than my share of food at her house, watched her new TV and talked on her party-line telephone, there was another side of her that’s not fully appreciated.

Miss Dot was at the forefront of the civil rights movement in Tuscaloosa, during the early 1960s. Not only did she cook at her church for Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Andy Young, Ralph Abernathy and Dick Gregory, she let her children – including me – participate in the protests. At a time that many men I had respected up to that point were unwilling to participate in civil rights protests, Miss Dot did not blink. Her daughters got tear-gassed and arrested.

Because I saw the courage of Miss Dot up close, I felt nothing but repulsion when I read a story on Condoleezza Rice in which she boasted that her father, a minister and college professor, “embraced [the Civil Rights

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South Sudan: An African American opportunity

By DR. BENJAMIN F. CHAVIS, JR. Whenever there are advances for African freedom and self-determination, African Americans, in particular, should always be able to define mutual interests, opportunities and responsibilities to aid and assist our brothers and sisters in Africa. The Republic of South Sudan is the newest nation in the world and will become the 193rd member of the United Nations.

Independence Day for the Republic of South Sudan was as recent as this month. President Barack Obama stated, “A proud flag flies over Juba and the map of the world has been redrawn. Together, we can ensure that today marks another step forward in Africa’s long journey toward opportunity, democracy and justice. I am proud to declare that the United States formally recognizes the Republic of South Sudan a sovereign and independent state upon this day, July 09, 2011. After so much struggle by the people of South Sudan, the United States of America welcomes the birth of a new nation.” We agree with President Obama’s perspective and analysis about the significance of the newly established Republic of South Sudan.

But we would like to deepen our memory and perspective on this momentous achievement from an African American perspective.

Too often in contemporary times,

Africa is still viewed by too many Americans as that far off place where centuries ago, millions of people were enslaved and forcibly brought to the Americas for the sole purpose of one of the most brutal manifestations of human slavery and economic exploitation that the world has ever witnessed in history. Yet for African Americans we are more and more aware of how our plight here inside the United States of America still involves our long struggle for freedom, justice, equality and empowerment. But for the grace of God and the sacrifices, toil, courage and steadfastness of struggle by past generations of Blacks in America and throughout the displaced African world, we would not be able to recognize and celebrate the progress today that African people and all people continue to make toward a more just and empowered humanity.

Our concern and care is for our brothers and sisters in both the Republic of South Sudan and those who remain in the Sudan, to the north of the Republic of South Sudan. The whole of the Sudan and including the Republic of South Sudan ought to be the focus for all who care about Africa.

The 50 years or more of deadly, selfdestructive civil war has caused so much misery and suffering. It is good now that the civil war, despite some continued violent border clashes, has finally ended with the declaration of independence and sovereignty of the

More than a neighbor Continued from page 4 Movement’s] goals, but not its means.”

She added, “He saw no reason to put his children at risk. He would never put his own children at risk.”

Of course, that has to be every parent’s choice. But if every parent felt that way, we’d still be riding in the back of the bus and honoring “white” and “colored” signs that dishonored us. Miss Dot, like many poor people of that era, kicked down the doors of segregation, only to see the uninvolved middle-class children be the first in line to reap the benefits of their sacrifice. Although you will never see peo-

ple like Miss Dot listed in the history books, they were the backbone of the modern Civil Rights Movement. They made it possible for us to have opportunities that they could only dream of.

For that, I will be eternally grateful.

During one of our regular telephone conversations, Miss Dot said she had met someone who questioned whether she knew me. “He asked me, ‘Do you really know George Curry,” Miss Dot recounted. “I told him, ‘Boy, I knew George Curry before George Curry was George Curry.” We both had a long, loud laugh about that exchange. Yes, Miss Dot knew me before I knew myself. And whatever

Republic of South Sudan being officially recognized by the world community.

African Americans should see clearly that once again there are significant and immediate economic and growth opportunities in this new African nation. Of course, some of the world’s economic powers are already lining up to go after the vast quantities of oil and natural gas that are known to be some of the world’s largest discoveries located in the Republic of South Sudan. China has just announced that they will invest millions of dollars in infrastructure development for the South Sudan. The U.K., France, the U.S., and other postindustrialized economies have all expressed their desire to work on development projects in this valuable mineral rich nation. At a time of very high unemployment in the African American community, this is a great moment in history for African American business leaders to develop new business relationships with Africa, and in particular with nations like the Republic of South Sudan.

I believe the greatest resource, however, that is in the Republic of South Sudan today is not its oil or natural gas, but it is its millions of people who have high aspirations and hope for a better quality of life. Thus, if Black owned businesses: the Black Press, colleges and universities, churches and other institutions that serve our communities would reach out to the

Republic of South Sudan, it would raise the potential for ongoing sustainable economic development and educational joint ventures to be established. Africa awaits Black America.

Giving back to Africa will bring a long lasting benefit to our brothers and sisters in Africa as well as to our brothers and sisters in our communities across America.

President Obama in his statement about the Republic of South Sudan reminded us what Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. once said about independence occurring in Africa. The President affirmed, “Decades ago, Martin Luther King reflected on the first moment of independence on the African continent in Ghana, saying, ‘I knew about all of the struggles, and all of the pain, and all of the agony that these people had gone through for this moment.’

Today, we are moved by the story of struggle that led to this time of hope in South Sudan, and we think of those who didn’t live to see their dream realized. Now, the leaders and people of South Sudan have an opportunity to turn this moment of promise into lasting progress.” As we salute the Republic of South Sudan, let’s extend a helping hand. The future holds great promise.

I have accomplished, it was largely because I was loved, nurtured and encouraged – and my three sisters would say spoiled – by Mama and Miss Dot, my other Mama.

in-chief of Emerge magazine and the NNPA News Service, is a keynote speaker, moderator, and media coach. He can be reached through his Web site, www.georgecurry.com You can also follow him atwww.twitter.com/currygeorge

— George E. Curry, former editor-

— Dr. Benjamin F. Chavis Jr. Is Senior Advisor to the Black Alliance for Educational Options (BAEO) and President of Educational Online Services Corporation.

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More grisly details in trial of alleged Ohio serial killer

By KIM PALMER CLEVELAND — Testimony in the capital murder trial of alleged serial killer Anthony Sowell continued here on Tuesday with more grisly details of the evidence authorities collected at his home.

Dr. Elizabeth Balraj, the former chief deputy coroner for Cuyahoga County who autopsied five of the bodies, spent almost two-and-a-half hours on the stand Tuesday morning as the trial entered its third week.

She and others testified the victims were strangled and bound with apparently random items, including shoe-strings, socks, a belt, a bag strap, a coaxial cable and a cell-phone charger cord.

Sowell, 51, is accused of killing 11 women and assaulting four others. Their remains were found in 2009 after police executed a

search warrant at Sowell’s house on a rape charge.

Sowell, who has pleaded not guilty to the charges, faces the death penalty if convicted.

Police and SWAT found two bodies on the floor in a room next to Sowell’s bedroom and eventually discovered three more bodies and a skull in the house and five more bodies buried in shallow graves in the back yard.

Balraj also provided more details about the state of the victim’s bodies found at Sowell’s house, testifying those she examined were nude or nude from the waist down, some wrapped in blankets and plastic and bound at the hands and wrists.

Sowell, wearing a lightcolored short-sleeve shirt, was stoic while listening to doctor’s testimony and viewing autopsy photos.

Balraj testified that the plastic bucket that held the skull of Lasanda Long had

“no evidence of decomposition” and that the bucket had “non-human bite marks” around the rim.

“I couldn’t draw any conclusion when the skull was placed in the bucket,” Balraj admitted to prosecutor Rick Bombik.

On Balraj’s cross-examination, defense attorney John Parker continued to question the validity of the date of death given to the victims, pointing out Balraj had changed the date of death for Janice Webb after a family told her she had seen her alive after the date Balraj had originally provided.

Parker also took issue with part of the autopsy report on Amelda Hunter that stated she was strangled by “a male” and asked Balraj, “How could you know that information based on her autopsy?”

Balraj said she consults police reports and uses that information to help deter-

mine cause of death. She has come under fire from local media in the past for a perceived bias toward prosecution and police.

Kristopher Kern, who had been a forensic scientist with the coroner’s office, and Curtiss Jones, the supervisor of the trace evidence department with the office, also took the stand Tuesday.

Kern testified to testing a number of items of clothing and “ligatures” used in the strangulation of the bodies.

Kern identified both a shoelace and sock for the prosecution that he removed from the neck of Nancy Cobb and what looked like a cellphone charger from Tonia Carmichael.

According to Kern, Cobb was also wrapped in six different plastic bags and a blanket when she came in for autopsy.

During his testimony, Kern described removing shoestrings from one of the

wrists of one of the victims, Janice Webb, and said: “They were bound so tightly, I had to cut them to remove them.”

Jones testified he removed coaxial-type cable from around the partially clothed body of Crystal Dozier and found trace fibers of blue polyester from the plastic bag around another victim.

He said those fibers were consistent with the fibers from the carpet in Sowell’s bedroom and were found on the clothing of other victims.

As he has with all of the other prosecution witnesses, defense attorney Parker pointed out a mistake in Kern’s reports and asked how much time he spent at the crime scene.

Parker kept Kern on cross from almost an hour-and-ahalf as he went through an exhaustive list of women’s clothing that was collected, tested for DNA and semen, and returned without testing positive.

U.S. eateries eye healthier kids’ food amid pressure

By LISA BAERTLEIN LOS ANGELES — Nineteen U.S. restaurant chains, including Burger King and DineEquity’s IHOP, are backing an industry effort to serve and promote healthier meals for children.

The announcement on Wednesday from the National Restaurant Association (NRA) comes as public health officials and consumer advocates pressure restaurants to reduce calories in, and improve the nutritional value of, meals for U.S. children — nearly one in three of whom are either obese or overweight.

The 19 chains collectively operate some 15,000 restaurants that will participate in the trade group’s “Kids LiveWell” initiative, it said.

Other participating brands include Au Bon Pain, Brinker International’s Chili’s Grill & Bar, Cracker Barrel, Denny’s, El Pollo Loco, Outback Steakhouse OSI and Sizzler.

The NRA said the voluntary program would focus on increasing consumption of fruit and vegetables, lean protein, whole grains and low-fat dairy, while limiting unhealthy fats, sugars and sodium.

Participants agreed to offer a children’s meal —

comprising an entree, a side and a drink — with 600 calories or less that meets the above criteria.

They also promise to offer at least one other individual item with 200 calories or less.

“This is a great start to help empower consumers — kids and parents especially with more healthier choices at restaurants,” Robert Post, deputy director of the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Center for Nutrition Policy and Promotion, said in a statement.

“It’s a good baby-step forward but they have a lot more work to do,” said Margo Wootan, nutrition policy director at the Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI), a consumer group that advocates healthier restaurant food for children.

“Kids’ meals aren’t the occasional indulgence that they once were. They are a regular part of children’s diets,” said Wootan, who hopes restaurant menus will one day offer a greater number of appealing healthy choices for youngsters.

As part of the effort, Burger King this month will make sliced apples and fatfree milk or juice the default choices for its kids’ meals.

French fries and soda will remain on the menu but customers will have to request

them.

Wootan called Burger King’s move the most significant piece of Wednesday’s announcement.

“There’s a huge body of literature showing that people stick with the default. We could leave the default to chance or try to make it better,” Wootan said, noting that restaurants at Walt Disney Co’s theme parks have shown that parents are more likely to choose healthier kids’ meal add-ons such as fruit and low-fat milk when they are the default option.

Some chains, including

IHOP, already have lowered calorie counts on select menu items for children.

The “Kids LiveWell” initiative comes amid grass-roots efforts to force restaurants in the same direction.

For example, San Francisco and nearby Santa Clara County have passed laws that would curb free toy giveaways with unhealthy restaurant meals for children.

The restaurant industry has fought such efforts by backing laws that restrict local lawmakers’ ability to regulate restaurant market-

ing and other activities.

The CSPI last year sued McDonald’s Corp to stop the world’s largest hamburger chain from using Happy Meal toys to lure children into its restaurants. And last month, the American Academy of Pediatrics — a group of U.S. pediatricians — called for a ban on junk food ads aimed at children.

McDonald’s is not among the original participants in the “Kids LiveWell” initiative, but neither is sandwich chain Subway — which Wootan said offers the industry’s healthiest kids’ meals.

Naked man arrested for swimming near JFK airport fuel depot

By JONATHAN ALLEN A naked man swimming in the waters near the main aviation fuel storage area at New York’s John F. Kennedy International Airport was arrested and charged with trespassing, the authority that runs the airport said yesterday.

Patrolling officers spotted the man at about 10.50 a.m. on Tuesday.

“When the patrols

approached the man, he ran toward the fuel farm, and was caught near a boat dock,” Steve Coleman, a spokesman for the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, said in an e-mail response to Reuters.

The man never entered any of the airport’s restricted areas, Coleman said.

The man identified himself as Greg Rodriguez, 30, although the authority said it was still trying to confirm his identity.

Port Authority police

charged him with criminal trespass, resisting arrest and disorderly conduct.

The man was taken to Jamaica Hospital for psychiatric evaluation, and the case remains under investigation.

The airport abuts New York City’s Jamaica Bay, much of which is designated as part of the Gateway National Recreation Area, a popular destination for swimming, bird-watching and sailing, although not usually in areas so close to the airport.

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India: Terror attack kills 17, wounds 81 in Mumbai

By MUNEEZA NAQVI MUMBAI, India Near-simultaneous bomb blasts rocked three busy neighborhoods during evening rush hour in India’s busy financial capital yesterday, killing 17 people in what the government called an apparent terrorist attack on the city besieged by militants nearly three years ago.

Blood-covered bodies lay on the streets and people hugged and wept. Others carried the wounded to taxis.

Crowds gathered in the blast areas as police questioned witnesses, and bomb squads inspected the undercarriages of vehicles searching for clues and other explosives.

Motorcycles were charred, shopfronts shattered and a bus stop ripped apart. A photograph showed victims crowding into the back of a cargo truck to be taken to a hospital.

The first blast struck the Jhaveri Bazaar at 6.54 p.m., tearing through the famed jewelry market. A minute later, a second blast hit the busy business district of Opera House, several miles (kilometers) away in southern Mumbai. At 7:05 p.m., the third bomb exploded in the crowded neighborhood of Dadar in central Mumbai, according to police.

Because of the close

Wreckage of motorbikes lie at the site of a bomb explosion outside Opera House in Mumbai. timing of the bomb blasts, “we infer that this was a coordinated attack by terrorists,” Home Minister P a l a n i a p p a n Chidambaram said.

“The entire city of Mumbai has been put on high alert,” he said. “I would appeal to the people of Mumbai and people all over the country to remain calm and to maintain peace.”

An eyewitness at Jhaveri Bazaar described two motorcycles exploding in flames and saw at least six bodies.

“People were shout-

ing ‘Help me, help me,’” the man told Headlines Today television.

Another witness showed cell phone clips of several bodies sprawled across the street to the NDTV news station.

Prithviraj Chavan, the top official in the state of Maharashtra, where Mumbai was located, said the blasts killed 17 people and wounded 81 others.

Chidambaram said the toll was likely to rise.

The blasts marked the first major attack on Mumbai since 10 militants laid siege to India’s

financial capital for 60 hours in November 2008.

That attack, which targeted two luxury hotels, a Jewish center and a busy train station, killed 166 people and was blamed on Pakistanbased militant groups.

The attacks escalated tensions between the nuclear-armed rivals and prompted them to suspend peace talks, which have since resumed.

Pakistan’s government expressed distress on the loss of lives and injuries soon after yesterday’s blasts were

reported.

Some media incorrectly reported the blasts happened on the birthday of Ajmal Kasab, the only surviving gunmen from the 2008 Mumbai attacks.

Kasab, who was sentenced to death in Mumbai, was born on Sept. 13.

Mumbai has been on edge since the 2008 attack. In December, authorities deployed extra police on city streets after receiving intelligence that a Pakistan-based militant group was planning an attack over New Year’s

weekend. Police conducted house-to-house searches in some neighborhoods for four men who authorities believe entered the city to carry out a terrorist attack, and computer-aided photographs of the four suspects were released.

In March 2010, Mumbai police said they prevented a major terrorist strike after they arrested two Indian men, who, police said, were preparing to hit several targets in the city. In September, police issued a terror alert for the city during a popular Hindu festival.

Bin Laden was in on 2005 and 2006 London plots

By MARK HOSENBALL WASHINGTON Osama bin Laden was aware of the plot in which al Qaeda militants bombed London transport facilities on July 7, 2005, but it was the last successful operation he played a role in, U.S. government experts have concluded.

Circumstantial evidence, including information gathered from the Abbotabad, Pakistan, hide-out where U.S. Navy SEALs killed bin Laden on May 2, also suggests that bin Laden had advance knowledge of an unsuccessful London-based 2006 plot to simultaneously bomb U.S.-bound transatlantic flights, several U.S. national security officials said.

“Bin Laden was absolutely a detail guy.

We have every reason

to believe that he was aware of al Qaeda’s major plots during the planning phase, including the airline plot in 2006 and the London ‘7-7’ attacks,” one of the U.S. officials told Reuters. This official and others spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss counter-terrorism matters.

Some of the confidence U.S. officials expressed about bin Laden’s involvement in the London attacks is based on analytical judgment rather than

ironclad proof. Two of the officials said that there was no “smoking gun” evidence proving that he orchestrated the plots.

However, they and other U.S. officials said there is strong evidence, including material collected from bin Laden’s lair, indicating that, as the Londonbased plots unfolded, bin Laden was in close contact with other al Qaeda militants. One official said bin Laden was “immersed in operational details” of the

group’s activities.

“We believe he was aware of these plots ahead of time,” one of the officials said.

Fifty-two civilians, and four suicide bombers, died in the July 7, 2005, attacks on three London underground trains and a double-decker bus.

Hundreds were injured.

It was “the last successful operation Osama bin Laden oversaw,” a second official said.

The latest assessments from U.S. and other Western officials

support assertions by the Obama administration that, despite years of apparent isolation in Abbotabad, bin Laden still managed to keep in touch with activities — sometimes in considerable detail — of his followers around the world.

By the same token, the cache of evidence found in bin Laden’s lair does not offer new indications about any specific current plots he was involved in directed at U.S. or other Western targets.

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Chadian victims of Habre repression tell their stories

By GAEL COGNE N’DJAMENA, Chad - Arrests, disappearances, torture and murder: past atrocities have brought together some of the victims of the repressive 1982-1990 rule in Chad of Hissene Habre, who is accused of crimes against humanity.

Fatima Mando was arrested at her job in Ndjamena in 1983 with three other women by para-military gendarmes who accused them of taking part in a pro-rebellion demonstration.

She was among the victims of Habre’s iron-fisted rule who told their stories at the weekend.

“To make us talk, make us confess, there were beatings, they hit us hard. They forced us to undress. I said, ‘I won’t undress.’ But they tore my clothes off...Fortunately, we were only there for 10 days,” Mando said. She thinks she owes her release to the intervention of her superior at work.

“My husband is the only victim among the

40,000 (the estimated number of those who died in detention according to a 1992 commission of inquiry) whose body was returned,” said Zenaba Galyam, widow of one of Habre’s top aides who was arrested in 1983 by two of “his own friends” and “died on April 22, 1984 in the (military) martyrs’ camps.”

“I was taken in on May 11, 1989,” said Noyoma Jean Kouvounsouna, who was 28 at the time, when he was interrogated for “three days.”

“I was tied up and water under pressure was poured down my mouth to force me to say that I was an agent of Libya in Chad,” he said. Chad was at war with the neighbouring Libya of Colonel Moamer Kadhafi in the 1980s.

Transferred to the martyrs’ camps, Kouvounsouna spent “seven months and six weeks (inside). There were six of us in cells of 1 metre 50 by two metres (five feet by six feet).”

“We were so cramped that in order for me to turn round, everybody else had to turn round.

After I lay down, I gave up my place to some-

Zimbabwe banks want to clean dirty dollars

By PAUL J. RICHARDS HARARE - Banks in Zimbabwe have urged the public to deposit money in their accounts, so that soiled, torn and defaced dollar bills can be exchanged for clean, new notes, a state daily reported yesterday.

“Old notes continue to be in circulation because people are not banking money so that old notes can be repatriated and new ones are brought into circulation,” Bankers Association of Zimbabwe chairman John Mushayavanhu said, according to The Herald newspaper.

“The notes can be exchanged free of charge.”

The association’s call came following public complaints that some shops, buses and cell phone airtime vendors were refusing to accept torn or defaced US bills.

Zimbabwe allowed trade in US dollars in 2009, after abandoning its own currency which was left worthless after years of hyperinflation.

Lower value notes are easily torn and defaced because they pass through many hands, but rarely pass through banks, which can replace old notes with new ones.

Zenaba Galyam, an alleged victim of repression under the rule of former Chadian dictator Hissene Habre (1982-1990), speaks on July 10, 2011 in the Chadian capital N'Djamena. Habre faces the death penalty in Chad for alleged rights abuses. body else, and he rested subjected to such treat- was 42 and living in for a while, then when I ment,” he said, but he Sarh in the south in was tired he got up and and his fellow sufferers September 1984 when I took his place,” said got no real answers. her younger brother Clement Abaifouta, who On August 13, 1984, disappeared. His body was arrested on July troops of a crack army was found a few days 12, 1985 in NDjamena unit arrived to pick up later, left out in the and held in various the older brother of bush. detention centres for Pierre Ngolsou, then a “They didn’t bury the almost four years. schoolboy, and a friend dead, they let the bodies Abaifouta was forced who allegedly hid an rot.” Villagers helped to be a gravedigger, opposition figure in her discreetly to bury who at one stage buried neighbouring Nigeria. him. She does not know between eight and ten “As of now, just up to why he was executed. bodies on average. His today, we don’t know But Mandjere was in jailor called the bodies what became of those turn led to the local “bags”. two people,” Ngolsou police chief, beaten with “We struggled to find said. branches and finally out why we were being Antoinette Mandjere released thanks to the

district administrator.

If he had not intervened, “they were going to tie me up to throw me in the Chari” river, she told AFP. Ginette Ngarbaye was picked up in 1985 in Ndjamena by a man who said he had found a missing aunt of hers but instead led her to the security police. She was greeted by “a large, fat man whose shirt was stained with blood.”

Ngarbaye, who was four months pregnant, was accused of having helped political opponents in the south of the country. “They tortured me, they put electric wires everywhere and I passed out,” she recalled.

She then spent two years in detention centres. “My child took his first steps there,” she said.

Suddenly mobile phones began to ring and the faces of the victims lit up at the news that Senegal, where Habre took refuge in 1990, had reversed a decision to expel him to Chad, under pressure from the United Nations. Even his victims believe that Habre will not get a fair trial in his home country.

WFP considers returning to rebel-held Somali regions

By RICCARDO GANGALE MOGADISHU, Somalia The World Food Programme said yesterday it was mulling a return to Somali regions controlled by the radical Shebab rebels, who last week appealed for help for thousands of drought-ravaged civilians.

The Al-Qaedainspired insurgents expelled foreign aid groups from their fiefdoms in southern and central Somalia two years ago.

“With needs so great in southern Somalia, WFP is working with

A Somali woman sits with her child at the Bulo Kontrol settlement. the United Nations said in a statement. tions.”

Humanitarian “WFP will also conAround three million Coordinator to explore sult with donor govern- of Somalia’s 10 million every possibility to ments to ensure that people are in need of return if conditions they are comfortable humanitarian assisallow and if the neces- with the complexities tance due to a searing sary security clearance and risk associated drought that has hit from the United with any resumption of the Horn of Africa Nations is granted,” it humanitarian opera- region.

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Gbagbo camp in Ivory Coast imploding By CHRISTOPHE KOFFI ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast - A mentor under house arrest, key members behind bars or in exile, a party riven by infighting, Laurent Gbagbo’s camp appears to be imploding three months after the downfall of the former Ivorian president.

After a decade in power and a fourmonth battle for power in Abdijan following last November’s disputed presidential poll, Gbagbo’s Ivorian People’s Front (FPI) is a shadow of its former self, with only the walls of its headquarters standing following widespread looting during the fighting.

And it suffered an even heavier blow Monday when its interim leader Mamadou Koulibaly announced he was leaving to join a new party named “Freedom and

People demonstrate during a so-called "world march" to ask for former Ivory Coast president Laurent Gbagbo's release, on July 2, 2011 in Paris. After a decade in power Gbagbo's Ivorian People's Front (FPI) is a shadow of its former self, with only the walls of its headquarters standing following widespread looting during the fighting.

Democracy for the “We found ourselves Republic” ahead of leg- with three FPI: one offiislative polls scheduled cial which I represented later this year. in Abidjan and two As a parting shot, unofficial led by GhanaKoulibaly, the speaker based party exiles and of the national assem- by Justin Kone Katina, bly, blasted the FPI Gbagbo’s spokesman executive for refusing who is also out of the to accept change after country.

Alassane Ouattara, who The main source of won the November poll, disagreement is the fate took over the reins of of Gbagbo, who is power. under house arrest in In an interview with the north of the country AFP, he highlighted the along with his wife divisions which have Simone and 13 of their now broken into the associates, including open.

Pascal Affi N’Guessan,

Tunisian PM urges return of parties who quit reform panel

By FETHI BELAID TUNIS - Tunisia’s Prime Minister Beji Caid Essebsi yesterday urged parties which pulled out of a reform panel to return and work together in the national interest.

“The national interest requires that all parties work together. One should not quit politics even if there is disagreement,” he said at the headquarters of the commission.

Last month, Tunisia’s Islamist movement Ennahda (Renaissance) and Moncef Marzouki’s

Congress for the Republic withdrew from the commission, questioning its legitimacy and accusing it of abusing its prerogatives.

The reform panel was set up in February after the popular uprising that ousted president Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali on January 14, with a brief to pave the way for democratic change in the north African country ahead of the election of a constituent assembly in October.

Essebsi conceded that his interim administration was confronted with security, social, economic and media challenges, but added: “We must be united to deal with this situa-

tion.”

“There were tensions and disputes with the commission, but those who withdrew must return in the interest of the country,” he said.

The reform panel, which comprise representatives of 12 parties, trade unions and associations, is headed by Yadh Ben Achour, a jurist who played a major part in choosing its members, and has set far-reaching goals for the body.

The rules that the commission wants to establish are contested by the large political parties that have substantial resources and do not want to see them cut, according to observers.

Former Ivory Coast's President Laurent Gbagbo militia and Ivory Coast's President Alassane Ouattara fighters do push ups during a training at the former BAE (Brigade anti-emeutes) base, an elite unit of the deposed regime, in Yopougon, a neighborhood in Abidjan. the FPI’s nominal head. Miaka Ouretto, the FPI A party cannot have secretary general. “as it sole programme But party insiders the release of a leader,” said the rift was also said Koulibaly who is caused by Koulibaly’s accused by his adver- insistence on drawing saries of seeking to lessons from the abandon Gbagbo.

Gbagbo years ahead of Ivorian judges are legislative elections. pressing ahead with “Koulibaly had their investigation of begun some self-critikey members of the cism but the others are ousted regime and have incapable of facing up already charged 24 of to their responsibility them who are being in the post-electoral criheld in the northern sis,” one said. town of Boundiali for “Gbagbo is a party embezzlement or threat idol, to touch him to the state security. means committing “The release of our hara-kiri (suicide)”, comrades is the party’s said analyst Dominique priority,” said Sylvain Ouya.

The future looks rather bleak for the party and its stars.

Charles Ble Goude, a die-hard Gbagbo supporter who served as his minister for youth, is now the target of an international arrest warrant.

Better known as the charismatic “street general” of the Young Patriots, a hardline loyalist movement, he now rails against Alassane Ouattara’s “dictatorial rule” but remains out of sight.

Since 2005, Ble Goude has been under a United Nations travel ban and asset freeze for his alleged “direction of and participation in acts of violence by street militias, including beatings, rapes and extrajudicial killings.”

Reports say he is now either in Benin or Ghana, where many Ivorian exiles are poised to return home amid calls for national reconciliation.

“We want assurances about our security from the Ouattara regime but they are late in coming,” one exile, speaking on condition of anonymity, said.

Rights group accuses Libyan rebels of abuse

By ANDREW BEATTY TRIPOLI Libyan rebel forces have been responsible for looting, arson and the abuse of civilians in their push toward Tripoli, Human Rights Watch alleged yesterday.

The group said it “witnessed some of these acts, interviewed witnesses to others, and spoke with a rebel commander about the abuses.”

The abuses were said to have taken place in June and July — as recently as last week —

as rebel forces pushed through the Nafusa Mountains to the south of Tripoli.

“In four towns captured by rebels in the Nafusa Mountains over the past month, rebel fighters and supporters have damaged property, burned some homes, looted from hospitals, homes, and shops, and beaten some individuals alleged to have supported government forces,” said HRW. The allegations threaten to undermine the rebels’ carefully guarded image as the champions of human rights in a country that has been run by Moamer Kadhafi with an iron fist for nearly

42 years.

The revelations could also raise difficult questions for NATO countries, who have provided military support to the rebels as part of a UN-mandated mission to protect Libyan civilians.

France earlier this month admitted air dropping weapons to rebels in the Nafusa Mountains, raising the hackles of Russia and others critical of NATO’s operations.

“The rebel authorities have a duty to protect civilians and their property, especially hospitals, and discipline anyone responsible for looting or other abuse,” said the organisation’s Joe Stork.

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Montserrat loves Caribbean movie thriller ‘The Skin’

By NERISSA GOLDEN LITTLE BAY, Montserrat — Movie lovers on Montserrat got a rare treat this past weekend, when they were able to watch The Skin, a Caribbean thriller from HAMAFilms Antigua at The Montserrat Cultural Centre.

Since the evacuation of Plymouth, Montserrat has not had a full-fledged cinema; however, the duo behind The Skin, Howard and Mitzi Allen, have made it their business to bring their new movie projects to the island.

“Montserrat has always been a special place for us; we spent our honeymoon here 19 years ago and Howard has Montserratian roots,” explained Mitzi Allen, who is the executive producer of the film. “We have always screened our films here, right after the Antigua

and Barbuda release.”

It was “great to see a feature length film with Caribbean themes. Great filming, good actors, fun suspense,” said moviegoer Pamela Holley.

The Skin tells the tale of a young couple who unleash the terror of a soucayant after finding and selling an ancient artifact. The movie was filmed on location in Antigua and Barbuda and featured a star cast including Jamaican film icon Carl Bradshaw, Jeff Steward from the UK show The Bill and Peter Williams of Stargate SG-1 and A Winter’s Tale.

Chief Minister Reuben Meade attended the first screening on Friday night and remarked to the directors that he was pleased to see this level of work coming out of the Caribbean and more specifically the Eastern Caribbean.

“It shows we can produce films of an international quality,” he said.

Other callers on the

Saturday morning radio talk show remarked that the visual and audio effects had them jumping out of their seats.

“I was afraid to go home alone after watching it,” one young woman said. “It was enjoyable and really wonderful to be at the centre watching a Caribbean movie.”

“Showing The Skin in Montserrat surpassed our expectations in every way, from the facilities for the screening to the overwhelmingly positive response from the audience,” added Mitzi.

“It is a great way to start a Caribbean tour.”

The couple is preparing to take this their fourth project to several upcoming Caribbean film festivals as well as to North America later this year.

Writer and director Howard Allen said, “Sharing the film with the Montserratian audience was wonderful experience, their positive response is very encouraging and we would love to do it again soon.”

‘Step up to the plate’: St. Vincent has most Incumbent party returned Finance minister tells female deaths, of rape to office in Nevis Jamaica’s banking sector cases in OECS

By ALPHEA SAUNDERS

By KENTON X. CHANCE

KINGSTON, Jamaica — Minister of Finance, Audley Shaw, has challenged banks in Jamaica to “step up to the plate” in assisting government efforts to enhance investment and grow the economy.

KINGSTOWN, St. Vincent — More women have been killed and reportedly raped in St. Vincent and the Grenadines (SVG) than anywhere else in the Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS) since 2000, a meeting of female leaders in Trinidad heard last month.

And opposition leader in Kingstown, Arnhim Eustace, said on Monday that this is “very serious issue” that must be corrected”, adding that the statistic “is also, to some extent, telling me how we perceive women and the role of women in our society”.

Eustace was baffled by the extent of crime against women in SVG relative to its OECS neighbours, saying, “We have the same types of economies. We have the same types of people.

What is it about us that makes that happen?”

Yasmin Solitahe Odlum of the Inter-American Commission cited official statistics from OECS governments that shows there were 802 cases of rape and 55 sex crimes and incest against minors in SVG during the past 10 years.

She was addressing the first Caribbean Regional Colloquium of Women Leaders as Agents of Change in Port of Spain.

The meeting was attended by female leaders from across the region, including Trinidad and Tobago Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar and Sen. Anesia Baptiste of SVG. The 802 cases of rape in SVG, according to Odlum, compare to 569 cases in Antigua and Barbuda; 587 in St. Lucia; 317 in Grenada; 153 in Dominica, and 128 in St. Kitts and Nevis.

While commending achievements in the commercial banking sector, he urged the institutions to become more flexible and creative in dealing with investors, including pointing them to cheaper government funds.

“As persons come into your doors, if (their) business plan is not perfect, can you (for example) set aside a window or consulting room, to say — can we improve on this business plan?” he asked.

“Can we become more discriminating as a commercial bank community to say ‘hold on, there are some funds over here at the Development Bank of Jamaica (DBJ)...these are development funds and it might mean that my margin on these development funds might have to be a little smaller...but if this customer can fit into the DBJ resources, can I take a little break on the margin to get the cheaper funds into the hands of that investor? These are questions that I’d like you to ask yourselves,” he stated further.

The finance minister was speaking on Monday in Kingston at the official launch of the Royal Bank of Canada (RBC) operations in Jamaica, which will replace the RBTT brand.

CHARLESTOWN, Nevis — The incumbent Nevis Reformation Party (NRP) won the closely contested Nevis elections on Monday by 3 seats to 2.

Victorious NRP candidates were Premier Joseph Parry, Robelto Hector and, in the closest result of the day, Hensley Daniel, who overcame his opponent by just 12 votes.

The successful candiPremier dates for the opposition Joseph Parry (L) is Concerned Citizens’ enthusiactically Movement (CCM) were congratulated by a former premier, Vance supporter Amory, and Alexis Jeffers, who defeated the Federations; attorney general Patrice Nisbett in another close contest.

The swearing in of new ministers of the Nevis Island Administration was due to take place on Tuesday: Joseph Parry (Premier), Hensley Daniel and Robelto Hector (Ministers of Government), and Carlisle Powell and Dwight Cozier (Junior Ministers).

The prime minister of St. Kitts and Nevis, Dr. Denzil Douglas, was expected to attend the event.

The CARICOM Electoral Observation Mission was also due to leave Nevis on Tuesday after a short period of observation of the pre-election day preparations and activities and the conduct of Monday’s poll.

According to a CARICOM press release, several shortcomings were observed with respect to the conduct of the poll and other electoral processes.

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Venezuela’s Chavez expects chemo or radiation

By FABIOLA SANCHEZ C A R A C A S , Venezuela Ve n e z u e l a n President Hugo Chavez said yesterday that he expects to undergo chemotherapy or radiation treatment once he recovers from cancer surgery that removed a tumor the size of a baseball.

Chavez gave the most extensive account to date of his illness and care in a call to state television. It was the first time he has referred to expecting chemotherapy or radiation treatment following the June 20 surgery in Cuba.

Chavez said he is now starting a second phase of treatment and expects a third phase “that could be a bit hard.” He said the purpose would be to “armor the body against new malignant cells of this type.”

“It would most likely require the use of methods that are known ... depending on the evolution and these follow-up diagnoses, but it could be radiation therapy or chemotherapy,” Chavez told state television in a phone call.

Chavez said such treatment would be to “attack hard, with cavalry, any possibility, anything latent that might be there.” He did not say how soon such treatment might begin.

In this photo provided by Miraflores presidential press office, priest Mario Moronta, right, makes a cross sign on Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez's forehead during a mass for Chavez's recovery in Caracas, Venezuela, Tuesday, July 12, 2011. Chavez underwent surgery in Cuba last June 20 to remove a tumor from his pelvic region.

Chavez still did not not in the way some latent.” say was sort of cancer is would want,” Chavez Chemotherapy or involved. said. radiation are given to He said the operation He earlier said that attack tumors that have lasted about six hours the operation was in his spread beyond the origiand removed a tumor pelvic region, but denied nal site or as a “just in that was “encapsulated.” yesterday that his colon case” strategy against “I had a big, big been cut during the sur- any stray cells that tumor,” Chavez said. gery. might be circulating, “When I saw that image, He said his first phase especially when the I said, ‘My God, it’s a of post-surgery treat- original tumor is high baseball.’” ment has turned out risk because it is so Since his return to well, “thanks to God and large, as Chavez’s “baseCaracas on July 4, the to medical science, and ball” description implies.

56-year-old president to this body, which Foreign Minister has slowed his normally seems tougher than Nicolas Maduro said earheavy agenda and has what I myself believed.” lier this month that the limited the length of his Chavez also said, operation to extract the televised speeches, say- however, that he is con- tumor was performed in ing he is under strict stantly observed by a the same area as another orders from his doctors. doctor and a nurse who surgery nine days earliChavez said yesterday accompany him even at er to remove a pelvic that he is recovering night, and that he abscess. well, and suggested undergoes regular evalMaduro said that spesome of his foes hope he uations because “the cialists had confirmed does not. threat of ... expansion, after the operation that “I have cancer, but outbreak is always “the entire abscessed

tumor was able to be removed, all of his organs were checked, that they are in perfect shape.”

Chavez said yesterday that he has achieved a “recovery of vital signs, well, recovery of weight, recovery of all blood levels,” though he said he was still about 31 pounds 14 kilograms below his earlier weight.

“I’m now getting close to my weight of 85 (kilograms),” or 187 pounds, Chavez said. “I was at more than 100 kilos (220 pounds) ... I looked like a battle tank.”

Chavez, who is up for re-election in late 2012, has been actively posting messages on Twitter and has appeared on television in the past several days leading a Cabinet meeting, doing stretching exercises with aides and attending Mass.

Chavez, a former army paratroop commander, has said his rehabilitation regime requires discipline, including waking up at 5 a.m. That is a significant change for a president known for speaking regularly late into the night and summoning his ministers at all hours.

Chavez said cancer has led him to reflect about what he called “fundamental errors” in his lifestyle, such as drinking “40 cups of coffee in one day,” carrying three cell phones, eating whatever was available and “not sleeping, not letting my ministers sleep.”

He also acknowl-

edged it has been a serious mistake to be habit“talking too ually much.”

Chavez says his doctors have advised him to limit the length of his speeches, and he has kept his appearances much shorter than the hours-long events of the past.

“I’m on that, slowing down the horses I lead, but learning. I’m learning. I have to learn to delegate more,” Chavez said.

The president attended Mass on Tuesday night at Caracas’ Military Academy, joining friends and aides in praying for his recovery.

Chavez led a brief prayer and then closed his eyes as he listened to the Rev. Mario Moronta, who said he would administer the sacrament of anointing the sick to Chavez.

The priest, a friend of Chavez, said the sacrament is “for the sick or elderly person to have strength ... to beat the illness.”

“There is no need to be afraid. Six years ago they did it to me twice. I was more there than here, and look where I am,” Moronta said.

“Sometimes I myself have seen people who have stood up from their sick bed in a moment of difficulty because it’s celebrated with faith.”

He made a cross in oil on Chavez’s forehead.

Visibly moved, the president put his palms together and hugged the priest.

Bahamas parliament adjourns without death penalty bill Clinton group checks Haiti shelters amid criticism

By CANDIA DAMES

N A S S A U , Bahamas — The Bahamas government has failed to bring to Parliament the death penalty bill that Prime Minister Hubert Ingraham had said would be brought before the summer recess.

Last week, the House of Assembly adjourned to October 5.

Ingraham advised in the House recently that the bill will deal with “the question of the imposition of the death penalty in The Bahamas.”

The proposed legislation will outline specific categories of murder.

It is unclear at this point when the government will bring the bill, the details of which many people are waiting to see.

The prime minister’s announcement in the House in June came

less than a week after the Privy Council quashed the death sentence of murder convict Maxo Tido.

Tido was sentenced more than five years ago for the 2002 murder of 16-year-old Donnell Conover, whose skull was crushed and body burnt.

But the Privy Council, while recognizing that it was a dreadful and appalling murder, said it did not fall into the category of worst of the worst, and

therefore the death penalty ought not apply.

Currently in The Bahamas, a judge using his or her discretion could sentence a murder convict to death.

But there is no law that outlines specific categories of murder, and which could get the death penalty.

In recent rulings, the Privy Council has defined the kinds of murders for which the death sentence could be imposed.

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti - Former President Bill Clinton’s foundation says it will send experts to Haiti to check storm shelters it donated that reportedly have developed leaks and mold.

Foundation Chief of Staff Laura Graham says the independent experts will evaluate the 20 shelters in the town of Leogane. Graham says any construction deficiencies will be fixed.

Her comments Tuesday follow reports published

by The Nation magazine that some shelters were leaking and moldy. It reported that people in the town are upset that the structures lack air conditioning and can’t be used as schools.

The foundation says the structures were intended to be emergency storm shelters but local people could use them temporarily as schools if needed.

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One Thought - One Humanity

Salli Richardson-Whitfield and the cast of ‘Eureka’ return for more Syfy

For the conclusions of these stories check out the July 7th - July 13th, 2011 issue of The New American, which hits newsstands every Thursday Don’t call it a comeback… they been here for years. The highly anticipated Destiny’s Child Reunion you’ve been waiting for is on its way. While in New Orleans for the Essence Music Festival, Beyonce’s dad Mathew Knowles revealed that the group is currently working on a new album. Is anybody shocked by this? Not us… But we are kind of surprised that Matthew is still being allowed to make announcements on behalf of the group.

Shannon Brown has opted out of the final year of his contract with the LA Lakers, making him a free agent. But Lakers fans should not put those old jerseys on Ebay just yet, as Shannon opted out of his last contract but then resigned to the LA Laker a few years ago. So maybe its a tactic for more money....or time on the court. Shannon recently said “I haven’t ruled out the Lakers,” said Brown. “I don’t know if they will rule me out.

I’m staying open.” So we guess his free agent status isn’t cut and dry....

Janelle Monae wants to deliver a different “perspective” but says it’s hard for new artists. “I think there’s a lack of diversity,” Monae tells UK’s Evening Standard.

“People think that we’re all monolithic and it’s hard for young aspiring girls, who don’t necessarily want to sell sex and strictly sing crappy R&B songs. They need to understand there’s a different blueprint that you can create.” The “Tight Rope” hitmaker eyes starting a new trend, adding “I think it’s absolutely necessary for the balance of the universe that there are other representations and a different perspective of the

woman.”

Outkast plans to release a new album by early next year. Additionally we have confirmation that both Andre 3000 and Big Boi will drop solo projects, both before the end of 2011.

A rock solid industry source tells HipHopWired, “Outkast is on track to release a new album by early next year. Both Dre and Big are working on solo projects; they want those out by the end of 2011.”

Rihanna has sparked rumors she has revived her shortlived romance with Drake after she was photographed cuddling the rapper at a nightclub in Canada.

The pair briefly dated following Rihanna’s split from Chris Brown in 2009, but the beauty subsequently admitted she put a stop to the budding relationship because she was not ready for another boyfriend. She went on to date Los Angeles Dodgers star Matt Kemp, but remained friends with Drake and they are now rumored to be giving their romance a second try after they were pictured together during a night out at the Buonanotte Supperclub in Montreal, Canada, last month. The photograph, obtained by TMZ.com, shows the stars sitting close together, with Drake’s arm wrapped around Rihanna’s shoulders, while a source tells the website they were “all over each other” throughout the evening.

Philly-bred radio personality, Star of the “Star and Buc Wild” morning show on 100.3 The Beat, hopes to help reduce the crime numbers within the city and surrounding areas by launching his “Start Snitching”

campaign, which he previously started back in in New York with its struggle with violence back in 2002. “The ‘Start Snitching’ campaign is more than just words being spoken on the microphone, it’s a commitment I’ve taken on personally!” Star told NBC. “Even if ridicule is being pointed at me, I have been an individual all my life. I don’t like to lay in a nice, comfortable and peaceful life,” he explained. “I don’t want animals on two legs violating my rights based upon some silly ass codes. So whether or not they are codes or something they feel that have to oblige by, it doesn’t have any say on the barring of my existence, as a rational man. It’s very asinine the amounts, not just homicides, but the shootings, that are taking place down here.

This is literally the O.K. Corral. So codes don’t apply here. There is a much deeper need for peace amongst this particular community.”

Have you seen Jill Scott lately? She is looking better than ever. The bold singer dropped 63 pounds, but she warns there won’t be much change in her frame. With her latest album, “Light of the Sun” which debuted at no.1 on Billboard 200 this week, Jill is saying she made the transformation by simple diet and exercise. It only took eating three lowfat meals a day and working out with her trainer Scott Parker who had her doing 60 minutes of cardio and strength training sessions every meeting.

She said her health was on the line and she knew it was time for a change when she’d “walk up nine steps and be out of breath!”

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love to do one but she has her eyes on bigger sights. What RichardsonWhitfield really wants is to direct an episode. This is a feeling that Ferguson can completly agree with as the two admit that they are itching to get behind the camera of the show.

And while the likelihood of a full on Eureka-Warehouse collaboration is unlikely due to scheduling conflicts, the idea is a nice one.

When asked how the two of them get along during filming both Ferguson and Richardson-Whitfield describe an easy pairing that helps them both to give their best performances. From the beginning, Richardson-Whitfield says the two shared an instant on screen chemistry, very much different from their off-screen brother-sister like relationship. “As soon as that camera rolls something clicks. I look into Colin’s eyes, there’s something that clicks and I always find an instant connection… I feel everything I’m saying with him.” She goes on to say that because of this connection, they are able to work off of each other and give each other what they need for the scene. Ferguson agrees and credits Richardson-Whitfield for the ease of their relationship.

It’s time for the return of SyFy Network’s longest scripted drama, and as season 4.5 of Eureka is gearing up I had the chance to attend a Q&A conference call with stars Colin Ferguson and Salli Richardson-Whitfield.

When asked how she compares to her character Allison Blake on the TV series, Richardson-Whitfield says that, to her, their similarities seem to grow over the seasons. “I’m not as hard or as tough as I may seem,” and this is something that the characters of Eureka are now finding out about Allison, whose main vulnerabilities include being a mother and having to juggle work around family life. This is a plight that Richardson-Whitfield can relate to intimately as the show films in Vancouver and causes her to be away from her children while they are filming.

Several of the characters of Eureka have had crossover episodes in Warehouse 13 (a SyFy Network “cousin” show,) and vice versa.

When asked if she would ever do a guest spot on the series, Richardson-Whitfield says that she would - Full Story In This Week’s New American Newspaper -

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Blacks in nursing homes have higher risk of sores

By GENEVRA PITTMAN Black nursing home residents are more likely than white residents to develop blisters and sores that can eventually lead to muscle and bone damage, according to a new study.

The findings suggest the disparities are mostly the result of differences in care between homes with predominantly Black or white patients — and not that individual nursing homes are necessarily providing better care to whites than Blacks, researchers said.

“In general, nursing homes are lacking appropriate resources,” said study author Yue Li, from the University of Iowa in Iowa City.

In homes with more Black patients, “the problems are particularly pronounced.”

For preventing the blisters and sores, known as pressure ulcers, having enough nurses to keep a close watch

on patients may be particularly important, according to the researchers.

These sores generally develop in patients who are bedridden or confined to a wheelchair. They happen when the same patch of skin is always exposed to too much pressure and the tissue begins to break down because it doesn’t get enough blood. If they aren’t treated, pressure ulcers can deepen and cause damage to bones and muscles.

Li said that previous studies have suggested Black residents in nursing homes get more pressure ulcers than white residents. But he and his colleagues wondered if recent efforts at improving the quality of care in nursing homes, led by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, did anything to address that disparity.

From 2003 to 2008, they followed cases of pressure ulcers that were reported at more than 12,000 nursing homes in the U.S., looking at

a sample of about 2.5 million patients who were considered to be at high risk for the sores.

Over that time, the overall rate of pressure ulcers decreased in those patients.

However, Black residents remained more likely to get sores than white residents.

The chance of having a pressure ulcer fell from about 17 percent to 15 percent in Black residents between 2003 and 2008, while in white residents it dropped from 11 percent to 10 percent.

When Li and his colleagues looked more closely at differences between nursing homes, they found that both Black and white residents were more likely to get a pressure ulcer at homes that had a higher percentage of Black residents than at those that were almost all white.

That could be due to a number of reasons, said Nancy Bergstrom, who cowrote an editorial accompanying the study in the Jour-

nal of the American Medical Association. For example, nursing homes with more Black patients might not be as well funded, or they may not have enough staff.

She said that the amount of time nurses spend with patients, and how well those nurses know the procedures for preventing sores — including making sure patients in bed are frequently moved around to redistribute their weight — are key to better outcomes.

While some nursing homes have great nurses that stay on for years, others have very high rates of turnover, she explained.

“Time of staff and training of staff and staff stability in nursing facilities...are very pivotal to improving care,” Bergstrom, of the University of Texas Health Science Center in Houston, told Reuters Health. “It’s hard to set standards and have good care if there’s somebody new all the time.”

Differences between Black

Placebo effect seen in treating colds

By AMY NORTON People who believe a cold remedy will work may indeed feel better sooner — even if they don’t get the real treatment, a new study suggests.

Researchers say their findings are evidence that the socalled placebo effect is at work in recovery from the common cold.

So if the go-to treatment you believe in — from chicken soup to vitamin C — is unlikely to do any harm, you might as well stick with it, they say.

The placebo effect refers to a phenomenon seen in clinical trials when people given inactive, fake “treatments” — like a sugar pill or saline — show improvements. The placebo effect has been observed in a range of conditions, including chronic pain, depression, inflammatory disorders and even cancer.

For the new study, reported in the Annals of Family Medicine, researchers focused on the common cold — which famously has no cure.

They randomly assigned 719 people with the beginnings of cold symptoms to one of four groups.

In one group, people were given the herbal cold remedy Echinacea and knew they were taking it. Two other

groups were given either Echinacea or a placebo, but participants did not know which they were taking. The fourth group received no pills of any kind.

Overall, there were no significant differences among the groups when it came to the severity or duration of the participants’ symptoms — which lasted about a week in all cases.

But then the researchers focused on the 120 people who, upon entering the study, gave high ratings to Echinacea’s effectiveness.

In that group of Echinacea believers, those who were given pills — Echinacea or placebo — felt better faster.

Placebo users recovered a full 2.5 days sooner than their nopill counterparts, while Echinacea users were cold-free about 1.5 days sooner.

“That’s actually a huge difference,” said lead researcher Dr. Bruce Barrett, of the University of Wisconsin, Madison.

“No treatment out there has ever been shown to reduce the duration of colds,” Barrett noted in an interview.

He said that the findings offer more evidence that “what people believe about their medicines matters.”

As for Echinacea itself, studies have come to conflicting findings about whether the popular herb does in fact work. In an earlier analysis of this same study group, Barrett’s team found that (as in this analysis) Echinacea users in general fared no better than the placebo or no-pill groups.

But there was also no evidence that the Echinacea group suffered side effects,

and white nursing home residents have also been reported when it comes to vaccinations, pain treatment and end-of-life care, Li said.

“For nursing home patients, the disparities are widespread,” he told Reuters Health. “Pressure ulcers are only one of the important outcomes.”

Some differences could be the result of patients’ conditions when they come into the nursing home, Bergstrom added. For example, more Black patients may be admitted with diabetes, which makes other complications more likely.

Li suggested that rather than just focusing on general improvements in all nursing homes, policymakers should look at how to cut down on disparities between homes.

One strategy, he said, could be rewarding particular facilities that show a lot of improvement in care, even if they still don’t have as good a record as others. like headache, stomach upset or diarrhea, at a higher rate.

And if you have used Echinacea and believe it eases your cold misery, it would “seem reasonable” to continue, according to Barrett.

There are other ways to treat cold symptoms, like acetaminophen for the headache and decongestants for the stuffy nose. But again, those tactics have not been shown to actually cut colds short.

Barrett said he would like to see more people take the simple measures that can make a cold less draining: getting enough rest, taking plenty of fluids to stay hydrated and eating well — which can include chicken soup.

American men with cancer more likely to die than women

By DEENA BEASLEY LOS ANGELES — Men who are diagnosed with cancer are more likely to die from the disease than women, due to a higher initial risk and later detection, U.S. government research showed.

The National Cancer Institute study looked at a database of 36 different types of cancer from 1977 to 2006.

It found the highest maleto-female mortality rate ratios for cancers like lip,

where 5.5 men died for each woman patient, and esophageal, where 4 men died for each woman patient.

For lung cancer, which is the leading cause of cancer deaths for both men and women, the research found 2.3 male deaths for each female death.

The main reason for the difference is that men are more at risk of developing cancer to begin with, according to Michael Cook, an investigator in the division of cancer epidemiology and genetics at the NCI and the study’s lead investigator.

The average lifetime chance that a man will develop lung cancer is about 1 in 13, compared to 1 in 16 for a woman, according to the American Cancer Society.

American men are more likely than women to have advanced disease by the time their cancer is diagnosed, Cook said.

He said gender differences in exposure to carcinogens — including tobacco smoke and viral infections — play a role in the rate disparity. The study also cited “universal” mechanisms, such as sex chromosomes

and hormones, that may contribute to observed sex differences in cancer incidence.

The NCI researchers said there was no single root cause for the rate disparity, but influences include differences in behavior of the tumor, cancer screening for people without symptoms, presence of other illnesses and whether patients sought healthcare services.

A recent survey conducted by Abbott Laboratories found that 28 percent of men do not visit the doctor regularly.

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N.J. public school districts to receive at least 2 percent funding increase

By JESSICA CALEFATI TRENTON - A year after New Jersey’s public schools swallowed the largest state aid cut in recent memory, Gov. Chris Christie Tuesday said he will boost funding for all districts by at least 2 percent of their operating budgets.

Some superintendents said they will use the money to rehire laid off teachers and reduce the size of burgeoning classes.

Others will bring back after-school busing or eliminate the costly fees many student athletes were charged to play sports.

“We are keeping faith with our commitment to New Jersey’s

children and families,” Christie said in a statement. “Now is the time to complement the dollars spent with real education reform to bring a focus on student learning, accountability and results.”

Woodbridge schools will get $3.5 million more than they were given last year.

Hanover’s budget will be boosted by $451,000, while the small West Amwell district in Hunterdon County will be given another $81,000.

In total, Christie increased school aid by $850 million over last year, when he cut nearly as much from districts’ coffers.

Those deductions equaled 5 percent of districts’ operating budgets and wiped out all state aid for some wealthy, suburban districts that receive

most of their funding from local property taxes.

More than half of the funding restored this year - $450 million - will be spread among 31 of the state’s largest, poorest districts, formerly known as Abbott districts.

The state Supreme Court ordered Christie to allocate those funds, and he complied.

Elizabeth will receive $85 million next year, almost twice as much as any other Abbott district.

Newark will get $42 million and Plainfield will receive $23 million. All of the Abbott districts were underfunded, as were some 200 suburban districts.

Elizabeth is receiving millions more than any other district because it was so badly underfunded,

said David Sciarra, executive director of the Newark-based Education Law Center.

The center brought the 21st round of the landmark school funding suit against the state on the districts’ behalf. Sciarra had argued for full funding of all districts but failed to secure it.

“It is deeply disappointing that we didn’t get to full funding for all districts. There was broad support in the education community to get that done,” Sciarra said.

“Unfortunately, the governor has put a road block on that effort.”

The budget Democrats in the Legislature passed would have fully funded all school districts and cost the state an additional $450 million. Christie line-item vetoed that budget,

leaving more than 200 moderate- and middleincome districts with less money than the state’s school funding formula says they deserve.

Sciarra said representatives from some of those school systems have inquired about a possible legal challenge, but no formal plan to sue the state has been made.

Lynne Strickland, executive director of the Garden State Coalition of Schools, said she was relieved to see “the second step of the school funding giveback” confirmed

by Tuesday’s release of district-level aid figures.

Christie gave $150 million more to nonAbbott districts than the allocations proposed in his original budget.

“Last year, districts were all hit the same

way. Now, they’re getting back some of what they lost in a similar way,” said Strickland, whose organization advocates for mostly suburban districts. “The needs are there, and they’re ready to put it all to good use as soon as possible.”

A few months ago, Brunswick North Superintendent Brian Zychowski said he was planning for flat funding.

Now his Middlesex County district will receive $792,000 than it received last year.

“In this environment, any time there is a restoration of aid you have to be happy,” Zychowski said. “It’s a step toward full funding of the formula and will really help us restore the cuts we made to our classrooms.”

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Matthew Knowles claims ‘I didn’t steal from my daughter;’ audit proves otherwise

By ALETA WATSON Controversy over Beyonce’s unforeseen firing of father, Matthew Knowles, has been a constantly developing story. According to TMZ, Knowles was relieved of his position after Beyonce discovered he was stealing money from her.

However, Knowles is prepared to defend his name and reputation to the fullest.

Documents recently obtained

by TMZ, show Knowles insisting that Live Nation Entertainment wanted nothing more than to “sink its

fangs into Beyonce’s 2011 world tour.” The documents go on to say that Live Nation falsified information in telling his daughter that he “had stolen money from Beyonce on her most recent tour or otherwise taken funds that [he] was not entitled to.”

Acting on the information received from Live Nation, Beyonce requested her law firm to conduct an audit and sure enough they confirmed that Knowles had pilfered money from her. In light of the news, Beyonce then fired her dad.

Knowles is unwavering in his claim of innocence. He has been persistent and quite

Wyclef to make ‘Feel Good Music’ on next album

By ROB MARKMAN Wyclef Jean refuses to be boxed in. The rapper/producer may have gotten his start with hip-hop trio the Fugees in the mid-1990s, but he has since branched out, working with artists from multiple genres. From Carlos Santana to Shakira to Bono, ‘Clef has spread his musical wings and crafted hits in various international markets, so fans can expect his next album to encompass a little bit of everything.

“My music is always like an iPod, like when you put on an iPod. It’s just you could never define me or put me in a box,” Wyclef told MTV News last week while he was in Orlando, Florida, performing at a Zumba fitness convention.

‘Clef’s sound has mostly been centered on the dance

floor. With the Fugees, he produced “Ready or Not” and “Fu-Gee-La”; with Shakira, he gave fans “Hips Don’t Lie”; and with Destiny’s Child, it was “No, No, No.” Wyclef’s 1997 solo debut, The Carnival, featured the Bee Gees-sampling “We Trying to Stay Alive,” and for his upcoming ninth solo album, the Preacher’s Son wants to continue to keep things upbeat. Wyclef’s new single “La Historia” was handpicked by Zumba fitness founder and choreographer Alberto “Beto” Perez.

The Latin-inspired song is used in Zumba classes across the world and will set up his next release.

“The album is going to be called Feel Good Music and I’m just taking my time,” ‘Clef revealed. “My albums, you have to listen to them from beginning to end. It’s going to be like a stage play, but it’s definitely gonna feel good.”

vocal that the theft accusations by Live Nation are completely false. The ex-manager is now petitioning a judge for the right to take depositions of several individuals employed at Live Nation to determine how they concluded he was swindling funds.

While Beyonce was not available to comment on this recent development, she did touch on the issue in her just-aired documentary, ‘The Year of 4’. She spoke of the split between her and papa Knowles but only revealed that it was time for a change.

“I’ve been managed by my father for a long time and a real change meant separat-

ing from him. It was scary but it empowered me and I wasn’t going to let fear stop me. It was very risky for me to step out on my own. Being a young woman I want to set the example that it’s possible for us to own our own businesses and own our own record labels. Sometimes we don’t reach for the stars, sometimes we are satisfied with what people tell us that we’re supposed to be satisfied with and I’m just not going for it,” she stated.

Who can she trust? Did Live Nation Entertainment only want to tear up a happy home or was Matthew Knowles up to some shady

activity? Either way, it appears that this issue will get a lot worse before it gets better.

Damon Wayans Jr. drops ‘The New Girl’ for ‘Happy Endings’ Damon Wayans Jr. had to leave his prominent role in Fox’s upcoming fall comedy “The New Girl.”

In the pilot, Wayans played Coach, one of the roommates who shares a loft with Zooey Deschanel, Max Greenfield and Jake Johnson.

Wayans’ role, however, was in second position to ABC’s “Happy Endings,” which was recently picked

up for a second season.

Lamorne Morris will replace Wayans in “The New Girl” as Winston, a competitive former athlete who has realized he’ll never go pro and moves into the loft.

Rather than recast and reshoot the pilot, Morris will join the comedy in the second episode of the series, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Wayans’ Coach will only be seen in the pilot

episode and Winston will be introduced in Episode 2.

Morris’ credits include hosting Cartoon Network’s game show “Brain Rush” and hosting his own show “HotWyred” on BET and several of the cable network’s live-show specials. His credits also include an episode of “The Middle.”

“The New Girl” debuts in the prime post-“Glee” slot on Tuesday, Sept. 20 at 9 p.m.

Swizz Beatz celebrates legacy of the Bronx with charter school

By NOLAN STRONG Superstar producer/rapper Swizz Beatz is teaming with the Bronx Charter School for the Arts, to celebrate the history and cultural influence of the Bronx.

Swizz will be joined by DJ Enuff and graffiti artist Cope 2, to launch the “Bronx Flavor” campaign, which is sponsored by Pepsi-Cola.

A rep for the event told AllHipHop.com that Swizz will celebrate “the rich histo-

ry of the Bronx, by providing residents with healthy lifestyle decisions that embody the spirit of the city.”

The event will feature dance stations that include Zumba, breakdancing and Capoeria, in addition to eating and drinking stations with SoBe, Sierra Mist, Aquafina and other Pepsi products.

Additionally, Swizz Beatz and Cope 2 will host live art installations, along with parents, students and faculty members from the Bronx Charter School for the Arts.

The event takes place today from 12:00–3:00 PM at The Point on 940 Garrison Avenue in the Bronx.

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Halle Berry wins stay away order against intruder

By ALEX DOBUZINSKIS LOS ANGELES — A judge on Tuesday granted Oscarwinning actress Halle Berry on a stay away order against a man who she said intruded on her Los Angeles property three times in recent days, before police arrested him.

Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Carol Boas Goodson issued a temporary order directing Richard A. Franco, 27, to stay 100 yards from Berry and her young daughter.

Franco, who has a history of violence, theft and drug offenses, was found to have a book with “nonsensical ramblings” and Berry’s name in his handwriting, the actress said in court papers posted at TMZ.com.

Franco first approached

Berry’s home on Saturday, when she was talking to her manager and saw through a glass door that Franco — whom she does not know — was in the gated back yard, the papers state. Berry’s manager yelled at Franco and he left, she stated.

The actress further said that on Sunday, she went to her kitchen to get a Diet Coke and noticed Franco was on the other side of a glass door, less than a foot away.

“Panicking and in fear of my life, I turned my body and quickly hit the deadbolt lock on the glass door,” Berry said in the court papers.

She said she ran upstairs to call police. That evening, arrangements were made to have armed security officers at Berry’s home, and as a result on Monday, Franco was caught when he

returned.

“This person has invaded and trampled upon the most fundamental sense of security I have and I am extremely frightened of him and what he might do to me or those I love,” Berry said in her court papers.

Franco was booked on suspicion of stalking, according to the Los Angeles Police Department.

The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department said on its website that Franco is being held in jail, and that his bail has been set at $150,000.

Berry, 44, won an Oscar for her role in the 2001 drama “Monster’s Ball.” She also starred in the movies “X-Men,” “X2” and “X-Men: The Last Stand,” and in 2008 she was named Esquire Magazine’s “sexiest woman alive.”

Ciara moving to L.A. Reid’s Epic Label Group after restructure Ciara’s label troubles may have worked itself out on its own. With the restructure of the Sony Music labels, the R&B star will now shift from Jive to the new Epic Label Group, which will be helmed

by L.A. Reid, the same person who signed her in 2003.

Earlier this year, Ciara voiced her frustrations with Jive, insisting the struggling label have done little to promote her last two projects, opting to be released from her

contract.

“It is true that I have asked and I pray that my label will release me,” Ciara said back in February 2011. “I have had some great times and success with my label, but sometimes like all great things, it’s at that point where I feel we don’t share the same views on who I am as an artist. The past two albums have been very frustrating for me. At times there were songs I chose to lead a project and I

By ROY STROM Oprah Winfrey will take over as chief executive officer of OWN: Oprah Winfrey Network this fall, the cable channel said yesterday.

Winfrey, regarded as the most influential woman on U.S. television, will be the third CEO of the company since its debut in January.

She will also become chief creative officer as the network prepares for her new talk show, “Oprah’s Next Chapter,” to debut in January 2012.

“I am ready to dedicate my full creative energy and focus as the full-time CEO of

opportunity to promote and inform my fans of the release of this album.”

Hopefully this new move will facilitate a return to chart topping dominance for the R&B princess. Currently Ciara is gearing up for her “Radio Maliboom Boom Station Invasion Concert Tour” with Taio Cruz, which kicks off July 16th in Miami and ends on September 1st in Arizona.

Bank moves to foreclose on R. Kelly’s Chicago mansion

Oprah Winfrey to become CEO of her network OWN,” Winfrey said in a statement.

OWN is co-owned by Winfrey and Discovery Communications Inc. Discovery Chief Operating Officer Peter Ligouri has been interim CEO of OWN since he replaced Christina Norman in May. Norman was pushed out after Discovery CEO David Zaslav said OWN’s ratings had been “below our expectations.” Executives have said that more investments in the joint venture will depend on ratings through the next several quarters.

Discovery spent $215 million to fund the venture through the first quarter.

was ignored!

She continued, insisting she spent over a hundred thousand dollars out of her own pocket on her latest album ‘Basic Instinct,’ but Jive still didn’t see her vision. “I do understand that some labels are not financially supporting their artists and I have become one of them…I’ve tried to be a team player with the label only to have compromised what I truly believed and was not given the right

By KARIN MATZ

OWN also said two current presidents of Winfrey’s Harpo Studios, Erik Logan and Sheri Salata, would move to the same role at the cable channel.

The two will work with Ligouri as the network rolls out new shows. Comedian Rosie O’Donnell’s daily talk show will start in October, OWN said.

CHICAGO — Grammyaward winning singer-songwriter R. Kelly has failed to make mortgage payments on his multimillion-dollar Chicago-area home for more than a year and now may lose the property to lenders, court documents show.

In a foreclosure action filed in June in Cook County Circuit Court, J.P. Morgan Chase Bank N.A. said that the singer, whose full name is Robert S. Kelly, had not made a monthly payment on the 11,000-square-foot home in Olympia Fields in south suburban Chicago since June 2010.

The suit said the current principal balance on the loan was more than $2.9 million, not including unpaid interest, which accrues at rate of $251 a day.

The original loan issued in 1999 was for $3.5 million, according to the lawsuit, and the monthly payments were $24,345.12.

The property has a number of liens on it, according to the lawsuit, including nearly $2 million from the Department of the Treasury.

The 44-year-old R&B star, who won three Grammy Awards in 1998 for his song “I Believe I Can Fly,” is no stranger to controversy. In 2008 a jury acquitted him of child pornography charges.

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June import prices post first decline in a year

By LUCIA MUTIKANI WASHINGTON — Import prices fell in June for the first time in a year as petroleum and food costs tumbled, according to a government report on Wednesday that suggested the commodity-driven spike in inflation was abating.

Overall import prices dropped 0.5 percent, breaking eight straight

months of increases, the Labor Department said, after gaining 0.1 percent in May. Economists polled by Reuters had expected prices to drop 0.6 percent last month. Import prices were up 13.6 percent in the 12 months through June.

Stripping out fuel and food, import prices were flat after rising 0.6 percent in May. The report supported the contention by Federal

Reserve officials and independent economists that the commodityinduced jump in inflation would be temporary.

Data on Thursday is expected to show that wholesale prices fell 0.2 percent in June from May, according to a Reuters survey. The producer price index rose 0.2 percent in May. High inflation undercut economic activity in first quarter, with

growth slowing sharply to a 1.9 percent annual rate after a brisk 3.1 percent expansion in the final three months of 2010.

So far, data suggest that still-high commodity prices and disruptions to motor vehicle production because of a shortage of parts from Japan contributed to keeping growth sluggish during the AprilJune quarter.

Last month, a 1.6

percent drop in imported petroleum prices helped to push import prices down. The drop in petroleum in June was the biggest in a year and followed a 0.9 percent fall in May. Imported food prices declined 1.9 percent, the largest fall in more than two years, after sliding 0.7 percent in May. The price of imported motor vehicles and parts rose 0.3 percent last month after

increasing 0.5 percent in May. The rise in motor vehicle prices reflects the lingering effects of supply chain disruptions after the March earthquake in Japan.

The Labor Department report also showed export prices edged up 0.1 percent in June after rising 0.2 percent the prior month. Analysts had expected export prices to gain 0.2 percent.

Bernanke ‘prepared to respond’ if economy worsens

By PEDRO DA COSTA and MARK FELSENTHAL WASHINGTON — Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke said on Wednesday the central bank is ready to ease monetary policy further if the economy weakens and inflation moves lower, hinting policymakers are actively mulling further stimulus.

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while jobless rate rose to 9.2 percent.

U.S. stocks, which have taken a drubbing over the last week on worries about Europe’s debt troubles and on concerns about the U.S. economic outlook, rallied 1.2 percent, while Treasury bond prices and the dollar tumbled.

Asked whether the Fed would be willing to launch another bond purchase program if the economy slumps, Bernanke said: “We have to keep all the options on the table. We don’t know where the economy is going to go.”

Pressed on the budget, Bernanke reiterated his warning that a failure to raise the U.S. debt ceiling would deal a severe blow to the global economic recovery.

“Cutting programs or raising taxes in ways that will reduce aggregate demand ... is going to slow the economy,” he said.

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Fed’s June meeting, released on Tuesday, showed some policymakers believe the Fed should stand ready to provide more support to the economy if the recovery flags, rekindling the threat of a debilitating downward spiral in prices and wages.

Others on the policysetting Federal Open Market Committee, however, felt inflation risks might force the central bank to withdraw stimulus sooner than is currently anticipated.

Still, given the change in tune, some investors were betting the more dovish members of the committee would win the day in pushing for a third round of quantitative easing if the economy continues to deteriorate.

“My initial reaction was ‘QE3 here we come’,” said Jack Ablin, chief investment officer at Harris Private Bank in Chicago. “We suspect-

ed the Fed would come up with some sort of QE3 in light of the disturbance surrounding the sovereign debt markets.”

Bernanke did not go into great detail regarding Europe, but the Fed chief’s outlook on U.S. growth prospects was understandably cautious.

After recovering from the steepest recession in generations beginning in the summer of 2009, the U.S. economy has lost momentum in recent months. Gross domestic product expanded just 1.9 percent in the first three months of the year, and the second quarter does not look to have been much better.

Bernanke held to the view that recent weakness was due in part to temporary factors like high energy costs and the effects on global industry from Japan’s earthquake and tsunami.

But he acknowledged the labor market remains weaker than the Fed would like.

“The most recent data attest to the continuing weakness of the labor market,” Bernanke said.

Bernanke defended the second round of bond buys against critics who said it had been ineffective.

He said the Fed estimates round two of quantitative easing, or QE2, lowered long-term interest rates by between 0.1 and 0.3 percentage point, which Bernanke said would be roughly equivalent to a 0.40 to 1.20 percentage point decline in the federal funds rate, which is currently set in a range between zero and 0.25 percent.

Regarding inflation, Bernanke reiterated the recent rise in prices was mostly linked to transitory factors such as higher energy and commodity prices, and should trend back down.

Chrysler recalls 286,000 pickup trucks

By BERNIE WOODALL DETROIT — Chrysler Group LLC will recall about 286,000 Dodge Ram pickup trucks because of potential problems with tie rod assemblies that may increase the risk of a crash, the automaker and U.S. safety regulators said.

To be recalled are 2008-2011 Ram 2500 and 3500 4x4 models;

2008-2011 Ram 3500 Cab Chassis 4x2 models; 2008 Ram 1500 Mega Cab 4x4 models; and 2003-2008 Ram 2500 and 3500 models, according to a filing with the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.

About 243,000 of the recalled trucks are in the United States. Of those, about 74,000 have already received service on the tie rod assembly, the NHTSA filing said.

Also, about 35,000 pickups in Canada will be recalled as well as some 2,750 in Mexico and 5,700 in other countries.

A Chrysler spokesman said there have been a few crashes and at least one minor injury as a result of the issue.

The vehicles “may experience a fracture of the left tie rod stud,” Chrysler told the NHTSA. “This condition tends to occur during

low-speed parking lot type maneuvers when the (driver) is making a left turn.”

This may result in the “loss of directional stability” in the left front wheel, increasing the risk of a crash, Chrysler said.

Chrysler said the risk is highest when making a sharp, 90-degree turn.

Chrysler has not yet determined when customers will get letters alerting them to the recall.

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As copper soars, thieves extract a price

By PAULA ROGO When thieves ransacked eight air conditioners in an apartment complex in the city of Mobile, Alabama, the culprits made off with $800 worth of scrap metal and left residents with $38,000 worth of damages.

“We’ve had copper robberies since forever,” said Officer Christopher Levy of the Mobile Police Department, “but we’ve seen a spike so far this summer.”

Record copper prices have caused a surge in U.S. copper thefts, plaguing law enforcement and local govern-

ments and prompting states to pass new laws.

“Since the beginning of the 2004 spike in copper prices, copper theft and copper prices have been directly linked,” a 2010 U.S. Department of Energy study on copper wire thefts said.

The price of the red metal traded in New York rallied to its highest in nearly three months during the first week of July, placing it within 5 percent of its all-time high of $465 per pound in mid-February this year. Even at roughly $439 on Wednesday morning, the price was still right for thieves.

Copper’s historic price rise this year has

been powered by strong global demand from China, which accounted for about 40 percent of this year’s 21 million metric tons of global consumption.

Prices have also been driven up by a widely expected supply shortfall for the rest of this year into 2012.

With these prices, thievery of the metal is not just a U.S. problem: copper thefts increased 85 percent in London last year according to New Scotland Yard.

France has suffered from a similar problem with the number of thefts rising 123 percent year-on-year in the first quarter of 2010, according to police figures.

Copper, valued because it is an excellent conductor of electricity, works for almost all types of wiring and is used by most utilities, giving thieves plenty of targets. Wired lines and substations are especially popular theft zones, often cutting off electricity or telephone access and running up millions of dollars in damage.

Michigan utility company DTE Energy reported thefts costing the company $10 million in 2007. Pacific Gas & Electric Company was spending more than $1 million per year in damages, the Department of Energy reported.

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New York probes Bank of America $8.5 billion mortgage pact

By JONATHAN STEMPEL New York’s attorney general is investigating Bank of America Corp.’s $8.5 billion settlement with investors over losses in mortgage-backed securities, and has sought data from 20 institutional investors that agreed to the accord.

In letters to the firms, Attorney General Eric Schneiderman requested the names of various clients — including pension funds, government authorities and charities affiliated with the state — that invested in securities issued by the 530 mortgage securitization trusts covered in the accord. He also sought the par and current market values of the clients’ securities.

The letters are dated July 7, and were sent in connection with the attorney general’s “ongoing investigation” into the securitization of residential mortgages.

Schneiderman requested that the information be provided by July 14.

Among the investors were BlackRock Inc., MetLife Inc. and Allianz SE’s Pacific Investment Management Co. Of the 22 investors that agreed

to the accord, only the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and the Federal Home Loan Banks were not sent letters by Schneiderman.

Schneiderman’s office and representatives of Bank of America and BlackRock declined to comment. A MetLife spokesman said that insurer has not seen a letter from Schneiderman. Pimco did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Various attorneys general are scrutinizing the causes of and fallout from excess in mortgage securitizations, a key driver of the recent housing and financial crises.

Regulators including all 50 state attorneys general are also working on an expected multi-billion dollar settlement with large mortgage servicers over fore-

closure practices.

The $8.5 billion settlement announced June 29 was part of roughly $20 billion of charges that Bank of America hopes will resolve much of its legal liability from its 2008 purchase of mortgage lender Countrywide Financial Corp.

But the accord has drawn challenges from some Countrywide mortgage securities investors who question whether the accord is fair, or may provide some investors with windfalls.

The settlement requires approval by New York State Supreme Court Justice Barbara Kapnick in Manhattan.

In court filings this week, the institutional investors rejected various criticisms by a group of pension funds

and 11 companies sharing the name Walnut Place, which own Countrywide securities in some trusts covered by the accord.

The institutional investors called “ludicrous” a claim that they engineered a gentle settlement to help Bank of America, which many of them regularly do business with in other areas.

They also said that to exclude some trusts from the accord would deprive investors in those trusts of other benefits, including servicing improvements that could lead to fewer foreclosures and higher values for their mortgage securities.

On Monday, Congressman Brad Miller, a Democrat and member of the House Financial Services Committee, questioned whether taxpayers might end up on the hook for excessive losses through the ownership by governmentrun Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac of securities covered in the settlement.

Bank of New York Mellon Corp. is the trustee for the 530 trusts, and has called the settlement “reasonable.” A spokesman for that bank also declined to comment.

thousand to tens of thousands worth of damage” in any one incident, Verizon Communication spokesman Lee Gierczynski said.

Thieves also have stripped copper and other materials from houses left vacant by the rash of mortgage foreclosures across much of the country.

Some states have passed laws to stem copper thefts in recent years, after the Copper Theft Prevention Act failed to reach the floor for a vote in the U.S. Congress in 2008. At least 33 states have copper theft laws, South Carolina being the most recent after passing its law in late June.

“This was a huge communitywide prob-

lem,” Minority Leader Harry L. Ott Jr. of the South Carolina House of Representatives said of the law that takes effect in August. His own district had suffered from irrigation and air-conditioning damages.

The new law prohibits recyclers from paying cash for copper, with the aim to make copper less attractive to drug addicts trying to make a quick dollar.

“We wanted to take the incentive to steal out of the equation,” Ott said.

Copper’s historic price rise this year has been powered by strong global demand from China, which accounted for about 40 percent of this year’s 21 million metric tons of global consumption.

Prices have also been driven up by a widely expected supply shortfall for the rest of 2011 into 2012.

Contractors will be required to comply with EEO, D/M/WBE and other federal and state procurement laws, regulations and Executive Orders.

MTA NEW YORK CITY TRANSIT (NYCT) RFQ #: 10489, Due Date: 8/25/11 Title: E-34020 - Replacement of Three (3) Escalators at Three Locations in the Borough of Manhattan RFQ #: 10400, Due Date: 8/17/11 Title: E-34907: Rehabilitation of Power Centers 2 and 3 on Overhaul Shop at the Coney Island Yard, in the Borough of Brooklyn.

RFQ #: 4654, Due Date: 8/9/11 Title: Repair of Floor Jacks BIDS: Opening Date: 8/3/11, #9881, Harness & solenoid assy; #10121, Enclosure; #10364, Door controller assy; engine assy. Opening Date: 8/4/11, #9997, Ford parts pricebook; #10075, Cable assy; #10083, Ring & pinion gear set; #10189, Oil, compressor; #10191, Solenoid; #10272, Belt.

Opening Date: 8/5/11, #10155, Fan drive kit; #10188, Oil filter; mount assy; #10194, Desiccant; #10259, Oil filter; #10255, Oil separator kit; #10280, Bleach. Opening Date: 8/9/11, #10281, Hand cleaner; #10273, Cleaner/degreaser. More detailed info & the MTA-NYCT contact for the above solicitations at www.mta.info/nyct/procure/nyctproc.htm

MTA BUS COMPANY (MTABC) The MTA Bus Company (MTABC) and New York City Transit (NYCT) are seeking a vendor(s) to furnish and deliver the bus part(s) listed below. The contract duration is 15 months and is an estimated quantity contract. Terms and conditions are contained in bid documents. All prices quoted must be FOB delivered. Payment NET 30 unless otherwise indicated. For delivery to MTA Bus Company East New York Depot; see Schedule “O”. - Bid No: PRB110988. Bid Opening: 8/3/11 at 11AM. Bids received after 11:00am on the Bid Opening Date will not be considered. ITEM / STOCK NO.; (QUANTITY); DESCRIPTION; MANUFACTURER PART NUMBER: ITEM A - 79-61-0080 (200 ea.) Tank Assembly, Radiator Lower, for Nova Series 50; Modine-Part #3S45877, Nova Bus Inc.-Part #G1019155. NOTE: Upfront Quanity Required Is 75 Each.

ITEM B - 79-61-0081 (200 ea.) Tank Assembly, Radiator Upper, for Nova Series 50; Modine-Part #3S45878, Nova Bus Inc.-Part #G1019160. NOTE: Upfront Quanity Required Is 75 Each.

ITEM C - 79-61-0004 (100 ea.) Core & Header Assembly, Radiator; Diesel Radiator-Part #DR1636-01, Modine-Part #3S44890, Nova Bus Inc.-Part #G1019153. NOTE: Upfront Quanity Required Is 40 Each.

For more info or to request a solicitation package, please contact: Marsha Korotyk, Manager, Procurement, c/o MTA Bus Company, 128-15 28th Avenue, Maintenance Building 2nd Flr, Flushing, NY 11354. Phone: 718-888-6278 or email marsha.korotyk@nyct.com. All inquiries must include company name, contact name and title, address, telephone number and email address.

MTA BRIDGES AND TUNNELS (B&T) Sealed Bids for the below solicitation must be received by B & T at the Bid Suite, 3 Stone Street, NY, NY 10004. Sealed Bids will be publicly opened at the above address on the dates/times indicated.

Bid #: IA 1233 – Sigma Slot Module Mounting Frame & Modular 1X6 Analog VDA Bid Opening Date: 8/3/2011, 3PM. Project description at www.mta.info/bandt/procure/purchpage.htm

MTA REAL ESTATE (MTA RE) REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS

The MTA is seeking proposals from experienced retailers to lease space in the Lexington Passage within Grand Central Terminal, New York (http://mta.info/mta/realestate/retail_leasing.html#rfp).

MTA METRO-NORTH RAILROAD (MNR) MNR will receive sealed bids for the following. Bids must be submitted on inquiry forms provided by MNR by the specified date and time. Bid documents are available at the Procurement & Material Management Department, 347 Madison Ave, NY, NY 10017, 212-340-3223. INQUIRY #, DESCRIPTION, (DUE DATE, TIME, CONTACT): INQ#: 1-6225 - Purchase of Stainless Steel Elevator Doors, (8/3/11, 3PM, Tara Bugg 212-340-2417); 1-6226 - Diesel Fuel Analysis, (8/15/11, 2PM, Edrina Mitchell 212340-2418); 8695-A - Oil Gear Lubricant Multi-Purpose 80W-90, (7/28/11, 2:30pm, Theresa Valentine); 8696-A - Exterior Car Cleaner, (7/28/11, 3PM, Theresa Valentine); 1-6031 - Rigging Services, (8/9/2011, 3PM, Chris Sefcik 212-340-3903); 8693-A - Purchase of 35 Ton Portable Rail Wheel Dolly, (8/4/2011, 2PM, P.E. Herrera); RFQ 5793-G - Chatworth Cabinets, (7/28/11, 3PM, J. Waddell 212340-2531); RFQ 8599-C - Gel-Free Cable (07/29/11, 3PM, J. Waddell 212-340-2531); RFQ 1-6014 Signal Analyzing Equipment, (8/01/11, 3PM, J. Waddell 212-340-2531); RFQ 11728-G – Synchronization System Materials, (8/03/11, 3PM, J. Waddell 212-340-2531); RFQ 8442-C - Cable Tray Materials, (8/04/11, 3PM, J. Waddell 212-340-2531); 107 - Request for Expression of Interest (RFEI) for a three (3) yr service agreement to provide supplemental bus service. Responses will be used for the future MTA Metro North Railroad Request for Proposal (RFP). (7/15/11, 3PM, Irene Gallante igallante@mnr.org); 1-5852 - UPS Maintenance and Repair Sevices (7/20/11, 3:00PM, Chris Sefcik, 212-340-3903)

MTA LONG ISLAND RAIL ROAD (LIRR) Documents for the following procurements may be obtained by faxing your request to 718-558-4735: #GS-2481-11 – Sale of Surplus Used Shop Equipment (Opens: 8/15/11); #IT0393-ME55 – Jumper Cable Assy (Opens: 7/27/11); #IT00368-GP02 – One (1) Year Estimated Quantity for Freon/R22 (Opens: 7/20/11): #IT00340-MW04 – Railroad Compromised Bars (Opens: 7/29/11); #IT0365-ME26 – Cable Assy’s Male/Female as Per LIRR Dwg’s L-4565D & L-4566C (Opens: 8/11/11); #IT00375-ME26 – Commodities 67648-26A/67649-26A, Bushing, Bronze / Bearing, Thrust (Opens: 8/4/11); GP-248211 – Sale of Surplus Used Vehicles (Opens: 8/24/11). Bids will be opened at 2:30pm unless otherwise specified at LIRR, 90-27 Sutphin Blvd. Jamaica NY 11435.

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Fielder quiets boos with big homer for NL

By JOHN MARSHALL PHOENIX - Prince Fielder spent two days in the desert being booed, payback for not picking hometown hero Justin Upton for the Home Run Derby.

Fielder’s two sons didn’t like the negative attention, which made it even tougher to take.

So if he had to do it over again, would Fielder go with Upton in the derby instead?

“Absolutely not,” he said.

Peppered with boos for his perceived slight of Upton, Fielder took home MPV honors and quieted the crowd with a three-run homer that lifted the National League to a 5-1 victory over the American League on Tuesday night in the All-Star game.

A black-hatted villain for most of his stay time in the desert, Fielder calmed at least some of the Arizona ire directed at him by helping to give the National League home-field advantage in the World Series.

“It’s nice to hear the cheers for him because I know yesterday, they

wanted Upton in there,” NL manager Bruce Bochy said.

The NL captain for the Home Run Derby on Monday night, Fielder irked the locals when he bypassed Upton, the Diamondbacks’ ultratalented right fielder.

Fielder couldn’t keep them quiet during the derby, missing the final while being booed every at-bat. But he came through in the All-Star game, hitting a long drive off Texas left-hander C.J. Wilson in the fourth inning that sent a collective ohh! through the crowd and brought a smile to his kids’ faces.

“Of course your family is going to be a little ... they didn’t like it too much,” Fielder said with sons Jadyn and Haven by his side. “But we didn’t dwell on it. I didn’t take it too personal because, I mean, I probably would have booed myself, too, if I was an Arizona fan.”

A three-time All-Star, Fielder was on the spot after Major League Baseball shook up the format for the Home Run Derby this year.

Instead of bringing in eight players to whack it out, two captains were selected to

pick four-person teams from each league.

Fielder got the NL honors and Boston’s David Ortiz, the defending derby champion, got to pick the AL stars.

Upton figured to be a favorite to make the NL team, in part because he was from the host club, but also because he had put up good power numbers this season and, obviously, knows where to hit the ball at spacious Chase Field.

Instead, Fielder selected teammate Rickie Weeks, Dodgers center fielder Matt Kemp and Cardinals left fielder Matt Holliday, drawing the ire of Diamondbacks fans.

They let him have it, too, raining boos down on him during intro-

ductions at the Home Run Derby and with each at-bat Monday night. Arizona’s fans also took it out on Weeks and Kemp, screaming out boos and chants of “Justin Upton! Justin Upton!” during their at-bats.

Fielder managed to get through a swing-off to reach the derby semifinals, going a perfect 5 for 5, but came up short after that, relegated to watching while Adrian Gonzalez and eventual champion Robinson Cano continued on.

The fans weren’t done letting him have it, though, coming up with more rounds of boos during the AllStar game introductions and each of his first two at-bats.

Second to St. Louis’

Lance Berkman in the NL with 22 homers, Fielder put a lump in their throats in the second at-bat, sending a towering drive to leftcenter that caromed off the top of the wall and put the NL up 3-1. He was done after that, but didn’t really need to do anymore.

“I don’t know if I transformed them, but I understood,” said Fielder, the first Brewers player to win the All-Star MVP award.

“That just shows you how much Justin means to them.

Yeah, I didn’t take it personal at all. I think these guys (his sons) took it more personal than me.”

Despite hearing the boos, Fielder was glad to have his family there with him.

His father, Cecil, was a three-time All-Star, making them just the fourth father-son combination to make the All-Star game. Prince’s relationship with his father has become estranged over the years, so being able to have such a big moment at the All-Star game with his wife and kids was a special moment.

“I’m just working on

my relationship with them,” said Fielder, who donated his gameworn jersey to baseball’s Hall of Fame.

“You know, my dad’s relationship has nothing to do with them. I’m just trying to be the best that I can be for them. As far as my dad, I don’t bring that in with our relationship at all.”

At the end of his contract, Fielder could be one of the most soughtafter free agents next winter. The lucrative offers might be tough for the small-market Brewers to match, so there’s a decent possibility this season could be his last in Milwaukee.

“Last year, I was guaranteed (and) I had no choice but to come back and it was emotional then, my last atbat in Milwaukee,” he said. “So, I can only imagine with me not having not signed for next year at all now, it will probably be a little more emotional. But, hopefully, I don’t have to think about that until after we hold up the World Series trophy.”

He’s got one trophy to tide him over until then.

Mets trade closer Francisco Rodriguez to Brewers

By BEN WALKER NEW YORK - The Milwaukee Brewers got a quick start on the second half, picking up a big-time closer.

The NL Central coleaders acquired former All-Star reliever Francisco Rodriguez from the New York Mets on Tuesday night, boosting the Brewers’ bullpen for a secondhalf run at the playoffs.

The trade was announced only a halfhour after the All-Star game, with the Mets sending K-Rod and cash

to Milwaukee for two players to be named.

Most likely, more trades all over the majors will follow before the July 31 deadline for making deals without waivers. And this swap was yet another sign the Brewers are going all in this season.

Milwaukee is tied with St. Louis for the NL Central lead, and John Axford has done well as its closer. The Brewers, however, have had trouble finding steady setup men.

“Francisco has been one of the best relievers in the game for many

years,” Brewers general manager Doug Melvin said in a statement. “He is a high-quality arm who will be a tremendous asset to our bullpen as we prepare for the final months of the regular season and playoffs.”

The Brewers traded for top starters Zack Greinke and Shaun Marcum in the offseason. They’ve made the playoffs just once since winning the American League pennant in 1982, and are faced with the prospect of watching star slugger Prince Fielder leave via free agency after the season.

Fielder was the MVP of the All-Star game, hitting a three-run homer in the National League’s 5-1 victory.

“That is a really big trade. He can really help us, he is a great player.

It definitely gives us a spark. We are in first place now and getting him gives us a little more help,” Fielder said.

“He is going to bring the success he has had in his career, his confidence. He is going to keep doing what he is doing. You can’t go wrong when you get that kind of talent. You can never have too many guys. No discred-

it to Axford at all, but to get him, too, is great,” he said.

The 29-year-old Rodriguez is 2-2 with a 3.16 ERA and 23 saves, a year after a fracas with a family member at Citi Field led to his arrest, an injury and the early end of his season. He is a four-time All-Star and set the single-season saves record with 62 in 2008 with the Angels.

Rodriguez has a contract clause that guarantees him $17.5 million in 2012 if he finishes 55 games this year.

The right-hander has currently finished 34

and is on pace to achieve the mark, though he may not get ample chances to do that with the Brewers.

“As a player, you appreciate it because you are going out there every day. When management does a move like ... they are trying their best to help as much as they can,” Fielder said.

“If we got a shot we know (Melvin) is going to do something to get that extra push. If we play hard and we have a shot, he is going to do everything he can,” he said. “It is a great night.”

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Dwyane Wade undecided on 2012 DAVIE, Fla. — Dwyane Wade is revisiting the site of his 2008 Olympic triumph later this summer. Whether he’ll be going with the U.S. to the London Games remains unclear.

Taking a break from hosting a basketball camp for hundreds of children, Wade said yesterday his decision on next year’s Olympics “depends on a lot of things” and that he was not leaning one way or another yet.

As for his Olympic teammates, USA Basketball chairman Jerry Colangelo says he plans to contact players “within the next month” to gauge their interest in playing in 2012.

With rosters due next June and no guarantee of NBA basketball before then, Colangelo wants to get an idea of who wants to be considered for spots in London.

LeBron James, Kobe

Bryant and the rest of the holdovers from the 2008 gold medalists have committed to returning, but Colangelo realizes “circumstances have changed for some of the players who were on the Olympic team.” So some spots — perhaps half — will come from last year’s world champions.

Wade returned to South Florida this week after a busy travel schedule to begin his summer, with a long European trip already completed along with business in Chicago and Los Angeles. Wade is heading to China in the next couple weeks and says he’ll resume basketball workouts soon — although, of course, he doesn’t know when the locked-out NBA will resume.

Standing before hundreds of children at his camp, Wade got plenty of tough questions.

About playing with LeBron James this past season with the Miami Heat and their trip to

the NBA Finals. About his actress girlfriend, Gabrielle Union. About what it takes to be a great basketball player.

One noticeably absent topic? The lockout.

“No lockout questions at all,” Wade said afterward. “I think it’s sensitive to them.

They’re staying away from it.”

“I don’t miss it yet,” Wade said of his inability to work out at the Heat’s facility. “I’m only a month away from the game. I’m cool. I’ve got two more weeks to relax before I get back into it.

But when the time gets to where we’re still going, I will miss it and most importantly I think everybody will miss it because you’re used to getting into a rhythm, used to getting into a schedule. And when that schedule is starting off, everything is off.”

Still, a month removed from losing in six games to the Dallas Mavericks in the NBA Finals, Wade is a long

way from forgetting the pain of coming up short with a title at stake.

“The sting is there, no question about it. I joke with the kids, I say, ‘All right, I’m going to make jokes about it, and you guys aren’t going to ask me questions,’ “ he said. “Because when they ask questions, they want to know some stuff. So I make sure I shed some light on it in a sense of humor type of way. But the sting’s there. But you’ve got to move on.”

Wade’s been busy since: A European trip has already been completed, as has a camp he co-hosted with NFL star Devin Hester in Chicago and a commercial shoot in Los Angeles, all preceding his annual camp at Nova Southeastern University — which added a twist this year, a cheerleader camp led

by Katina Taylor, the wife of NFL defensive end Jason Taylor.

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U.S. won gold at the 2008 Beijing Games.

Much of that trip will be built around Wade’s work with Nike’s Jordan Brand, although he has several other business meetings lined up there as well.

“I’m excited to come back over there and just enjoy China,” Wade said. “I want to go dif-

ferent places over there.

I told Brand Jordan I wanted to go to see where the magic happens, where are the sneakers made, the people that make the sneakers. I want to go meet those people. I’ve got a lot of things I want to accomplish this summer and I’ve got a lot of time to do that.”

Metrodome roof up again, nearly ready for Vikings

By DAVE CAMPBELL MINNEAPOLIS The Minnesota Vikings have a roof over their helmets once again.

Seven months after the Metrodome’s Tefloncoated fiberglass ceiling collapsed in a snowstorm, forcing the Vikings to play their final two home games last season elsewhere, the new roof has been raised in plenty of time for the first preseason game.

Stadium officials and construction workers inflated the roof yesterday morning as a test.

No problems popped up, so the roof of the 29year-old stadium will stay up while the finishing touches are put on a rebuilding project that

began in March.

“There doesn’t seem to be any issues whatsoever,” said Ted Mondale, the chairman of the Metropolitan Sports Facilities Commission, the agency that operates the facility officially known as Mall of America Field.

The new roof sits a little lower than before, to better withstand strong winds and help prevent snow from piling up in drifts. But it still sports the puffy, muffin-top look that frames the east side of the downtown Minneapolis skyline.

The 10-acre surface, just one-16th of an inch thick, is held up by several 100-horsepower fans.

MSFC director of facilities and engineering Steve Maki sat in the football press box as

the roof was quietly and steadily lifted to full height in about 45 minutes. Workers with poles watched from the upper deck to make sure the inner lining didn’t snag on the way up. Five others kept watch on top, casting silhouettes in the morning sun as they walked back and forth.

Most of the construction work should be done by Aug. 1, which will trigger a $500,000 bonus for Amherst, N.Y.-based contractor Birdair Inc., the company that also designed and installed the original roof. The project cost $22.7 million, including $18 million for the roof itself, and it’s covered by the MSFC’s insurance.

The artificial turf was also damaged when the roof broke open and

snow poured in, and that might have to be replaced, too, but Maki said that work, if necessary, would be done by Aug. 18. The surface, installed just last summer, has been covered in plywood during the project. Bids are in, and Maki said a decision on whether new turf is needed will be made by the end of next week.

The Vikings are scheduled to play their first home preseason game on Aug. 27, assuming the NFL lockout is over. Vikings vice president for public affairs and stadium development Lester Bagley said the team is appreciative of the work.

“We’re going to get our home-field advantage back,” Bagley said.

The roof collapsed after a storm that

brought 17 inches of snow in a 24-hour span and high winds that prevented stadium workers from clearing the roof. No one was hurt, but the Vikings were forced to shift home games to Detroit’s Ford Field and then to the University of Minnesota, losing both times.

It was the fourth roof collapse at the facility, but the first since 1983.

Enough damage was done that the entire roof needed to be replaced, rather than just the damaged diamondshaped panels. Under the new roof, some of the dinginess is gone and the inner lining is smaller, allowing more sunlight. New acoustical panels were also hung from the roof to improve the stadium’s sound quality.

Mondale credited Maki for his leadership of the project. Workers, who endured 100degree-plus heat on the roof plus plenty of rain and wind over the last four months, appeared to enjoy themselves. A paper airplane was even spotted flying through one of the vent holes.

The Vikings don’t plan to play under their new roof for long, though.

They’re in the final year of their lease at the Metrodome, actively seeking a new stadium in Arden Hills, a suburb north of downtown.

That effort has been stymied in part by the state’s budget deficit and government shutdown, an impasse between Gov. Mark Dayton, a Democrat, and the Republicanmajority Legislature.

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DA in Vegas eyeing ‘Pacman’ case after Ohio arrest

By KEN RITTER LAS VEGAS NFL football player Adam “Pacman” Jones might face up to a year in jail in Nevada for violating a probation stay-out-of-trouble order following his weekend arrest in Cincinnati, the top prosecutor in Las Vegas said Monday.

Clark County District Attorney David Roger said that before he takes the case to a Nevada judge, he’ll review police accounts of the arrest of the 27year-old Cincinnati Bengals cornerback on resisting arrest and misdemeanor disorderly conduct charges at

an Ohio bar.

Jones was sentenced to one year of probation in February for his role in a 2007 Las Vegas strip club melee that left three people shot.

“One of the conditions of his probation was that he stay out of trouble,” Roger told The Associated Press.

“We haven’t seen the reports yet.”

Jones’ lawyer in Las Vegas, Robert Langford, told AP that based on his client’s account of the arrest, charges in Ohio may have to be dropped.

Langford declined to provide specifics.

“Based on the facts I’ve heard, it will resolve in our favor,” he said.

The case adds to a list of off-field troubles for Jones, the 2005

first-round draft pick of the Tennessee Titans.

He’s been arrested at least six other times over the years, and has been involved in about a dozen situations that included police intervention.

He was suspended by the league for the entire 2007 season and six games in 2008 following off-field incidents. He sat out the 2009 season before signing a two-year deal in May 2010 to play for Cincinnati.

Authorities in Cincinnati reported Jones tried to pull away from police after he was accused of shouting profanities in a Cincinnati bar.

Jones denied the allegations after leaving jail. He told WCPO-TV

in that he hadn’t been drinking and was out with his wife to celebrate her birthday.

“I was not yelling at the police. I did not yell profanity at the police,” he said.

Jones, who was wearing a neck brace, said he had been recovering from a neck injury that required surgery but was expecting to play this year.

A Bengals spokesman said the team had no comment on the most recent arrest. The team is prohibited from having contact with Jones because of the NFL lockout.

Roger is the Nevada prosecutor who gained a 2008 jury conviction of pro football hall of famer O.J. Simpson in

a 2007 armed robbery and kidnapping case.

Simpson is now serving nine to 33 years in a Nevada prison.

Roger said it could be several weeks before he receives and reviews the Cincinnati police reports on Jones’ arrest and decides whether to take the case to a Clark County District Court judge.

“We’re in a holding pattern until then,” he said.

Jones pleaded no contest in December 2007 in Las Vegas to conspiracy to commit disorderly conduct, a misdemeanor, after agreeing to testify against the accused shooter in the strip club melee during NBA All-Star Weekend.

Authorities had blamed Jones for insti-

gating the fracas by showering strippers with hundreds of $1 bills. The shootings occurred minutes after Jones and his entourage were ejected from the club.

A bouncer, Tommy Urbanski, was left paralyzed from the waist down.

The shooter, Arvin Kenti Edwards, 32, of Renton, Wash., has pleaded an equivalent of no contest to attempted murder with a deadly weapon. He is being held at the Clark County jail pending sentencing July 21.

A co-defendant with Jones, Robert Reid, 31, pleaded no contest to misdemeanor conspiracy to commit disorderly conduct. He is free pending sentencing Aug. 25.

Steelers’ Harrison to magazine: Goodell a ‘devil’ NEW YORK Heavily fined Pittsburgh Steelers linebacker James Harrison calls NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell a “crook” and a “devil,” among other insults, in a magazine article.

The 2008 AP Defensive Player of the Year hasn’t been shy about ripping the league after he was docked $100,000 for illegal hits last season.

In the August issue of Men’s Journal, his rants against Goodell reach another level of wrath.

“If that man was on fire and I had to piss to put him out, I wouldn’t do it,” Harrison told the magazine. “I hate him and will never respect him.”

His other descriptions of the commissioner include an antigay slur, “stupid,” ‘’puppet” and “dictator.”

If the Steelers had defeated the Green Bay

Packers in the Super Bowl, Harrison said, he would have whispered in Goodell’s ear during the trophy ceremony: “Why don’t you quit and do something else, like start your own league in flag football?”

Harrison also criticizes other NFL execs, Patriots-turned-commentators Rodney Harrison and Tedy Bruschi (“clowns”), Houston’s Brian Cushing (“juiced out of his mind”) - and even teammates Rashard Mendenhall and Ben Roethlisberger for their performances in the Super Bowl loss.

Harrison calls the running back a “fumble machine” for his fourth-quarter turnover. Mendenhall said on Twitter yesterday he didn’t have a problem with what Harrison said “because I know him.” But he also included a link to his stats from last season, which show he didn’t have a pattern of fumbling.

Of the quarterback’s two interceptions,

Harrison says: “Hey, at least throw a pick on their side of the field instead of asking the D to bail you out again.

Or hand the ball off and stop trying to act like Peyton Manning. You ain’t that and you know it, man; you just get paid like he does.”

Steelers President Art Rooney II said in a statement that he hadn’t seen the article or talked to Harrison.

“We will discuss the situation at the appropriate time, when permitted once the labor situation is resolved,” he said.

Harrison also questions whether a black player is punished more for a hard hit on a white player than the

opposite. Beyond the insults, Harrison makes some serious points about what he believes are the league’s misguided attempts to increase safety.

He explains how non-guaranteed contracts make players more likely to hit high, because in the short term, a torn knee ligament is more costly than a concussion.

Harrison suggests the real way to prevent head injuries is to shorten the season to 14 games, start offseason workouts later and trim the length of training camp so “we’re not bangin’ heads so much in August; that’s where the brain trauma comes from.”

DeShon Marman won’t be charged SAN FRANCISCO — Prosecutors will not file charges against a University of New Mexico Lobos football player who was arrested after wearing saggy pants on a plane at the San Francisco airport.

San Mateo County District Attorney Steve Wagstaffe announced yesterday his office had reviewed the June 15 arrest of DeShon Marman and determined criminal charges were not warranted.

Marman was arrested on suspicion of trespassing, battery of a

police officer and obstruction after police say he refused to leave the US Airways flight on the captain’s orders.

According to airline officials, Marman repeatedly was asked to pull up his pants but did not listen. They say he was exposing a body part.

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BOSTON’S CITY HALL PLAZA CHOSEN FOR RUSSELL STATUE

By RUSSELL CONTRERAS BOSTON - Boston’s City Hall Plaza has been chosen as the site for a proposed statue of Celtics basketball legend Bill Russell, Boston Mayor Tom Menino and other officials announced Monday.

Three artists were named as finalists to design the statue. They will present their designs to Russell himself and the Bill Russell Legacy Committee in the fall.

“We are proud to play a role in

paying tribute to one of the greatest champions the sports world has ever seen,” said Stephen Pagliuca, Celtics co-owner and president of the Boston Celtics Shamrock Foundation.

The committee said the site was chosen because of its location near the Freedom Trail, Faneuil Hall and other tourist attractions. Officials said Russell, 77, and the committee approved the site for the statute to commemorate the former Celtic as a sports champion, human rights leader and youth mentoring advocate.

The committee said it will seek

private donations for the statue and will launch a public fundraising campaign in the fall to coincide with the selection of the winning design.

Russell led the Celtics to 11 league championships in 13 seasons.

President Barack Obama suggested Boston build a statue of Russell when he awarded him a Presidential Medal of Freedom in February.

Obama said he hoped one day children would look up to a statue “built not only to Bill Russell the player but Bill Russell the man.”

The announcement of the statue’s site is another episode in the once-

rocky relationship between Russell and the city of Boston. During his time with the Celtics, the West Monroe, La.-born Russell often complained about the city’s treatment of people of color and once called the city a “flea market of racism.”

When the Celtics retired his No. 6 jersey in 1972, Russell refused to attend the ceremony. But in recent years, Russell has visited Boston and has praised the city for changing. In 1999, Russell attended a ceremony by the Celtics to re-retire his jersey and received a long standing ovation that brought him to tears.