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CITY PAYS TRIBUTE TO BLACK CIVIL WAR SOLDIERS

The tiny island city of Folly Beach, South Carolina, paid trib- reenactors bow heads during prayer ceremony to remember ute to Union soldiers whose bones were found there more Black Union troops who were encamped, died and were than a century after the Civil War ended. Photo: Civil war buried there during Civil War. SEE PAGE 3.

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NEWS BRIEFS Thirteen healthy ways to honor Nelson Mandela Day REPORT: HATE CRIMES RISING IN CITY, STATE Hate crimes in the city were up by 27 percent last year compared to 2009.

According to a report by the state’s Division of Criminal Justice Services, there were 350 hate crimes reported in the city in 2010 — 75 more than the previous year.

That also accounts for half of the 699 hate crimes reported statewide.

Of those 350 reported crimes, 130 led to arrests.

Statewide, the number of reported bias crimes against individuals increased by just over a hundred.

Jews, Blacks, gays and Hispanics were the groups that were targeted the most by bias attackers.

Most hate crime incidents involved destruction, damage, or vandalism of property, followed by assault and intimidation.

ONE TEEN KILLED, ANOTHER TEEN WOUNDED IN BROOKLYN SHOOTING Police are searching for the person who shot two teenage boys in East Flatbush. Brooklyn Sunday night and killed one of them.

Authorities say the suspect walked up to a 13-year-old boy at the corner of East 39th Street and Avenue J shortly after 7 p.m. and shot him in the buttocks.

The suspect then walked up the street and shot 15-year-old Dequan Mercurius in the torso before running away.

Both victims were taken to the hospital, where Dequan was pronounced dead.

One man who lives in the area said the neighborhood is usually pretty safe.

“I’m very upset because in 1990 the first incident that happened, a taxi guy got shot at 48th Street over there, and from then there had never been an incident,” the neighbor said. “This is a very good block and when a situation like this happens, I get very upset.”

A gun was recovered near the scene, but it is not clear if it was the same one used in the shooting.

Anyone with information on the case should contact the Crime Stoppers hotline at 1-800-577-TIPS, or text CRIMES and then enter TIP577, or visit www.nypdcrimestoppers.com.

SCHUMER DEMANDS AIRLINES PAY REFUNDS FOR ALL LOST BAGGAGE Senator Charles Schumer says if airlines fail to reimburse passengers fees for lost bags, he will introduce a bill to force them.

A new regulation by the U.S. Department of Transportation that is set to take effect next month would refund passengers only if their bags are lost permanently.

However, the majority of the bags are eventually returned.

Schumer says airlines should still refund the fees, or else passengers continue to be unfairly charged in cases when the bags do not show up at the passenger’s destination.

In a letter, he called on major airlines to reimburse those passengers voluntarily.

Former South African President Nelson Mandela is 93 today, July 18.

July 18 is Mandela Day, an international day first recognized by the United Nations in 2009 in honor of Nobel Peace Prize Laureate and former South African president Nelson Mandela’s birthday, during which he not only turns 93 but asks everyone to help make the world better, healthier, and just.

On July 11 in South Africa, a group of motorcyclists began their seven-day expedition dubbed Bikers for Mandela Day in honor of the ethos of Mandela Day. The ride is a 2,200 km journey through Gauteng, the Free State, KwaZulu-Natal and Mpumalanga, with a crossover through Swaziland.

The Mandela Day slogan is “Take Action. Inspire change. Make every day a Mandela Day.” This year, he is asking you to set aside time (67 minutes to be exact, symbolizing his 67 years of service to the people of South Africa and the world) to do something positive for your community and for yourself, from cleaning up litter in your neighborhood to getting tested for HIV if you haven’t already.

Here are 13 healthy things from Mandela’s 67-item wish list, and he only suggests that you pick one:

1. Get in touch with your local HIV organizations and find out how you can help.

2. Help out at your local hospice, as staff members often need as much support as the patients.

3. Many terminally ill people have no one to speak to. Take a little time to have a chat and bring some sunshine into their lives.

4. Talk to your friends and family about HIV. 5. Get tested for HIV and encourage your partner to do so too.

6. Take a bag full of toys to a local hospital that has a children’s ward.

7. Take younger members of your family for a walk in the park.

8. Donate some medical supplies to a local community clinic.

9. Take someone you know, who can’t afford it, to get their eyes tested or their teeth checked.

10. Bake something for a support group of your choice.

11. Start a community garden to encourage healthy eating in your community.

12. Donate a wheelchair or guide dog, to someone in need.

13. Create a food parcel and give it to someone in need.

Worst heatwave in years grips Midwest, moving east

By JAMES B. KELLEHER CHICAGO — An oppressive and potentially deadly summertime mix of sizzling temperatures and high humidity baked a large swath of the country again on Sunday, pushing afternoon heat indexes in dozens of cities to dangerous levels.

Forecasters warned the heatwave would persist through much of the coming week and cautioned residents in more than three dozen states to take extra precautions.

The National Weather Service posted excessive heat warnings for much of the country’s midsection, including Illinois, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa, Missouri, Kansas, Nebraska, Oklahoma, as well as South and North Dakota, where forecasters predicted heat indexes could hit 115 degrees.

“This will likely be the most significant heat wave the region has experienced in at least the last five years,” the weather service said.

Cities especially hard hit by the heat included Rapid City, South Dakota,

Springfield, Illinois, and Minneapolis, Minnesota, where AccuWeather.com meteorologists were predicting longstanding high-temperature records would fall this week.

Kristina Pydynowski, a senior meteorologist at AccuWeather, predicted the heatwave will affect more than 40 states.

All the states will see temperatures of 90 degrees Fahrenheit or higher, she said, and “a large number of them will bake above 100 degrees for days on end.”

The scorching weather is the latest in a series of meteorological problems to best the Midwest in recent months.

The list includes the devastating tornado that ripped through Joplin, Missouri in late May, killing nearly 160 people and destroying more than 8,000 homes and other structures, as well as the ongoing flooding along the Missouri River, which has triggered weeks of evacuations and other emergency measures from Montana through Missouri.

While the heat wave is currently focused on the High Plains and Mississippi Valley, it is expected to press

east by the middle of the week, the weather service said.

In Chicago, where high heat and humidity warnings were twinned with an alert for poor air quality, temperatures were expected to hit 95 degrees in the afternoon, creating heat indexes as high as 105.

In Minnesota, the heat wave was expected to continue through Wednesday with possible thunderstorms in some parts. Highs in the Twin Cities area could reach 94 degrees on Sunday, and 97 degrees from Monday through Wednesday.

The weather service is projecting possibly six consecutive days of temperatures at 90 degrees or higher in the Twin Cities, the longest stretch to far this year, but short of records, meteorologist Jim Richardson said.

“Basically, today through Wednesday looks to be the warmest regime and humidity levels up there as well,” Richardson said.

By mid week many locations on the east coast will have heat index values approaching or exceeding 100 degrees, including Washington D.C., the weather service said.

Economy still affects access to basic needs

By WENDELL MARSH WASHINGTON — Americans’ access to basic needs, ranging from food and shelter to clean water and healthcare, has not significantly improved since the height of the recession, according to a Gallup study released on Friday.

The Basic Access Index, a 13-item measure of Americans’ access to basic necessities, was at 82.0 in June, only slightly better than the low point of 81.5 recorded in February and March of 2009.

In June 2008, before the recession, the score was 83.6.

“The continued lack of recovery in the Basic Access Index metrics overall in 2011 shows that Americans are still lagging behind prior years in terms of their access to the basic necessities that foster a healthy, productive life,” Dan Witters, a Gallup writer, said on its website.

The index is based on around 29,000 interviews conducted each month from January 2008 until June 2011.

The score’s most recent movement is mainly due to large decreases in

the percentage of adult Americans who have health insurance coverage, have a personal doctor, visited a dentist in the last year, and have had enough money to buy food at all times in the last year.

There have also been small decreases in the percentage of Americans with enough money to provide adequate shelter.

Access to affordable fresh fruits and vegetables have made a significant 2.6 percent gain since June 2008. However, the 91.1 percentage is down from June 2010 when that rate was 92.8.

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South Carolina beach city remembers Black Civil War soldiers

By HARRIET MCLEOD FOLLY BEACH, South Carolina — The tiny island city of Folly Beach, South Carolina, paid tribute to Union soldiers whose bones were found there more than a century after the Civil War ended.

Residents, visitors and Civil War re-enactors gathered at a riverside park on Friday for ceremonies that included rifle and cannon fire salutes, bagpipes and the unveiling of a historical marker to the soldiers’ unit, General Edward A. Wild’s “African Brigade.”

The unit camped here from 1863 to 1865. It consisted of the 55th Massachusetts Regiment, free men, and the First North Carolina Infantry, former slaves.

This year, states North and South are holding commemorations of the 150th anniversary of the Civil War, the first shots of which were fired nearby in Charleston harbor. The bloodiest war in American history claimed 620,000 American lives and

ended slavery in the United States.

In 1987, Civil War relic hunter Robert Bohrn was exploring a vacant lot on Folly Beach with a metal detector when he found Union uniform buttons and a skeleton. The remains of 19 soldiers ultimately were discovered in what turned out to have been the brigade cemetery.

“In a shovelful of sand, I touched a soldier,” Bohrn told the crowd.

“It’s one thing to find artifacts, but to find the men who lost them is an honor that I just cannot describe.”

Bohrn, 54, contacted the University of South Carolina’s archaeology and anthropology department to tell them he’d found bones. “They said ‘you sure it’s not a cow?’ I said ‘no, I’ve never seen a cow wear a Yankee uniform.’”

The soldiers were reburied with full military honors at Beaufort National Cemetery in 1989, but forensic artist Roy Paschal made casts of two skulls and created bronze busts of what the soldiers probably looked like. He displayed them on Friday.

Historians have records of who was buried in the brigade cemetery but identifying the men would be difficult, Paschal said.

Retired Washington, D.C. firefighter Louis Clark said identity is what drives him to re-enact the Civil War as a soldier in the 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Regiment, one of the first all-Black units, whose members fought and died in this area.

“I might have an answer about my ancestors that I haven’t found yet,” he said.” These soldiers all knew that they were going to raise their people to a higher level in life.

They had the consolation of knowing that future generations were going to receive the benefit of what they did.”

“The Civil War doesn’t mean anything to you, not yet,” re-enactor Melvin Turner, also with the 54th Massachusetts Regiment, told a group of preschoolers after the ceremonies.

“This happened 150 years ago.

But this is the uniform they wore.

See this medal? I’m brave.”

Joe McGill portrays a soldier in the 54th Massachusetts Regiment, one of the first all-Black units of the Civil War, at a Folly Beach, South Carolina park.

Study: Black men survive longer in prison than out

By GENEVRA PITTMAN Black men are half as likely to die at any given time if they’re in prison than if they aren’t, suggests a new study of North Carolina inmates.

The Black prisoners seemed to be especially protected against alcoholand drug-related deaths, as well as lethal accidents and certain chronic diseases.

But that pattern didn’t hold for white men, who on the whole were slightly more likely to die in prison than outside, according to findings published in Annals of Epidemiology.

Researchers say it’s not the first time a study has found lower death rates among certain groups of inmates — particularly disadvantaged people, who might get protection against violent injuries and murder.

“Ironically, prisons are often the only provider of medical care accessible by these underserved and vulnerable Americans,” said Hung-En Sung of the John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York.

“Typically, prison-based care is more comprehensive than what inmates have received prior to their admission,” Sung, who wasn’t involved in the new study, told Reuters Health by email.

The new study involved about 100,000 men between age 20 and 79 who were held in North Carolina prisons at some point between 1995 and 2005. Sixty percent of those men were Black.

Researchers linked prison and state health records to determine which of the inmates died, and of what causes, during their prison stay. Then they compared those figures with expected deaths in men of

the same age and race in the general population.

Less than one percent of men died during incarceration, and there was no difference between Black and white inmates. But outside prison walls, Blacks have a higher rate of death at any given age than whites.

“What’s very sad about this is that if we are able to all of a sudden equalize or diminish these health inequalities that you see by race inside a place like prison, it should also be that in places like a poor neighborhood we should be able to diminish these sort of inequities,” said Evelyn Patterson, who studies correctional facilities at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee.

“If it can be done (in prison), then certainly it can happen outside of prison,” Patterson, who wasn’t linked to the new work, told Reuters Health.

Poll: Most in U.S. want ban on smoking in public

By GRANT MCCOOL Most Americans want smoking banned in all public places but only 19 percent believe that cigarette smoking should be illegal in the United States, a Gallup poll said.

The Princeton, New Jersey-based pollster found in its July 7-10 telephone survey that for the first time since it initially asked the question in 2001, a majority of Americans, 59 percent, support a public ban on smoking.

Ten years ago, 39 percent were in favor, a percentage that was about the same when Gallup did a similar poll on the subject in 2007, according to the survey published on the website www.gallup.com.

The 19 percent of respondents who want a law against smoking is close to the 14 percent who told Gallup in

1990 they wanted smoking to be illegal.

“A majority of Americans now support the concept of a full smoking ban in all public places, marking a significant change from four years ago, when Gallup last measured this attitude,” the pollster said.

“Relatively few Americans support the idea of making all smoking illegal across the country, perhaps partly in recognition of the practical difficulties

involved in enforcing such a ban.”

Anti-smoking sentiment has risen in the United States in recent years.

New York, the country’s most populous city of 8 million, bans smoking cigarettes in almost all public places, including outdoor plazas and beaches.

The District of Columbia and 27 states have passed smoke-free laws.

Gallup said its July poll also questioned Americans about their cigarette smoking habits.

“Twenty-two percent of adult Americans reported having smoked cigarettes within the last week, a percentage that is essentially unchanged over the last five years,” Gallup said.

The results of the poll are based on a random sample of 1,016 people aged 18 and older living in all 50 U.S. states and the District of Columbia. Gallup said the maximum margin of sampling error is plus or minus 4 percentage points.

As in the general population, cancer and heart and blood vessel diseases were the most common cause of death among inmates — accounting for more than half of deaths.

White prisoners died of cardiovascular diseases as often as expected and died of cancer slightly more often than non-prisoners.

Black inmates, by contrast, were between 30 and 40 percent less likely to die of those causes than those who weren’t incarcerated. They were also less likely to die of diabetes, alcohol- and drug-related causes, airway diseases, accidents, suicide and murder than Black men not in prison.

All told, their risk of death at any age was only half that of men living in the community.

For white men, the overall death rate was slightly higher — by about 12 percent — than in the general population, with some of that attributed to higher rates of death from infection, including HIV and hepatitis. When the researchers broke prisoners up by age, death rates were only higher for white prisoners age 50 and older.

“For some populations, being in prison likely provides benefits in regards to access to healthcare and life expectancy,” said study author Dr. David Rosen, from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

But, he added in an email, “it’s important to remember that there are many possible negative consequences of imprisonment — for example, broken relationships, loss of employment opportunities, and greater entrenchment in criminal activity — that are not reflected in our study findings but nevertheless have an important influence on prisoners’ lives and their overall health.”

For Rosen, one of the main messages from the study is the need to make the world outside of prison walls safer, and to make sure people living there have adequate access to healthcare.

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The worst abuses of the Jim Crow era have been eliminated, but the moral outrage inspired by a personal encounter with bigotry remains the most powerful vehicle for conveying the injuries and indignities of racial inequality.

In the days since the great civil rights awakening, a revolution has occurred across America. Uptight suburbanites who couldn’t imagine socializing with, working for or marrying a “Negro,” have given way to a new and different genThat process has eration. cleared the way for a generation of Black Believers that fully accept that America means what it says when it promises to treat them - fairly.

Are these young African Americans naive about racism or basically more confident than their elders? Now, from a venerated and bestselling voice on American life comes a tremendously important book about one of the most significant issues in the history of our republic – America’s race relations.

The End of Anger” offers a fresh, original appraisal of our nation at this extraordinary time, tracking the diminishment of Black anger and investigating the “generational shifting of the American mind.” Weaving material from myriad interviews as well as two large and ambitious surveys that he conducted - one of Black Harvard MBAs and the other of graduates of A Better Chance, a program that has offered elite educational opportunities to thousands of young people of color since 1963 Cose offers an invaluable por-

trait of contemporary America in which all interviewees agreed that life is different for an African American than it is for a White American. Cose says that what is different is the significance of that discrimination in terms of their life possibilities.

Younger Blacks are more likely to believe that they can personally overcome institutional racism because there are ways to get around it that their parents didn’t have, and their grandparents could not even imagine.

Cose sketches a picture of steady historical and generational change in which growing optimism among Blacks is a natural response to waning racial bigotry among Whites.

In “The End of Anger,” Cose names each generation to reflect improving race relations: the Black “Fighters” of mid-century America were succeeded by the civil rights “Dreamers” of the late 20th century, who are now sharing power and prominence with the “Believers” of the new millennium. Cose’s collection of intergenerational interviews provides tangible evidence of the improvement in racial dynamics during the last 50 years: the contempt and blatant discrimination suffered by the “fighters” and “dreamers” giving way to the inter-racial relationships and expanded job opportunities of the Believers.

The refreshing, readable and comprehensive book cites “a sense of optimism among African Americans and in a interesting manner, attributes the increase of Black optimism to three factors: Barack Obama’s election; “generational evolution,” which sees each

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The refreshing, readable and comprehensive book provides a contemporary look at 21st-century America. “The End of Anger” is a paradoxical portrait of race in America, where educated, privileged Blacks are optimistic about their future, but for Blacks at the lower end of the economic spectrum, equality remains as elusive as ever. Cose matches statistics to analysis in this readable and comprehensive look at race in 21st-century America. “The End of Anger” provides insight on young Black movers and shakers like the former Tennessee congressman Harold E. Ford Jr. and the N.A.A.C.P. president, Benjamin Jealous.

Cose’s interviews with well— established leaders with relatively conventional platforms and constituencies produced predictable interviews and comments.

Does hard-core and blatant racism still exist? Read Cose’s offering as he states “I think we will for generations, and maybe forever, be dealing with the impact of racism. But racism as a phenomenon itself is fading, but I don’t think we’ll reach a point where we can talk about it and deal with it when it’s still a problem.”

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VA: Homeless veteran numbers drop by 55,000

By MOLLY O’TOOLE WASHINGTON — The number of homeless veterans on any given night has dropped by over 55,000, the Department of Veterans Affairs said on Friday, due in part to programs like the $46.2 million announced Thursday to provide permanent housing for 6,790 homeless veterans.

Despite a still-stagnant economy and increased troop drawdowns leading to potentially higher numbers of homeless veterans, VA Deputy Press Secretary Drew Brookie said the number of veterans that are homeless each night has dropped from an estimated 131,000 in 2009 to 75,700 as of June this year.

But continued pressure on this targeted group makes Thursday’s funding fundamental to the Obama Administration’s goal of ending veteran homelessness by 2015, according to Anne Oliva, director of the Department of Housing and Urban Develop-

Veterans line up to check in for the Winterhaven Homeless Veterans Stand Down at the VA Medical Center in Washington. ment’s homeless office.

“It’s a critical time,” Oliva told Reuters Friday. “We have veterans that are returning

from Iraq and Afghanistan that are potentially becoming homeless in higher numbers than they have in the past.

This new influx of people ... we want to try and get in front of it.”

The $46.2 million will go to

public housing agencies in all 50 states and the District of Columbia.

“We’re reducing the time it takes to get veterans into homes,” Brookie told Reuters Friday.

The funding is part of the Veterans Affairs Supportive Housing Program. HUD Secretary Shaun Donovan and VA Secretary Eric Shinseki announced the grants Thursday morning.

They are the first of two rounds of funding that will allocate the $50 million appropriated to fight veteran homelessness in Fiscal Year 2011.

Participating veterans in the HUD-VASH program generally contribute no more than 30 percent of their income toward rental of privately owned housing, according to the HUD. The program is coordinated by HUD, the VA and local housing authorities.

“Now we know what works,” Oliva said. “This is the time; we have the resources ... having one veteran homeless is too many.”

Accused Ohio serial killer, in video, admits sex with victims

By KIM PALMER CLEVELAND — Jurors in the capital murder trial of accused Ohio serial killer Anthony Sowell watched on Friday as he admitted in a videotaped interrogation to having sex with six women whose remains were found on his property.

In the video, jurors see a Sowell who is at times talkative and animated when discussing his house or relationship with ex-girlfriend

Lori Frazier, but who sometimes appears agitated when the subject turns to the remains found in his home.

Sowell, 51, is on trial accused of murdering 11 women and assaulting four others, and could face the death penalty. The bodies of the women were found in and around his house after police raided his home in 2009 to arrest him for rape and assault.

Sowell, in video shown to jurors, never confesses to hurting or killing any of the

women found at his house, although he does discuss meeting women and refers to dreams and fantasies as detectives ask him direct questions.

Sowell appears to concentrate as he tries to remember information about the women he met, what they were wearing, and their height and weight. He is seen rocking in his chair grabbing his head and repeating: “I don’t remember.”

At one point, two detec-

tives show Sowell a diagram outlining where they found six bodies and asking him repeatedly which body was “his first” and which “the last”.

“I don’t remember actually killing anyone,” Sowell says and tells the detectives he can’t distinguish the women he dates from the six bodies that had been found by then by police.

“I was separated ... I see flashes,” he says.

Throughout the interview, Sowell is asked if the

White House stands behind Obama on mother’s insurance

By WENDELL MARSH WASHINGTON — The story of President Barack Obama’s mother’s fight with insurance companies as she suffered from cancer is still compelling, despite a recent book’s suggestion it was embellished during the campaign, a White House spokesman said.

Janny Scott’s biography published in May about Ann Durham — “A Singular Woman: The Untold Story of Barack Obama’s Mother” —

questions the account Obama gave in his campaign and his effort to overhaul healthcare.

“This personal history of the President’s speaks powerfully to the impact of preexisting condition limits on insurance protection from health care costs,” White House spokesman Nicholas Papas said in an emailed statement on Friday.

The anecdote described a mother battling cancer only to have insurance companies insist she was ineligible for coverage because of a preexisting condition.

However Scott, who took a leave from the New York Times to write the book, said her research found that letters written in 1995 by Durham indicated most of her expenses were covered through her primary insurance provider and that the dispute arose from a supplementary disability claim to cover the cost of her deductible.

“As Ms. Scott’s account makes clear, the President’s mother incurred several hundred dollars in monthly uncovered medical expenses that she was relying on

insurance to pay,” Papas said.

“She first could not get a response from the insurance company, then was refused coverage.”

Papas did not challenge the book’s claims, but suggested there were only minor differences in details.

“We have not reviewed the letters or other material on which the author bases her account,” Papas said.

“The President has told this story based on his recollection of events that took place more than 15 years ago.”

women he describes meeting were “one of the six”. Never does Sowell hint that there were more remains to be found on his property.

Sowell admits to having sex with “the six” women but when Smith says, “If we took DNA from you will we find it on them?” Sowell responds, “I don’t want to do that.”

Sowell talks about meeting women and bringing them to his house. But he never gives any details about what happened to them or how their remains came to be in his house. “Maybe all I did was strangle ... that’s what I did,” he says.

He says, “I’m sorry, I’m sorry” over and over again as the interrogation goes on late into the night and the detectives offer to give him time to think.

Sowell agrees with detectives that he should help give the families of the victims closure but appears to have problems distinguishing fact from fantasy.

“I’m telling you the best I can,” he says.

At one point, Sowell seems to grasp what is going to happen to him, “My life is over,” he tells detectives.

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Court temporarily reinstates ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’

By ALEX DOBUZINSKIS LOS ANGELES — A federal appeals court has reversed itself and temporarily reinstated the “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy on gays in the military, but it has blocked the Pentagon from significant enforcement of the policy.

In an order issued late on Friday, a three-judge panel of the San Francisco-based 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals sided with a request by President Barack Obama’s administration to temporarily reinstate the policy against allowing openly gay men and women to serve in the mili-

tary.

The government has said it needs more time to prepare for an end to the controversial policy.

Obama signed legislation in December to repeal “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell,” but the bill gave the Pentagon an unlimited time frame to implement the change, leading up to a final “certification” of the repeal.

In the meantime, a separate challenge to the policy had advanced in the federal court system, where last week the 9th U.S. Circuit Court panel upheld a lowercourt decision declaring “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” unconstitutional and ordered the military to immediately

lift the ban.

In their latest ruling, the judges said that, based on information provided by government lawyers, senior military officials have made plans to end “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” and that certification will be presented to Obama by the end of July or in early August.

The judges’ three-page order also states that only one military service member has been discharged for

being openly gay since the passage of the repeal act in December.

The judges stated that “in order to provide this court with an opportunity to consider fully the issues presented in light of these previously undisclosed facts” it was temporarily reinstating the policy.

But the order also blocks the military “from investigating, penalizing or discharging anyone from the military

pursuant to the Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell policy.”

The policy dates from 1993, when then-President Bill Clinton signed the directive into law as a compromise with the military to end an outright ban on gay service members that had been in force for decades.

More than 13,000 men and women have been expelled from the military under the policy since it was instituted

by Clinton.

Court upholds use of airport body scanners

Rutgers University board halves recommended tuition hike

By JONATHAN ALLEN The board of New Jersey’s Rutgers University has slashed in half a recommended tuition hike, bucking the tide of historic tuition spikes at public colleges in cash-strapped states nationwide.

The board of governors at Rutgers, New Jersey’s state university, approved on Thursday the lowest undergraduate fee increase in more than two decades.

It rejected Rutgers President Richard McCormick’s call for a 3.1 percent increase in tuition and fees for instate undergraduates, cutting the increase to 1.6 percent.

That adds $195 to the 2011-12 bill compared to the previous year, meaning the typical student will now pay $10,104 in tuition and $2,651 in mandatory student fees.

At a time when public college tuition is rising by historic amounts nationwide, including a roughly 20 percent increase at California public universities for the coming year, the Rutgers move was heralded as a victory for students.

“Cutting it in half really does send a message to students that they really are trying to strike the right balance during these hard economic times,” Matt Cordeiro,

president of the Rutgers University Student Assembly, said in a telephone interview on Friday.

Cordeiro and his colleagues were eager to work with the president’s staff to find savings and other revenue sources to make up for the estimated $12 million difference in revenue than under the proposed budget.

Since the U.S. recession began in late 2007, at least 43 state governments have cut aid to state university systems, which typically make up the difference by increasing tuition.

At the University of Delaware this fall, for example, students will face the largest increase in tuition and fees in five years.

Cordeiro said responsibility to ensure that higher education remains affordable falls to New Jersey’s government.

State aid to Rutgers has dwindled to about the same level it was in 1994 without accounting for inflation, despite the student body growing by some 10,000 to 56,000 students in that time, a university spokesman said.

Calls to the office of Ralph Izzo, chairman of the Rutgers board of governors, were not returned on Friday.

A request to interview McCormick, the university president, about the board’s rejection of his proposed increase went unanswered Friday.

A Transportation Security Administration employee participates in a demonstration of new body scanner software in Arlington.

By JEREMY PELOFSKY WASHINGTON — A U.S. appeals court on Friday upheld the use of full-body scanners to screen air travelers, but said the Transportation Security Administration should have sought public comment before deploying them.

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit ruled that the machines, known as Advanced Imaging Technology (AIT), were not an unconstitutional search and declined to halt their use despite TSA’s failure to follow proper procedure.

Privacy advocates, who have strongly opposed the use of the machines, had argued their use constituted an illegal search under the U.S. Constitution’s Fourth Amendment. They also said TSA failed to provide public notice that it was deploying them and to seek public comment.

“Any passenger may optout of AIT screening in favor

of a pat-down, which allows him to decide which of the two options for detecting a concealed, nonmetallic weapon or explosive is least invasive,” the three-judge panel ruled.

The court agreed that the deployment of the scanners, which allow screeners to see under a traveler’s clothes in a bid to detect hidden explosives, was significant enough that the TSA should have sought public input.

“It is clear that by producing an image of the unclothed passenger, an AIT scanner intrudes upon his or her personal privacy in a way a magnetometer does not,” Judge Douglas Ginsburg wrote for the panel, adding that the agency should have provided notice and sought comment.

The court sent the matter back to the TSA for action.

The TSA accelerated deploying full-body scanners after a Nigerian man allegedly boarded a flight from Amsterdam to Detroit in December 2009 and tried to detonate a bomb hidden in his underwear. It failed to explode fully.

TSA has also begun testing software in which a generic outline of a person is shown rather than the revealing image.

TSA spokesman Greg Soule said they were reviewing the ruling and that the agency already seeks public input.

“This is the best technology currently available to detect nonmetallic improvised explosive devices hidden on a passenger, and is an important part of TSA’s multilayered security efforts,” he said.

Some air travelers have expressed anger at the new machines, saying they were too invasive and that the alternative physical patdowns were as well.

“Many Americans object to the airport body scanner program,” said Marc Rotenberg, president of the Electronic Privacy Information Center, which had challenged their use. “Now they will have an opportunity to express their views to the TSA and the agency must take their views into account as a matter of law.”

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NATO air strike kills fighter linked to Afghan hotel

By PAUL TAIT KABUL - NATO aircraft killed an insurgent leader linked to a deadly hotel attack in the Afghan capital this week, the coalition said on Thursday, a raid that raised questions about whether Afghan forces are ready for the looming security transition.

The Taliban claimed responsibility for the attack on the Intercontinental, one of two major hotels used by foreigners and Afghan government officials, a rare nighttime raid that began on Tuesday and ended five hours later with 12 killed.

However, the NATOled Security Assistance Force (ISAF) said the al Qaeda-linked Haqqani network had also been involved in the assault by nine suicide bombers and gunmen.

ISAF identified the Haqqani network leader killed in an air strike as Ismail Jan, who it described as a deputy to the senior Haqqani commander in Afghanistan, Haji Mali Khan.

It said he and “several Haqqani fighters” were killed in the air strike in the Gardez district of Paktia province south of Kabul on Wednesday.

“The Haqqani network, in conjunction with Taliban operatives, was responsible for the Tuesday night attack on the Kabul Intercontinental hotel which killed 12 people, including a provincial judge,” ISAF said in a statement.

The brazen raid came only a week after President Barack Obama announced a phased withdrawal of combat troops, with 10,000 to leave by the end of this year and another 23,000 by the end September 2012.

Obama’s announce-

ment preceded the start of a gradual transition of responsibility to Afghan forces from next month that will end with all foreign combat troops leaving Afghanistan by the end of 2014.

With that transition process to begin in seven areas next month, the hotel raid raised serious questions about whether Afghan forces, particularly the police, were ready to take over.

“It shows one of the concerns is that the Afghan security forces are growing in quantity, not in quality,” said Thomas Ruttig, codirector of the Kabulbased Afghanistan Analysts Network.

SNIPERS The attack ended when snipers on board a NATO helicopter killed the last three attackers fighting from the roof of the hotel.

Earlier television footage showed Afghan forces firing wildly into the air.

The New York Times reported on Thursday that some police had refused to fight back.

ISAF has been training members of the 126,000-strong Afghan National Police since 2009.

Afghan police, who will be at the front line of the security transition in villages and across towns Afghanistan, have long been viewed as inept and lagging behind the training of the betterequipped army, which had been the focus of training efforts since the Taliban were toppled in late 2001.

Violence has risen to record levels across Afghanistan over the past 18 months as NATO troops, especially U.S. forces, hit back against a growing insurgency, especially in the Taliban heartland in the south.

A quarterly report by the United Nations secretary-general to the Security Council about Afghanistan found that

the number of security incidents since March had risen 51 percent on the same period in 2010, with suicide attacks rising sharply.

Attacks in the Taliban heartland of Kandahar were especially worrying. “The city of Kandahar and its surroundings registered the majority of the incidents during the reporting period, with a quarter of the overall attacks and more than half of all assassinations recorded countrywide,” the report said.

But Ruttig said the attack also highlighted other problems confronting Afghanistan before the transition process, which also includes handing the running of civil institutions and projects over to Afghans, begins.

Not the least of those is the political paralysis that has gripped the country for months.

“The fact that neither NATO nor the Afghans were able to prevent it

says something — that transition needs to be something more than just security,” Ruttig said of the hotel attack.

“Security forces are only part of transition.

There also needs to be a strengthening of political institutions and, at the moment, the parliamentary crisis has brought politics to a standstill,” he told Reuters.

Last week, a special poll court set up by a decree by President Hamid Karzai overturned the results for a quarter of the seats in parliament from elections last year, effectively throwing out 62 MPs who had been declared winners.

The move, and the court itself, have been branded unconstitutional and illegal by Afghan and Western officials and observers.

Critics have said the court was set up by Karzai to further his own political agenda and silence opposition.

Russia: ar ming Lib ya r ebels is “cr ude violation”

By LUTFI ABUAUN TRIPOLI (Reuters) Russia said on Thursday France’s arms drop to rebels fighting Muammar Gaddafi violated a U.N. arms embargo on Libya, a stance that could deepen divisions within a NATO alliance that wants him ousted from power.

France on Wednesday became the first NATO country to openly acknowledge arming the insurgency against Gaddafi’s 41year rule that has become the bloodiest of the pro-democracy “Arab Spring” revolts buffeting the Middle East and North Africa.

Russia’s position is important also because it could raise the weapons airlift issue in the U.N. Security Council, where Moscow is a veto-wielding permanent member.

Governments —

including some of France’s allies in NATO — questioned whether the French move exceeded the terms of a U.N. resolution authorizing the use of force to protect Libyan civilians in the four-month-old conflict.

“We asked our French colleagues today whether reports that weapons from France were delivered to Libyan rebels correspond with reality,” Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said.

“If this is confirmed, it is a very crude violation of U.N. Security Council Resolution 1970,” he said. That resolution, adopted in February, imposed a comprehensive arms embargo on Libya.

France’s weapons airlift, while possibly increasing the insurgent threat to Gaddafi, highlights a dilemma for NATO. More than 90 days into its bombing cam-

paign, Gaddafi is still in power and no breakthrough is in sight, making some NATO members feel they should help the rebels more pro-actively, something the poorly armed insurgents have encouraged.

But if they do that, as in the case of France, they risk fracturing the cohesion of the international coalition because of differences over how far to go in trying to topple Gaddafi.

Even before news of the French arms supply emerged, fissures were emerging in the coalition with some members voicing frustration about the high cost, civilian casualties, and the elusiveness of a military victory.

Gaddafi says the NATO campaign is an act of colonial aggression aimed at stealing the North African state’s oil and says NATO’s U.N.-mandated justification for its campaign — to protect

Libyan civilians from attack — is spurious.

IMMINENT THREAT France said on Wednesday it did not break the embargo by parachuting weapons to the rebels because the arms were needed to defend civilians who were in imminent danger of being overrun by Gaddafi’s forces.

NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen made clear on Thursday the airlift was a unilateral French initiative. Asked by reporters on a visit to Vienna if NATO had been involved, he answered: “No.” “As regards compliance with the U.N. Security Council resolution, it is for the U.N. sanctions committee to determine that,” Rasmussen said.

In the rebel-held city of Misrata, a city about 200 km (130 miles) east of Tripoli that has been bombarded for months

by Gaddafi’s security forces, six rockets land-

ed early on Thursday near the oil refinery and port.

A Reuters journalist in Misrata reported no casualties.

Britain’s military said its Apache helicopters had attacked a government checkpoint and two military vehicles near Khoms, on the Mediterranean coast between Misrata and Tripoli.

Insurgents in the area say Gaddafi’s forces are massing, and bringing up weapons, to quell an uprising in the nearby town of Zlitan. Rebels inside Zlitan said they mounted a raid on pro-Gaddafi positions on Wednesday night. “(We) carried out a violent attack last night on checkpoints ... and exchanged gunfire, killing a number of soldiers,” a rebel spokesman, who identified himself as Mabrouk, told Reuters from the town.

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Le Figaro newspaper said France had parachuted rocket launchers, assault rifles and anti-tank missiles into the Western Mountains region, southwest of Tripoli, in early June. A military spokesman later confirmed delivery of arms.

Despite the diplomatic storm, the rebels encouraged more arms deliveries.

“Giving (us) weapons we will be able to decide the battle more quickly, so that we can shed as little blood as possible,” senior rebel figure Mahmoud Jibril told a news conference in Vienna.

The conflict has halted oil exports from Libya, helping push up world oil prices to near $112 per barrel.

Jibril said it may take years for oil exports to resume from the Arab North African state.

“No, no oil is being sold.

A lot of the oil well system was destroyed, especially in the east.”

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Mass pro-reform protests planned in Egypt

An Egyptian protester rests in his tent at a camp set-up in Cairo's Tahrir Square on July 12. Thousands of protesters have rallied across Egypt, capping a week of nationwide sit-ins to demand political change as anger grows with the military rulers over the slow pace of reform.

The protesters, who

By SAMER AL- Mubarak was toppled — to respond to their have dubbed the rallies ATRUSH demands. as the “Friday of the In Cairo, thousands Final Warning,” are CAIRO - of demonstrators calling for a defined and Thousands of pro- crowded into Tahrir transparent plan for the testers rallied Square, the epicentre of transition, criticising across Egypt on the protest movement the military junta for overthrew their absolute grip on Friday, capping a that week of nationwide Mubarak in February power. where hundreds The cabinet said it sit-ins to demand and have been staging a sit- had sent ambulances political change as in for a week. and medics to the anger grows with A preacher who gave square to tend to prothe military rulers the sermon at the testers on hunger over the slow pace Friday noon prayer in strike. the square called for Among the key of reform.

More than 28 move- speedy trials of police- demands are an end to ments called for the ral- men responsible for the military trials of civillies to pressure the deaths of protesters ians, the redistribution Supreme Council of the during the 18-day of wealth and the open Armed Forces (SCAF) — revolt and led a funeral and speedy trials of forwhich took power when prayer for them, the mer regime officials.

Protesters also want president Hosni official MENA news agency reported. police accused of tortur-

An Egyptian protester rests in his tent at a camp set-up in Cairo's Tahrir Square on July 12. Thousands of protesters have rallied across Egypt, capping a week of nationwide sit-ins to demand political change as anger grows with the military rulers over the slow pace of reform. ing and killing protest- military council to offer “Our demands are ers — whether before or some concessions in a the same but the condiduring the January 25 bid to placate the pro- tions are different, since uprising — to be testers. we reject the speeches of brought to justice.

Prime Minister the prime minister and In the canal city of Essam Sharaf ordered SCAF,” said Bola Abdou, Suez, hundreds of pro- the sacking of senior 23, who was camping in testers chanted “Suez police officers accused Cairo’s Tahrir Square. has toppled the Field of abuse and Interior “We want (our Marshall (Hussein Minister Mansur demands) taken into Tantawi),” referring to Essawy announced a account, so we will stay the country’s de facto complete restructuring in the square,” said ruler and Mubarak of his department.

Ibrahim Abul Kheir, 25, defence minister for two On Wednesday, after a member of the April 6 decades. a lengthy silence, the protest movement.

Hundreds also military council insisted Some protesters have marched in the it supported the revolu- called for a march to Mediterranean coastal tion and said it would leave from the square, city of Alexandria, an continue to support the but others feel that AFP photographer goals of the revolution. would leave those left reported.

But the concessions behind vulnerable to The mounting ten- fell flat with protesters, attack by old regime sion has prompted both who labelled them as loyalists or hired thugs. the government and the empty rhetoric.

S.Africa’s Zuma calls for unity in ANC President Jacob Zuma on Friday called for unity in South Africa in the run-up to the 100th anniversary celebrations for his ruling African National Congress.

The ANC is Africa’s oldest liberation movement, founded on January 8, 1912, originally to unite blacks in challenging oppression

by South Africa’s white rulers.

Zuma highlighted the party’s evolution, stressing its moves to include whites, Indians and mixed-raced “coloureds” as part of

the struggle to end the racist apartheid rule.

“The question of unity in the ANC is as old as the ANC itself,” Zuma told a gathering of top party brass at Johannesburg’s Constitution Hill, once a prison that held Nelson Mandela and now home to the nation’s highest court.

“The ANC did not look at the colour of person, but their commitment to a just, free, non-racial, non-sexist and democratic South Africa,” Zuma said.

“Together we must celebrate the non-racial character of the ANC and entrench it further in our country.”

The party also unveiled a new logo for the ANC’s centenary, with 10 figures in black, green and yellow — the colours of the party — waving the ANC flag above the words “Unity in Diversity”.

The ANC is planning celebrations for January 8 in Bloemfontein, the city where the party was founded, followed by a year of concerts, speeches and memorials to the worst atrocities of the apartheid regime.

The ANC has run South Africa since the first all-race elections in 1994 brought Mandela

to the presidency.

As a ruling party, the ANC is increasingly under scrutiny over claims of corruption and nepotism, while some leaders have made remarks that offended white Afrikaners, descended from the first European settlers.

But Zuma insisted that the party remains committed to nonracialism.

“What should be judged is what the organisation says,” Zuma said. “If one person or two make some statements that are out of the main context, it doesn’t necessarily mean that mean that we have changed policy.”

President Jacob Zuma has called for unity in South Africa in the run-up to the 100th anniversary celebrations for his ruling African National Congress. The ANC is Africa's oldest liberation movement, founded on January 8, 1912, originally to unite Blacks in challenging oppression by South Africa's white rulers.

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Somalia faces drought ‘catastrophe’

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f voters registered for 30M Congo November elections KINSHASA, Congo - An electoral official says more than 30 million people in Congo are now registered to vote in November’s crucial elections.

New internally displaced families from southern Somalia arrive in Mogadishu seeking for food and shelter on July 15. Drought-hit Somalia is stretching relief workers to their limits and is now facing a fully-fledged humanitarian catastrophe, aid agencies have warned MOGADISHU, Somalia - has described as the worst der into Kenya after assessments found “alarmingly high Drought-hit Somalia is drought in decades.

Many too have risked conflict rates of malnutrition.” stretching relief workers by fleeing into Somalia’s capital “I expected to find a difficult to their limits and is now Mogadishu in a desperate search situation but not a catastrophic facing a fully-fledged for aid. one,” said Anita Sackl, who coorhumanitarian catastrophe, Food prices in Somalia have dinates nutritional assessments aid agencies warned on soared by 270 percent in a year, for MSF. he said.

“The majority of new arrivals Friday.

“We see people coming into actually fled because they had “We are no longer talking about a humanitarian crisis or a Mogadishu in a state that we nothing to eat, not just because humanitarian emergency,” said have not seen in this form their country has been at war Jens Oppermann, the country before,” Oppermann added, for decades,” she added.

Refugees are waiting for 40 director of Action Against describing “unimaginable sufHunger (Action Contre La Faim, fering beyond the scale of what days before being registered, is acceptable.” receiving only two days of ACF).

“We are not able to provide rations for that period, MSF said “We are seeing this as a humanitarian catastrophe,” he enough assistance to everyone,” in a statement. he said.

In Kenya’s Dadaab refugee told AFP. ACF has been working in camp, 37.7 percent of children Thousands of Somalis have under five checked by MSF fled in recent months to neigh- Somalia since 1992.

Meanwhile Doctors without teams were suffering from acute bouring Ethiopia and Kenya in search of food and water, with Borders (MSF) said they were malnutrition, with 17.5 per cent many dying along the way, as boosting efforts to support of those facing a “high risk of the region suffers what the UN refugees fleeing across the bor- death.”

Pirates demand compensation from S. Korean navy

By ABDI GULED MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) - Somali pirates holding South Korean hostages demanded on Friday that the South Korean government release pirate prisoners and pay compensation for a commando raid that killed several pirates earlier this year.

The attempt to use hostages to get concessions directly from their governments is a new trend, following demands made to the Indian government in April.

Hassan Abdi, one of the pirates holding 25 crew aboard the MV Gemini, told The Associated Press that his group wants compensation for eight pirates killed in February when South Korean commandos stormed a ship and freed 21 hostages.

Abdi also he wants pirates being held prisoner in South Korea to be released.

“First, we want the South Korean government to change its foolish treatment of us and come with a better approach toward us,” he said in a statement read to the AP.

“Second, we want compensation from them because they killed our brothers and they also have to release others in their jails. After that we may reconsider holding their nationals in our hands,” he said.

The MV Gemini was hijacked off the Kenyan coast in May. Four of the crew are South Korean.

South Korean Foreign Ministry officials declined to comment but South Korea’s Yonhap news agency quoted a government official saying that negotiating with pirates was out of the

question and suspects on trial cannot be released. Yonhap said the official spoke on condition of anonymity.

For the past two years, pirates have been holding hundreds of hostages at any one time. Some are from nations like the Philippines, which does not have a naval presence off the East African coast. But many hostages are Indian, a country which has taken an active role in anti-piracy operations.

In April, pirates released the MV Asphalt Venture but

Daniel Ngoy Mulunda, president of the Independent National Electoral Commission, said Friday that officials will consider whether to further extend enrollment again.

The opposition wants registration pushed back a few more days, saying that people haven’t been given enough time.

Congo’s pivotal presidential and parliamentary elections are slated for the end of November.

President Joseph Kabila first took office after his father was assassinated in 2001 and was later elected in 2006 in the country’s first democratic election.

The vast, mineral-rich Central African nation was ravaged by years of dictatorship and civil war.

Sect wounds 7 in besieged north Nigeria city MAIDUGURI, Nigeria - A Nigerian official says suspected members of a radical Muslim sect have wounded seven civilians in a car-bombing in the country’s restive northeast.

Col. Victor Ebhaleme says assailants from the Boko Haram sect threw a bomb at a police patrol car in Maiduguri on Friday morning.

Boko Haram is responsible for a rash of killings targeting security officers, local leaders and clerics, but its attacks also kill bystanders.

Soldiers deployed to the area to rein in the group are also accused of killing civilians.

Thousands of residents have moved out of the area this week.

Boko Haram wants the strict implementation of Shariah law in northern Nigeria.

South African scientists tracking penguins JOHANNESBURG - South African scientists are fitting young penguins raised by humans with satellite transmitters so they can track them once released into the wild, hoping to gather information that might one day lead to new breeding colonies of the endangered birds.

Researchers attached a transmitter the size of a matchbox to a 10-week-old, 3-kilogram (6.6pound) African penguin Friday. The bird named Richie will be given a week to get used to swimming in a pool with the 30-gram (1-ounce) device before he’s released into the ocean from the southern tip of Africa. The first penguin in the project was released last month. A total of five penguins are to be released over a few months.

The numbers of African penguins have plummeted to 60,000 from up to 4 million in the early 1900s.

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Chavez talks about his medical treatment C A R A C A S , Venezuela — Venezuela´s president Hugo Chavez said that his treatment after the recent removal of a tumour will continue with chemotherapy and radiotherapy sessions.

“After the tumour was removed, recovery reached its top level. We are now going into a second stage and perhaps into a third that will probably include procedures like radiotherapy and chemotherapy to defend my body from threatening malignant cells,” said the president during a phone conversation

with VTV television.

“However, I am not sure about it yet; it all depends on the medical evaluation,” Chavez added, as he admitted that the coming stage of the treatment could be “somewhat uncomfortable,” though he underscored his faith in overcoming any difficulty.

“The medical evaluations should continue because the threat of expansion is latent.

These evaluations go organ by organ and I must not give further details,” he said.

Chavez (56) underwent surgery in Havana, Cuba, to remove a cancerous tumour from the pelvic

area. On Wednesday, the head of state did not want to give more details about the zone on his body where the tumour was found, though he rejected that it was in his colon or his stomach, as some media have speculated.

“They are speculating about me having the colon cut in four pieces, or that it is my stomach, but I have nothing like that and I think they must have understood that from the activities I have been doing in this stage. It is cancer but not as bad as many would like it to be,” he said.

Chavez was able to return to Venezuela on

July 4, but he still needs rigorous medical treatment that limits his public appearances and his working agenda.

“I had this big tumour. When I saw its image, I said: “My God! It was the size of a baseball,” said Chavez as he admitted that when he was diagnosed cancer he was assaulted by the ghosts of death. “When you are told the word cancer, you link it to the end,” he said and went on to explain that he lost 14 kilos last month. “But my body is stronger than I though.”

Chavez, who expects to run for presidential elections in 2012 and

have a third six-year term of office, said that his disease has helped him admit “fundamental mistakes” and look at life from a different view.

“I feel better than ever. We are in resurrection time.

This human being is now undergoing a spiritual renovation process,” he said.

The Venezuelan president said he is learning to “delegate” and let his ministers act on their own and work in an independent manner.

“I do not consider myself indispensable.

Here, we have a process unfolding and everyone has a role to play,” the president explained.

However, he reiterated that he is in “the rearguard, but commanding” his team.

Chavez admitted that he was killing himself by personally attending to subjects from the vital state issues to the repair of a road.

“I was killing myself; I would eat everything, I used to weigh over 100 kilos and I carried three phones with me.

If I saw something interesting on TV I would call a minister (...) the people would give me papers requesting a home. It was permanent anguish that did not even allow me breathe and it was my own fault,” he concluded.

Police presence to be more visible in Trinidad and Tobago PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad — The government of Trinidad and Tobago is moving to have a more visible presence of police officers in the communities and on the streets as part of the formal introduction of the 21st Policing Initiative, which was introduced in the Western Division a few months ago.

Addressing a post cabinet press confer-

ence, Minister of National Security Brigadier John Sandy said the concept “intends to ensure the entire citizenry feel more comfortable with a police presence so we have a crime free society...where victims do not feel like perpetrators”.

He outlined several elements of the programme, which includes training and instilling integrity, accountability and better communication skills to police officers.

He said the govern-

ment is hoping that the initiative brings about a more proactive police service.

He said a more visible presence on the streets and communities meant police officers would be able to “respond to incidents quicker having regard to fact that the information would be relayed to them while they are on the beat.

And they can investigate crimes quicker because they are on specific locations.”

He said the model was one of efficiency and effectiveness in the

service. He said it was also about citizens being able to regain trust in police officers.

He said it was a main concern of his in terms of the “relations between citizens and the police and we must be aware and accept the fact that the police alone cannot solve crime”.

He said he had gotten feedback from citizens that they wanted to see more police officers to have a sense of comfort.

The minister admitted some police officers

had reservations about the initiative, but encouraged them to speak about their concerns and communicate to find solutions. He said there would be teething problems and resistance to change and to doing things differently, hence the reason why the initiative was extended to six months to “explore all the flaws before exporting it to other Divisions”.

He said he didn’t see the current industrial action by police officers as a stumbling block to

the programme, noting that besides the five percent offer police officers were enjoying other areas of remuneration.

The minister also announced that changing the police uniform was being explored so that it conformed to “our climate, and there be standardization of equipment, weapons and vehicles”.

He said there were also other strategies in the fight against crime to be considered, but which he could not speak about.

OAS presents new report on the progress of drug control in the Americas WASHINGTON — The Inter-American Drug Abuse Control Commission (CICAD) of the Organization of American States (OAS) on Thursday published its latest report on the progress of drug control in the region, containing 350 recommendations for countries facing this problem, of which 38 percent involve control measures, 28 percent demand reduction, 24 percent supply reduction, and 17 the strengthening of institutions.

The report recommends countries to strengthen their anti-drug policies in the following areas: controlling illicit traffic, pharmaceutical products, money laundering, and ratifying international conventions recommended by the Multilateral Evaluation Mechanism (MEM); the implementation of programs of prevention and drug abuse, in addition to evaluating and expanding coverage of existing programs.

Furthermore, member states are advised to establish national registries of public officials formally accused and sentenced for illicitly trafficking in drugs.

“This new MEM report and above all the recommenda-

tions contained in it are an essential reference for all those involved in designing drug policies in our Hemisphere,” OAS Secretary General José Miguel Insulza said.

“The inter-pares evaluation mechanism gives force and legitimacy to the MEM, and constitutes an excellent example of how the OAS decisively contributes to finding substantive meeting points for countries to solve the problems they face and that are of concern to our people, and specifically in this phenomenon that causes so much harm to countries of the region,” the head of the hemispheric organization added.

The OAS secretary for multidimensional security, Adam Blackwell, who oversees the workings of the CICAD, highlighted that “the Commission’s report highlights the need to face one of the weakest points in most of the countries of the region, and that is controlling the sale of drugs through the Internet.”

Blackwell added on this important point that the CICAD recommends “the implementation of research and training activities related to the prevention and control of illicit trafficking in pharmaceutical products and other drugs on the Internet that allow for the identification of the national needs at

the normative and operative levels.”

The document also highlights that, according to epidemiological studies conducted by 33 countries between 2006 and 2009, marihuana is, after alcohol and tobacco, the drug of highest consumption in the Hemisphere by the population in general, and particularly the young population.

Regarding supply reduction, the report indicates that during 2006 to 2008, “the total number of illegal drug laboratories rises to 37,900, of which more than 27,000 correspond to drugs of organic origin (mainly cocaine) and more than 10,000 correspond to synthetic drugs (mainly methamphetamines).”

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UN mission in Haiti deploys troops in slums APAP - 22 hrs ago tweet9 Email Print PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) - A United Nations spokeswoman says the world body’s peacekeeping mission in Haiti has deployed troops to several slums in Port-au-Prince to crack down on gangs and criminals.

Barbara Mertz of the U.N. peacekeeping mission in Haiti says “Operation Phoenix” will use more than 2,100 soldiers to catch criminals in Cite Soleil, Bel-Air and Martissant.

All three slums are longtime havens for gang activity.

The operation announced Thursday is being supported by U.N. police and Haiti’s National Police. It is intended to last for several days.

Once the U.N. force secures the three neighborhoods, the troops plan to clear the streets of debris and garbage, set up health care clinics, and repair roads.

Construction workers work at a construction site in Port-au-Prince July 12, 2011. Two months after taking office with a promise to "wake up" Haiti, President Michel Martelly is battling to install a new government and the urgent task of rebuilding from last year's earthquake is on hold. A parliament dominated by supporters of the country's previous president last month rejected Martelly's first pick for premier. Lawmakers are also opposing his second selection - Bernard Gousse, a former justice minister.

Mayhem rivals border in Mexico’s 3rd-largest city

By OLGA R. RODRIGUEZ MONTERREY, Mexico - The northern city of Monterrey, once Mexico’s symbol of development and prosperity, is fast becoming a new Ciudad Juarez.

Drug-related murders this year are on pace to double last year’s and triple those of the year before in the once-tranquil industrial hub. In recent weeks a tortured, screaming teenager was hung alive from a bridge.

Two of the governor’s bodyguards were dismembered and dumped with messages threatening the state leader.

Last week, gunmen killed 20 people in a bar where Ziplock bags of drugs were found, the largest mass murder to date in the metro area of 4 million people. The toll continued this week: 14 were killed in separate hits on Wednesday, eight more

on Thursday.

Officials say two cartels turned the city upside down practically overnight when they split in early 2010 and are trying to outdo each other with grisly displays.

Security officials acknowledge they don’t know how much worse it will get.

“As long as there are consumers and a critical mass of young people for these gangs to recruit, it’s hard to imagine the number (of killings) will go down,” said Jorge Domene, state security spokesman for Nuevo Leon state, where Monterrey is located.

The scale of the killings has rarely been seen in Mexico outside border cities such Juarez, Tijuana and Nuevo Laredo, the main gateways for drugs passing into the United States that have seen dramatic surges of violence since President Felipe Calderon intensi-

fied Mexico’s crackdown on organized crime in 2006.

And fear is starting to fray the social order.

Concern over violence has caused enrollment to drop at the prestigious home campus of Mexico’s top private university, the Technology Institute of Monterrey, which has had to lay off some employees.

The chamber of industry in a brash, proud city where the annual income per capita is double the national average didn’t want to talk to The Associated Press about the impact of violence on business, though some executives acknowledge they’ve had to spend more on security.

Shirt factory Gilberto Marcos, a member of a citizens’ council on security, said some businesses have clearly faced extortion from drug gangs, though few

cases are reported.

The Gulf Cartel once controlled drug running through Monterry, and Mexico’s third-largest city had a reputation as a quiet, safe place. Where drug traffickers were present, they avoided creating problems, hiding their families amid neighborhoods of corporate executives.

The violence exploded when the Zetas broke away from the Gulf Cartel, creating a struggle for control of the area. The fight has left more than 1,000 people dead so far this year in Nuevo Leon state, compared to 828 in 2010 and 267 in 2009.

In wealthier parts of the area, restaurants are still packed and people still jog and walk their dogs at night. In poorer suburbs, though, entire blocks have been held up by gunmen and young people snatched off the streets.

Top cop disowns police comment tying gays to crime KINGSTON, Jamaica - Jamaica’s police force rejects a statement made by a senior police commander portraying homosexuals as the primary organizers of lottery scams, the Caribbean’s island’s top cop said Thursday.

Commissioner Owen Ellington expressed regret “for any concern, anxiety and any appearance of unfair labeling which may have been construed” from Senior Superintendent Fitz Bailey’s assertion on a TV news program that young homosexual men were often behind the criminal scams.

The Jamaica Constabulary Force “has no policy of singling out any particular social grouping for special police attention,” Ellington said.

Dane Lewis, head of the Jamaica Forum for Lesbians, All-Sexuals and Gays, commended Ellington for the retraction.

He expressed hope that the police force “will use this experience as an opportunity as a guide to how it frames issues” regarding gays, “especially those who are victims of crimes and are at risk of violence.”

Lewis’ group and others called Bailey’s statement earlier this week incendiary and said they feared it could perpetuate prejudice, harassment and violence against gays.

Earlier in the week, Bailey told RJR News that he felt no need to apologize, asserting his statement about the lottery schemes was based on fact.

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Clear Channel taps Nicki Minaj to headline ‘I HeartRadio’ music fest

One Thought - One Humanity

For the conclusions of these stories check out the July 14th - July 20th, 2011 issue of The New American, which hits newsstands every Thursday For the past several years Crystal Nicole has been working behind the scenes penning songs for Beyonce, Rihanna, Mariah Carey, Brandy, Monica and others. Now with a brand new record deal, the Atlanta native is following the same successful path as Ne-Yo and Keri Hilson transitioning from songwriter to artist. Eariler this year, Crystal Nicole won a Grammy Award for writing Rihanna’s “Only Girl (In the World)” featured on the ‘Loud’ album. After learning the business and working with award winning artists and producers, Crystal Nicole moves into the spotlight with the release of her first single “Pinch Me.” With the launch of her artist career she is using her voice to talk about the importance of having a “voice against domestic violence.”

The plot between Bow Wow and the mother of his child, video model Joie Chavis, thickens as more drama is revealed to the world. According to TMZ, Joie decided to exclude Bow Wow’s name from the birth certificate of their child, Shai, since he did not show up to the hospital during the birth of their daughter after Joie had to undergo an emergency c-section back in April. In fact, it is reported that Bow Wow didn’t show up until six days after the baby was born! Joie is also stating that Bow Wow is a fake, and is acting like he’s a devoted dad from the open letter he wrote to his fans earlier this week but was absent during their daughter’s birth.

Although she obvisouly seems to have ill feelings toward the rapper, it’s reported that Joie is willing to move on and let the courts name Bow Wow as baby Shai’s father,

legally, although that will be up to the discretion of the judge.

American Idol alum Jordin Sparks, who is currently touring with the Backstreet Boys and New Kids on the Block, says she feels “lucky” that she continues to find success in her career. The 21year-old tells Parade, “”I just feel lucky that five years later I’m still touring and people still want to talk to me. For me, I just keep going and say yes to things that I think are going to be really important.”

Sparks also says having a good foundation and picking the right songs has helped her longevity. “I don’t want to get bogged down saying yes to things just because I can,” she says. “I want it to mean something. Trying to keep your head on straight and having a good foundation and base back at home and around you is key.”

Five classic albums created by Tupac Shakur are being rereleased digitally for the first time ever, representatives for the late rapper’s family confirmed. Tupac’s first three solo albums are being made available digitally for sale on iTunes for the first time. The albums that are being re-released include 2Pacalypse Now, which produced the singles “Brenda’s Got A Baby” and “Trapped.” His second album, Strictly For My N.I.G.G.A.Z., will also be digitally rereleased. That album produced the singles “Holler If You Hear Me” and one of Tupac’s best-known songs, “I Get Around.” Other albums hitting the Internet for the first time include Thug Life - Volume 1, Me Against The World and R U Still Down?. In related news, Tupac’s Greatest Hits album has official-

ly been certified Diamond by the RIAA, having sold over 10 million copies since its original release on November 24, 1998.

Michelle Williams is making a musical comeback with her new song “Love Gun.” Much like her Destiny’s Child counterpart Kelly Rowland, Michelle has gone the techno-pop route on this tune. It’s been three years since her last solo album was released and “Love Gun” is quite different from it’s preceding material. With heavy synths and Casio keyboard-striking, the upbeat record is for the lucky in love. “My album will be ‘inspirational pop.’ Think of Katy Perry’s ‘Firework’ or Natasha Bedingfeld’s ‘Unwritten.’ I want to give people a message of hope while at the same time get them moving with dance inspired tracks.”

Andre 3000 was originally tapped to play Jimi Hendrix in a biopic last year, but it’s been silent on the news front since. But according to actress Hayley Atwell, the Outkast member is still slated to be in the flick. Speaking with Esquire, the Captain America star explained that Three Stacks is signed on to appear as Hendrix in the independent flick.

“Next up is possibly a Jimi Hendrix biopic — an independent film with Andre 3000 from OutKast playing Jimi Hendrix. But I don’t know, really.

The Atwell team is like, Let’s just wait and see,” she said. Andre previously appeared in the 2008 flick Semi-Pro, though has relatively quiet since then. He is supposedly working on a solo album to be released this year in anticipation of an Outkast LP to drop in 2012.

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to create their own listening experience.

“Building up to the festival, we will be presenting the biggest national promotion in radio history,” said John Hogan, President and CEO of Clear Channel Radio. “All 850 Clear Channel radio stations, spanning diverse music formats, introduced millions of listeners across the country to this historic music event. The majority of our stations will also feature exclusive radio and digital content including exclusive artist interviews and ticket giveaways. The announcement of the event alone has set new records.

It’s the first announcement ever to roadblock all Clear Channel Radio platforms and the teasers and the announcement have reached an estimated 100 million people.”

The IHeartRadio Festival will take place at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas from September 23rd-24th.

Rapper Nicki Minaj will be one of a number of celebrities who are slated to perform during Clear Channel Radio’s “IHeartRadio Music Festival.”

Hollywood A–Lister Ryan Seacrest is hosting the two-day festival, which also include performances by Bruno Mars, The Black Eyed Peas, Jennifer Lopez, Alicia Keys, Lady Gaga, Kelly Clarkson, Sublime, John Mayer, Usher and Sting.

The artists will appear on stage at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas this September, where the festival will also serve to launch clear channels IHeartRadio digital product.

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Flu vaccine production to double by 2015, WHO says

By STEPHANIE NEBEHAY GENEVA — Global production of seasonal flu vaccine is expected to double to 1.7 billion doses by 2015, with 11 new manufacturers coming onstream in developing countries, the World Health Organization (WHO) said.

If a new influenza pandemic erupts, the world’s projected 37 vaccine makers could potentially triple their annual production of trivalent seasonal vaccine to make 5.4 billion doses of pandemic vaccine, the United Nations agency said.

But the actual amount would depend on the yield of the virus grown in the egg — disappointingly low for H1N1 — and how much adjuvant — which stretches the active ingredient — is used in pandemic vaccine, experts said.

“The estimate is by 2015, if all projects that are currently going on get to successful

implementation, we would have something around 1.7 billion doses of seasonal vaccine,” WHO assistant director-general Marie-Paule Kieny told a briefing after experts held three-day talks.

“In making pandemic vaccine you have a multiplication by a factor of three.”

The WHO came under fire during the H1N1 pandemic in 2009-2010, the world’s first pandemic in 40 years, for slow distribution of vaccines in poor countries and allegations of drug industry influence on its decisionmaking.

“What we are continuing to do is to make sure that not only will there be more pandemic vaccine if need be, but also that the sites where these vaccines will be produced will be more diverse geographically and more populations of the world will have earlier access to pandemic vaccine,” Kieny said.

An independent review panel which issued a report earlier this year on WHO’s handling of the emergency

said that the world remained ill-prepared for a major pandemic.

“We do not currently have the capacity to produce in a timely way sufficient vaccine to protect the world’s population in the face of a global,

severe influenza pandemic,” Dr. Harvey Fineberg, an American heading that panel, said on Thursday.

GlaxoSmithKline and Sanofi are among major producers of influenza vaccines.

“We have to take influenza

vaccine as a tool to combat influenza pandemic, not just a tool to maximize profit,” said Dr. Pathom Sawanpanyalert, Thailand’s chair of the WHO’s Global Action Plan for Influenza Vaccines, the experts group that met.

U.S. pediatrician feels heat over child obesity idea

By LAUREN KEIPER BOSTON — Boston pediatrician David Ludwig, the center of a media firestorm, wants to set the record straight on his view that a state should intervene in the most extreme cases of child obesity.

Ludwig and co-author Lindsey Murtagh at the Harvard School of Public Health triggered a backlash with an opinion piece in a leading U.S. medical journal about what could be done about highly overweight youngsters.

They argued that when all other efforts failed, a state should consider putting high-risk obese kids in foster care, and said doing so may be the more ethical choice that could avert drastic measures like weight-loss surgery.

Ludwig, of Boston’s Children’s Hospital, has since responded to dozens of emails this week from angry and terrified parents. Other medical experts have questioned the rationale of removing a child from an otherwise functional and supportive family if they are

obese.

In his first interview since the backlash began, Ludwig said the article was meant to promote a dialogue on childhood obesity, which has become a life-threatening problem for many youngsters.

“It’s absolutely understandable that if someone with an obese child heard the government could swoop in and take that child away, (they would) be frightened and outraged,” Ludwig told Reuters. “I want to emphasize that foster care should only be the last resort when all other options have failed.”

In his replies to parents, Ludwig has provided copies of his opinion piece, published this week in the Journal of the American Medical Association, that says there is a role for the state when it comes to helping obese children, but removing them from a home is very rarely the solution.

“It’s just been heartbreaking to see how the story has been wildly exaggerated by some of the media, causing a great deal of pain and suffering for people,” Ludwig said.

With at least 20 million overweight and obese children in the United States and

some 2 million of those kids at the very highest risk, childhood obesity may be the “most important threat that exists to this generation of children,” he said.

But placing a youngster in foster care “should absolutely not be an option” for most of the highest risk cases.

And that is what Ludwig and Murtagh wrote in the piece, he said.

Ludwig explained that

state intervention could include financial support to families, social services, access to safe recreation areas and even parenting courses to help manage a child’s uncontrolled eating habits.

In 99 percent of the most serious cases, removing a child from a home is not an option. Ludwig said that in over 15 years of treating some 10,000 patients battling obesity he only knows

of one case where the child was taken from parents.

“The ultimate answer to the obesity epidemic is not to blame parents, it’s to create a more healthful and supportive society,” Ludwig said.

“But until we get there, what do we do about that 14year-old, 400-pound (182 kg) child who’s not facing increased risk of illness 20 years from now, but who’s facing life-threatening complications today?” he said.

Barbeque may contain hidden dangers Backyard barbeques are a big part of summer fun, but avoiding their hidden dangers is key to staying healthy and enjoying a cookout, a doctor suggests.

Barbeques can result in food poisoning from raw or undercooked foods; temperamental grills can cause burns; and charred meat may contribute to the development of certain types of cancer, according to Dr. Martha Howard, a Chicago Healers practitioner.

But it doesn’t have to be that way, Howard noted in a news release from the health care network. As the summer heats up and more people fire

up their grills, Howard offers the following tips to help ensure safe and healthy barbeques: Keep it clean. Be sure to scrub the grill and remove old fats.

Use wood starters for charcoal — not petroleum. Stack charcoal in a two-pound metal can with the ends cut off. Spread out the coals with tongs once they are well-lit.

Become familiar with the grill. It’s important to know how to operate and turn off a propane grill safely.

Use proper hygiene.

Remember to wash your hands and use separate plates and cutting boards for raw

and cooked meats.

Use marinades. Marinated meat may char less. Just don’t let meat sit out while it’s marinating.

Precook. Avoid taking meats or poultry directly from the freezer to the grill.

Precooking before grilling reduces overall cooking temperature and charring.

Cut down to size. Cut meat and chicken into smaller pieces so they cook thoroughly.

Trim the fat. Less fat on meat and poultry means fewer PAHs. Try more vegetables. Vegetables can be grilled for a healthy alternative to meat.

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Newark Mayor Cory Booker seeks ways to close city’s $45M budget gap

By DAVID GIAMBUSSO NEWARK Newark Mayor Cory Booker will submit a 2011 budget at Thursday’s council meeting, setting the city on course to adopt a spending plan by early August.

Booker’s budget will raise property tax rates by 4 percent - down from the 6 percent floated weeks ago - and will not seek layoffs or furloughs, according to business administrator Julien Neals. But a $45 million deficit remains

and could be as large as $55 million, depending on negotiations with the state.

“The state is permitting us to introduce the budget where we have included the gap,” Neals told council members today.

The city is negotiating with the state to get help filling that gap.

According to Neals that could come either in the form of an advance from the Port Authority, a loan, or “distressed cites” aid.

The aid would be the least palatable option for Newark because it comes with restrictions.

“I like the governor.

Nice guy,” said Council President Donald

Payne. But, he added, “we don’t need him up here getting involved with the management of the city.”

The council will seek to make further cuts in the coming weeks, but Neals warned any additional revenue will not affect the tax rate.

“Whatever we’re allowed to do in terms of generating revenue will allow us to drive down the gap,” he said.

The increased tax rate will mean about $200 more in taxes a year for the average homeowner.

Council members said they were uncomfortable with any increase after last year’s staggering 16 percent hike.

Newark Mayor Cory Booker

Elderly Union City woman dead after partner, 74, allegedly hits her with hammer

By CHARLES HACK An 86-year-old Union City woman found dead in her apartment Sunday afternoon was bludgeoned with a hammer in what authorities are describing as a gruesome case of domestic violence.

The woman’s partner, a 74-year-old man was also found in the apartment with serious bodily injuries and remains in critical condition at the Jersey City

Medical Center, Hudson County Prosecutor Edward DeFazio said yesterday. couple1.JPGJoe ShineMercedes Figueroa, 86, of, Union City was found dead in her 29th Street apartment Monday. Her 74year-old partner allegedly hit her with a hammer, officials said.

“The man has not been charged at this point but it does appear that it was a domestic dispute that elevated to this level,” DeFazio said.

“There was no indication of any third person.

There was no robbery and no forced entry.”

DeFazio identified the dead woman as Mercedes Figueroa, 86.

A neighbor, Luz Hernandez, 43, who has known the couple all her life, said she and her 19-year-old daughter the couple’s goddaughter used a key to enter the couple’s thirdfloor apartment Sunday because she hadn’t seen them since Thursday even though their car was parked in front of the apartment building.

Hernandez said she discovered Figueroa dead on the floor next to the front door and the man on the floor in living room. According to

authorities, Hernandez reported the gruesome finding to Union City police at 12:30 p.m.

“We were very, very close. They were very nice people,” said Hernandez, adding she was unaware of any problems between the deceased woman and the 74-year-old man. “I am in deep shock.”

Hernandez said the couple had been married for 50 years and the husband had at least one son in the United States and three other sons in Puerto Rico.

Figueroa had family in the Bronx, Hernandez said.

DeFazio could not confirm yesterday that the couple were married.

Another neighbor said yesterday the couple were inseparable.

“They were always together,” said Blanca Torres, 57. “I am in shock. I couldn’t sleep last night.”

The couple clearly had a fight and it was “mutual combat,” DeFazio said. “We think this incident occurred a couple of days prior to the discovery.”

A hammer found at the scene is believed to be the murder weapon, he said.

Authorities are awaiting the results of the autopsy for the woman. She appeared to have died from “blunt force trauma to the head” and the death is being treated as a homicide, DeFazio said.

The man who was found in a semi-conscious state “also has injuries that are consistent with blunt force trauma,” with several fractures including his head, DeFazio said.

The investigation is ongoing by the Hudson County Prosecutor’s Homicide Unit and the Union City Police Department.

Bayonne man in coma after beating by 13 people

By TONI-ANN CERBO A 22-year-old Bayonne man was beaten into unconsciousness by a pack of nine men and four women early Sunday and he remains in a coma at the Jersey City

Medical Center, tim told police a group Care Unit, having sufaccording to police of nine males and four fered severe head traufemales confronted the ma, police said. reports.

Responding to Broadway near 14th Street at around 3 a.m.

Sunday, police found the victim on the ground and unconscious, reports said.

A witness who was walking along Broadway with the vic-

victim and began kicking him in the face, reports said.

Police officials did not say what, if any, words were exchanged or whether they have suspects.

The victim was transported to the Jersey City Medical Center Intensive

Robert DeFazio, 22, of Bayonne, was arrested and charged with disorderly conduct after he pushed his way through a crowd to try to assist the victim after cops arrived on the scene.

DeFazio was released on a summons, reports said.

A man was beaten into a coma outside this building at 313 Broadway in Bayonne.

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Jennifer Lopez, Marc Anthony marriage breaks apart

By CHRISTINE KEARNEY and ALEX DOBUZINSKIS Singer and actress Jennifer Lopez and Latin pop singer Marc Anthony have decided to end their marriage after seven years, the couple said on Friday.

“This was a very difficult decision,” they said in a joint statement. “It is a painful time for all involved, and we appreciate the respect of our privacy at this time.”

Lopez and Anthony, who have 3 year-old twins, said they had “come to amicable conclusions on all matters.”

Lopez, 41, has most recently been seen on television as a judge on No. 1rated show “American Idol,” and her single “On The Floor” has been a top ten hit in several countries.

The entertainer, who topped People magazine’s “most beautiful” list this

year, has scored hit songs with “If You Had My Love” and “Jenny from the Block.”

She also has become a top star in romantic comedy movies, most recently appearing in 2010 film “The Back-up Plan.”

Anthony is a two-time Grammy winner and the top selling salsa artist of all time. His hit songs include “Si Tu No Te Fueras” and “Contra La Corriente.”

Lopez and Anthony have a pair of fraternal twins named Emme and Max who were born in 2008.

The couple performed together in a 2007 tour called “Juntos en Concierto.”

They also worked on each other’s albums and starred opposite each other in 2006 film “El Cantante.”

The two were married months after Lopez’s engagement to actor Ben Affleck ended, and days after Anthony’s divorce from former Miss Puerto Rico Dayanara Torres was finalized.

50 Cent calls Kelly Rowland ‘the most underrated female’

By ROB MARKMAN 50 Cent loves music, but like everyone, he has tailored tastes.

While on the set of Tony Yayo’s video for “Haters” in Atlanta last week, 50 ran through some of his favorite songs of the moment with MTV News. In addition to Big Sean’s “My Last” and Frank Ocean’s “Novacane,” Fif is waving the flag for former Destiny’s Child member Kelly Rowland, counting her hit record “Motivation” as one of his faves.

“I’m so happy Kelly got

that hit record. She’s due; she’s so due. She’s the most underrated female soloist in the game, and it’s finally time for her,” 50 told MTV News.

The G-Unit General pointed to Rowland’s international appeal. “Commander” with David Guetta was a huge hit in the U.K. but not necessarily in the United States. It was her buzz overseas that made Fif cast Kelly as his co-star in the lead video from his 2009 album Before I Self Destruct.

“That’s why when it came time to do ‘Baby by Me,’ I wanted her to be in the video, because she was

smoking hot everywhere else my record had to be hot at,” he said. “They thought I was doin’ her a favor because here in the U.S., they wasn’t hip.”

Still, throughout most of her career, Kelly Rowland has played second fiddle to her Destiny’s Child partner and group lead Beyoncé, a notion Fif doesn’t agree with. “There wasn’t no dance moves Beyoncé was doin’ that Kelly wasn’t doin’. It’s just the right song. You got the song, now you can forget about it. It’s going. They all did the same moves.”

It’s not just Kelly’s talent Fif has his eye on; he also

compared Kelly’s and B’s respective looks. “It’s your preference. If you look and say one is prettier than the other, I beg to differ — it’s

just what you think is pretty.

“I think it’s just time for her. This year is her year.”

Now that’s motivation!

D’Angelo back in the studio recording new album Reclusive R&B singer D’Angelo looks to be back at work on his long awaited third album.

According to Billboard.com, a studio session took place in New York late last night with two longtime D’Angelo collaborators, Roots drummer Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson and bassist Pino Palladino, as well as producer/engineer Russell Elevado, according to posts from Questlove on

Twitter.

“Most people use midnight as a time to sleep. others are working on their 11 year followup. this of course being hour number one,” tweeted the drummer.

The album, which was at one point provisionally titled “James River,” is being eyed for release before the end of the year through J Records, according to a Billboard source. It will be D’Angelo’s follow-up to the 2000 album

“Voodoo,” which won the 2001 Grammy for best R&B album and has sold 1.7 million copies in the United States, according to Nielsen SoundScan.

Questlove and Palladino later backed D’Angelo on an acclaimed tour in support of the album.

Billboard reports: The new project has been plagued by long breaks in recording and other delays, and many collaborators have

come and gone. Last year, producer Mark Ronson told Billboard.com he was about to hit the studio with D’Angelo, but it is unknown if any of his work will make the final cut. Prince, Raphael Saadiq, John Mayer, Cee Lo Green and Roy Hargrove have also been mentioned as contributors at various times during the process.

Since the release of “Voodoo,” D’Angelo has endured a serious car acci-

dent and arrests for drug possession and solicitation.

In lieu of new music of his own, he’s made sporadic guest appearances on albums

by Ronson, Common, Snoop Dogg, Q-Tip and the late J Dilla. His last release under his own name was the 2008 Virgin compilation “The Best So Far,” which rounds up highlights from “Voodoo” and its 1995 predecessor “Brown Sugar,” along with soundtrack contributions.

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Montreux fetes Miles Davis with ‘soundtrack’ to his life

By STEPHANIE NEBEHAY MONTREUX, Switzerland — Herbie Hancock, Wayne Shorter and Marcus Miller paid tribute to their friend and mentor Miles Davis, performing a “songtrack to the life” of the late American trumpet player whose music electrified the world of jazz.

The two-hour concert, which stretched into the early hours of Thursday, was a highlight of the annual Montreux Jazz Festival, where Davis is still remembered for driving along Lake Geneva in a red Ferrari.

The jazz great, whose statue stands proudly in a park next to Miles Davis Hall, performed 10 times at Montreux, the last time just two months before his death at age 65 in 1991.

“It doesn’t feel like 20 years, it feels like 4 or 5.

Miles’s music is everywhere.

This is dedicated to the spirit of Miles Davis, the most beautiful thing he gave us,” said Marcus Miller, the gifted bassist who directed the homage at a sold-out Stravinski Auditorium.

Miller said it was very difficult to hold a retrospective concert for an artist who never looked back, but that when he had the idea for a tribute to Davis this year he immediately decided to call

Jazz bassist Miller performs onstage with saxophonist Shorter and trumpeter Jones during the tribute to Miles Davis evening at the 45th Montreux Jazz Festival in Montreux.

Hancock and Shorter.

At the first rehearsal the three ended up not playing a single note, instead talking about Davis and what they might do to honor him properly.

“Wayne said ‘what we don’t want to do is play in the style in which it was originally done because we figured Miles would hate that.

Let’s make it like a soundtrack to Miles’s life’,” said Miller, wearing his trademark black hat.

“If there were a movie of Miles’s life, perhaps this would be the score to that movie.”

Hancock, Shorter and Miller all played with Davis, who had a keen eye for new African American talent.

Sean Jones on trumpet and Sean Rickman on drums rounded out the quintet.

They opened with “Walkin,” the title track of Davis’s 1954 album, with Hancock alternating on piano and keyboards, and

Shorter and Jones playing mournfully on their instruments.

“Someday My Prince Will Come,” from the 1961 album recorded with John Coltrane, and “Tutu” were other crowd favorites, but some were disappointed not to hear the classic “Round Midnight.”

After a standing ovation, Hancock strapped on a synthesizer keyboard for an encore of “Time After Time” and “So What.”

“Marcus produced a great

concert,” said Claude Nobs, founder of the Swiss festival now in its 45th year.

Quincy Jones, the producer and former co-director of Montreux, hosted a second show billed as “A Night of Global Gumbo,” bringing young talent to the famed Montreux stage.

Cuban jazz pianist Alfredo Fernandez, a 24-year-old who defected several years ago, played “El Guije” with his trio.

“He practices 14 hours a day, he’s as serious as they come. His future is so bright it scorches my eyes,” said Jones, who produced Michael Jackson’s “Thriller,” the best-selling album of all time.

Emily Bear, a 9-year-old piano prodigy from Illinois, joined Fernandez for “Four Hands,” stretching across the keyboard to hit the notes.

She also played her own “Bumble Boogie” medley.

“Do you believe that?” quipped Jones as the crowd cheered.

South Korea’s M Plex Band and strong male vocalist Seung-Won Jeong teamed up with Patti Austin for her hit “Baby Come To Me.” Esperanza Spalding, the American bass player who won the Grammy for Best New Artist this year, Jordan’s Diana Karazon and Canada’s Nikki Yanofsky also performed solos.

Leona Lewis readies new single, Rihanna topples Lady Gaga says new album is therapeutic for Facebook Queen title After a short break from music, pop/R&B singer Leona Lewis is gearing up for the release of her third studio album. The set will be lead by the dance-pop first single “Collide,” which will premiere September 4th.

Speaking on the new record, Lewis says: “I’m excited for people to see a different side to my music. ‘Collide’ is a summer song that has a really good vibe. I love the energy and happiness I feel when I listen to it . On my previous album ‘Echo’, and also on tour, I was experimenting with more highenergy sounds, so it’s a progression from that.”

As far as the album, Lewis says it will be her most personal, which is attributed to

By TIM KENNEALLY

factors like her split from childhood sweetheart Lou AlChamaa in June 2010.

“The past two years, I have had a lot of situations thrown at me. It has made me realize that I am much

stronger than I thought I was,” she says. “I have been through a lot of changes and making this new album has been really therapeutic. This really is my most personal album to date.”

LOS ANGELES — Sorry, Lady Gaga, but Rihanna has just passed you by. At least on the Facebook charts.

The “Rude Boy” singer has overtaken the “Judas” chanteuse to become the most popular female star on the social media site, according to Famecount.com.

As of this writing, Barbados-born singer Rihanna has amassed 40,622,133 “likes” for her Facebook page, edging out Gaga, who lags with 40,580,102 “likes.”

The good news for Lady Gaga? She still easily beats Rihanna on the Twitter front, with 11,653,916 fol-

lowers versus Rihanna’s 6,116,687. And according to Famecount’s aggregated rankings, Gaga is still tops among celebrities when her combined Facebook likes, Twitter followers and YouTube views are taken into account.

Rihanna ranks third, behind Gaga and Justin Bieber.

DAILY CHALLENGE MONDAY, JULY 18, 2011

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Stocks stymied without a debt deal

By CHUCK MIKOLAJCZAK Stocks will be hard pressed to turn the tide of recent selling this week as political jousting over raising the United States’ debt ceiling intensifies.

The benchmark S&P 500 index last week recorded its worst weekly loss in five weeks.

Investors, frustrated by the lack of progress in the debate between the Democrat-controlled White House and Senate and the Republican-majority House of Representatives, could move into what are perceived as safer assets, such as cash.

While the wrangling over the debt ceiling takes center stage, earnings season will continue to heat up after a solid first week.

According to Thomson Reuters data, 39 companies in the benchmark S&P 500 index .SPX have posted results, with 74 percent report-

ing earnings that topped Wall Street estimates.

Companies in the index are forecast to show a 6.5 percent rise in profits over the second quarter of 2010 when all the reports are in.

For last week, the S&P 500 ended down 2.1 percent; the Dow fell 1.4 percent and the Nasdaq declined 2.5 percent.

The overhang from the debt ceiling issue could diminish the focus on earnings.

House Speaker John Boehner, the top Republican in Congress, said on Friday that President Barack Obama and Democrats still had not put a serious deficit plan on the table, underscoring the acrimony in negotiations to avert a government default.

“The news flow (this) week dealing with the deficit issues and the political posturing that is taking place is going to intensify and is really going to drive these

markets,” said Paul Mendelsohn, chief investment strategist at Windham Financial Services in Charlotte, Vermont.

“People are starting to get nervous about what they are seeing out there. For a portfolio manager — let alone an average investor — this is a treacherous market to be trying to position yourself in.”

Economic data on tap for the coming week includes several reports on the housing market — June housing starts on Tuesday and existing-home sales on Wednesday. In addition, data is due on leading economic indicators for June and the Philadelphia Fed survey of manufacturing activity in the MidAtlantic region. Economic reports over the last month have raised questions about the health of the U.S. recovery.

“The bigger picture is the economy is still a disaster,” said Joe Saluzzi, co-manager of

trading at Themis Trading in Chatham, New Jersey.

Saluzzi said people still are watching earnings for signs growth may be stagnating.

“Eventually, companies are not going to keep cutting costs.”

Quarterly results are expected from a slew of companies this week, with more than 10 Dow components scheduled to report.

Major financial companies due to report include Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, Bank of America Corp. and American Express. Also on the calendar are earnings news from technology companies Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp. and Intel Corp.

“Let’s see what all the rest of these guys have.

Let’s see if it’s still being driven by cost cuts or are they actually getting revenue gains.

That is going to tell me a lot more than if they cut the debt deal,” said Saluzzi.

After the S&P 500 weekly loss, the index

was just below its 50day moving average, a technical level that could indicate more selling. Some analysts believe the market could still come back if the U.S. debt issue is resolved soon.

“This area, as far as it pulling back, is balancing the threat of a default, but it would take an actual default to take us much lower than here,” said Marc Pado, U.S. market strategist at Cantor Fitzgerald & Co in San Francisco.

But the longer the debt ceiling question continues without a conclusion, the bigger

the risk for further declines in stocks and for volatility to spike.

The CBOE Volatility index .VIX rose nearly 30 percent last week “The more it drags out into Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday or whatever, then we’ve got some serious issues.

That will be an overhang no matter how good the financials come in terms of earnings reports next week,” said Tommy Huie, chief investment officer of BMO Asset Management U.S. in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

“It could be a pretty volatile week, no doubt about it.”

Cyber theft illustrates Pentagon security challenge

By DAVID ALEXANDER WASHINGTON — A foreign intelligence service stole 24,000 files from a U.S. defense contractor earlier this year, a dramatic illustration of the threat confronting the Pentagon as it works to bolster military computer security, a top defense official said.

Deputy Defense Secretary William Lynn revealed the theft as he unveiled a new Pentagon cybersecurity strategy that designates cyberspace as an “operational domain” like sea, air and land where U.S. forces will practice, train and prepare to defend against attacks.

Lynn said the theft occurred in March and was believed to have been carried out by a foreign intelligence service and targeted files at a defense contractor developing

weapons systems and defense equipment. He declined to specify the country behind the attack, what company was hit or what the files contained.

“It was 24,000 files, which is a lot,” Lynn said. “But I don’t think it’s the largest we’ve seen.”

The theft was a dramatic illustration of the rising difficulties the Pentagon faces in protecting military and defense-related networks critical to U.S. security.

Defense Department employees operate more than 15,000 computer networks and 7 million computers at hundreds of installations around the world.

The department’s networks are probed millions of times a day and penetrations have compromised huge amounts of data.

Lynn said a recent estimate pegged economic losses from theft of intellectual property

and information from government and commercial computers at over $1 trillion.

In addition to calling for the Pentagon to treat cyberspace as an “operational domain,” Lynn said the new strategy includes four initiatives aimed at bolstering network security by layering defenses and improving cooperation with other network operators.

Lynn said as part of its active defenses, the Pentagon would introduce new operating concepts and capabilities on its networks, such as sensors, software and signatures to detect and stop malicious code before it affects U.S. operations.

“Our strategy’s overriding emphasis is on denying the benefit of an attack,” he said in a speech at the National Defense University. “If an attack will not have its intended effect, those who wish us harm will have less rea-

son to target us through cyberspace in the first place.”

The strategy also calls for greater U.S. military cooperation on cybersecurity with other government agencies, defense contractors and U.S. military allies abroad in order to take advantage of the open, interwoven nature of the Internet.

Former Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff, who now heads the Chertoff Group risk management firm, praised the strategy as a “good first step” but said the challenge would be filling in the details.

“It’s not put your pencil down, work is done,” he said. “It really just sets the table for a lot of hard work thinking through the details of what the plans are going to be, what the capabilities have to be and how we’re going to build the various layers of defense.”

He cited the possibility of creating secure communities on the Internet for some functions, finding ways to encourage individuals to practice computer security and sharing security-related information more widely between public and private sectors.

“These are going to be hard things to do because they are going to require trade-offs,” Chertoff said. “You’re not going to eliminate the risk of cyberattacks. What you have to do is minimize and manage those risks.”

General James Cartwright, vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said the Pentagon must shift its thinking on cybersecurity from focusing 90 percent of its energy on building better firewalls and only 10 percent on preventing hackers from attacking U.S. systems.

“If your approach to the business is purely

defensive in nature, that’s the Maginot line approach,” he said, referring to the French fixed defensive fortifications that were circumvented by the Nazis at the outset of World War Two. “If it’s OK to attack me and I’m not going to do anything other than improve my defenses every time you attack me, it’s very difficult to come up with a deterrent strategy,” he said.

Cartwright said part of the answer was to build up the military’s offensive response capabilities.

“How do you build something that convinces a hacker that doing this is going to be costing them and if he’s going to do it, he better be willing to pay the price and the price is going to escalate, rather than his price stays the same and ours escalates,” Cartwright said.

“We’ve got to change the calculus.”

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Gloomy consumers cast dark cloud over economy

By LUCIA MUTIKANI WASHINGTON — U.S. consumer confidence hit a near 2-1/2 year low in early July and manufacturing output stalled in June, further frustrating expectations of a quick economic growth rebound in the second half of the year.

Worries about stubbornly high unemployment pushed the Thomson Reuters/University of Michigan’s index of consumer sentiment to 63.8, the lowest since March 2009, a report showed on Friday. Economists had expected the index to climb to 72.5 from 71.5 in June.

Separate data from the Federal Reserve showed manufacturing output stagnated last month partly due to supply disruptions in the auto sector related to the earthquake in Japan.

The reports were the latest in a series, includ-

ing weak retail sales and employment, to suggest the anticipated step-up in growth in the second half of the year might not be as strong has initially thought.

“We still expect an improvement in the second half, but the question is how much can we grow?” said Yelena Shulyatyeva an economist at BNP Paribas in New York. “Our view is the rebound is not going to be anything like in the prior cycles because we are growing at a lower potential rate right now.”

Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke said this week the U.S. central bank was prepared to act if growth falters further, but made it clear that Fed is not at that point yet.

The economy was slammed by a combination of high commodity prices and bad weather, causing growth to slow sharply to a 1.9 percent annual rate in the first quarter after a brisk 3.1 percent expansion in the

final three months of 2010.

Disruptions to motor vehicle production and still high gasoline prices are expected to have held growth to a pace between 1.5 percent and 2 percent in the second quarter.

The government will release its initial second quarter gross domestic product estimate on July 29.

Manufacturing in the second quarter posted its weakest rise since the recession ended in mid2009. There are indications that manufacturing maintained its weak tone as the third quarter started.

The New York Fed’s gauge of factory activity was at minus 3.76 in July from minus 7.79 in June, another report showed. That could suggest that some of the factors weighing on manufacturing are not of a temporary nature.

The decline in consumer sentiment, which came even as gasoline prices have dropped

from their peak above $4 a gallon in May, does not bode well for consumer spending.

Consumer spending accounts for about 70 percent of U.S. economic activity and has been constrained by high gasoline prices and a 9.2 percent unemployment rate. Employers last month added a paltry 18,000 jobs.

Bickering over raising the country’ debt ceiling is also adding to economic uncertainty.

Stocks on Wall Street gave up much of their earlier gains. Prices for U.S. government debt pared earlier gains after the European Banking Authority said eight banks failed capital stress tests, fewer than what traders had feared.

The dollar fell against a basket of currencies.

On Friday, Citigroup became the second major U.S. lender to show significant growth in outstanding corporate loans, a potential source of growth of the economy. Citigroup’s

corporate loan portfolio grew 4.4 percent to $205 billion at the end of June from three months earlier.

On Thursday, JPMorgan Chase & Co. reported that business loans increased 5.4 percent in the same three months to $249 billion.

Hard pressed consumers could get a reprieve from declining commodity prices.

Labor Department data showed the Consumer Price Index fell 0.2 percent in June as gasoline prices tumbled by the most since December 2008.

The drop in consumer prices was the largest in a year and followed a 0.2 percent increase in May. Stripping out food and energy, however, core CPI rose 0.3 percent after a similar gain in May. The rise in core inflation reflected a lagged pass-through from high commodity prices and economists saw no threat of an upward spiral in price pressures.

In the 12 months to June, core CPI rose 1.6 percent after increasing 1.5 percent in May. Fed officials would like to see that closer to 2 percent.

“Inflation is not a major issue, (a) lot of the factors behind the rise are transitory,” said Steven Rick, senior economist at the CUNA in Madison, Wisconsin.

Wage growth remains benign, with average hourly earnings flat in June. In the 12 months through June average hourly earnings rose 1.9 percent. In addition capacity utilization by factories was unchanged in June, pointing to ample slack in the economy.

Last month, core inflation was pushed up by rising prices for housing, new vehicles, used trucks and apparel.

Apparel prices recorded their biggest jump since March 1990, while the rise in used cars and trucks was the biggest in more than 11/2 years.

Blockbuster targets disgruntled Netflix customers Apple fixes security flaw in iPhone, iPad software Blockbuster is seeking to persuade incensed Netflix Inc customers to switch their allegiances, after the fast-growing online video service provoked a storm of outrage this week by raising prices as much as 60 percent Blockbuster, a once mighty video vendor that filed for bankruptcy protection in 2010 and is now owned by Dish Network Corp, said that a customer who switches to one of its “total access” plans to receive DVDs by mail will receive a 30-day free trial.

Shares of Netflix, which had headed downward since the start of trading, extended losses after the news and closed down 4.05 percent at $286.62 on the Nasdaq.

In a statement, Blockbuster called Netflix’s price increase “shocking” and said it would “rescue upset Netflix customers.” It also launched a new website around the promotion with a banner

saying “Netflix customers, say hello to Blockbuster.”

In response, Netflix spokesman said its plans still offer better prices that Blockbuster’s service.

“I understand Blockbuster’s offer is for $9.99 for 1 DVD at a time. The same offer from Netflix is $7.99 a month. Why would

someone change?”

Wedbush Securities analyst Michael Pachter said he doubts that a significant number of Netflix customers will defect to Blockbuster but that the news may have sent Netflix shares lower on Thursday.

“Today’s price action shows how Netflix is priced for perfection.

Any chink in their armor makes the stock move,” he said.

Droves of subscribers complained on Netflix’s official blog this week with many threatening to cancel subscriptions after the video service raised prices by up to 60 percent for users of both its streaming and DVDmail service.

BOSTON — Apple Inc. has plugged a hole in the software that runs iPhones, iPads and iPod Touch music players that could allow hackers to take remote control of those devices.

The security flaw came to light nine days ago as the website www.jailbreakme.com released code that Apple customers can use to modify the iOS operating system that runs those devices through a process known as “jail breaking.”

Some Apple customers choose to jail break their devices so they can download and run applications that are not approved by Apple or use iPhone phones on networks of carriers that are not approved by Apple.

The jailbreaking code exploited a vulner-

ability in iOS that had not previously been disclosed. Its release gave criminal hackers a blueprint they could use to build malicious software that would exploit the vulnerability.

Now that the security patch has been released, Apple customers will be protected against any such malware as long as they install the software updates on their equipment.

Security flaw in iOS software have the potential to affect millions of devices that are at the core of Apple’s business.

Apple has sold 25 million iPads since it launched last year. The company sold over 18 million of its popular iPhones in just the first three months of the year.

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Steelers LB Harrison sorry for some remarks Pittsburgh Steelers linebacker James Harrison apologized on Thursday for some of his remarks in an interview with Men’s Journal.

“I’ll start by offering my apologies for some of the words that I said during the four days in May that Men’s Journal was invited to my house to discuss what the NFL has recently been portraying as their attempts at ‘player safety’ rules and regulations,” Harrison said in a statement released on Twitter.

He ripped teammates Rashard Mendenhall and Ben Roethlisberger for their performances in the Steelers’ Super Bowl loss to the Green Bay Packers.

“I did make comments about my teammates when I

was talking about the emotional Super Bowl loss, but the handful of words that were used and heavily publicized yesterday were pulled out of a long conversation and the context was lost,” Harrison said. “Obviously, I would never say that it was all Ben’s or Rashard’s fault that we lost the Super Bowl.

That would be ridiculous.

“We all have discussed several things that went wrong in the Super Bowl since that day. What I do apologize for and take full responsibility for is for speaking in such a candid manner to someone outside the team.”

Harrison, 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. Harrison’s harshest words in the article were aimed at NFL commissioner Roger Goodell, whom Harrison called a “crook” and a “devil.” He also said in the article of Goodell, “I hate him and will never respect him.”

Harrison did not mention those insults, but did say the antigay slur directed at the commissioner “was not intended to be derogatory against gay people in any way. It was careless use of a slang word and I apologize to all who were offended by the remark. I am not a homophobic bigot, and I would never advocate intolerance of gay people.”

Harrison did not apologize for a photo depicting

him with guns, saying collecting firearms is his hobby.

“I believe in the right to bear arms. I like to go to the shooting range. I like to hunt. I like to fish. I could just as easily have posed with my fishing poles but it obviously wouldn’t be an interesting picture for the magazine,” he said. “I am not promoting gun violence by posing for that photo. There are also other photos in the magazine story that were not shown on air yesterday — including me with my sons, with my mom and as a kid.”

Harrison said he had hoped to shed light on the NFL’s hypocrisy in regards to player safety.

“If player safety is the NFL’s main concern, as they

say it is, they are not going about it in an effective manner,” Harrison said. “There’s nothing about extending the season or issuing exorbitant fines on defensive players that makes any shift toward the prevention of injury to players.

“I believe that the league may have been feeling increasing pressure about injuries and concussions last year, and that they panicked and put rules in place that weren’t fully thought out.

I’m not advocating more flags and fines, I’m just saying that the current rules are not completely fair, and I don’t believe in the way that the league is handling their position as overseer of the NFL and the well-being of its players.”

Heisman Trophy winner Howard, 15 others, enshrined in HOF SOUTH BEND, Ind. — Desmond Howard shook his head and smiled. It’s been 20 years since he won the Heisman Trophy at Michigan as an electrifying pass catcher and kick returner.

To him it just doesn’t seem possible it happened so long ago.

“Time just flies doesn’t it?

Twenty years is unbelievable.

That’s one of those things when somebody says it you kind of got to do the math in your head, like ‘Yeah I guess he’s right,”‘ Howard said Saturday night when he was enshrined with 15 other players and four coaches into the College Football Hall of Fame.

“Wow.” Asked what had changed most in the game since he flying over fields in Ann Arbor, even striking a Heisman pose after scoring a touchdown, Howard was quick with an answer, just as he was on the field.

The spread offense with multiple formations and receivers.

“Everyone wants to spread people out and try to get mismatches out there in space,” he said. “When I played - if I did that can you imagine the numbers?” he said with a big laugh.

“You got to understand I won the Heisman within the rhythm of our offense. ... We had guys who could tote the pill and we toted it, we just didn’t throw the ball to 21.

We tried to run the ball, that was still our primary goal.”

Also enshrined Saturday night were: Dennis Byrd (North Carolina State, DT, 1965-67); Ronnie Caveness ( Arkansas, LB 1962-64); Ray Childress (Texas A&M, DL 1981-84); Dexter Coakley (Appalachian State, LB, 1993-96); Randy Cross (UCLA, OG, 1973-75); Sam Cunningham (Southern California, RB, 1970-72); Michael Favor, North Dakota State, C, 1985-88); Charles Haley (James Madison, DE, 198285; Mark Herrmann (Purdue, QB, 1977-80); Clarkston Hines (Duke, WR, 1986-89); Desmond Howard (Michigan, WR, 1989-91); Mickey Kobrosky (Trinity College, Back, 1933-36); Chet Moeller (Navy, DB, 1973-75); Jerry Stovall (LSU, HB, 1960-62); Pat Tillman (Arizona St., LB, 1994-97); Alfred Williams (Colorado, LB, 1987-90).

Coach Barry Alvarez (Wisconsin, 1990-2005); Coach Mike Kelly (Dayton, 19812007); Coach Bill Manlove, (Widener, 1969-91), Delaware Valley, 1992-95), La Salle, 1997-2001); Coach Gene Stallings (Texas A&M, 1965-71), Alabama, 199096).

Byrd, Tillman and Kobrosky were enshrined posthumously. After his college days, Tillman went on to an NFL career with the Cardinals. After three seasons in the NFL, he enlisted in the

Army. He was killed in Afghanistan in April 2004.

When Tillman’s bio was read during the enshrinement dinner Saturday night, he was given a standing ovation by the crowd.

Haley emerged from littleknown James Madison to become one of the NFL’s most ferocious pass rushers and played on five Super Bowl championship teams with Dallas and San Francisco.

“I never dreamed of going to college and when I got to college I never dreamed of going to the pros,” Haley

said. “I was fortunate enough to have coaches to be visionaries and build a foundation and give me a skill set. .. It’s not all about how athletic you are, it’s about having the smarts to understand all the pieces of the puzzle that is going around you at the time.”

Cunningham had the nickname “Bam” for his punishing running style. He had four touchdowns in a 1973 Rose Bowl win over Ohio State. In his first game in 1970 against Alabama, he scored two TDs and had 135

yards rushing against the then all-white Crimson Tide, leading a victory in a milestone performance.

“It has afforded a lot of Black athletes the opportunity to play wherever they want to play,” he said earlier.

Alvarez transformed a Wisconsin program that was struggling to win games into a Big Ten and national power and ended up winning three Rose Bowls.

“It’s kind of a culmination,” he said of his selection.

“It’s what I did for a living. ...

It’s pretty special.”

Cedric Benson arrested in Texas Cincinnati Bengals running back Cedric Benson was arrested and charged with assault causing bodily injury to a family member early Sunday morning in Central Texas.

No other details were available from the Travis County sheriff’s office regarding the Class A misdemeanor charge.

Benson will be a free agent once a new collective-bargaining agreement is in place.

“The team is aware of the incident,” Bengals spokesman Jack Brennan said. “However, as with most situations of this nature, it would inappropriate for the team to comment until the matter is resolved through normal legal channels.”

Benson’s latest legal trouble comes a little more than a year after an arrest involving an alleged bar fight in Texas, which didn’t result in a discipline from the NFL. Commissioner Roger Goodell said then that he was satisfied Benson understood his responsibilities as an NFL player and a public figure after Benson met with Goodell and other league officials.

Benson’s arrest also follows a week after oft-arrested Bengals cornerback Adam “Pacman” Jones was jailed overnight after a bar incident in Cincinnati.

Goodell has stated players will still be subject to review and discipline under the personal-conduct policy for

potential violations during the lockout.

The Chicago Bears, who selected Benson fourth overall in 2005, released him in 2008 after a pair of alcoholrelated arrests in Texas. The cases were dropped when grand juries declined to indict.

The 28-year-old Benson was the focal point of a running game that helped the Bengals win the AFC North title in 2009.

The Bengals decided to emphasize the passing game last season, a move that backfired as the Bengals stumbled to a 4-12 record. Still, he recorded his second straight 1,000-yard season with 1,111 yards.

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Deron Williams inks deal with Besiktas

By MIKE MAZZEO It’s official: New Jersey Nets point guard Deron Williams will be playing in Turkey next season if there’s an NBA lockout.

Williams tweeted the signature on his one-year contract with Besiktas late Friday night from his verified Twitter account.

“Just made it official, headed to Turkey ...signed with Besiktas & @BJK_Basketbol,” he wrote.

Williams’ contract with Besiktas is worth $5 million, sources told ESPN.com’s Chris Broussard.

Atlanta Hawks center Zaza Pachulia also has an agreement to play for the club, which briefly employed Allen Iverson last

season.

Sources told ESPN.com’s Marc Stein last week that Williams would not be required to report to the Turkish club before the end of August or early September and that his deal with them would include an immediate out that allows him to return to the NBA as soon as the work stoppage ends.

Williams has two years left on his contract with the Nets but is widely expected to opt out the final season, valued at nearly $18 million, to become a free agent in the summer of 2012.

Williams, 27, averaged 20.1 points and 10.3 assists for the Nets and the Utah Jazz last season.

Players under contract like Williams would typical-

ly need a letter of clearance from FIBA — the sport’s world governing body — to play anywhere else. But the NBA Players Association has privately maintained for months that it intends to legally challenge any attempt by the NBA or FIBA to block a player such as Williams from playing elsewhere while the NBA has imposed a work stoppage.

“If they try to stop him,” one source said of Williams, “the union will fight it.”

The bigger risk for Williams is injury-related, especially after he was plagued by a wrist injury throughout the second half of last season after the Nets acquired him from Utah on Feb. 24. The injury required surgery on Williams’ right wrist after the season.

WNBA announces Brian Shaw learned of fate from TV All-Star starters Phoenix’s Diana Taurasi, Seattle’s Sue Bird and Indiana’s Tamika Catchings (right) were voted as starters for the WNBA AllStar Game again.

Catchings, who led all players with 32,706 votes, was joined by Fever teammate Katie Douglas, Atlanta’s Angel McCoughtry, Connecticut’s Tina Charles and New York’s Cappie Pondexter as Eastern Conference starters announced Thursday night.

Minnesota rookie Maya Moore, the Storm’s Swin Cash and injured Los Angeles center Candace Parker joined Taurasi and Bird — second overall with 25,077 — as starters for the West.

The All-Star Game is July 23 in San Antonio.

Moore, with 21,379 votes, became the first rookie voted to start since Bird and Catchings in 2002.

“Any time the fans take the effort to reach out to show that they want to see you play and appreciate your game, it always feels great,” Moore said. “Especially being a rookie and new to the league.”

There was no game in 2008, when Parker was the league MVP and Rookie of

the Year. The U.S. national team played a team of remaining All-Stars in 2004 — when Taurasi went on to earn Rookie of the Year honors — and last season, when Charles won the award.

Catchings (2002-03, ‘0507, ‘09, ‘11), Bird (‘02-03, ‘05-07, ‘09, 11) and Taurasi (‘05-07, ‘09, ‘11) have been selected as starters in every All-Star game that has taken place since they have been in the league.

All-Star reserves will be announced on Tuesday.

Brian Shaw, the former Los Angeles Lakers assistant coach once thought by many to be the heir apparent to Phil Jackson, said the way he learned he didn’t get the job to replace Jackson was by hearing about it on TV. Shaw, in an interview with Andy and Brian Kamenetzky on “The Mason & Ireland Show” on 710 ESPN Radio on Friday, said he first learned that Mike Brown had been hired as the Lakers coach during a television interview with Brown on ESPN at halftime of Game 5 of the Western Conference finals.

“I wasn’t really told anything,” said Shaw, who had the public backing of players Kobe Bryant and Derek Fisher, among others, to take over for Jackson.

“Unfortunately, I found about not getting the job and who was hired for the job on ESPN. I didn’t really talk to anyone for about three weeks after that.”

Just this week, Shaw was hired by the Indiana Pacers to be their associate head coach. He will work alongside Pacers coach Frank Vogel, a man he knows from their days on the Lakers staff together during the 2005-06 season.

Still, Shaw said initially he was very disappointed

upon hearing he wouldn’t be coaching the Lakers, acknowledging it was something he had set his sights on.

“At that point, all the speculation and what I’ve heard, the powers making those decisions felt like the team needed a change of culture and a new voice, and head in a new direction,” Shaw said. “I thought that was kind of peculiar because in the 12 years I’d been there, all we had done was gone to the championship seven times and won five championships. I felt like there were 29 other teams in the league that would love to have that kind of culture and that kind of direction. ... But I didn’t expect anything to be handed to me.”

Shaw said despite his disappointment, he also understands the nature of the business and that it was time to move on.

Still, Shaw said it would have be nice to have been treated just a little differently.

“For whatever reason, there was a glitch in communication. ... I’ve always had a great relationship and open line of communication with (general manager) Mitch Kupchak so I don’t think it came from there,” Shaw said. “We’ve

always been on good terms and are still on good terms.

I understand in his position there’s only so much that he can do even. He has people over his head that he has to follow directions. ...

Definitely there’s some room for improvement in terms of how ... people are dealt with.”

Shaw said he has since spoken to Kupchak, and that Lakers owner Dr. Jerry Buss left him a voicemail, which Shaw appreciated. He said he has not spoken to Jim Buss, the team’s executive vice president of player personnel, since interviewing for the position, though Shaw added he didn’t have much of a relationship with Buss to start with.

“That’s not really fair to say if we had a good relationship or not,” Shaw said.

“There wasn’t really much of a relationship just because we weren’t around each other a whole lot.”

Shaw said he would have appreciated a call letting him know he wasn’t going to be hired, simply for the opportunity to gain feedback on where he might have gone wrong in the interview process.

“I didn’t get that opportunity,” Shaw said. “So I just keep my head up and continue to move forward.”

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Shaquille O’Neal joins Turner Sports The calls came as soon as Shaquille O’Neal decided to retire, all wanting to hire one of the NBA’s greatest entertainers.

TNT’s “Inside the NBA” studio show had been O’Neal’s favorite as a player, so the choice was easy.

Get ready for the Big Analyzer, Big Commentator, or whatever other nickname he takes in the next phase of his career.

O’Neal agreed Thursday to a multiyear deal with Turner Sports to become an analyst on its NBA coverage, where he will fold his 7-foot1 frame into the fourth chair on the TNT set alongside Charles Barkley, Kenny Smith and Ernie Johnson.

“I’m just going to try to make it more fun than it already is,” O’Neal said dur-

ing a conference call.

O’Neal also will contribute to NBA TV and NBA.com, and his agreement includes a development deal with Turner’s entertainment and animation networks.

O’Neal said he had other offers upon retiring last month, but quickly chose the Turner offer, saying he wasn’t interested in creating a bidding war for his services.

A four-time NBA champion and 15-time All-Star during his 19-year career, O’Neal also has one of the NBA’s biggest personalities, with Turner Sports president David Levy calling him one of the most “dominant, popular and charismatic players in the NBA.” “The addition of ‘The Big Analytical’ will be terrific,” Smith said in a statement. “I

can’t wait to make verbal passes to the most dominant center of our time.”

O’Neal, who says he still expects to run for sheriff in the future, will be part of TNT’s coverage of All-Star Weekend — scheduled next season for Orlando, his first NBA home — and the playoffs.

He doesn’t believe it will be difficult having to criticize Kobe Bryant, with whom he feuded as a Lakers teammate, or any other players.

“I have the ability and the backing to give fair criticism. The only time I have trouble with people giving criticism is when they haven’t walked that walk,” O’Neal said. “I’ve walked many walks in my 19-year career, so I think any criticism that I give should be

fair.”

He showed a strong opinion in his first day on the job when referring to the state of the center position with himself and Yao Ming deciding to retire within a month of each other.

“The beasts are now gone, the Goliaths are now gone, so that leaves Dwight Howard out there by himself,” O’Neal said of Orlando’s All-Star center. “So if he doesn’t win two or three championships, I’ll be very disappointed, because he has no competition out there now. None. Zero.”

O’Neal retires as the fifthleading scorer in league history after he was slowed by injuries in recent seasons.

Even as his game suffered, he remained one of the NBA’s most popular players.

Neither O’Neal nor Levy had any concern about O’Neal finding room to give his insight with Barkley and Smith already in place.

“Shaq knows the game and, on and off the floor, he has always been entertaining; a guy who gets it,” Johnson said.

O’Neal said he also expects to work on cartoons and TV shows, adding he’s interested in being the executive producer for a program.

NBA lockout doesn’t threaten Grant’s fundraiser

By ANNE M. PETERSON PORTLAND, Ore. — The NBA lockout isn’t really posing any challenges for Brian Grant’s big fundraiser to fight Parkinson’s disease, contrary to widespread reports and Internet buzz.

Last summer, a few NBA players lent Grant a hand in his “Shake It Till We Make It” gala dinner and golf tournament. This year, that won’t be the case.

Grant, who has the disease, serves as a community ambassador for the Portland Trail Blazers. Because of the labor dispute between league owners and players, team employees can’t have contact with players.

There will be plenty of other celebrities to help Grant’s cause on July 31 at the Rose Garden Arena dinner. The golf tournament will be held the next day at Pumpkin Ridge Golf Club west of Portland.

Grant raised $350,000 last year, with participants including Michael J. Fox, Muhammad Ali, Pat Riley and Bill Russell.

Reports surfaced this week that Grant was being hamstrung by the no-contact edict and the story spread to Twitter. But the criticism

was unfounded, said “Shake It Till We Make It” spokeswoman Sara Perrin.

“The NBA has been an awesome partner for us.

They couldn’t be more supportive,” she said.

Grant can’t address the rumors himself without facing a possible fine.

NBA spokesman Tim Frank says neither Grant nor the Blazers have asked for an exemption to the nocontact rule. But others have

asked and received exclusions.

Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban was allowed to appear with his team at the recent ESPY awards.

Employees of the Miami Heat were permitted to attend Chris Bosh’s wedding this weekend.

The NBA was criticized for allowing Michael Jordan to play in a celebrity golf tournament at Lake Tahoe this weekend—while Grant had

not been given the same blessing. But Frank said Jordan, an owner of the Charlotte Bobcats, and Vinny Del Negro, coach of the Los Angeles Clippers, checked with the league office before the American Century Celebrity Golf Championship to make sure they weren’t breaking any rules.

Frank told The Associated Press in an email that there are no rules against owners and players being at an independent event, such as the golf tournament, where they’re among many other people. Problems arise when team business or the labor dispute is discussed.

But Grant, as a team employee, cannot invite current players to attend his own fundraiser unless he has an exemption. Additionally, the event takes place at the Rose Garden, which could be problematic.

The collective bargaining agreement between team owners and the players’ union expired at the end of the day June 30. Owners locked out the players after the sides remained far apart in their final proposals.

Among the sports celebrities attending Grant’s dinner this year are Riley, Russell, Charles Barkley, Bill Walton and Detlef Schrempf.

Muhammad Ali’s wife, Lonnie Ali, will speak. Muham-

mad Ali also suffers from Parkinson’s.

The fundraising dinner is sold out, Perrin said.

Only a few active NBA players, including Portland’s Brandon Roy and Greg Oden, attended the event last year.

A first-round draft pick in 1994 out of Xavier, Grant played for five NBA teams.

The dreadlocked 6-foot-9 forward built a reputation for hard-nosed play after a ferocious battle against Karl Malone in the 1999 playoffs.

In the 2000-01 season, the Heat moved him from power forward to center after Alonzo Mourning developed a kidney illness, and he helped the team to 50 wins.

He averaged 10.5 points and 7.4 rebounds over his 12-year career before retiring in 2006 because of chronic knee problems.

Two years ago, soon after he decided to make Portland his home, Grant was diagnosed with Parkinson’s.

About 1.5 million Americans have the disease, which destroys brain cells that produce dopamine, a chemical key to the functions that control muscle movement.

Patients suffer from increasingly severe tremors and periodically rigid limbs.

They can have trouble walking, speaking and writing.

There is no cure.

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It’s official: New Jersey Nets point guard Deron there’s an NBA lockout.

Williams will be playing in Turkey next season if

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