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Obama awaits political verdict on Afghan speech

By STEPHEN COLLINSON WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama’s big Afghan war speech pleased almost no one in Washington but its impact will only be clear when his prime audience — American voters — get to weigh in in 2012.

Dismayed liberals were left wanting more when Obama announced Wednesday he would withdraw 10,000 troops this year and get 23,000 more out of Afghanistan by next summer.

Republican hawks complained Obama was going too fast and risking fragile gains in the slog against the Taliban.

Pentagon brass meanwhile smarted after their plea for slower drawdowns and more time was snubbed.

And Republican presidential candidates issued conflicting statements, reflecting the split in their party as public opinion hardens against the war and the political ground suddenly shifts under the U.S. national security debate.

While Obama made a military case for the drawdown, saying war aims he set in 2009 had been largely met, his speech was also highly political, foreshadowing the argument he will make to voters next year.

His remarks were molded by a

N E W S B RI E F S DOT INSTALLS FIRST “SKELETON” SPEED BOARDS The city’s Transportation Department installs its first two socalled “skeleton” speed boards in Brooklyn and Queens.

The boards display an LED image of a skeleton with the words “slow down” if a driver is going over the 30 mph speed limit.

One is located on Fourth Avenue between 38th and 39th Street in Sunset Park, Brooklyn.

The other one is at the intersection of Horace Harding Expressway and Xenia Street in Elmhurst, Queens.

Both are notorious locations for speeders.

The signs are only at those locations temporarily.

They will be rotated to other locations in the city where speeding is a problem.

MTA TO BEGIN E-ZPASS TAG DISTRIBUTION Thanks to the Metropolitan Transit Authority, it’s about to be easier than ever for New Yorkers to get their hands on an E-ZPass.

Starting Monday, the MTA will start selling E-ZPass tags at MetroCard vans that travel across the City.

They will also be available at cash toll lanes at the Henry Hudson Bridge.

A starter tag kit costs $30 and customers have 48 hours to register online.

For more information, visit ezpassny.com.

growing feeling that war-weary Americans can no longer afford ambitious nation building efforts abroad at a time of stifling debt, high unemployment and dragging economic recovery.

They also marked a watershed moment in U.S. security policy, after a decade of escalating troop deployments and the idea, which has prevailed since the September 11 attacks in 2001, that America is permanently at war.

“The tide of war is receding,” Obama said.

Brian Katulis, of the left-leaning Center for American Progress, said “President Obama called an end to the long war.”

The speech, he said, was a signal that the U.S. “fixation” with counterinsurgency in Iraq and Afghanistan was ending.

“We simply cannot afford (it) nor is it producing results,” Katulis said.

Obama argued that recent war gains, which are open to debate, meant he could withdraw troops from a “position of strength” — keen to fashion an exit from Afghanistan

free of the sting of defeat.

“America, it is time to focus on nation-building here at home,” Obama said, noting the country had spent a trillion dollars in a decade of war during tough economic times.

“Now, we must invest in America’s greatest resource — our people,” Obama said, blending policy and inspiration and sounding very much like a candidate.

Democratic presidents must usually guard their right flank on military issues, as Republicans delight in branding them soft on national security.

But Wednesday’s speech showed the domestic crisis and the national security credibility Obama won by ordering a special forces raid which killed Al-Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden, have given him more room for maneuver.

Bruce Riedel, who ran Obama’s first review of Afghan policy and is now at the Brookings Institution, disagreed that the president was simply declaring “Mission Accomplished” in Afghanistan and getting out.

“What the president is saying is that the urgent requirements that we have at home... (high) unemployment, a housing industry that’s in chaos, and a political system that doesn’t seem to be able to figure out a way to deal with these problems, requires us to retrench abroad,” he said.

White House officials insist Obama’s deliberations were based purely on military strategy — not politics, as some of his foes, including Republican 2012 hopeful Mitt Romney, have hinted.

Yet retiring Defense Secretary Robert Gates told AFP Thursday that Obama also weighed “political sustainability here at home.”

The public appears increasingly skittish about the Afghan war.

According to a new Pew Research Center survey, 56 percent of respondents — the highest ever — said U.S. troops should be brought home as soon as possible, while 39 percent said they should stay until the situation had stabilized.

Obama’s withdrawal decision does not come free of political risk.

Some analysts fear holes in the U.S. footprint in Afghanistan could embolden the Taliban and mean more U.S. troop deaths.

Conversely, nearly 70,000 American troops will remain in battle when Obama runs for reelection in November 2012, posing a possible political headache.

A senior Obama aide privately explained the case Obama will make to voters next year.

“When he says something, he does it,” the aide said.

“When he said we are going to bring home 100,000 troops from Iraq... he ended our combat mission on schedule.

“He said in the campaign he would get bin Laden, with unilateral action if necessary... he did.

“Now what he is doing on Afghanistan is keeping his word to the American people.”

Taxi drivers split on new street hail rules Some taxi and livery cab drivers stood together Wednesday to drive home their support of new street hail rules, but the issue is far from completely settled.

Those in support are calling on the State Senate to pass the rules, which will allow livery drivers to pick up fares in parts of Upper Manhattan and the four other boroughs.

The Taxi Workers Alliance is on board with the plan after concessions were made to enforce the new rules and protect yellow cabbies.

“We have come to understand that this is not just a problem for drivers and base owners, but that this also a problem for the 80 percent of New Yorkers that live outside of the borough of Manhattan,” said Pedro Heredia of the Livery Base Owners Association.

“At the end of the day, we wanted to do right by the public,” said Bhairavi Desai, executive director of the Taxi Workers Alliance. “But we first needed to secure the rights of

our members, because that’s who we are here to represent. And I’m glad that today I can say we’re able to do both.”

The Assembly passed the measure on Tuesday.

However, opponents are trying to put the brakes on the proposed new rules.

The New York State Federation of Taxi Drivers wants the Taxi and Limousine Commission to rescind more than 6,000 it said were only handed out to get more support for the measure.

“We could have done what the mayor wanted,” said Fernando Mateo of the New York State Federation of Taxi Drivers. “We supported parts of the mayor’s plan, and because we didn’t support it all, they got angry at us, and they issued 6,000 fines.”

“When he says these are tickets that shouldn’t be issued, if we change the law, then those tickets won’t be issued,” said David Yassky,

Taxi drivers riled over a proposal that would allow livery cabs to make street pickups in the outer boroughs and Upper Manhattan demonstrate at City Hall. commissioner of the Taxi and Limousine Commission. “The Taxi and Limousine Commission enforces the law. We don’t get to write the laws.

That’s why we’re here asking the State Legislature to change the law.”

Mateo said he will instruct his members not to pay the tickets and is considering taking the TLC to court.

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Michelle Obama tours Cape Town segregation museum

By DARLENE SUPERVILLE CAPE TOWN, South Africa — Michelle Obama on Thursday toured a museum that memorializes the forced segregation of a once vibrant and racially mixed area of this South African coastal city.

The visit to the District Six Museum was a consolation prize to replace a long-planned ferry ride to Robben Island for the first lady and her traveling family members. The first lady’s aides blamed the decision to abandon the half-hour ferry ride on high winds that made the Atlantic Ocean waters too rough to cross.

She also met with former Anglican Archbishop Desmond Tutu, a leader in the fight for racial equality in the country.

Former President Nelson Mandela was jailed on Robben Island for 18 years for his role in the movement to abolish apartheid, South Africa’s system of racial separation.

Apartheid ended in 1994, when Mandela was elected president several years after he again became a free man.

A tour of the closet-sized cell that housed Mandela also those years was expected to be an emotional high point of the trip. Aides said Mrs. Obama was looking forward to the visit.

First lady Michelle Obama stands with Mamphela Ramphele, fifth from right, and high school students after she answered students’ questions at the University of Cape Town in Cape Town, South Africa.

Instead, she and her family spent about an hour at the museum on a tour led by the director and a former District Six resident.

They also heard stories from Ahmed Kathrada, a former political prisoner and apartheid icon who was jailed on Robben Island with Mandela.

Kathrada and Mandela are buddies. Kathrada was among seven men sentenced on June 12, 1964,

with Mandela to life in prison for sabotage and plotting to overthrow the white government. Mandela was already in prison in a separate case but became a defendant in the socalled Rivonia treason trial because of documents found at Rivonia linking him to activities there.

The museum memorializes a sector of Cape Town that was established in 1867 as a racially mixed area but was forcibly segregated in

1965. Non-whites were removed to barren outlying areas and their homes in District Six were destroyed.

After the museum tour, Mrs. Obama took her family to lunch at a restaurant that serves sandwiches and salads made with local ingredients.

From there, she went to the University of Cape Town for a session with 50 high school students. They are from disadvantaged backgrounds but have shown academic potential.

Mrs. Obama arranged for them to spend the day at the university so they could envision themselves attending classes there one day. She said they shouldn’t look at the university as a foreign place.

“Getting into a school like this isn’t some kind of magical process,” the first lady said. “There is no magic dust that helps students succeed. Nowadays, it is really about how hard you are willing to work.”

Mrs. Obama has been traveling with several family members, including daughters Malia and Sasha; her mother, Marian Robinson; and a niece and nephew. President Barack Obama stayed in Washington.

The first lady and her entourage arrived in South Africa late Monday and were to fly to Botswana on Friday. The visits are her first to either country.

Twin Towers steel sent for memorials across America

By PAULA ROGO As the 10th anniversary of the September 11 attacks nears, workers at an airplane hangar filled with World Trade Center steel have dispatched charred hunks of metal to towns across America for building memorials.

The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, which owns the steel left behind when the World Trade Center collapsed, has already dispatched thousands of artifacts and is hoping to fill hundreds of last minute requests before the 10th anniversary of 9/11, when many memorials will be unveiled.

“These serve as centerpieces of history for towns all over the country,” said Bill Baroni, deputy executive director of the Port Authority of New York.

“The public will have access to

this piece of history displayed with honor, dignity and respect.”

The most iconic pieces, such as the last standing column of the World Trade Center and a FDNY Engine 3 fire truck, will be on display at the National September 11 Memorial and Museum when it opens on September 12 this year.

Most of the 12,000 pieces of steel the program began with have been dispatched to fire departments, police departments, and cities from 50 states and five countries which requested a piece of World Trade Center metal.

“People have short memories,” said Frank Byrnes, at the hangar to help escort a piece of steel donated to the St. James Fire District on New York’s Long Island. “If it raises public awareness, even after 10 years, then it’s great.”

The Port Authority hopes to move

most of the steel before the 10th anniversary but will continue to give out steel until the supply is exhausted.

Meanwhile, Hangar 17 at John F. Kennedy International Airport has become a sort of museum for the men and women who come here to transport their piece home.

The Wauseon Fire Department from Wauseon, Ohio drove 10 hours overnight to transport a 12-foot, 3,615 pound piece of steel home.

While at the 80,000 square foot hangar, they took a tour of the artifacts.

Among the items catching the attention of Wauseon Fire Captain Neil Kuszmaul, 34, was a mangled fire truck.

“Being a firefighter and looking at this pumper, it really brings things into perspective of what we lost that day,” he said.

TSA changes pat-down procedures on kids WASHINGTON — The U.S. Transportation Security Administration says it is changing its policy on how airport screeners search young children.

TSA Administrator John Pistole announced the change at a meeting of the Senate Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee in Washington.

CNN reported the change was spurred when a YouTube video showed a TSA screener patting

down a six-year-old passenger at the New Orleans airport in April.

Pistole said a female screener searched the young girl after she moved while a body scan was made, making it impossible to determine if she was carrying any banned items.

Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., questioned Pistole about the TSA’s procedures during the meeting.

“This isn’t to say we don’t believe in safety procedures,” Paul said.

“But I think I feel less safe when

we’re doing these invasive exams on a 6-year-old. It makes me think that you’re clueless, that you think she’s going to attack our country, and that you’re not doing your research on the people who would attack our country.”

Pistole said patting down children isn’t without merit.

“Unfortunately, we know that terrorists around the world have used children as suicide bombers,” Pistole said.

The hangar is full of contorted pieces of steel as well as burned fire trucks and police cars.

A slipper sits atop a pile of dustcovered clothes. Messages from wellwishers scribbled and stuck on debris have been eerily preserved.

The application to be given artifacts is long and the process is complicated, intended to discourage frivolous requests.

For the St. James Fire District in Long Island, New York, it took two years to be granted a “bow-tie” piece of steel which was part of the outer steel lobby of the World Trade Center.

“We have done a lot to make this happen,” said Liam Carroll, assistant chief of the St. James Fire District.

The steel has a deeper meaning for Carroll and his brigade. They lost one of their crew members, Douglas E. Oelschlager, when he was detailed to a short-staffed Ladder 7 on September 11, 2001. Many wear a laminated photo of him in their hats.

“It gives us something to reflect on,” Carroll said.

World Trade Center steel has already been used at some wellknown sites. The USS New York, commissioned by the U.S. Navy, was a vessel built with over seven tons of the steel.

A monument dedicated to nineyear-old Christina-Taylor Green, killed during the attempted assassination of U.S. Senator Gabrielle Giffords in Arizona last year, also used World Trade Center steel since she was born on the day of the attacks.

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DAILY CHALLENGE FRIDAY, JUNE 24, 2011

JOURNAL OF THE PEOPLE’S PASTOR ‘WRITING THE HISTORY I’VE LIVED, LIVING THE HISTORY I WRITE!’

Fifty-two nights and half-a-day in the hospital: My experience

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Part Seventeen 6. Rest According to the Bible, it was God who instituted the idea of rest in Exodus 20:11: “For in six days, the LORD made the heavens and the earth, the sea, and all that is in them, but he rested on the seventh day. Therefore, the LORD blessed the Sabbath day and made it holy.” God even commanded that nature should rest in Leviticus 25:2, “Speak to the people of Israel and say to them, ‘When you come into the land that I give you, the land shall keep a Sabbath to the LORD.’” It is my practice to set aside a time to rest my body and mind. Of course, rest can include sleep, but by rest, we are referring to time away from the usual activities. When God instituted the Sabbath, it was intended to mean more than just sleep. Paradoxically, the lesson God and nature

teach is that there’s greater productivity when there’s calculated cessation of work. In addition, there is the potential of harmony and balance when there is adequate rest.

Even the fairy tales of our early school days teach the wisdom of stopping to rest. Do you remember the story of the rabbit and the turtle in a track meet? The rabbit and every sane person thought that the rabbit would win. It was a sure thing, but the rabbit disobeyed the laws of nature. He would not stop to rest. Hence, he was forced to do so. He stopped to take a little nap. He was conquered by sleep.

Sleep is a good thing, but a good thing can be bad if done at the wrong time or in the wrong place. Remember, euphoria is in the balance of life. To be forced to do something is never the best thing. There are valuable lessons to be learned even when drastic measures are applied. However, it is better to obey the rules and laws without being compelled to do so.

You will be much farther ahead. Nevertheless, the turtle, much slower than the rabbit,

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In addition to the activities I have listed in my six-point program, there are other activities which one has available in the hospital room. There are at least five ways that people handle boredom in the hospital room. One way is to watch television if you can afford to spend six dollars a day. Speaking of addiction, one can become addicted to television. A long time ago, television was called the “one-eye bandit.”

Television can steal all of your time if you let it. Also, in some instances, you are allowed to bring in the radio at no extra cost. There is the telephone, which can be addictive, too. (It also costs six dollars a day.)

The telephone is conditional upon your state of health. It can be most encouraging to receive letters, gifts, etc. However, in my case, my telephone was taken away from me for awhile due to my inability to speak. When I had gained sufficient command of my voice, it was not wise for me to handle

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Study: Young males of color likely to end up jobless, imprisoned or dead

By GEORGE E. CURRY THEDEFENDERSONLINE.COM Fifty-one percent of Hispanic male high school graduates ages 15-24 and 45 percent of African-American males in that category will end up unemployed, incarcerated or dead, according to a study issued this week by the College Board’s Advocacy & Policy Center.

“Collectively, the pathway data show that more than 51 percent of Hispanic males, 45 percent of African American males, 42 percent of Native American males and 33 percent of Asian American males ages 15-24 will end up unemployed, incarcerated or dead,” concluded a report titled, “The Educational Experience of Young Men of Color: A Review of Research, Pathways and Progress.”

A companion report, “The Education Experience of Young Men of Color: Capturing the Student Voice,” was also released. Both reports were released at a news conference at Harvard on Monday and in Washington, D.C. on Tuesday.

The College Board report on educational experience observed, “…Men, especially minority men, lag behind their female counterparts in college access, educational attainment and employment. Minority men outpace their female counterparts only in negative post-secondary outcomes: unemployment, incarceration and death.”

In order to accomplish President Obama’s goal of the United States retaking its position as the world’s best educated nation, improvements must be made in the rate men of color enroll in and graduate from college, the report stated.

“The report seeks to identify not only what we know but also what we don’t know about men of color,” authors of the study said…It is our hope that this report will be the impetus for scholars to investigate more rigorously the issues affecting the academic performance of young men of color. We are particularly interested in research that identifies solutions to the problems, not that which identifies the problems all over again.”

A different approach would be to study successful men of color to determine what elements went into their success.

How well the problems of men of color are addressed will largely determine whether the United States will have a workforce educated enough to support knowledge-based jobs, which will directly impact the global competitiveness of the nation.

Although high school dropout rates among most racial and ethnic groups have declined over the past three decades, minority dropout rates remain disproportionately high, especially among males, the report noted.

The dropout rate for White males in 2008 was 7 percent. But the figure was 22 percent for Hispanic males, 17 percent for American Indian/Alaska Natives, 12 percent for African-Americans, 8 percent for Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islanders and 4 percent for Asians.

Dropout rates vary significantly within the ethnic group. Among Hispanics, for example, the high school dropout rate was 25.8 percent for Salvadorans but only 6 percent for Cuban males. The dropout rate was 22.2 percent for Mexicans but only 8 percent for South Americans.

Troubling statistics were also evident at the college level As of 2008, only 30.3 percent of African-Americans ages 25 to 34 and 19.8 percent of Latinos in that age bracket had attained an associate degree or higher. By comparison, 49 percent of Whites and 70.7 percent of Asian Americans had earned at least a degree from a two-year college. In every group, women had higher graduation rates than their male counterparts.

College enrollment figures show that 25.8 percent of African-American males 18-24 were in college in 1990, slightly higher than the 24.7 percent rate for Black women. By 2008, however, not only had Black women overtaken Black men, they had done so by a comfortable margin. In 2008, 29.7 percent of Black men ages 18-24 were enrolled in college. But the figure for AfricanAmerican females in that age bracket had risen to 34.2 percent.

Among Hispanic males, the col-

In the hospital: My experience Continued from page 4 the countless telephone calls. The callers were directed to my church office. It was similar to my visitation. My visits were limited to family members, Dr. Carol McIntosh, and Ms. Yvonne Rubie, the National Director of The House of the Lord Church’s Health Department.

I did not mention the above diversions, e.g., telephone, television, radio, etc., in my six-point program because to gain mastery of the environment and self, one has to learn to

do without external help, and, yes, even supporters.

To sum up, whatever your situation, declare yourself the master over both the situation and yourself.

Put forth maximum effort. Do all you can to actualize your affirmation.

Strive to emulate the Apostle Paul who said in Philippians 4:11-13, “Not that I speak in respect of want: for I have learned, in whatsoever state I am, therewith to be content. I know both how to be abased, and I know how to abound: everywhere

lege attendance rate increased from 15.4 percent in 1990 to 23 percent in 2008. But the rate for Hispanic women jumped from 16.4 percent in 1990 to 28.9 percent in 2008. The Asian American/Pacific Islander male graduation rate was the only one to decrease over that period, from 59.2 percent to 53.8 percent while Asian women rose from 54.9 percent to 61.1 percent.

Native American/Alaska Native male college rates doubled, from 8.4 percent to 18.7 percent over that period. Women, who held a 12-point lead over their male counterparts in 1990, saw the gap narrowed, holding only a 24.3 percent to 18.7 percent lead by 2008.

In 2008, White males had a college enrollment figure of 35.6 percent, compared with 34.7 percent for women. But White women had surpassed their male counterpart by 2008, upping their college attendance rate to 46.9 percent, compared to 41.7 percent for men.

The report suggest a goal of ensuring that 55 percent of young Americans hold an associate degree and higher. However, that can’t be done without closing the college completion gaps that separate Whites and Asians from other groups.

The report’s figures on unemployment, incarceration and death were particularly gripping.

In 2008, more than 9.4 million 1524-year-old high school graduates, including 5 million men (53.1 percent) and 4.4 million women (46.9 percent) were unemployed, the report said. Among males 15- to 24years-old with a high school diploma, 46 percent of Hispanics were unemployed, 39.2 percent of Native Americans, 34.4 percent of AfricanAmericans and 29.8 percent of Asians. Post-recession numbers are expected to be even higher.

While Hispanics and Native Americans had higher unemployment rates than Blacks, that pattern did not hold true for incarceration. More than 475,000 people aged 18 to 24 were incarcerated in 2008, with males making up 92.4 percent of that group.

Among minority males 15 to 24 with a high school diploma, 9.9 perand in all things I am instructed both to be full and to be hungry, both to abound and to suffer need. I can do all things through Christ which strengthens me.”

cent of African-Americans were behind bars, 5.2 percent of Hispanic men in that age group, 3.4 percent of Asians and 2.7 percent of Native Americans.

“An early death – natural or violent – is a real possibility for today’s youth,” the report stated. Among 18 to 24-year-olds, it noted, 34,887 died in 2008. Of those, 26,070 (74.7 percent) were males; 8,817 (25.3 percent) were females.

Of those who died in 2008, males made up 77.5 percent of AfricanAmericans, 71.5 percent of Asians, 79.4 percent of Hispanics, 71 percent of Native Americans and 72.6 percent of Whites. Overall, AfricanAmericans and Native Americans were tied at 0.3 percent of the deaths in that age group, followed by Hispanics, at 0.2 percent, and Asians, at 0.1 percent.

The authors of the report said that while there should be a concentrated effort to improve the plight of men of color, women of color also need and deserve support.

Among the report’s recommendations: 1) Policymakers must make improving outcomes for young men of color a national priority; 2) Increase community, business and school partnerships to provide mentoring and support to young men of color; 3) Reform education to ensure that all students, including young men of color, are college and career ready when they graduate from high school; 4) Improve teacher education programs and provide professional development that includes culturaland gender-responsive training; 5) Create culturally appropriate persistence and retention programs that provide wraparound services to increase college completion for men of color and 6) Produce more research and conduct more studies that strengthen the understanding of challenges faced by males of color and provide evidence-based solutions to these challenges.

The researchers said they reached an unmistakable conclusion: “There is an educational crisis for young men or color in the United States.”

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Supreme Court rejects generic drug labeling suits

By JAMES VICINI WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court ruled on Thursday that generic drug companies cannot be sued under state law over allegations that they failed to provide adequate label warnings about potential side effects.

By a 5-4 vote, the justices gave a victory to Israel’s Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd, Mylan Inc’s UDL Laboratories and Iceland-based Actavis Inc by overturning U.S. appeals court rulings that allowed such lawsuits.

The companies argued that federal law barred such lawsuits because the drug had been approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). Federal law requires generic drugs to

have the same labels as their brand name equivalents.

Justice Clarence Thomas in the court’s majority opinion agreed. He said federal

drug regulations applicable to generic drug manufacturers directly conflicted with and thus pre-empted state lawsuits.

The Supreme Court decided a related issue in 2009 when it ruled FDA drug regulations do not protect pharmaceutical companies from being sued under state law over drug labeling, a case involving Pfizer Inc’s Wyeth unit and its anti-nausea drug Phenergan.

But in the generic drug cases, the justices reversed separate U.S. appeals court rulings that the lawsuits against the companies could go forward.

One case involved Julie Demahy, who sued Actavis and said it should have warned her of the risks of developing a neurological movement disorder from metoclopramide, a generic drug for heartburn, nausea and vomiting.

The drug’s brand name

Study: Tax hikes needed for pension funding

By EDITH HONAN U.S. state and local governments will need to raise taxes by $1,398 per household every year for the next 30 years if they are to fully fund their pension systems, a study released on Wednesday said.

The findings clash strongly with a June report by the National Conference on Public Employee Retirement Systems as well as a March report by the Pew Center on the States.

The study, co-authored by Joshua Rauh of Northwestern University and Robert NovyMarx of the University of Rochester, both of whom are finance professors, argues that states will have to cut services or raise taxes to make up funding gaps if promises

made to municipal employees are to be honored.

“To achieve fully funded pension systems within 30 years, contributions would have to rise today to the levels we calculate, and then continue to grow along with the economy,” said Rauh.

The disagreement partly stems from the varying assumptions about investment returns and the rate of economic growth.

The National Conference survey of 215 pension funds found an average funding level of 76.1 percent with a 13.5 percent one-year return.

“Public pensions are experiencing a robust recovery from the Great Recession and are reporting strong investment returns, growing assets and funding levels on track to

meet their obligations,” Hank Kim, the groups’s executive director, said at the time.

Pension funding in U.S. cities and states deteriorated in the wake of the 2007-2009 recession as investment earnings dropped, and some cashpoor states, such as New Jersey and Illinois, skipped or reduced required payments.

Efforts to curb public-sector benefits this year have sparked heated debates from Wisconsin to New Jersey.

Wall Street rating agencies and investors in the $2.9 trillion U.S. municipal bond market are increasingly focusing on unfunded pension liabilities as they weigh the creditworthiness of state and local government debt.

Rauh and Novy-Marx previously stirred up the debate

over state pension obligations, including issuing the dire prediction that existing pension liabilities total around $3 trillion, if expected returns on investments are not counted.

Other studies have estimated the shortfall as far less. In March, the Pew Center, for example, found the pension shortfall for states could be $1.8 trillion, or as much as $2.4 trillion based on a 30year Treasury bond’s rate.

The study issued on Wednesday said required contributions from states will far exceed projections for state revenue.

New Jersey will need to increase its revenue by the largest margin, requiring $2,475 more from each household per year, according to the study.

equivalent is Reglan.

In another case, Gladys Mensing sued the three generic drug makers in federal court in Minnesota after allegedly developing the same disorder after taking generic versions of Reglan.

The Obama administration supported the two women. It said the companies could have sought changes to the drug’s label.

The FDA ordered warnings about the movement disorder be added to Reglan and metoclopramide in February 2009.

Generic drugs account for more than 70 percent of all prescriptions filled in the United States.

Liberal Justices Sonia Sotomayor, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Stephen Breyer and Elena Kagan dissented.

The contribution requirements may be higher for states that already have a significant amount of debt on their books and “cannot tap municipal bond markets as easily for large contributions,” the report said.

Keith Brainard, at the National Association of State Retirement Administrators, questioned the methods and assumptions used in the study as “improbable and unrealistic.”

Brainard said the data was, in part, based on a 10-year period of the average growth rate of state economic output.

And yet, the last decade saw one of the worst economic climates in 60 years, Brainard said. “(Rauh) is extrapolating future economic growth to be consistent with what the nation experienced during the last decade, which was anomalous and paltry,” Brainard said.

Lawmakers to introduce bill to legalize marijuana WASHINGTON — A group of U.S. representatives plan to introduce legislation that will legalize marijuana and allow states to legislate its use, pro-marijuana groups said.

The legislation would limit the federal government’s role in marijuana enforcement to cross-border or inter-state smuggling, and allow people to legally grow, use or sell marijuana in states where it is legal.

The bill, which is expected to be introduced on Thursday by Republican Representative Ron Paul and Democ-

ratic Representative Barney Frank, would be the first ever legislation designed to end the federal ban on marijuana.

Sixteen of the 50 states as well as the District of Columbia have legalized the use of marijuana for medical purposes.

But planting, selling or commercially distributing marijuana remains illegal under federal law.

Last year, California citizens voted not to legalize recreational marijuana use, although the debate continues in about half a dozen

other states.

Three weeks ago a group of ex-presidents of Latin America as well as former United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan denounced the failure of the global war on drugs and called for urgent changes, including the legalization of cannabis.

Between 1998 and 2008, worldwide consumption of opiates increased 35 percent, with cocaine use growing 27 percent and marijuana use growing 8.5 percent, according to the Global Commission on Drug Policy.

June marks the 40th anniversary of the “War on Drugs” launched by Presi-

dent Richard Nixon in 1970, the first major U.S. anti-drug initiative.

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Syrian troops near Turkey border as refugees flee

By KHALED YACOUB OWEIS AMMAN - Syrian troops massed near the Turkish border, witnesses said on Thursday, raising tensions with Ankara as President Bashar al-Assad uses increasing military force against a popular revolt.

Turkey said the two countries’ foreign ministers had consulted by telephone.

Witnesses said hundreds of terrified refugees crossed into Turkey to escape an army assault. Syrian troops stormed the village of Managh, 15 km (9 miles) south of the border and just north of the commercial hub of Aleppo, according to residents.

“I was contacted by relatives from Managh.

Armored personnel carriers are firing their machineguns randomly and people are fleeing the village in all directions,” an Aleppo resident said.

Mainly Sunni Turkey has become increasingly critical of Assad, who belongs to Syria’s Alawite minority, an offshoot of Islam, after previously backing him in his drive to seek peace with Israel and improve relations with the United States.

Assad also opened the Syrian market to Turkish goods.

Rights groups say

more than 1,300 civilians have been killed across Syria since midMarch, but the antiAssad protests have still grown, especially on Fridays after Muslim prayers.

Syrian authorities blame Islamist militants and armed gangs for killing more than 200 police and security personnel.

Turkish Red A Crescent official told reporters about 600 Syrians had crossed the border on Thursday morning.

Earlier in the day refugees from the northwestern province of Idlib said Armored vehicles and troops were as close as 500 meters from the Turkish border in the Khirbat al-Joz area.

Abu Saeed, a 50year-old man told Reuters he fled on Thursday to Turkey with his two wives and three children after he saw some 50 military vehicles enter Khirbat al-Joz. “(The vehicles) entered the village with a bulldozer and started demolishing our homes. A 90-yearold man was killed by them. They were army soldiers and police.

Then we fled here.”

It is hard to verify accounts of the violence since Syria has expelled many journalists, including Reuters correspondents.

Reuters reporters in Turkey saw half a dozen Syrian soldiers entering a three-storey building on a hill overlooking the border, opposite the Turkish

village of Guvecci. A Turkish flag had been hoisted on the previously unoccupied building.

The Syrian troops replaced the flag with a Syrian one. They left shortly before noon.

Within an hour four busloads of troops arrived, along with a pickup truck mounted with a machinegun.

Turkey’s 2nd Army Commander visited the Guvecci border post to take stock of the new troop deployments.

(Syrian “They troops) have never been this close before,” said Reuters Television journalist Omer Berberoglu. “But they didn’t come down to where the refugees were.”

A Reuters photographer heard three bursts of machinegun fire at around 10.30 am (O730 GMT). It was unclear who was shooting or what the targets were.

GROWING PROTESTS IN THE NORTH The Turkish Foreign Ministry said the border remained open and refugees continued to arrive.

“Today Foreign Minister (Ahmet) Davutoglu spoke with Syrian Foreign Minister (Walid) Moualem, and discussed the situation in Syria and the situation regarding refugees coming from Syria to Turkey,” a Foreign Ministry official said.

Protests have grown in northern areas bordering Turkey following military assaults

on towns and villages in the Jisr al-Shughour region of Idlib province to the west of Aleppo that had sent more than 10,000 people fleeing to Turkey.

On the 100th day of an uprising that has posed the gravest challenge to Assad’s rule, soldiers and secret police backed by Armored vehicles set up road blocks on Wednesday along the main road from Aleppo to Turkey, a major route for container traffic from Europe to the Middle East. They arrested dozens of people in the Heitan area north of Aleppo, residents said.

One resident, a physician, told Reuters by telephone: “The regime is trying to preempt unrest in Aleppo by cutting off logistics with Turkey.”

Central neighbourhoods of Aleppo, a largely Sunni city, have been mostly free of protests, in part due to a heavy security presence and a continuing alliance between Sunni business families and Syria’s ruling Alawite hierarchy.

The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees said that since June between 500 and 1,500 people had fled daily across Syria’s 840-km (520mile) border with Turkey.

Syria, a mostly Sunni country of 20 million with Kurdish, Alawite and Christian minorities is vulnerable to sectarian tensions, especially as Assad increasingly

Four jailed for touting tainted milk in China

By CARRIE HO SHANGHAI, Jun - Four people were sentenced to prison on Thursday for producing and selling melamine-tainted milk powder in north China’s Hebei Province, the official Xinhua news agency reported.

Cui Weizhong, legal representative of Yongxing Dairy Co., was given a five-year sentence

and a 150,000 yuan fine for blending 500 kg of melaminetainted milk powder into the company’s products over the past two years.

Liu Dan, a company lab technician, was sentenced to jail for three years and given a 100,000yuan fine for assisting in the production of the tainted milk powder.

Dang Yao and Mi Pengyong were fined 10,000 yuan each and sentenced to three years and 18 months in jail, respectively, for selling the contaminated

milk powder to Cui in 2009.

Yongxing Dairy Co. received a 250,000 yuan fine.

In 2008, at least six children died and nearly 300,000 fell ill from consuming powdered milk laced with melamine, an industrial chemical added to low quality or diluted milk to fool inspectors checking for protein levels.

Despite large-scale recalls and repeated vows to get tough, authorities continue to uncover cases of melamine in milk powder.

relies on loyalist Alawite troops and irregular forces known as ‘shabbiha’.

Many Sunnis resent the privileges gained

by Alawites who have dominated the security apparatus during the 41 years of Assad family rule. Some dislike Assad’s policy of aligning Syria further with Shi’ite Iran and Lebanon’s Hezbollah guerrillas.

BAN SAYS ASSAD LOSING CREDIBILITY Turkey has warned Assad against any repeat of his father’s bloody repression of an armed Islamist revolt in the city of Hama in 1982, when many thousands were killed.

A senior Turkish official said on Sunday that Assad had less than a week to start implementing longpromised political reforms before foreign intervention began, without elaborating.

Moualem, Syria’s

foreign minister, on Wednesday dismissed any chance of international intervention and asked Turkey to reconsider its response to a speech by Assad this week.

Turkish President Abdullah Gul said Assad’s had reform promises were not enough.

In his third speech since the start of the uprising, Assad promised reforms but these were seen by opponents and world leaders as too little, too late and too vague.

Assad issued an amnesty the next day, which human rights lawyers said covered mainly drug dealers, tax evaders and thieves, rather than political detainees.

U.N. chief Ban Kimoon said Assad was running low on credibility, with his pledges for reform and dialogue with pro-democracy protesters yet to bear fruit.

Dutch populist Geert Wilders acquitted of hate speech AMSTERDAM - Dutch populist politician Geert Wilders was acquitted of inciting hatred of Muslims in a court ruling on Thursday that may strengthen his political influence and exacerbate tensions over immigration policy.

The case was seen by some as a test of free speech in a country which has a long tradition of tolerance and blunt talk, but where opposition to immigration, particularly from Muslim or predominantly Muslim countries, is on the rise.

Instantly recognizable by his mane of dyed blond hair, Wilders, 47, is one of the most outspoken critics of Islam and immigration in the Netherlands.

His Freedom Party is now the third-largest in parliament, a measure of support for its antiimmigrant stance, and is the minority government’s chief ally. But many of Wilders’ comments — such as likening Islam to Nazism — are socially divisive.

The presiding judge said Wilders’s remarks were sometimes “hurtful,” “shocking” or “offensive,” but that they were made in the context of a public debate about Muslim integration and multi-culturalism, and therefore not a criminal act.

“I am extremely pleased and happy,” Wilders told reporters after the ruling. “This is not so much a win for myself, but a victory for freedom of speech. Fortunately you can criticize Islam and not be gagged in public debate.”

The ruling could embolden Wilders further. He has already won concessions from the government on cutting immigration and introducing a ban on Muslim face veils and burqas.

- GILBERT KREIJGER & AARON GRAY-BLOCK

AFRICAN SCENE

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DAILY CHALLENGE FRIDAY, JUNE 24, 2011

Protests erupt in Senegal over controversial law

By RUKMINI CALLIMACHI DAKAR, Senegal - In the biggest challenge yet to aging Senegal’s president, thousands of demonstrators shut down the capital’s downtown district Friday and took to the streets in three towns in the interior, lobbing rocks at police who forced them back with tear gas, rubber bullets and fire hoses.

Anger is boiling over after the party of Senegal’s 85-year-old leader proposed a constitutional amendment which would create the post of vice president.

Critics say the position is being engineered so President Abdoulaye Wade can hand power to his unpopular son expected to become the vice president if the measure passes - if Wade dies in office.

Clouds of tear gas enveloped the square in front of the country’s parliament, where lawmakers gathered to deliberate the proposal on Thursday. Young

Swaziland turns to South Africa for bailout

By WENDELL ROELF CAPE TOWN - Swaziland has asked neighboring South Africa for an emergency bailout to patch over a chronic national cash crunch that has sparked rare political unrest against King Mswati III, Africa’s last absolute monarch.

Swazi dissident groups have suggested Mswati, who has at least a dozen wives and an estimated personal fortune of $200 million, is looking for a 10 billion rand ($1.5 billion) loan from Pretoria.

However, deputy finance minister Nhlanhla Nene said this figure was probably too high.

“I’m not sure where the 10 billion rand figure comes from and I don’t foresee assistance amounting to that much,” he told Reuters. “It is too early to put a figure to it until such time as the review and the assessment of Swaziland’s problems are done.”

The sums of money are a drop in the ocean for South Africa, far and away the continent’s biggest economy, but, in a curiously African echo of the eurozone debt crisis, Pretoria fears it may be simply the first of a series of bailouts.

Like the International Monetary Fund (IMF), it will also baulk at lending anything to Swaziland, a landlocked nation of 1.4 million people, until the government takes the carving knife to what is Africa’s most bloated bureaucracy.

The IMF said last month the tiny southern African country was near financial collapse, with a budget deficit of 14.3 percent of GDP — similar to Greece — and an economy stuck in the doldrums. Swaziland’s public wage bill amounts to 18 percent of GDP, more than any other country in Africa.

The IMF said the government could dig up $87 million in cuts “swiftly” to improve the health of its finances, but described the commitment to reform as “mixed,” rendering immediate budgetary assistance impossible.

South African aid is also complicated by the loathing felt toward Mswati’s notoriously inept and unaccountable regime —cabinet posts are administered on the whim of the king — by the ruling ANC’s union allies.

men covered their faces with T-shirts and took cover in the garages and courtyards of homes lining the spokelike avenues leading to the seat of government.

Private radio station RFM reported that the demonstrators set fire to the home of ruling party lawmaker Farba Protesters Senghor. also encircled the home of another pro-Wade lawmaker to make it impossible for him to reach parliament in time for the vote.

Demonstrators also blocked roads and burned tires in the provincial towns of Matam, Kaolack and Saint Louis, indicating the protests were spreading. Wade is already facing criticism for deciding to run for a third term in next year’s presidential election, which would mean he could rule into his 90s.

“Back in the old days we had kings and kingdoms, but we’re supposed to be a democracy now,” said 55-year-old Gallo Diene, a factory worker who took the day off work to join the march. “I voted for Wade in 2000 and again in 2007. But I’m done voting for him.

What he’s doing is trying to install a monarchy.”

Passage of the amendment by the 150member National Assembly seems ensured because Wade’s party controls 131 of

those seats. If passed in the assembly, the senate, where the ruling party also has the majority, would vote on the proposal.

“People are not dumb,” said Londonbased writer and critic Mbaye Sanou, who was in Senegal for the protest. “We were just waiting for a detonator.

Everywhere else in the world people are rising up - Tunisia, Egypt. But nothing was happening here. This is the drop of water that made the vase run over. I just hope that what comes next will follow the Tunisian scenario, not the Ivorian one.”

In Tunisia, the longtime ruler chose to leave after protests. In Ivory Coast, strongman Laurent Gbagbo nearly dragged the country into civil war by refusing to leave office after losing last year’s election.

Once a symbol of the opposition, Wade came to power 11 years ago in what is considered the first free and fair election in the region.

Outgoing President Abdou Diouf is held up throughout Africa for stepping down without a fight and for telephoning Wade on the night of the president’s defeat to congratulate him.

Since he was first elected, Wade has strayed from his opposition roots, going the way of other entrenched African

Riot police huddle together after firing tear gas, as a lone man continues to hold up a sign protesting proposed constitutional changes, outside the National Assembly in central Dakar, Senegal Thursday, June 23, 2011.

Senegalese police lobbed tear gas at thousands of protesters who amassed in the capital Thursday to oppose proposed changes to the constitution that critics said would benefit longtime president Abdoulaye Wade and his family.

Photo/Rebecca Blackwell leaders who have used he would choose as his control of state institu- running mate, critics tions to prolong their say the post of vice stay in office. president is being creatHe set off a wave of ed for his eldest child, criticism in 2009 when Karim Wade, who has he announced he already been appointed planned to run for a minister of state and third term in 2012, minister of energy. using a loophole in the “We’re not against electoral law to circum- Karim Wade,” said provent the two-term max- tester Assane Ndiaye, a imum set out in the university student. constitution.

“Karim can be a candiThe opposition date like any other, but claims that Wade, offi- he shouldn’t be carried cially 85, is in fact sev- into office on his eral years older and father’s shoulders.” may already be nearing Having a vice presi90. It is common for dent would allow for rural families to delay automatic succession in registering the birth of the event of the presitheir children, especial- dent’s death. Currently ly boys, so that they can if Wade were to die in stay at home longer to office, the head of the help in the fields before National Assembly being required to start would become interim school. president until new Although Wade has elections can be organnot announced whom ized.

Zimbabwe military calls PM a ‘security threat’

By GILLIAN GOTORA HARARE, Zimbabwe - A Zimbabwean general has described the country’s prime minister as a “security threat” and accused him of taking instructions from Westerners that endanger national security, in an interview published Thursday by a state-run newspaper.

Brig.

Gen. Douglas Nyikayaramba told the Herald Newspaper that the military will do anything to keep longtime President Robert Mugabe in power.

“We will die for him to make sure he remains in power,” the Herald quoted him as saying. The

Herald is a mouthpiece for Mugabe and his ZANU-PF party.

Nyikayaramba, a member of the Joint Operational Command of generals and police chiefs, said the military and Mugabe’s ZanuPF party are “inseparable.”

Mugabe joined a troubled coalition in 2009 with Morgan Tsvangirai, the former opposition leader. Tsvangirai on Sunday accused the military of bias and meddling in politics.

In the past, Nyikayaramba has acted as unofficial spokesman for the usually secretive Joint Operational Command that is often seen as the real power behind Mugabe, 87.

Top military officials have repeatedly said they would not

serve under Tsvangirai if he became president because he did not take part in guerrilla war that ended white rule at independence in 1980.

Military commanders have refused to salute Tsvangirai on state occasions.

Nyikayaramba, a former guerrilla in the seven-year bush war, said the military now viewed Tsvangirai as a security threat for his ties with Western nations demanding Mugabe’s ouster.

“Tsvangirai does not pose a political threat in any way but is a major security threat ... taking instructions from foreigners who seek to effect illegal regime change in Zimbabwe,” he said.

Tsvangirai and several inde-

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AFRICAN SCENE

Sudan’s Bashir likely keen to ease China investment

By MICHAEL MARTINA & ALEXANDER DZIADOSZ

AFRICAN SCENE

ICC judges to announce Gadhafi warrant decision

BEIJING/KHARTOUM Sudan’s war crime-indicted president will seek to soothe his most powerful ally’s worries about its investments when he visits China next week, days before Sudan’s oil-rich south splits from the north.

That July 9 secession is the outcome of a January referendum that will see President Omar Hassan al-Bashir and his government in the northern capital Khartoum lose three-quarters of the country’s current oil output, roughly 500,000 barrels per day.

Sudan is one of China’s largest foreign supplier of crude oil, making Beijing all the more keen to ensure a smooth transition along the volatile northsouth border and that supplies are not interrupted.

“Everyone knows the elephant in the room is China’s investment in Sudan. The security of its interests is a big concern for China,” said He Wenping, an Africa expert at top government think tank the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences.

Khartoum seized the main town in the north-south border region of Abyei on May 21, raising fears the two sides could return to conflict. But Sudan’s military and the south’s Sudan People’s Liberation Army agreed this week to withdraw forces in favor of Ethiopian peacekeepers.

China has made a general policy of not getting involved in other countries’ domestic affairs, but with the security of its oil imports on the line, China says it has already been a force for stability in Sudan.

China’s special envoy for Africa Affairs and former envoy to Sudan’s conflict-torn Darfur region, Liu Guijin, told reporters on Thursday that China had “done a lot of work to persuade” the north to implement the peace agreement and referendum.

Issues concerning Sudan’s security would certainly be on the agenda during Bashir’s trip, which begins on Monday, he added.

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“But no matter how strong the outside pressure, no one can replace the Sudanese parties in making a decision,” Liu said.

Fouad Hikmat, a Sudan analyst with the International Crisis Group, said Khartoum was eager to ensure that its relations with China were solid after the split and would likely seek to reassure Beijing that its investments were safe.

“He’s going to have to go and tell China that these investments are not going to be thrown out.

They need to maintain friends at the international level, and therefore China is extremely important,” Hikmat said.

The north and south have yet to come to terms on how to manage the oil industry after the split, but China has been increasingly engaging with leaders from south Sudan, where it has opened a consulate and jumped into several projects.

Much of the oil comes from the south, but most of the refineries, pipelines and ports are in the north.

“China has a half a dozen projects in the south of Sudan, and as it is fully capable of playing on both sides of the street,” said Barry Sautman, a professor at Hong Kong University of Science & Technology and an expert on China’s role in Africa.

WAR CRIMES China — Khartoum’s top arms supplier — has been criticized by human rights groups ahead of the visit, who have called on Beijing to arrest Bashir for outstanding war crimes charges against him.

China has shrugged off these concerns, saying it has every right to invite the head of a state with which it has diplomatic relations.

China is in any case not a signatory of the International Criminal Court’s (ICC) Rome Statute under which Bashir faces an arrest warrant for crimes against humanity and war crimes in Darfur.

Roger Middleton, a researcher at London’s Chatham House think tank, said Bashir’s connections with major powers like China were all the more important because of the charges. “Politically, it’s very important for Bashir to go abroad to visit a major power.

This is certainly more important for Bashir than it is for the Chinese,” he said of the trip when Bashir will meet his counterpart, President Hu Jintao.

Middleton said there was evidence China had in the past pressed Khartoum to “behave differently,” but it was unlikely Bashir would get a dressingdown by Chinese officials.

The charges against Bashir have not stopped him from crossing borders in the past and other counties, such as India, have oil interests in Sudan, making him far from a pariah.

Still, China is an obvious ally for Sudan as a buffer against international pressure because of its U.N. Security Council veto power and its role as Sudan’s top trade partner.

Western powers may be less inclined to look the other way over the ICC arrest warrant, but analysts say the United States, also not party to the Rome Statute, and other countries have eased pressure in hopes the secession will go peacefully.

“China is not a member of the ICC and has no legal obligation to implement an ICC decision,” envoy Liu said.

THE HAGUE, Netherlands - International judges said Thursday they will rule next week on whether to order the arrest of Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi for allegedly orchestrating deadly attacks on civilians, a decision that could turn the embattled strongman into a prisoner in his own country.

A judicial panel of the court will announce Monday whether it will issue arrest warrants for Gadhafi, his son Seif al-Islam Gadhafi and intelligence chief Abdullah al-Sanoussi.

Prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo alleges Gadhafi’s forces attacked civilians in their homes, shot at demonstrators, shelled funeral processions and deployed snipers to kill people leaving mosques during the violent crackdown on rebels fighting to end his more than four-decade rule.

An arrest warrant would turn Gadhafi into an internationally wanted war crimes suspect liable to be detained, if he ever ventured outside Libya.

However, he has vowed to fight to the death to cling to power, even in the face of weeks of NATO airstrikes, making it appear unlikely he will attempt to flee the country.

The world’s first permanent war crimes tribunal has no police force to go into Libya and attempt to arrest suspects.

Congo: 4 death sentences over activist’s death KINSHASA, Congo - A military magistrate in Congo has sentenced four policemen to death over the killing of a prominent human rights campaigner.

Col. Camile Masungi also on Thursday sentenced one defendant to life imprisonment and acquitted another three over last year’s killing of Floribert Chebeya Bahizire.

All eight were policemen.

Bahizire headed Voix des Sans Voix, or Voice of the Voiceless. His body was found in his car in a suburb on the outskirts of Congo’s capital, Kinshasa. Voix des Sans Voix, one of the largest rights groups in Congo, said he appeared to have been strangled.

Congo’s government also announced they would pay tens of thousands of dollars to his family and colleagues and to those of Bahizire’s driver, who disappeared at the time.

Libya resumes college funding for students in US DETROIT - About 2,000 Libyan students who attend U.S. colleges are getting a one-year reprieve in financial support after Libya agreed to resume funding it halted when the U.N. froze about $30 billion of that country’s assets.

The Canadian Bureau for International Education, which administers the funding, announced Wednesday that Libya transferred the money through its central bank to continue the Libyan-North American Scholarship Program. The funding covers tuition and monthly living allowances through May 2012 for the students and their dependents.

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Haitian lawmakers reject leader’s pick for PM

By TRENTON DANIEL PORT-AUPRINCE, Haiti Haitian lawmakers on Tuesday rejected President Michel Martelly’s choice for the next prime minister of Haiti, plunging the chronically troubled country into political uncertainty as a new government struggles to get its footing.

The rejection of Daniel-Gerard Rouzier as Haiti’s No. 2 official marks a major setback for Martelly a month after he took office and assumed the responsibility of leading Haiti’s reconstruction efforts in the wake of last year’s devastating earthquake.

After several weeks of studying Rouzier’s paperwork and credentials, 42 lawmakers in the lower-level Chamber of Deputies voted against Martelly’s pick of prime minister while only 19 voted in favor.

Three deputies abstained.

Musician-turnedpresident Martelly will now be forced to nominate somebody else, which could take weeks.

Rouzier is an American-educated entrepreneur and longtime friend to Haiti’s recently elected president.

Martelly’s press office issued a statement Tuesday night, saying the president was “deeply disappointed” by the parliament’s decision but will accept it because he’s a democratic leader.

Haiti-born political observer and private consultant Jocelyn McCalla said the nixing of Rouzier was “unfortunate” because he was a departure from the status quo of Haitian politics, a small yet volatile arena in which many of the same players participate.

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Presidents of Guyana and Germany focus on combating climate change GEORGETOWN, Guyana — Guyana’s President Bharrat Jagdeo spent Wednesday in a series of meetings with German leaders and senior officials.

Discussions centered on the need for sustained political action on climate change, and in particular on Guyana and Germany’s upcoming joint chairing of the Interim REDD+ Partnership from July 1, 2011. The group consists of most of the world’s forest countries and key developed countries.

Jagdeo met with President Christian Wulff at Bellevue, the German president’s official residence.

Speaking afterwards, Jagdeo said, “In the run up to Copenhagen, the issue of climate change and green growth received an unprecedented level of first-order political attention. Sadly, that attention has faded in many cases. However,

Germany has remained firm in its commitment, both to the deep emissions cuts required to stabilize our planet’s climate, and to the protection of bio-diversity and the alleviation of poverty across the world.

Chancellor Merkel and the German Government’s leadership continue to be needed. I am confident that Guyana and Germany will both apply the necessary political leadership to the issue of deforestation and forest degradation in our upcoming co-chairing of the Interim REDD+ Partnership.”

Jagdeo also met with Dr Christoph Heusgen, Chancellor Merkel’s Foreign Policy Advisor and with Wener Hoyer, the Deputy German Foreign Minister.

Jagdeo spoke of Chancellor Merkel’s commitment to combating deforestation, and her decisiveness at the side meeting of the G20 in April 2009, when Guyana was one of three non-G20 countries invited to discuss

President Bharrat Jagdeo (L) is welcomed by his German counterpart Christian Wulff at the Bellevue presidential palace in Berlin, June 22, 2011.

Photo/Fabrizio Bensch how to put in place an the work initiated in Green Growth emergency package for 2009 at the G20 side Initiative. He concluded the fight against defor- meeting, we know that his visit to Seoul when estation and forest it will be possible to he attended the Global degradation. It was the deliver a 25% reduction Green Growth Summit, G20 side meeting that in global deforestation and met with Korean led to the foundation of rates within five years.” President Lee Myungthe Interim REDD+ The meetings in bak and Foreign Partnership.

Germany followed Minister Kim SungSpeaking in Berlin, Jagdeo’s trip to Korea, Hwan to talk about Jagdeo said, “We can- where he took part in a investment opportuninot solve climate meeting of the board of ties in Guyana and change without solving directors of the Global other bilateral matters. deforestation. And after

Chavez may return to Venezuela within 12 days CARACAS, Venezuela President Hugo Chavez is recuperating well from his surgery in Cuba and is expected to return to Venezuela within 12 days, one of his brothers said Wednesday.

Adan Chavez told state television that “it’s not clear” exactly when his younger brother would return, but the leader expects to depart for Venezuela within 10 to 12 days.

“The president is recovering in a satisfac-

tory manner,” he said.

“The president is a strong man.”

Chavez underwent surgery in Cuba for a pelvic abscess June 10.

The condition is an accumulation of pus that can have various causes, including infection or surgical complications. Neither Chavez nor doctors treating him have disclosed what caused the abscess.

Venezuelan Vice President Elias Jaua said Chavez is attending to his day-to-day government duties while recuperating.

“He’s signing documents for social security

retirees and resources for the education ministry, reading reports,” Jaua told Union Radio.

“The president is following all current events in the country.”

Chavez’s absence and his relative silence has concerned some of his supporters.

The loquacious leader has communicated by telephone with program hosts on state television several times since the surgery, but Venezuelans are accustomed to the president’s near daily speeches and television appearances that can last several hours.

UN mission urges formation of Haitian government without delay PORT AU PRINCE, Haiti — The United Nations peacekeeping mission in Haiti on Wednesday urged the country’s authorities to immediately form a government that will serve the people and fulfil their expectations, after Parliament rejected the man nominated by President Michel Martelly to serve as prime minister.

The UN Stabilization Mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH) called for the setting up of a government that will work with all concerned parties, including Parliament, politicians, civil society and the international community, to formulate a strategy on education, employment, the rule of law and the environment.

The Caribbean nation remains without a fully constituted government more than a month since Martelly was inaugurated as president. He had put forward Daniel-Gerard Rouzier as prime minister designate, but the Chamber of Deputies - which must ratify the nomination - on Tuesday rejected Rouzier.

MINUSTAH stated in a communiqué that each day that passes with a fully functioning government further thwarts the aspirations of the Haitian people, which they have expressed through the ballot box in the past year.

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Youth advocate chosen to administer Union City father and girl, 8, $100M Facebook grant to Newark schools are in home invasion; police

are calling a “targeted attack”

By VICTORIA ST. MARTIN NEWARK - In September, Newark was the surprise recipient of a $100 million gift from Facebook’s founder to help fix its beleaguered schools.

Now, it’s chosen someone to help figure out how to best spend all that money.

Gregory Taylor, a lawyer, educator and veteran advocate for at-risk youth, has been chosen as the chief executive officer of the Foundation for Newark’s Future, the organization that will administer the $100 million from Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, as well as $100 million in matching pledges, all to be spread over five years. He is to start June 13.

Taylor, 43, of Ann Arbor, Mich. is coming to Newark from the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, a philanthropic organization, where he was the vice president of programs. At Kellogg, Taylor also worked as the national director of an early childhood program and he was the past senior director and chief program officer for the Fannie Mae Foundation.

Taylor says the foundation is still working on how the money will be spent, but said the foundation will emphasize improving early childhood education, teacher quality, school governance.

He said the money will also go towards exploring new school models, which will include charter schools and creating partnerships with universities.

But Taylor, who was raised in New York and California, said the money is a significant gift but it’s not

By MICHAELANGELO CONTE

UNION CITY - A man was brutally pisto whipped Monday during a home invasion in whic he and his young daughter were bound an gagged with duct tape, police said.

Gregory Taylor saying “I’m not really clear a cure-all.

“There’s no way that this on what the Foundation for money alone can meet the Newark’s Future is supposed needs the community has,” to do,” and said he hopes he said. “This one infusion of that more information will cash isn’t going to lead the be released now that a direcway. It should be viewed as a tor has been named.

“It’s not quiet clear how catalyst where we can build they will use this money or on existing work.”

Mayor Cory Booker said who decides how the money be used,” said Taylor will be the “champion will for our children and our Cammarieri. “What is the decision making process? So community.”

“Greg’s more than 15 maybe this will help clarify years of experience leading it.”

Taylor, who is married and developing programs to empower and educate our and has two school-aged nation’s underserved urban children, said his family youth will be essential to our plans to move to the area in ongoing efforts to transform two years and that he will Newark’s schools,” said enroll his children “in the Booker in a prepared state- school that best suits them.”

When asked if that school ment.

Richard Cammarieri, a would be a city school, he former Newark Public said he is gathering inforSchools Advisory Board mation on schools in the member, questioned the area, so he “can make an function of the foundation, informed choice.”

N.J. county, state prosecutors not allowed to carry guns after retirement

By MARYANN SPOTO TRENTON - County and state prosecutors are not considered law enforcement officers under New Jersey’s strict gun laws that allow retired cops to carry weapons, an appellate panel ruled yesterday.

The decision by the threejudge panel upholds a lower court’s finding that Giles

Casaleggio, a former assistant prosecutor in Union, Passaic and Morris counties before becoming a deputy attorney general, does not qualify for a gun permit as a retired law enforcement officer.

The court said New Jersey law says specifically that deputy attorneys general and assistant prosecutors can carry weapons while holding those jobs, but says nothing

about after they retire.

“Unlike police officers and investigators, both assistant prosecutors and deputy attorneys general are ‘lawyers first and foremost’ whose ‘essential responsibility is to provide legal advice,’ “the court wrote, referring to the statement accompanying the Senate bill creating the law in 1996.

“Their primary duty ‘is to perform legal services in connection with law enforcement.’”

It appears that at least two suspects were waiting outsid the victims’ home at 10th Street and Kennedy Boulevar when the two arrived home yesterday afternoon, Police Chi Charles Everett said last night.

The men pushed into their apartment and there was struggle during which two shots were fired, Everett said.

The girl, judged to be about 8 years old, and her fathe described as being in his early 30s, where subdued an bound with duct tape, Everett said, adding that other item used for restraining people were found in the home.

As of Monday night, police still had not thoroughly inte viewed the male victim because he was receiving medic treatment, Everett said.

The little girl was also taken to the hospital but appeare to be uninjured, he said.

One of the shots struck a water pipe in the large apar ment building, but no one was wounded by the gunfire an no one in the building called police after the shots were fire he said.

Police aren’t sure how the victims escaped.

“It’s possible one victim fled out of the apartment and wa pursued, but there were people around outside and they (th robbers) might have cut their losses at that point and fled Everett said. “This was definitely a targeted attack.”

Oscar Dominguez, vice president at MACO Office Source Kennedy Boulevard and 10th Street, said that around 3:3 p.m. he heard a woman screaming and when he looke through the glass door of his office, he saw a bloodied ma rolling at the curbside.

“He was bleeding all over his face,” said Dominguez. “H had about 10 cuts, some big gashes.”

A woman at the bus stop was helping the man and had pu her sweater under his head and the man’s daughter wa standing nearby, said Dominguez, adding that both the ma and his daughter had duct tape around their necks.

Another person at the bus stop said she took the pla number of a fleeing van, Dominguez said, and Everett co firmed police are checking out the plate number.

“My assistant brought out paper towels and the woma who was helping him tried to stopped the man’s bleeding Dominguez said. When cops arrived, the man yelled, “The robbed me,” Dominguez said.

Nothing appears to have been taken from the apartmen Everett said.

Blaze in vacant North Bergen building

NORTH BERGEN - Firefighters extinguished a two-alar blaze early yesterday that had engulfed a vacant two-stor building on Kennedy Boulevard near 52nd Street.

Responding to the fire at 5203 Kennedy Blvd. at 1:42 a.m firefighters found the building “heavily involved,” said Nort Hudson Regional Fire and Rescue Deputy Chief Charl Thomas.

Radiant heat from the fire was so intense that it blew ou the windows of an adjacent vacant building and partial melted two vehicles parked nearby, Thomas said.

The fire, the cause of which has not been determined, ori inated in the basement and burned through the first floor, h said.

Firefighters had the blaze under control by 2:42 a.m. bu remained on the scene to prevent flare-ups and conduct search of the building’s basement, Thomas said, notin vagrants had been seen entering and exiting the building the past.

The Division of Fire Safety will investigate the fire an evaluate the structure, Thomas said.

- SUMMER DAWN HORTILLOS

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â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Sister Actâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Out Acts All on Broadway!

By JEANETTE TOOMER INSIDE NEW YORK CORRESPONDENT â&#x20AC;&#x153;Sister Act,â&#x20AC;? the Broadway musical, starts small with a nightclub audition for the club ownerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s mistress and quickly builds its house of witty lyrics, comedic twists, and delightfully ironic character performances to a winning crescendo by the intermission.

And thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s just the first act. With book by Cheri and Bill Steinkellner and direction by Jerry Zaks â&#x20AC;&#x153;Sister Actâ&#x20AC;? does not miss one beat of satisfying story and musical comedy. The star, Patina Miller, delivers an exquisite Tony-worthy performance as Deloris Van Cartier.

After Delorisâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; audition for gangster/club

owner Curtis Jackson, she walks unannounced into his back office just in time to witness his murder of another criminal. She quickly backs out of the office with a litany of apologies and promises to keep quiet while Curtis sends his goons after her with orders to kill her. Next stop for Deloris is the local police station where an old friend from high school, Police Officer Eddie Souther, places her in secret protective custody in a convent with the nuns of Queen of Angels Church.

The church is on the verge of sale to outside investors, but after Deloris arrives and breathes fresh air and plenty of style into the nunâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s choir, things change dramatically.

It is this change and the contrasts that make this show so appealing.

a loving From boyfriend, Curtis turns into a single-minded murderer, here played sardonically by Kingsley Leggs. From a wimpy collection of nuns in a weak off-key choir, the nuns transform into a dynamic chorus with exciting, layered performances from Marla Mindelle, Victoria Clark and Sarah Bolt. Even the Monsignor Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Hara, portrayed handsomely by Fred Applegate, carries a somber demeanor in the beginning and then slowly morphs into to a Barry White-inspired m.c. persona as he introduces the popular new choir of nuns led by Sister Mary Clarence, aka Deloris Van Cartier.

Chester Gregory returns to Broadway in his role as Officer Eddie, also known as Sweaty Eddy, who

holds a secret crush on Deloris. He steals the show with his wish fulfillment song and dance number, â&#x20AC;&#x153;I Could Be Several That Guy.â&#x20AC;? upbeat songs, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Raise Your Voice,â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;When I Find My Baby,â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;Take Me to Heavenâ&#x20AC;? and â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Life I Never Hadâ&#x20AC;? are totally captivating. The music by Alan Menken with lyrics by Glenn Slater not only entertain, but lifts the characters and performances to fresh new heights of musical theater.

Set design by Klara Zieglerova is a breathtaking marvel. The combination of tall moving panels, light projections and fluid floor panels lend an air of high ceilings and spiritual solemnity to the church setting.

Choreography by Anthony Van Laast is endearing and often humorous, especially

The Tony nominated Patina Miller as Deloris Van Cartier in "Sister Act." â&#x20AC;&#x153;Sister when Curtisâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; three Productions, goons break into dance. Act,â&#x20AC;? the musical, sucCaesar Samayoa, John cessfully builds on the Treacy Egan and popularity of the origiDemond Green are per- nal movie and its fectly cast as the crime sequel. Nominated for trio that aims to bring best musical as well as four other Tony an end to Deloris.

Produced by Whoopi awards, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Sister Actâ&#x20AC;?

Goldberg and Stage stands to enjoy a long Entertainment in asso- run at The Broadway ciation with the Theatre.

Shubert Organization and Disney Theatrical

Spotlight on Tyrone Rasheed: The Prince of Photography and A New Harlem Renaissance Photographer Anyone who has met Tyrone Rasheed, and has had the opportunity to work with him would quickly agree that he is the â&#x20AC;&#x153;Prince of Photography.â&#x20AC;?

This highly esteemed Harlem native is one of the New Harlem Renaissance Photographers whose work is in the exhibit â&#x20AC;&#x153;Harlem Views and Diasporan Visionsâ&#x20AC;? at the Schomburg. Best known for his 25 years of outstanding work as a photographer with Ebony and Jet magazines, Rasheed spoke with INSIDE NEW YORK about his early beginnings in photography, what he loves most about photography and how the trade has changed.

Although Rasheedâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s photographs of celebrities and newsmakers have filled the pages of Johnson publications for many years, he is currently in high demand as a freelance photographer. Rasheed first became interested in

Eartha Kitt celebrating her 80th Birthday at Carnegie Hall Photo credit: Tyrone Rasheed photography about 30 years ago while working as a technician in TimeLifeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s photo lab. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I first started shooting for Time-Lifeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s newsletter,â&#x20AC;? said Rasheed. It was there that he met Gordon Parks, who encouraged and inspired him to leave Time-Life for Ebony magazine. â&#x20AC;&#x153;From there,â&#x20AC;? continued Rasheed, â&#x20AC;&#x153;I started freelancing as an assistant for Johnson Publishing and for Jet magazine, which led to Ebony magazine where I landed a staff position.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;I was shooting for Jet when I shot the picture of Eartha Kitt on the occasion of her 80th

Aretha Franklin at the Apollo Photo credit: Tyrone Rasheed birthday and the photo of Nancy Wilson was on her 70th birthday, both shot at Carnegie Hall,â&#x20AC;? he said. However, it is the photo of James Brown taken at the Apollo that means the most to him. â&#x20AC;&#x153;This means a lot to me because James Brown is known for being at the Apollo for us,â&#x20AC;? said Rasheed. These photos are all on view at the Schomburg.

Although always challenging, Rasheed said, â&#x20AC;&#x153;being a freelancer, has allowed me more time to be creative and I

now specialize in sports and event photography.

I Iove doing portrait work and documenting those moments that you capture that can never be replaced.

Documenting work for Johnson Publications has been the best experience of my life. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve had the chance to meet all kinds of people, not just celebrities, just interesting people ... I never knew where I was going to go or who I was going to meet. That was the exciting part of the job ...I wanted to show in this exhibit the icons in

Tyrone Rasheed in front of his photographs on exhibit at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. music where it all start- history, what others ed.â&#x20AC;? often toss in the garbage The biggest challenge the next day. Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re the Rasheed said has been ones who are supporting the lack of access, even you and giving you the as a staff photographer exposure. These photos for a major Black publi- stay in our magazines cation. â&#x20AC;&#x153;You used to be and our history forever.â&#x20AC;? able to go to the Apollo Rasheed was most and different venues and inspired and influenced take pictures of the dif- by Parks, who told him, ferent artists. Now, the â&#x20AC;&#x153;If you want a dream go access is not there like it after it!â&#x20AC;?

You can see Rasheedâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s used to be. My recomat the mendation to young photos artists and publicists is Schomburg Center for to give access to the Research in Black Black photographers. Culture at 515 Malcolm Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the only way that X Blvd. at 135th Street, we can document our through June 30th.

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NBT celebrates Founderâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Day with â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Do Wop Loveâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;

Voza Rivers, executive producer, New Heritage Theatre with Sherry Bronfman at the opening of "Do Wop Love."

Photo credit: Joan H. Allen

Gene Stovall, Jason McCollum, Dade Faison in a scene from "Do Wop Love" at the National Black Theatre.

Dr. Barbara Ann Teerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s National Black Theatre (NBT) led by CEO Sade Lythcott celebrated Founderâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Day, opening night of Ronald Wyche and Herbert Rawlingsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; play, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Do Wop Love.â&#x20AC;? Since her passing in 2008, National Black Theatre has celebrated Founderâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Day,

the commemoration of Dr. Barbara Ann Teerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s birthday, with a semiannual appeal to keep Dr. Teerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s legacy alive. The evening also honored R&B artist, Johnny Kemp who hosted with R&B group, Blue Magic an â&#x20AC;&#x153;Old School Party Jamâ&#x20AC;? that played all the hits including Kempâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s

mega hit, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Just Got Paidâ&#x20AC;? while attendees screamed for more. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Swaying with street corner perfect harmony, â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Do Wop Loveâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; shows the heart and feet, a good time...come and connect to music as a way of celebrating love's dramas & joys! You'll be begging for more even before the

first half is finished,â&#x20AC;? said Wyche. "Do Wop Love" is an impressive American history lesson taking us down the musical path of some of the best known, classical love relations songs recorded during the 50s, 60s and 70s. It shows us that soulful men have feelings too. With a cast

Jackie Jeffries, producer with honoree Johnny Kemp at the NBT after-party for "Do Wop Love."

Photo credit: Joan H. Allen

Jason McCollum in a scene from "Do Wop Love." of five and live musi- tion of Bert Price and cians behind them, the associate musical direcdialogue, stories and tor P. Murray. The set songs are arranged to design has been created transport you to another by Chris Cumberbatch dimension of being and the light design by human using the James Carter. The cast African American musi- consists of Gene Stovall, cal experience. â&#x20AC;&#x153;This Jason McCullum, King production tells the Aswad and Dade Faison. story of a time when â&#x20AC;&#x153;Do Wop Loveâ&#x20AC;? will music was a way of life run through June 26, for releasing and ener- 2011 at the National gizing our experiences,â&#x20AC;? Black Theatre, 2031-33 said Wyche.

Fifth Avenue at 125th â&#x20AC;&#x153;Do Wop Loveâ&#x20AC;? is pro- Street in Harlem. For duced by Jackie Jeffries. more information call The show is directed by the NBT at 212 722Ronald Wyche. and is 3800. under the musical direc-

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One Thought - One Humanity

For the conclusions of these stories check out the June 23rd - June 29th, 2011 issue of The New American, which hits newsstands every Thursday Jennifer Hudson’s “No One Gonna Love You” video is coming soon. And from the looks of the pics on set, Hudson, wearing a black-and-white outfit with matching bowler hat, is every bit jazzinspired. She’s even sitting inside a dance studio!

L.A. Reid has signed a deal to become the chairman of Epic Label Group, a new organization formed which will encompass Epic and Jive Records. Reid will inherit Usher and Pink, two artist whom he discovered, as well as search for new talent to sign to the label.

It is expected that he will direct to company more towards urban acts which was a different agenda of the former companies. The 55-year-old executive will start his post after the fourth of July holiday.

Remy Ma is currently serving an eightyear sentence stemming from 2008 convictions on assault, weapons possession and coercion charges.

After losing her appeal earlier this year, the rapstress, whose real name is Reminisce Smith, will have a parole hearing in September 2014 with an eligibility date set for January 31, 2015, according to court documents. If parole is denied, the 30-year-old, who began serving time on May 21, 2008, may remain in New York’s Bedford Hills Correctional Facility for Women until March 23, 2016 - her sentence’s maximum expiration date.

The “Whuteva” spitter was originally charged with shooting Makeda Barnes-Joseph during an altercation over $3,000.

John Legend stunned locals in Philadelphia, Pennsyl-

vania by performing at a local church. The star was a surprise guest at the Calvary Baptist Church in West Philadelphia and sang Aretha Franklin classic How I Got Over with churchgoers. In a video of the performance posted on his Facebook.com page on June 20, he says, “I grew up singing and playing gospel music. I played in a bunch of choirs as a kid, up through going to college. I paid my way through school by being a director of music in church.

“A lot of the greatest soul singers in American history started in the Black church. It’s very obvious when you listen to gospel and soul music, you can see and hear and feel the connection. I haven’t performed in church for a while.

Eva Mendes has been granted a three-year extension of her restraining order against her stalker John C. Luna after he didn’t oppose it. The actress who has claimed she had been living in “constant fear” of John C. Luna, who she says has been harassing her since 2008 asked for an extension to the temporary order and it was approved by Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Carol Boas Goodson after Luna didn’t oppose it. Goodson said: “I’m surprised he agreed to this, but his signature and initials are there.” In her legal papers which were filed earlier this month - Eva stated: “As a result of Mr. Luna’s conduct directed at me ... including references in a letter that he knows I am willing to die for him, and his showing up at my house on May 31, 2011, looking for me, I am in constant fear.”

He’s always looking for new avenues for his

talent, and Chris Brown’s latest venture is the New Boyz video for “Better With the Lights Off.” The “No Air” singer dons a LA Raiders shirt as he sings the catchy R&B hook in the clip, sure to be one of the summer’s hottest anthems.

The demand for videos by Nicki Minaj has soared, as the rapper has set a new record for most single week video views, on Music Choice’s Video on Demand service.

The video for the Nicki’s single “Super Bass” has received 1,436,807 views according to Rentrak, a media measurement and research company. The number represents the largest ever recorded for a single week since Music Choice’s Video on Demand launched in November of 2004, according to reps for Music Choice. The millions of views that “Super Bass” has racked up gives Nicki three of the top five best-performing videos of all time videos on Music Choice.

Tyler the Creator broke his foot during a performance in Los Angeles over the weekend. The rapper was performing at the House of Blues on June 18th in Los Angeles, when he sustained the injury. The rapper may re-schedule other upcoming shows in California while he recuperates.

Aretha Franklin has suffered a wardrobe malfunction – but not the kind that usually comes to mind. On Friday, while on the road to promote her album A Woman Falling Out Of Love, the Queen of Soul put the emphasis on “falling” in her Dallas hotel suite – by stumbling over one of her Jimmy Choo spiked heels, which had gotten caught on her toe.

Be greater than AIDS: Get yourself tested!

Greater Than AIDS and GYT: Get Yourself Tested, two leading national campaigns committed to reducing the spread of HIV and other sexually transmitted diseases, are teaming up for a second year to encourage Americans to get tested and know their status. In the lead up to National HIV Testing Day (June 27), the scaled-up, monthcross-promotion long brings together major media and leading corporate brands know their status. The CDC encourwith community organizations and ages all Americans between the ages state and local health departments of 13-64 to get tested on a routine to carry the message on air and on basis as part of their overall health and well-being similar to cholesthe ground across the nation.

“As we mark 30 years of AIDS, it’s terol, blood pressure, and other worth noting the tremendous screens.

Elements of the Be Greater Than progress made in terms of the lifesaving treatments now available, but AIDS: Get Yourself Tested Month to benefit from these advances one promotion include: * Five-City Summer Concert Tour, must first know their status,” said Tina Hoff, Senior Vice President & in partnership with EMMIS CommuDirector, Health Communication & nications and Radio One, that inteMedia Partnerships, Kaiser Family grates HIV/AIDS information and Foundation, a partner on both cam- testing resources into some of this paigns. “Be Greater Than AIDS: Get summer’s biggest concerts, includYourself Tested is an empowering, ing those sponsored by EMMIS and uplifting message that makes get- supported by Gilead Sciences in ting tested an act of pride, not Chicago (Jamboree, 6/4), New York (Summer Jam, 6/5), Los Angeles shame.”

“Our audience has never known a (Powerhouse, 6/25), and sponsored time without HIV, but through by Radio One in Miami (SpringFest, efforts like GYT, we’re committed to 5/28) and Atlanta (Birthday Bash, empowering them to forge a world 6/18). On air promotions in the lead where HIV doesn’t exist,” said Jason up to the concerts, including DJ call Rzepka, Vice President of Public outs and targeted public service ads, Affairs, MTV. “We’re proud to join will promote testing. Giveaways with this remarkable coalition and and other special promotions will reinforce regular testing as one way support listeners who get tested.

America’s youth can be greater than An on-site information booth will offer more resources. Additionally, AIDS.” According to the U.S. Centers for the “Road to the Chicago’s Jamboree Disease Control and Prevention Concert Testing Tour,” conducted in (CDC), of the more than one million partnership with GYT, is providing Americans living with HIV today, free testing at six Chicago-area colone in five of those infected don’t lege campuses throughout May. - Full Story In This Week’s New American Newspaper -

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DAILY CHALLENGE FRIDAY, JUNE 24, 2011

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THE RELIGIOUS ROUTE

BY VELMA HART It’s the graduation season. And, of course, no one but no one wants to be left behind regardless of what level of education one fails. Also, most of the graduates are looking forward to taking the next step, going to much higher and furthering their goal in life. Thank God that besides the folk in the close relationship are not the only ones wanting to encourage and lend a helping hand in assisting the future leaders and doers of today.

First, the Queens Baptist Church, Queens Village, Rev. Brian C. EllisGibbs, pastor, held the “25th

Anniversary Jean C. Hairston Scholarship Luncheon” on June 12. It was held in the spacious Edward Hall at the church. The program, with the charming Ms. Arlene Noble as the mistress of ceremonies, was nicely done, along with Deacon Yvonne Hawthorne, Deacon Dealia Gwaltney, the Quach Praise Dancers, Stephanie Ogeleza, Verna Innissang, very pretty, Bara Montgomery and Steven Bond. Good lunch was served with good cooks. The JCH Scholarship Ministry has awarded more than 40 scholarships. Receiving awards this year were Davidson

Boucard, Boujoly Roosevelt Boucard, Jonathan Ogeleza, Amanda Boucard and Valentino Boucard. I truly enjoyed the event. Deacon Hairston is to be commended for her dedication. This year’s slogan was, “We Are Blessed To Be A Blessing.”

Next there was the Jonathan Brown Scholarship 22nd annual Father’s Day Luncheon, which was held June 19. The JBS is in conjunction with the Saint Matthew’s Community AME Church of Hollis, Rev. Andrea M. Hargett, pastor. The event was at the Doubletree Hotel at JFK. The 2011 awardees were Jen-

nifer Coley, Joshua Stembridge and Jasmine Coley. The keynote speaker was Rev. Wilmot Taylor, pastor of the Flatbush Tompkins Congressional Church of Brooklyn. The mistress of ceremonies was Exhorter C. Smartt. Mrs. Lou Brown founded the JBS Ministry in memory of her eldest son, Jonathan Brown, July 3, 1968-Sept. 3, 1989. It’s said he was a rising senior at the time of his transition. The slogan, “Building Champions for a Divine Life, Obey Your Thirst.”

Until next time, show love.

TV and soda: Small habits cause weight creep

By JULIE STEENHUYSEN CHICAGO — Just a few bad habits — watching TV, eating potato chips, having a sugary soda at lunch or staying up too late at night — can add up to a steady creep of pounds over the years, U.S. researchers said.

While most studies on diet focus on changes needed to help obese people lose weight, the study by the Harvard team showed tiny changes in diet and lifestyle can make a big impact.

The study focuses on specific lifestyle choices — foods, activity, sleep habits — that slowly pack on the pounds. The researchers stressed that the quality of food choices, and not just calories, are key to maintaining a healthy weight.

“These small choices add up,” said Dr. Dariush Mozaffarian of the Harvard School of Public Health and Brigham and Women’s Hospital, whose study appears in the New England Journal of Medicine.

“Because the weight gain is so gradual and occurs over many years, it has been difficult for scientists and for individuals themselves to under-

stand the specific factors that may be responsible,” Mozaffarian, who led the effort, said in a statement.

To get at this, the team analyzed data on 120,877 U.S. women and men from three large studies of health professionals that tracked changes in lifestyle factors and weight every four years over a 20year period.

All study participants were normal-weight and healthy when they started. Over time, they gained an average of 3.35 pounds (1.59 kg) during each 4-year period for a total average weight gain of 16.8 pounds (7.6 kg) at the end of the 20-year study.

Foods that added most to weight

gain over a four-year period included daily consumption of potato chips (1.69 lbs or 0.76 kg), potatoes (1.28 lbs or 0.58 kg), sugar-sweetened beverages (1 lb or 0.45 kg), unprocessed red meats (0.95 lbs or 0.43 kg) and processed meats (0.93 lbs or 0.42 kg).

More than a third of adults and nearly 17 percent of children in the United States are obese, increasing their chances of developing health problems including type 2 diabetes, heart disease, high blood pressure, fatty liver disease and some cancers.

Obesity-related diseases account for nearly 10 percent of U.S. medical spending, or an estimated $147 billion a year.

Mozaffarian said understanding ways to keep people from becoming obese may be more effective than getting people to lose weight as U.S. policymakers attempt to turn the tide.

Those in the study who lost or maintained their weight over time tended to eat minimally processed foods.

“Fruits, vegetables, whole grains and nuts — if you increase their intake, you had relative weight loss, presumably because you are replacing other foods in the diet,” Mozaf-

More evidence air pollution may be a heart risk Day-to-day spikes in air pollution seem to be followed by an uptick in hospital admissions for heart attack, a new study in Italy finds.

The findings, reported in the American Journal of Epidemiology, add to evidence that high-pollution days may trigger heart attacks in some people.

And, like other studies, the new one suggests that the elderly and people with existing heart or lung disease are most vulnerable.

Already, the American Heart Association (AHA) recommends that people with heart disease and others at risk — including the elderly and people with diabetes or high blood pressure — try to steer clear of congested

roadways and spend less time outside on days when air quality is poorer.

The evidence of harm is strongest against pollutants known as fine particulate matter.

Fine particulate matter is released into the air when wood or fossil fuels are burned, so car exhaust, home heating and industrial sources like power plants all contribute.

The particles are small enough that they can be inhaled deeply into the lungs, and researchers suspect they may trigger heart attacks in vulnerable people by causing inflammation in the blood vessels and irritating the nerves of the lungs.

For the new study, researchers led

by Dr. Alessandro Barchielli, of the

Regional Health Service of Tuscany, looked at data on 11,450 hospitalizations for heart attack between 2002 and 2005.

They used local air-quality monitors to see how those hospitalizations correlated with changes in air pollution levels.

Overall, the study found that for each fine-particle increase of 10 micrograms per cubic meter of air, heart attack hospitalizations inched up 0.01 percent over the next two days.

There was a similar pattern when the researchers looked at two other traffic pollutants: carbon monoxide and nitrogen dioxide.

The link between pollution spikes

farian said.

The study contradicts the notion that all foods are good for you in moderation.

“The idea that there are no ‘good’ or ‘bad’ foods is a myth that needs to be debunked,” said Frank Hu of Harvard, who worked on the research.

Mozaffarian said different foods have a different effect on the body.

“You can’t just say a calorie is a calorie. It doesn’t address your feelings of fullness, your blood glucose levels, your blood insulin levels and the other biological responses in your body,” he said.

In the study, dietary changes appeared to have the biggest impact on weight gain over time, but other lifestyle changes also were a factor.

For example, watching one hour of TV per day added 0.31 pounds (0.14 kg) over a four-year period.

Sleep also played a role. People in the study who got between six and eight hours of sleep were less likely to gain weight over the study period.

But people who got less than six hours or more than eight hours tended to gain weight.

And when people increased their physical activity, they tended to gain less weight during the study period. and heart attack was strongest among people age 75 or older, and for those with the lung diseases emphysema or chronic bronchitis, and people with high blood pressure.

The findings alone do not prove that air pollution, itself, triggers heart attacks.

But they do add to other studies that have found a similar association, according to Barchielli’s team.

They are also in line with what the AHA and other groups recommend for people vulnerable to heart problems: pay attention to air quality and, whenever possible, limit time outdoors on high-pollution days.

In the U.S., where heart attacks kill 425,000 people yearly, local news outlets generally provide daily air-quality indices; they are also available on the government website AIRNow, at http://www.airnow.gov.

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Two years on, Jackson death still a mystery

By MICHAEL THURSTON LOS ANGELES — Two years after Michael Jackson’s shock death, the mystery over exactly how he died continues to fuel legal wrangling, conspiracy theories and family strains over the King of Pop’s clouded legacy.

While fans are expected to pay their respects this weekend — including by dropping red roses from the air over his famous Neverland ranch — many questions remain over his death on June 25, 2009 aged only 50.

His personal doctor Conrad Murray is still awaiting trial on manslaughter charges for allegedly giving Jackson an overdose of powerful sedative propofol to help him sleep on the fateful morning at his Beverly Hills mansion.

The trial was to have started in May, but has been delayed until September after his defense lawyers — expected to argue that Jackson effectively killed himself — said they need more time to prepare.

Days ahead of the second anniversary of his death, Jackson’s sister La Toya published a new book reiterating her claim that he could have been murdered, and had voiced fears to her that he would be for financial reasons.

“I truly feel Dr Murray was simply the fall guy. I think it’s too easy to blame him. I think the investigation needs to go a bit further than just stopping at Dr. Murray,” she said ahead of the book’s publication this week.

“There are a lot of other people that are involved in this. My brother told me,” she said, while declining to elaborate.

Many of the lurid details of what happened on the day Jackson died have emerged in legal wranglings over the last two years to prepare for his doctor’s trial.

The controversial singer — preparing for a series of come-back concerts in London, four years after being acquitted on child sex abuse charges — was being treated for chronic insomnia including by using propofol.

The trial will center on the suggestion that Murray mistakenly administered a fatal overdose, and failed to notice in time because he was busy on the phone with a series of female friends.

The defense will reportedly argue that Jackson could have administered an extra dose of propofol by himself, while Murray was out of the room, effectively provoking his own death.

Whatever the outcome of the trial, expected to be watched closely by Jackson’s millions of fans around the world, it will likely only fuel publicity for the multi-million-dollar industry based on the performer’s legacy.

The official part of that legacy is managed by his executors, lawyer John Branca and accountant John McClain, named in the late singer’s will, which also appointed his mother Katherine as guardian of his three children.

The estate — which controls Jackson’s huge music catalogue — for example was behind the December release of “Michael,” the first of what could be several posthumous albums based on material Jackson recorded before his death.

A Jackson video game has been a huge hit, while in April it teamed up with Canadian dance-based troupe Cirque du Soleil to announce a series

of shows inspired by Jackson’s music and dance, including a permanent one in Las Vegas.

Jackson’s brother Jermaine this week launched a Michael Jackson exhibit at Madame Tussauds waxwork museum in Hollywood, including three Jackson figures from various stages of his career.

But other members of Jackson’s notoriously idiosyncratic family have launched a number of project over the last two years, including a 2009 tribute concert that had to be postponed after a number of stars pulled out.

One recent such deal was between Jackson’s father Joe and a French parfumier for a Jackson-branded scent.

Its launch this month descended into chaos after a lawsuit was filed by Bravado, the company which holds the commercial rights to Michael Jackson’s name, seeking compensation for every bottle sold.

The smell should be better this weekend, when Jackson fans will drop roses over Jackson’s former Neverland ranch, during memorial flights offered by a local helicopter company

to mark the second anniversary.

The Michael Jackson estate has not organized anything official to commemorate the date this year, in contrast to the first anniversary last year, although it has not ruled out making a short statement on the day.

Jamie Foxx frontrunner for Quentin Tarantino film

By JAY A. FERNANDEZ and BORYS KIT LOS ANGELES — Jamie Foxx has emerged as the frontrunner for the title role in Quentin Tarantino’s spaghetti Western “Django Unchained.”

The Oscar-winning “Ray” star has been in the mix for weeks, but talks have now progressed to a point that Foxx is the sole actor in the running to take on the part of the vengeful slave who teams up with a German bounty hunter to scour the Old South looking for his wife.

Will Smith and Idris Elba (“The Wire”) had also been in consideration for the role. Smith passed and Elba is now doing Guillermo del Toro’s “Pacific Rim.” Sources caution that no offer has

been made and that talks are in a delicate stage since Foxx has concerns about taking on the risky role.

Leonardo DiCaprio, “Pulp Fiction” veteran Samuel L. Jackson and Christoph Waltz, who won an Oscar for Tarantino’s last film, “Inglourious Basterds,” have been circling other major roles. If they come together, Waltz would play the cocky dentist-turned-bounty hunter who trains Django to fight, Jackson would play a villainous house slave, and DiCaprio would step into the corrupt boots of plantation owner Calvin Candie, who wins Django’s wife in a poker game.

Foxx, whose recent headlining turns in films such as “Law Abiding Citizen,” “The Soloist” and “The Kingdom” have underwhelmed at the box office, returns to theaters on July 8 with the comedy “Horrible Bosses.”

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Jobless claims point to weak labor market

By LUCIA MUTIKANI WASHINGTON — The number of Americans filing new claims for unemployment benefits rose last week, suggesting little improvement in the labor market this month after employment stumbled in May. Initial claims for state unemployment benefits climbed 9,000 to a seaadjusted sonally 429,000, the Labor Department said. Economists had expected claims to come in at 415,000.

SUMMONS AND NOTICE OF OBJECT OF ACTION STATE OF NEW YORK SUPREME COURT: COUNTY OF KINGS ACTION TO FORECLOSE A MORTGAGE INDEX NO.: 15017/10 DEUTSCHE BANK NATIONAL TRUST COMPANY, AS TRUSTEE, ON BEHALF OF THE HOLDERS OF THE SOUNDVIEW HOME LOAN TRUST 2005-1 ASSET-BACKED CERTIFICATES, SERIES 2005-1 Plaintiff, vs.ACTION TO FORECLOSE A JOSHUA DESILVA A/K//A JOSHUA DE SILVA, ET AL.(s). b MORTGAGED PREMISES: 824 DEAN STREET BROOKLYN, NY 11238 SBL #: BLOCK: 1140 LOT: 27 TO THE ABOVE NAMED DEFENDANT: You are hereby summoned to answer the Complaint in this action, and to serve a copy of your answer, or, if the Complaint is not serrved with this Summons, to serve a notice off aappearance, on the Plaintiff(s) attorney(s) within twenty days after the service of this Summons, exclusive of the day of service (or within 30 days after the service is complete if this Summons is not personally delivered to you within the State of New York). In case of your failure to appear or answer, judgment will be taken against you by default for the relief demanded in the Complaint.

The Attorney for Plaintiff has an office for business in the County of Erie. Trial to be held in the County of Kings. The basis of the venue designated above is the location of the Mortgaged Premises. Dated this 13th day of J une, 2011, TO: JOSHUA DESILVA A/K//A JOSHUA DE SILVA, Defendant(s) In this Action. The foregoing Summons is served upon you by publication, pursuant to an order of HON. DONALD SCOTT KURTZ of the Supreme Court of the State of New York, dated the 19THday of MAY, 2011 and filed with the Complaint in the Office of the Kings County Clerk, in the City of Brooklyn.

The object of this action is to foreclose a mortgage upon the premises described below, executed by JOSHUA DESILVA A/K/A JOSHUA DE SILVA dated the 9th day off September, 2004, to secure the sum of $446,250.00 and recorded at Instrument No. 2004000685285 in the Office of the City Register of the City of New York, on the 5th day of November, 2004; which

The report covers the survey period for the government’s closely watched data on nonfarm payrolls for June, which will be released on July 8.

Claims increased 15,000 between the May and June survey periods, implying another soft month for jobs in June after a modest 54,000 increase in payrolls in May. “Again no quick rebound in employment. We’re still in the soft patch that we have had for a couple of months now,” said Sean Incremona, an economist at 4CAST in New mortgage was duly assigned by assignment dated the 14thday of July, 2008, and sent for recording in the Office of the City Register off the City of New York. The property in question is described as follows: 824 DEAN STREET, BROOKLYN, NY 11238 SEE FOLLOWING DESCRIPTION Block 1140 and Lot 27ALL that certain plot, piece of land, with the buildings and improvements thereon erected, situate, lying and being in the Borough of Brooklyn, County of Kings, City and State of New York, bounded and described as follows: BEGINNING at a point on the Southwesterly side of Dean Street, distant 160 feet Northwesterly from the Westerly corner of Dean Street and Grand Avenue; RUNNING THENCE Southwesterly parallel with Grand Avenue, 110 feet; THENCE Norrthwesterly parallel with Dean Street, 20 feet; THENCE Norrtheasterly parallel with Grand Avenue, 110 feet to the Southwesterly side of Dean Street; THENCE Southeasterly along the Southwesterly side of Dean Street, 20 feet to the point or place of BEGINNING. Premises known as 824 Dean Street, Brooklyn, New York HELP FOR HOMEOWNERS IN FORECLOSURE NEW YORK STATE LAW REQUIRES THAT WE SEND YOU THIS NOTICE ABOUT THE FORECLOSURE PROCESS. PLEASE READ IT CAREFULLY. SUMMONS AND COMPLAINT YOU ARE IN DANGER OF LOSING YOUR HOME. IF YOU FAIL TO RESPOND TO THE SUMMONS AND COMPLAINT IN THIS FORECLOSURE ACTION, YOU MAY LOSE YOUR HOME. PLEASE READ THE SUMMONS AND COMPLAINT CAREFULLY. YOU SHOULD IMMEDIATELY CONTACT AN ATTORNEY OR YOUR LOCAL LEGAL AID OFFICE TO OBTAIN ADVICE ON HOW TO PROTECT YOURSELF. SOURCES OF INFORMATION AND ASSISTANCE The state encourages you to become informed about your options in foreclosure. In addition to seeking assistance from an attorney or legal aid office, there are government agencies and non-profit organizations that you may contact for information about possible

York.

A second report from the Commerce Department showed new single-family home sales fell for the first time in three months in May, but inventories of new houses on the market hit record lows.

New home sales fell 2.1 percent to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 319,000. Analysts polled by Reuters were expecting a slightly slower pace of 310,000 for the month.

U.S. stocks fell, while prices for Treasury debt advanced. The dollar rose against a basket of currencies.

options, including trying to work with your lender during this process. To locate an entity near you, you may call the toll-free helpline maintained by the New York State Banking Department at 1-877-BANK-NYS (1-877-226-5697) or visit the deparrtment's website at WWW.BANKING.STATE.NY.U S . FORECLOSURE RESCUE SCAMS Be careful of people who approach you with offers to “save”your home. There are individuals who watch for notices of foreclosure actions in order to unfairly profit from a homeowner's distress. You should be extremely careful about any such promises and any suggestions that you pay them a fee or sign over your deed. State law requires anyone offering such services for profit to enter into a contract which fully describes the services they will perform and fees they will charge, and which prohibits them from taking any money from you until they have completed all such promised services. § 1303 NOTICE NOTICE YOU ARE IN DANGER OF LOSING YOUR HOME If you do not respond to this summons and complaint by serrvving a copy of the answerr on the attorney for the mortgage company who filed this foreclosure proceeding against you and filing the answer with the court, a default judgment may be entered and you can lose your home. Speak to an attorney or go to the court where your case is pending for furrther information on how to answer the summons and protect your property.

Sending a payment to your morrtgage company will not stop this foreclosure action.

YOU MUST RESPOND BY SERVING A COPY OF THE ANSWER ON THE ATTORNEY FOR THE PLAINTIFF (MORTGAGE COMPANY) AND FILING THE ANSWER WITH THE COURT.DATED: June 13, 2011 Steven J. Baum, P.C., Attorney(s) For Plaintiff(s), 220 Northpointe Parkway Suite G, Amherst, NY 14228 The law firm of Steven J. Baum, P.C. and the attorneys whom it employs are debt collectors who are attempting to collect a debt.

Any information obtained by them will be used for that purpose.

A Labor Department official said technical problems had resulted in claims for six states being estimated last week.

The claims data is the latest in a series of economic reports to underscore the weakness in the economy, which has persisted through the second quarter.

Separately, the Chicago Federal Reserve’s national activity index stayed in negative territory again in May, indicating the economy continues to grow below trend.

Growth has been crimped by high gasoline prices, but steps by the International Energy Agency on Thursday to release 60 million barrels of oil from strategic government stockpiles held by industrialized consumer

nations should ease the pressure on consumers.

The Federal Reserve on Wednesday acknowledged the slowdown, but said it should largely be temporary.

Although it cut its growth forecasts and downgraded its view of the labor market, it gave no indication of further monetary support.

The U.S. central bank confirmed it was winding up its $600 billion bond-buying program at the end of June.

“Over the course of the next few weeks and few months we will definitely be able to pin this down, but our base case is that we will crawl out of this and chug along with a moderate recovery,” said Incremona.

The four-week moving average of new jobless claims, considered a better gauge of labor

market trends, was unchanged at 426,250.

Initial claims have now been above the 400,000 mark for 11 weeks in a row. Analysts normally associate that level with a stable labor market.

The number of people still receiving benefits under regular state programs after an initial week of aid was little changed at 3.70 million in the week ended June 11.

Economists had expected so-called continuing claims to nudge down to 3.67 million from a previously reported 3.68 million.

The number of people on emergency unemployment benefits rose 5,728 to 3.30 million in the week ended June 4, the latest week for which data is available.

A total of 7.54 million people were claiming unemployment benefits during that period under all programs.

Google, Citi invest another $204 million in wind project

By MARY SLOSSON LOS ANGELES — Google Inc. and Citigroup are investing another $204 million in the Alta Wind Energy NOTICE OF SALE SUPREME COURT - COUNTY OF QUEENS U.S. BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, AS TRUSTEE, ON BEHALF OF THE HOLDERS OF THE HOME EQUITY ASSET TRUST 2005-7 HOME EQUITY PASSTHROUGH CERTIFICATES, SERIES 2005-7 Plaintiff, AGAINST LORNA WILLIAMS, et al. Defendant(s) Pursuant to a judgment of foreclosure and sale duly dated 5/27/2010 I, the undersigned Referee will sell at public auction at the Queens County Courthouse in Courtroom # 25 88-11 Sutphin Boulevard, Jamaica, New York on 7/1/2011 at 11:00 AM premises known as 138-38 233RD STREET, ROSEDALE, New York 11422 All that certain plot piece or parcel of land, with the buildings and improvements thereon erected, situate, lying and being in the New York City Borough of QUEENS, County of Queens and State of New York Section, Block and Lot: Block 13181- Lot 55 Approximate amount of judgment $358,461.79 plus interest and costs Premises will be sold subject to provisions of filed Judgment Index #16343/09 Dena Orenstein, Esq., Referee Steven J. Baum PC , Attorney for Plaintiff, P.O. Box 1291, Buffalo, NY 14240-1291 Dated: 6/6/2011

Center in Southern California’s Tehachapi Mountains, bringing their total combined investment in the project to $314 million.

The additional funds will be split evenly between the two companies, according to Terra-Gen Power, which is building what is expected to be the nation’s largest wind energy project.

The new investments specifically finance the Alta V Project, which is projected to generate 168 megawatts of electricity. Google and Citi had previously jointly invested $55 million in the nearby Alta IV phase of the project.

Terra-Gen Power, the project developer, is an affiliate of ArcLight Capital Partners and Global Infrastructure Partners.

The AWEC site is currently generating 720 megawatts of power, according to Terra-Gen Power.

By year end, another 300 megawatts of power are projected to be online, Terra-Gen says, bringing the facility up to 1020 megawatts.

The wind project is expected to generate 1550 megawatts of power upon completion.

Edison International utility Southern California Edison has a contract to purchase all of the power generated by the site.

“We are particularly excited about AWEC because it will be one of the largest wind energy centers in the world,” wrote Rick Needham, Google’s director of green business operations, in a statement on the company’s Web site.

“This project is a national model for the economic viability of large scale renewable energy projects,” said Citi’s managing director of environmental finance and stability, Michael Eckhart, in a statement. “We hope it will encourage further investment in the space as we work to expand the clean energy economy in the U.S.” Google has invested more than $780 million in clean energy, with over $700 million of those investments occurring this year, according to the company.

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FBI targets two ‘scareware’ rings in U.S., Europe WASHINGTON — Police in the United States and seven other countries seized computers and servers used to run a “scareware” scheme that has netted more than $72 million from victims tricked into buying fake antivirus software.

Twenty-two computers and servers were seized in the United States and 25 others in France, Germany, Latvia, Lithuania, the Netherlands, Sweden and the United Kingdom, the U.S. Justice

Department said in a statement on Wednesday.

The suspects involved in the scheme, who were not identified, planted “scareware” on the computers of 960,000 victims. The scareware would pretend to find malicious software on a computer.

The goal is to persuade the victim to voluntarily hand over credit card information, paying to resolve a nonexistent problem.

Latvian authorities seized at least five bank

accounts believed to have been used by the leaders of the scam, and the Justice Department said nothing about arrests.

U.S. authorities also said on Wednesday they disrupted a second scam, charging two Latvians with running a similar scareware scheme that led to $2 million in losses through an advertisement placed on a Minnesota newspaper’s website.

Peteris Sahurovs, 22, and Marina Masloboje-

Walgreen CFO: Better off without Express Scripts Walgreen Co. Chief Financial Officer Wade Miquelon said that the drugstore chain’s decision to end its agreement with pharmacy benefits management (PBM) company Express Scripts Inc was not a bargaining tactic but a “principled stand.”

Miquelon, speaking at conference hosted by Jefferies broadcast over the internet, said Walgreen ended talks because the companies were “miles apart.”

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“Under any scenario of what Express Scripts is proposing... it’s much better for us to go it alone,” Miquelon said.

Walgreen said this week it would stop filling prescriptions for people covered by Express Scripts at the end of 2011 after failing to agree on new contract terms, walking away from a deal worth about $5.3 billion in annual sales, or 7 percent of revenue.

At issue are the discounts Walgreen offers Express Scripts clients.

Express Scripts said Walgreen gives its clients lower discounts than other drugstores do and wants it to accept market rates Miquelon characterized the Express Scripts rates as “really really below standard.”

Walgreen shares slid after the announcement on Tuesday. But Miquelon said Walgreen would over time make up for any lost business.

“There are really hundreds of other PBMs and managed care plans that have us, that value us.”

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“Scareware is just another tactic that cyber criminals are using to take money from citizens and businesses around the world,” said Assistant Director Gordon Snow of the FBI’s cyber division.

Law enforcement officials would not confirm whether the seizures were directly connected to a raid early on Tuesday morning at a web-hosting company in northern Virginia where they took servers, a move that disrupted more

than 120 websites.

U.S. authorities have been more aggressive this year in trying to stem cybercrime and have been scrambling to investigate several hacking attempts on U.S. institutions and corporations.

In March, law enforcement raided servers used by a “botnet,” essentially computers controlled by criminals without the knowledge of the computers’ owners. Authorities severed the IP addresses, effectively disabling the botnet.

That operation, nicknamed Rustock, had been one of the biggest producers of spam email, with some tech security experts estimating it produced half the spam that fills people’s junk mail bins.

In April, government programmers shut down a botnet which controlled more than 2 million PCs around the world to spread a computer virus named Coreflood, which grabbed banking credentials and other sensitive financial data.

Losses were estimated at about $100 million.

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Serena Williams advances; Li Na upset WIMBLEDON, England — French Open champion Li Na wasted two match points and lost to wildcard entry Sabine Lisicki of Germany 3-6, 6-4, 8-6 in the second round of Wimbledon.

Li served for the match twice in the final set Thursday but was broken each time. She had won 14 of her previous 15 Grand Slam matches in 2011, reaching the final at the Australian Open and then becoming China’s first major singles champion at Roland Garros.

But Lisicki has won 12 of her last 13 matches on grass courts, including reaching the Wimbledon quarterfinals in 2009 and winning a tune-up tournament in Birmingham this month. She missed five months last season with a left ankle injury, and she fell out of the top 200 in the rankings. Lisicki is back up to 62nd.

Earlier, defending champion Serena Williams recovered from a poor start to defeat Simona Halep 36, 6-2, 6-1 and move into the third round, staying on course for a

fifth title.

After dropping the first set, Williams regained her renowned intensity and powerful shot-making to dominate the rest of the way on Court 2. The winner of 13 Grand Slam singles titles is still searching for her form after a yearlong absence because of injuries and health issues.

There were no tears this time from Williams, who sobbed with relief Monday after winning her opening match on Centre Court against Aravane Rezai.

“I’m just happy to be playing and hopefully I’ll get better as the tournament goes on,” Williams said. “It was a little windy out there and I just was a little tight, so I just got to relax and enjoy myself more.”

From 4-2 in the second set, the seventhseeded American won eight out of the last nine games to re-establish her supremacy on the grass at the All England Club, pumping a clenched fist and shouting “Come on!” after smacking key winners.

It was the fourth con-

secutive three-setter Williams has played since returning last week at the Eastbourne grass-court tournament. She had been out for nearly a year after two foot operations and blood clots in her lungs.

“I guess I just want to play longer matches because I can get more practice,” she said.

As usual, Williams used her big serve to control the match. She had seven aces, won 88 percent of points on her first serve and smacked a 114 mph service winner to end the match.

Williams finished with 34 winners and 19 unforced errors, nine in the first set.

The 19-year-old Halep, making her Wimbledon debut, came out firing from the start and wasn’t awed or intimidated by the occasion or her famous opponent.

With Williams spraying unforced errors, Halep played solidly and moved out to leads of 4-1 and 5-2. The Romanian tumbled awkwardly on the baseline in the seventh game, and received treatment on her left leg during the changeover. She came

out and held serve, with Williams yanking a backhand wide on set point.

Williams lifted her game in the second set and won the first three games to take command. She displayed her emotions in the fifth game when, after wrong-footing Halep with a forehand winner, shrieked “Come on!” and crouched down with her fist clenched.

On set point, after a long, hard-hitting baseline rally, Williams smacked a running forehand that clipped the netcord and dropped over for a winner.

Again, she clenched her fist and said “Yes!” before holding up her hand and saying “Sorry” in keeping with tennis etiquette.

Williams went ahead 5-0 in the third set but squandered three set points before serving

out the match in the seventh game.

Also advancing were sixth-seeded Francesca Schiavone, who defeated Barbora Zahlavova Strycova 7-5, 6-3; No. 12 Svetlana Kuznetsova, who beat Alexandra Dulgheru of Romania 6-0, 6-2; and 18th-seeded and former No. 1-ranked Ana Ivanovic, a 6-3, 6-0 winner over Eleni Daniilidou.

Janoris Jenkins joins Nor th A la bama

By MARK SCHLABACH Former Florida cornerback Janoris Jenkins, who was dismissed from the team in April following his arrest on misdemeanor marijuana charges, is transferring to Division II North Alabama, Lions coach Terry Bowden confirmed Wednesday night.

Jenkins, an all-SEC selection in 2010, signed a scholarship with North Alabama on

Wednesday. He will be eligible to play for the Lions this coming season under NCAA transfer rules and will have one season of college eligibility remaining.

After injuring his shoulder late last season, Jenkins bypassed entering the NFL draft to return to Florida for his senior season. [+] EnlargeJanoris Jenkins Kim Klement/US PresswireSenior corner Janoris Jenkins was dismissed from the Gators after his second drug-related arrest in three months.

Bowden, a former Auburn coach and son

of former Florida State coach Bobby Bowden, said he talked to former Gators coach Urban Meyer, current Florida coach Will Muschamp and athletics director Jeremy Foley before deciding to extend Jenkins a scholarship offer.

Jenkins also considered entering the NFL’s supplemental draft.

“I talked to everybody that I could possibly talk to at Florida, who had a relationship with him,” Bowden said. “From Urban Meyer to Will Muschamp to Jeremy Foley, they all said he

is a guy who made a mistake. But it does not represent his character or his time at Florida.

They all thought he deserved a second chance.”

Jenkins, a native of Pahokee, Fla., had eight career interceptions at Florida, including three last season.

He missed spring practice after undergoing surgery to repair a torn labrum in his shoulder. He was still considered a potential All-America candidate and NFL first-round draft selection before he was kicked off the Florida team by Muschamp.

Jenkins’ dismissal from Florida came after he was arrested in April and charged with misdemeanor marijuana possession.

Gainesville police said they found a marijuana cigar in the console of the vehicle Jenkins had been sitting in at a downtown parking lot.

It was the second time in less than three months Jenkins, 22, was arrested for a misdemeanor marijuana possession charge.

Jenkins was issued a notice to appear on a charge alleging possession of less than 20 grams of marijuana.

Jenkins was arrested

on the same charge Jan. 24, when police found him with less than 20 grams of marijuana in the bathroom of a Gainesville nightclub. Jenkins accepted a plea agreement with the state attorney’s office on that charge and was ordered to pay court costs of $316.

Jenkins also was arrested in June 2009 on misdemeanor affray charges after being involved in a fight and fleeing police.

He agreed to a deferred prosecution agreement on that charge and was placed on six months’ probation.

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SPORTS BRIEFS Ohio State trustee: No other athletics issues

COLUMBUS, Ohio - An Ohio State University trustee says there are no new issues related to the school’s recent football troubles.

Real estate magnate Robert Schottenstein’s comments Thursday were the first from the board of decision-makers who oversees one of the country’s biggest universities.

Schottenstein says the athletics compliance policies are good and the university reported every alleged football team violation it was aware of to the NCAA. Schottenstein, chairman of the board’s audit committee and chief executive officer and president of M/I Homes, did not address the forced resignation of football coach Jim Tressel on Memorial Day. - ANDREW WELSH-HUGGINS

Cleaves cited for driving with suspended license MOUNT MORRIS TOWNSHIP, Mich.

- Mateen Cleaves has been cited for driving with a suspended license.

The former Michigan State star was pulled over for speeding by Mount Morris Township Police on Wednesday night, the day his license was suspended.

Cleaves’ license was suspended because he didn’t pay a responsibility fee for having too many points in February. Cleaves has to pay an additional $125 to have his license reinstated, according to secretary of state records.

Frank Manley, Cleaves’ attorney, says payment has been sent to restore his client’s license.

Cleaves led the Spartans to the 2000 national championship.

He played for Detroit, Sacramento, Cleveland and Seattle over six NBA seasons. The Flint native has been working for Fox Sports Detroit.

NFL owners, players meet again NFL owners and players are meeting for the second straight day in the Boston area as they attempt to close in on a new collective bargaining agreement.

A person with knowledge of the talks told The Associated Press that the meetings which began Wednesday have stretched into Thursday.

Among those in attendance are Commissioner Roger Goodell and members of his labor committee, and players association chief DeMaurice Smith and several players.

The person spoke on condition of anonymity because the negotiations are confidential.

The two sides have exchanged proposals on a variety of issues after meetings over the last three weeks. The main topic has been how to divide revenues - $9.3 billion last year - and league owners were briefed this week on a plan that would give the players just under 50 percent of total income. An off-the-top expense credit of about $1 billion that went to the owners would be eliminated.

Among the topics that have not been on the front burner but are now being discussed are a rookie wage scale and a more specific breakdown of benefits for retired players.

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Feds get more time to decide on Bonds retrial

By PAUL ELIAS SAN FRANCISCO - A federal judge on Thursday gave prosecutors more time to decide whether home run record-holder Barry Bonds should face another perjury trial.

Bonds much-anticipated criminal trial ended inconclusively April 13 when a jury convicted the seven-time MVP on an obstruction of justice count but deadlocked on three perjury charges, the allegations at the heart of the government’s case.

The government tried to show that Bonds lied about using performance-enhancing drugs, which the slugger maintained he never knowingly took.

U.S. District Judge Susan Illston granted the prosecutors’ request for more time to decide whether to try the case again over the objections of Bonds’ attorney, Allen Ruby. Ruby wanted to know immediately whether the government would continue its yearslong pursuit of Major League Baseball’s career home runs leader.

But the judge testily told Ruby that prosecutors had no obligation to announce their intention until the court resolves Bonds’ motion for outright acquittal or a new trial on the obstruction conviction. Bonds’

attorneys say that the jury erred in concluding the slugger’s rambling answer to a question about injecting steroids was meant to mislead a grand jury’s investigation into sports doping.

“It seems to me manifestly unlikely a decision like that is going to be made until a decision on the motion is made,” Illston said.

The two sides are next scheduled back in court on Aug. 26 to wrangle over the obstruction conviction.

The prosecution of Bonds was the last and highest-profile case arising from a sprawling sports doping investigation that shut down a steroids distribution ring headquartered at the Bay Area Laboratory Co-Operative,

better known as BALCO. Bonds and two dozen other athletes from various sports testified before a grand jury in 2003 about their connection to BALCO. Bonds was one of five people charged with lying to the grand jury or federal investigators about using steroids. Track star Marion Jones and former Pro Bowl defensive lineman Dana Stubblefield pleaded guilty while Bonds was one of three to demand a trial.

He was initially charged in 2007 and only went to trial after years of delays.

Based on the outcome of two similar BALCO cases, Bonds is expected to receive a sentence of house arrest if the obstruction conviction holds up.

Cuban to Perot: Mavericks run just fine, thank you DALLAS - Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban filed what can perhaps best be described as a “told-you-so” document in court Wednesday against Ross Perot Jr. In a four-page court document, Cuban attorney Thomas Melsheimer of Dallas rebutted allegations by Perot and his Hillwood Investment Properties III Ltd. that Cuban was mismanaging the Mavericks to the brink of insolvency and, perhaps, beyond.

Exhibit A: A color photograph of Dirk Nowitzki hoisting the NBA championship trophy while surrounded

by Cuban and his teammates.

Perot, who holds a 5 percent stake in the team, sued Cuban a year ago to obtain a court order placing the franchise in receivership. Perot had accused Cuban of making a “litany of questionable business, financial and personnel decision” and of being “careless and reckless” in his decision-making.

Previously, Cuban

had called Perot’s lawsuit “trying to find nickels in the sofa cushion” in an attempt to recapture losses stemming from the Victory project, a retail and office development surrounding the American Airlines Center.

On Wednesday, in a court filing that refers to the team throughout as the “World Champion Dallas Mavericks,” Cuban’s attorneys told a judge that the Mavericks’ first NBA title proves that Perot’s arguments should be tossed out.

It also says the Mavericks should be awarded any relief they are due “although they are quite content at the moment.”

Perot was unmoved.

“Ross Perot Jr. remains an owner of this team ... and no one is more delighted in the team’s successes on the court,” Perot spokesman Eddie Reeves said Wednesday. “That’s a different issue than the business matters that remain between Mr. Perot and Mr. Cuban.”

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Owners want to keep $160M, union says

By CHRIS SHERIDAN NEW YORK — It is not just about future money.

It’s about past money, too.

The union for NBA players spoke out Wednesday about how livid they are that owners are not only asking for $7 to $8 billion in concessions in a proposed new collective bargaining agreement, but also are asking players to give back $160 million that was withheld from their paychecks last season.

The $160 million was collected under the so-called “escrow tax” system to ensure that players received no more than 57 percent of basketball-related income.

That money is scheduled to be disbursed to players in August.

“To me, it speaks to the arrogance they have in approaching us,” union president Derek Fisher said. “Trust and loyalty pretty much go out the window when it comes to business.

“We haven’t been partners in this venture from day one. We’ve been employees, the talent that has grown the game. It’s difficult to be partners in recovery when we haven’t been partners in generating those losses.”

Commissioner David Stern issued a statement later Wednesday.

“Players have benefited from the current system more than the teams,” Stern said. “For them it has been a much better partnership. We are sorry that the players’ union feels that way since it doesn’t seem designed to get us to the agreement that is so important to the teams, and we had hoped, the players.”

In calling the meeting Wednesday on the eve of a meeting of player representatives

from all 30 teams, the union sought to gain some measure of control over the public discourse surrounding the negotiations.

Owners made a substantial move off their previous financial position Tuesday in a three-hour bargaining session, offering a guaranteed $2 billion per year in salaries over the life of a 10-year agreement. But the union Wednesday sought to hammer home the point that players are already earning $2.17 billion in salary and benefits under the current system, and they would not surpass that figure under the owners’ proposed terms until the 10th year of the proposed 10year deal.

They also questioned why the owners have not been forthcoming on details of a revenue sharing plan for local television revenues, saying it was fundamentally at odds with the “partnership” ethic the sides have tried to cultivate.

Collective bargaining negotiations will resume Friday in New York, and owners will meet Tuesday in Dallas and could vote to authorize a lockout if a new labor agreement is not reached to replace the one expiring June 30.

Players made a half-billion dollar concession in Tuesday’s meeting in proposing a five-year agreement that would keep the current salary cap system but would reduce their share of basketball-related income from 57 percent to 54.6 percent in the first several years of a new labor deal.

According to the union, if the players agreed to the owners’ request to return the $160 million in escrow funds, it would have the effect of retroactively reducing their share of basket-

ball-related income for the 201011 season from 57 percent to 52.8 percent.

“If we were inclined to do that deal, we would be giving up $8.2 billion over 10 years,” union director Billy Hunter said, adding that he has told team owners in the past that the only way the players would agree to a hard salary cap would be if they were guaranteed 60 to 65 percent of basketball-related income. It was the first time Hunter publicly disclosed that he would accept a “hard” cap under any terms.

In one of his bolder comments, Hunter also declared that when Cleveland Cavaliers owner Dan Gilbert promised his fans their team would win a championship before the Miami Heat would, he said those words with the underlying motivation that the rules of the new collective bargaining agreement would preclude the Heat from keeping their core of three superstars together.

“Gilbert’s ambition, when speaking post-LeBron, was to split the Heat up in the new system,” Hunter said.

In total, the union’s actions Wednesday were meant to placate the growing notion that a settlement is near, while also calling attention to the size of the financial concessions the owners are seeking.

“A lot of players are calling thinking we’ve gotten beyond the flex-cap issue, and that’s just not true,” Fisher said, adding that when the sides’ respective positions are spelled out in greater detail to players, the tone of the conversations shift.

“Guys are in total disbelief and are asking ‘Why are we even meeting?’” Fisher said.

Man Utd move too good for Young to turn down LONDON - England international Ashley Young said the chance to play for Manchester United was an opportunity he couldn’t afford to miss after signing a five-year contract with the Premier League champions.

Young’s former club, Aston Villa, confirmed the move after the winger, capped 15 times by his country, underwent a medical Wednesday and the transfer, reportedly worth in the region of £16-20 million ($25-32

million), was completed Thursday.

Last season United won a record 19th English title and Young told MUTV, the club’s in-house television station: “The opportunity to come and play for one of the biggest clubs in the world is one I couldn’t turn down.

“It’s a chance to hopefully become part of the history by helping to win the 20th title.

“It’s a prospect I always looked at from being a child — to play

for one of the biggest clubs in the world.

“I’ve got that opportunity now so I’ve just got to take it with two hands.”

Young, 25, joined Villa from Watford in January 2007 and went on to make 190 appearances in all competitions for the Birmingham club, scoring 38 goals.

“Ashley has made a terrific contribution for Villa over the past fourand-a-half seasons and everyone at the club wishes him the best for

the future,” recentlyappointed Villa manager Alex McLeish said.

“He has become an important player in the England team during that time and I’m sure he will be looking forward to the challenge,” McLeish also told Villa’s official website.

He became the second pre-season signing at Old Trafford after Sir Alex Ferguson brought England Under-21 international defender Phil Jones from Blackburn Rovers for £16.5 million.

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SPORTS BRIEFS Suns make Brooks offer, adjust Carter deadline

PHOENIX - The Phoenix Suns have made a qualifying offer to restricted free agent Aaron Brooks and modified the date that Vince Carter’s contract becomes fully guaranteed.

Brooks was acquired as a backup to point guard Steve Nash in a trade deadline deal that sent Goran Dragic to the Houston Rockets. Terms of the offer weren’t disclosed, The Suns and Carter agreed to put off the deadline for making his contract guaranteed to the start of the free agency period. The deadline had been June 30, but the move puts off that decision until the uncertainty of the NBA labor situation is resolved.

Carter, part of a blockbuster trade with Orlando, is due to make $18.9 million in the coming season but the contract can be bought out for $4 million.

Adrian Peterson apologizes for absence OKLAHOMA CITY — Minnesota Vikings running back Adrian Peterson apologized to his fans for being absent from a youth football camp carrying his name in Oklahoma.

Peterson has appeared at the camp near the Oklahoma campus in Norman the past three years, but says he won’t be able to make it Thursday or Friday for this year’s event.

“I want to apologize to all the fans about the confusion regarding the camp in Norman,” Peterson said in a statement issued to The Associated Press through his agent, Ben Dogra, on Wednesday night.

“I hosted camps in Palestine and Tyler, Texas, last week that went great. Due to ProCamps misunderstanding of my schedule, I was never able to host this year’s Norman camp on their scheduled dates, but look forward to being back in 2012.”

Peterson set an NCAA freshman record with 1,925 yards rushing in 2004 while helping the Sooners reach an Orange Bowl matchup against Southern California with the national title on the line. He played three seasons in Norman before being a first-round draft pick by Minnesota, and he has since been an All-Pro selection twice.

Peterson’s former college teammates, 2003 Heisman Trophy winner Jason White and St. Louis Rams receiver Mark Clayton, will be appearing at the camp in his place along with former Sooners running back DeMarco Murray.

ProCamps also posted a statement on its website taking the blame for the miscommunication and apologizing to Peterson, his fans and camp attendees. ProCamps said it will issue full refunds upon request, or give $70 in gifts to kids who attend the camp anyway.

“ProCamps has appreciated the opportunity to assist Adrian with his football camp the past three years and due to a breakdown in communication on our end, the camp was scheduled at a time that prevented Adrian from being able to attend,” the statement read.

“We would like to note that Adrian has never missed a minute of his camp since the inception and that over 1,000 kids have been impacted as a result. Furthermore, Adrian’s commitment to helping kids is reflective in the multiple football camps he has hosted since entering the NFL and continues through his commitment to his personal foundation as well as mission trips assisting kids around the world.”

ProCamps initially said Peterson would not be

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K Y R I E I R V I NG S AY S HIS FOOT IS HEALED NEW YORK — In an NBA draft with plenty of questions, Kyrie Irving says his health isn’t one of them.

Irving has long been considered the top pick, though the Cleveland Cavaliers haven’t said they will choose him with their No. 1 selection.

And if they are wavering because of that toe injury on his right foot that limited the Duke point guard to 11 games in his lone college season, he insists there’s no reason to worry.

“If I had concerns about my foot, I wouldn’t have done everything I did at the combine and the workout,” Irving said Wednesday. “I don’t feel like there’s any more questions about my toe or my health.”

Cavaliers general manager Chris Grant told ESPN on Wednesday that the team has heavily vetted Irving’s injury and is “comfortable” with its status.

If the Cavs do take Irving first in Thursday night’s draft at the Prudential Center in Newark, N.J., (ESPN, 7 p.m. ET), he will be the third point guard in four years to go No. 1, joining John Wall, who went to Washington last year, and Derrick Rose, picked by Chicago in 2008.

The Cavs own the No. 1 and No. 4 overall selections. Grant told ESPN on Wednesday that the team intends to use both picks.

If Cleveland passes on Irving, Arizona’s Derrick Williams — who can play inside or out, at either forward spot, and would bring the mixture of power and athleticism back to a frontcourt that was lost when LeBron James left — is another possibility at No. 1.

“I feel like I am the most overall ready in this spot by my size and ready to make an impact,” Williams said.

Even in what’s considered a lessthan-stellar NBA draft, the Cavaliers

have plenty of options; they’re the first team with two picks in the top four since the Houston Rockets in 1983.

They’re expected to start with Irving, considered the favorite since the Cavaliers won the lottery last month. Though he spent most of his college career on the sideline, the numbers he put up in his limited time seem too good to pass up.

“It definitely feels good, you know, knowing that I’m still projected to go No. 1,” Irving said. “We’ll see how it goes tomorrow, but it’s an honor to be at the No. 1 spot right now.”

The 6-foot-2 guard averaged 17.5 points while shooting 53 percent from the field, 46 percent from 3point range and 90 percent from the foul line. He returned from his injury in time to play in the NCAA tournament — where his Blue Devils were overwhelmed by Williams in Arizona’s round of 16 victory — and he said that proves there should be no question about his health.

“Playing in the NCAA tournament was the deciding factor for me,” Irving said. “If I didn’t play in the NCAA tournament, I would have been back at Duke for my sophomore season. I just wanted to kind of limit

all the questions on my health and durability.”

The Cavaliers also pick fourth — the No. 1 pick was acquired from the Los Angeles Clippers last season in the Baron Davis trade — giving them the ability to add a big man, perhaps Enes Kanter or another from the lengthy list of Europeans available, if they selected Irving first.

Kanter believes if the Cavs pick both him and Irving, they’ll be a playoff contender.

“If I play with Kyrie, I believe we can make playoffs,” Kanter said. “I know we can make playoffs.”