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GAY MARRIAGES TO START ON JULY 25

Gay couples will be able to marry in New York State with an “NYC I DO” campaign as officials prepare for starting July 25 and New York City hopes to woo them an expected deluge of weddings.

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N E W S B RI E F S REPORT: NYPD TO ISSUE NEW STOP AND FRISK FORMS City police officers who stop and frisk people on the street will soon have to give a better explanation for their actions, according a published report.

The Daily News says the New York City Police Department is changing stop and frisk forms to include a new field called “Reason For Force Used.”

The field gives officers six options to choose from, including whether the person stopped was reaching for a suspected weapon.

There’s also a box marked “other” which allows officers to give a more detailed reason.

The NYPD says the move is an effort to give police officials a better understanding of the circumstances of street stops.

The department has been accused of stopping and harassing many Black and Hispanic men without arresting them.

The New York Civil Liberties Union says giving officers options to check only allows them to justify their actions.

DOT SEEKS INPUT ON NEW “WAYFINDING” EFFORT The city Department of Transportation is seeking proposals to create a new pedestrian information system for some key neighborhoods.

The planned system called “wayfinding” would provide new signs to help locals and tourists orient themselves and figure out how long it will take to get to certain locations.

The signs are planned for four neighborhoods: Long Island City, Prospect Heights/Crown Heights, Chinatown and parts of Midtown.

The DOT hopes the plan will not only promote walking as a healthy activity but also relieve overcrowding on mass transit and boost local businesses.

POSH HOTELS’ UNPAID WATER BILLS TOTAL $3M, AUDIT FINDS A new report finds some of the city’s wealthiest hotels are getting away with paying close to nothing when it comes to their water bills.

According to an audit by the City Comptroller’s Office, there are about 70 hotels collectively that owe the city nearly $3 million.

The report blames the Department of Environmental Protection, saying it either incorrectly billed the hotels or never went after deadbeat customers.

Among those listed, the luxury hotel W — which was only billed $191 for 200 days of water and owes almost $77,000.

Meanwhile, the DEP has pointed out that the audit found it properly billed 98 percent of hotels, adding, “Our lien sale ensures that every dollar owed to us is collected so that everyone pays their fair share for water services.”

Black migration changes the political landscape in many states

By NADRA KAREEM NITTLE Special to the NNPA from America’s Wire LOS ANGELES — African Americans once were clustered so heavily in urban areas that the terms “Black” and “inner city” came to be used almost synonymously. According to the 2010 U.S. Census results, that time is history.

While Blacks have by no means vanished from cities, unprecedented numbers have headed for the suburbs or left the big cities of the North and headed south. As legislative districts are redrawn, nonpartisan groups and both political parties are watching how this unexpected migration will affect local and state elections.

Moreover, redistricting experts say the Black exodus from cities such as Detroit, Cleveland and Philadelphia contributed to placing Michigan, Ohio and Pennsylvania among the 10 states that will lose congressional seats because of reapportionment after the census. With Republican governors in 29 states, the GOP has greater influence over redistricting than Democrats.

But it is unclear whether the migration of African American voters will change the number of congressional districts where Black candidates can win. Rob Richie, executive director of FairVote, based in Takoma Park, Maryland, notes that Republicans often join civil rights leaders in supporting African American legislative districts rather than creating politically diverse districts where the Black vote could decide close elections.

“Republicans have a political interest in concentrating the African American vote,” Richie says. “When

Blacks are concentrated, they can’t have their votes in as many districts.

It’s a trade-off.”

Experts on redistricting foresee multicultural coalitions emerging in formerly all-Black communities and people of color eventually gaining more political clout in suburbs and exurbs.

In California, the independent Citizens Redistricting Commission will carve out the state’s electoral districts for the first time. Voters authorized having a nonpartisan board, not legislators, delineate these districts in passing the Voters First Act (Proposition 11) in 2008. To ensure that new districts don’t dilute Black voting power, grass-roots organizations mobilized to present the commission with recommendations for keeping communities of color intact. New district lines must be drawn by Aug. 15.

Although Black flight from California cities is changing demographics, experts say that is unlikely to shake up the state’s political scene.

“The 2010 census showed that there has been a drift of the Black population away from the coastal areas to more inland areas in California,” says Michelle Romero, a fellow at The Greenlining Institute, which is based in Berkeley and advocates for racial and economic justice. “But fortunately in Los Angeles, there’s the potential to build multi-ethnic coalitions of voters after this new redistricting cycle.”

From 2000 to 2010, the Black population in Los Angeles County dropped from 9.8 percent to 8.7 percent, according to census findings. In Alameda County, which includes Oakland and other San Francisco Bay areas, the drop was from 14.9 percent to 12.6 percent.

Erica Teasley Linnick, coordinator of the African American Redistricting Collaborative in Los Angeles, doesn’t

view Black migration from California’s urban cores as a threat to Black voting power. When African Americans leave California cities, she says, Latinos and Asians with similar political interests usually replace them.

“In Los Angeles, you’ve had coalitions coming together to vote in Tom Bradley (the city’s first Black mayor) to now Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa,” says Teasley Linnick, who also notes that Blacks who have moved from Los Angeles gained political representation in the city’s outlying areas. For instance, Wilmer Amina Carter, a Black woman, has represented the state’s 62nd Assembly District in the Inland Empire region bordering metropolitan Los Angeles, since 2006.

Marqueece Harris-Dawson, president and CEO of Community Coalition, a social and economic advocacy group for South Los Angeles, agrees that Black flight from the city will not undercut African American voting power.

“It’s been happening over a 20-year period,” he says. “It’s not a dramatic change, so it’s not significant enough to curtail African American political representation.”

In fact, experts say Republicans in California face new challenges underscored by the census count. Three million more Latinos moved into California between 2000 and 2010, resulting in predictions that Republicans may lose ground after new electoral districts are drawn. Analysts say Democrats could gain as many as five seats in the State Legislature, enough to form a supermajority.

The shift to having an independent panel redistrict California communities makes it difficult for Republicans to devise a redistricting strategy, according to Matt Rexroad, a GOP Continued on page 3

Report: State, local budgets closer to recovery

By LISA LAMBERT WASHINGTON — State and local governments brought in record firstquarter revenues this year, according to a Census Bureau report released yesterday that offered a sign their budget crises may be abating.

Total state and local revenues for the first quarter reached $321.6 billion, a 4.7 percent rise from the first quarter of 2010 and the highest level on records going back to 1988. It marked “the sixth consecutive quarter of positive year-over-year growth,” the Census said.

Revenues fell from $381.27 billion in the fourth quarter. Typically, the fourth quarter shows the highest state and local tax revenues of the year.

States’ revenues alone totaled $179.84 billion, a separate Census report showed. That was 9 percent above the first quarter of 2010 and 13 percent above the first quarter of 2009, when state revenues hit their

lowest point in the recession.

Still, states’ revenues in the first three months of 2011 were lower than the $181.41 billion brought in during the same period in 2008.

In the first three months of 2008, states’ revenues reached the highest first quarter level on record. Then, the housing bust, financial crisis and recession caught up with states and their revenues collapsed. For nearly three years, they have had to cut spending, hike taxes and turn to the federal government for help.

The recession ended in mid-2009, but states’ budgets have yet to bounce back. Investors in the $2.9 trillion municipal bond market are worried about how most states are closing billions of dollars in budget gaps for their fiscal years that start July 1.

Meanwhile, because of a lag in real estate assessments, local governments are watching their property tax revenues dip just as states cut aid and funds cease flowing from Washington’s $831 billion stimulus plan.

Property tax revenues made up more than a third of the total state and local tax revenue in the first quarter at $113.3 billion, according to the Census. Almost all of that, $111.3 billion, was collected by local governments such as cities and counties.

The total property tax revenues were down 1.7 percent from the first quarter of 2010. It was the second quarter in a row that property tax revenue dropped from the year before.

Conversely, total state and local individual income tax revenues grew to $64.4 billion in the first quarter from $57.5 billion in the year-ago period. It was the fifth straight quarter of year-on-year growth, the Census said.

General sales tax revenue also rose — to $73.7 billion from $69.7 billion in the first quarter of 2010.

Still, the Census said that “general sales tax collection remains below the first quarter 2007 level of $74.7 billion.”

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Gay marriages to start in New York on July 25

By MICHELLE NICHOLS and DAN WIESSNER Gay couples will be able to marry in New York State starting July 25 and New York City hopes to woo them with an “NYC I DO” campaign as officials prepare for an expected deluge of weddings.

An estimated 66,000 gay couples will marry in New York State within three years, adding about $284 million to the state’s economy, according to a report by the Independent Democratic Conference, a separate state caucus of four Democrat Senators.

Couples from all over the United States and abroad can start applying for marriage licenses from July 5.

The $35 license must be obtained before any couple can get married in New York State.

“We will gear up for a larger number (of weddings),” New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg told reporters on Monday, speaking of the city’s preparations.

New York will become the sixth and most populous U.S. state to

allow gay marriage. State senators voted 33-29 on Friday to approve marriage equality and Governor Andrew Cuomo, a Democrat who introduced the measure, immediately signed it into law.

New York City’s marketing and tourism group NYC & Company said it has developed an NYC I DO campaign to make the city the No. 1 destination for gay couples.

“We anticipate that the campaign, set to launch soon, will create hundreds of millions of dollars in additional economic impact to the city’s $31 billion tourism industry,” said NYC & Company Chief Executive George Fertitta.

Some organizations have already started their own publicity such as the Museum of the City of New York near Manhattan’s Central Park, which tweeted on Monday: “Rent space at the Museum for your gay wedding! We throw a great party!”

NYC & Company also has a list of hotel offers like the “Love Has No Boundaries/Born This Way” package at the Le Parker Meridien and “The Right to Unite” special at W New York.

Bernadette Smith, founder of the Gay Wedding Institute which plans weddings, tweeted: “My phone and email are blowing up with wedding vendors looking for NY gay wedding business and people looking for jobs!”

Connecticut, Iowa, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Vermont and the District of Columbia allow samesex marriage, and Delaware, Hawaii, Illinois and New Jersey have

approved civil unions. The first legal same-sex marriages in the United States took place in Massachusetts in 2004.

In California a judge last year overturned a ban on gay marriage, but no weddings can take place while the decision is being appealed.

It could set national policy if the case reaches the U.S. Supreme Court.

But gay marriage is banned in 39 states.

Migration changes the political landscape in many states Continued from page 2 strategist in Sacramento.

“As always, the Republican strategy is to recruit good candidates and make sure their message resonates with voters, just like at any other time,” he says. “Sometimes, it’s worked and, well, sometimes it hasn’t.”

But what effect will Black flight from California cities and the surging Latino population have on the GOP statewide? Rexroad says the Republican Party and African American community typically share interests in redistricting.

“You’ve found Republicans and African Americans arguing for the same district configurations,” he says.

“African Americans want their votes consolidated to win urban seats.”

This time around, however, some California activists want the Black vote less concentrated to exert wider influence, Rexroad says, adding that the enormous growth of the Latino population is not necessarily bad news for Republicans. He notes that in California’s Central and Imperial valleys, for instance, Latinos tend to lean to the right.

“They’re largely responsible for Proposition 8 passing,” he says, referring to the ban on gay marriage.

“They’re very conservative on social issues.”

While Republicans may not gain power where Blacks have departed, Blacks who have headed south will probably not be able to turn red states blue in the near future, says Herb Tyson, of Tyson Innovative Government Relations Solutions, in Washington, D.C. The Black migration “doesn’t help Democrats because the South is so heavily skewed Republican you would have to have a huge representation of African Americans to make a differ-

ence statewide,” Tyson says.

On the other hand, in cities such as Atlanta, the Black population is so large that African Americans relocated there from throughout the nation won’t change the political landscape.

The Atlanta area now has the greatest number of Blacks in the country outside of New York City. For years, Chicago held that distinction. Moreover, three-fourths of the 25 counties in which the Black population rose most over the past decade are in the South.

In Texas, the Black population grew by 22 percent, in part because of Hurricane Katrina refugees who relocated there permanently. With the Latino population also growing, by 42 percent, minorities could alter the political landscape that Republicans have controlled.

Meanwhile, five counties with the greatest number of Blacks 10 years ago—Los Angeles County, Philadelphia County, Wayne (Detroit), Cook (Chicago) and Kings (New York City)—all lost African Americans.

Democratic pollster Ron Lester stresses that populations in northeastern states dropped overall but says he doesn’t expect that to have much political impact.

“The loss has been spread around,” Lester says. “It’s a lot of college-educated voters who are leaving.”

Lester also questions the notion that population declines in northern states will benefit Republicans in that region or nationally. “In places like New York, I don’t think that’s going to them help pick up a seat in Congress,” he says. “I think that right now, you have [43] members of the Congressional Black Caucus. When redistricting is over, you’ll have the same number.”

In the historically Black District of Columbia, the African American population decreased by 11.5 percent

between 2000 and 2010. In contrast, the Black population in nearby Charles County, in Maryland, doubled as African Americans departed the District.

David Bositis, senior research associate at the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies in Washington, D.C., doesn’t expect the Black population decrease to have a huge impact on the city’s political scene.

“By and large, white voters have almost always had a major say in D.C. politics, so the fact that D.C. is becoming less Black isn’t really changing the politics,” Bositis says. “The exception is Marion Barry. He was the only

politician in D.C. who was able to win without white support.” The former mayor is a City Council member.

Nationally, Black movement away from cities will eventually give minorities more political clout in areas where they settle, Bositis says. He adds, though, that this phenomenon will take time because the Black and Latino population is on average younger than the white population.

“Certainly in the future, it’s going to represent an advantage but not immediately because younger people are not as politically active as older people are, and the white population is getting quite old,” he says.

State teachers union files suit over new evaluations The state teachers’ union is trying to stop the new teacher evaluations system from being put into action.

The union is suing the state Board of Regents and the education commissioner over the plan which places more weight on students’ standardized test scores.

It’s the first time in almost 40 years that the union has sued the board.

At issue is the evaluation framework, which was developed collaboratively by the union and state education department and passed into law in May 2010.

Last month, Governor Andrew Cuomo suggested that the Board of Regents could interpret the law to allow up to 40 percent of a teacher’s evaluation be based on test scores.

The union, however, says it was supposed to be just 20 percent.

The Board of Regents went with the 40 percent cap when it adopted the system.

In a statement, State Teachers Union President Richard C. Iannuzzi said, “The Regents chose politics over sound educational policy in adopting regulations that will surely lead to more ‘teaching to the test.’

The Regents and State Education Department ignored the very law they helped negotiate.”

A state supreme court justice signed an order late Monday saying the state must prove why the challenged regulations should not be suspended while the litigation is ongoing.

A spokesperson for the Department of Education says officials there are confident their version of the evaluation system will stand up in court.

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

Awards ceremony at Sullivan Correctional Facility

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By REV. DR. HERBERT DAUGHTRY Part Two It was an all day program. I arrived at 9am after a 2-hour drive. At the completion of the usual security checks, I made the long walk to the gymnasium where the event was to be held.

The brothers were already assembled, and the tables were already set. As I entered to the sound of loud applause for which I am always appreciative, I was given a package of literature regarding the program and

R.I.A.A.’s introduction, history, mission statement, and vision. A breakfast was continental served.

The program began with the history of R.I.A.A. presented by Mr. William Hicks. Dr. Woods and F. Reyes emphasized the importance of R.I.A.A. Then, the awards were given. The first category was the Gold Star Awards with an introduction by Mr. Richard Seabrook. The Gold Star Awardees included Mr. Patrick Austin, Mr. Rinaldo Clark, Mr. William Hicks, Mr. Michael Love, Mr. Joseph Robinson, Mr. Richard Seabrook, and Mr. Donald Winslow.

The next category was the Inductees, which included Mr. Herman Bell. Mr. Bell was accused of killing a law enforcement officer. A few years ago, we held a press conference that involved Mr. Bell’s family and the officer’s family. We had gathered to request the authorities to release Mr. Bell. The respect for Mr. Bell was demonstrated as the family of the deceased officer pleaded for Mr. Bell’s release.

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Holmes, Mr. Alton Lee, Mr. Curtis Mays, Mr. Kevin Mays, and Mr. Todd Williams. The Program Achievement Awards were given to Mr. Franklin Reyes, Mr. Larry Sieteski, Mr. Lamar Sanchez, Mr. Jose Soltero, Mr. Charles Tinkham, Mr. Robbi Vanboxlaer, and Mr. Charles Washington.

Then, there was lunch. The food was well-prepared and diverse. There were green salads, fish, chicken, four kinds of rice (white, yellow, coconut, and peas), macaroni salad, and mixed vegetables. For dessert, there were cake and ice cream.

After lunch, the ceremonies continued. Awards were given to individuals who had been incarcerated and who were now lawabiding, productive citizens.

They included Ms. Diana Ortiz.

(Ms. Ortiz was incarcerated for 20 years. She now works for Exodus Transitional.)

She thanked R.I.A.A. for the award, and she promised to continue working on re-entry programs as well as with the Legislature.

Mr. Larry White of Fortune Society was absent. Mr. Malcolm

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Making yourself recession-proof

By FARRAH GRAY Recent news headlines have been dominated by tales of the recession and continuing economic woe. Last week, the Federal Reserve announced slower growth in the U.S. economy anticipated focusing on high unemployment and rising inflation. Notably, however, the Fed Committee will monitor the economic outlook and financial developments and will act as needed to best foster maximum employment and price stability.

The bleak economic outlook adds up to increasingly troubling statistics at a time when individuals have fewer financial options at their disposal.

Unquestionably, great emotional and psychological upheaval result from the loss of one’s home and job.

The fact that the loss is through no fault of one’s own does little to assuage feelings of abandonment, rejection, and disbelief.

Rationally, people understand that the economic downturn and its consequences are beyond their control.

The bright lining to this unfortunate situation is that it affords you the luxury of taking control of your financial destiny and creating a different outlook for yourself. Focus on a change of job or career, with the possibility of reversing your current fortunes and ultimately making yourself recession-proof.

Men and women of an entrepre-

neurial bent have been able to make money from their own homes, garages, or yard sales. Although self-employment has many appealing qualities, it does require an enormous level of self-discipline, confidence, and time-management skills.

Before taking the leap into selfemployment, first inquire about any required business permits. Next, buy or lease the equipment your particular venture requires. One of the most important things a home business needs is a good networking system. This allows you to contact individuals who can offer you work or refer you to others.

Aside from the challenges involved, it is possible for anyone to start a small business. However, it is critical that you know what you are getting into. For those who are undecided, a logical first step is to list potential areas of expertise, special training, educational and job experience, and special interests that could be developed into a business.

You must possess the necessary drive to succeed, especially when long hours and difficult decisions are needed. There is no one type of person guaranteed to either fail or succeed in small business. Starting a small business is not a decision to be entered into lightly, and should only be made after serious study, self-examination, and counseling.

The key to your success is detailed preparation and long-term planning.

Correctional Facility Continued from page 4 Davis of Osborne Society spoke of his years in prison, and his work with the Osborne Society. In impassioned tones, he urged the inmate not to give up hope. He said, “Whatever you face, or whatever you are going through, do not give up hope.”

The award which was given to me stated, “This 2011 R.I.A.A. Unsung Achiever Award formally acknowledges the remarkable work you have selflessly provided on behalf of the incarcerated and formerly incarcerated. Your extraordinary accomplishments and impact are examples of what is possible when one chooses to tap into his/her personal power.

Thank you for shining a bright light on the path that leads to empowerment, successful re-integration, and dignity.” In my remarks, I expressed gratitude for being re-invited to Sullivan to receive another award. I said, “They will always be cherished as among the most important awards I’d ever and will receive.”

I applauded R.I.A.A. for its work in bringing to public awareness the contributions of the inmates. I urged them to continue doing the good work. The impact that they are mak-

ing is felt across the state, and indeed, across the United States of America, and they will be rewarded accordingly.

The program concluded with a statement by Mr. Robinson, a founding member of R.I.A.A. He encouraged R.I.A.A. to continue its work, and he challenged those who were representing outside organizations to become sponsors of R.I.A.A. Closing remarks were given by Mr. M. Love.

He thanked everyone for being present, and he promised to have a better program next year.

As I journeyed back home, I wondered how I could foster support for R.I.A.A. as well as the two other programs they have at Sullivan Correctional Facility. Youth Assistance Program (Y.A.P) is a kind of “scared straight” program. The youth are brought to the facility, and they spend the day visiting cells and listening to “tough talk” from inmates. The other program involves bringing victims to the facility to express their pain and grief directly to the inmate population — some of whom may have been directly responsible for the pain and grief.

Before starting a business, you need to identify what type of entrepreneur you wish to be. Many types of entrepreneurs are needed to help the country, and its economy, to grow. Listed below are but a few of the possibilities: 1. Self-Employed: Individuals perform all the work and keep all the profit. This can often be a full-time job because no one else is involved and you are responsible for all aspects of the business yourself.

2. Opportunistic Entrepreneurs: Those individuals who start a business and expand it in order to hire other employees that have the necessary expertise that the owner lacks.

3. Inventors: Those with particular inventive abilities who design a better or unique product and then create companies to develop, produce, and sell the item.

4. Economy of Scale Exploiters: Those who benefit from buying in volume and offering discount prices while operating with very low overhead.

5. Buy-Sell Artists: Those who buy a company for the purpose of improving it so that they can sell it again for a profit.

6. Speculators: Those who purchase a commodity and resell it for a profit. Art and antiques are typical speculator items.

The End.

7. Franchisee: A franchisee is an individual who starts a business for which a widely known product image has already been established.

Try to list up to 10 businesses in your community that you consider efficient, smart, lucrative or suitable. Since there may be more than 10 small businesses in your particular community, concentrate instead on the types that most interest you as possibilities for self-employment due to high profits. Don’t leave out any possibilities just because you feel you don’t have the capabilities or expertise necessary for success. If you don’t possess all the necessary skills or abilities, you can likely develop them or hire others who have them to help you out. Include every possibility that seems appealing.

Once you decide, you need only to work out the details and plan for an outcome you have control over.

— Dr. Farrah Gray is the author of The Truth Shall Make You Rich: The New Road Map to Radical Prosperity, Get Real, Get Rich: Conquer the 7 Lies Blocking You from Success and the international best-seller Reallionaire: Nine Steps to Becoming Rich from the Inside Out. He is chairman of the Farrah Gray Foundation. Dr. Gray can be reached via email at fg@drfarrahgray.com or his web site at http://www.drfarrahgray.com.

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Immigration restrictions take 1 step forward, 1 back, in South

By DAVID BEASLEY ATLANTA — A federal judge blocked two key parts of Georgia’s crackdown on illegal immigration, just as the governor in neighboring South Carolina signed a measure to impose new immigration restrictions there.

The actions are the latest illustration of a familiar trend in the United States, as lawmakers in a number of states seek to curb illegal immigration only to be thwarted by the courts.

Judge Thomas Thrash issued a preliminary injunction halting Georgia from authorizing police officers to question criminal suspects about their immigration status.

He also blocked portions of the legislation that would make it a crime to knowingly harbor or transport an illegal immigrant.

“The apparent legislative intent is to create such a climate of hostility, fear, mistrust and insecurity that all illegal aliens will leave Georgia,” Thrash wrote in his ruling.

Civil rights groups argue

the Georgia law is unconstitutional because it preempts federal enforcement of immigration law. Thrash ruled that the law’s opponents are likely to win their constitutional challenge.

He said allowing the law to take effect would subject people to lengthy and intrusive immigration status investigations during many routine encounters with law enforcement.

“The individual plaintiffs have shown a realistic threat of injury,” he said.

Governor Nathan Deal’s office said the state will appeal.

“The state of Georgia narrowly tailored its immigration law to conform with existing federal law and court rulings,” the governor’s office said in a statement. “Georgians can rest assured that this battle doesn’t end here.”

Georgia is the latest state to have tough immigration legislation blocked in court.

Courts have also halted key provisions of laws passed by Arizona, Indiana and Utah.

Omar Jadwat, an attorney for the American Civil Liberties Union’s Immigrants’ Rights Project, which brought the suit chal-

TSA denies making 95 year-old woman remove adult diaper

By WENDELL MARSH WASHINGTON — Airport security officers at the Northwest Florida Regional Airport “did not require” a 95-year-old woman to remove her adult diaper, the Transportation Security Administration said on Monday.

“While every person and item must be screened before entering the secure boarding area, TSA works with passengers to resolve security alarms in a respectful and sensitive manner,” TSA Spokesman Greg Soule said in an email to Reuters.

“We have reviewed the circumstances involving this screening and determined that our officers acted professionally, according to proper proce-

dure and did not require this passenger to remove an adult diaper.”

Over the weekend, social media sites such as Twitter were ablaze with talk about the incident, including claims that the woman was suffering from Leukemia.

Jean Weber, the woman’s daughter, said on CNN that TSA agents would not clear her mother because the diaper had a wet substance.

Weber said her only options were to retrieve a new diaper from her luggage or to miss the flight.

Weber said that the agents did perform their jobs professionally.

The TSA said various options were provided to the woman and her daughter during a private screening, but declined to offer more details saying the agency wanted to respect the woman’s privacy.

lenging Georgia’s law, said he was “very glad the worst parts” of it would not be going into effect on July 1.

“This is now the fourth law of this type that has been blocked by the courts,” Jadwat told Reuters by telephone.

“These laws have universally failed the judicial test, and so we think that sends a clear message to the remaining states that might be considering something of this sort.”

In South Carolina, the ACLU vowed to file suit against that state’s freshly signed illegal immigration bill.

Governor Republican Nikki Haley on Monday gave her official approval for the law that requires police to check the immigration status of anyone they stop or arrest for another reason and suspect may be in the country illegally.

“This is not an anti-tolerance bill. This is not a bill that pushes away one group for another group,” said Haley, the daughter of Indian immigrants. “This is a bill that enforces laws ... We

support legal immigration.”

The new law, due to take effect on January 1, also requires employers in South Carolina to use the federal E-Verify system to check citizenship status of employees and job applicants.

Penalties for knowingly employing illegal immigrants will include suspension and revocation of a business license by the state.

The law creates a $1.3 million Illegal Immigration Enforcement Unit within the state public safety department to serve as a liaison between local police and federal immigration officials.

“This law undermines the efforts made to overcome our state’s shameful history of discrimination, inviting racial profiling of anyone who looks or sounds ‘foreign,’” said Victoria Middleton, executive director of the ACLU of South Carolina.

Even as some states seek to enact new restrictions on illegal immigration, several officials in Washington endorsed the DREAM Act on Monday, the day before a Senate subcommittee hear-

ing on that bill which would make it easier for certain illegal immigrants to gain citizenship.

U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan, Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel and military expert Margaret Stock all offered support for the act, under which approximately 80,000 young people would be eligible for citizenship.

An estimated 65,000 young people graduate from high school in the U.S. each year unable to work, go to college or join the military due to their immigration status, according to a statement following the officials’ news conference.

The DREAM Act would allow children of undocumented immigrants who have lived in the U.S. for at least five years, graduated from high school, and are of “good moral character” the chance to become citizens by pursuing higher education or serving in the U.S. military, the press release said.

The DREAM Act passed the House but failed in the Senate last year in the previous Congress.

Trial opens for accused Cleveland serial killer

By KIM PALMER CLEVELAND — Prosecutors named each of the 11 women Anthony Sowell is alleged to have murdered and where their decomposing bodies were found buried in or around his house in opening statements for his trial on Monday.

Sowell, 51, has been charged with the aggravated murders of the Cleveland women, whose bodies were discovered by police in his house and backyard in fall 2009. Prosecutors seek the death penalty.

Cuyahoga County prosecutor Rick Bombik told jurors the case would be one they would never forget.

Prosecutors outlined when each woman went missing, where in Sowell’s house or backyard their bodies were found, and in what condition.

“It will be burned into your memories as long as you live,” Bombik said.

Most of the homicides for which Sowell has been charged were caused by “ligature strangulation” and all of the victims were found nude or naked from the waist down.

Sowell’s attorney, John

Parker, described his client as a man with a “regular job” and who “had a relationship” in a statement that ran a little more than 11 minutes.

Parker said there were “no eye witnesses, no fingerprints and no DNA,” in the case. The “forensic evidence will be greatly disappointing,” he told the jury.

The defense also said there was no evidence of kidnapping or “planning” that would justify the aggravated circumstances of the murder charges and questioned the “credibility” of the witnesses who will testify against Sowell.

The trial before Judge Dick Ambrose is expected to include testimony from three alleged survivors. Prosecutors also are expected to present more than 8 hours of taped interviews between Sowell and the police.

On Monday prosecutors presented testimony from the first officer who arrived on the scene at Sowell’s house and the owner of a sausage shop next to his house.

Earlier in the day jurors were taken to the home where Sowell lived and where the bodies of the 11 women were found.

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Trial starts in shooting of Rwandan in S.Africa

By DONNA BRYSON JOHANNESBURG - Witnesses against the six men accused of trying to kill a former Rwandan general are under special protection because they fear the Rwandan government, the prosecutor said yesterday.

The witnesses’ fears were revealed as the trial against the six opened yesterday. Their fears focused attention on allegations Rwandan President Paul Kagame’s government was behind a plot to kill Lt. Gen. Faustin Kayumba Nyamwasa, once Kagame’s military chief. The Rwandan government has angrily denied the accusations, and hired a South African lawyer to monitor whether state prosecutors raise them in the trial.

“If the state is moving in that direction, I would obviously, and it is part of my mandate, to try to stop that,” lawyer Gerhard van der Merwe told The Associated Press yester-

day. “The government of Rwanda doesn’t have anything to hide.

They’re not involved in this.”

Van der Merwe said that raising fears of the Rwandan government is a way of implicating the government.

Shaun Prosecutor Abrahams refused to say whether his case would implicate the Rwandan government, saying only that his evidence would speak for itself as the trial proceeds.

Yesterday, Abrahams failed to persuade Magistrate Stanley Mkhari to order reporters not to publicize the names of witnesses who were in the witness protection program, or to order van der Merwe not to disclose the names to the Rwandan government.

Abrahams said several witnesses wanted to remain under protection because they fear the accused, those associated with the accused, and “the Rwandan government.”

Three Rwandans and three Tanzanians are accused of attempted murder, conspiracy to commit murder and other charges in the

June 2010 shooting of Nyamwasa. They each pleaded not guilty yesterday at the start of a trial that required French, Swahili and Kinyarwanda translation, and that drew family members for the accused and the victim.

Since Kagame and Nyamwasa fell out and the former general left for exile in South Africa last year, Nyamwasa has joined other Rwandans living abroad in accusing Kagame of crushing dissent and democracy after helping to end the 1994 genocide during which extremist Hutus killed more than 500,000 Tutsis and moderate Hutus in Rwanda.

Rwandan dissidents accuse Kagame’s government of being behind the attack on Nyamwasa. The case has strained RwandanSouth African relations, but officials here have refused to say whether they believe Nyamwasa was the target of an official assassination attempt.

Suspicions have fallen on Kagame’s government elsewhere. It emerged in May that British police had

800 Somali kids arrive in Kenyan camps daily By MALKHADIR M. MUHUMED NAIROBI, Kenya More than 800 Somali children arrive each day at overcrowded refugee camps in northeastern Kenya to escape a devastating drought in their warravaged country, an aid group said yesterday.

The children are among nearly 1,300 people who arrive each day at the Dadaab refugee camps, some of them “in incredibly dire situations,” said Catherine Fitzgibbon,

Save the Children’s Kenya program director.

“Children have made long journeys in terrifying conditions, often losing their families along the way and arriving at the camps in desperate need of security, health care and a normal life,” she said. “Nearly every child or parent we have spoken to says they are not just fleeing fighting in Somalia - the drought and food crisis are equally perilous to them now.”

The influx of refugees is placing further strain on the Dadaab camps, the

world’s largest refugee camps, which were originally built for 90,000 people, but which now house some 360,000 refugees.

The U.N. refugee agency said last week that 20,000 Somalis have arrived in Kenya in two weeks alone, a sharp increase from last year, when 6,000 to 8,000 Somalis were arriving in Kenya each month.

The group said some families walk in searing heat for more than a month in search of food, water and shelter.

Many discard their few possessions along the way.

warned some Rwandan exiles living in Britain that their lives were in danger, and the threat is believed to have emanated from the Rwandan government.

In Rwanda, human rights groups say opposition politicians, journalists and civil society activists have been subjected to crackdowns.

Earlier this year, in a case Human Rights Watch said was politically motivated, Rwanda’s High Court sentenced an opposition leader to four years in prison and fined three opposition figures convicted of endangering national security, attempting to organize unauthorized protests and inciting ethnic divisions.

In the Nyamwasa case, the key suspect is Pascal Kanyandekwe, a Rwandan businessman and the only suspect to appear yesterday in a suit and tie. In addition to charges stemming from the shooting, Kanyandekwe is accused of plotting to kill Nyamwasa while the general was hospitalized after the shooting. Kanyandekwe and four men not linked to the shooting are to

stand trial in the hospital plot later this month.

Kanyandekwe also is accused of bribery after two police officers said he offered them $1 million to let them go when they arrested him in July 2010.

Kanyandekwe allegedly left South Africa after the attempt on Nyamwasa and was arrested at Johannesburg’s OR Tambo Airport upon his return. other two The Rwandans accused are the general’s driver and another had been a Rwandan soldier, according to prosecutors.

In May, Nyamwasa and three other men who had once been top aides to Kagame were convicted in absentia by a Rwandan military court of disturbing public order, threatening state security, sectarianism and criminal conspiracy. Rwanda has demanded the four be sent home to be imprisoned, but the countries where they have found refuge - South Africa and the United States have made no move to hand them over.

While Nyamwasa portrays himself as a

champion of democracy and is a victim in the case that opened yesterday in a downtown Johannesburg court room, he and other senior Tutsis are accused of waging an extermination campaign against Hutus in the chaotic aftermath of Rwanda’s genocide.

A Spanish judge in 2008 charged Nyamwasa and 39 other members of the Rwandan military with the mass killings of civilians after they seized power in Rwanda. A U.N. report last year echoed the 2008 Spanish charges, accusing invading Rwandan troops of killing tens of thousands of Hutus in 1996 and 1997.

South African refugee and human rights groups have gone to court to try to have Nyamwasa’s asylum status stripped because of the allegations, which the general denies. In a lawsuit filed earlier this month, the refugee and rights groups acknowledge it might not be safe for Nyamwasa to return to Rwanda. The groups suggest instead he be tried in South Africa.

Somali parliament approves new prime minister MOGADISHU, Somalia - Somali lawmakers have ove rwhelmin gly approved the appointment of a new, Harvard-educated prime minister who said yesterday that he would focus on combating the country’s alQaida-linked militants who are trying to topple his U.N.-backed, fragile government.

Parliamentary Speaker Sharif Hassan Sheik Aden said 437 lawmakers voted for Abdiweli Mohamed Ali, while four rejected his

appointment and two abstained from voting.

Ali, who was immediately sworn in after the approval, thanked the members of parliament for their support.

“I will focus on fighting terrorism, and will practice good governance,” he said. “We will also give a chance to reconciliation, humanitarian issues.”

Somalia’s president appointed the SomaliAmerican politician last Thursday to help end bickering between the executive and the legislature that has paralyzed the fragile government for months.

The two branches were locked for months

in a dispute over what to do when the government’s term expires.

President Sheik Sharif Sheik Ahmed asked for an extra year in power because he said elections were distractions as the country was in a state of war with Islamist insurgents.

But Parliamentary Speaker Aden insisted on following the country’s interim charter calling for presidential and speaker elections before Aug. 20.

The leaders’ differences dissipated on June 9 when they agreed to extend the government’s term by a year and postpone elections until next year.

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CARIBBEAN NEWS DAILY CHALLENGE WEDNESDAY, JUNE 29, 2011

Suriname state oil company to expand refinery

By IVAN CAIRO PARAMARIBO, — Suriname S t a a t s o l i e , Suriname’s stateowned oil company, signed an agreement with Saipem S.p.A for the engineering, procurement and construction of its new oil refinery at Tout Lui Faut, 20 kilometers south of the capital Paramaribo.

The US$424 million contract is a more detailed version of an agreement signed in June 2010 with the Italian company.

“With the signing of the lump sum contract, Saipem gets the goahead from Staatsolie for the engineering, procurement of material and equipment and construction of the modules abroad and to ship them to Suriname.

Staatsolie will carry out the remaining construction in Suriname with its own management and under supervision of Saipem,” the compa-

ny said in a statement. will Construction start in the second quarter of 2012, while production is scheduled to begin mid-2014. The contracts were signed at Saipem’s headquarters in Rome last Friday, Italy by Staatsolie’s CEO, Marc Waaldijk and Saipem’s vice-president project management, Giovani Scimone.

After completion of the refinery expansion project, the company’s refining capacity will increase from 7,000 bpd to 15,000 bpd.

According to Staatsolie, it will produce high quality end products, including premium diesel and premium gasoline for the local market, which will significantly cut Suriname’s oil imports.

Currently, the company manages three onshore oil fields in Suriname, while offshore explorations are continuing. The output from the three oil fields is transported through giant underground pipes to the refineries located at Tout Lui Faut that has a capacity of

7,000 bpd, besides marproduction keting process.

The company’s crude oil production amounted to 16,000 barrels per day, while its annual production from 2007 to 2009 was 5.44 million barrels; 5.90 million barrels and 5.86 million barrels respectively.

Besides meeting the domestic needs and consumption, Suriname’s oil and gas products were also exported to a number of countries in the Caribbean such as Trinidad & Tobago, Curacao, St Lucia, Barbados, Panama and several others.

Meanwhile, the government of Indonesia is exploring avenues of cooperation in the oil industry with Suriname, the Indonesian ambassador to Suriname disclosed.

Efforts are being made to establish contact between the Indonesia’s state oil company, Pertamina and Staatsolie.

At a meeting recently with Staatsolie’s CEO, Marc Waaldijk, ambas-

Staatsolie CEO, Marc Waaldijk (left) and Saipem vice-president, Giovani Scimone (right), sign the agreement for the expansion of Staatolie's oil refinery at Tout Lui Faut in Wanica, Suriname sador Nur Syahrir with oil and gas compa- desire to establish coopRahardjo presented his nies from various coun- eration with foreign oil government’s inten- tries, including and gas companies tions.

Suriname,” the diplo- including from “We told them about mat said after the meet- Indonesia. the oil and gas industry ing.

“The aim is to estabin Indonesia and the The ambassador lish oil and gas exploprogress made by added that, in the meet- ration, both offshore Pertamina in its effort ing, the Surinamese and onshore,” explained to establish cooperation officials expressed their Rahardja.

UK MP hails Caribbean unity on air passenger duty issue UK Caribbean community in the United Kingdom L O N D O N , works together.

Conservative England — The Member of Parliament, likely review of the Julian Smith, told the British govern- Caribbean Question ment’s airline pas- Time meeting in senger duty (APD) London on June 21, has been cited as a that the lobbying by good example of nationals of the region what can be in the UK is likely to achieved when the solve the problem of the

By VIVIENNE SIVA

inequality of the tax

measure.

The APD is an excise duty paid by airline passengers travelling from UK airports. The tax is levied according to groups of countries and by the class of travel used.

Jamaica and other Caribbean governments have lobbied against anomalies in how the APD is structured, because flights to the Caribbean attract a

higher tax than flights to the United States, which are farther away.

Caribbean tourism and government officials, including Jamaica’s Prime Minister, Bruce Golding; and Minister of Tourism, Edmund Bartlett, have had meetings with British ministers on the matter, who have made representations in Parliament.

Finance Minister George Osborne, in May, announced the launch of a consultation on the APD “to achieve a tax system for aviation that is fair, simple, and efficient.”

The consultation period, which ended June 17, considered the views and evidence submitted by interested stakeholders.

The consultation document made it clear

that any restructuring of APD will be achieved on a revenue-neutral basis.

Former Labour Member of Parliament for Brent, Dawn Butler, who also addressed the meeting of Caribbean nationals, urged them to remain vigilant, noting that while changes to the APD may solve the issues of inequality, the duty could prove to be even more expensive.

Grenville project continues Grenada’s job creation, infrastructural development ST. GEORGE’S, Grenada — The government of Grenada has commenced the first phase of the Greater Grenville Project, calling it the continuation of a series of job-creation and infrastructural development initiatives that has been taking place in the last three years.

Works Minister

Joseph Gilbert has dismissed as “old talk,” suggestions that “nothing” has been happening in the country.

“Perhaps things have not been implemented as quickly as we would have liked, but be assured that we have not forgotten the promises we made in our campaign. We intend to continue to work with

you, the people, to deliver on those promises and to continue the infrastructural, socio and economic development of Grenada,” Gilbert said June 24 in the eastern rural parish of St. Andrew.

He was speaking at a sod-turning ceremony to mark the commencement of work on the Grenville Market

Development Project.

The first component of the project is the construction of an abattoir.

The contract for building the abattoir has been awarded to Classic Designs and Construction, a St. Andrew-based company.

Prime Minister Tillman Thomas, who turned the sod to mark the official start of the

project, joined Gilbert and other speakers in celebrating the occasion.

The event was also attended by scores of St Andrew residents, including the three MPs for the parish, and many of their cabinet colleagues.

“This is your government at work, developing the nation community by community;

investing your money wisely; and trying its utmost to put its people to work despite extremely difficult economic times,” said Gilbert, who is also Minister of Physical Development and Public Utilities.

It is the second time a contract for a major project has been given to a local company.

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Greek police clash with austerity protesters

By RENEE MALTEZOU & HARRY PAPACHRISTOU ATHENS - Greek riot police fought hooded youths with teargas and batons near parliament yesterday as violence broke out at a rally against anti-austerity measures international lenders have demanded from the Athens government.

With Greece on the edge of bankruptcy, parliament is due to vote this week on a package of spending cuts, tax increases and privatizations agreed as part of a massive bailout aimed at averting the euro zone’s first default.

Labor unions launched a 48-hour strike to protest the measures and more than 5,000 police were deployed to the center of the capital to deal with the protests, with most attention focused on Syntagma Square in front of the parliament.

The rally was initially peaceful but by early afternoon hundreds of youths, many wearing gasmasks and scarves covering their faces, hurled rock chipped off buildings in the square at riot police who responded with tear

gas.

Officials said more than 20 police officers were injured by flying stones. One person was stabbed during fights between rival groups of young demonstrators, others were eight injured and dozens were treated for breathing troubles.

Eighteen people were detained and five were formally placed under arrest, police said.

Violence continued throughout the afternoon and protesters set fire to two communications vans with mobile telecoms transmitters, which they had apparently mistaken for TV trucks and sprayed with slogans attacking the media and banks.

As a crowd initially estimated at more than 20,000 thinned out, clouds of white smoke swirled above the

square and police with shields and riot helmets stood by, occasionally launching charges to disperse a harder core of mainly young demonstrators.

The violence ebbed in the evening, when thousands of peaceful demonstrators returned to the square to chant insults at parliament, as they have done every night for over a month.

Transport, schools and other public services as well as many private businesses were shut as a result of the strike called by ADEDY, the union representing half a million civil servants, and GSEE, which represents 2 million private sector workers.

Earlier, protesters had marched through the capital shouting slogans, banging drums and carrying banners attacking the terms of the bailout which many Greeks feel imposes harsh penalties on ordinary pensioners and workers while sparing the rich.

“The measures are for the good of the banks not for the good of workers,” said Yannis Tsounis, 38, a

municipal worker.

“Europe must not see us as pariahs. We are beginning to feel as not being a part of Europe.”

DEEP IN DEBT Greece is in the grip of its worst recession since the 1970s, with youth unemployment at more than 40 percent and public finances shattered by a debt equivalent to some 150 percent of annual economic output.

Deep in deficit and unable to borrow on financial markets, it depends on international support to keep going. A default would spread contagion around the 17-nation single currency area and cause a deep shock to the global economy.

Finance Minister Evangelos Venizelos called on lawmakers to back the measures in two votes today and tomorrow, saying it was vital to convince Greece’s creditors that it had a plan and that the austerity measures could be implemented.

“The government is running out of time and so is the opposition,” he told parliament. “We are handling our coun-

Yemen may retake oil pipeline, crisis persists

By HUMEYRA PAMUK & MOHAMMED MOKHASHAF DUBAI/ADEN - Yemen is considering using force to secure and repair its main oil pipeline, blown up in an attack by angry tribesmen in mid-March, a senior Yemeni official told Reuters yesterday.

The comments came amid a persistent political impasse over the fate of President Ali Abdullah Saleh, who is recovering in Saudi Arabia from wounds suffered in a June 3 attack, and continuing unrest in the south, where nine Islamist militants were killed in fresh clashes.

The impoverished Arab state has been shaken to the core by months of protests against Saleh’s three-decade rule, a resurgent al Qaeda wing and a separatist rebellion in the south.

The Yemeni official said the government was in talks with tribesmen obstructing repairs of the Maarib oil pipeline.

“We’re close to reaching either a deal or a crackdown,” said the official, who declined to be named. “There is mediation, we have been in contact with them.

But our patience is limited.”

The lack of crude has forced the Aden oil refinery to halt output, causing widespread fuel shortages and forcing the poorest Arab state to import more when it can least afford it.

The Yemeni government has blamed the opposition for the attack on the pipeline, which runs for 225 km (140 miles) from the Maarib oil fields in central Yemen to Aden in the south.

Saleh’s opponents say the president was behind the attack to show that his government was vital to provide services and stability in the country of 23 million.

The official declined to say when the government would start the repairs but said the decision would be made “very soon.”

“There is commitment and belief in the top level of the government that this situation can’t be sustained,” he said.

POLITICAL CRISIS Yemeni officials have said the 69-year-old Saleh was expected to make his first public appearance since the palace attack as soon as yesterday, but after a delay it remained unclear when that would be.

Previous announcements of Saleh’s imminent return have raised speculation about the condition of the president, who has not been seen in public since the attack, which killed at least seven people and wounded several top officials.

“Information on Saleh’s health is very scant,” said Khaled alDakheel, a Saudi political analyst. “His condition does not seem to allow him to appear on television, not to mention return home.”

The United States has been pressing Saleh to hand over power to his deputy, Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi, who has been acting president since Saleh flew to Riyadh earlier this month, under a Gulf Arab initiative that had been signed by opposition parties.

try’s history right now and nobody can play with that.”

The European Union’s top economic official, Olli Rehn, issued a stark warning to Greek lawmakers that if they did not vote for the measures, the result would be immedi-

ate default.

Voting on the first bill is due after a debate that is due to begin at 10 a.m. (3 a.m. ET) today. Parliamentary officials said the timing of the vote itself was still unclear but it would probably come during the afternoon.

Rumors over Chavez absence reach frenzy in Venezuela

By ANDREW CAWTHORNE CARACAS - The guessing game over Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez’s health took new twists yesterday with rumors ranging from a possible takeover push by his brother to a homecoming by the end of this week.

Chavez’s June 10 operation in Cuba and disappearance from public view have convulsed the volatile and politically polarized South American OPEC member of 29 million people.

Utterly dominant on Venezuela’s political stage since 1999, Chavez has far advanced sweeping socialist reforms including nationalization of large swathes of South America’s biggest oil producer. The 56-year-old aspires to re-election next year.

But now some are asking if he can make it to the vote.

The government says he had surgery for an abscess in the pelvis and is recovering fine. But it has given no more medical details nor a clear timetable for his homecoming.

That, combined with the normally garrulous and ever-present president’s silence, has led to speculation he may have a much more serious problem.

“We are not going to comment on rumors, lies and falsehoods. The president is recovering well and we will have him here soon,” Information Minister Andres Izarra said in the latest official rebuttal of the crescendo of rumors.

Well-known Venezuelan journalist Nelson Bocaranda reported yesterday in opposition-leaning El Universal newspaper that Chavez had lost 10 kilograms and was digesting liquids only at Havana’s Cimeq hospital during treatment for prostate cancer.

Despite that, he would have an 80 percent survival chance and plans to return on Friday for more treatment in Venezuela, Bocaranda said, quoting unidentified medical sources.

BACK FOR FRIDAY? Other local media also quoted army sources as saying Chavez would be back in time for a military ceremony on Friday.

One new rumor is that Chavez’s older brother Adan, governor of the Andean state of Barinas and ideological mentor to the socialist president, is preparing to try to take the reins should the seat of power be vacated.

Outraging the opposition, Adan Chavez was widely quoted at the weekend as citing a phrase

by Argentine revolutionary Ernesto “Che” Guevara that the “armed struggle” was a legitimate means of winning power if elections failed.

U.S.-based intelligence think tank STRATFOR said that Adan and other factions may begin positioning themselves to fight for succession if Chavez’s situation does turn out to be serious.

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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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Lab-grown blood vessels seem to help dialysis patients

By STEVEN REINBERG In early research, blood vessels originating from a donor’s skin cells and grown in a laboratory have been successfully implanted in three dialysis patients.

These engineered grafts have functioned well for about eight months, say researchers reporting Monday at a special online conference sponsored by the American Heart Association.

The three patients — all of whom lived in Poland and were on dialysis for endstage kidney disease — received the new vessels to allow better access for dialysis. But the hope is that these types of bioengineered, “offthe-shelf” tissues can someday be used as replacement arteries throughout the body, including heart bypass.

“The grafts available now perform quite poorly,” said lead researcher Todd N. McAllister, co-founder and chief executive officer of Cytograft Tissue Engineering Inc., the Novato, Calif.based maker of the grafts and the funder of the study.

Currently, these types of vessels are typically made of synthetic material or they are grafts of the patient’s own veins, McAllister explained. In either case, he said, the rate of failure and the need for redoing the procedures remains high.

In the new study, donor skin cells were used to grow the blood vessels. The vessels were made from sheets of cultured skin cells, rolled around a temporary support structure in the lab. Upon implantation the vessels typically measured about a foot long and a fifth of an inch in diameter.

After implantation, the vessels were used as “shunts” between arteries and veins in the arm to gave the patient access to life-saving dialysis.

“To date all the grafts are patent [functioning well],” McAllister said. “Perhaps most interestingly, we have seen no clinical manifestations of an immune response,” he said.

In fact, over eight months after implantation, none of the patients show any signs of rejecting the graft. The grafts have also been able to handle the high pressures and frequent needle punctures needed to deliver dialysis, the researchers found.

In earlier work, McAllister’s group showed that vessels grown using a patient’s own skin cells reduced the rate of complications typically seen with shunts by more than two-fold over 3 years.

However, the advantage of

these new vessels, grown from donor cells, is that it won’t take six months to grow the tissue. off-the-shelf This approach should make the technology available for widespread use, McAllister added. He believes that, someday, these types of blood vessels might replace the use of a patient’s own vessels for bypass surgery.

However, McAllister stressed that a phase 3 trial on the use of the grafts is only now getting underway, so it will be several years before these grafts could be clinically available.

And what about the treatment’s cost? McAllister said that producing the tissue is very expensive. Speaking with Bloomberg News, he estimated that each graft might cost between $6,000 and $10,000.

Commenting on the study,

Dr. Gregg C. Fonarow, professor of cardiology at the University of California, Los Angeles, agreed that “there has been great interest in developing safer and more reliable vascular access for patients receiving dialysis.”

Access for dialysis, bleeding and infection are major causes of death for patients in dialysis, he said. “A high percentage of hospitalizations and health care expenditures in dialysis patients are due to vascular access Fonarow complications,” said.

But he cautioned that these are still early days for this technology.

“This approach appears very promising, but will need to be prospectively evaluated in much larger longer term studies to determine the full potential of tissue engineered vascular grafts for this and other uses,” he said.

At-home blood pressure New crib safety rules take effect monitoring more telling than doctor’s office readings Blood pressure readings logged over a 24-hour period on a portable home monitoring device appear more effective than blood pressure readings taken in a doctor’s office for predicting whether patients with chronic kidney disease will experience kidney failure or death.

That’s the finding of an Italian study that included 436 chronic kidney disease patients who were not on dialysis.

In the study, each patient’s blood pressure was measured multiple times while at a clinic over the course of two days. They were also given an ambulatory blood pressure monitor that took readings every 15 minutes during the day and every half hour at night over a 24-hour period.

At-home blood pressure monitors are believed to help overcome what’s known as “white coat hypertension,” in which a patient’s blood pressure spikes because of stress and anxiety when visiting a physician’s office. According to background information in the article, chronic kidney disease patients are especially vulnerable to this.

Prior research has also

suggested that nighttime blood pressure readings may be a better measure of a patient’s actual blood pressure status because readings are taken when the patient is at rest and free of the physical and emotional stresses of everyday life that can have an impact on readings.

During an average follow-up of 4.2 years, 86 patients developed kidney failure and 69 died. There were also 63 non-fatal cardiovascular events and 52 deaths caused by cardiovascular problems.

Patients with the highest risk of kidney or cardiovascular problems were those whose daytime systolic (top number) blood pressure was 135 mm Hg or higher; those with high diastolic (bottom number) readings; those with nighttime systolic readings of 124 mm Hg or higher; and those with nighttime diastolic readings of 70 mm Hg or higher. All these readings were provided by the ambulatory device.

“In contrast, office [blood pressure] measurements ... did not predict cardiovascular or renal events,” the researchers wrote.

New mandatory safety standards for cribs in the United States that take effect today “are an important step in ensuring a safe environment for infants as they sleep,” according to a statement from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development.

Under the new Consumer Product Safety Commission rules, the manufacture and sale of dangerous drop side cribs will be banned, mattress supports will be stronger, crib hardware more durable, and safety testing of cribs will be more rigorous, Yvonne T. Maddox, deputy

director of the institute, said in the statement released Monday.

Since 2000, drop side cribs have been linked to at least 32 infant deaths in the United States, according to the CPSC. Problems with the cribs can cause infants to become trapped in a gap between the crib mattress and drop side rails, resulting in suffocation.

Along with the new crib standards, there are several steps parents and caregivers can take to ensure a safe sleep environment for infants, Maddox said in the statement: Always place an infant on

his or her back to sleep.

Place infants on a firm sleep surface, such as a safety-approved crib mattress with a fitted sheet. Never place infants on a soft surface such as a pillow, quilt or sheepskin.

All soft objects — such as pillows, cushioned crib bumpers, toys, and loose bedding — should be kept out of an infant’s sleep area.

Infants should not share a bed with adults or other children and an infant’s crib or basinet should be placed in the parents’ bedroom, the American Academy of Pediatrics recommends.

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Manager of N.J. child abuse hotline is fired following case of 8-year-old Irvington girl SUSAN K. LIVIO TRENTON - The manager of the state’s child abuse hotline was fired Monday, making her the first casualty in the scandal surrounding a mishandled hotline call about an 8-year-old Irvington girl found dead in her home nine days later.

A spokeswoman for the commissioner of the state Department of Children and Families confirmed that Margarita Marriaga, the administrator of the statewide central registry, “was relieved from service’’ in connection with the May 13

call from an anonymous tipster.

The caller told the hotline screener that he was very concerned about “the height and weight” of two children, and curious “why their mother had to carry them,” according to Allison Blake, commissioner of the Department of Children and Families.

Blake said the screener, who had been on the job for less than a year, took incomplete notes and decided the call did not merit an investigation or a visit to the house, Blake said.

Irvington police recovered the body of Christiana Glenn from her family’s apartment on May 22, and an autopsy determined that she died from an

untreated broken leg and malnutrition.

Her mother, Venette Ovilde, 29, has pleaded not guilty to aggravated manslaughter and child endangerment charges. A roommate, Myriam Janvier, 23, also pleaded not guilty to child endangerment charges.

Family and friends say Ovilde and Janvier were devoted to the religious teachings of a man who demanded the women consume only Haitian soup and crackers and dress in white.

He also demanded that they break off ties with their families.

Ovilde required her children, Christiana, and her surviving brother, 6, and sister, 7, to fast as well, the friends and relatives said, did not enroll

them in school, and did not provide medical care.

Marriaga, the administrator, earned $110,000 for the job she has held since October 2009, according to Lauren Kidd, a department spokeswoman.

Her career in child welfare spans more than 20 years, according to a biography compiled for a 2010 American Academy of Pediatrics conference in which she participated.

She worked in New York City’s Administration for Children’s Services, the Annie E. Casey Foundation, and the Westchester County Department of Social Services before coming to New Jersey.

Marriaga, 47, has an unlisted telephone

number and could not be reached for comment.

“Since Commissioner Blake was appointed to lead the Department, she has continued to make choices about retaining and replacing senior staff,” Kidd said.

She added that the department was conducting its own investigation of the child’s death.

“We expect the Office of Continuous Quality Improvement’s investigation to be complete within the next few weeks, and for Commissioner Blake to review the findings and release information in a letter to stakeholders in mid July,’’ she said.

Blake has reassigned the call screener, though she was not dismissed, and has added

supervisors on every shift.

Blake and her senior staff found a tape recording of the call while investigating the family’s history with the child welfare system. From 2006 to 2008, caseworkers investigated but did not corroborate four complaints accusing Ovilde of beating and neglecting her children.

Assemblywoman Valerie Vainieri Huttle, (D-Bergen) who is chairwoman of the Human Services Committee, said she was pleased Blake was taking the necessary actions. “If the commissioner is holding her accountable, I am happy she is taking this step,’’ Huttle said.

Hispanic cops on former Hoboken SWAT team settle discrimination lawsuit

By CHARLES HACK Hoboken has agreed to pay five Hispanic officers $2 million to settle a federal discrimination lawsuit brought by the officers in October 2007, according to sources.

The Newark law firm that represented the officers has scheduled a press conference for noon today at the Hilton Gateway Hotel at Newark Penn Station to discuss the settlement.

The five officers, four of whom were members of the city’s now-disbanded SWAT unit, will also be present, according to a press release from the law firm, Ginarte, O’Dwyer, Gonzalez, Gallardo & Winograd.

Attorneys for the plaintiffs and defendants signed an agreement dismissing the case on Friday, accord-

ing to court records, which noted the settlement was agreed upon in May. “We are happy it’s over,” said Sgt. Edwin Pantoja, one of the cops who filed the lawsuit.

“We can put this behind us and move forward.”

He declined to discuss specifics of the settlement.

City officials didn’t return phone calls for comment about the settlement.

The plaintiffs Pantoja, Detectives Mario Novo, James Perez and Cesar Olivarria, and retired Detective George Fonseca alleged they were subjected to racial slurs and racially motivated mistreatment.

Some of the incidents occurred during two SWAT team trips to Louisiana in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.

In the lawsuit, the officers accused former SWAT commander Lt. Angelo Andriani of using the “n-word” and

placing a napkin over his head to look like a Ku Klux Klansman.

They also accused him of forcing them to work on his house and the home of former police chief Carmen LaBruno, but the Hudson County Prosecutor’s Office did not find grounds for criminal charges.

The officers alleged that the brass at the Police Department retaliated against them after they complained about the discrimination.

Attorneys for Andriani, a defendant in the lawsuit, could not be reached last night to comment.

Andriani was at the center of the 2007 scandal that rocked the Hoboken Police Department.

He was photographed during two so-called mercy missions to the South posing with bare-breasted women at Mardi Gras in New Orleans, letting Hooters girls hold the

Plaintiffs in the lawsuit against Hoboken Lt. Angelo Andriani and the City of Hoboken appear at a press conference in 2007. They are, from right, Sgt. Edwin Pantoja, Detective Mario Novo, Detective George Fonseca, Detective James Perez, and Detective Cesar Olavarria. unit’s weapons in point, he had been Andriani is seeking to Alabama, and downing under suspension for overturn the firing Jell-O shots in a two years but was still through the state’s Civil Louisiana bar. receiving his $11,000 a Service Commission.

After losing his tem- month salary.

LaBruno retired per and causing a disHe was eventually June 30, 2008 after he turbance at an airport terminated by Mayor was shown in New in Tampa, Fla., in Dawn Zimmer in Orleans during the January 2010, August 2010. The ter- SWAT trips posing with Andriani was suspend- mination was retroac- a woman flashing her ed without pay. At that tive to February 2008. breasts.

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Berry Gordy’s offspring battle for chart supremacy

By FRED BRONSON LOS ANGELES — Sibling rivalry makes for great drama. And while there’s nothing Ewing-like about their relationship, two sons of Motown Records founder Berry Gordy are having a chart battle on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart — albeit one spanning more than 27 years — and the victor could be decided as early as this week.

Round one of this family “feud” began in 1984, when Kennedy Gordy, the fifth of Gordy’s eight children, charted as Rockwell with an ode to paranoia, “Somebody’s Watching Me.” That Motown single (which also featured the voices of brothers Michael and Jermaine Jackson) peaked at No. 2 in March 1984.

Round two of this match is taking place now. Sitting at No. 3 is “Party Rock Anthem” by LMFAO featuring Lauren Bennett & GoonRock. LMFAO is a duo made up of Redfoo and SkyBlu. Redfoo is Berry Gordy’s youngest son, Stefan Kendal Gordy.

If “Party Rock Anthem”

Redfoo, left, and SkyBlu, from the music group LMFAO, pose for a portrait in Los Angeles. manages to knock off Adele’s “Rolling in the Deep” and prevent Katy Perry’s “Last Friday Night (T.G.I.F.)” from moving into the penthouse, Stefan will have trumped his brother by one chart placing.

There’s more to this family affair: SkyBlu is Skyler Husten Gordy, Berry’s grandson and Stefan’s nephew. That

makes for three generations of Gordys who have charted on the Hot 100 (with Berry charting as a writer and producer). That’s not a first, but it is a rarity. The Gordy trifecta was preceded by the Wilsons - father Murry, sons Brian, Carl and Dennis of the Beach Boys and grandchildren Carnie and Wendy of

Missy Elliott says Graves’ disease not so grave

By ALEX DOBUZINSKIS LOS ANGELES — Rap star Missy Elliott on Friday insisted her battle with the thyroid malady Graves’ disease has not sidelined her career, a day after it was revealed that she has the ailment.

“I was diagnosed with Graves’ disease about three years ago, but it really hasn’t slowed me down at all,” Elliott said in a written statement.

Elliott, who gained fame in the 1990s and whose hit songs include “Get Ur Freak On” and “Work It,” has won four Grammys but has not released an album since 2005’s “The Cookbook.”

Some media reports have speculated that the long delay since her last album could be due to the illness, first diagnosed in 2008.

The 39 year-old Elliott talks about her Graves’ disease in a taped interview for the VH1 cable show “Behind the Music” set to air on June 29. She describes how it shut down her nervous system and caused her hair to fall out.

But last Friday, Elliott said her condition has recently improved.

“Under my doctor’s supervision, I’ve been off medication for about a year and I’m completely managing the condition through diet and exercise,” she said.

Patients with Graves’ disease have a thyroid gland that overproduces the hormone thyroxine, which can affect a person’s appearance and energy level.

The disease is incurable, but symptoms can be handled with treatment, according to medical organization the Mayo Clinic.

Elliott said that, far from

Wilson Phillips. Murry was also a writer/producer, with Hot 100 credit for writing the Beach Boys’ 1969 single “Break Away” with Brian.

There have been a handful of three-generation musical families on other charts. The most obvious one is the trio of Hank Williams, Hank Williams, Jr. and Hank

Williams III on the country charts, where they are in the same category as Mother Maybelle Carter, her daughters Anita Carter and June Carter and granddaughter Carlene Carter.

Across multiple charts, the Winans are a three-generation musical family, starting with David and Delores Winans, who charted on Top Gospel Albums in 1990 as “Mom and Pop Winans.”

They have 10 children, including charted artists Marvin, Carvin, Michael, Ronald, BeBe, Cece, Angie and Debbie. Grandchildren Michael Jr., Marvin Jr., Carvin Jr. and Juan have charted as Winans Phase2.

(Mario Winans has also charted; he is the son of Vickie Winans, who was married to Marvin Winans).

Another triple generation chart family is the Nelsons, starting with father Ozzie Nelson, who appeared on one of the first Billboard charts in 1940. Son Ricky (a.k.a.

Rick) had a string of hit pop singles from 1957 to 1973, and his twin sons, Gunnar and Matthew Nelson, topped the Hot 100 as Nelson in 1990 with “(Can’t Live Without Your) Love And Affection.”

Cee Lo says ‘so long’ to Rihanna tour

being inactive, she has since her diagnosis toured Europe, Asia, Africa and Australia and written and produced Grammy-nominated songs for Monica, Keyshia Cole and Jazmine Sullivan.

Elliott is working on an album tentatively titled “Block Party,” with producer and rapper Timbaland.

LOS ANGELES — Cee Lo Green says he is prematurely ending his gig as warmup act on Rihanna’s North American tour to focus on his new album and his television commitments.

Anne Watkins, a representative of Green’s management company, told The New York Times that Green’s plate has gotten so full this summer that “he feels he wouldn’t give (Rihanna) fans the show they deserve.

“He always puts 100 percent into his work,” Watkins said in a written statement.

Watkins denied the decision had anything to do with the recent dust-up over some reputedly homophobic statements Green made over Twitter in regards to a review panning his show.

The Hollywood Reporter said Saturday that Green, who apologized for his Twitter jibes, joined Rihanna ear-

lier this month for a 17-city tour of the United States and Canada that runs through mid-July. He also is slated for appearances on the NBC talent competition “The Voice.”

There was no immediate word on who would replace Green on the tour.

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Controversial Chuck Berry statue approved in St. Louis

By BRUCE OLSEN ST. LOUIS — An eightfoot statue of rock and roll pioneer Chuck Berry was approved on Monday over the opposition of some local residents including one who said the Hall of Fame singer/songwriter should not be honored because he is a “felon and not a friend of women.”

The University City council, which has jurisdiction over the spot where the statue is to be installed, rejected a last-minute petition drive by opponents, who gathered 100 signatures in a bid to block or delay the statue.

The leader of the opposition, Elsie Glickert, an 86year-old former city council member, said the city had ignored procedure in allowing the statue to be built on a new public bikeway that intersects the Delmar Loop, a strip of restaurants, shops and clubs that includes Blueberry Hill, where Berry has played over 160 shows in past 15 years.

The owner of the club, Joe Edwards, helped raise over $100,000 in private funding for the statue, which depicts a young Berry wailing away on his guitar. The plaza where the statue is going be installed will also feature illuminated walls with laserengraved musical notes of “Johnny B. Goode,” Berry’s signature 1957 hit. Concrete strips in the sidewalk will be etched with the lyrics of Berry songs.

Edwards said the statue would be installed later this week and dedicated at a July 29 ceremony that will feature an appearance by the 84-

year-old Berry.

Glickert said at a wellattended council meeting that the statue should not be placed on public property because of Berry’s past convictions. She said the statue was the result of “our previous dysfunction city management” and should be delayed for a full legal review.

Others in the audience supported the statue, including Edwards, who praised Berry as St. Louis’s “most famous musical native son, who through his music changed race relations and culture around the world.”

Berry’s early career has been credited with shaping the music of the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, Bruce Springsteen and Bob Dylan.

He was recognized by the U.S. government with the Kennedy Center Award in 2000 and is a charter member of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

No formal vote was taken, but a majority of the members spoke in favor of the installation. Mayor Shelley Welsch said it would be an “appropriate, positive” addition to the strip.

Glickert and her supporters opposed the statue because of Berry’s 1962 conviction for violating the Mann Act, accused of transporting a woman across state lines for immoral purposes.

“This man is a felon and not a friend of women. It is a misuse of tax dollars to honor him on public property,” Glickert said.

At a show in Texas in 1959, Berry met a young Native American woman who came to work at his St. Louis club, was fired and then

arrested on a prostitution charge.

That led to the conviction and he spent three years in prison, where he penned several hits while incarcerated including “No Particular Place to Go.” Berry had more trouble in 1979 when he was convicted of tax evasion. He had been convicted of armed robbery as a teenager.

Berry performs to sold out shows at Blueberry Hill every month. He collapsed during a show in Chicago on New Year’s Day but recovered in time to play his next show in St. Louis.

‘The Voice’ contestants to tour, but not judges

By LACEY ROSE and KIM MASTERS LOS ANGELES — Like “American Idol” before it, NBC’s hit music competition show “The Voice” has a summer tour in the works.

The show’s eight finalists — Beverly McClellan, Vicci Martinez, Dia Frampton, Javier Colon, Nakia, Xenia, Casey Weston and Frenchie Davis — will hit the road.

But noticeably absent from the lineup are the show’s four chart-topping coaches, Christina Aguilera, Cee Lo

Green, Blake Shelton and Adam Levine.

According to multiple sources, organizers for the Live Nation tour wanted the foursome to join the show’s contestants but talks apparently broke down over compensation. It is unclear how big a seller The Voice tour will be without the coaches, whose involvement thus far has proved a significant differentiator and draw for the series.

A tour would not only drum up more buzz for the show, but also provide another way for the network to cash in on its biggest success

in years. “The Voice” —which at $2.3 million per episode is NBC’s priciest unscripted series ever — is garnering in the neighborhood of $250,000 per 30-second spot this season.

After some internal debate, NBC opted to hold the series’ second season for the spring.

It was granted the plum postSuper Bowl slot and is poised to expand its number of episodes. Last month, NBC Universal Entertainment Chairman Bob Greenblatt told The Hollywood Reporter that he hopes to feature fall and spring iterations of the show the following year.

Alicia Keys backs Broadway play about Black America

By CHRISTINE KEARNEY R&B pop singer Alicia Keys is the latest music star to back a Broadway production, according to a statement issued by producers on Monday.

The 30-year-old singersongwriter will co-produce the play, “Stick Fly,” a comedy about an affluent Black family who come together for a weekend on the posh island of Martha’s Vineyard in Massachusetts. She follows the likes of rapper Jay-Z and Elton John to back Broadway shows in recent years.

“This is a story that everybody can relate to,” Keys said in a statement. “I’m passionate about this play because it is so beautifully written and portrays Black America in a way that we don’t often get to see in entertainment. I know it will touch all audiences, who will find a piece of themselves somewhere inside this house.”

It was not clear if Keys, who has acted in films and television in the past and gave

birth to her first child last October, would be part of the cast, which was not announced. The play by Lydia Diamond will open December 8 with previews starting in November.

Music stars have had mixed success on Broadway in recent years. Jay-Z was a producer for the successful “Fela!” while Elton John wrote the music to the hit “Billy Elliot: The Musical” and produced the 2010 Tonynominated play, “Next Fall.”

However, rockers U2 are currently struggling to turn “Spider-man: Turn Off the Dark” into a success after the music and elements of the show were panned by critics.

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Study: Mobile banking to help 2 billion people by 2020 FRANKFURT — Mobile financial services are expected to improve the lives of around 2 billion people in developing countries within a decade and boost economies, a Boston Consulting Group study found.

“Overall, mobile financial services can reduce financial exclusion by 5 percent to 20 percent through 2020 and increase gross domestic product (GDP) by up to 5 percent, with Pakistan, for instance, potentially seeing a 3 percent uplift,” the study said.

It added that improved access to finance fostered entrepreneurship, new business creation and new jobs.

The report, released

by Norwegian telecom group Telenor yester-

day, focused on five countries — Pakistan, India, Bangladesh, Malaysia and Serbia — which represented a broad development range, it said.

Some 72 percent of the population in developing countries are without access to banks or credit cards according to the study.

They manage to work around this by borrowing from friends and family, obtaining short-term credit from employers, forming savings clubs or seeking out moneylenders but these options were often risky, costly and with indeterminate results.

Telecom firms such as Telenor, Vodafone, Orange and MTN have begun investing in mobile payment systems in Asia and Africa

that allow consumers to make basic payments for utilities for example but also participate in savings, credit and insurance programs via mobile phones.

Mobile financial services can also help overcome economic shocks such as natural disasters or unexpected medical emergencies, the study said.

In Kenya, Safaricom’s M-Pesa’s UAP Insurance insures poor farmers through mobile phones against weather-induced crop failures for example.

Norway’s Telenor said it was still early days but that the potential for growth was expected to be huge.

Telenor’s EasyPaisa program in Pakistan started with 2,200 retail outlets in October 2009 and now has

12,600 retailers spread over 650 cities across the country.

It has some 10 million estimated users and the total value of money transfers has reached 17.4 billion

Pakistan rupees ($167.2 million).

“We believe that mobile financial services will be one of the key drivers for financial inclusion going forward and thus has the

potential to be the most powerful tool for economic and social development in emerging economies,” Telenor Chief executive Jon Fredrik Baksaas said in a statement yesterday.

Top New York court revives banks’ lawsuit vs. MBIA

By BEN BERKOWITZ and JONATHAN STEMPEL New York’s highest court revived a lawsuit by several large banks challenging bond insurer MBIA Inc’s 2009 restructuring, which they complained was unfair to policyholders.

In a 5-2 decision yesterday, the New York State Court of Appeals said lenders including Bank of America Corp., HSBC Holdings Plc and Wells Fargo & Co could pursue claims that the restructuring fraudulently siphoned $5 billion from the MBIA Insurance operating unit at their expense.

MBIA shares fell as much as 7.1 percent.

The restructuring, approved by New York’s insurance superintendent at the time, Eric Dinallo, was designed to protect MBIA’s municipal bond business from the Armonk, New Yorkbased company’s troubled structured finance unit, which had suffered big losses from insuring mortgagerelated debt.

A divided intermedi-

ate state appeals court on January 11 had rejected the banks’ challenge to MBIA’s transfer of capital to another entity, National Public Finance Guarantee Corp. The banks said this left MBIA unable to pay out on billions of dollars of their claims.

Writing for the Court of Appeals, Judge Carmen Ciparick said state insurance law did not give the superintendent “broad preemptive power” to block the banks’ claims.

“If the legislature actually intended the superintendent to extinguish the historic rights of policyholders to attack fraudulent transactions,” she wrote, “we would expect to see evidence of such intent within the statute.”

Lawyers for MBIA and the banks were not immediately available for comment. Dinallo, who is now in private practice, also could not immediately be reached.

MBIA and Ambac Financial Services Group Inc., once the world’s largest bond insurers, branched out beyond traditional municipal bond underwriting early last decade by insuring

risky mortgage-related securities.

Losses mounted as credit conditions deteriorated and defaults soared.

Ambac filed for bankruptcy protection last November, and MBIA’s restructuring had been designed to avoid a similar occurrence. Billionaire investor Wilbur Ross’ Assured Guaranty Ltd still insures municipal bonds, but the bond insurance market is a

small fraction of its earlier size.

MBIA had argued that the banks’ only recourse was under a so-called Article 78 proceeding, which under New York law allows challenges to state administrative rulings.

The banks are pursuing a separate lawsuit under that provision, which has yet to go to trial.

But Ciparick said the

banks could also pursue claims that the restructuring violated state debtor and creditor law, and that MBIA let MBIA Insurance pursue “harmful transactions” that exposed the banks to “significant liability.”

She agreed with the intermediate appellate court that the banks’ claim for unjust enrichment should be dismissed.

In dissent, Judge

Susan Read wrote that state insurance law preempted the banks’ lawsuit, and that the restructuring could be challenged only in an Article 78 proceeding.

Other plaintiffs included BNP Paribas SA, Credit Agricole, KBC Investment Cayman Islands, Morgan Stanley, Natixis SA, Royal Bank of Scotland Group Plc and Societe Generale.

Chatting, texts, now apps distract young drivers

By RICHARD CHANG First it was chatting, then texts. Now apps are distracting young drivers, with more than a third of college students at a U.S. university saying they use them while behind the wheel.

New research from the University of Alabama (UAB) shows that even drivers who have reported previous accidents involving mobile phone applications can’t resist using them while driving.

“It’s astounding, scary. Very little of this is urgent business. It’s socializing and enter-

tainment,” said David Schwebel, the director of the UAB Youth Safety Lab who supervised the study.

Ten of the nearly 100 UAB students questioned in the study had crashes directly related to distracted driving in the past five years and three students had two accidents. Everyone who took part in the research owned a smartphone and used apps on it at least four or more times a week.

“What really stood out was the number of participants who verbally reported understanding that using mobile Internet while driving was dangerous, but con-

tinued to do it,” said Lauren McCartney, who worked on the study which will be presented at the American Psychological Association in Washington.

Socializing by phone seemed to be more important for some college students than safety behind the wheel.

“They seem pretty interested in keeping up with what everyone’s doing on an hourly basis even,” McCartney added.

Ten percent of students admitted they often or nearly always use mobile apps while driving. More than onethird use them sometimes.

Schwebel, whose find-

ings are part of a larger study on the impact of apps on pedestrian safety, warned that distracted driving will only get worse as mobile gadgets get smarter and become even more popular.

“Driving is difficult. It takes substantial cognitive effort, visual perception. You need to be seeing the world around you,” he explained.

McCartney believes banning smartphone use while driving would help to solve the problem.

Thirty three U.S. states ban text messaging while driving but no state bans the specific use of apps, according to the researchers.

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Macy’s beefs up websites to draw foreign shoppers

By PHIL WAHBA Macy’s Inc. wants to make it easier for the foreign tourists who visit its namesake chain and Bloomingdale’s stores to keep shopping once they go home.

The U.S. retailer next week will begin letting people in foreign countries who visit its macys.com and bloomingdales.com websites shop online and have the items shipped to them.

Foreign shoppers paid 36 million visits to macys.com in 2010, or about 8 percent of the total number of visits, and the chain wants that interest to translate into more online sales.

“When we looked at all the international business in our stores, we asked ‘How can we use this (technology)

to add to it?’” Kent Anderson, president of macys.com, told Reuters.

Macy’s has been testing the international shopping function for three weeks in Australia, Canada and Britain, and on Monday will formally launch and expand that to another 88 countries, including Brazil, China and

European Union members.

Macy’s, which operates about 810 namesake stores and 45 Bloomingdale’s in the United States, is using the technology of FiftyOne, a New Yorkbased, venture-capital backed company.

FiftyOne detects an online shopper’s country of residence, then converts U.S. dollar

prices into the local currency and figures out sales taxes and customs duties. FiftyOne also handles customs paperwork.

The complexity of dealing with export logistics and customs rules has long been an impediment to U.S. retailers serving customers abroad.

FiftyOne, whose clients include Saks

Spring buying boosts home prices in 13 U.S. cities

By DEREK KRAVITZ WASHINGTON — Home prices in major U.S. cities have risen for the first time in eight months, boosted by an annual flurry of spring buyers.

The Standard & Poor’s/Case-Shiller home-price index reported Tuesday that prices rose in 13 of the 20 cities tracked. Washington, D.C., saw the biggest price increases, followed by San Francisco, Atlanta and Seattle.

Still, six metro areas are at their lowest levels in the nearly four years.

Those markets are: Charlotte, Chicago, Detroit, Las Vegas, Miami and Tampa.

Last month, home prices in big metro areas sunk to their lowest since 2002. Since the bubble burst in 2006, prices have fallen more than they did during the Great Depression.

The index, which covers metro areas that include about 50 percent of U.S. households, rose 0.7 percent, the

first increase since July. The index measures sales of select homes in those cities compared with prices in January 2000 and provides a three-month average price. The April data is the latest available.

David M. Blitzer, chairman of Standard & Poor’s index committee, cautioned that while the price index increase was a “welcome shift from recent months,” much of the improvement was likely because of the beginning of the traditionally busy spring and summer home-buying seasons.

A delay in processing foreclosures is also a factor. Homes in foreclosure sell at a 20 percent discount on average, which can hurt prices in neighborhoods. But many foreclosures have been delayed while federal regulators, state attorneys general and banks review how those foreclosures were carried out over the past two years.

Even with the increase, housing remains the weakest

part of the U.S. economy.

Sales of previously occupied homes sank in May to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 4.81 million. That’s far below the roughly 6 million sold in healthy housing markets. Since the housing boom went bust in 2006, sales have fallen in four of the past five years.

New-home sales haven’t fared any better.

They fell in May to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 319,000 — fewer than half the 700,000 that economists say must be sold to sustain a healthy housing market. Sales of new homes have fallen 18 percent in the two years since the recession ended. Last year was the worst for newhome sales on records dating back half a century.

Larger down payment requirements, tougher lending standards and high unemployment are preventing people from buying homes. Many people who can afford to buy are holding off, worried that prices have yet to

bottom out.

The depressed housing market has weighed on the broader economy.

Declining home prices have kept people from selling their houses and moving to find jobs in growing areas. They have also made people feel less wealthy. That has reduced consumer spending, which drives about 70 percent of economic activity.

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“I Got You” gets off to great start

Lateik Laney shooting over a UAC Rockers defender

Devyn Cooper going for layup

The inaugural "I Got You" tournament held at Boys and Girls High School got off to a great start under the helm of commissioner Elmer Anderson.

The tournament is a middle school showcase of the best and brightest young basketball players around the area.

The M.S. 113 team won the championship by defeating UAC Rockers 61-57 M.S. 113 was coached

by Raheem Anderson.

His team was one of only two undefeated teams in the tournament to throughout the seven game league before the playoffs.

M.S.113 was led by Hakeem Brown. The 6'6 power forward scored 19 points and grabbed 17 rebounds.

He received MVP for his

Hakeem Brown scores two of his 19 points

M.S. 113 MVP Hakeem Brown and Commissioner Elmer Anderson fine play in this great game.

Devyn Cooper of the Runnerup UAC Rockers was voted Sportsmanship winner finishing with 27 points.

The winners all received 5 foot Trophies, Under Armour travel suits and Sneakers.

Photos by Lem Peterkin

Keith Williams powering his way to the hoop

Latiek Laney

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SPORTS BRIEFS Channing Crowder hints he sold jerseys

MIAMI — Miami Dolphins linebacker Channing Crowder says college players should be able to sell their game jerseys — something he “hypothetically” did when he played for the Florida Gators.

Crowder discussed the subject during the debut of his new two-hour weekly talk show on WQAM radio in Miami.

“I’ll say hypothetically I don’t have any more of my Florida jerseys,” Crowder said Sunday. “There were some Jacksonville businessmen that really hypothetically liked my play.”

Crowder expressed support for quarterback Terrelle Pryor in connection with the scandal at Ohio State. Pryor left the program and coach Jim Tressel resigned amid an NCAA investigation into players’ trading of signed equipment, championship rings and other memorabilia to a tattooparlor owner for cash and discounted tattoos.

The University of Florida declined comment.

Crowder’s agent, Joel Segal, didn’t return calls seeking comment.

Goodell, Smith meeting in Minnesota NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell and NFLPA executive director DeMaurice Smith met for labor talks in Minnesota yesterday without players or owners present, people familiar with the situation told The Associated Press.

Three people told the AP that the two power brokers and staff members got together to resume negotiations aimed at ending a lockout now in its fourth month. The people spoke on condition of anonymity because no labor developments are being made public.

NFL.com first reported that Goodell and Smith were meeting.

Smith planned to go to Florida later yesterday or Wednesday morning to attend a symposium for rookies in Bradenton. People familiar with the situation also said player representatives planned a conference call yesterday to discuss the negotiations.

The two sides were planning to meet through Friday. The key issue in the dispute centers on how to divide revenues after the league took in about $9.3 billion last year.

On Monday, a small group of players met with their attorneys in Minneapolis, where the players have filed an antitrust suit against the league. The city also is where the sides met for court-ordered mediation in May. Previous “secret meetings” between both sides have taken place in suburban Chicago, New York, the Maryland shore and last week in Hull, Mass., south of Boston.

Time is becoming an increasingly important factor in reaching a deal on a new collective bargaining agreement. The St. Louis Rams and Chicago Bears, scheduled to play in the Hall of Fame game on Aug. 7, are set to open training camp three weeks from Friday.

The lockout began on March 12, and players except for when the work stoppage was briefly lifted in April - have not been allowed to train at team facilities or be in contact with any of their coaches.

Players on several teams have practiced on their own, trying to keep in football shape so they’ll be prepared to get back to business on the field whenever the labor impasse ends.

- BARRY WILNER

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Woods unsure about playing in British Open

By LARRY FINE NEWTOWN SQUARE, Pennsylvania Tiger Woods, who skipped this month’s U.S. Open with leg injuries, said yesterday he was not sure whether he would be ready to play in the British Open.

Woods has not hit full golf shots yet and said it was too soon to determine whether he will be ready for the July 14-17 British Open, the third major championship of the year.

“I don’t know,” Woods told a news conference at the PGA Tour event he is hosting this week at Aronimink. “And that’s hard for me. I’m always goal oriented, but I’m not doing that this time.”

The 14-times major winner hurt his left knee and Achilles tendon during the Masters in April and has not played since pulling out of the Players’ Championship on May 12 after playing nine holes.

He said he made a mistake in deciding to try and play in the Players Championship five

weeks after hurting himself at the Masters, adding that if he had not played in the tournament he would be fit to compete now.

“I learned my lesson at the Players. I’ll come back when I’m 100 percent. I don’t know when that will be. But I’m getting stronger and more explosive,” said Woods, sporting a goatee and long, mutton chop sideburns.

“I just felt I was good enough to give it a go. I didn’t know I would hurt myself.”

Haye promises ‘brutal execution’ of Klitschko HAMBURG, Germany - WBA champion David Haye promises a “brutal execution” of Wladimir Klitschko in their heavyweight fight Saturday.

Calling the IBF and WBO champion a “robot” stuck in his “rigid ways,” Haye said he was in the best shape of his life and vowed to send the younger Klitschko brother to hospital in their bout in Hamburg’s soccer stadium.

“You are going to see the most brutal execution of a boxer,” Haye said Monday. “I will absolutely destroy him.”

Speaking at the same news conference, Klitschko said he respects Haye as a fighter but

not as a person.

“You have a certain attitude that is not so good for your life inside and outside the ring,” the Ukrainian IBF and WBO champion said.

Klitschko (55-3, 49 KOs) promised to make Haye eat the T-shirt the Briton once wore depicting the image of himself holding the severed heads of the Klitschko brothers. Vitali, the elder brother, is the WBC champion.

Haye kept the news conference waiting for about 45 minutes before appearing in sun glasses and a T-shirt promising to a KO in Saturday’s fight, which had been 2 1/2 years in

making.

“Be on time, princess,” Klitschko admonished Haye.

Klitschko questioned why Haye would not shake his hand.

Haye said he would do it when he visits Klitschko in hospital after the fight.

The Ukrainian also wondered why Haye did not like to share a room with him. “Look in the mirror,” Haye said.

Klitschko acknowledged that Haye looked fit and confident.

“I am going to get challenged in the ring,” said Klitschko, while adding that he planned to punish Haye for 12 rounds before knocking him out toward the end.

Norris Cole didn’t join LeBron hate train MIAMI — Cleveland State guard Norris Cole says fans there are happy he was taken in the first round of the NBA draft, even if he’s joining the despised Miami Heat.

“They know it wasn’t really my choice,” Cole said with a smile Monday.

Cole was in Miami for an introductory visit after being drafted 28th overall Thursday night, then traded by Minnesota to the Heat for the rights to guard Bojan Bogdanovic, a sec-

ond-round pick in 2014 and cash.

Cleveland fans have been rooting against the Heat ever since LeBron James chose them over the Cavaliers last summer, but Cole said his new team’s unpopularity back in Ohio doesn’t bother him.

“I’ve liked the Heat anyway,” he said. “I was cheering for them. Some people didn’t like the fact I was cheering for them, but they’re happy for me and my success. Some people have bad comments to say about

LeBron, but I ignore them.”

A native of Dayton, Cole said he doesn’t know James, and since the draft he hasn’t heard from the Heat’s so-called “Big 3” — James, Dwyane Wade and Chris Bosh.

He’ll meet the trio eventually, but perhaps not for a while. With the NBA’s collective bargaining agreement set to expire tomorrow, a lockout looms, which could mean the postponement of summer sessions designed to

speed the development of rookies.

Cole said he’ll work out in the Midwest while waiting out the labor dispute.

“I’m going to control what I can control, and that’s getting better on the court,” he said.

“When I get the call saying I can be back down here, I’m going to be back down here.”

Heat President Pat Riley chuckled while acknowledging his reputation for being wary of relying on rookies like Cole.

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Friends remember NC State hero Charles

By JOEDY McCREARY RALEIGH, N.C. Lorenzo Charles always knew how to deliver.

He brought North Carolina State its last national title in 1983 while creating one of the NCAA tournament’s enduring moments.

Then, he delivered in a different way during his second career as a bus and limousine driver, with friends and teammates saying he embraced that role with the same enthusiasm.

Charles was remembered yesterday for his imposing presence on the court and his gentle demeanor away from it, one day after the hero of the Wolfpack’s most recent championship team was killed in a bus wreck.

His last-second dunk off an errant 30-foot heave gave the underdog Wolfpack a twopoint win over Houston in the title game, setting off an unforgettable celebration that remains a staple of NCAA tournament television coverage nearly three decades later.

“He was just a funloving guy,” former

N.C. State teammate Ernie Myers said. “He was a big, muscular guy - ‘Hey, this guy’s really intimidating’ but he’s a quintessential giant.

Good-hearted, loved to laugh. I can hear him laughing right now.”

Charles, 47, was killed Monday when the Elite Coach charter bus he was driving crashed along Interstate 40 in Raleigh, a bus company official said. No passengers were aboard.

“I lost a very good friend in Lorenzo,” N.C. State teammate Spud Webb said. “He always had a big smile and a big laugh that I will always remember. He was a gentle giant.”

After Charles’ playing career ended in the late 1990s, he began driving buses and limos, Myers said.

Charles worked for Elite Coach, a limousine and bus company based in nearby Apex, and among its clients were Duke’s lacrosse team and the North Carolina softball team, Myers said.

“He loved doing it. ...

He loved driving and traveling around the country. He loved taking the trips,” Myers said, adding that North Carolina softball coach

Donna Papa once “came up to me and said, ‘Be sure to tell Lorenzo he’s like part of our family.’

“This part of town, that would be kind of sacrilegious,” Myers added, nodding to the fierce college rivalries in the North Carolina Triangle. “But he did a good job of what he was doing, and he liked doing it.”

Charles will be remembered for his split-second reaction to a teammate’s last-gasp airball nearly three decades ago in Albuquerque, N.M. The Wolfpack were tied with Clyde Drexlerand Hakeem Olajuwonled Houston in the ‘83 championship game with time ticking away when Dereck Whittenburg hoisted a heave from well beyond the key.

Charles pulled the ball out of the air and slammed it home at the buzzer, giving N.C. State a 54-52 win. That sent late coach Jim Valvano spilling onto the court in search of someone - anyone - to hug.

Charles finished his college career two years later with 1,535 total points - 15th on the school’s scoring list and his .575 shooting

percentage in 1985 remains a school record for seniors. He played one season in the NBA, averaging 3.4 points in 36 games with the Atlanta Hawks in 198586, and played internationally and in the Continental Basketball Association until 1999.

“Lorenzo left an indelible impact in sports lore that will never be forgotten, and while he will be forever remembered for his accomplishments at North Carolina State, the Atlanta Hawks family would like to extend heartfelt condolences to the Charles family,” said Dominique Wilkins, a pro teammate of Charles’ and now the Hawks’ vicepresident of basketball operations.

There were few details about the onevehicle crash that took Charles’ life. Video shows the windshield broken out with tree limbs sticking through the window frame. The rear wheels of the bus were on an embankment, leaving the right front tire elevated from the road.

Myers said he and his family were driving on vacation Sunday when he last spoke to Charles.

“He said, ‘Ernie, I’ll

This April 4, 1983 file photo shows North Carolina State's Lorenzo Charles (43) dunking the ball in the basket to give N.C. State a 54-52 win over Houston in the NCAA Championship game. call you back.’ His wife me back,” Myers said. called him on the other “It’s just kind of surreline, and he never called al.”

Bobcats pick Biyombo faces buyout dispute in Spain

By MIKE CRANSTON CHARLOTTE, N.C. - Charlotte Bobcats draft pick Bismack Biyombo and his Spanish club have scheduled a mediation session Friday in hopes of settling a dispute over the contract buyout required before he’d be allowed to play in the NBA. Jorge Sanz, spokesman for the Madrid-based team

Fuenlabrada, said Biyombo has two seasons left on his deal and his buyout clause is more than $1.4 million.

NBA rules say the Bobcats can’t pay more than $500,000 toward a buyout.

While Sanz said the team has accepted and won’t fight the 18-yearold Congo native’s desire to leave, it expects to receive the buyout.

“We have to reach an agreement over the compensation for the club,” Sanz said. “On July 1 there is a mediation session. We are ask-

ing for the million euros that is stated in his contract. If we don’t reach an agreement, it will go to court and a judge will decide.”

Biyombo, who is in Charlotte working out this week, told reporters Friday he was a “free agent” and the buyout wasn’t a concern.

“I’m going to play in the NBA next season, for sure, 100 percent,” Biyombo said.

Biyombo’s agent, Igor Crespo, didn’t immediately return messages yesterday as the Bobcats declined comment.

A team official whisked Biyombo away from reporters as he was about to work out at the team’s practice facility. Bobcats general manager Rich Cho didn’t return a message, then declined comment through a team spokesman.

Another team spokesman interrupted a question directed at coach Paul Silas about Biyombo’s contract and said the team couldn’t comment on the issue.

The Bobcats were more open about Biyombo’s contract immediately after the

draft, when Cho said he expected the issue to be resolved before next season.

“He’s got a dispute with his Spanish team,” Cho said. “It’s something we’re going to have to address. It’s a little bit complicated.”

Cho had been a fan of Biyombo since he traveled to Spain in May to work him out while he was Portland’s general manager. Soon after, the Trail Blazers fired Cho. But he was then quickly hired by Charlotte and continued to pursue Biyombo.

Cho pushed for a

three-team, draft-day deal that Bobcats owner Michael Jordan agreed to that sent top scorer Stephen Jackson to Milwaukee and gave the Bobcats the seventh overall pick from Sacramento.

The Bobcats used that selection on Biyombo, who had a triple-double that included a record 10 blocks in the Nike Hoops Summit game in April. The Bobcats have high expectations for Biyombo, even though at 6-foot-9 there is concern whether he’ll have to play power forward and not center.

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“I GOT YOU” GETS OFF TO GREAT START

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The inaugural "I Got You" tournament held at Boys and Girls showcase of the best and brightest young basketball players High School got off to a great start under the helm of Commis- around the area. Here is the championship winning team M.S. sioner Elmer Anderson. The tournament is a middle school 113

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