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EVERYBODY’S in a good mood this week, and you’ll want to join friends or family in sharing good food and feelings.

You may be asked to grow, or move.

Think seriously about it, because it could enhance your spiritual growth. Soul Affirmation: In order for money to come I must think about money as my friend.

Lucky Numbers: 45, 47, 51 AT work, some matters have been on hold but now you will get the green light. Continue to work as diligently as you have been in the pass to ensure success. Have faith that your plans are on target. Soul Affirmation: Anticipation of a beautiful immediate future lights up my week. Lucky Numbers: 14, 53, 54 QUIT rushing around. You frequently help others so why are you troubling over asking for the help you need this week? Ask and when you receive say Thank You! You are blessed with many supportive friends.

Soul Affirmation: I smile and trust in the powers beyond myself.

Lucky Numbers: 3, 20, 44 KEEP all your ducks in a row this week.

No mixing work with fun or business with pleasure. Save your affection for the home front and stay focused on the work in front of you on the job. Things are working out perfectly. Soul Affirmation:This week I find joy in the gifts that life has already given me.

Lucky Numbers: 1, 8, 14 WHY not take each perfect moment as it comes? You are struggling to find a solution that time can and will provide. Perform your tasks cheerfully this week and let the future take care of itself. Soul Affirmation: Worry will only create more worry. I stop all worry.

Lucky Numbers: 32, 50, 51 YOUR anxiety about an important issue can now be seen as needless. You don’t have to worry! Have faith that things are working out perfectly and they will! Soul Affirmation: I am uplifted by the presence of friends.

Lucky Numbers: 2, 17, 22 YOU can be discreet and cut down on some of the envious comments you are attracting. Or you can continue to flaunt it since you’ve got it.

Your choice this week! Watch for a pleasant change in a romantic partner’s attitude. Soul Affirmation: The winner is me. I smile for the cameras. Lucky Numbers: 23, 39, 43 CENTER yourself at every opportunity during this busy week and keep your quest for emotional and spiritual balance in the forefront. Make an effort to take your time; that way you’ll recognize opportunity from impulse-control problems immediately. Soul Affirmation: My spirit gives me limitless possibilities.

Lucky Numbers: 10, 20, 31 LUCKY! Your natural ability to shine is magnified this week.

You’ll be garnering positive attention on a project you recently completed. Bask in the glow of public admiration! Soul Affirmation: This week I forgive myself for everything that has happened.

Lucky Numbers: 11, 13, 29 A celebration is in store and you are the guest of honor! You’ve achieved something wonderful and you need to take some time to enjoy it.

Let yourself enjoy the applause then move onward and upward.

Soul Affirmation: I entertain wild ideas about making money this week.

Lucky Numbers: 19, 24, 36 LET someone else make a few decisions this week. Take a backseat and enjoy the respite from doing all the driving.

You’ll enjoy the ride more this week if you just admire the view as it goes by. Soul Affirmation: I enjoy living in my dream.

Lucky Numbers: 19, 43, 50 SOMETIMES you imagine that everyone needs to hear your sensible opinions on all matters of significance. And other weeks you know that you are wise and generous enough to listen to others as they share their good ideas. This week is a week for listening. You’ll learn much.

Soul Affirmation: I listen with an open heart. Lucky Numbers: 15, 21, 27

Security heightened for returning SMC students CITY NEWS SERVICE Amid heightened security, students returned to the Santa Monica College campus on Monday to continue taking final exams, while counselors were on hand to help anyone still reeling from a mass shooting there on Friday June 7.

The rampage ended on the school grounds and left five people dead, along with the gunman. Police on Sunday identified the suspect, John Zawahri, who would have turned 24 Saturday.

He was shot and killed by police in the campus library. Also released Sunday were the names of four victims — the gunman’s father, Samir Zawahri, 55; his AP PHOTO/SANTA MONICA POLICE brother, Christopher Zawahri, 24; DEPARTMENT Marcela Dia Franco, 26, who died This undated photo provided on Sunday; and her father, Carlos Sunday, June 9, 2013, by the Santa Franco, 68. The fifth victim, whose Monica Police Department shows name was not released, is believed John Zawahri, 23, who police have to have been a woman — possibly identified as the shooter in Friday’s a homeless woman who was seen deadly rampage at Santa Monica regularly collected recyclables on College. the campus.

Marcela Franco was surrounded by her family as she died at SMC President Chui L. Tsang Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical wrote on the college's website.

“We celebrate the achievements Center Sunday morning, according to the hospital. Her father was of many of our students as they killed instantly as the two were shot graduate. We look forward to this in his red SUV as they drove out of wonderful ceremony and time of a college parking lot near 20th and family pride.”

Counseling services were Pearl streets. The young woman wanted to be a clinical psycholo- offered for students and staff over the weekend, and counselors were gist.

When her school, Cal State available on the main campus again Dominguez Hills, couldn’t provide on Monday. The killing spree the units she needed to graduate in began about a mile from the SMC the fall, she decided to take the campus around midday Friday, courses at Santa Monica, where her when fire broke out at a home near father worked for 22 years as a Yorkshire and Kansas avenues, and groundskeeper. One shooting vic- the bodies of Samir and tim, identified as Debra Fine, was Christopher Zawahri were found in good condition and was released inside. The gunman then carjacked Saturday night. Some students a woman, who told the Los Angeles returning to campus were still shak- Times the man ordered her to drive him to SMC, stopped at various en by the shootings.

Julio Aguilar told ABC7 he had points on the way to fire randomly left the campus library moments at people and vehicles — including before Zawahri walked in and a Santa Monica Big Blue Bus. He eventually got out of the opened fire.

“I don’t even think I should be woman’s car and ran onto the camalive, but I thank God that I am,” he pus and into the library, where he was killed by police. said.

A candlelight vigil was held in front of the campus library Monday e v e n i n g .

Graduation ceremonies at 6 p.m. Tuesday doubled as a memorial service for the victims of the shootings.

“We work every day to help students overcome obstacles and to AP/ROBERT GAUTHIER achieve their career and A weeping woman is comforted after being escorted off transfer goals,” campus as Police swarm Santa Monica City College.

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Honoring Thy Father

Byron K. Reed heeds to his calling of caring and sharing Gods gift of giving Wells Fargo Senior Vice President embraces improving the lives of others

BY KENNETH MILLER ASSISTANT MANAGING EDITOR [Spread Love Wherever You Go. Let no one come to you without leaving happier. —MOTHER TERESA] I’ve never met Mother Teresa or been in the same room with Nelson Mandela, but upon being in the pres-

ence of Byron K. Reed, I encountered a person spiritually touched, a man committed to fighting poverty, social injustice and improving the community around him.

Reed, the senior vice president and Wells Fargo Director of Community Relations for the Los Angeles Metro / Orange County

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NO ‘I’ IN TEAM: Wells Fargo Senior Vice President of Community Development is supported by colleagues such as Carmel B. Sella (left), Wells Fargo Vice President of Community Development and Roy Jasso, Wells Fargo Vice President of Community Development, L.A. Metro Region.

Region, believes in providing Black males with an opportunity to change their lives.

After all, he learned from personal experience what could be achieved when tragedy struck and lives were on the line.

The son of a military father and one of seven children, Reed was faced with a circumstance that is all too familiar in African American families throughout America. In 1998, his niece called to tell him that their mother had not been home.

Donna had six children and the demons of drug addiction had robbed her of the capacity to care for them, but the fear of losing the children to foster care brought about an emergency family meeting.

The family assembled and it was decided that Reed was the best candidate to care for the six children, but his small one bedroom Arlington, Texas apartment was too small.

“We decided that we had a problem here. So collectively we decided who would be the best to take on this

responsibility. My other sister was a teacher and couldn’t make the commitment, my other brothers (four) were married and had kids of their own, so I was the only one without any kids and had the financial means to do it,” Reed candidly explained during an interview at the Sentinel offices last week.

Subsequently he purchased a massive house that could accommodate the seven of them.

He believes getting his sisters children was a gift from God and that it was “his calling” to provide his nieces and nephews with a life of promise and fulfillment. Reed was willing to sacrifice his own goals of family for them.

“These are my kids even though I am not their biological father, they know that I love them and we talk on the phone every day now,” he said.

Reed’s story was profiled on the Oprah Winfrey Show in 2005.

The oldest of the children, Nekesha Thomas (33) penned a letter to Winfrey praising her uncle and thanking him for the wonderful life he afforded her. Moved by their story, Oprah invited Reed and his family to the show for a segment and surprised him with the news that it was his nieces letter that inspired Winfrey.

It turned out to be one of the most emotional episodes of Oprah on network television and after watching it last week, I understand why.

Currently, Thomas is a nurse and married living in Grand Perry, Texas

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A MEASURE OF GREATNESS: Wells Fargo Senior Vice President Byron K. Reed is captured in his downtown office where he delicately influences decisions that improve the lives of the community he serves. with her two children, Justin Reed (30) is a graduate of Oklahoma University and is currently working in Dallas, Marche Scott (25) is in nursing school in Dallas, Tiller Reed (23) is attending Richland College in Dallas, Lindsey Reed (21) is also attending nursing school and 17-year old Chad Reed is a 3.7 student and football star for Plano West and is being recruited by Oklahoma, SMU and TCU. Their mother Donna Hayden, 55, is remarried and living a sober life.

Reed does not carry himself like a {See BYRON K. REED, Pg. 4}

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It’s a new day in Inglewood Dotson and Padilla win big

Thursday, June 13, 2013

Byron K. Reed {Continued from page 3}

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NEW ERA: Councilman-elect George Dotson stands with family members and supporters having won the race for Inglewood’s District 1 council seat.

Dotson, a businessman defeated Mike Stevens with more than 60 percent of the vote.

Voters finally usher in a new era of public servants

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WE DID IT! Newly elected Inglewood City Councilman Alex Padilla (center with supporters after finally ridding the city of the notorious Judy Dunlap in the race for District 2. press time Dotson was leading convincingly 58 percent to 41 percent.

Retired Police Captain Alex Padilla finally ended dreaded incumbent Councilwoman Judy Dunlap’s reign of terror on the city by winning the District 2 Seat with a resounding 67 percent to 32 percent, at press time.

The 30-year Inglewood resident says he wants to be his district’s next councilmember because he “cares about our city and its future.”

Padilla retired Santa Monica police department after holding the office of for captain 34 years.

He currently works with the Office of the Inspector General in the city of Los Angeles. Deeply rooted in Inglewood, Padilla is a block captain and the immediate

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Inglewood voters ushered out an old era and brought in a new one when they overwhelming elected African American George Dotson and Latino Alex Padilla to city council seats on Tuesday.

Planning Commissioner Chairman George Dotson, a businessman with more than four decades of experience ran on a platform of economic development defeated incumbent Mike Stevens for the District 1 Seat. At Sentinel

past chair of the Inglewood Citizen Police Oversight Commission.

He is a member of the National Organization of Black Law Enforcement Executives, the Elks Lodge, Knights of Columbus, American Cancer Society Relayfor-Life, Salvation Army Auxiliary Board to name a few. The Sentinel endorsed him for city council.

Dunlap’s last hurrah was an accurate assertion that she lied about obtaining the endorsement of California Board of Equalization Chair Jerome Horton, who had not met the councilwoman in the past four years.

Opposing candidates complained that she lied and misled union members about her endorsement in order {See DOTSON/PADILLA, Pg. 14}

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corporate executive; in fact I had to bashfully inquire if he was Byron K. Reed?

However, Reed is in fact one of the most powerful Black executives at Wells Fargo. He has amassed more than 25 years of banking experience in various areas including Trust Services, Consumer, Small Business, and Commercial Lending, Government Relations, Community Development, Global/Corporate Philanthropy and most recently in Consumer Real Estate.

He also serves on numerous boards, including Operation HOPEMidwest Regional Board of Directors, LYCEM-Texas, Junior Achievement-Chicago, National Housing Conference Board of Governors, Fannie Mae Housing Impact Committee, LULAC National Housing Commission Advisory Board, Founding President of the 100 Black Men of Greater Dallas, Inc., the 100 Black Men of Chicago, and the Urban Financial Services Coalition Advisory Board.

He is also one of two Blacks on the board of advisors at the Edmund G. “Pat” Brown Institute of pubic affairs dedicated to social justice and equality of opportunity, something that Reed doesn’t need a platform for.

His enormous gift for his selfless service for humanity was formed from his Christian religious upbringing.

“My grandmother use to always say that charity begins at home,” added Reed.

Reed has traveled extensively and lived abroad while growing up due to his father’s military service.

He earned his BA in Political Science/Public Administration and a minor in Business Finance from the University of Oklahoma.

While a resident of Dallas, Texas, Reed served on many state of Texas boards and commissions and his last appointments were to the Texas Juvenile Probation Commission, and to the Texas Affordable Housing Task Force.

Since relocating to Los Angeles, he has been equally active in the community and community activities.

African Americans are not without their share of millionaires, but rarely have any of them come close to giving back to our community the way this native Texan has. While Reed is busy in his civic associations, his real action is demonstrated in the work he has already accomplished in the community since arriving on the scene in Los Angeles a little over a year ago.

Reed was recently appointed to the UCLA School of Public Affairs Advisory Board, and he serves on many other nonprofit organizations, including the Los Angeles Police Foundation, Valley Economic Development Center, Chrysalis, Los Angeles Neighborhood Housing Services (LANHS), West Los Angeles CDC, Los Angeles Latino Business Chamber of Commerce Advisory Board, Urban League of Los Angeles, Big Brothers Big

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There is always work to be done for Bryon K. Reed, Wells Fargo Senior Vice President.

Sisters of Greater Los Angeles and the Inland Empire, Freewill Community He is responsible for spearheading Wells Fargo’s program to provide investments and loans for community development and lowincome housing initiatives throughout the region.

Reed’s mission is to bring prosperity to the communities within his region. He has an extensive background with three decades of banking experience working in the areas of community development, corporate philanthropy, and government relations, trust services and small business and consumer banking.

Because Reed’s mission is to bring prosperity to the community, he has made it his business to connect with the right sources to get the job done when it comes to improving the economic opportunity and quality of life for LA Metro’s low and moderate-income communities.

Reed is also the board chair of FIVE MILLION KIDS Initiative, a non-profit organization that teaches financial literacy.

Reed had to endure the loss of his father to cancer in 2006. His mother and father were married for 50 years and the foundation of marriage is one that he feels is his only failure.

“When I got divorced, I thought I had failed,” he states.

He remembers the last day of his father’s chemotherapy on a Monday, Reed last saw him on a Wednesday and on Sunday his father succumbed.

“I felt like I gave him permission to go home, but my pastor later told me that I didn’t, he was just tired,” he solemnly added. Reed would give any piece of money or any earthly belongings to just spend a moment with his father or grandmother.

“Anything that I do today to help someone is all attributed to them and Christ who guides me. I have always been the same guy and I will continue to be the same guy.”

Reed was asked if he had an empty Hallmark to write a message to his father on Father’s Day, what would it say?

“Thank you for allowing me to be me. Thank you for trusting in me.

Thank you for giving me the resources and the knowledge to be all that I can be, and thank you for being a great father,” he concluded.

Those kind words are exactly the words that describe OUR feelings to Bryan K. Reed, a father, a mentor, and a community caretaker and institution builder. THANK YOU!

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BY EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS ASSOCIATED PRESS

BY MARK SHERMAN ASSOCIATED PRESS

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Civil rights leader Medgar Evers helped create a more inclusive and open Mississippi by increasing black voter registration, Gov. Phil Bryant said Wednesday during a service marking the 50th anniversary of Evers’ assassination.

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In this 1963 file photo, Medgar Evers, 37, Mississippi field secretary for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People is seen. He was shot outside his home after returning from an integration rally.

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Myrlie Evers-Williams listens to a dramatic reading as part of the International Day of Remembrance Celebration honoring her late husband, civil rights leader Medgar Evers, Tuesday, June 12, 2013 in Jackson, Miss. The anniversary marks Evers’ assassination 50 years ago.

A racially diverse crowd of more than 150 people gathered outside the Mississippi Museum of Art in downtown Jackson for speeches, gospel singing and the ringing of bells to remember the NAACP leader who was killed outside his home just after midnight on June 12, 1963. Evers was 37.

The Republican governor stood

by Evers’ widow, Myrlie EversWilliams, just before going on stage to speak. Bryant said Evers “paid the ultimate sacrifice” in challenging segregation.

“The young people that I met, who were here reading today, live in a vastly different Mississippi than existed 50 years ago because of the hard work of men like Medgar Evers and women like Myrlie Evers,” said Bryant, 58. “So, as we ring the bell today, we pay homage to them.”

Evers, a World War II veteran from Newton, Miss., was hired in 1954 as the state’s first field secretary for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. In addition to working for black voter registration, he led a boycott of downtown Jackson’s white-owned businesses, where black customers received shoddy service and few black clerks were hired.

Evers also investigated violence against African-Americans, including the 1955 killing of Emmett Till, a 14-year-old from Chicago who was

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said to have whistled at a white woman working in a grocery store in rural Money, Miss. Till was kidnapped from his uncle’s home near Money and was beaten beyond recognition and shot in the head. His body was weighted down with a fan from a cotton gin and dumped into the Tallahatchie River.

Till's mother allowed photos of his brutalized body to be published in Jet magazine, and the images galvanized the civil rights movement.

Simeon Wright is one of Till’s cousins and was in the home the night Till was taken. Wright said during the memorial service Wednesday that Evers was “a light in a dark place” during the investigation of the slaying — a crime for which two white men, J.W. Milam and Roy Bryant, were tried and acquitted by an all-white jury.

Wright said Evers taught him how to give a sworn statement to law enforcement.

“He said, ‘Whatever you do, tell the truth. Tell the truth,’” Wright said.

During the service Wednesday, four young adults read several quotes from religious leaders and civilrights activists, including this 1961 statement from Evers, which was printed on a banner with a black-andwhite photo of him: “Let men of good will and understanding change the old order, for this is a new day.”

In 1967, Democrat Robert Clark of Ebenezer became the first black Mississippian since Reconstruction to win a seat in the state House of Representatives. Clark, who knew Evers, served 36 years.

By the time he retired, black representation in the state House and Senate was almost equal to Mississippi’s 38 percent black population — a change that was largely made possible by two federal laws, the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965. {See MEDGAR EVERS, Pg. 14}

WASHINGTON (AP) — The government’s massive collection of Americans’ phone records is drawing protests and lawsuits from civil liberties groups, but major legal obstacles stand in the way. Among them are government claims that national security secrets will be revealed if the cases are allowed to proceed, and Supreme Court rulings that telephone records, as opposed to conversations, are not private to begin with.

Justices have written recently about the complex issues of privacy in the digital age, and the high court could have the last word on challenges filed by the American Civil Liberties Union and others.

The Obama administration has said the collection of phone records — telephone numbers and the time and length of calls — is necessary to protect Americans from terrorism and that it does not trample on their privacy. The National Security Agency collects millions of phone records from the United States each day, but says it only accesses them if there is a known connection to terrorism.

The ACLU this week filed the most significant lawsuit against the phone record collection program so far. The suit demands that the courts put an end to the program and order the administration to purge the records it has collected. Conservative lawyer Larry Klayman also has filed suit over the program.

Before either suit gets a fullblown court hearing, the administration could try to employ two powerful legal tools it has used in the past to block challenges to closely held surveillance programs.

In February, the Supreme Court shot down an effort by U.S. citizens to challenge the expansion of a surveillance law used to monitor conversations of foreign spies and terrorist suspects by finding that the Americans could not show that the government would eavesdrop on their conversations. In legal terms, they did not have standing to sue, the justices said in a 54 decision.

The ACLU and Klayman both say they are or were customers of Verizon, which was identified last week as a phone company the government had ordered to turn over daily records of calls made by all its customers. In so doing, they said it is a simple matter of fact that records of their calls have been seized by the government.

“We meet even the standard the government has been foisting upon the courts for the past decade,” said the ACLU’s Jameel Jaffer.

But American University law professor Steven Vladeck said the challengers might face a different problem. “They’re not suing Verizon.

They’re suing the government for something a third party did. And so the issue is not their ability to prove that their communications were

involved. It’s how they can object to a third party’s cooperation with the government in a suit against the government, rather than the third party,” Vladeck said.

Another issue the administration

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Obama observes 50th anniversary of Mayor elect Garcetti at Equal Pay Act home in Black community

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White House senior adviser Valerie Jarrett, left, and others, listens as President Barack Obama speaks in the East Room of the White House in Washington, Monday, June 10, 2013, during a ceremony to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Equal Pay Act. Obama highlighted the gap in pay that still exists between men and women.

BY JIM KUHNHENN ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama says that 50 years after enactment of the Equal Pay Act, the nation still faces gender wage disparities that must be fixed. “This is the 21st century,” he declared. “It’s time to close that gap.”

Obama raised the issue while observing the anniversary of the law signed by President John F. Kennedy in 1963.

To an audience almost entirely of women at the White House, Obama drew attention to a recent Pew Poll that found women are the primary source of income for nearly 40 percent of households in the United States.

“When more women are bringing home the bacon, they shouldn’t just be getting a little bit of bacon,” he said.

He cited an often-mentioned statistic that women on average earn about 77 cents for every dollar earned by men. Though some dispute the size of the gap, few argue that there is no gender discrepancy in pay.

“If they’re bringing home more of the income and that income is less than a fair share, that means that families have less to get by on, for child care or health care or gas or groceries,” Obama said. “It makes it harder for middle-class families to save and retire. It leaves small businesses with customers who have less money in their pockets, which is not good for the economy.”

The event’s focus on women’s pay comes during a week when Obama is paying special attention to Democratic constituent groups. On Tuesday he will speak at the White House in support of an overhaul of immigration laws. He will be fundraising for the Democrats on Wednesday. On Thursday he will observe LGBT Pride Month with remarks at the White House.

Joined by Rep. Bass, Council Pres. Wesson, Garcetti, embraces African Americans, clergy during tour.

BY KENNETH MILLER ASSISTANT MANAGING EDITOR Two and a half weeks after his convincing victory to become the next mayor of Los Angeles, Congresswoman Karen Bass and Council President Herb Wesson joined Eric Garcetti during a tour of African American churches on Sunday June 9.

While most elected officials engage the Black community for their votes prior to an election, Mayor Elect Garcetti has decided to embrace the community both before and after winning in a demonstration of commitment to the city’s Black constituents.

“I want to be the mayor that builds that relationship of understanding and cooperation,” Garcetti said. “I want City Hall to do the small things right and work with residents to achieve great things.

Our challenges are great, but so are our opportunities.”

Hailing it as the “Back-toBasics Tour,” the new mayor embarked on a citywide venture, which included a stop at Holman United Methodist Church (Rev. Kelvin Sauls) where he addressed the concerns of more than 200 community residents and engaged in an honest and open dialog with voters.

Garcetti, who takes the reins on July 1, is laser focused on fixing problems in the Black community that has been of primary concern and job creation.

He then went to Trinity Baptist Church (Rev. Alvin Tunstill, Jr.Pastor), Mt. Tabor Baptist (Pastor Ticey Brown) and, Grant African Methodist Episcopal Church (Rev. Vernon S. Burroughs, Pastor) where he was greeted with an appreciative welcome from clergy, parishioners and residents.

With his transition plans close to completion, the mayor elect has been delicately assembling a team

that will be reflective of the city of Los Angeles.

“I have seen how he has created jobs and economic development in our city, and I know that as mayor, he will do the same for South Los Angeles,” said Bass.

Garcetti’s is the first person of Jewish faith to lead Los Angeles.

His mother is of Russian Jewish descent. His father, former Los Angeles County District Attorney Gil Garcetti, is Mexican American of Spanish and Italian descent.

At the age of 42, Garcetti is also the youngest Los Angeles mayor in more than a century.

He supported Barack Obama’s presidential bid and campaigned for him in Iowa in 2008, and was cochairman of Obama’s campaign in vote-rich California during the 2012 election.

Garcetti is friends with prominent Blacks such as Cory Booker, mayor of Newark, N.J. —they both studied abroad as Rhodes Scholars, and Ben Jealous, head of the NAACP — they both attended Columbia University.

He also won the support of all three incumbent African American City Council members, Councilmember Bernard C. Parks, who represents District 8 in South Los Angeles, outgoing District 9 Councilmember Jan Perry and Council President Wesson.

Wesson said that he, “backed Garcetti because of his courage and commitment, and last weekend, he delivered on a campaign promise to make the Black community a priority going forward into his initial term.”

Finally, one Black constituent who requested anonymity added: “I did not vote for Garcetti, but I am impressed with the fact that he came to the Black community after being elected to engage us, and I will wait and see. We need jobs, jobs and more jobs.”

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Calif. state employees to receive raises in deal SAfrica: California state workers to receive 4.5 percent raises over 3 years under tentative union pact Mandela ‘responding better to treatment’ AP PHOTO/BEN CURTIS

JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Former President Nelson Mandela began responding better to treatment Wednesday morning for a recurring lung infection following “a difficult last few days,” South Africa’s president said.

President Jacob Zuma told parliament that he is happy with the progress that the 94-year-old is making following his hospitalization on Saturday.

Mandela spent a fifth straight day Wednesday in a Pretoria hospital, where he was visited by one of his daughters and two granddaughters.

Zuma noted that Wednesday marked the 49th anniversary of the sentencing of Mandela to life in prison in 1964. He said “our thoughts” are with Mandela and his family “on this crucial historical anniversary.”

“We are very happy with the progress that he is now making following a difficult last few days,” Zuma said. “We appreciate the messages of support from all over the world.”

Zuma on Wednesday applauded the legacy of Mandela and other antiapartheid activists. South Africa's government disbanded its official policy of apartheid — racial segregation and discrimination — in 1994.

“Our country is a much better place to live in now than it was before 1994, even though we still have so much work to do,” Zuma said.

Mandela, the leader of South Africa's anti-apartheid movement, spent 27 years in prison during white racist rule. He was freed in 1990, and then embarked on peacemaking efforts during the tense transition that saw the demise of the apartheid system and his own election as South Africa’s first black president in 1994.

His admission to a hospital in Pretoria, the capital, is Mandela's fourth time being admitted to a hospital for treatment since December. President Barack Obama and Michelle Obama wished Mandela a “speedy recovery” on Tuesday.

Mandela’s grandson, Mandla Mandela, visited his grandfather on Wednesday and said the family has been deeply touched by the outpouring prayers and messages of goodwill from around the world. He said the family is satisfied with the care Mandela is receiving.

Zuma used Wednesday’s budget address to parliament as an occasion to highlight the work carried out by the African National Congress, the party that Mandela led to South Africa’s presidency, over the last 19 years.

South Africa’s economy has expanded 83 percent since 1994 and per capita income increased by 40 percent, Zuma said. But the recession in Europe, South Africa’s biggest trading partner, has hit Africa's biggest economy hard, and he said South Africa — which has experienced deadly labor strife in recent years — must move past labor violence.

The vestiges of apartheid, Zuma said, remain in South Africa: Black South Africans have less education and fewer skills than whites because of the apartheid era. As part of promoting national reconciliation, the implementation of black economic empowerment policies will continue, he said. Direct black ownership in Johannesburg's stock market is less than 5 percent.

“In addition, annual Employment Equity reports indicate that white males still own, control and manage the economy,” Zuma said.

The government is amending the black economic empowerment law to address some of these challenges, he added.

Outside Mandela’s Johannesburg home, well-wishers continued to leave tributes to the former president. A neighbor, Zaheerah Bham’Ismail, said it’s an emotional time for South Africans because Mandela “portrays the entire legacy of what everybody has fought for and our ideals.”

“But at the same time we know we have to say goodbye at some point because he needs ... his peace, as well. But I think in order to hold onto him, we’ve got to go back to fight for the ideals that he fought for,” Bham’Ismail said.

Visitors walk past a statue of Nelson Mandela in Nelson Mandela Square at the Sandton City shopping centre in Johannesburg, South Africa Tuesday, June 11, 2013.

Doctors are doing all they can to improve Nelson Mandela's health as the 94-year-old icon spent a fourth day in the hospital for a recurring lung infection, South Africa’s president said Tuesday, as two of Mandela’s daughters visited their father.

The state is also responsible for billions of dollars in health care obligations and pension liabilities for retired state employees in the California Public Employees’ Retirement System.

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SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) -About 95,000 state employees could be in line for a 4.5 percent pay raise as part of a tentative three-year agreement reached Tuesday between Gov. Jerry Brown and California’s largest public employee union.

In an email to members, Service Employees Union International Local 1000 President Yvonne Walker said the pay hike would be received by July 1, 2015, with specific timing dependent on state revenues.

If revenue meets state projections, employees would get a 2 percent raise on July 1, 2014, followed by another 2.5 percent increase on July 1, 2015.

If next year’s revenue targets aren't met, the entire 4.5 percent increase would go into effect in 2015.

State revenues have seen a bump this year, but analysts say it's too soon to tell whether those increases will continue.

Assemblyman Brian Jones, RSantee, described the proposed link between raises and state revenues as “laughable,” because employees would get the pay increases regardless of the state’s finances next year.

“It negates itself,” Jones said. “(The governor) says one thing, but if that doesn’t happen, we’re going to do it anyway.”

The deal also includes a guarantee of no furlough days and protects health care and retirement benefits.

State workers have had one furlough day a month during the past year.

The proposed contract also sets up a faster timeline for the state to pay its share of health care costs for a new employee’s dependents.

“I think it's a fair proposal, and I’m hoping that it will be ratified,” the governor told reporters.

Pat McConahay, a spokeswoman for the California Department of Human Resources, said in a statement that the administration “recognizes that through cutbacks and hard work, state employees have played an important role in stabilizing California’s finances over the past five years.”

Pay increases included in the pact would be carefully phased in “based on the state’s economic recovery,” she noted.

The Department of Finance will determine next May whether projected state revenues are sufficient for the raises to go into effect in 2014.

H.D. Palmer, a spokesman for the Department of Finance, said the contract agreement does not affect a tentative deal with top Democratic legislators on a 2013-14 state budget, since raises would not take effect until July 2014.

The union criticized Brown at a Capitol rally last week, saying the governor was refusing to offer any pay raises. Asked by reporters last month about negotiations, Brown said he was aiming low.

Unions were critical in winning voter approval for Brown’s November tax initiative, Proposition 30, and

helping him present a budget that he says is balanced.

“State workers have been through a roller coaster in the past five years,” SEIU spokesman Jim Zamora said Tuesday. “We have been on furloughs more than we haven’t.”

State officials were not able to say how much the pay increases would mean in dollar figures for the average employee.

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T BY CHARLENE MUHAMMAD | LAWT CONTRIBUTING WRITER The trial of George Zimmerman, neighborhood watchman to himself, but reckless vigilante to others, began on June 10 for his killing of Black teenager Trayvon Martin on February 26, 2012 in Sanford, Florida. In this one-on-one interview with Sister Charlene Muhammad, Mr. Martin opened up about his family’s personal battle, missing Trayvon on Father’s Day, and what the Justice for Trayvon Martin movement means to him.

Charlene Muhammad (LAWT): How are you and Ms. Sybrina (Fulton, Trayvon’s mother) and your family doing because you’ve been thrust into this role, this battle and have been carrying it for some time and now the trial is on?

Tracy Martin (TM): Spiritually, we’re doing fine. Mentally we’re doing fine as well. But physically, it’s taken a toll on us but at the same time, we just stay in the grace of God and we just be hopeful that this fight for justice is worth it all.

LAWT: Are you ready for this trial?

TM: You can’t prepare yourself for a situation such as this because you never

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Á Sybrina Fulton, leŌ, and Tracy MarƟn, parents of slain teen Trayvon MarƟn, watch the proceedings in the George Zimmerman trial in Seminole circuit court in Sanford, Fla., Wednesday, June 12, 2013. Zimmerman has been charged with second-degree murder for the 2012 shooƟng death of Trayvon MarƟn. Â Trayvon MarƟn's parents Tracy MarƟn, foreground leŌ, and Sybrina Fulton, foreground center, and the family's lawyer, Bemjamin Crump, background center with microphone, parƟcipate in the Million Hoodie March in Union Square in New York (March 21, 2012).

know what the outcome will be. You never know what’s going to be brought out. I can say that I’m ready to take on any blows that the defense tries to hit me with and the reason I say I’m ready is because I prepared Trayvon for 17 years, so I know what type of person he was. I know what type of kid he was.

So, whatever the defense has to say about him, I know that it’s not true. I know there’s nothing that can knock me down because I know Trayvon. True enough, they may say some things about using marijuana or he had pictures with guns or whatever but I didn’t know that Trayvon. I just don’t feel that will have an eơect on me. Just sitting up listening to those things can have its wear and tear on you. And the only thing I can try to stand on is my faith. I’ll just keep that strong hold on my faith and I will let good outweigh the bad.

LAWT: There’s a renewed activism - and I don’t think the people ever went away, so to speak but what are your thoughts about the people raising their voices again, keeping watch on this trial, and mobilizing around National Hoodie Day, which they’re using to fight for your son and other youth suơering the same thing?

TM: I think anytime we continue to raise awareness, not only for Trayvon, but for other young Black and Brown children, and continue to let this society know that it’s not okay to kill our children and you get a slap on the wrist for it, we definitely have to stand strong and continue that fight. And just to see so many people still active in raising that awareness and keeping America conscious as to what’s going on is very important because we all know that if we don’t raise a voice for our children, no one else will. And as soon as we stop speaking up, they’ll assume that it’s okay to depreciate the value of our children’s lives. So I think it’s very important that we continue to raise awareness, and it’s not only about Trayvon. It’s definitely about our children, our future. By being thrust into this situation, you hate that it’s your child.

But at the end of the day, you say to yourself, maybe this was something that had to happen and maybe we were the right people to pick because we were so outspoken about his death that we were standing there from the beginning saying, ‘No! You killed my son and something has to be done about this.’

So many times our children are killed and we don’t speak up about it. And I was once asked, well, what if it had been an African American person that killed Trayvon. My reply was I’d be pursuing this the same way. So many times, when it’s Black-on-Black crime, we really don’t pursue it in that manner. If you value your child’s life, you want to see your child’s killer brought to justice no matter if he’s Black, White, Brown, because we feel we were robbed. We feel that we were wronged so our fight from the onset was we need justice. We need equal justice.

LAWT: I can almost hear that question coming. I understand what you’re saying. As this Fathers’ Day occurs within a week of the trial starting, what kind of impact is that having on you? Does it matter that it’s Fathers’ Day or

could it be any day?

TM: Any day is tough living without him. Father’s Day, you know, I always looked for the lil’ gift that he gave me. Whether it was the same gift every year, but I looked forward to that gift. He would go and buy me a pack of tshirts or a pack of socks or some slacks, house shoes, whatever. But I knew that I had that gift coming from him every year and with Father’s Day approaching, I know I’m not going to get that gift this year, but I still visit. I’ll go visit him at the cemetery, sit down and have my talk with him. The impact of him not being around on that day is devastating but at the same time, I know he’s looking down on us and looking at the fight that we’re putting up for him and the voices that we’re maintaining for him...Father’s Day is a tough day without him.

LAWT: How are you dealing with attempts to paint your son in media in a negative light, with guns and drugs?

TM: The defense attorney wants to put in the potential jury’s mind that Trayvon was this bad kid that was on heavy drugs and he was all oơ into guns and my thing is he was 17 years old.

He had just turned 17. If he was that bad of a kid, why wasn’t he ever in any trouble with the law? ... Of course he did get suspended from school but that didn’t make him a bad kid. If you take a poll on high school students, I guarantee you 65-70% of the high school students have tried marijuana. The gun thing, I don’t have guns in my household I can’t say yeah Trayvon had a gun and I knew about it because I didn’t know that Trayvon. I didn’t know about Trayvon with a gun. The pictures that they released, those were the first time I saw those pictures. And I’m sure every parent in this country can’t tell you what their child does when they’re away from home or what their daily activities are because we’re not around our kids 24 hours a day. So if your child does something while he’s not around you, you can’t speak on it. All we can do is be hopeful that the things we instilled in our children will outweigh temptation.

LAWT: How is the Justice for Trayvon Martin Foundation (www.justicetm. org) coming along?

TM: We’re still getting it together. It takes a lot of work. You can organize a foundation but to get it up and running and to have it successful, It takes a lot of work. We just designed a new website. Our mission for the foundation is to advocate, educate, have mentoring and oơer some type of scholarship for children. Our biggest thing is we’re not segregating. We’re saying our foundation is open to anyone. It’s coming along. It’s an uphill battle, uphill climb but we have faith in ourselves and the people we surround ourselves with so we think we can actually get to the next level with the foundation.

LAWT: Thank you.

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To Be Equal

Is ‘big brother’ Supreme Court must keep racially biased? affirmative action alive

BY MARC H. MORIAL NNPA COLUMNIST “The enduring hope is that race should not matter; the reality is that too often it does.”

— Anthony Kennedy, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court As early as this week, in Fisher v. University of Texas at Austin, the United States Supreme Court may issue a ruling that could seriously limit or altogether eliminate the use of affirmative action in university admissions. While much of the current debate about the continued need for affirmative action has been distorted by the use of coded buzzwords like “preferences,” “entitlements,” and “quotas,” we should remember that the original intent of the policy when it was first introduced in 1961 by President John F. Kennedy, was to foster non-discrimination and fairness.

That remains its central goal today. We hope a majority of the justices uphold those core American values in deciding whether – like legacy, athletic ability and veteran status – can be used to ensure that all students receive the educational benefits of diversity.

In Fisher v. University of Texas, Abigail Fisher, a White student denied admission to the University of Texas in 2008, has resurrected a specious claim of “reverse discrimination.” This argument has been discredited in similar cases, most recently in the landmark 2003 University of Michigan Gutter v.

Bollinger case. There the Supreme

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Court ruled “student body diversity is a compelling state interest that can justify using race in university admissions.”

It is fairness, not preference, that demands the continued use of affirmative action to level an educational playing field that for centuries excluded Blacks and other minorities from the nation’s mainstream and elite universities. It is equal opportunity, not reverse discrimination, that seeks to offer a way up and out for millions of students relegated to segregated and substandard high schools. It is inclusion, not entitlement, that calls us to recognize that a diverse college experience is good for students of all races, ethnicities and genders, and

that diversity is essential to America’s ability to compete and win in the global economy.

The National Urban League is among 70 organizations and individuals to file Supreme Court Amicus Briefs in support of fairness in the University of Texas case. It should be remembered that until 1950, African Americans were barred from attending the University of Texas Law School. In its 1950 Supreme Court victory, Sweatt v.

Painter, The NAACP Legal Defense Fund (LDF) made it possible for Heman Sweatt to be the Law School’s first Black student.

Despite claims to the contrary, race-neutral solutions are not an adequate answer. In its Fisher v.

University of Texas Amicus Brief, the LDF states, “From 1997 through 2004, UT did not consider race in admissions. The impact was devastating.” Despite the fact that 13% of Texas high school graduates were African American, “at no point between 1997 and 2004 did African American students comprise more than 4.5% of the entering year class, Nearly four out of every five UT undergraduate classes had zero or one African American students.”

A similar “race-neutral” admissions policy at the University of California has also resulted in reducing the number of incoming minority freshmen. Clearly, affirmative action based on the principle of fairness and the undeniable benefits of diversity must be kept alive.

Marc H. Morial, former mayor of New Orleans, is president and CEO of the National Urban League.

Virginia’s restoration of voting rights: An American issue enfranchisement” law that barred people convicted of a felony from voting in the state.

Delegate Glass’s words that day still echo one hundred years later: “This plan will eliminate the darkey as a political factor in this State in less than 5 years, so that in no single county...will there be the least concern felt for the complete supremacy of the white race in the affairs of government.”

That plan eventually became part of Virginia’s Constitution and systematically disenfranchised voters of color for over a century. Until last week, the law still impacted more than 350,000 Virginians who were no longer incarcerated, including 190,000 black would-be voters.

But, Governor Bob McDonnell has bravely announced an executive

BY BENJAMIN TODD JEALOUS If we want to understand the importance of Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell’s recent voting rights reform, we need to look back all the way to the 1901-1902 Virginia Constitutional Convention.

The setting was Richmond, Virginia, June 1901. The Virginia Democratic Party had decided that African-Americans were gaining too much political clout after the Civil War. They forced a constitutional convention to reset the balance of power.

Virginia Delegate Carter Glass, a newspaper magnate and future United States senator, took to the podium to promote his plan for the new constitution. It was a classic example of the Jim Crow black codes, and it included a “felony dis-

Benjamin Todd Jealous

{See JEALOUS, Pg. 12}

BY JULIANNE MALVEAUX NNPA COLUMNIST When George Orwell wrote the novel 1984, he envisioned a character, real or imagined “Big Brother” who was a know-all, see-all, omnipotent and elusive presence that intruded into lives because he could. Those who knew about “him” were told that they did not exist, but in many ways, Big Brother may not have existed, either. The omnipotence had taken on a life of its own.

Orwell’s book was a book ahead of its time. At a different time, his book could have been dismissed as psychedelic fantasy.

Today, he is just a step behind the reality in which we live. Verizon is sharing LAWT FILE PHOTO telephone records.

The Department of Justice is Julianne Malveaux monitoring journalists, and the IRS is playing games with those regardless of race. Big Brother can who seek nonprofit status. People tell you who can afford lawyers pulled over for a minor traffic viola- and who cannot. Big Brother can tion will have to submit fingerprints drive police to investigate the least to find out if they have broken other and the left out, those who are most laws. Big Brother is alive and well in vulnerable, while deciding to allow others to slink behind their space of too many layers of our lives, Meanwhile, market researchers class and privilege. Big Brother are segmenting populations by zip can play bang for buck games that code and consumer patterns. They make it more profitable to arrest can tell you what percentage of those with few resources in the Whites; African Americans or hood instead of those with homeLatinos live in a certain zip code. based protection.

Data collection seems to be a They can tell you what you earn, what you are worth, and how many race-neutral process. While data of your neighbors have criminal collection is an input, arrests are an records. The zip code data drives output. Between input and output marketers. Does it also drive law there is the opportunity for racial bias to show up. If White folk and enforcement?

A recent study indicated that Black folk take an equal toke, why African Americans are between 2 are Black folk more likely to be and 6 percent more likely to be arrested? Are zip codes driving pubarrested for marijuana violations that lic safety officers to one place and Whites. I guess it is easier to arrest deterring them from another?

Differences in marijuana arrests from a corner than from a country club! The rate of arrests for marijua- raise real questions about the many na possession is 716 per 100,000 for ways that data may be used to disAfrican Americans, compared to criminate. Instead of structural 192 per 100,000 for Whites. The racism, intrinsic racism, and other disparity is much higher in some forms of racism, we now have a data-based racism that is only logical counties.

Does this mean that African when we ask how data is collected.

Americans are breaking more laws, Simply put, the zip code data leads or that law enforcement officers are people to discriminate, if only targeting some zip codes or commu- because they are being led to single nities more regularly? It is a lot eas- out a certain population.

In other words you can be a nonier to pick up a few citizens enjoying marijuana in a park than banging racial racist. You can let the data, down the doors of an elite country warped though it may be, lead you to club. Yet data about marijuana biased conclusions. Data-based usages suggests that there is little to racism is as corrosive as emotiondistinguish the habits of African based racism. Big Brother’s racial Americans from those of Whites. biases is nothing more than par for The only difference is the arrest rate. the course.

Julianne Malveaux is a Big Brother knows.

Big Brother has driven the kind Washington, D.C.-based economist of demographic that will tell you and writer. She is President Emerita where you can find low-income, of Bennett College for Women in highly unemployed individuals, Greensboro, N.C.

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e v e n t CALENDAR L.A. Watts Times Calendar This Week 6/14 COME CELEBRATE THE 30TH ANNIVERSARY OF TV’S ICONIC SERIES READING RAINBOW WITH LEVAR BURTON: WHEN: Friday, June 14th at Noon. WHERE: Dylan’s Candy Bar – Farmers Market. WHERE: Dylan’s Candy Bar located in the Original Farmers Market at 6333 West Third Street, Los Angeles, 90036.For three decades (June 1983 - November 2006), the multi-award winning television program, Reading Rainbow hosted by Burton, encourLEVAR BURTON aged reading among young children and eventually went on to become the third-longest running children's series in PBS history, after Mister Rogers' Neighborhood and Sesame Street. Now come join LeVar Burton at Dylan’s Candy Bar at the Farmers Market where he will be doing a special reading in honor of this 30th Anniversary celebration. The event is free and is open to children of all ages. Best known for his Reading Rainbow stewardship as well as his other TV roles (most notably Kunta Kinte on Roots and Geordi La Forge on Star Trek: The Next Generation), LeVar Burton comes from a family of educators and is widely recognized for his lifelong advocacy of children’s literacy.

6/15 LIBRARY JUNETENTH CELEBRATION: Juneteenth celebration, featuring Binnie Tate Wilkin, storyteller, educator and author. Stories, art activities, display of slave ship replica, food and refreshments.

WHEN: Saturday, June 15th, 1 p.m. Art activities begin at 12 noon. WHERE: AC Bilbrew Library, 150 E. El Segundo Blvd., L A 90061, 310-538-3350.

CARSON CELEBRATES JUNETEENTH WITH MUSIC AND FESTIVITY: The City of Carson and the Carson Cultural Arts Foundation will be presenting non-stop entertainment and fun activities for the entire family as it hosts the 2013 Juneteenth Rhythm and Blues Celebration on June 15.

The festivities will take place from 11 a.m. - 6 p.m. at Mills Park located at 1340 E. Dimondale Drive in Carson. The event is open to the public and admission is free.

Headlining this year’s event is famed Texas Blues Guitarist, Guitar Shorty. Also performing are G Mack & the Polyester Players, Sophisticated Dance, Inc., Blackqsax, Karen Evans, Aalon, and Judson Baptist Church Mass Choir. Aside from non-stop entertainment, Juneteenth also features various stage activities, carnival games for kids, a variety of arts and crafts, food and display booths.

Juneteenth marks the date in history when African-American slaves in Texas first received word that all slaves were free. The news came to Texas in June 1865, two and a half years after Abraham Lincoln issued the

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Emancipation Proclamation. For more information on the Juneteenth Celebration, please contact Mills Park at (310) 631-3130 or Dianne Thomas at (310) 632-0756.

6/16 THE 12TH ANNUAL HONOR THY FATHER AWARDS DINNER: A Tribute to Fathers & Male Mentors. Estelle for Humanity is now accepting registration for the 2013 Honor Thy Father Awards.

You & your family have the opportunity to honor your father, husband, brother, uncle or male mentor on this Father’s Day. WHEN: June 16, reception begins at 4:00 p.m. and the dinner ceremony begins at 5:00 p.m. WHERE: Proud Bird, Main Ballroom, 11022 Aviation Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90045. Bring your family and join our family as we hear the untold stories of our family heroes. For more information contact (310) 927.8339 or (310) 499.1491. For additional information visit www.honorthyfather.org or email estelleforhumanity@yahoo.com.

Up & Coming 6/22 Educational Career Day: Zoe Christian Fellowship of Los Angeles is hosting an Educational Career Day. WHEN: Saturday, June 22, from 11:00 a.m. – 2:00 p.m.

WHERE: 5315 West Adams Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90016. Those that attend will get information about careers in the fields of nursing, engineering, computers, medical, plumbing and various other trades and professions. The people who work in these fields will be there to answer any questions.

There will also be a seminar on interviewing techniques. This event is free and open to the public. If you are a teenager trying to decide your career options or you are older and considering a career change, come out to Career Day. For further information, call 323-931-1477, ext 21.

THE LOS ANGELES AMATEUR RADIO CLUB (LAARC) FIELD DAY: Field Day is a yearly event where Amateur Radio Operators from around the world set out to the “fields” and simulate emergency operations by using temporary locations, power sources, and antennas. The goal is to make as many contacts as possible in a two-day period and have a good time while doing it.

Field Day is on the last weekend of June.

WHEN: June 22 and 23, (Saturday and Sunday). 12:00 noon Saturday and contact as many ‘Hams’ as we can and end at 12:00 noon Sunday. Everyone’s welcome to come and operate “Ham” radio. We do need some dedicated licensed operators to man the other Field Day stations and make contacts. We will have a CW (code for the

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uninformed), SSB (single side band) and VHF/UHF stations all working on different bands and modes. WHERE: We will set up our stations in Parking Lot 1 of the CSUDH campus located 1000 E. Victoria Street, Carson, CA 90747 at the northeast end of the school.

6/26 CENTINELA HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER HEALTHCARE JOB FAIR: Centinela Hospital is looking to fill key clinical and non-clinical positions. If you have more than one year of experience working in a hospital setting, then this job fair is for you. Entry-level positions are also available. WHEN: Wednesday, June 26. Experienced healthcare workers: 9:00 a.m. – Noon. Recent healthcare graduates: 1:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m. WHERE: Centinela Hospital Medical Center IKP Auditorium 555 East Hardy Street Inglewood, Ca. For more information call (310) 680-1407.

BLOOM COMMUNITY TOWN HALL MEETING “A LOOK BACK, A LOOK AHEAD”: In celebration of Building a Lifetime of Options and Opportunities for Men’s (BLOOM) one-year anniversary, the California Community Foundation (CCF) will

host a community town hall event at the Los Angeles Trade Technical College. The community is invited to join BLOOM, an initiative of CCF, for an important discussion on the future of black male youth LARENZ TATE in South Los Angeles. BLOOM is a five-year, $5 million grant-making initiative focused on Black male youth between 14-18 years of age in South Los Angeles who have been involved with the Los Angeles County probation system. By 2017, BLOOM seeks to help 1,200 black male youth complete high school, as well as find employment resulting in taxable income for 1,000 young black men (18 and older). Special guests include BLOOM spokesperson actor Larenz Tate and others to be named. WHEN: Wednesday, June 26, 5:30 p.m. – 8 p.m.

WHERE: Los Angeles Trade Tech College is located at 1937 S. Grand Ave, North Tent, Los Angeles, 90015. The BLOOM Town Hall Meeting is free and open to the public.

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Chad Johnson lawyer seeks NFL commissioner Goodell defends cut in 30-day jail term

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BY CURT ANDERSON ASSOCIATED PRESS MIAMI (AP) — The backside pat former NFL star Chad Johnson gave his lawyer in court was not meant as disrespect to a judge and certainly wasn’t something that warrants a 30day jail sentence, the attorney said Tuesday in a motion seeking another chance.

Adam Swickle asked Broward County Circuit Judge Kathleen McHugh to reconsider the sentence she imposed Monday. Johnson had reached a deal with prosecutors for community service and counseling to resolve a probation violation from his no-contest plea last year to battery on his then-wife, TV star Evelyn Lozada.

McHugh, just elected last August to her first term on the bench, seemed poised to approve the plea deal until Johnson’s backside pat of Swickle triggered a wave of laughter in the court. The judge then angrily said she wouldn’t sign off and tossed the sixtime Pro Bowler formerly known as Chad Ochocinco in jail.

“This isn’t a joke,” the judge said, raising questions about his sincerity.

Swickle said the backside pat was merely Johnson’s way of showing appreciation for his attorney’s work on the case. Moments before it had meant he wouldn’t do any jail time despite skipping out on meetings with his probation officer for three months.

“Mr. Johnson has been a professional football player in the National Football League for 11 years and patting another individual on the backside is viewed as a sign of respect and gratitude,” he said in the motion. “It is clear that the court misinterpreted Mr. Johnson’s interaction with his

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In this Aug. 12, 2012 photo, Chad Johnson, left, leaves Broward County Jail in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. attorney.”

As for the courtroom laughter, Swickle added, “this is not Mr. Johnson’s fault and he should not be punished for the actions of third parties.”

Prosecutors say they’ll leave Johnson’s sentence up to McHugh, who presides over Broward County domestic violence cases. A hearing has been set for next Monday.

Johnson, 35, spent most of his NFL career with the Cincinnati Bengals, catching 766 passes for more than 11,000 yards and 67 touchdowns. He played one year

with the New England Patriots and then was in training camp last year with the Miami Dolphins, who cut him after he head-butted Lozada during a domestic altercation. Lozada, a star on VH-1’s “Basketball Wives” show, quickly filed for divorce.

Johnson, a Miami native, said in court he still hopes resurrect his football career. Under the plea deal that had been reached, Johnson would do 25 hours of community service and attend counseling sessions twice a week during his probation. In addition, the probation would be extended three months into December.

Soledad O’Brien joining HBO’s ‘Real Sports’ (AP) — Soledad O’Brien is joining fellow “Today” show alum Bryant Gumbel at HBO’s “Real Sports.”

HBO said Wednesday that O’Brien will be a reporter on the monthly magazine show, which is anchored by Gumbel. Her first story, due this month, is about war veterans who use martial arts to help cope with post-traumatic stress disorder.

“It’s exactly what I’ve been doing for a long time — telling stories about human beings and their struggles,” she said.

She most recently was a morning-show host on CNN, but the news network has given the program an overhaul that will debut

Soledad O’Brien

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next week. O’Brien was replaced by the anchor team of Kate Balduan and Chris Cuomo.

O’Brien’s experience with sports has been limited, although she did play rugby while studying at Harvard.

She will be a visiting fellow at Harvard’s Graduate School of Education during the next school year.

The deal with HBO also gives the network the first look at projects done by O’Brien’s production company, Starfish Media Group. She’s making a business out of creating and selling documentaries to networks and has a separate deal with CNN to continue the “Black in America” series that she has been doing for the past couple of years.

NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell speaks during a news conference at the NFL football spring meetings in Boston, Tuesday, May 21, 2013.

(AP) — NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell says the Washington Redskins nickname is a “unifying force that stands for strength, courage, pride and respect.”

Goodell was responding to a letter from 10 members of Congress who want the name changed because it is offensive to many Native Americans.

He cited the nickname's origins and polls that support its popularity.

Goodell wrote that he understands the feelings surrounding it are complex and could change, but he also point out fan pride in the team’s heritage.

The name is the subject of a legal challenge from a group seeking to have the team lose its trademark protection.

Team owner Dan Snyder has vowed to never change the name. Teton High School in Driggs, Idaho, this week became the latest high school to drop the name.

Jealous {Continued from page 10} action to grant automatic restoration of rights to people with non-violent felony convictions who have finished the terms of their sentence.

With the stroke of a pen, he restored the right to vote to at least 100,000 Virginians, with many more to come.

McDonnell was not the first governor to learn about the ugly history of felony disenfranchisement in Virginia, but he was the first to act.

He deserves credit for having courage in his convictions and taking action when his predecessors – and many of his party’s leaders in the Virginia state legislature – would not. His decision showed that restoration of voting rights is an American issue, and not a matter of partisan divide.

Now other states need to follow his lead. All but two states still practice some form of felony disenfranchisement, such as long waiting periods for those who have finished the terms of their sentence but still cannot vote. Florida, Kentucky, and Iowa all practice some form of permanent disenfranchisement. More than 4.4 million Americans who are no longer in jail or prison cannot vote

due to felony disenfranchisement practices, and nearly half are black.

States like Virginia and Delaware are leading the way, but states like Florida are lagging behind; the Sunshine State still disenfranchises more than one million citizens each voting period.

Moreover, Virginia could take the final step and introduce a constitutional amendment to remove felony disenfranchisement once and for all.

At the 1901 Virginia Constitutional Convention, one of the delegates claimed that Carter Glass’s plan was discriminatory. Glass replied, “Discrimination! Why that is precisely what we propose. That, exactly, is what this convention was elected for.”

Discrimination was the purpose of felony disenfranchisement in Virginia, and discrimination was the result. Other states may not have the same historic evidence of racist intent, but the effect – the systematic exclusion of people of color – is the same. Governor McDonnell’s voting rights reform last week was a victory for democracy and a victory for racial justice. But America still has a long way to go.

Ben Jealous is president/CEO of the NAACP. Contact: Ben Wrobel 917-846-0658, bwrobel@naacpnet. org, @NAACPPress.

Thursday, June 13, 2013

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Dispatch call describes Kanye West says new album is ‘all about giving’ Paris Jackson’s injuries

BY MESFIN FEKADU ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW YORK (AP) — Kanye West says his new album is all about giving.

The multiplatinum rapper held a listening for “Yeezus” late Monday in New York City, where Jay-Z and wife Beyonce were among the few hundred attendees.

West said his sixth effort will showcase his growth over the last two years and that he “had to learn about giving ... this whole process is all about giving.”

“I feel like I know who I am,” said West, who turned 36 on Saturday.

“Yeezus” is out June 18.

Kanye West AP PHOTO It has a dark, moody vibe that expands beyond his last two solo efforts, 2010’s “My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy” and 2008’s “808s & Heartbreak.” It’s also a departure from his first three albums, which featured a plethora of radio hits.

West held the listening in the loading dock of Milk Studios in Manhattan’s Chelsea neighborhood. The room was dark as lights burst onto the walls to display colorful visuals that assisted the 10 songs the rapper played.

Busta Rhymes also attended the listening. West’s new album features Bon Iver’s Justin Vernon and rapper Chief Keef.

West and girlfriend Kim Kardashian are expecting their first child.

Rapper 2 Chainz robbed at gunpoint in San Fran

PHOTO BY JORDAN STRAUSS/INVISION/AP

2 Chainz arrives at the LA Premiere of the “Fast & Furious 6” at the Gibson Amphitheatre on Tuesday, May 21, 2013 in Universal City, Calif.

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Police say platinum-selling rapper 2 Chainz was robbed in San Francisco just hours before he was scheduled to perform at a concert.

Sgt. Dennis Toomer says the hiphop star, whose real name is Tauheed Epps, was walking with five members of his entourage near downtown on Sunday afternoon. They were approached by three men, one of them holding a handgun.

Toomer says one shot was fired as the rapper had his cellphone and wallet with credit cards and cash inside stolen.

Police say the suspected shooter apparently got away in a gray sedan.

The Atlanta-based rapper was in the Bay Area to perform at KMEL-FM's annual Summer Jam concert Sunday night at the Oracle Arena in Oakland.

(AP) — Paramedics were dispatched to Paris Jackson's home on a report that the 15-year-old had taken 20 Motrin pills and cut herself with a kitchen knife, audio of an emergency dispatch released Tuesday shows.

The Los Angeles County Fire Department released audio of a call describing the need for paramedics between one of its dispatchers and a sheriff's department dispatcher who was relaying information from the home.

Paris is the only daughter of pop superstar Michael Jackson and was hospitalized after the June 5 incident.

The teen was described as conscious and breathing during the call, but no other details about her condition or what led to the injuries were given on the call, which lasted approximately a minute.

Perry Sanders Jr., a lawyer for her grandmother and guardian, has said Paris is physically fine and receiving appropriate medical treatment. He did not return a phone message seeking comment Tuesday.

Paris and her brothers, Prince and Blanket, are plaintiffs in a lawsuit filed by their grandmother against concert giant AEG Live LLC. The negligent hiring suit alleges AEG and its top executives failed to properly investigate the doctor convicted of administering a lethal dose of the anesthetic propofol to Michael Jackson in 2009, and that AEG Live missed warning signs about the entertainer's failing health.

The trial is in its seventh week, with AEG Live CEO Randy Phillips on the witness stand.

Prince and Paris are listed as potential witnesses, although Sanders said last week there was no indication that stress from the trial had led to the teenager's hospitalization.

Michael Jackson's mother, Katherine Jackson, returned to court Tuesday, her first day back since her granddaughter's medical emergency.

She attended only the morning session and was not present for afternoon testimony, which occurred after the dispatch call's release.

AP PHOTO/JOEL RYAN, FILE

In this Oct. 8, 2011 file photo Paris Jackson smiles on stage at the Michael Forever the Tribute Concert, at the Millennium Stadium in Cardiff, Wales. Paramedics were dispatched to Jackson’s house June 5, 2013, on a report that she had swalled 20 Motrin pills and cut her arm with a kitchen knife, according to audio released by the Los Angeles County Fire Department on Tuesday June 11, 2013.

Winfrey giving $12M to new African-American museum

BY JESSICA GRESKO ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON (AP) — Oprah Winfrey is giving $12 million to a museum being built on Washington’s National Mall that will document African-American history, officials said Tuesday.

The media mogul and former talk-show host previously gave $1 million to the National Museum of African American History and Culture, and the museum says her $13 million total contribution is its largest to date. As a result, the museum's 350-seat theater will be named after Winfrey, who is also a member of its advisory council.

Construction on the $500 million museum began in early 2012.

When it’s finished in 2015, the museum will be the 19th Smithsonian museum. The U.S. government is providing half of the funding. To date, about $140 million has been raised in private funds.

“I am deeply appreciative of those who paved the path for me and all who follow in their footsteps. By investing in this museum, I want to help ensure that we both honor and preserve our culture and history, so that the stories of who we are will live on for generations to come,” Winfrey said in a statement released by the museum.

Lonnie Bunch, the museum’s director, said that Winfrey has been very involved in the museum’s cre-

Oprah Winfrey ation and that he wouldn’t be surprised if she was one day on the stage of the theater that will bear her name.

The museum is also in talks with Winfrey to acquire memorabilia from her career, Bunch said. He said he’d love to have a microphone used on her television show to add to the museum’s collection of over 22,000 objects.

Those objects help tell the story of African-American history from slavery to the post-Civil War period, the civil rights era, the Harlem Renaissance and the 21st century.

Some of the highlights of the

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collection include a lace shawl owned by abolitionist Harriet Tubman; a Jim Crow-era segregated railroad car; slave rebellion leader Nat Turner’s Bible; and the glasstopped casket that held the body of 14-year-old Emmett Till, whose 1955 murder in Mississippi for whistling at a white woman helped spark the civil rights movement.

The museum's most recent big acquisition was a South Carolina slave cabin dating to the 19th century. The cabin from Edisto Island was disassembled in May in preparation for its move to the museum.

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Medgar Evers {Continued from page 5} “I did not take a single vote during those 36 years that Medgar would not have taken himself,” Clark said.

Hollis Watkins, 71, of Jackson, was a teenager when he became involved in civil rights work and met Evers, who was 15 years older. He said Evers was not afraid to speak truth to power.

“Medgar did his job,” Watkins said. “The question becomes: How about us today? Are we doing our work?”

A white supremacist, Byron De La Beckwith, was tried twice for Evers’ slaying in the 1960s, but all-white juries deadlocked without convicting or acquitting him. After a reopened investigation, Beckwith was convicted of murder in 1994 and sentenced to life in prison. He was 80 when he died in custody in 2001.

CA State Employees {Continued from page 7} Pension Reform.

“Most state employees, if you include their retirement packages, would continue to be overcompensated based upon their private sector counterparts,” Pellissier said.

The union said the tentative agreement with Brown also includes increases in business and travel expenses, additional grievance procedures, and a 50-cent hourly increase for seasonal employees starting in July 2014.

State employees who are at the top salary level for their position are scheduled to receive a 3 percent pay increase on July 1 as part of the existing union contract.

The deal requires ratification by union employees, who will begin voting on the proposal the week of June 24. Negotiations are ongoing with the 10 other state employee bargaining units.

Dotson/Padilla {Continued from page 4} to get the COPE endorsement and had filled an official complaint based upon the fact that the Councilwoman lied about her endorsements for political gain.

In the end the Inglewood voters had the final say and after 20 years, Dunlap is no longer an elected member of the city council in Inglewood.

Dotson has an impeccable resume; an Inglewood business owner since 1972 and Inglewood volunteer who has served on the city of Inglewood Planning and Traffic Commissions.

Inglewood citizens desired his leadership, which contrasted with his opponent Stevens who was often deemed combative and confrontational..

Dotson’s commitment to bringing new businesses and jobs to the city and his positive position on public safety was key to voters.

“I want the first district residents to have better representation and provide a positive environment for you to become more involved in your city government,” Dotson said.

Thursday, June 13, 2013

NOTICE INVITING BIDS NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the City of Long Beach, California, acting by and through the City’s Board of Harbor Commissioners (“City”) will receive, before the Bid Deadline established below, sealed Bids for the following Work: PIER E – MIDDLE HARBOR TERMINAL MARINE OPERATIONS BUILDING AND POWER / CRANE MAINTENANCE SHOP LONG BEACH, CALIFORNIA AS DESCRIBED IN SPECIFICATION NO. HD-S2384A Bid Deadline:

Prior to 10:00 a.m. on Tuesday, July 16, 2013.

Bid packages will be time/date stamped on the 4th floor or in the Lobby and shall be submitted prior to 10:00 a.m.

Place for Submission of Bids: 1. By Delivery Any Calendar Day Before the Bid Deadline Harbor Department Administration Building 4th Floor, Plans and Specifications/Program Management Office 925 Harbor Plaza Long Beach, CA 90802 2. By Delivery on the Same Calendar Day as the Bid Deadline Harbor Department Administration Building Ground Floor Lobby 925 Harbor Plaza Long Beach, CA 90802 Bid Opening: As soon as practical after the Bid Deadline Harbor Department Administration Building 6th Floor Board Room 925 Harbor Plaza Long Beach, CA 90802 Contract Documents Available: Date/Time: Beginning Thursday June 13, 2013.

Monday –Friday 7:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.

Location: Harbor Department Administration Building 4th Floor, Plans and Specifications 925 Harbor Plaza Long Beach, CA 90802 Mandatory Pre-Bid Meeting and Site Visit: Date/Time: Tuesday, June 25th, 2013, 9:00am-10:00am Location: Harbor Department Administration Building 6th Floor Board Room Project Contact Person: Monique Aguilar, PE maguilar@polb.com emails only NIB -1 Contract Documents. Copies of Contract Documents in DVD format may be obtained, at no cost, at the Plans and Specifications Office, 4th floor, Harbor Department Administration Building, 925 Harbor Plaza, Long Beach, CA 90802 during the hours of 7:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Monday through Friday. To arrange to receive a DVD of the Contract Documents by courier at the expense of the Bidder, call (562) 283-7353.

For information on this Project and other upcoming Port projects, you may view the Port website at http://www.polb.com/economics/contractors/out_for_bid.asp.

Copies of all Port insurance endorsement forms, SBE/VSBE Program forms, Harbor Development Permit Applications and other Port forms are available at http://www.polb.com/economics/contractors/forms_permits/default.asp.

NIB -2 Mandatory Pre-Bid Meeting and Site Visit. The engineering staff of the City’s Harbor department will conduct a pre-bid meeting and site visit at 9:00am, on Tuesday, June 25, 2013 in the Board Room, 6th floor, of the Harbor Department Administration Building, then at the project site. Attendance is mandatory. Note that attendance at the pre-bid meeting can be used to satisfy a portion of a Bidder’s good faith efforts to meet the SBE/VSBE participation goals listed below. Attendees of the Site Visit must bring and wear their own Personal Protective Equipment (PPE), including, but not limited to: a hard hat, a safety vest, and closed toe shoes. EACH BIDDER MUST ATTEND THE MANDATORY PRE-BID MEETING AND MANDATORY SITE VISIT. FAILURE TO ATTEND THE MANDATORY PRE-BID MEETING AND SITE VISIT SHALL DISQUALIFY YOUR BID.

• Steel Stairs • Curtain Walls and Attachments • Vehicle Lifts • Bridge Cranes, including crane rails NIB -4 Contract Time and Liquidated Damages. The Work shall be completed within 430 days as provided in Paragraph SC - 6.1 of the Special Conditions, from a date specified in a written “Notice to Proceed” issued by the City and subject to adjustment as provided in Section 3.1 of the General Conditions. FAILURE OF THE CONTRACTOR TO COMPLETE THE WORK WITHIN THE CONTRACT TIME AND OTHER MILESTONES WILL RESULT IN ASSESSMENT OF LIQUIDATED DAMAGES IN THE AMOUNTS ESTABLISHED IN THE SPECIAL CONDITIONS. NIB -5 Contractor’s License. Each Bidder shall hold a current and valid Class ”A” or Class “B” California Contractor’s License to bid this Project.

NIB -6 Contractor Performed Work. The Contractor shall perform, with its own organization, Contract Work amounting to at least 15% of the Contract Price, except that any designated “Specialty Items” may be performed by subcontract and the amount of any such “Specialty Items” so performed may be deducted from the Contract Price before computing the amount required to be performed by the Contractor with its own employees. “Specialty Items” will be identified by the City in the Schedule of Bid Items.

NIB-7 SBE/VSBE. This project is subject to the Port of Long Beach (POLB) Small Business Enterprises (SBE)/Very Small Business Enterprises (VSBE) Program. The combined SBE/VSBE participation goal for this project is thirty percent (30%), of which a minimum of five percent (5%) must be allocated to VSBEs. POLB expects all Bidders to achieve the combined SBE/VSBE participation goal. Award of the Contract will be conditioned on the Bidder submitting an SBE-2C Commitment Plan demonstrating the Bidder’s intent to meet the combined SBE/VSBE participation goal. If the Bidder’s Commitment Plan does not demonstrate intent to meet the combined goal, the Bidder shall demonstrate that it made an adequate good faith effort to do so, as specified in the Instructions to Bidders (ITB 18). The Port’s SBE Program staff is available to provide information on the program requirements, including SBE certification assistance. Please contact the SBE Office at (562) 283-7598 or sbeprogram@polb.com. You may also view the Port’s SBE program requirements at www.polb.com/sbe.

NIB -8 Prevailing Wage Rates and Employment of Apprentices. This Project is a public work as defined in Labor Code Section 1720. The Contractor receiving award of the Contract and Subcontractors of any tier shall pay not less than the prevailing wage rates to all workers employed in execution of the Contract. The Director of Industrial Relations of the State of California has determined the general prevailing rates of wages in the locality in which the Work is to be performed. The rate schedules are available on the internet at http://www.dir.ca.gov/dlsr/DPreWageDetermination.htm. Bidders are directed to Article 15 of the General Conditions for requirements concerning payment of prevailing wages, payroll records, hours of work and employment of apprentices.

This project is subject to a Project Labor Agreement (PLA) is required under this Contract. By submitting a bid, the Contractor is representing that it is prepared to sign the Letter of Assent and comply with the PLA requirements as defined in Appendix GG if awarded the Contract.

NIB -9 Trade Names and Substitution of Equals. With the exception of any sole source determination that may be identified in this paragraph, Bidders wishing to obtain City’s authorization for substitution of equivalent material, product, or equipment, are required to submit a written request for an Or Equal Substitution using the form included in Appendix A together with data substantiating Bidder’s representation that the non-specified item is of equal quality to the item specified, thirty five (35) calendar days after Bid Opening. Authorization of a substitution is solely within the discretion of the City.

Bidders shall note that the only acceptable manufacturer specified in SC-22 and in the following Technical Sections shall be Johnson Controls Company, pursuant to Public Contract Code Section 3400 (c)(2) and (c)(3): (1) 15900, "Instrumentation and Control of HVAC – MOB Building" (2) 15951, “Energy Management and Temperature Control System (EMTCS) – PCMS Building".

Any bid listing any other manufacturer will be considered non-responsive.

NIB -10

NIB -3 Summary Description of the Work. The Work required by this Contract includes, but is not limited to, the following: Construction of a 2-story, steel framed marine operations (office) building (MOB) and a 2-story, steel framed maintenance and repair building (PCMS) with automobile parking lot, internal terminal roadway, site improvements, security fencing around the site, landscaping, site utilities including water, gas, sewer, storm drain, site lighting, electrical and communication ductbanks.

Construction of an open Storage Canopy on the east side of the PCMS site.

Soil improvement for the building pads of the PCMS (Deep Dynamic Compaction) and the MOB (Stone Columns). The Work also includes similar preparation of the building pad for an adjacent Battery Exchange Building (BXB) to be constructed under a separate contract.

Construction of concrete footings and steel frames for solar carport structures at the MOB parking lot and the North Operations and IT Building (NOIT) parking lot. The NOIT is being constructed under a separate contract. The Work of this contract shall include coordinating with the contractor of the NOIT in the construction of the solar carport structures.

The Contractor will also have design responsibilities for certain elements of work as described below: Deferred Submittals: The Contractor will retain Subcontractors to design and obtain separate building permits for the following work: • Fire Protection and Life Safety Systems including: o Wet Pipe Sprinkler System o Fire Detection and Alarm System o Fire Extinguishers o Signage • Fire Hydrants & Underground Waterline System • 10,000 Gallon Diesel Fuel Tank and Dispensers Construction Documents: The Contractor will retain professional engineers to provide detailed design documents for approval. Design calculations and drawings shall be signed and sealed by a registered California professional engineer (Civil or Structural) to be submitted to engineer of record and city building department for approval and record.

See General Conditions paragraph 3.12.1.4. This work includes:

NOT USED.

NIB -11 Bid Security, Signed Contract, Insurance and Bonds. Each Bid shall be accompanied by a satisfactory Bidder’s Bond or other acceptable Bid Security in an amount not less than ten percent (10%) of the Base Bid as a guarantee that the Bidder will, if Conditionally Awarded a Contract by the Board, within thirty (30) calendar days after the Contract is conditionally awarded to the Contractor by the City, execute and deliver such Contract to the Chief Harbor Engineer together with all required documents including insurance forms, a Payment Bond for one hundred percent (100%) of the Contract Price, and a Performance Bond for one hundred percent (100%) of the Contract Price. All Bonds shall be on forms provided by the City.

NIB -12 Conditional Award of Contract and Reservation of Rights. The Board, acting through the Executive Director, reserves the right at any time before the execution of the Contract by the City, to reject any or all Bids, and to waive any informality or irregularity. The Conditional Award of the Contract, if any, will be to the responsible Bidder submitting the lowest responsive and responsible Bid. If the lowest responsive responsible Bidder fails to submit the required documents including insurance forms, bonds and signed Contract within thirty (30) calendar days after Conditional Award of Contract, the Board reserves the right to rescind the Conditional Award and Conditionally Award the Contract to the next lowest responsive and responsible Bidder.

NIB -13 Period of Bid Irrevocability. Bids shall remain open and valid and Bidder’s Bonds shall be guaranteed for ninety (90) calendar days after the Bid Deadline or until the Executive Director executes a Contract, whichever occurs first.

NIB -14 Substitution of Securities. Substitution of Securities for retainage is permitted in accordance with Section 22300 of the Public Contract Code.

Issued at Long Beach, California, this 13th day of May, 2013 J. Christopher Lytle Executive Director of the Harbor Department City of Long Beach, California

Thursday, June 13, 2013

CITY OF LOS ANGELES $50,000 REWARD NOTICE The City of Los Angeles offers a reward payable at the discretion of the City Council to one or more persons in the sum or sums up to an aggregate maximum total sum of $50,000 for information leading to the identification and apprehension of the person or persons responsible for the act of murder against, RIGOBERTO DUPRE, in the City of Los Angeles. On Monday, April 22, 2013, at approximately 5:15 p.m., 54-year old Rigoberto Dupre was shot multiple times at 2120 West Florence Avenue.

Tragically, he was found dead by Los Angeles Fire Department personnel upon arriving at location.

To date, detectives have been unable to identify the suspect(s) responsible for the murder of Mr. Dupre. A monetary reward may motivate witnesses to come forward with more information. The person or persons responsible for this crime represent an ongoing threat to the safety of the people of Los Angeles. Unless withdrawn or paid by City Council action, this offer of reward shall terminate on, and have no effect after, DECEMBER 7, 2013.

The provisions of payment and all other considerations shall be governed by Chapter 12 of Division 19 of the LAAC Code, as amended by Ordinance Nos. 158157 and 166666. This offer shall be given upon the condition that all claimants provide continued cooperation within the criminal justice system relative to this case and is not available to public officers or employees of the City, their families, persons in law enforcement or persons whose misconduct prompted this reward. If you have any information regarding this case, please call the Los Angeles Police Department at 1-877-LAWFULL, 24 hours.

C. F. No. 13-0010-s11 6/13/13 CNS-2494484# WATTS TIMES $50,000 REWARD NOTICE The City of Los Angeles offers a reward payable at the discretion of the City Council to one or more persons in the sum or sums up to an aggregate maximum total sum of $50,000 for information leading to the identification and apprehension of the person or persons responsible for the act of murder against, TYREE ROWE, in the City of Los Angeles. On Saturday, August 25, 2012, at approximately 6:30 p.m., 39-year old Tyree Rowe was shot while seated in his vehicle in front of 1958 West 77th Street. The suspects fled the location in an awaiting vehicle.

Mr. Rowe was transported to a local hospital where he was later pronounced dead. To date, detectives have been unable to identify the suspect(s) responsible for the murder of Mr. Rowe. A monetary reward may motivate witnesses to come forward with more information. The person or persons responsible for this crime represent an ongoing threat to the safety of the people of Los Angeles. Unless withdrawn or paid by City Council action, this offer of reward shall terminate on, and have no effect after, DECEMBER 7, 2013.

The provisions of payment and all other considerations shall be governed by Chapter 12 of Division 19 of the LAAC Code, as amended by Ordinance Nos. 158157 and 166666. This offer shall be given upon the condition that all claimants provide continued cooperation within the criminal justice system relative to this case and is not available to public officers or employees of the City, their families, persons in law enforcement or persons whose misconduct prompted this reward. If you have any information regarding this case, please call the Los Angeles Police Department at 1-877-LAWFULL, 24 hours.

C. F. No. 13-0010-s10 6/13/13 CNS-2494473# WATTS TIMES

CIVIL SUMMONS (Family Law) CITACIÓN (Derecho familiar) CASE NUMBER (NÚMERO DE CASO): KD086215 NOTICE TO RESPONDENT (Name) AVISO AL DEMANDADO (Nombre): HAYWARD LAMONT WILLIAMS

NSA/Phone Records {Continued from page 5} Seven years ago, allegations that phone companies were allowing the government to siphon huge quantities of customer data without warrants led to dozens of lawsuits against the companies and the government. In the lone surviving case against the government, James Clapper, director of national intelligence, said that the government risks “exceptionally grave damage to the national security of the United States” if forced to fight the lawsuit.

U.S. District Judge Jeffrey White in San Francisco has yet to say whether the case can continue, and the Justice Department has asked for a delay of a month now that the secret court order to Verizon has been revealed.

Whether the government will maintain its “state secrets” defense in

15 You are being sued. Lo están demandando.

Petitioner’s name is Nombre del demandante: Deborah Johnson You have 30 calendar days after this Summons and Petition are served on you to file a Response (form FL-120 or FL-123) at the court and have a copy served on the petitioner. A letter or phone call will not protect you.

If you do not file your Response on time, the court may make orders affecting your marriage or domestic partnership, your property, and custody of your children. You may be ordered to pay support and attorney fees and costs. If you cannot pay the filing fee, ask the clerk for a fee waiver form.

If you want legal advice, contact a lawyer immediately. You can get information about finding lawyers at the California Courts Online Self-Help Center (www.courtinfo.ca.gov/selfhelp), at the California Legal Services Web site (www.lawhelp california.org), or by contacting your local county bar association.

Tiene 30 días corridos después de haber recibido la entrega legal de esta Citación y Petición para presentar una Respuesta (formulario FL-120 ó FL-123) ante la corte y efectuar la entrega legal de una copia al demandante. Una carta o llamada telefónica no basta para protegerlo.

Si no presenta su Respuesta a tiempo, la corte puede dar órdenes que afecten su matrimonio o pareja de hecho, sus bienes y la custodia de sus hijos. La corte también le puede ordenar que pague manutención, y honorarios y costos legales. Si no puede pagar la cuota de presentación, pida al secretario un formulario de exención de cuotas.

Si desea obtener asesoramiento legal, póngase en contacto de inmediato con un abogado. Puede obtener información para encontrar a un abogado en el Centro de Ayuda de las Cortes de California (www.sucorte.ca.gov), en el sitio Web de los Servicios Legales de California (www.lawhelpcalifor nia.org) o poniéndose en contacto con el colegio de abogados de su condado.

NOTICE: The restraining orders on page 2 are effective against both spouses or domestic partners until the petition is dismissed, a judgment is entered, or the court makes further orders. These orders are enforceable anywhere in California by any law enforcement officer who has received or seen a copy of them.

AVISO: Las órdenes de restricción que figuran en la página 2 valen para ambos cónyuges o pareja de hecho hasta que se despida la petición, se emita un fallo o la corte dé otras órdenes. Cualquier autoridad de la ley que haya recibido o visto una copia de estas órdenes puede hacerlas acatar en cualquier lugar de California.

NOTE: If a judgment or support order is entered, the court may order you to pay all or part of the fees and costs that the court waived for yourself or for the other party. If this happens, the party ordered to pay fees shall be given notice and an opportunity to request a hearing to set aside the order to pay waived court fees.

AVISO: Si se emite un fallo u orden de manutención, la corte puede ordenar que usted pague parte de, o todas las cuotas y costos de la corte previamente exentas a petición de usted o de la otra parte. Si esto ocurre, la parte ordenada a pagar estas cuotas debe recibir aviso y la oportunidad de solicitar una audiencia para anular la orden de pagar las cuotas exentas.

1. The name and address of the court are (El nombre y dirección de la corte son): SUPERIOR COURT, EAST DISTRICT 400 Civic Center Plaza, Pomona, CA 91765.

2. The name, address, and telephone number of the petitioner’s attorney, or the petitioner without an attorney, are (El nombre, dirección y número de teléfono del abogado del demandante, o del demandante si no tiene abogado, son): Deborah Johnson, 954 Grand Ave. #3, Pomona, CA 91766.

(909) 622-1621 Date (Fecha): Jan 10, 2013 JOHN A. CLARKE, Clerk, by (Secretario, por) V. JASPER, Deputy (Asistente) (SEAL) WARNING—IMPORTANT INFORMATION WARNING: California law provides that, for purposes of division of property upon dissolution of a marriage or domestic partnership or upon legal separation, property acquired by the parties during marriage or domestic partnership in joint form is presumed to be community property. If either party to this action should die before the jointly held community property is divided, the language in the deed that characterizes how title is held (i.e., joint tenancy, tenants in common, or community property) will be controlling, and not the community property presumption. You should consult your attorney if you want the community property presumption to be written into the recorded title to the property.

STANDARD FAMILY LAW RESTRAINING ORDERS Starting immediately, you and your spouse or domestic partner are restrained from 1. Removing the minor child or children of the parties, if any, from the state without the prior written consent of the other party or an order of the court; 2. Cashing, borrowing against, canceling, transferring, disposing of, or changing the beneficiaries of any insurance or other coverage, including life, health, automobile, and disability, held for the benefit of the parties and their minor child or children; 3. Transferring, encumbering, hypothecating, concealing, or in any way disposing of any property, real or personal, whether community, quasi-community, or separate, without the written consent of the other party or an order of the court, except in the usual course of business or for the necessities of life; and 4. Creating a nonprobate transfer or modifying a nonprobate transfer in a manner that affects the disposition of property subject to the transfer, without the written consent of the other party or an order of the court. Before revocation of a nonprobate transfer can take effect or a right of survivorship to property can be eliminated, notice of the change must be filed and served on the other party.

You must notify each other of any proposed extraordinary expenditures at least five business days prior to incurring these extraordinary expenditures and account to the court for all extraordinary expenditures made after these restraining orders are effective. However, you may use community property, quasi-community property, or your own separate property to pay an attorney to help you or to pay court costs.

ADVERTENCIA – INFORMACIÓN IMPORTANTE ADVERTENCIA: De acuerdo a la ley de California, las propiedades adquiridas por las partes durante su matrimonio o pareja de hecho en forma conjunta se consideran propiedad comunitaria para los fines de la división de bienes que ocurre cuando se produce una disolución o separación legal del matrimonio o pareja de hecho. Si cualquiera de las partes de este caso llega a fallecer antes de que se divida la propiedad comunitaria de tenencia conjunta, el destino de la misma quedará determinado por las cláusulas de la escritura correspondiente que describen su tenencia (por ej., tenencia conjunta, tenencia en común o propiedad comunitaria) y no por la presunción de propiedad comunitaria. Si quiere que la presunción comunitaria quede registrada en la escritura de la propiedad, debería consultar con un abogado. ÓRDENES DE RESTRICCIÓN NORMALES DE DERECHO FAMILIAR En forma inmediata, usted y su cónyuge o pareja de hecho tienen prohibido: 1. Llevarse del estado de California a los hijos menores de las partes, si los hubiera, sin el consentimiento previo por escrito de la otra parte o una orden de la corte; 2. Cobrar, pedir prestado, cancelar, transferir, deshacerse o cambiar el nombre de los beneficiarios de cualquier seguro u otro tipo de cobertura, tal como de vida, salud, vehículo y discapacidad, que tenga como beneficiario(s) a las partes y su(s) hijo(s) menor(es); 3. Transferir, gravar, hipotecar, ocultar o deshacerse de cualquier manera de cualquier propiedad, inmueble o personal, ya sea comunitaria, cuasicomunitaria o separada, sin el consentimiento escrito de la otra parte o una orden de la corte, con excepción las operaciones realizadas en el curso normal de actividades o para satisfacer las necesidades de la vida; y 4. Crear o modificar una transferencia no testamentaria de manera que afecte el destino de una propiedad sujeta a transferencia, sin el consentimiento por escrito de la otra parte o una orden de la corte.

Antes de que se pueda eliminar la revocación de una transferencia no testamentaria, se debe presentar ante la corte un aviso del cambio y hacer una entrega legal de dicho aviso a la otra parte.

Cada parte tiene que notificar a la otra sobre cualquier gasto extraordinario propuesto, por lo menos cinco días laborales antes de realizarlo, y rendir cuenta a la corte de todos los gastos extraordinarios realizados después de que estas órdenes de restricción hayan entrado en vigencia.

No obstante, puede usar propiedad comunitaria, cuasicomunitaria o suya separada para pagar a un abogado o para ayudarle a pagar los costos de la corte.

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Superior Court of California, County of Los Angeles.

Petition of: Alexander Delgado for Change of Name TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner Alexander Delgado filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: Alexander Delgado to Alexander Arce The Court orders that all persons interested in this matter appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted. Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file a written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing.

Notice of Hearing: Date: 6-19-13, Time: 1:30 p.m., Dept.: C, Room: 312 The address of the court is 12720 Norwalk Blvd., Norwalk, CA 90650 A copy of this Order to Show Cause shall be published at least once each week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition in the following newspaper of general circulation, printed in this county: The Argonaut Newspaper Date: March 22, 2013 YVONNE T. SANCHEZ Judge of the Superior Court 5/23, 5/30, 6/6, 6/13/13 CNS-2489992# WATTS TIMES

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME Case No. VS024340

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No. 2013101091 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: 1. CAPS Consulting and Production Services, 2. The African Tour, 3. Africa’s Talent, 3039 W Vernon Ave Suite 3, Los Angeles, CA 90008, County of Los Angeles, 9461 Charleville Blvd Suite

the California case or attempt to use it in the new suits is unknown. But courts almost always side with the government when it makes the claim, and the Supreme Court has shown little appetite for revisiting its 60-yearold ruling upholding the state secrets doctrine.

Neither suit addresses the government's recently revealed surveillance of Internet activity, known as PRISM. The Internet program allows the NSA to reach into the data streams of U.S. companies — Facebook, Yahoo, Microsoft, Google and others — and grab emails, video chats, pictures and more. Just how much the government seizes is unclear, but Clapper says it is narrowly focused on foreign targets.

If the phone record lawsuits clear whatever legal hurdles the government seeks to put in their path, there remains a line of high court cases that casts doubt on the privacy claims raised by the ACLU and by Klayman.

The Constitution’s ban on unrea-

sonable searches and seizures clearly applies to telephone conversations. In 1967, the court said authorities ordinarily need to persuade a judge to issue a warrant before they can listen in, based on significant evidence that a crime has been committed or is underway.

But phone records are different, the court said in Smith v. Maryland in 1979. “All telephone users realize that they must ‘convey’ phone numbers to the telephone company, since it is through telephone company switching equipment that their calls are completed. All subscribers realize, moreover, that the phone company has facilities for making permanent records of the numbers they dial, for they see a list of their long-distance (toll) calls on their monthly bills,” Justice Harry Blackmun wrote in rejecting the claim police need a warrant to obtain phone records.

Fast forward to 2012, and some members of the court appeared to rec-

ognize that technology may have altered privacy concerns.

In separate opinions in last year’s case involving a GPS device used to track a criminal suspect for four weeks, two justices described how advances in technology can shake up Americans’ expectations of privacy.

“Dramatic technological change may lead to periods in which popular expectations are in flux and may ultimately produce significant changes in popular attitudes. New technology may provide increased convenience or security at the expense of privacy, and many people may find the tradeoff worthwhile. And even if the public does not welcome the diminution of privacy that new technology entails, they may eventually reconcile themselves to this development as inevitable,” Justice Samuel Alito wrote in an opinion that was joined by three other justices. “On the other hand, concern about new intrusions on privacy may spur the enactment of

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAMES FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No. 2013100951 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: 1. The Festival of Elements, 2. The Green Festival, 3. The Green Project, 3039 W Vernon Ave Suite 3, Los Angeles, CA 90008, County of Los Angeles, 9461 Charleville Blvd., Suite 545, Beverly Hills, CA 90212 Registered owner(s): Person Cathy A, 3039 W Vernon Ave Suite 3, Los Angeles, CA 90008 Sao Silman, 3039 W Vernon Ave Suite 3, Los Angeles, CA 90008 This business is conducted by Copartners The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on 08/19/2008 I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct. (A registrant who declares as true information which he or she knows to be false is guilty of a crime.)

S/ Person Cathy A This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Los Angeles on May 15, 2013.

NOTICE-In accordance with Subdivision (a) of Section 17920, a Fictitious Name Statement generally expires at the end of five years from the date on which it was filed in the office of the County Clerk, except, as provided in Subdivision (b) of Section 17920, where it expires 40 days after any change in the facts set forth in the statement pursuant to section 17913 other than a change in the residence address of a registered owner. A New Fictitious Business Name Statement must be filed before the expiration.

The filing of this statement does not of itself authorize the use in this state of a Fictitious Business Name in violation of the rights of another under Federal, State, or common law (See Section 14411 et seq., Business and Professions Code).

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545, Beverly Hills, CA 90212 Registered owner(s): Cathy A Person, 3039 W Vernon Ave Suite 3, Los Angeles, CA 90008 Silman Sao, 3039 W Vernon Ave Suite 3, Los Angeles, CA 90008 This business is conducted by Copartners The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on 01/01/2007 I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct. (A registrant who declares as true information which he or she knows to be false is guilty of a crime.)

S/ Cathy A Person, Copartner This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Los Angeles on May 15, 2013.

NOTICE-In accordance with Subdivision (a) of Section 17920, a Fictitious Name Statement generally expires at the end of five years from the date on which it was filed in the office of the County Clerk, except, as provided in Subdivision (b) of Section 17920, where it expires 40 days after any change in the facts set forth in the statement pursuant to section 17913 other than a change in the residence address of a registered owner. A New Fictitious Business Name Statement must be filed before the expiration.

The filing of this statement does not of itself authorize the use in this state of a Fictitious Business Name in violation of the rights of another under Federal, State, or common law (See Section 14411 et seq., Business and Professions Code).

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GOVERNMENT ANNOUNCEMENT OF PUBLIC REVIEW AND PUBLIC HEARING The Housing Authority of the City of Los Angeles (HACLA) has developed and will be publishing its Draft Agency Plan for Fiscal Year 2014 in compliance with the Housing Reform Act of 1998. The Draft Agency Plan will be available for public review and comment beginning Friday June 7, 2013 through Thursday August 15, 2013. The Public Hearing for the 2014 Draft Agency Plan will be held: Thursday August 15, 2013 staring at 5:00 p.m. at St. Anne’s 155 N. Occidental Blvd Los Angeles, CA 90026. The 2014 Draft Agency Plan can be reviewed during normal business hours at the Management Offices and Resident Council offices at the large family developments and also at: HACLA Central Office 2600 Wilshire Blvd. 1st floor L.A., CA 90057 Avalon Gardens Office 701 E. 88th St L.A., CA 90002 Estrada Courts Office 3232 Estrada St L.A., CA 90023 Gonzaque Village Office 1515 E 105th St L.A., CA 90002 Imperial Courts Office 11541 Croesus Ave L.A., CA 90059 Jordan Downs Office 9800 Grape St L.A., CA 90002 Mar Vista Gardens Office 11965 Allin St Culver City, CA 90230 Nickerson Gardens Office 1590 114th St L.A., CA 90059 Pico/Las Casitas Office 1526 E. 4th St L.A., CA 90033 Pueblo Del Rio Office 1801 East 53rd St L.A., CA 90058 Ramona Gardens Office 2830 Lancaster Ave L.A., CA 90033 Rancho San Pedro Office 275 West 1st St San Pedro, CA 90731 Rose Hill Courts Office 4466 Florizel L.A., CA 90032 San Fernando Gardens Office 10995 Lehigh Ave Pacoima, CA 91331 William Mead 1300 Cardinal St., Los Angeles CA 90012 Section 8 Valley Office 6946 Van Nuys Blvd. Ste 100 Van Nuys, CA 91405 Section 8 South Office 19600 Hamilton Ave., Torrance, CA 90502 6/13/13 CNS-2494375# WATTS TIMES

legislation to protect against these intrusions.”

Writing only for herself, Justice Sonia Sotomayor expressed more anxiety about the wealth of information that people disclose about themselves in the performance of daily tasks, including using their cell phones, surfing the Internet and making online purchases. “Perhaps, as Justice Alito notes, some people may find the ‘tradeoff’ of privacy for convenience ‘worthwhile,’ or come to accept this ‘diminution of privacy’ as ‘inevitable,’ and perhaps not. I for one doubt that people would accept without complaint the warrantless disclosure to the Government of a list of every Web site they had visited in the last week, or month, or year.”

Sotomayor suggested that the court may need to revise its 1970s-era views about the privacy of information that people voluntarily hand over in what otherwise seem to be closely held transactions.

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