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First Lady Michelle Obama met with former South African President Nelson Mandela as part of a weeklong visit to the continent, according to a spokeswoman for the first lady. Photo: First Lady Michelle

Obama, accompanied by her daughters, Malia, left and Sasha, meet former South African President Nelson Mandela, at this home, in Houghton, South Africa.

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N E W S B RI E F S U.S. ATTORNEY: CITYTIME PROJECT “CORRUPTED TO ITS CORE” More people were charged with fraud Monday in connection with the scandal involving CityTime, the city’s computerized payroll system.

U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara and the city Department of Investigation revealed today that more than $600 million in the CityTime project was tainted with fraud.

Previously, prosecutors said the fraud had only involved $85 million.

On Monday, the authorities revealed indictments against TechnoDyne, a subcontractor based in Wayne, N.J., and Padma and Reddy Allen, two top executives in the company.

Authorities believe the Allens have fled to India, and they are working to get the suspects back to the United States.

“This scheme to overbill the city appears to have been systemic. Its reach extended across virtually every level of the CityTime project, allegedly involving over $600 million in city funds, more than $40 million in kickbacks and an international network of shell companies and accounts created for the sole purpose of laundering criminal cash,” said Bharara. “In short, today we allege what many have long feared. The CityTime project was corrupt to the core by one of the most largest and brazen frauds ever committed against the City of New York.”

City Comptroller John Liu said in a statement, “Today’s announcement unfortunately sheds more light on just how flawed the management of the CityTime project was. According to the indictment ‘virtually the entirety of the more than $600 million that was paid to SAIC was tainted directly or indirectly, by fraud.’ New Yorkers can hope that this will eventually lead to restitution for the hundreds of millions of dollars paid on an outof-control project, years overdue and, ten-fold over budget.”

WALCOTT JOINS PUSH TO BRING BACK MID-YEAR REGENTS Schools Chancellor Dennis Walcott is pushing to bring back midyear Regents exams.

Walcott has joined together with superintendents from Syracuse, Buffalo, Yonkers and Rochester to petition the state to restore funding for the exams.

Regents were given three times a year until last month when education officials cut the tests to save $1.4 million.

Superintendents say the move could delay graduation for students.

The city says 2,400 school kids graduated in January after passing the mid-year exam.

State officials say they’re pushing for funding, but only $7 million of the $15 million needed to pay for the exams has been budgeted.

Obama to give address on Afghan troop drawdown WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama will address Americans from the White House at 8:00 p.m. tonight on the scale and pace of his Afghan troop drawdown, his spokesman said.

Obama will take center stage to explain to Americans how many soldiers he proposes to bring home from the war after ordering a 30,000 strong surge into action in 2009.

There are a total of 99,000 U.S. troops deployed in Afghanistan.

“The president will address the nation from the White House to lay out his plan for implementing his strategy — first unveiled in December 2009 — to draw down American troops from Afghanistan,” Obama spokesman Jay Carney said.

A senior U.S. defense official said Obama would “likely” withdraw 10,000 U.S. troops by the end of the year but Carney said purported leaks on troop numbers were mere speculation and many had predated the president’s final decision.

“He has made his decision,” said Carney. “I will leave it to the president to make his announcement.”

Some analysts expect Obama to chart a glide path, steadily pulling back American forces as he builds up to the planned Afghan security takeover in 2014.

Obama will also be expected to explain to Americans that his surge has wrought slow, but significant progress, particularly in southern Afghanistan against the Taliban and foreshadow operations in key eastern districts.

White House officials say that since Obama came to office, and poured new resources into a war they argue was under-resourced by George W. Bush’s administration, real gains have been made against Al-Qaeda.

In December 2009, Obama laid out a new war strategy designed to disrupt, dismantle and defeat Al-Qaeda, break the momentum of the Taliban and to offer the Afghan government space to move towards a security takeover.

“We have made significant progress towards achieving those

goals,” White House spokesman Carney said. “Obviously, the most sensational and significant data point in that progress is the elimination of Osama bin Laden.”

“But there has been enormous progress in disrupting and dismantling Al-Qaeda in the AfghanistanPakistan region beyond and below Osama bin Laden.”

Obama combined his troop surge announcement with a promise to start withdrawing troops in July 2011, in a signal to wavering U.S. public opinion on the war and to tell Afghan leaders the United States would not stay for ever.

U.S. discontent on the war is steadily rising, and Obama will be keenly aware of public opinion as he plots his 2012 reelection race.

In a CNN/Opinion Research poll published this month, 62 percent of

respondents opposed the war in Afghanistan in which 1629 American soldiers alone have been killed, according to the website iCasualties.org.

War skeptics argue meanwhile that the just less than $10 billion a month cost of the war is unsustainable while the United States struggles with its huge debt burden.

The decision on withdrawals comes as the United States has opened a fragile process of outreach to the Taliban, which cautious officials have said is only preliminary in nature.

Backers of the surge have said that the Taliban will only countenance serious reconciliation talks if the group’s commanders feel they are under pressure from a strong U.S. military footprint in Afghanistan.

New York same-sex marriage bill tied to other issues

By DAN WIESSNER ALBANY — The fate of a bill that would legalize same-sex marriage in New York was up in the air yesterday as it was linked to progress on rent control for apartments in New York City and a property tax cap.

The same-sex marriage bill, which would make New York the sixth and largest state to allow gay nuptials, needs only one more Senate vote to pass. Undecided senators have cited concerns over exemptions for religious groups and individuals as the sticking point in negotiations.

But a vote on the measure is also being delayed as legislative leaders and Governor Andrew Cuomo, who proposed the bill, have reached an impasse in negotiations over separate issues including rent control and a cap on property tax increases.

Cuomo and Democratic lawmakers favor expanded rent laws, while the Senate’s Republican majority is seeking a simple extension.

Emerging from a closed-door meeting with Cuomo, Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver and Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos said a “framework” agreement had been reached on the rent laws and tax cap, but refused to offer details or set a date for a Senate vote on same-sex marriage, which passed the Assembly last week. Skelos said he expected the legislature to break for a summer recess today.

Silver dismissed the notion that the marriage bill was directly linked to the other issues, and said amendments to strengthen religious protections were under discussion.

Gay-rights advocates remained optimistic, noting that the marriage bill’s transformation into a key bar-

gaining chip is a sign that it has a good chance of passage.

“People are very hopeful; there are a lot of positive signs,” said Dan Weiller, a spokesman for Empire State Pride Agenda, the state’s largest gay rights group.

While only one vote more is needed to pass the measure, most observers believe it needs the support of an additional two or three lawmakers to shield any single senator from becoming the deciding vote. A group of three undecided senators has met privately with Cuomo several times this week.

If the bill is passed, it would make New York the sixth — and most populous — state to legalize gay marriage, joining Massachusetts, Connecticut, Iowa, New Hampshire, Vermont and the District of Columbia.

Four states have civil unions. Samesex marriage is banned in 39 states.

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Michelle Obama meets with Mandela in South Africa

By CRAIG JOHNSON First Lady Michelle Obama met with former South African President Nelson Mandela yesterday as part of a weeklong visit to the continent, according to a spokeswoman for the first lady.

Accompanying her on her visit with Mandela were a nephew, Avery Robinson, 19, and a niece, Leslie Robinson, 15, children of Obama’s brother, Craig Robinson, according to Semonti Stephens, deputy communications director for the first lady.

Obama also was expected to visit other luminaries in the country after arriving in Pretoria Monday night.

The first lady’s trip highlights the value of South Africa as a viable partner with the United States in issues other than politics, said John Campbell, who holds the Ralph Bunche chair in African Policy Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations.

“What is significant about the trip is that it underscores the fact that South Africa, since the establishment of nonracial (politics) has had a string of credible elections, is a country characterized by the rule of law, and is a democracy,” Campbell said. “Twenty-five years ago I think relatively few of us would have predicted such a happy outcome.”

Obama is scheduled to visit several historical sites, including Robben

First lady Michelle Obama stands with Sello Hatang of the Nelson Mandela Foundation during her visit in Johannesburg, South Africa.

Island, where Mandela was held for much of his 27-year imprisonment in his fight against apartheid.

Obama, traveling on what officials have said is her second solo official visit to the continent, has brought her daughters, Sasha and Malia, and her mother in addition to her niece and a nephew.

“One of the things bringing them along demonstrates is the closeness of the Obama family,” Campbell said.

“And this is something that the people of Africa respond very well to.

Certainly before her, Laura Bush made a number of trips to Africa as well and was very well received.”

The visit will further raise the profile on the continent of the first lady and the president, whom many Africans regard as a favorite son.

“The Obamas as a couple are extremely popular in Africa and obviously 100% well-known there,” Steve Howard, director of African studies at Ohio University, said.

“Her husband can’t spend that much time there so they are dividing the

labor, and she is representing them in South Africa, which is a major media market as well.”

Howard said Michelle Obama’s visit especially will resonate with the nation’s youth.

“It has an enormous young population, probably more than 60% of the population is under 18,” Howard said, “and they have a lot of healthrelated issues, particularly AIDS, and so everything she does there will help bring attention to global health issues.”

She is also expected to visit Nobel laureate Archbishop Desmond Tutu as well as Soweto, just outside Johannesburg.

In addition to visits with top leaders, Obama will be a distinguished guest at several public events, meet embassy officials and take part in community service projects in both South Africa and Botswana.

“The trip is a continuation of Mrs. Obama’s work to engage young people, especially girls and young women, at home and abroad,” the White House said.

Her visit to neighboring Botswana on Friday will include attending a tribute to girls overcoming obstacles as well as a luncheon with women leaders.

She will also meet with President Ian Khama before retreating to a local game reserve for the weekend.

After a safari, she is scheduled to depart from the Botswana capital of Gaborone on Sunday.

Sharpton and West to hold debate at Black Newspaper Publishers conference CHICAGO, IL. — Black Newspaper publishers from across the country will meet at the annual National Newspaper Publishers Association/The Black Press of America conference today through Saturday at the Drake Hotel in Chicago.

Highlights at this year’s event include a debate between National Action Network founder and civil rights leader Rev. Al Sharpton and Dr. Cornel West, Professor of Religion and African American Studies at Princeton University on the subject of President Barack Obama and the Black Agenda Friday at 12:30 p.m.

Also featured will be a national leaders forum moderated by Charles Ogletree, the Harvard Law School, Jesse Climenko, Professor of Law and featuring Chuck Morrison of Ford Motor Co., Dr. Benjamin Chavis, Co-Founder, President and CEO of the Hip-Hop Summit Action Network, Dr. Michael Eric Dyson, academic and professor of sociology at Georgetown University, Rainbow PUSH founder Reverend Jesse L. Jackson Sr., NAACP president Benjamin Todd Jealous, Dr. Maulana Karenga, professor of Africana Studies at California State University, Long Beach and founder of the U.S. organization and Reverend Al Sharpton taking place Friday from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m.

Tomorrow from 9 a.m. to 10:15 a.m. Dr. Frederick D. Haynes, III, Senior Pastor, Friendship-West Baptist Church in Dallas will be speak on

the topic of the “Press & the Pulpit.”

Fortune 500 companies including AT&T, Ford, GM, Nielsen, and Wells Fargo will join NNPA Chairman Danny Bakewell for a discussion on the importance of advertising in the Black press on Friday at 10:30 a.m.

This year’s event will also feature forward-looking dialogue with a focus on growing revenue and audience in today’s marketplace. Topics include: mobile innovation, social media, advertising customer insights, increasing digital loyalty, growing circulation, and much more.

Throughout the conference AT&T will host a CyberCafe and host a Multi-Media Platform workshop tomorrow.

“Black newspapers are formulating and adopting aggressive new strategies to grow our audience and drive up revenue, our annual conference offers newspaper publishers the critical opportunity to share success stories and learn about innovative strategies,” said NNPA Chairman Danny J. Bakewell, Sr. “In addition to exceptional programming, the conference allows attendees to get in front of over 200 major Black publishers and for major advertisers to meet our members and to learn about the role the Black press plays in America.”

The 2011 NNPA Legacy of Excellence Awards will given to Xernona Clayton, Founder, President and CEO of the Trumpet Awards Foundation and Garth C. Reeves, Publisher Emeritus of the Miami Times and

America’s oldest living Black newspaper publisher. The Legacy of Excellence Award was created to honor Black publishers whose life’s works mirror the courage, commitment, sacrifice, and achievement demonstrated in publishing Black newspapers throughout America and the world. The event will take place on Friday, June 24 at 7 p.m. in the Gold Coast Ballroom. Entertainment will be provided by the legendary Temptations.

Full information on the conference, including programming and registration details, is available at http://www.nnpa.org.

The Drake Hotel is located 140

East Walton Place in Chicago.

The 2011 NNPA conference event includes keynotes from some of today’s leading Black voices, including Reverend Al Sharpton, Revered Jesse Jackson, and Dr. Cornel West, who will all discuss the role of Black newspapers in today’s movement for economic, social, and racial justice.

In addition, newspaper publishing visionary Danny Bakewell, CEO of the Los Angeles Sentinel and L.A. Watts Times newspapers, and chairman of the NNPA, will host a discussion on advertising with some of the nation’s leading Fortune 500 companies providing valuable perspectives on trends in advertising as it relates

Kansas City police say 1970 killing solved KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Police and prosecutors in Kansas City say they have solved the 1970 killing of Leon Jordan, a former police officer and Black political leader.

The Police Department released a 900-page report Monday that said the shooting was planned by James “Doc” Dearborn, a leader of a criminal organization, the “Black Mafia,” and that the traditional Mafia also may have been involved, The Kansas City Star reported. Dearborn was killed in a 1985 shooting.

Jackson County Prosecutor Jean Peters Baker said the case is now considered closed, and her office does not intend to bring any charges. The suspected mastermind and many witnesses are dead.

“It would be an impossible prosecution at this point in time, given where people are,” Peters said.

Sgt. Richard Sharp, who headed the recent investigation, said Jordan, founder of Freedom Inc., had ties to both white and Black criminals and had annoyed them both. In 1965, he punched a legislator with ties to the Italian Mafia, and he and Dearborn allegedly fought over a woman.

“It was a lot of the little things that pushed it over the edge,” Sharp said.

Dearborn and two alleged associates were indicted for the killing in 1973. When one of the alleged triggermen was acquitted, charges were dropped against the others.

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DAILY CHALLENGE WEDNESDAY, JUNE 22, 2011

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

Awards ceremony at Sullivan Correctional Facility

THOMAS H. WATKINS

End Nixon’s 40-year war on Blacks and Latinos

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Part One So far, the month of June has been an extraordinarily exhilarating time for me. As I witnessed the diversity or holistic ministry, to which I have been called, implemented before my very eyes, and the love and appreciation accorded me, I had feelings of vindication and euphoric fulfillment.

The first event was held on Thursday, June 2, 2011. I received the Brooklyn Without Borders Award bestowed by the Brooklyn Hospital Center (BHC).

Other awardees included Mr. Jonathan Weld of Shearman & Sterling, LLP and the immediate past Chairman of BHC who received the Founders Medal; Dr. Shafiqur M. Rahman, MD of the Department of Internal Medicine’s Division of Infectious Diseases at BHC, the Walter E. Reed Medal; Dr. Sumatilal Shah, MD of the Department of Internal Medicine’s Division of Cardiology at BHC, the Walter E. Reed Medal; and, Charles R. Modica, JD, the Chancellor at St. George’s University, the Partner in Health Award.

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Reverend Leah is the pastor of The House of the Lord Church in Washington, D.C., the Formerly Chief of Staff of the Democratic National Committee, and the CEO of the 2009 Democratic Convention,, and Reverend Dawn Daughtry is the pastor of The House of the Lord Church in Englewood, New Jersey, and a middle school principal. Both are the fifth generation of ministers in our family.

On Wednesday, June 8, 2011, I visited a women’s prison in Clinton, New Jersey. On Tuesday, June 14, 2011, I was back at Sullivan Correctional Facility for another awards ceremony. I was still on “cloud nine” from the last ceremony. (See Daily Challenge Articles dated April 27, 2011 and May 11, 2011.) However, this awards ceremony was not about me, or the other awardees. It was really about the organization, Recognizing Inmate Achievements Awards (R.I.A.A.). It was the second anniversary of R.I.A.A. I was impressed by this creative venture, which was conceived and implemented by the inmates.

R.I.A.A.’s mission addressed one of the major concerns of inmates as well as those who are involved in prison-related work.

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On the same day, there was an Annual Health Fair at The House of the Lord Church in Brooklyn, New York. It was organized by the Health Committee of The House of the Lord Church and co-sponsored by the Downtown Brooklyn Neighborhood Alliance (DBNA) and Brooklyn Health Center. Ms. Yvonne Rubie is the National Director of the Health Department. Nevertheless, while this event did not give an award to me or honor me, its emphases were on health, which have been an integral part of my ministry, underscoring the importance I’ve attached to health issues; therefore, I was indirectly honored.

On Sunday, June 5, 2011, and Sunday, June 12, 2011, our church celebrated my 53rd anniversary. It was a very special anniversary not only for the love that was extended to me by my parishioners, friends, and supporters, but also the two speakers were my two daughters, Reverend Leah Daughtry, who spoke on June 5, 2011, and Rev-

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The danger of free trade agreement

By BILL FLETCHER, JR. The Obama administration has been pushing major free trade agreements, including one with Korea and Colombia. Yet, for all of the discussion in the media, it is not always clear what a free trade agreement actually is and what it means for us.

Free trade is fundamentally about getting rid of tariffs or taxes on goods that are traded between countries.

That may sound fair and equitable but concretely it can have a dramatic impact on a country’s ability to develop an economy. Consider a country that has a very developed economy that decides to trade with a less developed country. The developed country sells manufactured goods to the less developed country and the less developed country trades agricultural items, such as cotton. The less developed country may not have sufficient technology to produce the manufactured goods, either at all or cheaply.

Well, this sounds all well and good, but let’s say that the less developed country wants to develop their ability to manufacture goods. As long as the less developed country is importing cheap, manufactured goods from the more developed country, it will be nearly impossible to develop their own manufacturing sector. Therefore, the less developed country may choose to impose tariffs or taxes on the imported manufactured goods so that they are more expensive and the manufacturing sector in the less developed country has a chance to grow and compete.

Sound familiar? It should, this was the basic scenario, which in addition to slavery, contributed to the U.S. Civil War. The South sold cotton to Britain and France and bought cheap manufactured goods. The North was trying to build up its own industry but could not as long as it had to compete with the cheaper goods from Europe. It was in that context that taxes were imposed on manufactured

goods coming into the USA. So, one impact of free trade carried out by developed countries like the USA is that they often undermine the ability of underdeveloped countries to create healthy, balanced economies.

Instead the underdeveloped countries are often forced to rely on one or more exports, many times agricultural or mineral.

What does free trade mean in today’s USA? For us it represents a changing global economy in which the transnational corporations, seeking the cheapest labor costs, and the fewest restrictions, utilize free trade as a means to not only eliminate certain taxes, but also to eliminate various laws and regulations. The North American Free Trade Agreement, for instance, inhibits governmental bodies at the state/provincial, county, and municipal levels from implementing certain environmental standards that may be judged by those who oversee the terms of NAFTA as hurting the so-called free market and harming

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the sale of products of one country over another. Free trade can also mean that companies can quickly relocate to another country with relative ease, generally leaving an economic disaster in their wake.

Each time free trade agreements are passed, working people in the affected countries inevitably come up short. There are regular, rhetorical guarantees that the free trade agreement will benefit everyone, but as has been seen with NAFTA, hundreds of thousands of jobs were lost in BOTH the USA and Mexico, and in the case of Mexico, their agricultural sector has suffered catastrophically.

The next time you hear about free trade agreements you might want to put your hand on your wallet...and with the other hand, dial your elected representatives and ask them how this can possibly benefit the regular working man or woman.

— Bill Fletcher, Jr. is a Senior Scholar with the Institute for Policy Studies, the immediate past president of TransAfrica Forum and the co-author of “Solidarity Divided.”

He can be reached at papaq54@hotmail.com.

While mortgage lenders pay millions, Black America loses billions

By CHARLENE CROWELL In recent months a series of settlements by the federal Department of Justice signal that charges of discriminatory lending not only have validity, but occur with amazing similarity in different locales. In the past week, a lawsuit against mortgage lending practices in the St. Louis metropolitan area ended with a $1.45 million settlement to resolve charges of discriminatory patterns and practices. Midwest Bank Centre agreed to open a full-service branch in a majority African

American area of the metro. Additionally other terms of the settlement call for $900,000 to increase the amount of lending to majority African American neighborhoods; $300,000 for consumer education and credit repair programs; and $250,000 for outreach to promote their products and services to prospective customers.

In a separate but related action, Nixon State Bank, of Nixon, Texas, will pay nearly $100,000 to settle a lawsuit that charged with bank engaged in discriminatory practices on the basis of national origin. Latino borrowers, according to the complaint, were charged higher prices on unse-

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cured consumer loans, a violation of the Equal Credit Opportunity Act. If these settlements sound familiar, you’re right. Earlier this year, a similar settlement focused on Detroit and the practices of Citizens Republic Bancorp and Citizens Bank of Flint, Michigan. In this settlement, the banks agreed to open a loan office in a Detroit African American neighborhood and invest approximately $3.6 million in Wayne County.

In December 2010, Prime Lending, a national mortgage lender with 168 offices in 32 states, agreed to pay $2 million to end a lawsuit that alleged African American borrowers were charged higher annual percentage rates of interest for prime fix-rate home loans and for home loans guaranteed by the Federal Housing Administration and Department of Veterans Affairs. Terms of this settlement required Prime Lending to begin in 2011 to implement policies to prevent discrimination.

Beyond these four DOJ settlements, two additional lawsuits are still pending on behalf of residents in Baltimore, Maryland and Memphis, Tennessee.

Both of these cities have alleged that Wells Fargo Bank violated fair lending laws that resulted in a higher number of unnecessary foreclosures in their respective locales. Both cities allege that disproportionate foreclosures and resulting economic losses were caused by steering Black consumers into high-cost, unsustainable mortgage loans.

In Brooklyn, New York, eight African American homeowners were awarded more than $1 million in a jury trial against a developer, United Homes. While the defendant already announced plans to file an appeal, plaintiffs maintain that their respective purchases of renovated and

flipped homes were all appraised at inflated values reflected in significantly higher sales prices.

It seems ironic that despite a series of laws enacted years ago to prevent these kinds of practices that in 2011, some of America’s lenders seem to be thumbing their noses to fair lending for all Americans. Million-dollar settlements are not enough to compensate communities of color for all the devastating financial harm that their illegal practices have wrought.

According to the recently-released 2011 State of the Nation’s Housing by the Joint Center for Housing Studies of Harvard University, nearly half of foreclosure auctions in 2010 were located in just 10 percent of the nation’s 65,000 census tracts. According to the new report, homeownership rate declines for African-Americans (3.8 percent) and Latinos (2.1 percent) have outpaced those for white households (1.5 percent). As a result, these homeownership declines have erased the homeownership gains of the past two decades.

CRL’s own research previously found that $350 billion of wealth has been lost to African-American and Latino families due to foreclosures and their rippling effects on neighborhoods.

In the 19th Century, newly-freed slaves were promised 40 acres and a mule. In the 20th Century, African Americans were joined by progressive organizations and individuals to fight and win civil rights. In 2011, our silver rights are the issue.

— Charlene Crowell is the Center for Responsible Lending’s communications manager for state policy and outreach. She can be reached at: Charlene.crowell@responsiblelending.org.

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Healthcare law seen aiding employer coverage WASHINGTON — Even though the number of Americans with health insurance through employers has declined, most will continue to get coverage through their jobs after the new healthcare law takes full effect, studies released yesterday said.

About 61 percent of nonelderly Americans got their healthcare coverage through employers in 2009, down from 69 percent in 2000, according to a study sponsored by the non-partisan Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Low and moderateincome families employed by small firms were the most likely to be affected by a loss of employer-sponsored coverage.

Julie Sonier, a senior researcher at the University of Minnesota who helped write the report, said the erosion in employer-sponsored insurance in the decade before the healthcare law was enacted underscored the need for action.

Medical records clerk Elena Lara works in the medical records department at Clinica Sierra Vista’s East Bakersfield Community Health Center in Bakersfield, California.

“When people don’t have access to employer coverage, they might get public coverage, they might be uninsured, there might be a higher uncompensated care burden at their local hospital.

The costs are in the system somewhere,” she said in a telephone interview.

A second study by the centrist Urban Institute said it

expects the healthcare overhaul signed into law last year

by President Barack Obama to help small businesses provide medical coverage to employees.

“Our results show significant health care cost savings (under the law) to firms with fewer than 50 workers, as well as a small increase in the number of people covered by

their employer-sponsored plans,” the Urban Institute study said.

The law includes some tax incentives for small employers to provide coverage and penalties for large employers with employees who receive subsidized medical coverage on state-based exchanges that will go into operation in 2014.

“The evidence suggests the Affordable Care Act may have a stabilizing influence on small firm coverage,” the study said.

The studies counter a recent report by Chicago consulting firm McKinsey that said about 30 percent of employers will “definitely” or “probably” stop offering health coverage once the state insurance exchanges begin operation, which are to provide a place for small businesses and individuals to shop for health insurance coverage.

That report sparked a fresh round of criticism of

Michigan to take over Detroit’s worst schools

By DEEPA SEETHARAMAN DETROIT — Detroit’s poorest-performing schools will be placed in the hands of a new statewide authority next year, the latest attempt to turn around one of the worst education systems in the nation.

Michigan Governor Rick Snyder announced on Monday that a new authority, dubbed the Education Achievement System, will operate the lowest 5 percent of schools in Michigan.

Emergency manager Roy Roberts told reporters that the program will start with about 45 failing schools in fall of 2012 and expand to others the following year.

Thirty-four schools are currently eligible for the program, a spokeswoman for the Detroit Public Schools said.

Snyder, along with Roy Roberts, emergency manager for the Detroit Public Schools, announced the move at a press conference at a Detroit high school on Monday. U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan joined by teleconference.

Many details are still being finalized, but local and federal officials stressed the urgency for sweeping reforms in Michigan and in particular Detroit.

“We’re fighting to save the city of Detroit,” Duncan said.

“We are all united in a desperate need to get better faster.”

The head of Detroit’s teachers union said the group was in agreement with many of the objectives of the program, but important questions about funding and resource allocation needed to be answered.

“You can’t argue against the concept, but the devil is in the details,” said Keith Johnson, president of the Detroit Federation of Teachers. “How are they going to do it?”

Johnson said his main criticism of the plan was that the union was not involved earlier in the planning stages.

Snyder also launched a private fundraising program to

give all Detroit public high school graduates financial resources to attend at least two years of college or a career training school in Michigan.

Snyder and Roberts declined to say how much this program would cost.

They said they hoped to expand resources to be able to fund four years of higher education.

“It is really about reinventing Detroit and doing it as a team effort as a starting point and then taking that success throughout all of Michigan,” Snyder told reporters.

Over five years the authority can reach 5 percent of Michigan’s 4,000 public schools, or 200. Principals, teachers and staff will have

direct school control rather than central administrators, Snyder said.

Roberts will serve as chair of the executive committee of the system during its startup.

“For Detroit to be successful, it depends on having successful schools,” Snyder said.

The system will be independent, but established through an agreement between Detroit Public Schools and Eastern Michigan University. Its 11-member board will have seven appointees by the governor, two by Roberts and two by Eastern Michigan.

Roberts said Michigan has 92 persistently low achieving public schools, with 45 in Detroit.

Successful Detroit schools

Obama’s healthcare law by Republicans who are pushing to repeal it. Democrats demanded an explanation of the methodology, since other reports, including the Congressional Budget Office, said the law would have a small impact on employer coverage.

On Monday, McKinsey clarified that its report was a survey of employer attitudes and “was not intended to be a predictive economic analysis” of the impact of the new healthcare law.

The two studies sponsored by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation that were released on Tuesday said most of the erosion in employer sponsored healthcare since 2000 was by small businesses.

Four states, Mississippi, Indiana, Michigan and Minnesota saw a loss in employer-sponsored coverage that was twice as large a the national average, according to the studies. will stay in the district and the $327 million deficit will be eliminated over five years in part by issuing debt, Roberts said.

The Detroit schools will continue to manage district property, debt service management and receive local tax revenue.

Roberts said the goal was to ensure that one-third more of the dollars are spent in the classroom, rather than on central administration.

Principals will have direct power to hire teachers, who will continue to have the right to unionize. Schools will stay in the system until they show marked student progress and then will have the right to remain or return to their district.

“By virtually any measure, Detroit is frankly at the bottom of the barrel,” Duncan said in his remarks.

Weiner formally submits resignation from the House WASHINGTON — Democrat Anthony Weiner, caught sending lewd photos of himself to women over the Internet, on Monday submitted his letter of resignation from the House of Representatives, effective midnight yesterday.

Under pressure from President Barack Obama and other fellow Democrats, Weiner announced his resignation last week after being ensnared in an Internet sex scandal, but waited until

Monday before declaring when he would leave.

Democrats feared that Weiner had become a political liability to their efforts to win back the House from Republicans in next year’s elections.

Once seen as a rising liberal star and likely future candidate for mayor of New York City, Weiner, 46, stood alone last Thursday when he announced he would leave Congress. His wife is a long-

time aide to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.

Weiner’s two-sentence letter of resignation was addressed to New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, who will call a special election to replace the seven-term congressman.

Copies of his letter were sent to House Speaker John Boehner, a Republican, and House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi.

In his letter, Weiner made

no mention of the scandal. He wrote, “I hereby resign as a member of the House of Representatives for New York’s Ninth Congressional District, effective at midnight, Tuesday, June 21, 2011. It’s been an honor to serve the people of Queens and Brooklyn.”

Weiner, 46, represented parts of New York City in the House since being first elected in 1998. His seat is expected to remain in Democratic hands.

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NATO ‘bombed Libya military target, not civilians’

By IMED LAMLOUM SORMAN, Libya NATO insisted an air strike west of Tripoli hit a military target and not civilians as claimed by Moamer Kadhafi’s regime, while a British air force chief warned yesterday of Libya overstretch.

NATO, reversing an initial denial, acknowledged its warplanes early on Monday carried out strikes in the Sorman area, 70 kilometres (45 miles) from Tripoli, but said its warplanes bombed a “highlevel” command and control node.

Libyan government spokesman Mussa Ibrahim said 15 people, including three children, were killed in the

which he attack, slammed as a “cowardly terrorist act which cannot be justified.”

Ibrahim said the attack was on an estate of a veteran comrade of Kadhafi, Khuwildi Hemidi, who served on the Revolution Command Council Kadhafi created when the strongman seized power in 1969.

Journalists escorted there by authorities saw damaged buildings on the sprawling estate.

Reporters were also taken to Sabratha hospital some 10 kilometres from Sorman, where an AFP correspondent saw nine bodies, including two children. They also saw body parts including a child’s head.

Canadian Lieutenant General Charles

4 Somalis killed after car hit by roadside bomb MOGADISHU, Somalia - A police officer in Somalia says at least four civilians died after their car hit a roadside bomb in the capital.

The officer, Ahmed Abdullahi, said yesterday that the explosion was caused by a roadside bomb apparently intended for African Union peacekeepers. He said seven others were wounded when the blast hit the minibus.

About 9,000 Ugandan and Burundian peacekeepers are stationed in Somalia’s capital to serve as a bulwark against militants’ efforts to overrun the U.N.-backed government.

Mogadishu residents have borne the brunt of the country’s two decades of violence, and rights groups accuse warring sides of endangering civilians.

This undated US Navy file image shows the MQ-8B Fire Scout drone helicopter. NATO lost radar contact yesterday with a new type of US drone helicopter on a surveillance mission over Libya, while denying Libyan television claims that an attack helicopter was shot down.

Bouchard, commander “NATO’s credibility is helicopters during of NATO operations in at risk,” Foreign Operation Unified Libya, insisted the mili- Minister Franco Frattini Protector and will protary was targeted. told reporters on the vide more information “This strike will sidelines of a meeting of on the incident as it greatly degrade Kadhafi European Union foreign becomes available,” regime forces’ ability to ministers in Bracken added. carry on their barbaric Luxembourg.

Libyan state televiassault against the “We cannot run the sion yesterday showed Libyan people,” said risk of killing civilians. footage of a burnt-out Bouchard.

This is not good at all.” helicopter it identified as “Wherever Kadhafi In Brussels, NATO an Apache, reportedly tries to hide his com- said it lost radar contact downed near Zliten, 160 mand and control facili- with a drone helicopter kilometres (100 miles) ties, we will find them conducting a reconnais- east of the capital. and destroy them.” sance flight over Libya The caption on the The new Libyan claim yesterday. television, which quoted of civilian deaths came “This drone helicop- military sources, read: just hours after NATO ter was performing “Images of the Apache acknowledged that one intelligence surveillance helicopter shot down by of its missiles had gone and reconnaissance over the people’s army.” astray early on Sunday, Libya to monitor proIn London, Air Chief hitting a residential Kadhafi forces threaten- Marshal Simon Bryant, neighbourhood of ing the civilian popula- the deputy head of the Tripoli. tion,” NATO military Royal Air Force, has Italy warned that spokesman Mike warned that Britain’s NATO’s accidental Bracken said in a state- ability to carry out killing of civilians was ment. future missions is under endangering the “NATO confirms it threat if its involvement alliance’s credibility. has not lost any attack in Libya extends past

the summer, a report said yesterday.

The comments by Bryant come just days after the navy chief warned of tough choices if the Libyan campaign lasts more than six months.

In a briefing paper for lawmakers obtained by the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Bryant, the air force’s head of combat operations, said missions in Afghanistan and Libya were together placing a “huge” demand on resources.

“Two concurrent operations are placing a huge demand on equipment and personnel...

Should Operation Ellamy (Libya) endure past defence planning assumptions the future contingent capability is likely to be eroded,” Bryant said.

Meanwhile senior Libyan rebel leader Mahmud Jibril arrived in China yesterday as Beijing intensifies its involvement in efforts to resolve the crisis in the wartorn country.

Jibril, the top foreign affairs official in the Libyan opposition’s National Transitional Council (NTC), will meet with Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi during his two-day visit, ministry spokesman Hong Lei told reporters.

“China’s immediate task is to promote peace and encourage talks,” Hong said, adding the situation in the north African state “should not be left as it is anymore”.

Ethiopia food prices spike after govt intervention Campaigning kicks off for Morocco referendum ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia - Prices of staples like meat, cooking oil and bread have been on a roller coaster ride in Ethiopia.

The government in January imposed price controls to combat rising prices, giving food sellers long lines of customers but barely any profit.

Now, after price controls were dropped earlier this month, prices have again risen to levels that most Ethiopians can’t afford.

Some 3.2 million Ethiopians depend on food aid. Recent government figures put inflation at nearly 35 percent in the last year.

In a rare show of rebellion in a country historically used to authoritarianism, Ethiopian consumers earlier this month started a text-message campaign to boycott meat in an attempt to force prices down. The campaign has not worked.

RABAT - Campaigning for a referendum on constitutional curbs to King Mohammed VI’s powers opened in Morocco yesterday with the main parties urging a “yes” vote in the wake of uprisings elsewhere in north Africa.

As the government announced the start of the campaign and urged citizens to collect their new voters’ cards, a senior minister predicted the envisioned changes would help the country back on the road to stability.

“This constitution is going to bring a lot of positive things to Morocco,” Industry Minister Ahmed Reda Chami told AFP.

In a speech to parliament last Friday, King Mohammed VI proposed to devolve some of his wide-ranging political powers to the prime minister and parliament, among other changes.

The reforms are aimed at transforming the kingdom’s political system into a constitutional monarchy, a key demand of the youth-based February 20 Movement named after the date of Morocco’s first nationwide pro-reform protests.

“This new constitution is going to give more power to the prime minister. The king has given some of his powers to the prime minister, to the parliament. I believe that this is impor-

tant. I think this is going to help us build a stronger democracy in the future,” Chami said.

“We need to go back to normal as soon as possible, then we’ll pick up those investments.”

Campaigning for the referendum will end on June 30, and the communications minister said yesterday that all political formations would be able to speak freely to state-owned media.

“I confirm that all those participating in the referendum, including those who are hostile (towards it), will be able to express themselves freely,” said the minister, Khalid Naciri.

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Zimbabwe teachers to strike over wages: union The country’s civil servants, particularly teachers, nurses and doctors, have been striking on and off over better salaries since 2008.

Teachers, especially in rural areas, have born the brunt of political attacks by proMugabe militants who accuse them of support-

HARARE Teachers at Zimbabwe’s staterun schools will begin a strike on Wednesday to demand a 150 percent salary increase and an end to political attacks against them, union officials said.

“We will be starting our strike tomorrow to press for salary review, and for the security of members who are victims of political violence, especially in the rural areas,” Takavafira Zhou, president of the Progressive Teachers Union of Zimbabwe, told AFP yesterday.

“So far most members have confirmed that they will be on strike starting tomorrow.”

Teachers earn $200 (140 euros) a month, but they are demanding a raise to $500.

The teachers also want a review of their

Egypt ’s Musl im Br ot he r ho od e xpe ls pr esi den ti al ho pef ul Zimbabwean children sit in a classroom at a school in Norton, 55 kms west of Harare, in 2009. Teachers at Zimbabwe's state-run schools will begin a strike today to demand a 150 percent salary increase and an end to political attacks against them, union officials said.

Photo/Desmond Kwande

housing and transport allowance and the removal of “ghost workers” on the government payroll.

Zimbabwe has 105,000 teachers on the payroll, but Zhou said his union estimates only 77,000 are actually working.

Inflated payroll num-

bers are a problem throughout the civil service, with Finance Minister Tendai Biti estimating that about one-third of government’s 230,000 employees don’t actually exist.

He insists that the cash-strapped government cannot afford salary increases.

Biti is an ally of Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai, a one-time union leader who joined President Robert Mugabe in a rocky unity government two years ago.

Mugabe accuses Biti of deliberately sabotaging the government by refusing the increases.

Sudan to block pipeline if no oil deal with south: Bashir KHARTOUM Sudan will block the landlocked south’s use of its pipeline infrastructure if there is no deal on oil ahead of southern independence next month, President Omar alBashir said yesterday.

“I give the south three alternatives for the oil. The north is to continue getting its share, or the north gets fees for every barrel that the south sends to Port Sudan,” Bashir told supporters at a rally in the Red Sea city, which is the main terminal for all of Sudan’s oil exports, from both north and south.

“If they don’t accept either of these, we’re going to block the pipeline,” he said.

Senior Sudanese officials are locked in talks in Addis Ababa aimed at forging agreement on a raft of unresolved issues between the two

ing Tsvangirai.

Teachers are often used to staff rural polling stations, and supporters Mugabe blamed them for his party’s poor showing in 2008, when his ZANUPF lost control of parliament and he was forced into an inconclusive run-off with Tsvangirai.

Sudan will block the landlocked south's use of its pipeline infrastructure if there is no deal on oil ahead of southern independence next month, President Omar al-Bashir, pictured in January 2011, said yesterday.

Photo/Ashraf Shazly sides prior to partition north, and Khartoum is Finance Minister Ali on July 9, and no deal desperate to partially Mahmud said last has yet been reached on offset the imminent fall week. the key oil sector. in its oil revenues by The government is Some 80 percent of getting the south to pay already struggling to Sudan’s crude output, for the use of this infra- cope with soaring inflawhich currently stands structure. tion, a weakening curat around 470,000 barUnder the existing rency and huge foreign rels per day, is pumped r e v e n u e - s h a r i n g debt, estimated at from the south, accord- arrangement, the north around $38 billion, and ing to the country’s oil gets 50 percent of Mahmud made a simiminister. southern oil receipts, lar threat to block But all of the key oil but when this comes to southern oil exports infrastructure, includ- an end next month, unless Juba agreed to a ing refineries and Khartoum’s income will price for renting the pipelines, lie in the fall by 36.5 percent, the north’s infrastructure.

By YASMINE SALEH CAIRO - Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood has expelled a senior member for saying he would run for president in defiance of the group’s decision not to seek the post vacant since the overthrow of President Hosni Mubarak in February.

The Brotherhood announced in April that its newly formed “Freedom and Justice” party would contest up to half the seats in a parliamentary election in September but would not field a candidate for the presidency to avoid dominating power.

But Abdel Moneim Abul Futuh said in May he would run as an independent in a presidential vote expected to take place before the end of the year as an independent.

“The Shura Council (the group’s decision-making body) has decided to scrap the membership of Abdel Moneim Abul Futuh... because he announced he would run for the presidency,” the Brotherhood said in a statement posted on its website.

The group, long seen as Egypt’s best organised political force, gained new opportunities after Mubarak was toppled by a popular revolt and his National Democratic Party was dissolved.

Analysts saw the expulsion of Abul Futuh as a proof of simmering disagreements between younger Brotherhood members and its older and more conservative leaders.

“This certainly shows the divisions among the Muslim Brotherhood,” said Mustapha al-Sayyid, a political science professor.

“The young Muslim Brothers seem to favor Abdel Moneim Abul Futuh becoming a candidate for the presidency while others from the older generation do not want that,” he added.

According to Sayyid, the group’s old guard wants to play safely in the election, preferring not to field a candidate in case he lost.

Abul Futuh said in a statement that he was “not concerned” with the Brotherhood’s decision to expel him.

“I am the candidate of all Egyptians and I am confident that I will get a majority of votes including votes of members from the Muslim Brotherhood led by its supreme guide, Mohamed Badie.”

The Brotherhood became the biggest opposition bloc in parliament in a 2005 election, winning a fifth of the seats. It boycotted the last election under Mubarak in November 2010.

The September election could be Egypt’s first free vote after decades of widespread vote-rigging in favor of Mubarak’s ruling party. It will also be seen as a test of the true strength of the Brotherhood and its political opponents.

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Abandon the Privy Council, says Bahamas bishop

By CANDIA DAMES NASSAU, Bahamas — The Privy Council’s recent ruling on the death penalty in the case of Maxo Tido has unwittingly said to criminals ‘you can get away with your next crime’, according to Bahamian Bishop Simeon Hall, who chaired the government-appointed National Advisory Council on Crime.

Hall said it is clear that if families of murder victims are to ever have justice, The Bahamas must abandon the Privy Council, at least for murder appeals.

One of the recommendations the Crime Council made to the Ingraham administration is to resume capital punishment.

But various Privy Council decisions over the years have set such a strict standard for the imposition of the death penalty, the government has been unable to carry out the law in this regard.

Tido was convicted of the 2002 murder of Donnell Conover. The 16-year-old was found with her skull crushed, and her body burnt.

The Privy Council said while Conover’s murder was “dreadful” and “appalling” it did not fall into the category for the worst of the worst murders and therefore the death penalty ought not apply.

“The ruling by the Privy Council raises serious questions as to what is happening,” Hall said.

“I understand to some degree the Privy Council has the last word, but certainly my big problem I’m wrestling with is what is the justice system saying to families of victims of murder, and then to persons who do the murder?

“It seems that the whole system now is lending its way to criminality. For the law lords to conclude that this was a bad murder but it’s not counted as the worst of the worst, I think it’s time for us to

Bishop Simeon Hall prays with Laver Conover at his New Covenant Baptist Church cry shame on the justice worst of the worst system.” because murder is murConover’s mother, der. If this is not the Laverne, who recently worst of the worst, met with Bishop Hall on could somebody explain the matter, said the rul- to me what is the worst ing re-opened an old of the worst?” wound.

Conover said the “The murderers have murder tore her whole all the rights,” said family apart — she and Conover, who added her husband subsethat she learnt of the quently divorced, one of ruling last week via the her sons is on the run evening television news- from the law, and the cast. other children have had She told The Nassau their own emotional Guardian that her challenges. daughter was so mutiShe said life has not lated she was only able been the same since. to identify her by her “When I reached the nose. police station and they “What I would like to told me, I was just not know is what is the myself anymore, espe-

Geothermal energy will revolutionise Nevis, says official No compromise on food security, says Grenada minister

CHARLESTOWN, Nevis — Permanent Secretary in the Ministry responsible for Public Utilities and Renewable Energy in the Nevis Island Administration (NIA) Ernie Stapleton, described geothermal energy as a resource that stood to revolutionise Nevis.

He made the comment at a recent press conference hosted by the Minister responsible for Public Utilities and Renewable Energy on Nevis, Carlisle Powell, when a public awareness campaign about geothermal energy and its benefits to the island was launched.

“One of the things that people have to understand is that geothermal is a revolutionary resource... We can build an economy using geothermal energy. If you believe that Four Seasons had a positive impact on Nevis, geothermal energy has a much greater impact on the economy of Nevis and people must understand that.

“It is a natural resource and it means that we own it so we will get the royalty. Monies will be paid to the government as long as geothermal power is being produced on Nevis. It is our resource and the royalty is being paid because it is the resource of the people of Nevis,” he said, while noting that his statement was based on his own knowledge from reading and from what he had seen the resource do in other countries.

Stapleton, who also has a background in finance, likened the geothermal resource on Nevis to the oil found in Trinidad and pointed to the fact that that island had built its economy on that natural resource, which was also extracted from the ground.

By LINCOLN DEPRADINE CASTRIES, St Lucia — Grenada’s Agriculture and Fisheries Minister has said that food and nutrition security in the Caribbean requires regional countries fully utilizing their fish and other marine resources.

Denis Lett told an OECS Fisheries meeting in Castries, St Lucia, that countries that “attempt to impede the rights of other nations” to use their ocean resources for their food and nutrition needs ought to be rebuked.

“Their actions must be condemned,” said Lett at the two-day OECS Fisheries Ministers meeting, which opened Monday.

“The issue of food and nutrition security for all people cannot be overstated,” Lett said.

“Consequently, we are deeply disturbed when countries and organisations, who no longer have a strategic interest in the ocean as an essential source of food, would attempt to impede the rights of other nations who use the resources of the ocean on a sustainable basis for their food and nutrition security.”

Lett described food security as both “a human right and a sovereign right,” saying neither must be compromised.

“For us as a region,” he said, “it is even more fundamental, recognising our limited land space and small economies which are vulnerable to natural disasters and instability in international financial and economic conditions.”

cially when I had to go to the morgue and saw what I saw,” Conover said.

“What I saw at the morgue, I don’t know what that was because really it was not my daughter.

“I don’t know what that was because a dog’s head wouldn’t have looked the way her head looked. She had no face, one big bone sticking up, they burnt her over her body.

“How do they expect me as a mother to deal with this and to know Maxo is in prison living?”

While the Privy Council quashed Tido’s death sentence, it upheld his murder conviction and ordered that he be re-sentenced.

In 2009, the government was preparing to read a death warrant to him.

Hall pointed out that a study by Police Sergeant Chaswell Hanna noted that in a five-year period when 349 murders were recorded in The Bahamas, there were only 10 murder convictions and two death sentences issued.

“Last year was a record number of murders and I understand that we had no more than two or three convictions,” Hall said.

“This disparity between

criminal behavior and the justice system, is it the police, is it the lawyers, is it the justice system?”

He said the law lords of the Privy Council are clearly out of touch with what is happening in The Bahamas.

“How is this family to swallow this latest ruling?” he asked. “...It is very difficult to remain philosophical on murder now. The criminals seem to be getting the better end of the stick and families of murder victims seem to be left — as this family — totally disintegrated.”

Hall noted that the level of violent crime has worsened in the last couple years.

“It is true that part of the problem is in fact the social culture we face as a community, but at the same time I think Parliament and the lawmakers must take draconian measures to face this nightmare we are presently confronted with,” he said.

“It is true that the current minister of national security has adopted half of the things we suggested, but it seems to be getting worse. And you feel embarrassed that you served on this thing and [crime] seems to be getting worse.”

OAS to assist officials in St Vincent and the Grenadines to combat trafficking in persons WASHINGTON — The Organization of American States (OAS) will train, on June 21 and 22, 40 consular and diplomat officials from St Vincent and the Grenadines, as well as personnel from the country’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Foreign Trade, and Consumer Affairs with the goal of increasing their awareness of the crime of trafficking in persons and strengthening their efforts to prevent it and fight it.

Trafficking in persons is a modern form of slavery and a violation of basic human rights involving coercive sexual exploitation, forced labour and involuntary servitude, among others.

The OAS program, “Capacity Development to Recognize and Address Anti-Trafficking in Persons within the Foreign Service in the Caribbean Countries,” has been implemented in 12 member states throughout the Americas.

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Seven protesters killed in Syria during rallies

By KHALED YACOUB OWEIS AMMAN - Syrian security forces shot dead seven people yesterday during clashes in two cities between President Bashar al-Assad’s loyalists and protesters demanding his removal, a leading activist said.

The violence followed rallies organised by authorities in several cities in support of Assad, whose 11-year rule has been challenged by a threemonth popular uprising, prompting him to promise reforms on Monday, which were dismissed by protesters and world leaders as inadequate.

Activists said people were killed when army and security forces intervened on the side of Assad’s supporters in the city of Homs and the town of Mayadeen in the tribal Deir al-Zor province, 40 km (28 miles) east of the provincial capital, near the border with Iraq’s Sunni heartland.

Ammar Qurabi, head of the Syrian National Organization for Human Rights, said Assad loyalists, known as shabbiha, shot at protesters in Homs, Hama and Mayadeen, killing at least seven civilians and wounding 10.

“It is difficult to say who started first, but the army’s armored personnel carriers drove through the (anti-Assad) demonstration firing at people.

One is confirmed killed but seven more people suffered serious wounds,” a resident of Mayadeen said.

Two residents in Homs said security forces fired at protesters who had staged a demonstration to counter a pro-Assad rally backed by secret police and ‘shabbiha’.

Witnesses in Deraa said security forces opened fire to disperse several thousand protesters in the city’s old quarter who took to the streets in reaction to a pro-government rally in the Mahatta area which they said employees and army forces in civilian clothes had been ordered to attend.

Syria has barred most international journalists, making it difficult to verify accounts from activists and officials.

The International Committee of the Red Cross said Syria had agreed to give the humanitarian agency greater access to civilians and areas caught up in the conflict.

SECOND AMNESTY State television showed tens of thousands of people in central Damascus waving flags and pictures of Assad who announced an amnesty for people who committed crimes up until Monday, the day of his speech. It was the second amnesty to be announced in three weeks.

After the first, authorities freed hundreds of

political prisoners but rights groups say thousands still languish in jail and that hundreds more have since been arrested in an escalating crackdown they say has killed 1,300 civilians in three months.

Authorities say more than 200 police and security forces have been killed by armed gangs.

Activists said that public workers were required to take part in the pro-Assad rallies under threat of dismissal from their jobs, along with the security police and their families.

After Monday’s speech, activists said Syrian forces extended their security sweep near the northern border with Turkey to the merchant city of Aleppo.

Central neighborhoods in Aleppo have been largely quiet, with a heavy security presence and the political and business alliance intact between Sunni business families and the ruling hierarchy from Syria’s minority Alawite sect.

Syria, a country of 20 million, is mainly Sunni, and the protests demanding political freedoms and an end to 41 years of Assad family rule have been biggest in mostly Sunni rural areas and towns and cities, as opposed to mixed areas.

“Road blocks in Aleppo are noticeably more today, especially on roads leading north toward Turkey and toward the east. I saw military intelligence agents arrest two brothers in their 30s, apparently just because they were from Idlib,” a resident of Aleppo, who owns an import business, told Reuters by phone.

He was referring to the northwestern province where troops and tanks have been deployed in towns and villages for the past 10 days to quell protests, according to witnesses.

ARRESTS Tens of students at Aleppo University were arrested on Monday and 12 people, including a mosque preacher, were detained in the nearby village of Tel Rifaat, halfway between Aleppo and the Turkish border, following protests, witnesses said.

Protesters at the university had criticized Assad’s speech, only his third since the uprising, inspired by protests across the Arab world that ousted rulers in Tunisia and Egypt.

Speaking at Damascus University, Assad reiterated a commitment to “national dialogue” and promised new laws on the media and parliamentary elections but protesters denounced the speech and Washington demanded “action, not words” from Assad.

The military assault has sent thousands of refugees streaming over the border into Turkey, which has become critical of Assad, having previously backed his drive to seek peace with Israel and improve relations with the United States.

Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said yes-

Yemen says steps up fight against Islamists ADEN, Yemen - Yemen’s army has stepped up an offensive to dislodge Islamist militants holed up in a southern province, killing at least 10 in overnight attacks involving air strikes, a local official said yesterday.

About 300 militants from ultra-conservative Salafist groups linked to al Qaeda seized Zinjibar, capital of Abyan province, in May, amid a wave of popular protests against President Ali Abdullah Saleh’s nearly 33-year rule.

“Between 10 and 15 armed group members were killed in

face-to-face confrontations in the town of al-Kud and other areas around Zinjibar,” a local official involved in the military operation said.

He said Yemen’s air force took part in the attacks.

Monday, a military spokesman said troops had killed 17 militants since an offensive began Sunday. Five soldiers had died and 21 were wounded, the military added.

Abyan’s provincial governor, Saleh Hussein al-Zuari, said in comments posted on a government website that security forces were making progress

against the militants.

It was not possible to verify his statement. No one was immediately available to comment from the armed Islamist group in the city.

Witnesses in Mudiyah, a town in northern Abyan, said yesterday they saw militants burying around 20 corpses.

The seizure of Zinjibar forced thousands of residents to flee and raised fears that militants with ties to al Qaeda were gaining ground as Saleh resisted pressure from his Saudi and U.S. allies to step down in favor of a transition to democracy.

terday it was right to press Damascus to end the violence but said interference in the country’s affairs was not the solution.

A veto-wielding member of the U.N. Security Council, Russia has withheld support for a Western-drafted Council resolution condemning the violence in Syria.

“Interference from outside does not by any means always lead to the resolution of a conflict,” Putin told a news conference with his French counterpart Francois Fillon. France has been among the most vocal critics of Assad’s actions.

At the same time, Putin said, “there is no doubt that it is necessary to apply pressure on the leadership of any country where mass disorder and particularly bloodshed is occurring.”

Bombs kil l 25 at l ocal Iraqi gover nor ’s hous e

By ASEEL KAMI & SUADAD AL-SALHY BAGHDAD - Two bombs killed at least 25 people at a checkpoint outside a provincial Iraqi governor’s house yesterday in the latest in a series of attacks against local government and security forces.

A suicide bomber blew himself up and a car bomb exploded almost simultaneously outside the Diwaniya governor’s house, 150 km (95 miles) south of Baghdad, just as guards changed shifts.

Most of the victims were security staff, officials said.

“I heard a loud blast and then another one. I opened the door and I saw white smoke and smelled the blood... I looked to the side and I saw three guards dead on the ground,” said Maha alSagban, a resident whose house was damaged.

Television footage showed the crumpled and burned-out wreckage of a white truck lying by the remains of a guard post. Bloodied and wounded security guards filled the beds of a local Diwaniya hospital.

Muayad al-Ansary, a spokesman for the provincial council in Diwaniya, said the death toll had risen to 25 killed and 35 more were wounded.

Bombings and killings in Iraq have fallen sharply since the height of sectarian violence in 2006-2007, but a stubborn Sunni Islamist insurgency linked to al Qaeda, other Sunni groups and rival Shi’ite militias still carry out daily attacks.

Iraqi security forces and provincial officials are increasingly targeted by violence as U.S. troops prepare to withdraw from OPEC member Iraq by a year-end deadline more than eight years after the U.S. invasion to oust Saddam Hussein.

Five people were killed and nine wounded in a separate attack yesterday when a bomb exploded in a restaurant in Mussayab, 60 km (40 miles) south of Baghdad, police said.

Militants fired rockets at a joint U.S.-Iraqi base in the capital Baghdad, wounding three civilians, an Interior Ministry source said. But the U.S. military said none hit the base and no casualties were reported there.

In the city of Ramadi, about 100 km (60 miles) west of Baghdad in mainly Sunni Anbar province, a police bomb squad was called to defuse two car bombs placed a few hundred meters from government buildings. The first was deactivated, but the second exploded, wounding one officer, police said.

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Can Beyonce still please all of her fans with new album?

For the conclusions of these stories check out the June 2nd - June 8th, 2011 issue of The New American, which hits newsstands every Thursday British singer Leona Lewis has taken aim at critics of her personality, insisting she “couldn’t care less” if they think she’s dull. The star shot to fame as a and retiring shy wannabe on Simon Cowell’s British show The X Factor in 2006, and went on to superstardom in the U.K. and the U.S. after winning the competition.

However, Lewis is angry music fans presume she’s boring just because she’s not as outlandish as the likes of Lady Gaga, and she’s adamant her strengths lie in good quality songs. She says, “I don’t care what anyone says. I’m not boring.

Unless you know me, I don’t really care about your opinions. I couldn’t care less. Lady Gaga does her crazy thing and she is great. I definitely have something different to offer. I’m all about the music and songs.”

passed we lost so much. It was just like, ‘Who else...?’ ‘How can I show him that all of his work was not in vain?

The song hurts me (because) there’s so much genuine pain.”

Cee Lo Green has confirmed speculation Gnarls Barkley’s fan favorite tune Who’s Gonna Save My Soul is all about the passing of James Brown. The Crazy singer made the big reveal during a recent taping of VH1 show Storytellers, explaining the song is supposed to empower anyone grieving the loss of a loved one - and he wrote it as he was dealing with the 2006 death of the Godfather of Soul. He says, “The song is actually about the passing of James Brown... It has to do with everyone; heartbreak, loss, regret, helplessness, hopelessness, and I felt all of the above when we lost James Brown - because he embodied everything. “James Brown is my father... I got what I needed from him - I got guidance, I got style... integrity, I got consistency...

He taught me how to dance too. When he

New dad Nick Cannon struggles to fit all his projects in to his busy schedule, surviving on just four hours of broken sleep every day. The star and his wife Mariah Carey welcomed twins last month, but Cannon has refused to cut back his working commitments, still broadcasting his New York radio show and hosting reality series America’s Got Talent, which premiered its sixth season in the U.S. on Tuesday night. But Cannon pays a hefty price for his busy schedule as he can only fit in just a few hours of sleep around work and his duties as a dad.

In a recent interview, Lauren London revealed that Lil Wayne almost wifed her. She also explained that she and Wayne were not some one-night stand.

Lauren London: “I met Dwayne when I was 15 years old. I’ve known him a very long time, and we were in a relationship that didn’t make it. We tried more than once to revive it, and we were engaged briefly years ago, but we eventually parted ways. People see the “Lil’ Wayne” persona and think they know who he really is. My son’s father is an intelligent, loving and lovable person who will always be a dear friend.

That is all.”

Rihanna stopped by The Today Show to talk about her hair, pre-performance rituals, and what she would’ve become if she wasn’t an entertainer. Not sure of the exact name of the color of her hair, she said it’s a mixture of

different reds. She said, “ It’s like copper-ish, red-ish.” If she wasn’t an entertainer, Rihanna said she would’ve studied psychology.

“Something I was also interested in. I really enjoy observing, reading, and analyzing situations for what they really are,” she said.

Before hitting up the stage, Rihanna warms up, drinks tea, prays and then gets dressed as a ritual. Lastly, she would love to collaborate with Depeche Mode because she really likes them.

Queensbridge, New York rap star Nas has announced the title of his new upcoming solo album. The rapper took to Twitter early this morning (May 28th), to reveal the name of the album, which is titled Life is Good. In published reports, the 37year-old rapper said Life is Good will feature production from a variety of new producers, as well as veteran Salaam Remi and other notable producers. Nas’ last official studio album was 2008’s Untitled release.

Cadbury recently released advertisements for their Bliss chocolate bars, a “dreamy chocolate truffle.” On one of the ads, the British confectionary company included the tagline ‘Move over Naomi, there’s a new diva in town.” Upon seeing this, Naomi Campbell, 41 year old supermodel, was not pleased. The way Campbell sees it, Cadbury is placing her in the same league as chocolate. In a statement sent to CNN, Campbell complains that the ad is “insulting and hurtful.” This kind of reaction isn’t surprising, as Campbell is known for her, well, diva-like antics.

She’s been accused several times for violence and abuse against

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ly falling in love with the single, there are others who are less inclined to simply accept anything that the queen gives us. Myself included. I have to be honest, the song sucks. Big time.

I am a Beyonce fan. Not her biggest fan. But I dig much of her music. I also am a part of the generation that grew up with Beyonce. I remember the first time I saw the video for Destiny’s Child’s single “No No No”. I remember when they blew up into super stardom. I was there to see the ugly break up of the group and all of the nasty rumors about Beyonce. I was also there when “Crazy In Love” blew and made her an official super star; out shining her time in Destiny’s Child.

I was also there to see her grow and mature with the content of her music. Sure she has her make your booty roll ladies singles but she also has singles that touch women on a deeper level. Deep as one can get from a Beyonce single. For instance touching on women giving too much in love and never being reciprocated from the man that they love.

The Queen is back. Well, the queen to some. I am referring to Beyonce Knowles. While it can be argued that she is a queen to some and a toad to others, there is no doubt that the chick is bad. Bad meaning good. So bad that every time she drops an album or a single, we expect for it to be hotter than chicken grease on a June morning.

For her not to deliver said hotness would be an atrocity to some. So after months of blogs hyping us up with news of her being in the studio working with hot producers, and finally a release date for a single, we expect that s**t to be hot. Some expect it to be life changing. Yes, there are some people who really feel this strongly towards Beyonce.

Unfortunately for her, the first single to be released from Beyonce titled “Girls Who Run The World” has been receiving mixed reviews.

Some of them luke warm. While many of her devoted drones, who would cherish a Beyonce turd straight from her rectum, are quick- Full Story In This Week’s New American Newspaper -

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U.S. releases graphic tobacco warning labels

By DEBORAH ZABARENKO WASHINGTON — Dead bodies, diseased lungs and a man on a ventilator were among the graphic images for revamped U.S. tobacco labels, unveiled yesterday by health officials who hope the warnings will help smokers quit.

Proposed in November under a law that put the multibillion-dollar tobacco industry under the control of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, the new labels must be on cigarette packages and in advertisements no later than September 2012. They represent the first change in cigarette warnings in 25 years.

Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius and FDA Commissioner Margaret Hamburg were to discuss the nine new

warnings at the White House. Images of the labels were released early Tuesday at http://www.fda.gov/TobaccoProducts/Labeling/CigaretteWarningLabels/default. htm .

They show images that may disturb some, including one titled “WARNING: Cigarettes are addictive,” illustrated with a photograph of a man smoking a cigarette through a hole in his throat.

Others messages point out the dangers of secondhand smoke to children, tobacco’s causal link to fatal lung disease, cancer, strokes, heart disease and death.

More than 221,000 Americas will be diagnosed with lung cancer in 2011, accounting for about 14 percent of all cancer cases, according to the American Cancer Society. Nearly 157,000 men and women are expected to die from lung

cancer this year.

Sebelius said their goal is to stop children from starting to smoke and offer adults who want to quit some help.

“We have about 4,000 people under 18 who try their first cigarette and about 1,000 of them become permanent smokers. And that’s not good for our country,” she told the CBS “Early Show.”

“This is really aimed at making sure kids don’t start in the first place.”

The 2009 Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act called for cigarette packages to include warning statements in large type covering half of the front and back of each package and graphic images showing the health dangers of smoking.

The warnings are also to occupy the top 20 percent of every tobacco advertisement

of companies such as Altria Group Inc’s Philip Morris unit, Reynolds American Inc’s R.J. Reynolds Tobacco unit and Lorillard Inc’s Lorillard Tobacco Co. The anti-smoking group Campaign for Tobacco FreeKids said the images represent a dramatic change from current health warnings.

“The current warnings are more than 25 years old, go unnoticed on the side of cigarette packs and fail to effectively communicate the serious health risks of smoking,” the group said.

R.J. Reynolds has challenged the legality of mandated larger and graphic warnings in a federal lawsuit.

A 1964 surgeon general’s report that linked smoking to lung cancer and other diseases spurred a broad antismoking campaign and health warnings on cigarette packages.

This image provided by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration shows one of nine new warning labels cigarette makers will have to use by the fall of 2012.

Fitness DVDs, sweaty or serene, heat up cold market

By DORENE INTERNICOLA Video may have killed the radio star, but reality TV has been a boon to fitness DVDs, industry experts say.

Workout DVDs still flex considerable muscle in an otherwise sagging market, as consumers wanting to shape up look for tough love from a celebrity trainer or try to dance with stars in their living rooms.

“We’ve definitely seen an increase in DVD sales over the last few years. I would say that the trend started in 2005,” said Kajsa Vikman, the vice president of marketing and fitness at Lionsgate, the Santa Monica, Californiabased entertainment company.

Vikman believes shows like “The Biggest Loser” and “Dancing with the Stars” are powering much of the growth.

“Viewers see contestants on TV shows lose weight and feel they can have the same experience at home with these products,” she said.

Fitness DVDs are bucking the downward trend of DVD sales generally.

The Nielsen Company, which tracks retail sales, said 2010 overall home video sales were down seven percent from 2009, while home video

sales for fitness titles were up seven percent for the same period.

Leading the pack is “Jillian Michaels: 30-Day Shred,” an intense workout by the nononsense trainer on “The Biggest Loser.”

It tops the current charts.

Vikman said it has become the top selling fitness DVD of all time due to its cross-gender, all-ages appeal and what she calls the credibility factor.

“Especially with media and pop culture now very focused on health and wellness and being fit,” Vikman said, “People want the opportunity to work out with a top trainer.”

They also want to dance with professionals and

celebrities, as in “Dancing with the Stars Cardio Dance,” which Vikman said appeals to older, mostly female, exercisers.

Lionsgate even relaunched the Jane Fonda brand, with new offerings from the celebrity whose aerobics started it all.

“The audience of baby boomers and up is 99 million people,” Vikman said, “and they’re interested in DVDs.” Serenity is also popular.

Yoga has accounted for three of the top 10 fitness DVD retail sales from 2000 to date, according to Nielsen.

“Yoga is a very solid performer on DVD right now,” said Julie Cartwright of Anchor Bay Entertainment,

the Beverly Hills, Californiabased company which, along with Lionsgate and Gaiam represents the three largest distributors of fitness home videos.

Cartwright said yoga functions both as a workout and a way to cope with life.

“Consumers are writing about how it calms them, helps them sleep better ...

This is a trend I don’t ever remember seeing before in our industry,” she said.

Cartwright said even though more challenging workouts have been seeing a lot of growth, it is not all about developing six-pack abs. Even the no pain, no gain crowd are demanding shorter sessions.

“People don’t have time anymore,” Cartwright said.

“There was a time in this industry when the workout almost had to be an hour long to be perceived as credible.

That time is over.”

Explosive direct sales for the hardcore infomercial workout P90X produced by the Santa Monica-based company Beachbody prompted the telemarketing firm Telebrands to come up with a similar product, Supreme 90 Day, for the retail market.

Vikman said the success of P90X has built over the years.

“They have the credibility,” she said. “It’s hard core, it works and it’s efficient. P90X is becoming a verb.”

Medicare preventive care use still spotty WASHINGTON — More than five million Medicare recipients have used preventive healthcare services to date in 2011, and U.S. health officials are trying to accelerate that trend to combat crippling healthcare costs.

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services is launching a campaign to encourage Medicare recipients to take advantage of preventive services, includ-

ing mammograms and prostate cancer screenings, in the hopes that early diagnosis and treatment will help save significant costs for the system.

The Obama administration’s healthcare overhaul, passed in early 2010, eliminated out-of-pocket costs for recommended preventive services and annual checkups at the beginning of this year. Healthcare costs are a central point of

negotiation between Democrats and Republicans trying to tame spiraling U.S. debt.

But the uptake of services has been uneven, with one in six Medicare beneficiaries using at least one free service from January 1 through June 10, according to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS).

“For some services, utilization is slightly higher than in 2010; for some, it is

about the same; and for a few services there is a slight drop,” said Ellen Griffith, a CMS spokeswoman. “All of this supports the need for the multi-pronged public awareness campaign we launched today.”

CMS estimates the U.S. could save two-thirds of the $2 trillion it spends on preventable long-term illness by preventing chronic illnesses in Medicare beneficiaries.

NEW JERSEY

DAILY CHALLENGE WEDNESDAY, JUNE 22, 2011

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Effort to cut N.J. public worker benefits advances despite ‘revolutionary’ opposition

By JARRETT RENSHAW TRENTON Benjamin Franklin showed up. So did Abigail Adams and Thomas Paine. But even they couldn’t stop the Senate from passing a contentious measure Monday that will sharply raise the cost of health benefits and pensions for the state’s 500,000 public employees.

With protesters dressed in Revolutionary-era garb gathered outside the Statehouse and union members clamoring inside, the pivotal Senate vote came on the same day the Assembly Budget Committee approved by a 7-5 vote an identical version following eight hours of testimony.

After days of protest from Democrats, Republicans and union members, a last-minute provision inserted by Senate President Stephen Sweeney (DGloucester) limiting public employees’ access to out-of-state hospitals was weakened hours before lawmakers met Monday.

The changes agreed to by Sweeney, shortly before the Senate approved the measure 24-15, would allow public workers to receive out-of-state care at a

higher cost if a doctor decides the treatment is not available in New Jersey.

“If this bill was enacted 20 years ago, I wouldn’t have my kids today,” RosatiStephanie Pratico, a mother of two children with Down syndrome who required special medical care from the Children’s Hospital of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, told the Assembly committee.

“And I think society would suffer, because my kids are great people.”

The Senate vote earlier in the day was a major legislative victory for Sweeney and Gov. Chris Christie, who along with others hammered out the agreement over the last two months even as they sparred over other issues.

“Problems like the pension and health care system require fundamental change from the bottom up,” Sweeney said on the Senate floor.

“That kind of change comes from bold action ... and bold action often flies in the face of those who are content with the status quo.”

The bill increases pension costs up to two percent of workers’ salaries for all public employees, while at least doubling, and in many cases tripling, their health care contributions. It also raises the retirement age from 62 to 65, eliminates cost-of-living

Rex Reid of the AFSCME works on his blackberry as protests go on outside the assembly in Trenton. adjustments and creates to date. a board to formulate a Oliver said public menu of health plans, employees must pay including low-cost, their “fair share” to high-deductible options. avoid further municipal “I am encouraged by layoffs and cuts to recrethe bipartisan Senate ational and public health vote today and the con- programs. But even vartinued display of sup- ious mayors who testiport for common-sense fied yesterday agreed pension and health bene- that the changes would fits reform,” Christie provide little immediate said in a prepared state- financial relief because ment. “This is a water- they will be phased in shed moment for New and go into effect after Jersey, proving that the the current contract stakes are too high and expires. the consequences all too The changes are real to stand by and do expected to save $10 milnothing.” lion next year, far less The Assembly is than the $300 million scheduled to vote on the the Christie administrabill tomorrow, when it is tion had expected. expected to pass - just as The Senate legislation in the Senate - despite lit- (S2937) passed with the tle Democratic support. support of a handful of “Inaction is just not Democrats, including an option for us,” Teresa Ruiz, Jeff Van Assembly Speaker Drew, Fred Madden, Jim Shelia Oliver (D-Essex) Whelan, James Beach, told the Assembly com- Brian Stack and Donald mittee in her broadest Norcross. public defense of the bill One Democrat after

another took the floor to condemn the bill, saying it curtailed the right to collectively bargain, drawing applause and cheers from the gallery.

Senate Majority Leader Barbara Buono (D-Middlesex) said undermining the collective bargaining process “erodes our identity as a nation.”

“Today is all about politics,” she said. The bill was a result of “backroom deals” instead of open debate. It restricts competition, she said, “an affront to free-market principles.”

Sweeney’s defenders were primarily Republicans, including state Sen. Joseph Kyrillos (R-Monmouth), a close friend of the governor. He called it a “historic day,” and praised Sweeney’s leadership.

The day began to unfold with impersonators of Franklin, Adams, Paine, Sojourner Truth and a handful of others in costume leading a group of 200 protesters across the Calhoun Street Bridge.

They were joined by hundreds of other demonstrators after making their way from Morrisville, Pa., to Trenton.

And in a display lifted from the playbook of the Tea Party movement, many of the union members carried the Gadsden Flag emblazoned with “Don’t Tread on Me.” “Those are traditional symbols of resistance

from the Revolutionary War,” said Steve Wollmer, a spokesman for the New Jersey Education Association.

“They’re timeless.”

As the crowd swelled to about 1,000 protestors marched outside the Statehouse complex chanting, “Kill the bill, kill the bill!”

Webb, a Jessie Spanish teacher and teachers’ aide in Princeton, said the state’s Democratic leaders had fallen for Christie’s claims about the financial plight of the state.

“He’s been successful at scaring them and scaring New Jersey that teachers are trying to put themselves above everyone else,” Webb said, holding a cutout of Christie on a popsicle stick.

She also criticized the governor for calling for shared sacrifice, while refusing to ask millionaires to pay more in income taxes.

At one point, protesters tried to enter the Statehouse but were repelled by State Troopers.

Public employees had planned to camp out in dozens of tents pitched on the lawn behind the Statehouse, according to the union, but the attorney general’s office refused to let them stay overnight because of security concerns.

“So much for freedom of assembly in New Jersey,” said Wollmer.

Trenton mother pleads guilty in shaken baby incident of 4-month-old son

By LISA CORYELL TRENTON - A city woman whose 4-month-old son sustained severe brain damage when she shook him for crying last year pleaded guilty to aggravated assault yester-

day.

Kimberly Coleman, 29, of Tyrell Street, will be sentenced to seven years in prison for the assault that caused a series of brain bleeds in the child.

“She admitted that while at the Marriott Hotel in Trenton she shook her fourmonth-old child numerous times

because he would not stop crying,” said Casey DeBlasio, a spokeswoman for the Mercer County Prosecutor’s Office.

“He’s not 18 months old and he still can’t sit up and he can’t see as a result of the brain damage.”

The incident occurred on May 9, 2010. Coleman was staying at the hotel

overnight when she shook the little boy because he would not stop crying. Police were dispatched to the hotel after receiving a call about a child that was not breathing, DeBlasio said.

Coleman was arrested and charged with aggravated assault and endangering the welfare of a child.

Under the terms of

Coleman’s plea deal she must serve 85 percent of her sentence before becoming eligible for parole.

Coleman has been held on $100,000 bail since her arrest. The baby is being cared for by his father, DeBlasio said.

Coleman is scheduled to be sentenced on July 29.

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La Toya Jackson to publish memoir with focus on Michael

The Jackson family is still dealing with and capitalizing on the death of their late son and brother, pop star Michael Jackson.

Coming on the heels of her stint on “Celebrity Apprentice,” La Toya is planning on putting out her memoir that will also recount the life of her brother and his untimely death. Although soft spoken, the older sister of the group never hesitated on who she pointed the blame to, Dr. Conrad Murray.

She’s doing it all in perfect timing too, as the anniversary of her brother’s death is just around the corner, June 25.

In the book, to be released June 21, she plans to talk about the unforgettable day and even gets personal about her brother’s kids.

In the meantime, the court case drama will continue to unfold as Murray will sit in the court in September for involuntary manslaughter. He was with Jackson when the singer died and has constantly denied any doing in the singer’s death.

DAILY CHALLENGE WEDNESDAY, JUNE 22, 2011

Rumored Bond girl Naomie Harris trades blockbusters for ‘First Grader’ Naomie Harris, currently rumored to be considered as the next Bond girl, says she prefers working on small films because big movies make her feel like a ”very small cog in a big wheel.”

The actress has starred in a string of blockbuster films, including “Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End” and “Miami Vice.” She’s also confirmed recently she’s in talks for the next 007 flick “Bond 23.”

But the English actress says she finds intimate sets like her current film “The First Grader” more rewarding.

“I’d done the big Hollywood thing and it was great, but it’s such a different experience working on a big movie. You feel like a very small cog in a big wheel, whereas when you do a small movie, you’re a small band,” she tells WENN. “There were nine of us who went out of England to Kenya to do ‘The First Grader.’ So you feel

really included, you feel like a family. You feel you can contribute to the script. In all areas, you’re hands on.”

“The First Grader” tells the true story of the oldest primary school student in Kenya.

In a small, remote mountain top primary school in the Kenyan bush, hundreds of children are jostling for a chance for the free education newly promised by the Kenyan government. One new applicant causes astonishment when he knocks on the door of the school. He is Maruge (Oliver Litondo), an old Mau Mau veteran in his eighties, who is desperate to learn to read at this late stage of his life. He fought for the liberation of his country and now feels he must have the chance of an education so long denied – even if it means sitting in a classroom alongside six-yearolds.

Naomie plays his teacher, Jane.

Holly Robinson Peete says she L.A. Reid hit the ‘jackpot’ with ‘The Talk’ becomes

By CHERIE SAUNDERS As the first season of CBS’ daytime chat show “The Talk” enters the rear view mirror, co-host Holly Robinson Peete talks about how the series fit perfectly into her busy lifestyle.

“I’ve been on TV as an actress for almost 30 years, going on 30 years since ‘21 Jump Street,’ but in my role as a mom of four, all I do all day is talk about mom stuff.

So this was a natural fit,” she told us. “I’m not going to lie.

I love the schedule. I can go pick my kids up. After we shoot, I can go get my kids from school. You know, I can be present as a mother.

So it was just a jackpot for me personally to have a job, and opportunity to do a job like this.

There is at least one person on the planet that might enjoy Holly’s daytime gig

more than she does.

“My daughter, she’s 12, she loves the fact that I’m on TV. She loved watching ‘Celebrity Apprentice.’ She loves everything that I do on TV,” said Holly. “My kids, four of them, they love it. My

children are all, ‘Can we go to work with you?’”

When Holly and her cohosts promoted the show last summer, Holly said she was happy that it aired each day while the kids were in school, — so she could talk about them.

“The one thing my daughter did say that was completely and totally off limits was her — sorry, guys — her menstrual cycle.”

After pointing out that she’s discussing it right now, Holly said, “She’s not going to read all of this. If we talk about it on the show, she might know, but this, she won’t see. My point is that that’s the one thing I’m not allowed to, let’s say, expand upon, and I’m bummed about that – because I think the stories of my husband and him dealing with this are priceless, but we won’t go there.

“You ain’t heard it from me.”

chairman of Epic Label Group “X Factor” USA judge L.A. Reid has reportedly signed a deal to become the chairman of Epic Label Group, a new organization formed which will encompass Epic and Jive Records.

Reid will inherit Usher and Pink, two artists whom he discovered, as well as search for new talent to sign to the label. It is expected that he will direct the company more towards urban acts which was a different agenda of the former companies.

The 55-year-old executive will start his post after the fourth of July holiday.

DAILY CHALLENGE WEDNESDAY, JUNE 22, 2011

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Nivea not drunk the night of her crash Over the weekend, it was erroneously reported and rumored that Nivea crashed her car while driving drunk.

Well the DUI stuff wasn’t so much true, but she almost lost her life in the horrific crash.

The singer said the accident was caused by a downed tree that was poorly blocked off. She said authorities only set up a few “kids’ soccer cones” in front of the tree that was “the size of a house.” She added a bit of caution tape was wrapped around it.

In addition to those conditions, it was pitch black outside.

“Once I spotted [the tree]after I cut on my brights,” Nivea, 29, explained, “I was running into it at that the point. It was too late.”

When asked if she had some alcohol in her system, she admitted she did have one glass of wine at Toya Carter’s reception on Saturday night. Others vouched for her saying she didn’t seem intoxicated before she left the event.

“My friends that I was

with would not have even allowed me to drive if I was drunk,” Nivea said. “There was an ignorant mistake.

There was an old bottle [of alcohol] in the back of my car that they found, which is why people were spreading the rumor that it was a DUI.” However, an empty bottle was found in her car, which may cause police to push forward with a DUI charge. She did offer to take a breathalyzer test.

Nivea also disputes a report by gossip site Bossip that she got loud with

Atlanta police and cussed them out. She says just the opposite: she was very calm with them and cooperated.

But she couldn’t help but be a bit shaken up by the incident.

“The tree went through my windshield and almost went through me,” Nivea revealed. She told S2S magazine that had she not moved to check on her child, a branch from the tree would have gone straight through her forehead.

She suffered a head injury, but all is well now.

Janelle Monae multitasking – touring and recording With a style and hustle all her own, Janelle Monae is getting ready to release a follow-up to her debut studio album, “The ArchAndroid.”

Although she’s been busy on tour and doing her thing with Bruno Mars, she’s been working hard in the studio “recording, writing, [and] playing instruments.”

She says this new album will supersede its predeces-

sors.

“It will still be, I believe, relatable to the people. We have a really big ideas, I must say, and we’re just trying to make sure we execute them properly,” she told MTV. She didn’t quite reveal which direction she’ll be headed, but she did say “the concepts will be very strong.”

“That’s really what I can

say … I don’t plan on stopping the formula or stopping myself from creating new formulas. My message is that I want to reach the people – the people who work each and every day. I want to create music that will be their choice of drug whenever they feel oppressed or depressed.

[I want to] create something that will remain timeless, hopefully, and the next gen-

eration can be inspired by it.

And creating a blueprint — one where people can understand that you don’t have to take the same coordinates to get to the same destination.

But it will be jamming. I will say that much. It’s gonna be jamming.”

No word yet when the new project will be released, but you can bet it’s going to be an anxious wait.

50 Cent explains what separates him from Lady Gaga, Eminem

By ROB MARKMAN 50 Cent knows what it takes to make a hit record.

The first step for him is the groundwork, usually in the form of a street single. Before “In Da Club,” the G-Unit General set the streets on fire with “Wanksta,” and before he took fans to the candy shop in 2005, Fif started off with “Disco Inferno.”

For his fifth, yet-untitled LP — which he tweeted will now come out in November — things are no different. After blasting his label on Twitter last week, 50 decided to heat up the streets by dropping “Outlaw,” his new Cardiakproduced street single.

When asked how his triedand-true formula differs from that of Interscope labelmate Lady Gaga, Fif said their respective circumstances are incomparable.

“When you say Lady Gaga, a pop artist, they want them to just deliver a song,” 50 said. “They don’t have the mixshow radio platform to go through before they would

actually go for adds on an actual record.”

As opposed to mainstream pop artists, rappers who are viewed as more niche, for the most part, usually have to service a record that caters to late-night urban-radio formats where DJs blend records together in a continuous stream. The mixshows serve as a proving ground of sorts for edgier hip-hop music.

“Her records go to top 40 and crossover radio immediately. You can’t really compare it to any artist that would be considered a pop artist or a white artist,” 50 said of his circumstance in relation to Gaga’s. “And I say that openly, because what we consider urban radio or rhythmic radio was referred to as Black radio at one point.

That right there is something that I am conscious of.”

Still, 50 said he doesn’t place any blame; instead, he simply points out the differences. He even talked about his method of landing records on the charts in relation to Eminem. Like Gaga, 50 points out that Slim Shady bypasses urban radio as well.

“You can’t compare Eminem and 50 Cent’s career on any level,” he said.

“Eminem doesn’t know what the inside of Hot 97 looks like. He’s never even had to go there. So the top 40 and crossover-radio platforms are detrimental to the success of an Eminem project, and for me to get to the top 40 or

crossover space, I have to have music that performs so well on your Hot 97s and Power 106s of the world until it actually goes up to that point.”

Last Thursday, before leaking “Outlaw,” 50 tweeted that he wouldn’t drop his new album in 2011 unless Interscope got “on the same page.”

50 clarified to MTV News what many perceived as a serious rift between him and his label. “They’re behind it, but to get everybody moving at the same beat and moving at the same pace is the object.

That was what the goal was even writing that statement and releasing the song,” he said.

‘Hangover’ tattoo lawsuit settled

By MATTHEW BELLONI LOS ANGELES — Fans of “The Hangover: Part II” can rest easy: the tattoo on Ed Helms’ face is staying in the film.

Warner Bros. has settled the lawsuit brought by Missouri tattoo artist S. Victor Whitmill over the mark on Helms’ face, which Whitmill claimed infringed a copyrighted tattoo he created for boxer Mike Tyson.

Terms of the settlement were not disclosed. “Warner Bros. and Mr. Whitmill have

amicably resolved their dispute. No other information will be provided,” Whitmill’s attorney Geoff Gerber said.

Sources say the deal was hammered out during an allday mediation in St. Louis on Friday.

Whitmill, who created the original tattoo and registered the copyright, sued in April asking that a federal judge halt the release of the blockbuster comedy sequel because it prominently features the tattoo without permission.

But on May 24, just days before the film was scheduled to be released, a judge denied

Whitmill’s request for a preliminary injunction. The judge did suggest that she saw merit in the case, even referring to the studio’s defenses as “silly.”

In subsequent court filings, Warners said that it planned to digitally alter the tattoo for the home video version of the film if the case didn’t settle quickly.

And now it has. A notice of dismissal is expected to be filed shortly, putting an end to one of the odder copyright cases in recent memory. The film, meanwhile, has gone on to earn almost $500 million worldwide.

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Facebook to take top spot in U.S. display ad market

By ALEXEI ORESKOVIC SAN FRANCISCO — Facebook’s U.S. advertising revenue will total roughly $2.2 billion in 2011, displacing Yahoo Inc. to collect the biggest slice of online display advertising dollars, according to a new study.

Facebook’s U.S. advertising revenue will give it a 17.7 percent share of the market for graphical display ads that appear on websites, according to a report released on Monday by research firm eMarketer.

Last year Facebook had 12.2 percent share of the U.S. market.

The figures underscore the growing clout of Facebook, the world’s No.1 Internet social network. It has seen its valuation soar to

roughly $80 billion in recent transactions for its shares on the private markets and some investors anticipate it could have an initial public offering next year.

While Facebook has grabbed the top ranking, eMarketer analyst David Hallerman said the overall market for display ads, which include banner ads, video ads and Web page sponsorships, is growing robustly enough that it is benefiting numerous companies.

“It’s not a zero sum game,” said Hallerman, noting that the display advertising market is experiencing rapid growth as both big international brands and small, local businesses increasingly turn to the Web to reach consumers.

Internet companies such as Yahoo, Google Inc and Microsoft Corp

are competing for those advertising budgets, while new players such as online coupon company Groupon are offering marketers alternatives to traditional online display ads.

Web portal Yahoo will grow its online display business in the U.S. by 13.6 percent this year, eMarketer said. But that will lag the overall U.S. display market’s growth rate of 24.5 percent.

Google’s revenue from U.S. display ads will total $1.15 billion in 2011, up 34.4 percent year-over-year. eMarketer’s report looks at companies’ net revenue, which does not include money the companies share with Web publisher partners.

Google, which generates the vast majority of its revenue from small, often text-only ads that

appear alongside its search results, is stepping up efforts to grow its display advertising business. Last week the company announced the acquisition of

AdMeld, which makes it easier for Web publishers to sell display ads on their sites.

In 2012, eMarketer projected that Yahoo and Google will be

Home sales hit 6-month low, prices decline

By LUCIA MUTIKANI WASHINGTON — Sales of previously owned U.S. homes fell to a six-month low in May and prices dropped 4.6 percent from a year ago, pointing to a housing market still struggling to regain its footing.

The National Association of Realtors said yesterday sales slipped 3.8 percent month over month to an annual rate of 4.81 million units, the lowest since November.

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declines in home resales, but less than the 5.9 percent drop to a 4.80 million-unit pace that economists had expected.

While the fall in sales last month — which was telegraphed by a steep fall in pending home sales contracts in April — was partly due to bad weather in some parts of the country, including tornadoes, it underscored the fundamental weakness in the sector.

The report was also the latest set of data to confirm a sustained weakness in the economy through the second quarter, which has been marked by a sharp slowdown in regional factory activity, soft retail sales and anemic employment growth.

“This one report does not change our long-term view in that we still believe the housing market will remain a drag on overall economic activity in 2011 and likely into 2012,” said Tom Porcelli, chief economist at RBC Capital Markets in New York.

But the smallerthan-expected decline in sales was yet another indication that the economy was set to regain momentum in the second half of the year.

U.S. stock indexes extended gains on the data, while government debt prices eased.

The dollar was little changed.

The report came as policymakers at the Federal Reserve started a two-day meeting.

Officials are expected to acknowledge the recent slowdown in economic activity, but they are likely to stick to their view that the

soft patch is transitory.

The U.S. central bank is expected to confirm its $600 billion government bondbuying program will finish at the end of the month, as scheduled.

The Fed, which has been criticized for risking inflation, has set the bar very high for any more monetary stimulus.

In the 12 months to May, home resales were down 15.3 percent. The general weak housing market tone was underscored by the median home price, which at $166,500 was 4.6 percent lower than

a year earlier.

The housing market is being squeezed by an overhang of unsold homes and a tide of foreclosures, which are depressing prices.

NAR chief economist Lawrence Yun said he believed sales had bottomed and expected pending contracts for May to rise by at least 15 percent.

The pending homes sales report is due next week.

Foreclosures and short sales — which typically occur at about 20 percent below market value — accounted for 31 percent of transactions

Best Buy ups dividend, sets $5 billion share buyback

By DHANYA SKARIACHAN Best Buy Co.’s board raised its quarterly dividend by 7 percent to 16 cents a share and approved a plan to buy

back $5 billion of common stock, sending its shares up about 4 percent.

The increase in the dividend takes effect with the October 25 payout to shareholders of record October 4, the

world’s largest consumer electronics chain said in a statement yesterday.

Sales at Best Buy stores open at least 14 months have fallen consistently in the past four quarters, but some

neck-and-neck as the No.2 and No.3 players in the U.S. display market, with the companies having 12.5 percent share and 12.3 percent, respectively. last month, down from 37 percent in April.

Cash purchases made up 30 percent of sales in May, while investors accounted for 19 percent of transactions.

Sales last month fell across the board, with multifamily dwellings declining 8.1 percent and single-family home units slipping 3.2 percent.

At May’s weak sales pace, the supply of previously owned homes on the market rose to 9.3 months’ worth from 9.0 months in April.

A supply of between six and seven months is generally considered ideal, with higher readings pointing to lower house prices. investors still prefer the company for its steady cashflow and its ability to stay profitable and pay dividends.

Best Buy’s new $5 billion share repurchase program replaces the retailer’s prior $5.5 billion buyback plan, which had about $800 million of remaining authorization as of the first quarter ended May 28, the company said ahead of a meeting with shareholders.

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Walgreen says Express Scripts deal to end

By JESSICA WOHL CHICAGO —Drugstore chain operator Walgreen Co said it will stop filling prescriptions for people covered by drug benefits manager Express Scripts Inc at the end of the year after failing to agree on a new contract.

At issue are terms under which Express

Scripts would pay the largest U.S. drugstore chain for the prescriptions, which were expected to be worth $5.3 billion in sales to Walgreen in 2011.

Shares of both companies fell on the news.

Walgreen also balked at Express Scripts wanting to be the one to define which drugs are considered branded drugs and which are considered generic.

Walgreen said it would no longer be part of the Express Scripts network as of January 1, 2012.

The breakup is part of long-running battle over costs in the lucrative market for prescription drugs, a market that is growing as the U.S. population ages. It is also reminiscent of a stare-down Walgreen had last year with another benefits

Defense firms see opportunity in cyber attacks

By RHYS JONES LE BOURGET, France — A spate of high-profile online break-ins has given defense firms at the Paris Air Show a new sales pitch: cyber security.

Targeted by hackers looking to steal source codes, R&D information and trade secrets, aerospace and defense firms are turning the tables on the pirates and are making security a key sales argument.

“We see huge potential to do deals this week because interest in cyber security has soared given recent events,” Paul MacGregor, general manager of Finmeccanica’s UK security arm, Vega Consulting Services, told Reuters.

He added that cyber security was now an “arms race,” with defense firms battling to stay one step ahead of the hackers.

“Information is now used as a weapon and companies need to defend it at all costs or they themselves could lose out on contracts if they are seen as having weak defenses,” he said.

Earlier this month, some of U.S. defense giant Lockheed Martin’s systems — home to sensitive U.S. defense technologies — were hacked, while the Pentagon said that cyber attacks perpetrated by foreign governments could now be considered acts of war.

Other recent prominent attacks have targeted entities such as the International Mone-

tary Fund, the Central Intelligence Agency and the U.S. Senate, as well as multinationals Google and Sony.

“When you see an airplane coming at you firing missiles, you can see it. This other threat, you have no idea whether they are there or not. That’s why I don’t sleep at night,” Raytheon Chief Executive William Swanson told Reuters.

“Our opportunity is to make sure we protect ourselves, protect our products and protect those we offer services too.”

Some defense industry insiders believe China-backed hackers are to blame, though China claims attacks are being perpetrated by rogue hackers, not government-backed agents.

Military communications contain sensitive information such as locations of aircraft and known faults, meaning it is “absolutely critical” defense companies have the highest level of security in place, Stuart Beattie, a manager at British cyber security firm AEP Networks, told Reuters.

“Multiple organizations will be looking at security contracts in Paris to protect against real and current threats,” he said.

On the eve of the air show, Louis Gallois, the chief executive of European aerospace and defense group EADS, told Reuters the company would plough hundreds of millions of euros into the creation of its own cyber security business in a bid to tap into what was a huge

growth market.

Vega’s MacGregor said: “Defense companies are following the cash into the cyber security market, which is currently worth billions of pounds a year.”

He added that the future size of the market was almost immeasurable because of the pace it was building, in a way that was similar to the worries about the millennium bug in 1999.

The recent cyber attack on Lockheed Martin was perpetrated in part using data stolen from RSA Security — itself a cyber security company, which makes the ubiquitous keychain fobs that generate constantly changing passwords for users logging into secure networks.

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A year ago, Walgreen and CVS Caremark Corp settled a tense dispute over reimbursements for drug prescriptions, saving a relationship worth billions of dollars for the two biggest U.S. drugstore chains. A week earlier, Walgreen had said it would end its arrangement to fill prescriptions for millions of CVS Caremark drug plan members.

“We just can’t accept rates that are less than the industry average and (do) not value what we bring to the marketplace,” Walgreen CEO Greg Wasson said during a conference call with analysts on Tuesday.

Express Scripts said that it was trying to keep prescription drug costs affordable.

“We would prefer that Walgreens participate in our network, but only if its costs are in line with other participating pharmacies,” Express Scripts said in a statement.

Walgreen shares fell 6.3 percent to $42.33 in early trading, while Express Scripts fell 1.1 percent to $54.20.

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A win, then tears for Serena Williams at Wimbledon

By STEPHEN WILSON WIMBLEDON, England Returning to Grand Slam tennis after a year out with health problems, Serena Williams opened her Wimbledon title defense yesterday by beating Aravane Rezai in three sets then burst into tears on Centre Court.

After serving her 13th ace to close a 6-3, 3-6, 6-1 victory, Williams buried her face in her towel and sobbed from her courtside chair. She was still crying as she left the court, overcome with emotion after enduring a long layoff that included two foot operations and treatment for blood clots in her lungs.

“I usually don’t cry ... but it’s just been so hard,” the four-time Wimbledon champion said. “I never dreamt I would be here right now. And then to win. I just wanted to win at least one match here.”

Following Williams on Centre Court was Roger Federer, who began his chase for a record-equaling seventh Wimbledon championship by beating Mikhail Kukushkin of Kazakhstan 7-6 (2), 6-4, 6-2 in the wind.

Other winners included three-time Wimbledon runner-up Andy Roddick and Juan Martin del Potro.

Among the women, topseeded Caroline Wozniacki made a strong start in her latest bid for her Grand Slam title while former No. 1 Jelena Jankovic lost in the first round, Williams fought through a midmatch slump, then reasserted command over her French opponent in the third set with a big serve and powerful groundstrokes.

She showed why she is still considered a title favorite despite her long absence and her No. 7 seeding.

“It’s been a disaster year, but I’ve been praying,” Williams said. “To be able to come back at Wimbledon is pretty awesome.

I didn’t expect to play. And I didn’t expect to even do anything. So I’m just excited. I’ve never cried with joy for anything.”

After losing the second set, Williams took charge in the final set, winning the last five games.

“I kept thinking, ‘This is Wimbledon,’” she said.

The point of the match came at 3-1, when Williams stretched for a backhand at the baseline and fell over as she hit a winning lob over Rezai at the net. Rezai said

she saw the tears in Williams’ eyes when they shook hands after the match.

“It definitely was so emotional for me because throughout the last 12 months, I’ve been through a lot of things that’s not normal, things you guys don’t even know about,” Williams said. “It’s just been a long, arduous road. To stand up still is pretty awesome.”

In keeping with Wimbledon tradition, Williams opened play on Day 2 on Centre Court as the women’s defending champion.

She strode onto court wearing a cardigan, and played in a classic dress with blue trim.

Her fingernails were painted in the Wimbledon colors of purple and green.

The 61st-ranked Rezai came out hitting hard, breaking Williams in the first game that lasted nine minutes and going up 2-0. But Williams then won five games in a row and took the set with only four unforced errors. Williams lost the momentum in the second set, and Rezai broke in the sixth game to force a third set.

Williams said it was the most emotional she’s ever felt after a victory - and this was only a first-round match.

“For me it wasn’t about winning the

match,” she said. “It was about being out there. ... It just really goes to show if you don’t give up, you still have a chance. I guess I proved that I could, that I could. I think that sums it up: I could.”

Federer never lost serve, saving all three break points, and won 29 of 31 of his points on serve in the first set.

The third-seeded Swiss piled up 53 winners - 37 more than Kukushkin, who was making his Wimbledon debut.

Federer, a 16-time Grand Slam winner who lost in the Wimbledon quarterfinals last year, is looking to equal Pete Sampras’ seven titles at the All England Club.

“The first match at Wimbledon is never easy really because we don’t get any practice time on Centre Court,” Federer said. “I thought I struggled putting enough returns into play in the first set but I thought he played well.

For a set and a half he made it hard for me. I also served really well so I was very pleased with the match.”

Roddick served 30 aces - including four in a row in one game - and beat German qualifier Andreas Beck 6-4, 7-6 (6), 6-3 to reach the second round.

Del Potro, the 2009 U.S. Open champion, downed Flavio Cipolla of Italy 6-1, 6-4, 6-3.

The 24th-seeded Argentine led Cipolla 61, 1-3 when rain suspended play Monday, then won 11 of the 15 games played yesterday.

On Court 1, Wozniacki defeated Arantxa Parra Santonja of Spain 6-2, 6-1. The 20-year-old Dane had fewer winners than her opponent, but made only five unforced errors.

Jankovic was beaten

by Maria Jose Martinez Sanchez of Spain 5-7, 64, 6-3. The 15th-seeded Serb reached the fourth round at the All England Club last year.

Also advancing among the women were No. 4 Victoria Azarenka, No. 8 Petra Kvitova, No. 11 Andrea Petkovic and No. 14 A n a s t a s i a Pavlyuchenkova. Men’s winners included No.

15 Gilles Simon and No. 21 Fernando Verdasco.

Serena and older sister Venus have won nine of the last 11 Wimbledon titles.

Venus, a five-time champion who was off for nearly five months with a hip injury, is in the opposite half of the draw and could face her sister again in the final.

Venus next faces 40year-old Kimiko DateKrumm, who is back in the second round at Wimbledon 15 years after she reached the semifinals and three years after coming out of a long retirement.

“It was amazing when she came back,” Williams said.

“I watched her results.

She’s been playing so well. I always root for her actually. But this time I’m playing her, so I will be rooting for me this time.”

Raptors hi r e Dwane Cas ey as coac h TORONTO — Dwane Casey hopes to bring a rugged, NHL-style of defense to his newest job in the NBA. The Toronto Raptors hired Casey as their coach yesterday, nine days after the Dallas assistant helped the Mavericks win the NBA Finals.

Casey succeeds Jay Triano, a Canadian who became a consultant after the Raptors finished 22-60. Casey was

coach of the Minnesota Timberwolves from June 2005 to January 2007, compiling a 4359 record.

Casey said his No. 1 goal is to give the Raptors a “defensive identity.” In Dallas, he said, the coaches even used hockey footage during the NBA Finals to make their point.

“Because we felt we were playing too soft against Miami to start the series,” he said.

“And it really set the tone.”

“I don’t know a lot about of hockey. I know I’ll learn about it. But we spliced in those guys checking players up into the window, into the boards and that type of thing and that’s the way we want to play,” he said. “We want to make sure people feel us when they cut through the lane.

And that’s a mindset, and that’s having a dis-

position — a bad disposition — when people come through your paint.”

Toronto has missed the playoffs for three straight seasons. The Raptors have made it past the first round only once in their 16year existence, doing it in 2000-01.

The Raptors want to start their improvement tomorrow, with the fifth pick in the NBA draft.

The 54-year-old Casey is the eighth coach in Raptors history. He said he intends to use Triano as a “resource” and build on what he sees as a core of young talent.

“Defensively, I’m going to be a hands-on control freak, so to speak,” he said.

“Offensively, I’m going to trust and give them freedom.”

Raptors general manager Bryan

Colangelo said he got a call from Mavericks coach Rick Carlisle in the wee hours after they won the championship.

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SPORTS BRIEFS NBA owners, players meet for important session

NEW YORK - NBA owners and players are meeting again in what Commissioner David Stern has called “a very important day in these negotiations.”

With the league’s collective bargaining agreement to expire at the end of the month, Stern is placing added significance on this session after the sides met Friday. He says time is running out but believes both parties are doing the best they can to make a deal before June 30. Without one, owners are expected to lock out the players.

Owners are anticipating a proposal from the players that would address the economic differences that divide them.

The Spurs’ Tony Parker and the Hawks’ Al Horford are among the stars who joined the union’s executive committee for yesterday’s talks.

- BRIAN MAHONEY

Ohio State drops review of players’ car purchases COLUMBUS, Ohio - Ohio State University is dropping its review of car purchases by football players and family members following an Ohio Bureau of Motor Vehicles report that says dealerships made money on 24 of 25 sales.

In a report issued yesterday, the Ohio BMV says certificates of titles for 25 vehicle sales by Jack Maxton Chevrolet and Auto Direct to Ohio State players and their families accurately reflected the vehicles’ sales prices.

Ohio State spokesman Jim Lynch says the university hasn’t seen evidence that would lead it to believe student athletes violated any policies when buying used cars.

- ANDREW WELSH-HUGGINS

Warriors GM brushes off trade talk, eyes NBA draft OAKLAND, Calif. - The Golden State Warriors have made some splashy moves already this offseason. Just don’t expect another one on draft night.

Warriors general manager Larry Riley believes the team will keep the 11th pick in tomorrow night’s draft. He also quieted the growing trade talk surrounding leading scorer Monta Ellis - at least for this week.

Riley says multiple teams have inquired about Ellis but it’s “very likely” that the guard “will not be traded on draft night or even through the summer.” That means Golden State will have to find other ways to improve until free agency begins.

The Warriors’ biggest need in the draft is to bolster an undersized frontcourt. That’s not an easy task in what is widely considered a weak draft.

- ANTONIO GONZALEZ

Rutgers now plays at High Point Solutions Stadium PISCATAWAY, N.J. - Rutgers football stadium has a new name.

For the next 10 years, it’s going to be known as High Point Solutions Stadium.

The university formally announced yesterday the New Jersey-based information technology company acquired the naming rights to the 54,454-seat facility.

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Thunder try to continue run of strong draft picks

By JEFF LATZKE OKLAHOMA CITY - The quick rise of the Oklahoma City Thunder from the depths of the NBA to Western Conference finalists has been fueled by a series of strong drafts.

Top scorers Kevin Durant, Russell Westbrook, James Harden and Serge Ibaka all were the product of shrewd firstround choices in recent years, adding a core of young talent.

So, what’s next for Oklahoma City when the draft rolls around tomorrow night?

The Thunder seem to have their starting lineup and most of their playing rotation in place, and are armed with only one first-round pick at No. 24.

That doesn’t mean general manager Sam Presti won’t be examining all his options.

“At 24, we can’t be overly selective. We’ll see what’s there, see if someone is there that can fit what we’re trying to accomplish,” Presti said. “I’m sure we’ll have a lot of opportunity when the draft comes around to maybe move up, move back, move out.”

Last year, Presti found a way to use a second-round pick and

turn it into the acquisition of Daequan Cook while also moving up into the first round, then dealt the two first-round picks to get center Cole Aldrich at No. 11.

If the Thunder stay put, there already are divergent examples of who they could get at No. 24, just from the last three drafts.

Ibaka was the No. 24 pick in the 2008 draft, stayed overseas for a season to develop, joined the team as a reserve for one season and then last year developed into a starter and the league’s top shot blocker after a February trade for Kendrick Perkins.

Byron Mullens was the 24th pick in the 2009 draft and has shuttled between the NBA development league and the Thunder, playing in only 13 games last season. He and Aldrich struggled to find playing time all season as the Thunder advanced to the conference finals, where they lost to eventual NBA champion Dallas.

Any additions this year could face a similar fate.

“We played 10 players last year and we return a good deal of them, so I’m not saying that whoever we draft can’t crack a rotation, but obviously it would be unlikely,” Presti said.

“Hopefully we find someone that can be a contributor for us, whether it’s next year or down the line.”

Right now, Oklahoma City lacks proven backups at center with Nazr Mohammed a free agent - and at small forward, where Durant ranked in the top five last season with 38.9 minutes played per game. Cook picked up some of the reserve minutes over the second half of the season and would be a restricted free agent if the Thunder give him a qualified offer in the next 10 days.

There simply aren’t the gaping holes there were only a few years ago, leaving open the possibility that Presti could choose someone like Spain’s Nikola Mirotic and allow him to continue improving overseas just as Ibaka did.

“In terms of what we need to add, I don’t know,” Presti said.

“We have to really be thoughtful about what we have in place.

Every time you add something, it affects the existing parts as well. As people say, it’s always more art than science.

“We just want to try to figure out what the right questions are to ask and hopefully improve on where we are.”

Hawks assess trade interest in Smith

By ADRIAN WOJNAROWSKI The Atlanta Hawks have started to gauge trade interest on forward Josh Smith, and Smith isn’t averse to ending his seven-year stay with his hometown team, league sources told Yahoo! Sports on Monday.

Smith hasn’t requested a trade, but has privately told league friends that the Boston Celtics, New Jersey Nets, Houston Rockets and Orlando Magic are his preferred destinations should the Hawks decide to move him.

“The relationship has run its course,” said a league source with knowledge of the dynamic.

There’s been grow-

ing acrimony between Smith and the organization, sources said, largely because of the feeling that Smith has been too convenient of a scapegoat. Smith had one of his most complete seasons for the Hawks, averaging 16.5 points, 8.5 rebounds and 3.3 assists.

Payroll is an issue for the Hawks, too, and Smith’s contract which has two years

and $25.6 million remaining - is an attractive target for management to unload, if, for no other reason, than the five years, $110 million left on Joe Johnson’s deal is far more difficult to move.

The Hawks have looked to identify veteran players near the end of their contracts, sources said, but have had no serious discussions on trading Smith.

“They’re looking for a change,” one Eastern Conference executive said. “They would die to be rid of Joe Johnson’s contract or move Smith, but they won’t give [Smith] away. They want something in

return.”

Dwight Howard has been a proponent of the Magic trying to make a deal for Smith, a childhood friend, but general manager Otis Smith is low on assets.

Houston has long been intrigued with Smith, but like Orlando and New Jersey, also probably doesn’t have the right pieces to make a trade. Hawks GM Rick Sund has long coveted Kevin Garnett and Ray Allen - two aging Celtics entering the final years of contracts - but Celtics GM Danny Ainge has yet to show an inclination to break up his core for next season.

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A win, then tears for Serena Williams at Wimbledon

By STEPHEN WILSON WIMBLEDON, England Returning to Grand Slam tennis after a year out with health problems, Serena Williams opened her Wimbledon title defense yesterday by beating Aravane Rezai in three sets then burst into tears on Centre Court.

After serving her 13th ace to close a 6-3, 3-6, 6-1 victory, Williams buried her face in her towel and sobbed from her courtside chair. She was still crying as she left the court, overcome with emotion after enduring a long layoff that included two foot operations and treatment for blood clots in her lungs.

“I usually don’t cry ... but it’s just been so hard,” the four-time Wimbledon champion said. “I never dreamt I would be here right now. And then to win. I just wanted to win at least one match here.”

Following Williams on Centre Court was Roger Federer, who began his chase for a record-equaling seventh Wimbledon championship by beating Mikhail Kukushkin of Kazakhstan 7-6 (2), 6-4, 6-2 in the wind.

Other winners included three-time Wimbledon runner-up Andy Roddick and Juan Martin del Potro.

Among the women, topseeded Caroline Wozniacki made a strong start in her latest bid for her Grand Slam title while former No. 1 Jelena Jankovic lost in the first round, Williams fought through a midmatch slump, then reasserted command over her French opponent in the third set with a big serve and powerful groundstrokes.

She showed why she is still considered a title favorite despite her long absence and her No. 7 seeding.

“It’s been a disaster year, but I’ve been praying,” Williams said. “To be able to come back at Wimbledon is pretty awesome.

I didn’t expect to play. And I didn’t expect to even do anything. So I’m just excited. I’ve never cried with joy for anything.”

After losing the second set, Williams took charge in the final set, winning the last five games.

“I kept thinking, ‘This is Wimbledon,’” she said.

The point of the match came at 3-1, when Williams stretched for a backhand at the baseline and fell over as she hit a winning lob over Rezai at the net. Rezai said

she saw the tears in Williams’ eyes when they shook hands after the match.

“It definitely was so emotional for me because throughout the last 12 months, I’ve been through a lot of things that’s not normal, things you guys don’t even know about,” Williams said. “It’s just been a long, arduous road. To stand up still is pretty awesome.”

In keeping with Wimbledon tradition, Williams opened play on Day 2 on Centre Court as the women’s defending champion.

She strode onto court wearing a cardigan, and played in a classic dress with blue trim.

Her fingernails were painted in the Wimbledon colors of purple and green.

The 61st-ranked Rezai came out hitting hard, breaking Williams in the first game that lasted nine minutes and going up 2-0. But Williams then won five games in a row and took the set with only four unforced errors. Williams lost the momentum in the second set, and Rezai broke in the sixth game to force a third set.

Williams said it was the most emotional she’s ever felt after a victory - and this was only a first-round match.

“For me it wasn’t about winning the

match,” she said. “It was about being out there. ... It just really goes to show if you don’t give up, you still have a chance. I guess I proved that I could, that I could. I think that sums it up: I could.”

Federer never lost serve, saving all three break points, and won 29 of 31 of his points on serve in the first set.

The third-seeded Swiss piled up 53 winners - 37 more than Kukushkin, who was making his Wimbledon debut.

Federer, a 16-time Grand Slam winner who lost in the Wimbledon quarterfinals last year, is looking to equal Pete Sampras’ seven titles at the All England Club.

“The first match at Wimbledon is never easy really because we don’t get any practice time on Centre Court,” Federer said. “I thought I struggled putting enough returns into play in the first set but I thought he played well.

For a set and a half he made it hard for me. I also served really well so I was very pleased with the match.”

Roddick served 30 aces - including four in a row in one game - and beat German qualifier Andreas Beck 6-4, 7-6 (6), 6-3 to reach the second round.

Del Potro, the 2009 U.S. Open champion, downed Flavio Cipolla of Italy 6-1, 6-4, 6-3.

The 24th-seeded Argentine led Cipolla 61, 1-3 when rain suspended play Monday, then won 11 of the 15 games played yesterday.

On Court 1, Wozniacki defeated Arantxa Parra Santonja of Spain 6-2, 6-1. The 20-year-old Dane had fewer winners than her opponent, but made only five unforced errors.

Jankovic was beaten

by Maria Jose Martinez Sanchez of Spain 5-7, 64, 6-3. The 15th-seeded Serb reached the fourth round at the All England Club last year.

Also advancing among the women were No. 4 Victoria Azarenka, No. 8 Petra Kvitova, No. 11 Andrea Petkovic and No. 14 A n a s t a s i a Pavlyuchenkova. Men’s winners included No.

15 Gilles Simon and No. 21 Fernando Verdasco.

Serena and older sister Venus have won nine of the last 11 Wimbledon titles.

Venus, a five-time champion who was off for nearly five months with a hip injury, is in the opposite half of the draw and could face her sister again in the final.

Venus next faces 40year-old Kimiko DateKrumm, who is back in the second round at Wimbledon 15 years after she reached the semifinals and three years after coming out of a long retirement.

“It was amazing when she came back,” Williams said.

“I watched her results.

She’s been playing so well. I always root for her actually. But this time I’m playing her, so I will be rooting for me this time.”

Raptors hi r e Dwane Cas ey as coac h TORONTO — Dwane Casey hopes to bring a rugged, NHL-style of defense to his newest job in the NBA. The Toronto Raptors hired Casey as their coach yesterday, nine days after the Dallas assistant helped the Mavericks win the NBA Finals.

Casey succeeds Jay Triano, a Canadian who became a consultant after the Raptors finished 22-60. Casey was

coach of the Minnesota Timberwolves from June 2005 to January 2007, compiling a 4359 record.

Casey said his No. 1 goal is to give the Raptors a “defensive identity.” In Dallas, he said, the coaches even used hockey footage during the NBA Finals to make their point.

“Because we felt we were playing too soft against Miami to start the series,” he said.

“And it really set the tone.”

“I don’t know a lot about of hockey. I know I’ll learn about it. But we spliced in those guys checking players up into the window, into the boards and that type of thing and that’s the way we want to play,” he said. “We want to make sure people feel us when they cut through the lane.

And that’s a mindset, and that’s having a dis-

position — a bad disposition — when people come through your paint.”

Toronto has missed the playoffs for three straight seasons. The Raptors have made it past the first round only once in their 16year existence, doing it in 2000-01.

The Raptors want to start their improvement tomorrow, with the fifth pick in the NBA draft.

The 54-year-old Casey is the eighth coach in Raptors history. He said he intends to use Triano as a “resource” and build on what he sees as a core of young talent.

“Defensively, I’m going to be a hands-on control freak, so to speak,” he said.

“Offensively, I’m going to trust and give them freedom.”

Raptors general manager Bryan

Colangelo said he got a call from Mavericks coach Rick Carlisle in the wee hours after they won the championship.

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S SP PO OR RT TS S WEDNESDAY, JUNE 22, 2011

RETURN OF T H E C A P TA I N

Jeter limped off the field during a game on June 13 against Cleveland. It’s TAMPA, Fla. - New York Yankees’ shortstop Derek Jeter has the first time since 2003 he’s been on the 15-day DL. resumed onfield work.

The Yankees’ captain threw for the first time yesterday, including long toss, since going on the 15-day disabled list last week because of a strained right calf.

Jeter also worked out indoors and had treatment at New York’s spring training complex. He’s six hits away from 3,000 in his career.

Also, right-handed starter Bartolo Colon, sidelined by a strained right hamstring, has started a throwing program that included long toss yesterday.

Injured relievers Rafael Soriano (right elbow inflammation) and Damaso Marte (left shoulder surgery) played catch.