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Tuesday, July 2, 2013
Paul staying in LA, Howard hears pitches to leave
FILE - In this Feb. 27, 2013 file photo, Los Angeles Clippers guard Chris Paul plays against the Charlotte Bobcats during an NBA basketball game in Los Angeles. Paul is staying with the Clippers. The All-Star point guard agreed to a new deal on the first day free agency opened, agent Leon Rose confirms, Monday July 1, 2013. (AP Photo/Chris Carlson)
FILE - In this Feb. 27, 2013 file photo, Los Angeles Clippers guard Chris Paul plays against the Charlotte Bobcats during an NBA basketball game in Los Angeles. Paul is staying with the Clippers. The All-Star point guard agreed to a new deal on the first day free agency opened, agent Leon Rose confirms, Monday July 1, 2013. (AP Photo/Chris Carlson)
FILE - In this Jan. 25, 2013 file photo, Los Angeles Lakers center Dwight Howard dunks during the first half of their NBA basketball game against the Utah Jazz, in Los Angeles. Chris Paul is staying in Los Angeles; Dwight Howard could be leaving. NBA free agency opens, with Paul sticking with the Clippers and Howard exploring his options before deciding on his future with the Lakers. (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill, File)
Chris Paul's answer was brief, just like his time on the free agent market.
"I'M IN!!!" he wrote Monday on Twitter.
He will be staying with the Clippers, the longtime losers he helped turned into a division champion in just two seasons.
Dwight Howard will need more time to think.
Free agency opened Monday in the NBA with the focus on the pair of Los Angeles All-Stars, though Paul took himself off the market only hours after shopping season started.
Agent Leon Rose confirmed Paul's return, which had been expected after the Clippers signed Doc Rivers as their new coach. The Clippers can pay the two-time Olympic gold medalist around $108 million for five years.
Howard can make even more by staying with the Lakers, but that won't stop him from looking elsewhere.
He met with the Houston Rockets early Monday, the Dallas Mavericks and Atlanta Hawks also are interested, and the Lakers have said repeatedly they want to keep him.
The Rockets got the first crack at persuading him to leave. With Hall of Famers Hakeem Olajuwon and Clyde Drexler joining its contingent, Houston pitched Howard on joining All-Star James Harden.
Rockets general manager Daryl Morey wrote on Twitter that it was a great meeting with Howard and that having Olajuwon and Drexler there "made it obvious how (Howard and Harden) could be the next (great) big/wing combo."
Hawks general manager Danny Ferry and new coach Mike Budenholzer were visiting Howard later Monday, trying to convince him to join his hometown team.
And he'll meet Tuesday with the Lakers' delegation. His first ? perhaps only ? season in Los Angeles was a disappointment and he acknowledged being unhappy at times. But the Lakers want to keep the former Defensive Player of the Year, believing the extra year and about $30 million more they can give him will provide a huge advantage.
Steve Nash, who like Howard had a difficult first season in Los Angeles, tweeted Monday that he was flying from New York to Los Angeles to help the Lakers make their pitch.
"(Dwight Howard) we're coming for you," he wrote. "You're going to love the statue we build for you outside Staples in 20yrs!"
Contracts can't be signed until July 10, after the next season's salary cap has been set.
The Hawks also were expected to meet with their unrestricted free agents, Josh Smith and Kyle Korver, on their trip to Los Angeles, a person with knowledge of the plans told The Associated Press on condition of anonymity because Monday's meetings have not been officially announced.
There is plenty of interest in Smith, a versatile forward, and Deron Williams announced the Nets' interest in Korver by posting a picture of the sharp shooter in a Brooklyn uniform on social media.
The Knicks are hoping Andrea Bargnani relocates his outside shot after agreeing to a deal with Toronto to acquire the No. 1 overall pick in the 2006 draft. The Raptors will receive Knicks reserves Steve Novak, Marcus Camby and Quentin Richardson, who will be signed-and-traded. The Knicks are also sending the Raptors a 2016 first-round pick and two second-round picks, according to a person with knowledge of the details.
Bargnani averaged a career-best 21.4 points just three seasons ago, but finished with his worst scoring and shooting numbers last season since he posted career worsts of 10.2 points and 38.6 percent shooting in 2007-08.
Other top players that are available include Denver's Andre Iguodala and Philadelphia's Andrew Bynum ? both part of the four-way trade that sent Howard from Orlando to Los Angeles last summer ? and Indiana's David West. Sixth Man of the Year J.R. Smith of the Knicks is a free agent, as is former winner Manu Ginobili of the San Antonio Spurs, who also could lose forward Tiago Splitter.
Miami is trying to hold onto Chris Andersen, which would essentially keep together the entire core of the team that beat San Antonio in seven games to win the NBA championship.
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AP Sports Writer Charles Odum in Atlanta contributed to this report.
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Premier Wynne and Justin Trudeau attend Pride church services ahead of parade
TORONTO - Ontario's premier and two federal political party leaders will help kick off Toronto's 33rd annual Pride Parade in Toronto today.
Premier Kathleen Wynne, NDP Leader Thomas Mulcair and Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau will attend a church service before the parade.
Wynne, who is Ontario's first openly gay premier, will also become the province's first sitting premier to take part in the Toronto parade.
The outdoor church service is expected to see hundreds of community members turn out to show support for the gay and lesbian community.
New Democrat MPs Craig Scott and Olivia Chow will also be on hand, before joining Mulcair and other Toronto-area politicians on the NDP float in the parade.
Wynne and Trudeau will also march in the parade, which is expected to see thousands fill the city's downtown core for what has traditionally been the largest event of its kind in the country.
The church event will also see performances by musician Alana Bridgewater, along with Danielle Wade and Jamie McKnight of the Wizard of Oz musical.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/premier-wynne-justin-trudeau-attend-pride-church-services-080917537.html
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Monday, July 1, 2013
In Africa, Obama steps into frontpage moment that's not his own (+video)
Concerns about Nelson Mandela's health are taking some of the focus away from President Obama's African tour.
President Barack Obama peers out from Section B, prison cell No. 5, on Robben Island, South Africa, Sunday. This was former South African president Nelson Mandela's cell, where spent 18 years of his 27-year prison term on the island locked up by the former apartheid government.
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Visiting the continent for his first substantive tour since coming to office four and a half years ago, his message was meant to be all about the future ??of Africa and a fresh relationship with the United States.
But largely for reasons beyond his control, his trip has been filled with resonances of the past.
President Obama?s visit to the continent coincides with a major crisis in South Africa?s collective psyche. The Father of the Nation, Nelson Mandela, who delivered them from apartheid to democracy 20 years ago, lies in "critical but stable" condition in the hospital.
With his family keeping constant vigil at the 94-year-old freedom fighter's bedside, and the headlines dominated by concerned commentary about his state of health, the visit of the 44th president of the United States and his family has largely been relegated to the inside pages of the newspapers.
Mr. Obama was also overshadowed in a way by his own history: Just a few years ago he was a newly-elected African American president with the hopes of his ancestral continent at his feet. But he was unable to make the trip to Africa earlier in his term when his star was at its highest, given struggling economic woes at home, wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and?ongoing issues with China. Today he is welcome still, but for many Africans the realities of his time in high office has taken the shine off.
Even the photo-op he provided to ecstatic press photographers in the darkened cell where Mr. Mandela spent 18 of his 27 years in prison for his fight against apartheid was a reflection of others before him.
Only that when President Bill Clinton stood in the same cell, he did so with his good friend Mandela beside him. And according to some commentators, Obama has done far less for Africa than Clinton, who won friends all over the continent by scrapping trade tariffs for its goods.
Adam Habib, Vice-Chancellor of Wits University in Johannesburg said that expectations of Obama were different to those of Bush and Clinton and he had handled the Mandela issue well. "My gut feeling is that there was a sincerity in his references to him, they were done with a sense of dignity and nuance because, as he said, he regarded him as a personal icon," he says.Dr. Habib says that many Africans view Obama's biggest problem to be the expectations he himself had built around his early presidency as a liberal, peaceful leader ? expectations now diminished by Obama's use of drones, involvement in further conflicts, and failure to close Guantanamo."I think many progressive South Africans are pretty disappointed and feel he speaks a good rhetoric but hasn't lived up to his own ideals," he says. "Everyone understands the complexities of having to make compromises but some of his compromises have been a violation of principal. There's a sense that the shine has begun to fade."
As he toured South Africa, Obama did his best to show how the lessons of Nelson Mandela were applicable to the future as well as instructional of the past.
Addressing young African at a Town Hall event in Soweto?on Saturday, he told them that taking up the mantle of leadership on the continent would not be easy, but added: ?Think of the man in our prayers today, think of the 27 years in prison, the hardship and struggles.
?Part of being optimistic is about keeping your head pointed towards the sun and your feet moving forward."
Asked about the importance of democracy in Africa, he referred to Nelson Mandela?s insistence of ?constitutions, the rule of law, and respect for human dignity?.
Referring to African leaders who refuse to hand over power, he said ?what Nelson Mandela stood for is that the well-being of?a country is more important than the interests of any individual person.?
By taking his family on a tour of Robben Island, Obama was told by South Africa?s President Jacob Zuma he would also be investing in the future.??
Referring to South Africa?s first black president Nelson Mandela by his clan name, President Zuma said: ?Your lovely children need to know what Madiba and all freedom fighters were subjected to. In this way, as future leaders, they will be able to build a better world in which no human being would be subjected to such a violation of freedom, basic human rights, and dignity.?
Obama delivered the keynote speech of his Africa tour at the University of Cape Town?on Sunday?evening ??but even then he had a hard act to follow.
In 1966, Sen. Robert Kennedy gave a speech at the revered institution in which he urged South Africans to stand up against the apartheid system in what became known as the ?Ripples of Hope? speech that was reported around the world.
With a less obvious adversary against which to rail, Obama sought to generate the same pathos by promising to ?bring light? to?sub-Saharan?Africa in the form of a $7 billion investment in extending electricity to the two-thirds of the continent that still do not have it.
Coupled with pledges of university fellowships and internships for the continent?s young hopefuls, military training for local forces promoting peace and stability, and a fresh engagement with African leaders, Obama said his visit should be seen as a love letter to Africa Rising.
?America's been involved in Africa for decades but we are moving beyond a simple provision of assistance, foreign aid, to a new model, a partnership between America and Africa, a partnership of equals that focuses on your capacity to solve problems and your capacity to grow,? he said.
Amanda Kahunzire, a Ugandan studying electrical engineering at UCT, said Obama?s beautifully-crafted words had to be followed with action.
?He seems to understand us but we have heard all these things spoken about before and we haven?t actually seen much difference,? she said. ?He may have good intentions but we?ll only know if he?s really a good guy when we see the results.?
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Bratt Basketball Camp Planned With Former NBA Coach
The First Baptist Church of Bratt will host a basketball camp? this month with a former NBA, college and high school coach.
The camp for children ages 8-14 will be held? July 22-26 from 9 a.m. until noon at the church. Coach Roger Dutremble of Global Sports Outreach will teach kids the fundamentals of basketball and Biblical awareness.
Dutremble is a a retired coach and member of the International Basketball Hall of Fame. He? career includes coaching at every level from high school to the NBA, and into international arenas, with a lifetime coaching record of 687-117 and seven national championships. He was selected ?Coach of the Year? six times, and served as national team head coach to Belgium, Scotland, and Jordan. He was an assistant coach for the Los Angeles Lakers, serving under Paul Westhead and Pat Riley, from 1979-83 and helping the team to three NBA championships with players like Magic Johnson and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar.
The cost is $35 per student with a limited number of scholarships available. For more information, contact Tim Hawsey at (850) 327-6529.
Pictured: Students that participated in last year?s basketball camp at the First Baptist Church of Bratt. NorthEscambia.com file photo, click to enlarge.
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China's troubled Xinjiang hit by more violence: state media
BEIJING (Reuters) - More than a hundred people, riding motorbikes and wielding knives, attacked a police station in China's ethnically divided western region of Xinjiang, state media said on Saturday, in the latest unrest to hit the region in the past week.
The attack in the remote desert city of Hotan, a heavily ethnic Uighur area, comes two days after the region's deadliest unrest in four years that resulted in the deaths of 35 people. China called the incident a "terrorist attack".
Xinjiang is home to the mainly Muslim Uighur people who speak a Turkic language. Many of them chafe at what they call Chinese government restrictions on their culture, language and religion. China says it grants Uighurs wide-ranging freedoms and accuses extremists of separatism.
The animosity between the majority Han Chinese and the Uighurs poses a major challenge for China's Communist Party leaders. President Xi Jinping, who took office in March, has called for the unity of all ethnic groups in China.
In the latest incident, the Global Times - owned by Chinese Communist Party mouthpiece, the People's Daily - said "troublemakers" gathered at religious venues before riding on motorcycles to attack a police station in the city's Moyu county.
Authorities are counting the number of casualties and searching for suspects, the Global Times said.
In a separate incident, some 200 people attempted to "incite trouble" at a major shopping area in Hotan, the newspaper said. It said police defused the situation.
Yu Zhengsheng, a member of the Politburo Standing Committee, the party's inner circle, pledged to step up "action to crack down upon terrorist groups and extremist organizations" at a meeting with government officials in the regional capital Urumqi, state news agency Xinhua said.
Chinese authorities have increased security in Urumqi, the Global Times said.
Photographs on Chinese microblogs showed dozens of military trucks with riot police patrolling the streets.
The increased security comes almost a week before the fourth anniversary of the July 2009 riots in Xinjiang that pitted Uighurs against ethnic Chinese, resulting in nearly 200 people being killed.
In a sign of the gravity of the situation, Xinjiang's top party chief Zhang Chunxian said: "We should be clearly aware of the complex and acute nature of the long-term struggle against separatism," according to the Xinjiang Daily, the official newspaper of the region.
"For those who dare to defy the law, the criminals who engage in violent terrorist activities have to be punished. We can't tolerate them, we have to hold no punches," the People's Daily said in a front-page editorial.
(Reporting by Sui-Lee Wee; Editing by Alison Williams)
(This story was corrected to fix the spelling of knives in the first paragraph)
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/chinas-troubled-xinjiang-hit-more-violence-state-media-024237052.html
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