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Voter registration deadline creeping up

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July 16 is the last day to register for August primary

BY JAMES HARPER DAYTONA TIMES harperjames59@yahoo.com

The number of newly registered Volusia County voters is down 20 percent compared to the 2008 presidential election

at this same time, according to Volusia County’s Supervisor of Elections.

Democrats still make up the majority of registered voters but their numbers are down by two percent to 37 percent of all voters, Ann McFall recently told the Daytona Times.

Republicans are 35 percent of the county’s registered voters and their numbers also are down by two percent.

Registrations increase for independents The majority of the remaining voters are registered as no party affiliation (NPA). Those numbers are up four percent.

McFall says the rise in independent registered voters is due to the number of people registering to vote at the Department of Motor Vehicles where most applicants are not asked about party affiliation unless they volun-

teer the information.

The last day to register to vote for the Aug. 14 primary is Monday, July 16 by 5 p.m.

McFall said that also is the last day registered voters can change their status as Republican, Democrat or Independent.

She reminds people they can still register to vote at her office in DeLand as well as at any county library or the Department of Motor Vehicles. Applications also

Daytona Beach Deltas crown Jabberwock queens

BY JAMES HARPER DAYTONA TIMES harperjames59@yahoo.com

The highlight of Jabberwock 2012 in Daytona Beach was the coronation and crowning of the new queens.

Crowned for Jabberwock 2012 titles were Amariya Lopez, Little Miss Jabberwock; Corianna Favors, Junior Miss Jabberwock; and Dawn Wilson, Miss Jabberwock.

Others competing for the tiles were runner-ups Asuante’ Williams, Ja’Niya Hawkins, Aire’l Redding, Saniya Times and Mercedes McMillan.

Jabberwock was held June 30 at Mainland High School.

NBA player Vince Carter held his annual youth basketball academy this week at an athletic center bearing his name at Mainland High School in Daytona Beach.

Carter resides in Orlando but grew up in Daytona where he starred at Mainland and led the basketball team to a state cham-

Those who already are registered to vote can request absentee ballots.

Those who don’t vote by absentee ballot will have their first Please see VOTER, Page 2

HAAA loses 2 members; Cusack to appoint 1 to board Two members of the Halifax Area Advertising Authority (HAAA) have resigned and one of the new appointments will have to be made by Volusia County Vice Chair Joyce Cusack.

This is another opportunity for Cusack to place another Black on the board, which did not have any on it prior to an appointment she made two years ago. That was shortly after Cusack was elected to the county council’s at-large seat. She is the only Black on the council.

Volusia County Government spokesman Dave Byron says there currently there are applications on file to fill vacancies on the HAAA board from Thomas Blawn, Chad Brunton, Theresa Doan, Joseph Ellingham, Herbert Hennessy, Michael Kardos and Samir Naran.

It’s not known if there are any Black applicants for the HAAA board.

Above: From left to right are Dwan Wilson, Miss Jabberwock; Delta Sigma Theta Sorority member Daiserae Thornton; Alma Glover Smith, Jabberwock chair; Maureen E. Taylor, sorority president; and Corianna Favors, Junior Miss Jabberwock. Front row: AmaMembers of the sorority’s Daisy Chain participated in riya Lopez, Little Miss Jabberwock.

Jabberwock.

Carter gives back at camp; pushes forward in career

BY ANDREAS BUTLER DAYTONA TIMES butleramj@yahoo.com

Early voting starts Aug. 4

BY JAMES HARPER DAYTONA TIMES harperjames59@yahoo.com

‘Magical and exciting evening’ Maureen Taylor, president of the Daytona Beach Alumnae Chapter of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, said the organization was elated about presenting a tradition that began in 1951.

“It was a magical and exciting evening of family-fun entertainment that set the occasion for the debut of eight lovely young ladies vying for the titles: Little Miss, Junior Miss, and Miss Jabbberwock,” said Alma Glover-Smith, chair of Miss Jabberwock 2012.

While co-hosting the event with JoJo O’Neal of Star 94.5, Denise Thames expressed appreciation to the Daisy Chains and attributed their presence to the memory of Letitia Holzendorf, Peggy Wesley and Joretha Hayes, who were considered as the Jabberwock gurus during her time.

Under the direction of Carla Lester, Taylor said the audience was dazzled with a broad range of artistic performances ranging from praise dance and spoken word to martial arts and tributes to some of the greatest musical icons.

can be printed online and mailed to her office but must be postmarked by 5 p.m. on July 16.

pionship in 1995. After high school, Carter starred at the University of North Carolina.

The Vince Carter Youth Basketball Academy has been going on since 1998 when Carter was drafted by the Toronto Raptors in the first round of the NBA draft.

“It’s always fun and exciting to do this camp. It’s always great to see these kids come and participate,” said Carter.

One Black on board Cusack has said it is her goal while serving on the county council to involve as many (different) people as possible, “to give everybody an opportunity to participate in the decision-making process using Advertising Authority dollars.”

Her last two appointments to the HAAA board were a White male and a hotel owner of Indian descent.

There is only one Black on the 11-member board, Sophia Huger, who was appointed by County Councilman Josh Wagner.

Among Cusack’s first appointment two Please see HAAA, Page 6

Family joins in for annual event One hundred and twenty-five youngsters from all over the country and a group of 13 girls from Brazil attended the camp while coaches from across the nation helped conduct it.

The camp also is a family affair for Carter with his younger brother Chris Carter and stepbrother Jeff Scott assisting while his daughter participated.

“My daughter has always been here, but this was her first year taking part of it.

My brothers, friends and former teammates help out and enjoy it. My brothers have helped me in the past. I do this because I enjoy it and it’s the same for Please see CARTER, Page 6

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NBA player Vince Carter gives 13 year-old Ronald Gaskins from New Jersey some pointers during his annual basketball camp.

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Gamma Mu Omega debutantes and their escorts are shown during the 2012 cotillion at The Shores Resort & Spa.

Alpha Kappa Alpha presents young women to society The Gamma Mu Omega Chapter of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority presented 13 young women to society on June 23 at its biennial Debutante Cotillion and Scholarship Gala held at the Shores Resort and Spa in Daytona Beach Shores.

During the gala, the young women and their escorts performed traditional cotillion dances and were recognized for their academic achievements as well as their participation in the debutante program.

Two $1,000 scholarships were awarded to debutantes Dymond Anthony, daughter of Joan An-

thony of New Smyrna Beach and Nathaniel T. Anthony; and Jade McCrary, daughter of Earl and Dr. Sharon McCrary of South Daytona.

Other award winners Economic Incentive Award winners were Dymond Anthony (first place); Jordan Pride, daughter of Wanda and Johnnie Pride of Port Orange (second place); and Jade McCrary (third place).

The Chairman’s Award went to Cherell and Sherlyn Davis, twin daughters of Sharon and Earnest Davis of Daytona Beach. Ashley Daniels, daughter of Lin-

Bethune birthday to be celebrated Saturday at B-CU The Mary McLeod Bethune Legacy Preservation Institute will be observing the 137th birthday of Dr. Mary McLeod Bethune at 10 a.m. on July 14 in the front of her home on Bethune-Cookman University’s campus.

Bethune was born July 10, 1875 near Mayesville, S.C. She was the 15th child of former slaves and died at 79 in 1955. She was a teacher who dreamed of opening her own school.

da Jenkins and James A. Jenkins Sr. of Deltona, was named Most Congenial. The Scholar-Athlete Award went to Shar’Quayla Baker, the great-granddaughter of Carol Baker of New Smyrna Beach and daughter of Sakenia Lewis of Jacksonville.

The Bud Debutante Economic Incentive Award Economic went to (Nadia Hamilton, daughter of Salina and Sean Hamilton of Daytona Beach (first place); Jade Long, daughter of Kristie Long and Jaime Ashley (second place); and Janiyah Giddens, daughter of Regina and Joseph Giddens (third place).

In 1904, she opened the Daytona Educational and Industrial Training School for Negro Girls with $1.50 and five students.

From various growth and changes and an affiliation with the United Methodist Church, Bethune-Cookman College Dr. Mary McLeod was formed in 1931. The Bethune state Department of Education approved a fouryear baccalaureate program in 1941. In 2007, the school received university status.

For more information about birthday celebration, contact, Dr. Evelyn “Doc” Bethune at 386-202-2077.

Night Alive program a safe haven for children

Expanded to Campbell When the grant was reapplied for, it was awarded

The goal of the debutante program is to provide activities that will enhance the development of outstanding young women in the Greater Daytona Beach Area.

Girls selected to participate have taken part in community service projects and attended workshops covering a variety of topics including social etiquette, health and personal finance.

The 13 debutantes are seniors and recent graduates of Volusia and Flagler high schools. They include: (Atlantic High School) Cherell Davis, Sherlyn Davis,

Close friend of Bethune family dies in New Jersey

BY ANDREAS BUTLER DAYTONA TIMES butleramj@yahoo.com

Former New Jersey educator Agnes Latimer-Morris died on June 23 in East Orange, N.J. Morris was 81. She had ties to Daytona Beach, BethuneCookman University and its founder, Dr. Mary McLeod Bethune.

Latimer-Morris’ uncle was Dr. J. Seth Hill, the first Black physician at Bethune-Cookman. Agnes He ran the McLeod Hos- Latimerpital for Blacks and was Morris recruited to Daytona by Bethune.

Hill also served on Bethune-Cookman’s Board of Trustees and is the founder of St. Timothy’s Episcopal Church in Daytona.

Role models were Hill, Bethune

BY ANDREAS BUTLER DAYTONA TIMES butleramj@yahoo.com

Youngsters at Campbell Middle and Westside Elementary schools in Daytona Beach are getting a rich educational experience through the Night Alive program.

Night Alive is an after-school program funded through a federal grant through 21st Century Community Learning Center (CLC).

The program focuses on math, science, reading and writing. Additionally, it stresses athletics, team sports, fitness, health and wellness, character education, technology and educational arts. It also aims to provide a safe haven for kids after school.

“Unfortunately, a lot of parents are working and cannot afford daycare or babysitters, which leaves kids unsupervised at home.

Statistics also show that higher crime rates happen for kids in this age group.

This also provides a safe haven which keeps kids off the streets and involved in educational and physical activities to expand their knowledge,” said Lisa Zavota, facilitator of Florida’s 21st Century Community Learning Center.

The local program was started at Westside Elementary through Principal Judy Winch.

“Six years ago, she wanted to make the community safe for kids after school.

She looked for ways to fund an after-school program.

She applied for the grant and it was awarded to her,” stated Zavota.

Goal of program

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Night Alive summer participants focus on math, science and English. again in October 2011 with the conditions of expansion, which led to the program being implemented at Campbell.

“Normally, the grant is given to community centers and YMCAs, etc., but not academic institutions.

One of the parameters of the new grant was to expand what is covered and it was expanded to Campbell,” said Zavota.

Children have been attending the summer portion since June 18. Campbell’s program ends July 13 while Westside’s will run through July 26.

Westside’s program runs daily from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. focusing on academics in the morning and physical fitness in the afternoon while Campbell runs from 8 a.m. to noon.

Space exploration, parks and rocketry The summer program adds another twist as the kids learn about rocketry.

“We got an additional grant this summer where seven teachers from both schools combined went to the Kennedy Space Center and was trained on rocketry by NASA scientists. They have implemented these lessons to the students.

The training is hands-on in two-hour blocks. The kids learn about proportion and aerodynamics. They built and test actual rockets,” explained Zavota.

The kids say they have enjoyed learning about rocketry.

Ten-year-old Aniyah King from Westside commented, “We had fun and got education at the same time.

We learned about national parks and how to make rockets. We used rulers to find the sizes of materials that we needed to construct them. The math games were fun too, which taught us multiplication facts. We used math to make and shoot off our rockets.”

Leavitis Golphin, 11, at Campbell, agreed, “It was pretty good. I learned drama and how to make rockets. I also learned that you make things fly that don’t look like they will.”

Corey McLeod, 10, at Westside, echoed, “It was a fun experience, especially learning about rockets and science. I liked learning about Newton’s laws of physics and motion. I was surprised how you can make things fly that don’t look like they can if you build them correctly.”

Campbell student Kmabia Williams, 12, added, “I enjoyed the experience and had fun. I especially liked the science part with building rockets. The balloon rockets were nice and easy to make.”

Dr. Hill had a profound influence on Morris’ life, a longtime family member noted.

“Dr. Hill was friends with the Johnson brothers who wrote the Black National Anthem, “Lift Every Voice and Sing” as well as W.E.B. Dubois. Dr. Hill really installed in her the value of education just as he did with all his descendants,” said Janeice Cochran-Day, who also was Latimer-Morris’ caretaker for the past 12 years.

During her early years, Latimer-Morris lived with her uncle whose home was across the street from Bethune’s.

“Dr. Bethune entrusted values in her that led to her becoming an outstanding educator and well-rounded person.

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Voters must provide an acceptable form of photo and signature identification to vote. Those can be a Florida driver’s license or Florida identification card issued by the Department of Highway Safety & Motor Vehicles; United States passport; debit or credit card; military identification; student Identification; retirement center Identification; neighborhood association identification or a public assistance identification.

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and Shantazia Howard; (Flagler-Palm Coast High School) Lynona McKinzie; (Mainland High School) Ashley Daniels, Kydea Leonard and Destinie Willis; (Spruce Creek High School) Dymond Anthony, Jade McCrary, Jordan Pride and Jessica Spencer; and (New Smyrna Beach High School) Shar’Qualya and Shar’Quan Baker.

This year’s Bud Debutantes included: Ta’Kylee Bostick; Faith Edgerton; Janiyah Giddens; Nadia Hamilton, Vashti Jackson, Jade Long and Kamya Walker.

She always talked about Dr. Bethune throughout her life. She often referred to her as ‘Auntie,’” Cochran-Day added.

Like family to Bethunes Dr. Evelyn Bethune, granddaughter of Bethune-Cookman’s founder, said Latimer-Morris was “very close with our family. She was like family – more like a cousin. Agnus was very close with Jevona Miller, our relative who became a teacher at Bonner Elementary.”

Latimer-Morris also attended a preparatory school on the campus of BethuneCookman College for her early elementary education.

“I remember her and her uncle. Her uncle was a medical doctor. Agnes was a very studious and friendly person. She and her family were a very religious family. She was my friend and classmate,” recalls Vivian Charles.

When Morris returned to Daytona, she often visited the campus and the Bethune family.

“She always visited the Bethune family and often attended their reunions. She loved Dr. Bethune dearly,” added Cochran-Day.

Active in education, Episcopal Church Latimer-Morris attended school in Rochester, New York and Jamaica, Rhode Island. She received her high school education at Boylan Haven School for girls and earned her bachelor’s degree from Talledega College in Alabama.

She married James Carlton Morris in 1953 after receiving her degree.

In addition, she was a member of several educational organizations and an active member in the Episcopal Church.

Latimer-Morris is survived by two sons, a stepdaughter, three grandchildren, four stepgrandchildren, three great grandchildren and two stepgrandchildren.

Funeral services were held at the Church of Epiphany in Orange, N.J., and burial was at Glendale Cemetery in Bloomfield, N.J.

Saturday and Sunday from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.

Where to vote early Early voting locations are: Department of Elections, Historic Courthouse, 125 W. New York Ave., DeLand; Deltona Regional Library, 2150 Eustace Ave., Deltona; Volusia County Library Center at City Island, 105 E. Magnolia Ave., Daytona Beach: Ormond Beach Regional Library, 30 S. Beach St., Ormond Beach; and the New Smyrna Beach Regional Library, 1001 S. Dixie Freeway, New Smyrna Beach.

Early has been cut down

by Florida legislators from 10 days to eight.

McFall said she is concerned about college stu-

dents who registered in Volusia County but who do not live here year-round.

The Legislature moved the primary up two weeks and some universities begin their sessions on Aug. 21. To vote, they will have to request an absentee ballot.

Volusia County’s ballot will contain six pages, McFall said. The ballots already have been mailed out registered voters who are overseas.

McFall also noted that registered voters should have already received their new voter ID cards in the mail by now.

Another new law from Tallahassee requires that the polling place and address be on the cards.

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Minister launches magazine at Anointed Release Party Palm Coast

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By Jeroline D. Mccarthy | Daytona Times Charlene Cothran Ministries had a winning combination with VICTORY magazine’s Anointed Release Party and Launch Ceremony.

Headlining were: Pastor Riva Tims, praise, entertainment and a silent auction - “serve-yourselves” canapes and dessert and celebrating America’s birthday.

The Rev. Charlene Cothran stepped into fulltime ministry over six years ago after becoming “the former publisher of a magazine that was anything but holy.’’

Cothran said, “God released us to add the medium of magazine publishing to reach and transform lost souls, inspire complacent Christians, and encourage and uplift weary, battleworn warriors.’’

Event benefited Pace Center God wanted to release that thing He put in Cothran and celebrate at the African American Cultural Society. It was a free event with reserved seating set aside and with other seating available. The silent auction benefitted the Pace Center for Girls.

Tims gave a positive message, autographing the book she had written, as well as joined in celebrating VICTORY, the Christian lifestyles magazine launched last spring by Charlene Cothran Ministries. Tims teamed up with publisher Cothran to get her message across.

The program featured

The Levite Band, Voices of Victory, Minister Antoine Cook, Evangelist Debra Reed, the Rev. John T. Long, III; Sounds of Curtis Gray, and Dr. Renee McQueen.

Also within the realm were Yvette Urquhart, Pastor D. L. Foster, Patti Smith, Deacon Latrey Washington, the Rev. Patrick Wilkerson, Donna Campbell/Buster Williams Caterers and Boy Scouts Troop 281.

Prayer for VICTORY The Rev. Kenneth Harley took part, praying the anointing on Cothran, who was surrounded by pastors, ministers and evangelists.

Harley called on a prayeranswering God for victory so souls could come, finding comfort, applying the Word to their lives, and receiving eternal life.

He took another step and called for advertisers and covenant partnerships to intensify and increase daily, and thanking God for Cothran’s vision.

God reminded Tims, saying, “Have you considered my servant, Job (Job 1:8)?” Tims sprang forward and said, “God let us go through a test so that victory can come out.

“I know what it’s like to be in a place of bewilderment,” she said. “I know how it is to be held by the Lord.”

She was crushed when husband, megachurch pastor Zachery Tims was exposed for infidelity. Their 15-year ministry marriage ended in 2009 following a two-year battle.

She was uprooted by the elders as co-pastor of the

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8,000-member New Destiny Christian Center, founded by the couple in 1996 in Orlando. Tims struggled financially, emotionally and spiritually as the mother of the couple’s four children.

She’s the mother of Zoelle, 17; Zachery, III, 16; Zahria, 14; and Zion, 12.

She and the kids spent a vacation in 2011 in Puerto Rico with the children’s father. Pastor Zachery Tims was found dead one week later at a Times Square hotel. He was 42 years old.

Tims talks about her pain, victory Riva Tims would question God a lot, but now

information: www.droministries.com.

online at www.volusia.org/ citizensacademy and must be turned in to the county manager’s office by July 25.

More information: 386-7405160.

Tutoring help available Partnering with St. James Academy, Elect Ladies Mentoring is offering tutoring services, school supplies, study spaces and encouragement for students 17 and up seeking a high school diploma. More information: 386-258-7199 or Electladiesmin@aol.com.

Shiloh to host ‘Morning Glory’ The “Morning Glory” 1,000 women in white in prayer will be held at Shiloh Missionary Baptist Church on July 28 from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. at 540 Dr. Martin Luther King Blvd. The church invites the public to attend. More

Easter Seals open house The Easter Seals invites the public to a tour of the center and an afternoon of water fun for children at the Daytona Beach Child Development Center, 1219 Dunn Ave. The open house is July 23 from 3 p.m. to 5 p.m. More

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Compiled by the Daytona Times Signup begins for Citizens Academy Applications are being accepted for Volusia County’s Citizens Academy, a handson awareness program designed to educate citizens about county government operations. Classes will be held from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Aug. 21 through Oct. 30. The final class is scheduled Nov. 12. There is no charge for the program, but applicants are asked to commit to attending all 12 classes.

Applications are available

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Attending the VICTORY event were Tina Lancaster of Upper Marlboro, Md., Pastor Riva Tims, the Rev. Charlene E. Cothran, publisher of VICTORY magazine; and Deaconess Jeanne Washington of Mt. Calvary Baptist Church in Palm Coast. she doesn’t do it as much.

Nonetheless, she’s impressed by God, realizing His sheep knows His voice (John 10:4) - choosing to be obedient - and operating like Jesus in loving her former husband.

“You don’t have to slash anyone’s tires,” she affirmed. If you fail to do what God says, “the pain could be worse because you didn’t do what you could have done.” But afterwards, you come out stronger rather than weaker.

Tims received more for her trouble (Job 42:12 as God began blessing strategically. She wrote the book, “When It All Falls

Butts Miracle Temple Church of God in Christ will be holding its annual Holy Convocation July 17-20. The event will be held each morning at 10 a.m. and nightly at 7 p.m.

Guest speakers will be Evangelist Beverly Crawford, Tuesday night; Bishop Johnny Anderson, Wednesday night; Overseer/Mother Willie Mae Butts, Thursday night; and Bishop Larry Trotter on Friday Night.

The convocation will be held at the Plaza Resort & Spa in Daytona Beach.

For more information, call 386-2528565.

information: 386-944-7816.

Financial workshop for caregivers The Caregiving Crossroads

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The release party, presented by Charlene Cothran Ministries, was a winner. rrr As always, remember our prayers for the sick, afflicted and bereaved.

Happy Birthday to You! Birthday wishes to: Birthday wishes to: Jason Major, Sidney Honeyghan, July 17. Happy anniversary to Henry and Thea Smith, July 15.

Butts Miracle Ice cream event Temple plans to help sick kids Holy Convocation

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Daytona Beach Campus 1200 W. International Speedway Blvd.

Wetherell Center (Bldg. 100), Atrium Saturday, July 21, 9 a.m. - 1 p.m.

Complete your fall registration and have a chance to win a scholarship.

Call (386) 506-4471 or email admissions@DaytonaState.edu to reserve your space.

Daytona Lagoon will be serving ice cream and toppings for donations on Aug. 11 from noon to noon during an “Ice Cream Breakfast,” an annual campaign that raises funds and spreads awareness for Give Kids the World.

Funds will help provide weeklong, cost-free, fantasy vacations to children with life-threatening illnesses and their families that visit Give Kids The World Village in Central Florida. The cost of the event is $2 and $5 donations for a scoop. Location: 601 Earl St. More information: Contact Trish Mucciolo at trish@daytonafunparks. com.

series will present the “How to avoid financial pitfalls caregiving can bring” workshop at 5:30 p.m. on July 12 at the Hilton Garden Inn, 55 Town Center Blvd., Palm Coast. More information: 386-986-1931.

Gospel music meeting July 21 The Volusia/Flagler Chapter of Gospel Music Workshop of America will meet July 21 from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m.

The meetings are held the first and third Saturday of each month at New Hope Missionary Baptist Church,

633 Roy St. Student portfolios on display The Daytona State College Southeast Museum of Photography announces the inaugural UCF Thesis exhibition featuring portfolios of recent work by graduating seniors in the University of Central Florida Photography program. Free admission.

Daytona Beach Campus, Hosseini Center, 1200 W. International Speedway Blvd. More information: 386506-4475.

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Apart: Finding Healing, Joy and Victory Through the Pain.”

She says “You may have dead situations in your life, but God can resurrect. You can walk in supernatural victory,” she affirms. The book is in reprint after it was released for a month in 2009.

Tims founded her own church - Majestic Life Ministries in 2009 in Orlando.

She signed a deal with Comcast, becoming “The Glory of Gospel” host, airing on Star 94.5 FM on Sundays. She’s also a television co-host. She was part of the celebrity on James and Betty Robison’s TV show and again on TV for Joni

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Racism is the real issue Recently, the New York Times published an article about the dismal employment prospects of Black men and women in New York City. Less than half of all Black adults in that city are working – a figure worse than for Whites, Asians or Latinos.

The rates for unemployment, underemployment, and duration of unemployment between jobs are all higher for Black people than for any other group. But the Times article undid any benefit it may have provided because it never broached the subject of race discrimination and the role it plays in keeping Black people at the bottom of the economic heap.

Studies show discrimination Most people are aware of studies that show that people with first or last names identified as African-American are less likely to be called for interviews. Similar studies show that hypothetical White convicted felons are more likely to be hired than Black people with no criminal record. The studies and the hidden camera exposes almost make the case, but skirt the real issue.

Racism is still the number one modus operandi by which this country functions. It is a permanent part of the thinking of most White people and results in low rates for anything good like employment, and high rates of everything bad, like incarceration.

The unwillingness to address the question of the persistence of racial animus practiced against Black people leads to very danger-

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ous dynamics. If an issue is never discussed, it ceases to exist in the public and political consciousness. Even worse, anyone who dares bring up the topic designated as unspeakable is treated as if they don’t exist either, or as if their very sanity is in question.

Don’t acknowledge privilege Most White people are happier when they don’t acknowledge the privileges they have as a result of their skin color, so they are happy to say nothing. Asians and Latinos may face racism in their lives too, but it is never to the same extent as for Black people. Members of these groups have little interest in pointing out the reality of the Black person’s existence in this country.

The effect on Black people is the saddest of all. This supposed meritocracy in which we are exhorted to pull ourselves up by mythical bootstraps creates an awful cognitive dissonance for those Black people who follow all of the right rules but yet find their situations lacking.

They earn college degrees and they don’t break the law, but success eludes them. Some succumb to self-blame and take out the anger they should direct at the system onto themselves. Only one of

the Black job seekers interviewed in the New York Times stated that race was a factor in her continued inability to secure a full time job.

Worst of all worlds Black people are now in the worst of all possible worlds. The presence of a president who is Black is used to quiet any mention of Black demands on the system.

We don’t need to make any demands because Obama is supposedly proof of a post-racial reality.

Of course, this Black man is president in large part because he doesn’t identify with the political aspirations of Black people.

He famously said there is no Black America or White America, and the degree to which he was embraced by millions of Black people only adds to the denial of the severity of our situation.

High unemployment persists for Black people in New York and elsewhere, not just because they are overrepresented in failing industries or public sector jobs.

Their very presence is not wanted, and when the economy changes as it has in recent years, and puts raw capitalism in the driver’s seat, the suffering is severe.

If the New York Times is willing to put its resources to good use, it ought to point out those simple facts. That would be news fit to print.

Margaret Kimberley’s column appears weekly in BlackAgendaReport.com. Click on this story at www.daytonatimes.com to write your own response.

Mitt Romney gets a free pass One of the most remarkable things about Mitt Romney’s run for the White House is that the presumptive Republican nominee is allowed to attack President Obama on everything from saving the automobile industry to immigration. Yet, the news media rarely point out that Romney is against many things – especially if proposed by President Obama – but is usually evasive on what he is for.

Politico recently published a story entitled, “Mitt Romney’s nopolicy problem.” It stated, “Vague, general or downright evasive policy prescriptions on some of the most important issues facing the country are becoming the rule for Romney. Hoping to make the campaign strictly a referendum on the incumbent, the hyper-cautious challenger is open about his determination to not give any fodder to Obama aides hungry to make the race as much about Romney as the president.”

‘Temporary measure’ The most recent example involves President Obama’s position on Development, Relief, and Education for Alien Minors (DREAM) Act, which deals with illegal immigration. After Congress failed to pass a bill, President Obama issued an executive order that incorporated many of the provisions of the bill, something Obama called “a temporary stopgap measure.”

Speaking to the National Asso-

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ciation of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials, Romney said, “I will put in place my own longterm solution that will replace and supersede the president’s temporary measure.” And what is Romney’s long-term solution? We don’t know because he isn’t saying.

Romney, with the media acting as a willing accomplice, has also lambasted Obama on gasoline prices. But everyone knows that a sitting president has about as much control over gasoline prices as a meteorologist has over the weather.

The federal Energy Information Center says the cost of crude oil accounts for 76 percent of the cost of one gallon of gas; refining expenditures and profits are responsible for another 6 percent; distribution marketing and retail costs add 6 percent; and taxes contribute 12 percent. Still, Romney was able to gain media coverage by pretending that President Obama, not market factors, dictates the price of gasoline.

The price of a gallon of regular gasoline peaked at $3.97 in April.

But that figure has since fallen to $3.41, according to the AAA. Shouldn’t Obama now get credit for tumbling prices?

Finally, I don’t think a candidate’s religion should be fair game in most instances. That’s why I objected to the media trying to ‘Velcro’ the outspoken Rev. Jeremiah Wright to candidate Obama.

Similarly, I have advised against focusing on Romney’s Mormonism. But if the media is going to hold Obama responsible for the statements of Rev. Wright, then Romney should be asked what he did to repudiate the church’s former teachings.

Although there were two Black priests under Mormon founder Joseph Smith, his successor, Brigham Young, instituted a policy of excluding males of African descent from the priesthood.

In 1949, he said, “What chance is there for the redemption of the Negro? The Lord had cursed Cain’s seed with blackness and prohibited them the Priesthood.”

That policy remained in place until 1978.

Journalists have a responsibility to press Romney to move past his carefully studied talking points.

And they can do that by forcing him to share what he plans to do beyond criticizing President Obama.

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House seeks to undermine consumer financial protection In the aftermath of the successful effort to better protect consumer finances, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) is now facing a forceful effort to undermine its mission and operation. Even before CFPB reaches its first anniversary of operation, proposed federal legislation that would exempt a variety of nonbank lenders has attracted 19 cosponsors from various states.

House Bill 1909, sponsored by Rep. Joe Baca (R-Calif.), seeks to create a new federal charter for non-bank financial service providers that would bypass CFPB. It would also preempt state consumer protection laws and roll back consumer gains nationwide.

Weakens current laws Several states have already passed strong consumer protections against the very same lenders this federal legislation would reverse. If enacted, non-bank lenders would no longer be subject to the federal Truth in Lending Act, which requires disclosure of the cost of credit as an annual percentage rate (APR).

The beneficiaries of this legislation would be a wide range of businesses that offer reloadable prepaid debit cards, payday and car title loans, rent-to-own agree-

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ments, pawn shops, check cashing services and more. On the losing side would be 30 million consumers who either have no bank account – the unbanked – or those who use very limited bank services – the under-banked. Further, if enacted, a two-tiered financial system would be created and the almost certain exploitation of consumers using these products.

According to the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC), Black consumers represent more than 30 percent of under-banked households and more than 20 percent of unbanked. Black consumers, together with Hispanic, American Indian/Alaskan and consumers, represent 56 percent of all unbanked households.

Businesses that provide goods or services at a competitive and fair price earn a loyal customer base; they offer consumers for value for their hard-earned dollars. Yet many non-bank financial services included in HB 1909 have never fit that description. Instead,

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their “repeat business” results from high fees that entrap customers into long-term debt.

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Has Dred Scott risen again?

Growing up, I learned a lot about the Dred Scott legal decision. The parallels I see between it and the 2012 Supreme Court decision on the Affordable Care Act (ACA) strike me.

For those who need a historical refresher, Dred Scott was born a slave in Virginia between 1795 and 1800. After the death of his first master, Scott was purchased by Army surgeon Dr. John Emerson, and then relocated to Illinois and later Wisconsin. Both states prohibited slavery. While in Wisconsin, Scott was legally married, a condition unheard of for slaves.

Throughout a series of events that included residing in states prohibiting slavery, Scott and his family remained in the service of Dr. Emerson until Emerson’s death in 1843. In 1846, Scott attempted to buy his freedom from Emerson’s widow, but was refused. He pursued freedom through the courts.

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Larger questions

As in Scott, the current Supreme Court decision is supposed to render the final answer to a specific legal question, but it gives rise to larger questions of morality and principle. Although Chief Justice Roberts issued a favorable opinion, I realize his opinion was not the final answer.

Like many Supreme Court rulings, a determination of constitutionality does not enact a law in the hearts and minds of the populace. In this case, the acceptance and acknowledgment of healthcare as a human right, and as part and parcel of our “right to life, liberty and pursuit of happiness” is essential for the Issues overshadowed The technical issues of Scott’s ACA ruling to have real meanstates of residence were over- ing. shadowed by the larger controversy of citizenship and prop- Right or wrong? erty rights of slaveholders to The constitutionality of the maintain the legal status of their ACA is debated on its cost and slaves. Although other rulings the mechanics of implementaestablished precedence to the tion. The real question is whethcontrary, the Missouri Supreme er it’s right and just for citizens to Court, which governed the case, be denied adequate and approruled that a slave in a free state priate healthcare solely on the didn’t become free by residing basis of their status and wealth. in a state or territory that didn’t Is it fair for us to justify needrecognize slavery. less wars that exhaust the lives The Missouri case was ap- of our youth and our national pealed and argued before the wealth, while we reject remedial U.S. Supreme Court. There, proinvolvement with the conditions slavery advocates argued that Blacks couldn’t be citizens and of health that negatively impact that the federal government our people?

As nearly every Republican had no right to interfere with leader threatens survival of the the property rights of slaveholdACA for partisan reasons, we’re ers. Writing for the majority, Chief Justice Roger Taney deter- left with the decision to do mined that Blacks, free or slave, what’s right because it’s right.

Can we do less than support couldn’t be U.S. citizens.

Each justice wrote his opin- the ACA? The measure of our ion, but Taney’s was consid- national morality will be deterered “THE Dred Scott decision.” mined by the answer we give.

Taney wrote that Blacks were Dr. E. Faye Williams is na“so far inferior that they had no rights which the White man tional chair of the Nationwas bound to respect.” His rul- al Congress of Black Woming was wrongly assumed as the en, Inc. Click on this story at to final answer to the question of www.daytonatimes.com slavery. write your own response.

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Strong opposition Fortunately, a number of consumer advocates are actively working to oppose the renewed deregulation efforts. In announcing its opposition to HR 1909, the Washington, D.C.- based Consumer Federation of America said, “We oppose any steps intended to remove non-bank lenders from the oversight of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.”

The Center for Responsible Lending noted, “This shift exposes consumers and the financial services marketplace to the very dangers that contributed to the economic crisis. The CFPB was created for the sole purpose of protecting consumers through oversight, rulemaking and enforcement of the rules for the very consumer financial products marketed and sold by the companies covered in this legislation.”

Charlene Crowell is the Communications Manager for State Policy & Outreach with the Center for Responsible Lending.

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Ministries racking up impressive number of followers on Twitter

BY BO EMERSON ATLANTA JOURNAL CONSTITUTION (MCT)

Twitter gives the impression of being obsessed with mindless earthly trivia, from Justin Bieber’s latest heartfelt tweet to his Beliebers to LeBron James’ reflections on winning the NBA championship.

But Atlanta-based Twitter executive Claire DiazOrtiz learned something surprising from an examination of the most popular tweets: Spiritual tweets were whooping up on the mundane.

“We came upon data that religious leaders were completely punching above their weight on Twitter,” she said. “They were super-engaged.”

More ripples Though Lady Gaga might have 26 million followers to Joyce Meyer’s 1 million, Meyer, a charismatic evangelist based in St. Louis, was having a bigger impact because of her connection with her followers.

“Joyce Meyer will send out, whether a Bible verse or uplifting commentary, or an aphorism or a message, and we see her being retweeted more than Lady Gaga,” Diaz-Ortiz said.

Such retweeting produces more ripples than the original message, because the rule in social media is that a message from a friend has more impact than a message from an institution.

In touch Twitter, like other social media, is dedicated to serving its big customers, so Diaz-Ortiz relocated to Atlanta this year for easy access to the megachurches in the Southeast, and the religious leaders that set Twitter on fire.

Among them are heavy hitters such as Andy Stanley of Atlanta’s 25,000-member North Point Ministries, with 177,000 followers.

Stanley, 54, has embraced social media as a way to stay in touch with a large congregation without being spread too thin.

“You don’t have all the time in the world to do this face-to-face relationship building,” Diaz-Ortiz said.

“Twitter is an excellent way for him to reach his flock.”

Stanley’s tweets range from Bible verses to personal history to namechecking amusing product reviews in Amazon. He also retweets folks ranging from Gene Simmons of Kiss to Albert Einstein. (“Everyone is a genius. But if you judge a fish on its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it’s stupid. Einstein”)

Devotionals ala iPhone Churches conservative and progressive connect with their congregations through social media, even preachers who never learned how to use a computer. Bryant Wright, outgoing president of the Southern Baptist Convention and pastor at Johnson Ferry Baptist Church in Marietta, still writes his sermons and his daily radio spots “Right From the

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Heart” in longhand on yellow legal pads.

But the advent of the iPhone has suddenly launched this self-described “Neanderthal pastor” into the online world.

A member of his ministry helps load his devotionals onto Facebook and Twitter, and using his smartphone, he also tweets personal thoughts and news, recently tweeting from the convention in New Orleans.

TORONTO – Does Microsoft have its mojo back?

The company has been on a roll lately, from the announcement of Surface, its own branded tablet, to news about the next version of its Windows Phone, to its recent acquisition of business social-networking hot kid, Yammer.

On Monday, at the company’s Worldwide Partners Conference in Toronto, Microsoft announced even more news: The company said it’s on track to release Windows 8 – the major revamp of its flagship operating system – to manufacturers by the first week in August, with general availability of devices running Windows 8 on store shelves by late October.

It’s acquiring Perceptive

Pixel, a New York-based company that specializes in large, multitouch displays.

It’s launching Office 365 Open, allowing its partners to package Microsoft’s Office 365 with the partner’s own value-added services, and allowing those partners to bill their customers for all of that in one single invoice.

This will be “the most epic year in Microsoft history,” CEO Steve Ballmer said in his keynote address to the conference Monday morning.

16,000 attend conference Some 16,000 of Microsoft’s 640,000 partners worldwide are at the conference, which ran through Thursday. It’s the largest number of attendees ever for the event, which brings together Microsoft’s farflung partners – including

His Facebook postings are read by more than 4 million people a month, he said. His first reaction to Twitter was typical of many in his generation.

“Some of the things people were tweeting I thought, ‘That is ridiculous. Who would want to read about so-and-so going to the bathroom at such and such a place?’” But then he saw the potential.

“It is about reaching people for Christ through the use of media,” Wright said. It’s a natural fit for Christian churches that are directed by the Bible to spread the word. Lee Rainie, director of Pew Research Center’s Internet and American Life Project, said American evangelists have long been skillful at pursuing new media.

“This follows a longstanding historical relationship between the evangelical community and technology,” Rainie said.

“Some of the popular early radio shows were evangelical shows, and Billy Graham was one of the earliest stars of television.”

The Internet simply opened up a new world of

channels, he said. “Churches instinctively understand when new communications technology come into being, then they should figure them out.”

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the Puget Sound area. Han himself will move to Redmond, Wash., where he will report directly to Kurt DelBene, president of Microsoft’s Office division.

Han says that because Windows 8 works on Perceptive Pixel’s large screens, the plan for now is to develop new software and apps to run on Windows 8.

Another subject being covered at the conference is the fast-growing cloud services arena.

Some partners are concerned whether there was room for them in this business, given that Microsoft’s Azure and Office 365 are complete cloud offerings in and of themselves, said Birger Steen, CEO of Renton, Wash.-based Parallels, which offers virtualization and automation software.

“Microsoft has been perceived as heading toward less room for partners in recent years,” he said.

But Steen thinks the pendulum is swinging the other way, especially after Monday’s keynote in which, he said, Ballmer seemed to place equal importance on clouds hosted

by Microsoft, partners or customers.

“What they (partners) want to hear is: ‘Yes, there is a role for the greater ecosystem in the cloud as well,’ ” Steen said. “I think that was being said very clearly today.”

The proof, he said, was how well attendees received news of Office 365 Open, a program that allows Office 365 to be sold and billed as part of a partner’s own value-added package.

That makes it easier for the partner and less complicated for the partner’s customer. It also avoids highlighting the monetary value of Office 365 vs. other elements of the package, said Steen.

Wandering the exhibition halls, Steen noticed something else this year, he said: More exhibitors and people focused on cloud companies and gadgets.

“Up until recently, there hasn’t been much gadget excitement at WPC,” he said. “I think this year, there is a palpable gadget excitement.”

‘Necessary to move things forward’

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer called the Surface tablet “a design point” that has a distinct niche among the many Windows 8 devices, including tablets, to be sold. resellers, consultants, distributors and others – so they can hear about the company’s product roadmap for the year ahead.

And what the partners heard this year seemed to excite them, despite worries that might have arisen about their value since Microsoft announced last month it is making its own branded Windows computing device for the first time.

“For the first time in a long time, I’m seeing Microsoft charged about their own products and confident that they can win.

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Televangelist Joyce Meyer is being retweeted more than Lady Gaga.

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Microsoft unveils steps to regain dominance

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That’s a big deal,” said Lee Nicholls, director of global solutions for KPN, a Dutch telecommunications company.

Tablet ‘a design point’ In his keynote, Ballmer tried to allay any fears among PC manufacturers. The Surface tablet, he told the audience at the Air Canada Centre, is “a design point” that has a distinct niche among the many Windows 8 devices, including tablets, to be sold.

Ballmer said the forecast is that 375 million new Windows PCs will be sold in the next 12 months.

But he isn’t expecting mass quantities of Surface sales.

“We may sell a few million of the 375 million,” Ballmer said. “The importance of thousands of partners will not diminish.”

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Ballmer and other execs did not show or talk extensively about Surface during the keynote — something of a surprise to some who attended.

“The reason for that is obvious,” said Nicholls of KPN, which sells Office 365 and Windows Intune to business customers. “They’ve got to keep courting the OEMs (original equipment manufacturers). HP and Fujitsu are big sponsors of this conference. Samsung and Dell are also sponsors. So going out on stage, waving your own piece of hardware, is not a great way to manage your OEMs.” Nicholls, specifying that he was not speaking for KPN, said he thinks Surface will end up being “a kind of luxury device to compete with Apple,” with the two versions of Surface tablets priced comparably to the iPad and the Mac-

Microsoft’s manufacturing partners, such as Samsung and Hewlett Packard, will probably end up charging much lower prices for their Windows 8 tablets than Microsoft will charge for its Surface devices, Nicholls predicts.

He likens the anxiety of hardware partners over potential competition with Microsoft to that felt a few years ago by some partners when Microsoft announced its own online services, such as Office 365 and Windows Intune — a cloud service for PC security and management.

“But it’s necessary to move things forward,” Nicholls said. “OEMs do a good job. But until Microsoft makes its own device, they can’t truly compete with quality.”

Nicholls says he’d rather have that than what he’s seen in years past, when Microsoft almost seemed to apologize for its products — as in Windows 7 being an apology for the much criticized Windows Vista.

Another well-received part of the morning’s keynote was Microsoft’s announcement that it was acquiring Perceptive Pixel.

The 6-year-old company, which has 70 employees scattered between headquarters in New York and operations in Wilsonville, Ore.; Mountain View, Calif.; and Washington, D.C., focuses on creating large multi-touch displays.

How that meshes with Windows 8 was on display during Monday’s keynote in which Perceptive Pixel founder Jeff Han demonstrated Windows 8 on a conference room-sized Perceptive Pixel display.

He easily pinched and zoomed, swiped between pages, marked up content with a stylus while manipulating the page and content with his other hand.

“It’s so nice to find another company that has aligned visions with our own,” Han said in an interview later Monday.

“The transaction means an accelerant in achieving our vision” of large touch screens in the workplace.

Neither Han nor a Microsoft representative would give a price for the acquisition.

Perceptive Pixel’s Wilsonville operation, south of Portland, will remain there while its Mountain View office will move to

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CARTER from Page 1 my brothers,” Carter explained.

Carter, 35, an eight-time All-Star has averaged 21.4 points per game and scored 20,000 points in 14 seasons with the Toronto Raptors, New Jersey Nets, Orlando Magic, Phoenix Suns and Dallas Mavericks.

No plans to resign anytime soon Last season, Carter averaged 10.1 points for the Mavericks; a 66-game lockout shortened season.

“The lockout was difficult because we didn’t know when the season was going to start. Playing in Dallas was great. They were coming off a championship. I came in the league with Dirk Nowitzki; Jason

Kidd was my teammate in New Jersey and I’ve known Jason Terry for a while so it made my transition easy,” commented Carter.

Dallas exercised the option on Carter’s contract for the 2012-13. Carter has no plans to stop playing.

“My goal was to play 15 years and anything after that is icing on the cake. I think that I have some years left. I have been working my butt off to be prepared every year. I think that has helped me have a great career. I will keep going until my body says otherwise,’’ Carter noted.

Ready for whatever season brings The Mavericks will have a different makeup this season after losing Kidd to the New York Knicks and Terry to the Boston Celtics this summer.

“We’ll see what happens.

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I’m sure that our organization isn’t done making moves in free agency. I’m sure they will get into the Dwight Howard mix someway. We’ll be ready with whatever team we have headed into camp,” stated Carter.

As for his former Magic teammate Howard wanting to be traded to Brooklyn (formerly New Jersey) Carter said, “That’s just how the league goes sometimes.

Guys like Paul Pierce have stayed with Boston and Dirk Nowitzki with Dallas.

Other guys play with many teams. The thing now is everyone wants to win. It just happens that way.”

Carter still hopes to win a championship.

“That is why we play to win a title. I’ve played multiple years. I hope to be on a team to have that opportunity. I’ve come close but just haven’t won one yet,” he added.

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Vince Carter plays one on one during a drill with 13 year-old Ronald Gaskins of New Jersey during his basketball camp at Mainland High.

The funds come from bed taxes charged to tourists who stay in area hotels.

Amit Patel, who operated the Rodeway Inn in Daytona Beach, is leaving to accept a job offer in Washington, D.C. Byron said this week, “A resignation from Amit Patel has not been received by the county manager’s office. Perhaps it’s coming but not yet here. Mrs. Cusack’s nomination is not on the agenda.”

County council votes on members

Volusia County Vice Chair Joyce Cusack is shown with her last HAAA appointment – Pravin “P.M.” Patel.

HAAA from Page 1 years ago was Kathryn Bryant, who is Black. She resigned for personal reasons.

Cusack’s last HAAA board appointment was Praven “P.M.’’ Patel, the owner of the Heritage Inn. That ap-

pointment drew criticism from Daytona Beach Police Chief Mike Chitwood.

He was later reprimanded

by City Manager Jim Chisholm for making comments in the media about the appointment.

Member gets job in D.C. Tangela Boyd, Interim Director of Communica-

County Chairman Frank Bruno will be nominating Jason Reader, general manager of the Hilton Daytona

tions for the Daytona Beach Area Convention & Visitors Bureau (CVB), confirmed that HAAA member Amit Patel, also a Cusack appointment, has resigned from the board.

The HAAA board is an 11-member volunteer board appointed by the county council that okays how the CVB spends roughly $6 million on tourism advertising each year.

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Beach Oceanfront Resort, to replace Rich Larkin, the former general manager of the hotel. Byron said a vote on Bruno’s nomination is scheduled to come before the county council at the July 12 meeting in DeLand.

Byron said the members of HAAA are nominated by individual county council members. A nomination is voted on by all county council members with a majority of at least four votes required.

“Rarely do appointments made by an individual county council member not get majority vote support. Nominations come from people who fill out an application,” Byron said.

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tempted to reach Cusack this week for a comment on the HAAA vacancy but was unable to do so by press deadline.

Councilwoman Joie Alexander told the Daytona Times recently that future appointments will come under more scrutiny.

“We need more time to do our own vetting. We never had a process. … Need more time so appointment is not an embarrassment,” said Alexander.

In a previous interview, Cusack said she had no problem with the vetting of appointments but not only her appointments.

Cusack is responsible for three appointments to the HAAA board.

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Race fans: More diversity needed but still a good time

BY ANDREAS BUTLER DAYTONA TIMES butleramj@yahoo.com

Each year, Daytona hosts two NASCAR race weekends at Daytona International Speedway.

The Daytona 500 Sprint Cup Series, which is referred to as the Super Bowl of auto racing, is held in February while the Coke Zero 400 Sprint Cup race, which happens in July.

NASCAR JalapeĂąo 250 Nationwide Series race and Coke Zero 400 Sprint Cup race took place this past week.

Tony Stewart won the Coke Zero 400 on July 7. Stewart took the lead on the last lap by passing Daytona 500 winner Matt Kenseth. He was at one time 42nd out of 43 cars.

Kyle Busch took the JalapeĂąo 250, which was highlighted by plenty of wrecks, including a 12car pileup on July 6.

Excited fans Fans from all over the world and even locals from all walks of life come to enjoy the races.

Ishmael Qawiy attended the Coke Zero 400 and enjoyed the race. Qawiy is originally from Daytona and is a Mainland High alumni. He now resides in Clinton, Md. “I enjoyed it. It was exciting.

I’m not really a fan, but I grew up around it. It was my second race that I attended as a spectator. I have also worked the races in the past. Races are a lot better seeing in person. We sat in the infield and it was different from sitting in the general admission grandstand. I loved the crashes and the last 10 laps were the most exciting,� responded Qawiy.

Still lacks Blacks Qawiy, who is Black, believes the sport needs to do more to attract more Blacks to it at all levels. “There weren’t a whole lot of us in attendance. NASCAR has a history or image of being a goodold-boy sport. I think that Blacks are comfortable at the races. I think more needs to be done to get us interested. There are hardly any Black drivers,� said Qawiy.

Mike Micallef lives and works in Daytona. Micallef attends both races each year while rooting for his favorite driver, Dale Earnhardt, Jr. He says NASCAR has attempted to diversify but more can be

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Fans clamor to photograph driver Jeff Gordon before the start of NASCAR’s Sprint Cup series Coke Zero 400 at Daytona International Speedway on July 7. done. “I think that NASCAR has definitely tried to diversify. At races you can see a very diverse fan base. Maybe more can possibly be done to advertise to other demographics to get them involved at all levels of the sport,� stated Micallef.

Plenty to see Last weekend, Micallef took in more than the race. “My friends and I had tower seats and got to see entire track.

The stands were full. We did all pre-race activities, including the Fan Zone and the Garage. We saw the music group Train perform and put on a great show. We watched the entire race. It was a great race and everyone enjoyed themselves,� he said.

Difference in races Although both the Daytona 500 and Coke Zero 400 races and their surrounding weekends are enjoyable, there is a difference. “There is definitely a difference

between the two races. The Daytona 500 is the biggest of NASCAR races. It’s their Super Bowl and it starts off their season. There are more events going on like the Budweiser Shoot Out, Gatorade Duel, Truck race and etc.,� Micallef noted. “There are also more fans in town for the 500 than the 400. The 500 is the race that every driver wants to win. If you win that, you go down in history.’’ Nevertheless, this month’s races were full of excitement for race fans.

Those who attended the races like the atmosphere provided at the venue. “It’s sweet the hospitality is great. Everyone is first-class with what they try to serve you,’’ Micallef commented.

Added Qawiy, “There is definitely a lot to do other than watch the race with all the activities, entertainment and food. It’s a funfilled family atmosphere provided at the races in Daytona.’’

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Tony Stewart celebrates after winning the Coke Zero 400 NASCAR Sprint Cup race at Daytona International Speedway on July 7.

ries to document a number of indicators of their children’s health, including runny noses, coughs and ear infections.

Parents also noted when their babies were given antibiotics. When the children celebrated their first birthdays, the parents were asked to complete a questionnaire.

Dogs vs. cats

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The Obamas play with Bo, their Portuguese Water Dog, at the White House on April 14, 2009. A new study shows that having dogs around children can be healthy.

Study finds dogs and cats can help babies’ health

BY AMINA KHAN LOS ANGELES TIMES (MCT)

Fido the dog and Ginger the cat need not worry about being replaced by a new baby – in fact, they could be helping parents raise healthier children.

A new study finds that children who lived with dogs or cats during their first year of life got sick less frequently than kids from pet-free zones.

The study, published in

Monday’s edition of the journal Pediatrics, provides fresh evidence for the counterintuitive notion that an overly clean environment may not be ideal for babies.

Sharing a home with a pet may be an early form of cross-training for the body’s defense systems.

Previous research has shown that owning a cat or dog was associated with less risk of gastroenteritis in young children.

Helpful bacteria Studies also suggest that the dirt – and microbes – brought indoors by pets could bolster the communities of helpful bacteria, yeast and other microscopic creatures that live in a developing child’s body.

For instance, a paper presented last month at a meeting of the American Society for Microbiology showed that mice fed dust from homes with dogs

were less likely than other mice to contract respiratory syncytial virus, which is thought to play a role in the development of childhood asthma.

In addition, the composition of microbes in their guts was significantly different from that of mice that were not exposed to doggy dust.

397 kids tracked For the new study, European researchers tracked the health of 397 Finnish children born between September 2002 and May 2005.

When the infants were nine weeks old, parents began keeping weekly dia-

Overall, the researchers found that cats and dogs were linked to a reduced incidence of various types of illness.

The effect was stronger for dogs than for cats: Babies who lived with dogs were 31 percent more likely to be in good health than their counterparts who didn’t, and babies with cats had a six percent advantage over those without feline family members.

The children with pet dogs were 44 percent less likely to develop ear infections and 29 percent less likely to have used antibiotics during their first year, the report said.

Here’s where the plot thickened: Although living with a cat or dog was correlated with good health, the benefit was biggest when those pets weren’t around the house very much.

Puzzling pattern In cat-owning households, babies whose cats were indoors more than 16 hours a day were healthy 70.8 percent of the time.

But in homes where the cat was inside for less than six hours a day, babies were healthy 78.2 percent of the time.

For the sake of comparison, young children who lived in cat-free zones were healthy 66.1 percent of the time.

A similar pattern held for dogs: Kids with homebody canines were healthy

72.2 percent of the time, and that figure rose to 75.7 percent for children whose dogs spent fewer than six hours indoors each day.

In dogless households, babies were healthy 64.8 percent of the time.

The researchers offered a possible explanation for the puzzling pattern: Pets that spent more time outdoors brought more dirt into their homes, giving babies more opportunities to encounter it.

That exposure could have caused their immune systems to mature faster than they would have otherwise, they wrote.

Healthier first year Until now, studies on the ways pets influence human health have largely focused on allergies, not illness, said Dr. Danelle Fisher, vice chair of pediatrics at St. John’s Health Center in Santa Monica, Calif., who wasn’t involved in the study. “It’s more support in a growing body of evidence that exposure to pets early in life can stimulate the immune system to do a better job of fighting off infection,� Fisher said.

The new findings could help assuage parents-tobe who worry about the health consequences of exposing their infant to a pet. “What I always tell them is this: It’s actually very helpful to have a cat or dog around because we tend to see less allergies,� Fisher said. “And now I can tell them we’ve even seen less chance of upper respiratory infection in the first year of life.�

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JULY 12 - JULY 18, 2012

Still sharing words and music for the soul Ricky McKinnie discusses long career with Blind Boys of Alabama

player Tracy Pierce. “We have musicians and then we have the Blind Boys,� McKinnie explained. “To be a member of the Blind Boys organization, we look for blind singers.�

BY MELISSA RUGGIERI ATLANTA JOURNAL-CONSTITUTION (MCT)

ATLANTA – In the back room of a small house, Ricky McKinnie sits in front of a row of Grammy trophies. The five awards, received between 2001 and 2008, are offset by one other Grammy, the special one bestowed upon the Blind Boys of Alabama in 2009. “How many people have a lifetime achievement Grammy?� asks McKinnie’s brother, Chuck Shivers, the tour manager of one of the most unique groups in music history.

Indeed, the Blind Boys of Alabama, a collaboration that originated at the Alabama Institute for the Negro Blind in 1939, has witnessed a rotating cast of members during its tenure, released more than 50 gospel-soul albums and worked with artists ranging from Tom Petty to Bonnie Raitt to Peter Gabriel to Al Green.

Blind at 23 For the past 22 years, McKinnie has been an official member, but, in a cosmic twist, he and the Blind Boys actually first met when McKinnie was 5 years old.

Now, weeks from turning 60, the soft-spoken McKinnie talks about his early musical history and his mother, Sarah McKinnie Shivers, a career singer whose touring patterns often crossed paths with the Blind Boys’ decades ago.

McKinnie wasn’t blind when he encountered the group as a child. Glaucoma robbed him of his sight at 23, a little more than a de-

Fall tour planned

peppering his conversation with comments that might sound like fortune cookie platitudes, but to him, express his outlook on life.

While he isn’t sure if the Blind Boys of Alabama will last forever with a revolving group of vocalists, McKinnie is hopeful that there are enough young, blind singers out there willing to “keep that sound and have integrity.�

But there is no shortage of plans for this current crew.

They’ll tour in the fall with Dr. John and then, McKinnie hopes, work on a new release, one that he’s pushing to be a “back-to-ourroots� record.

Their annual Christmas tour will take place as usual. The Blind Boys’ most recent album, last year’s country-leaning “Take the High Road,� signified a departure from their expected sound.

Out front

No self-pity

“People have come to understand that our disability doesn’t have to be a handicap,� he said, later noting, “I never underestimated myself as to who I am and what I’m about. It’s not who people say you are. It’s who you know you are.�

McKinnie, who has always been a singing drummer and counts Buddy Miles among his early favorites because he, too, pulled double duty, is spending more time at the front of the stage on Blind Boys of Alabama dates.

Jimmy Carter, billed as an original member since he was enrolled in the Alabama institute when the group started performing, but was too young to join them, is the elder statesman and lead singer.

“When we hit the stage, we tell the crowd that the Blind Boys don’t like a conservative crowd. We like a noisy crowd. We come out with ‘People Get Ready’ and ‘Spirit in the Sky,’ and then in the middle of it, we take ‘em back to church,�

McKinnie said with a soft laugh.

Though he’s endured significant physical hardships, McKinnie chose long ago not to wallow in self-pity, but turn his challenges into growth experiences. “We all have limitations,� he said. “We (in the Blind Boys) show people that no matter what your situation is, you can make it if you try.

If you can dream the dream, do the work and keep the faith, you’re going to be all right.�

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Ricky McKinnie, one of the original Blind Boys of Alabama, is shown in Atlanta on June 12. cade after he started playing drums. He had his own set then, a small kit marked with his name that is still in his mother’s possession – a few footsteps away in the neighboring house where the Atlanta native grew up with his four siblings.

40-year career “God has been good to me. My career started 40 years ago and since then, I’ve been able to sing with so many noted groups,�

McKinnie said, citing Troy Ramey & the Soul Searchers in Atlanta and the Gospel Keynotes in Texas, before he returned home to start the Ricky McKinnie Singers with his mother in the late ‘70s.

The pair also launched the weekly radio show “Words and Music for Your Soul� on WYZE, which they both still host at 9 a.m. every Sunday.

McKinnie, who is also the team’s business manager, is a force of positivity,

This holiday CD was released in 2004.

Privileged position Ben Moore and Billy Bowers usually form the rest of the front line of singers. But Bowers recently was injured and underwent back surgery, so McKinnie is taking his place at the microphone. It’s a move he agreed to with trademark acceptance.

“I feel privileged to be up front with the other guys.

But I’m comfortable wherever I am,� he said.

Joining the trio are music director-guitarist Joey Williams, drummer Austin Moore and organist Peter Levin. At a recent Atlanta show, bassist Ben Odom filled in for regular bass

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