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VOLUME 21 NO. 49

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DECEMBER 6 - DECEMBER 12, 2013

DECORATIONS, DISPARITIES

Another Civil War fight

As the first lady gets the White House ready for Christmas visitors, the president refocuses on income inequality and responds to a Chinese attempt to control airspace. COMPILED FROM WIRE REPORTS

service programs to residents of a low-income area of Washington. The event was organized by the Center for American Progress, a think tank with close ties to the White House that released a series of reports Wednesday showing that income inequality does not produce sustained economic growth. Obama’s speech comes amid growing international attention on the issues that even included a wide-ranging document by Pope Francis denouncing the global financial system.

WASHINGTON, D.C. – First Lady Michelle Obama unveiled the 2013 holiday decorations at the White House Wednesday, officially kicking off a season that will bring tens of thousands to the first family’s adopted home for a series of parties and tours. Meanwhile, across town, her husband focused attention – again – on the growing income disparity between rich and poor that he says is a top problem for the country, but which persists five years into his presidency. President Obama spoke at the Challenges GOP Town Hall Education Arts RecThe president called anew on reation Campus, which provides Republicans to embrace his preeducational, cultural and social scriptions of government help,

Rebel and Union descendants, supporters scrap over monument BY MARGIE MENZEL NEWS SERVICE OF FLORIDA

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First Lady Michelle Obama welcomes military families to a tour of holiday decorations at the White House on Wednesday, Dec. 4, 2013, in Washington, DC. from jobless benefits to a higher minimum wage. Republicans said Obama’s policies make things worse, not better. “I believe this is the defining challenge of our time, making sure our economy works for every

working American,” Obama said. “That’s why I ran for president. It was the center of last year’s campaign. It drives everything I do in this office.” His remarks follow a central See OBAMA, Page A2

WORLD AIDS DAY 2013

The White House remembers

LAKE CITY – The state parks system is on the hot seat and a House leader is calling for action over a proposed monument to Union soldiers at the site of the biggest Civil War battle fought in Florida. The bid to add a Union monument to the Olustee Battlefield Historic State Park near Lake City has drawn a furious response, with about 100 people attending a Monday night public hearing at the Columbia County School District Auditorium. Representatives of the Florida Department of Environmental Protection, which oversees the state parks, moderated the hearing. Passions ran high, at one point erupting in a spontaneous chorus of “Dixie” led by a Black man, H.K. Edgerton, who called Union soldiers “rapists” and wielded his large Confederate flag like a conductor’s baton as the audience sang.

‘Rest in peace’ Speakers blasted the proposal as disturbing hallowed ground in a rural community where most families stay for generations. “Putting a Union monument at Olustee would be like placing a memorial to Jane Fonda at the entrance to the Vietnam memorial,” said Leon Duke. “Men died there. Let their spirits rest in peace,” said Nansea Marham Miller, who is descended from a Confederate soldier who died at Olustee. “Let my grandfather rest in peace.” The park is in the Osceola National Forest, 50 miles west of Jacksonville and 15 miles east of Lake City. It was the site of a four-hour battle on Feb. 20, 1864, in which Union forces were routed by Confederate troops.

First state park

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In 1909, the Florida Legislature acquired three acres there to build a memorial. In 1912, Olustee became the first state

A huge red ribbon hung on the North Portico of the White House in recognition of World AIDS Day on Sunday, Dec. 1.

Study: Fat and healthy is a myth BY MELISSA HEALY LOS ANGELES TIMES / MCT

Your body mass index (BMI) says you’re obese, but you don’t have “pre-diabetes” – a mix of factors such as hypertension, high cholesterol and high glucose levels that indicates you’re on the road to metabolic illness. And you’re thinking you’ve beaten the odds, right? Wait 10 years, a new study says. Odds are, you’ll be proven wrong. New research finds that even when a person is “metabolically healthy,” being obese raises his BITA HONARVAR/ or her risk for cardiovascular ATLANTA JOURNAL-CONSTITUTION/MCT disease and premature death. Judi Mason walks for exercise in PiedIt just takes a study that tracks mont Park in Atlanta. subjects for 10 years or more to

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pick it up, says the study, pub- no means universal among lished this week in the Annals those with BMIs over 30. Those findings had fueled of Internal Medicine. resistance to the nationwide assault on obesity from those Obesity is unhealthy The meta-analysis – a study who argued they were “fat but that aggregates the findings of fit.” The latest study does less many well-designed studies in damage to the growing susan effort to distill larger truths – appears to dash hopes that for picion that it’s OK to be oversome, obesity can be a perfect- weight – with a body mass index between 25 and 30 – if ly healthy state. In recent years, a welter of you’re metabolically healthy. research has suggested that the On average, cardiovascular disillnesses long linked to obesity ease and death from any cause – cardiovascular disease, Type was not higher among the 2 diabetes and certain cancers overweight-but-metabolically– might stem not from obesity healthy than it was for those of itself but from metabolic dys- normal weight who were metafunction, a condition more bolically healthy. See STUDY, Page A2 common in the obese but by

See FIGHT, Page A2

SNAPSHOTS FLORIDA | A3

Teens’ ‘sexting’ photos end up on porn websites Pinellas County supervisor, Detzner resolve dispute NATION | A6

MLK kids at odds with Young FINEST & ENTERTAINMENT | B5

Meet Kimberly

Braxton, Thicke win Soul Train awards

COMMENTARY: CHARLES W. CHERRY II: RANDOM THOUGHTS OF A FREE BLACK MIND | A4 COMMENTARY: MARK MORIAL: AFFORDABLE CARE ACT A NEW WEAPON IN FIGHT AGAINST AIDS | A5


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