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N E W S B RI E F S ONE IN FIVE METROCARD SWIPES FAIL, MTA FINDS The odds of having to swipe your MetroCard more than once at a subway turnstyle are one in five, according to the Metropolitan Transportation Authority.

The error rate comes from an agency document on the benefits of new payment systems.

The agency is considering contact-less payment systems to speed up swiping.

The MTA says expired or damaged cards could account for some of the swiping errors, as can riders who swipe too quickly or slowly.

NEW MTA BUSES ON THE WAY FOR AUGUST Metropolitan Transit Authority officials said Tuesday that over 300 new low-floor buses will hit the streets beginning in August.

The new buses, which cost about $230 million, will replace rigs that were in use since the 1990s.

MTA officials said some routes could see less service because bigger “accordion” buses will be used instead of the standard 40-foot long models, which run more frequently.

Agency officials also said any service reduction will be “negligible.”

ASSEMBLY PASSES BILL REQUIRING TRUCK MIRRORS A bill requiring large trucks to be equipped with mirrors to eliminate blind spots has cleared its final legislative hurdle.

The state Assembly approved the legislation that seeks to prevent injuries caused when truck drivers are unable to see pedestrians in front of their vehicles.

A number of fatalities in the city have been blamed on these mirrors not being installed on trucks.

Governor Andrew Cuomo is now reviewing the bill before deciding whether to sign it into law.

CITY UNVEILS NEW CLOTHES RECYCLING PROGRAM The Sanitation Department and the Mayor’s Office announced in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, on Tuesday a partnership with Housing Works for a new initiative to recycle old clothes, called refashionNYC. Apartment buildings can apply for a free bin to collect used clothing, making it easier for residents to donate.

“They have the ability to recycle right there in the building. They don’t have to start looking through the neighborhood or carrying it someplace. It’s right there. It’s convenient and accessible,” said Sanitation Commissioner John Doherty.

“The city estimates there’s 20,000 tons of clothing that’s thrown out by New York City residences, so if we even get a part of that, it would be a huge expansion,” said Housing Works Senior Vice President Matthew Bernardo.

All clothing collected will be used to fund Housing Works services for homeless and low-income New Yorkers living with HIV and AIDS. For more information about the program, visit nyc.gov/refashionnyc.

Civil rights Freedom Riders return after 50 years

By MONIQUE FIELDS JACKSON, Miss. — Bill Harbour didn’t tell his parents he planned to protest segregation at bus stations across the South.

But they soon found out their 19year-old son was a Freedom Rider the way many people found out about the civil rights movement.

“They saw me on TV, saw me getting arrested in Birmingham,” he said.

Hank Thomas, also 19, kept his plans secret from his parents too. “It was for their sake more than mine,” Thomas said.

Harbour, Thomas and other Freedom Riders returned on Tuesday to Jackson, Mississippi, where many of them were arrested 50 years ago.

They flooded the streets in front of the Greyhound bus station to commemorate the Freedom Rides that ultimately helped end segregation in southern bus stations, train stations and airports.

The site is now part of the Mississippi Freedom Trail, a program designed to commemorate the state’s civil rights history.

The first marker honoring the Freedom Riders, who risked their lives for desegregation, stands in memory of Emmett Till near Bryant’s Store in the town of Money. The second is at Medgar Evers’ House in Jackson, and the third is at the Greyhound station.

“I don’t know about you, but I am glad they did,” said state Senator John Horhn, who was six when the Freedom Riders arrived in Jackson.

The tone of the week-long festivities in Jackson at times resembled a church revival. It was at times celebratory and melancholy. Local and state politicians said they were honored.

Governor Haley Barbour apologized for the state’s behavior in 1961. Some called Freedom Riders heroes and sheroes, applauded their efforts and giving them standing ovations. Others simply said thank you.

Greyhound buses bring a couple hundred Freedom Riders, their families and students to the Mississippi State Penitentiary in Parchman, Miss. as part of their Mississippi Delta civil rights tour.

“You provided the foundation, the launching pad, as I said last night, because so many of you remained in Mississippi,” said Leslie Burl McLemore, director of the Fannie Lou Hamer National Institute on Citizenship and Democracy at Jackson State University.

In the afternoon, Freedom Riders boarded a modern Greyhound bus for the half-mile trek from the Jackson Marriott Hotel to the site of the original Trailways bus station. They were escorted by Jackson police cars, and a cadre of Freedom Singers belted out Negro hymns as they made their entrance.

“Ain’t gonna let nobody turn me round, turn me round, turn me around,” they sang before the Freedom Riders exited the bus.

The reception was in stark contrast to what happened 50 years ago. Upset the federal government was not enforcing desegregation in bus, rail stations and airports throughout the South, James Farmer, the head of the of the Congress of Racial Equality, or CORE, decided to deliberately integrate bus stations along a route from Washington to New Orleans.

The original 13 Freedom Riders, including now-U.S. Representative

John Lewis, made their way south without much trouble, while buses that followed in their wake were met with violence.

On May 24, 1961, 27 young men and women, both Black and white, arrived in Jackson. All were arrested, charged with breach of the peace and quickly convicted.

They had two choices: serve 67 days or pay a $200 fine. The protestors used a third option. They invited new Freedom Riders to come to Jackson, get arrested and fill the jails. In all, 329 people were arrested.

Harbour, a student at Tennessee State University in Nashville, didn’t tell his family in Piedmont, Alabama, about the Freedom Rides because he was trying to protect them. It didn’t work.

His father was harassed at work, and his mother lost her job as a domestic worker. His siblings were taunted at school.

While he served 49 days in city, county and state jails, his mother told him not to come home because people she believed to be Ku Klux Klan members had been asking about him and watching his family in their homes. It was 2-1/2 years before he returned home.

NYC residents may prefer taxes to cuts: watchdog

By JOAN GRALLA New York City has sliced its way to fiscal health under Mayor Michael Bloomberg, but the political independent could be forced to raise taxes if the public rejects more service cuts, a fiscal watchdog group’s report said on Tuesday.

Bloomberg previously backed property, sales and income tax hikes — some of which were temporary — to help close deficits in his first two fouryear terms. But since beginning his third term in January 2010, he has repeatedly spurned such measures.

Instead, the mayor in March ordered a 10th round of budget cuts.

Despite some fierce opposition, Bloomberg says he keeps demanding that city agencies “do more with less,” and he has not retreated from plans to lay off nearly 5,000 teachers, and close 20 fire companies.

Education advocates say laying off so many teachers could dent Bloomberg’s legacy for improving city schools.

Safety advocates say closing fire companies creates risks of delaying firefighters from arriving at blazes until too late.

“As the cuts mount, it may become increasingly difficult to maintain levels of service expected by the public,” said the report by the Independent Budget Office, a fiscal watchdog.

“Whether the budget can continue to be balanced with a focus on just the spending side of the city’s ledger is a key question facing the Mayor and the Council,” the report added.

New York City’s Democratic-led City Council has yet to approve the mayor’s budget plan. The city, unlike most of its peers, has its own income tax. So like states with similar levies, New York City has seen this revenue rise with the improving economy.

This also has aided business taxes.

The Independent Budget Office is more optimistic about the revenue outlook than the mayor. The watchdog predicts that, for example, the city will have an $84 million surplus when the new budget for fiscal 2012 ends next

June 30.

Bloomberg told reporters that $84 million was “a very small amount of money” in the context of a $65 billion budget, adding that windfall could be completely wiped out by just one adverse court decision or a new mandate from the state or federal government that the city is required to fund.

Before the 2008 credit crunch, Wall Street — the Big Apple’s engine of growth — helped the city capture a bonanza in extra tax revenue. But the Dodd-Frank financial regulations might make it harder for Wall Street to be as profitable as it was previously, some critics of the measures fear.

“The city doesn’t have the kind of money that it used to,” Bloomberg said.

Though the mayor says he has compressed spending increases to less than the rate of inflation since taking office — with one exception being school funding — pension costs have gone up $7 billion a year due to sweeter benefits approved by the state government.

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Obama: U.S. and Europe must lead on Middle East

By STEVE HOLLAND and JEFF MASON LONDON — President Barack Obama declared the U.S.-European alliance as vital as ever and said it must use its influence to push for democratic reforms in the Middle East.

Obama outlined a manifesto for responding to “Arab Spring” uprisings as he became the first U.S. president to address both houses of the British parliament in Westminster Hall, whose walls are steeped in 1,000 years of British history.

“Ultimately, freedom must be won by the people themselves, not imposed from without. But we can and must stand with those who so struggle,” he said.

His speech was aimed at reassuring Europe, where there is some sense that the United States is turning its attention elsewhere in the face of fierce diplomatic challenges from Asia and the Arab world.

In a speech anchoring his fournation European trip, Obama said it was up to the United States, Britain and their European allies to lead at a time when the world was being tested by economic turmoil, Arab revolutions, Islamic militants, climate change and efforts to spread nuclear weapons.

It is a message he will carry today to Deauville, France, where leaders of the Group of Eight powers meet.

The audience at Westminster Hall, which has been used for coronation banquets and the lying-in-

state of deceased monarchs, included former prime ministers Tony Blair, Gordon Brown and John Major and even actor Tom Hanks.

All applauded when Obama, who had played up his Irish roots in Ireland earlier in the week, said it was an honor “for the grandson of a Kenyan who served as a cook in the British Army to stand before you as president of the United States.”

Obama rejected those who say the time of American and European influence around the world has passed as the likes of China, Brazil and India claim a bigger place on the world stage.

“That argument is wrong,” he said. “The time for our leadership is now ... Our alliance will remain indispensible to the goal of a century that is more peaceful, more prosperous and more just.”

Robin Niblett, director of the foreign policy think tank Chatham House, told Reuters that the priorities Obama had listed “are going to require a broader set of partners than were in this chamber.”

At home, critics have accused Obama of responding too slowly to developments in the Arab world and contributing to a stalemate in Libya, where leader Muammar Gaddafi is

showing no sign of yielding to a rebellion.

With some wondering why he has not applied similar pressure to President Bashar al-Assad to stop a bloody crackdown in Syria, Obama said: “We cannot stop every injustice.”

Obama, who is under pressure at home not to engage in another foreign military entanglement, cautioned that it would take time for the uprisings in a string of nations from Egypt to Syria to play themselves out.

“It will be years before these revolutions reach their conclusion, and there will be difficult days along the way. Power rarely gives up without a fight,” he said.

Eager to begin removing some U.S. troops from Afghanistan in July, Obama said the United States was now preparing to turn a corner there and that, during the transition period, “we will pursue a lasting peace with those who break from al Qaeda and respect the Afghan constitution.”

Earlier, at a joint news conference, Obama and British Prime Minister David Cameron predicted that Gaddafi would ultimately leave power. Cameron did not deny French reports that Britain is considering using attack helicopters alongside France against Libyan targets to increase the heat on Gaddafi.

“We will be looking at all the options for turning up that pressure,” he said when asked about the helicopters.

Survey: Americans want to ‘keep Medicaid as it is’

By LISA LAMBERT WASHINGTON — More than half of Americans do not want Medicaid funding cut and are skeptical of changing how the federal government funds the healthcare program for the poor, according to a Kaiser Family Foundation survey released yesterday.

Currently, U.S. states administer Medicaid with partial reimbursements from the federal government.

The healthcare reform law passed last year made more people eligible for the program and also increased some rates of reimbursement.

Recently, Republicans in Congress have floated the idea of moving away from reimbursements and toward sending states a set amount of money each year for the program, which can take up a third of a state’s budget.

Kaiser’s survey found that 60 percent of people “would prefer to keep Medicaid as it is, with the federal government guaranteeing coverage and setting minimum standards for benefits and eligibility.”

Only 13 percent supported major reductions in Medicaid spending in order to drive down the U.S. deficit, and 30 percent supported minor reductions.

Medicaid was thrust into the spotlight this week as President Barack

Obama’s administration and Congress work to close a deal to reduce the deficit by $1 trillion.

In recent talks, negotiators examined Medicaid along with Medicare, the health insurance program for the elderly, saying the two forms of assistance represent nearly a quarter of all federal spending.

Kaiser said Americans have a strong attachment to Medicaid, with about half reporting that someone in their life has received the assistance at some time. It added about 69 million people will be covered by Medicaid this year.

As the recession that began in 2007 drove the U.S. unemployment rate up to 10 percent, many who lost their jobs and employee-sponsored health insurance turned to Medicaid. This created an additional stress for states, which were having to also pay for unemployment compensation while their revenues dropped to the lowest levels in decades.

The 2009 federal stimulus plan pitched in extra money for Medicaid, the last of which will be sent in June.

Some governors, such as Mississippi’s Haley Barbour, support the idea of funding Medicaid as a block grant.

Republicans, including the House of Representatives Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton and Senate Finance Committee ranking

member Orrin Hatch, are calling for reforms to the program to drive down costs.

“We are concerned that the program is failing patients; is a target for waste, fraud, and abuse; and is bankrupting both state and federal governments,” the two leaders said in a letter to all 50 governors earlier this week.

Republicans say block grants would also give states more control over the program.

Many Democrats counter the grants would keep the program from responding quickly to a surge in demand such as that seen during the recession. They say that means block grants will leave states paying more for the program.

Memorial service for Manning Marable A memorial service to celebrate the life of the late Columbia University Professor Manning Marable, author of the recently released “Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention,” will be held today in the university’s Alfred Lerner Hall, 2920 Broadway at 115th Street.

The service will start at 5:30 p.m.

It’s sponsored by Columbia’s Institute for Research in African-American Studies and its Center for Contemporary Black History. Marable, a leading Black history scholar, died last month just days before his book was published.

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‘Maids’ deserve protection against sexual assault

By GARY L. FLOWERS

THOMAS H. WATKINS

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On Saturday, May 16, 2011, the western world was shocked to learn that a world banker, Dominique Strauss Kahn, had been arrested for allegedly attempting to rape a woman and sexually assault her in an upscale hotel room in Manhattan, New York. However, the reporting of the story rang alltoo familiar for working-class and immigrant people in the United States and around the world.

Nearly every report on the incident provided a career biographical sketch on Mr. Strauss Kahn, but referred to the nameless victim as merely a “maid”, “chamber maid”, “cleaning woman”, or other less than dignified titles. The effect of such titles on the victim reduces her to a status lower than mother, daughter, and human being.

One thing we know about the victim she is a 32-year old single mother from West Africa, who falls into the economic category of “working poor.”

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During the Trans Atlantic Slave Trade, African women were routinely raped within prevailing law.

Conversely, imagine if a wealthy Black man stood accused of raping a White hotel employee? First, the woman would not be called a “chamber maid”, but rather referred to by a more dignified title. The Black man, of course, would not be allowed to post bail and live in a luxury condo while awaiting trial.

Therefore, the United States Congress and the United Nations should pressure the International Monetary Fund to: 1) Elect the first woman to head the IMF; and 2) Establish strict policies and regulations against the sexual brutalization of women. Out of this tragedy perhaps new rules with be enacted.

— Gary L. Flowers is the Executive Director & CEO of the Black Leadership Forum, Inc.

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‘Fighting cuts to child care’

By MARIAN WRIGHT EDELMAN New York City parent Yvonne works as a home care attendant to help support her three-year-old son Darnell. While Yvonne is working, Darnell is enrolled at Franklin Square Head Start, part of Union Settlement in East Harlem, where he receives quality child care and is thriving. Earlier this year Yvonne received a letter saying Darnell would be dropped from the program on September 2, 2011.

Yvonne can’t afford a private preschool and she can’t leave Darnell home alone. Without other affordable options, when September comes Yvonne will have nowhere for Darnell to go while she works.

On New York’s Lower East Side, Macology’s father MacDonald drops her off at the Lillian Wald Pre-School every morning after his night shift and her mother picks her up in the evening on the way home from her job.

MacDonald and his wife are enrolled

in school and working to support their three children. Quality child care like the Lillian Ward Pre-School, where Macology gets to participate in dance, music, and gym, is essential to their If Macology loses her family. preschool place in September her parents don’t know what they will do.

Darnell, Macology, and their parents are among thousands of families in limbo in New York City since Mayor Bloomberg announced a draconian cut earlier this year of 17,000 child care slots effective September 2nd. These cuts would hurt many working families with children. The city had already cut 14,000 slots since 2006 and currently only serves 27 percent of the children eligible for child care subsidies. Cutting another 17,000 spaces would make this sizeable shortfall even worse. Thousands of nurses, cashiers, home health aides, and small business employees would be in a bind as families who work hard and pay taxes wouldn’t be able to go to work because they were losing their child care. So the Children’s Defense Fund-

New York (CDF-NY) joined dozens of other organizations to form the Emergency Coalition to Save Children and released a report protesting the Mayor’s drastic cuts. In early May, Mayor Bloomberg released a revised budget proposal that restored $40 million of the original $91 million that had been cut in funding. While a positive first step, this budget will still result in at least 7,000 fewer low-income children having access to early childhood opportunities next year. In addition, the budget increased the cut to afterschool programming, leaving almost 16,000 youths without after-school services.

New York City’s debate reflects what’s happening across the country as states and cities try to balance budgets by cutting child care services for working families. In 36 states and the District of Columbia, the annual cost of center-based child care for a four-yearold exceeds the annual in-state tuition at a public four-year college. As costs continue to rise and families continue to struggle in this fragile economy, it

is time for state and local governments to expand rather than cut access to early learning opportunities for children making it harder for parents to afford and find appropriate care. As Mayra Delgado, another New York City parent of a three-year-old and a legal assistant in a law firm, put it: “If the city takes my son out of child care, I won’t be able to keep my job and support my family. In tough times, the child care that working families depend on should be the last thing the Mayor and City Council cut.” I agree.

Read the report “When There is No Care: The Impact on NYC Children, Families and Economy When the Mayor Eliminates Child Care for 17,000 Children” and join the coalition in standing up for children and families.

— Marian Wright Edelman is President of the Children’s Defense Fund whose Leave No Child Behind® mission is to ensure every child a Healthy Start, a Head Start, a Fair Start, a Safe Start and a Moral Start in life and successful passage to adulthood with the help of caring families and communities. For more information go to www.childrensdefense.org.

New England ‘99ers’ need unemployment help and jobs

By MARC H. MORIAL “It’s been tough. Very tough. I’m figuring I’m not getting any job. I have no experience, and I can’t get any experience without getting any jobs.”

— 23-year-old Darrell Davis of Springfield, MA Darrell Davis is just one of hundreds of discouraged, long-term unemployed people we met during last week’s “Jobs Rebuild America” tour in New England. Our visit to Boston and Springfield, MA; Bridgeport, New Haven, Hartford, and Stamford, CT; and Providence, RI put a human face on the unemployment crisis in urban America and confirmed the need for immediate targeted action to rescue those who have been most profoundly affected.

I’m extremely grateful to my host CEOs – Darnell Williams, of the Urban League of Eastern Massachusetts; Dennis Langley, of the Urban League of Rhode Island, Adrienne W. Cochrane, of the Urban league of Greater Hartford, Henry M. Thomas III, of the Urban League of Springfield, and Valarie Schultz-Wilson, of the Urban League of Southern Connecticut – not only for a successful tour but also for their hard work and dedication in the War on Unemployment.

Many may have assumed that New England, home to great universities like Yale, Brown, and Harvard, would be immune to the kind of economic hardship more commonly associated with areas like Appalachia and the Mississippi Delta and cities like Newark and Detroit. But, in Springfield, African American unemploy-

ment has skyrocketed to more than 25 percent. In Providence, Latino and African American men are twice as likely as white men to be unemployed and in Bridgeport, there is a large group of “99ers” — people who have been unemployed for more than 99 weeks, and have exhausted their extensions of unemployment benefits.

Clearly, New England has not escaped the ravages of the great recession.

That is why education and training for 21st century jobs is the centerpiece of the National Urban League’s 12point Jobs Rebuild America plan.

And, it is why for more than two years we have relentlessly urged Washington to pass a real jobs bill that puts five million teenagers to work, strengthens public-private partnerships to train and hire more people in growth industries, and does more to inspire and motivate young people and recent college graduates.

The voices of “no” in Washington say we can’t afford to make these critical job-creating investments. But, many of the people who are now latterday budget-cutters, never raised objections or threw the yellow flag when trillions of dollars were being spent by Congress to fund wars, bail out banks or support large tax cuts for Americans with high incomes.

In Springfield, nearly 1,500 jobseekers arrived at the Urban League job fair, where they met more than 40 employers looking for workers. At the Workplace, Inc. job training site in Bridgeport, we met a number of “99ers” who are in danger of losing health care and their homes. The Labor Department’s April jobs report revealed that the number of unemployed who have been out of work for more than 99 weeks increased by 21,000 to a record 1,920,000 or 14.5

percent of all unemployed. But, instead of supporting Representative Barbara Lee’s H.R. 589, which would extend unemployment benefits another 14 weeks for those facing a final cut-off, House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Dave Camp has introduced legislation that would allow states to shift $31billion of 2011 federal unemployment funds to, in part, provide corporate tax relief.

This is an outrage. Our trip to New England made it clear: at a time when corporate profits are soaring, it is

morally indefensible to give businesses more tax breaks while the longterm unemployed are left to fend for themselves.

We will return to New England July 27-30 for the “Jobs Rebuild America” National Urban League conference in Boston. To register for the conference visit: http://www.nul.org/conference/.

— Marc H. Morial is the President and CEO of the National Urban League.

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South Carolina House passes illegal immigration bill

By HARRIET MCLEOD CHARLESTON, South Carolina — South Carolina’s House of Representatives approved on Tuesday a comprehensive illegal immigration bill that would allow police to ask for citizenship documentation from anyone they stop or detain for another reason.

It would also allow police to hold a person who fails to provide documentation until their citizenship status is determined.

The Republican-controlled

House on Tuesday night voted 69-43 to approve a Senate bill and added amendments. The Senate must concur. If it does not, a conference committee will reconcile the two houses’ differences.

South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley is expected to sign the bill.

The South Carolina law also calls for the creation of a special Illegal Immigration Enforcement Unit within the state police department to work with federal Immigration and Customs officials.

The law would make it a crime to travel within the

state without proper documentation or to transport or harbor any undocumented person within the state. It also punishes employers who hire undocumented workers.

“It has become abundantly clear that if we want something done about illegal immigration, we’re going to have to do it ourselves,” House Speaker Bobby Harrell said.

“This bill gives our state’s law enforcement officers another valuable tool to use in the day-to-day fight they wage to enforce our immigration laws.”

During debate on Tuesday, Democrats questioned the cost and constitutionality of the bill.

“If you happen to have an accent you’re going to be subject to this,” said Democratic Representative Joseph Neal. “How long can you hold someone on the side of the road while you check their legality? What happens if you hold somebody for hours because you can’t get a response from the federal government?”

“South Carolina is too determined to be locked into the Republican national agenda,” said Democratic

Representative David Mack.

“I believe this bill is racist, it’s mean and it’s punitive.”

Georgia passed an illegal immigration bill earlier this month. Utah passed comprehensive immigration in March that was blocked by a federal judge. Alabama, Oklahoma and Texas are considering immigration legislation this session.

Arizona-style laws have been rejected or failed to advance during the 2011 legislative session in California, Colorado, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Mississippi, Nebraska, New Hampshire, South Dakota and Wyoming.

New tests of U.S. airport scanners find radiation OK WASHINGTON — New tests of full-body scanners deployed at airports found that the radiation they emit was within acceptable levels, the Transportation Security Administration said on Tuesday after previous checks found some anomalies in results.

The machines, which have provoked health concerns about excessive radiation exposure, have been deployed at dozens of airports to thwart attacks on the U.S. aviation system which has continued to be a prime target of al Qaeda militants.

“The latest reports confirm previous testing and show that every backscatter unit currently used for passenger screening in U.S. airports is operating well within applicable national safety

standards,” said TSA spokesman Nicholas Kimball.

There are about 486 fullbody scanners in 78 airports in the United States, of which 247 are so-called backscatter machines made by Rapiscan Systems, a unit of OSI Systems Inc. They expose a person to about 0.0025 millirem of radiation.

Test results released by TSA in March showed some anomalies, such as missing data or calculation errors unrelated to safety. The agency ordered new tests for the scanners as well as other X-ray equipment used to screen baggage that had problematic reports.

The machines cannot produce more than 0.005 millirem per scan, according to TSA. In comparison, a chest X-ray will expose someone to

10 millirem of radiation and the maximum recommended exposure to radiation from man-made sources is 100 millirem per year, according to TSA. TSA posted the new test results on its website: http://www.tsa.gov/research/ reading/xray_screening_tech nology_safety_reports.shtm.

TSA has accelerated deploying full-body scanners and other machines to detect explosives after a Nigerian man tried but failed to detonate a bomb hidden in his underwear on a flight from Amsterdam as it approached Detroit on Christmas Day 2009.

The full-body scanners have also provoked a backlash among some travelers who were upset because they produce revealing body images.

Transportation Security Administration employees participate in a demonstration of new body scanner software that uses a stick figure to represent the passenger being scanned, rather than an actual image of the person, at the TSA Systems Integration Facility at Washington’s Reagan National Airport in Arlington, Virginia.

Despite advances in science, tornadoes take deadly toll

By JAMES B. KELLEHER CHICAGO — It is one of the terrible paradoxes of this spring’s deadly spate of U.S. tornadoes.

Engineers know how to build shelters that provide extensive protection from tornadoes, and weather forecasting advances make it easier than ever for experts to predict, spot and track twisters.

Yet 2011 is on pace to be one of the deadliest tornado seasons in history. Why? In the average year, 62 Americans are killed by twisters, according to the Federal Emergency Management Agency. So far this year, more than 480 have died — and the

tornado season, which runs from April through July, is only half over.

Experts say a number of factors are contributing to the extraordinary death toll, including that some people are simply in the wrong place at the wrong time.

“When a killer wind directly hits a population, people are likely going to die,” said Brian Ancell, a researcher with the atmospheric science group at Texas Tech University.

Nineteen states are in what officials term “Wind Zone IV,” an area that has experienced the most consistent and strongest tornado activity.

Among the 19 are several with large populations including Texas, Illinois, Ohio and Michigan.

People who live in these states have put themselves in harm’s way because there is a rare but real possibility of wind storms of incredible destructive power, so-called EF4 and EF5 tornadoes on the Enhanced Fujita Scale.

Tornadoes in Tuscaloosa, Alabama and Joplin, Missouri were both rated at EF4, according to the National Weather Service.

Larry Tanner, a tornado damage expert at the Wind Engineering Research Center at Texas Tech, said a powerful tornado can turn strong frame houses, reinforced concrete structures, automobiles and trees into airborne missiles.

“The wind pressure from the tornado starts a chain

reaction of structural failure,” Tanner said, “and as that material becomes part of the funnel cloud it becomes a grinder on other buildings downwind.”

In the case of Joplin, deadly winds of nearly 200 miles per hour roared through the city of about 50,000 just on Sunday evening, killing at least 118 people.

Building codes in most parts of the United States — even in those areas prone to the deadliest tornadoes — only require homes to withstand winds up to 90 miles an hour, about an EF1 tornado, according to Tanner.

As a result, walls, ceilings, doors and other parts of the home often cannot endure the most extreme windstorms.

“When you have a tornado that hits the heart of a city it’s almost next to impossible to not have as many fatalities as we had,” said Yasamie August, spokeswoman for the Alabama Emergency Management Agency.

But officials insist that with proper planning, residents of areas that take a direct hit from the most destructive tornadoes on record can have “a high probability of being protected from injury or death.”

FEMA has a 64-page pamphlet titled “Taking Shelter From the Storm” with instructions on how to build a safe room within an existing structure that can endure winds and windborne debris of up to 250 miles an hour.

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Education grants made available for nine states

By LISA LAMBERT WASHINGTON - Nine states will be eligible to compete for education grants of up to $50 million through President Barack Obama’s “Race to the Top” program, the federal government said yesterday.

The states — Arizona, California, Colorado, Illinois, Kentucky, Louisiana, Pennsylvania, New Jersey and South Carolina — were picked in the third round of grant competition after they failed to win funding in their first two tries.

Race to the Top was created as part of the 2009 federal stimulus plan to encourage states to adopt unified education standards, implement teaching reforms and foster the spread of autonomous charter schools.

The program’s popularity led Congress to add money for it in the fiscal 2011 budget. Most of the additional funding, $500 million, will go to an “Early Learning Challenge,” the U.S. Education Department and Health and Human Services Agency

said. That leaves $200 million for the third round of grants, which range in size from $10 million to $50 million.

The early learning challenge focuses on children from birth to age five.

The application period will open in the fall, the Education Department said, when the states will have to show “capacity and commitment around bold reform plans.”

Obama is also pushing to create a Race to the Top spin-off in which individual school districts can compete.

Most of the funding for education in the stimulus plan was distributed via well-established formulas.

Congress extended some of the funding last summer in a bid to prevent massive teacher layoffs.

That money runs out this summer, although states still face wobbly fiscal conditions due to the recession.

Because the stimulus required states to maintain education spending at pre-recession levels, many only trimmed spending on schools.

But the requirement ends along with the money, and many are eyeing deeper education cuts as they

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Faheem Hanson, 5, colors a Chinese mask at Broadway Elementary School in Venice, Los Angeles, California. attempt to close a total budget shortIn an open letter to Obama in fall of at least $85 billion for the fis- Education Week, Daniel Tanner, a cal year that for most begins this professor at Rutgers University, summer. recently wrote that “instead of underCongress also has yet to reautho- taking the needed funding for a rich, rize funding for the long-expired No full curriculum for the renewal of the Child Left Behind law.

American unitary school system, you Race to the Top has been criticized are calling, in effect, for it to be disfor its emphasis on charter schools, mantled and broken up into charter which can be operated by private cor- schools when the body of research porations. fails to support your strategy.”

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After revolt, Egyptians vent fury in litigation

By ALEXANDER DZIADOSZ

f S.African anti-apartheid veteran Goldreich dies JOHANNESBURG - Nelson Mandela’s office says one of the anti-apartheid icon’s old comrades who once posed as Mandela’s farm owner employer - has died.

The Nelson Mandela Foundation said in a statement yesterday that Arthur Goldreich died Tuesday in Tel Aviv, Israel at the age of 82.

Goldreich and his family pretended to be the owners of a farm on the outskirts of Johannesburg that was the 1960s underground headquarters for the African National Congress. A raid on the farm in 1963 led to the Rivonia Trial, and decades in prison for Mandela.

Goldreich was among those arrested. He and three others escaped from a downtown Johannesburg police station before the treason trial. Goldreich, disguised as a priest, made it out of South Africa and eventually settled in Israel.

Up to 40,000 fleeing violence in Sudan’s Abyei: UN JUBA, Sudan - Violence in and around Sudan’s contested Abyei region has displaced up to 40,000 people, a senior UN official said yesterday, amid reports of war crimes, looting and burning.

Senior UN aid official Lise Grande said that estimates of the number of people fleeing had dramatically increased.

“Our initial estimates are that 30,000 to 40,000 people have been displaced,” said Grande who helps coordinate UN humanitarian efforts in south Sudan.

“That includes some 10,000 people from Abyei area fleeing direct fighting and 25,000 more from the Agok area, just across the southern border, where people are leaving homes fearing future violence,” she said.

Avian flu spreads in S.Africa despite ostrich slaughter JOHANNESBURG - An avian flu outbreak that has halted ostrich meat exports from South Africa has spread to a total of eight farms despite the preventive slaughter of 10,000 birds, officials said Tuesday.

The outbreak, which was first detected on April 9 in South Africa’s Western Cape province, has affected the entire Klein Karoo Valley, home to about 70 percent of the country’s ostrich industry, the agriculture department said in a statement.

“The impact in the Klein Karoo Valley is quite serious as this is the hub of ostrich production and the economy of the area is based on this,” the department said.

Some 10,000 ostriches have been culled to stop the spread of the virus, highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI), and preventive slaughter will continue until the outbreak is contained, the department said.

The South African Ostrich Business Chamber has said the strain of the virus is not dangerous to humans but is threatening the country’s ostrich industry, which represents some 65 percent of the world’s ostrich meat production.

CAIRO - When protests ousted Hosni Mubarak in February, many Egyptians unearthed old grievances against employers, and neighbors, politicians demanding justice from a legal system they had long seen as favouring the elite.

“The barriers have come down,” said a lawyer in the public prosecutor’s Cairo offices.

“Nobody is afraid of anything now. They know no one is immune.”

The result has been a deluge of new corruption probes that has cheered many ordinary Egyptians but unnerved stockbrokers and bankers who worry an indiscriminate witch-hunt could stifle business and forestall economic recovery.

State authorities have already jailed a former interior minister on corruption charges, ordered Mubarak and his two sons to stand trial over the killing of protesters and graft charges, and are probing ex-prime ministers and other cabinet members.

New complaints are flooding in every day.

Some legal filings barely hide their malice. One seen by Reuters referred to a prominent businessman’s “Satanic plans” to buy land in a Cairo suburb and called a local politician allegedly involved in the deal a “destroyer of joys.”

Egypt’s military rulers, who took over when Mubarak left on February 11, face competing demands. Protesters want a wholesale clear out of a crony system but investors fear an indiscriminate widening of the net that will deter even legitimate business.

“There is a political need for justice, and a need to maintain good relations with the business community to keep the economy going,” Gamal Soltan, a senior research fellow at the Cairobased Al Ahram Center for Political and Strategic Studies, said. “That’s why this is a grey area.”

Many bankers and brokers, rattled by slackening growth figures and rising inflation, have already starting calling for the state to step in and protect executives who they say made deals with Mubarak’s government in good faith.

Reform-minded activists, on the other hand, fear remnants of the old ruling circle could use

economic worries to prevent a full reckoning with the past and halt the changes they demand.

FROM RICHES TO PRISON GARB The uprising unleashed years of pent-up rage among ordinary Egyptians who watched a wellconnected elite reap vast riches while most people struggled to get by.

Many summed it up with the Arabic word “wasta,” which melds ideas of nepotism, connections and influence. The right “wasta” was seen as the path to wealth, power and legal immunity.

During the revolt, protesters expressed their disgust with this system by torching commercial properties of businessmen like steel tycoon Ahmed Ezz, a senior member of Mubarak’s now-disbanded National Democratic Party.

Ezz, who denies wrongdoing, is in jail for questioning. Many Egyptians are still stunned by images of a man known for slick Italian suits now in prison garb and sat in a court cage for defendants. Others once seen as untouchable have joined him.

The business community is starting to use another Arabic term, “shameta,” or to delight in another’s troubles, to describe the current mood. Some lawyers say more and more new graft allegations seem driven more by jealousy than fact.

“Our problem is that a lot of these reports are not true. It’s just, ‘I hate someone, so I’ll file a report against him’,” the attorney at the public prosecutor’s office said, asking his name not be used because he was not cleared to talk to media.

Lawyers often spent the night in their offices sifting through the more than 70 complaints filed each day during the first months after the revolt, he said.

In an average day before the uprising, they rarely received more than a dozen.

“The issue is how do you differentiate between ‘good’ and ‘bad’ businessmen? And how is the level playing field being reinforced in order to help establish a new business class?” John Sfakianakis, chief economist at Banque Saudi Fransi, said.

“In Egypt, you need a unifier.

You need a Mandela figure that will bring people together.”

FLURRY OF LITIGATION Local stockbrokers and bankers, whose livelihoods often depend on a steady flow of

investment into Egypt, were especially alarmed by a string of court rulings to scrap state land sales. In some cases, building had already begun.

Dubai-based developer Damac said on May 17 it filed an international arbitration case against Egypt after a court sentenced its chairman to jail and fined him over a Red Sea land deal. It said it was a “classic case of guilt by association.”

Hashem Ghoneim, vice chairman of Cairo-based brokerage Pyramids Capital, said: “I can’t go and tell people that have bought land 10 years ago that, ‘Hey, you bought it illegally.’ See who the corrupt governmental employee that had the authority to sell him the land is, and get him.”

But activists are wary of what they see as economic scaremongering. They say Mubarak-era officials often muzzled investigative journalism or blocked prosecution of government allies by arguing it would hurt the economy.

“The bogeyman of ‘investor sentiment’ is the argument they used to justify their theft and to take what is not theirs,” said Hamdy Fakhrany, an engineer who raised lawsuits against land sale deals by Mubarak government.

Activists called for new protests after Mubarak’s wife, the president’s chief of staff and the former parliament speaker were released from detention, although they still face probes.

There has also been talk that Mubarak could be getting special treatment, especially after sudden illnesses kept the former president and his wife in hospital rather than in jail.

The military council issued a statement denying any plan to pardon Mubarak, a former air force commander, or his family.

It has insisted such matters were left to the judiciary. His referral to a criminal court also helped dampen speculation.

But despite the flurry of litigation, convictions of officials have been relatively modest so far. Only two former ministers have been sentenced to prison, although they and others still face trial or questioning on other charges.

No revolutionary tribunals have been set up, and the country has seen none of the violent purges that followed the Romanian uprising of 1989 or the Iranian revolution of 1979.

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Drop in support worries S.Africa’s ruling party: official JOHANNESBURG - South Africa’s ruling African National Congress on Tuesday said it was worried about a drop in its support in last week’s local elections, which resulted in declines in all but one province.

“We noted and we are worried about the downward trend in all the provinces except in KwaZulu-Natal,” ANC secretary general Gwede Mantashe told journalists.

Mantashe said some voters may have been put off by some comments by party leaders which “appeared racist”, but adding that South Africans are “too over-sensitive to each other.”

Ahead of the polls, ANC leaders threatened ancestral wrath, warned that an opposition vote was one for the devil, and described opposition Democratic Alliance leader Helen

ANC (African National Congress) Secretary General, Gwede Mantashe gives a press conference.

Zille as a “madam”. failed to snatch Cape with the ruling party.

But he said the party Town from the opposiIn KwaZulu-Natal, was proud of its overall tion Democratic the home province of performance.

Alliance (DA), which President Jacob Zuma, “These results must has run the tourist the ANC scored 55 perbe celebrated because hotspot since 2006. cent, up eight points they constitute a masThe ANC garnered from 2006. sive victory for our 62 percent of the votes, The increase was due movement,” Mantashe down from 66 percent largely to the divisions said. in 2006, while the DA within Inkatha Despite the slip in recorded gains at near- Freedom Party, a mainsupport, the ANC ly 24 percent of the bal- ly Zulu party that retained control of lots, buoyed by voters splintered ahead of the seven major cities but who are disgruntled polls.

Algeria orders church closures ALGIERS - Accused of disobeying a law regulating worship, all seven Protestant churches in Algeria’s eastern Bejaia region were ordered shut by local authorities, a church leader said yesterday.

“We received notification ordering us to close the seven churches throughout the region,” said Mustapha Krim, president of the Protestant Church in Algeria.

“No motive was offered, but it seems the decision was in accordance with the law of February 2006, which requires authorisation for non-Muslim worship,” he said.

“We have tried to put our status in order, but we’ve faced resistance,” Krim said, adding that the churches would continue to function as they existed before the law was passed.

The 2006 law stipulates that

A Protestant church is pictured in Algiers in 2008. Accused of disobeying a law regulating worship, all seven Protestant churches in Algeria's eastern Bejaia region were ordered shut by local authorities, a church leader said yesterday.

Photo/Fayez Nureldine places of worship in Algeria, Watan. “Some worship in even Muslim ones, require per- garages.” mits, as do religious leaders.

Non-Muslim worship and “We are not against other freedom of religion are protected faiths, we are just asking every- by Algeria’s constitution, yet one to respect the law,” Bejaia Muslim dignitaries regularly prefect Hamma Touhame told denounce Protestantism as antithe French-language daily El Islam.

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Obama admits ‘limitations’ of Libya operation

By IMED LAMLOUM TRIPOLI - U.S. President Barack Obama admitted yesterday that NATO’s campaign in Libya had limits as South Africa prepared a diplomatic push to offer strongman Moamer Kadhafi a way out, officials said.

Libya is expected to be one of the main themes of a summit of the G8 group of developed nations in the French resort of Deauville today and tomorrow, which Obama and British Prime Minister David Cameron will attend.

“Once you rule out ground forces, then there are going to be some inherent limitations to our air strike operation,” Obama said, adding that ultimately Kadhafi’s ouster would be a slow and steady process.

In a joint press conference with Cameron in London, Obama urged patience in the NATO-led air operation but added that the opposition in Libya would also have to “carry out its responsibilities.”

South African President Jacob Zuma will visit Tripoli next week for talks that officials told AFP would focus on an “exit strategy” for the Libyan leader, his office said.

“President Zuma will stop over in Tripoli for a discussion with Libyan leader Colonel Moamer Kadhafi, on May 30,” his office said in a statement.

Zuma visited Tripoli on April 10 as part of an African Union delegation that sought to broker a truce between Kadhafi and the rebels, but their proposals foundered when the rebels insisted the strongman quit office immediately.

Two sources in the president’s office, speaking on condition of anonymity, said the talks would focus on Kadhafi’s “exit strategy.”

“The purpose is to discuss an exit strategy for Kadhafi. The meeting is still very much in the planning stages,” one official said on condition of anonymity.

A second official said that South Africa was working on a transition plan with Turkey, which last month proposed a “roadmap” to end the Libyan turmoil also envisaging Kadhafi’s departure.

A foreign ministry official said Turkey was ready to help any initiative to end Libya’s turmoil but had had no contact so far with South Africa’s leader on an exit strategy for Kadhafi.

“We have had no particular dialogue so far but it does not mean that we will not have any in the future,” the official said, adding Turkey was ready to contribute to any Libya peace initiative.

South Africa’s new diplomatic push came as NATO jets blasted Libya’s capital overnight after the alliance said it was shifting into high gear in a bid to deliver a decisive blow to Kadhafi’s government.

The alliance must “speed up the systematic destruction of Tripoli’s military machine with the goal of neutralising Kadhafi’s forces for good,” a NATO official said, adding allies hoped Kadhafi would fall by late June or early July.

After three months of fighting, however, the regime remains entrenched in much of the west, including the capital Tripoli.

Worried about getting bogged down in an endless stalemate, NATO allies, who were divided over going into Libya in the first place and face budgetary constraints, have no choice but to increase the pressure, the official said.

Russia’s foreign ministry called NATO’s latest bombings of Tripoli a “grave departure” from UN resolutions on Libya that could lead to a further escalation in violence.

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CARIBBEAN NEWS DAILY CHALLENGE THURSDAY, MAY 26, 2011

Single economy will take longer than anticipated, say CARICOM leaders BASSETERRE, St. Kitts — C a r i b b e a n Community (CARICOM) leaders have ended their two-day retreat in Guyana, indicating that the process towards a single economy within the 15-member grouping that would have gone into effect by 2015, will now “take longer than anticipated.”

The leaders from ten CARICOM countries — Trinidad and Tobago, Haiti, Suriname, St Lucia and The Bahamas prime ministers were absent - said in a statement afterwards that they would now await a restructuring of the Guyana-based CARICOM Secretariat before establishing an overarching decision-implementation arm to ensure regional policies

are adhered to.

“As regards the Single Economy, they recognised that the process towards full implementation would take longer than anticipated and agreed it may be best to pause and consolidate the gains of the Single Market before taking any further action on certain specific elements of the Single Economy, such as the creation of a single currency,” the statement said.

The CARICOM Single Market and Economy (CSME) is intended to benefit the region by providing more and better opportunities to produce and sell goods and services and to attract investment. It will create one large market among the participating member states.

“The main objectives of the CSME are: full use of labour (full employment) and full exploitation of the other

factors of production (natural resources and capital); competitive production leading to greater variety and quantity of products and services to trade with other countries. It is expected that these objectives will in turn provide improved standards of living and work and sustained economic development,” according to the CARICOM Secretariat.

“In respect of governance, they reaffirmed the decision taken at their inter-sessional Meeting in Grenada in February to await the completion of the current review of the CARICOM Secretariat, before taking any firm decisions towards the establishment of the Permanent Committee of CARICOM Ambassadors (PCCA),” the statement said.

Regarding a replacement for Sir Edwin Carrington, who

(L-R) Guyana's President Bharrat Jagdeo; Prime Minister of Jamaica, Bruce Golding and St. Kitts and Nevis Prime Minister Dr. Denzil Douglas during a break in the CARICOM Heads Retreat in Guyana. resigned as secretary should take into offer greater technical general of the grouping account the strengthen- advice and address its at the start of the year, ing of the institution to ability to provide practithe leaders also “agreed enable it to play an cal deliverables in the that the persons short- enhanced role in the immediate and long listed for the position area of mobilizing sub- term. would be subjected to stantial resources for The retreat was used further processes, with concrete projects in the by the leaders to contina view to taking a final areas identified. ue discussions on decision by July 2011” They said that the “Prioritising the Focus when they meet in St restructuring should and Direction of the Kitts and Nevis. also allow the Community” which The leaders also Secretariat to assist and they initiated at their agreed that the review advise member states Grenada meeting. of the Secretariat with implementation;

Turks and Caicos corruption St. Vincent to host major UN cases heat up again seminar on decolonisation PROVIDENCIALES, Turks and Caicos Islands — The investigation into government corruption in the Turks and Caicos Islands has heated up again, this time on the island on North Caicos. Sources tell Caribbean News Now that members of the community of Bottle Creek have been hauled in for questioning by special investigation and prosecution team (SIPT) investigators.

Targets of the investigation appear to be

persons who were close to former Premier Michael Misick. This is what apparently prompted his brother Washington Misick to publicly condemn the SIPT for asking people about Michael Misick’s wedding photographs.

Washington Misick made the statement at last week’s town hall meeting in Providenciales in front of Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) officials.

He also took the opportunity to accuse the team of trying to belittle the people by having the meeting at Pastor Bradley Handfield’s church, saying that women

were slipping down from having to crawl over pebbles after getting out of their cars.

No one was injured at the meeting, however.

Meanwhile, the corruption investigation appears to have hit at a nerve for the Misicks.

According to reliable sources, that close family members and staunch Progressive National Party (PNP) supporters John Gray and Holton Williams were pulled in for questioning. Gray was supposedly questioned in relation to the 2,500 acre Crown land transaction that took place on Middle Caicos. It remains an open question why Williams was approached.

KINGSTOWN, St. Vincent — St. Vincent and the Grenadines will play host to a major United Nations seminar next week, as approximately sixty participants descend on Kingstown for the 2011 Caribbean Regional Seminar concerning the T h i r d International Decade for the Eradication of Colonialism.

The seminar, which will run from 31 May to 2 June 2011, is being held under the

auspices of the United Nations Special Committee on the Situation with Regard to the Implementation of the Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples (the “Special Committee”).

This year marks the beginning of the Third International Decade for the Eradication of Colonialism.

The eradication of colonialism was made an international priority 50 years ago, with the UN’s adoption of the Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples. That

Declaration proclaimed the right of all peoples to selfdetermination and stressed that the subjection of peoples to alien subjugation, domination and exploitation is an impediment to the promotion of world peace and cooperation.

In the past, over 750 million people lived under colonial rule.

Today, the efforts of the international community have reduced that number to 2 million people, living in 16 remaining non-selfgoverning territories.

Many of those 16 territories are in the Caribbean region.

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M.S. 35 Fund Raiser and Talent Show The audience was very impressed at the level of talent with the show City youngsters with an ear for music showed how in tune they are when M.S. 35 hosted its second annual Fund Raiser and Talent Show.

For two hours, the audience was entertained by the sounds and dances, including the opening performance of Q City Soundz, the official band of the Quest Youth Organization.

Also playing were the Boys and Girls High School Band and the M.S. 360 Orchestra that came from the Bronx.

The talent show took place between the bands’ performances. The audience was wowed by an impressive songstress, and a young man who danced Michael Jackson’s steps in the “Billy Jean” video.

Closing out the show was a female hip-hop duo who brought a positive message of upliftment through their music.

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Boys and Girls High School Orchestra

A young man who did a phenomenal job reenacting Michael Jackson's “Billy Jean” dance

Quest Youth Organization

M.S. 390 Orchestra from the Bronx

SUV Crashes Into Storefront on Atlantic and Nostrand

SUV crashes into 99-Cent store on Nostrand and Atlantic Avenues

By C. ZAWADI on the corner of front windows at Nostrand and Atlantic around 7:20 p.m., levelMORRIS Avenues Tuesday ing several shelves and night. ripping off the entire A speeding SUV The impact shattered front end of the truck, a crashed through the the glass in the store’s Chevy Tahoe. front of a 99-Cent store

Inside of 99-Cent store on Nostrand and Atlantic Avenues, where an SUV ran into the front window.

The driver was then someone hit her unharmed and no one from the back and she inside of the store was lost control of the wheel harmed, according to and went inside of the police. store. Nobody got hurt, “What I know is what praise God for that.”

I [saw],” said Monique, One of the store’s 52, who witnessed the owners, Jenny Chen, accident. “The car was was visibly upset, as speeding the light, and she paced in and out of

the store, while neighboring store owners helped sweep up the broken glass.

“I don’t know what I’m going to do now,” said Chen who has owned the store for three years. “There’s a lot of damage here... soap powder, bleach, everything is no good.

This is a big headache for me. Just last week, another car ran into a store. This corner is very very bad for traffic.”

She said she is waiting on someone from the Department of Buildings to survey the damage and tell her what she should do next.

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Nas, Lauryn Hill and more headline 2011 Rock the Bells Festival

For the conclusions of these stories check out the May 19th - May 25th, 2011 issue of The New American, which hits newsstands every Thursday Brandy, Tatyana Ali, Bledsoe, Tempestt Danielle Fishel and more are going naked for the Style network’s Skin Cancer PSA titled “Naked.” In the 30-second spot, each woman poses nude on a rooftop proclaiming that they participated in everyday activities such as driving, shopping and walking the dog... naked. Though each girl appears in her birthday suit, they are actually likening nudity to a lack of sunscreen, not clothes.

“Don’t be one of 20 people who will die today from skin cancer,” the ad proclaims. “If you leave the house without sunscreen, you might as well be naked.”

M-Bone -- one the of the members of the rap group Cali Swag District -- died last night ...

TMZ has confirmed.

Earlier this morning, the group’s leader, Smoove -- posted a Tweet saying, “Ma life changed drastically in the. Blink of an eye rip mbone.” So far, it’s unclear how M-Bone died. Cali Swag District shot to stardom with their hit, “Teach Me How to Dougie.”

Da Brat and Jermaine Dupri ready a mixtape to release later this month, after Brat’s tumultuous few years in prison. After a few years in lockdown, Da Brat is back in the studio working with her mentor and longtime partner in music, Jermaine Dupri. The So So Def camp released a video blog this week, one that features the two working together.

In it, there is an announcement of a Brat mixtape that will be released later this month. The vlog features Dupri working on a beat for a few minutes, a silent, blackand-white look at the beatsmith in the studio.

There is also footage of Da Brat writing on a

notepad, scribbling her thoughts down. The video captures a brief conversation between the two where Dupri asks Brat to announce her mixtape’s release date. “Memorial Day weekend,” she says, before repping for the label. “So So Def in the building.” Dupri also let fans know of his work with Brat by sending a message out to the world via Twitter.

Is Laila Ali going to be a singer? We don’t know where this came from, but we’re hearing that Muhammad Ali’s daughter and super boxer is about to embark on a career as a singer. We wonder what sort of singer she will be should this be true? We think she should try for the soul market or something.

Kanye West debuted his new girlfriend at the Cannes Film Festival in France by publicly kissing the teenager on a hotel balcony. The Stronger hitmaker last year ended his high-profile relationship with model Amber Rose, who has since moved on with rising hip-hop star Wiz Khalifa. West was rumoured to be dating 18-year-old underwear model Kate Upton after they were spotted leaving a party together in Los Angeles last month. Now the rapper, 33, has seemingly made his new relationship public after pulling Upton in close for a passionate kiss on his hotel balcony in full view of passers-by and photographers.

Jennifer Lopez was heartbroken when her beloved fashion line failed, insisting it remains one of her biggest career disappointments. The pop star-turned “American Idol” judge was forced to retire her Sweetface brand in 2009 after

neglecting to connect with bargain hunting shoppers, and she now admits the failed business venture was devastating. She tells the New York Times, “That was sad for me. I just felt like I never got a fair chance to do it right. And on top of it, I felt like I was trapped in a situation I couldn’t get out of, and my name was stamped on things that I didn’t believe in... (I) didn’t understand the business well enough.” But the hitmaker is giving it another chance she’s teaming up with husband Marc Anthony to launch a lifestyle brand with Kohl’s department stores - and she’s determined to get it right this time.

Tommy Hilfiger, who worked with Lopez on the new partnership, says, “The difference this time around is Jennifer is fully engaged with a company that is professionally staffed to really develop anything she wants from towels to knee-high suede boots.”

Love is in the air and we have the “Jumping The Broom” film to credit. T.D. Jakes has tapped several R&B stars for the forthcoming second installment of his Sacred Love Songs series compilation album. Inspired by his newly produced film “Jumping The Broom,” Sacred Love Songs 2 will be instores May 31 and features romantic love songs that pair the best talent in gospel and R&B/Pop music-performing classic hits as well as new recordings.

‘Sacred Love Songs 2’ is lead by the Joe featured track “Closer.” The set also features songs from T.D. Jakes, Ledisi, Karen Clark Sheard and Kirk Whalum; El DeBarge, Bishop Paul Morton, Fred Hammond, Micah Stampley, Crystal Aikin and more.

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now, the time is right. This will be my biggest production and it only makes sense to do it on the best rap tour which also happens to be a brand I’ve built and am a partner in.

Can’t wait to kill it with my comrades AZ, Premo & Pete Rock!”

Cypress Hill will hit the stage when they perform their 1993 album Black Sunday, while Mos Def and Talib Kweli as Blackstar will perform there self-titled debut album.

Raekwon and Ghostface have teamed up to perform Rae’s critically acclaimed album Only Built 4 Cuban Linx.

This year’s Rock the Bells Festival will feature three main stages, including the Paid Dues stage which features a number of independent acts.

Rap stars Nas, Lauryn Hill Raekwon & Ghostface and Cypress Hill have been announced as the headliners of the Rock the Bells 2011 Festival Series.

The rappers along with R&B singer Erykah Badu, will perform their groundbreaking albums in full.

Lauryn Hill is slated to perform her multi-platinum album The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill, while Nas will perform his breakthrough album Illmatic, with guests AZ, Pete Rock and DJ Premier.

“For years people have been asking me to do Illmatic in so many ways, from stage plays to movies to books, but the time wasn’t right,” Nas said. Where music is going - Full Story In This Week’s New American Newspaper -

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Parents council slams sexy Rihanna-Britney Billboard antics

By MARK CINA LOS ANGELES — The Parents Television Council has two new targets: Britney Spears and Rihanna.

The group issued a statement Tuesday attacking the singers’ racy remix of Rihanna’s “S&M” at the Billboard Music Awards Sunday in Las Vegas.

“What happened in Vegas should have stayed in Vegas, as the saying goes,” PTC president Tim Winter said in a statement. “It certainly has no place at 8:00 p.m. on the publicly-owned broadcast airwaves.”

Winter wants members to file complaints to Disney, parent company of ABC, because he said he “cannot imagine what would possibly

lead the ABC television network to air a profanity-laced, S&M sex show on primetime broadcast television.”

“The overtly sexualized performance by Rihanna and Britney Spears was no accident or mishap, but a deliberate effort to target teens with images and lyrics that glamorize whips, chains and other sexual fetishes,” the statement concluded.

Ester Dean talks solo career, current state of R&B Who would of thought three years ago Ester Dean had been living on Section 8 housing vouchers. One of the most sought after songwriters in the industry had a turning point after watching the inspirational 2006 documentary “The Secret,” which its creator Rhonda Byrne later turned into a best-selling book. The personal empowerment message of the film, “everything is possible, nothing is impossible”.

The Muskogee, Okla., native was singing on demos

and writing songs in Atlanta when she was introduced to Polow Da Don. He asked her to write a hook for Young Jeezy and the rest was history. He ended up signing her to his Zone 4/Interscope label in 2009. She also inked a publishing deal with producer Christopher “Tricky” Stewart’s RedZone Publishing. Now signed to Universal Music Publishing Group, Dean is working on upcoming projects from Mary J. Blige to Nicole Scherzinger.

Ester talked to Billboard about working on her debut

LOS ANGELES — A federal judge has declined to halt today’s release of “The Hangover: Part II” as part of a copyright infringement lawsuit over a distinctive tattoo worn by actor Ed Helms.

Movie studio Warner Bros said it was gratified by the decision, which would allow the highly-anticipated comedy to be released on schedule this week around the world. “(The) plaintiff’s failed attempt to enjoin the film in order to try and extract a massive settlement payment from Warner Bros. was highly inappropriate and unwarranted,” Warner Bros said in a statement.

Victor Whitmill, the tattoo artist who created the original tattoo for boxer Mike Tyson, who appears in both “Hangover” films, sued on April 28 seeking an injunction and damages for copyright infringement.

Warner Bros. executives Dan Fellman and Sue Kroll

testified at a hearing on Monday that issuing an injunction against the film’s release would inflict irreparable harm on the studio, which has spent more than $80 million to market the film.

U.S. District Court Judge Catherine D. Perry. agreed with the studio, denying the injunction but allowing the case to move forward.

She did say that Whitmill had a strong likelihood of ultimately succeeding on the merits of the case but that the hardship on the studio and the third-party theater owners who planned to screen the film this weekend would simply be too great.

Whitmill said she was willing to hold an expedited trial on the issue of liability and consider a request for a permanent injunction, which could stop the film’s distribution (on DVD, cable and other outlets) at a later date.

In Monday’s hearing, it was said by a Warner Bros. lawyer that Whitmill asked Warners for a $30 million settlement. But lawyers for

Dean also shared her thoughts about the current state of R&B. “People need to stop putting a limit on what it is and what it isn’t. It’s what you put into it. However, people keep putting limitations on themselves and creating this reality that soul music is dead. That’s only in their reality. It’s not true. To me, Adele is R&B. Bruno Mars Is R&B. It’s just good songwriting and songs. That is going to last.

That’s what I’ve got to work on my damn self what’s going to last.”

Kelly Rowland joins X Factor TV series

Judge denies bid to halt ‘Hangover 2’ over tattoo

By MATTHEW BELLONI

album and the status of it.

“People think I flopped because I haven’t put out more songs. I had to take time out for soul-searching.

Now I’m able to give my all. I have a bigger purpose to come out with an album than because of a song. And I still want full-force Polow Da Don because it’s his vision. I just caught up with it. He’s a pusher for black music to be heard. And I think that’s what he likes about my voice: He can feel the emotion and passion in it and wants to show that.”

Whitmill argued that the $30 million demand came up only after Warners was asked for an assessment of what the studio’s potential damages exposure might be.

Now, without the leverage of a possible injunction hanging over the studio’s head, the tattoo artist is unlikely to be offered a fraction of that to settle the case.

Whitmill’s attorney Geoffrey Gerber said in a statement; “While we are disappointed that the motion was denied, we are quite pleased

by Judge Perry’s findings that Mr. Whitmill proved a ‘strong likelihood of success’ on the merits and that most of Warner Bros. defenses were ‘just silly.’”

“Motivation” singer Kelly Rowland has been confirmed as a judge for the upcoming series of UK’s X Factor. The Former Destiny’s Child member will replace Dannii Minugue, who left the television series earlier this month.

Rowland will join series judges Louis Walsh, Take That’s Gary Barlow, and Tulisa Contostavlos. She described her view of the show, “The X Factor is an amazing show. I love Simon

[Cowell] because he’s so honesty. Everything he says I agree with.”

In addition to the television series, Rowland is enjoying the success of “Motivation,” which marks Rowland’s biggest solo single to date and was produced

by Jim Jonsin and written by Rico Love. The single is climbing Billboard’s Hot 100 chart, its Digital Songs chart, and its Ringtones chart.

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Reports of neglect made against mother of Irvington girl who died, but charges were not filed IRVINGTON - In the DYFS case file, the first sign of trouble was on March 23, 2006.

That was the day Venette Ovilde was accused of neglecting her 3-year-old daughter, Christiana Glenn, the day the state Division of Youth and Family Services opened its file on the 24-yearold Irvington woman.

Details provided by the agency allege three more instances of physical abuse and neglect would follow in less than two years, with one claiming Ovilde had beaten Christiana after the child wet her bed. In the last documented report, on April 4, 2008, Ovilde allegedly abused and left unattended Christiana and two younger children, but by May 2008, the allegations had all been marked “unfounded” and the cases closed.

On Sunday afternoon paramedics discovered the broken and severely malnourished body of Christiana in her bedroom. She was dead.

The other children, who are 6 and 7, were alive but had similar broken bones and with barely enough flesh to cover their faces, authorities said. They remain hospitalized.

Ovilde, 29, who had called police to report her child wasn’t breath-

ing, was arrested and stands charged with aggravated manslaughter and child endangerment. Her roommate, Myriam Janvier, 23, is charged with child endangerment.

The revelation that the state’s child welfare system, supposedly undergoing a massive reform, may have failed a family in tragic crisis was among a series of developments in a case that has baffled law enforcement and outraged the community.

Interviews with neighbors, friends and relatives described how the family appeared to undergo a sudden change sometime around the first DYFS report. The mother, they say, went through a religious awakening.

She fasted for days on end, shrouded herself, her children and apartment in white, chanted loudly and met daily with a man who had named himself after Jesus.

The children, who were never enrolled in school and rarely left their second-floor apartment, essentially disappeared.

“We expect the department will initiate a full investigation with the Department of Education and other state agencies to understand how this family

Christiana Glenn appears in a photo taken in 2006, the same year the state Division of Youth and Family Services received its first report that her mother, Venette Ovilde (seen in this 2001 photo), was neglecting her. Three more reports followed in less than two years. could have slipped lives around. “She said under the radar of the ‘Sis, you need to follow child protection system Christ. You’re doing for the last two years,’’ demonic things, but said Judith Meltzer, a Pastor Emanyuel can Washington, D.C., child help,’” Mullyan Ovilde welfare expert who is said. the federal courtThe faith appointed monitor for Rezirekson-Kris practhe ongoing DYFS tices is called “Walking reform effort.

With Christ,” Mullyan It was in 2008 when Ovilde said, a congregaOvilde’s religious con- tion that may have been version began, after based out of Venette meeting a man who Ovilde’s Irvington called himself apartment. Its members Emanyuel Rezirekson- may have included only Kris, her older sister, Ovilde, her children, Mullyan Ovilde, said. Janvier and three other Venette, she said, “was women.

Rezireksonbrainwashed”

by Kris urged Venette to Rezirekson-Kris, she fast, suggesting she eat said through tears. fish in place of meat, After meeting then only vegetables, R e z i r e k s o n - K r i s , Mullyan said. Venette Venette Ovilde rarely spoke with her approached her sister, family after meeting saying both women him, her sister said, needed to turn their and began referring to

her oldest daughter as Christina Rezirekson.

When approached inside a bakery he owns in Elizabeth and asked if he was Ovilde’s spiritual adviser, Rezirekson-Kris said only, “May God bless you.”

Mullyan Ovilde said she believes Rezirekson-Kris is responsible for the change in her sister, who is seen smiling and hugging her children in various family photos she shared with a reporter .

Essex County acting Prosecutor Caroyln Murray would not say whether RezireksonKris is part of the investigation, which remains active despite the two arrests. Authorities are trying to determine what role, if any, the religious affiliation played in Christiana Ovilde’s death, and whether the child’s physical abuse and malnutrition were in some way connected.

“This is an active investigation and in all honesty, that would be just speculation at this point,” Murray said .

But when Christiana was found in the apartment Sunday, she was wearing white garments associated with the “Walking With Christ” faith, according to two law enforcement

sources with knowledge of the investigation but who were not allowed to discuss the case.

Marita Lind, a pediatrician specializing in child abuse at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, said she did not see many instances of religious-based neglect or starvation. Religion sometimes are used as a justification for patterns of abuse, she said.

“I don’t know of a religion that advocates for you to harm or kill your child. If the person did so, they did it on their own. The religion is not to blame,” Lind said.

But after Ovilde’s religious conversion, neighbors said, the children essentially vanished, and the Irvington School District said none of the kids was ever enrolled.

“They were always home-schooled,” Superintendent Ethel Hasty said . “That’s what the family chose to do.”

According to the state’s compulsory education law, school officials have very little responsibility to ensure that home-schooled children are being properly educated. That obligation falls squarely on parents or guardians.

Ab use may b e key in stabb in g ca se

By LISA CORYELL TRENTON — A city man accused of fatally stabbing his wife and dumping her body in a Hamilton cemetery in 2009 was in court yesterday as prosecutors argued that his history of domestic abuse should be allowed into evidence dur-

ing his trial.

murder showing jurors that ex-wife, Penny Graff, to received a call from 17. Police searched his

Clarence Kelsey, 66, of South Clinton Avenue told police his wife, Colleen Kelsey, 46, died when she fell on a knife she pulled on him during a domestic dispute on June 20, 2009. Her badly decomposed body was found in North Crosswicks Cemetery nine days later.

Assistant Prosecutor Lew Korngut is seeking to thwart Kelsey’s accident defense by

Kelsey had a history of beating his wife and his ex-wife.

Under the rules of evidence, a defendant’s prior acts are not admissible in trial to impeach his character but they are admissible to impeach testimony that his crime was accidental or without forethought.

In a hearing to determine whether Kelsey’s history of abuse will be introduced at his trial, Korngut called Kelsey’s

the stand. Graff, of Allentown, testified that her marriage to Kelsey from 1974 to 2001 was fraught with verbal and physical abuse from a drunken Kelsey.

“He beat her, he broke her fingers, he hit her over the head with a phone,” Korngut said. In one instance Kelsey threatened to kill Graff with a knife, he said.

A 911 operator also testified that she had

Colleen Kelsey in August 2008 reporting that Kelsey had “busted her lip” and headed into a local bar.

A neighbor on South Clinton Avenue also testified that she often heard screaming, yelling and sounds of Kelsey beating his wife and accusing her of cheating on him. The woman said she had called the police numerous times.

Kelsey tried to report his wife missing July

apartment after becoming suspicious that this missing person description was similar to the dead woman found in the cemetery, prosecutors said.

Kelsey told police he had not seen his wife since June 19. He said he had not reported his wife missing earlier because he believed she was in a drug rehabilitation program. But he filed a report after family members urged him to, he said.

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Study finds aspirin still best at preventing 2nd stroke A new drug that had shown promise in animal testing is not better than aspirin in preventing a second stoke in someone who’s already had one, a new study has found.

In fact, researchers stopped the study early because the drug, terutroban, showed no extra benefit.

Previous research in animals had suggested that the drug was as effective as aspirin at preventing blood clots, and scientists had wondered whether it might have other positive effects on the human cardiovascular system.

The new study, by Dr. Marie-Germaine Bousser, of the Lariboisiere Hospital in Paris and her colleagues,

compared the drug to aspirin in people who’d had an ischemic stroke, the type of stroke caused by a blocked artery. Of the more than 19,000 participants, roughly

half were assigned to take terutroban, and the others took aspirin.

When tracked, on average, for the next 28 months, people who took terutroban

With calcium, more may not be better

By STEVEN REINBERG Getting enough calcium for bone health is essential, but getting more than that doesn’t appear to confer any additional benefit, Swedish researchers have found.

With age, bones start to lose calcium, their major building block. This puts older people, especially women, at risk for fractures and osteoporosis, a disease in which the bones become fragile and break easily.

To help prevent these devastating injuries, women with a low intake of calcium should increase their intake to avoid fractures caused by osteoporosis, “while women with a satisfactory intake should not,” said lead researcher Eva Warensjo, a researcher in the department of surgical sciences section of orthopedics at Uppsala University.

“Dietary intake of less than 700 milligrams (mg) of calcium a day was associated with a higher risk of both fractures and osteoporosis, while higher intakes did not further reduce the risk in [a population-based] cohort of Swedish women,” she added.

The researchers also found there was an increased risk of hip fracture at the highest intake level. “But, this result should be cautiously interpreted and needs to be investigated further,” Warensjo said.

The report was published in the May 24 online edition of the BMJ. For the study, Warensjo and colleagues collected data

on 61,433 women born between 1914 and 1948 who took part in the Swedish Mammography Cohort study in 1987.

Women in the study responded to questions about their diet and use of calcium supplements and multivitamins. In addition, researchers used information they provided to adjust for weight, height, smoking, educational status and the use of estrogen-replacement therapy for menopause, among other factors.

During 19 years of followup, 24 percent of the women had a fracture for the first time. Of these, 6 percent were hip fractures, the researchers noted. In addition, an analysis of 5,022 women in a study subgroup found 20 percent had developed osteoporosis.

Warensjo’s team found that women who consumed about 750 mg of calcium a day had the lowest risk of fracture.

However, women who consumed more than 750 mg did not see their risk for fracture or osteoporosis decline further. On the contrary, they appeared have a higher risk of hip fracture, with a hazard ratio of 1.19, the researchers reported.

Hip fractures and other broken bones caused by osteoporosis result in higher health costs and widespread individual suffering, the authors noted.

The answer to the question of how much daily calcium is the right amount for people over 50 is still under debate globally, and recommendations vary from country to country. In the United States,

for example, health agencies recommend 1,200 mg a day for women 50 and older, while U.K. scientists recommend 700 mg. The recommendation in Scandinavia is 800 mg and in Australia it’s 1,300 mg, the researchers noted.

Another important caveat in interpreting the findings of the study is that this is an observational study and conclusions about cause-andeffect cannot be made, said Warensjo, who said that further research was needed.

Commenting on the study, Dr. Robert R. Recker, president of the National Osteoporosis Foundation, said the benefit of calcium levels off at some point and 1,000 to 1,200 mg a day is not too high because it takes into account daily variation in intake.

“This study does not shift that paradigm,” Recker said.

“I would not even consider changing my recommendation to patients based on this,” he added.

Recker’s approach is to ask patients about their diet and then he recommends calcium supplements if the patient is not getting enough calcium from diet alone. “I tell them between 1,000 and 1,200 mg per day is what’s called for,” he said.

Speaking of supplements, Recker noted that the body absorbs calcium only under certain conditions. Supplements, for example, need to be taken with food, he said.

More than 40 million people in the United States have or are at high risk for osteoporosis due to low bone mass, according to federal health agencies.

fared no better than those on aspirin, the study found.

“In a worldwide perspective, aspirin remains the gold standard antiplatelet drug for secondary stroke prevention, in view of its efficacy, tolerance and cost,” the researchers wrote.

One expert agreed.

“Allowing for the ‘gentler’ conclusion that there is no difference between terutroban and aspirin for stroke prevention, aspirin remains a widely available and inexpensive treatment throughout the world,” said Dr. Richard B. Libman, chief of the division of vascular neurology at Long Island Jewish Medical Center in New Hyde Park, N.Y. “Any new medication for stroke prevention is going to have

to do better than this before it can replace ‘good old’ aspirin,” he said.

But in a commentary, researchers from Chang Gung University College of Medicine in Taiwan and the University of California, San Diego, wrote that there’s still more to learn about whether terutroban could help people who have had a second stroke while on aspirin.

“Trials that randomly assign patients with a breakthrough event while on aspirin to a newer antiplatelet drug or higher aspirin dose, rather than reinitiation of the original aspirin dose, could provide insights into this issue,” they wrote.

“Perhaps terutroban could be called on to perform again.”

Is carpal tunnel syndrome cultural?

By FREDERIK JOELVING Every year, just more than four out of every thousand Swedish women are diagnosed with carpal tunnel syndrome, a painful condition caused by a pinched nerve in the wrist.

That’s according to a new study that finds fewer Swedes end up with carpal tunnel than Americans.

For men, the number of new cases hovered just under two per 1,000 per year, according to new findings, in the Archives of Internal Medicine.

“This study adds to our observations that there are differences in the incidence of medically-attended carpal tunnel syndrome and surgical treatment between countries,” Dr. Russell Gelfman of the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, told Reuters Health by email. He was not involved in the study.

In previous work, he and his colleagues found about twice as many people in Olmsted County, Minnesota were diagnosed with carpal tunnel, compared to the rates seen in Sweden.

What accounts for these differences is still unclear, but both medical and social factors could be at play, said Dr. Isam Atroshi, of Hassle-

holm Hospital in Sweden, who led the new work.

For instance, he added in an email, it could be related to obesity or to different types of work.

Carpal tunnel is often a result of repetitive motions that cause the ligaments in the wrist to become inflamed and pinch a nerve.

Gelfman said as many as 15 percent of the population may have symptoms, but only about five percent or fewer have a diagnosis of carpal tunnel syndrome.

He added that the symptoms of carpal tunnel syndrome — pain and numbness in the arm and hand — are similar to those of tendonitis, a less serious but common inflammation of the tendons.

Carpal tunnel syndrome sometimes goes away by itself, but may require treatment. If wrist splints or corticosteroid hormone injections fail, surgery can take pressure off the pinched nerve and provide pain relief.

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ter than taking a supplement,” he said. “You really need to eat the food. This is clearly an important part of a healthy dietary eating pattern.”

Lloyd-Jones’ study was based on data from 84,493 women aged 50 to 79 from the Women’s Health Initiative study. The vast majority of participants were white (85 percent), while 7 percent were black and 3 percent were Hispanic.

The main limitation of the study was its observational nature and the self-reported eating habits of participants, said Lona Sandon, an assistant professor of clinical nutrition at the University of Texas Southwestern in Dallas.

“What we don’t know is have these women been eating five servings of baked

and broiled fish all of their lives, or is this something they started in their fifties?”

Sandon said. “They may also have a more active lifestyle and eat less saturated fat. So there are a lot of differences, probably, in overall nutrition intake.”

Indeed, the study indicated that participants whose diets included more baked and broiled fish tended to be healthier and younger than peers who ate fried fish, as well as more physically active and fit. They were also more educated, less likely to smoke and had fewer incidences of diabetes, high blood pressure and cardiovascular disease.

“Certainly it’s promising that [baked and broiled fish] essentially had a protective effect,” Sandon said. “That goes along with what we know in other studies - something about fish is good for us. Something about unfried fish is good for us as well.”

Walk, don’t run, when passing a dog.

If a situation occurs where you or your child feels threatened by a dog, remember to remain calm, avoid eye contact and stand still or

back away slowly until the dog leaves.

A person who gets knocked down by a threatening dog should curl into a ball and protect their face using their arms and fists.

Cooked right, fish can help a woman’s heart

By MAUREEN SALAMON Long known as hearthealthy, fish that’s baked or broiled also protects against developing heart failure, a new study suggests.

Research tracking more than 84,000 postmenopausal women for an average of 10 years found that those whose diets included more baked and broiled fish — defined as five or more servings per week — had a 30 percent lower risk of heart failure compared to women who ate less than one serving per month.

“A direct relationship between fish and heart failure is not necessarily intuitive because you might expect it protects against heart attacks,” said senior

study author Dr. Donald Lloyd-Jones, a preventive cardiologist and chair of the department of preventive medicine at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, in Chicago. “But that’s not the mechanism in place here . . . and I think that’s kind of interesting. It’s also interesting that how you prepare fish is just as important as the kind of fish you’re eating.”

The study is published May 24 in the journal Circulation: Heart Failure.

Eating fried fish — previously tied to greater risks for strokes — is linked to a higher danger of heart failure, the study found, with even one serving per week associated with a 48 percent greater risk.

Additionally, dark fish such as salmon, mackerel

and bluefish were associated with lower risks than either tuna or white fish such as sole, snapper or cod.

Prior research has suggested that omega-3 fatty acids in fish reduced risks for cardiovascular disease by lowering inflammation and improving blood pressure and cardiac and blood vessel function.

Lloyd-Jones said his study showed no specific link between omega-3s and heart failure, as compared to overall heart disease, but noted that science is still teasing out all the nutritional aspects of fish. Heart failure is characterized by the inability of the heart to pump sufficient blood to the rest of the body.

“We may not know the other components . . . but that’s why eating fish is bet-

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How to guard against dog bites Dogs bite about 4.7 million people in the United States every year, but education and proper training and control of dogs can prevent many attacks, experts say.

The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) and the American Society of Plastic Surgeons (ASPS) are among four U.S. medical organizations joining other groups to raise awareness during National Dog Bite Prevention Week, May 15 to 21.

Because they often treat victims of dog attacks, plastic surgeons see firsthand how devastating dog bite injuries can be. There were nearly 33,000 reconstructive procedures on dog bite victims in the United States in 2010, an 8 percent increase

from 2009, according to the ASPS. “Unfortunately, the majority of reconstructive surgeries to treat dog bites are performed on children,” ASPS President Dr. Phillip Haeck said in an AAP news release. “Children are frequently bitten on the face, which can result in severe lacerations, infection and permanent scarring.”

Children are about three times more likely than adults to be bitten by a dog, studies have found. Each year, about 600,000 children in the United States require medical attention for dog bites.

Advice about how dog owners can prevent their dogs from biting, how people can avoid being bitten, and

how to treat dog bites is outlined in a brochure offered by the AAP, United States Postal Service and the American Veterinary Medical Association.

Among the ways you can protect yourself and your family from dog bites: Babies and small child should always be supervised and never left alone with a dog.

Teach children to ask the dog owner for permission before petting any dog.

Before touching an unfamiliar dog, let the animal sniff you or your child first.

Pet the dog gently, avoiding the face and tail.

If a dog is sleeping, eating or caring for puppies, leave it alone.

Study: Brooding men, smiling women seen as sexy

By ALLAN DOWD VANCOUVER — Guys, want to look sexy and get the girl? Don’t smile too much.

Look brooding or show a bit of shame instead. Women, ignore that advice.

Women find happy men less sexually attractive than those with expressions that show pride or hint that they have done wrong and know it, according to Canadian researchers.

The study published online Tuesday in the American Psychological Association journal Emotion showed

pictures of the opposite sex to both men and women. Participants were then asked for their initial reactions on sexual attractiveness based the

expressions they saw.

“Men who smile were considered fairly unattractive by women,” said Jessica Tracy, a University of British Columbia psychology professor who directed the study.

“So to the extent that men think that smiling is a good thing to do if they want to be found sexually attractive our findings suggest that’s not the case,” Tracy said.

The men’s reaction was just the opposite.

“Women who smile are absolutely very attractive.

That was by far the most attractive expression women showed,” Tracy said in an

interview.

The researchers admit they are not sure why men and women reacted differently to smiles. In a man, a big smile may make him appear too feminine or more desperate for sex.

The study also adds fuel to the notion that women are attracted to bad boys.

“Women are attracted to guys like James Dean, Edward the vampire. The guys who are flawed, but who know it and are tortured by it,” Tracy said.

A slightly downcast expression of shame is an appeasement gesture that

hints at a need for sympathy.

Men also found sexual attractiveness in women whose expressions and body language hinted at shame.

The researchers stressed they looked only at initial reactions of sexual attractiveness, and were not recommending men adopt a nosmile policy for a long-term relationship.

“When people want a longterm relationship they take much more into account than sexual attractiveness.

How nice a person is, is a big thing,” Tracy said.

“So we’re not saying, don’t be a nice guy,” she said.

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U.S. smart grid to cost billions, save trillions A planned modernization of the U.S. national power grid will cost up to $476 billion over the next 20 years but will provide up to $2 trillion in customer benefits over that time, according to industry experts.

The so-called “smart grid” will save energy, reduce costs and increase reliability by delivering electricity from suppliers to consumers using two-way communication that can control appliances, the charging of electric vehicles and the flow of power from renewable sources at customers’ homes.

“The implementation of the smart grid is a continuous process. As new technology is developed and becomes cost effective, it is being used to find the most effective way to meet supply and demand,” Matt Wakefield, smart grid program manager at the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) said in a conference call on Tuesday.

To make the power system of the future a reality, EPRI, a nonprofit electric research and development company, said power companies need to invest between $17 and $24 billion a year over the next two decades. Much of those costs will be passed onto consumers.

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By the year 2050, EPRI estimated the average electric bill will probably go up by about 50 percent if the smart grid is deployed. If not, Gellings said, the average electric bill could go up by almost 400 percent.

Some of the biggest technology firms in the world are competing to supply the smart grid infrastructure, including International Business Machines, General Electric, ABB, Siemens, Google, Toshiba, Cisco and Microsoft.

Last week, Japanese multinational Toshiba agreed to buy Swiss smart grid company Landis+Gyr for $2.3 billion.

The giant technology firms want to manufac-

ture the devices and software needed to enable generating facilities to communicate with the equipment that uses electricity.

In addition to the giant technology firms, all sorts of firms in the power, renewable, appliance and auto industries can use the smart grid to interact with their customers.

Power retailers, like NRG and Consolidated Edison’s ConEdison Solutions, can use the

smart grid to sell more demand response and other services.

Appliance manufacturers, like Whirlpool and Haier Electronics, can sell more energy efficient appliances, and auto manufacturers, like Ford Motor and General Motors, can use the smart grid to power up their electric cars.

The nation’s current power grid was not designed to meet the needs of a restructured electric marketplace, the increasing demands of a digital society or the increased use of renewable power production.

The grid today primarily consists of large coal, nuclear and natural gas-fired generating stations connected to local distribution networks by a high voltage network. The power flows predominantly from the power plant to the consumer.

The smart grid will continue to depend on large nuclear and fossilfired power plants but also includes a substantial number of energy storage and renewable

generating facilities.

Not surprisingly, the major technology companies like GE, Siemens and Toshiba, also dominate the renewable space. But there are plenty of other wind and solar companies that can benefit from the smart grid, including FirstSolar, Sharp and Vestas Wind.

Consumers want reliable and low cost power but increasingly they also want clean electricity.

In his State of the Union message in January, President Barack Obama set a goal of 80 percent clean energy by 2035 and even though he included nuclear power and clean coal in that goal, there is still a lot of room for more renewable sources.

The United States gets about 46 percent of its power from coal, 21 percent from natural gas and 20 percent from nuclear. Renewables, like wind and solar, generate less than 5 percent of the total, according to data from the federal government.

Stimulus money recipients owe billions in taxes WASHINGTON — Contractors and businesses that received money through the 2009 federal economic stimulus plan owe billions in unpaid taxes to the government, a federal auditor said.

The Government Accountability Office said that as of September 30, 2010, the total bill for unpaid taxes, including interest and penalties, was $330 billion.

By law the federal government can make grants to entities that owe taxes, so some of the outstanding bills were racked up before the stimulus plan was passed.

“We’ve known for some time that there’s a significant tax gap in this country, and in some cases we’ve found that government contractors are contributing to the problem,” said Senator Tom Carper, a Democrat from Delaware, in a state-

ment.

He added that “those who fail to pay their fair share... force their fellow Americans who play by the rules to pay more in taxes.”

Last month, the office reported that as of September 30, 2009, 3,700 contract and grant recipients owed $750 million in unpaid taxes. That represented nearly 5 percent of the 80,000 funding recipients.

The $819 billion stimulus plan, a combination of spending and tax measures intended

to jolt the U.S. economy out of the longest and deepest downturn since World War Two, appropriated $275 billion for grants, contracts and loans. As of March 25, about $191 billion had been paid out, the GAO said.

Because of the way the Internal Revenue Service tracks taxes owed and paid, the estimate of unpaid taxes is likely too low, it said.

The GAO said it had uncovered 15 cases in which recipients had not sent withheld payroll taxes to the Inter-

nal Revenue Service, a violation that totaled $40 million.

In one example, a nonprofit organization did not give the IRS payroll taxes from the middle to late 2000s and defaulted on agreements to pay the money in installments. Finally, the IRS filed tax liens against the organization to collect the more than $2 million it owed.

The group received awards from the stimulus plan of more than $1 million for social services, the GAO said.

Media: Nokia to launch its first Window phone late this year TAIPEI — Nokia planned to launch its first smartphone using Microsoft’s Windows Phone 7 at the end of the year, according to Taiwan’s Commercial

Times, which did not identify a source.

The newspaper also said Taiwanese handset contract maker Compal Communications was the sole com-

pany to receive orders for Nokia’s Window phones and would start shipment in the fourth quarter.

Two models of Window phones were on

Of the plan’s many moving parts, which included fund transfers to states and aid for the unemployed, contracts and grants were targeted mostly at direct job creation.

According to the federal government’s web s i t e , www.recovery.gov, from January through March, recipients reported that they had created 571,383 jobs through contracts, grants and loans. The website showed almost $265 billion had been awarded.

Nokia’s plan — one with a full touch screen and another sleek one with a keypad.

The world’s largest handset maker announced in February it would use Microsoft’s Windows phone software in all of its smartphones, and said it would start volume shipments of these smartphones in 2012.

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U.S. sues big oil traders for 2008 manipulation

By JOSHUA SCHNEYER and TIMOTHY GARDNER Regulators launched one of the biggest ever crackdowns on oil price manipulation on Tuesday, suing two wellknown traders and two trading firms owned by Norwegian billionaire John Fredriksen for allegedly making $50 million by squeezing markets in 2008.

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) said traders James Dyer of Oklahoma’s Parnon Energy, and Nick Wildgoose of Europe-based Arcadia Energy, amassed large physical positions at a key U.S. trading hub to create the impression of tight supplies that would boost oil prices.

Later they dumped those barrels back onto the market, causing prices to crash and racking up profits from short positions they had accrued in futures markets, the suit said.

“Defendants conducted a manipulative cycle, driving the price of WTI (crude) to artificial highs and then back down, to make unlawful profits,” the lawsuit filed in New York said.

“This is a very big deal in that we seldom allege that the defendants manipulated the crude oil market to the tune of 50 million dollars in ill-gotten gains,” CFTC commissioner Bart Chilton told Reuters.

“That’s an awful lot of money, and when we look at how consumers are suffering at the gas pump, we need to prosecute activity like this to the fullest extent of our authority under the law,” Chilton said.

While the civil suit comes after three years of heightened scrutiny into oil price speculation by the CFTC, it also arrives at a time when President Barack Obama is seeking to reassure Americans he is trying to curb high U.S. gasoline prices and ensure they aren’t subject to manipulation.

“This is exactly what we expect the CFTC to be doing,” said Democratic Senator Maria Cantwell, who has pushed the Obama administration to tackle market manipulation in energy markets.

“Consumers have felt the impact of manipulation we’ve seen in the electricity, natural gas and oil markets. I expect the CFTC to be aggressive in policing these markets and standing up for consumers who are getting gouged at the pump,” she said.

The suit names two traders familiar to U.S. oil market veterans, who recall Dyer and Wildgoose from their days as high-flying traders at BP Plc in the early 2000s, when the British oil giant’s trading practices were under scrutiny due to its large ownership of oil tanks at Cushing, Oklahoma, the delivery point for U.S. oil futures.

BP was hit with a record $2.5 million fine by the New York Mercantile Exchange in 2003 for alleged U.S. oil market manipulation, which it paid without admitting any wrongdoing. That case did not include any allegations of misconduct by Dyer or Wildgoose.

Both Parnon and Arcadia are controlled by shipping magnate Fredriksen, who was born in Norway but is based in Cyprus, and whose $10.7 billion fortune placed him at number 72 in the latest Forbes list of the world’s billionaires.

The lawsuit says that the CFTC may seek damages of as much as triple the monetary gains derived from the illicit trading violations, among other potential fines and injunctions. If the CFTC won damages of $150 million it would match the second-largest fine in the agency’s history.

A CFTC spokesman declined comment on the specific damages it would seek in the suit.

In the past, the CFTC has had a hard time winning manipulation cases, although U.S.

financial reforms last year gave it broader powers to get tough.

While the trading strategy itself focused mainly on oil futures’ price spreads, or time spreads, rather than outright prices of crude, the alleged scheme occurred in a year when global oil prices experienced their largest swings ever.

The CFTC said the traders aborted the trading strategy after April 2008, when they learned of regulators’ investigations.

Just months later U.S. oil prices surged to a record $147 a barrel, then crashed to nearly $30 a barrel by the end of the year.

Sought for comment, officials at Arcadia and Parnon did not return phone calls. Wildgoose, Dyer and Fredriksen were not immediately reachable.

Using positions in physical markets — and even making a loss in physical trading — to gain profits in derivative markets is not an uncommon phenomenon in oil markets.

The CFTC explained that the traders’ “repeated conduct lead to at least a physical WTI trading loss of over $15 million. However, the artificial spread prices that were created as a result of Parnon/Arcadia’s physical trading created profits of over $50 million in their WTI Derivative positions.”

In the early 2000s, oil market trading plays known as “squeezes” were commonplace on both sides of the Atlantic, and BP was known as one of the most aggressive traders, using its control of important physical assets like the Forties pipeline that transports Europe’s benchmark Brent crude, and the tanks that store crude at Cushing for leverage on paper positions.

And although the plays have rarely been successfully prosecuted by regulators, they have diminished in U.S. markets amid years of heightened scrutiny

China National Offshore Oil Corporation’s (CNOOC) oil rig in China’s Bohai Sea. and high-profile investigations since the collapse of Enron.

“It feels like a blast from the past,” said a veteran U.S. oil trader who requested anonymity.

In September 2007, according to CFTC suit, Dyer said in an email to other Parnon/Arcadia traders that there was a “shitload of money to be made” in creating the appearance that available stocks of crude at Cushing, Oklahoma — the NYMEX futures delivery hub — were low, a move that would cause prompt oil prices to rise.

As traders bid up oil for immediate delivery on fears of a shortage, Dyer and Wildgoose would then take a short position in nearterm futures contracts, by selling them and acquiring oil contracts for delivery further in the future, CFTC said.

They would then gain profits by dumping large volumes of physical supplies back onto the market, ending the perception of a short-term “shortage,” and causing oil futures spreads to collapse as premiums for prompt crude vanished.

The trading duo named in the lawsuit executed a manipulative strategy by amassing “a sufficient quantity of physical WTI to be delivered the next month at Cushing to dominate and control WTI supply even though they had no commercial need for

crude oil,” the CFTC said.

The scheme worked in January and March 2008, but later failed in April, CFTC said, as prices rose by almost $20 a barrel toward $120 over the course of that month. Prices barely paused from then until they hit an all-time high in July.

Parnon, headquartered in Oklahoma, owns at least 3 million barrels of storage facilities at Cushing. London-based Arcadia is a major global oil trading

firm, which typically markets about 800,000 barrels a day of crude and product around the world.

Both are controlled

by Fredriksen’s Farahead Holdings, based in Cyprus. Fredriksen’s energy empire, which also includes top oil tanker operator Frontline, liquefied natural gas company Golar and offshore driller Seadrill, has hired away several traders who once worked at BP, including Parnon’s current CEO, Paul Adams.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that, pursuant to Title 5, Chapter 3, Subchapter 3 of the Administrative Code of the City of New York, a public hearing will be held at 22 Reade Street, Borough of Manhattan on Tuesday, June 14, 2011, at 10:00 am on the following: REAL PROPERTY PUBLIC HEARING in the matter of the acquisition by the City of New York of fee simple interests on the following real estate in the County of Orange for the purposes of operating and maintaining the water supply of the City of New York: Municipality Tax Lot ID Acres (+/-) Town of Newburgh 8.-1-15.2 & 19.1 23.43 8.-1-16 & 17 7.50 A copy of the Mayor’s Preliminary Certificate of Adoption and maps of the real estate to be acquired are available for public inspection upon request. Please call (845) 340-7810.

Caswell F. Holloway Commissioner

Michael R. Bloomberg Mayor

Contractors will be required to comply with EEO, D/M/WBE and other federal and state procurement laws, regulations and Executive Orders.

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Bid Number: JPRB110870 - The MTA Bus Company (MTABC) and New York City Transit (NYCT) are seeking a vendor(s) to furnish and deliver the bus part listed below. The contract duration is twenty-seven (27) months and is an estimated quantity contract. Terms & conditions are contained in bid documents. All prices quoted must be FOB delivered. Payment NET30 unless otherwise indicated.

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SPORTS

Mike Brown new Lakers coach SPORTS BRIE FS

By CHRIS BROUSSARD

Mike Brown is the new coach of the Los Angeles Lakers. Brown and the Lakers agreed in principle yesterday to a four-year, $18.25 million deal, according to league sources.

Brown, who is currently in Cleveland, will sign the contract later this week.

The development is a victorious comeback for Brown, who was fired by the Cleveland Cavaliers almost a year ago to the day. Now, the 41-year-old Brown, the winningest coach in Cavaliers history, is leading one of the most prestigious and successful franchise in modern basketball history.

The contract is a three-year deal with a team option for a fourth year. If the Lakers don’t pick up the option, Brown is guaranteed to receive $2.5 million.

Brown’s union with the Lakers came together quickly.

An ESPN analyst and the 200809 NBA coach of the year, he emerged as the leading candidate for the vacancy created when Phil Jackson retired after a strong face-to-face interview Saturday with Lakers brass including executive vice presi-

dent of player personnel Jim Buss.

Brown, 41, guided Cleveland to the 2007 NBA Finals and two trips to the Eastern Conference finals in five seasons with the Cavaliers, posting a record of 272-138.

While Brown’s teams were noted for their defense, their offensive schemes were much maligned for their over-dependency on LeBron James to create without the consistent involvement of his teammates. Lakers owner Dr. Jerry Buss addressed the issue of the team’s offense moving forward in an interview with SiriusXM Radio on Tuesday.

“We’re not going to continue exclusively with the triangle,”

Buss told Playboy Radio’s Michael Eaves and Bonnie-Jill Laflin. “Certainly, there will be facets of the triangle incorporated into any modern offense.”

Brown would be likely to implement an offensive system similar to what the San Antonio Spurs run, which includes triangle principles, according to a Western Conference coach familiar with Brown’s career. Brown was an assistant coach in San Antonio from 2000 to 2003.

Brown’s interview, combined with his track record of success in Cleveland, moved him ahead of the two other candidates the Lakers interviewed, Rick Adelman and Brian Shaw.

Shaw, a longtime Lakers assistant under Jackson, had a public endorsement from superstar Kobe Bryant, but Shaw will likely be moving on to another franchise after the hiring of Brown. He is a candidate for the head-coaching job in Golden State, though sources say the Warriors want to hire a coach with prior head-coaching experience.

Lakers brass did not consult Bryant during their coaching search, but sources say Bryant has great respect for Brown and is on board with the hiring.

With the Lakers realizing their hopes of landing Brown, runner-up Adelman would move to the Warriors’ short list, sources told Bucher.

Shawn Marion to shoot TV pilot

By JEFF CAPLAN DALLAS — When this magical basketball season concludes, Dallas Mavericks forward Shawn Marion will shoot a reality TV pilot he said has been in the works for more than a year called, “The Ladies of My Life,” with hopes of turning it into a series.

If the Mavs win against the Thunder last night, a trip to the NBA Finals could put off the project for a while.

The show, first reported by TMZ, won’t

be some scandalous look at the NBA dating scene. Yes, the charismatic, 6-foot-7 Marion is a happy-go-lucky bachelor and more than just a bit of a fashionista, from his collection of Gucci footwear to designer eyewear — non-prescription, of course. The ladies’ man will involve some dating in the show to spice it up, but the ladies who will share the show’s spotlight are those dearest to Marion: his mother, Elaine; his twin sister, Shawnett; and his two younger sisters.

“It’s going to deal with me and how I have mostly all ladies in my life,” Marion said yesterday prior to the team’s morning shootaround. “I’m sin-

gle-mother raised and I have all sisters and I have a single-mother foundation, so it’s about all that.”

Marion was reluctant to talk in greater detail about the show because he said he’s concentrating on defending Thunder star Kevin Durant and advancing to the first NBA Finals of his 12-year career.

At least one teammate said Marion is a can’t-miss reality TV personality.

“He’s actually realitycomedy every day in the locker room,” Mavs guard Jason Terry said.

“We always tell him he needs to get his own show.”

Marion’s cousin and personal assistant, Craig Carter, and

Marion’s Plano-based publicist Danika Berry, another of the ladies close to Marion, are handling the details.

The premise of the show reunites Marion with his mom, who lives in Las Vegas, where Marion attended UNLV, and his sisters, two of whom live in Vegas and one in Maryland, under one roof — Marion’s 14,000-square-foot mansion in Dallas.

“They’re going to stay with him for a few months and drive him crazy like when they all lived together,” Carter said. “It’s really about his mom and sisters and how big an influence they are to him and how he basically takes care of his family.”

Haley, Coakley headed for college Hall

NEW YORK - Longtime NFL linebackers Charles Haley and Dexter Coakley were selected for induction into the College Football Hall of Fame’s Divisional class for players and coaches who made their marks at small colleges.

Haley played at James Madison from 1982-85.

He is still the school’s career leader in tackles and in 1986 he became the first player from the school selected in the NFL draft.

He went on to a stellar career with the San Francisco 49ers and Dallas Cowboys and was a member of five Super Bowl champions.

Coakley starred at Appalachian State from 199396 and is the only two-time winner of the Buck Buchanan Award as the top defensive player in Division I-AA (now called FCS). He is still the Mountaineers’ career leader in tackles with 616.

He was drafted by the Cowboys and went on to play in three Pro Bowls during a 10-year career.

Also picked were North Dakota State center Michael Favor, who played on two undefeated teams, including a national champion, from 198588, and Mickey Kobrosky, who played offensive and defensive back for Trinity College from 193336.

The two coaches in the class are Dayton’s Mike Kelly, who won 82 percent of his games (246-54-1) in 27 years with the Flyers, and Bill Manlove, who won 211 Division III games while coaching at Widener (Pa.) University, Delaware Valley College and La Salle.

VCU raises fees to give $733K more to basketball RICHMOND, Va. - Virginia Commonwealth University plans to increase student fees so it can give $733,000 more to the basketball program, including for coaches’ raises.

Head coach Shaka Smart was given a $1.2 million contract after taking the Rams to the NCAA Final Four this past season.

According to VCU’s budget for the fiscal year that begins July 1, the school plans to increase its mandatory university fee by $50 per student to raise about $11 million for intercollegiate athletics, an $875,000 increase.

VCU figures show that 37 percent of the $1,637 per-student university fee for 2011-12 will go toward intercollegiate athletics. That includes salaries, scholarships, and sports-facility repairs.

Spokeswoman Pam Lepley said Tuesday that private donations and ticket revenue, along with the university fee allocation, fund VCU athletics programs.

Oscar De La Hoya enters rehab De La Hoya went into rehab within the last few weeks, TMZ first reported Saturday. The nature of his problem is not known.

“He is my friend and I wish him well,” Golden Boy CEO Richard Schaefer, De La Hoya’s close friend, told ESPN.com at the Bell Centre in Montreal on Saturday night, where he was promoting the Jean Pascal-Bernard Hopkins light heavyweight championship rematch. “I’m sure that all the fans are joining me in wishing him the best.”

Schaefer said De La Hoya was still in rehab, which is why he is not at one of his company’s biggest fights of the year.

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FIFA investigates bin Hammam, Warner for bribery

By GRAHAM DUNBAR ZURICH With FIFA’s presidential election just a week away, football’s governing body said yesterday it is investigating challenger Mohamed bin Hammam for bribery in his campaign to unseat Sepp Blatter.

FIFA summoned Asian Football Confederation leader bin Hammam and FIFA vice president Jack Warner to an ethics hearing on Sunday to face allegations of corruption during the Qatari official’s campaign visit to Trinidad two weeks ago.

The allegations - leveled by Warner’s longtime ally Chuck Blazer of the United States could well wreck bin Hammam’s already fading hopes of defeating Blatter in the June 1 vote

by FIFA’s 208 national members.

The FIFA ethics committee has the power to provisionally suspend bin Hammam from all soccer duties.

He denied wrongdoing and suggested, on “a difficult and painful day for me,” that the accusations were instigated by Blatter’s camp.

“This move is little more than a tactic being used by those who have no confidence in their own ability to emerge successfully from the FIFA presidential election,” bin Hammam wrote in a statement published on his official website.

Warner also rejected the allegations, and said

Muhamed bin Hammam (right) of Qatar, chief of the Asian Football Confederation, and FIFA Vice President Austin Jack Warner of Trinidad and Tobago were all smiles last month before FIFA started a bribery probe. The two senior officials will face an ethics investigation at FIFAl headquarters on Sunday, three days before bin Hammam challenges incumbent Sepp Blatter in FIFA's presidential elections.

FIFA said the allegations relate to bin Hammam's meeting with Caribbean football leaders May 10-11, about when this photo was taken, in Trinidad to lobby for support.

Photo/Shirley Bahadur,File he was “unaware of the we believe to be various particulars” of FIFA’s types of violations,” he investigation. The veter- said.

The ethics panel, to be an FIFA official also questioned why the case chaired by Namibian judge Petrus Damaseb, was made public now.

“It is interesting to can impose a provisional note the timing of these suspension while it allegations and the hear- gathers evidence for a ing scheduled days full hearing. It took this before the FIFA presi- path when investigating dential elections,” two of bin Hammam’s Warner said in a state- FIFA executive committee colleagues prior to ment.

Blazer’s accusations, the 2018 and 2022 which FIFA said World Cup votes last “include bribery allega- December.

Bin Hammam, under tions,” prompted secretary general Jerome the terms of such a ban, Valcke to ask the gov- could effectively be erning body’s ethics barred as an election committee to investigate. candidate.

“I am confident that Blazer, the highestranked American in there is no charge to world soccer, told The answer and that I will be Associated Press he did free to stand ... as originot want to comment nally planned,” bin before Sunday’s hearing. Hammam wrote. “If “We filed a comprehen- there is even the slightsive file covering what est justice in the world,

these allegations will vanish in the wind.”

FIFA said the allegations related to bin Hammam’s meeting with 25 Caribbean football leaders on May 1011 in Warner’s native Trinidad to lobby for support.

“This meeting was linked to the upcoming FIFA presidential election,” FIFA said.

Bin Hammam helped organize the hastily arranged meeting after he was unable to attend the annual congress of the Confederation of North, Central America and Caribbean Association Football (CONCACAF) one week earlier in Miami.

The Qatari official was denied a visa to enter the U.S., despite traveling on a diplomatic passport. His campaign’s administrative oversight left Blatter a clear run to lobby for votes in Miami.

Warner has long been a key powerbroker in FIFA politics and his backing was seen as vital to bin Hammam’s hopes. Blatter has been endorsed by confederation leaders in Africa, Europe, Oceania and South America.

Warner’s 35-member confederation has not yet officially backed either candidate.

Blatter’s campaign adviser, Brian Alexander, said the FIFA president would not comment on the case.

One Caribbean official who attended the meeting in Trinidad told the AP that bin Hammam

only gave a power point presentation and had dinner with delegates.

“I was actually surprised to hear some of the things I’m hearing in the press and seeing,” said David Hinds, the general secretary of the Barbados Football Association. “It was just a presentation. A presentation that he did in one of the ballrooms. And that was it. We had dinner that evening and he flew out and then we went home.”

Bin Hammam and Warner are both scheduled to be in Zurich on Thursday for a meeting of FIFA’s finance committee, though Warner is not expected to travel to Zurich. FIFA’s executive committee chaired

by Blatter next meets on Monday.

Two Caribbean Football Union officials, Debbie Minguell and Jason Sylvester, also are being investigated by FIFA. The four people under suspicion have been invited to “take a position” by Friday and report to the ethics panel on Sunday, FIFA said.

Corruption in FIFA has been a prominent campaign theme after a series of financial and vote-buying scandals severely damaged its reputation during Blatter’s 13-year presidency.

Yet Bin Hammam appears to have been damaged by association with corruption more than Blatter during their two months of electioneering.

Bin Hammam was a key player in Qatar’s

successful bid to host the 2022 World Cup. Qatar was accused in a British Parliamentary hearing of paying $1.5 million bribes to two African FIFA executive committee members, Issa Hayatou and Jacques Anouma. They deny the claims.

Yesterday, a whistleblower from the Qatar bid had been scheduled to submit evidence to Valcke and FIFA legal director Marco Villiger in Zurich. But FIFA said the whistleblower “decided not to attend the meeting” based on legal advice.

As FIFA’s top administrator, Valcke must decide whether to refer Qatar’s bid to the ethics panel.

Last week, Blatter did not encourage nor rule out the possibility of reopening the 2022 vote if corruption is proved.

The other 2022 bids came from the U.S., Australia, Japan and South Korea.

Qatar defeated the U.S. 14-8 in the final round of voting by FIFA’s executive committee. Two members, Amos Adamu and Reynald Temarii, were suspended two weeks before the vote following an ethics probe. Adamu got a three-year ban for seeking bribes and has appealed to the Court of Arbitration for Sport.

Blazer was openly critical of Qatar’s plans in public, and within FIFA’s executive committee which he joined in 1996.

NFL sees signs fans ar e tur ned of f

By BARRY WILNER INDIANAPOLIS The NFL is seeing the early signs of cracks in fan loyalty.

Ten weeks into the owners’ lockout of the

players, Commissioner Roger Goodell noted yesterday the negative effect the labor dispute is having on pro football.

“Clearly it has had an impact on the fans,” Goodell said as the owners completed their spring meetings. “We see it in various metrics.

There’s been a noticeable change, TV ratings were down on the draft roughly 4 million people. NFL.com traffic (is down), we see that.”

Ticket sales also are down.

“Fans want certainty,” Goodell added. “We can’t underestimate that

the fans are going through challenges just in the general economy.”

That certainty isn’t likely to come soon.

Both sides have a date in 8th U.S. District Court on June 3 for hearings on the league’s appeal to uphold the lockout. A

decision probably won’t come for several weeks, and while another set of mediation sessions is scheduled to start June 7, not much is expected from those discussions while the appeal is being considered.

The owners’ meetings included lengthy talks

about the labor dispute, but no deadlines have been set - yet - for the opening of training camps, which usually happens in late July.

That drop-dead date “obviously is coming,” Goodell said, barring a collective bargaining agreement.

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SPORTS McCain and King seek pardon for boxing great Jack Johnson PHOENIX Senator John McCain and Representative Peter King said on Tuesday they would reintroduce a resolution to pardon boxing legend Jack Johnson, the first black heavyweight champion of the world who was jailed after having a relationship with a white woman.

McCain of Arizona and King of New York urged President Barack Obama to pardon Johnson over his 1913

conviction under the Mann Act, which prohibited taking women across state lines for “immoral purposes.”

McCain said both chambers of Congress unanimously passed a resolution in 2009 calling on the president to pardon Johnson of his “racially motivated conviction,” although it was not granted.

“Congressman King and I are reintroducing this resolution to send a clear message to rectify this unacceptable historical injustice,” McCain said in a statement on Tuesday.

“A full pardon would

not only shed light on the achievements of an athlete who was forced into the shadows of bigotry and prejudice, but also allow future generations to grasp fully what Jonson accomplished against great odds,” he added.

Born in Galveston Texas, in 1878, Johnson battled his way to the world heavyweight title in 1908, at the height of the Jim Crow era. A two-fisted counter puncher, he held on to it for nearly seven years against a series of so-called “Great White Hopes.”

He was arrested in

1912 on the grounds that his relationship with Lucille Cameron, a white prostitute who later became Johnson’s wife, violated the Mann Act against “transporting women across state lines for immoral purposes.”

Johnson is widely regarded as one of the most talented heavyweights of all time. He died in 1946 and is buried in Chicago.

McCain and King, who are life-long box fans, have been introducing resolutions urging a pardon for Johnson since 2004.

Steelers players rip new rule The NFL’s new proposal to punish teams for their players’ multiple flagrant hits that result in fines has been nicknamed by some in the league as the “Steelers rule.” Not surprisingly, some of the hardest hitters on Pittsburgh’s defense took to social media to blast the league’s new initiative.

The punishment will be financial, although league vice president Adolpho Birch said Tuesday he didn’t rule out commissioner Roger Goodell applying further sanctions, such as stripping clubs of draft choices. Also Tuesday, owners approved rules amendments for player safety, targeting launching and further defining what qualifies as a

defenseless player.

In his news conference yesterday to wrap up the spring owners meetings in Indianapolis, Goodell said the “objective is to have a club accountability” in making the game safer. He said he hasn’t contemplated yet whether he would take draft picks away from teams, but he did say the NFL would summon teams to the league offices in New York to discuss problems, if needed.

“We’re all responsible for making this game as safe as possible,” he said.

Birch would not identify which 2010 teams would have been subject to fines had the policy been in place then, but did say at least three teams might

have been punished.

One player, Pittsburgh All-Pro linebacker James Harrison, was fined $100,000 for flagrant hits last season.

“We’ll check the number of fines and the level of fines going out for infractions that relate to various player safety violations,” Birch said. “Particularly head and helmet issues.”

Harrison expressed his displeasure on his Twitter account Tuesday.

“I’m absolutely sure now after this last rule change that the people making the rules at the NFL are idiots,” Harrison said.

Teammate LaMarr Woodley also spoke out through his Twitter account.

“Thoughts on “the steelers rule”??? lol im

Hines Ward wins ‘Dancing’ crown LOS ANGELES — Hines Ward added a disco-ball trophy to his Super Bowl shelf Tuesday night after he samba-ed his way to the “Dancing with the Stars” championship.

The Steelers wide receiver and former Super Bowl MVP won the title, besting actresses Kirstie Alley and Chelsea Kane to become the season 12 champ.

“You are the MVP of ‘Dancing with the Stars’ season 12,” judge Carrie Ann Inaba said after Ward and professional partner Kym Johnson finished their last dance. “You learned how to lead the dancing, not only in the dance, but you led your partner out of injury. You dance with heart and it shows.”

Ward said after the show that he owes the victory to his partner, hard work and the fans.

“The competition has been so close all year, we knew it was going to come down to voting,” he said, “so we want to thank our fans.”

Judge Bruno Tonioli said Ward “really is like a ray of sunshine when he enters the arena.”

James Harrison sorry that im not sorry chief disciplinarian, has we hit 2 hard,” he said suspensions will be considered for egrewrote.

Steelers president gious hits this season.

The 32 owners voted Art Rooney II told USA Today that he’s reserv- unanimously Tuesday to approve rules amending judgment for now.

“I’m not going to say ments for player safety, I’m opposed to it. I including a measure would hope that it’s aimed at keeping a something that is used player from launching judiciously, that is sort himself into a defenseof reserved for repeated less opponent. A 15type of conduct,” yard penalty will result Rooney said. “I think if for anyone who leaves it’s handled that way, both feet before contact it’ll probably be effec- to spring forward and tive. It’s still under dis- upward into an opponent and delivers a blow cussion.”

The NFL began a to the helmet with any crackdown on illegal part of his helmet.

Such tackles will also hits, particularly those to defenseless players, be subject to fines.

The definition of a last October. It threatreceiver ened suspensions, but defenseless has been no players had to sit out already Now, a games. However, Ray extended.

Anderson, the league’s receiver who has not

LaMarr Woodley had time to protect himself or has not clearly become a runner even if both feet are on the ground is considered defenseless.

Defenseless players cannot be hit in the head or neck area with the helmet, face mask, forearm or shoulder.

The definition of such players now includes those throwing a pass; attempting or completing a catch without having time to ward off or avoid contact; a runner whose forward progress has been stopped by a tackler; kickoff or punt returners while the ball is in the air; kickers or punters during a kick or a return; a quarterback during a change of possession; a player who receives a blindside block from a blocker moving toward his own end zone.

Penalized players are subject to being ejected for flagrant fouls.

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ONLY WINNING IT ALL CAN CHANGE PERCEPTION OF JAMES

By NANCY ARMOUR This is what LeBron James envisioned last summer. Why he broke the hearts of everyone within a 100mile radius of Cleveland, trashed his reputation and gave the nation a new punchline.

The Miami Heat aren’t in the NBA finals - yet. But it seems almost inevitable now, what with a 3-1 lead and the Chicago Bulls looking dazed after James’ all-around dominating performance Tuesday night.

James can apologize for the rest of his career or make more defiant commercials, and he’ll still be the player everyone outside Miami loves to hate.

The only way he’ll change public opinion is by winning the NBA title, and he is playing like a man determined to do that, even if it means dragging the rest of the Heat along with him.

“It’s whatever it takes for myself and for our team,” James said.

He was talking about defense, but it applies to the rest of his game, too.

He played more minutes (49:23) and scored more points (35) than anyone else on the floor in Miami’s 101-93 overtime win in Game 4. He led the Heat with six assists, grabbed six rebounds and had a pair each of steals and blocked shots.

That James is a special talent has never been in question. He’s mesmerizing on the court, able to do things that defy imagination, and was a twotime NBA MVP before his 26th birthday. Finally, NBA fans thought, here was a player worthy of those Michael Jordan comparisons.

There’s always been something, though, that’s kept James from making the league his own as Jordan did.

In years past, he might have had a meltdown after being called for a late offensive foul, as he was with 8 seconds left in regulation Tuesday night. He might have faltered at taking sole responsibility when his team’s next-best offensive option was having an off night, as Dwyane Wade did against the Bulls.

But there is a toughness to James now, a superstar’s attitude he never seemed comfortable embracing in

Cleveland. No one can accuse him of quitting, as he was after last year’s second-round debacle against Boston.

Or wish he’d been a little more selfish, as he could have been in Cleveland’s other playoff disappointments when he insisted on passing to open teammates instead of keeping the ball in his own hands.

His 10 points in the third quarter Tuesday almost single-handedly kept the Bulls from pulling away, his onehanded slam over Luol Deng in the final seconds cutting Chicago’s lead to 65-63. He scored 13 of his 35 points in the fourth quarter and overtime, seeming to be everywhere on the court.

He scored on a spin move and, on the next possession, fed Mike Miller for a 3-pointer. He took a charge to cause a Bulls turnover, which set up a jumper by Miller that gave the Heat a 70-69 lead. And though Wade finally found his groove in overtime, it was James who finished the Bulls off.

With about 90 seconds left and Miami clinging to a 91-89 lead, he scored on a driving layup, brushing Joakim Noah out of the way as if the Chicago Bulls center was a mere gnat.

Equally impressive was his smothering defense on MVP Derrick Rose.

Rose has been dismal in the fourth quarter this series, in large part because of James. Anytime he gets the ball, James is sticking a hand in his face or forcing him to change direction. Rose had a chance to win the game in regulation, but his jumper never even reached the basket after the pressure James put on him.

“It’s extremely hard when a 6-8 guy can easily defend you,” said Rose, who is listed at 6-3.

James has owned their matchup so completely it’ll be months before Rose is be able to shake the feeling somebody’s following him.

“He shoulders a big responsibility for us during the course of the game

on both ends of the court,” Heat coach Erik Spoelstra said.

Being willing to put a team on your back and carry it when it matters most is what separates the game’s greatest icons from those who are merely great. James, Wade and Chris Bosh have billed themselves “The Big Three,” and James and Wade clearly want to be seen as this generation’s Jordan and Pippen.

What they’ve forgotten, though, is Scottie Pippen was the supporting actor and Jordan the star. Jordan lived to take the big shots, to put on the kind of performance that sent opposing coaches back to the greaseboard and broke the will of his opponents.

Oh, he could get his teammates involved and let them share in the glory. When the game was on the line, though, Jordan was going to have his hands on the ball.

James finally seems to understand it has to be that way for him, too.