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A CELEBRATION OF LIFE FOR CLARICE TAYLOR

Stars, fans, and family said farewell to acclaimed actress Clarice Taylor earlier this week. Pictured above: (L-R) Douglas Turner Ward, artistic director and founder (along with Taylor) of the Negro Ensemble Company, Rev. Al Sharpton, Ruby Dee, Jayson Thomas, grandson, Meli’’sa Morgan, and

Alyson Williams were among those who performed and offered remembrances at the “Celebration of Life” funeral service for Taylor at Canaan Baptist Church in Harlem. Read the complete story on page 12 of Inside New York’s section of the Daily Challenge. Photo credit: Kevin Mason.

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N E W S B RI E F S The Choir of the Pope’s Diocese of Rome, which has served the Church of Rome and musically accompanied the Holy Father during the main liturgies of the Catholic calendar, will perform in a concert Saturday in Brooklyn.

The concert will start at 7:30 p.m. in Regina Pacis Church on 65th Street. It will be the final performance of a six-concert tour the choir started earlier this month as it made its first ever trip to the U.S. *************************** Celebrate a lifetime of more birthdays the right way—with more birthday cake! Fairway Market, the exclusive sponsor of The Best Birthday Cake contest, invites you to vote for the most delicious cake from 30 of the city’s best professional and amateur bakers during American Cancer Society’s Relay for Life event. The tasting will begin at 5 p.m. under the crane by the waterfront of IKEA in Brooklyn (1 Beard Street) and last until 6:30. Celebrity judges, Fairway’s Master Baker Sarah Black, Matt Lewis and Rafi Avramoritz of Baked will be officiating the contest along with event attendees who determine the fate of the baker’s cake. For $5 you can taste the cakes, cheer on your favorite baker, and try as many cakes as your stomach can handle!

Once the winner is chosen, all cancer survivors participating in the Relay for Life event will be invited to blow out all the candles on the cakes in celebration of another birthday. All proceeds benefit American Cancer Society’s Relay for Life of Ikea Brooklyn. In addition to the cake contest, there will be free activities and entertainment throughout the day from 211 p.m., including tennis lessons, picnic games, live music, Zumbathon, and a cupcake decorating class run by Fairway’s Sarah Black. *************************** The New York City Police Department is taking hundreds of guns confiscated from city streets and turning them into a monument to peace.

Police Commissioner Ray Kelly delivered more than 900 rifles and shotguns to Jersey City Tuesday where they will be shredded and melted down.

Artist Lin Evola will then rework the metal into a five-foot tall peace angel to be installed at police headquarters in downtown Manhattan.

“So the peace angels stand to provoke and insist that we remember who we are. To take care of ourselves and protect ourselves and protect our children,” Evola said.

“It’s symbolic. The idea is to turn swords into plowshares, to turn guns into pieces of art,” Kelly said.

The police commissioner said the weapons were confiscated during arrests and gun buybacks.

Oklahoma civil rights icon Clara Luper dies at 88

By MURRAY EVANS and KEN MILLER OKLAHOMA CITY — As she watched a television broadcast of President Barack Obama’s inauguration in January 2009, Clara Luper had tears in her eyes. The Oklahoma civil rights icon knew that her and other activists’ struggle had reached a milestone with the election of the nation’s first Black president.

“This is our day,” she said at the time, calling his inauguration the “fulfillment of dreams of people.”

Luper, who died late Wednesday at age 88 after a lengthy illness, led sitins that helped integrate drug store lunch counters in four Midwestern states. While sponsor of the Oklahoma City NAACP Youth Council, the former high school teacher, radio host and author — who was arrested 26 times during protests — prepared young Blacks for the sit-ins, many of whom praised her Thursday as a loving, firm advocate.

“She took a community that had little except their voices and their feet, and she used those resources to the best of their ability for change,” said state Rep. Mike Shelton, a family friend and member of Oklahoma’s Legislative Black Caucus.

“In some way, she has touched every life in the state of Oklahoma, whether they know it or not, because of her contributions, her persistence, her dedication to her fellow man,” the Oklahoma City Democrat said. “There aren’t many people you can say that about.”

On Aug. 19, 1958, a 35-year-old Luper led three adult chaperones and 14 members of the youth council in a sit-in at the Katz Drug Store lunch counter in downtown Oklahoma City.

The store refused to serve the group but the protesters refused to leave, and the sit-in lasted for several days.

The store chain eventually agreed to integrate lunch counters at 38 Katz Drug Stores in Oklahoma, Missouri, Kansas and Iowa. During the next six years, the local NAACP chapter held sit-ins that led to the desegregation of virtually all eating establishments in Oklahoma City.

“She brought the times up to her expectations,” said Gwendolyn Fuller Mukes, a retired school teacher in Wichita, Kan., who was among the 14

students who participated in the first sit-in.

“I remember her being loving but firm. She made us secure. She was a great teacher all around. She was ahead of her time.”

Mukes said that during those sitins, she’d never seen so much hatred, but Luper was their advocate and staunchest supporter and “taught us how to look white people in the eye.”

“You knew that you had to go through with it because you did not want your children to grow up in the same environment. No one should have been treated the way we were treated,” Mukes said.

Luper’s daughter, Marilyn Hildreth, said her mother instilled the same fight in her own family.

“We talked about it all the time, because our whole family took part in it,” said Hildreth, who said her mother died Wednesday evening in Oklahoma City. “I think mother saw a lot of advancements (in civil rights) and she told us to always stay on the battlefield. The fight continues.”

Portwood Williams Jr., another student who took part in the Katz sit-ins, said he couldn’t recall any of the protesting teenagers expressing fear.

“Believe it or not, the way we felt about it was quite the contrary. When you’re a teenager, you don’t know enough to be afraid. We thought it was fun,” he said.

James Norick, who became Oklahoma City’s mayor shortly after the sit-ins, praised Luper as a great leader who brought about change in a peaceful way, noting that “we didn’t have a big problem here like we did in some places in the South.”

Luper was born in Okfuskee County in eastern Oklahoma and graduated from Langston University in 1944.

She earned a master’s degree from the University of Oklahoma in 1951, and

was the first Black person admitted to the university’s graduate history program, according to the Oklahoma Historical Society.

She later taught history and public relations at Dunjee High School in Spencer and at John Marshall and Classen high schools in Oklahoma City before retiring in 1991. Throughout her career, she continued her civil rights work, marching with Martin Luther King Jr. during other peaceful protests.

“While her accomplishments are too many to list, her legacy is easily defined,” Oklahoma City Mayor Mick Cornett said. “She opened eyes and, in turn, opened hearts and minds ... and was a shining example of the distinctly American idea that while we might hail from many cultures, we are one people.”

Cornett said flags on city property will be flown at half-mast through sunset Friday to honor Luper.

Luper hosted her own radio show for 20 years and told her story in her autobiography, “Behold the Walls.”

She said in a 2006 interview with The Associated Press that she dedicated her life to spreading the message of racial and gender equality.

“My biggest job now is making white people understand that black history is white history. We cannot separate the two,” she said.

Oklahoma City named a street in Luper’s honor and there is a scholarship in her name at Oklahoma City University. In 2007, she was inducted into the Oklahoma Hall of Fame, and in 2009, she received the National Education Association’s Rosa Parks Memorial Award.

“She had the desire and determination to promote equality in the state of Oklahoma, and in promoting equality here, she promoted equality internationally,” said state Rep. Anastasia Pittman, D-Oklahoma City, another member of the Legislative Black Caucus.

NAACP President and CEO Benjamin Todd Jealous expressed similar praise, saying Luper’s civil rights efforts resonated nationally.

“Clara Luper was an inspiration to us all,” Jealous said. “Her courage, dedication and passion for civil rights was unmatched. She will be missed.”

Luper is survived by two daughters and a son. Funeral services are pending.

Public high school opens precedent-setting drug clinic

By BERND DEBUSMANN JR. An in-school drug and alcohol abuse clinic is opening at a public high school on Long Island, the first of its kind in New York State and possibly in the nation, treatment advocates said.

Responding to soaring rates of substance abuse among students, the William Floyd High School in Mastic Beach will house the clinic starting in August.

It will be run by Daytop Treatment Services, a network of drug and alcohol abuse centers, at no cost to the school district. The clinic will provide counseling but cannot dispense

methadone or other drugs.

“The school district is being incredibly proactive,” said Daytop programs director Caroline Sullivan. “Other schools may have prevention programs, but this is a full-fledged treatment option with treatment done on site.”

Substance abuse has “increased exponentially” among the 3,200 students at the school and there were 38 disciplinary hearings tied to drug and alcohol abuse in the last two years, according to documents filed by Daytop with the State of New York.

Partnership for a Drug-Free America said nationwide there are 19 “sober high schools,” meaning the entire student body is either in recovery or has pledged to steer clear of alcohol and

drugs.

On Long Island, the clinic in an otherwise typical public high school, is the first of its kind in New York and apparently no others exist elsewhere in the country, a Daytop spokesperson said.

The clinic’s clients will include walk-ins, referrals from school officials in lieu of suspension and those ordered to treatment by a judge.

Teachers and administrators will not know which students are involved in the program, tailored specifically to young people.

“There are very few programs that are adolescent specific,” Sullivan said, despite the fact that “adolescents are starting to use at a much younger age.”

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Annual tribute to our Ancestors of the Middle Passage The annual Tribute to the Ancestors of the Middle Passage will take place this weekend in remembrance of Africans who died while being brought to slavery.

The tribute is set to get underway at noon Saturday in Coney Island, rain or shine. It will be the 22nd celebration.

The ceremonies will start on the Boardwalk at West 16th Street, a site near where some of the earliest slave ships once docked, event officials said.

The event will include a libation ceremony, followed by a drum invocation led by Guyanese Master Drummer Menes De Griot and his Shanto Troupe. He will be playing the ancestors’ Ngomas, made for him in South Africa by the Venda people.

These drums are played only three times a year.

This year’s drum tributes will be made to Dr. Manning Marable, Mr. William Daly, Nate Dogg and all other recent ancestors, with a special remembrance of Dr. Mary Umolu, one of the founders of the event.

The tribute will feature stirring performances by many singers,

Dancer and drummers lead the way to water’s edge for final ancestral offering. drummers, dancers and spoken word artists, including Grandmaster Kham, Ngomo, KowTeff African Dance Company, Crown Heights Youth Collective and the Congo Square Drummers and Dancers.

The event will culminate at sundown with the final “ancestral offering,” during which the ancestral drummers will lead participants to the water’s edge where each person will place flowers into the Atlantic Ocean.

Attendees are asked to wear white

Menes De Griot leads ancestral drummers on his trinity drum. or African attire and bring flowers to place in the ocean. For more information, contact Akeem at (718) 2704902 or on line at Akeem827@yahoo.com.

Photos: Donna Lamb

The multi-talented spoken word artist and musician Ngoma performs last year during Tribute to Our Ancestors of the Middle Passage.

Malcolm X’s daughter admits credit card fraud The youngest daughter of Black civil rights leader Malcolm X admitted on Thursday to stealing the identity of a longtime family friend and using it to make more than $55,000 in illegal credit card purchases.

Malikah Shabazz, 46, pleaded guilty to identity theft in New York state Supreme Court in Queens and will also make restitution to the

name of Queens resident Khaula Bakr, the widow of a bodyguard who was with Malcolm X when he was assassinated in Harlem in 1965.

According to authorities, Shabazz told Makr she needed her personal information for paperwork involving a child care matter and then used it to open the accounts.

“The defendant, who preyed upon

the trusting nature of a once close family friend, has admitted her guilt in committing a serious felony offense and will be ordered to make her victims financially whole,” Brown said in a statement.

Shabazz’s lawyer, Russell Rothberg, was not immediately available for comment. The case was prosecuted by Assistant District Attorney Neil Gitin.

Healthcare battle unfolds in Atlanta court

erage or charging higher premiums for pre-existing medical conditions.

“We can’t wait for this law to take effect,” said Kathy McClure, a Georgia attorney demonstrating in favor of the measure outside the court building.

Another key issue is whether the entire package would be void if any one part is found to be unconstitutional.

U.S. District Judge Roger Vinson ruled in January the whole law was invalid because its requirement to buy insurance is unconstitutional, but put the ruling on hold pending appeal.

Dubina was appointed to the appeals court by President George H. W. Bush, a Republican, while the other two judges who heard the appeal were appointed by President Bill Clinton, a Democrat.

Outside the court building, Atlanta physician Scott Barbour was among those demonstrating against the law, which he described as “socialized medicine” that would put health care decisions in the hands of bureaucrats.

“This if the fight of our lifetime,” said Barbour.

He said fostering competition among insurance companies and making it harder to sue doctors were the best ways to broaden health insurance coverage and maintain quality.

By MATTHEW BIGG and KAREN JACOBS ATLANTA — Lawyers for President Barack Obama on Wednesday sought to stave off the biggest legal challenge yet to his landmark healthcare reform, telling a court that its key provision is grounded in Congress’ right to regulate commerce.

Senior administration lawyer Neal Katyal argued that the Affordable Care Act does not violate the constitution, as 26 states seeking repeal of the law have argued. They contend that individuals cannot be required to buy health insurance as the law requires.

Katyal defended the 2010 law before the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals in Atlanta and said it is grounded in three separate constitutional principles.

“Those three findings set up three different independent constitutional bases for the act and each becomes even weightier still when viewed alongside the current standard rule that a strong presumption of constitutionality inheres to acts of Congress,” Katyal said in his opening remarks.

credit card companies, Queens District Attorney Richard Brown said in a statement.

She is due to be sentenced on July 28. Judge Fernando Camacho indicated he will impose five years’ probation provided she makes full restitution, Brown’s office said.

Shabazz, a North Carolina resident, was charged in March with opening several credit cards in the

The act requires Americans to buy health insurance by 2014 or face a fine equal to 2.5 percent of their income.

Former Solicitor General Paul Clement, representing the 26 states seeking repeal, said that provision punishes inactivity and exceeds the authority the constitution grants Congress to regulate interstate commerce.

“For 220 years, Congress never saw fit to use this particular power,” Clement told a three-judge panel.

But Katyal said it was well within Congress’s power to require people to buy health insurance because it affects interstate commerce. The uninsured shift $43 billion annually in medical costs onto the backs of other taxpayers, he said. “(The) presumption of billions of dollars of cost-shifting in the health markets and the need to make health insurance available to the 50 million uninsured Americans are legitimate commerce clause ends,” he said.

Chief Judge Joel Dubina, Judge Stanley Marcus and Judge Frank Hull peppered both sides with questions, as they presided over the appeal of a ruling by a Florida judge who in January declared the act

unconstitutional.

Courtroom observer Walter Dellinger, who was solicitor general under President Bill Clinton, said judges homed in on the argument that the uninsured are already part of the health risk market.

“One of the judges made the point that you’re just an instant away from being in the hospital when you step off the sidewalk in front of a truck,” Dellinger said.

A Virginia appeals court heard a similar case in May, but this case is more significant because of the number of states backing it. No ruling is expected for months and Dubina ended Wednesday’s session by saying the Supreme Court would likely consider the case.

The law aims to increase access to healthcare and slow the growth in costs. Republicans say it will send health costs soaring and represents intrusive government power. They plan to make their campaign for repeal a pillar of efforts to defeat Obama in next year’s presidential election.

The 2010 law also allows young people to remain on their parents’ health insurance into their 20s and prevents insurers from denying cov-

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

Fifty-two nights and half-a-day in the hospital: My experience

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By REV. DR. HERBERT DAUGHTRY Part Fifteen I should say a word about the drugs which were given to me. I have already mentioned Decadron. In addition, I was given Percocet and Morphine.

The injection of Morphine, which heroin is a derivative, is both illegal, and in certain circumstances, legal. It raises some moral questions. Legally, it is okay to use Morphine for medicinal reasons and/or in hospital settings. On the streets, it is ille-

gal. It is a substance provided by different people for presumably different reasons.

What about the morality? Is it right to use morphine in any circumstance, and is it right that it can be provided by any person for any reason? Let us agree it is not the morphine itself in question. Morphine is neutral. It is important to keep that in mind.

What is in question here is the use of the drug. Is wrong for medical professionals to apply Morphine to relieve pain in hospital settings? If it is wrong, what about other substances used by the same people in the same places to achieve relief, i.e.

Percocet?

Moreover, is it wrong to take an Aspirin or a Motrin? If so, oh Lord, who could stand? And, what about dental work? Is it wrong to take Novocain or gas? I don’t think anybody would answer, “Yes,” to any of those questions. So, if it’s okay to use Aspirin, Motrin, or any other kind of over-the-counter pain reliever, and if it’s okay for the dentist to use the abovementioned substances, surely it can’t be wrong to use Morphine for medicinal reasons applied by legal and appropriate personnel.

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When is an action wrong? Practically, every act — I shy away from absolutes, only God is absolute — every act, even those we call wrong, was called right by some people, sometimes, even the same people at certain times.

For example, take one of the worst acts: murder, or the killing of other human beings.

Yet, there are times when we rejoice when people are killed, say during a war. On May 1, 2011, President Barack Obama announced that Bin Laden and the associates of Bin Laden had been killed in Pakistan. There were loud, spontaneous celebrations across America.

Perhaps, the wise observer in the Bible was right. There is a time and a season for everything. He left open the question of morality. Because there is a time when these things happen doesn’t make them right or wrong. What seems to make a thing wrong is the use or application at the wrong time, and in the wrong way by the wrong people. Morphine sold on the

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What’s your agenda?

By WILLIAM REED When it comes to looking out for the economic interest of Black Americans, do you think that the Obama administration is doing too much, too little or the right amount?

In the upcoming months, someone is going to tap you to: 1) make a donation; 2) volunteer; and/or 3) vote for people and platforms that best represent you and your views.

Don’t let the past be prologue in this instance, in that history influences and sets the context for the future.

This time around, why don’t we demand that all candidates present a “Black Agenda” with specific ways to improve the lives of Blacks in America to get our 2012 vote?

It’s not like Blacks don’t need someone to look out for our interests. The wealth gap between whites and Blacks continues to increase.

Reports say the annual median income ($32,584) for Black Americans is going down and the number among those living in poverty (26%) is headed up. And, who in our representative form of government is trying to change that? In representative politics, elected “representatives” are supposed to stand up for us and “represent our interest.”

Exactly who is representing Blacks’ interests in this representative democracy?

We need a bona fide “Black agenda” to address a range of difficult social problems which still plague Black America. Under the guise of collective advancement we should ask ourselves: “What’s wrong with critics like Tavis Smiley requesting

that Obama publicly announce his thoughts and policies regarding a Black agenda. As if the subject is debatable, a chorus of Black leaders, who include the Rev. Al Sharpton of the National Action Network, National Urban League’s Marc Morial and the NAACP’S Ben Jealous, have given President Obama cover saying that “he doesn’t need a Black agenda.”

What has Obama done for you lately? Here’s what’s important: The issues of concern to Black Americans have to be put on paper and sent to your representative in Congress as well as to the city, county, and state councils where you live.

We suggest you make use of the following concepts to let them know your legislative agenda.

THE BLACK AGENDA 2012 We want you to: Promote educational reinvestment in low-income and disadvantaged African American communities - Guarantee child care assistance to low-income families and promote early education.

- Improve student achievement and graduation rates for low income and minority children, with special emphasis on science and technology education and training opportunities.

- Expand college access by simplifying and expanding Pell Grant opportunities and increasing sup-

In the hospital: My experience Continued from page 4 street (or suite) is wrong for it is taken for the wrong reason sold by the wrong people. Of course, it is wrong for legal reasons. It could be argued that Morphine taken on the street is for the same reason taken in the hospital — to relieve not physical pain, but emotional, mental, or psychological pain.

I used to have a friend who became addicted to heroin. I would try to persuade him “to stop using the stuff.” To every appeal, he would reply, “I’m just trying to kill the pain.” Eventually, he killed the pain. He killed himself with an overdose or a bad dose of the drug.

I have written the above because Morphine was one of the drugs which were given to me to relieve the pain.

There was a reluctance to give me the drug because of the fear that I would become addicted to it. I insisted on having the drug. I wanted the surcease from pain immediately. I would worry about the addiction later. … to be continued.

HEALTH FAIR: Recognizing the

startling health risks facing people of color, The House of the Lord Church’s Ministry of Health & Wellness in conjunction with the Downtown Brooklyn Neighborhood Alliance (DBNA) and the Brooklyn Hospital Center is sponsoring its Sixth Annual Community Health Fair on Saturday, June 11, 2011, from 11:00 am to 5:30 pm. This event will take place at the historic House of the Lord Church where the Rev. Dr. Herbert Daughtry is the pastor, and is located at 415 Atlantic Avenue, Brooklyn, New York. 11217.

Our Free workshops include: Creating your look Nutrition & Exercise Basics for busy people Men’s Health Concerns Space is limited for the workshops, please RSVP to holchealth@yahoo.com There will also be Doctors on Call for consultations on heart health, diabetes, and other concerns. ** Join Reverend Daughtry in Jersey City for the weekly Thursday Evening Educational, Cultural, and Empowerment Forum from 6pm-8pm for an evening of information, inspiration, and challenge at 315 Forrest

port for Historically Black College and Universities.

- Connect disadvantaged youth to after-school and summer programs, job training, and employment.

Increase Access to Economic Security

ing discrimination practices.

Strengthen Civil Rights and Judicial Reform - Provide opportunities for individuals with criminal records to reintegrate into their respective communities.

- Increase unemployment assistance.

- Eliminate sentencing disparities.

- Increase funding for education, job training, and small business opportunities for low- income and minority communities.

- Stop the cradle to prison pipeline.

Eliminate Health Disparities - Provide and fully fund programs to increase minority representation at all levels of the health profession.

- Address and ensure that the impact of research and all health related provisions in minority communities is assessed through data collection, disaggregation, and analysis.

Provide Equitable Housing Options - Support comprehensive public housing reform and expansion of the Section 8 housing voucher programs.

- Protect renters, especially those affected by housing foreclosures; - Prevent foreclosures by increasing the number of loan modifications.

- Stop predatory lending, foreclosure rescue fraud and general housStreet (Ground Floor), corner of MLK, Jr. Drive. For more info, contact The National Community Action Alliance at (201) 716-1585. ** Listen to Reverend Daughtry on the weekly radio program which airs Sunday mornings at 10:30 a.m. on New York City’s WWRL-AM, dial 1600.

Address Global Poverty - Continue Millennium Development goals to end poverty.

- Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger.

- Achieve universal primary education.

- Promote gender equality.

- Reduce infant mortality and improve maternal health.

- Combat HIV/AIDS, malaria, and other diseases.

- Ensure environmental sustainability.

- Expand trade and development assistance.

Are you any better off than you were in 2008? If, not, you may want to incorporate these concepts in to your agenda.

— William Reed is available for speaking/seminar projects via BaileyGroup.org. ** NEED QUALITY CHILD CARE? Call the Alonzo A. Daughtry Memorial Daycare Center located at: 460 Atlantic Avenue (corner of Atlantic and Nevins) 718-596-1993 333 Second Street (between 4th & 5th Avenues) in Park Slope 718-4992066 Immediate openings are available in a state-of-the-art center.

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Design, technology changes boost SUV safety in U.S.

By JOHN CRAWLEY WASHINGTON — Sport utility vehicles are emerging from a long period of scrutiny with design and other changes that have markedly improved safety.

Influenced by deadly Ford Explorer rollovers linked to defective Firestone tires a decade ago, SUVs now sit lower on car frames — not truck platforms — and are equipped with stability technology that has cut down on the worst accidents.

“Drivers of today’s SUVs are among the least likely to die in a crash,” the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS) said in a report released on Thursday.

“With the propensity to roll over reduced, SUVs are on balance safer than cars because their bigger size and weight provide greater protection in a crash,” the group, which is backed by insurance companies, said.

More than 32,700 people were killed in U.S. traffic crashes in all vehicles last year, according to preliminary data from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA).

In addition to SUVs, pickups and vans were more prone to roll than passenger cars. More than 8,000 people were killed in rollover crashes in 2009, the latest available NHTSA figures on specific causes show.

Size may be the most crucial factor when comparing fatality.

All but three of 26 vehicles with the lowest death rates are mid-size or larger.

More than half of those with the highest rates are small vehicles or mini cars, an analysis of crash statistics by the IIHS found.

The overall driver death rate for 2005-08 models during 2006-09 was 48 per million registered vehicle years, a large decline from previous assessments. SUVs had 28 per million, while

pickups averaged 52 per million.

A registered vehicle year is one vehicle registered for one year or two vehicles for six months each.

The current death rate for SUV drivers in the latest IIHS study is half that of cars, partly due to vehicle redesigns, standard stability technology, and discontinuation of some smaller models that were prone to tip, the report said.

Additionally, vehicles with lower driver death rates also do well in front and side crash tests.

The current numbers for SUVs compare with an average death rate of 82 per million for 1999-2002 models, IIHS said.

SUVs are in the same class of light trucks as popular pickups and are a large factor in the resurgence of U.S. automakers General Motors, Ford and Chrysler, a unit of Italy’s Fiat SpA. Bill Visnic of online buyer resource Edmunds.com said

Dust-covered Buick cars, made by U.S. carmaker General Motors, are seen lined up on the Binhai docks area in the Chinese coastal city of Tianjin.

Ford’s Explorer is still “the mainstream sell and the nameplate that everyone knows.”

But he said GM does well with the Chevrolet Equinox and Chrysler’s Jeep Grand Cherokee remains the company’s best-known vehicle.

Some SUVs are also known as crossovers for their more car-like appearance and handling charac-

teristics. They have also penetrated the top echelon of U.S. sales.

SUVs that are bigger and more powerful than cars remain popular in an era of high gasoline prices. They are less efficient than cars as a class, although cleaner burning engines and gas/electric hybrid technology have boosted their mileage performance.

Religion, and controversy, always part of U.S. education

By MARY WISNIEWSKI CHICAGO — Religious freedom has always been a given in American life, but religious education has had a different road — a path rarely without controversy as it tries to find a place in a secular and worldly democracy.

While a rise in the number of Islamic schools in the United States is the latest new trend, religious education in general — and controversy over which religion is more “American” — goes back to the beginnings of the country, historians say.

In America’s colonial days, all schools were religious, associated with different affiliations, like the Quakers and the Puritans.

Even early state-funded public schools in Massachusetts had devotional Bible readings and prayers, according to Perry L. Glanzer, associate professor at the Baylor University School of Education and Institute of Church-State Studies.

But the United States even then was a uniquely diverse place, and there were pressures to educate people the bridge their differences and develop them into American citizens, said Charles Haynes, senior scholar for

the First Amendment Center in Washington, D.C. A consensus in the early republic emerged that schools should have a common purpose.

“It was a Protestant consensus — they thought it was an American consensus,” said Haynes.

That Protestant-dominated cultural approach was challenged in the mid-19th century, with the arrival of waves of European Catholic and Jewish immigrants who weren’t happy about readings from the King James Bible.

“Catholics complained extensively about the lack of funding for their schools and the Protestant nature of state-funded public schools,” said Glanzer.

There were riots, sometimes deadly, over the use of the Catholic bible in public schools.

The Protestant domination of public schools and the prejudice against immigrants in the later 19th century led to the development of the Catholic school system, according to Dr. Lorraine Ozar, director of the Center for Catholic School Effectiveness at Loyola University in Chicago.

So-called “Blaine amendments” were passed in several states after the Civil War to ban religious schools from

getting public funding.

Ironically, it was fear of Catholics, not court rulings on the separation of church and state, that did the most to secularize public schools, said Haynes.

“The Protestants were hoisted by their own petard,” said Haynes. “They were so afraid of Papist teachings getting into the curriculum, there were no religious teachings left at all....These fights over prayer in the morning that seem so small were big because they were the last things left.”

The division of church and state remains, even though the mix of religion and conservative politics that began with the rise of Ronald Regan in the 1980’s has worked its way into government funding for schools.

Parents now routinely pay to send their children to religious or other alternative schools, or teach their children at home, because they don’t feel public schools reflect their values, or they want to immerse their children in an atmosphere that reflects their faith, Haynes said. The recent growth of Islamic schools can be seen as a response to those desires.

“It would seem to me they would be in a similar position to where the immigrant Catholics were in the 19th

century,” said Ozar.

The Islamic School League of America, a nonprofit that links Muslim educators around the nation, estimates that there are 240 to 250 Islamic schools in the U.S., serving 40,000 students, a 25 percent increase from 2006.

Voucher programs, popular among political conservatives, tend to redirect tax dollars into religious schools.

Charter schools are also popular among school choice advocates.

But Glanzer said there may be a pushback if vouchers fund Islamic schools, given anti-Islamic prejudices held by some Americans and fanned in the decade after

September 11, 2001.

There have already been tensions over publicly funded charter schools which offer Arabic-language instruction.

Haynes said that while religious people should be able to choose their own schools, tax money shouldn’t support them.

He said that, despite all their flaws, public schools have played a key role in building one nation out of many faiths and cultures, something that should be appreciated in any debate about choices.

Public schools also are more accommodating of student religious expression than they were 40 years ago, he said.

Coast Guard checks reported oil spill off Louisiana HOUSTON — The Coast Guard is investigating a fisherman’s report of an apparent oil spill “several miles” long near Venice, Louisiana, a Coast Guard spokesman said.

A team was trying to determine whether the substance was actually oil, how much was spilled and where it came from, a Coast Guard spokesman said.

He

declined to predict what the findings would be.

“It’s too early,” the spokesman said.

A fisherman reported an “oily substance” in the water two miles southeast of Baptiste Collette Pass, early Wednesday morning, and four pollution investigators were sent to obtain samples for analysis, a news release said.

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COMMUNITY AFFAIRS

Towns portrait unveiled in Congress

Committee on House Oversight and Government Reform Room portrait with Gwen and Ed Towns Family, friends and colleagues joined Brooklyn Rep. Ed Towns for the historic unveiling of his portrait on the walls of the

U.S. Congress.

Among those to whom Towns, former chairman of the Committee on Oversight and

Government Reform (OGR), gave special recognition during the event was his wife, Gwendolyn. Towns said she’s “the best friend I

ever had.”

Also attending the unveiling were Harlem Rep. Charles Rangel, Democratic Minority Whip Steny Hoyer,

Photo/Lem Peterkin Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, and Democratic National Committee Chair Debbie Wasserman-Schultz.

As Special Education Class Sizes Increase, Community Members and Advocates Grow Worried

By ELIZABETH HAMPTON The Panel on Education Policy recently agreed to a change in the Fair Student Funding formula that will increase New York City’s special education class sizes at the start of the 2011 school year. This change will raise enrollment in elementary school inclusions classes from 10 to 12 students, and in high school self-contained classes from 12 to 15 students.

The projected changes have left some parents, teachers and community advocates worried.

“This is a disaster for the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA),” said

Patricia Connelly, BedStuy resident and twotime member of the Citywide Council on Special Education.

Connelly, who is also the parent of a special needs student, adds, “[IDEA] is supposed to protect the rights of disabled students who are going woefully underfunded.”

Federal mandates for special education services are outlined in IDEA. Students eligible for special education are given an Individualized Education Program (IEP), which is a legally mandated document that details their academic and social needs and provides guidelines for instruction. Among these provisions are specifications for class size.

To comply with these mandates, schools receive additional funding. These funds are intended to cover costs for specialized instruc-

tional materials, paraprofessionals, related service providers and special education teachers.

An increase in class size will lessen the need for additional special education teachers, but the Department of Education insists that this tightening of the purse-strings is necessary.

“Basically, we were over-funding,” said sokeswoman Deidrea Miller, “We were using a kindergarten funding model which was a little over generous.”

Miller also said that changes to the funding formula are not out of compliance with federal mandates for special education services.

“We’re still in compliance with the law and the teacher’s union,” said Miller. “In terms of what the kids’ IEPs say for class size, that will still be respected and fulfilled.”

School districts throughout the city are all different, and so the impact of these changes may also vary. Patricia Connelly warns, “In Bed-Stuy, the number of students in special education is higher than city-wide averages.

This will place additional burdens on schools with fewer resources.”

Already, BedfordStuyvesant is not meeting state standards for performance in special education. According to the New York State 2010 District Report Cards, District 13 and 16, both representing Bed-Stuy, did not make Annual Yearly Progress for students with disabilities in elementary school ELA and secondary school math and ELA. Another worry is that increasing class size will exacerbate challenges Bed-Stuy schools are already encountering.

“As an educator in Bed-Stuy, I’ve noticed that many of our children do not come from ‘ideal’ living situations,” says one special education teacher who wished to remain anonymous.

“Many students live in shelters, have family members in gangs, or barely have food or clothing.

School becomes a safe haven for them and some often don’t want to leave.”

While this is certainly not the circumstance for all schools and students, addressing these challenges could be more difficult with larger class sizes. The same teacher added that, “An increase in class size will not allow students to get that individualized attention they need.”

Among dissenters of the formula change, individualized attention and instructional quality are a common concern.

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Bed Stuy’s Jaiquawn Jarrett Drafted by Philadelphia Eagles After being one of the last picked for his college football team, former Bed-Stuy resident Jaiquawn Jarrett has become one of the first to be drafted into the NFL. The former star player at Temple University recently became the second-round draft pick for the Philadelphia Eagles and will suit up for them next season, as first reported by philly.com “I’ll probably buy some Pradas,” said Jarrett.

Through his high school and college career, Jarrett was one of the top student-athletes in the region. He grew up on Greene Ave. with his mother, a corrections officer at Riker Island, but trekked to Fort Hamilton for high school because of its top-level academics and better football team than his neighborhood school. At Temple, he graduated with a degree in criminal justice.

However, Jarrett was only recruited by the university after a player on the team flunked out, which he said motivated him out on the field.

“I had a chip on my shoulder,” said Jarrett.

“I had something to prove when I got out there every day,” Known as one of the most competitive and hardest working athletes in the NCAA’s, Jarrett said he credits his upbringing for helping shape his determined personality.

“What kept me in line was my mother,” said Jarrett. “Just to work on Rikers, you got to be tough.

Enough said.”

“Growing up in BedStuy, you got to have a mentality that you ain’t going to let anybody punk you. You don’t want to be considered soft. You don’t want to be violent, but you don’t want to be considered as a coward.”

AFRICAN SCENE

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AFRICAN SCENE

Activists say Zimbabwe too violent for 2011 vote

Senegal’s Wade urges Kadhafi to go soon

By DONNA BRYSON

BENGHAZI, Libya - Senegalese President Abdoulaye Wade urged Libyan leader Moamer Kadhafi to step down, “the sooner the better,” during a visit on Thursday to the rebel stronghold of Benghazi.

“I look at you in the eyes... the sooner you go, the better,” Wade, the first foreign head of state to travel to the rebel capital, told journalists, addressing the Libyan leader.

“At the African Union, I’m the only one who can talk to him, tell him the truth, because I don’t owe him anything,” Wade said, after talks with the rebel National Transitional Council (NTC), including its head Mustafa Abdul Jalil.

Addressing Kadhafi, he said: “You came to power in a coup more than 40 years ago, you’ve never had elections, you pretended to speak in the name of the people. Everyone knows it’s a dictatorship that you’ve set up.”

The Senegalese president, whose country recognised the NTC at the end of last month, called for the veteran leader and strongman to quit “in the interests of the Libyan people.”

Wade recognised the rebel council as the “legitimate representative of the Libyan people” after meeting its envoys in Dakar. During that visit, Wade proposed a national conference to pave the way for a new constitution and polls.

JOHANNESBURG Zimbabwe is too violent and undemocratic to hold elections this year, rights activists told reporters Thursday ahead of an emergency summit on the southern African country’s crisis.

Attack on Somali port kills 1 civilian MOGADISHU, Somali - A Somali police official says one of two men who attacked a sea port in the country’s capital blew himself up, killing one civilian.

Col. Ahmed Hassan, police chief of Mogadishu, said Thursday that two men jumped over the outer walls protecting the port, threw grenades and shot at African Union peacekeepers leading to an exchange of gunfire.

Hassan, who visited the site after the attack, says one of the attackers was laden in explosives. He says the other attacker was shot dead by AU peacekeepers.

Al-Qaida-linked Islamists are battling the weak U.N.-backed government for control of the capital of Mogadishu. Around 9,000 AU troops are stationed in the city to protect key installations and prevent the government from being overrun by militants.

South Africa’s economic hub hit by winter storms JOHANNESBURG - Winters in northern South Africa are usually cold and dry. But heavy rain, sleet and even light snow have fallen this week in the Johannesburg area.

Elizabeth Webster, a South African Weather Service forecaster, said Thursday the rain is unusual, but the cold temperatures are not. She says things should be back to normal Friday.

That’s good news for the Salvation Army, which has seen high demand for blankets this week from people living on the streets and other impoverished South Africans in Johannesburg, the country’s economic hub. Spokesman Piet Semeno says the Salvation Army is calling on the public to donate blankets to replenish its supplies.

President Robert Mugabe’s supporters are calling for polls before the year ends to replace a shaky coalition with Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai’s party. The president has been accused of using violence and election fraud to hold onto power and independent groups have said the possibility of a vote has led to attacks on Mugabe’s opponents.

Zimbabwe’s unity government was established at the insistence of the country’s neighbors in 2009 following violent and inconclusive 2008 elections. Most of the election violence has been blamed on Mugabe supporters.

South Africa, the regional powerhouse, will host a weekend summit to assess increasing tensions in Zimbabwe’s coalition.

Harrison Nkomo of Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights said at Thursday’s news conference that his organiza-

tion has documented nearly 900 human rights abuses, including illegal detentions, harassment and beatings, since January. He said many more may go unreported.

“Are we saying this is a turf ready for free and fair elections?

From my perspective, no,” Nkomo said.

Philip Pasirayi of the Crisis in Zimbabwe Coalition said that along with political violence, state broadcasters are lauding Mugabe and vilifying his opponents, and the voter roll has been compromised.

“This is the kind of environment that we’re saying is tilted in favor of one political party,” Pasirayi said.

The news conference in Johannesburg was briefly disrupted by a shoving and shouting match that appeared to pit Mugabe opponents and supporters against each another. Paul Verryn, a South African Methodist bishop whose Johannesburg church has become a shelter for Zimbabweans fleeing their country’s political and economic meltdown, said the scuffle illustrated Zimbabwe’s fierce divisions and high emotions.

Holding elections now, Verryn said, would be “a little bit like sending somebody who has been abused back into an environment of abuse.”

Pasirayi’s group is calling on

the summit to insist that before Zimbabweans hold elections, they rewrite their constitution to guarantee basic rights; ensure soldiers do not meddle in politics; and reform the Zimbabwe electoral commission. group said Pasirayi’s Zimbabwe’s neighbors must also independently confirm that Zimbabwe is ready before it goes to the polls. Zimbabwe’s neighbors also must work with the African Union and the United Nations to deploy peace monitors at least three months ahead of any vote, the group said.

Tiseke Kasambala, a Johannesburg-based Zimbabwe researcher for Human Rights Watch, said Zimbabwe’s neighbors must set deadlines and ensure they are met.

Kasambala praised South African President Jacob Zuma, who has been leading regional efforts to mediate a solution for Zimbabwe. Zuma’s predecessor, former President Thabo Mbeki, had been accused of taking too soft a line with Mugabe.

In March, regional leaders including South Africa delivered what was read as a strong rebuke of Mugabe, calling for an end to political violence. That prompted sharp criticism of South Africans by Zimbabwe’s state controlled press, which Kasambala said shows Zuma and his team are “doing something right.”

US opens talks on boosting African trade LUSAKA - The United States opened annual trade talks with African nations in Zambia’s capital Lusaka on Thursday, looking at ways to diversify the continent’s exports under an 11-year-old preferential trade deal.

Thirty-seven African nations qualify for duty-free access to the US market under the African Growth Opportunities Act (AGOA), which requires beneficiaries to meet standards for freemarket economies and good governance.

The ministerial meeting in Zambia will look at ways to encourage African nations to diversify their exports to include more manufactured and valueadded products.

“AGOA is changing the lives of millions of people in Africa and President (Barack) Obama’s administration is committed to make AGOA work much better,” US Trade Representative Ron Kirk said at the opening.

The host of the meeting, Zambian President Rupiah Banda, urged more countries to adhere to democratic principles to reap the benefits from the trade

deal. [ For complete coverage of politics and policy, go to Yahoo! Politics ] “Some African countries are not represented here today because of ongoing social political instability,” Banda said.

“This reality reminds us that the economic dividends we seek from AGOA can be best realized when all African countries strengthen and enrich sound democratic practices and uphold good governance,” he said.

“Peace and security within and across borders are twin imperatives that all must not fail to work for,” Banda told the delegates.

Last year AGOA exports to the United States reached $44 billion, but 91 percent of that was petroleum products, mainly from Nigeria and Angola, according to the State Department.

Most manufactured goods sold to the United States under AGOA come from regional powerhouse South Africa, with the rest of the continent sharing the small remainder.

About 1,600 delegates from 31 nations are attending the twoday meeting to look at ways to boost exports of apparel, footwear, processed agricultural goods, and other manufactured products.

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Syrians flee into Turkey to evade crackdown

By KHALED YACOUB OWEIS AMMAN - More than 1,700 Syrians have fled to Turkey to escape a feared army crackdown, officials said on Thursday, in another sign that President Bashar al-Assad’s struggle with protesters is disturbing Syria’s neighbors.

With international concern growing over Syria’s repression of pro-democracy protests, Britain, France, Germany and Portugal have asked the U.N. Security Council to condemn Assad.

However, veto-holding Russia has said it opposes any such council measure. World powers have shown no appetite for any Libyastyle military intervention in Syria, which has so far shrugged off sanctions and verbal reprimands.

Residents in the area said about 40 tanks and troop carriers had deployed about 7 km (4 miles) from Jisr alShughour, a northwestern town of 50,000 where authorities say “armed gangs” killed more than 120 security personnel earlier this week.

Other accounts

speak of a mutiny among troops who refused to fire on civilians after a pro-democracy rally in the town on Friday. Loyalist milunits then itary attacked the mutineers.

Syria has barred most independent media from the country, making it difficult to verify accounts of the violence.

“Jisr al-Shughour is practically empty.

People were not going to sit and be slaughtered like lambs,” said one refugee who had crossed into Turkey, who gave his name as Mohammad.

“Demonstrations in the villages are still going on. Women and children are carrying flowers and shouting ‘people want the downfall of the regime’,” he said.

Rami Abdulrahman of the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said at least 15,000 troops had deployed near Jisr alShughour.

Turkish officials said the number of Syrian refugees crossing the border this week had reached 1,777, the Anatolian news agency reported. The refugees are being housed in a tented encampment just north of the border at Yayladagi.

Thousands more people from Jisr alShughour have fled to villages on the Syrian side of the border, resi-

dents say.

TURKISH CONCERN “Syria is causing for us,” concern Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan said on Turkish radio. “We will always keep our doors open to our Syrian brothers and sisters.”

Assad, 45, has promised reforms, even while cracking down on unrest that has become the gravest threat to his 11-year rule.

“Syria is committed to the missions of reform under the leadership of President Bashar al-Assad and affirms it does not permit any foreign intervention in this regard,” the state news agency quoted a Foreign Ministry official as saying in response to critical statements by French Foreign Minister Alain Juppe.

Among the Syrians in Turkey was a 23year-old with a bullet wound to the leg.

Asking not to be named, he said militiamen, known as shabbiha, from Assad’s minority Alawite sect that has dominated the Sunni majority for four decades, had shot him.

“We were leaving the mosque after Friday prayers to start protesting and then the shabbiha ... attacked us,” he said.

Turkish police barred reporters from the camp in a shady valley, but women could be seen hanging washing,

while children played between tents and older men wandered around.

The draft U.N. resolution proposed by Britain, France, Germany and Portugal condemns the repression and demands humanitarian access.

“The world cannot be silent when every day people in Syria, who are doing nothing but standing up for their legitimate human and civil rights, are being killed and tortured,” Foreign German Minister Guido Westerwelle said.

But Russia, an old ally of Syria since Cold War times, has made clear it dislikes the idea of Council involvement, saying it could help to destabilise a strategic Middle Eastern country.

“Russia is against any U.N. Security Council resolution on Syria,” Russian Foreign Ministry spokesman Alexander Lukashevich said, without saying if Moscow would veto the measure.

Rights groups say more than 1,100 civilians have been killed since March in protests against 41 years of Assad family rule.

Syrian authorities say more than 200 security personnel have also been killed in the unrest.

TAKING UP ARMS Activists say the lack of effective internation-

Yemen awaits possible Saleh return after surgery

By MOHAMMED GHOBARI & MOHAMMED MUKHASHAF SANAA/ADEN - Supporters of wounded Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh celebrated reports on Thursday that he would soon be home, but his opponents said they were working to ensure that, even if he does, he will no longer be in power.

U.S. and Yemeni officials have said Saleh, 69, was burned on 40 percent of his body in a rocket or bomb attack at his palace last Friday — injuries which, depending on the depth of wounds, could be fatal and would probably curb his ability to rule. He has not been

seen since being flown for surgery to Saudi Arabia.

But after months of factional violence and pro-democracy protests, he has resisted Western and Arab pressure to step down and a government website dismissed dire assessments of Saleh’s condition, said his injuries were minor and announced on Thursday that preparations for his return were under way.

“He has overcome the health difficulties after successful surgery to remove shrapnel...

Sources expected him to return soon after completing his recovery and treating some light surface burns,” the government website 26 September said.

Opposition figures said their main concern was for Saleh to

transfer his powers, regardless of whether he returned.

Mohammed al-Mutawakkil of the coalition of opposition parties said the opposition had informed Saleh’s ruling General People’s Congress party on Wednesday that it would seek to establish its own transitional assembly after one week if action was not taken on transferring power to his deputy, Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi, who was named acting president on June 4.

“More important than Saleh’s return is that the ruling party transfers power and begins implementing the Gulf initiative,” he said, referring to a Gulf Arab plan for Saleh to begin a power transfer which stalled in the days before he was wounded.

al action to stop the killings has prompted some protesters to consider using weapons to defend themselves. In Jisr al-Shughour, people recall a mass killing in 1980, under Assad’s father, Hafez al-Assad.

Two years after that, many thousands were killed in the city of Hama when the elder crushed an Assad armed Islamist revolt.

Speaking of the readiness of some opposition groups to take up arms, one activist who spoke anonymously said: “This thinking is especially prevalent in Hama. People are saying we are not going to let them massacre us as they did in 1982.”

Erdogan has said Turkey, a regional power that had developed close ties with Syria, cannot accept

“another Hama.”

The Turkish leader said he had talked to Assad on Wednesday, “He told me very different things. We receive contradictory intelligence information on the killing of policemen.”

Although the world attention is focused on Jisr al-Shughour, disturbances have continued elsewhere.

Troops patrolled the central city of Homs, a day after security forces shot dead a civilian in a crowd of 5,000 showing solidarity with Jisr al-Shughour, an activist group said.

In Hama, where 70 people were reported killed in protests on Friday, demonstrators carried banners reading “We will continue to respond to your bullets with flowers.”

Six powers push defiant Iran to address nuclear fears

By SYLVIA WESTALL & FREDRIK DAHL VIENNA - Russia and China joined Western powers on Thursday in piling pressure on Iran to address fears about possible military aspects of its nuclear program a day after Tehran said its would ramp up its uranium enrichment.

The United States, Germany, France, Britain, Russia and China issued a statement at a meeting of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) after Iran raised the stakes in the row by announcing it would accelerate sensitive nuclear work.

Washington’s envoy said separately that Iran’s plan to speed up enrichment with a more advanced model of centrifuge machines in a mountain bunker showed its “brazen” and deepening defiance of international demands to curb the activity.

Enrichment can yield energy for electricity or, if extended to a higher degree, material for nuclear bombs.

Iran’s representative hit back at a tense IAEA board meeting, vowing the Islamic state would resist Western pressure over a nuclear program it says has exclusively peaceful aims.

Ambassador Ali Asghar Soltanieh also launched a verbal attack on IAEA Director-General Yukiya Amano and accused him of bias, highlighting increasingly strained relations between Tehran and the U.N. nuclear watchdog.

The Japanese IAEA chief has taken a blunter approach to Iran than his predecessor Mohamed ElBaradei, saying in his first report on the country early last year that he feared it may be working to develop a nuclear-armed missile.

“He is not doing his job. Instead, with his reports, he is paving the way for more confrontation between member states,” Soltanieh told reporters.

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CARIBBEAN NEWS DAILY CHALLENGE FRIDAY, JUNE 10, 2011

US ‘troubled’ over Bahamas PM’s trip to Cuba

By CANDIA DAMES NASSAU, Bahamas — American diplomats expressed concerns about Bahamas Prime Minister Hubert Ingraham’s apparent double-talk on the Cuba issue and wrote in an October 2008 diplomatic cable that his approaching trip to the communist nation was “troubling”.

On October 4, 2008, Ingraham informed a US Embassy official that he was considering joining a group of his peers on a CARICOM-sponsored visit to Cuba that December, according to the cable.

Ingraham reportedly said he had traveled to Cuba “a couple of decades ago” and noted that his Free National Movement party had unsuccessfully opposed the Progressive Liberal Party government when it established diplomatic relations with Havana in 2006.

The embassy official, according to the cable, told Ingraham he was certain that at best the United States government would be “deeply disappointed” if the prime minister were to travel to Cuba.

“The US considered The Bahamas a close friend but such a trip would be troubling,” the official wrote.

The official noted that the Cuban regime had taken no significant steps to warrant such a

visit by the prime minister.

According to the cable, Ingraham listened without comment to a message from the US Embassy that the Castro government had rejected repeated US offers of humanitarian hurricane assistance for the Cuban people. cable said The Ingraham energetically stated that the “US stands alone on the Cuban embargo” and told the embassy official that during a meeting at the White House, President Bill Clinton had bluntly told him that the embargo policy was based entirely on Florida electoral votes.

According to the document, the embassy official replied that the US government was pursuing a principled and long-standing bi-partisan policy toward a repressive regime.

“The prime minister countered that the argument would be better if the US had not adopted very different policies toward North Korea, China and other such countries,” the cable said.

“He added his view that US Cuba policy would in any event look much different after the November elections in the US regardless of which candidate won.”

The US diplomat recorded in the cable: “Until very recently, the PM had deliberately kept his government at a distance from Cuba.”

The official noted that

No conditions attached to St Kitts-Nevis standby arrangement, says IMF BASSETERRE, St Kitts — There are no conditions attached to the US$84 million standby arrangement which the Washington-based International Monetary Fund (IMF) will give to St Kitts and Nevis over the next three years, a senior IMF official has disclosed.

“The good news is there are not really conditions, I think the term conditions is really a misnomer in this particular case,” said Alfred Schipke, the Washington-based Division Chief, Caribbean 1 Division, Western Hemisphere Department of the IMF.

Bahamas Prime Minister Hubert Ingraham after months of inaction The cable pointed out Ingraham had recently that Ingraham, in named a new ambassa- remarks to the media, dor to Cuba — former distanced his governimmigration director ment from the PLP deciVernon Burrows. sion to elevate the con“To follow that up sulate-general in with a personal visit Havana to an embassy, would complete the pic- yet spoke supportively ture of [the Government of education and medof The Bahamas’] ical exchanges with engagement with Cuba and downplayed Cuba,” the cable said. the failure to reverse “Dissuading PM course on any front.

Ingraham would be dif“Two days before ficult, particularly International Human given the apparent Rights Day, notably, CARICOM cover for the Ingraham did not make trip and given his hav- any statements of suping moved on to the port for democracy in next administration in Cuba or say anything his political calcula- that could be construed tions. as critical of the Castro “Direct engagement regime,” the cable said. by an appropriately senThe embassy official ior Washington inter- noted that Ingraham locutor might get the had characterized the PM to reconsider, but it former government’s would be an outside policies toward Cuba as chance.” unnecessary and ad hoc.

The Americans noted In the comment secin a December 2008 tion of the cable, the cable that Ingraham embassy official traveled to Santiago de remarked: “The PM’s Cuba for the CARICOM attempt to have his cake high-level meeting on and eat it too on Cuba December 8 and “framed was less surprising his government’s basic than the PLP’s justificacontinuation of the pre- tion of its ‘non-ideologivious PLP government’s cal’ and ‘strategic’ attiCuba policy as a matter tude. of pragmatism, rather “Coming soon after a than conviction.” similar spat over

Venezuela’s Petrocaribe, which the [Government of The Bahamas] continues to oppose in the face of opposition criticism, the trading of barbs reveals a bigger difference in attitude toward the US, perhaps than toward either of the other two countries.”

The American diploobserved: mat “Ingraham’s remarks also confirm, however, that the FNM will not make any effort to promote human rights in Cuba going forward.

“Bahamians appear convinced that the Obama administration will make significant changes in US policy toward Cuba and, though some are critical of the democratic deficit in Cuba, none in power see any advantage in criticizing the Castro regime during a time of transition in Washington.”

Cautious on Cuba In the lead-up to the 2007 general election, the Americans repeatedly stated that they did not expect Ingraham to express a great interest in building relations with Cuba.

“From the United States’ perspective, an Ingraham-led government would likely abandon the PLP’s sympathetic posture toward Cuba...” an official wrote in a 2006 cable.

“Ingraham would also give us an interlocutor willing and able to make decisions and follow through on them.

His 10 years as prime

minister have given him a good understanding of the United States and how to work with us, and he certainly looks forward to maintaining our traditionally close relations.”

A US diplomat wrote in 2007 that, compared to Christie, Ingraham’s foreign policy will likely be less multilateralist and more nationalistic.

“Ingraham has been critical of the PLP’s closeness to Cuba, and he indicated to us that he would downgrade relations with Cuba if elected from an embassy to a consulate,” the diplomat wrote.

An embassy official also wrote of Foreign Affairs Minister Brent Symonette in the cables: “We can expect him to be a strong partner for the US, who will be more decisive and more inclined to support US positions than his predecessor.

“He will almost certainly focus less on relations with Cuba and he will be less engaged in CARICOM and the NonAligned Movement than Fred Mitchell.”

The Americans said they expected The Bahamas’ flirtations with Cuba to “cool” under the Ingraham administration.

A read of the cables show that it was not unusual for Bahamian government officials — both PLP and FNM administrations — to discuss approaching trips with the Americans.

OAS general assembly concludes with adoption of Declaration of San Salvador S A N SALVADOR, El Salvador — The member countries of the Organization of American States (OAS), meeting in San Salvador at the forty-first regular session of the OAS General Assembly, on Wednesday called for “strengthening bilateral, subregional, regional, and international cooperation on security-related

matters,” in what was the first message of the Declaration of San Salvador.

The document, the result of an exchange of views among the countries on multidimensional security, strengthens their commitment to joint efforts to combat the violence and crime that ravage their peoples.

The final declaration of the Assembly session, which closed on Wednesday in the Salvadoran capital, stresses the importance

of strengthening the capacity of states to promote long-term public security policies and to address, prevent, and fight threats to public security in a comprehensive, effective manner.

Among these threats, it identifies transnational organized crime, illicit trafficking in arms, human trafficking, the smuggling of migrants, the world drug problem, money laundering, corruption, terrorism, abduction, criminal gangs, and crimes asso-

ciated with the use of technologies, including cyber-crime.

The countries affirmed that public security policies “require the participation and cooperation of multiple actors,” such as individuals, government at all levels, civil society, communities, the mass media, the private sector, and academia. Public policies should also be “comprehensive” and include “a gender perspective,” taking into account the needs of vulnerable groups and promoting

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Acting education chief says N.J. to hire independent agency to analyze data on charter schools

By JEANETTE RUNDQUIST TRENTON Vowing to create “more transparency,” acting E d u c a t i o n Commissioner Christopher Cerf today said the state will ask an outside agency to analyze why some charter schools out-perform traditional public schools.

Speaking at a meeting of the state Board of Education, Cerf said “we stand by” controversial data about charter school performance released in January, but acknowledged that “deeper analysis” is necessary.

That data showed that 79 percent of charter schools outperformed district schools on math exams in the state’s poorest districts, and that 69 percent outperformed their home districts in language arts. Critics assailed the numbers, saying charter school test scores may have been higher than traditional public school scores in part because charters have fewer very poor students.

“They are what they are,” Cerf said of the January data. “They

are not what you might call nuanced.”

Cerf said an independent analysis will be conducted “as quickly as is humanly possible.” He also released an “interim report” on charter schools that he said “dispels the notion” that charter schools don’t serve special needs kids. And he presented data showing that there are poor children in charter schools.

Last week, governor Chris Christie made his 6th town hall stop, this time in Hoboken to discuss his continued efforts to create more charter schools in New Jersey. His talks on education continued in Hoboken, as Christie engaged in conversation with Geoffrey Canada, a founder of a nonprofit group that supports education reform.

(Video by Michael Monday/The Star-Ledger) Watch video In the Newark Public Schools district, for example, more than 70 percent of students are poor enough to receive free lunch, and about 10 percent receive reduced-price lunch.

Meanwhile, in Newark’s charter schools, just under 60 percent quality for free lunch, and about 15 percent can receive reduced-price lunch, according to the report.

The report also looked at achievement for charter and district students in a number of districts, including Newark, Trenton, Camden and Jersey City . It showed that if special education and English as a second language students were removed from test scores, more charter schools outscored traditional schools.

The report also said the “charter advantage” appears to grow in higher grades Cerf peppered his comments with references to “relentless press attention” paid to the charter school debate, including allusions to reports in The Star-Ledger.

“Charter schools are dramatically outstripping traditional public schools in Newark,” he said, something that “the newspaper in Newark has failed to report.”

Advocates for Children of New Jersey, in its 2010 Newark Kids Count report, said some Newark charter schools outperform state averages, as do some district schools.

Some of both types of school also underperform.

“Charter schools are dramatically outstripping traditional public schools in Newark,” Cerf said.

Jersey City council hears case made for funding to complete Apple Tree House renovations Jersey City officials offered a passionate defense last night of the long-delayed Apple Tree House renovation to City Council members who seemed wary of spending even grant money on the project.

The renovation, which to date has cost $3.4 million - and could top $4 million once it is completed - will save the oldest house in Jersey City, a structure numerous residents have fought to preserve, said Cultural Affairs Director Maryanne Kelleher.

“It’s not your house. It’s not my house. It’s a historic house,” Kelleher told council members at their caucus meeting. “Jersey City residents, who we all work for and

represent, did not want to see it turn into a drive-through bank.”

City officials originally asked the council to approve a request for $800,000 in state funds to finish the third and final phase of the renovation, which is being paid for mostly with state and county grants.

But two weeks ago, the city officials downgraded their request to $600,000 in hopes of winning over skeptical council members.

Councilman Steven Fulop, who called the project a “noble” effort, nonetheless said he doubts the claim on the part of some city officials that the Apple Tree House can be an “economic generator.”

- TERRENCE T. McDONALD

Cerf also promised to “increase transparency” and expand the quantity of data available online.

The report is availat able www.state.nj.us/educat ion/chartsch/research/i nterim.pdf But the data released did not go one step further, to link specific performance on test scores to children at the different income level showing, for example whether schools with a higher percentage of children receiving reduced-price lunch, compared to a free lunch, achieve higher test scores.

Cerf said New Jersey’s state aid formula, and federal accountability programs, do not distinguish between the two levels of poverty. “Most charters in New Jersey cross a threshold of concentrated poverty

that makes these distinctions meaningless,” the report read.

Critics disagree, however.

“They have no basis for arguing that this is a trivial distinction.

This is spin,” said Bruce Baker, an associate professor at the Rutgers Graduate School of Education. He had commented widely on the January data and was, in fact, mentioned by Cerf at the meeting.

“The data just aren’t precise enough to make any reasonable conclusions about relative performance of charters versus district schools,” Baker said. “Some of this is better than previous information, but there are certainly misstatements and spin.”

Baker said charter schools still serve many fewer special education students than public schools, and that the

data on special ed does not break out how severe the children’s disabilities are.

Cerf said he is not an unqualified supporter of charter schools.

“I don’t believe all charter schools are good,” he said. “The state’s core mission is to support traditional public schools” Cerf’s report also included information on the charter landscape.

New Jersey will have nearly 100 charter schools operating in September - although Cerf also said that two schools were put on probation and one received a “stern warning.”

He would not name the schools that got the letters, but department spokesman Alan Guenther said the letters will be released Tuesday.

2nd garage arson in 3 days on block

By ALEX ZDAN TRENTON - Authorities are investigating a second garage arson in three days on the same city block.

The Melrose Avenue arsons are likely the latest in a string of intentionally set garage fires in the Villa Park section of the city, Battalion Chief Pete Fiabane said.

“Whoever’s doing it, between two and four in the morning, they hit the alley where no one can see them and they burn the garages,” he said yesterday.

Fiabane says he’s responded to six such cases within the past year and says the fires are clearly linked.

“Absolutely, because you got an area that he’s hitting,” he said. “It’s Fairmont, Lindale, Melrose. And it’s the same hours, between two and four in the morning.”

The darkness and the fact that most people are asleep at those hours delays notification, so firefighters often arrive to find the garages fully engulfed in flames.

The latest blazes occurred on the 800 block of Melrose, the first one at 2 a.m. Friday and the second at 4:12

a.m. Monday, police said. In Monday’s fire, crews arrived to find heavy flames in the rear of the garage. Despite the efforts of three engines, one ladder and the department’s rescue company, the shed was destroyed and shingles and roofing equipment stored inside was lost, Fiabane said.

Arson investigators from the Mercer County Prosecutor’s Office were notified and they along with city police are investigating both fires, police spokesman Sgt. Pedro Medina said.

“We’re looking at the close proximity of the jobs,” he said. “It’s the same block. Right now, you would have to look at the possibility they might be connected, you could not discount that at all.”

Firefighting efforts in Villa Park are further hampered by the area’s narrow streets, Fiabane said. The roads rarely have space for more than one truck to line up and put water on the fire, he said.

Anyone with information on the fires can call city police at (609) 9894170, or the Confidential Tip Line at (609) 989-3663.

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STARS, FANS, FAMILY BID ADIEU TO ACCLAIMED ACTRESS CLARICE TAYLOR Alyson Williams performing at the service.

Photo credit: Kevin Mason

Douglas Turner Ward, George Faison, Joyce Sylvester, Alyson Williams and Meli'sa Morgan were among the many stars, fans, family and friends that came to pay tribute to Clarice Taylor.

Photo credit: Kevin Mason Meli'sa Morgan performing at the service.

Photo credit: Kevin Mason Ruby Dee, George Faison, Meliâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;sa Morgan and Alyson Williams were among the many mourners celebrating the life of American stage, film, radio and television actress Clarice Taylor on Tuesday at Canaan Baptist Church in Harlem.

The Reverend Dr. Thomas Johnson, senior pastor of Canaan Baptist Church, officiated the ceremony, which included a eulogy by the Reverend Dr. Al Sharpton. Taylor, best known for her recurring role on The Cosby Show as Anna Huxtable, mother of Bill Cosbyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s character Dr. Heathcliff â&#x20AC;&#x153;Cliffâ&#x20AC;? Huxtable, died at age 93 of heart failure at her home in Englewood, New Jersey on Monday, May 30.

Born on September 20, 1917 in Buckingham

County, Virginia, Taylor went on to grace the stage and screen for more than half a century. Her stage credits include the hit musical The Wiz, as Addaperle, the Good Witch of the North and an Obie for a touring production of her own one-woman show Moms (based on the life of Moms Mabley); she was also one of the founding members of the Negro Ensemble Company in the East Village in 1967. Her many career highlights include playing Harriet on the television show Sesame Street, and roles in such films as Otto Premingerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Tell Me That You Love Me, Junie Moon, Clint Eastwoodâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Play Misty For Me, and Oscar Williamsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Five On The Black Hand Side.

Actors Ruby Dee and Charles Weldon, Tony-

Saundra Reeves Phillips performing at the service Photo credit: Kevin Mason award winning choreog- reminded us that while rapher and producer we are now saluting George Faison and minstrels that the real Douglas Turner Ward, stars like Clarice Taylor artistic director and who he stated was not founder (along with only a great performer, Taylor) of the Negro but remembered always Ensemble Company helping to distribute were among those offer- food to the community, ing remembrances. was largely unrecogRuby Dee read a poem nized. and shared her recollecThe cast of her show tions of first meeting Momsâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;Debbi BlackwellMs. Taylor and working Cook, Linda with her as part of the Brockington, Johanna American Negro Daughtrey, Ron Ferrell, Theater.

Rodney German, Olivia Reverend Al Sharpton Harris, Monifa Mahâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t, gave the eulogy and Johnathan Sayles and

John Stanleyâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;also offered a touching tribute.

The ceremony included musical selections by vocalists Meliâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;sa Morgan, Alyson Williams, Brvon Neal, Saundra Reeves-Phillips and John Stanley.

Prior to the private viewing and "Celebration of Life" funeral service, fans came out to pay their respects at a public viewing in the afternoon.

In lieu of flowers, the family requests that donations be made to the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture/NYPL, to which Taylor desired to bequeath her papers and her lifeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s work.

Memorial gifts may be mailed to The Schomburg Society, 515 Malcolm X Boulevard, New York, NY 100371801. Please make checks payable to S c h o m b u r g Center/NYPL and

enclose a note that the gift is in memory of Clarice Taylor. Gifts may also be made online at www.schomburgcenter. org; click "Support Schomburg" to make a memorial contribution. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Schomburg is honored to be the intended recipient of this collection of documents from Ms. Taylorâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s life.

From her work on stage to her time on one of Americaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s most beloved television shows, it will serve not only as a record of her own personal journey and career, but also document the struggle and progress made by people of color, particularly women of color, during the twentieth century,â&#x20AC;? said Khalil Gibran Muhammad, incoming Schomburg director.

Correspondence to the family may be sent c/o William Thomas, 2275 Morrison Avenue, Union, NJ 07083.

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Tony Committee Nominates Racist Musical, â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;The Scottsboro Boysâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Tony nominees Colman Domingo, and Forrest McClendon with John Cullum, (center background) and company in the Tony nominated musical "The Scottsboro Boys."

The Tony nominated Patina Miller as Deloris Van Cartier in the Tony nominated musical "Sister Act."

By JEANETTE TOOMER Inside New York Correspondent

Alena Watters, Rashidra Scott and Tony nominated Patina Miller in the Tony nominated musical "Sister Act." enjoy a national spot- nomination for direc- not have any chance to Surprisingly, the Tony Committee award- light during the telecast tion of â&#x20AC;&#x153;Scottsboroâ&#x20AC;? and win this honor.

The best book of a ed several nominations of the Tony Awards this cannot expect to win for for theater excellence to Sunday, which tradi- staging a racially offen- musical nominations go the director and team tionally features a sive musical that makes to â&#x20AC;&#x153;Sister Act,â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;The behind the short-lived musical number from light of young Black Book of Mormon,â&#x20AC;?

Bloody musical, â&#x20AC;&#x153;The each of the nominated men, the victims of a â&#x20AC;&#x153;Bloody, great injustice in the Andrew Jackson,â&#x20AC;? and Scottsboro Boys.â&#x20AC;? The shows.

Competition is tough early 1930s. In this cat- finally â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Scottsboro offensive format of minstrel comedy and black- this week, thankfully, egory she does not Boys.â&#x20AC;? I canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t imagine face made this produc- so â&#x20AC;&#x153;Scottsboro Boysâ&#x20AC;? equal her rivals that any show more unnervtion a shocking horrific has little hope of win- include Casey Nicholaw ing, hurtful, and racialany honors. and Trey Parker for ly divisive as â&#x20AC;&#x153;The reality that sparked a ning protest from Blacks and â&#x20AC;&#x153;Scottsboroâ&#x20AC;? does not â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Book of Mormonâ&#x20AC;? Scottsboro Boysâ&#x20AC;? which political groups in New stand a chance against and Rob Ashford for just for the appalling York. Yet, ironically, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Sister Act,â&#x20AC;? also nomi- â&#x20AC;&#x153;How To Succeed in treatment of this real Without life injustice places the this reprehensible nated for musical. Business boys in last place for musical now stands to Susan Stroman has a Really Trying.â&#x20AC;?

A favorite for acting consideration.

My prediction is that honors are Patina Miller in the lead role the Tony Awards for and Victoria Clark as best musical goes to Patina Mother Superior both in â&#x20AC;&#x153;Sister Act.â&#x20AC;?

A protest against the Tony Awards nomina- â&#x20AC;&#x153;Sister Act.â&#x20AC;? This out- Miller also wins for best tions received by â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Scottsboro Boysâ&#x20AC;? will be standing musical also performance by an held by demonstrators who claim the now-closed enjoys noms for best actress in a leading role score (music and lyrics) in a musical. musical was to racist to receive recognition.

To add more insult to The protest will take place outside the Beacon created by Alan Menken Theatre in Manhattan where the awards will be and Glenn Slater. In injury the Antoinette presented Sunday night and will be lead by this category it goes up Perry Awards commitBrooklyn Councilman Charles Barron and the against â&#x20AC;&#x153;Women on the tee also nominated â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Freedom Party, which staged weekly demonstra- Verge of a Nervous Scottsboro Boysâ&#x20AC;? for tions against the play until it closed in December. Breakdown,â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Book best choreography and â&#x20AC;&#x153;There is no doubt that this show was racist, of Mormon,â&#x20AC;? and â&#x20AC;&#x153;The orchestrations. Three offensive, and made a circus of a tragedy of justice Scottsboro Boys.â&#x20AC;? Due actors, Joshua Henry, in U.S. historyâ&#x20AC;Ś [it] portrayed Black men falsely to the ill-advised, racial- formerly of â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Wizâ&#x20AC;? accused of raping a white women in black-face and ly-insulting and deri- and â&#x20AC;&#x153;In the Heights,â&#x20AC;? singing and dancing around the electric chair. It sive nature of the lyrics Colman Domingo, and was a disgrace and the people of New York said of the songs from â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Forest McClendon enjoy Boys,â&#x20AC;? noms for best actors in â&#x20AC;&#x153;No, it must close,â&#x20AC;&#x2122; and we closed it,â&#x20AC;? said Kamau Scottsboro Joshua Stromanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s show does a musical.

Brown of the Freedom Party.

Baron Protests

The Tony nominated Patina Miller as Deloris Van Cartier in the Tony nominated musical "Sister Act." Henry stars as the only enjoy a national broadScottsboro boy who cast Sunday night? stands up for justice What do you think? and refuses to â&#x20AC;&#x153;shuck Call your local NAACP and jiveâ&#x20AC;? in the minstrel branch. Call your local fashion. The show congressional represendiminishes and tarnish- tative.

Can we, as a people, es the memory of these real-life young victims stand such mockery on by portraying them as a national level in buffoons and minstrel 2011?? This is one case where we will have to clowns.

Whereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the out- stand up for ourselves. rage?!

Whereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the Or else people will tell NAACP? Whereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the our stories anyway they National Urban please, including with a League?!

Whereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s shuffle and a ridiculing CEMOTAP? Should laugh. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Scottsboro Boysâ&#x20AC;?

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Rihanna’s ‘Man Down’ Is Her Answer To Bob Marley Classic

By REBECCA THOMAS The encounter begins simply enough.

A handsome guy walks into a dank club and makes a beeline for the pretty girl with waistlength, red locks who’s dancing by herself. He moves gently, showing only a hint of force when he grabs her wrists and pins them against the wall. But it’s what happens afterward in Rihanna’s new “Man Down” video that has had critics decrying the clip since it debuted last week.

Rih’s onscreen character strolls out of the Jamaican nightclub with her dance-floor partner pursuing her.

A terrifying struggle ensues. When it’s over, his red mesh tank is torn, his cheek bruised, and the visibly shaken pop star is weeping.

Rih decides to exact her own justice with a .22 caliber handgun that she calls “Peggy Sue.” (“I didn’t mean to end his life/ I know it wasn’t right,” she sings.)

While the Anthony Mandler-directed clip appears to mirror the lyrics of the dancehallflavored tune, when MTV News caught up

Rock City with Rock City, the way that sounded s o n g w r i t - authentic. And in a city ing/performing duo like Kingston, Jamaica, behind “Man Down,” where guns and gangs they said the verses often mar the lush landwere meant to be open scape, what could be to interpretation. more authentic than a “We wanted the song girl seeking violent retto be something to ribution for a sexual where everybody had assault, only to find an opinion,” Theron herself overcome with (a.k.a. Da Spokesman) regret as the singer revealed. “Some people does in the visual? felt it was literal, some “When we wrote the people felt it was a song, me and my brothmetaphor.” er was trying to re-creU.S. Virgin Island- ate in the best way posborn Theron and his sible, you know, like, brother Timothy “Don’t Bob Marley ‘I Shot the Talk Much” Thomas - Sherriff,’ “ Timothy told their Free at Last album us. “The female version is due June 21 - along of what that would be.” with producer Shama But now that the “Sham” Joseph (a.k.a. siren-laced tune’s comSak Pase), served up panion clip is stirring the narrative track up controversy, Theron specifically to let the thinks some viewers Barbados beauty tap are forgetting that the her island origins in a song, like so much

Rihanna Caribbean music, is about telling tales.

“It’s like somebody wrote a script for a movie and she delivered it perfectly,” Theron argued. “I just think sometimes people need something to talk about, and this is a thing to talk about. ...

‘Cause when you listen to the song word-forword-for-word, if she shot it theatrically how [the lyrics are], it probably would have been a little [more graphic], if you ask me,” he laughed.

When we interviewed Rihanna back in November, just before

Rapper Flo Rida charged with DUI in Miami Beach

Flo R id a

MIAMI BEACH, Fla. - A large crowd pleaded with officers to let rapper Flo Rida go and one fan offered to drive him home after he was charged with driving under the influence early Thursday in Miami Beach, police said.

According to an arrest report, officers spotted his 2008 Bugatti driving erratically about 3:45 a.m.

The report said the rapper, whose real name is Tramar Dillard, failed a field sobriety test, blew twice the legal limit on a device to measure his blood-alcohol level, had bloodshot, watery eyes, and slurred his speech.

After his second attempt at trying to walk a straight line the rapper said, “officers, I can’t do this. I don’t feel I can walk a straight line. I had a few drinks. Let’s try another test. I live on the other side of the bridge. I can make it home,” according to the Miami Beach Police.

The 31-year-old was charged with DUI and driving with a suspended license after failing to pay a traffic ticket. He was later released on $2,000 bail and a judge signed an order allowing him to fly Thursday night to Bangkok, Thailand, to perform several concerts, said his lawyer Christopher Lyons. The order requires Flo Rida to return June 16.

Loud dropped, she defiantly described “Man Down.”

“The special thing in that song is the fact that it’s a female

singing those lyrics,” she said. “Then you have that reggae thing and the chant; the overall energy in that song is so gangsta!”

Ja Rule sentenced to prison in NYC gun case

By JENNIFER PELTZ NEW YORK - Ja Rule headed to prison Wednesday for up to two years in a gun case, bidding a stoic but upbeat farewell-for-now to family and fans at a New York courthouse.

The multiplatinum-selling rapper and actor whose gravelly voice, thuggish tough talk and duets with R&B divas made him one of rap’s stars in the early 2000s - signed autographs for fans on his way to be sentenced. He pleaded guilty in December to attempted criminal weapon possession; the case stemmed from gun found in his luxury sports car in July 2007.

“See y’all later,” he told family and friends in the courtroom audience as he was handcuffed.

“Love you!” called the group, which included his wife, Aisha, and his mother and mother-in-law.

Dressed in a white T-shirt, gray pants and a gray hooded sweat shirt, he replied, “Love you, too.”

With that, Ja Rule, 35, was led away to start serving his sentence. He’ll briefly be in a city jail before heading to a state prison yet to be determined.

He also faces the possibility of a federal prison sentence for failing to pay taxes on more than $3 million in income; he pleaded guilty to that in March. He faces up to three years in prison in that case, though his will push for any prison time in that case to be served at the same time as his New York term.

His sentencing in the tax case has been set for Monday. But it will likely be postponed to later in the summer, said his lawyer, Stacey Richman.

In the meantime, Ja Rule heads to prison with an album on the way and, he has said, plans to write and otherwise keep busy behind bars.

“Out on my patio having my last free moment,” he tweeted before heading to court.

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THE RELIGIOUS ROUTE

BY VELMA HART The Bethlehem Baptist Church Sanctuary Choir, Rev. Larry W. Camp, pastor, invites you to a “Caribbean Gospel Extravaganza.”

It’s an Eagles Flight Production, Dr. Valerie Gibson, hostess, featuring top artists such as Bishop McInnis, Brother Danny, Brother Patrick, Sons of Thunder, Minister DeVon Johnson, Sister Leonie Grey, Missionary Violet Fuller and many more guest artists. It’s a preFather’s Day treat. The date: Saturday, June 18; doors open at 4:30 p.m. BBC is located at 1962 Linden Blvd., Brooklyn. Donations are

required. Be there!

Rev. Dr. James Forbes, Jr., senior minister emeritus of The Riverside Church in Manhattan, will be among featured speakers at Interfaith Worker Justice when it holds its 2011 National Conference and 15th Anniversary Celebration. The dates are June 19-21 in Chicago, Il. The venue will be the DePaul University Student Center. For more information, call (773) 728-8400 ext. 10.

The Tehillah Word Ministry International, 220-10 131st Ave., Laurelton, celebrated its pastor’s 14th Pas-

toral Anniversary, the Apostle Ernest Dorney. The daters: May 2729. There were many pastors who joined in the celebration. On May 27, Rev. Lawrence D. Dorsey of the St. John Baptist Church, Jamaica, was the guest preacher. I attended on May 28 when Apostle Sarah L. Johnson was the guest preacher. She is the overseer and organizer of the South Road Tabernacle Outreach Ministry, Inc., located at 753 Lexington Ave., Brooklyn. The Apostle Johnson really tells it like it is. “She is still with us.” Those were the words spoken by Actress Ruby Dee

at the home-going service of Actress Clarice Taylor.

On June 7 at 7 p.m. there was a “Celebration of the Life and Legacy of Clarice Taylor.” The service was held at Canaan Baptist Church in Harlem. Pastor Thomas D. Johnson, Jr., officiated. There was a gold ton of talent displayed as well as love for Clarice Taylor. Rev. Al Sharpton delivered the eulogy. The late Clarice Taylor, Sept. 20, 1917-June 2, 2011, lived a rich life. May God rest her soul.

Until next time, show love.

CDC: Most U.S. kids get recommended vaccines

By STEVEN REINBERG Although nearly all American children get the recommended vaccinations to prevent serious diseases, many parents express concerns about the shots, and a small number refuse to have their kids inoculated, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

About 95 percent of parents said their kids had received all the vaccinations or would get them all, which was a record high, a 2010 survey found. But about 5 percent of parents said they would decline some vaccines, and 2 percent said their little ones would receive no vaccines, the researchers said.

“We are reassured that, overall, parents are vaccinating their kids according to the recommended schedule,” said lead researcher Allison Kennedy, an epidemiologist in CDC’s Immunization Services Division.

“But we did find that most parents do have questions or concerns about vaccines,” she said.

Better education efforts could resolve those doubts, Kennedy said.

Doctors need information on the value and safety record of vaccines so they can help parents make an informed decision.

Recent outbreaks of mumps, measles and whooping cough show that these deadly diseases still exist, Kennedy said. “Because of successful vaccination programs,” many young parents don’t remember when these diseases were epidemic, she noted.

The report is published in the June issue of Health Affairs.

For the study, Kennedy’s team used data from the annual HealthStyles survey, which gathered information on parental attitudes toward childhood vaccination from 376 households.

While 23 percent of the parents said they had no concerns about vaccines, most had one or more concerns, the researchers found.

Parents mentioned pain from the

injection, getting too many shots at one time and the safety of ingredients in the vaccines.

Some parents also worried that vaccines could cause disease or are being given for illnesses children are unlikely to get, the investigators found.

Parents who said their kids would not get all the recommended vaccinations were likely to think too many vaccines are given in the first two years of life or that vaccines can cause learning difficulties, especially autism. The autism theory has been widely refuted.

One in three parents added that they are not satisfied with the information they get from their children’s doctor about the safety and necessity of vaccines.

Much of the information parents get about vaccines comes from their doctor or friends, Kennedy said.

One-quarter said they took their

information from the Internet, twice the number seen in a different survey in 2009, the researchers pointed out.

Dr. Paul Offit, chief of the division of infectious diseases and director of the Vaccine Education Center at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, is concerned — but not surprised — that resistance to vaccination still exists.

Offit, an outspoken advocate of vaccination, said the movement against vaccinations has resulted in outbreaks of diseases all but unheard of just a few years ago.

“I try to reassure parents with the science,” he said. And he tells them that a decision against vaccination is not risk-free. “It’s a choice to take a different and more serious risk,” he explained.

“We are seeing outbreaks of measles, mumps and whooping cough to degrees we haven’t seen in

the previous 10 years. It’s a dangerous and, frankly, a misinformed choice not to get a vaccine,” he said.

Before vaccines, whooping cough killed 8,000 children in the United States annually, diphtheria was a common cause of death among young people, and polio caused tens of thousands of cases of paralysis, he pointed out. Measles resulted in 3,000 to 5,000 deaths, Offit said.

Even though the data linking vaccines to autism has been discredited, some people still believe it, he noted.

“We are far more compelled by fear than reason, and fear wins,” Offit said. “We don’t fear the diseases, so it’s very easy to scare us about these other things,” he stated.

But as outbreaks of preventable diseases become more common, “we will get to a level where we will be scared enough of the diseases again that we will start to vaccinate again,” Offit said.

Group of blood pressure drugs not linked to cancer

By ERIC SCHULTZ Despite concerns that blood pressure drugs may increase the risk of cancer, a new study suggests that a particular such drug may not be linked to that risk.

Angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitors, usually referred to as ACE inhibitors, are not associated with a higher rate of cancer, according to a study by researchers at University Hospitals Case Medical Center in Cleveland.

“There were worries in the scientific community that ACE inhibitors were associated with cancer,” study co-author Dr. Ilke Sipahi told Reuters Health. The study results, he added, “confirm the safety of ACE inhibitors as far as cancer goes.”

ACE inhibitors lower blood pressure by blocking the production of a chemical that causes blood vessels to contract. In addition to controlling blood pressure, they are used to

improve survival after heart attacks, and prevent strokes. Before this study, there was a mixed picture about whether ACE inhibitors were linked to cancer.

A previous study by Sipahi’s group, for example, found that a similar group of drugs, known as angiotensin receptor blockers, was associated with an increased likelihood of cancer.

In the new study, published in The American Journal of Cardiology, the researchers reviewed existing trials of ACE inhibitors that measured how many patients developed or died of cancer. One of those previous studies linked ACE inhibitors to an increased risk of digestive system cancers, but the authors did not find any association in this review.

Sipahi did caution that the reviewed studies followed patients for a maximum of 5 years, so the team could not determine the effect of ACE inhibitors on the risk of developing cancer over a period

longer than 5 years.

Still, the limitations of the data mean that more research is needed, Dr. Christopher Phillips, of Morehouse School of Medicine in Atlanta, Georgia, told Reuters Health.

Phillips, who was not involved in the study, noted that the authors only dove deeply into data for one type of ACE inhibitor, enalapril, marketed as Vasotec. The study showed that enalapril does not increase the risk of cancer, he said.

But “can we attribute that to all the ACE inhibitors or just enalapril?”

The limitations mean that the study “should not affect the current clinical prescribing of ACE inhibitors to eligible patients who need them,” Phillips said.

Patients taking ACE inhibitors may experience side effects, including cough, headache, drowsiness, or weakness, and in rare cases, kidney failure or swelling of tissues.

They range from $10 per month for generic drugs to more than $100 per month for brand names.

DAILY CHALLENGE FRIDAY, JUNE 10, 2011

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INSIDE NEW YORK REVIEWS By Joan H. Allen, Editor By the Way, Meet Vera Stark: An ‘invisible’ woman takes center stage

Sanaa Lathan and Daniel Breaker in “By the Way, Meet Vera Stark.”

Stark.” This is satire at its very best!

By TRACY “BINTA” Staged by director, Jo Bonney, the AUSTIN play seamlessly connects the past and present, fiction and reality, theINSIDE NEW YORK atre and film, and art and history to CORRESPONDENT reveal timeless truths about humanity and human nature in all its The first Black actress to win an nuanced complexity.

Oscar was not Halle Berry, but HatSanaa Lathan is joined by two tie McDaniel, for her role as a supother fine actresses — Kimberly Herporting actress in “Gone with the bert Gregoire and Karen Olivo — Wind.” Some might prefer to forget who also portray aspiring black that McDaniel’s role as Mammy, actresses, and Daniel Breaker, of Scarlett O’Hara’s devoted maid, was “Passing Strange” fame, who plays ground-breaking, but Pulitzer Prize Vera Stark’s love interest, Leroy winning playwright, Lynn Nottage’s Barksdale, a Jazz musician who also play, “By the Way, Meet Vera Stark” works as a servant to the Hollywood shines a bright light on the mammy elite. character, both as a ground-breakWhile Lathan is superb in the lead ing achievement and as a manifestarole, Olivo, who won a Tony in 2009 tion of deeply entrenched racism in for her role as Anita in West Side Hollywood.

Story, deserves special mention for Nottage’s fictional Vera Stark, performance of two completely difmasterfully performed by Sanaa ferent roles: that of Anna Mae, a Lathan, has much in common with light-skinned actress who resorts to Hattie McDaniel. Both worked as “passing” in order to get a role, and maids, because they were not able to later as a militant Afro-centric/lesget real work as actors. Both also bian critic in the second half. had long and varied careers in HollyIn the first half, Vera Stark comwood, with many film credits to petes for the highly sought-after role boast of, but both were also widely as a maid in a film about a tragic identified with one, career-defining “Mulatto” who passes for white in role as a devoted maid to a white ‘old’ New Orleans. The action centers woman. The analogy between Vera around the relationship between Stark and Hattie McDaniel, however, Vera Stark and her mistress, Gloria merely provides a framework for Mitchell, played by Stephanie J. exploring racism in Hollywood more Block, as well as with two other broadly. struggling Black actresses, Lottie Nottage’s writing is richly authenand Anna Mae, who live with Vera in tic, extremely provocative, and often the same rooming house in Hollyhilarious, but the laughter is at times wood of the 1930’s. In a slick revermixed with tears. There is so much sal by Nottage, the three struggling intelligence, talent and emotion Black actresses are the main characpacked into 2 hours and 5 minutes ters around which the action that one can hardly imagine there unfolds. It is their humanity and being anything else, on or off Broadtheir desires and concerns that are way, that is anywhere near as on display, while the white actors — thoughtfully entertaining as “Vera

Kimberly Hebert Gregory and Sanaa Lathan

Sanaa Lathan Ms. Block, David Garrison, and Kevin Isola — portray one-dimensional characters whose purpose is merely to provide the backdrop of a racism so deeply entrenched that it is simply taken for granted.

The second half jumps forward three decades later in the 1970’s where a panel of film critics share their views about Ms. Stark’s legacy.

They debate and disagree vociferously among themselves, as to whether Vera Stark should be judged a sellout, a pioneer, or if she should simply be seen as “an actor playing a role.”

The fact that there is a debate at all, goes to heart of “Meet Vera Stark”: that racism rooted in white supremacy imposes a layer of complexity, confusion and uncertainty

Karen Olivio on the psyches of Black people that whites never have to the think about as they go about their daily lives.

One could easily ask whether things have really changed so much for Blacks in Hollywood?

I can imagine a panel of critics forcefully arguing both sides of that debate ad naseum. As in “Vera Stark,” there would be no clear answer; just a lot of complex issues and perspectives, which in the hands of a skilled playwright like Lynn Nottage, supported by a great director and a superb cast, could be a recipe for yet another piece of great theatre.

All photos: Joan Marcus

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Regulators pressuring banks after Citi data breach

NOTICE OF SALE SUPREME COURT - COUNTY OF QUEENS U.S. BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, AS TRUSTEE, ON BEHALF OF THE HOLDERS OF THE HOME EQUITY ASSET TRUST 2005-7 HOME EQUITY PASSTHROUGH CERTIFICATES, SERIES 2005-7 Plaintiff, AGAINST LORNA WILLIAMS, et al. Defendant(s) Pursuant to a judgment of foreclosure and sale duly dated 5/27/2010 I, the undersigned Referee will sell at public auction at the Queens County Courthouse in Courtroom # 25 88-11 Sutphin Boulevard, Jamaica, New York on 7/1/2011 at 11:00 AM premises known as 138-38 233RD STREET, ROSEDALE, New York 11422 All that certain plot piece or parcel of land, with the buildings and improvements thereon erected, situate, lying and being in the New York City Borough of QUEENS, County of Queens and State of New York Section, Block and Lot: Block 13181- Lot 55 Approximate amount of judgment $358,461.79 plus interest and costs Premises will be sold subject to provisions of filed Judgment Index #16343/09 Dena Orenstein, Esq., Referee Steven J. Baum PC , Attorney for Plaintiff, P.O. Box 1291, Buffalo, NY 14240-1291 Dated: 6/6/2011

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“We are contacting customers whose information was impacted.

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Exxon has 3 deepwater Gulf of Mexico discoveries was lifted. The Irving, Texas, company was on the verge of drilling its Hadrian prospect when the government suspended deepwater activity. “(The discovery) speaks to the fact there are resources in the Gulf and if we have a tax and regulatory environment that will encourage us to find and produce our own domestic oil, the industry will respond,” said Mark Routt, an energy industry consultant with KBC Advanced Technologies.

Exxon has not finished its development plan yet, and more drilling will be needed to further appraise how much oil is in the reservoir. Production could be years away.

The wells are located in the Keathley Canyon at a water depth of about 7,000 feet, 250

miles southwest of New Orleans.

Other operators in Keathley Canyon include Anadarko Petroleum Corp. and Chevron Corp.

Last month, Noble Energy Inc. said it had made an oil discovery at its Santiago prospect in the deepwater Gulf of Mexico. Noble was the first company to receive a drilling permit from U.S. regulators after the drilling halt.

Exxon owns a 50 percent interest in the three new wells, which are part-owned by Eni Petroleum U.S., part of Italy’s Eni SpA, and Brazil’s Petrobras.

Exxon shares were up 83 cents at $80.83 in afternoon on the New York Stock Exchange. The stock was outperforming a flat CBOE index of oil companies.

Microsoft loses Supreme Court case on patent

ernment. Any change remains up to Congress, she concluded.

Google Inc, Yahoo Inc and trade groups such as the Computer & Communications Industry Association supported Microsoft, while Bayer AG, 3M Co and groups representing biotechnology companies and pharmaceutical manufacturers backed i4i.

The case was decided by eight of the nine Supreme Court members. Chief Justice John Roberts, who owns Microsoft stock, recused himself from the case.

By ANNA DRIVER HOUSTON — Exxon Mobil Corp. has made two big new oil discoveries and a natural gas find in the deepwater Gulf of Mexico, news that underscores the importance of the prolific basin to U.S. crude output.

Oil and gas exploration in the Gulf was halted by the U.S. government last year after the blowout at BP Plc’s Macondo well, and activity in the Gulf remains at levels far below those seen before the oil spill.

Exxon estimated the new wells could produce about 700 million barrels of oil equivalent (BOE).

“Seven hundred million barrels doesn’t happen very often,” John White, an analyst

By JAMES VICINI WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court ruled against Microsoft Corp on Thursday, rejecting its appeal of a record $290 million jury verdict for infringing a small Canadian software firm’s patent.

The justices unanimously upheld a U.S. appeals court ruling that went against the world’s largest software company in its legal battle with Torontobased i4i.

The high court rejected Microsoft’s argument to adopt a lower standard to replace the long-standing requirement that a defendant in a patent infringement case prove by clear and convincing evidence that a plaintiff’s patent is invalid.

Redmond, Washington-based Microsoft argued that a lower standard of proof involving a “preponderance of the evidence” would make some patents more vulnerable to legal challenge while promoting innovation

A view of the Exxon Mobil refinery in Baytown, Texas. at Houston-based Triple Double Advisors in Houston, said.

“That’s a lot of oil.”

The lower tertiary geological formation which stretches across the deepwater Gulf, is thought to hold as

and competition.

Justice Sonia Sotomayor said the court rejected Microsoft’s contention that a defendant need only persuade a jury of a patent invalidity defense by a preponderance of the evidence.

When the U.S. Congress has prescribed the governing standard of proof, its choice generally controls, she said in the 20-page opinion.

The Obama administration and i4i opposed Microsoft’s position and said Congress had accepted the standard in effect for at least the past 28 years, that it was correct, and that it should be upheld by the Supreme Court.

I4i said Microsoft sought a radical change in patent law and that any change should come from Congress, which has been considering patent legislation.

The legal battle began in 2007 when i4i sued Microsoft. A federal jury awarded $290 million to i4i after finding that Microsoft, in 2003 and 2007 versions of Word, its word processing application, had infringed i4i’s patent

much 15 billion barrels of oil. Recent large discoveries there include BP Plc’s Kaskida, estimated to hold 3 billion barrels of oil.

Irving, Texas-based Exxon had reserves of 24.8 billion barrels oil

relating to text manipulation software.

A U.S. appeals court upheld the award, and the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office upheld the validity of the i4i patent.

Microsoft continued to dispute those decisions, but removed the contested features from its current software.

In appealing to the Supreme Court, Microsoft said it wanted a new trial. But the justices ruled that the appeals court was cor-

equivalent at the end of last year.

Exxon shares were up 1 percent in afternoon trading.

The discoveries are the company’s first in the Gulf since the government moratorium

rect.

Microsoft has said it is the largest patent infringement verdict ever affirmed on appeal.

Sotomayor said the court also rejected Microsoft’s argument that a preponderance standard must at least apply where the evidence before the factfinder was not before the Patent and Trademark Office during the examination process.

She said the court was not judging the

wisdom of the clearand-convincing-evidence standard that Congress adopted.

During nearly 30 years the standard has been used, Sotomayor said, Congress has often amended the patent laws, but apparently never considered any proposal to lower the standard of proof.

Sotomayor said Congress has left the standard in place, despite criticism of it from the federal government and from outside the gov-

HP’s TouchPad will debut July 1 for $500 LOS ANGELES — Hewlett Packard Co. will begin selling its Touchpad on July 1 in the United States for $499.99, debuting the first tablet computer powered by Palm’s operating software.

Jumping into the tablet computer craze triggered by Apple Inc’s iPad, HP said on Thursday it start taking orders on June 19 in North America and Europe.

The Wi-Fi version of

the gadget hits store shelves July 1 in the United States, followed

by Britain, Ireland, France and Germany a few days after.

Canada gets the tablet, run on Palm’s WebOS operating system, in mid-July, followed by Italy, Spain, Australia, Hong Kong, New Zealand and Singapore later in 2011.

HP bought Palm last summer for $1.2 billion, hoping to combine its WebOS software with a

plethora of devices from smartphones to printers, gambling that there

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Cam Newton earning respect of Carolina teammates

By MIKE CRANSTON CHARLOTTE, N.C. Cam Newton sweated through a workout with his new Carolina teammates Wednesday morning, hopped a flight to Washington to meet the president in the afternoon, then quickly returned to make sure he attended the final player-organized workout Thursday.

As the Heisman Trophy winner prepares for the scrutiny of being the NFL’s No. 1 overall pick, his work ethic, fitness and willingness to fit in are impressing his veteran teammates.

“He showed up every day early. He’s working hard,” Panthers linebacker Jon Beason said Thursday. “He’s interacted well and he’s shown some great leadership.”

Newton is making the best of an offseason like no other because of the lockout.

He can’t talk to Carolina’s new coaching staff. He’s forced to learn the playbook on his own. He doesn’t have a contract. It’s uncertain if top receiver Steve Smith will be his

teammate. There is no indication how long of a preseason there will be.

And yet Newton is considered the key to whether the NFL-worst Panthers can contend.

Newton, who led Auburn to the 2010 national title with a dazzling 50-touchdown season, is upbeat and confident even as he acknowledges the NFL is not college football.

“Preparing as a quarterback in the NFL is completely different,” he said. “The terminology, the blitz schemes, and at the end of the day, you’re not playing freshmen anymore.

You’re playing grown men. This where speed comes into play at all times.”

Newton was able to get a playbook and meet with Carolina’s coaches the day after the first round of the draft, when the lockout was temporarily lifted. He said offensive coordinator Rob Chudzinski gave him some “focus points.” He’s also met with last year’s starter, Jimmy Clausen, to compare notes.

Clausen and freeagent QB Matt Moore also attended the workouts the past two weeks at a Charlotte high

school.

“I think I’ve got a grip on who we are as an offense, what Coach Chudzinski is trying to do,” Newton said.

Newton believes the Panthers, who man16 offensive aged touchdowns in going 214 last season, can turn things around, even if he’s not about to make any bold declarations about beating out Clausen for the starting job. Newton called the talent the offense has displayed at the eight days of workouts “something to be scared of.”

“We can maximize everybody’s potential in this offense,” he said.

Carolina’s chances to get out of the NFL basement would seemingly be better if Smith stayed. The four-time Pro Bowl receiver, who has two years left on his contract, has hedged on whether he wants to return.

Smith said Monday he’s been skipping the workouts that have drawn about 50 players a day because of his wife’s ill health. But while Smith wasn’t present Thursday, Newton said he did show up earlier in the week.

“To some degree, he’s on a different level. I told him this,” Newton said. “When I throw a three-step drop or an out-route, I’ve got to get back real fast to get it to him extremely quick because he’s that explosive as a player.”

It’s the same attribute the Panthers expect from their new QB. They are gambling that Newton, who played only one season of major college football in a spread offense, will become the franchise quarterback they’ve never had.

Newton’s chiseled 6foot-5 frame stood out as he wore shorts and a T-shirt without sleeves on Thursday morning, the only day reporters were allowed to attend the workouts.

Newton was one of the first players on the field before 8 a.m. He caught some punts before lobbing some passes. Left tackle Jordan Gross said Newton has won several conditioning contests.

“Cam has really just come in and kind of kept quiet,” Gross said.

“He had fun with the guys and tried to fit in and earn respect and doing things right. He’s

thrown some great passes, gotten under center, been vocal with his cadence when we’ve done our team offense stuff.

“Overall, he’s just shown he’s in shape and willing to work hard.”

Newton showed no fatigue from his day of traveling. He attended a celebration Wednesday at the White House with his old Auburn teammates for winning the national title in January, talking briefly with President Barack Obama.

“The secret service wouldn’t let us get too

close to him,” Newton said. “It was, ‘Hey, how are you?’” and you were out. But it was awesome being in his presence.”

Then Newton quickly headed back to Charlotte. There was more work to do, more bonding with teammates, more studying.

“Everything has been great,” Newton said. “We’ve been getting excellent participation from the team.

We’re just out here every single day trying to do the best that we can with the material that we do have to try to learn and comprehend.”

D a v i d Or t i z r e s po nd s t o J o e G i r a r di NEW YORK — David Ortiz on Wednesday night had a message for New York Yankees manager Joe Girardi, who had said he didn’t care for the way the Boston Red Sox slugger had flipped his bat after hitting a home run Tuesday: “Take it like a man.”

Ortiz was in no mood to revisit the flap stirred the previous night by Girardi, who made his comments after the designated hitter took Yankees rookie Hector Noesi deep in Boston’s win.

He crushed another home run Wednesday night in the first inning off Yankees starter A.J.

Burnett, then set his bat down on the ground gently. He saved the fireworks for after the game, which the Red Sox won 11-6.

“I don’t care what Joe Girardi says,” Ortiz said to a New York writer.

“Take it like a man. I’m done with that.”

Ortiz said he did not flip his bat Wednesday so he could avoid being on the “national news.”

“I don’t want to have you guys asking me the same questions. I got almost 370 bombs in the big leagues and everybody wants to make a big deal because I batflip one of them.

(Expletive) that (expletive), man. If I have to

make that video on my (expletive), let’s see how many bat flips I got on this (expletive). Good night.”

The first-place Red Sox will try for the series sweep over the second-place Yankees in the Bronx Thursday night.

Ortiz has hit 364 home runs in his career.

Thirty-four have come against the Yankees, a total against one opponent exceeded only by the 39 he has hit against Toronto. And that doesn’t count the five home runs he has hit against the Yankees in the postseason, including one of the most dramatic in club

history — the 12thinning walkoff home run in Game 4 of the 2004 ALCS. Ortiz has homered in each of the team’s past three games against the Yankees, all at Yankee Stadium. The last Red Sox player to hit home runs in three straight games in the Bronx was Mo Vaughn, back in 1994, according to the Elias Sports Bureau.

The last Boston player to hit home runs in three straight games against the Yankees, home and away, was Manny Ramirez in 2006.

On Tuesday night, he had been amused more than upset when asked

about it.

“I mean, it’s not my first time, it’s not going to be my last time,” Ortiz said of the way he airmailed his bat. “Big deal. I enjoy the game.

I’m a home run hitter.

It’s not like I do it all the time. It’s part of the excitement, you know what I mean? What can I tell you?”

For his part, Girardi also downplayed his comment, suggesting before Wednesday’s game that the media had given it a “Full Monty” treatment he hadn’t intended. Nor did he believe Red Sox lefthander Jon Lester hitting two Yankees batters Tuesday night —

Mark Teixeira and Russell Martin — was an invitation for the Yankees to engage in any retaliatory target practice.

“I didn’t hear our guys talk about it at all,’’ Girardi said. “It seems like it’s been talked about more in the media than our guys. I didn’t hear anything about our guys being upset.”

Red Sox manager Terry Francona thought it all much ado about nothing. Asked if he’d ever been rankled by the actions of an opposing hitter the way Girardi had been rankled by Ortiz, Francona said: “What’s rankled?

My pants are rankled.”

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Charles Barkley Allen Iverson eyeing NBA comeback rips Heat, fans — over Tyronn Lue, then high- has played for Denver, Detroit PHILADELPHIA Allen Iverson wants to stepped over the fallen Los and Memphis, made it clear in a keep his passport at home. Angeles Lakers defender in phone interview late Wednesday

Charles Barkley lobbed another verbal salvo on Wednesday in his war of words with the Miami Heat and their fans.

When asked if Miami is the worst professional sports town, Barkley, who reiterated his admiration of LeBron James and Dwyane Wade, said: “Yeah they have the worst fans. No question. It’s not even loud in there. You’re at the game and you are like, ‘Man this place isn’t even loud.’ At least when you go to Chicago, it’s loud in there, it’s crazy down in Dallas but it’s not even loud in Miami.”

Barkley said he doesn’t root against the Heat, but he doesn’t root for them. And he believes the Heat fans are upset because he picked the Chicago Bulls to beat the Heat, but Barkley pointed out he wasn’t the only one to do that among TNT’s commentators.

When the Heat were playing the Bulls in the Eastern Conference finals, Barkley said he liked James and Wade personally, but he called the Heat a “whiny bunch.” He didn’t back off that charge on Wednesday when he was a guest on “The Waddle & Silvy Show” on ESPN 1000.

“Listen, if the Miami Heat were playing the Washington Generals I would pick the Washington Generals,” Barkley said with a chuckle. “It’s something about that team that annoys me.

“They just a whiny bunch and I can’t root for them.”

Heat fans let Barkley know they weren’t happy with his criticism. In fact, TNT moved its set for pregame shows during coverage of the conference finals from outside American Airlines Arena to inside because of negative interaction between Barkley and fans.

The NBA Finals between the Heat and Dallas Mavericks is being carried on ABC.

Ten years after he became an MVP who led the Philadelphia 76ers to the Finals, Iverson has his eyes on a comeback. He is determined to end a career in the NBA, a career that is possibly destined for the Hall of Fame, and not in some faraway country where brief YouTube clips are the only way to stay updated on the four-time scoring champion.

Iverson, who turned 36 this week, played only 10 games in an injury-filled stint in Turkey after a lack of NBA interest forced him to seek employment elsewhere. In his most recent NBA season, in 2009-10, Iverson left the Sixers in February.

That’s not a lot of basketball for an aging veteran.

So what gives Iverson confidence he can still play anywhere near his former elite level next season?

“It’s me,” he said, laughing.

“That’s what gives me confidence. I know what I can do.

Everybody in the world knows what I can do. Everybody knows what I can do on the basketball court.”

Every fan knows how the 25year-old Iverson could dazzle on the court. Like in the 2001 NBA Finals, when he buried a jumper

Game 1. The iconic moment ranked slightly behind his rookie year crossover vs. Michael Jordan as the most memorable of his 14-year career.

Iverson’s added few plays to that list the past few years. He played for four teams in his last two NBA seasons, then left the Turkish club Besiktas with a leg injury.

A painful calcium mass developed on his right calf and he returned home opting for rest instead of surgery. Iverson’s manager, Gary Moore, said Iverson has yet to receive the green light from Dr. James Andrews to resume contact drills. Iverson was not expected to get cleared until mid-July.

“Just give me a training camp,” he said. “Maybe I’ve rubbed people the wrong way as far as saying the things I’ve said in my life and in my career. But if any team needs me to help try and win a championship in any capacity, I’m waiting.”

He might have a long wait.

Throw in a possible work stoppage with NBA owners and players far apart on a new labor deal, and Iverson might again be forced to look outside the NBA for a team. He signed a $4 million, two-year contract with Besiktas. But Iverson, who also

On ey Guille n twee ts dislike for pick CHICAGO — With criticism again coming down on Ozzie Guillen’s middle son, Oney, and his infamous Twitter account, the Chicago White Sox manager said Wednesday he took steps he believed were appropriate.

Not long after the White Sox drafted Keenyn Walker, a speedy 6-foot-3, 190-pound outfielder, who also happens to be Black, with their first pick in the MLB draft Monday, Oney Guillen fired off a Twitter message.

“Shocker the white sox pick another good athletic black kid,” Oney’s tweet read. “how about picking a good baseball player.”

Criticism from Oney Guillen’s Twitter followers was immediate and harsh, prompting the author to immediately attempt to clarify his message. He also tweeted an apology.

Ozzie Guillen was asked about it before Wednesday’s game against the Seattle Mariners, which the White Sox lost 7-4 in 10 innings.

“I talked to Oney already,” Ozzie Guillen said, adding that his wife also had talked to their son.

“I have 25 problems. I don’t want to add another one. My problem here is to win games. So far I’m doing very bad. Very bad. That’s what I care about right now and that’s what I’m focused on right now.”

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night, his first priority is the NBA. “If that doesn’t happen, I just want to play basketball, so I’ve got to weigh my options and do what’s best for me and my career,” he said. “If that doesn’t happen, I don’t want to not play basketball. I don’t have any more years to be wasting.”

Iverson has been dogged by rumors of personal problems — his wife filed for divorce and a daughter battled serious health problems — but he said his life these days is great.

All that’s missing is basketball.

“The only thing that I give a damn about is that the people that care about me know that I’m all right,” he said. “All I want is my real fans to know I’m fine, my wife is fine, my kids are fine. I’m fine and I’m looking forward to getting back on a team and being productive like I have been my whole career.”

Iverson insisted he enjoyed his stay in Turkey.

“It was one of the greatest experiences I’ve ever had in my life,” he said. “They were great to me. They embraced me like I would never think. Everything was great as far as that experiment.”

Stoops: Sooners don’t want USC’s vacated title

By JEFF LATZKE TULSA, Okla. - Oklahoma coach Bob Stoops won’t be laying claim to the 2004 national title that Southern California had stripped by the BCS this week.

The Trojans beat the Sooners 55-19 in a battle of unbeatens at the 2005 Orange Bowl to cap that championship season, but now the blowout has been removed from the record books.

“I don’t have any thoughts (on USC’s situation) and we’re not claiming any championships,” Stoops said Wednesday night before meeting with fans at the university’s Tulsa campus.

The BCS stripped the Trojans of their national title Monday for NCAA rules infractions involving extra benefits received by star Reggie Bush.

Auburn and Utah also finished the 2004 season unbeaten.

USC will retain the title it won from The Associated Press that season.

Stoops said he believes the NCAA’s move to eliminate recognition for USC’s spectacular season could serve as a deterrent for others who would consider breaking the rules.

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Somber mood prevails after second day of labor talks

By STEVE ASCHBURNER DALLAS — The 2011 NBA Finals will shift cities again this weekend, with the Miami Heat and the Dallas Mavericks determined to resolve this basketball conflict of theirs in a matter of days.

The NBA owners, the players’ union and that business conflict of theirs? Not so fast.

The ongoing labor talks will change venues, same as The Finals, with the owners and the players joining the clubs in Miami on Tuesday for their next negotiating session — if there is a Game 7 — or moving to New York that day. Another meeting will be held in New York on June 17.

But the Heat and the Mavericks figure to be long done as the wrangling for a new collective bargaining agreement further revs up, based on a more somber mood than existed even 24 hours earlier as principals emerged from a four-hour session Wednesday at a Dallas hotel. It was the

second consecutive day of discussions, the third since The Finals began last week in south Florida.

“At this point in the negotiations, we still feel like we’re very far apart,” said Los Angeles Lakers guard Derek Fisher, the president of the National Basketball Players Association. “So far we haven’t seen the type of progress we’d need.”

“It’s very clear that if we don’t agree to what we’ve been offered so far, we’re probably facing a lockout. That’s the responsibility we have, to prepare our guys for that possibility. But that doesn’t discourage us from the effort that we’re going to put in to still try to find a fair deal.”

NBA commissioner David Stern, exiting the building before the NBPA met with the media, also described the parties as “far apart.” Asked for more detail, Stern said: “We’re not where we started. Both sides have moved. But we’re not any place close to a deal.”

The current CBA expires on June 30. The expectation is that, barring a breakthrough agreement before that date, the owners will impose a lockout that will put all NBA business on hold. That means free agency, contract signings, trades, summer league play and any player-team workouts or contact, right up to and through — in the absence of a deal — training camp, the preseason and the 2011-12 regular season.

Stern said that, while the most significant impact of a lockout would come months from now, the urgency to resolve this matter in three weeks is real. “[June 30] is a time when, if we don’t have a deal, things will begin to deteriorate at a faster pace,” he said. “We very much feel the weight of the deadline. We have enough time to make a deal if the parties want to make a deal.”

Neither side went public with details of any proposals, although the union told reporters Wednesday that the league current-

ly is seeking a 10-year agreement (deals of five or six years are more common).

Also, a source told NBA.com, the owners’ proposal is seeking an eight percent reduction in players’ salaries from their 2010-11 levels in Year 1 of a new agreement, a 13 percent reduction in Year 2 and a 40 percent cut in Year 3, which would be maintained for the remaining years.

M a n a g e m e n t declined to discuss specifics with the media.

The owners’ case continues to be based on vast financial losses by an estimated 22 of the league’s 30 teams, for a combined total of nearly $300 million. They have made it clear that reductions in player payroll of $700 million to $800 million is necessary to end the financial hemorrhaging, and they want system changes that essentially would guarantee that all franchises would be profitable from their basketball operations.

The methods for achieving that are the problem now. Fisher

Looks like Tiger Woods may settle for second best

By TIM DAHLBERG The list was on his bedroom wall growing up, a daily reminder to Tiger Woods about his goals in life. Simple, yet audacious, the plan was to break the records set by Jack Nicklaus and become the greatest golfer ever.

For a long time it looked like it would be easy. His historic romp at the Masters formally announced his arrival, and Woods would win seven more major championships in his first six full years on tour.

By the time he won on one leg

in a U.S. Open playoff so epic that office workers around the country stopped to watch history, the count was up to 14. The coronation would come later, but no one can say they doubted it would come. Nicklaus himself remained convinced of it as late as a few months ago, saying he expected Woods to one day to win more than the 18 he collected over the years.

But now the counting has stopped. The window of opportunity is narrowing.

Suddenly fragile both physically and mentally, Woods won’t be teeing it up next week at

Congressional Country Club.

There’s a very real chance that by the time he plays in his next major it will have been nearly four years since he won his last.

The drought is already the longest of his career. And there is no indication it will end anytime soon.

The golden era of Tiger Woods is over, done in by both scandal and injury. He’s not going to win five more majors, might not even win five more tournaments.

So maybe it’s time to put his career in place. Time to assess his place in history.

2-time world super featherweight Hernandez dies M I S S I O N VIEJO, Calif. - Twotime world super featherweight champion Genaro Hernandez has died

of a rare cancer. He muscle fibers.

Hernandez, was 45.

Hernandez’s wife, Liliana Hernandez, said he died Tuesday at his home of rhabdomyosarcoma, which attacks

nicknamed Chicanito (little Mexican), was born in South Central Los Angeles and began his professional boxing

career in 1984. He was WBA super featherweight champion from 1991-94 and WBC super featherweight champion from 199798.

said the players still are opposed to the “three major components” that the owners are demanding: A hard salary cap, a reduction in guaranteed salary and shorter contracts. “Things have been fought for, collectively bargained over the last 30 years,” the union president said.

“We don’t see the need to roll that back or dramatically change that.”

Fisher said the union is “adamantly opposed” to a hard cap — the current deal is based on a “soft” cap, which can be exceeded through various exceptions and results in teams with dramatically disparate payrolls — and does not believe that the “competitive balance” of the game has suffered without one. The players’ stance also is that contract length and guaranteed money should be open to individual negotiations.

Asked how any compromise is possible between rhetoric such as “adamantly opposed” and “owners’ demands,” Fisher said: “We feel that what they’re asking for ... can be

addressed without dramatically changing those three components. We continue to offer ideas and solutions we feel can address those areas, without having them mandated and saying ‘that’s the only way it can be.’ “ Billy Hunter, executive director of the NBPA, also supported the current system of soft cap, backed by the luxury-tax provision, to dampen spending by ownership. Hunter said the plight of smaller market teams seems to be a major priority for the league, and he sounded doubtful that a resolution could be achieved swiftly or easily.

And he apparently wasn’t alone.

“One of the owners indicated at the conclusion of today’s meeting,” Hunter said, “that he was very pessimistic whether we’d be able to reach an accord between now and the end of the month, and I’m forced to share that sentiment. It’s going to be a difficult struggle.”

Chris Johnson joins Titans for workout NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Titans running back Chris Johnson, who stayed away from the team last offseason in a contract dispute, practiced with more than 50 others in a player-organized minicamp session Wednesday.

Afterward at Father Ryan High School, Johnson said it took no prodding for him to return to Nashville to work out for the first time since the season ended, that he wants to help the team improve and that his contract is not on his mind.

“I really didn’t come out here to try to prove a point,” he said. “I came out to get a good workout in and to try to get the team better.”

Johnson said even if there wasn’t a lockout and if it was an official OTA that he would have attended.

That’s a much different tone than the one Johnson adopted last year, when he said he couldn’t play for a low (and scheduled) base salary coming off a 2,000-yard rushing season.

Ultimately, the Titans moved money he would have eventually made to his salary to satisfy him.

- Paul Kuharsky

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