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NEW STEPS TO BOOST JOBS President Barack Obama, seeking to ease voters’ would focus on possible further steps to boost hiring concerns about his handling of the U.S. economy, in the short term. said a meeting with his jobs council this week SEE PAGE 3.

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N E W S B RI E F S CITY, STATE, AND FEDERAL OFFICIALS JOIN TOGETHER TO HALT ILLEGAL SERVICE PROVIDERS The city’s Department of Consumer Affairs is teaming up with the Department of Homeland Security and the Department of Justice to crack down on illegal service providers that target immigrants. Officials said hundreds of thousands of immigrants fall prey to phony lawyers promising to help them with citizenship applications and other immigration issues. Because of that, officials are saying it’s important to educate the community on how to get the legal help they need without being robbed of their money and their dreams. “This is about protecting immigrant New Yorkers,” said Fatima Shama, immigrant affairs commissioner. “They do not need to fall prey, and if someone does need the information for a quality immigration attorney, or an immigration service provider that is accredited, they can call 311.” “Anyone who promises to solve all your problems, particularly when it comes to something as complicated as immigration, I would head for the hills,” said Jonathan Mintz, consumer affairs commissioner. “Nobody can make that promise. And, in fact, it’s usually illegal to make that promise.” The city has an online center with helpful tips on how to attain services for immigrants. It’s available in 12 languages. Information can also be accessed by calling 311. Officials said that many immigrants fear deportation and are afraid to report scammers. LAWMAKERS DEMAND PUBLIC OVERSIGHT FOR ATLANTIC YARDS PROJECT Brooklyn lawmakers want the public to have more of a say in the Atlantic Yards project. Assemblyman Hakeem Jeffries and State Senator Velmanette Montgomery are asking community advocates to round up support for the Atlantic Yards Governance Act. The bill would allow a corporation to be set up to oversee the project and give the public a forum for feedback. “This is a multi-billion-dollar development that is going to impact the Prospect Heights and Fort Greene and Park Slope and Boerum Hill communities,” said Jeffries. “It’s important to create a structure, legislatively, where we can have public involvement, transparency, and participation.” “It’s the exact opposite of what was promised, and we want to ensure that the local community and local elected have a say,” said Fifth Avenue Committee Executive Director Michelle de la Uz. Leaders are trying to get Albany lawmakers and Governor Andrew Cuomo to support the bill, which is currently in a legislative committee.

Central Park gives musicians the boot By SEBASTIAN SMITH Few instruments can be gentler than the harp, but authorities in Central Park have branded street musicians like harpist Meta Epstein a public disturbance and want them driven out. A new campaign to enforce eight “quiet zones,” including in some of the city’s most hallowed spots for street performers, is turning virtuosos like Epstein into outlaws. After years of being left in peace to perform her baroque repertoire on the beautiful, golden instrument, Epstein, 59, says she’s suddenly being treated as a menace. Park police, she said, accused her of destroying the grass where she sat and ordered her to move on. “They say we’re responsible for the bare patch but then you see people everywhere playing soccer with boots and cleats,” she said in bewilderment. “They were actually pretty nasty and I’m not used to police intimidation. It’s basically putting us out of work.” Nearby in the mosaic-lined colonnades next to Bethesda Fountain, a few brave souls performed Mozart and Gospel songs in defiance of the ban. The columned arcade is not just a prime tourist spot, but enjoys some of the best acoustics in New York outside of a concert hall, leaving the last note of each song hanging in the air. But the musicians, including a Japanese singer, a Ukrainian double bass player and singer John Boyd, said playing timeless music hadn’t saved them from the crackdown. Boyd, a 48-year-old with a powerful, deep voice, pulled eight pink sheets from his pocket — park police summonses handed out over the last two weeks for fines ranging from $50 to $350. “I’ve been ticketed and arrested because I wouldn’t stop singing,” he said. “My life has been devastated by this.” Central Park representatives say they have nothing against musicians. They just want don’t want them in “quiet zones,” which have been marked with new, shiny green and white signs. Park spokeswoman Vickie Karp said the zones include the Bethesda Fountain area, Shakespeare Garden,

Sheep Meadow and Strawberry Fields, the living memorial to the Beatles’ John Lennon, who was murdered nearby. “For every protester supporting music or loud noise without limits, there are thousands of park visitors who come to parks looking for peace and quiet,” Karp said in an email. “Parks are one of the few places you can come and hear the soothing sounds of nature: bird songs, falling water, the wind in the leaves, human conversation.” Karp pointed out that musical performances at Bethesda Fountain can attract crowds of as many as hundreds of people. Some weekends, the sound reverberates across the boating pond and into the carefully preserved, dense woodland of The Ramble. “It is not that we are against music. It is that we are for quiet,” Karp said. Musicians say that logic doesn’t justify the expulsion of classical singers and string instrument players, whose melodies, if anything, are more soothing than the noise of tourist crowds. Arlen Oleson, 56, who plays the hammer dulcimer, noted that huge concerts for rock bands are organized

in Central Park, bringing tens of thousands of people to trample the grass and mammoth speakers to pump out mega-decibel music. “It’s a galling hypocrisy,” he said. The street musicians have gotten some high-profile help in the last week. Norman Siegel, a prominent civil rights lawyer, has taken up their cause and Boyd said the attorney was helping him try to escape punishment. Geoffrey Croft, the founder of NYC Park Advocates, which supports city parks, has also jumped in, calling the issue “absurd.” “As long as there’s been a park system people have been playing music in parks,” he told AFP. “They’re claiming people are complaining, but who’s complaining?” The clampdown appeared to mystify tourists, some of whom come specifically to Bethesda Fountain to hear the free, impromptu concerts. Tourist Zita Misley, a mother of three, said she’d noticed the “quiet zone” sign nearby, but hadn’t quite got the point. “Oh, I thought they put ‘quiet zone’ so that we could listen to the music!” she said when told of the park’s campaign.

Nassau County offers $7 million to women in bias suit Nassau County, on New York’s Long Island, proposed a $7 million payment on Thursday to resolve allegations that female police communications officers’ were paid less than men in equivalent jobs. The proposed settlement still needs to be approved by Senior U.S. District Judge Frederic Block in Brooklyn federal court. The county did not acknowledge any wrongdoing in the proposed settlement offer. The class-action suit was filed in November 2005 on behalf of all women who have worked as police communications officers and supervisors in Nassau County since 1999. According to court docu-

ments, women make up approximately 90 percent of the staff for those jobs, which involve fielding calls to the police and dispatching officers to investigate crime scenes. According to the lawsuit, the women claimed they were being paid as much as $10,000 per year less than fire communications technicians — all of whom are men — despite performing substantially the same work, in violation of the New York State Equal Pay Act. Block certified the class in 2007. The county fought to chip away at the validity of the plaintiffs’ claims and their expert testimony until last July, when settlement negotiations began, according to court doc-

uments. Herbert Eisenberg, an attorney with Eisenberg & Schnell serving as co-counsel for the class, estimated that approximately 225 people are eligible to join the settlement, divided into two classes comprised of the officers and their supervisors. Nassau County intends to issue bonds to pay for the proposed settlement, according to court documents. No date has been set yet for standard hearings on the settlement’s fairness or its final approval. A spokeswoman for the county did not immediately return requests for comment on the suit.

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Obama says to weigh new steps to boost jobs By MATT SPETALNICK WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama, seeking to ease voters’ concerns about his handling of the U.S. economy, said a meeting with his jobs council this week would focus on possible further steps to boost hiring in the short term. Obama on Monday will visit a clean-energy plant in North Carolina, a likely battleground state in his 2012 re-election bid, where he will consult with a panel of outside advisers on job creation headed by General Electric chief executive Jeffrey Immelt. Obama’s effort to reassure Americans of his commitment to reducing unemployment, which edged up to 9.1 percent last month, comes amid signs of a slowing recovery and opinion polls showing increasing public doubts about his economic policies. Republican critics accuse Obama of wasteful spending and overregulation that they say obstruct economic growth. “I wish I could tell you there was a quick fix to our economic problems,” Obama said in his weekly radio address. “But the truth is, we didn’t get into this mess overnight, and we

won’t get out of it overnight. It’s going to take time.” [Though the White House and Democratic allies in Congress remain locked in tough talks with Republicans over an elusive deficit-reduction deal, Obama sought to make clear that he was not losing sight of the need to put people back to work. “I’ll travel to North Carolina where I’ll meet with my Jobs Council and

talk about additional steps we can take to spur private-sector hiring in the short-term and ensure our workers have the skills and training they need,” he said. Obama said investing in education and alternative energy would improve the job market but offered no specifics. An administration official said on Thursday the White House was discussing the idea of a

temporary cut in payroll taxes that employers pay on wages, among other measures. Obama on Tuesday expressed interest in seeking an agreement to continue parts of a tax-cut compromise reached last year. He cited a payroll tax holiday for employees, extended jobless benefits and a research and development tax break as measures that had helped. In the Republican response, U.S. Rep. Adam Kinzinger accused Obama of “broken promises” on jobs. “We can’t continue to follow the same failed agenda that has driven job creators further into doubt and uncertainty,” he said. Kinzinger also said his party had made clear that “under no circumstances will Republicans support irresponsible legislation which increases the federal government’s credit limit without any spending cuts or budgetary reforms.” He said it was time to “draw a hard line” on spending. Outside pressure is growing for a deal that would let Congress raise the $14.3 trillion debt ceiling before an August 2 deadline. Republicans say any increase in the debt limit would have to be matched by an equal amount of spending cuts.

Anti-abortion efforts in states hit obstacle of own making By KATHY FINN NEW ORLEANS — Henry Hyde, a champion of the anti-abortion movement, might turn over in his grave if he knew that a provision of law he authored was an obstacle to individual states banning abortion. The Hyde Amendment, named for the Illinois Republican who served in Congress for 32 years and died in 2007, initially barred the use of certain federal funds, namely Medicaid health insurance for the poor, to pay for abortion. But the provision, which has been attached to U.S. spending bills since 1976, was changed in 1977 to allow exceptions for pregnancies that result from rape or incest. In a strange twist of fate, the Hyde Amendment — whose purpose was to deny federal funding for abortions — has become a stumbling block in efforts to stop abortions altogether, said Keith Mason, founder and president of the anti-abortion group Personhood USA. “A compromise in legislation that was part of the pro-life movement is the very hurdle that we have to overcome,” he told Reuters. This week lawmakers in Louisiana’s state House effectively killed a bill that would have banned abortion outright. The author of that failed bill said lawmakers were put off by a state fiscal analysis that showed that $4.5 billion in federal funds could be at risk if the state criminalizes rapeand incest-related abortion, putting state law out of compliance with Hyde. “The Hyde Amendment, or rather the exception to the amendment, is our primary obstacle right now,” Louisiana State Representative John

LaBruzzo, who sponsored the bill, told Reuters. Since Republicans swept to victory nationwide in the midterm elections last year, states with Republican legislative majorities have been chipping away at abortion rights. So far this year four states have banned abortion after 20 weeks of pregnancy, joining Nebraska which did the same before the election. Alabama could soon make it six states after its legislature this week approved such a law and sent it to a Republican governor for signature. Some other states have moved to deny funding to organizations’s offering abortions such as Planned Parenthood. Indiana did this and the legality of the measure is now before the courts. Iowa has considered passing a law barring an abortion clinic in Nebraska from setting up business across the state line in Iowa to flee the tighter law in Nebraska. But none of these efforts fundamentally challenges the Supreme Court decision on Roe v. Wade in 1973 that made abortion legal in the United States. The Louisiana law derailed by the Hyde provision, would have been a direct attack on Roe v. Wade. “Clearly, (a state) banning abortion would set up a challenge to Roe v. Wade,” said Elizabeth Nash, a public policy associate with the Guttmacher Institute in Washington, D.C., which conducts research and policy analysis related to reproductive health. Louisiana is not the only state to consider so-called “personhood” laws that would define life as beginning at conception, in effect banning abortion. In Alabama, a bill that would have redefined the word “person” in the

state’s legal code failed to reach a final vote on the last day of the state’s legislative session. The bill stipulated that human life begins at the moment a woman’s egg is fertilized and its primary aim was to ban abortion. And the Mississippi Supreme Court heard arguments on Monday about whether to allow an abortion-related measure on a November ballot. The initiative would redefine “person” in the state constitution as beginning at fertilization. Advocates of a ban on abortion plan to try again in Louisiana and other states. Personhood USA’s Mason said

every state vote on abortion has the potential to enlarge the anti-abortion movement. “We see we have the ability to change the opinions of the electorate by bringing it up again and again,” he said. “This debate is not going away.” But Jordan Goldberg, state advocacy counsel for the Center for Reproductive Rights, called the “personhood” efforts “really extreme measures.” “The reason these legislative efforts are not being successful is because banning abortion is a bad idea - it’s bad for women, it’s bad public policy and it’s unconstitutional,” she said.

Cost for middle-income parents to raise child nears $230,000 WASHINGTON — American middle-income parents with a child born in 2010 can expect to spend $226,920 over the next 17 years, according to a report. The United States Department of Agriculture’s annual “Expenditures on Children by Families” report, in which the figure was published, is used as a guide in setting child-support and foster-care payments. The latest figure for raising a child is up two percent from 2009, largely because of higher costs in transportation, child care, education, and healthcare, a USDA statement said. The report also evaluates other household expenditures and childrearing expenses such as housing, food, and clothing. For lower-income families, those

earning less than $57,600 a year, parents can expect to spend a total of $163,440 through the time the child finishes high school. Families earning over $100,000 are more likely to spend around $377,000. Housing is consistently the largest expense in raising a child, claiming 31 percent of the total that middleincome families can expect to pay. The next biggest expense is childcare and education, followed by food. Geographically, the cost to raise a child can differ by as much as $2,500 per year, with the most expensive region being the urban Northeast, and the least expensive being the rural South. When the USDA first started to publish this report in 1960, middleincome families could expect to pay $185,856 in 2010 dollars.

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Maternal mortality rates increase for African American women By MARJORIE VALBRUN

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High rates of obesity, high blood pressure and inadequate prenatal care cause death from childbirth more often for African-Americans in the United States than for whites and other ethnic groups. Worsening this trend are the increasing numbers of cesarean sections nationally. These procedures can result in deadly complications for women dangerously overweight or suffering from hypertension or other ailments. Nationally, blacks have a fourtimes greater risk of pregnancyrelated death than whites—a rate of 36.1 per 100,000 live births compared with 9.6 for whites and 8.5 for Hispanics, according to a 2008 report by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Maternal mortality rates have been rising in the United States since the mid-1990s. In 1997, the black maternal mortality rate was 21.5 per 100,000 live births compared with 8.0 for Hispanics and 5.2 for whites, according to the CDC. The rate for other races was 8.8. By 2007, the black maternal mortality rate had jumped to 28.4, roughly three times the rates among whites and Hispanics at 10.5 and 8.9 respectively. Statistics were not available for Asians/Pacific Islanders and

Native Americans. Trends show that black maternal mortality rates are increasing in some parts of the country, and two recent studies highlighting the problem have renewed calls for increased focus on reducing the deaths. According to the new reports, the pregnancy-related mortality rate in some states rivals that in some developing nations. The problem is particularly acute in New York City, where blacks are nearly eight times more likely to die from pregnancy-related complications than whites, and in California where pregnant blacks are four times as likely to die from childbirth. “The magnitude of this blackwhite gap in maternal mortality is the greatest among all health disparities . . . and that gap is growing. It’s unacceptable,” Michael Lu, an associate professor of obstetrics and gynecology and public health at UCLA and an expert in racial and socio-economic disparities in maternal and infant health, recently told PBS NewsHour. The black-white gap also stubbornly persists for a variety of socio-economic reasons, including education and income levels, access to and quality of health care, and lifestyle and diet. Improved health care could reduce the maternal death rate by 40 percent to 50 percent, according to CDC estimates, but medical attention has been

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The NAACP is right: Public schools should be supported By GARY L. FLOWERS Last month, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)) filed a lawsuit in New York on behalf of students and their parents. In the words of Benjamin Todd Jealous, President and CEO, the lawsuit was filed because “Students are being grossly mistreated, their parents are being deeply disrespected and the entire community stands to suffer.” As a member of the Black Leadership Forum, I fully concur with NAACP’s educational position in New York. The issue at hand is whether public school students in New York (and in other jurisdictions” are being treated as “second-class” students to charter school students). For starters, and contrary to charter school advocates, public schools are not equal under the law. Public schools receive funding from the public sector (i.e. federal, state, and local government). Conversely, charter schools receive money from private investors, who profit from the success of schools. With such a backdrop, charter

school students in New York seem to be favored over public school students who are stigmatized as “regular students.” For example: • Charter students are placed in public school buildings causing extreme challenges for space • Public students must eat lunch at 10:00 a.m. so that charter students may eat lunch a 12 noon • Public schools are restricted to four hours of library time compared to seven hours given to charter students • Public students in some New York schools are forced to learn in basement hallways in order to make room for charter students In addition to the issue of imposing charter schools within public schools the New York Public School system has failed honor the law by informing public school parents prior to making changes within the school district such as school closures. I further agree with the NAACP and Benjamin Jealous when he

Maternal mortality rates Continued from page 4 African-Americans. I deal with a gamut of high-risk problems, but complications from obesity are an underlying problem in all of them. “Even young patients when they come in for prenatal visits have very elevated rates of high blood pressure. It really starts with obesity, so when they become pregnant, it places them at a higher risk for infections and other complications.” To a lesser extent, sickle-cell disease, a genetic disorder more common in people of color, also causes complications, he says. Lewis, who also chairs the District of Columbia section of the American Congress of Obstetrics and Gynecology, says the increase in C-sections has compounded the problem because they can lead to hemorrhage, infections and pulmonary embolisms, or blood clots in the lungs. One-third of births in the United States are now by C-section compared with 20 percent a decade ago. “Women who have C-sections have higher rates of complications and maternal mortality than with vaginal deliveries,” Lewis says. The California study bears this out. Of the 386 women who died in the state during childbirth in 2002 and 2003, it found, 65 had undergone Csections “and most were unplanned or emergency surgeries to try and save the life of the mother or the infant.” Additionally, more than one-third of the deaths “were determined to have had a good to strong chance of being prevented and some causes of death

appeared to be more preventable than others.” The study also found that: • Blacks in California had a fourtimes higher risk of maternal death and were more likely to have been overweight or obese and to have risk factors identified in the prenatal period.

asserts, “When one set of students is perceived as getting preferential treatment over another, or the city refuses to work with parents to fix problems at a school before closing it, the inequity leaves all our children suffering.” Yet, the educational issue in New York is much deeper. The United States of America has never fully embraced a strong public school system. When public schools were established in 1853, the wealthy elite in many instances opposed public schools. After all, their children were educated in private academies. Over the years, opposition for public schools has never waned. During the Reconstruction Period, following the American Civil War, public schools were burned and terrorized by the Ku Klux Klan on their un-Godly view that African Americans should not be educated. In 1954, southern Whites opposed the racial desegregation order of Brown v. Board of Education by creating private academies that only allowed Whites to attend. Twentyfive years later when the Brown ruling was enforced with mandatory busing of public school students,

mass opposition to public schools reared its ugly head in American cities such as Boston, Massachusetts when African Americans and Latinos were bused to mostly White school districts. In each historical era, in this nation’s history, public has been under constant attack. The broader American policy question is whether all students— regardless of race or resources— have a right, rather than a privilege to a high quality education. More particularly, the federal government must take a righteous stand against the privatization of public education by 1) Increasing the federal allotment to public education from the current 9 percent; and 2) Enshrining the right to high quality education for all American students in the U.S. Constitution. As long as privateers pervert public education via charter schools while the federal government stands idly by, and public students and their parents are inferiorly treated, American education system is in need for remediation.

program director of obstetrics and gynecology at the University of California, San Francisco, who worked on the report, has said that he was surprised by “the magnitude of the disparity” and that the quality of care given these women needs further exploration. The CDC issued a report in 2001 calling for comprehensive, broadbased public health surveillance of pregnancy-related deaths to identify factors, from pre-pregnancy through six weeks after birth, that affect a

woman’s chance of survival and that place minority and older women at increased risk of death. The report said surveillance must include reviewing the causes of deaths, analyzing the findings and coordinating action among public health agencies. “Too often, surveillance stops after identifying and counting deaths,” the report states. “With the resources available today, we should be able to eliminate this gap in such an important health outcome.”

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

• High rates of obesity or excessive gestational weight gain were contributing factors in one of four deaths. • From 2006 to 2008, the black maternal mortality rate in the state was 46.1 deaths per 100,000 live births, compared with 12.8 for Hispanics, 12.4 for whites and 9.3 for Asians. • Although blacks account for only 6 percent of California births, they represented 22 percent of pregnancyrelated deaths in 2002 and 2003. Hispanics had the largest number of pregnancy-related deaths, 44 percent, and account for 51 percent of births statewide.

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Watchdog says top U.S. nuclear cop ‘ruling by intimidation’ By ROBERTA RAMPTON WASHINGTON — The head of the U.S. nuclear safety regulator loses his temper and uses threats and intimidation to try to get his way, the agency’s own independent watchdog said in a report. The report paints a picture of a toxic work environment at the Nuclear Regulatory Commission at a time when the agency is working through whether it needs to change rules and oversee any expansion of the nuclear industry in the wake of the disaster at Japan’s Fukushima plant. Gregory Jaczko, appointed by President Barack Obama to lead the NRC, did not break the law in his actions on one of the most controversial policy issues the NRC has faced — what to do about a nuclear dump proposed for Yucca Mountain, Nevada, said Inspector General Hubert Bell in a 46-page report. But Jaczko “strategically provided ... varying amounts of information” to the four other commissioners who helm the agency,” the report said. Jaczko “withholds information to the commission by

either suppressing papers or manipulating the agenda planning process,” commissioners’ staff told the IG, and “often yelled at people,” according to a former chairman. “Chairman Jaczko acknowledges that he sometimes loses his temper. He said he worked to control it and there are times when he has wished he has said or done things differently,” the report said. Asked for comment on the problems interpersonal described in the report, Jaczko said through a spokesman: “I believe very passionately and strongly in nuclear safety and I take that responsibility very seriously. I hold people to a high standard.” The Inspector General’s seven-month investigation began after complaints that Jaczko had exceeded his authority in closing down the NRC’s technical review of the Yucca dump. The U.S. Congress passed a law in 1987 promising to bury waste from the nation’s 104 nuclear reactors deep inside Yucca Mountain. But the issue has been fought in courts and in Washington by Nevadans who fear the dump could pollute water and hurt

Donna Brazile: Weiner’s credibility gutted WASHINGTON — A renewed call for the resignation of U.S. Rep. Anthony Weiner, D-N.Y., was made Sunday by Donna Brazile (right), vice chairwoman of the Democratic National Committee. Speaking on ABC’s “This Week” news program, Brazile said the scandal that’s erupted over Weiner’s admission to sending explicit pictures of himself to several women rendered him a lame political entity in Congress. Brazile said Weiner’s “effectiveness as a lawmaker is now diminished by this scandal,” and he can’t maintain his role of fighting the Republicans’ budget proposals. “His constituents deserve a full-time member who is focused on jobs and the economy, not somebody focused on whether or not he exposed himself or overexposed himself to someone on the Internet,” she said. Brazile’s condemnation

tourism. The Obama administration killed the Yucca proposal after taking office. Before his appointment to the five-member commission, Jaczko was a top aide to Nevada senator Harry Reid, a senior Democrat and the top political opponent of the site. Before the report was made public, Jaczko said the inspector general had cleared his actions, adding that he hoped the report would settle this matter. Instead, the findings give new fuel to Republican lawmakers who want to revive Yucca. “The report reveals a calculating and political NRC

chairman who has abused his authority, who sought to suppress scientific reports and withhold information from fellow commissioners — strategically working to rig the system in a no holds barred effort to derail the Yucca Mountain repository,” said Representative John Shimkus, an Illinois Republican. Shimkus, a top member of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, is holding a hearing on Tuesday with the NRC’s inspector general. A top congressional watchdog also promised more scrutiny. “The NRC Inspector General’s report paints an embar-

rassing picture of a bully whose use of deceit and manipulation is ruining the integrity of a respected independent regulatory agency,” said Darrell Issa, chairman of the House Oversight Committee. But the senior Democrat on the House Energy committee said the report vindicates Jaczko from a Republican “witch-hunt.” “While the nuclear industry and their allies in Congress may be frustrated that Yucca Mountain has not opened, the fact is that Secretary (Steven) Chu, not Chairman Jaczko, made the decision to close it,” said Edward Markey.

Hawaii airport screeners face firing after breach WASHINGTON — Three dozen baggage screeners at Honolulu International Airport face being fired and another dozen face discipline for security lapses, the U.S. Transportation Security Administration said. The actions come after complaints late last year that scores of bags that passengers checked at the airport were loaded onto planes without being properly screened for explosives, a severe security breach at a time when al Qaeda militants have sought to attack the U.S. aviation system. “TSA holds its workforce to the highest ethical standards and we will not tolerate employees who in any way

compromise the security of the traveling public,” TSA Administrator John Pistole said in a statement. TSA proposed removing the Honolulu airport’s federal security director as well as the individual in charge of screening there. Those who received removal letters are put on administrative leave and have an opportunity to challenge it, according to TSA. The agency has deployed additional screeners and management level staff to the Honolulu airport until permanent replacements can be hired. After complaints to TSA, investigators discovered that some checked baggage dur-

ing one shift at one location during the last few months of 2010 were allowed onto flights without being properly screened. Militants tied to Al Qaeda’s affiliate in Yemen have tried to send bombs aboard planes bound for the United States via Europe. A Nigerian man has been accused of trying to detonate a bomb hidden in his underwear on a flight from Amsterdam to Detroit in 2009. That bomb failed to ignite fully. Authorities last year also intercepted in Europe two bombs hidden in printer ink cartridges that were bound for the United States via commercial express delivery companies.

Mysterious mountain lion killed in Connecticut By LAUREN KEIPER

came a day after House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., and Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, D-Fla., who heads the Democratic National Committee, said it was time for Weiner to resign. A spokesman for Weiner said the congressman has requested a short leave of absence from his duties to seek professional counseling.

BOSTON — A mountain lion was killed just 70 miles from New York City early on Saturday morning and officials were trying to determine if it was the same big cat spotted a week ago roaming the posh suburb of Greenwich, Connecticut. The 140-pound mountain lion was hit by a small SUV on a highway in Milton, Connecticut early Saturday morning, and died from its injuries. The driver was unhurt, officials said. With no native mountain lion population in the state, “it’s possible and even likely” it is the same enormous cat with a long tail spotted last weekend in the New York City suburb some 30 miles away, said Department of Environmental Protection

spokesman Dennis Schain. The large cat was transferred to a state environmental facility where authorities will use the photos, paw prints and other evidence collected near the three Greenwich sightings to determine if it is the same animal. Traveling between the two cities would be a jog for this large cat known to roam extensively, even up to a couple hundred miles in a day, said Schain. The eastern mountain lion was officially declared extinct earlier this year, prompting authorities to suspect the animal spotted in the urban jungle of the New York City metropolitan area, had either escaped or was released from captivity. The closest confirmed population of mountain lions is in Missouri, half way across the country.

Mountain lions, also known as a cougar or puma, are lone animals that in the east primarily preyed on white-tailed deer. “By and large, cougars want to stay as far away from people as they possibly can because they are so solitary,” said Bob Wilson, a cofounder of The Cougar Network, an organization devoted to tracking and researching the animal. Wilson said mountain lions like to hunt in the shadows and it would be a very remote chance to encounter the cat. The eastern cougar was hunted and trapped “relentlessly” and gone from much of the region by the late 1800s, according to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. Around the same time its habitat was destroyed by deforestation and the population of its prey declined.

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Brooklyn Sunday School Union Anniversary Day Parade

Brooklyn Sunday School Union Anniversary Day Parade is a heavily attended annual event that shows of the beauty of Brooklyn’s Church culture. Photo/Lem Peterkin

St. Anthony’s Baptist Church marching down Dekalb Avenue. Photo/Lem Peterkin

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Somalis, Kenyans hail al-Qaida mastermind’s death By ABDI GULED MOGADISHU, Somalia - Kenyans and Somalis on Sunday celebrated the death of an al-Qaida mastermind planned East who Africa’s worst terror attack in recent history and had eluded capture for 13 years, and Somalia’s president congratulated the troops who killed him. The death of Fazul Abdullah Mohammed a man who topped the FBI’s most wanted list for planning the Aug. 7, 1998, U.S. Embassy bombings in Kenya and Tanzania - was the third major strike in six weeks against the worldwide terror group that was headed by Osama bin Laden until his death last month. Somali President Sheik Sharif Sheik Ahmed congratulated government soldiers for killing Mohammed on Tuesday at a Mogadishu security checkpoint.

“His aim was to commit violence in and outside the country,” Ahmed said, showing reporters documents and pictures he said government troops from recovered Mohammed. Ahmed did not let reporters check the documents, but he held up photos he said were of Mohammed’s family and operational maps for the militants in Mogadishu. Ahmed also held up a condolence letter he said Mohammed sent after bin Laden’s death. He didn’t say who it was addressed to, but said Mohammed co-authored the letter with a known Islamist leader in Somalia, Sheik Hassan Dahir Aweys. U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton also honored the victims of the bombings during a visit to the American compound in Tanzania. She put flowers on a large rock just inside the main gate of the

Africa leaders launch talks on $875 bn trade bloc By SIBONGILE KHUMALO JOHANNESBURG - African leaders launched talks Sunday to create the continent’s biggest free-trade bloc, a $875 billion (597 billion euros) market that would boost the region’s economic profile. The so-called “Grand” Free Trade Area would cross 26 countries, stretching from Cape Town to Cairo, with a combined population of 700 million people. “We meet fully conscious of the collective responsibility we bear towards Africa’s founding fathers to create a single continental market of real economic value,” said South Africa’s President Jacob Zuma during the opening. The proposed free trade area (FTA) would join three existing, and sometimes overlapping, blocs. But each has different rules, with some countries belonging to more than one grouping, further complicating efforts to streamline trade. The idea to unite these blocs was endorsed at a 2008 summit. It would bring together the continent’s most developed economies of South Africa and Egypt and some of its most energetic, such as Angola and Ethiopia. “Programmes are being developed involving all three regional economic communities, together with member states, taking us a step further towards the establishment of the envisaged tripartite free trade area,” said Zuma. But the pact faces immense hurdles: tariff barriers, poor infrastructure, weak supply chains, and economies often largely reliant on natural resources rather than manufactured products.

embassy, said a silent prayer and spoke with Tanzanian three employees who were at the embassy when it was bombed. Clinton told embassy workers that the U.S. has not forgotten its pledge “to seek justice against those who would commit such atrocities.” The attacks in Tanzania and Kenya killed 224 people. Most of the dead were Twelve Kenyans. Americans died. One of the survivors, Douglas Sidialo, was blinded by the bombing in Kenya’s capital of Nairobi. “God the creator has delivered Fazul Abdullah Mohammed to his destiny the same way he delivered bin Laden to his destiny,” he said. “When you kill by the sword, bullets and bombs you die through a similar tragedy.” Sidialo, who said he once wanted to skin bin Laden alive, said Sunday he has “moved on” and now would have preferred to see Mohammed captured alive and asked to account for his decisions. “Any death is not a cause of celebration,” he said. Thousands were wounded when a pickup truck rigged as a bomb exploded outside the four-story U.S. Embassy building. Within minutes, another bomb

shattered the U.S. mission in Tanzania’s commercial capital, Dar es Salaam. “Killing terrorists only breeds more terrorists. We must find a lasting solution to this menace,” said Sidialo. Another Nairobi resident, Philip Nyakundi, said he welcomed the news. “Let these people be wiped out on the face of the earth, innocent kids were killed here ... in 1998 on August 7th. Let these people be wiped!” he said. Mohammed, a native of the Comoros Islands, had been on the run for more than a decade with a $5 million bounty on his head. He was thought to be hiding in Somalia, whose ineffective government has been unable to stop terror groups from operating. Mogadishu residents said Sunday they hoped Mohammed’s death would also bring peace after decades of conflict. “I am undoubtedly happy with his death because he was a killer, a plotter and a violence organizer,“ said Ali Abdi, 27, a trader. “The death of a bloodabsorber like Fazul will help peace and demoralize terrorism. As Somalis, we suffered a lot as the result of actions like his violent ones.” Somali civilians are regularly caught in the crossfire between militants and forces defend-

ing the U.N.-backed government. The top militant group, alShabab, also uses harsh punishments, such as executions, in a bid to coerce the public into submission. Somalia has been mired in violence since 1991, and al-Shabab militants are trying to topple the weak, U.N.backed government. Another resident, Abdirahman Ali Hassan, said al-Qaida “ruined our country and mutilated our people. Hassan said Mohammed “was going to extend our country’s violence and our deaths and his survival could cost the lives of many people.” Representatives of alShabab did not immediately confirm Mohammed’s death, but Somali Information Minister Abdulkareem Hassan Jama said DNA tests confirmed that Mohammed was killed. “His killing is removal of a problem, a person that was causing death and destruction to the people of Somalia, the region and the world,” he said. Mohammed was killed Tuesday at a security checkpoint in Somalia’s capital, Mogadishu, and Somali officials admit that they didn’t immediately realize who he was. The body was even buried before it was later exhumed. Mohammed’s death is

A picture taken from the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) website of their "Most Wanted Terrorists" shows Fazul Abdullah Mohammed. the third major blow against al-Qaida in the last six weeks. Navy SEALs killed bin Laden on May 2 at his home in Pakistan. Just a month later, Ilyas Kashmiri, an al-Qaida leader sought in the 2008 Mumbai siege and rumored to be a longshot choice to succeed bin Laden, was reportedly killed in a U.S. drone attack in Pakistan. The strike against Kashmiri was not the direct result of intelligence material seized from the bin Laden compound, U.S. and Pakistan officials say. If the account of the killing at the security checkpoint killing is confirmed, it would appear Mohammed’s death is also not the result of new intelligence.

Libya battles rage in western flashpoints: rebels By IMED LAMLOUM TRIPOLI - Fighting between Moamer Kadhafi’s forces and Libyan insurgents raged Sunday across swaths of western Libya, with casualties reported in Zawiyah where rebels launched an offensive after a two-month lull. Aside from in the port of Zawiyah, battles were also being fought in rebel-held Zintan in the Berber mountains southwest of Tripoli, in nearby Yafran, and at Dafnia near Misrata, Libya’s third city, rebel sources told AFP. Tribal fighters opposed to Kadhafi meanwhile clashed with his forces in the oasis city of Sabha, which until now had been

untouched by the unrest sweeping the north African nation since a popular uprising against his four-decade authoritarian rule erupted mid-February. The fresh wave of fighting comes as Turkey said it has offered Kadhafi guarantees to leave Libya and Russian envoy Mikhail Margelov said he would soon visit Tripoli to try to find a solution to the conflict. International Criminal Court (ICC) prosecutor Luis MorenoOcampo, in an interview published Sunday, said meanwhile he hoped that Kadhafi “will be arrested” by his people in the coming weeks on crimes against humanity charges. The fighting in Zawiyah,

which follows more than two months of relative calm in the city of 250,000 people, began on Saturday, a source told AFP in the rebel capital Benghazi. “Fighting that started yesterday between battalions loyal to Kadhafi and rebels from Zawiyah is continuing and causing very many casualties,” the rebel source said, without elaborating. Loyalist forces blocked the road to the Tunisian border to “prevent the flow of refugees” from the town, located around 50 kilometres (31 miles) west of Tripoli, he added. Kadhafi’s forces wrested control of Zawiyah from the rebels after fierce fighting in February and March.

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Sudan leaders to meet on border conflict KHARTOUM The presidents of north and south Sudan are to meet in Addis Ababa from Sunday to discuss the crises in the border regions of Abyei and South Kordofan, the African Union said in a statement Saturday. Sudan President Omar al-Bashir and South Sudan President Salva Kiir will meet with former South African president Thabo Mbeki, who heads an AU team trying to resolve outstanding issues between north and south ahead of southern independence on July 9. Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi of Ethiopia will also participate in the two-day meeting, the statement added. “The summit will focus upon key issues facing Sudan at this historic juncture, just four weeks before the independence of South Sudan,” it said. “High on the agenda is the issue of Abyei, including the withdrawal of armed forces from the area and the dispatch of an African-led international mission to provide security, to provide conditions for the speedy return of displaced people and steps towards a final settlement of the status of the area,” it added. Representatives of the

Residents of Kadugli gather to collect water outside UNMIS sector HQ after fleeing fighting in Kadugli town in Sudan on June 10. The presidents of north and south Sudan are to meet in Addis Ababa from Sunday to discuss the crises in the border regions of Abyei and South Kordofan, the African Union said in a statement Saturday. Photo/Paul Banks Sudanese government rebel army have raged and leaders of the Sudan all week across South People’s Liberation Kordofan, the north’s Movement from the “two only oil producing state, areas” of Blue Nile and with intense fighting in Southern Kordofan will and around the state also meet Sunday and capital Kadugli. Monday, it said. A UN spokesman said “This high-level meet- on Saturday that the ing will focus on the ongoing clashes had political and security caused “a large displacechallenges of the two ment of civilians and an areas including the unverifiable number of immediate challenge of casualties.” an end to the armed conThis week’s violence flict that has recently has poisoned the atmoserupted in Southern phere of the north-south Kordofan State.” negotiations that have “Other items on the been taking place in agenda for the summit Ethiopia, according to a include the speedy estab- source close to the talks. lishment of mechanisms Earlier, the informafor joint security man- tion minister for southagement between north ern Sudan’s Unity state, and south, and the which neighbours South forthcoming round of Kordofan, said five civilnegotiations on post- ians were killed in SAF secession economic air strikes south of the arrangements,” it added. border two days ago. Heavy clashes “There was an between the Sudanese Antonov aerial bombardArmed Forces (SAF) and ment on Thursday northern members of morning... in a place the former southern called Payam Jau, in

Parieng county, on the Unity state side of the border,” Gideon Gatpan told AFP by phone. “Now it is confirmed that five people were killed and 11 wounded. They were aiming at the positions of the JIUs (northern elements of the southern army who have moved south). Instead they hit these civilians,” he said. Gatpan said the area had not seen Antonov air strikes for six or seven years. The UN peacekeeping mission in Sudan said on Saturday that a convoy trying to leave South Kordofan as part of a plan to relocate nonessential staff was stopped by SAF forces at a roadblock and ordered to return to the UNMIS compound in Kadugli. The South Kordofan conflict erupted less than three weeks after northern troops occupied the contested Abyei border region nearby, in response to an attack on a convoy of SAF troops and UN peacekeepers. The violence comes just a month before south Sudan is due to proclaim formal independence from the north. UN officials estimate more 100,000 people, mostly ethnically southern Dinka Ngok farmers, fled the northern army’s occupation of Abyei last month, while up to 40,000 people have been displaced by the fighting in Kadugli alone.

Egypt detains suspected Israeli spy: report CAIRO - Egypt has arrested an Israeli man on suspicion of spying and of trying to recruit Egyptian youths to act against the authorities after President Hosni Mubarak’s overthrow, sources and the state news agency said Sunday. Judge Hesham Badawi of the supreme state security prosecution ordered the man to be detained for 15 days on suspicion of “spying on Egypt with the aim

of harming its economic and political interests,” MENA news agency reported. A judiciary source said the man was arrested Sunday. Egypt, which in 1979 became the first Arab state to sign a peace treaty with Israel, has experienced months of political upheaval since protesters overthrew Mubarak, who regularly met Israeli officials and maintained close ties. The detention may add to tensions raised by a row over the halting of Egypt’s gas

exports to Israel after a pipeline blast and Cairo’s easing of restrictions at a Gaza border crossing that Mubarak had kept very tightly controlled. MENA said the man worked for Israel’s Mossad intelligence service. It named him using Arabic script, but it was difficult to transliterate it accurately in Latin script. Detention orders of 15 days are often renewed in Egypt if further questioning is deemed necessary. One judiciary source said the man had been

active in Cairo’s Tahrir Square, the epicentre of the revolt against Mubarak, after the former president stepped down. “He was there on a daily basis inciting youths toward sectarian strife. He was distributing money to some of them,” the source said, adding he had been encouraging some youths to clash with the army. He said youths reported the man’s actions. Officials at Egypt’s Foreign Ministry could not be reached for comment.

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f 3 die in Zimbabwe gas truck fire, official says HARARE, Zimbabwe - A Zimbabwean official says at least three people died after a gasoline truck overturned in the capital and burst into flames after people rushed to the vehicle to take the leaking gas. Fire department chief Savius Mugava told state radio on Sunday that the incident in southern Harare late Saturday left corpses burned beyond recognition. He says nine people were hospitalized and that more victims’ remains may still be found in the wreckage. State radio says a crowd that gathered at the scene in an impoverished suburb where gasoline shortages are common ignored pleas by the truck driver not to siphon spilling gas into containers.

Ex-militant leader, driver shot dead in Nigeria: police YENAGOA, Nigeria - Unknown gunmen on Saturday shot dead a former militant leader and his driver on the outskirts of Yenagoa, capital of Nigeria’s oil-rich Bayelsa State, the state police boss said.

A man on a motorbike travels past soldiers with his hands in the air in 2007 in Yenagoa, Bayelsa State. “I can confirm that Ebi Albert and his driver were shot dead today in their car by the gunmen who we think were trailing him from Port Harcourt,” Aliyu Musa told AFP on telephone. The oil city Port Harcourt is about 100 kilometres (60 miles) from Yenagoa. The policeman in their company in the car escaped with bullet wounds, he said. The motive for the killing is still unknown. “No arrests have been made yet. We are investigating the killing and why he was travelling in company of a policeman,” added Musa. Albert is believed to be among the first set of ex-militants who embraced the federal government’s unconditional amnesty deal in 2009 under which more than 20,000 former oil “rebels” gave up arms in exchange for money, training and reintegration. Militant activity in the region, which included kidnappings of mostly foreign oil workers and attacks on oil installations, lowered the country’s oil production from 2.6 million barrels a day to about one million at the peak of the unrest.

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Mighty Sparrow alights on Saturday’s Film Showcase NEW YORK — The “Calypso King of the World” will add to the star power assembled for the C a r i b b e a n Ta l e s New York Film Showcase this weekend. Legendary calypso musician, The Mighty Sparrow, will feature in a 30-minute question and answer session with distinguished Caribbean-American scholar and author Dr. Elizabeth Nunez who is also Trinidadian. Sparrow appeared this Saturday, June 11, at the Spike Lee Screening Room at Long Island University’s Brooklyn Campus.

He will follow the afternoon screening of Dreams,” “Calypso arguably the best film ever made about calypso and in which the Caribbean crooner stars. “We are especially honored to learn that such an iconic musician has agreed to be a part of our showcase along with an equally distinguished literary giant,” said Frances-Anne Solomon, founder and CEO of CaribbeanTales Worldwide Distribution (CTWD), producers of this weekend’s showcase. The afternoon session of the day-long Saturday showcase will be presented by CTWD in partnership with New-York based educa-

tional distributor Third World Newsreel. The joint afternoon program, which starts at 2:30 p.m., includes CTWD’s “Calypso Dreams” and TWN’s “The Other Side of The Water,” which follows a group of young immigrants who take an ancient music from the hills of Haiti and reinvent it on the streets of Brooklyn. Other highlights of the day include a Filmmakers’ Brunch at featuring a noon keynote address by Mark Walton, The Africa Channel’s executive vice president of sponsorship and corporate development. An evening “Rum and Fishcakes” gala reception precedes the

screening of the riveting documentary “Fire in Babylon”, the inspiring story of how a West Indies cricket side, one of the most gifted teams in sporting history, triumphed over its colonial masters. Other short films from up and coming CaribbeanAmerican filmmakers, including “Dominion” (Barbados) and “Jerk Chicken” (Jamaica), will be screened. CTWD, a member of the BIM Ventures family of entrepreneurs, has hosted two film festivals in Barbados, another in Canada, produced training workshops for filmmakers, and now has more than 60 films in its catalog. The New York Showcase is free to the

public, however, patrons must RSVP to

secure their spots.

Jamaican cabinet to discuss commission Trinidad DPP to determine criminal charges against former CL Financial executives of enquiry report By DOUGLAS MCINTOSH KINGSTON, Jamaica - The Jamaican Cabinet is slated to discuss the report of the Manatt Commission of Enquiry at its weekly meeting on Monday, June 13, Minister with responsibility for Information, Telecommunications and Special Projects, Daryl Vaz, has announced. Speaking on Wednesday at the postCabinet media briefing, Vaz said the report will,

thereafter, be tabled in Parliament the following day, June 14, “at which point it will become a public document.” The Enquiry was held over a three-month period, between January and April, to examine the events pertaining to the extradition of Christopher ‘Dudus’ Coke to the United States in 2010. Attorney-at-law and Queen’s Counsel, Emil George, chaired the three-man Commission, which included fellow jurist, Donald

Scharschmidt, and former Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Labour, Anthony Irons. The Enquiry was initially scheduled to end on February 28, but was twice extended by Governor-General Sir Patrick Allen, at the request of the Commissioners, who were directed to submit their final report by May 16. They, however, requested a further extension, and were given until June 6 to present the report to the Governor-General.

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad — The Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) Roger Gaspard has been asked by Trinidad and Tobago Attorney General Anand Ramlogan to determine if criminal charges should be laid against former CL Financial executives Lawrence Duprey and Andre Monteil. Ramlogan

Wednesday directed that all files relating to the probe into the collapse of insurance giant CLICO be forwarded to the DPP. Ramlogan’s action follows the civil lawsuit filed Tuesday by the Central Bank and CLICO against Duprey and Monteil for alleged mismanagement and misappropriation of CLICO assets, which led to the fall of CLICO in January 2009. In an interview with the Trinidad Express, Ramlogan vowed that government will leave

no stone unturned to ensure justice for thousands of CLICO policyholders who were affected by the collapse of the company. “I have directed that all information acquired as a result of the probe conducted for these civil cases be shared with the DPP in the hope that it may be of some assistance. The government has no control for criminal prosecution, that is a matter for the DPP based on evidence unearthed by proper police investigations,” Ramlogan said.

Convi ctions c risis in The Bahamas By KRYSTEL ROLLE NASSAU, Bahamas — While The Bahamas continued to suffer from a high rate of crime in 2010, only a small number of criminals were convicted for serious offences, newly released prison statistics show. Only 32 percent of the 2,374 people admitted to prison last year were sentenced inmates. And the vast majority of

those inmates who were sentenced were convicted of petty crimes. Of the 749 people who were sentenced in 2010, 72 percent of them were sentenced to serve a year or less in prison, according to Her Majesty’s Prison (HMP) 2010 Report, which was tabled in the House of Assembly on Wednesday by National Security Minister Tommy Turnquest. Just 12 percent or 93 inmates were sentenced to more than two years. Only 13 people (less than two percent of the people

admitted to prison last year) were sentenced to 10 years or more in prison. In 2010, only two people were sentenced for murder. Only four were sentenced for rape. The country continues to experience a high rate of murder. Ninety-four were recorded last year and already 57 have been recorded this year. Last year, 104 people were remanded for murder. In 2010, 30 people were sentenced for crimes against the person and 433 were remanded.

The report shows that six people were sentenced for armed robbery; one was sentenced for attempted murder; five were sentenced for manslaughter; six were sentenced for other sexual offenses; three were sentenced for robbery; and another three were sentenced for unlawful sexual intercourse. Three hundred and thirtythree people were sentenced for crimes against the property. The majority of them were sentenced for stealing. As it relates to other major offences, 168 people were sen-

tenced for drug crimes and 123 people were sentenced for possession of ammunition and/or possession of unlicensed firearms. For those crimes, 693 people were placed on remand. In 2010, inmates on remand continued to represent the vast majority of the prison population. Statistics show that 1,625 of the 2,374 people admitted to Her Majesty’s Prison in 2010 were remanded. The number of people admitted in 2010 represents a three percent decrease over 2009.

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Thousands rally for reform in Bahrain By ERIKA SOLOMON MANAMA Thousands of Bahrainis shouting “we are victorious” gathered for a rally for political reform on Saturday, in the first large demonprotesters flee after riot stration since the Anti-government police fire rounds of tear gas to disperse them Gulf Arab state in the mainly Shi'ite village of Diraz, west of crushed a democra- Manama. Photo/Hamad I Mohammed cy protest movement in March. together, Shi’ite and of fear. It’s a good sign

Bahrain brought in troops from Saudi Arabia and United Arab Emirates in March and introduced martial law, which ended last week, to stop the protests against the Sunni AlKhalifa family that rules over a Shi’ite majority population. The government said the protests had a sectarian agenda and help from Shi’ite power Iran, just across the Gulf waters. The opposition denies this. “Some try to manipulate our demands, to make them Shi’ite demands. This is not true. We are not calling for an Iran, but to build up our political reforms

Sunni, which will benefit all Bahrainis,” said Sheikh Ali Salman, head of the Wefaq opposition group which organized the event. “We will continue peacefully and we will continue our peaceful demonstrations,” he said, as the crowd roared back: “Peaceful, peaceful!” The rally will likely be seen as a show of strength by Wefaq, Bahrain’s leading Shi’ite opposition group, as it heads to a national dialogue called by the king for next month. “Wefaq wants to encourage people to get back out after months

,” said protester Fatima. The government said it granted permission for the rally, held in a large square in the Shi’ite district of Saar, west of the capital and away from central Pearl Roundabout, epicenter of the earlier protests inspired by uprisings in Tunisia and Egypt. Protesters waving Bahraini flags spilled out into the streets and dozens watched from nearby rooftops. People drove in from around the city, causing traffic jams of more than 2 km long. State helicopters buzzed over crowds raising signs that read “The nation is for everyone.”

Syrian forces attack northern town, residents flee By KHALED YACOUB OWEIS AMMAN - Syrian tanks and helicopters stormed the town of Jisr al-Shughour on Sunday, residents said, and state television reported heavy clashes between army troops and gunmen opposed to President Bashar alAssad. More than 5,000 Syrian refugees have crossed the border and a UNHCR spokesman said the Red Crescent was preparing a fourth camp with room for 2,500 more. Witnesses said some 10,000 Syrians were sheltering near the border. The assault on Jisr al-Shughour, astride a strategic road in northwest Syria, is the latest action by the armed forces to crush

demands for political freedom and an end to oppression that pose an unprecedented challenge to Assad’s 11year rule. Residents said earlier that most of the town’s 50,000 people had fled toward the Turkish border about 20 kms away and tanks and helicopters were shelling and machinegunning the town. Damascus has banned most foreign correspondents from the country, making it difficult to verify accounts of events. “Heavy confrontations are raging between army units and members of armed organizations taking up positions in the surroundings of Jisr alShughour and inside it,” state television said. Army units defused bombs and explosive

charges planted by gunmen on bridges and roads into the town, it said. “Two members of the armed organizations were killed, large numbers of them arrested, and lethal weapons in their possession were seized.” State television said the forces uncovered mass graves of security men killed and buried by armed groups in Jisr al-Shughour and said their bodies bore marks of “atrocities.” It did not give details. The government said last week that “armed gangs” had killed more than 120 security personnel in the town after large demonstrations there. Refugees and rights groups said the dead were mutinous soldiers, shot for refusing to fire on civilians.

Opposition figures more than 10,000 people attended the rally. The Interior Ministry said 4,000 people were gathered. NATIONAL DIALOGUE Barbed wire and armored vehicles guard Pearl Roundabout in Manama, where protesters camped out for about six weeks, to prevent it from becoming a focal point for protests again. But protesters in Saar described a new sense of optimism. “I think the crowd speaks for itself,” said Fadel, carrying his small son, wrapped in a Bahraini flag. “Hopefully, this will be the next Pearl Roundabout.” King Hamad bin Isa has offered a new dialogue with opposition groups starting in July. Wefaq said it would organize more rallies until then, and may plan a march for next week. “The dialogue should offer real political solutions, it should not be cosmetic talk. We are serious about this dialogue,” Salman said in his 30-minute speech.

“They say the Shi’ites want a special government for themselves. No, we want a civilian state and an elected government for all... This is what we demanded in Pearl Roundabout and it is what we will again call for here.” Wefaq organizers quietened those in the crowd who tried to chant “Down with the government,” frustrating some protesters. “I think the people want the fall of this regime. After the repression and the killings, how can we go back?” said protester Amal, swathed in a black veil. The government appointed its parliament speaker on Saturday to lead the national dialogue, the state news agency said, but the opposition said Crown Prince Salman — seen as leader of a moderate wing of the ruling family — should head the talks. Khalifa al-Dhahrani, speaker of the Council of Representatives, said he hoped to bring “all parties concerned with matters of the state” into the dialogue.

Wefaq’s Khalil alMarzooq said Dhahrani was opposed to many of the opposition’s core demands. “He has previously objected to discussing reforms over elections, constitutional amendments and the issue of discrimination,” he said. “Genuine dialogue must be with the prince or the king because we need to discuss the central issues which are between the people and the ruling family.” Bahrain’s cabinet is dominated by the ruling family and the king also appoints all members of an upper assembly, minimizing the powers of the elected parliament. At the rally, Shi’ites said they broke a barrier of fear after over two months of military rule, when hundreds were detained or dismissed from their jobs and dozens were put on trial on charges from incitement to trying to overthrow the system. “This needed to happen. The government thought they could suppress everything with the state of emergency. It seems they did not,” one protester said.

Count in Turkey’s election points to Erdogan victory By SEDA SEZER & DAREN BUTLER ISTANBUL - Initial results showed Turkey’s ruling AK Party was on course for a solid victory in Sunday’s parliamentary election to give Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan a third term, news channels said. With 50 percent of the votes counted, Erdogan’s AK had 53 percent and was set to win four more years of single-party rule in the nation that straddles Europe, the Middle East and Asia.

The party needs 330 seats to have the power to call a referendum on a promised new constitution. Television projected the party would win 331 seats this time, but the count was fluctuating. The count showed the opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) CHP holding 23.6 percent of the vote, and the third largest party, the farright Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) with 13 percent, broadcaster Haberturk said. A Muslim democracy and candidate for the European Union, Turkey has become an

economic powerhouse and influential player on the global stage since Erdogan’s AK Party swept to power in 2002. In the 2007 election the AK, a socially conservative party, took 46.5 percent of the vote, and currently holds 331 seats. There were no significant reports of trouble, even in the restive Kurdish region. Casting his vote at a primary school being used as a polling station on the Asian side of the Bosphorus straits in Istanbul, Erdogan said the election was the time for the people to speak.

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Can Beyonce still please all of her fans with new album?

For the conclusions of these stories check out the June 2nd - June 8th, 2011 issue of The New American, which hits newsstands every Thursday British singer Leona Lewis has taken aim at critics of her personality, insisting she “couldn’t care less” if they think she’s dull. The star shot to fame as a and retiring shy wannabe on Simon Cowell’s British show The X Factor in 2006, and went on to superstardom in the U.K. and the U.S. after winning the competition. However, Lewis is angry music fans presume she’s boring just because she’s not as outlandish as the likes of Lady Gaga, and she’s adamant her strengths lie in good quality songs. She says, “I don’t care what anyone says. I’m not boring. Unless you know me, I don’t really care about your opinions. I couldn’t care less. Lady Gaga does her crazy thing and she is great. I definitely have something different to offer. I’m all about the music and songs.”

passed we lost so much. It was just like, ‘Who else...?’ ‘How can I show him that all of his work was not in vain? The song hurts me (because) there’s so much genuine pain.”

Cee Lo Green has confirmed speculation Gnarls Barkley’s fan favorite tune Who’s Gonna Save My Soul is all about the passing of James Brown. The Crazy singer made the big reveal during a recent taping of VH1 show Storytellers, explaining the song is supposed to empower anyone grieving the loss of a loved one - and he wrote it as he was dealing with the 2006 death of the Godfather of Soul. He says, “The song is actually about the passing of James Brown... It has to do with everyone; heartbreak, loss, regret, helplessness, hopelessness, and I felt all of the above when we lost James Brown - because he embodied everything. “James Brown is my father... I got what I needed from him - I got guidance, I got style... integrity, I got consistency... He taught me how to dance too. When he

New dad Nick Cannon struggles to fit all his projects in to his busy schedule, surviving on just four hours of broken sleep every day. The star and his wife Mariah Carey welcomed twins last month, but Cannon has refused to cut back his working commitments, still broadcasting his New York radio show and hosting reality series America’s Got Talent, which premiered its sixth season in the U.S. on Tuesday night. But Cannon pays a hefty price for his busy schedule as he can only fit in just a few hours of sleep around work and his duties as a dad.

In a recent interview, Lauren London revealed that Lil Wayne almost wifed her. She also explained that she and Wayne were not some one-night stand. Lauren London: “I met Dwayne when I was 15 years old. I’ve known him a very long time, and we were in a relationship that didn’t make it. We tried more than once to revive it, and we were engaged briefly years ago, but we eventually parted ways. People see the “Lil’ Wayne” persona and think they know who he really is. My son’s father is an intelligent, loving and lovable person who will always be a dear friend. That is all.”

Rihanna stopped by The Today Show to talk about her hair, pre-performance rituals, and what she would’ve become if she wasn’t an entertainer. Not sure of the exact name of the color of her hair, she said it’s a mixture of

different reds. She said, “ It’s like copper-ish, red-ish.” If she wasn’t an entertainer, Rihanna said she would’ve studied psychology. “Something I was also interested in. I really enjoy observing, reading, and analyzing situations for what they really are,” she said. Before hitting up the stage, Rihanna warms up, drinks tea, prays and then gets dressed as a ritual. Lastly, she would love to collaborate with Depeche Mode because she really likes them. Queensbridge, New York rap star Nas has announced the title of his new upcoming solo album. The rapper took to Twitter early this morning (May 28th), to reveal the name of the album, which is titled Life is Good. In published reports, the 37year-old rapper said Life is Good will feature production from a variety of new producers, as well as veteran Salaam Remi and other notable producers. Nas’ last official studio album was 2008’s Untitled release. Cadbury recently released advertisements for their Bliss chocolate bars, a “dreamy chocolate truffle.” On one of the ads, the British confectionary company included the tagline ‘Move over Naomi, there’s a new diva in town.” Upon seeing this, Naomi Campbell, 41 year old supermodel, was not pleased. The way Campbell sees it, Cadbury is placing her in the same league as chocolate. In a statement sent to CNN, Campbell complains that the ad is “insulting and hurtful.” This kind of reaction isn’t surprising, as Campbell is known for her, well, diva-like antics. She’s been accused several times for violence and abuse against

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ly falling in love with the single, there are others who are less inclined to simply accept anything that the queen gives us. Myself included. I have to be honest, the song sucks. Big time. I am a Beyonce fan. Not her biggest fan. But I dig much of her music. I also am a part of the generation that grew up with Beyonce. I remember the first time I saw the video for Destiny’s Child’s single “No No No”. I remember when they blew up into super stardom. I was there to see the ugly break up of the group and all of the nasty rumors about Beyonce. I was also there when “Crazy In Love” blew and made her an official super star; out shining her time in Destiny’s Child. I was also there to see her grow and mature with the content of her music. Sure she has her make your booty roll ladies singles but she also has singles that touch women on a deeper level. Deep as one can get from a Beyonce single. For instance touching on women giving too much in love and never being reciprocated from the man that they love.

The Queen is back. Well, the queen to some. I am referring to Beyonce Knowles. While it can be argued that she is a queen to some and a toad to others, there is no doubt that the chick is bad. Bad meaning good. So bad that every time she drops an album or a single, we expect for it to be hotter than chicken grease on a June morning. For her not to deliver said hotness would be an atrocity to some. So after months of blogs hyping us up with news of her being in the studio working with hot producers, and finally a release date for a single, we expect that s**t to be hot. Some expect it to be life changing. Yes, there are some people who really feel this strongly towards Beyonce. Unfortunately for her, the first single to be released from Beyonce titled “Girls Who Run The World” has been receiving mixed reviews. Some of them luke warm. While many of her devoted drones, who would cherish a Beyonce turd straight from her rectum, are quick- Full Story In This Week’s New American Newspaper -

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Deaths no higher in coffee lovers with heart disease By AMY NORTON Women with heart disease who down a few cups of coffee each day tend to live as long as those who avoid the beverage, a large study finds. The results, reported in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, add to a mixed bag of research on whether caffeinated coffee is a hazard for people at high risk of heart problems. In theory, coffee could be problematic because it has caffeine and other compounds that can raise blood pressure or have other negative effects on the cardiovascular system. But some studies have found that coffee drinkers have no increased risk of a second heart attack or premature death. A few others have even hinted at protective effects from coffee. In the new study, which followed nearly 12,000 U.S. nurses with a history of heart disease or stroke, those who regularly drank caffeinated coffee were no more likely to die than non-coffee-drinkers during the study period -

which for some was more than 20 years. Researchers found no link between a woman’s coffee intake and her risk of death from heart attack, stroke or any other cause. And that was true even of women who downed four or more cups per day. “Our results suggest that coffee drinking is OK for patients with cardiovascular disease, but it would be desirable to replicate our results in other populations,” lead researcher Dr. Esther LopezGarcia, of Universidad Autonoma de Madrid in Spain, told Reuters Health in an email. One problem with generalizing the current results, she explained, is that all the women in the study were nurses — so they might not be representative of women with heart disease in general. Nor can the study discount coffee as a possible cause of cardiovascular problems, at least in some people. “What this study shows is that, in a general population, there’s no obvious harm, or benefit, to consuming coffee after a heart attack,” said

Ahmed El-Sohemy, an associate professor at the University of Toronto who has studied coffee intake and heart health. The problem is that certain individuals may benefit from some caffeine, while others may be harmed, according to El-Sohemy, who was not involved in the new study. Recent studies have pointed to the importance of genetics, El-Sohemy told Reuters Health in an email. Some research, for example, has linked coffee drinking to increased risks of high blood pressure in people who are naturally “slow metabolizes” of caffeine. But the

reverse pattern has been seen in people who quickly process caffeine: more coffee, lower heart risks. “What this study doesn’t tell us is who might coffee be harmful to, and who might benefit from it,” El-Sohemy said. The findings come from the long-running Nurses’ Health Study, which began tracking more than 100,000 female nurses in 1976. The researchers focused on 11,697 women who developed heart disease or had a stroke sometime between 1976 and 2002. Of those women, 62 percent continued to drink caffeinated coffee after their diagnosis. Overall, 1,159 women had died by 2004. That risk was no greater among coffee drinkers than non-drinkers, including women who drank at least four cups of java per day. One possibility is that women in relatively worse health would choose to avoid caffeinated coffee, the study authors note. But they found no evidence that changes in women’s coffee intake after

U.S. adds formaldehyde to list of carcinogens WASHINGTON — The government on Friday added formaldehyde, a substance found in plastics and other commonly used products, to a list of known carcinogens and warned that the chemical styrene might cause cancer. In a report prepared for the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), scientists warned that people with higher exposure to formaldehyde were more at risk for nasopharyngeal cancer, myeloid leukemia and other cancers. “There is now sufficient evidence from studies in humans to show that individuals with higher measures of exposure to formaldehyde are at increased risk for certain types of rare cancers ...,” the Report on Carcinogens said. Formaldehyde is a colorless, flammable, strongsmelling chemical widely used to make resins for household items, such as composite wood products, paper product coatings, plastics, synthetic fibers, and textile finishes. It is also commonly used as a preservative in medical laboratories, mortuaries, and

some consumer products, including hair straightening products. The report, produced by the National Toxicology Program (NTP), also added styrene to the list of substances that were reasonably anticipated to be human carcinogens. Styrene is a synthetic chemical used in the manufacture of products such as rubber, plastic, insulation, fiberglass, pipes, automobile parts, food containers, and carpet backing. The greatest exposure to

styrene in the general population is through cigarette smoking, the report said. The American Chemistry Council (ACC), an industry group, lashed out at the report, saying it was concerned that politics may have hijacked the scientific process. “Today’s report by HHS made unfounded classifications of both formaldehyde and styrene and will unnecessarily alarm consumers,” Cal Dooley, president and CEO of the ACC, said in a statement.

Jennifer Sass of the National Resources Defense Council, a U.S. environmental group, praised the government for publishing the report in the face of what she described as pressure by chemical companies to prevent its release. “The chemical industry fought the truth, the science, and the public — but, in the end our government experts came through for us, giving the public accurate information about the health risks from chemicals that are commonly found in our homes,

their heart complication or stroke explained the findings. They also accounted for factors like age, weight, high blood pressure and diabetes, and still found no association between coffee consumption and risk of death. The findings, Lopez-Garcia said, “support the idea” that people with heart disease who already drink coffee do not have to give it up. But she also advised checking with your doctor, particularly if you have uncontrolled high blood pressure or other conditions that could be aggravated by caffeine — like sleep problems or anxiety. El-Sohemy was even more cautious. It is hard to make individual recommendations on safe coffee intake, according to the researcher, because of genetic variations in people’s caffeine metabolism. “I don’t see how any results can be interpreted from studies that don’t take this genetic difference into account,” El-Sohemy said. Tests for genetic variations in the enzyme that processes caffeine are not routinely available, he noted. schools, and workplaces,” Sass wrote in a blog. The report also listed aristolochic acids, found in some plants, as a known carcinogen and added the fungicide captafol, some inhalable glass wool fibers, cobalttungsten carbide, riddelliine and o-Nitrotoluene to the list of substances reasonably anticipated to be carcinogens. It, however, said listing the substances did not in itself mean they would cause cancer. Amount and duration of exposure, and susceptibility to a substance were among the many factors that affected whether a person developed cancer, it said.

Swine flu starting to show resistance to drugs LONDON — A novel variant of swine flu has emerged in Asia with a genetic adaptation giving some resistance to Roche’s Tamiflu and GlaxoSmithKline’s Relenza, the two mainstay drugs used to tackle the disease. Researchers said more than 30 percent of H1N1 swine flu infection samples from northern Australia, and more than 10 percent of those in Singapore, collected

during the early months of 2011 had mildly reduced sensitivity to the two drugs. There was no significant reduction in sensitivity to peramivir, an experimental flu drug from BioCryst Pharmaceuticals. The new variant has also been detected in other parts of Asia-Pacific, according to a report by the World Health Organization (WHO) Collaborating Center for Reference and Research on

Influenza in Melbourne, published in the journal Eurosurveillance (http://bit.ly/m5hgKv). Although this genetic mutation has seen before in a small number of seasonal flu and H5N1 bird flu cases, it has not previously been reported in H1N1 swine flu. H1N1 flu was discovered in Mexico and the United States in March 2009 and spread rapidly across the world. The WHO believes

about 18,450 people died from the virus up to August 2010, including many pregnant women and young people. The WHO declared the pandemic over in August. Swine flu has not gone away, however, and seasonal flu vaccines being offered across the world include for the H1N1 strain. Flu vaccines are made by several drugmakers including GlaxoSmithKline, Sanofi and Novartis.

NEW JERSEY

DAILY CHALLENGE MONDAY, JUNE 13, 2011

Foundation that sends Newark-area students to top Mom in custody after infant left on Weehawken High steps schools looks to expand to other cities By JEAN-PIERRE MESTANZA

By EUNICE LEE NEWARK - For years, he’s been quietly sending hundreds of students from Newark and surrounding towns to prestigious boarding high schools. They are teens like Kathleen Da Silva, who grew up in Newark. In the fall, Da Silva will be attending Harvard on a full scholarship. And that makes Russell Wight Jr. smile. The goal is more than just getting students into top colleges. For Wight, it’s personal satisfaction, an estimated $25 million worth. “I beam - I get excited,” he said, while sitting in the Wight Foundation’s 17th-floor office in downtown Newark. “It’s very hard to describe the thrill, the satisfaction you get from this.” Wight and his namesake nonprofit organization have operated in obscurity for 25 years. Now, the philanthropist and former New Jerseyan has emerged from behind the scenes because he wants to expand his foundation to other cities. He’s seeking other benefactors. The foundation selects seventh-graders and spends nearly

a year preparing them for the rigors of boarding school. A former real estate tycoon, Wight, 71, is still a businessman at heart and speaks of philanthropy in investment terms. “For the amount of money we spend, the return we get is unbelievable,” he said. “We change lives.” A TICKET UP For Da Silva, her ticket to Harvard came after four years of grueling academics. On her first day of class at boarding school, teachers dived into lessons and piled on homework. While lugging heavy textbooks around, Da Silva remembers thinking, “Wow, I hope it’s not like this every day.” She arrived at boarding school in Concord, Mass., with just two suitcases and a “ton” of stuffed animals. While home on breaks, her friends said she spoke differently and seemed more mature. “You feel like you’re in two different worlds,” said the dimpled 17-year-old who graduated from Middlesex School last month. da-silva.JPGAristide Economopoulos/The Star-

LedgerKathleen Da Silva, who grew up in Newark, will be attending Harvard this fall after graduating from the Middlesex School in Concord, Mass. Scores of Wight Foundation scholars have gone to Ivy League and other top-tier universities. Success in boarding school helps them snag college scholarships. Now Da Silva and her stuffed animals will be going to Harvard. HUMBLE FOUNDATIONS Born in Philadelphia, Wight moved to New Jersey in his late 20s to start Interstate Properties with a partner in 1968. He made his millions as a shopping center developer with the Clifton company, which started with two men and a secretary and grew to 150 workers. He now splits his time between Aspen, Colo., and Boca Raton, Fla., with his wife, Melissa, and their two children. He also has two children from a previous marriage. Wight started the foundation after being moved by a documentary on Newark he saw in 1985. The film highlighted problems like high school dropouts and teen pregnancy.

A baby girl, estimated to be 2 to 3 months old, was abandoned on the steps of Weehawken High School yesterday, and her mother was picked up by police a short time later, authorities said. The Weehawken woman, 37, who has not been identified by police, admitted that the baby was hers after being questioned, Weehawken Public Safety Director Jeff Welz said, adding that police said she appears to have emotional issues. She has not been charged with any crime. “By putting the baby on the school steps on a school day, it appears to me that she wanted the baby found,” Welz said. The baby was wrapped in a light blanket and wearing only a diaper when she was found by a parent at the Liberty Place school, Weehawken Superintendent Kevin J. McLellan said. The baby appeared to be fine except for a bruise on her head, Welz said, adding that doctors at Palisades Medical Center indicated that the bruise may have stemmed from some type of abuse. The Hudson County Prosecutor’s Office Special Victims Unit is investigating and a determination about possible charges against the mother will be made once further medical evaluations are done, Welz said. A security guard at the school, Elba Feliciano, said the parent of a student discovered the baby on the steps right after walking out of the school. “She came back a minute later with the baby and asked me what she should do,” said Feliciano, who took the baby and walked over to the nurse.

Jerse y City pr ost itute st ill missing af ter 13 mont hs of sear ching By AMY BRITTAIN JERSEY CITY The last time anyone saw or heard Shannan Gilbert, she was fleeing for her life along the shadowy roads of Oak Beach, a small gated beachfront community on Long Island. She pounded on doors, residents say, and shouted for help. In a 23-minute call to 911 she told the operator: “They’re trying to kill me,” according to her sister, who says she has been briefed on the call. Then, sometime just before dawn on May 1, 2010, the Jersey City prostitute, then 23, with a shy smile, large, dark eyes and tumultuous background, was gone. Police have searched for her off and on the past 13 months, combing the area as recently as Tuesday. They may

not have found Gilbert, who was driven to Oak Beach to keep a date for sex the night she vanished, but they have made other grisly discoveries. Skeletal remains of four female prostitutes were unearthed about five miles from Oak Beach in December, setting off speculation a serial killer has turned the Ocean Parkway beach terrain into a dumping ground. As baffling as the disappearance has been for police and others, new details are emerging. Using a map provided by a resident working with local police, The Star-Ledger has traced the frantic path Gilbert took as she ran though Oak Beach, going to the houses where lights were still on, skipping the dark ones. In a long interview with the paper, Gilbert’s boyfriend tells of a stormy relationship marked by her drug use, abortions and

a fight in which he admits breaking her jaw. He believes he is being watched by police, even wiretapped. And in the latest surprise, the Oak Beach man who hired her that night says - for the first time - why Gilbert made a hasty exit from his place and why they never had sex: He thought she might be a man. Though he denies any role in the disappearance, he says he understands people might have looked at him with suspicion in the days afterward. Meanwhile, the man who drove Gilbert to her encounter, in an interview by text message Friday, revealed for the first time that his voice can be heard on her 911 call. He says he has been cleared by a police lie detector test. Whether it’s the sheer mystery or the horrifying details of Gilbert’s last known moments, her case has galvanized public interest. Online sleuthing

forums and a highpowered Los Angeles attorney, working with a human trafficking expert and team of investigators, all have dedicated themselves to solving this case. Behind the gates of Oak Beach, theories run wild. Eyes are sharpened and everyone’s got a suspect in this place, which has turned into a sort of real-life Clue game. Some agree to talk, but they say they won’t name any neighbors who might have seen or heard something that night. “I’ll help you anyway I can,” says Gus Coletti, a 76-year-old pigeon fancier who said he saw Gilbert that night. “Just don’t ask me to give up one of my neighbors.” LAST SEEN RUNNING The two-level wooden home at 8 The Fairway, a narrow, paved street in Oak Beach, is where Gilbert started her night. The home lies

near the front of the neighborhood, away from the Atlantic. “Yes, she was in a house I own, there is no doubt about that,” said Joseph Brewer, a 46year-old West Islip native. Brewer recruited Gilbert to his home that early morning, through the internet, for a sexual encounter that never happened, he said. “At first, it probably appeared I had something to do with it,” said Brewer, who used to work in the finance industry and is the father of a young girl. Brewer told The Star-Ledger last week that he questioned her gender that night. Those close to Gilbert say that’s an outrageous suggestion, since she is wholly woman. But Brewer said Gilbert asked him if he had ever hired an online escort for sex. Then, he said she asked, “Have you come across any transvestites?” He was turned

off, he said, and started to wonder if she was man or at least part man. “I wanted her out,” he said. Gilbert became upset, since “she saw things weren’t going as she had hoped,” and acted in an “erratic” way, Brewer said. He said her driver, Michael Pak, was waiting in an SUV outside and got her into the car to take her home, he thought. But Gilbert took off on foot down The Fairway, about an hour before dawn, according to neighbors’ accounts. In the dark of the night, she was running toward the gate. Along The Fairway, she would have passed the wheat-colored reeds, about 8 feet high, rustling and blowing in the cool night breeze. It could be a soothing sound, but here, in a community marked by dark shadows, it’s not. The constant hissing makes the imagination run wild.

DAILY CHALLENGE MONDAY, JUNE 13, 2011

Kelly Rihanna makes Forbes’ best-paid Rowland celebrities under 30 list finally sets album release date Controversies or not, Rihanna is laughing her way to the bank. Even though she failed to make Forbes’ top 100 earning celebrities list, the Barbadian beauty still managed to make their top earners under 30 roster. According to Forbes, the “Man Down” hitmaker ranked 10th place on the list after logging $29 million between May 2010 and May 2011 thanks to a tour, great album sales and endorsements with brands like Fuze Drinks and Venus Razors. Rihanna may continue this feat going into 2012 as she recently kicked off her LOUD world tour this past weekend. She also mentioned on Twitter recently that she

plans on repackaging LOUD for a re-release or drop a new album in the near future. Rihanna Mentioned in Race Driven Lawsuit A racism driven lawsuit filed by tax lawyer and former Gucci employee has mentioned pop starlet Rihanna in the proceedings. According to court documents, attorney Josephine Robinson claims she was instructed to withhold 30 percent of the “Man Down” hitmaker’s fee related to her Gucci Tattoo Heard ad campaign. “When [international tax counsel Stan] Sherwood discovered Rihanna was from a Caribbean island [Barbados], he told Robinson to ‘tax the hell out of her’ and find a

way to allow Gucci to withhold 30 percent of her fee,” according to details of the lawsuit obtained by the New York Post. This was just another incident that lead Robinson to complain about racist remarks in the workplace. For speaking up she was allegedly fired and now she is seeking $5 million in damages. Robinson’s lawyer argues that she was subjected to “an unrelenting barrage of racist comments and jokes at her expense by Sherwood and others at Gucci.” He added: “It is shocking that top level officials of a company as esteemed as Gucci would behave in such an inappropriate manner.”

Contrary to Robinson’s stance, a Gucci spokeswoman said: “Ms Robinson’s allegations are completely baseless, and the company will defend itself vigorously against this meritless litigation. “The company is confident that it will prevail.”

Mariah Carey opens up about motherhood By ALETA WATSON Kelly Rowland’s No. 1 single has lead to an album release date for her highly anticipated third solo studio album. After several delays, ‘Here I Am,’ will hit stores on July 26, confirmed by Rap-up.com. The set is lead by the smash single “Motivation” featuring Lil Wayne and is Rowland’s biggest solo single to date. The track, recently remix with Busta Rhymes, Trey Songz and Fabolous currently sits atop the Billboard R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart. ‘Here I Am’ will feature contributions from Tricky Stewart, Dr. Luke, Stargate, Salaam Remi, Jim Jonsin, RedOne, Ester Dean, and Rico Love, who is executive producing the project. We may see more collaborations in the coming weeks as Rowland previously mentioned that she would like to get Nicki Minaj and Fergie on the project. In addition, she also revealed that she definitely plans to hit the road behind the new release telling Access Hollywood, “I can not wait to sing the records off this album! I dream of the performances of this record right now.”

Celebrity couple, Nick Cannon and Mariah Carey, have been doing a very good job of staying out of the public eye lately. In one of the first times since the birth of their twins, Monroe and Moroccan, Carey is opening up about her new life. The iconic singer admits to OK! Magazine that motherhood is no easy task, especially when you are the mother of twins. “I feel like, in a lot of ways, children come into the world to teach us,” she says. Meanwhile, first-time father, Cannon is said to be a natural when it comes to the children. Carey expresses,

“He already has this natural talent with children - they take to him right away. He’s so nurturing, loving and fun. He definitely will be a handson Dad.” In an effort to keep their twins from becoming jaded by their celebrity, the couple is determined to provide their children with a balanced lifestyle. Carey says, “It’s going to be a delicate balance between raising them around glitz and glamour and keeping them grounded.” What about those semicontroversial nude pregnancy photos Carey posed for shortly before the arrival of the twins? The songstress reveals that while the pictures made her look confident and in-charge with her

baby bump, she was slightly reluctant about the shoot. She tells the magazine, “I felt very vulnerable about taking the nude pregnancy pictures, but then I didn’t want to miss the opportunity to document a once-in-a-lifetime experience.” Carey went on to say, “My ultimate goal was to share that incredibly personal moment with my true fans.” It is expected that as the two settle in to their new roles as mother and father they will once again return to the public eye. For now however, they are said to be quite comfortable keeping their twins away from the frenzied media and paparazzi - and there’s nothing wrong with that.

Beyonce responds to album leak, appreciates positive response By COLA JANNETI R&B/Pop superstar Beyonce’s fourth studio album, “4,” sprung a leak, weeks before its scheduled release date on June 28th. The LP’s leak comes after two tracks from the set found their way onto the internet. Shortly following the appearance of “Party,” a collaboration with Andre 3000

and “Countdown,” which features a sample from Boyz II Men’s track “Uhh Ahh,” a full 12-track LP surfaced online and turned out to be a CD-quality leak of the entire record. Mrs. Knowles-Carter took to her Facebook page to issue a statement about the matter. “My music was leaked and while this is not how I wanted to present my new songs, I appreciate the positive

response from my fans,” says Beyonce. “When I record music I always think about my fans singing every note and dancing to every beat. I make music to make people happy and I appreciate that everyone has been so anxious to hear my new songs.” The 29-year-old performer will release a standard and deluxe version of ‘4’ June 27 in the UK and June 28 in the US.

The leak is a trend that we’re seeing happen too often. Perhaps she will use some of those 60+ tracks she recorded to form another version of ‘4’.

DAILY CHALLENGE MONDAY, JUNE 13, 2011

Tracy Morgan apologizes for anti-gay jokes Chris Brown LOS ANGELES — Comedian and “30 Rock” star Tracy Morgan on Friday apologized for making a series of anti-gay remarks, including a reported joke that he would stab his own son to death if he spoke in a “gay voice”. Morgan’s apology followed criticism of his standup act in Nashville last week, in which he was also quoted as having taken gays to task for “whining about something as insignificant as bullying.” “I want to apologize to my fans and the gay & lesbian community for my choice of words at my recent stand-up act in Nashville,” Morgan said in a statement. “I’m not a hateful person and don’t condone any kind of violence against others. While I am an equal opportunity jokester, and my friends know what is in my heart, even in a comedy club this clearly went too far and was

not funny in any context,” he added. Morgan’s remarks at the June 3 Nashville performance were reported by the gay campaign group Truth

Wins Out, and other members of the audience. Morgan, 42, who has three children, also claimed that being gay is a choice and something that kids

learn from the media, according to the reports. “Jokes that make light of violence directed at gay and lesbian youth aren’t only offensive, they put our kids in harm’s way,” said Jarrett Barrios, president of the gay and lesbian campaign group GLAAD. “Tracy Morgan must not only apologize, but assure us that this won’t happen again and send a clear message to Americans that anti-gay violence is no joke,” Barrios said on Friday. Nashville’s Ryman Auditorium issued a statement on Thursday saying that it “regrets that people were offended by statements made by Tracy Morgan during his June 3 appearance.” “The Ryman does not control the content presented by people appearing on its stage, nor does it endorse any of the views of, or statements made by, such persons,” the statement added.

Lupe on calling Obama ‘terrorist’: ‘I’ve got nothing to clarify’ Lupe Fiasco made headlines this week when he called President Barack Obama a terrorist during an appearance on CBS’ “What’s Trending.” “To me, the biggest terrorist is Obama in the United States of America,” he said. In a new interview with Billboard.com, the Chicago rapper says he meant exactly what he said. “I’ve got nothing to clarify. It’s Obama and the U.S. government,” Lupe said. “[It’s] every president that came before him and every president that comes after him. “It’s funky because everybody’s pulling soundbites from this one interview that we did, but they don’t talk about anything else from the interview,” he continued. “So it’s really about, ‘What do

people want to listen to?’ It’s not what I want to talk about, cause I want to talk about all types of s—t… there wasn’t the same reaction about me having a book club… about me trying to promote literacy in a country with 50 million functioning illiterates walking around, because we have a failed and flawed education system.” Elaborating on another point from the interview that’s raised ire — that he doesn’t vote in elections — Lupe said his reasoning is simple. “Voting doesn’t work, because everybody who voted, voted for the same people who are in office right now that are actually allowing these policies to go forward… You have to educate the populace — the masses, the voters, the people who don’t vote, the people

who pay taxes.” “You have educate the masses to exactly what their tax dollars are going to pay for,” Lupe continues. “I think once people educate themselves and open up their minds to understand that on that really basic level, then you’ll have some type of change in the way that Americans associate themselves and participate in their own political process.” Since his controversial interview, Lupe has spent much of the week brushing off criticism via Twitter. “The Morning Hate…Ready…Set….Go…,” he tweeted today (June 9), in addition to retweeting several negative comments. After posting one in particular that read, “If President Barack Obama is the “biggest terriost to America”

@lupefiasco is the “biggest terrorist to the hopes of Black people,” he wrote, “That is by far the best negative thing I’ve ever seen/heard someone say/write about me ever!!!”

Ice-T signs two-year deal to stay on ‘Law & Order: SVU’ Ice-T has announced that he will remain on NBC’s “Law & Order: SVU” through 2013, reports TV Guide. “I’ve just locked in my new SVU deal,” the rapperactor tweeted Friday. “So I’ll officially be back for the next 2 years at least. DONE.” The news comes in the

midst of a cast shakeup for the long-running procedural. Christopher Meloni left the show last month after contract negotiations fell through. His partner-incrime-solving, Mariska Hargitay, will return for the 13th season with a lighter workload. At midseason, her character will be promoted to a supervisor position, dur-

ing which a new female detective will take her place. Jennifer Love Hewitt, who earned raves for her guest spot as a rape victim on SVU last season, is being eyed to replace her. Addressing the casting rumors, Ice-T added, “At this moment no one else is locked as new members of the show.”

calls career a ‘blessing and a curse’

Chris Brown graces the cover of the new Source magazine, and discusses within its pages a number of issues – including his musical reemergence after the brutal beating of Rihanna that threatened to derail his career. And with his album, “F.A.M.E.,” debuting in the top spot on the Billboard Top 200 chart earlier this year, spawning three number one singles and netting him six BET Award nominations, it would seem that he’s back to at least semimainstream acceptance. “I don’t really think it’s a comeback album. I feel like it’s an album of triumph, like an underdog type of album,” Brown says in t cover story. “It’s more of me showing and proving everybody wrong. I don’t think I ever went anywhere. It’s not like I fell off the face of the earth.” Brown now seems to understand that his actions have consequences, and is looking to positively influence his fans. “What I like most about being Chris Brown is being able to influence the world with my music and smile, being able to inspire the world, fans singing your music, seeing people dressed like you but at the same time them wanting to be themselves, be individuals,” he tells the magazine. “I recognize my music touches people and everything I do negative or positive affects people all over the world. So that’s definitely a blessing and a curse.”

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IMF cyber attack aimed to steal insider information By JIM WOLF and WILLIAM MACLEAN WASHINGTON/LON DON — A major cyber attack on the IMF aimed to steal sensitive insider information, a cyber security expert said on Sunday, as the race to lead the body which oversees global financial system heated up. The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation is helping to investigate the attack on the International Monetary Fund, the latest in a rash of cyber break-ins that have targeted high-profile companies and institutions. “The IMF attack was clearly designed to infiltrate the IMF with the intention of gaining sensitive ‘insider privileged information’,” cyber security specialist Mohan Koo, who is also Managing Director, Dtex Systems (UK), told Reuters in London. A June 8 internal memo from Chief Information Officer Jonathan Palmer told staff the Fund had detected suspicious file transfers and that an investigation had shown a desktop com!

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puter “had been compromised and used to access some Fund systems.” “At this point, we have no reason to believe that any personal information was sought for fraud purposes,” it said. The New York Times cited computer experts as saying the IMF’s board of directors was told of the attack on Wednesday, though the assault had lasted several months. The IMF says its remains “fully functional” but has declined to comment on the extent of the attack or the nature of the intruders’ goal. News of the hack came at a sensitive time for the world lender of last resort, which is seeking to replace former managing director Dominique StraussKahn, who quit last month after being charged with the attempted rape of a hotel maid. French Finance Minister Christine Lagarde remains the frontrunner to replace him, although Stanley Fischer, the Bank of Israel Governor and a former IMF deputy chief, has emerged as a late candidate, and Mexico’s central bank chief, Agustin Carstens, is another contender. Jeff Moss, a selfdescribed computer hacker and member of the Department of Homeland Security

The IMF nameplate is displayed on a wall at the headquarters during the World Bank/International Monetary Fund Spring Meetings in Washington. Advisory Committee, said he believed the attack was conducted on behalf of a nationstate looking to either steal sensitive information about key IMF strategies or embarrass the organization to undermine its clout. He said it could inspire attacks on other large institutions. “If they can’t catch them, I’m afraid it might embolden others to try,” said Moss, who is chief security officer for ICANN. Tom Kellerman, a cybersecurity expert who has worked for both the IMF and the World Bank, said the intruders had aimed to install software that

would give a nation state a “digital insider presence” on the IMF network. That could yield a trove of non-public economic data used by the Fund to promote exchange rate stability, support balanced international trade and provide resources to remedy members’ balanceof-payments crises. “It was a targeted attack,” said Kellerman, who serves on the board of a group known as the International Cyber Security Protection Alliance. The code used in the IMF incident was developed specifically for the attack on the institution, said Kellerman,

formerly responsible for cyber-intelligence within the World Bank’s treasury team and now chief technology officer at AirPatrol, a cyber consultancy. Koo of Dtex Systems (UK) said the recent spate of attacks on large global organizations was worrying because they were targeted, well-organized and well-executed, not opportunistic. “Perhaps most frightening of all is the fact that these type of attacks could quite easily be directed toward Critical National Infrastructure (CNI) organizations, for example Energy and Water, where the impact of

such a breach would have severe, immediate and potentially lifethreatening consequences for everyday citizens.” Cyber security experts said it might be difficult for investigators to prove which nation was behind the attack. “Even developing nations are able to leverage the Internet in order to change their standing and ability to influence,” said Jeffrey Carr, author of the book, “Inside Cyber Warfare.” “It’s something they never could have done before without gold or without military might,” Carr said. CIA Director Leon Panetta told the U.S. Congress on June 9 that the United States faced the “real possibility” of a crippling cyber attack on power systems, the electricity grid, security, financial and governmental systems. Lockheed Martin Corp, the Pentagon’s No. 1 supplier by sales and the biggest information technology provider to the U.S. government, disclosed two weeks ago that it had thwarted a “significant” cyber attack. It said it had become a “frequent target of adversaries around the world.” Also hit recently have been Citigroup Inc, Sony Corp and Google Inc.

Secret U.S. effort aims to help dissidents WASHINGTON — The Obama administration is leading a global effort to establish “shadow” Internet and cellphone systems to help dissidents undermine authoritarian governments, the New York Times reported on Sunday. The effort has quickened since former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak’s government shut down the country’s Internet in the last days of his rule, said the Times report, which cited planning

documents, classified diplomatic cables and sources. The Internet has been used in recent months by anti-government protesters in North Africa and the Middle East to help coordinate demonstrations. Some governments have responded by disabling Internet access. In one project, the U.S. State Department and Pentagon have spent at least $50 million to create an independent cellphone network in Afghanistan

using towers on military bases in the country, the Times said, citing unnamed U.S. officials. The operation is aimed at counteracting the Taliban insurgency’s ability to shut down official Afghan services, the Times said. The State Department is also financing creation of stealth wireless networks to enable activists to communicate beyond the reach of governments in countries like Iran, Syria and Libya, the

Times said, citing participants in the projects. Another project focuses on development of an “Internet in a suitcase” that could be smuggled across a border and deployed to allow wireless communication with a link to the global Internet, the Times reported. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is backing the U.S. effort, according to the report. “We see more and more people around the globe using the

Internet, mobile phones and other technologies to make their voices heard as they protest against injustice and seek to realize their aspirations,” the Times quoted Clinton as saying in an email response to a query on the subject. U.S. diplomats also are meeting with operatives who have been burying Chinese cellphones near the border with North Korea, where they can be dug up and used to make furtive calls, the Times reported.

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Troubling signs point to more losses By CHUCK MIKOLAJCZAK Don’t be surprised if Wall Street racks up a seventh consecutive week of losses as the likelihood of more poor economic data and other disconcerting signals outweigh any thoughts that stocks are cheap. After closing at its highest level in nearly three years on April 29, the S&P 500 (.SPX) has tumbled nearly 7 percent on the back of a barrage of soft economic data, sparking the debate over whether the economy is headed for a double-dip, or has merely hit a soft patch in its recovery. The benchmark S&P 500 recorded its sixth straight weekly decline on Friday and volume has picked up, as it typically does, on down days. Another week of selling will mark the longest stretch of weekly losses for the index since 2001. Red flags, including ugliness in the junk bond market, options activity and the ease with which support lev-

els have been broken suggest more selling ahead. “You have to be realistic. You’ve got to have some sort of correction to go into this marketplace just for the healthiness of the market,” said Cliff Draughn, president and chief investment officer at Excelsia Investment Advisors in Savannah, Georgia. As stocks have declined, both investment-grade and highyield risk premiums in the bond market have slumped as investors sought safe-haven assets. That’s troublesome since the stock market often moves in sympathy with the junk bond market because rising borrowing costs crimp corporate profits. The CDX HY16 North America index for highyield bonds, which conversely falls as risk appetite decreases, closed below par for the first time this year on Wednesday. The CDX IG16 North American investment grade index, which investors use to hedge against bond loss-

es, hit its highest level since November 30, according to Tradeweb. In another signal of skittishness about the market’s footing, Ally Financial, an auto and mortgage lender majority owned by the U.S. government, delayed a $6 billion IPO due to bad market conditions, two sources familiar with the situation told Reuters. Stocks have also been easily passing through technical support levels, with the S&P 500 most recently taking out the April 18th low of 1,294.70, leaving analysts to eye the 1,250 level as the next area of support. And the daily volume put/call ratio for equity options on the Chicago Board Options Exchange (CBOE) hit an 18-month high on Wednesday, indicating that investors are significantly bearish on the stock market. On top of all that, data expected for next week, including the Producer Price Index, the Consumer Price Index, May retail sales, manufacturing surveys for

New York and Philadelphia as well as the index of leading indicators of economic activity are forecast to mostly show a struggling economy. “It is a busy economic week, so we expect the market to both anticipate economic data and to react to the releases — I don’t necessarily see anything good coming out of the economic releases next week,” said Tim Ghriskey, chief investment officer of Solaris Asset Management in Bedford Hills, New York. Several of these indicators set off the first alarm bells about the economy’s health when they came out a month ago. By the end of the week, investors will also grapple with quadruple witching, when the options for stock-index futures, single-stock futures, equity options and stock-index options for June expire. “This trade will lead to increased volume and the possibility of big moves in the market. Expiration also has the potential for increased volatility, especially

Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. intraday volatility next week,” said TD Ameritrade chief derivatives strategist Joe Kinahan. But even with the heavy losses suffered recently, the CBOE Volatility index has remained relatively unchanged, indicating market participants have yet to push the panic button. “During this entire correction, the VIX hasn’t budged much,” said Jason Goepfert, president of sentimenTrader.com, in a report. “That could be a sign of complacency among traders, but historically a stock market correction without a spike in the VIX has been a better ‘buy’ signal than ‘sell’ signal.” However, a turn-

around in stocks could be stoked by any sign of progress in Washington on the debt ceiling and budget debates, an overhang on stocks that has frustrated market participants. “The biggest thing on the horizon right now is the inability of the U.S. Congress to come to some sort of conclusion over a budget,” Draughn said. “Once that happens, that kinds of frees Bernanke’s hands to where if he needs to do monetary intervention, he can. But he essentially is handcuffed at this point, due to the fact that the Treasury is happy to restrict the amount of bonds being issued for bumping up to the debt limit.”

Toyota forecasts 35 percent profit slide after quake By NATHAN LAYNE and MARIKO KATSUMURA TOKYO — Toyota Motor Corp forecast a larger-than-expected 35 percent fall in annual profit and warned that the strong yen was making it difficult to justify keeping production in Japan. Toyota has struggled to restore output after a massive 9.0 earthquake in March rocked northeastern Japan and forced automakers to slash output. The ensuing nuclear disaster and power shortages have compounded their woes. The production disruption will likely see Toyota lose its title as the world’s largest automaker this year. “This is probably another conservative estimate from Toyota,

but it’s predicting a loss in the fiscal first half so we can tell how serious the damage from the earthquake was,” said Koichi Ogawa, chief portfolio manager at Daiwa SB Investments in Tokyo, adding that shares in the company may fall. Toyota reiterated its plan to restore output to pre-quake levels by November, helped by a recovery in the supply chain for key parts, and expressed confidence it could claw back market share lost as a result of the quake. In an encouraging sign for automakers, chipmaker Renesas Electronics Corp said it now expected to restore supply capacity lost due to quake damage by the end of September, one month earlier than previously planned. Renesas, the world’s biggest maker of microcontrollers, had become

one of the biggest bottlenecks in the automotive supply chain that forced car firms to curb production. “Once our product supply is back to normal, we can compete with no problem. We have the resources and are fully charged,” Toyota Chief Financial Officer Satoshi Ozawa said at a briefing in Tokyo. But Ozawa warned that Toyota was getting hammered by the strong yen and called on the Japanese government to take action to rein it in. The Japanese currency hit a one-month high against the dollar this week and is now about 5 yen stronger than the 85 per dollar level that Toyota sees as the breakeven point for profiting on production in Japan. Toyota said it expects operating profit to fall 35 percent to 300 billion yen ($3.7 billion) in the financial year to March

2012, well short of the consensus for a 434 billion yen profit in a poll of 23 forecasts by Thomson Reuters I/B/E/S. The forecast, which the company would have announced in May along with its annual results if not for the earthquake, incorporates a 100 billion yen negative impact from the strong yen. “Structural weakness remains for Toyota, as it has a higher portion of domestic production than Honda and Nissan, which makes it vulnerable to the yen’s strength,” said Park Sang-Won, an analyst at Eugene Investment & Securities in Seoul. Toyota forecast global sales would fall 1 percent to 7.24 million vehicles in the year to March. The figures include sales at truck maker Hino Motors Ltd and compact car maker Daihatsu Motor Co. The drop is expected

to place Toyota behind General Motors and possibly Volkswagen AG in the global vehicle sales rankings this year, and reflects a loss of share to smaller rivals such as South Korea’s Hyundai Motor Co, which has been nipping at its heels for years. Toyota played down the possibility. “We don’t see it as necessary to be the largest automaker in the world,” Ozawa said. “The most important thing is creating a stable business base.” Toyota said it expects the dollar to average 82 yen in the current financial year to next March 31, against an average currency rate of 86 yen per dollar last year. The yen’s persistent strength has raised questions about the rationale of Toyota’s commitment to producing at least 3 million cars in Japan each year.

Ozawa said it was possible that Toyota President Akio Toyoda was rethinking his position. “We are in a situation where it’s becoming impossible for Japan’s manufacturing industry to do business,” Ozawa said. “Our president has been saying that he would never want to see Japan’s manufacturing fading from view, but he also said recently that he was unable to respond when someone made the comment that Toyota’s production should not be handled only in Japan.” Toyota’s shares have fallen 7.5 percent since the disaster, underperforming the benchmark Nikkei 225 average, which has lost 6.5 percent. Its shares on Friday rose 0.9 percent to close at 3,300 yen before the company released the profit forecast.

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Tyson inducted into Boxing’s Hall of Fame CANASTOTA, New York - Mike Tyson, whose legendary tale of punishing power and meteroic rise ended in an epic fall from grace, was among the legends inducted Sunday into the International Boxing Hall of Fame. Tyson, three weeks shy of his 45th birthday, became the youngest heavyweight champion in boxing history in 1986 at age 20 and finished with a record of 50-6 with 44 knockouts, personifying at times the best and worst of the sport. “I am honored,” Tyson said. “The sport of boxing has given me so much and it is truly a blessing to be acknowledged alongside other boxing legends because they paved the way for me, as I hope I have inspired others.”

Mexican legend Julio Cesar Chavez, Russian-born Australian Kostya Tszyu, Mexican trainer Ignacio “Nacho” Beristain, referee Joe Cortez and Hollywood star Sylvester Stallone, movie boxer “Rocky”, were also honored. But none of them could match the levels Tyson reached as a global sports icon, especially in his younger days after escaping the mean streets of Brooklyn and finding riches by pounding opponents with firstround knockouts. The downfall of “Iron Mike” began in 1990 at Tokyo when the undisputed champion suffered the first loss of his career, a 10thround knockout at the hands of James “Buster” Douglas in one of the most shocking upsets in sport. In 1992, Tyson was convicted of raping a beauty

queen at a pageant in Indianapolis, Indiana. He served three years of a sixyear sentence before his release in 1995, steadfastly denying he raped the woman. Tyson reclaimed the heavyweight throne but lost to Evander Holyfield in 1996 and in a 1997 rematch infamously bit Holyfield’s ears twice, serving a year’s banishment in exile for the move. Despite substance abuse and serving jail time for assault, Tyson made one final run at boxing supremacy, but in his last world title fight he was knocked out in the eighth round by Britain’s Lennox Lewis at Memphis, Tennessee. Tyson filed for bankruptcy in 2003 and retired after losses to Britain’s Danny Williams in 2004 and American Kevin McBride in 2005. Tyson quit after six

rounds in his final fight, finishing his last round sitting on the canvas. “I don’t have the stomach for this,” Tyson said. “I don’t have that ferocity. I’m not an animal anymore.” Outrageous and controver-

sial remarks were Tyson’s stock and trade, but a kinder, gentler Tyson has emerged since then, appearing in “The Hangover” films and in reality television shows exploring his love of training birds.

Yankees place Bartolo Colon on DL Locked-out? NFL training NEW YORK — New York Yankees righthander Bartolo Colon was placed on the 15day disabled list on Sunday with a strained left hamstring. Outfielder Chris Dickerson has been called up from Triple-A Scranton/WilkesBarre to take Colon’s spot on the team’s 25-man roster. Colon underwent an MRI at New York Presbyterian Hospital on Saturday night, but did not know the grade of the sprain. Manager Joe Girardi said the results of the

MRI were “pretty good,” but Colon will still need to be shut down for at least two weeks. “I feel good, I just have a little bit of pain,” Colon said through a translator. “I’m on the DL now, but I hope to be back after 15 days. ... After the 15 days, I should be back.” Colon will continue to work on other parts of his body, but doesn’t know when he’ll be able to start rehabbing his legs. “I feel bad because the team needs help and I got hurt,” Colon said. “But

there’s nothing I can do about it.” The 38-year-old suffered the injury while trying to cover first base and left Saturday afternoon’s game with two outs in the seventh inning. Colon (5-3, 3.10 ERA) ended up winning for the third straight start on Saturday afternoon, going 6 2/3 scoreless innings as the Yankees shut out the Cleveland Indians, 4-0, at Yankee Stadium. In his last 21 innings, Colon has surrendered just three earned runs.

Nowitzki says Wade, James ‘childish ... ignorant’ By JAIME ARON MIAMI Dirk Nowitzki said Saturday that Dwyane Wade and LeBron James were “a little childish, a little ignorant” in a video that appears to show them mocking the Mavericks star’s recent illness. Wade said he really did cough and turned it into a generic joke because cam-

eras were rolling. He and James blamed others for trying to make a big deal out of it. The video taken by the CBS affiliate in Dallas-Fort Worth shows Wade walking alongside James following a shootaround the morning of Game 5 of the NBA finals. Wade coughs, then says, “Did you hear me cough? Think I’m sick.” Nowitzki was coughing and sniffling throughout Game 4 because of a sinus infection that also left him

with a 101-degree fever. He played anyway and led Dallas to a victory over the Miami Heat that evened the series at two games each. The Mavs also won Game 5, sending them into Game 6 on Sunday night with a chance to be crowned champions. The video of Wade’s cough spread across the Internet on Friday, when both teams were traveling. So it became a popular topic at news conferences Saturday.

camp sites start to sweat By DAVE CAMPBELL MINNEAPOLIS - Jake’s Stadium Pizza has been a fastfood fixture on the Minnesota State University campus for nearly four decades. This summer, they’re cooking that thin crust with crossed fingers in Mankato, Minn. The NFL lockout, now headed toward its fourth month, is threatening a revenue-driving, profile-raising event for this small, familyowned business: Vikings training camp. “We’re hoping they get it done, because it’s not just us. It’s the whole state that will suffer,” said Wally Boyer, the owner of the joint where players from Jim Marshall to John Randle have recuperated after many a draining workout. Fans, too, have long made that familiar walk down Stadium Road after watching practice to fill up and cool off. If the work stoppage lingers long enough to keep teams holding traditional training camps, the hit would

be felt far beyond Minnesota, and it wouldn’t just be about losing money. In upstate New York, the Jets have trained on the SUNY Cortland campus the last two years. “Just their presence alone has stimulated people. It’s just good for the mental health of the community,” said Cortland State football coach Dan MacNeill. “For our people, it’s been fun. It has impacted the football program. We don’t have normal use of our facilities. But an NFL franchise, no matter where you go, there’s a heck of a following.” Seventeen of the 32 NFL teams last year held training camp at their year-round facilities, reflecting a trend toward cost-and-time efficiency in an era in which chemistry is built and conditioning established well before the two-a-day grind in August. But the other 15 teams still take their show on the road, many of them to slower-paced cities and small colleges where their presence is a big deal - and a big financial boon.

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Aretha D. Thurmond competes in the Womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Discuss. Photo/Lem Peterkin

SHORE AC Anchor tries to win it for his team. Photo & Caption/Lem Peterkin

Gia Lewis-Smallwood in the discus throw Photo/Lem Peterkin

Janay Deloatch

Brittney Reese The adidas Grand Prix was on Saturday, June 11, at Icahn Stadium on Randallâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Island in New York City. One of the nation's premier outdoor track & field invitational meets, it is the sixth stop on the international Samsung Diamond League circuit. Global Athletics & Marketing Inc., is the meet owner/promoter, and Mark Wetmore is the meet director.

In the Progressive Men's 400m Hurdles, Lj Van Zyl placed 4th, David Green place 3rd, Bershawh Jackson placed second and Javier Culson won. Photo/Lem Peterkin

Gedyon Elias sets the pace in the adidas High School Boys' Dream Mile Photo/Lem Peterkin

Awesome Power shows their metal in the Youth Girls' 4x400m Relay Photo/Lem Peterkin

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Danielle Carruthers finishes first in the Womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 100 meter hurdles while Kellie Wells places second. Photo/Lem Peterkin

In the Youth Boys' 4x400m Relay the Zodiacs compete for a chance at the win. Photo/Lem Peterkin

In the Men's 800m - B Section, Moise Joseph trails Tevan Everett. Photo/Lem Peterkin

Bronx Tigers A in the Youth Girls' 4x400m Relay. Photo/Lem Peterkin

In the Women's 400m National Race, Deedee Trotter, Rosemary Whyte and Kaliese Spence place 1st, 2nd and 3rd respectfully. Photo/Lem Peterkin

Junior Girls' 4x100m Relay at the adidas Grand Prix. Photo/Lem Peterkin

Sean McClain (USA)

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