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BLACK UNEMPLOYMENT AT DEPRESSION-ERA LEVELS

While unemployment among the general population is about unemployment rate for African Americans has always been 9.1 percent, it’s at 16.2 percent for African Americans, and a higher than the national average. However, now it’s at bit higher still for African American males. Historically, the Depression-era levels.

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DAILY CHALLENGE TUESDAY, JUNE 21, 2011

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NEWS BRIEFS New Orleans police face trial in post-Katrina killings CITY STUDENTS GET EXTRA DAY OFF THIS SUMMER City school kids have one more day of summer vacation to look forward to.

Schools Chancellor Dennis Walcott informed principals that the next school year will begin on Thursday September 8th.

That’s one day later than previously announced.

The extra day will be used by teachers to prepare for the school year.

Principals told the Department of Education they needed the time because of the new tougher student standards being put in place.

A letter is being sent to parents to inform them of the change.

The last day of school is June 28th.

DATED SUBWAY CARS MAY SOON GET DIGITAL UPGRADE Subway riders know when it comes to high tech cars, not all lines are created equal.

The Metropolitan Transportation Authority says it’s considering upgrading some of its older subway cars to give them some of the features found in the newer cars.

If the upgrade is possible it could mean more than 1,700 cars, including the entire fleet on the B, D, 1, 3 and 7 lines, would be outfitted with digital displays and automated announcements.

Those features made their debut when new trains were introduced on the Lexington and Seventh Avenue lines nearly a decade ago.

The MTA says estimated cost and timelines for the project have not been established.

F, G SUBWAY STATION CLOSES FOR MONTHS OF REPAIRS Riders of the F and G subway lines in Brooklyn are going to have to change their routines.

The Smith and 9th Street station is closed for a $32 million renovation lasting through March 2012.

F and G trains will bypass the station in both directions and no shuttle service will be provided.

As an alternative, southbound riders can take the B61 bus to the 4th Avenue and 9th Street station, and Downtown Brooklyn-bound rides can take the B57 bus to the Carroll Street station.

These buses run every 20 minutes.

Metropolitan Transportation Authority officials say the Smith and 9th Street station will receive new canopies, platforms and lighting.

Locals knew about the repairs, as MTA workers handed out pamphlets on the upcoming service changes for the last few weeks.

Nevertheless, riders said that the buses are not as reliable as the subway.

“I’m ticked off because it’s early morning, I have to get to the Bronx, and I have to take the bus halfway there,” said a resident. “[I’m] happy that they’re fixing it up, finally,” said another.

By JORDAN FLAHERTY NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana — Five New Orleans police officers accused of indiscriminately shooting people in the chaos unleashed by Hurricane Katrina face a high-profile trial in the coming week.

The deadly 2005 shooting on the Danziger Bridge and resulting coverup came to epitomize the city’s failure to protect its citizens and exposed deep-rooted corruption in the police department which many say remains unaddressed.

“This trial is going to show the country and the world that we have a serious problem with our police department,” said Eddie Jordan, the city’s former District Attorney.

“This department is engaged in horrendous acts against its citizens.”

Fear soon followed the deadly floodwaters which swallowed 80 percent of New Orleans and left thousands stranded on their rooftops after Katrina smashed through the city’s poorly maintained levees on August 29, 2005.

Reports of widespread looting and armed gangs roaming the city shifted the government’s already botched response from humanitarian aid to a military operation.

Then-Governor Kathleen Blanco sent in National Guard troops, announcing “These troops know how to shoot and kill and I expect they will.”

Warren Riley, then-second in charge of the New Orleans police department (NOPD) reportedly instructed officers to “take the city back and shoot looters.”

In the following days, six people — almost all of them African American — were killed under suspicious circumstances in incidents involving police. Scores more were injured.

“We had more incidents of police misconduct than civilian misconduct,” Jordan, the former district attorney said. “All these stories of looting, it pales next to what the police did.”

The Danziger Bridge case is the most notorious of at least nine incidents being investigated by federal agents.

A group of officers, who had apparently heard a misleading radio report about shootings in the area, began firing on two families who were simply trying to escape the floodwaters.

Ronald Madison, a mentally chal-

Cars pass over the Danziger Bridge in 2010 in New Orleans, Louisiana. lenged man, was shot in the back at least six times, then stomped and kicked by an officer until he was dead, officers who pleaded guilty in exchange for a lighter sentence have testified.

James Brissette, a high school student, died after he was shot seven times.

Four others were badly wounded, including Susan Bartholomew, 38, whose arm was shot off her body.

For years, family members and advocates called for official investigations and were rebuffed.

That changed when President Barack Obama’s newly appointed attorney general took over in 2009 and the U.S. Justice Department decided to look into the accusations.

It has been one of the most wideranging investigations of a police department in recent U.S. history.

Dozens of officers are facing lengthy prison terms, and corruption charges have reached to the very top of the department.

In a scathing 158-page report released in March, the Justice Department declared that the New Orleans police department has deep structural problems beyond what has been revealed by the Danziger incident.

“Basic elements of effective policing — clear policies, training, accountability, and confidence of the citizenry-have been absent for years,” the report concluded.

Assistant District Attorney Christopher Bowman said public distrust in the police department is real.

“We see the effects of that on a daily basis in criminal court. When we question jurors, there are jurors

that say they don’t trust the police.”

But positive changes have already taken hold, Bowman said.

“You have to look at an entire criminal justice system that is reforming itself,” he said.

Criminal justice reformers disagree, saying that the problems are systemic and that even the Justice Department investigations, which have focused mostly on the NOPD, don’t go far enough.

They complain of judges who are too close to prosecutors, a coroner who sides with the police version of events, and a city jail that is the largest per capita jail in the United States.

“Danziger is not something that happened in isolation,” said Rosana Cruz, the associate director of V.O.T.E., an organization that seeks to build civic engagement for formerly incarcerated people.

“Everyone’s job in the criminal justice system depends on there being a lot of crime in the city. As long as that’s the case, we’re not going to have safety.”

Jury selection in the Danziger Bridge trial begins tomorrow and opening arguments are expected the following week.

Sergeants Kenneth Bowen and Robert Gisevius and Officers Anthony Villavaso and Robert Faulcon are accused in both the shooting and the cover-up and face life sentences if convicted.

Sergeant Arthur Kaufman, who was not present at the shooting, is accused only in the cover-up, and faces a maximum penalty of 120 years in prison.

Court refuses ACORN challenge WASHINGTON — The U.S. Supreme Court refused without comment to review the case of community group ACORN, which U.S. law banned from getting federal funds.

The Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, now defunct, said the provisions in several pieces of appropriations legislation constituted an unconstitutional “bill of attainder” — punishment by the Legislature without trial.

Founded in Arkansas, the orga-

nization’s downfall began in 2009, when undercover video taken by two conservative activists appeared to show ACORN employees giving advice on how to hide prostitution.

Republican officials also accused the group of vote fraud.

A federal appeals court threw out a judge’s permanent injunction against the law banning federal funding. ACORN had been getting about 10 percent of its money from the federal government.

Nevertheless, the federal appeals court in New York said in its 2009

ruling, “ACORN has helped over 2 million people register to vote, advocated for increasing the minimum wage, worked against predatory lending, prevented foreclosures, assisted over 150,000 people file their tax returns and ‘worked on thousands of issues that arise from the predicaments and problems of the poor, the homeless, the underpaid, the hungry and the sick.”

The organization had 500,000 members in 75 cities across the United States, with national offices in Brooklyn.

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African American unemployment at 16 percent

By MICHELLE MILLER The economy and jobs will be big issues in Washington again this coming week.

While unemployment among the general population is about 9.1 percent, it’s at 16.2 percent African Americans, and a bit higher still for African American males.

Historically, the unemployment rate for African Americans has always been higher than the national average. However, now it’s at Depression-era levels. The most recent figures show African American joblessness at 16.2 percent. For black males, it’s at 17.5 percent; And for black teens, it’s nearly 41 percent.

For some, it’s crunch time at STRIVE, a job training program in East Harlem, where instructors use drill sergeant-like techniques. They teach job-seekers to correct their mistakes by fining them a quarter each time they make them.

For young men of color, especially Black males in New York City, things are especially bad. According to the think tank, the Community Service Society, 34 percent of New York’s young black men age 19 to 24 are not working.

“If you haven’t connected with the world of work by the age of 25, it’s a permanent problem for the rest of your career,” says David Johns with the Community Service Society.

Christopher Scott, 20 and a high school drop-out, got a GED last year, but he hasn’t been able to find a job ever since.

“It makes me feel degraded in a way cause at 20, I should be more independent,” Scott says.

For those with less than a college

education, finding a job alone isn’t the answer. Even if they secure employment, it’s often below minimum wage, and in places like New York City, it’s barely enough to survive.

Jermaine Christian, currently working as a restaurant busboy, graduated from one of the top high schools in the city in 2010. He can’t afford college, so after searching for a year now, he works for $5.50 per hour.

“I became more or less desperate and took anything I could find,” Christian says.

Job counselors say part of the problem is that high schools aren’t teaching marketable skills.

“Unless you have a skill coming out of high school, in this society, in this economy, you will not be able to find a job,” Johns says.

Even so, in this climate, where jobs are scarce, even having a real skill is still no guarantee of a job.

Senate stuck on gay marriage as rallies grow

By MICHAEL GORMLEY ALBANY — Hundreds of protesters for and against gay marriage in New York chanted, sang and sought out TV cameras Monday while the state Senate again came to no resolution on the issue in a closed-door session that barely touched on the nationally divisive topic.

Two Republican senators said the gay marriage issue that has sharply focused the efforts of opponents and advocates was only briefly discussed in the caucus. Instead, Senate Republican leader Dean Skelos is negotiating with Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo on religious exemptions that could be enough for Republican senators — most of whom oppose gay marriage — to send the issue to a floor where a bipartisan effort could pass it.

Democratic Sen. Ruben Diaz Sr., a Bronx minister who has led the opposition, said he now considers the legalization of same-sex marriage inevitable at some point in New York.

He said, however, he’s unsure how the Senate will vote, noting Cuomo is exerting unprecedented pressure to get Republicans to approve his bill.

On Monday, groups led by clergy opposed to same-sex marriage sang hymns such as “Victory is Mine” and prayed in small circles while prosame-sex marriage advocates countered with “God Bless America” and “This Little Light of Mine” and lined the halls and parlor outside the Senate chamber.

State troopers were called to the Senate chamber floor as the two groups started to merge and talk with each other, but there was no escala-

tion in the jammed marble hallways that turned stifling hot from the people and TV cameras. Most were respectful of each other and kept to their own groups.

“This is not about religion, this is about civil rights,” Sharon Baum of New York City said.

She was soon confronted by a woman opposed to gay marriage.

“If this passes, we will become Sodom and Gomorrah,” said 80-yearold Ginny Winn, of Delmar in Albany County.

“God says `No’!” chanted one side, as pro-gay marriage advocates, led by their clergy, intoned, “God is love!”

When Winn, a great-grandmother, interrupted Baum and said she’s been married for decades. Baum offered a sincere “Mazel tov!” which is Hebrew for congratulations.

The gay marriage bill is now part of the usual horse-trading of issues behind closed doors that is common at the close of session for the New York Legislature. That means the emotional issue is tied to such common, but important measures as continuing New York City’s rent control law and a statewide property tax cap, said the senators who spoke on the condition of anonymity because there was no official statement from the Republican majority.

Susan Lerner of the good-government group Common Cause said the level of professional and grass roots lobbying appears unmatched in New York since the abortion and reproductive rights battles of the 1970s.

New York’s vote is pivotal in the national question over same-sex marriage, an effort that largely stalled in the same room two years ago when

the Senate voted it down. Since then, efforts have failed in New Jersey, Rhode Island and Maryland. Advocates hope a “yes” vote in the nation’s third-most populous state jumpstarts the effort.

The Rev. William Mayhew of Millerton said children aren’t given the support they need in a gay household.

“They are creating another category of civil rights,” Mayhew said.

“American will suffer!”

Former New York Giants player David Tyree was among the celebri-

ties on both sides of the issue. He said in Albany on Monday that God may have given him the ability to make his stunning, one-handed catch to help the Giants win the Super Bowl in 2007 so he would have a platform to oppose gay marriage today.

“I am not a political person, but gay marriage isn’t a political issue,” he said. “This not about right and left, but about right and wrong.”

He said he opposes gay measure as a threat to children and families.

The Assembly has already passed the measure.

Obama helps Democrats outpace Republican fundraising

By KIM DIXON WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama and fellow Democrats beat Republicans in the race for campaign dollars during May, as the president stepped up fundraising ahead of the 2012 contest for the White House.

The Democratic National Committee pulled in $10.5 million, compared with $6.2 million raised by the Republican National Committee, according to monthly filings with the Federal Election Commission on Monday.

The 2012 election may be the priciest ever, with Obama potentially topping $1 billion in campaign contributions, up from $750 million raised for his successful 2008 bid.

Recent court decisions are likely to unleash billions more in cash from outside interest groups.

Democratic figures include a $6.5 million transfer from the Obama Victory Fund.

The figures provide a benchmark for future fundraising, though most of the national committee funds for 2012 will likely be raised next year, according to Michael Malbin, executive director of George Washington University’s Campaign Finance Institute.

Republicans are shoring up their finances after former Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele spent little time raising money and alienated some donors with a series of gaffes. He left the job in January after losing a party election.

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DAILY CHALLENGE TUESDAY, JUNE 21, 2011

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Maternal depression: Helping mothers, helping children

By MARIAN WRIGHT EDELMAN

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Ellie Zuehlke and her husband had expected the birth of their long-awaited first child to be one of the happiest moments of their lives—until, somehow, it wasn’t. Instead, Ellie experienced severe postpartum depression that left her unable to care for their newborn son. To thousands of mothers, Ellie Zuehlke’s story will sound sadly familiar.

Ellie, a health care industry professional, was ultimately lucky.

Though some mothers lose health care coverage shortly after giving birth, Ellie had health insurance and access to a qualified mental health provider and was able to get help quickly.

As she explains, “Because I received prompt, appropriate treatment after the birth of my first son, we were able to greatly reduce the negative impact of my

depression on my son. In addition, I was able to get the care I needed to prevent depression after the birth of my second child.”

Today, Ellie is enjoying her family life and two sons, now seven and two years old, who are healthy and happy. Ellie shared her story with the Children’s Defense Fund-Minnesota (CDFMN) staff, who were studying the effects of depression in families like hers for their new report “Maternal Depression in Early Childhood.” CDF-MN found that undiagnosed and untreated maternal depression is not only dangerous for a mother but can have long-term harmful effects on her children.

As the report explains, “Infants and toddlers are very vulnerable to the effects of parental depression because of their total reliance on their caregivers. A growing body of research is documenting that the

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foundation for future brain development is laid down during the earliest years of life. Adverse childhood experiences can disrupt that process with lifelong consequences if untreated.

‘Unaddressed depression can seriously impair a parent’s ability to respond to her newborn in a nurturing way,’ says Terrie Rose, founder and Executive Director of Baby’s Space, an early learning center in Minneapolis.

This can harm a child’s cognitive, physical, social, and emotional development, beginning early in his or her life. ‘As a result, lower responsiveness, sleep problems, and more negative emotions can be seen in infants as young as six months.’”

These risks continue to accumulate. By toddlerhood, children are at elevated risk of behavior and emotional problems and delayed language development;

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DAILY CHALLENGE TUESDAY, JUNE 21, 2011

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The insistent question: Where are the jobs?

That hasn’t happened. Instead, the slowing of the momentum of economic recovery has produced a keenly-felt disconnect between the fact that the Great Recession officially ended nearly two years ago and the fact of the hardship many Americans are still enduring.

The official unemployment rate for May inched up to 9.1 percent and a just-barely-positive 54,000 new jobs were tallied. That underscored the fact that the labor market still has seven million fewer jobs than at the start of the crisis in December 2007—and that some 14 million Americans remain out of work.

Which, in turn, raised the point that many labor-market analysts expect it will take years of sustained significant job growth to push the unemployment rate down to its pre-recession level between five and six percent.

The recovery’s tepid pace has also emphasized the many worrisome questions about the recession’s longterm effects. Millions of younger workers among the jobless face a future in which their lifetime earnings are likely to be permanently diminished by this period of sustained joblessness. And, many jobless workers who are 55 and older are likely – if they can find work again – to never again approach the

status or wages of their previous jobs. In addition, the number of long-term unemployed workers – those jobless for six months or more – after declining somewhat late last year is on the rise again. The 6.2 million workers in this category now comprise 45.1 percent of the total jobless, from 43.4 percent in April. analysts have Numerous expressed concern that many of the long-term unemployed will never again find consistent employment.

If not mitigated, these possibilities will in the years ahead diminish the amount of payments into the funds for Social Security and Medicare, just as the largest waves of Baby Boomers are likely to be drawing heavily on those two federal programs.

Further, the May jobs report, in which Black unemployment ticked upward from April’s 16.1 to 16.2 percent, again underlined the intensifying racially-skewed dynamic within the broader economic crisis.

This month’s report on Black employment and unemployment from the Center for Labor Research and Education of the University of California at Berkeley (PDF) noted that the Black unemployment figures stand in stark contrast to those of whites, which plateaued at 8.0 percent for both months. Furthermore,

Helping mothers, helping children

ing impacts on our most vulnerable mothers and children and causes lifelong harm. States should be investing today in effective programs that identify at-risk mothers and help them get the treatment they need. Everyone— mothers, children, and the state’s bottom line—will benefit tomorrow.

By LEE A. DANIELS Special to the NNPA from thedefendersonline.com The gloomy federal jobs report for May has brought to the forefront again all the questions – and fears – about the economy and the jobs crisis that six months ago were pushed into the deep background by the compromise on unemployment benefits between President Obama and the Republicans in Congress.

The legislation ensured that for all of this year all jobless workers who reach the normal six-month cutoff point for unemployment benefits – estimated at about four million – would automatically have their payments renewed. The measure also included another two million whose benefits were lapsing during last December as well.

In exchange, the president agreed to extend for another two years the Bush-era provisions governing estate taxes and tax cuts for the highest-income earners.

The administration was clearly hoping that during this year, the economic recovery would have gathered enough steam to forge the kind of job growth that would jump-start a sustained paring of the jobless rolls.

Continued from page 4 by early childhood they are at elevated risk of learning difficulties and conduct disorders and are already more vulnerable to depression themselves. By adolescence they are at higher risk of depression, learning and anxiety disorders, and substance abuse. CDF-MN cites a finding by the National Center for Children in Poverty that “maternal depression and anxiety is a stronger risk factor for child behavior problems than smoking, binge drinking, and emotional or physical domestic violence.” CDF-MN estimates that in Minnesota one in 10 babies is born to a mother experiencing serious depression during his or her first year of life—nearly 14,000 Minnesota mothers and infants in 2009—and every untreated case of maternal depression in the state costs a minimum of $23,000 a year primarily from lost productivity and higher health care costs for mother and child.

The good news, as Ellie Zuehlke knows first-hand, is that maternal depression is treatable. “Fortunately, we know a great deal about how to help mothers and families struggling with depression before or after a baby’s birth,” Helen Kim, a psychiatrist and director of a women’s mental health program at a Minnesota medical center, told CDF-MN. “We can also identify mothers who are at higher risk of experiencing depression than others and offer assistance before

they get pregnant or give birth.” CDFMN found that Minnesota has some good policies, effective programs and practices, and innovative providers that help prevent or reduce the incidence of depression and its negative effects. But many of the policies are not fully implemented and several programs operate on a small scale. Too often the mothers most at risk—poor mothers, young mothers, and mothers of color—are the ones least likely to receive help. Much more must be done to raise awareness about maternal depression and the importance of addressing it.

In Minnesota, as in many other states, the difficult economic times are making maternal depression and depression in other caregivers worse.

“Unfortunately, some of the state’s budget cutting actions have increased the risk factors associated with depression, especially for low-income parents,” says Marcie Jefferys, CDFMN’s Policy Development Director.

Reduced access to postnatal health care, public assistance policies that push families with newborns deeper into poverty, lack of child care assistance for low income working parents, and cuts in county mental health programs are all among recent budget cuts that increase family stress, which is tied to higher rates of depression. I hope this important new report will sound the alarm for policymakers across the nation that cutting crucial programs and services has devastat-

— Marian Wright Edelman is

the composite figures for Blacks mask the separately alarming predicaments of Black male and female workers. Unemployment for the former climbed from 18.1 to 18.6 percent, while that of Black females stood in May at 14,1 percent, down slightly from April’s 14.4 percent (compared to 7.5 and 7.6 percent, respectively, for white females workers).

That was just one of numerous statistics – including homeownership rates, the incidence of foreclosures, funds saved for retirement , household income, access to health care, and poverty rates — that show, amid the difficult present and worrisome prospects for several segments of American workers in general, Black Americans’ predicament continues to be the worst of all.

But, of all of this data, the Black unemployment rate, seeming now to be slowly spiraling upward on a curve of its own, presents the greatest danger. The reason is simple: If fewer and fewer Blacks have jobs, all of the other indices of their economic status will get worse.

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Obama adviser blasts Republican ‘partisan platitudes’

By ERIC JOHNSON CHICAGO — A campaign adviser to Barack Obama defended the Democratic’s president’s record as a pragmatic leader and champion of the middle class on Sunday and derided Republican White House hopefuls as long on rhetoric and short on ideas.

David Axelrod, senior advisor to Obama’s 2012 re-election campaign, said on CNN’s “State of the Union” program that he “heard a lot of pat partisan platitudes” during the first Republican debate last week in New Hampshire.

Axelrod said savvy U.S. voters will sniff out inconsis-

tencies in the campaign messages of Republican Mitt Romney and Tim Pawlenty, who are among the candidates seeking the Republican presidential nomination.

“If you are Governor Romney and you say, ‘I am going to turn this economy around.

I’ve got the answers,’ ... people have a right to say, ‘Why is it that your state was 47th in the country in job creation when you were governor?’”

Axelrod said.

Romney, the former governor of Massachusetts who sought the Republican nomination unsuccessfully in 2008, leads many polls among his party’s rivals. He has pushed his business experience as a way to attack

Obama’s handling of the U.S. economy.

“If you are Governor Pawlenty and you say, ‘We’ve got to clean up this fiscal mess,’ people have a right to ask, ‘Then why did you leave your state with $6.2 billion dollar deficit?’” Axelrod said.

Pawlenty, a former governor of Minnesota, has highlighted his work balancing his state’s budget. Pawlenty blamed Obama for stifling economic growth with “big government and heavy-handed regulations” when he unveiled an economic plan this month that called for deep cuts in taxes and government spending.

Axelrod said Obama’s former U.S. ambassador to

China Jon Huntsman, who is poised to seek the Republican nomination to challenge his former boss, had been supportive of Obama’s record in 2009 on a “whole range of issues,” including healthcare reform, which Republicans are eager to repeal.

Republican presidential hopefuls have sharply criticized Obama’s stewardship of the U.S. economy, failure to foster job growth and his handling of military operations in Libya.

Axelrod said one thing to watch in the campaign is whether Republican candidates yield to the forces he said are driving the Republican Party “further to the right.”

“What independent voters want is for us to work together — both parties — to solve the problems facing the country. They don’t want harsh partisanship. They don’t want unremitting ideology. And the president is a pragmatic leader who is willing to work with whomever is willing to work with him to try and solve the problems of this country,” Axelrod said.

Axelrod cited Obama’s “fundamental identification with middle-class people and people who are struggling to become middle class, and to push for the kind of opportunities that have characterized our country in the past and we want to characterize our country in the future.”

Booted Obama impersonator defends Wal-Mart wins Supreme Court gender-bias case performance at GOP gathering The Obama impersonator who stole the show at the Republican Leadership Conference in New Orleans this past weekend is speaking out against reports that he was yanked from the stage because of his controversial performance.

Comedian Reggie Brown told CNN’s Kyra Phillips that it was the length of his performance - not its content that led organizers to escort him off of the stage, but acknowledged some of his jokes may have touched a nerve with the Republican crowd.

“I do believe that I was over my time by a few minutes,” Brown said. “And I also believe that the material was starting to get to a point to where maybe they started to, you know, feel uncomfortable with where it was going. But I was just doing my thing.”

The Obama look-alike began his performance with a series of often racially tinged jokes about the president, but it wasn’t until he began going after some big-name Republicans, including several presidential candidates, that he was told his time was up.

Brown said organizers told him he would have 15 to 20 minutes to perform. But after 17 minutes and mid-way through a joke about newly declared presidential candidate Minnesota Rep. Michele Bachmann, his mic was cut and he was led off the stage.

RLC President and CEO Charlie Davis said the performance had gone too far and was getting inappropriate.

“Had I been in the room I

would have pulled him sooner. We have zero tolerance for racially insensitive jokes. As soon as I realized what was going on I rushed backstage and had him pulled,” Davis told CNN. But Brown insists he was told that his performance was cut short due to time restraints, and said several other speakers, including Texas Rep. Ron Paul, were also “kindly escorted off the stage.”

Though Paul delivered one of the lengthier speeches, and ended his remarks quite abruptly, he was not escorted from the stage by organizers.

Brown also rebuffed the notion that the crowd was offended by his racial jokes about the president, and insisted organizers knew what to expect when they booked him.

“I didn’t hear any boos on any of the racial jokes. The president, like myself, shares a mixed background, you know. My mother’s white. My father’s Black. I feel very safe delivering content like that,” Brown said.

“I wouldn’t touch anything that I don’t think the president would feel comfortable with or hasn’t done himself.

He is someone I respect. I want to make him happy, appreciate what I’m doing,” Brown said.

And though his jokes may have fallen flat in New Orleans, Brown might just be the one with the last laugh.

The comedian and impersonator said his phone has been ringing off the hook since his now-infamous performance.

California plaintiffs in the Wal-Mart job discrimination case take part in a news conference in March. From left, Betty Dukes of Pittsburg; Deborah Gunter of Palm Springs; Christine Kwapnoski of Bay Point; and Edith Arena of Duarte.

By GREG STOHR The U.S. Supreme Court, in a ruling likely to mean new limits on class-action suits, rejected an effort to sue Wal-Mart Stores Inc. for discrimination on behalf of potentially a million female workers.

The justices said the lawyers pressing the case failed to point to a common corporate policy that led to gender discrimination against workers at thousands of Wal-Mart and Sam’s Club stores across the country.

The workers “provide no convincing proof of a companywide discriminatory pay and promotion policy,” Justice Antonin Scalia wrote for the court.

The court ruled unani-

mously on some aspects of the case and divided on others. Four justices — Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Stephen Breyer, Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan — said they would have returned the case to a lower court and let the workers try to press ahead with a class action under a different legal theory.

“The court, however, disqualifies the class from the starting gate,” Ginsburg wrote.

Wal-Mart, based in Bentonville, Arkansas, rose after the Supreme Court issued its opinion.

The company gained 47 cents to $53.29 at 10:37 a.m. in trading on the New York Stock Exchange.

The case was one of the most closely watched Supreme Court business disputes in years, in part because the justices hadn’t

looked at the standards for certifying a class-action suit in 12 years. Billions of dollars were at stake for WalMart, the world’s largest private employer.

Filed in 2001, the suit aimed to cover every woman who worked at the retailer’s Wal-Mart and Sam’s Club’s stores at any point since December 1998, including those not hired until years after the suit was filed.

The women pressing the suit claim they and colleagues across the country were victimized by WalMart’s practice of letting local managers make subjective decisions about pay and promotions.

A federal appeals court had let the suit go forward on behalf of women who were working at Wal-Mart at the time the suit was filed.

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COMMUNITY AFFAIRS

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Brookdale Annual Community Health and Street fair

The Congressional Glaucoma Caucus Foundation Community Outreach Unit for Better Eyes.

Getting a tattoo at a street fair was great.

Omega Psi Phi Fraternity did some outreach in the community.

The vendors

The Batman gym The event took place on Rockaway Parkway, right outside the hospital in Brownsville where people were able to get the free tests in booths that were alongside those of community vendors.

B r o o k d a l e University Hospital and Medical Center staged its annual Community Health and Street Fair last weekend, offering a wide range of health-related tests as well as live entertainment.

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DAILY CHALLENGE TUESDAY, JUNE 21, 2011

Spain freezes assets of detained Mubarak associate

Morocco's king to unveil reforms in address

By DANIEL WOOLLS

By OMAR BROUKSY

MADRID - Spain has frozen euro33 million ($47 million) in accounts held by a detained Egyptian associate of ousted president Hosni Mubarak and relatives of the detainee, who is also wanted back home, officials said Friday.

RABAT - Morocco’s King Mohammed VI addresses the nation Friday when he will unveil reform proposals likely to include curbs on his wide-ranging powers after weeks of demonstrations to demand change.

Hussein Salem, 77, his son and an associate described as a frontman were arrested in a wealthy Madrid suburb. The money was allegedly obtained illegally in Egypt and sent to accounts in Spain held by Salem, his family and his business empire, the National Police said.

Police also seized homes worth euro10 million ($14 million).

Salem appeared Friday before two judges: one handling the Spanish money laundering probe and another dealing with the international warrant under which Salem was arrested at the request of Egypt.

Salem also holds a Spanish passport, a court official said on condition of anonymity in line with court policy.

One of the most secretive businessmen in Egypt, Salem is wanted in his country on charges of bribing Mubarak and his family and squandering public funds, Egyptian officials say.

His detention was seen in Egypt as a major step toward unraveling secrets of corruption throughout the reign of Mubarak; and possibly a key to locate and retrieve much of Mubarak’s riches, believed to be stashed abroad at a time when the country’s economy is depressed, months after the uprising. Some estimate Mubarak’s holdings at tens of billions of dollars.

Salem left Egypt a week before Mubarak was forced to resign on February 11 after 18 days of protests. After Mubarak’s ouster, the protesters continued to press for the prosecution of Mubarak and his cronies for what they say were years of abuse and corruption.

Salem was charged last month along with Mubarak and the ex-president’s two sons. Their trial is scheduled for August 3.

Salem is said to have won lucrative land and other deals, including exporting gas to Israel, because of his connections to Mubarak. The natural gas deal has come under severe public criticism.

Salem, an ex-army and intelligence officer, was a close associate of Mubarak from his early days in office three decades ago.

Lawyers for Salem standing outside the Spanish courtroom where he was being questioned Friday declined to comment or give their names.

A National Police statement says the money frozen by Spain was funneled into Salem family and business accounts through a series of companies created by the detained frontman. It did not name the latter, but said he was Turkish and gave his initials as A.E. It was not immediately clear which case would be given priority by the Spanish court, the Spanish money laundering probe or Egypt’s charges against Salem.

Complicating things further is Salem’s Spanish passport, which might help his lawyers argue against extraditing him to Egypt.

The king’s speech will be broadcast on television and radio from 9:00 pm (2000 GMT), the palace announced Thursday, without referring to his topic.

The address will be a week after he was handed proposals from a commission he appointed in March to draw up constitutional reforms after the nationwide demonstrations, inspired by other popular uprisings sweeping the Arab world.

An official said on condition of anonymity that Mohammed VI would use his speech to outline the proposed amendments, which are expected to be put to a national referendum early next month.

“The king is going to present the broad lines of the constitutional revision which has been submitted to political parties and will be made public after the speech,” he said.

He “will also call for a ‘yes’ vote for the plan to revise the current constitution,” the source

Moroccan police use truncheons to break up a new pro-reform demonstration in Casablanca, May 2011. Morocco's King Mohammed VI addresses the nation when he will unveil reform proposals likely to include curbs on his wide-ranging powers after weeks of demonstrations to demand change.

(AFP/File/Chafik) told AFP. Egypt in January and February.

The 47-year-old monarch, A member of the panel that who took over in 1999, holds vir- worked on the reform proposals tually all power in the Islamic told AFP they include a major north African country, and is transfer of powers from also its top religious authority Mohammed VI to the prime minas the holy Commander of the ister, who would be able to Faithful. appoint key ministers, and the The keenly awaited reforms independence of the judiciary. are intended to transform the The reforms also foresee kingdom’s political system into indigenous Berber becoming an a constitutional monarchy, as official language alongside demanded by the February 20 Arabic, the commission member Movement named after the date said last week. This would be a of its first nationwide pro- first in the Maghreb region of reform protests. north Africa.

The youth-led group has The proposals also say Islam brought thousands of people would remain the state religion onto the streets in unprecedent- but freedom of belief would be ed calls for change, on the back guaranteed while the king’s staof uprisings that toppled the tus as “holy” would be dropped, autocratic rulers of Tunisia and sources said.

Senegal may create VP post in 2012 election

By SADIBOU MARONE DAKAR, Senegal - Senegal’s Cabinet has proposed changing the country’s constitution to create the post of vice president in time for next year’s election, making way for an automatic succession in the event of the president’s death.

Senegal’s opposition criticized the proposal issued late Thursday, saying it is a way for President Abdoulaye Wade to bring his controversial son into

power without having to be elected by the people.

Wade, who is 85, created a stir in 2009 when he announced plans to run for a third, extraconstitutional term.

Because of his age, many fear Wade will not live to the end of a new five-year term and his death in office could destabilize one of the few long-standing democracies in the region. A local court recently fined a doctor who publicly said that Wade is too ill to run for a third term, charging her with disrupting public order.

Although Wade has said that he has the energy to serve into his 90s, the president has delegated more and

more power to his eldest child, Karim Wade, who is minister of state and who was recently also appointed minister of energy.

The younger Wade is deeply unpopular and is frequently criticized in opposition newspapers, where he has been accused of embezzling state funds. In 2009, he headed a slate of candidates in Dakar’s municipal election which was trounced by the opposition.

“This initiative of Wade’s is a new way to deform the constitution of our country,” opposition leader Moustapha Niasse said. “This proposal conceals a process of succession, since

what Wade wants is to create a mechanism that will allow him to stay in power by designating a successor.”

The proposal needs to be voted on by the National Assembly. If adopted, it would mean that in the event of the president’s death, the vice president would assume the functions of president, just like in the United States.

In the current system modeled after France, the country’s colonial ruler, if the president dies in office, the head of the Senegalese senate becomes president for a brief period until the country can organize new elections.

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Nigerian Islamist sect claims bomb attack: report

By JOE BROCK ABUJA - An Islamist sect claimed responsibility on Friday for a bomb attack on Nigeria’s police headquarters, according to a statement sent to a local newspaper.

Police said they a suicide believed bomber detonated the explosives which tore through a car park outside the headquarters in the capital Abuja on Thursday, killing several people.

They blamed Islamist sect Boko Haram for what would be the first suicide bombing in Nigeria’s history if confirmed.

The Daily Trust, a newspaper with a large readership in the mostly-Muslim north, on Friday published what it said was a statement signed by Abu Zaid, a spokesman for Boko Haram.

“We would speak on the details of the Mujahid (bomber) at the appropriate time but the fact is that he is a martyr who sacrificed his life for the sake of Allah,” the statement

Members of emergency services work at the scene of an explosion at a police station after a suspected suicide bomber was killed and many vehicles were destroyed in Abuja.

Photo/Afolabi Sotunde said.

It did not make clear if the bomber had killed himself intentionally.

Security analysts say it is unclear whether the bomber meant to blow himself up or whether the explosives detonated accidentally while he was still in the vehicle.

Boko Haram has an ill-defined structure and chain of command and it was not possible to verify the statement

independently.

At least two people were confirmed killed in the blast: the driver of the vehicle which exploded and a police officer who got into the car at a security checkpoint.

Five body bags were taken from the scene containing body parts and the Red Cross said it was too soon to give a toll.

The blast comes less

than three weeks after President Goodluck Jonathan was sworn in for his first full term in office and follows three coordinated bombs, one inside a military barracks, in the hours following his inauguration.

The violence has catapulted national security to the top of his agenda before he has even formed a new government.

POSSIBLE MILITANT LINKS Attacks by Boko Haram, which wants a wider application of strict sharia Islamic law, had largely been confined to the area around the northeastern city of Maiduguri until recently.

Its former leader, self-proclaimed Islamic scholar Mohammed Yusuf, was shot dead in police custody during a 2009 uprising in which hundreds were killed.

His mosque was destroyed with tanks in what the security forces claimed as a decisive victory.

But low-level guerrilla attacks on police stations and targeted killings, including of traditional leaders and moderate Islamic clerics, intensified in the second half of last year.

The group claimed responsibility for Christmas Eve bombings in the central city of Jos and for the bomb attacks which killed at least 16 people when Jonathan was inaugurated on May 29.

The vehicle which exploded on Thursday appeared to have tailed the convoy of Police Insepctor-General Hafiz Ringim, who had

entered the building moments before the blast, suggesting it may have been an assassination attempt, officials said.

Ringim provoked an angry response from Boko Haram members last week when he said their days were “numbered”. A letter, claiming to be from Boko Haram, was delivered to a newspaper in Maiduguri the next day warning of more attacks.

“Very soon we shall embark on jihad on the enemies of God and his prophet,” said the letter, written in Hausa, the main language in northern Nigeria.

It said some of its fighters had trained in Somalia, where al Qaeda-linked alShabaab rebels control swathes of the country and are fighting the Western-backed government.

Intelligence sources say there is evidence that some members of Boko Haram trained over the border in Niger where Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) is known to have a presence, but no evidence of links to Somali militants has ever been made public.

Police fear payback for Papua New Guinea leader

By ROD McGUIRK CANBERRA, Australia - Police have increased security around Papua New Guinea’s acting prime minister for fear of a traditional revenge attack after his 21-year-old son was accused of murdering a woman at the family home, an official said Friday.

A cordon was thrown around Acting Prime Minister Sam Abal’s house in the capital, Port Moresby, where police allege his son, Theo Abal, slashed the throat of a 29-year-old hostess he met in a bar Monday, police

spokesman Dominic Kakas said.

The cultural practice of payback has a long tradition in the South Pacific’s most populous island nation, with a murder victim’s clan often taking out revenge on the killer or his family.

“It does happen, and we’re not saying it won’t happen, so we’ve taken all precautions to protect the acting prime minister,” Kakas said.

“It usually is an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth, but we try to make peace between tribes, and in a lot of instances, common sense prevails,” he said.

Kakas said the youngest of Sam Abal’s two sons, who was adopted, will be charged with willful murder.

But first, relatives of the woman, who came from a province more than 60 miles (100 kilometers) northwest of Port Moresby, must formally identify her body, he said. The woman went by the name Theresa, but her full name has not been released.

According to Kakas, “the suspect confessed in his statement to having killed the lady.”

Kakas declined to comment on the motive.

Theo Abal, who is unemployed and was living with his father in the house, was arrested at a Port Moresby hotel Tuesday and remained in police custody Friday. He could face the death penalty if convicted.

A guard at the house told police he saw Abal

and the woman arrive home in the early hours of Monday and head for a garden on the premises. Police said that the guard later heard the woman scream and that Abal confessed to killing her.

Kakas said a kitchen knife found near her body was the suspected weapon.

Sam Abal said he personally reported the “alleged murder” to Police Commissioner Tony Wagambie on Monday.

He made no comment on his son’s alleged confession, but pledged to cooperate fully. He said in a statement Tuesday that if any of his relatives were involved,

“they will face the full brunt of the law and will not be treated differently from anyone else.”

Papua New Guinea has had the death penalty for only a few years and has yet to carry out an execution, though a handful of convicted killers have been sentenced to death, Kakas said.

Gaddafi government talking to rebels:Russia envoy in Libya TUNIS - Representatives of Muammar Gaddafi’s government are in contact across Europe with members of the Libyan rebellion trying to break his 41-year rule, Russia’s envoy to Libya said, citing Tripoli’s prime minister.

Mikhail Margelov, President Dmitry Medvedev’s special representative for Africa, met Al-Baghdadi Ali Al-Mahmoudi in the Libyan capital on Thursday as part of Moscow’s efforts to help end the conflict, which entered its fourth month on Friday.

Speaking to reporters in Tunis on Friday Margelov said the prime minister had told him that representatives from his government were in contact with officials from Benghazi in several European capitals, including France, Germany and Norway.

“The prime minister wanted to tell me that they have a sort of communication channel with the Transitional National Council,” Margelov said.

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CARIBBEAN NEWS DAILY CHALLENGE TUESDAY, JUNE 21, 2011

Brand Jamaica showcased at Diaspora convention OCHO RIOS, Jamaica — Jamaica Promotions Corporation (JAMPRO) and the Jamaica Business D e v e l o p m e n t (JBDC) Corporation have teamed up to display the best of Jamaican products and investment opportunities at this year’s staging of the Jamaican Diaspora Convention 2011, which is being held in Ocho Rios from June 15 to 17. This year’s conference is being held under the theme: “One Nation: Jamaica and its Diaspora in partnership”.

During the course of the convention, JAMPRO will be engaging members of the Diaspora in discussion on the many trade and investment opportunities that currently exist in the island. The key sectors being promoted by the agency include agriculture/agro-pro-

From left: Earl Jarrett, chairman of the Jamaican Diaspora Foundation and Senator Marlene Malahoo Forte, Minister of State in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade, engage in discussion with Dawnelle Gilzean, inventory officer at the Jamaica Business Development Corporation (JBDC) and Margaret Walker, consulting officer at JAMPRO, during their visit to the JAMPRO/JBDC booth at the Jamaican Diaspora Convention in Ocho Rios. cessing, knowledge services/information and communication technology (ICT), tourism, creative industries, and manufacturing.

For its part, JBDC will be using the opportunity to gain insight into the buying patterns and information

gathering sources of the members of the Diaspora. Under the banner of its Things Jamaican retail arm, the JBDC will be using the event as a platform to showcase the creativity and ingenuity of the local manufacturing sector.

Things Jamaican

currently markets authentic Jamaican products on behalf of local suppliers across the island, and will be seeking attract greater interest from the Diaspora in the many gift and craft items that are available for sale.

Among the products holding pride of place

in the exhibit are the world renowned Blue Mountain coffee, art and craft pieces including ceramics and papier-mâché. Also included are condiments, sauces and confections such as tamarind balls and mint sweets.

JAMPRO is also actively promoting the Meet Jamaica initiative, which has been receiving positive responses from the delegates at the convention. Meet Jamaica is a privatepublic sector collaborative effort between the Private Sector Organisation of Jamaica (PSOJ) and JAMPRO, designed to increase the trade of goods and services between Jamaica and the United Kingdom by capitalising on the global brand platform afforded by the 2012 London Olympics.

During a visit to the JAMPRO/JBDC exhibition booth, Minister of

State in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade, Senator Marlene Malahoo Forte, and chairman of the Jamaican Diaspora Foundation, Earl Jarrett, commended both entities on their efforts in promoting Brand Jamaica.

Senator Malahoo Forte underscored the importance of increasing the awareness of members of the Diaspora as it relates to available investment and trade opportunities, as Jamaicans residing overseas represent a strong base of potential investors and importers of Jamaican products and services.

The fourth biennial Jamaica Diaspora Convention is expected to attract approximately 300 Jamaicans currently residing in the United Kingdom, United States of America, Canada and other parts of the world.

Jamaica to sign solar energy MoU with US company

By ALPHEA SAUNDERS KINGSTON, Jamaica (JIS) — J a m a i c a ’ s Department of Local Government is to sign a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with American company, Green E n e r g y Management, to test a new set of

solar energy tech- Government Tuesday. nologies.

The partnership forms part of the Department’s thrust to establish a number of alternative energy projects.

Minister of State in the Office of the Prime Minister with responsibility for Local Government Reform, Robert Montague made the announcement at a media roundtable, organised by the Department of Local

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He explained that the Department had embarked on a number of alternative energy projects at the community level, including a windmill and solar panel, which is now being installed at the Trelawny Infirmary, and solar street lights.

Meanwhile, he noted that, in 2009, the Department embarked on “an ambitious and cost-saving experiment

in the form of using bio-diesel for our solid waste trucks”. This involved 20 trucks at an initial investment outlay of $273,000, using 3,650 litres of biodiesel, in partnership with Jamaica Biofuels.

“We used to collect all the used oil from hotels and restaurants and then truck them to Montego Bay. We handed that oil to Jamaica Biofuels, and they had a 96 percent conversion rate of oil to biodiesel,”

Montague explained.

He said the experiment proved successful, saving the National Solid Waste Management Authority (NSWMA) 20 percent in fuel and operational costs.

“There is every intention to broaden the application of this to other fleets in the local government system,” Montague said.

Montague also updated the media on other areas of his port-

folio, such as: property tax collection; innovation in the operations of the NSWMA; improvements in the Jamaica Fire Brigade; energy saving initiatives; income generating activities for parish councils; increased efficiencies in the development approval process; the Ananda Alert system; disaster preparedness; infirmaries; and the financial management system for parish councils.

St Kitts-Nevis PM urges international support for regional public health agency GEORGETOWN, Guyana — The prime minister of St Kitts and Nevis, Dr Denzil Douglas, on Monday made a strong call for international development partners to throw their support behind the new Caribbean Regional Public Health Agency (CARPHA)

which the C a r i b b e a n Community (CARICOM) will legally establish by July of this year.

Douglas, who has lead responsibility for Human Resources Development, Health and HIV and AIDS in CARICOM’s quasiCabinet of the Conference of Heads of Government, was deliv-

ering the feature address to an audience of international development partners and other key stakeholders at CARPHA’s second annual partners’ conference held in Washington under the theme: Charting the Future in Health and Development in the Caribbean.

The one-day conference, which was held at the headquarters of the

Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), sought to update stakeholders on the progress towards the regional public health agency and to cement further support for the agency.

In acknowledging the support of key partners, including the PanAmerican Health Organisation (PAHO), the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom and France,

Douglas pointed to the pivotal role that the regional public health agency would play in pooling much needed resources to bolster the fight against both HIV and AIDS and chronic non-communicable diseases in the Caribbean.

He explained that the role of public health in reducing the impact of the communicable and non-communicable diseases is being identified

as “a critical component of sustaining economic development” and pointed out that the costs of responding adequately to both HIV and NCDs were enormous.

CARPHA, he stated, would be the bridge for “channeling scarce resources and fostering shared responsibility and institutionalizing effective management within the Community’s public health sector.”

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Tunisia’s Ben Ali says he was tricked into leaving

By TAREK AMARA TUNIS - Tunisia’s ousted president Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali said Monday he was tricked into leaving the country six months ago, setting the stage for a revolution which inspired the “Arab Spring” rippling across the region.

Ben Ali fled to Saudi Arabia on January 14, after mass protests against 23 years of rule in which he, his wife and their family built stakes in the country’s biggest businesses and accumulated vast fortunes at what Tunisians say was their expense.

A Tunisian court began trying Ben Ali and his wife in absentia on charges of theft, and illegally possessing arms, jewelry, cash, drugs and weapons.

Hundreds of protesters stood outside the courtroom demanding that Ben Ali, 74, be brought back to Tunisia.

Tunisia’s revolt electrified millions across the Arab world who suffer similarly from high unemployment, rising prices and repressive governments. Ben Ali’s trial will be watched closely in Egypt, where former president Hosni Mubarak is due to stand trial over the killing of protesters.

In a statement issued by his lawyers, Ben Ali gave his first detailed account of the events leading to his departure.

At the time, thousands of protesters had gathered in the center of the capital Tunis to demand that he step down, the culmination of three weeks of demonstrations which police tried to disperse by firing on the crowds.

The statement said that the head of presi-

dential security had come to Ben Ali in his office and told him “friendly” foreign intelligence services had passed on information about a plot to assassinate the president.

He was persuaded to get on a plane that was taking his wife and children to safety in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, but with the intention of returning immediately, the statement said.

“He boarded the plane with his family after ordering the crew to wait for him in Jeddah. But after his arrival in Jeddah, the plane returned to Tunisia, without waiting for him, contrary to his orders.

“He did not leave his post as president of the republic and hasn’t fled Tunisia as he was falsely accused of doing,” the statement said.

MORE FREEDOM Ben Ali’s version of events is unlikely to elicit sympathy from

the majority of Tunisians. They are now enjoying relative freedom after decades when most people would not speak openly for fear of arrest by the secret police.

The trial which got under way Monday is likely to shed light on the belief widely held in Tunisia that Ben Ali, his wife Leila Trabelsi, and members of their family had enriched themselves by embezzling state assets.

Before Ben Ali’s ouster, diplomats spoke of Tunisia’s first lady spending hundreds of thousands of dollars on shopping trips abroad, while her relatives acquired yachts and beachside villas and used their influence to muscle in on lucrative businesses.

Judge Touhami Hafian detailed how investigators who went to the presidential palace and Ben Ali’s private residence after he fled found 1.8 kg of ille-

gal drugs and 43 million Tunisian dinars ($31 million) in cash.

He said they had also come across jewelry, archeological artifacts, and arms, all of which he said Ben Ali had obtained illegally.

The prosecutor asked the judge to hand down “the most severe punishments for those who betrayed the trust and stole the money of the people for their personal gain .... They did not stop stealing for 23 years.”

In his statement released Monday, Ben Ali said the charges against him were a fabrication designed to blacken his name.

He said the weapons were gifts from other heads of state and the jewelry had been given as gifts to his wife by foreign dignitaries.

The money and drugs had been planted in his home and the presidential palace after his departure as part of a plot against him, he

said in the statement.

He also denied having any bank accounts in Switzerland or any other foreign country, and said that he did not own any property overseas.

Outside the courtroom, several hundred protesters chanted “How long will he be allowed to flee?” Some demanded that Ben Ali be sentenced to death.

“Why did they start with the trial over the drugs and weapons and stolen money?” said a woman protester. “Why don’t they start with a trial for killing hundreds of people?”

Ben Ali is also due to face a separate trial, in a Tunisian military court, on charges that include conspiring against the state and manslaughter.

In the statement released through his lawyers, Ben Ali denied giving the order to fire on protesters.

Japan defers tax hike plan as PM sets conditions to quit

By STANLEY WHITE TOKYO - Japan’s government on Monday delayed endorsing tax and social security reforms aimed at curbing huge public debt amid reports that unpopular Prime Minister Naoto Kan would not keep his pledge to quit until key legislation was enacted.

The latest political dithering comes as Japan struggles to contain a nuclear disaster at Tokyo Electric Power Co’s Fukushima plant and rebuild from the massive March 11 earthquake and tsunami that devastated its northeast region.

The ruling Democratic Party of Japan’s (DPJ) panel on tax and social security reforms failed to sign off on a government proposal to raise the

sales tax in stages to 10 percent by the fiscal year starting in April 2015 after several lawmakers sought assurances that taxes would not be raised until the economy was strong enough to cope with the impact.

“We can’t decide on this today. What we should do is to give our proposals to the government and debate the matter further,” Hiroshi Ogushi, a member of the party panel, told reporters.

“Looking at the atmosphere in this room, I don’t think the government can hold its meeting on taxes today.

We have to work more with the government,” said Sakihito Ozawa, the panel’s No. 2 official.

A meeting of government ministers and party that had been scheduled to endorse the plan was subsequently postponed.

A delay on the finer details of the plan would do little to soothe worries of credit ratings

agencies about Japan’s large public debt and persistent political deadlock.

Authorities have vowed to decide on the tax and welfare reform

by June 20, fearing that failing it could undermine credibility of Japan’s fiscal discipline in financial markets.

Raising the sales tax in stages to 10 percent by 2015/15 could generate around 12.8 trillion yen ($160 billion) in extra revenue for the central government and regional governments.

Kan plans to earmark most sales tax revenue for welfare.

Even if the unpopular premier could win intraparty backing for the tax and welfare reforms, the government still needs opposition votes to pass bills in a divided parliament.

But opposition parties are refusing to cooperate while Kan stays in his post.

TO QUIT, OR NOT TO QUIT Kan, already Japan’s fifth premier in as

many years, survived a no-confidence vote earlier this month after promising critics in his own party he would quit over his handling of the March 11 earthquake, but declined to say when.

Kan wants to oversee passage of three laws — one enabling bond issuance to help fund the $1 trillion budget for the year from April, a second extra budget to deal with the aftermath of the tsunami, and a bill introducing a feedin-tariff system to promote renewable energy sources, Kyodo news agency quoted the DPJ’s

No. 2 as telling opposition counterparts.

Party SecretaryGeneral Katsuya Okada also proposed extending the current session of parliament, set to end on Wednesday, for four months and said the government wanted to submit a third and bigger extra budget to fund rebuilding from the disasters by early September, Kyodo said.

Concerned about Japan’s huge debt and political deadlock, ratings agencies are threatening to downgrade the country’s sovereign debt.

Social security spend-

ing accounts for almost a third of the state budget, which totals 92.4 trillion yen for the fiscal year that started in April and grows steadily due to an aging population.

But even a credible plan to raise taxes and cut healthcare spending probably will not prevent a downgrade as long-term growth prospects are weak, Moody’s Investors Service said last month when it decided to review Japan’s rating.

Standard & Poor’s and Fitch also have a negative outlook on Japan.

Pakistan militants force girl to wear suicide vest ISLAMABAD - An eight-year-old Pakistani girl was kidnapped by Islamist militants who forced her to wear a suicide vest to attack security forces, police said on Monday.

Police produced the girl, identified as Sohana Javaid, before a news conference broadcast on Pakistani television channels.

The girl recalled how she was kidnapped from her hometown of Peshawar and brought to the Lower Dir district in the northwest.

“There were two men and two women sitting in a car. They kidnapped me,” she told reporters in Dir. Forced to wear a suicide vest, she was transported to a security check post.

“They put one suicide vest on me, but it did not fit. Then they put on a second one,” Sohana said. “I threw away the vest and started shouting (for help) as I came close to the checkpost and they (security forces) took me into custody.”

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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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Study: Food allergies affect 1 in 12 kids

By GENEVRA PITTMAN One in 12 kids in the United States may have a food allergy, according to new findings based on an online survey.

The study, published June 20th in Pediatrics, also showed that more than one third of those kids had severe allergies, and that allergies were more common in minority kids.

Allergies are a particularly difficult chronic condition because kids can’t escape food in any part of their daily lives, said lead author Dr. Ruchi Gupta, from the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago.

“What I hope this paper will do is open this awareness to how common (food allergy) is and how severe it can be, and develop policies for schools and sporting events and any activities that kids participate in to make it clear that everybody is looking out for these kids,” she told Reuters Health.

Previous studies have estimated that anywhere

between 2 and 8 of every 100 kids in the U.S. has a food allergy.

But most of those reports are based on studies that asked participants many different health questions, including only a few related to allergies, Gupta said.

Other studies have also looked at emergency room trips for allergic reactions, or evaluated doctors’ diagnoses in medical records.

Gupta and her colleagues instead wanted to design a study focused solely on the rate and severity of food allergies. They surveyed a

nationally representative sample of almost 40,000 U.S. adults who lived with a child under 18.

Those adults filled out an online questionnaire about allergies based on a single kid in their household, reporting whether or not the child had any signs and symptoms of a food allergy, had ever been diagnosed with an allergy by a doctor, and had ever had a severe allergic reaction to food.

The results, published today in Pediatrics, showed that 8 percent of kids had a diagnosed food allergy or

convincing symptoms that indicated an allergy - almost 6 million U.S. kids, the researchers said. Kids were most commonly allergic to peanuts, milk, and shellfish.

What was interesting was not just how many kids had allergies, Gupta said, but how many of those allergies were severe - cutting off a kid’s airway or causing blood pressure to drop.

“One of our big findings was that 2 in 5 kids who had allergies had a severe reaction or a life-threatening reaction,” Gupta said.

“There are a lot of misconceptions of what allergies are,” she added. “When you think of allergies, you don’t think of life-threatening.”

Severe reactions were more common in older kids, possibly because young kids with allergies are more likely to be monitored by parents to make sure they stay away from potential allergy triggers, Gupta explained.

She and her colleagues also found that black and Asian kids had higher chances of having a food allergy than white kids - but that they were less likely to have that allergy diagnosed

by a doctor.

That disparity “needs to be addressed,” Dr. Scott Sicherer, an allergy researcher at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York, told Reuters Health.

“The family is saying that their child had convincing reactions and yet they weren’t really evaluated to confirm that with a doctor,” said Sicherer, who was not involved in the study.

“Is that because they’re not getting the health care they need? Is that because there’s not an appropriate amount of concern? I would be worried that the next reaction could be severe and they’re not prepared for it.”

While the findings can’t show whether or not food allergies are on the rise, Gupta thinks that’s the case.

“As a clinician, I see it a lot more,” Gupta said. Sicherer agreed that he thinks food allergies are becoming more frequent, but said that researchers aren’t sure why that is.

The next question, Gupta said, is whether there is something going on in the environment that is driving that increase.

Portable pools pose drowning risk for young children

By STEVEN REINBERG Portable swimming pools, including the increasingly popular, inflatable models, pose serious risks to young children, experts warn.

In a new study, investigators at Nationwide Children’s Hospital in Columbus, Ohio, detail the drowning deaths of more than 200 children under 12 years old linked to a variety of above-ground pools, some large and deep, others small and shallow.

“About every five days a child drowns in a portable pool in the U.S.,” said lead researcher Dr. Gary A. Smith, director of the hospital’s Center for Injury Research and Policy.

Because these pools are inexpensive and easy to assemble, many parents may not consider them as big a risk as in-ground pools, he said. The greatest risks are for children younger than 5 years, the researchers found.

The report, published in the June 20 online edition of Pediatrics, highlights the need for safety precautions

around all pools, safety advocates said.

“Safe Kids has been concerned about the increasing use of backyard pools that are too small for consumers to consider investing in fencing but too large to make them easy to empty and secure safely after each use,” said Meri-K Appy, president of Safe Kids USA in a statement Friday. “This important study confirms our speculation that portable pools in backyards across America pose special risks to young children.”

For the study, Smith’s team used 2001-2009 data from the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission.

During this period, the researchers identified 209 drowning deaths and 35 near-drownings in children under 12.

They found that 94 percent of the children were under 5 and most (56 percent) were boys. In addition, about three-quarters of the deaths took place in the child’s own yard, usually during the summer.

More than 40 percent of the drownings occurred

when the child was being supervised; 39 percent happened with no adult supervision; and 18 percent were blamed on a lapse of supervision.

About 40 percent of the drownings happened in a shallow wading pool, Smith said.

“That’s in 18 inches or less of water,” Smith said. “Children can drown in very small amounts of water.

Very young children can drown in a five-gallon bucket with water in the bottom. It only takes a couple of inches and a few minutes.”

“Close supervision of young children around water is really important, but supervision alone isn’t enough,” he continued.

While a variety of safety measures such as alarms and fencing are available for in-ground pools, Smith said, this is not the case for portable pools.

The researchers call for industry development of affordable fencing and reliable pool alarms and covers for portable pools.

Many techniques used to deny access to in-ground

pools, such as fencing, cost more than a portable pool itself, he said. “We have to come up with other strategies that are affordable and effective for portable pools.”

Experts said the study also raises concerns about pool ladders. “Most of the kids got into the pool using a ladder that was provided with the pool,” Smith said.

He suggested removing the pool ladder when no one is bathing and storing it where children can’t get to it.

Dr. Barbara Gaines, director of trauma and injury prevention at Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh, said that “this reminds us that while water is very inviting for children, it is also extremely hazardous.”

Parents need to be very watchful when their children are in and around water, including pools, ponds and bathtubs, Gaines said.

“Never underestimate water.”

Gaines advises parents who have wading pools to empty it out when the pool is not in use. “That’s the safest thing,” she said.

Also, parents must active-

ly supervise their children, Gaines said. “Someone has to be on pool duty.”

Safe Kids promotes a poolsafety concept called “Lock, Look and Learn”: LOCK: Erect fencing at least 4 feet high with a selflatching gate and keep it locked at all times unless an adult is present.

LOOK: Parents and caregivers should watch children in or near the water at all times, and not socialize, read or sleep.

LEARN: “Adults should learn to swim themselves and provide swimming lessons to their children from an early age,” Appy said. They should also know how to respond to an emergency — “use rescue equipment, call 911 and perform CPR,” she added.

NEW JERSEY

DAILY CHALLENGE TUESDAY, JUNE 21, 2011

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Looming vote over public worker benefits highlights rift between N.J. Democrats

By CHRIS MEGERIAN TRENTON Trenton’s streets were dark Wednesday night as union leader Hetty Rosenstein headed back to the Statehouse for yet another meeting with Assembly Speaker Sheila Oliver.

With the door shut, they went toe-to-toe one last time over a plan to cut public worker benefits. Even though Gov. Chris Christie had already announced a deal with lawmakers, Oliver (D-Essex) was still holding out hope for a compromise with the union.

But the talks stalled.

Rosenstein, state director for the Communications Workers of America, wanted details of a lowcost health plan written into the final bill instead of leaving it up to a new state panel composed of union workers and state managers, according to sources with knowledge of the negotiations.

There was no deal, and Oliver was done talking.

When Rosenstein left her

office, Oliver was ready to push forward on the most controversial issue in Trenton - without the support of any union or the majority of her caucus.

State Workers Rally Against Pension Bill 616-11 Today that behindthe-scenes drama will play out in full public view as the 124-page pension and benefits bill is vetted by the Assembly Budget Committee. It will also put Oliver to the test as she confronts disgruntled members of her own party and the public employee unions that have helped keep Democrats in power.

Assembly Majority Leader Joseph Cryan (DUnion) blasted the bill as a betrayal of party principles, and unions have threatened to remember at the ballot box who crossed them.

Oliver said she’s unconcerned with any backlash and is focused on what she calls the big picture - the pleas of mayors grappling with bursting budgets and the widening hole in the state’s pension system.

“Leadership is having the courage to swim upstream when the current is going the other way,” she said. “I know it’s the right thing to

do.”

The bill, which will also be voted on by the full Senate today, would force public workers to pay more of their salaries toward their pensions, which would no longer include costof-living adjustments.

Retirement ages for new employees would be increased, and all public employees would pay more for their health benefits.

In response, unions say the bill restricts their collective bargaining rights, and they accuse politicians of unfairly blaming them for the state’s budget problems.

Overhauling pension and health benefits for public workers has been a signature issue for Christie. But in recent weeks the crucial players have been Oliver and Senate President Stephen Sweeney (DGloucester), the ironworker labor leader who has sought to curtail public employee benefits for years. With the normally bullish governor largely watching from the sidelines, Oliver and Sweeney went to work building support within their own party and trying to win over wary union leaders.

On June 13, Sweeney, the bill’s architect, headed to Atlantic City to

meet with international and state union leaders at the Borgata hotel and casino.

Democratic sources described the talks as initially productive but ultimately in vain. Sweeney later accused labor leaders of dishonesty in rejecting compromises.

“What they did to their membership is despicable,” he said. “They lied to their members.”

Oliver, who said she was able to win key changes to improve the bill for workers, kept negotiating through Wednesday.

At that point, Oliver said, the governor’s press release Wednesday night left enough breathing room for lawmakers to introduce Sweeney’s bill or another proposal in the Senate Budget Committee the next day.

Democrats were still hoping to stave off protests scheduled for Thursday, but the unions didn’t bite.

“I started out at 5 o’clock that morning and got home at 11 o’clock at night,” Oliver said. “I was tired and went to bed.”

Rosenstein later said Democrats never presented a deal worth accepting, and Thursday morning the Statehouse was flooded with thou-

N.J. Assembly Speaker Sheila Oliver (D-Essex), left, speaks with Assembly Majority Leader Joseph Cryan (D-Union) in this 2010 file photo.

The recent deal struck to cut public worker benefits has fractured long-standing coalitions within the state Democratic Party. sands of union protest- have to take bad mediers denouncing Oliver cine.” and Sweeney.

Meanwhile, union Inside the Statehouse, members unloaded on Sweeney testified on the Democrats, as well as bill as public workers in Christie.

Georgianna the audience hissed. Gonzer of Stanhope, a When he finished, he 44-year worker at took a seat at the com- Greystone Park mittee table and listened Psychiatric Hospital, for hours as union lead- said Democrats “stabbed ers blasted him and the us in the back.” proposal.

“Labor helped them “I knew they weren’t get where they are,” she going to say nice said. “And instead they things,” Sweeney said vote against us.” later. “But I still owed Despite union opposithem the respect of lis- tion, the bill is poised to tening to them.” pass the Assembly comWith the help of four mittee today. Some Democrats, the commit- Democrats said they tee passed the bill 9-4. hope to reopen negotia“He’s put his neck on tions. the line,” Sen. Joseph “It’s not over yet,” Pennacchio (R-Morris) Assemblyman Tom said of Sweeney. “It’s Giblin (D-Essex) said. hard to tell people you “It’s a work in progress.”

Teachers blast Jersey City schools for not consulting them when applying for $6M grant

By RHEA MAHBUBANI The Jersey City school district’s application for a $6 million federal education grant has raised the hackles of the teachers union.

“My issue is with the manner in which the proposal was made without the cooperation of the union, school faculty, or parents,” Jersey City Education Association President Thomas Favia said recently of the competitive School Improvement Grant.

If approved, this three-year grant would give Lincoln High School $2 million a year through 2014. The grant, however, has stipulations that call for longer school hours and 50 percent of teachers being removed from Lincoln.

At the May 25 Board of Education meeting, Ron Greco, a crisis intervention teacher, said that faculty signatures were collected under false pretenses.

“The teachers signed an attendance sheet at a meeting (in March)

where this grant was announced,” said Favia, adding the attendance sheet was then attached to the application that was submitted to the New Jersey Department of Education.

“The document implies that (the district) conferred and discussed this program with the union and received input from us. That’s just not true.”

School district spokeswoman Paula Christen said the teachers’ signatures were required to complete the application that was sub-

mitted on April 26.

The signatures, she said, were collected at two meetings with teachers first on March 7 as part of a faculty meeting; and then the next day when teachers filled out a needs- assessment survey.

But she stressed, the roughly 130 signatures collected only indicate that faculty members had the opportunity to give input. “It wasn’t an endorsement” of the application, she said.

The sheets that the faculty and staff members signed has a state-

ment printed at the bottom that clearly states: “The signature does not assume full approval of the needs assessment and application development. Rather, the signature denotes participation.”

Under the federal No Child Left Behind Act, Lincoln High is considered a Tier 1 school in need of improvement because of low test scores, Christen said.

“The Turnaround Model was chosen, which requires rehiring no more than 50 percent of the staff and the

school year must be extended by 300 hours,” she said. “The focus for the grant is for Lincoln to become a Leadership Academy.”

Favia argues that adding hours to the classroom schedule requires approval from the union. If the district attempts to take unilateral action, Favia said his union will file a grievance and take the matter to court.

“If you want to go outside the teachers’ contract, bring in the union they need to negotiate with us,” he said.

DAILY CHALLENGE TUESDAY, JUNE 21, 2011

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R&B singer Ledisi gets introspective on new album

By SABRINA FORD R&B singer Ledisi, a multiple Grammy nominee with the seal of approval from first lady Michelle Obama, is finally baring her soul on her fourth album in five years.

The New Orleans native has just released the aptly titled “Pieces of Me,” a followup to her genre-defying outing on 2009’s “Turn Me Loose.”

That album — boasting blues, rock, hip-hop and funk elements — yielded a pair of Grammy nominations, as did her 2007 breakthrough “Lost & Found.” “‘Turn Me Loose’ was an expression of just wanting to express that I loved all music. I wanted to show that soul music is in everything,” said Ledisi, who counts Chaka Khan and hip-hop group A Tribe Called Quest among her influences.

After several months trying to decide on the musical direction of “Pieces,” Ledisi decided to focus more on

what she was going to say rather than how she was going to say it.

“My executive producer Rex Rideout kept saying, ‘Don’t think about writing a

hit song. What do you want to say on this album?,’” she recalled.

On the new track “Hate Me,” Ledisi taunts a frustrated lover, singing, “I know

you hate me but you can’t stop loving me.” Another track, “Shut Up,” is directed at “all the people that thought I’d never be anything,” says Ledisi.

Not surprisingly, Ledisi found the creative process to be therapeutic. “I have a new level of confidence I didn’t know I could. Now I have my own walk and my own journey. I’m not worried about being something that I’m not or competing with others.

I’m competing with the last album that I did.”

Ledisi, born Ledisi Young, had been making waves on the independent music scene for years before gaining mainstream recognition with “Lost and Found.” She secured a dark-horse Grammy nomination for best new artist, losing to the decidedly less-prolific Amy Winehouse.

Her distinctive musical stylings and dreadlocked hair set her apart from the formulaic R&B scene, but she feels — until now — that she’s held back.

“I feel like people know I can sing, they know my image but they need to know

more about who I really am,” said Ledisi, who refuses to reveal her age.

Turns out who she really has taken some aback.

“Some people have said, ‘Wow! Did you really say that?’ Yes! Women say that,” she explains of her most honest moments on disc.

“Some things we don’t say enough.”

It was that self-assuredness that caught the attention of Michelle Obama, who counts Ledisi among her favorite artists.

When Ledisi was invited to attend a White House dinner earlier this year, the first lady lauded her resilience against music industry pressures to become a stick-thin carbon copy of current pop acts.

“She said, ‘I listen to you every morning,’” recalled Ledisi. “She really inspired me. I said, ‘I have to work harder. I have to do more.’”

And she has, by becoming more involved in philanthropy.

But her favorite thing about her most famous fan?

“She gives the best hugs!”

50 Cent to deliver Russell Simmons defends RushCard anti-bullying message against hidden fee allegations in new novel

For his next literary endeavor, 50 Cent is turning his attention to the issue of bullying.

The Penguin Young Reader Group will release the rapper’s forthcoming young adult novel “Playground,” described as a semi-autobiographical work about bullying that will

come out in January 2012.

The 34-year-old, whose real name is Curtis Jackson, has acknowledged a violent childhood and dealing drugs at an early age.

He’s also released a memoir, “From Pieces to Weight,” and a self-help guide coauthored by Robert Greene called “The 50th Law.”

The makers of the RushCard, a company owned by Def Jam co-founder and hip hop mogul Russell Simmons, were one of five prepaid debit card companies subpoenaed by the Florida Attorney General’s Office over claims they may be forcing consumers to pay hidden fees each time they make a purchase.

The investigation, which is being overseen by Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi through the Economic Crimes Division, will determine if some of these companies misrepresented their products by promising to improve credit scores, reports mybanktracker.com.

First Data Corporation, Green Dot Corporation, Account Now, Inc., Netspend Corporation and Simmons’ company, Unirush Financial Services, LLC were all named in a press release issued by the Florida Attorney General’s office in May. Also at that time, Simmons’ company released a statement in response to the subpoena

defending the transparency of the RushCard and welcoming all debate and questions.

“RushCard is the solution for people who want affordable financial services that they can customize to suit their needs,” Simmons stated.

“As I look at the payments landscape, I see the banks as the large record chains and my RushCard is looking a lot more like iTunes. I welcome the public debate because the more educated the consumers

are the more successful we become.”

More than 60 million Americans currently use the RushCard, which can be used anywhere Visa debit cards are accepted. Its website boasted that RushCard holders would pay no more than $15.90 using its prepaid debit card in comparison to the $40.67 and $41.88 they’d pay on checking account and check cashing store services, respectively.

DAILY CHALLENGE TUESDAY, JUNE 21, 2011

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Jill Scott and ‘The Light of the Sun’ When Jill Scott came on the music scene a little more than a decade ago, she wanted to let the world know who she was — so much so that she named her debut album “Who Is Jill Scott?” Since then, the Philadelphia native has won three Grammys, sold five million records worldwide, and starred in a number of movies and TV shows — from the Tyler Perry film “Why Did I Get Married?” to the HBO series “The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency.”

Now Scott is back in the music mix with a new album, out today, called “The Light of the Sun.” She tells Week-

end All Things Considered guest host Laura Sullivan that while some moments on the record are mysterious and others deeply personal, her decisions about what to reveal in a song are rarely premeditated.

“Not everything is up for conversation; not everything is up for art. But do I really discern what is and what’s not? That’s the question,” she says. “Particularly with this record, I’ve really just been standing in front of the microphone and blacking out musically. I come back a couple hours later and there’s six songs from beginning to end.”

Scott’s character in “Why Did I Get Married?” is a woman who endures a lot of emotional abuse at the hands of a philandering husband.

She says that singing songs about heartbreak, like the Light of the Sun track “Hear My Call,” is a bit like acting in that it requires getting inside a character.

“I know I’m not the only one who’s ever felt lost and confused by a broken heart,” she says. “[That song is] actually very difficult for me to sing live, because I have to embody those things in order to give permission to everyone in the audience to feel something.”

Scott doesn’t play an instrument herself, so she relies on a trusted team of musicians to help bring the songs into being. She says the process is more about creating a mood than following any specific structure.

“I give them the beat with my mouth, I give them the notes, and then I describe the textures,” says Scott. “I tell them, ‘It’s in the South. It’s hot. There’s mosquitoes everywhere and you’re drinking corn liquor to keep them away. And your favorite woman — not your only woman — has decided that she’s going to marry somebody else. Now play.’”

Stars honor absent Oprah at Daytime Emmy Awards Oprah Winfrey was not at the Daytime Emmy Awards last night at the Las Vegas Hilton, but it didn’t stop Gladys Knight, Celine Dion and Ellen DeGeneres from joining a number of stars to honor the talk show host in a special musical tribute.

Oprah was given a Crystal Pillar Award at the ceremony in recognition of the way she has changed the face of daytime television.

She accepted her accolade in a video, surrounded by her staff at Chicago’s Harpo studios.

“We are sorry we couldn’t be there to celebrate,” she said in the clip. “On behalf of the entire team, we thank you for honoring our show,

we thank you for 25 years.

This show has served as a platform to enlighten and entertain our millions of viewers … it has been a phenomenon that none of us could have imagined in our wildest dreams. None of this would have been possible without the support of the best team in television.

Thank you!”

Gladys Knight performed “That’s What Friends Are For” as a montage of the star’s shows played behind her, while Celine gave a rendition of “Because You Loved Me” from the stage at Las Vegas’ Caesar’s Palace in Oprah’s honor.

In a video message, Ellen said: “For the past 25 years,

Cicely Tyson salutes strict mom DETROIT — Actress Cicely Tyson told an audience in her home town of Detroit that her strict childhood set the stage for her acting career.

Tyson was honored Saturday at fundraising luncheon for the Braylon Edwards Foundation and said she wasn’t even allowed to go to the movies as a kid.

The lack of exposure to movies, however, didn’t cool her ardor for stage and screen.

“I knew deep down inside there was something burning I knew nothing about,” Tyson said.

The Detroit News said Tyson was one of four honorees at the luncheon along with oncologist Dr. Michael

Hicks and non-profit leaders Eleanor Josaitis and Gail Perry-Mason.

the world has been lucky to call you a friend. I will miss you and I love you.”

Barbara Walters of “The View” said of the star: “Oprah, we are always getting asked to present each other with awards … now, you are getting the Crystal Pillar Award because of your enormous contribution to daytime television.

In this, you are unique and unsurpassed.”

Meanwhile, soap opera “The Bold and the Beautiful” was the biggest winner at the ceremony – which was hosted by game show host Wayne Brady – taking home four awards including accolades for drama series, supporting actress in a drama series for

Heather Tom and younger actor in a drama series for Scott Clifton, while the directing team were jointly honored along with the “Young and the Restless.”

The lead acting awards went to Michael Park for “As the World Turns” and Laura Wright for “General Hospital.”

The other acting prizes went to Jonathan Jackson for his supporting role in “General Hospital” and to Brittany Allen as younger actress in “All My Children.”

“The Ellen DeGeneres Show” won the prize for entertainment best talk show for a second year, and “Dr. Oz” best informative talk show for the first time.

Ben Bailey of “Cash Cab” was named best game show host for a second year. He was late taking the stage at the Las Vegas Hilton, admitting that he was in the bathroom when his name was called.

The best talk show host prize was a tie between Mehmet Oz of “Dr. Oz” and Regis Philbin and Kelly Ripa of “The Regis and Kelly Show.”

Quiz mainstays “Jeopardy!” and “Wheel of Fortune” shared the Daytime Emmy for best game show.

In addition to Winfrey, the ceremony also included presentation of career achievement awards to game-show hosts Alex Trebek and Pat Sajak.

Beyonce: I don’t take being a role model lightly Unlike many artists who are afraid of the words “role model,” Beyonce says it’s her duty because she has always been in that position. The “Run The World” singer, who has had a positive career to date, says her position first started when she became a big sister and that she takes the role very seriously.

“Being a role model is something that I’ve always been. It’s not something that I became, it’s something I was already because I had a younger sister,” Beyonce tells Entertainment Tonight.

Strip away all the notoriety and fame, the 29-year-old adds: “I believe that being a role model is something that every woman is, even if you don’t realize it there is someone always watching you, there is someone that admires you. I believe we help each other so much,” she explained. “I don’t take being a role model lightly.”

Beyonce will release her fourth solo album “4,” later this month. Even though the set leaked online three weeks before its release, it is still scheduled to drop on June 27th.

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Big order helps Airbus glide over glitches

By TIM HEPHER and KYLE PETERSON LE BOURGET, France — Airbus bagged billions of dollars in orders for its revamped A320 plane on day one of a rain-sodden Paris Air Show, where it is vying with rival Boeing and trying to recover from preshow mishaps.

Airbus said yesterday it had won an order for 60 narrow-body A320neo planes worth $5.1 billion at list prices from the commercial aircraft leasing and financing arm of General Electric.

Analysts expect narrow-body planes, the backbone of fast-growing budget airlines, to be a key battleground for orders between Europe’s Airbus and U.S. rival Boeing at the biennial air show.

Airbus believes it has the upper hand with the A320neo, whose more efficient engines save airlines 15 percent in fuel costs, according to the company.

Engine maker Pratt & Whitney boss David Hess said yesterday he expected an “astounding” amount of demand for the A320neo.

Sources close to the matter said Airbus was also likely to report an

order yesterday for 30 A320neos worth about $2.4 billion at list prices from Scandinavian airline SAS. Qatar Airways said it hoped to conclude a deal this week to buy A320neo planes as well.

Boeing conceded it might lose some customers while it makes a decision about whether to re-engine or redesign its competing 737 narrow-body plane, although it was confident of winning out over the longer term.

It also upstaged Airbus with successes in other plane sizes and booked the first big order of the show for six 777-300ER wide-body jets worth $1.7 billion at list prices from Gulf carrier Qatar Airways.

Analysts expect Middle Eastern and Asian airlines to dominate the buying as they seek to boost transport links for their booming economies.

The Boeing deal came a day after Airbus unveiled plans to boost the range of its future competing A350, of which Qatar is the biggest customer.

Airbus was left redfaced following a series of mishaps on the eve of the show, including a taxiway collision involving an A380 superjumbo.

The right-hand wingtip of a test plane for the world’s largest jetliner, with a wingspan of almost 80 meters (yards), scraped a building at Le Bourget air-

port on Sunday and was withdrawn from the air show’s traditional flying displays.

The aircraft was hidden out of sight yesterday as President Nicolas Sarkozy inaugurated the show, and was a source of embarrassment for Airbus only hours after the arrival of its new competitor — Boeing’s elongated 7478 superjumbo, which is showing its distinctive silhouette abroad for the first time.

The latest version of the legendary 747 jumbo touched down in orange and red “sunrise” livery symbolizing the economic importance of Asia.

Boeing said yesterday it had taken orders and commitments for

17 747-8 Intercontinental aircraft from two undisclosed carriers in deals worth a combined $5.4 billion at list prices.

A second Airbus aircraft, the delayed European A400 airlifter, was also initially withdrawn from air display after a gearbox problem.

Despite its setbacks, Airbus is confident of racking up orders for the A320neo in particular and the air show could bring two record deals on successive if its plans come to fruition.

A $16 billion provisional deal from IndiGo to buy 180 A320neo passenger jets, first announced in January, could be finalized, although talks may also drag beyond the air show.

If sealed, that would set a record for the number of planes in one transaction.

Sources close to the matter said that deal could be rapidly eclipsed by a 200-plane order being fine-tuned between Airbus and Malaysia’s AirAsia.

Demand for aircraft is on a sharp rebound driven by demand from Asia’s rapidly growing airports and the Middle East.

“Those two markets will enjoy at least one third if not more of the demand increase for global air traffic in the next decade,” said Philip

Toy, a managing director at Alix Partners.

Airbus sales chief John Leahy said yesterday he expected to sell more planes this year than in 2010, though he declined to give an estimated figure The Airbus A320neo has also benefited from airlines’ concerns about fuel costs. Boeing said on Sunday it would decide by end-year whether to upgrade its 737 with new engines from about 2016, as Airbus has done, or build an all-new jet in 2019.

“They will sell hundreds but it is hard to tell what is gross and what is net, what is a conversion from an earlier order. There are myriad complications,” said Teal Group analyst Richard Aboulafia of the A320neo.

Orders are likely to include a confirmation of an $8 billion 100plane order from leasing giant ILFC. Russia and China will flex their muscles as potential rivals to Airbus and Boeing, especially during a Tuesday visit by Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin and some analysts expect surprise sales. But Western planemakers say it will be some time before newcomers mount a serious challenge in civil aerospace.

Brazilian group Embraer also made its presence felt, saying it had won orders for 39 190 regional jets, worth $1.7 billion at list prices.

ING eyes sale of car leasing unit, worth $5.7 billion AMSTERDAM — Dutch financial services group ING said yesterday it has put its car leasing business up for sale, in a deal Dutch media reported may be worth 4 billion euros ($5.7 billion).

ING is in the throes of a huge restructuring, forced on it as a condition of its 10-billion-euros state bailout in the 2008 financial crisis.

It has sold several assets already to raise money to repay the state, but the car leasing unit had not been earmarked previously as a possible divestment.

Just last week, ING

agreed to sell its U.S. online bank to Capital One Financial Corp. for $9 billion in cash and stock. It also plans to list its insurance operations in two separate initial public offerings.

“ING today confirmed that it is currently reviewing strategic alternatives for ING Car Lease, including discussions with third parties interested in a potential acquisition,” ING said in a statement, confirming a report in a Dutch newspaper.

ING declined to give financial details, only saying that the unit operated in eight European countries, has 240,000 cars and

employs 1,200 people.

Dutch newspaper Het Financieele Dagblad had on Monday reported that ING’s car leasing unit has about 360,000 vehicles, and put a value of 4 billion euros on the operations.

“We are positively surprised that ING Car Lease is put up for sale.

This is because the divestment of this unit was not part of the ... strategy,” said SNS analyst Lemer Salah.

The newspaper said

car leasing peers including BNP Paribas’ Arval, Rabobank subsidiary Athlon, BMWAlphabet, Volkswagon’s Leaseplan and GE Fleet Services have been approached by ING’s advisory banks to dis-

cuss a potential deal.

Salah, who said it is positive that ING is “fine tuning” its business, added that he considers Athlon, Leaseplan and Arval are the main bidders for the car leasing business.

Wall Street loses appeal on ‘hot news’ lawsuit A federal appeals court handed a major defeat to Wall Street banks in ruling that a financial news service did not misappropriate their analyst research for its website.

The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said Theflyonthewall.com Inc. did not violate

copyright law through the alleged republication of “hot news” and headlines for its namesake site.

The ruling is a defeat for Bank of America Corp’s Merrill Lynch unit, Barclays Plc and Morgan Stanley, which argued that Theflyonthewall.com

was getting a “free ride” by systematically misappropriating research, including upgrades and downgrades on stocks.

The appeals court ordered the lower court to dismiss the banks’ misappropriation claim.

“A firm’s ability to

make news — by issuing a recommendation that is likely to affect the market price of a security — does not give rise to a right for it to control who breaks that news and how,” Judge Robert Sack wrote for a threejudge appeals court panel.

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‘.brands’ approach with Internet name shake-up

By GEORGINA PRODHAN LONDON — Brand owners will soon be able to operate their own parts of the Web — such as .apple, .coke or .marlboro — if the biggest shake-up yet in how Internet domains are awarded is approved.

After years of preparation and wrangling, ICANN, the body that coordinates Internet names, was expected to approve the move at a special board meeting in Singapore yesterday.

Today, just 22 generic top-level domains (gTLDs) exist — .com, .org and .info are a few examples — plus about 250 country-level domains like .uk or .cn.

After the change, several hundred new gTLDs are expected to come into existence.

The move is seen as a big opportunity for brands to gain more control over their online presence and send visitors more directly to parts of their sites — and a danger for those who fail to take advantage.

It will also change the way search engines

like Google find results, and the way organisations use search-engine optimization to improve the visibility of their websites in search results.

“As a big brand, you ignore it at your peril,” says Theo Hnarakis, chief executive of Australian domain nameregistration firm Melbourne IT DBS, which advises companies and other organisations worldwide about how to do business online.

“We’re advising people to buy their brands, park them and redirect visitors to their existing site, at the very

least,” says Hnarakis, whose more than 3,500 customers include Volvo, Lego and GlaxoSmithKline.

If the change is approved, applications are likely to open in January for a 90-day period before closing again, potentially for years.

It will cost $185,000 to apply, and individuals or organisations will have to show a legitimate claim to the name they are buying.

ICANN is taking on hundreds of consultants to whom it will outsource the job of adjudicating claims.

“The commercial participants are the most active, aggressive and articulate members of our society,” ICANN CEO Rod Beckstrom told Reuters in a recent interview, saying trademark owners in particular were anxious about how the new regime would work.

As well as big brands, organisations such as cities or other communities are expected to apply.

GTLDs such as .nyc, .london or .food could provide opportunities for many smaller businesses to grab names no longer available at

the .com level — like bicycles.london or indian.food.

The new domains will also change how ICANN works, as it will have a role in policing how gTLDs are operated, bought and sold.

Until now, it has overseen names and performed some other tasks but has been little involved in the Internet’s thornier issues.

To prevent so-called cyber-squatting, gTLD owners will be expected to maintain operational sites. ICANN will have to approve transfers to new owners at the top level.

Panasonic sees annual profit down 11 percent after quake

By ISABEL REYNOLDS TOKYO — Japan’s Panasonic Corp forecast on Monday its fullyear operating profit would drop 11 percent to 270 billion yen ($3.4 billion) in the year to March 2012, after the earthquake and tsunami in northern Japan hit production and sales.

Like many of its rivals, Panasonic delayed its profit forecast due to lack of clarity about the effects of the quake.

Market consensus was for a profit of 262.6 billion yen, based on the average of 21 estimates by analysts

polled by Thomson Reuters I/B/E/S. The maker of Viera televisions and Lumix cameras posted a 305 billion yen profit last year, and said in April it would have raised that to 310 billion yen in the current year, if it were not for the effects of the March disaster, which damaged factories and crimped domestic demand.

Profit is set to slump to 10 billion yen for the first half of the current financial year and rebound strongly in the second half, the company said.

Demand for televisions, car-related products and mobile phones has fallen since the quake, Panasonic said

in a statement, while sales of low-energy consumption LED lighting, batteries, solar cells and housing-related products are expected to be healthy as reconstruction gets under way.

Panasonic is the world’s fourth-largest maker of flat-screen televisions by revenue after Samsung Electronics, LG Electronics and Sony, according to research firm DisplaySearch.

But domestic television sales are set to slump this year after a government incentive scheme and the switch to digital terrestrial broadcasting frontloaded demand last year, and Panasonic’s

TV business is set to languish in the red.

“Like rivals Sony and Sharp, they have structural disadvantages,” said Makoto Kikuchi, CEO of Myojo Asset management. “The low end is now all about price competition, and Chinese and South Korean makers have an advantage there. In the high end, for example 3D televisions, there were expectations, but things haven’t progressed as hoped,” he added.

Panasonic also said in April it planned to shed another 17,000 jobs and might close up to 70 factories around the world over the next two years, as it seeks to pare costs and rid itself

of overlapping businesses following its buyouts of Sanyo Electric and Panasonic Electric Works.

The takeovers were aimed at refocusing the business from consumer electronics to environmentally friendly energy products like rechargeable batteries and solar panels, in which Sanyo has technological advantages.

“There is potential, but at this point it is nothing more than potential,” said Kikuchi of the new direction.

“We can’t yet see how, when and how much it is going to contribute to profits.”

Panasonic’s chief financial officer agreed

that the company’s change of direction was one factor behind the poor performance of its shares.

Panasonic’s share price has fallen about 14 percent since March 10, the day before the quake.

“I think one reason is that the company is in the process of transforming itself from a consumer electronics maker to an environmental business,” Makoto Uenoyama told reporters and analysts.

“Although people are getting the concept...it is not yet making up much of our earnings.

Another is the problematic television business.

We have not been able to show everyone a solution.”

Report: Demand for video driving mobile data traffic LONDON — Up to 60 percent of mobile data traffic is generated by consumers watching video, with owners of Apple’s iPhone driving the demand, according to a company that specializes in traffic management.

Bytemobile, which helps operators manage and condense traffic, said the overall data demand was also likely to intensify as 90 percent of the total data traffic was currently generated by just 10 percent of mobile data

users.

The company said video watched on iPhones generated 58 percent of data traffic, with phones on the Google operating system Android on slightly less at 52 percent, as smartphones now

copied the usage patterns of laptops Mobile operators have been taken by surprise in recent years by the intense demand for data services, as consumers opt to access the Internet and video on the go.

Some analysts and

Ford spending $1 billion on Lincoln revamp Ford Motor Co. is spending $1 billion in an effort to develop a new generation of vehicles for its struggling Lincoln brand, the Wall Street Journal report-

ed.

Ford is working on seven all-new or significantly upgraded vehicles that Lincoln will roll out over the next four years.

During a presentation to dealers two weeks ago, Ford Americas President Mark Fields said the auto maker sees the effort as the “last chance” for

Lincoln to re-establish itself as a leading competitor in the luxurycar segment, according to the report. The Journal cited three dealers who attended the invi-

investors have also doubted whether the operators can fully profit from the change, as they have to invest in their networks to support the demand.

“Continued aggressive growth in mobile data — fueled by video tation-only event.

At the meeting, Ford executives said they expect Lincoln sales to fall to 78,000 vehicles this year, and then climb to 162,000 in 2015, with the seven new models providing a lift, the report said.

and application usage over faster networks and more powerful, user-friendly devices — has created a formidable traffic management challenge for carriers,” said Ronny Haraldsvik, vice president of Global Marketing at Bytemobile.

Bytemobile, which produces a report on the changing trends in data traffic, said demand stayed strong from midday to midnight and those users with access to better networks watched videos for longer.

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Osi Umenyiora responds to barbs S P O RT S B RI EF S Raheem Brock arrested in Philadelphia

PHILADELPHIA — Longtime NFL defensive end Raheem Brock was arrested in his hometown of Philadelphia after a dispute at a restaurant.

Police Lt. Raymond Evers says Brock ran out on a $27 bar tab at Copabanana on Thursday.

Bartender Rob Harris tells WTXF-TV that Brock’s party was asked to leave after one of them brought in food from another eatery. Harris says they told the waitress they weren’t going to pay the bar tab.

Harris didn’t immediately return a telephone message left by The Associated Press at the restaurant Friday night.

Court documents indicate Brock is charged with theft and resisting arrest. It was not immediately clear if he had a lawyer.

Brock played for the Seattle Seahawks last year after several seasons with the Indianapolis Colts.

LeSean McCoy

The rivalry between the New York Giants and Philadelphia Eagles has managed to grow during the lockout as Osi Umenyiora and LeSean McCoy trade verbal barbs.

Umenyiora referred the Eagles running back as “Lady Gaga” and “she” one day after McCoy tweeted that the Giants defensive end is “soft” and “overrated” and the third best defensive lineman on the Giants.

“I refer to him as she because that is something that a woman would do,” Umenyiora told ESPNNewYork.com by telephone on Friday. “You can sit

Osi Umenyiora over there and be a Twitter say some things that I just have gangster all you want to but on no respect for.” the football field is where you “Whenever a guy like an are supposed to address these Andy Reid or a Michael Vick or types of things.” a Jason Peters, whenever they Umenyiora certainly did not come out and say some things have his poker face on when like that, that might hurt me,” talking about why he refers to Umenyiora added. “But a guy McCoy as “Lady Gaga.” like LeSean McCoy, he’s a “I have always referred to him nobody. He just needs to be as that because he is woman,” quiet.”

Umenyiora explained. “We have The Eagles swept the Giants a lot of animosity toward each last year in two very hardother personally and on the foot- fought divisional games. The ball field is where I thought it NFC East rivalry only figures to was left. But he has decided to get spicier with help from take it off the football field and Umenyiora and McCoy.

Warner quits FIFA; bribery charges dropped

By GRAHAM DUNBAR GENEVA - Jack Warner quit as a FIFA vice president Monday, and soccer’s governing body dropped a bribery investigation of him.

Warner and Asian soccer chief Mohamed bin Hammam were suspended by FIFA last month after they were accused of offering $40,000 cash payments to Caribbean voters during bin Hammam’s presidential campaign to unseat Sepp Blatter.

Warner spent 28 years on FIFA’s executive committee but stepped down days after some of his Caribbean

Football Union followers were interviewed by former FBI agents enlisted

by FIFA to investigate.

FIFA said it accepted his resignation and “regrets the turn of events” that led to the decision.

“Mr. Warner is leaving FIFA by his own volition after nearly 30 years of service,” the ruling body said in a statement. “As a consequence of Mr. Warner’s self-determined resignation, all ethics committee procedures against him have been closed and the presumption of innocence is maintained.”

Warner also quit as head of the soccer group representing the Caribbean and the regional body in which the United States com-

petes.

Warner’s decision to leave could help preserve his political career in his native Trinidad and Tobago, where he is a government minister.

Police on the Caribbean island had said they would ask FIFA for any evidence of wrongdoing.

Warner and Bin Hammam were accused of allegedly arranging the payments in a Port of Spain hotel during the Qatari official’s campaign visit May 10.

Warner had “chosen to focus on his important work on behalf of the people and government of Trinidad and Tobago as a cabinet minister and as the chairman of the United National Congress, the major party in his coun-

try’s coalition government,” the statement said.

Warner joined FIFA’s inner circle in 1983 and seven years later was elected president of the confederation which covers North and Central America and the Caribbean. The 68-yearold official was given another four-year term unopposed at the CONCACAF congress May 3 in Miami.

Bin Hammam did not attend in Miami, contending he had visa problems to enter the U.S. even though he holds a diplomatic passport.

Caribbean members of CONCACAF were then summoned to a two-day conference in Trinidad to meet Blatter’s election rival.

Lawyer: Mayweather didn’t show up for deposition LAS VEGAS - A lawyer for boxer Manny Pacquiao says rival prizefighter Floyd Mayweather Jr. failed to appear for a courtordered deposition in Las Vegas in a federal civil lawsuit alleging that Mayweather defamed Pacquiao.

Attorney Daniel Petrocelli says Mayweather didn’t show Friday to provide sworn testimony despite federal Magistrate Judge Robert Johnston’s ruling Thursday that he must appear.

Mayweather’s lawyers didn’t immediately respond to messages.

They argued Thursday that Mayweather needed to concentrate on training for a Sept. 17 fight against Victor Ortiz.

Petrocelli tells The Associated Press he’ll seek a default finding that Mayweather defamed Pacquiao with statements accusing Pacquiao of taking performance-enhancing drugs.

The two are considered the best pound-forpound fighters in the world. They’ve failed to agree to meet for what could be the richest bout in boxing history.

Producer: Shaquille O’Neal tape ‘gone’ LOS ANGELES — A Los Angeles music producer confirmed last week in a preliminary criminal hearing that at one point he had a tape from his home security system of Shaquille O’Neal having sex with a woman, but that it had been recorded over.

Asked by a prosecutor if he really had such a video at the time of an alleged attack and kidnapping, Robert Ross replied: “It was over. It was gone.”

As previously reported in a sheriff’s report, Ross testified that gang members kidnapped him in 2008 and told him the reason was an “issue” with O’Neal and his business partner.

O’Neal O’Neal and business partner Mark Stevens have denied involvement in statements to investigators. Neither O’Neal nor Stevens has been charged or named in the criminal complaint.

Excerpts from the Monday preliminary hearing for seven gang members accused of kidnapping, robbery, assault and conspiracy in the attack on Ross appeared early Sunday on the Los Angeles Times’ website.

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Barber battled depression, says he needs football EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. - Tiki Barber says failures off the field after his retirement from football in 2006 led to a yearlong bout with depression.

The 36-year-old Barber, the New York Giants’ career leading rusher, acknowledged in an HBO report to be aired Tuesday that he now needs football more than it needs him.

Barber has spent the

Carl Crawford (hamstring) put on DL

By GORDON EDES BOSTON — Red Sox left fielder Carl Crawford made his first trip to the disabled list since 2008 on Saturday, when he was placed on the DL with a strained left hamstring, an injury he incurred Friday night while beating out an infield hit in the first inning.

Crawford’s place on the roster was taken by outfielder Josh Reddick, his second callup this season. Reddick hit .385 (5-for-13) with a double and 4 RBIs when he was recalled May 26 to take Darnell McDonald’s place when McDonald went on the DL. Last season, he hit .194 in 29 games for the Sox. He is batting .236 with 14 home runs and 36 RBIs for the Pawtucket Red Sox. Red Sox manager Terry Francona said he will use a combination of McDonald, Mike Cameron, Reddick and Drew Sutton in Crawford’s absence.

“Just kind of piece it together a little bit,’’ Francona said.

McDonald was in left and Cameron in right against Brewers left-hander Randy Wolf Saturday night.

“I think the medical people thought at best it was going to be 10 to 14 days (recovery time),’’ Francona said of Crawford, who was diagnosed with a Grade 1 strain, the least severe. “I called him and talked to him this morning, he gets it.”

McDonald is 1 for 8 with two RBIs in two starts since his recall from Pawtucket. He singled in a run and scored another in Boston’s 4-2 win in Wednesday night’s rubber match against the Rays, and made a terrific running catch in center field while starting in place of Jacoby Ellsbury.

McDonald made the most of his rehab stint in Pawtucket, batting .345 (10-for-29) in 9 games while posting a .457 on-base percentage and .655 slugging percentage. Francona said the regular playing time was useful for McDonald, who had played sparingly for the Red Sox in the season’s first two months.

“He got banged up a little bit, he went down to (Triple-A), and we tried to use that to our advantage,’’ Francona said. “He got consistent at-bats. ... Now, if he gets a chance to play, which he probably will, he’s got a better chance to help us be the type of player that (he was) last year. Hit an occasional ball out of the ballpark, steal a base, give us good at-bats, play good defense, and that’s what he’s doing.”

Crawford last went on the DL in 2008, when he missed most of August and September with a subluxation of a tendon in the middle finger of his right hand. That was the only time in his career he was on the DL, although he missed the last 12 games of the 2007 with a left groin strain.

past four months working out in an attempt to make a comeback, although his chances rest on the league and its players reaching a new collective bargaining agreement.

Barber said football represents a necessary anchor in a life turned upside down by the depressive aftermath of scandalous divorce and disintegration of his television career.

“The game never needs you because there’s always someone else to come and take your place,” he said.

“But right now, I need the game.”

The Associated Press attempted to telephone Barber, but his old cell phone number now leaves a message saying the person who has the number is not available.

“I need to prove to myself that I can be successful at something,” told HBO. “I know I’m going to be successful as a football player. I don’t know why. The odds say ‘No.’ I’m 36 and I haven’t played in four years. But I just know.”

The report recounts the downward spiral Barber’s life took shortly after his retirement.

What started as a promising career as an NBC football analyst ended in his firing. His marriage to his college sweetheart collapsed.

And his relationship with a 23-year-old NBC intern which continues today soiled a wellhoned, family man image.

Barber said he was unable to deal with losing his $2 million per year job, which started as a football analyst for Football Night in America and progressed to a featured role on the Today Show.

But his demotion to onfield duties and, eventually, to unemployment, led to depression.

“I crafted this career, right?” he said. “And I had gotten to the point where I was right where I wanted to be and then I failed. It’s hard to deal with.”

Barber said after his job at NBC ended, he didn’t do anything for a solid year.

“I remember there were days where I

would literally wake up, have coffee, get something to eat and sit on the couch and do nothing for 10 hours,” he said. “I started to shrivel. I didn’t have that confidence. I didn’t have the, that aura anymore.”

Barber said his marriage actually started to crack six months after he ended his 10-year playing career.

His well-honed image as all-around good guy would take a huge hit when moved in with Tracy Lynn Johnson while his wife was pregnant with twins.

The story that hit the tabloids painted him as an adulterer, though Barber said he and his wife had separated before he accelerated his relationship with Tracy.

“I was in a bad marriage,” Barber said in the interview “It was in trouble for a long time.

And we decided to get separated. But Ginny got pregnant in the middle of it. And a lot of people think children save marriages; sometimes it makes it worse.

And we split soon after she was pregnant.

“And I was on my own for a few days, and then I moved in with Tracy. And then, five months later, here comes the New York Post stalking me.”

Barber said he never second-guesses his relationship with his girlfriend.

“NBC, marriage. I mean, the only thing that felt right was Tracy,” Barber said. “It was the only thing that made me not really feel depressed.”

The cycle broke around the time of the Super Bowl in Dallas in February, when friends and former coaches encouraged him to try a comeback.

Now, as he tries to rebuild his image through football, he endures daily workouts at New Jersey strongman Joe Carini’s gym.

“There’s a lot of coaches who I both have played against and played for who I think know what I’m about,” Barber said. “And that gives me the belief that this opportunity is for real. And not only am I

Calbert Cheaney to join Indiana staff BLOOMINGTON, Ind. — Calbert Cheaney is returning to Indiana to relearn the college game.

The Big Ten’s career scoring leader was hired Saturday by coach Tom Crean as the Hoosiers’ new director of basketball operations. Crean made the announcement during his father/son basketball camp, ending several days of speculation that one of the best players in school history would be back on campus.

“Calbert knows the standard that it takes to be successful academically as a high-level student athlete, and he knows what is expected to play at the NBA level,” Crean said in a statement. “He is excited to learn the business of college basketball.”

Cheaney replaces Drew Adams, who was hired for the same position by New Mexico

coach Steve Alford — also a former Indiana star.

For Crean, it’s another opportunity to reach into the Hoosiers’ rich past. The Indiana coach has spent three seasons trying to heal the wounds left by the firing of Bob Knight and later by Kelvin Sampson’s NCAA recruiting infractions.

The fallout from the NCAA case gutted the roster and forced Crean to start his tenure with only two returning players — both walk-ons. Crean still has not posted a winning record in three seasons.

But he and others have been trying to fix the tattered program. Photos of Knight now hang in Assembly Hall and the coach who won three national championships and more than 600 games in Bloomington has been inducted into the school’s hall of fame.

Crean also has reached out to

Knight’s former players in an attempt to make them a bigger part of the program. Hiring Cheaney is the latest move.

“My family and I believe that this was the right time to begin a career in college basketball and I am especially looking forward to playing a role in the growth of the players at Indiana,” Cheaney said. “I’m very grateful to Coach Crean for this opportunity to return to IU and I look forward to contributing immediately in any way possible.”

Cheaney finished his college career with 2,613 points — still the Big Ten record — and was named the league and national player of the year in 1993. In four seasons, Cheaney led the Hoosiers to a 105-27 record and the 1992 Final Four and made the All-America team three times. The Evansville, Ind., native averaged 22.4 points and 6.2 rebounds as a senior.

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NBA players worry how fans would react to lockout

By HANK KURZ Jr. C H A R LOTTESVILLE, Va. NBA players who just finished a season capped by the highest rated championship series in more than a decade are concerned about how their labor dispute and a potential work stoppage before next season will affect their surging fan base.

Luke Walton said the packed road arenas the Los Angeles Lakers played in this season suggest the league’s popularity is at a high point, and he’s most concerned about how fans would respond if the labor issues aren’t resolved and cause a delay to the start of the next season.

“The idea of the lockout and losing fans is probably the scariest

thing of all,” the eightyear veteran said.

“Even moreso than missing games or losing out on your salary for however long you lose those games, it’s losing the fan support because it’s at an alltime high right now.”

The numbers bear it out.

All three networks that televise NBA games reported a huge increase in viewers, led by a 42 percent increase for TNT. ABC had 38 percent more viewers, and ESPN had 28 percent more.

Arena capacity was 90.3 percent, its seventh straight year of 90 or better, and the 17,306 average was up 1 percent from last year and is the fifth highest in the league’s history.

With the emergence of Derrick Rose as the league MVP, young

teams in Oklahoma City and Memphis rising up to challenge traditional powers such as the Lakers and NBA champion Dallas Mavericks, and even the New York Knicks on the rise with the addition of Carmelo Anthony, the league seems to have as many viable contenders as in recent memory, which adds to its allure.

To stop the momentum with a lockout that fans might perceive as a selfish battle between already rich greedy owners and greedy players, Walton said, would be taking a huge risk.

“We know how dangerous it can be. We’ve seen it happen before.

We’ve seen it happen in our sport with the last lockout. We saw it happen in baseball, hockey, and it’s damaging,” he

said at the NBPA’s annual Top 100 camp for elite high school players. Walton was taking part in a coach program for players at the camp, which wraps up Sunday at the University of Virginia.

“The popularity is at the top,” he said. “It’s high, and the ratings were record-breaking the last few years, and from the fans’ perspective, the owners make a ton of money and are very wealthy, and the players make a ton of money and are very wealthy, so its kind of hard for them to sympathize with either side when these guys are hard-working people trying to make it and they’re spending their hard-earned money on tickets and merchandise and all that stuff.”

Walton isn’t the only one.

Source: No Yanks for Carlos Zambrano CHICAGO — Put a big X through Big Z as a possibility for the New York Yankees’ starting rotation.

A baseball source with knowledge of the Yankees’ intentions said Saturday that the team has “zero interest” in making a trade for Carlos Zambrano, the Chicago Cubs’ talented but volatile righthander.

In an interview with FoxSports.com, Zambrano indicated Friday that he is willing to waive the notrade clause in his contract if the Cubs approach the threetime All-Star about being moved.

And there have been recent reports of the Yankees scouting Zambrano’s recent starts.

With the Yankees’ starting staff decimated by injuries to Phil Hughes and Bartolo Colon, it seemed like a natural

fit.

Not so, said the source, who told ESPNNewYork.com, “It’s all (B.S.) There’s no seriousness to it at all.”

The official cited Zambrano’s declining ability — the velocity on his fastball has dropped in recent years from an average of 92 mph in 2009 to 89.8 mph this year, according to FanGraphs.com — and prohibitive contract.

“He’s just not worth the money,” the official said. “The Cubs would have to pick up most if not all of the contract. I just don’t see it happening.”

Zambrano, 30, has played all of his 10 seasons with the Cubs. He is in the midst of a fiveyear, $91.5 million contract which runs through 2012, with a $19.25 million vesting option for 2013.

Zambrano is owed the remainder of his $17.875 million salary

for this season, $18 million for next season and the lucrative option which vests if he is healthy at the end of the 2012 season. This season, Zambrano is 54 with a 4.59 ERA in 15 starts.

Zambrano pitched Wednesday in a loss to the Milwaukee Brewers so the Yankees will not see him on this trip.

Yankees general manager Brian Cashman did not return a call seeking comment on Saturday, and manager Joe Girardi refused to discuss a player who was still the property of another team.

“I just don’t want to walk that line about tampering,” Girardi said. “I don’t want to get a call. I get fined enough.”

However, pitching coach Larry Rothschild, who held the same role with the Cubs for nine seasons, gave Zambrano a high recommendation.

“He’s a good person,” Rothschild said.

“Off the field, he’s a great family man, he was a good guy to coach, he’ll listen (to) all the things you would expect from a professional player.

The stuff you see on the field is a result of just the passion he takes to the mound.”

Rothschild was on the field in 2009 when Zambrano, having just been ejected for arguing balls and strikes with the home plate umpire, fired a baseball into the left-field stands.

“That just came at a frustrating time in the game for him and he couldn’t take it,” Rothschild said. “I was trying to talk him out of it but he did it anyway. Then he broke a few bats over his knee and took out a water cooler.”

Still, Rothschild said Zambrano’s fire is an essential element to his pitching style.

“We would probably lose fans if we have a work stoppage,” said Royal Ivey of the Oklahoma City Thunder, who said he came to the camp “to get my feet wet” in the coaching program.

The Grizzlies’ Tony Allen also was taking part in the coaching program, and while he said a work stoppage would “put a needle in the balloon” of momentum, he sees a rather simple solution.

Financial restraint by management.

“If you’re a GM, you’ve got to be smarter with your money,” he said, echoing a thought career scoring leader Kareem Abdul-Jabbar voiced Friday. “If you

don’t want to give a guy $197 million and you believe he’s only worth 60 percent of that, sign him for just 60 percent of it.”

Abdul-Jabbar, who highlighted the importance of education in his chat with the campers, said he understands why fans won’t be sympathetic to arguments over enormous amounts of money.

“There’s a lot of guys that are overpaid, and that’s another issue that the owners need to deal with because certain people are overpaid and that’s ballooning the salaries to the point where the owners can’t recoup their investment,” the Lakers’ assistant coach said.

Jeremy Lamb finalist for U.S. U19 team COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — Jeremy Lamb of national champion Connecticut and Khyle Marshall of runner-up Butler are among the finalists for USA Basketball’s Under 19 world championship team.

Thirteen players were selected Sunday after a three-day training session. The United States will defend the gold medal in the FIBA U19 World Championship in Latvia from June 30-July 10.

Others selected were Keith Appling, Michigan State; James Bell, Villanova; Anthony Brown, Stanford; Tim Hardaway Jr., Michigan; Joe Jackson, Memphis; Meyers Leonard, Illinois; Javon McCrea, Buffalo; Doug McDermott, Creighton; Tony Mitchell, North Texas; and Patric Young, Florida.

Glenn Bryant transfers to E. Michigan YPSILANTI, Mich. — Former Arkansas forward Glenn Bryant has transferred to Eastern Michigan.

Eastern Michigan coach Rob Murphy announced the move this week. Bryant says he wanted to play closer to home after 61 games in two seasons at Arkansas, where he averaged 3.4 points and 2.7 rebounds. Bryant is from Detroit, about 40 miles from the Ypsilanti campus.

The 6-foot-7 forward must sit out the coming season and will have two years of eligibility remaining.

Bryant was one of three Arkansas players accused of an alleged rape two years ago. A special prosecutor decided against filing charges, citing insufficient evidence.

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Derrick Williams

The consensus among NBA teams is that Cleveland will select Duke freshman guard Kyrie Irving with the No. 1 pick in Thursday’s draft.

But the Cavaliers aren’t acting as if they’ve made a decision, and according to multiple sources, they are actively discussing a number of possibilities. They likely will go with Irving, but there are scenarios in which they might not.

The Cavaliers haven’t told Irving that he is the No. 1 pick, and Arizona’s Derrick Williams is a legitimate con-

tender for the top spot.

Cleveland, which also holds the No. 4 overall pick, will bring in Kentucky point guard Brandon Knight for a visit early this week.

Former Kentucky student Enes Kanter of Turkey, who was

ruled

by

the NCAA to be permanently ineligible with the school, will return for a second visit.

Should the Cavaliers decide to pick Williams, a forward, and Kanter, a center, it would put pressure on the team to find another point guard, possibly in t h i s draft, even with B a r o n Davis still under c o n tract.

The Minnesota

Kyrie Timberwolves, meanwhile, won’t let Williams or Irving slip beyond No. 2. Sources with knowledge of the situation say that if the Cavaliers pick Irving at No. 1, the Timberwolves will take Williams at No. 2, and don’t plan on trading Michael Beasley or Anthony Randolph.

If the Cavs were to select Williams, the Timberwolves would take Irving at No. 2, even with the impending arrival of Spanish point guard Ricky Rubio. The Timberwolves would hold onto the Irving asset and likely command a number of

Irving suitors. Reserve point guard Jonny Flynn then would be on the trade block.

With Irving and Williams going 1-2 in some order, that leaves Utah at No. 3, with a decision between Knight and Kanter. The Jazz worked out Knight solo on Thursday and were impressed with his effort, even without competition.

Knight passed on working out Wednesday with Connecticut’s Kemba Walker and BYU’s Jimmer Fredette.

Fredette is in play for the Jazz at No. 12 if they were to select Kanter at No. 3.

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