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NEWS BRIEFS Obama dismisses ‘double-dip’ recession threat REPORT: TOLL HIKE FLOATED ON HUDSON RIVER CROSSINGS Getting out of the city could soon be a bigger toll on your wallet.

The New York Post reports peak tolls for bridges and tunnels crossing the Hudson River could rise from $8 to $10, a 25 percent increase.

The Port Authority has been working to raise tolls since last year.

The agency has reportedly gotten the go-ahead from New Jersey Governor Chris Christie, but Governor Andrew Cuomo hasn’t signed on yet.

Both governors must be on board for the hike to take effect.

The Post says rates for EZ Pass discount hours and truck tolls would likely also go up.

The same tolls apply for all six Hudson River crossings.

A $2 toll increase could raise $300 million for the agency.

DIRTY BOILERS POSE HEALTH RISK TO LOW-INCOME TENANTS, STUDY FINDS A new report says affordable housing tenants are being exposed to toxic heating oils and the city is not moving fast enough to help them.

The study released by Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer finds dirty boilers burning the most toxic oils are in nearly 9,000 buildings.

Two-thirds of them are in rentregulated apartment buildings: Many of them are in Manhattan and the Bronx.

The City Department of Environmental Conservation plans to phase out the boilers, but Stringer says the plan does not account for the financial hardships that the conversions would pose.

He adds the boilers currently contribute to about 86 percent of the heating oil pollution.

Air pollution can lead to asthma and other health issues, especially among children and the elderly.

CITY RENEWS CRACKDOWN ON ILLEGAL APARTMENTS City officials are taking aim at building owners that break the fire code.

Following several deadly fires involving illegally converted apartments, Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced a new initiative to target high risk buildings.

A multiple-agency task force developed a model that will assess complaints of illegal conversions.

Factors considered will be the age of the building, previous fires and prior complaints to the Department of Buildings.

The mayor says the locations will then be inspected within two days.

On what became known as Black Sunday back in January 2005, two firefighters died after they were forced to jump from a Bronx apartment building because of illegal partitions blocking the fire escape.

Four other firefighters also jumped, but survived.

By STEPHEN COLLINSON WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama Tuesday dismissed fears of a plunge into a “double-dip” recession and warned against “panic” over dismal economic data that is beginning to cloud his reelection hopes.

In a news conference with German Chancellor Angela Merkel, Obama responded to signs the recovery may be slowing and sought to assure “skittish and nervous” investors and voters that better times lay ahead.

“I am not concerned about a doubledip recession,” Obama said, empathizing with people who were frustrated that growth had not been unleashed more quickly.

“I’m concerned that the recovery we’re on is not producing jobs as quickly as I wanted to happen,” he said, adding there was “enormous work to do” to strengthen the recovery after the worst recession in decades.

As Republicans fire up their race for the party White House nomination and lambast Obama’s economic policies as a failure, the president recalled that the world came close to a “complete disaster” back in 2009-2010.

“Recovering from that kind of body-blow takes time,” Obama said, admitting that in recent weeks the economy had faced strong “headwinds.”

“Recovery is going to be uneven.

There are going to be times where we are making progress, but people are still skittish and nervous, and the markets get skittish and nervous.”

“Our task is not to panic, not overreact, to make sure that we’ve got a plan, a path forward,” he said, noting the need to tend to structural issues and fundamentals that would promote growth and a sound business environment.

Obama spoke at length about the state of the economy after the unem-

ployment rate spiked to 9.1 percent last week, as other data showed a moribund housing market and slowed manufacturing growth.

Numerous private sector economists have lowered estimates for second quarter GDP growth to under 2.0 percent, down from 3.0 percent growth rate forecasts for the year that would have conjured up hundreds of thousands of jobs.

The dismaying evidence that the recovery may be stalling has offered a sudden opening to Republicans, especially those running nascent presidential campaigns, who know many Americans are yet to feel evidence of a recovery.

Mitt Romney, the putative Republican frontrunner for the 2012 election slammed Obama for saying the jobs data was a “bump in the road” and issued an indictment of administration policies he said had “failed America.”

The attacks appear based on solid political logic: in a new Washington Post/ABC poll released Tuesday six in 10 Americans gave Obama negative marks on the economy.

More crucially, two thirds of independents — the voting bloc which often decides U.S. presidential elec-

tions, disapproved of the president’s economic policies.

Obama said he and Merkel had a long discussion about the global economy, and warned that Europe’s debt crisis gripping nations such as Greece, Ireland, and Portugal “cannot be allowed” to threaten the broader global economy.

“We think it would be disastrous for us to see an uncontrolled spiral and default in Europe, because that could trigger a whole range of other events,” he said, but added he was confident European powers could handle the crisis.

“This is a tough and complicated piece of business. And ultimately Europeans are going to have to make decisions about how they proceed,” Obama said, arguing that Greece would need outside support to promote growth.

“Given their level of debt, it also means that other countries in the eurozone are going to have to provide them a backstop in support.

“And frankly, people who are holding Greek debt are going to have to make some decisions, working with the European countries in the eurozone, about how that debt is managed.”

Feds accuse gang of targeting Blacks in California city

By GREG RISLING LOS ANGELES – A Latino gang conspired to rid a Southern California city of its black residents through intimidation, threats and violence dating back to the early 1990s to exert its influence and show its loyalty to the Mexican Mafia prison gang, according to a federal indictment unsealed Tuesday.

More than 50 people were charged as authorities made early morning raids targeting the Azusa 13 gang.

Federal prosecutors said the gang engaged in a host of crimes ranging from drug trafficking to hate crimes that have hobbled Azusa, a city of about 45,000 residents near Los Angeles.

“We hope that this federal case will signal the end of this racist behavior and will help vindicate all of the victims who have suffered over the years,” U.S. Attorney Andre Birotte Jr. said.

Sixteen of the people named in the indictment were arrested Tuesday,

while another 23 were already in custody, U.S. attorney’s spokesman Thom Mrozek said. Authorities were seeking another 12 suspects.

The crackdown is the latest effort by law enforcement to cripple Latino gangs that have targeted blacks in the Los Angeles area.

In 2009, more than 140 members and associates of the Varrio Hawaiian Gardens gang were charged in connection with waging a racist campaign against black people. Four years ago, authorities arrested dozens of members of South Los Angeles’ Florencia 13 gang in connection with the killing of blacks because of the color of their skin.

Tuesday’s charges mirrored a similar effort federal prosecutors took against The Avenues, a gang from the Highland Park area northeast of downtown Los Angeles, where four gang members were convicted in 2007 of hate crimes for killing a black man.

In Azusa, six people have been charged with civil rights violations for allegedly harassing, and in some cases attacking, African Americans to drive

them out of the city or to prevent them from relocating there.

More than two-thirds of Azusa is Hispanic, while roughly 3 percent is black.

In one instance, prosecutors said Marty Michaels, known as “Casper,” and another Azusa 13 member punched a black man in January 2000 while using a racial epithet. In April 2010, Manuel Jimenez yelled a racial slur at a black high school student returning home from a track meet, the indictment said. Jimenez and another man hit the student, chased him down the street and stole his items, prosecutors said.

Azusa 13 gang member, Ralph “Swifty” Flores was sentenced to death in 2008 after he was convicted of four murders. A judge imposed three death sentences for three murders between 2002 and 2004 as well as a sentence of life without parole for the racially motivated murder of black teen Christopher Lynch in 1999. Flores was 17 at the time of the murder and not eligible for the death penalty because he was a minor.

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Black farmers receiving discrimination settlement notification WASHINGTON — African-American farmers who faced discrimination at by the U.S. Department of Agriculture in farm loans are being notified they may qualify for a part of a $1.25 billion settlement.

A series of class action lawsuits found that between 1981 and 1996 the USDA systematically discriminated against African-American farmers on the basis of race.

The notification process is informing members of the class action lawsuit that the most recent court decision opens up the field of eligibility to those excluded from earlier court decisions, a statement from lawyers involved in the litigation said on Monday.

Those who experienced the discrimination or their heirs, kin, or legal representatives should file a claim and comment, or may object to the settlement, with the federal court.

The deadline for filing claims may be as early as February 28, 2012, the statement from the lawyers said.

By not acting, claimants forfeit their award and the right to sue in the future, according to a notice being sent to members of previous lawsuits.

OCEANSIDE — They look like harmless fun — fluffy, inflated castles, ships and slides filled with children jumping around carelessly, their parents letting their guard down a bit during playtime.

But an accident that sent three of the huge toys aloft on a breezy afternoon on New York’s Long Island, left a woman seriously injured and hurt 12 other people is drawing attention to the little-known hazards of the inflatable playthings sometimes called “bounce houses” and the inconsistent regulations covering them.

“I never thought there would be any serious issues, any concerns with safety,” said Mike Perniches, a father who ran to the rescue of the injured after Saturday’s accident.

“But now, I’m like, forget it.”

At least 10 inflatables around the country have been toppled by winds or collapsed under too much weight in the past two months, injuring more than 40 people, according to RideAccidents.com, a website that tracks amusement ride accidents.

It’s not the toys themselves that are the problem, it’s the way they are set up and supervised, said Jim Barber, a spokesman for the National Association of Amusement Ride Safety Officials, based in Brandon, Fla. “I wish this was a rarity, but it’s not. It happens all the time,” “These are probably the most dangerous amusement devices they have.”

Fewer jobs for unemployed workers

By TAMI LUHBY

John W. Boyd Jr., founder and president of the National Black Farmers Association, in discussion with Lawrence Lucas, as he drives “Justice” up Independence Avenue with dozens of fellow black farmers and supporters behind him.

NY accident illuminates perils of ‘bounce houses’

By FRANK ELTMAN and JOHN SEEWER

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The Archdiocese of Cincinnati banned inflatable rides at church festivals in 2009 after a gust of wind tossed a slide about 70 yards, carrying an 11-year-old boy with it. He came away with just bruises.

A Pennsylvania man died in June 2010 after an inflatable slide collapsed and pinned him at a Cleveland Indians game. A 5-year-old boy was killed in March 2010 when he fell off an inflatable and landed on a concrete floor at an indoor entertainment center in Wichita, Kan. In January 2010, winds blew a bounce house at a Florida birthday party into a pond with a 5-year-old girl inside. Neighbors saved the child by pulling her out of the water.

In Arizona this year, two accidents in the Tucson area injured four children, including sisters in February when wind bursts tossed a “bounce house” onto a roof. In April, a boy and girl were blown in a bounce house across three lanes of traffic.

In a little more than a week beginning in late April, two slides collapsed at separate events in California, injuring several children.

Then came Saturday’s accident during a youth soccer tournament in Oceanside, when a rogue gust blew three inflatables off the ground, including a two-story inflatable slide. They carried the children playing in them and smashed into bystanders.

Michael Mazzocco, who was coaching his 6-year-old daughter’s soccer game, said it was difficult at first to believe what he was seeing. Fathers, coaches and bystanders raced

toward the airborne toys, some using knives to furiously stab and deflate them before anyone else was injured.

“We were all sprinting toward it, trying to grab the big one and get the air out of it,” said Mazzocco, whose wife caught the scene on a video that went viral. “There was kind of pandemonium at first with kids not knowing where their parents were and parents on the other side trying to find their children.

There were a few tense moments.”

Thirteen people ended up at the hospital, including children, most with bumps and bruises. But Cathleen Hughes, 36, of Oceanside, suffered head and spinal injuries when a flying slide landed on top of her, according to Newsday.

“She was walking on the track and it hit her,” Perniches told The Associated Press. “She was lying still on the ground; there was blood coming out of her mouth.”

Nassau County District Attorney Kathleen Rice said her office would investigate.

Gina Michielini, the owner of Affordable Inflatables and Party Rentals, said the gust came out of nowhere.

“You didn’t see that wind coming,” she said.

The inflatables were secured properly, and each had an operator, she said. No one was on the slide when it was blown away, but she couldn’t say how the children were hurt.

The company has been in business for 10 years, and operators have shut them down in bad weather before, Michielini said.

HACKENSACK, N.J. — No one has to tell the folks at the One-Stop Career Center in northern New Jersey that the economy is getting softer.

They feel it first-hand.

“The last month or two, it’s gotten very slow,” said Susan DeGroat, who lost her job as a billing manager two years ago. “I go online and the same jobs are still posted.”

DeGroat, who was using the computers to search for jobs at the One-Stop center in Hackensack, N.J., on Monday morning, has not been on an interview in more than a month. The 55-year-old applied for several positions lately, but has not heard back from the firms.

DeGroat is not imagining things. Fewer businesses are hiring these days and more people are coming in to discuss their unemployment insurance claims, said Salvatore Mastroeni, who directs the center.

The uptick in job openings he saw earlier in the year has waned amid concerns of regulatory uncertainty in Washington D.C. and fallout from the natural disasters hitting Japan and elsewhere in the U.S. “Many of the employers that we talk with are hunkering down,” said Mastroeni, who first noticed the shift in April. “They are not willing, with the unknown before them, to expand and to rehire people at this particular point in time.”

Across the nation, employers have pulled back on hiring. The economy gained only 54,000 jobs in May, down from 232,000 in April, the government reported Friday.

The jobless say they are well aware of the change in attitude.

Why the job market stinks Only a few months ago, Dexter Francis felt things were improving.

Out of work for three years, the information technology manager saw an increase in job listings and started going on a lot more interviews.

Nowadays, though, he isn’t getting as many responses from employers, despite his multiple degrees and certifications. Staffing agencies he works with have told him the job openings are on hold, a practice Francis finds very frustrating.

“Why are these employers posting these jobs when it appears they are not moving forward?” said Francis, 50, who lives in Hackensack and is now applying for construction and warehouse posts just to make some money.

When Elisa Johnson lost her job as an office coordinator at local medical center in mid-March, she wasn’t that concerned about finding another position. Many of her friends said that jobs were available.

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DAILY CHALLENGE WEDNESDAY, JUNE 8, 2011

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

Another Daughtry graduates from college

THOMAS H. WATKINS

Love diamonds empower Africa

By REV. DR. HERBERT DAUGHTRY

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If the train station had not changed, neither had this part of the town. It conjured up old Western movies. You could not help but wonder when the cowboys would come riding into town. As we got into the cab, we were brought back to the existing reality. It was a ten-minute ride to the Homewood Suites.

Check-in was handled by a very friendly, young lady. The suite was very comfortable. Leah and my wife left to rent a car to go to the student reception. I decided I would pass on the event in favor of resting, relaxing, writing, and watching the basketball game between the Memphis Grizzlies and the Oklahoma City Thunder.

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Work is a necessity

By JULIANNE MALVEAUX I consider myself something of a wordsmith, so I am always amazed in the work of others, especially when they are government bureaucrats. The most recent unemployment figures, which show the unemployment rate rising, and the pace of job creation slowing, are interesting and incisive. The Employment Situation says that the unemployment rate is “essentially unchanged” as it has moved from 9 to 9.1 percent. In April more than 200,000 jobs were created; in May it was a scant 54,000. Still, the situation was “essentially unchanged”. Give me a break. That means someone is fudging and smudging the fact that our economy is sputtering.

This could well be expected given the fact that most cities and states are now grappling with ways to balance their budgets, and that includes layoffs of government workers. Furthermore, we can expect a sputtering economy given the drama that is taking place in Washington around increasing the debt limit. The Tea Party folks, if they had their way,

would fully dismantle government, throwing hundreds of thousands of workers into the streets. Rising unemployment? That’s just the tip of the iceberg.

Yet in a society where most people work for a living, public policy must embrace work as a necessity. We have to ensure that any able bodied person who wants to be gainfully engaged in the capitalistic system has an opportunity to do so. That means that work has to work that people have to work, that people have to have the opportunity to work, that government must promote the creation of work, and that when necessary government subsidize the development of working opportunities.

Instead, we have seen a recession and a so-called recovery that has not embraced the centrality of work in our society. Too many people are living at the periphery of the economic mainstream. Those people were told, when the May unemployment rates were released, that their misery is none of the government’s concern.

Yet they are homeowners and taxpayers, parents and producers, people who didn’t plan for their factory to close or for the demand for their

Graduates from college Continued from page 4 Black coaches, and, in general, Black people, confined in every aspect of life, to have a few bBlack coaches who have broken through, and to not root for them, would make me, I feel, a hypocrite or a traitor. By the way, this holds true across the whole spectrum of life. As a rule, I am going with my own. There may be some exceptions, but exceptions, seem to me, prove that there is a rule. One exception is that if there is a Black general manager, president, or owner then my loyalty may swing in the direction of that team.

Well, Memphis won. However, they lost the seventh and final games, which knocked them out of the playoffs. So, no black coaches were left.

(Eventually, Oklahoma lost to Dallas.)

My wife returned after midnight.

She told me that Rennie had spoken at the reception. I regretted missing the affair, but try as I may, I never succeeded at being everywhere at the same time. I can’t even be at two places simultaneously. I can achieve it with my mind, but my body stays at one place.

The Annual African-American Alumni Council Breakfast was the first event I attended. It was held at 7:30am on Saturday. It was then reality jolted me. My grandson, Lorenzo (Rennie) Alexander Daughtry-Chambers, was graduating from Franklin & Marshall College (F&M). The program lasted for about one hour and a half. It included reflections from graduating students. Rennie spoke

eloquently about his appreciation for loved ones, friends, professors, and for his four years at F&M.

products to simply dry up. Economic recovery is a bitter pill for some to swallow when their lives have not recovered from the drama also known as a massive shift in the ways that Americans deal with work and economic integrity.

It seems that we have all sipped on the Kool-Aid that deifies the rich.

They must have it going on, and why don’t we? Why can’t we spur a populist economic movement that says something else, instead? Why can’t we embrace Dr. Martin Luther King’s message when he said “I have the audacity to believe that people everywhere can have three meals a day for their bodies, education and culture for their minds, peace and freedom for their spirits.” In other words, how come we can’t decide that everyone can eat and be educated? How come we can’t make eating and educating a cultural imperative?

To put some meat on the official numbers we should note that nearly 14 million people are officially unemployed, with 6.5 million (45 percent) of them being unemployed for more than half a year. These are just the official numbers. The unofficial numbers make these look miniscule. This is not a double the flavor, double the fun situation. It’s called double the pain.

What do we do with all this pain?

How do we begin to respond to our fellow citizens? The future of our

nation hinges on our ability to engage more people in the business and the work of this economy. We engage people by involving them, educating them, empowering them.

Yet, we are cutting education funds because we can’t raise the debt ceiling, because we are broke.

At the end of the day, here is what we need to know. When work doesn’t’ work, life doesn’t work for too many Americans. When work doesn’t work, too many people are kicked to the curb, told they are usefulness and left to their own devices. In an entrepreneurial culture that can be a good thing. If we encourage entrepreneurship, people can invent, and promote their ideas. But when there are no open arms for those who have been sidelined, they are likely to engage in actives that can be interpreted as less than wholesome.

Too many people speak of the centrality of work without understanding how to make work happen. The most recent unemployment rates remind us that too many of our friends and neighbors have been placed outside the economic mainstream. What must we do to make it better, especially when this is a burden that falls heavy on the African American community?

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Areva sees nuclear waste recycling planning by 2015

By AYESHA RASCOE WASHINGTON — Areva hopes that by 2015, it can start planning construction

Weiner to undergo House Ethics investigation As news of Congressman Anthony Weiner’s scandal spreads throughout his district here in the city, the politician says he will cooperate with an Ethics Committee investigation demanded by his fellow Democrats to determine if he broke any rules by sending lewd photos of himself to several women and lying about it.

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi called for the investigation just hours after Weiner held a news conference yesterday.

Weiner admitted he’s been lying for more than a week and that he was the one who posted a photo of himself in his underwear on Twitter and admitted that he made up a story that his account was hacked.

Weiner said he exchanged explicit messages and photos with six women over the last three years. He says some of those exchanges took place after he was married.

“I haven’t told the truth and I’ve done things I deeply regret. I brought pain to the people I care about the most and people who believed in me. And for that I’m deeply sorry,” said Weiner. “I know there is a sense that everything is part of a plan. And it was thought through and calculated. In this case it was just me doing a very dumb thing. And for that I accept responsibility.”

Weiner said he is not resigning and that he did not believe he had broken any Congressional rules.

The heat had been turned up on Weiner earlier in the day when conservative activist Andrew Breitbart’s website biggovernment.com posted a shirtless picture and Facebook messages sent

by Weiner.

of a facility for recycling nuclear waste in the United States, an executive for the French nuclear power company said on Monday.

Jacques Besnainou, head of Areva’s North American unit, said the company was in discussions with several utilities about forming an alliance to advocate for a recycling center.

“We’re hopeful that we can start planning for such a facility by 2015,” Besnainou told reporters at a briefing held by The Energy Daily, a trade publication.

Once planning began, it would take about 10 years to get a facility up and running, he said.

Interest in nuclear waste recycling has grown since Japan’s nuclear crisis

exposed the dangers of storing waste at power plants indefinitely, Besnainou said.

“One of the things we’re discovering in Fukushima is leaving used fuel in ... a spent fuel pool may not be a very wise decision,” he said.

Efforts to regain control of Japan’s Fukushima Daiichi nuclear complex have been hampered by the overheating of pools containing spent fuel.

There is no law against building a nuclear recycling center in the United States, but Besnainou said the Nuclear Regulatory Commission would need to devise regulations for a facility.

He said it would help if the United States created an agency focused on handling nuclear waste that could help

fund and plan a recycling center.

Areva has said it would cost about $25 billion to build a recycling center in the United States. Besnainou suggested part of the funding for the project could come from the federal government’s Nuclear Waste Fund, which brings in about $750 million in fees annually from U.S. ratepayers.

The United States has no permanent storage site for nuclear waste. The Obama administration shelved the long-delayed Yucca Mountain, Nevada spent fuel dump.

The Yucca Mountain waste dump was opposed by Nevada residents but supported by Republicans and lawmakers from states holding significant amounts of nuclear

waste.

Besnainou said a recycling center would be preferable to developing interim storage sites, such as those being considered by the Obama administration’s Blue Ribbon commission on nuclear waste.

“When you do a recycling center, you’re being part of the solution. You’re taking care of the fuel, you’re making the fuel less dangerous,” Besnainou said. “Interim storage is kicking the can down the road.”

The amount of used fuel left over after recycling is much less than the United States must manage now, and having a recycling center would delay the need to decide on a permanent storage site by at least 50 years, Besnainou said.

Massachusetts must join federal program BOSTON — Massachusetts will be forced to join a controversial federal program to detect and deport illegal immigrants, a senior U.S. Homeland Security official said.

The official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said Massachusetts Gov. Deval

Patrick’s refusal to endorse the Secure Communities program won’t stop it from expanding, the Boston Globe reported Tuesday.

“It might delay the statewide implementation a little bit, but I think our position is we will continue to expand it when we are ready

and where we are ready,” the official told the Globe.

The Secure Communities program, launched in 2008, runs the names and fingerprints of everyone arrested through federal immigration and criminal databases.

Its purpose is to ensure that offenders who are in the

United States illegally, especially violent criminals, are detained and deported.

Patrick said he agrees with the goal of the program but worries that it will ensnare others.

New York and Illinois have also rejected the program.

Alabama’s Jefferson County mulls public worker layoffs

By MELINDA DICKINSON BIRMINGHAM, Alabama — Alabama’s troubled Jefferson County says it may have to lay off up to 1,000 workers due to a $70 million shortfall in its operating revenue that is adding to its chronic debt problems.

The fiscal gap appeared in March when a state court ruled a tax for the county unconstitutional and officials says that as a result it will run out of operating funds in July.

It is also struggling to

ward off what would be the largest municipal bankruptcy in U.S. history over a $3.2 billion debt it owes on sewer bonds.

“There are close to 1,000 layoffs on the table. Even if the bill passes, the footprint of government in Jefferson County is still going to change drastically. We don’t have a choice,” county finance commissioner Jimmie Stephens told Reuters.

County officials hope the state legislature will be able to cover part of the shortfall through a bill that could inject up to $50 million into county coffers but a state senator is holding up the bill,

according to local media reports.

Republican Scott Beason refused to allow the bill to permit the county to raise its own taxes to go before the senate for a full vote, arguing lawmakers need more time to hear from constituents.

The bill in question, HB 650, would give the county limited “home rule,” which is the ability to levy or raise certain taxes including a sales taxes.

Under Alabama’s constitution, only the state legislature has the authority to levy taxes for the county.

According to local media

reports, Beason will only consider allowing the bill to go before the full senate for a vote on Thursday, the last day of the legislative session, making its passage into law difficult though not impossible.

“There is no good reason for Beason to block the senate from voting on the taxing authority bill. His judgment isn’t worth more than that of the other senators in the (Jefferson County) delegation,” the Birmingham News newspaper said in an editorial.

Birmingham, at the heart of Jefferson County, is Alabama’s largest city and a key driver of the state economy.

Counseling urged for teen ‘sexting’ ALBANY — New York lawmakers are proposing mandatory education instead of prosecution for “sexting” teenagers who transmit obscene images.

The Cyber Crime Youth Rescue Act, introduced Friday, would give prosecutors and judges more latitude on minors who distribute naked and sexually explicit pictures

of themselves or others via cellphones, e-mail and socialnetworking sites, The Wall Street Journal reports.

Similar measures have been introduced or passed in other states to spare young people lifetime branding as child pornographers or sexual predators.

“There are too many kids who are getting themselves

into serious trouble for adolescent behavior,” said Brooklyn Democratic Assemblyman Alan Maisel, a sponsor. “I don’t know if they should be tainted with this evil brush for the rest of their lives.”

The bill proposes a mandatory training program run by the state Office of Children and Family Services for firsttime offenders 18 or younger,

at prosecutors’ discretion.

The program would warn youngsters of the possible legal, personal and career consequences of sharing sexually suggestive or explicit images.

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Woman at centre of rape case leaves Libya: UNHCR GENEVA - A Libyan woman who said she was gang raped by pro-government militiamen has left her homeland again after being deported by Qatar last week, the U.N. refugee agency said Tuesday.

Eman Al-Obaidi spent nearly a month in Qatar before authorities there forced her and her parents to board a flight last week to Libya’s rebelheld Benghazi in violation of international law, the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) said.

In March, Obaidi burst into a Tripoli hotel and, weeping, made a plea for help to journalists there, saying she had been held for two days and raped by 15 militiamen loyal to Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi.

The UNHCR said Tuesday Obaidi was taken to a U.N. refugee transit center in the western Romanian city of Timisoara, the only one of its kind in Europe.

“She is currently being cared for by UNHCR staff,” said UNHCR representative Machiel Salomons in Romania. “She is at an emergency transit center located in Timisoara, along with other refugees who have been evacuated from a number of difficult locations in the world.

“All of the refugees at the center are in the process of being interviewed for resettlement by various countries.”

Nigerian Muslim sect members kill rival cleric MAIDUGURI, Nigeria - Police say a radical Muslim sect has killed a cleric belonging to a rival sect in Nigeria’s restive northeast.

Borno state police chief Mohammed Abubakar said Tuesday that motorcycle-mounted gunmen shot Sheik Ibrahim Birkuti dead in his home Monday afternoon in the northeast town of Biu, south of the state capital of Maiduguri. Abubakar says members of a radical Muslim sect locally known as Boko Haram are responsible for the shooting.

Birkuti had been critical of Boko Haram’s violence and belonged to the Wahabbi group, a splinter faction of Sunni Muslims.

Boko Haram is responsible for a rash of killings which have targeted security officers, politicians and clerics in Nigeria’s north in recent months.

Wahabbi members advocate for the implementation of Shariah law in Borno state through peaceful means.

South Sudan death toll tops 1,500: U.N. JUBA, Sudan - More than 1,500 people have died this year in violence across southern Sudan, the United Nations said, ahead of the region’s independence in July.

The underdeveloped region, roughly the size of France, has been beset by violence since southerners voted overwhelmingly in January to separate from the north and form their own nation.

- Jeremy Clarke

S. Africa launches job fund to fight 25% unemployment

CAPE TOWN - South Africa on Tuesday launched a nine billion rand ($1.3-billion, 911-million-euro) fund that aims to create 150,000 jobs in three years to fight the country’s 25 percent unemployment rate.

Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan said South Africa needed “a new boldness and a new energy to be infused into the job creation process,” with two billion rand set aside to fund employment projects in 2011.

“Perhaps even more importantly, we need to be able to demonstrate that we can deliver on policy pronouncements and focus more on delivery than on talk about jobs,” he told reporters.

South Africa wants to create five million new jobs by 2020 but unemployment rose to 25 percent in the first quarter of the year — reaching 33.4 percent if discouraged job seekers are included.

The fund is open to proposals from government departments, municipalities, business and NGOs on Tuesday and will issue grants for job programmes.

“This fund is a bold new venture that acknowledges we have got a problem,” said Brian Whittaker, deputy chair of the fund’s investment committee.

Labourers work on the World Cup stadium in Durban, South Africa, in 2008. South Africa's economy bounced back strongly from recession with 4.8 percent growth in the first quarter of 2011 but still faces rampant unemployment, the finance minister said Tuesday.

“Very high numbers of espe- fund doesn’t remove the concially young people out of work straints but what hopefully the is something that the country fund does is releases a degree of can’t live with and for which we creativity that we haven’t seen don’t really have known and before,” said Whittaker. fixed solutions. There’s an “It will enable us as a country opportunity here to do some- to be bolder on some of the inithing innovative.” tiatives than we have before and The fund will be administered to take some risks.” by the Development Bank of The fund works on a co-fundSouthern Africa and aims at a ing approach, with the private matched funding ratio for pri- sector expected to match grants vate sector applicants. awarded.

“The establishment of the

Egyptians honor activist whose death sparked revolt

By DINA ZAYED CAIRO Hundreds of Egyptians took to the streets on Monday and stood in silence in memory of activist Khaled Said, beaten to death outside an Internet cafe exactly a year ago by two police officers in the coastal city Alexandria.

Pictures of the 28year-old’s battered face and body quickly spread via the Internet, sparking public anger in Egyptian cities that grew into the revolt that eventually toppled

President Hosni Mubarak on February 11.

Mostly young Egyptians, draped with national flags, some clutching copies of the Koran, others holding the Christian cross, paid tribute to the man who became a symbol of their uprising and called for justice for victims of police brutality.

“Khaled Said died but brought the voice of justice to life,” said Soha Fathy of the Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies. “But a year has passed and his rights have not been returned.”

Said posted a video that he said showed two policemen sharing the spoils of a drug bust.

Witnesses say the policemen dragged Said out of an Internet cafe and beat him to death.

Authorities said Said choked on illegal drugs he had swallowed.

Two policemen were put on trial last year, and a verdict is expected later this month.

“I hear the voice of a martyr calling, asking ‘where are my rights and where are the rights of my nation,’” hundreds chanted outside Said’s home in Alexandria, denouncing the slow progress of the investigation and trial.

“We feel great grief on this day because Khaled is not with us but it is also mixed with pride, because it was Khaled who sparked the

revolution,” said Zohra Said, Khaled’s sister.

“But we are still waiting for justice.”

REJECTING TORTURE Hundreds gathered outside the interior ministry in Cairo, a scene impossible to imagine before the uprising when the building was cordoned off and difficult even to walk past, chanting “do not worry Khaled, we have avenged your death.”

“I’m here because this is the least I can do. It is not acceptable for people to die at the hands of security officers,” Sara Hussein said, standing outside the building while activists climbed on walls to draw graffiti images of Said.

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Nigeria’s new parliament sworn in after April polls

By OLA AWONIYI ABUJA Nigerian lawmakers elected in watershed polls in April were formally sworn in to parliament Monday facing the key task of enacting legislation on long-delayed oil sector reforms.

The 109 senators were the first to take the oath, followed by 360 members of the House of Representatives.

“This, indeed, is a new dawn ... for our great country,” said senate president David Mark, who retained the post, becoming the first to hold the position for two successive terms.

A deputy chief whip in the last parliament,

Aminu Waziri Tambuwal a northerner, was elected speaker of the house of representative, beating his rival, Mulikat AdeolaAkande, from southwest Nigeria.

The National has the Assembly responsibility for ¨very critical legislation that will propel Nigeria to the world’s 20 most advanced economies,” Mark told the senators.

Topping the agenda of the new 469-member National Assembly will be passing legislation to overhaul Nigeria’s vital oil industry.

Uncertainty over the sweeping legislation, which has been years in the making, has chilled investments in new projects in Nigeria, one of the world’s largest oil producers, with energy firms unclear on what the new rules will be.

The overhaul is at allowing aimed Nigeria’s government to collect more revenue from lucrative offshore projects as well as restructuring the state oil company, widely seen as corruption-ridden.

Government officials had pledged the law would be passed before the end of the last parliament.

Mark said this session of the National Assembly “has to be truly transformational in all ramifications.

Our budgeting system needs a radical change.” ¨Nigerians complain that their democracy is too expensive,” Mark said.

“We as representatives of the people must initiate legislation that will reduce the cost of governance at all levels

thereby freeing resources to attend to the basic needs of the people, ¨ he said.

Despite the country’s oil wealth, the majority of Nigerians live in poverty with basic services such as electricity and drinking water in erratic supply.

Nigerian lawmakers are meanwhile considered some of the highly paid in Africa.

The swearing-in of the new parliament took place as the outgoing speaker of the House of Representatives and powerful politician, Dimeji Bankole, was under arrest on allegations of corruption linked to house funds.

The anti-graft police arrested Bankole late Sunday fearing he was planning to flee the country ahead of questioning over alleged

Nigeria's Senate President David Mark, pictured in 2006. Nigerian lawmakers elected in watershed polls in April were formally sworn into parliament Monday facing the key task of enacting legislation on long-delayed oil sector reforms. misappropriation of tens of millions of dollars of parliament funds.

Bankole lost his parliamentary seat in the April elections.

The polls were seen as a test of whether the Africa’s most populous country was capable of holding credible elections.

While judged as the fairest election since the end of military rule in 1999, the country was hit by deadly post-vote riots which left 800 dead in the mainly Muslim north.

The election also exposed a regional and religious divide in the country of more than 150 million people.

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Drugs on Virgin Islands boat nets US man 5 years TORTOLA, British Virgin Islands - An American boat captain has been sentenced to five years in prison in the British Virgin Islands for his drugsmuggling conviction.

Ronald Weisel was captain of the 39-foot Captain Ron in December 2008 when police searched the boat and found 56 kilograms of cocaine.

Authorities valued the load at $5.6 million.

The New York native was living in St. Thomas at the time.

Weisel was convicted in April of charges that included importation of cocaine. Another man on board was acquitted at a separate trial.

Judge Valerie Stephens imposed Weisel’s sentence Monday. She rejected a request from the defendant’s brother to release Weisel to seek psychiatric help for a brain injury from a 1984 car accident.

Arthur: Sinckler an amateur BRIDGETOWN, Barbados - Leader of the Opposition Party Owen Arthur says Barbados is crying out for leadership and “can’t afford Chris Sinckler’s apprenticeship anymore”.

The former Prime Minister told scores of Barbados Labour Party supporters at George Lamming Primary School on Sunday that Sinckler had failed as Minister of Finance and Economic Affairs.

“Sinckler has had his amateur hour. He has had his hour of trifling and_dipsy-doodling and instituting one measure to replace another immediately,” Arthur said.

“The people of Barbados cannot afford Chris Sinckler’s apprenticeship anymore. The mayhem is too great. Barbados can do better.”

Arthur predicted that Sinckler would have to return to Parliament soon with a budget, as the measures he had implemented had not done the job.

The political leader of the BLP disclosed that the party had started the process of preparing an election manifesto which he said would offer hope and realism to the people. (MK)

T&T cops kill ‘abusive’ dad, wife says he had no weapon PORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad - A woman who called the police after her husband became abusive, on Sunday condemned the police officers who shot and killed him when they arrived.

Police said they shot Kamal Krishna Ramdial, 49, a heavy equipment operator, in the chest and abdomen when he attacked them with a pick-axe and cutlass on Saturday night.

But on Sunday, Ramdial’s wife, Tara Ramdial, said the officers shot her husband when he opened the door to let them in. She said he had no weapon.

She demanded that the police officers produce the cutlass they said Ramdial was allegedly holding.

The incident occurred at around 8.30 pm, at Basta Hall, Couva.

Tara Ramdial said she called the Couva Police Station when her husband began “roughing up” their teenage children.

Haiti mudslides, rain storms kill at least 11

By TRENTON DANIEL

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti - A storm set off mudslides and flooding that killed at least 11 people in impoverished Haiti, officials said Tuesday.

Rains engulfed the capital for several hours Monday night, turning hilly streets into rivers and sweeping debris down denuded hillsides of Haiti’s capital.

Motorists abandoned their cars. Women could be heard screaming for help as water pounded the supposedly temporary settlements that arose in Port-au-Prince after last year’s powerful earthquake.

Marie Alta Jean-Baptiste, director of Haiti’s Civil Protection Department, told Radio Galaxie that 11 people drowned or died in mudslides.

All but one of the deaths happened in the Port-au-Prince area.

Officials say they fear the hurricane season, which officially began last week, could exacerbate a cholera outbreak that already has killed 5,000 people.

Haiti’s newly elected President Michel Martelly took to national television just before midnight to calm the nation as the storm was still passing over

Residents look at UN trucks being used to evacuate people and carry materials from a flooded area after they broke down and blocked the road in Thomazeau, Haiti, Monday June 6, 2011.

The Haitian government and international aid groups evacuated more than 50 families to dry land Sunday after the Caribbean country’s largest lake overflowed from days of heavy rains.

Photo/Dieu Nalio Chery the city. “This message is to tell the population that I’m with you,” the president said.

Martelly said the seaside slum of Cite Soleil flooded and walls toppled in the hills above Portau-Prince. He ordered government construction workers to show up to work early Tuesday.

Debris and mud clogged

major thoroughfares Tuesday, causing traffic jams throughout the capital.

Earlier rains prompted the government and international aid groups to evacuate dozens of families who lived near the Caribbean country’s largest lake, Azuei, which had overflowed.

St Thomas Residents Cry Neglect The raging waters of the Yallahs River have left several communities in St Thomas marooned since the weekend, but this was not going to stop Memry Edie, whose home sits along the riverbank, from taking her grandchildren to school.

Heavy rains over much of the island in the last four days washed away the makeshift footbridge Edie and other residents of Gordon Castle use to get across the river.

Undaunted, however, Edie said she and her

teenage grandchildren removed some of their clothing and waded through the rushing waters in the wee hours of the morning.

“Me have two (grandchildren) to do CXC ( C a r i b b e a n Examinations Council) and two more going to Albion (Primary School), so we have to come out,” Edie told The Gleaner yesterday.

It is an all-too-familiar practice for her and other residents in Gordon Castle, Orange Tree, and Guinea Cornpiece, three St Thomas communities that overlook the Yallahs River.

The residents say they have been left to fend for themselves

since 1988 when Hurricane Gilbert washed away the bridge in Orange Tree, which provided a critical link between Llandewey and communities on the other side of the river.

“No matter what happen, if we over deh, we haffi find a way fi come out,” said Noel Folkes, a resident of Orange Tree. fresh frustration Jittery residents in all three communities say the start of the hurricane season brings fresh frustration every year.

Not only are they forced to leave their homes several times during the season, some residents com-

plain that they lose thousands of dollars in agricultural produce in the process.

“Sometimes the children dem ova deh and the river come dung and you nuh have no food. Sometimes it rough,” Edie said, adding that several persons in Gordon Castle have fled their homes.

Since Gilbert washed away the main bridge connecting the communities, residents say agriculture and community life have suffered.

Residents say many persons have migrated and once-productive agricultural lands are now idle as it is difficult to access farms across the river.

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Yemen’s Saleh injuries believed to be more serious By MOHAMMED GHOBARI & MOHAMMED MUKHASHAF SANAA - Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh’s injuries from a rocket attack on his palace at the weekend were more serious than previously reported, a Yemeni official said, raising further questions about his rule.

Saleh was initially said to have received a shrapnel wound, and his vice president was quoted on Monday as saying the president would return to Yemen within days from Saudi Arabia where he is being treated.

The Yemeni official reiterated comments by a U.S. official, saying Saleh was in a more serious condition with burns over roughly 40 percent of his body.

Britain called on Tuesday for an orderly transition of power from Saleh.

In the capital Sanaa, thousands of protesters gathered in front of the Yemeni vice president’s residence on Tuesday, demanding the acting leader for wounded President Ali Abdullah Saleh form a transitional council to create a new government.

Outside the peaceful protest in the capital of Sanaa, battles raged in a southern town held

by Islamist militants.

4,000 Around demonstrators in Sanaa, who have been calling for Saleh to step down for five months, called for a “millionman march” for him to stay in Saudi Arabia, where he has been treated for injuries since an attack on Friday.

“The people want to form a transitional council, we will not sleep, we will not sit until the council is formed,” the protesters chanted.

Protesters carried banners saying “The blood of the liberated achieved victory,” while others waved banners saying “Our revolution is Yemeni, not Gulf or American.”

“We will remain in front of the residence of the vice president for 24 hours to pressure him for the formation of a transitional council,” youth activist Omar al-Qudsi said.

“The era of Saleh has ended,” he told Reuters.

ROCKET ATTACK Saleh, 69, was wounded on Friday when rockets struck his Sanaa palace, killing seven people and wounding senior officials and advisers in what his officials said was an assassination attempt. He is being treated in a Riyadh hospital.

The volatile situation in Yemen, which lies on

vital oil shipping lanes, alarms Western powers and neighboring oil giant Saudi Arabia, who fear that chaos would enable the local al Qaeda franchise to operate more freely there.

They see Saleh’s absence for medical treatment in Riyadh as an opportunity to ease the president out of office after nearly 33 years ruling the impoverished Arab nation.

“We are calling for a peaceful and orderly transition,” Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said on Monday.

British Foreign Secretary William Hague said on Tuesday: “The situation in Yemen is extremely uncertain following President Saleh’s departure to Saudi Arabia to receive medical treatment and his transfer of authority to the Vice President.”

“We urge the Vice President to work closely with all sides to implement the Gulf Cooperation Council Agreement and to begin political transition now,” he said, speaking to parliament.

Saudi officials say it is up to Saleh whether he returns home or not, but they and their Western allies may want to revive a Gulfbrokered transition deal under which the Yemeni leader would quit in return for

immunity from prosecution.

“Saleh’s departure is probably permanent,” said Robert Powell, Yemen analyst at the Economist Intelligence Unit.

“The Saudis, as well as the U.S. and European Union, are pushing hard for him to stay in Saudi Arabia, as they view the prospect of his return as a catastrophe.

“Prior to his departure, the country was slipping inexorably into a civil war.

However, his removal has suddenly opened a diplomatic window to restart the seemingly failed GCC-mediated proposal. It seems Saudi Arabia and other interested parties are unwilling to allow Saleh to derail it this time.”

SAUDI CONCERN Saudi Arabia is worried by the activities of the Yemen-based al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), which has staged daring if not very effective attacks on Saudi and U.S. targets.

The army said it had killed dozens of Islamist militants including a local al Qaeda leader in the southern town of Zinjibar, capital of the flashpoint Abyan province.

A local official said 15 soldiers had been killed in the battles for

control of the town seized by militants some 10 days ago.

Some of Saleh’s opponents have accused the president of deliberately letting AQAP militants take over Zinjibar to demonstrate the security risks if he lost power.

The fighting has reduced Zinjibar, once home to more than 50,000 people, to a ghost town without or running power water.

Fighting also flared again in the city of Taiz, south of Sanaa, where anti-government gunmen have clashed sporadically with troops in the past few days.

A Saudi-brokered truce was holding in the capital after two weeks of fighting between Saleh’s forces and tribesmen in which more than 200 people were killed and thousands forced to flee.

Saleh has defied pressure to accept the transition plan brokered by the Saudi-led Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC). Three times, he has backed away from signing it at the last minute.

“The transition seems to be on track as per the GCC initiative.

There will be many obstacles down the road, but without Saleh’s destructive presence, we can overcome them,” said

Yemeni political analyst Abdul-Ghani alIryani.

The future of Yemen, where shifting alliances of tribal leaders, generals and politicians compete for power, is uncertain. Saleh’s sons and relatives remain in the country, commanding elite military units and security agencies.

Other contenders in a possible power struggle include the wellarmed Hashed tribal federation, breakaway military leaders, Islamists, leftists and an angry public seeking relief from crippling poverty, corruption and failing public services.

Youthful protesters have been celebrating Saleh’s departure, but are wary of any attempt by the wily leader to return.

“In the near term, the biggest challenge is to set up a viable political reform process that has the general backing of the population, and allows Yemen to return to normal after months of unrest,” the EIU’s Powell said.

“In the medium term, Yemen’s biggest challenge is economic — already the poorest country in the Middle East, it is running out of oil and water, and unless it can find alternative drivers of growth an economic collapse is entirely feasible,” he said.

Iran says n o of fer can stop it enriching uranium

By MITRA AMIRI TEHRAN - No offer from world powers can persuade Iran to stop enriching uranium, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Tuesday, dismissing the key demand of countries that fear Tehran is developing nuclear weapons.

A day after the U.N. atomic watchdog said it had new evidence of possible military dimensions to Iran’s nuclear work, Ahmadinejad accused

it of doing Washington’s bidding and said Tehran’s atomic advances had “no brake and no reverse gear.”

The head of the International Atomic Energy Agency, Yukiya Amano, said on Monday the IAEA had received “further information ... that seems to point to the existence of possible military dimensions to Iran’s nuclear program.”

That contradicts Iran’s insistence that its nuclear work is for entirely peaceful pur-

poses, and Ahmadinejad made clear his displeasure with the Japanese IAEA chief who has taken a blunter approach than his Egyptian predecessor Mohamed ElBaradei.

“With America’s orders (the IAEA) has written some things in a report that are against the law and against the agency’s r e g u l a t i o n s , ” Ahmadinejad told reporters.

“These have no legal value and aside from harming the agency’s

reputation it will have no other effect.”

Tehran says sanctions imposed by Washington, Europe and the United Nations are not hitting its economy and insists they will not force it to give up what it considers its sovereign right to enrich uranium, a process that can make fuel for power plants or, by enriching uranium more highly, provide bomb material.

NO REVERSE “I have said before that Iran’s nuclear train has no brake and

no reverse gear ... We will continue our path,” Ahmadinejad said, adding that Iran would continue to cooperate with the IAEA “as long as they move based on justice.”

Asked whether the world powers that have held talks with Tehran in the past to seek an end to the nuclear impasse could offer any incentive to stop Iran’s enrichment, he answered with the one word: “No.” Two rounds of talks between Iran and the five permanent mem-

bers of the U.N. Security Council, the United States, Russia, China, Britain and France, plus Germany (P5+1), in Geneva in December and in Istanbul in January, did not reach any substantive result.

Iran has said it is willing to resume talks, but its insistence that other countries recognize its right to enrich uranium is a major stumbling block, particularly for Western diplomats who see it as an unacceptable pre-condition.

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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

By LJ Knight

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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Sleep might help you solve problems better

By RANDY DOTINGA Got a big decision to make and thinking about sleeping on it?

A new study suggests that might be a good idea; it found that people did a better job of learning a game when they got some shut-eye afterward.

The research doesn’t prove that sleep will help you learn more effectively. But it does provide more evidence that your brain doesn’t just rest and dream when you’re asleep, said study co-author Rebecca Spencer, an assistant professor at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst.

The brain appears to also be reviewing the day’s events and processing them, she said. “You put the movie in and you replay it. This says sleep is really adding something, that we shouldn’t go with our gut instinct. We should sleep on it,” she said.

It may seem obvious that people would perform a task better after getting some sleep. But Spencer said the new study is unique because it looks at people who had a brief chance to learn something and then either slept or stayed awake.

Other sleep research has focused on memory and on what happens when people

don’t get enough sleep.

“Everything falls to pieces when you’ve been sleepdeprived,” she said.

In the study, researchers assigned 54 college students (aged 18-23) to one of two groups. One learned a gambling game in the morning, while the other learned it in the evening, although no one was allowed to learn the trick

to beating the game. Then they came back 12 hours later to play the game.

Those who had a chance to get a full night’s sleep after learning the game did a better job of figuring out the trick to it. Eighty percent of those who slept figured out the trick to the game, while 40 percent of those who stayed awake did, Spencer said.

The researchers assigned the game to other groups of students and found that the time of day when they played it didn’t affect their performance, boosting the case that sleep was a crucial factor for the first two groups.

What’s going on? The brain appears to process what it’s learned during sleep, Spencer said. “It’s filing it away. And when you file things, you’re not just putting them in the file drawer. You’re putting them in a real organized fashion, you’re filing it next to things.”

Sleep researcher Michael P. Stryker, a professor at the University of California at San Francisco, said the study does have an important limitation: “Is the difference really a gain in performance after sleep because of some kind of ‘insight’ or ‘problemsolving’ that happens during sleep, or is it that being awake for 12 hours makes you less able to perform the task?”

Sleep researcher Michael Anch, an associate professor at Saint Louis University, said the study “emphasizes the growing awareness of the importance of sleep for optimal cognitive functioning.”

“This study is consistent with other studies suggesting that sleep allows you to integrate learned information from various brain regions, which is not allowable by instant decisions,” Anch said. “This gives credence to the notion that if you have a decision to make, sleep on it!”

Smokers show higher risk of leg artery disease

By AMY NORTON Women who smoke are much more likely than nonsmokers to develop clogged arteries in the legs — but quitting can lower those odds, according to a study published Monday.

The study, reported in the Annals of Internal Medicine, found that female smokers were up to 17 times more likely than non-smokers to develop peripheral artery disease (PAD).

About 8 million Americans have PAD, which usually arises when atherosclerosis, a hardening and narrowing of the arteries, restricts blood flow to the legs. The main symptom is leg pain or cramps during normal activities, like walking, though not everyone with the condition has symptoms.

People with PAD often have widespread atherosclerosis, including coronary heart disease — where arteries feeding the heart become narrowed and stiff. For some, leg pain is the first symptom of wider problems.

Smoking has a well-established link to heart disease.

But fewer studies have focused on PAD. The good news from the current study is that women who kicked the habit

appeared to lower their risk of PAD — though they did not eliminate it.

“Our most important finding, in my view, is that smoking cessation substantially reduces this risk,” said lead researcher Dr. David Conen, of the University Hospital Basel in Switzerland.

“We found a gradual decrease in risk with an increased duration of smoking abstinence, highlighting the importance of smoking cessation,” Conen told Reuters Health in an email.

Compared with lifelong non-smokers, former smokers had three times the risk of developing PAD over 13 years.

But current smokers showed much higher odds: those who smoked fewer than 15 cigarettes a day had a nine-fold higher risk of PAD

than lifelong non-smokers, while those who lit up more often had a 17-times higher risk.

“Clearly, our study adds one more reason to quit smoking as soon as possible,” Conen said.

However, he added, “the fact that the risk of PAD does not get down to that of women who never smoked also emphasizes the importance that never starting smoking is at least as important.”

The findings come from a long-running study of U.S. women who were age 45 or older and free of heart disease and other major health problems at the outset. Of nearly 40,000 women followed for 13 years, 178 were eventually diagnosed with PAD. Among the heaviest smokers — 15 or more cigarettes

per day — PAD was diagnosed at a rate of 1.6 cases for every 1,000 women each year.

Among lifelong non-smokers, there were 0.1 cases for every 1,000 women each year.

When Conen’s team accounted for other PAD risk factors, like older age, obesity and diabetes, smoking itself was still strongly linked to the disease.

The researchers also gained some clues as to why smoking might lead to PAD. Based on blood samples from a subgroup of women, high levels of certain inflammatory proteins accounted for some of the risk linked to smoking.

That, Conen’s team says, suggests that smoking leads to PAD, in part, by spurring chronic inflammation in the blood vessels.

He suggested that doctors be careful to look for signs

and symptoms of PAD in patients who smoke.

Besides leg pain during exercise, other signs include leg sores that don’t heal, feelings of cold or numbness in the legs or feet, and hair loss or slowed hair growth on the legs.

Once PAD is diagnosed, treatment usually involves lifestyle changes to improve a person’s overall cardiovascular health, including a healthy diet and regular exercise. People with PAD may also take aspirin or other medications to prevent blood clots.

In cases where leg pain is debilitating, doctors may prescribe medications that improve blood flow to the legs. Some people end up needing angioplasty or bypass surgery to take care of blockages in the leg arteries.

Depressed people find it hard to stop reliving bad times A new study suggests that depressed people suffer from an inability to rid themselves of negative thoughts because they can’t turn their attention to other things.

“They basically get stuck in a mindset where they relive what happened to them over and over again,” said study co-author Jutta

Joormann of the University of Miami in an Association for Psychological Science news release. “Even though they think, ‘Oh, it’s not helpful, I should stop thinking about this, I should get on with my life,’ they can’t stop doing it.”

The study authors gave tests designed to gauge mental flexibility to 26 depressed

people and 27 people who had never been depressed.

They looked at words on a screen for one second each and then were told to remember them in forward or backward order. Then they were asked to look at individual words and say where they were in the original order.

Depressed people had a

harder time with the task, especially if the words had negative meanings like “death” or “sadness.”

“The order of the words sort of gets stuck in their working memory, especially when the words are negative,” Joormann said.

Those who performed the worst also tended to ruminate on their problems.

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Union County vows to cor ral cor r ections of ficers’ over time

By RYAN HUTCHINS Kenneth Wright is a hard worker.

One week last year, the 57-year-old corrections officer logged more than 72 hours of overtime with Union County, where he is one of 31 sergeants at the county jail in Elizabeth.

That was on top of his regular 40-hour work week, spent coordinating training programs.

It might seem overly grueling to some, but to Wright, who has 22 years with the county, it’s not far from the norm.

A contractually negotiated system has allowed Wright to average 29 hours of overtime every week for the past six years. He more than doubled his base salary and brought home $205,000 last year, making him one of the highest paid county employees without a medical degree, according to documents obtained by The Star-Ledger through open records requests.

Wright tops a long list of big-bucks overtime earners at the county jail, where extra manhours cost $6 million last year - down from $7.3 million in 2006 and 2007, records show.

And while the overtime costs may be down due in part to an increase in staffing - it’s still a controversial issue, with critics saying more needs to be done. The county doesn’t disagree, and has pledged to increase the ranks of supervising officers, a group that now accounts for the lion’s share of overtime.

“Continually, we’ve been the highest overtime-total jail in the state of New Jersey, at least since I’ve been affiliated with the jail,” said Brian Riordan, the director of Union County’s Department of Correctional Services, which runs the facility that houses about 1,000 inmates a day.

But Monmouth County surpassed Union in total jail overtime costs last year, paying officers about $5.7 mil-

lion in county funds plus an additional $1.1 million through federal funding, said Cynthia Scott, a spokeswoman for the county sheriff’s office. That was an increase from 2009, when Monmouth paid at least $5 million for overtime. The jump was driven by the layoffs of 35 corrections officers, Scott said.

The type of work being done only makes the situation more complex. In a jail, where the stakes are high, understaffing could lead to injuries or death. When an officer scheduled to work calls out sick, someone has to fill that shift.

“I can’t leave floors unattended,” Riordan said. “We have direct supervision.”

Bob Thomas, an Olympia, Wash.-based consultant on law safety and justice operations, said hiring additional officers may appear to be the fastest way to reduce the amount of overtime, but adding more staff may not reduce overtime enough to reduce a

overall department’s costs.

Balancing staffing levels and overtime, Thomas said, is a “science.”

ADDING SUPERVISORS Union County had already hired about 50 additional rank-and-file officers since 2007, but they weren’t eligible to work supervisory shifts.

So, to address overtime by supervisors, the county is promoting officers to create more sergeants and lieutenants.

Since the staff grew in size, overtime has decreased while straight pay has increased. The total payroll cost, though, would have decreased slightly if corrections officers weren’t given contractual salary increases, according to figures county officials provided.

Much of the overtime expense isn’t how many officers are working the extra hours, but who those officers are. For years, the jail has used a seniority system that requires the county to offer the longest-serving

corrections officers - and thus the highest paid the first chance to refuse overtime, in accordance with union contracts.

“The more senior people that you have doing it, it’s going to cost more,” said Thomas, who has authored a half dozen reports on overtime in the corrections field.

The county doesn’t refute that giving the most-senior workers the most overtime costs more, but officials there say it would be difficult to do away with a system that has been guaranteed by contract for decades. Union leaders said they do not want give up the seniority process.

Lt. James Rinaldo, the president of the Fraternal Order of Police Lodge 213, a union that represents a majority of the jail’s superior officers, said the system is “fair and equitable.”

“What Sgt. Wright works is voluntary overtime,” said Rinaldo, who is also one of the county’s top overtime earn-

ers, with more than $77,000 last year. “H makes a sacrifice to come in on his days off weekends, holidays.”

It’s typical for Union County jail officers to increase their bas salary by more than 25 percent with overtime records show. And dozens of employee earned at least 50 per cent of their base salary in overtime last year Wright, one of the mos senior sergeants, wa among a handful of offi cers who more than dou bled their base pay. Th overtime does not coun toward the officers’ pen sions, according to th state Treasury Department and th president of the stat Police and Fir Retirement System.

Wright, who lives in Clark and declined to comment, has an annua base salary of $98,330 and has earned an addi tional $650,000 in over time since 2005. Th county manager, th highest-paid county employee without a medical degree, has a base salary of $168,000

N.J. fund to help homeowners fix underground tanks runs out of money, creates $33M of spill cleanups By CHRISTOPHER BAXTER For Marty Lipp, the only thing deeper than the 8foot hole contractors dug in his driveway to remove an old heating oil storage tank may soon be the one in his wallet for having to unexpectedly pick up the tab for the work.

Lipp, 53, of Maplewood, will now have to fork over up to $12,000 after a popular state fund created to help residents remove leaky underground tanks ran dry last

week - just five years after its coffers bulged with $90 million.

“I checked the website a day or so before this happened, and suddenly they hang out the sign and say there’s no more money?” said Lipp, a freelance writer whose work has appeared in The Star-Ledger. “I don’t understand where the oversight was, and how they could not see this was coming.”

About 1,300 people seeking grants or loans will not get help for at least a year, creating a backlog of an estimated $33 million worth of spill cleanups, said Frank Pinto, chief financial officer for the state Department of

Environmental Protection’s Site Remediation Program.

The money woes also will prevent the agency from processing new requests until at least 2014, Pinto said.

Once celebrated as the solution to getting rid of rusted and aging tanks, the fund ran out of cash because of maneuvers to divert dollars to other priorities and expand the number of people and institutions eligible for the program.

“This was a very successful program but then everyone started trying to take a little piece of it and now the program is basically being diverted to death,” said Jeff Tittel, director of the New

Jersey chapter of the Sierra Club.

Average cleanup costs for leaky underground tanks range from $3,000 to $8,000, according to grants and loans awarded. But spills that cause widespread contamination can cost $100,000 or more to remediate. The program had paid for 12,587 projects as of Dec. 31, 2010, according to the state Economic Development Authority, which oversees the fund along with the DEP. Environmentalists say the ramifications of the fund’s demise could be extreme: Leaking tanks could remain in the ground longer, increasing the likelihood of a major

spill.

Typical underground home heating oil tanks hold 550 to 1,000 gallons, and a spill of just one gallon of oil into the groundwater can contaminate 1 million gallons - the equivalent of about 11/2 Olympic-size swimming pools.

Though the DEP prefers not to take strict enforcement against homeowners, David Sweeney, assistant commissioner for the department’s site remediation program, said by law, residents are responsible for the spill.

“There will be cases where homeowners don’t have the money to do it, and if it ranks high enough, we’ll go

in there and then we’ll put a lien on the property,” Sweeney said.

State Sen. Bob Smith (D-Middlesex), chair man of the Senate Environment and Energy Committee said he plans to hold a hearing to determine why the money ran out and why the problem was not brought to the Legislature’s attention sooner.

“Everybody’s intention will be to try to make sure we keep our promises to our citizens,” Smith said.

The EDA warned last year in its annual report that the tank fund could hit empty this year and recommended lawmakers take action. But no changes were made.

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Wesley Snipes loses tax case appeal

Kanye West working on high-end clothing line in Paris

By ALLEN STARBURY Kanye West is ready to fully jump back into the fashion world, after a yearplus run of promoting his latest album.

Apparently, he’s chosen Paris — where he’s been a fixture n the front row at the autumn/winter 2011 fashion shows — to begin working on a new clothing line.

According to UK’s The Telegraph, a source close to West says he’s currently developing a a high-end collection for both men and women from a studio in the center of the French capital.

Further details were unknown at press time.

This isn’t Kanye’s first run at doing a full-fledged clothing line. He previously had plans to launch his Pastelle line, but closed up shop a little over a month after his infamous VMAs outburst in 2009.

However, he’s been slowly re-introducing himself into fashion, appearing at shows regularly, and recently dropped a limited collection of silk scarves, inspired by the artwork for from My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy.

WASHINGTON — Actor Wesley Snipes, serving a three-year prison sentence for failing to file income tax returns, suffered a legal setback on Monday when the U.S. Supreme Court refused to review his case.

Snipes, 48, the star of the “Blade” action movies, was convicted in 2008 in a Florida court for willful failure to file federal tax returns from 1999 through 2001.

Snipes, who has served nearly one year of his threeyear term, was accused of not filing personal income tax returns and not paying any taxes from 1999 through 2004 despite earning more than $37 million as an actor and producer.

Attorneys for Snipes said the case was improperly brought in Florida and should have been moved to New York, but the trial judge and a U.S. appeals court rejected those arguments.

Defense attorneys said

that, during the earlier tax years in question, Snipes lived with his family in New York City and then moved to a home in the northern New Jersey suburbs. He also had a residence near Los Angeles.

U.S. Justice Department prosecutors said Florida was the proper venue for the case.

They presented evidence at trial that Snipes was born in Florida, had a home in Windermere, Florida, since 1992, had a Florida driver’s license and listed Windermere as his residence in contracts for the “Blade” movies.

In the Supreme Court appeal, attorneys for Snipes said the trial judge should have held a hearing on the evidence about venue before submitting the issue to the jury.

The high court rejected the appeal without any comment, refusing to hear the case.

MTV Movie Award ratings fall for second year LOS ANGELES — Viewership for the MTV Movie Awards dropped for the second year as the show once again offered a raw mix of A-list celebrities and X-rated humor.

The two-hour live telecast drew 4.5 million viewers on Sunday evening, down from 4.6 million last year, MTV

said in a statement. Viewership peaked at 7.1 million in 2002 and subsequently went as low as 3.0 million in 2008.

F-bombs and naughty humor proliferated as the third “Twilight” movie took home the top awards, just as its predecessors did in previous years.

Presenter Justin Timberlake cupped the breasts of his “Friends With Benefits” co-star Mila Kunis, who responded by grabbing his crotch. “Twilight” hunk Robert Pattinson engaged in a lip-lock with co-star Taylor Lautner.

Host Jason Sudeikis directed a joke about oral

sex to mortified teen actress Selena Gomez, while the daredevil stars of “Jackass” were part of a segment featuring homoerotic references to Donald Trump.

Even southern belle Reese Witherspoon got in on the potty-mouthed act as she accepted a lifetime achievement award.

Craig Robinson to play Dwayne Johnson eyes ‘G.I. Joe’ sequel ex-Black Panther in new role

By BORYS KIT LOS ANGELES — Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson, enjoying a new crest in popularity with “Fast Five,” is in talks to join the “G.I. Joe” sequel.

The 2009 original, “G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra,” grossed about $300 million at the worldwide box office but reportedly cost $175 million to make.

Paramount and producer Lorenzo di Bonaventura are rebuilding the franchise and bringing in a viper’s nest of new characters, which means that many of the players from the original won’t be back.

(Headliner Channing Tatum, who played Duke in the first

movie, is expected to return.)

Johnson has the offer for the role of machine gunner Roadblock, described as “a big guy with a big gun.” The film will be directed by John Chu (“Justin Bieber: Never Say Never”). The first one was directed by Stephen Sommers, and also starred Marlon Wayans and Dennis Quaid.

Actor Craig Robinson is ready to set it off in a new gritty crime drama, which begins production sometime soon. Robinson is playing a much different role than he is used to playing in “Freaky Deaky,” a movie based on the crime novel put out by Elmore Leonard.

Robinson, who shares the limelight in the film with Matt Dillon and Brendan Fraser, plays ex-Black Panther Donnell Lewis, caught up in plotting scams with Fraser’s character, and is now working as a driver, nursemaid and would-be swindler. The film also stars Macy Gray.

The film is expected to play along side the crime drama in that it takes a look

at the synopsis of a vivid group of characters who are mainly veterans of 1960s: Chris Mankowski (Dillon), 38-year-old Detroit police sergeant, newly transferred from the bomb squad to sex crimes; Skip Gibbs, now a movie dynamite expert; and others, including Greta Wyatt, stagenamed Ginger Jones, who meets Chris when she reports that she’s been assaulted.

When Chris pursues the investigation, he is suspended from the force because the suspect is a man with clout.

Now determined to get to the bottom of things, Chris is caught up in a web of scams plotted by Skip and Donnell (Robinson) for starters.

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Tamia announces album title, new album coming this fall Grammy-nominated singer and songwriter Tamia is preparing to make a comeback this fall with the release of her upcoming album entitled ‘Beautiful Surprise’, confirmed by her publicist on Twitter.. This will serve as a follow-up to her 2006 project ‘Between Friends’.

This will be Tamia’s fifth studio album, and it will stay true to the veteran R&B pow-

erhouse’s known sound and style. Though details for the project are still limited, she has insisted that fans can expect the usual love ballads.

Currently confirmed writers and producers for the album include Rodney “Darkchild” Jerkins, The Runners, Chuck Harmony, Claude Kelly, and Carvin Haggins & Ivan Barias.

Most recently, songwriter Claude Kelly talked with TheBoomBox.com regarding his contribution to the record.

together during rehearsals.

“We probably won’t start talking about what we’re planning for another couple days,” Minaj said. “I’ve been just rehearsing, and she’s been rehearsing, and we’ll be getting together in a couple days.”

With more than a month off since finishing her stint on Lil Wayne’s I Am Still Music Tour, Minaj said she’s been working on her stagecraft and trying to find a way to interject more drama into her performance to keep up with what will surely be an eyepopping spectacle from

Spears.

“I’m just trying to put more theater on that stage. So much to me is music, but it’s also about putting on a show, so that’s my goal: to truly put on a show and incorporate theater and dance,” Minaj said.

“I think it’s pretty easy to take it to the next level ... I think I’m nowhere close to where I could be as far as my shows have been. So I think it’s going to be pretty easy, actually.”

The ladies’-night tour will also feature sets from Nervo and Jessie and the Toy Boys.

By CONNIE TANG

“Tamia of course is a veteran with a great voice,” he says.

“She’s doing R&B but we are taking it up a notch. I wrote some really classic R&B songs for her that I’m really proud of.”

Tamia, 35, was mostly known for her singles “Stranger in My House,” “Officially Missing You” and her collaborative effort “Into You” with rapper Fabolous.

The singer is currently married to NBA basketball star Grant Hill.

Jennifer Nicki Minaj promises ‘more theater’ on tour Hudson signs deal for weight loss memoir

By GIL KAUFMAN

Nicki Minaj was pulling double duty at the 2011 MTV Movie Awards on Sunday night. In addition to providing some eye candy for co-presenter Ashton Kutcher to stare at, the Young Money queen spoke to MTV News backstage about her upcoming tour with fellow pop diva Britney Spears.

With Spears’ Femme Fatale Tour slated to kick off June 16 in Sacramento, California, Minaj said the pair are getting ready to put their heads

Deborah Cox goes from Aida Kelis talks not being perfect to Josephine on Broadway and accepting her flaws Singer Deborah Cox continues her Broadway feature roles, going from ‘Aida’ to starting in the new musical ‘Josephine.’ Her upcoming role is based on the life of legendary singer Josephine Baker and the play takes place in Paris between 1939 and 1945. The play will be directed by Tony-nominated director/choreographer Joey McKneely and Cox will be joined by cast-mate Tristan Sturrock of Brief Encounter.

The musical, according to a previous press notice, is “inspired by actual events, and takes place in Paris between 1939 and 1945: Josephine Baker is queen of the Paris music halls, involved in a liaison with Crown Prince Gustav VI of Sweden and secretly serving her adopted country in the

French Resistance. Her heroic work during the war brings her the self-worth she so vainly sought in fame, money and the arms of royalty.”

The musical is aiming for a Broadway opening during the spring of 2012.

Since the release of her latest album ‘Flesh Tone,’ Pop/R&B singer Kelis has been fairly quiet in the states.

Now on the heels of an album that didn’t perform to par and a divorce from ex-husband Nas, the “Milkshake” hitmaker opens up about her flaws and her decision to accept them so she can succeed in life.

“I’ve so much life tapped into a short period of time,” Kelis tells Pride Magazine.

“You go through trial and error and either you figure it out or you fail and I’m not one for failure so I had to work it out!”

Understanding that her flaws helped her become a successful recording artist, Kelis adds: “I am very aware of when I am wrong and what I’m not good at. Its like,

‘OK, I’m not perfect. I’m not always top of my game, but whatever’. Acknowledge your flaws and move on because there are things you are great at. Focus on those.”

Her imperfections may draw the credit for her success but Kelis says sometimes it backfires.

“I’m incredibly frank to the point where I sometimes annoy my girlfriends but they respect the fact that I’m real!” she states laughing.

E! News is reporting that Jennifer Hudson has signed a deal to publish a memoir about her dramatic weight loss. The as-yet untitled book is expected to be released by Dutton next January.

“I’ve lost 80 pounds,” the Oscar and Grammy winning mom of one told Oprah Winfrey in February.

Hudson has said she decided to lose the weight when she was pregnant with her son, who turns two in August. The memoir will detail Hudson’s “experience growing up in an environment where healthy living was not a priority,” as well as talk of her weight while competing on “American Idol,” according to statement from Dutton.

“Hudson wants to inspire anyone coping with weight issues, share some of her own best tips for losing and maintaining weight loss, fitting in exercise and keeping it fun,” the statement also reads.

Hudson, a celebrity spokesperson for Weight Watchers, went from a size 16 to a size 6.

“It’s like a brand-new me,” Hudson told Oprah.

“Sometimes I don’t even recognize myself.”

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Sony unveils new handheld device, seen expensive

By ISABEL REYNOLDS LOS ANGELES — Sony Corp. unveiled the pricing of its new PlayStation Vita handheld games device at a flashy Los Angeles event and immediately ran into criticism the gadget was too expensive.

The show featured appearances by sports and rock stars and was a bid by the electronics giant to move on from the computer hacking attacks that forced it to shut down its videogames network for almost a month.

The new device is aimed at competing with the likes of Apple’s iPod Touch and the plethora of smartphones and tablets on the market. After the device was first unveiled in January, the show on Monday revealed other details, including the name and basic price.

It will go on sale for $249, or $299 for a 3G mobile version, in time for year-end holidays, the Japanese electronics giant’s No.2 executive Kazuo Hirai told reporters.

“That’s fine for core gamers who want to play games all the time, but it’s too expensive for the mass market,” said

A video screen shows off Sony Corporation’s next generation portable gaming machine, PlayStation Vita, as it displays a forthcoming game called ‘ModNation Racers,’ during a news conference the E3 Gaming Convention in Los Angeles.

Dan Ernst, a Hudson Square research analyst.

The prices in Japan will be 24,980 yen and 29,980 yen, while in the euro zone the gadgets will cost 249 euros or 299 euros, roughly level with Nintendo’s 3DS, a 3D handheld gaming device launched earlier this year.

The Sony event was held on the eve of the E3 games convention, the industry’s annual gettogether that draws 45,000 reporters, analysts and industry types

to a convention center the size of eight football fields.

Hirai drew some groans from the audience of several thousand when he said Sony would work with U.S. telecoms firm AT&T as the exclusive carrier for the Vita.

Many users of Apple’s iPhone in the United States have complained that AT&T provided poor connectivity.

The Sony show included appearances

by Kobe Bryant, who demonstrated a basket-

ball simulation game, followed by DJs, dancers and rock band Jane’s Addiction.

The upbeat tempo of the event marked a stark contrast to Hirai’s appearance on May 1 at a Tokyo news conference, when he bowed deeply and repeatedly to show Sony’s contrition for the security breach of its networks.

In April, hackers accessed personal information on 77 million PlayStation Network and Qriocity accounts, 90 percent of which are

registered in North America and Europe.

At the time, Sony said credit card information may have been stolen, sparking lawsuits and casting a shadow over its plans to combine content and hardware products via online services.

A further blow to Sony’s online services could come from Apple, whose boss Steve Jobs unveiled remote computing services earlier the same day, as it sought the lead in the fast-expanding new market.

Nobody has claimed responsibility for the April attack on Sony.

The company later revealed hackers had stolen data from 25 million users of a separate system, its Sony Online Entertainment PC games network, in a breach discovered on May 2.

Just last week, hackers claimed they had broken into servers that run Sony Pictures Entertainment websites and had accessed the information of a million customers.

Sony managed to restore the PlayStation Network in full in its main North American and European markets ahead of E3, which runs from June 7-9.

Jack Tretton, the head of the company’s

U.S. videogames division, apologized to users of the network and software makers over the incident, but joked that media should thank Sony for providing a story.

He added that activity on the PlayStation network was back up to 90 percent of what it had been before the security breach and that last week’s PlayStation sales were up 27 percent on a year earlier.

“We learned a lot during the recent outage of PlayStation Network,” Hirai said. “One of the most important things we learned was about the trust and loyalty of our customers.”

Restoring services quickly was seen as essential because connectivity is one of the main selling points of the Vita.

For serious gamers, the ability to take up games where they left off, even while they are away from home, could be a key differentiation point from main rival Microsoft, which does not offer a portable device.

The global games market is expected to grow to $65 billion this year, up from $62.7 billion in 2010, although signs of weakness in the U.S. economy have sparked concern about prospects for the sector.

RSA offers to replace SecurIDs after Lockheed hacking

By NOEL RANDEWICH SAN FRANCISCO — Data storage firm EMC Ltd has offered to replace millions of potentially compromised “SecurID” electronic keys after hackers used data stolen from its RSA security division to break into Lockheed Martin’s network.

Lockheed Martin, the Pentagon’s No. 1 arms supplier and the government’s top information technology provider, was attacked last month by hackers, underscoring a growing threat to U.S. national security.

RSA, which makes the SecurID keys, said in a letter published on its website that it had confirmed information taken from it in March was used in the attack on Lockheed Martin.

EMC had previously warned that information stolen from RSA related to its SecurIDs and has now offered to replace the SecurID keys of any customers who ask, a spokesman told Reuters.

“Certain characteristics of the attack on RSA indicated that the perpetrator’s most likely motive was to obtain an element of security information that could be used to target defense secrets and related

(intellectual property),” RSA said in Monday’s letter.

Lockheed’s networks house sensitive data on future weapons systems as well as military technology currently used in battles in Iraq and Afghanistan. A source told Reuters last week that several other U.S.

military contractors have also been attacked.

Lockheed is the maker of the F-16, F-22 and F-35 fighter jets as well as warships and other multibillion-dollar arms systems sold worldwide.

The widely used electronic keys work using a two-pronged approach

to confirming the identity of the person trying to access a computer system.

They are designed to thwart hackers who might use key-logging viruses to capture passwords by constantly generating new passwords to enter the system.

The SecurID generates new strings of digits on a minute-byminute basis that the user must enter along with a secret PIN before they can access the network.

If the user fails to enter the string before it expires, then access is denied.

More going online for insurance quotes WEST LAKE VILLAGE, Calif. — Americans are becoming increasingly more likely to go online to get quotes for auto insurance, a study shows.

An insurance shopping study found for the first time a majority

of first-time auto insurance buyers initiated their policy purchase by checking out premiums online first, J.D. Power and Associates announced in a release Thursday. The number of people first checking quotes online has been

steadily raising for the past five years; 54 percent did this year.

The study also found that because of online shopping, more people are comparing multiple insurers; 33 percent in 2011, as compared with 30 percent in 2010 and

27 percent in 2009.

The study also included an insurance company satisfaction rating, in which American Family insurance was found to have the highest satisfaction rating with new buyers.

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Microsoft’s Kinect to control TV, YouTube, more games

By LIANA B. BAKER LOS ANGELES — Microsoft Corp is looking to put its popular Kinect motion-sensing device at the heart of its Xbox game console, unveiling plans on Monday to allow users to control live television feeds, search YouTube and play action games with voice commands.

The moves, announced at the annual E3 video game show in Los Angeles, should help the software giant

further its ambitions to make its gaming device an essential media hub in the living room.

Microsoft said it will give users access to live television programing through the Xbox in the United States sometime next year, following live TV services it already offers in Britain, France and Australia.

Xbox users will also be able to access Hulu Plus, Netflix, search the Internet and watch YouTube videos on the system, all controllable through the Kinect, Microsoft said, presenting a challenge to cable

TV’s dominance.

In addition, Microsoft thrilled hardcore gamers at a pre-show event by showing off upcoming versions of action games with new Kinect-enabled features, such as assembling guns and weapons in Ubisoft’s “Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon Future Soldier”, or using voice controls for the upcoming shooter game “Mass Effect 3” next year.

Analysts were initially skeptical that core gamers would migrate to the Kinect, which has attracted mostly newcomers with its simple

dancing, animal and sports-themed games.

“The concept of playing a core game without a controller is difficult,” said Wedbush Securities analyst Michael Pachter. “A controller makes sense for most actions. It’s awkward when you combine Kinect and a controller.

But it’s a start for Microsoft.”

In addition, the company announced some new games for Kinect including a Star Warsthemed title and “Disneyland Adventure”, a partnership with Walt Disney Co. It also said

“Halo 4”, the latest version of its blockbuster combat game will be released next year.

The Kinect has sold 10 million units since it launched last fall and become one of the software giant’s fastest selling consumer products ever.

The device, which hooks up to the company’s Xbox console, lets gamers control movements on-screen with gestures and voice commands. It competes with the latest version of Nintendo Wii system and Sony Corp’s PlayStation Move device.

Shoppers fed up with poor customer service

By JESSICA WOHL CHICAGO — Americans are fed up with poor customer service, with 64 percent walking out of stores due to poor assistance and 67 percent hanging up on a call before their problems are even addressed, according to

a new survey.

The most annoying gripe is not being able to get a person on the phone, followed by rude salespeople, according to findings from a Consumer Reports survey issued on Tuesday.

The findings are based on a phone survey of 1,010 adults conducted in March. The margin of error was plus or minus 3 per-

centage points at a 95 percent confidence level.

Wal-Mart Stores Inc’s Walmart discount stores and Sam’s Club members-only warehouse clubs were ranked by the magazine’s subscribers among the worst in areas such as buying small appliances, electronics, cell phones and groceries.

Southwest Airlines Co was ranked as having the best staff on its airplanes, while US Airways Group Inc had the worst, Consumer Reports said.

When buying computers, Apple Inc stores and Micro Center were ranked by readers as having the most knowledgeable staff. The least capable associates were found at Walmart,

Thomson Reuters to sell healthcare business WASHINGTON — News and information provider Thomson Reuters Corp. said it plans to sell a unit that

supplies healthcare data and analysis to companies, government agencies and health professionals.

The sale of the business, which had revenue of about $450 million in 2010, is not expected to have a material impact on the company’s previously announced 2011 outlook, Thomson Reuters said in a statement on Monday.

“We believe we will achieve better all-in

returns for our shareholders by divesting the Healthcare business and re-deploying the proceeds in our core fran-

chises,” Chief Executive Thomas Glocer said.

Thomson Reuters provides news and information to financial, legal, accounting and healthcare professionals.

The company said it expects the sale of the healthcare unit, part of its healthcare & science business, to close before year-end. Morgan Stanley and Allen & Co. are financial advisers for the planned sale.

The divestiture will

result in a realignment of the company’s existing intellectual property

and science businesses into a single operating unit, Thomson Reuters said.

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NFL owners move to dismiss players’ lawsuit

By JON KRAWCZYNSKI MINNEAPOLIS - As the labor battle between NFL owners and players moved from the bargaining table to the courtroom, judges at each stop have urged both sides to reach an agreement before they have to issue significant rulings.

The latest nudge in that direction came on Monday from U.S. District Judge Susan Richard Nelson, who scheduled a hearing on the owners’ motion to dismiss an antitrust lawsuit from a group of players for Sept. 12.

Coincidentally or not, Sept. 12 is four days after the regular season is set to open in Green Bay, and one day after the first Sunday of games for the 2011 season.

Shortly after the owners filed their motion to dismiss on Monday, Nelson announced when she would hear arguments on the motion.

The timing is significant, given that the Packers are scheduled to host the New Orleans Saints on Sept. 8, and the NFL has big plans for the first Sunday of action to commemorate the anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks.

Both sides hope that hearing

never has to happen. The NFL and its players held settlement discussions in Chicago last week, but there is no sign a new collective bargaining agreement is imminent.

A group of players including superstar quarterbacks Tom Brady, Peyton Manning and Drew Brees filed the antitrust lawsuit against the owners, alleging their lockout of the players is illegal.

Nelson initially ruled in favor of the players in April, requiring the league to lift the lockout and let the players get back to work.

That ruling has been appealed to the 8th Circuit in St. Louis, where a three-judge panel heard arguments on Friday and is considering the matter.

The 8th Circuit put Nelson’s ruling on hold while it considers the appeal, though it is unclear when they will issue a ruling. In the meantime, the judges urged both sides to get back to the bargaining table and hammer out a deal.

Judge Kermit Bye told attorneys on Friday that if no deal is done before the panel comes to a conclusion, they will likely offer up a decision that will be “probably something both sides aren’t going to like.”

The owners argue, among

other things, that Nelson did not have the jurisdiction to lift the lockout while the National Labor Relations Board is considering an unfair labor charge brought by the league against the players.

The NLRB’s regional office in New York forwarded a preliminary report to the national board in Washington, but a spokeswoman said Monday it “doesn’t mean a decision is around the corner.”

The two sides are engaged in a sometimes bitter dispute over how to divide $9 billion in revenue, a fight that has already caused some minicamps and offseason programs to be lost, free agency and trades to be delayed and resulted in hundreds of employees for teams across the league having their paychecks cut.

The start of training camp is less than two months away, and teams are already making contingency plans if the lockout drags on. The Minnesota Vikings plan to have a date set this week that, if the lockout continued to that point, would force them to cancel training camp in Mankato.

The owners are required to file a full brief supporting their motion by Aug. 1.

Parker backs off comments that Spurs are finished

By PAUL J. WEBER SAN ANTONIO Spurs guard Tony Parker on Tuesday backed off comments made to French journalists last month that San Antonio can no longer likely contend for another championship.

“You know newspapers need stories and to talk about stuff, and I’m in a great situation to know what it is,” Parker said. “I love the Spurs. I love being a Spur. I re-signed four years so if I didn’t believe we can win a championship I would not have signed.”

The former All-Star, however, didn’t exactly go out of his way to try to clarify the remarks made last month in Paris, a few weeks after the 61-win Spurs were upset in the first round by eighth-seeded Memphis.

An article on FIBA’s website quoted Parker as saying, “We will always have a good team but can no longer say we’re playing for a championship.”

He added that it would be tough for the Spurs to regenerate themselves with Tim Duncan turning 36 next spring and Manu Ginobili turning 34 next month.

Parker is speaking

French in the interview.

A video of the interview, credited to the French sports daily L’Equipe, quotes Parker in English subtitles as saying, “It was sort of our last chance this season.”

Back in San Antonio on Tuesday, Parker brushed off the quotes, offering a vague explanation of French reporters getting carried away.

“I don’t have to justify anything,” Parker said. “Me, bottom line, I love being a Spur and that’s why I signed four more years. I have nothing to justify to you.

The only thing I care about is (Spurs coach Gregg Popovich),

Timmy and Manu, and my teammates.”

Parker has spent his entire NBA career with the Spurs, arriving in San Antonio at the age of 19 and winning the starting job that season.

He turned 29 last month and begins a four-year, $50 million extension next season.

Parker was equally candid about San Antonio’s diminishing title hopes in training camp last October. He said then that he felt the upcoming season was the last chance for the Spurs to win a fifth championship in the Duncan era, again pointing toward the team’s aging core.

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SPORTS SHORTS Darryl Stonum pleads to lesser charge

ANN ARBOR, Mich. — Michigan receiver Darryl Stonum has pleaded guilty to operating while visibly impaired.

Stonum accepted the amended charge from operating a vehicle while intoxicated on Friday morning in Ann Arbor’s 15th District Court.

His plea agreement includes dropping the charge of driving with a suspended license when he is sentenced June 10.

Michigan coach Brady Hoke suspended Stonum indefinitely after the player’s May 6 arrest.

When Stonum was a freshman in 2008, he was charged with operating a vehicle while intoxicated and driving with a suspended license.

He ended up in the Washtenaw County jail June 4-7 last year because he didn’t comply with terms of his probation.

Stonum has started 25 of the 36 games he has played at Michigan, including 12 starts last season. He ranked second on the team with 49 catches for 633 yards and four touchdowns. He also had 22 kickoff returns for 533 yards.

Tiger Woods sticks with Mark Steinberg ORLANDO, Fla. — Tiger Woods says he’s staying with his agent.

Mark Steinberg, who has been managing golf’s biggest star since 1999, did not renew his contract with IMG two weeks ago and no longer is with the company. Woods had his choice of staying with IMG or going with Steinberg.

The answer came Monday on Twitter. Woods posted: “Staying with Mark Steinberg. Total confidence in him. Excited about the next stage in my professional life. Fond memories of Mark McCormack.”

What remains to be seen is whether Steinberg signs with another management company or starts his own. Whatever the case, Woods will be going with him. Woods had been with IMG since he turned pro in 1996.

Sources: 76ers sales talks ongoing Philadelphia 76ers owner Comcast-Spectacor is in talks to sell the team to a group led by New York-based leveraged buyout specialist Joshua Harris, according to sources.

Negotiations are ongoing and a source with knowledge of the talks called a deal “imminent.”

The Sixers were not known to have been for sale.

In a statement, Comcast-Spectacor chief operating officer Peter Luukko told The Associated Press there are “discussions about the future of the team” that are confidential, but did not address a possible sale.

Harris, 46, co-founded Apollo Global Management, which invests primarily in distressed properties, in 1990. In Forbes’ 2011 billionaire rankings, Harris was reported to have a net worth of $1.5 billion.

Other investors in the deal include private equity executive David Blitzer and former NBA player agent and Sacramento Kings executive Jason Levien.

Blitzer moved from New York to London in 2002 to create the London-based European office of the Blackstone Group, one of the largest private investment groups in the world.

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Serena Williams to return after nearly a year LONDON Serena Williams is returning to the tour after nearly a year off because of various health issues.

Williams will begin her comeback at a grass-court tournament in Eastbourne, England next week. She then will defend her title at Wimbledon, which begins June 20.

Williams has not played an official match since winning her 13th Grand Slam title at the All England Club last July.

A few days after that victory, Williams cut her foot on glass at a restaurant. She wound up having two operations because of that and later was treated for a blood clot in her lung.

“I am so excited to be healthy enough to compete again,” Williams said in a statement released by her agent. “These past 12 months have been extremely tough

and character building. I have so much to be grateful for. I’m thankful to my family, friends, and fans for all of their support. Serena’s back!”

Shortly after winning her fourth Wimbledon singles championship last summer, Williams hurt her foot while in Germany. She played in an exhibition match in Belgium against Kim Clijsters days later. But when she returned to the United States she had the first of two operations for her injury. The second surgery was in October, and she said she spent 10 weeks in a cast and 10 weeks in a walking boot.

The 29-year-old American was diagnosed in February with blood clots in her lung.

After that, she said she needed treatment for a hematoma - a gathering of blood under the skin - on her stomach.

She returned to practice in April, an event she announced via Twitter, post-

ing a picture of herself on court in a pink bodysuit.

Williams’ older sister Venus, a seven-time Grand Slam singles champion, also is returning to action after an extended injury absence.

Venus Williams has been sidelined since injuring her hip during the Australian Open in January, but her agent said last month she was on track to play at Eastbourne and Wimbledon.

When healthy, the Williams sisters have dominated women’s tennis for much of the past decade. In addition to their 20 total major singles titles, both have spent time at No. 1 in the WTA rankings.

At Wimbledon, the sisters have combined to win nine of the past 11 championships.

In that span, the sisters played each other in four of the finals at the All England Club.

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Mi chael Crabtr ee if fy on Alex Smi th Even though he is a free agent, Alex Smith has been endorsed by coach Jim Harbaugh as the San Francisco 49ers’ quarterback.

Receiver Michael Crabtree apparently isn’t convinced Smith deserves the job.

Crabtree joined 49ers informal workouts for the first time Monday, when offensive players began a four-day “minicamp” at San Jose State.

He has missed other informal workouts despite being in the Bay Area.

When asked by reporters if he thought catching passes from Smith was important to building chemistry, Crabtree responded: “Who’s the quarterback?”

When told Smith was the likely starter, Crabtree said: “He’s the quarterback? I’m just asking.”

Crabtree told reporters that whoever starts at quarterback for the 49ers would get his support, but he’s still not sure who that player wil be.

“I wish I could tell you that,” he told reporters.

“I know what you’re all

scratching at. I wish I could tell you who is going to be the quarterback. I don’t know. I don’t know. Whoever the quarterback is, I’m 100 percent down with it and I’m ready to go. That’s it.”

Last week, Smith seemed to take a shot at Crabtree in an interview with the San Jose Mercury News when he was asked about Crabtree’s absence from workouts.

“Great question,” Smith told the newspaper. “Asking the wrong guy, honestly.”

Crabtree told the San Francisco Chronicle he

was doing the same things his teammates were doing, just in another setting and with college players.

“Routes, every day,” Crabtree told the Chronicle. “I do just what they have been doing here. At a park.

Nice field. It’s in the mountains, too.”

During the brief period when the lockout was lifted this offseason, Smith left team headquarters with a playbook — not a common practice for an unsigned player considering how teams so closely guard their schemes — though these are unique circum-

stances with the NFL in lockout limbo. The 49ers had to be pretty confident in their chances of bringing him back to hand over Harbaugh’s playbook.

Smith used that playbook on Monday to help his teammates learn Harbaugh’s system and terminology.

In a post-draft news conference, Harbaugh said he expected Smith to be the team’s starter and said: “I absolutely think it’s a great fit.”

Harbaugh said, “Alex Smith is a 49er,” and all indications are he will stay put once the lockout is lifted, free agency

begins and teams can sign players.

Smith, the 2005 No. 1 overall draft pick out of Utah, passed for 2,370 yards and 14 touchdowns in 11 games and 10 starts last season, but he also threw 10 interceptions and was sacked 25 times. The 49ers finished 6-10 after a surprising 0-5 start and haven’t had a winning season or reached the playoffs since 2002.

Crabtree was second on the 49ers last season in receptions (55), yards (741) and touchdowns (6). Tight end Vernon Davis led the team in each category.

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By ADRIAN WOJNAROWSKI DALLAS - Time was running out in his career, Jason Kidd had run low on patience with the New Jersey Nets and he had hardly needed a great point guard’s innate ability to see the play unfolding before him.

Three years ago, a trade demand turned into something harsher: a phantom migraine to

sit out a Nets game against the New York Knicks. Looking back on a genius career, Kidd

probably wishes he hadn’t given everyone reason to believe he’d staged such a protest.

Looking back, he knows this too: He had to get to Dallas and give himself a chance to be a champion. He needed Dirk Nowitzki. He needed Mark Cuban. The Nets stopped trying and

he would’ve ended a broken-down, bitter old player trapped in the dysfunction of Bruce Ratner’s Nets.

“Listen, I saw what was coming at that time,” Kidd told Yahoo!

Sports. “It became clear later, but I saw the direction everything was going there with

ownership. They were taking it apart. It started with the Kenyon Martin trade and it kept going.”

Kidd’s had a magnificent second act to his career here, a renaissance borne from Nowitzki giving him a reason to grind so hard, so close to his 40th

birthday. Kidd goes down as one of the great point guards in history, an unparalleled passer and leader, and Nowitzki gave him life again. Kidd will leave the NBA with something he never had most of his career: a jump shot and a true chance at a championship.

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Tiger Woods to skip US Open

By DOUG FERGUSON JACKSONVILLE, Fla. - Tiger Woods pulled out of the U.S. Open on Tuesday because of lingering issues with his left leg, leaving him uncertain how soon he can resume his pursuit of Jack Nicklaus’ record for major titles.

It will be the first time Woods has missed the U.S. Open since 1994, when he had just graduated high school.

“I am extremely disappointed that I won’t be playing in the U.S. Open, but it’s time for me to listen to my doctors and focus on the future,” Woods said on his website. “I was hopeful that I could play, but if I did, I risk further damage to my left leg. My knee and Achilles tendon are not fully healed.”

Woods said he hoped to be ready for the AT&T National, which starts June 30 at Aronomink, and the next two majors. Then again, he said two weeks ago he would do everything possible to be ready for the U.S. Open, which is far more

significant.

“We’re very disappointed that he won be playing in the National Open,” USGA executive director Mike Davis said, whom Woods called Tuesday morning.

“He certainly brings excitement to the event. He’ll be missed, but the U.S. Open will go on. The event is bigger than one player, but he certainly will be missed.”

The U.S. Open starts June 16 at Congressional, where Woods won the AT&T National two years ago and tied for 19th when the U.S. Open was last played there in 1997.

He hasn’t won since the 2009 Australian Masters, a stretch of 22 tournaments. He not only lost his No. 1 ranking late last year, he has plunged to No. 15 in the world, his lowest spot in the ranking since the spring of 1997.

Woods announced his decision on Twitter: “Not playing in US Open. Very disappointed. Short-term frustration for long-term gain.”

The Masters is now the only major Woods

has played every year since turning pro. He was recovering from knee surgery in 2008 and did not play the British Open and PGA Championship.

“It’s been a frustrating and difficult year, but I’m committed to my longterm health,” Woods said. “I want to thank the fans for their encouragement and support. I am truly grateful and will be back playing when I can.”

The question is when he returns.

Woods is recovering from injuries to his left knee ligaments and left Achilles’, and his Achilles’ is believed to be giving him more trouble.

“My man is hurting,” Arjun Atwal, a close friend and frequent practice partner, said last week at the Memorial. “He’s in a boot, he’s on crutches.

Not doing good.”

The most recent of four surgeries on Woods’ left knee came a week after the 2008 U.S. Open, which Woods won in a playoff for his 14th major. He had reconstructive surgery and was out for

eight months, then returned and won seven times the following year before his personal life imploded on Thanksgiving night in 2009.

Woods was tied for the lead at the turn in the final round of the Masters this year and wound up in a tie for fourth. But he said he hurt his knee and Achilles’ hitting from an awkward stance in the pine straw on the 17th hole of the third round at Augusta National, and he was limping toward the fin-

Mayweather to return against Ortiz in September LAS VEGAS - Floyd Mayweather Jr. is returning to the ring.

The undefeated sixtime world champion announced on his Twitter feed Tuesday he will end a 16-month hiatus when he faces WBC welterweight champion Victor Ortiz on September 17.

Mayweather (41-0, 25 KOs) hasn’t fought since a unanimous decision over Shane Mosley on May 1, 2010, and has repeatedly declined to accept a bout against WBO welterweight champ Manny Pacquiao - a dream ticket many boxing fans are eager to witness.

Instead, it was Mosley who squared off with Pacquiao in May,

losing to the Filipino star in a lopsided 12round decision.

Ortiz (29-2-2, 22 KOs) is riding a sixmatch win streak, most recently defeating Andre Berto in April to claim the WBO crown in a fight many consider the year’s best.

“I am ready to return to the ring and give my fans a fantastic night of boxing by fighting the best out there for me; that is Victor Ortiz,” Mayweather said in a statement. “At this stage of my career, these are the challenges I look for, a young, strong, rising star looking to make his mark in boxing by beating me.

“Trust me, I will be

ready.”

The 24-year-old Mexican-American is one of the sport’s strongest young fighters.

“I respect Mayweather because he has been a champion for many years and I know he will be ready, but so will I,” said Ortiz.

“I’m a world champion for a reason and I am not going to let go of my title any time soon.

This is going to be a great fight, but I will remain a world champion for many years to come.”

The 34-year-old Mayweather’s time away from the ring has been riddled with legal troubles.

He faces felony

charges in a domestic argument with his exgirlfriend and two of their children last year.

And he faces misdemeanor harassment charges accusing him of threatening two homeowner association security guards outside his Las Vegas home.

The charges stem from an October dispute over parking with guards in the gated community where the prizefighter lives.

Mayweather also faces a September trial on a misdemeanor battery charge stemming from allegations he poked a 21-year-old guard in the face during a separate argument over parking tickets in November.

ish on Sunday. He described it as a “minor injury” in April.

Woods sat out the Wells Fargo Championship, then tried to play in The Players Championship, only to withdraw at 6over par after nine holes because of what he called a chain reaction of pain in his knee, Achilles’ and eventually his calf.

He later said he tried to come back too early.

The U.S. Open will be the 12th straight major without Woods winning, the longest

drought of his career.

He remains four majors short of the 18 professional majors that Nicklaus won, the ultimate benchmark in golf.

“I still have plenty of time, and I feel that going forward, I’m excited about playing major championships and playing golf again,” Woods said two weeks ago while promoting the AT&T National. “I just want to be healthy and solid, and I feel like I can give it a go.”

BCS has flexible title bowl date NEW ORLEANS — The Bowl Championship Series has chosen dates for its five bowl games in an effort to avoid conflicts that could arise because of the NFL lockout, with flexibility to move the title game.

The BCS title game in New Orleans remains scheduled for Jan. 9, a Monday night, but it could be moved either up to Jan. 7 or back to Jan. 10.

BCS executive director Bill Hancock said the mostly midweek dates were chosen in case the lockout causes the NFL schedule to be pushed back.

He said the Rose Bowl, which is not played in an NFL stadium, will be played Jan. 2.

The Sugar Bowl will be played Jan. 3, which is a Tuesday, then the Orange Bowl on Jan. 4 and the Fiesta Bowl on Jan. 5.

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