Daily Challenge 8-15-11

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POLITICAL DIVIDE HURTING ECONOMY President Barack Obama said that bitter fights economy and he urged lawmakers to embrace comprobetween Democrats and Republicans were hurting the mise in order to boost job growth.

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CONGRESS FACES TOUGH DECISIONS ON GASOLINE TAX WWW.DAILYCHALLENGENEWS.COM

A multibillion-dollar gasoline tax to maintain U.S. highways and mass transit will be in jeopardy when Congress resumes in early September in the wake of bruising budget and aviation funding battles.

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NEWS BRIEFS Congress faces tough decisions on gasoline tax DOE LAUNCHES REGENTS CHEATING PROBE High-stakes cheating allegations have surfaced at some city public schools, prompting a state Department of Education investigation.

The DOE says as many as four city high schools are under the microscope for allegedly inflating Regents exams results to boost their graduation rates.

The four schools involved in the probe are Bronx Expeditionary Learning High School and Lehman High School in the Bronx, the American Sign Language and English Secondary School in Manhattan, and Science Skills High School in Brooklyn.

Initial audits say many schools “tended to award full credit even when answers were vague, incomplete or inaccurate.”

Some allegations reportedly go back more than a year.

A fifth high school was recently cleared of wrongdoing.

FIRST RESPONDERS NOT INVITED TO 9/11 ANNIVERSARY CEREMONY First responders who were called to the World Trade Center site in the days and weeks following 9/11 will be on the outside looking in at next month’s anniversary ceremony.

Organizers say police officers, firefighters and rescue workers will not be invited to take part in the primary 10th anniversary ceremony activities.

Instead, they will be asked back at the site another day for a separate ceremony.

Officials cite security and a lack of room as the reasoning behind the decision.

In addition to President Barack Obama and former President George W. Bush, thousands of family members will also be on hand.

It’s estimated as many as 91,000 people took part in the initial search and rescue at the World Trader Center site.

BLOOMBERG PROPOSES EVEN TAX INCREASE FOR ALL Mayor Michael Bloomberg said during his radio show Friday that President Barack Obama should raise the federal income tax by one or two-percent across the board to help eliminate the national debt.

Bloomberg added that in addition to a tax hike, the government should cut a small percentage of spending from Medicare, Medicaid and the military.

“So if you want to raise taxes, don’t pick one class of people and say ‘I think they have too much money’ or ‘I don’t think they have enough money’ or whatever. Raise everybody’s taxes,” said Bloomberg.

The mayor also talked about proposed toll hikes.

The Port Authority is looking to increase fares on Hudson River crossings and on PATH trains.

Both New York and New Jersey’s governors are complaining publicly, but the mayor said service doesn’t come free.

By RICHARD COWAN WASHINGTON — A multibilliondollar gasoline tax to maintain U.S. highways and mass transit will be in jeopardy when Congress resumes in early September in the wake of bruising budget and aviation funding battles.

An 18.4-cents-per-gallon gasoline tax paid by consumers at the pump is set to expire on September 30, but Democrats and Republicans have been unable to advance legislation ensuring a fix.

While chances are good for a temporary extension of the tax, according to congressional aides, conservative Republicans aim to use the debate to open another front in their battle to shrink the size and scope of the federal government.

“Instead of burdening states and micromanaging local transportation decisions from Washington, states like Oklahoma should be free to choose how their transportation dollars are spent,” Republican U.S. Senator Tom Coburn said.

Coburn and some of his fellow conservatives want to let states opt out of the federal highway program, giving them more control over how the tax revenue is spent on transportation projects.

According to a spokeswoman, Coburn intends to offer up such legislation as an amendment to the gasoline tax extension when it is

considered in the Senate.

While it’s not likely to succeed, the Senate votes will “set markers” for building support for the initiative, said anti-tax, conservative advocate Grover Norquist, head of Americans for Tax Reform.

Besides giving states more control of transportation projects, Norquist wants to choke off federal funds that he says go to “unionized guys in New York and Boston” for work on mass transit projects and the “ridiculous pensions” he said those retired workers are paid.

His argument echoes the ongoing dispute between the two major political parties on aviation funding, with Republicans trying to roll back a federal rule making it easier to organize labor unions at airlines.

In the meantime, Norquist said that an extension of the current gasoline tax would not necessarily draw fire from his group. “As long as it’s not a tax increase ... it doesn’t break the pledge” Republican lawmakers have signed against new taxes, Norquist told Reuters.

Lawmakers also will have to solve another problem that could push the gasoline tax to the brink of failure: the tax no longer covers the government’s transportation maintenance and construction costs.

Although the tax is expected to generate approximately $245 billion over the next six years, Americans are driving less due to the 2008 eco-

nomic downturn and the cars they own use less gasoline — which means that revenues aren’t keeping up with construction costs for the first time in the program’s 55-year history.

With lawmakers loathe to add to U.S. budget deficits hovering around $1.5 trillion a year, they are struggling to find savings in other programs to plug the funding gap and keep highway and subway construction projects — and the jobs that go with them — running.

Meanwhile, Democrats like U.S. Senator John Kerry and U.S. Representative Peter DeFazio are hoping to beef up Washington’s investment in infrastructure projects.

“We know that every $1 billion invested in just transportation infrastructure, creates or sustains over 34,000 jobs and produces $6.2 billion in economic activity,” DeFazio wrote President Barack Obama in June.

Kerry is hoping to find a way to expand investment in highways and other infrastructure, but to do so with minimal use of taxpayer dollars. He hopes to be able to attach to the gasoline tax bill legislation creating an infrastructure bank using revolving funds to spur investment.

But even that would require some new domestic spending — an idea that could find tough opposition from members of Congress aligned with the conservative Tea Party movement.

U.S. Postal Service looks to cut 220,000 jobs

By EMILY STEPHENSON WASHINGTON — The U.S. Postal Service would eliminate about 220,000 full-time jobs and shutter about 300 processing facilities by 2015 under a proposal to bring its finances in order, a postal official said on Friday.

The Postal Service needs to cut payrolls to about 425,000 employees and take over its retirement and health benefits instead of participating in federal programs, Postmaster General Patrick told Reuters.

The mail carrier, which receives no taxpayer funds, has been struggling with falling mail volumes as people communicate increasingly by email and pay bills online.

The agency reported a $3.1 billion net loss in its most recent quarter. It expects to be insolvent next month and default on a $5.5 billion retiree health payment.

Donahoe said the agency hopes to reach a deal with Congress by the end of September to give the mail agency more control over its finances and hiring.

“We know that the (mail) volume will continue to drop off from a First Class standpoint, so we’ve got to do the responsible thing and get ourselves in order,” Donahoe said.

“It’s our goal to work with both houses of Congress ... to help craft a bill that would be passable and signed by the president by the end of September.”

That timetable will be difficult to

achieve with Congress on recess until September 6 and with lawmakers bogged down by partisan wrangling over the budget deficit.

The agency has said it does not have enough authority to manage its finances and infrastructure. Past attempts to end Saturday mail and raise rates beyond inflation have been denied by Congress and the Postal Regulatory Commission.

The Postal Service announced last month it would study almost 3,700 post offices for closure and said it would replace them with retailers contracted to provide postal services.

The plan met with backlash from some lawmakers.

Donahoe said union leaders were “not coming out in favor of” the staff-cut plan. The Postal Service could lay off as many as 120,000 workers by 2015, and not fill another 100,000 expected to open up

through staff departures.

But Donahoe said there was interest from legislators in the proposal to take over health and retirement plans, which he said could save $400 million to $500 million annually.

A bill from Republican Representative Darrell Issa would eliminate Saturday delivery and create groups to oversee finances and close post offices. Senator Tom Carper’s and Senator Susan Collins’s bills would return funds the Postal Service says it has overpaid into federal retirement programs.

“The only other way out of the pre-funding is for someone to give us the money to get out from under it. If that can’t occur, we have to put other responsible proposals on the table,” Donahoe said.

“This is strictly what we need to do between now and 2015 to get the organization profitable.”

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Obama says political divide is hurting economy

By JEFF MASON WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama said that bitter fights between Democrats and Republicans in Washington were hurting the economy and he urged lawmakers to embrace compromise in order to boost job growth.

Still reeling from a divisive debate over debt and deficits that triggered a downgrade in the U.S. credit rating, Obama is going on a three-day bus tour next week to connect with voters as his own 2012 re-election campaign begins to heat up.

Channeling citizens’ anger at Congress will be one of his key themes, which he rolled out on a trip to Michigan this week and in his weekly radio and Internet address on Saturday.

Obama said the side show in Washington had gotten in the way of efforts to bring down high unemployment.

“Lately, the response from Washington has been partisanship and gridlock that’s only undermined public confidence and hindered our

efforts to grow the economy,” he said in his weekly address. “So while there’s nothing wrong with our country, there is something wrong with our politics, and that’s what we’ve got to fix.”

Repeating a call he has issued numerous times in recent weeks, Obama pressed for Congress to extend a payroll tax cut, put unemployed construction workers to work building U.S. infrastructure projects,

finish outstanding trade pacts and cut “red tape” for entrepreneurs.

“We can no longer let partisan brinksmanship get in our way — the idea that making it through the next election is more important than making things right,” he said.

“So you’ve got a right to be frustrated. I am.”

Republican Senator Pat Toomey said in his party’s weekly address that government regulation, especially from the Obama administration, was hurting the economy.

“Every day, small business owners, job creators and entrepreneurs are bombarded with new regulations and higher costs, discouraging these employers from expanding their businesses and hiring additional workers,” Toomey said.

“The number of regulations has only increased since President Obama came into office. The Federal Register, containing all federal regulations, now totals a whopping 49,000 pages, covering everything from paint, to dust, cement, to cars, medicine and livestock.”

Toomey said the “most harmful” regulations should be eliminated.

House Democrats tap 3 for deficit super committee

By RICHARD COWAN and DONNA SMITH WASHINGTON — Democrats named three loyal party lieutenants to a deficit reduction “super committee”, charting what could be a path to partisan deadlock with all 12 members now appointed.

Representatives Chris Van Hollen, Xavier Becerra and James Clyburn (right) — all veterans drawn from leadership — were appointed by House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi.

Markets have been looking for signs that a wide deal on tax or entitlement reform might emerge from the panel, but it is under time constraints — it must report recommendations by November — and most of its members are party loyalists.

In the fight over the federal deficit, Democrats have dug in to resist cuts in spending for big social programs, such as Medicare and Medicaid, while Republicans have so far refused to consider any tax increases to raise new government revenues.

Lawmakers battled from these entrenched positions for more than three months before agreeing on August 2 to raise the debt ceiling, avoiding a U.S. default, and creating the panel, known as the Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction.

It must find $1.5 trillion in additional budget savings over 10 years and issue recommendations before Thanksgiving. Those savings can include spending and tax measures.

Congress must vote on the recommendations, on an up-or-down basis with no amendments, by December 23. If either of the two deadlines goes unmet, $1.2 trillion in automatic budget cuts will be triggered in 2013 — a prospect expected to motivate lawmakers to make something meaningful out of the committee.

Republicans on Wednesday named mostly no-new-taxes hardliners to the super committee, although one of them, Representative Dave Camp, said on Thursday that he would not rule out tax increases if they could boost economic growth.

Camp, chairman of the tax-writing House Ways and Means Committee, said in a Reuters interview that

the deepening global financial crisis would prompt him and other committee members to pull together.

“I don’t want to rule anything in or out,” Camp said. “I am willing to discuss all issues that might help us reduce our short and long-term debt and grow our economy.”

Camp will be joined on the panel by fellow House Republicans Fred Upton and Jeb Hensarling, who will be co-chair. Senate Republicans named on Wednesday were Jon Kyl, Rob Portman and Patrick Toomey, a Tea Party favorite.

The other co-chair will be Democratic Senator Patty Murray. Two other Senate Democratic member are John Kerry and Max Baucus, chairman of the powerful Senate Finance Committee.

Clyburn is the No. 3 House Democrat. Becerra is also a leadership official. Van Hollen is the top Democrat on the House Budget Committee and former chairman of the House Democratic Campaign Committee. All are close Pelosi allies.

In announcing her three picks, Pelosi said, “We must achieve a ‘grand bargain’ that reduces the

Senator calls for utility plant worker background checks

By CHRIS MICHAUD Sen. Charles Schumer said on Sunday he would introduce legislation requiring major utility plants to run background checks on employees to help prevent security threats against power facilities.

Citing a recent U.S. Department of Homeland Security report that found insider sabotage at electric, gas, and water utilities was a significant threat to U.S. national security, Schumer said al Qaeda was

known to be recruiting extremists to infiltrate and work in sensitive areas such as utilities.

“Power plants and utilities present a tempting and potentially catastrophic target to extremists who are bent on wreaking havoc on the United States,” Schumer said.

“Thorough background checks on all workers with access to the most sensitive areas of these operations are a must,” he said, calling the DHS report “a wake-up call that we must ensure those with access to our most critical infrastructure —

and our power supplies — are not compromised by extremist influences.”

Currently only nuclear power plants are required to conduct FBI background checks on employees with unescorted access to facilities.

The New York Democrat said he would introduce legislation making it mandatory for all major utilities and critical infrastructure plants to run FBI background checks on workers with access to sensitive areas within utilities, when Congress reconvenes next month.

deficit by addressing our entire budget, while strengthening Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security.”

All six of the Republicans on the panel are known as opponents of tax increases, some more than others.

“We can’t have great confidence that we’re going to get a ‘grand bargain’ but the option is there and I think the opportunity is there,” said Norm Ornstein, a fellow at the conservative think tank American Enterprise Institute.

“The one thing that may provide an impetus now is forces beyond the control of members of Congress and what’s occurring on the ground.

From the riots in England to the extraordinarily shaky state of Europe with serious problems in Italy, Portugal, Spain ... we really do have the possibility of a global depression. And if that isn’t enough to jolt people out of their ideological positions, maybe nothing is.

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Beyond MLK: Banneker should have a memorial

By GARY L. FLOWERS

THOMAS H. WATKINS

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And future ages will be told, There lived a man called Banneker, An African Astronomer…”

— Susanna Hopkins Mason, 1792

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Watching anything good this summer?

By CHERYL PEARSON-MCNEIL Well, we’re a little more than halfway through these lazy, hazy, crazy days of summer. You can tell because the barrage of back-toschool commercials, which started in July, has intensified. Like holiday advertising, they seem to begin earlier every year (the Pearson-McNeil household is already prepared)!

Besides the back-to-school ads, the escalating plugs for the new fall line-ups have me excited about TV again. What are you watching this summer?

Working for Nielsen, which most of you think of as the “TV Ratings” Company, it should come as no surprise that I can actually share with you who’s watching what (I can also share information on consumer purchases, online, and mobile habits and trends, but for today, we’re going to stick with TV viewing).

Traditionally, summer is designated for fun, sun, a spike in outdoor activities and vacationing, so broadcasters typically see a dip in ratings during this time period. Nonetheless, according to the latest Nielsen Cross-Platform report Americans

overall were watching television an average of 22 minutes more per month per person than last year.

Yes, even though today we have more innovative choices on which to view video content — computers, tablets or even mobile phones — old school television sets are still the leader in providing that viewing pleasure for all demographics.

The report confirms that Blacks still watch television (approximately 213 hours per month) more than any other ethnic group on both traditional television and our mobile phones. We average about 57 more hours of viewing per month than Caucasians, and almost four hours more than Hispanics, who follow Blacks in viewing habits.

AsianAmericans watch the least amount of traditional television, but make up for it by leading the time spent watching video on the Internet.

African Americans also watch less time-shifted television (think DVR) than the rest of the population. Television viewing service providers – satellite, broadcast-only and wired cable – are spread pretty evenly across the board among Blacks, Whites and Asians.

Hispanics, however, are more likely to get satellite or be broadcast-only.

Should have a memorial Continued from page 4 land around the same time of Cunta Cente, made known to most in Alex Haley’s book, Roots, and was a descendent of the Dogon people of Mali (ancient dynasty which is now West African nations of Nigeria and Senegal).

The Dogon people in ancient Mali were—and are—expert astronomers who had accurately chartered the star “Sirius” and named it the because of its brightness and unique celestial qualities. Following the discovery of Sirius, the ancient Egyptians connected the flooding of the Nile Valley with the star. Later, the Greeks would name it the “dog star” for its association with the astrological “Orion’s Hunting Dogs.” Today, when people refer to the “dog days of August” it can be traced back to Banneker’s ancestors who were far ahead of their time.

Thus, Benjamin Banneker came to work as a surveyor for Maryland Mayor Andrew Ellicott with excellent credentials. Ellicott had been appointed by Thomas Jefferson to survey the land that would become the District of Columbia. Along with French artistic builder renderer, Pierre L’Enfant, Ellicott and Banneker would design the nation’s capital. As we know, Jefferson and L’Enfant parted ways and the latter returned to France. With precision, Banneker charted the stars and laid the coordinates (10 miles square) for Washington, D.C., much like the City of Alexandria in Ancient Egypt. For it was Jefferson’s interest

in Ancient Egypt that someone with knowledge of the stars was needed for the city’s design. In fact, the “Meridian” known as 16th Street in Washington, D.C. was based on the meridian roadway of Alexandria to channel the light of God to the pharaoh’s palace, The White House.

In addition to being a first-rate astronomer, Benjamin Banneker was an inventor and author. In his early twenties, Banneker built a continuous striking clock entirely of wood, based on his design observations of a borrowed pocket watch. With excellent mathematical skills he designed and carved the clock’s components the clock kept perfect time for over 50 years.

Banneker was among the first Americans to author an Almanac from 1792 through 1797, containing astrological ephemeris and solar/lunar eclipse tables with scientific essays. His almanacs were used

by Slavery Abolitionist as proof positive that African Americans were equal to other races in intelligence capabilities.

On the basis of his foundational contributions to the citing of Washington, D.C. as the nation’s capital, The White House should embrace, and Congress should enact legislation for a memorial to Benjamin Banneker on land designated by D.C.’s City Council in 1971. In order to do so, Congress must pass reauthorization legislation so that fundraising may continue. Not to do so would be yet another insult to African Americans.

So I know you’re wondering: in all that television viewing, are African Americans watching the same programs as the rest of America? Yes and no. According to the ratings for the week of July 25, “America’s Got Talent,” was the most watched show with both the general population (11. 5 million) and African Americans (1.2 million). An example of a glaring difference in viewing taste, however, is “The Bachelorette.” It won the number five slot at 8.1 million viewers for the general population, but didn’t even register a blip on the ratings radar screen for African Americans (umm, perhaps if we saw people who looked like us on the show, more of us would tune in? I’m just sayin’). Conversely, “So You Think You Can Dance” made the African American top 10 Television Viewing List, but failed to find a spot in the ratings that same week among the general population viewers.

I haven’t watched the show, but would I be safe in surmising there’s diversity portrayed on it? Ya’ll know I always go back to our power as consumers. Remember, both programmers and marketers take the viewing choices you make – and don’t make – very seriously.

“This sun, with all it attendant planets, is but a very little part of the grand machine of the universe; every star, though in appearance no bigger than a diamond that glitters upon a lady’s ring, is really a vast globe, like the sun in size and glory; no less spacious, no less luminous, than the radiant source of the day; so that every star is not barely a world, but the centre of a magnificent system; and a ret-

In addition to race and ethnicity, Americans’ television/video viewing habits also vary by age and gender.

Nielsen data shows that women ages 25+ watch more television than men at 16 hours more per month. On the other hand, men are consistently bigger fans of streaming video online. It makes sense that older Americans (65+), spend more than twice as much time watching television as teenagers and about 37 percent more than the 35-49 demographic. Here are some other ways video consumption breaks down according to age in the report: 25 percent of Americans, 50-64, comprise the largest segment of the traditional television audience.

27 percent of adults, 35-49, represent the largest chunk of the Internet video audience.

30 percent of mobile video viewers are mostly 25-34 year olds.

Younger Americans, 12 -17 spend a third of their Internet time watching video.

So, as the summer days near an end . . . what are you watching?

Trust me, it matters.

— Cheryl Pearson-McNeil is senior vice president of public affairs and government relations for The Nielsen Company. For more information and studies, please visit www.nielsenwire.com. inue of worlds, irradiated by its beams, and revolving round its attractive influence, all of which are lost to our sight in immeasurable wilds of either.”

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

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Ohio serial killer Sowell gets death penalty

By KIM PALMER CLEVELAND — A judge on Friday sentenced Ohio serial killer Anthony Sowell (right) to death and set his execution date, accepting the recommendation of the jury that convicted the ex-Marine.

Sowell was convicted last month of murdering 11 women over a twoyear-period and dumping their bodies around his Cleveland home.

Earlier this week, the jury recommended he be put to death for the crimes — a recommendation Judge Dick Ambrose could have set aside.

Instead, Ambrose agreed with the panel — which asked to be in the courtroom for Friday’s sentencing — and ordered that Sowell die by lethal injection on October 29, 2012.

Police discovered the remains of the 11 victims in the fall of 2009, when they went to Sowell’s home to investigate rape and assault charges.

Sowell, handcuffed and shackled, had his eyes closed as the sentence was imposed.

He was unresponsive as the judge

asked if he understood his responsibility as a sex offender and his right to automatic appeal.

Before sentencing, defense attorney John Parker asked Ambrose to “consider all the mitigation evidence” and to take into account that Sowell attempted to plead guilty before the trial began.

Family members of the dead, and two surviving victims, spoke in open court before the sentence was delivered.

Some family members, like Jim Allen, the father of victim Leshanda Long, said they forgave Sowell.

“Love conquers hate,” Allen said.

“It is a hollow victory. There is no winner and no loser today.”

But many others spoke of judgment and retribution.

One family member even yelled, “dead man walking” as she left the podium.

“You are going to hell for your actions. You are an animal and hell awaits you,” said Donnita Carmichael, mother of Barbara Carmichael, one of Sowell’s victim.

Defense attorney Rufus Sims told reporters the defense plans on ask-

ing for a new trial based on comments jurors made to the press shortly after delivering their verdict.

Ohio has sent 152 people to death row since re-establishing capital punishment in 1999. The average time from sentencing to execution is 14 years, 6 months.

Sowell’s 11 victims were Diane Turner, Telacia Fortson, Janice Webb, Nancy Cobbs, Tishana Culver, Amelda Hunter, Michelle Mason, Crystal Dozier and Kim Smith as well as Long and Carmichael.

Many of the victims had histories of drug problems or were transients, and their disappearances were not always immediately reported to police.

Sowell, who had a previous conviction for raping a pregnant woman, had claimed that bad smells in the area came from a nearby sausage factory.

Family members of some victims have filed suit against the city, complaining about the police’s handling of the case. The father of one of the victims said his concerns were dismissed by police because of his daughter’s history of drug use.

Three Africans charged over fake bomb at Phoenix airport

By DAVID SCHWARTZ PHOENIX — Three Africans were charged on Friday with trying to sneak a fake bomb past a screening area at a Phoenix airport, in what the FBI describes as a possible test of security.

A criminal complaint filed in federal court in Arizona also states that the discovery of the suspicious item, which was a candy box with a cell phone attached, was made within days of a similar incident at a Memphis airport.

Luwiza Daman was arrested at Sky Harbor Airport in Phoenix on August 5 after Transportation Security Administration officers X-rayed her carry-on bag and noticed an object which at first sight appeared to be an explosive, FBI special agent Benjamin Oesterle said in the complaint.

After investigators spoke to Daman, they traced the object to Shullu Gorado and Asa Shani, who both live in Phoenix, and arrested them in connection with the incident, police said.

Daman, who lives in Des Moines, Iowa, traveled on July 29 to Phoenix for a wedding and said that while there she met a man named Jaffa, who turned out to be Gorado, the complaint said.

She said Gorado later gave her a package with a box of candy and a cellular telephone taped to it, and asked her to take it to Des Moines, Oesterle said in the complaint.

Daman’s flight reservation also was made through an e-mail account belonging to Gorado, despite her earlier contention that the e-mail address was hers, the complaint said.

When police went to the home of Gorado, he admitted that the candy

box containing the Middle Eastern confection helva came from him but he said the cell phone was from Shani, the complaint stated.

An attorney for the three individuals could not be reached for comment.

Oesterle stated in the federal complaint that there is cause to believe Daman, Gorado and Shani acted in concert.

“The presence of a simulated explosive device is a material fact to the operation of an airport security checkpoint because the successful transit of such an object ... would reveal potential weaknesses in the security screening methods employed in United States airports ...” Oesterle said in the complaint.

Oesterle works in the FBI joint terrorism task force.

He also stated that on July 29, the day Daman arrived in Phoenix, a similar incident “involving an object

consisting of an electronic device taped to plastic containers filled with an organic substance” occurred at a Memphis airport.

The complaint does not detail any other possible connection between the incidents in Phoenix and Memphis, and it does not accuse the three Africans of being part of a terrorist organization.

Daman told investigators that she was born in the African nation of Eritrea, spent time in Ethiopia and had lived in the United States for four months in Portland before recently moving to Des Moines, the complaint states.

Police have said that Gorado and Shani are also from Eritrea, and previously described all three individuals as African refugees.

Prosecutors are going to seek further detention for all three individuals, the U.S. Attorney’s Office said.

Report: U.S. concern grows over Qaeda poison threat

By TODD EASTHAM WASHINGTON — The Obama administration is concerned that a dangerous regional arm of al Qaeda is trying to produce the deadly poison ricin to use in attacks against the United States, the New York Times reported Friday.

Citing unnamed intelligence officials and classified intelligence reports, the newspaper said al Qaeda’s affiliate in Yemen has been trying to acquire large quantities of castor beans, used to produce ricin.

It said the apparent intent was to pack the poison around small explosives that could be exploded to disperse the ricin, a white powdery substance so deadly that a speck can kill if inhaled or taken into the bloodstream.

The Times said the apparent intent was to detonate the explosives in enclosed spaces like a shopping mall or airport.

President Barack Obama and top security aides were briefed about the threat last year, the report said, and have received updates since then but added that senior American officials

said there was no indication an attack was imminent.

The Times noted that there were limits on ricin’s utility as a weapon because it loses its potency in dry, sunny conditions — like those in Yemen — and is not easily absorbed through the skin like some other nerve agents.

Senior administration officials said ricin was among the threats being tracked by a secret government task force created after printer cartridges packed with powerful explosives were found in cargo bound for Chicago in October 2010,

according to the Times report.

It said the task force was working with Saudi officials and with the remnants of Yemen’s intelligence agencies to counter the threat. It said regional al Qaeda affiliates, especially al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, were seen as a menace to the United States and U.S. interests abroad.

The virtual collapse of Yemen’s government has enabled al Qaeda to widen its control in the country and strengthen its operational ties with al Shabab, the Islamic militancy in Somalia, the Times said.

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Record number of dengue fever cases in Bahamas

By CHESTER ROBARDS N A S S A U , Bahamas — The Bahamas has now broken its record for the number of dengue fever cases reported during the yearly seasonal outbreaks, with more than 1,500 confirmed cases, according to Minister of Health Dr Hubert Minnis.

Minnis, speaking at a press conference at the Ministry of Health on Wednesday afternoon, added that the inordinate number of cases this year has stretched the public health care system to the limit, as hundreds of people have been showing up at public clinics across the island with symptoms of dengue fever.

“The cases of dengue fever continue at our

medical facilities,” he said. “For the last five days we have seen an average of approximately 100 cases per day from all reporting sites, including public and private facilities.”

While the number of cases in The Bahamas has been high, according to Minnis, the mortality rate from the virus has been extremely low. He said there has been a 99.9 percent recovery rate for those afflicted with the virus and a 0.01 percent fatality rate.

“Case management protocols are in place and we have documented positive outcomes,” he said.

As the public health clinics continue to be inundated with reported cases of dengue fever, Minnis said health officials have extended clinic hours and weekend coverage to meet the needs of the public.

Minister of State for the Environment

Phenton Neymour joined Minnis at the press conference on Wednesday to assure the public that the Department of Environmental Health Services is doing everything it can to control the spread of the dengue virus.

“We have completely fogged the entire island of New Providence twice in the last two weeks,” he said.

“In densely populated areas, we have been fogging two to three times per week. All fogging is carried out during peak Aedes activity times.

“The chemical currently being used is colorless, odorless and completely harmless to humans. We have more than adequate vector control supplies to carry out our mandate.”

Minnis said that a dengue fever outbreak is affecting the Caribbean region and insisted that the low mortality rate in The

Dominica government approves geothermal drilling environmental impact assessment ROSEAU, Dominica — The West Indies Power (WIP) environmental impact assessment (EIA), which enables the company to begin exploratory “slim hole” drilling in the Soufriere Valley has been approved by the government of Dominica. The assessment was conducted to determine conditions of the geothermal reser-

voir in that area.

The drilling plan conducted by West Indies Power (Dominica) Ltd calls for the drilling of 2-3 “slim holes” to a depth of 1,000m. Slim holes are 2-6 inch wells that are drilled to test for temperature, pressure, and solution chemistry.

The results of these tests will allow WIP to determine the size and

composition of the geothermal reservoir and to begin designing the geothermal power plant to use those geothermal solutions.

Construction of the drill sites will begin in the fourth quarter of 2011 and drilling is planned for the secondnd quarter of 2012.

It will employ both foreign contractors and Dominican workers.

Access to social networks and free email accounts blocked for government of Montserrat workers effort to increase

By NERISSA GOLDEN

productivity and offer a more stable B R A D E S , web experience for Montserrat — As of users.

Denzil West, director August 1, most of of the Department for the employees of I n f o r m a t i o n the government of Technology and Montserrat can no eGovernment Services longer access social (DITES) said on networks and free Wednesday that it was email account web- instructed to block sites from their access to social netdesktops, in an works and free email

sites through an Executive Council decision taken earlier this year.

Access was only blocked after the appropriate hardware and software was received to manage the process, he explained.

Exceptions will be made for certain departments and personnel who need to access particular sites to support their daily work.

Minister of Health Dr Hubert Minnis Bahamas compared to mosquito, which is overemphasize the the rest of the region responsible for spread- requirement for social speaks to the prime ing the virus. participation, as all reslevel of healthcare He added that the idents of The Bahamas being provided to peo- rainy season and the make our best effort to ple afflicted with heat factor have pro- eliminate dengue infecdengue fever. moted optimal condi- tion.

Neymour insisted tions for the Aedes “We have overcome that in order to stem aegypti mosquito to this before, but we need the spread of dengue, breed. public support. It is our the public has to get “Know that it takes Bahamas. We strongly involved by ridding only six days for this urge public participatheir yards and neigh- mosquito to develop tion and cooperation to borhoods of anything from an egg to an help us to reduce the which can hold water adult,” he said. number of sources of and incubate the larvae “The Ministry of the breeding and ultimately of the Aedes aegypti Environment cannot the cases of infection.”

St Kitts-Nevis nationals urged to be receptive to OECS free movement BASSETERRE, St Kitts — Nationals of St Kitts and Nevis have been encouraged to take into serious consideration the numerous possibilities available under freedom of movement within the Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS).

This week, Samuel Berridge, senior trade policy officer and national CARICOM Single Market and Economy (CSME) focal point, said that nationals should have no apprehension when it comes to who will be chosen to fill local positions.

“The whole regime is a blessing in disguise, Berridge stated. “It forces you to become competitive - to be effective in your service delivery... and we have some complaints about persons coming in and taking our jobs, but the fact is if we bring our

service to a certain level, we will become competitive. There are to be regulations, but competition is not a bad thing in and of itself.

And I like to point out that although people can come, we can also go - it’s reciprocity.”

Freedom of movement came into effect August 1, 2011, among the OECS independent member states of Antigua and Barbuda, Dominica, Grenada, St Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia and St Vincent and the Grenadines.

According to an OECS press release dated August 5, 2011, member states “agreed that, from that date, they would permit OECS citizens to enter their territories and remain for an indefinite period in order to work, establish businesses, provide services or reside.”

The foundation for OECS free movement

was laid with the Revised Treaty of Basseterre, which established the OECS Economic Union, and which entered into force on January 21, 2011. It was on this date that the OECS Authority of Heads of Government agreed upon the implementation date.

Berridge noted that free movement is not a new concept.

“This is free movement the likes of which we have not seen since before independence,” Berridge emphasized.

“You know when they had one governor in the Leewards Islands in Antigua, police, teachers and nurses were transferred to the various islands, there was unfettered movement.

What we are trying to recapture is the type of movement that took place prior to independence, when the barriers first came up.”

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Ghana schoolboy launches solo famine fundraiser

By FRANCIS KOKUTSE ACCRA, Ghana As international aid agencies scramble for donations for East Africa’s famine victims, one multimillion-dollar fundraising drive has come from an unexpected source: a West African schoolboy.

AdansiAndrew Bonnah is 11. And during his eight-week school holiday, he wants to raise 20 million Ghanaian cedis - or about $13 million - for his cause by walking office to office collecting donations in Ghana’s capital, Accra.

Since starting the drive Aug. 1, he has collected about $6,500 in pledges for the fund he started after consulting with UNICEF and the

U.N.’s World Food Program. His father, schoolteacher Samuel Adansi-Bonnah, donated his entire July salary of about $500.

Andrew said he was inspired by images of skeletal babies and stick-thin children he saw on television, which led him to name his campaign Save Somali Children from Hunger.

“There are hungry people in Ghana but our situation is not as desperate as the people of Somalia,” said the skinny, soft-spoken boy.

The United Nations estimates more than 12 million people across East Africa need food aid because of a longrunning drought that has sent more than 100,000 people fleeing to refugee camps.

Somalia has been hit the hardest. U.S. officials estimate the famine has killed 29,000 children in the

UN: 26 killed in Ivory Coast in last month ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast - The United Nations says 26 people were killed in the last month in Ivory Coast and that residents blame most of the killings on forces loyal to the president, who was sworn into office in May amid promises to guide the nation to recovery after months of postelection violence.

Local U.N. Human Rights Chief Guillaume Ngefa said Thursday that the killings happened in parts of the country loyal to former strongman Laurent Gbagbo. He says a 17-month-old child was among those killed.

He said that in the west, a pro-Gbagbo tribe attacked and killed locals. In other areas the U.N. reported deadly clashes between forces for President Alassane Ouattara and local youths.

The U.N. also said armed robbers were killed in what appear to be acts of vigilante justice.

Presidential spokesman Alain Kakou said he did not know about the killings and declined to comment further.

Ngefa said regional U.N. offices also received more than 100 reports of human rights violations in the past month, including 85 arbitrary arrests and illegal detentions, along with cases of extortion and racketeering. He also said eight mass graves had been found in July in Abidjan, the economic hub, but that the number of bodies in the graves had not counted.

He said 11 cases of rape and genital mutilation were also reported, primarily in Duekoue, a Western city where a massacre took place over several days at the end of March. Amnesty International said in a May report that the killings were carried out by forces loyal to Ouattara.

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past three months.

The U.N. has yet to raise half of the $2.4 billion it has requested from donor countries.

The U.N. says the famine is expected to spread to all regions of southern Somalia in the next four to six weeks unless more aid can be delivered.

The African Union has also urged African nations and private citizens to donate, and will hold a pledging conference later in August.

Andrew said he is confident he can raise all of the money.

Ghanaians on average earn $2,500 a year, compared to Somalia’s average yearly income of $600, according to 2010 CIA estimates.

His father said Andrew’s interest in the cause surprised him.

“I even wondered why a child of his age should be concerned about people far away from him,” he said.

Andrew, who has taken to wearing a bright orange T-shirt bearing his fundraiser’s name, is an energetic fundraiser. He said he has made several attempts to draw attention to his cause, including a TV appearance and media interviews that have made him a minor celebrity in Ghana. He also said he tried - but failed - to make it onto a reality show to use the platform to raise money and awareness.

Andrew, who said he wants to be a pilot when he grows up, said he also wants to meet with Somalis who have fled to overcrowded Kenyan refugee camps.

“This is a moment that mankind can touch lives,” he said. “There is no point for others to have so much to eat while others have nothing to eat. It is not right.”

Andrew Adansi-Bonnah

Nigeria to probe troops commiting crimes against civilians Nigerian authorities said Thursday they would probe all cases of misconduct by a “few bad eggs” among troops who commit crimes against civilians while trying to battle Islamists in northeast of the country.

“A few bad eggs amongst them sometimes over react to situations and create discontent amongst the civilian population thereby dragging the name of the military to disrepute,” Defence Minister Bello Mohammed said in a statement.

Mohammed said that he has directed the military high command “to investigate all incidents of military misconduct against law abiding citizens”.

Efforts, he said, were also under way to “orientate” the armed forces to make them civilian-friendly in their approach to tackle problems of insecurity.

The minister particularly referred to the alleged shooting death of a woman in Biu town following the arrest of some Boko Haram sect suspects.

Riots broke out in the northern Nigerian town of Biu on Wednesday after soldiers were accused of shooting the woman protester, with churches and the traditional leader’s palace set alight, residents said.

The riot followed a protest over the arrest of several teachers from an Islamic school on suspicion of belonging to an Islamist sect that has been blamed for scores of attacks,

they said.

The country’s northeast has been hit by scores of attacks blamed on the sect known as Boko Haram. Most of the attacks have occurred in Maiduguri, capital of Borno state, but a number have also taken place in Biu. The region has been extremely tense in recent weeks and thousands of residents have fled Maiduguri. Some have called for the troops — deployed to restore order — to be withdrawn, a move the government has so far resisted.

Troops are instructed to arrest all suspected criminals, use minimum force when necessary and be tactful with civilians during security operations, Mohammed said.

S.African children may have stopped sex predator

By DONNA BRYSON GREYTOWN, South Africa - The words of little children from an isolated town in rural South Africa may have stopped an international sex predator.

U.S. investigators say Jesse Osmun con-

fessed that as a Peace Corps volunteer, he for months sexually molested at least five girls at a South African shelter for AIDS orphans and other children. None of the girls were older than 6.

In a Twitter account and blogs, Osmun portrayed himself as a champion of Africa and wrote about working with children. Before

coming to South Africa, where he started work at the shelter in March 2010, Osmun volunteered at an orphanage in Kenya, where the director said he did no harm. Osmun also wrote of seeking other international aid work before his arrest last week.

His do-gooder identity may have helped cover a darker side.

Then the little girls spoke.

“They were frightened. They were brave to tell. They did something very important,” said Samkele Mhlongo, a Greytown police translator who helped an American investigator interview two of the victims from the Umvoti AIDS Centre where Osmun volunteered.

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Newark activists start 381-day protest calling on U.S. government to institute jobs program

By DAVID GIAMBUSSO NEWARK - The U.S. economy is struggling, but in many black comm u n i t i e s Americans are in the throes of a depression.

With unemployment exacting an outsize toll on African-American men and women, a coalition of community groups sees it as a crucial civil rights issue emerging from the country’s economic woe.

“We are more than a half-century away from the Montgomery bus boycott, but we are dealing with issues just as pressing,” said Larry Hamm, chairman of the People’s Organization for Progress.

Flanking a statue of Abraham Lincoln outside the Essex County

Courthouse, Hamm and like-minded activists are starting a 381-day protest modeled after one of the most famous battles of the Civil Rights era - the Montgomery bus boycott in 1955-56.

Today’s activists are calling on President Obama and Congress to institute a jobs program akin to the Works P r o g r e s s Administration of the Great Depression. The WPA employed millions of unskilled Americans in public works jobs.

Unemployment is 16 percent among black Americans, a rate rivaling those of the 1930s.

New Jersey’s jobless rate is 9.5 percent, while the national rate is 9.1 percent.

“Usually I like to say ‘I’m happy to be here.’

I’m not happy to be here,” said Theodora Lacey, an organizer of the Montgomery bus boycott in 1955. “But

I’m glad we can be together.”

Passing cars honked in support, but the crowd of roughly 30 was no march on W a s h i n g t o n .

Organizers exhorted those in earshot to take an active role in the protest.

“Brothers and sisters, we have a ton of people who want to be the Super Bowl champion, but they’re not willing to get on the field,” said Rev. David Jefferson, pastor of Newark’s Metropolitan Baptist Church. “This is a crisis. This is not a scrimmage.”

The 381 days are modeled after the Montgomery boycott, sparked on December 1, 1955 when Rosa Parks, a black woman, refused to leave her seat in the “white section” of a city bus. It ended when the U.S. Supreme Court ruled segregation on public buses is uncon-

Larry Hamm, chairman of the People's Organization for Progress, pictured here in this file photo, and other activists are rallying in Newark for the federal government to create a jobs program. stitutional.

Lacey, who was 21 are more dire.

Protesters in Newark when she helped organ“It won’t be sitting in will stand in front of ize the boycott, said the back of the bus,” she the courthouse for sev- injustices facing blacks said.

“It will be eral hours every day for and minorities are not hunger.” the coming year. as overt as in 1955, but

Citing technicality, N.J. appeals court tosses out conviction of man in sex abuse case

By SALVADOR RIZZO MONMOUTH COUNTY -Andrew Ross was found guilty of sexually abusing a 9-year-old girl in 2008, but a state appeals court, saying its hands were tied, has tossed out his conviction on a technicality.

It was a close call.

Only two days after

Ross’s trial began in Monmouth County, the state Supreme Court handed down a decision that bars juries from viewing videotaped evidence outside the courtroom to ensure fairness.

Jurors had done just that during Ross’s trial.

They scrutinized a videotape of his confession to a detective in a private meeting room,

and replayed an interview that police had conducted with the girl, who was known to the family.

The appeals panel, in its ruling handed down Wednesday, said it found no fault with the trial court’s ultimate findings. However, it reversed the conviction and ordered a new trial because of the Supreme Court decision.

Finance report shows Mack campaign dollars go to meals, gas

By ALEX ZDAN ing to his latest TRENTON Mayor Tony Mack has more than $50,000 in his 2014 election campaign account and has been using the fund to pay for meals and gas fill-ups, among other expenses, accord-

campaign finance report.

Political campaigns may spend money on a variety of campaignrelated expenses, but using the funds for other purposes could be illegal. Expenditures may not include items “which may be reasonably considered to be for the personal use of

the candidate, or any person that is associated with the candidate,” the state’s compliance manual says.

If a complaint is filed, the Election Law E n f o r c e m e n t Commission (ELEC) could investigate to see whether expenses the report describes as “meeting meals” are actually for personal use.

“The procedure must be conducted in open court, on the record, and under the supervision of the presiding judge,” the appellate judges, Paulette SappPeterson and Marie Simonelli, wrote in their decision. “These requirements ... establish a record for review and preserve the integrity of the criminal justice system.”

Peter Aseltine, a spokesman for Attorney General Paula Dow, said the state plans to contest the ruling and ask the Supreme Court to take up the case.

Some legal experts say Dow can win even though she is challenging the high court’s own precedent.

“There’s possible grounds,” said John Leubsdorf, a professor at Rutgers-Newark Law School who specializes in evidence. “One is that this is in the past, because the Supreme

Court decision came so close and no one brought it to the attention of the court.”

In addition, Leubsdorf said, the trial judge had asked both the prosecutor and the defense attorney if there were objections to letting the jury view the videotapes in private and none were raised.

“If you believe there was some sort of violation there should be some harmless-error principle, assuming the judge made some of the relevant inquiries,” he said.

But Joseph Hayden, a lawyer at Walder, Hayden and Brogan in Roseland who is a former state deputy attorney general, said the issue was crystal clear.

“Tangible physical evidence such as a weapon, or a pair of pants, or a set of documents is permitted in the jury room,” he said.

“The difference with recorded evidence is

you don’t know what the jury’s doing in the jury room. The danger is bits and pieces of information could be taken out of context.”

A spokeswoman for the Department of Corrections said Ross remains in Northern State Prison in Newark, where he is serving a 15-year sentence.

Various officials said until there is a retrial or the Supreme Court decides whether to hear the case, Ross will probably be returned to Monmouth County jail.

They said that at that point he would be allowed to post bail.

A spokesman for the Public Defender’s Office, which still represents Ross, declined to comment.

Peter Warshaw, the Monmouth County prosecutor, also declined to comment, saying he would await a decision from the Supreme Court.

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For the conclusions of these stories check out the August 4th - August 10th, 2011 issue of The New American, which hits newsstands every Thursday Congratulations may be in order for Janet Jackson who reportedly has let billionaire boyfriend Wissam Al-Mana put a 15carat ring on it!!!

According to reports: The singer’s boyfriend, bil lionaire Qatari businessman Wissam Al Mana, recently popped the question, and now the happy couple is planning an end-of-theyear marriage ceremony. “Janet is head over heels in love with Wissam,” said a close source. “He’s showered her with love, expensive presents and boosted her self-esteem by helping her lose weight and shape up.” Wissam, 36, first brought up a walk down the aisle last fall, when he reportedly presented the Jackson clan beauty with a magnificent 15-carat diamond ring.

But Janet, 45, wasn’t ready because she wanted to focus on preparations for her current concert tour, which runs into September. “Now Janet’s telling friends that an official engage ment announcement will come by summer’s end, and that she and Wissam will marry in late 2011 – and they’re shopping for an even bigger diamond ring to celebrate their official engagement.” The two are anxious to start a family as soon as possible. Janet would love to have a baby the natural way, but at 45, she’s also looking into adoption possibilities, according to the source.

The-Dream will make his dedicated fans very happy this month. The producersinger-songwriter will release a free 10-track LP, entitled ‘Terius Nash Est. 1977,’ prior to dropping his fourth studio album ‘The Love, IV: Diary of a Madman’ later this year. According to The-Dream, ‘Terius Nash Est. 1977’

will be released to the public free on August 31. “LP4 is Underway I THE-DREAM have decided to go forward with Diary Of A Madman LP it almost didn’t happen. So ill be in my Def Jam uniform for at least one More Season!” he tweeted. “Also a free 10 song Internet album will be released by Aug 31st. LP 4 because of the Contract negotiations does not have a date but it will be released 4th quarter but I will give a 10 song Internet LP while you guys wait!!!! LOVE YOU.” Chante Moore made an announcement that she and her hubby of nine years Kenny Lattimore are officially a wrap. The singer posted the following “private announcement” on her Facebook page. In the meantime Chante’ has her hands full as the host of an upcoming Sporty Girl Fitness 90 Day Transformation reality show. Michael Jai White, Vivica Fox and Tamyra Gray are also involved with the project.

“Can’t Be Friends” producer Mario Winans is finalizing his new album with plans to release the project by the end of the year. Winans’ third album, entitled ‘My Purpose,’ is a follow-up to his 2004 platinum effort ‘Hurt No More.’

During his hiatus from releasing solo material, Winans told YKIGS “I produced some stuff for the Diddy and Dirty Money [album] and with different artists like Rick Ross and all the Bad Boy artists.”

With urge to continue his solo career, he was inspired to record new material: “I had been living a little differently than what my purpose is, and that is really just to humbly serve others to pray for others and to really be a good person and live

the way I believe. From that, I was inspired to title my album that because those changes were going on in my life while I was working on the album.” In addition to his forthcoming album, Winans is grooming Hip Hop artist Superstar Piper, who is credited for producing Carl Thomas’ new single “It Ain’t Fair.”

Beyonce’s publicist told Today.com that Beyonce has no plans for a cookbook. “This is untrue,” she said.

Rumors started that Beyonce Knowles planned to publish a soul food cookbook, a “source” told the Daily Mirror. The singer was allegedly inspired by her mother, who prepares a spread of collard greens, cornbread, macaroni and cheese and fried chicken no matter where in the world they were. The only problem is that Beyonce has previously admitted that she isn’t such a great cook, and that she doesn’t really enjoy it. In fact, Beyonce says she’s a disaster in the kitchen.

Will.i.am has signed up to perform a special concert in China to encourage American students to study abroad and expand their cultural boundaries. The Black Eyed Peas star met with officials at the U.S. State Department in Washington, D.C. and agreed to headline a gig for the 100,000 Strong Initiative, a motion made by President Barack Obama to match the rising number of Chinese students who travel to America to learn. The singer’s show will benefit Americans Promoting Study Abroad, a non-profit organization which provides financial support to low-income students partaking in exchange programs in the Asian country.

with the pressures of their personal relationships and responsibilities.

During the series, viewers get to see The twin sisters best known for Tia preparing for the birth of her their hit ‘90s sitcom Sister, Sister first child and Tamera planning the are back again. Tia Mowry Hardrict wedding of her dreams. and Tamera Mowry-Housley have In an interview, Tia and Tamera teamed up with the Style Network opened up about their new show, for a behind the scenes look into obstacles of parenting, balancing their major life transformations. their relationships and careers, and Their new docu-series Tia & Tamera, how they were able to break the teen premieres Monday, August 8 at star curse.

9:00pm ET/PT. What made you want to do this Last summer Tia and Tamera show? aired a successful preview to their Tia: This is the time... the timing series on The Style Network, and is right. Tamera and I have such this summer they are giving a more loyal fans that have stuck with us in-depth look into their lives as sis- throughout the years and we ters and friends. Throughout the thought it would be nice to open series they learn how to balance them to our world and let them their successful acting careers along know who we really are.

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DAILY CHALLENGE MONDAY, AUGUST 15, 2011

14

Most patients don’t need extra tests for diagnosis

By GENEVRA PITTMAN Examining patients and taking a medical history are more useful to hospital doctors in diagnosing patients than high-tech scans, suggests a new study from Israel.

Doctors said that when tests such as CT scans and ultrasounds were given to patients right after they showed up at the ER, the imaging only helped in making a diagnosis in about one in three cases.

“The doctoring process is still a personal communication between the patient and the clinician,” said Dr. Matthew Sibbald, a cardiologist at the University of Toronto who wasn’t involved in the new study.

“As much as we want to ...rely on the technology, it’s not the technology that helps us make a diagnosis,” he told Reuters Health.

Those types of imaging tests add heft to a hospital bill and research suggests the low levels of radiation from multiple CT scans might increase a person’s risk of cancer over

the long term.

To see whether such scans were really helpful, researchers led by Dr. Ami Schattner of Kaplan Medical Center in Rehovot, Israel, followed all the patients who showed up in the ER of an Israeli teaching hospital and were subsequently admitted to the hospital.

Over about two months, 442 consecutive patients with a range of ailments made up the study group. Each was separately examined by two doctors, a resident and a senior physician, who also asked patients about past health problems.

Both doctors had access to results from all routine tests, including blood and urine analysis, and any extra scans that had been done when the patient first got to the ER. The researchers later looked at how accurate the clinicians were in their decisions, compared to the final diagnoses patients were given during or after their hospitalization. They also asked the doctors what factors they relied on most when diagnosing each patient.

Both clinicians made the correct

diagnosis between 80 and 85 percent of the time.

Only about one in six patients had extra testing (mostly CT scans, usually of the head) done in the ER — the rest just had simple blood, urine or heart tests.

But even for the patients who did have extra scans, the doctors said the results helped to make a diagnosis only about one-third of the time.

Instead, patient history alone or history plus a physical exam were most important to a doctor’s correct diagnosis in almost 60 percent of cases.

When basic tests were included, they were the basis of more than 90 percent of correct diagnoses along with history and exams.

CT scans are important in some cases, such as when a person has a head injury and doctors want to rule out bleeding, Sibbald said. But, “they’re done so routinely,” he added.

“I think it’s important to realize that just getting an image of somebody isn’t a diagnosis.”

And doing extra scans isn’t harm-

less. Even if each scan only exposes patients to a small amount of radiation, it can add up, along with radiation from similar screening and other scans, over a lifetime.

In addition, Sibbald said, “you run the risk of just finding odd lumps or bumps which leads to more imaging.”

CT scans typically cost a few hundred dollars each and use of the test continues to rise — especially in the U.S. An estimated 72 million CT scans were done in the U.S. in 2007.

Sibbald said that a patient history is still the most essential piece of information for doctors. “Without the history, they’re defenseless,” he said.

“They haven’t had a chance to frame what they’re looking at.”

“Basic clinical skills remain a powerful tool, sufficient for achieving an accurate diagnosis in most cases,” Schattner and his colleagues wrote in Archives of Internal Medicine.

“Physicians may count more on their clinical faculties when making decisions about patients,” they concluded.

Chest pain severity not a heart attack indicator

By ALLISON BOND A high degree of pain does not make it any more likely that someone coming into the emergency room with chest pains is having a heart attack, researchers found in a study of more than 3,000 patients.

The most severe chest pain was not a good predictor of which patients were actually having a myocardial infarction, or heart attack, nor of which patients were most prone to having one within the next month.

Conversely, “If chest pain isn’t severe, that doesn’t mean it’s not a heart attack,” said Dr. Anna Marie Chang, an author of the study and an emergency physician at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania.

Using a scale of zero to 10, with zero representing no pain and 10 being the worst imaginable, researchers gauged the pain levels of about 3,300 patients who arrived at the UPenn hospital emergency department complaining of chest pain. They then followed the patients for 30 days to see who had further heart-related events.

Patients with the most severe chest pain were no more likely to be having a heart attack, or to have one within the next month, than patients with lesser pain. Pain that lasted more than an hour was also not a useful sign of a heart attack versus other conditions.

Chest pain of any severity should be cause for concern, experts caution.

Pain is a red flag for other serious health problems, too, such as stomach ulcers or a tear in the aorta, the heart’s main artery, like the one that killed actor John Ritter in 2003.

“The cause of chest pain may or

may not be a heart attack, but it could definitely be something serious,” said Dr. James Feldman, an emergency physician at Boston Medical Center who was not involved in the study.

Classic heart attack symptoms do include chest pain or pressure, but other hallmarks are shortness of breath, nausea, vomiting and faintness.

Moreover, the pain of a heart attack doesn’t always settle in the chest area.

“Pain may occur in the chest, arm, jaw, back or abdomen and may be described differently by different people,” said Dr. Rajiv Gulati, a cardiologist at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester,

Minnesota, who was not involved in the study.

Although in the study pain severity wasn’t a good indicator of who was having a heart attack at the hospital, having arrived at the emergency department in an ambulance was.

That may be because people tend to dismiss chest pain until they are having symptoms they deem serious enough to warrant calling emergency services, Feldman explained.

“If you are only waiting for crushing chest pain, you may wait to delay care, and that would be a problem,” he said. “Any chest pain is a serious complaint and means you need to seek medical care right away.”

“Unexplained chest discomfort should be taken seriously, regardless of the intensity of pain,” Gulati agreed. “Early evaluation can save lives.”

The current findings, published in the Annals of Emergency Medicine, could also help save doctors money by helping them judge who is and is not having a heart attack.

Failures to diagnose acute myocardial infarction account for 20 percent of malpractice claims paid out, the authors note, and some two to five percent of patients who are having heart attacks are inappropriately discharged from emergency departments.

Planning ahead can reduce back-to-school stress Although many children anxiously anticipate the first day of school, some may be more nervous about the transition than others.

Children who are excessively worried for a prolonged period of time may have a larger problem, an expert says.

“Even though most children are anxious during a time of change, they can be quite happy and adjust to the new school within two weeks. But if a child does not adjust, there are issues beyond the transition,” child-adolescent psychologist Vivian Friedman, professor in the department of psychiatry and behavioral neurobiology at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, said in a university news release.

Friedman said there are ways parents can help alleviate their child’s stress as they head back to school, including:

Scheduling a play date with a child from the new school.

Visiting the school playground during the summer.

Taking a tour of the school before classes start.

Above all else, Friedman added, stay positive. That means, be on time, refrain from crying, and don’t compare your children to others. That would only add to their stress.

“Character styles are persistent, not permanent. A child who approaches life with fear may also be a cautious adult,” explained Fried-

man. “An easy-going child is likely to continue to approach life with a positive attitude. Help your child to see the glass half-full rather than halfempty. When a child has a negative view, after acknowledging how he feels, ask him how else he might view that situation or how someone else might see it.”

Children who remain overly anxious about school for more than two weeks may suffer from trauma and need outside help, said Freidman.

Children who exhibit the following symptoms may have an underlying issue: Whining.

Threatening to run away or hurt themselves.

Having nightmares or other sleep disturbances.

Renewed bedwetting.

Having generally anxious behavior or startling easily.

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Watch The Throne ‘Murder To Excellence’ inspiration Danroy Henry honored

By D.L. CHANDLER Although much of the criticism levied at Watch the Throne has been focused primarily on the braggadocious rhymes from Kanye West and Jay-Z, the pair tackle serious fare several times throughout the album — most notably on the track “Murder to Excellence” in which Jay-Z dedicates his rhyme to the memory of a college football player on the cusp of his 21st birthday.

Danroy Henry (right), forever immortalized in verse by Jay-Z’s opening line on the track, was a student at Pace University in suburban Westchester County, New York, and a member of its football team. During a celebratory night with friends at a local bar last October after a Pace win, Henry reportedly ran two officers down with his car who then

ended up on the hood of his vehicle and began to open fire, killing Henry and injuring two passengers. Pleasantville police officer Aaron Hess, who was found to have fired the fatal shots at Henry, was given an officer of the year award. In February, Hess was cleared of any wrongdoing by grand jury although the Henry family is still pursuing justice in the case.

Friends of Henry — affectionately known as DJ — Henry gathered Friday at New York City’s Grand Central station to stage a peaceful gathering in the memory of their fallen friend and also cleverly timed their call against police brutality with the release of Watch The Throne as well.

Organized partly by Claire Finnegan, sister to one of DJ’s teammates Patrick, the gathering of friends honoring DJ’s life numbered about 50 people, according to

Finnegan.

“DJ was really one of the best guys you’d ever meet. He was a good kid and so upstanding,” shared Finnegan in a phone interview with MTV News. “He was one of those guys who would give you anything he had. He was just that good of a guy.” Finnegan further shared that their gathering was disrupted by police officers although an off-duty cop was said to have shown support to the group’s cause. With golden balloons adorned with the Jay-Z line “This is to the memory of Danroy Henry” and “Watch the Throne” on the adjacent side, the gatherers all timed the release of the heliumfilled balloons into the air. Although the memorial was met with some resistance, Finnegan vowed that more public demonstrations are to come and informed MTV News that Henry’s parents have started the DJ

Dream Fund in Henry’s home state of Massachusetts, which will strive to provide sports-related resources to children and to remember DJ via his love of athletics.

For more information regarding events in memory of Danroy Henry, please visit Justice For DJ.

Jennifer Hudson addresses Twitter beef, Aguilera, Cee Lo to sing at weight loss/liposuction rumors Jackson tribute concert

By JILL SERJEANT

Jennifer Hudson is definitely not sorry for addressing a Twitter user recently. The Grammy winner, who scolded the aggressive user for sending her disrespectful messages about her weight lost regiment and her fiancé’s sexual orientation, says she deserves respect.

“Somewhere along the way people forgot that I am from Chicago but it’s not even that. To me, when you know it’s me on there, because I sit and I talk to my fans all the time, so you know you talking to me and I feel as though don’t say nothing to me on Twitter that you not gonna say in my face in person,” Hudson told Chicago’s Morning Riot radio show.

She continues: “Somewhere along the lines people think they can just talk to celebrities any kind of way.

Where people too and just the same way you want your respect, we want ours.”

Hudson also addressed rumors about undergoing liposuction instead of losing the weight naturally, insisting she can’t understand why people are making it negative.

“That’s another reason why I got frustrated is because I’m out here trying to put out a positive message, I know I’ve done this naturally and I don’t appreciate you undoing what I’ve done and trying to make it negative,’ Hudson says.

LOS ANGELES — Christina Aguilera, Cee Lo Green and Motown veteran Smokey Robinson will perform at a Michael Jackson tribute concert in Britain in October, organizers announced on Thursday.

Several of the brothers of the late King of Pop also will take the stage, as well as British acts Leona Lewis, Craig David and pop band JLS. Promoters of the Michael Forever concert said other big names would be announced later for the October 8 event at a stadium in Cardiff, Wales.

“We’re delighted that such exciting and globally recognized acts have joined the line-up to pay tribute to a music legend...We’ll be adding more amazing headliners in the days to come,” Chris Hunt, president of concert promoter Global Live Events, said in a statement.

The concert, which has the backing of Jackson’s mother Katherine and the singer’s siblings LaToya, Tito, Jackie and Marlon, will be broadcast around the world in both 2D and 3D on pay television and into movie theaters. Proceeds will go to AIDS and other charities.

Fans are asked to register in advance for tickets, starting on Thursday, and to pledge a donation to charity.

The tribute concert in October follows a failed attempt by Jermaine Jackson to organize a similar event in Vienna in 2009 shortly after Michael Jackson’s death in Los Angeles on June 25 from an overdose of the powerful anesthetic propofol.

The “Thriller” singer’s personal physician, Dr. Conrad Murray, doctor is due to go on trial in Los Angeles in September for involuntary manslaughter.

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Black Eyed Peas’ will.i.am stumping for science

By JAKE WEINRAUB LOS ANGELES — Will.i.am, science teacher?

With flashing lights, electric dance breakdowns and even some of his own robot-esque moves, the Black Eyed Peas singer is no stranger to the intersection of art and science.

Now, in his latest project, he’s has teamed up with Segway inventor Dean Kamen’s FIRST (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology) program, to take his new message to kids.

Based on an international youth K-12 robotics competition of 30,000 educators, students and parents in St. Louis, Missouri, in April — which will.i.am pumped up with live performances from the Peas and Willow Smith — the rapper has executive produced a one-hour ABC special based on the event.

Its goal: to get students more excited about science by emphasizing innovations in everyday life.

Scheduled for August 14 and called “The i.am FIRST: Science Is Rock & Roll Back-to-School Special,” the show also features Bono, Justin Bieber, Miley Cyrus, Britney Spears,

Snoop Dogg, Justin Timberlake, Steven Tyler and more sharing testimony to the importance of the sciences. “ love technology,” will.i.am told TheWrap. “Think about our world right now with the economic crash.

Apple stock is cool ... and for some reason everyone’s still signing up for

Google+. Google is cool, Facebook is cool — think about what’s sitting comfy when everyone else is uncomfortable: technology.”

“Who’s making the Wii and the Xbox Kinect?” he said. “You’d probably think these people are geeks, but you can’t wait to get that gear.”

Kamen’s FIRST program provides

tools that can be integrated with educational curriculum to increase access to quality education in the sciences. With over 2,500 schools already on board, it has been lauded by companies such as Google, Microsoft, CNN, GE. As for his own scientific prowess, the Los Angeles native laughed, “Not even gonna front. I wasn’t good at science in school, but that doesn’t mean I don’t like it,” he told TheWrap. will.i.am gained wide video notoriety during as an early supporter of Barack Obama in the 2008 presidential election, with his video “Yes We Can.” When asked if he will revisit political organizing for the upcoming 2012 election, he said that his educational initiatives are how he sees himself involved this time around.

“I want to surround myself with whoever has solutions, he said — refusing to endorse any particular candidate. “I endorse the youth. I vote for giving the youth the opportunities they need to go out in the world and contribute, so we can compete with other developing countries.

I endorse good solutions to change inner-cities, that give kids educational opportunities they don’t have.”

USA orders Rihanna opens up about her ‘Battleship’ role second season of ‘Suits’

By JOCELYN VENA

USA Network says it has ordered 16 onehour episodes for a second season of “Suits,” starring Gabriel Macht, Patrick J. Adams, Rick Hoffman and Gina Torres (right).

Co-starring Sarah Rafferty and Meghan Marklem, the legal drama shoots in Toronto.

Its Season 2 pickup was announced Thursday by Chris McCumber and Jeff Wachtel, copresidents of USA Network.

The show premiered June 23 and will conclude its 12-episode freshman run Sept. 8. “‘Suits’ exceeded our expectations on every level with its sharp writing, engaging ensemble cast and incredible production values,” Wachtel and McCumber said in a statement.

“Quickly embraced by our viewers, critics and the industry as a series that pushes the envelope of the USA brand, we needed no further evidence to green-light a second season.”

Rihanna certainly knows a thing or two about military couture; anyone who has seen her “Hard” video knows that. But in “Battleship,” her fatigues are anything but high-end.

In a chat with UGO.com, the singer opens up about her butt-kicking role as Raikes, saying that her character knows nothing about the glamorous things in life, only the dangerous things.

“It’s really cool, it’s easy. You don’t have to think about what you want to put on, or how cute you look,” she says of wearing the uniform in the Peter Berg-directed action flick. “She doesn’t like boys.

She doesn’t like girls either. She’s just about her weapons and her work.”

Rihanna has always had a toughgirl persona, so when it came time to make her film debut, she knew that this girl was the right one to play.

And she made sure she did her research. “We worked with real military people, you know, people in the Navy, people who have fought in Iraq before. They pretty much came and drilled me. This one man, Donald, he pretty much drilled me, yelled at me, cursed me, ‘Ow!’ Made me do pushups. Everything,” she recalled. “Like, my best friend was there the second time we worked together, and I said to her, ‘OK, I’m about to do acting class, but you’re

going to want to kill this man, so just stay in the bedroom. Don’t listen to anything he’s saying to me right now, just don’t kill him, Melissa, just stay in the bedroom.’

“And I remember she just kept walking around, and she would just glance at me, ‘Are you OK? Did he just say ‘f—- you’ to you?’ But I mean, it really got you in the mentality, that’s the things they really go through, you know, when they first sign up,” she continued. “It’s not a walk in the park.”

Her first encounter with Berg was equally jarring — Rihanna describes the sequence of events as “weird.”

“And [Peter Berg] just walked out and said, ‘Hi, come in,’ and I’m like,

‘Where is Christa, my manager?

Where is my manager?’ She wasn’t there, and I walked in and all I saw were these little alien mock-ups, these little dolls. And he just started saying, ‘Yeah, these are the thugs, he’s a thug,’ “ she said of the meeting. “I laughed and then I realized that he wasn’t laughing, and I was like, ‘This is weird. Why are there pictures of aliens all over this room?’

“And it was just crazy because he was just really super enthusiastic about it, and he was so sure that I could pull it off and I didn’t even know that he was the director of the film, I didn’t know anything,” she added. “I didn’t know what I was doing, where I was going, why.”

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In Twitter era, authorities must adapt or struggle

By PETER APPS LONDON — With social media brutally accelerating the news cycle and allowing rumors from riots to bank failures to spread at lightning speed, politicians, businesses and governments must adapt fast.

Thursday, British Prime Minister David Cameron threatened to temporarily block platforms such as Blackberry messaging used to coordinate looting and unrest — but the experience of the “Arab Spring” suggest that approach might be doomed to failure.

For some of the world’s most powerful countries, the stakes could hardly be higher.

Britain’s riots rendered parts of London and other cities briefly ungovernable and raised serious questions over the sustainability of the government’s austerity strategy.

The ousting of presidents in Tunisia and Egypt by social media-

fueled revolutions clearly alarmed China’s rulers, who rely on a sophisticated system of “networked authoritarianism” to control online debate and avoid a similar fate.

But even some veteran security specialists warn such attempts may not only be doomed to failure but could jeopardize the authority of those who try. Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak’s Internet shutdown, they warn, merely served to bring more people onto the streets.

“The use of social media in the unrest looks like a game changer but any attempt to exert state control... looks likely to fail,” said John Bassett, a former senior official at British signals intelligence agency GCHQ and now a senior fellow at London’s Royal United Services Institute.

“Ultimately those governments that try to operate old-style control models are likely to fail, losing legitimacy and respect in the eyes of their populations,” Monitoring networks for useful intelli-

gence was useful, he said, as was encouraging individuals and community groups to report potential troublemakers.

But most communication experts say that what established organizations really need to do is learn to use such platforms to shape the narrative themselves.

And they need to learn fast.

Caroline Sapriel, a specialist consultant based in Brussels who advises multinational companies on crises, says the key is for firms to use platforms such as Twitter to swiftly engage on an issue and avoid losing control.

“These days, crises of all types unravel and gain momentum at light speed,” she said.

“There is no longer any question that to tell your side of the story... social media is the way — not reactively but proactively, strategically planned and handled by specialists around the clock. This is not a part-time job.”

Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp discovered that to their cost last

month. An online Twitter campaign to persuade advertisers to abandon the scandal-hit News of the World took hold so fast that the paper ceased production within days.

Allegations that the newspaper hacked telephone voice mails and paid for police information not only inflicted lasting reputational damage on News Corp but also much of the British establishment seen as much too close to mogul Murdoch.

With financial markets more volatile than ever, that is a point banks in particular might need to take on board. This week, just as during the 2008 crash, banking shares in particular have seesawed violently on rumors that the institutions themselves were often far too slow to deny.

It is also a learning curve that some British police forces have clearly struggled with, particularly London’s Metropolitan Police — perhaps because several senior officers quit last month following the News of the World

scandal.

Other forces such as those in Manchester were much quicker to use Twitter to engage with residents, also posting images of looters on Facebook for members of the public to identify.

“Captured lots of criminals on CCTV — we will identify you and will be coming for you,” said one message.

Whilst many British politicians — including Cameron, on holiday in Tuscany — were notably silent on social networking sites in the early days of the riots, a handful were praised for using it very successfully.

“Twitter is really proving itself to be key here,” said David Lea, Western Europe analyst at Control Risks.

“It’s a way of being seen to do something, if nothing else. There are MPs building reputations and careers with it.”

Northeast London lawmaker Stella Creasy knocked down rumors of disturbances in her constituency, reporting what was really happening, coordinating

community relief efforts and trying to deter vigilante action.

“If you want to help the police, ask the police how you can help,” she wrote in a public message to one constituent. “Running about with baseball bats and hype isn’t helpful.”

In another message apparently written from inside the House of Commons chamber Thursday, the opposition Labor MP said blaming Twitter for the riots was “bonkers.”

That view also looked to be shared by at least some members of Cameron’s ruling Conservative party, clearly already worrying that threatening effective censorship could be a colossal political mistake.

“Platforms like Twitter helped residents and police track the problems and maintain contact with services,” said one Conservative aide, warning that how Cameron addressed the riots could define the rest of his time in office.”

“This could be either his Katrina or his Falklands.”

Google and Facebook face-off in social games

By ALEXEI ORESKOVIC SAN FRANCISCO — Facebook is not the only game in town anymore.

The world’s largest Internet social network moved on Thursday to shore up support with game developers such as Zynga, who provide one of Facebook’s biggest draws, on the same day that Google Inc introduced games on its recently-launched social network.

With the two Web giants competing to attract users to their respective online services, the dueling social gaming announcements underscored what could emerge as a key battleground between the two companies.

“It turns out that people like to play games, and it’s core to the

social networking use case,” said Jeremy Liew, a partner at venture capital firm Lightspeed Venture Partners. Liew, who has invested in social game companies including Playdom, which was acquired by the Walt Disney Co last year, was commenting on Google’s games announcement.

On Thursday, Google said it would offer 16 games from third party developers on Google+, including Zynga Poker and the popular Angry Birds game. Google, which previously made an unspecified investment in Zynga, said it will roll out games gradually on Google+, and will make the game feature available to everyone “soon.”

Facebook, which is hosting 100 game developers at an event at its Palo Alto. California headquarters on

Thursday evening, announced a handful of new features to improve the gaming experience on its website, as well as a new policy loosening restrictions on how developers can market their games on the social network.

The changes will expand the types of notifications that Facebook users see when their friends are playing games on the website, rolling back restrictions made last year that provoked grumbles among some game developers.

Social games, such as Zynga’s Farmville, are some of the most popular activities on Facebook. More than 200 million users play games on Facebook every month, and the company takes a 30 percent cut of the sale of virtual goods that are bought by users as part

of the game experience.

“Our games ecosystem has continued to grow. But there’s no question that we want to grow it faster in a more high quality way for our users and developers,” Facebook head of games Sean Ryan told Reuters in an interview.

Google launched its social networking site in June, signing up more than 10 million users in the first two weeks.

Google’s move to offer games on its social network provides game developers with a compelling alternative to Facebook, said Lightspeed’s Liew.

But he said the most important consideration for game makers is which social network has the most users.

“Right now no one is going to be willing to give up Facebook

because it’s where the users are Today.

Google+ got a terrific start but it’s got a ways to go,” he said.

Among the new gaming features introduced

by Facebook on Thursday are the ability to expand the size of the window in which games are played on Facebook’s site, new ways for users to create bookmarks for their favorite games and a scrolling “ticker” that highlights the games a person’s friends are playing, their recent scores and achievements.

In loosening restrictions on game updates within Facebook’s general newsfeed, the company must walk a fine line between helping developers promote their games on the network and irking users that are not avid gamers.

Facebook’s newsfeed

- which displays a rolling stream of messages, photos and updates from friends is a vital distribution channel for gamemakers, allowing companies like Zynga, Electronic Arts Inc’s Playfish and Playdom to reach vast numbers of users. But is has caused some backlash among Facebook’s non-gaming users, who found the constant notifications about their friends progress within various games to be irrelevant and annoying.

Last year, Facebook clamped down on the practice, so that Facebook users would receive notifications only about games which they had also installed. Under the new policy, Facebook users will see notifications about any game their friends are playing.

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Recession could tip U.S. oil use into permanent decline

By JOSHUA SCHNEYER

into a one-off. With U.S. manufacturing and service sectors slowing, a recent S&P downgrade on U.S. debt, and a series of stock market falls that have rattled consumer confidence, the odds are tilting toward short-term declines as well.

Last week, the U.S. Department of Energy lowered its forecast for U.S. oil demand from growth to decline in 2011. It also cut its forecasts for growth in global oil demand, as did the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries and the International Energy Agency.

“We see U.S. oil demand falling this year and, later, settling into steady declines after 2015,” said Rick Mueller of Bostonbased consultant Energy Security Analysis Inc. “It’s all about the transportation sector, and the trends point to lower oil use.”

U.S. mandates

require 36 billion gallons of renewables like ethanol be blended into motor fuel by 2022, up from 14 billion gallons this year. The Obama administration has also boosted fuel economy standards for passenger vehicles to 54.5 miles per gallon by 2025, more than double current standards.

Limp demand in the United States and Western Europe won’t fully offset growth in developing countries like China and India, whose appetite for crude nearly guarantees world demand will keep climbing.

Last year’s U.S. growth accounted for less than one-fifth of the rise in global oil demand, which was up 2.3 million barrels per day. But with the U.S. still burning more than 19 million bpd — twice that of No. 2 oil consumer China — slower demand here could further hammer U.S. oil futures, which have already fallen by one-

quarter since hitting $114 a barrel in April.

Until the recent slowdown, consensus forecasts saw U.S. oil demand up around 100,000 bpd this year as GDP grew about 2.5 percent, said Adam Sieminski of Deutsche Bank.

“If you take that GDP estimate to 1.5 percent instead, it could leave no growth in U.S. oil demand.”

The latest government data shows U.S. oil demand, which looked buoyant earlier this year, slipped from year-ago levels in each of the last four months as pump prices climbed. Gasoline use in July was the lowest on record for the month, according to MasterCard data.

Less demand may wrongfoot oil market bulls like Goldman Sachs, which continues to call for oil prices to surpass 2011 highs next year, as demand expands faster than output.

“For a long time the premise has been that demand growth will outpace supply, but it might be the other way around,” said Tim Evans of Citi Futures in New York.

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double-dip recession, few analysts expect U.S. demand to repeat the radical declines of 2008 or 2009. Last year, U.S. demand rose for only the first time since 2005 when it peaked at 20.8 million bpd, but had still fallen more than 8 percent since then.

“Demand is reaching a plateau, and is then likely to fall slowly,” said Mueller.

Higher unemployment since 2007 has cut U.S. vehicle miles traveled by about 2 percent, said James Coan at Rice University’s Baker Institute in Houston. Americans without jobs drive about 55 percent less, Coan said.

Sunoco Inc, the Northeast’s top independent oil refiner, has been particularly blunt about the long-term outlook for its main business.

“We do not have a bullish outlook on refining,” Chief Executive Lynn Elsenhans

told investors on an early August conference call.

The silver lining for consumers is that retail U.S. gasoline prices are expected to fall further from levels above $4 a gallon earlier this summer. Wholesale gasoline futures have already dropped 19 percent since late April highs, and the reductions should trickle down to consumers soon.

According to Peter Beutel of energy consultancy Cameron Hanover in Connecticut, if recently lower wholesale prices hold, they could amount to savings of $115 billion over a year for drivers.

But recent history shows that even sharply falling pump prices can’t resuscitate U.S. demand during a downturn.

Between mid-2008 and mid2009, oil use dropped by a million barrels a day, even as gasoline prices cooled by 30 percent.

Security expert warns hackers can attack Android

their work may have replicated previously published research and they wanted to make sure they properly acknowledged that work.

“This was a choice we made, to prevent an unacceptable window of risk to consumers worldwide and to guarantee credit where it was due,” he said.

A mobile security researcher familiar with the work of Hassell and Macaulay said he understood why the pair decided not to disclose their findings.

“When something can be used for exploitation and there is no way to fix it, it is very dangerous to go out publicly with that information,” the researcher said. “When there is not a lot that people can do to protect themselves, disclosure is sometimes not the best policy.”

Hassell said he plans to give his talk at the Hack in The Box security conference in Kuala Lumpur in October.

As a U.S. economic rebound stalls and threatens to spiral into recession, oil demand in the world’s top consumer may be slipping into an irreversible decline.

Last year’s fledgling recovery in U.S. oil usage — when demand rose 400,000 barrels per day (bpd) — made up for only a part of the 1 million bpd demand drop during a year of economic turmoil that began in August 2008.

Until recently, most analysts believed a healthier economy would push U.S. oil use higher this year and next, before tighter environmental regulations, increased use of biofuels, and tougher fuel-efficiency standards kick in later this decade to lower demand permanently.

Instead, a sour economy may turn last year’s demand growth

By JIM FINKLE BOSTON — A mobile security expert says he has found new ways for hackers to attack phones running Google Inc’s Android operating system.

Riley Hassell, who caused a stir when he called off an appearance at a hacker’s conference last week, told Reuters

he and colleague Shane Macaulay decided not to lay out their research at the gathering for fear criminals would use it attack Android phones.

He said in an interview he identified more than a dozen widely used Android applications that make the phones vulnerable to attack.

“App developers frequently fail to follow

security guidelines and write applications properly,” he said.

“Some apps expose themselves to outside contact. If these apps are vulnerable, then an attacker can remotely compromise that app and potentially the phone using something as simple as a text message.”

He declined to identify those apps, saying he

Wal-Mart changes e-commerce leadership CHICAGO — WalMart Stores Inc is shaking up its e-commerce structure, putting the people who run stores in developed markets such as the United States in charge of the websites in those coun-

tries, according to an internal memo obtained

by Reuters on Friday.

That decision and other e-commerce moves, which are being announced to employees on Friday, also include the departure

of two e-commerce executives.

Raul Vazquez, who led the e-commerce developed markets group and Steve Nave, who was the leader of the Walmart.com business in the United

fears hackers might exploit the vulnerabilities.

“When you release a threat and there’s no patch ready, then there is mayhem,” said Hassell, founder of boutique security firm Privateer Labs.

Hassell said he and Macaulay alerted Google to the software shortcomings they unearthed.

States, decided to leave the company, WalMart, the world’s largest retailer, said in the memo.

Wal-Mart does not disclose the percentage of sales that come from its online business. The company’s fiscal 2011 sales were $419 billion.

Building up online sales is an important growth strategy for the retailer, which has seen sales at discount stores open at least a year fall for two years.

Google spokesman Jay Nancarrow said Android security experts discussed the research with Hassell and did not believe he had uncovered problems with Android.

“The identified bugs are not present in Android,” he said, declining to elaborate.

It was the first public explanation for the failure of Hassell and Macaulay to make a scheduled presentation at the annual Black Hat hacking conference in Las Vegas, the hacking community’s largest annual gathering.

They had been scheduled to talk about “Hacking Androids for Profit.” Hundreds of people waited for them to show up at a crowded conference room.

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New depths loom large for Tiger Woods after PGA exit

By MARK LAMPORT-STOKES JOHNS CREEK, Georgia — After plunging new depths at the PGA Championship with his first missed cut at the major, Tiger Woods faces the once unthinkable prospect of being ranked outside the world’s top 50 when he next competes.

His next scheduled event is the November 10-13 Australian Open and, should he not play a tournament before then, the former world number one would slide down to the high fifties in the rankings.

This would be a remarkable scenario for Woods, the greatest golfer of his generation and arguably of all time who has already won 14 major titles in a glittering career.

However, the last two years have been a veritable nightmare for the American, on and off the course, and he was not expected to fare well at this week’s PGA Championship having only recently returned to competition.

After making a red-hot start to the season’s final major with three birdies in his first five holes, world number 30 Woods spectacularly unraveled on the way to an opening seven-over-par 77.

That left him a staggering 14 strokes off the first-round lead and he followed up with a roller-coaster 73 on Friday to miss the cut after recording five double-bogeys in a tournament for the first time.

“I was in nearly 20 bunkers in two days and I had four or five water balls. So that’s not going to add up to a very good score,” a rueful Woods told reporters before heading home to Florida.

His early exit from Atlanta Athletic Club meant he failed to qualify for the PGA Tour’s season-ending

FedExCup playoffs and he clearly has plenty of work to do on his revamped swing before he returns to action, whether in Australia or before.

Woods does have plenty of options which range from teeing it up in the PGA Tour’s Fall series, which generally attracts only the journeymen on the U.S. circuit, or perhaps heading across to the late-season events on the European Tour.

Asked whether he might add a tournament or two to his schedule before the Australian Open in Sydney, Woods replied: “I might.

“I know that I’m scheduled in November to go but, as of right now, that’s the only commitment that I have.”

If the PGA Championship does represent his final PGA Tour appearance of the season, Woods will end his 2011 campaign in the U.S. with just two top-10s in eight starts.

His biggest problems have been injury and lack of practice. He was on the sidelines for three months while recovering from the left knee ligaments and Achilles tendon he hurt during the Masters in April, when he impressively tied for fourth.

He missed two majors, the U.S.

Open and the British Open, and that unexpected hiatus was far from ideal as he continues working with coach Sean Foley through the fourth swing change of his career.

“This year has been frustrating because I was feeling somewhat healthy going into the Masters, put it together there and was leading the tournament with a few holes to go,” said Woods who has not won a major since the 2008 U.S. Open nor any tournament worldwide since 2009.

“Then I got hurt, and I haven’t played since really. So it’s been frustrating from that standpoint, that I have not been able to practice and work, and obviously compete.”

While bitterly disappointed and frustrated by his erratic display at Atlanta Athletic Club, Woods has been greatly encouraged by his improved health after recovering from four knee surgeries over the years.

“It’s a giant leap forward in the fact that I played two straight weeks, healthy,” he said, referring also to last week’s WGC-Bridgestone Invitational where he tied for 37th.

“That’s great for our practice sessions coming up. We are going to be now able to work and get after it.”

Woods has been excited by how

U.S. sprinter Mike Rodgers fails drug test

By GENE CHERRY RALEIGH, North Carolina — Former U.S. 100 meters champion Mike Rodgers has tested positive for a banned stimulant, putting his world championship hopes in jeopardy, his agent said on Saturday.

“Mike made a mistake,” Tony Campbell told Reuters by telephone.

“He went to a club with some friends in Italy and he thought he was drinking a Red Bull (energy drink) but he got one of those energy drinks that had a stimulant in it.”

Rodgers, the year’s fourth fastest 100 meters runner, said on his Twitter account he had failed a test.

“Tested positive for stimulant in an energy drink,” he tweeted.

“I’m just trying to get a hearing

before worlds so I can know my fate,” said Rodgers, who was named in the U.S. team in the 100 meters and 4x100 relay.

He finished third in the 100m at the U.S. world championship trials in June. Penalties for a positive test for stimulants can range from a warning to a suspension of several months. Campbell said Rodgers, 26, had not been suspended by USA Track and Field (USATF) as of Saturday.

USATF officials could not be reached for immediate comment on Rodgers’s status for the world championships which begin on August 27 in Daegu, South Korea.

Rodgers was yet to have his second “B” sample tested, Campbell said, adding that he understood the

result would not come until two days after USATF finalized its world championship team on Monday.

“It is a bad situation for us now,” Campbell said, referring to the timing of the failed test.

“I would surmise (USATF) are going to leave Mike in there (on the team) until the final verdict is in,” he said.

“I don’t want anyone to think Mike is a druggie. It was a stimulant. It was not steroids or anything of that nature.”

Campbell said Rodgers’s positive test had come last month at a meeting in Lignano, Italy, where the U.S. team had a relay training camp.

He said Rodgers had passed all previous tests including a blood test several days ago.

cleanly and powerfully he has struck the ball over the last two weeks, though the extra compression has posed problems with his distance control.

“The changes I’m making, I’m hitting the ball further and that’s something I have to adjust for,” he said.

“The ball is now coming off faster and I’ve got to get used to that.”

Though Woods has been a shadow of his former self while trying to rebuild his golf swing and private life following the breakup of his marriage, it is still far too early to write him off.

All too often in the past, he has proved his critics wrong but his acid test will be the West Coast swing on 2012 PGA Tour next January and February when he has traditionally made a fast start to the season while building up to the April Masters.

Should he fail to regain his customary standards then, it will be very difficult for him to present a plausible case for the defense, especially with his fitness no longer a cause for concern.

Freddy Adu returns to MLS with Philadelphia

By SIMON EVANS PHILADELPHIA — Freddy Adu, once hyped as the greatest talent in American soccer, returned to Major League Soccer on Friday, signing for Philadelphia Union to end his ill-fated spell in Europe.

Adu, given a professional contract at 14-years-old and hailed as the ‘American Pele’ in some quarters, joined Benfica four years ago but never established himself at the Portuguese club.

The forward, who can also play as an attacking midfielder, underwent a series of loan spells, including one with French club Monaco, and spent last year in the Turkish second division.

Ghana-born Adu, who is still only 22, missed out on a place in the U.S. World Cup squad in 2010 but was recalled for this year’s CONCACAF Gold Cup. The deal with Philadelphia reunites Adu with Peter Nowak who was his coach at his first club D.C. United.

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Emotional Dennis Rodman caps Hall of Fame ceremony

By BRIAN MAHONEY SPRINGFIELD, Mass. —Recognized for his basketball talents, Dennis Rodman instead talked about his personal shortcomings.

He hasn’t been a very good husband or father. His relationship with his mother has been strained.

But he had four men he could turn to no matter how hard times got.

Choking up often during an emotional speech, Rodman was enshrined in the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame on Friday night, giving a look at what’s underneath all the tattoos and outrageous outfits that he became as famous for as anything he did on the court.

“I didn’t play the game for the money, I didn’t play the game to be famous,” he said. “What you see here is more just an illusion that I love to just be an individual that’s very colorful.”

Arriving at Symphony Hall in a gray suit, feather-lined cowboy hat and giant white sunglasses, he changed into another outfit for his speech, a red scarf and black jacket commemorating the Pistons and Bulls, the teams he helped win five NBA championships.

He thanked Commissioner David Stern and the NBA community “to even just have me in the building” and saved his deepest appreciation for coaches Phil Jackson and Chuck Daly, Lakers owner Jerry Buss, and James Rich, whose family took Rodman in after his mother threw him

out of the house.

Rodman described them as “a mentor, a father, somebody you can look up to and call any time of day” who ignored his antics and “looked at an individual that had a good heart.” His own father left when he was young and they never reconciled.

Jackson stood nearby as Rodman’s presenter, and Rodman approached his former coach a couple of times as he struggled to get his words out.

The enshrinement of the flamboyant rebounding and defensive specialist capped the enshrinement of the 10member class of 2011. Chris Mullin, the two-time Olympic gold medalist, opened the night as the other headliner.

The class also included coaches Tara VanDerveer, who has led Stanford to two national championships and won more than 800 games, Tex Winter and Division II Philadelphia University coach Herb Magee, the career leader at the collegiate level with more than 900 wins.

Eight-time NBA champion Tom “Satch” Sanders, big men Artis Gilmore and Arvydas Sabonis; the late Reece “Goose” Tatum of the Harlem Globetrotters, and women’s star Teresa Edwards, who won five Olympic medals—four golds—and is entering her fifth Hall of Fame, also were honored.

Much of the attention was on Rodman, who stole the show for what he said instead of what he wore.

He apologized to his mother, who was in the crowd that didn’t know quite what to expect from the always-

entertaining Rodman but probably wasn’t expecting to see such a look inside of him. He said he was like so many players who fought to get out the projects and make something of himself.

“I did that, but it took a lot of hard work and a lot of bumps along the road,” Rodman said.

Mullin’s journey began in New York.

A five-time All-Star with one of the game’s best jump shots, he earned individual enshrinement after he was inducted last year with the 1992 U.S. Olympic Dream Team and also won a gold medal at the 1984 Olympics.

The left-hander followed a decorated amateur career by scoring more than 17,000 points in the NBA. The New York city product recalled his hometown in his speech, saying “Looking out, I realize I’m a long way from Flatbush Ave., but Brooklyn’s definitely in the house tonight.”

He stayed home to play in college at St. John’s and was presented for enshrinement by his coach, Lou Carnesecca.

“I chose the best coach in the best city, and I played in the world’s most famous arena,” Mullin said.

VanDerveer called her enshrinement an “exciting homecoming for my mother, Rita,” because her parents met at Springfield College. She ignored her father’s pleas to focus on her algebra homework instead of basketball, learning from whatever coaches she could and going on to win a gold medal coaching the 1996 U.S. women’s Olympic team.

“Thank you, Hall of Fame, for honoring my life’s work,” she said. “I’m forever grateful.”

The induction of Rodman and Winter, the architect of the triangle offense, brought back Scottie Pippen and other players and coaches from the Bulls’ dynasty of the 1990s. Winter, an assistant to Jackson on nine NBA championship teams, has been slowed after a stroke and struggles with his speaking—his son, Chris, gave a lengthy speech on his behalf— but felt well enough to make the trip for the weekend and what many considered overdue enshrinement.

“We’re really excited for him. I know he is to. He’s very happy about it,” Jackson said before the ceremony.

“He’s been jumping the gun all night and all day yesterday, so I think it’s a good time for him to do it, even though I wish he could express himself and say what he really has on his mind.”

Sabonis, a dominant player in Europe long before he finally came from his native Lithuania to the NBA at 31, was presented by Bill Walton, who had described the versatile center as a “7-foot-3 Larry Bird.” Later came the enshrinement of Gilmore, an ABA champion who went on to make six All-Star teams in the NBA, where he is still the league’s career leader with a .599 field-goal percentage.

“Millions of people have laced up their sneakers since Dr. Naismith invented the game several miles from here in 1891 and every one of them would love to be in my shoes today,” Gilmore said.

Ron Artest ‘definitely’ going to UK He doesn’t have a contract yet, but Ron Artest says he will play for the British Basketball League’s Cheshire Jets during the NBA lockout.

“I’m definitely going to play for the Jets,” the Los Angeles Lakers forward told the Los Angeles Times Thursday night. “I’m definitely going to play for the Jets.”

The Jets have offered to help Artest promote his music and movie interests in the United Kingdom because they reportedly can pay him only $1,500 to $2,500 per month for playing basketball.

But Artest apparently wasn’t looking for the biggest money.

“I thought, ‘Where can I go to play ball and enjoy myself?’ “ he said, according to the Times.

A source with knowledge of the Jets’ plans told ESPN.com’s Marc Stein that the team is even trying to find Artest a role on a British soap opera.

“I went on Jimmy Kimmel in my underwear, so, of course I would do a soap opera,” Artest said, according to the newspaper. “Hands down. When

they told me I had the opportunity and asked if I wanted to do a soap opera, I said, ‘Of course, man.’ I’m not going to run away. When I was a kid, I wanted to be on TV. Why would I run away from being on TV?” The Jets’ season runs from Sept.

30 through April 22, but Artest would not join the team until November. He plans to play with a Finnish team, the Loimaa Bisons, for a week in September. He also told the newspaper that he will spend that week hosting comedy shows and promoting mental health issues.

“One reason I want to go to Finland is it’s the cleanest country in the world,” Artest said, according to the Times. “I want to experience that. I’m amazed by that. ... That’s the future.

I think I want to come back to America with that experience. I want to tell everyone my experience about how they’re treating the Earth. It’s very important to me.”

Artest said he was flattered that teams were courting him to play overseas and was asked why he is

choosing a relatively unknown team instead of following the likes of Deron Williams to the Euroleague and its big bucks.

“If people want to play the best defensive player of the game, come to the U.K. I’m going to be right there,” Artest said, according to the newspaper. “I’m not chasing anybody. If teams want to play one of the best defenders in the history of the NBA on the wing, come to the U.K. I’ll be right there. I’m going to be right there. I’m not going to other countries. I’m from New York City. I play in L.A. U.K is a big country. I’m going to fit right in.

“I’m going to play hard. If people want to play against Ron Artest, play basketball and not chase the money and play passionate basketball against Ron Artest, come to the U.K. I’m going to be there and we’re going to be going hard.”

The 31-year-old averaged 8.5 points per game last season while appearing in all 82 games for the Lakers. Artest has three years and $21 million left on his contract.

Artest compared joining the Jets to taking a pay cut to play for the Lakers two years ago.

“If I go play somewhere, I have to enjoy it,” Artest said, according to the Times. “If I’m not going to enjoy the game, I’m not going. ... Right now I’m really happy with the passion of the team. I’m really happy with the passion of the league. It’s not the best league in Europe. But it’s a league that has potential. I’m looking forward to being a part of a start.”

MONDAY, AUGUST 15, 2011

RODMAN CAPS HALL OF FAME CEREMONY

Dennis Rodman becomes emotion- ment at a ceremony in Springal during his address for his Bas- field, Mass. ketball Hall of Fame enshrineSEE PAGE 23.

NEW DEPTHS LOOM LARGE FOR TIGER WOODS

After plunging new depths at the PGA Championship with his first missed cut at the major, Tiger Woods faces the once unthinkable prospect of being ranked outside the worldâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s top 50 when he next competes.

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