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CAMPAIGN AGAINST CHILD EXPLOITATION

U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder spoke to an assemblage of Exploitation. In his remarks, Holder told the group that only more than 1,000 prosecutors, agents and investigators at the the age of sexual assault victims has gone down and that inaugural National Strategy Conference on Combating Child “was unacceptable.”

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FREEDOM RIDERS GET PLACE IN HISTORY 50 YEARS LATER

Freedom Riders Catherine Burks-Brooks, center, Rep. John Lewis, background center, Matthew Walker, background left, and Rip Patton, background right, sing civil rights songs with local students during the opening ceremony of the Freedom Riders Museum in downtown Montgomery, Ala. SEE PAGE 3.

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N E W S B RI E F S UNDERCOVER POLICE NAB MAN WITH EXPLOSIVES IN CO-OP CITY Undercover police arrested a man for allegedly selling cardboard tubes filled with makeshift explosives in a shopping center parking lot in CoOp City, Bronx.

Sources say Nicholas Lihnier, 37, allegedly sold the undercover officers eight cardboard tubes filled with combustible chemicals out of his white Subaru.

Officials thought the tubes were filled with potassium perchlorate and aluminum with attached pyrotechnic fuses. They said if the tubes were ignited, they could have injured bystanders.

“It’s really scary, knowing that I’m here with my family, and all of a sudden anything could have just happened to us, and we didn’t know nothing about [it],” said an onlooker. “I saw a whole bunch of them because I was parked right next to them, so I thought it was firemen at first.”

The suspect was awaiting charges. His address was not known, but his Subaru has a Connecticut license plate.

The undercover investigation was conducted by the FBI Joint Terrorism Task Force.

PORT AUTHORITY TO GET PERMANENT GROUP TAXI STAND; COMMUTER VAN RIDES CUT The Taxi and Limousine Commission has decided to make the group ride stand at the terminal Port Authority Bus Terminal permanent.

It started as a pilot program last year, and offers shared rides from Port Authority to the area around 59th Street and Sixth Avenue for $3 per passenger.

TLC officials also announced cuts to underused shared van rides which were created after the elimination of several bus routes.

The vans serve the area once covered by the former B23, B71, and B39 lines in Brooklyn and the former Q74 and Q79 lines in Queens.

PAKISTANI MAN WHO AIDED FAILED TIMES SQUARE BOMBER IS DEPORTED A man accused of funding the failed Times Square bomber has been deported.

Aftab Ali Khan, 28, was sent back to his native Pakistan.

He pleaded guilty last month to immigration violations and illegal money transfer charges.

He was never charged with any terrorism-related crimes.

Khan was arrested two weeks after last year’s attempted bombing in Times Square.

Prosecutors say he gave nearly $5,000 to Faisal Shahzad, the Connecticut man later convicted in the bombing attempt.

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Obama visits family roots in Irish village

By JEFF MASON MONEYGALL, Ireland — President Barack Obama sipped a pint of stout and cuddled babies Monday as a tiny Irish village Monday welcomed home “a long lost cousin” with an outpouring of affection.

Hoisting a glass of Guinness at Ollie Hayes pub as fiddle music played, Obama thus began a fournation tour of Europe with a celebration of his ancestral roots.

Roars of delight from thousands of rain-lashed people lining the street greeted the president and his wife, Michelle, as their motorcade pulled to a stop in Moneygall.

The sleepy village of 300 was the birthplace of Obama’s great-greatgreat grandfather, Falmouth Kearney, a shoemaker who left in 1850 to begin a new life in the United States.

This makes Obama, the son of a Kenyan father and Irish-American mother, one of 37 million Americans who claim Irish ancestry, and he was greeted like a long lost son. The powerful images could help his 2012 reelection campaign.

For Ireland, Obama’s arrival, and the visit of Britain’s Queen Elizabeth last week, are a welcome distraction from the global attention paid to the country’s financial woes.

Obama will also visit Britain, France and Poland on a week-long trip in which he will discuss such issues as Afghanistan and Pakistan after the killing of Osama bin Laden, the world economy and the “Arab spring” uprisings.

“Welcome home, Mr. President,” a man yelled as the Obamas reached deep into the throng to shake hands.

Three babies were handed over a security barricade for pictures to be taken with Obama. Women hugged and kissed him under the watchful eye of his security detail. Dozens of American flags festooned the village’s one street.

Heard on the radio about the same time was a popular song, “There’s no one as Irish as Barack Obama.”

“I’m here to see Obama ... our long lost cousin,” said Moneygall resident Rob Lewis, 28.

President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama drink Guinness in Ollie Hayes Pub in Obama’s ancestral home in Moneygall.

Inside the pub, which was lined with framed photos of Obama, the president met Henry Healy, a 24year-old distant cousin. He joked with the bartender to make sure the Guinness had settled properly before he and Michelle took sips.

“I don’t want to mess this up,” he said before saluting the bar with a “Slainte” — Irish for cheers — and a long gulp.

Moneygall is capitalizing on its famous connection, selling everything from Barack Obama fridge magnets to Barack Obama plastic lighters. Tee-shirts with slogans such as “What’s the craic Barack?” and “Is feidir linn” — Irish translation of “Yes we can” — are top-sellers.

Speaking in Dublin after talks with Irish Prime Minister Enda Kenny, Obama paid tribute to close Irish-American ties and expressed satisfaction at economic stabilization in Ireland.

“What I emphasized is that we want to continue to strengthen the bonds of trade and commerce between our two countries, and that we are rooting for Ireland’s success and we’ll do everything we can to help on the path to recovery,” Obama said.

Obama was given a present of a

hurley stick, used in Ireland’s native sport, hurling, and practiced swinging it.

Henry Healy, Obama’s 24-year-old distant cousin from Moneygall, told Ireland’s state broadcaster that villagers had painted the front of their houses to prepare for the visit.

“Nearly every American president makes the visit to Ireland and it’s very special that President Obama is actually really able to make that personal connection by coming back and being able to trace his roots and come and see the ancestral home,” Healy said.

Later in the day Obama is expected to make a public speech about U.S.-Irish ties in Dublin. Tens of thousands of people are likely to brave high winds and driving rain to hear him speak.

Many Irish people were thrilled that Obama was visiting their country, particularly the week after a landmark visit by Queen Elizabeth.

Some Dublin pubs put up banners welcoming the U.S. president.

“We’re a tiny nation of four million people so it’s a lovely gesture him coming over. Given that we’ve had the queen as well it’s been a momentous week. It’s a lift for Ireland,” said Susannah Moore of Dublin city.

New Yorkers encouraged to enforce outdoor smoking ban The city’s outdoor smoking ban is now in effect and smoking is now outlawed at city parks, beaches and pedestrian plazas.

The new law is expected to be enforced mostly by New Yorkers themselves, who are urged to call 311 and ask smokers to stop breaking the law.

Violators will face a $50 fine, but only the city’s 200 Parks Enforcement Patrol officers can hand out those fines. Those officers are also putting the emphasis on educating the general public.

The Parks Department said in a statement, “The new smoking ban is a quality of life rule that is primarily self-enforcing. We’re counting on all New Yorkers to comply just as they do with other quality of life rules. Parks Enforcement Officers, who ensure quality of life issues in

our parks and beaches, do have the ability to issue summonses to those who do not comply with parks rules, and when possible will educate and advise before taking further action when overseeing compliance.”

Some smokers in Times Square’s pedestrian plaza were unaware of the new rule.

“I got to get rid of [my cigarette], because I can’t afford to pay $50,” said a smoker who learned that she couldn’t smoke in the plaza. “I’ve got to work 10 hours a day, so [that’s] 12 hours a day I won’t be smoking.”

“If you’re going to have a smoking ban, at least have a designated area,” said a British tourist who was smoking at the plaza.

Many in Times Square said public health will benefit from the law.

“We’ve got to protect the kids.

We’ve got to protect the children,”

said a supporter. “It’s hard for the people that smoke, but at the same time, I think we’ve got to start somewhere.”

“You inhale second-hand smoke and it’s very dangerous. Especially my son, who’s suffering asthma,” said another.

Yet some said an outdoor ban goes a step too far.

“I’m not a smoker. I don’t like it at all, but they have to have some area that they can smoke,” said an opponent of the law.

City officials that smoking is the leading cause of preventable death, and that the number of smokers in New York City has decreased 27 percent since a major indoor smoking ban took effect in 2003.

Smoking is still allowed on city sidewalks and inside public housing.

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Attorney general announces new campaign against child exploitation

By FRANK MCCOY The recent powerful allegation by 1976 Olympic boxing champion, and later professional pugilist, Sugar Ray Leonard that at age 15 he was victimized sexually by an unnamed “prominent Olympic boxing coach” resonated at an important gathering.

In San Jose, California, U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder spoke to an assemblage of more than 1,000 prosecutors, agents and investigators at the inaugural National Strategy Conference on Combating Child

Exploitation. In his remarks, Holder told the group that only the age of sexual assault victims has gone down and that “was unacceptable.”

During Holder’s tenure, he has made the protection of vulnerable groups including children, the elderly, victims of hate crimes and human trafficking and exploitation the Department of Justice‘s main priority. At the San Jose event, he said, “We are signaling that when it comes to keeping our children from harm, a new era has begun.”

The three-day conference was an outgrowth of the 2008 Protect Our

Children Act. The law requires that the Justice Department develop a strategy to battle child exploitation and devise ways to implement it.

To get ahead of predators and child pornographers who are early adopters of technology, the conference hosted workshops on areas such as digital forensics, investigative techniques, victim advocacy and community outreach.

The event was sponsored by the Justice Department’s Project Safe Childhood Initiative and the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention’s Internet Crimes Against

Children Task Force Program.

Sugar Ray Leonard waited until adulthood to tell his story. If U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder has his way there hopefully will be fewer individuals that experience what Leonard says he did.

Freedom Riders get place in history 50 years later Freedom Riders who were attacked in Alabama’s capital city on May 20, 1961, returned 50 years later to be hailed as heroes and have a museum dedicated at the old bus station where they were confronted by an angry white mob.

U.S. Rep. John Lewis, D-Georgia, said he teared up Friday when he walked through the old Greyhound station where he was beaten and knocked unconscious.

“It says something about the distance we’ve come and the progress we’ve made in this state and nation,” said Lewis, who participated in the rides.

That change was evident in former Alabama Gov. John Patterson.

In 1961, he called the Freedom Riders fools and agitators when they set out to integrate Southern bus stations. But the 89-year-old ex-governor welcomed them Friday and praised them for bringing needed changes.

“It took a lot of nerve and guts to do what they did,” Patterson said after meeting 10 Freedom Riders for the first time.

The Freedom Riders were mostly college students, Blacks and whites, who set out on Greyhound and Trailways buses across the South to test a U.S. Supreme Court decision banning segregation in interstate transportation. That meant no more separate waiting rooms or water fountains designated for white and colored.

After one bus was firebombed near Anniston and the Ku Klux Klan threatened and beat Freedom Riders in Birmingham, U.S. Attorney General Robert Kennedy secured a promise from Patterson to have state troopers protect the group’s bus from Birmingham to Montgomery.

City police were supposed to take up the job once they crossed the city line.

Patterson kept his word, with state trooper cars and a helicopter guarding the bus. Lewis said they were so well-protected that some slept on the bus.

But when they reached Montgomery’s Greyhound station, police were not there. Instead, an angry

crowd fueled by Klansmen beat them, journalists and a Justice Department official, John Seigenthaler, later a well-known newspaper editor, after he came to the riders’ aid.

Freedom Rider Catherine BurksBrooks of Birmingham, now 71, said one scene will stay with her forever, revealing the depth of hatred on their attackers’ faces and in their words.

“To see the expressions on white women’s faces screaming, `Kill the niggers. Kill the niggers.’ That sticks with me,” she said.

Freedom Rider Jim Zwerg, 71, of Tucson, Ariz., was beaten unconscious and ended up in the hospital, unable to complete the ride.

He said when he left Fisk University in Nashville to participate he had no idea of the many dangers they faced or that they would ride into history. He said the Freedom Riders were concerned about big issues, such as maintaining a policy of nonviolence no matter how hostile the foes, and little issues, such as how to pay for their bus tickets and what to do about the final exams they were missing in college.

He said he had some idea what he faced when he went to see a Fisk official about trying to make up his finals. “He said, `If you live through it, you can come back and take finals.’”

Montgomery was also the scene of another moment of high drama in the Freedom Riders’ journey.

The night after the bus station attacks, federal marshals and the National Guard had to be called in when an angry white mob surrounded the First Baptist Church, where riders and 1500 supporters including Martin Luther King Jr. had gathered. King pleaded with thenAttorney General Robert F. Kennedy to intervene, and he ultimately persuaded Patterson to send in the Guard.

The bus station attack prompted a court order against the Klan by U.S. District Judge Frank Johnson of Montgomery and led to new federal rules guaranteeing an end to segregation in all aspects of interstate

travel.

Shortly after the museum opened Friday, an exhibit recognizing Johnson’s landmark rulings in the civil rights era was dedicated in the federal courthouse next door.

The old bus station was slated for demolition in 1993 to make way for an expansion of the courthouse. U.S. District Judge Myron Thompson and Patterson advocated that it be spared because of its place in history. After it sat empty for many years, the Alabama Historical Commission developed the 3,000-square-foot museum with art work, photos and descriptions of what happened and the impact it had.

“The museum may be small, but its significance is monumental,” Thompson said.

The Historical Commission is uncertain what days it will be open because the commission, like most other state agencies, is facing a 45

percent budget cut over two years.

The museum is within walking distance of several of Montgomery’s other civil rights attractions, including the Rosa Parks Library, the Civil Rights Memorial, and Dexter Avenue King Memorial Baptist Church, where Martin Luther King served as pastor when he led the Montgomery Bus Boycott in 1955.

Thompson, Montgomery’s first Black federal judge, praised the way the museum turned out, but he said, “There is no better way to forget something than to commemorate it.”

He said the museum should not be a symbol that everything the Freedom Riders sought has been accomplished. He said it should reinvigorate the Freedom Riders’ principles “of liberty and justice for all.”

He asked the crowd: “Would you today take a bus ride under the circumstances faced by the Freedom Riders back in 1961?”

FBI reports violent crime continued to decline in 2010

By TERRY FRIEDEN WASHINGTON — It’s becoming a familiar story and a welcome one: Violent crime continues to decline.

FBI figures show overall violent crime in the United States during 2010 declined 5.5% compared with the previous year. That’s slightly more than the 5.3% decline the FBI found in its report for 2009.

The report for 2010 released yesterday shows murders declined 4.4%, rapes dropped 4.2%, robberies were down 9.5%, and aggravated assaults were down 3.6%.

Non-violent property crimes also declined, falling 2.8%.

The report, while labeled “preliminary,” is viewed by the FBI and Justice Department as a very strong indicator of what the final figures will be when released this fall.

The FBI compiles crime reports

from more than 13,000 law enforcement agencies across the country, but does not offer explanations or theories for the figures.

Crime declined by lesser amounts in previous years. Violent incidents were down 1.9% in 2008 and 0.7% in 2007.

Criminologists have attributed declines in recent years to an aging population, government anti-crime programs, stiffer sentences, and incarceration policies that include transition and release programs.

Criminologists contacted by CNN say the nation’s recent economic difficulties do not appear to have had much of an impact on the crime rate.

The FBI noted some geographical differences in crime last year.

While murder nationally declined, it was up 8.3% in the Northeast. The South had the largest overall drop in violent crime, down 7.5%.

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In the 1960s, we had the War on Poverty. In 2011, we’re now seeing a War on People Who Live in Poverty.

One of the most callous examples of this occurred on – you guessed it – Fox News.

Charles Payne, in a business segment, acknowledged that anti-poverty programs, food stamps, and unemployment insurance were “good programs”, but then went on to attack recipients of those programs.

“I think the real narrative here, though, is that people aren’t embarrassed by it,” Payne said. “People aren’t ashamed by it. In other words, there was a time when people were embarrassed to be on food stamps; there was a time when people were embarrassed to be on unemployment for six months, let alone demanding to be on for more than two years… No longer is the man

being told to look in the mirror and cast down a judgment on himself; it’s someone else’s fault. So, food stamps, unemployment, all this stuff is something that they probably earned in some indirect way.”

The host of the business show, Stuart Varney, called food stamps, Medicaid, and the Earned Income Tax Credit “a form of welfare, income redistribution” benefiting people with an “entitlement mentality.”

Varney and Payne, in effect, dismissed the findings by the National Bureau of Economic Research that showed that such programs keep 1 in 6 Americans out of poverty, mostly the elderly, the disabled, and the working poor.

According to the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, without those programs, the poverty rate would double.

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In Kentucky, a Republican state representative has introduced a bill that, if passed, would require random drug testing for all adults receiving welfare, food stamps or Medicaid.

Rep. Lonnie Napier, of Lancaster, Ky., introduced Kentucky House Bill 208 that would immediately terminate benefits to recipients who fail a drug test. He told the Huffington Post, “This program is gonna save us a lot of money, because there’s gonna be a lot of people showing up on illegal drugs and they will lose their assistance.”

There is no evidence that people benefiting from antipoverty programs are any more prone to becoming drug addicts than those who do not receive such aid. Professor Harold Pollack, of the University of Chicago, pointed out that Michigan implemented a mandatory drug testing program 10 years ago at three of its welfare offices. Of the 258 welfare applicants tested, only 21 tested positive for illegal drugs. Of the 21 failing, 18 tested positive for marijuana.

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An ounce of treatment is worth a pound of prevention

By PHILL WILSON As we prepare to commemorate 30 years since the first AIDS case was diagnosed in America, we now have the tools that could end the HIV pandemic.

Last week the National Institute of Allergy and infectious diseases (NIAID) at the National Institute of Health (NIH) released the results of a historic study demonstrating the efficacy of treating HIV patients with antiretroviral drugs as a method of HIV prevention.

The study involved 1,763 couples in which one partner was HIV negative (not infected with HIV); the other partner was HIV positive (infected with HIV). All of the HIV positive participants had a T-cell count—a measure of their immune system’s strength—of between 350 and 550. The participants were randomly divided into two groups. One group started on antiretroviral treatment right away, while researchers delayed treatment for the other group until the HIV-positive partner exhibited symptoms of an AIDS-related illness or his or her T-cells fell to 250 (the recommended time to start antiretroviral therapy for most of the world at the time the study began). All participants were given condoms and provided HIVand STI-prevention services.

During the study’s 6-year duration, 28 infections were genetically linked to the HIV-positive partner.

Of those, 27 occurred in the group whose treatment was delayed; only one took place in the group where

treatment had been started right away. This suggests that if a person with HIV takes antiretroviral (ARV) treatment they are 96 percent less likely to pass on the virus than someone who is HIV-negative and not taking preventive ARVs. These findings definitively end the previous debate about whether to invest in prevention or treatment.

There is no longer a “prevention strategy”; there is no longer a “treatment strategy.” From now on there should only be a coordinated “end the AIDS epidemic strategy”; for if the results of this study are confirmed, treatment is prevention!

These results come on the heels of promising clinical trial findings about the efficacy of vaginal microbicides for women and pre-exposure prophylaxis for men who have sex with men.

We have reached a deciding moment: HIV is 100 percent preventable, 100 percent diagnosable and in many cases treatable. Our prevention toolbox is now exploding with options. We now have the tools to end the AIDS epidemic!

But, the question remains whether we have the political will to invest in using these tools strategically, effectively, and compassionately.

It’s time to call on Congress, the Obama Administration, and federal and state agencies to do three things: 1. Invest in expanded access to testing and linkages to care.

2. Increase access to care for vul-

Poor for being poor Continued from page 4 inject race into his campaign.

Speaking to a group of Republicans in his home state of Georgia, he said: “President Obama is the most successful food stamp president in American history. I would like to be the most successful paycheck president in American history.”

When asked about the comment on Meet the Press, Gingrich denied his comment contained racial overtones. He asserted, “…I have never said anything about President Obama which is racist.”

Perhaps not overtly, but certainly covertly. That point was not lost on Adam Serwer of the Washington Post. “I don’t think Gingrich lacks the sophistication to understand how it sounds when he calls for poll tests and refers to the first black president as ‘the food stamp president,’” Serwer wrote. “…He gets to play the victim of a politically correct world where liberals try to stifle all criticism of Obama by characterizing any such criticism as racism. His dog whistle is thus amplified by enraged liberals, while

conservatives get to play up their own form of racial grievance politics.”

Nearly 12 percent of Americans are beneficiaries of the Food Stamp program – 28 percent of Blacks, 15 percent of Latinos, and eight percent of Whites.

Recipients, who are at or below the poverty line, are given a plastic card to purchase food, seeds, and food plants. The card cannot be used to purchase alcohol, tobacco, paper goods or pet food. Despite those restrictions, the users of food stamps are still used as a political football.

“If people buy fresh vegetables or other relatively expensive though nutritious foods, they are considered to be living high on the hog at the taxpayers’ expense,” the New York Times observed in 2009. “But if they buy cheap foods like hot dogs they are criticized for poor health habits.”

Many people who were quick to criticize the Food Stamp program in the past are now embracing it after they have lost their job. More than 36 million people are food stamp

nerable communities including the ADAP waiting lists.

3. Raise HIV science and treatment literacy in vulnerable communities.

People need to know their HIV status, and those who are HIV positive need to be linked to appropriate care immediately.

Federal and state governments must address the ongoing funding crisis facing the AIDS Drug Assistance Program (ADAP), which provides HIV-related prescription drugs to those who are underinsured or without insurance. Over 30 percent of all people diagnosed with AIDS are enrolled in ADAP. Over 60 percent are uninsured, and 55 percent are Black or Hispanic.

Nationally nearly 8000 people remain on ADAP waiting lists.

Fourteen states have reduced the number and types of drugs they will pay for. A number of states have stiffened financial eligibility requirements, capped enrollment or removed some people who were already enrolled. Other states are considering doing the same.

This approach is outrageous. Not only are such cuts immoral and financially shortsighted, as these recent data prove, starving ADAP programs creates a public health threat.

We also need to finally invest in HIV treatment education in vulnerable communities. HIV health disparities are growing in the U.S., and Black people are disproportionately impacted. Black Americans become recipients, with an additional 15 million eligible for enrollment.

“This is the most urgent time for our feeding program in our lifetime, with the exception of the Depression,” Under Secretary of Agriculture Kevin Concannon told the New York Times. “It’s time for us to face up to the fact that in this country of plenty, there are hungry people.”

And, those hungry people – many of them facing unemployment for the first time in their adult

infected at a younger age and at higher rates, are diagnosed at a later point in their disease, and die faster than any other racial ethnic group. Our lack of scientific understanding about how the virus behaves in the body and what options exist to treat it is one of the biggest barriers to efforts to confront HIV in our communities.

Lacking this knowledge too many of us in the Black community become distracted by myths and misinformation. When we don’t understand the science of HIV/AIDS, we are unable to protect ourselves, we put off getting tested, delay starting treatment, fail to adhere to the treatment regimens, and are reluctant to own the disease and/or our responsibility for ending it.

If we don’t raise HIV-related science literacy, capacity and infrastructure in Black communities, Black people will continue to be left behind, and we won’t succeed in ending the disparities, despite the biomedical advances we’re making.

As the saying goes, “An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.” We may have reached a time where we can get both a pound of prevention and a pound of cure/treatment on the same dime—if only we’re willing to spend the dime.

— Phill Wilson, President and CEO of the Black AIDS Institute, is available for interviews and press queries.

PhillWilson@BlackAIDS.org or (213) 353-3610 ext.

105, www.BlackAIDS.org life – should not be stigmatized by candidates for public office seeking to score cheap political points.

— George E. Curry, former editor-in-chief of Emerge magazine and the NNPA News Service, is a keynote speaker, moderator, and media coach. He can be reached through his Web site, www.georgecurry.com You can also follow him atwww.twitter.com/currygeorge.

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Tornado kills at least 89 in Joplin, Missouri

By KEVIN MURPHY JOPLIN, Missouri — At least 89 people have died in a monster tornado that left a path of destruction nearly a mile wide through the heart of Joplin, Missouri, and directly hit the small Midwestern city’s main hospital, local officials said.

U.S. weather officials said the tornado that hit at dinnertime on Sunday may have been the single deadliest in the country since 1953.

Rescue crews from throughout the region worked all night and into yesterday in the town of about 50,000 people, searching for anyone still alive in the rubble.

An unknown number of people were injured and officials said they expected to find more bodies as they dig through collapsed homes and businesses.

The tornado blew the roof off St. John’s hospital where about 180 patients cowered, and some 2,000 homes and other buildings were destroyed. It flattened whole neighborhoods, splintered trees, flipped cars and trucks upside down and into each other.

A number of bodies were found along the city’s “restaurant row,” and a local nursing home took a direct hit, Newton County Coroner Mark Bridges said.

“It is a significant tragedy,” said Missouri Governor Jay Nixon. “We’re working on all cylinders.

We’ve got to get an active and complete search ... to make sure if there is anyone still alive in the rubble that we get

them out.”

The city’s residents were given about 20 minutes notice when 25 warning sirens sounded throughout the southwest Missouri town around 6 p.m. CDT, said Jasper County Emergency Management Director Keith Stammers.

But the governor said many people likely were unable to get to shelter in time. “The bottom line was the storm was so loud you probably couldn’t hear the sirens going off.” He declared a state of emergency and called out the Missouri National Guard to help.

“The loss of life is incredible,” said Joplin Mayor Mike Woolston. “We’re still trying to find people. The outlook is pretty bleak.”

Two refrigerated trucks were brought in to serve as a make-shift morgue at a local university and more were being brought in to handle the additional bodies expected, the coroner said.

Joplin City Councilwoman Melodee Colbert-Kean, who serves as vice mayor, said the town was in a state of “chaos.”

“It is just utter devastation anywhere you look to the south and the east — businesses, apartment complexes, houses, cars, trees, schools, you name it, it is leveled, leveled,” she said.

President Barack Obama called the governor Sunday evening to “extend his condolences” to the families of Joplin.

White House spokesman Nicholas Shapiro said Federal Emergency Management Agency head Craig Fugate was on his way to Joplin to help with recovery.

Poll: More Americans ‘pro-choice’ PRINCETON, N.J. — Forty-nine percent of Americans are for abortion rights and 45 percent are anti-abortion, a Gallup Poll indicates.

The new numbers, released yesterday, aren’t much changed from a year ago, Gallup said.

The poll indicated that 51 percent of Americans believe abortion is “morally wrong” while 39 percent say it is “morally acceptable.”

Gallup said 50 percent of those polled said they think

abortion should be legal under “certain circumstances” while 49 percent hold one of two other stances: 27 percent want abortion legal in all cases while 22 percent want it illegal in all cases.

The poll is based on telephone interviews conducted May 5-8 from a random sample of 1,018 adults, 18 or older, living in all 50 U.S. states and the District of Columbia. The margin of error is 4 percentage points.

The tornado in Joplin was the latest in a string of powerful twisters that has wreaked death and devastation in recent weeks.

Twisters killed more than 300 people and did more than $2 billion in damages to the U.S. South last month, killing more than 200 in Alabama alone.

On Saturday night, a tornado ripped through Reading, Kansas, killing one and damaging 200 homes and businesses. Another person was killed in a tornado in Minneapolis on Sunday.

The path of the tornado through Joplin was estimated at six miles long and about 1/2 mile to 3/4 mile wide.

Sharon Hurtt 60, and Bill Dearing, 59, had no basement to flee to when the tornado descended on their single-story home, so they huddled in a closet between two bedrooms. Within minutes, the roof was gone and powerful winds ripped the door off

the closet.

“We were holding on to keep from blowing away,” said Hurtt.

A mattress blown off the bed somehow became wedged in the doorway.

“It probably saved us,” said Hurtt.

When the couple emerged, the daycare center next door was gone and mangled cars and other debris littered their yard.

Carla Tabares said she, her husband and several families with children squeezed into the kitchen cooler of an Outback Steakhouse restaurant when the twister neared, huddling in the chilly darkness until the howling of the storm passed.

“It was really awful, really scary,” she said. The restaurant was largely unscathed, but other buildings were badly damaged. “I’m just thankful we got out alive, and I really feel sorry for the people who didn’t.”

Joplin-area resident

Denise Bayless, 57, said she and her husband were at church when their adult son called to say the tornado was hitting his house. The couple got in their car to race to his aid.

“We just had to weave in and out of debris. Power lines were down everywhere, and you could smell gas,” she said.

After stopping to assist a woman they heard screaming, trapped inside her home, Bayless said she ran five blocks to her son’s house, where she found every home on the street — some 20 dwellings including his — were gone.

“I just lost all my bearings.

There was nothing that looked familiar,” said Bayless, whose son was unhurt.

Beth Peacock, manager of a concert hall in town said several hundred people converged on the facility seeking shelter and medical treatment after the storm struck.

Supreme Court upholds California prison release order

By JAMES VICINI WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court upheld an order yesterday that California fix longtime problems with inadequate medical and mental health care at its overcrowded prisons, which will force an unprecedented release of some 40,000 inmates.

By a 5-4 vote, the justices rejected California’s appeal and upheld a federal lowercourt order that required the nation’s largest state prison system to sharply cut its inmate population in stages over two years.

The court-mandated population limit is necessary to remedy the violation of prisoners’ constitutional rights and was authorized by a 1995 federal law, Justice Anthony Kennedy wrote for the Supreme Court majority.

California’s 33 adult prisons were designed to hold about 80,000 inmates but currently have about 145,000 and was ordered to release some 40,000 to get down to what court officials feel will be a reasonable level.

It was the largest prisoner release order ever from a fed-

Prisoners at the Richard J. Donovan Correctional Facility in San Diego, California are seen housed in a gymnasium due to overcrowding. eral court. cations of its order, but Improving conditions in emphasized that he found California’s prisons has valid the basic premise become a major legal, politi- behind the order to sharply cal and budget issue in view cut the inmate population. of the worsening budget cri“The medical and mental sis in the nation’s most pop- health care provided by California’s prisons falls below ulous state.

The ruling involved two the standard of decency” class-action lawsuits filed in required by the U.S. Consti1990 and 2001 by inmates tution, Kennedy concluded. who challenged the inadeThe court’s four most conquate medical and mental servative justices dissented. health care conditions in the In his dissent, Justice state’s sprawling prison sys- Antonin Scalia said the Supreme Court had upheld tem.

In the 48-page opinion, “what is perhaps the most Kennedy said the lower radical injunction issued by court must remain open to a court in our nation’s histopossible appropriate modifi- ry.”

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COMMUNITY AFFAIRS

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Elders Procession led by Baba Wali Rahman Ndiaye

Pure Onyx Movement Brooklyn Alumnae Chapterâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Health Chapter members of Committee provided Delta Sigma Theta HIV, diabetes and high Sorority, Inc., gathered blood pressure screenat Bedford Stuyvesant ings. The Social Action Restoration Plaza to cel- Committee registered ebrate their annual May voters while School Week during which America distributed members engage in books with a goal of community service to increasing an appreciaenhance the lives of oth- tion for reading among ers. conduct programs young boys and girls. event. The Plaza was Also, on hand were thronged with shoppers the teen girls of the and walkers enjoying a GEMS (Growing, and rare sunny Saturday Empowering Myself and stopping at the S u c c e s s f u l l y ) tables to learn about the Committee, who demonvarious programs the strated easy effective Deltas run. exercise techniques to The Brooklyn combat childhood obesi-

Letters chairs Phyllis Bynum and Marilyn Reid presented the 2011 Kuumba Award for outstanding contribution in the Arts to Venetta Johnson, and Brooklyn Delta Chapter president Eleanor Rollins

Crowd enjoying the festivities at Restoration

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Kowteff Dancers and Drummers

Restoration Youth Arts Academy Peggy Alston being Honored by Staff and Parents

Mom Andara and Restoration Youth Arts Academy Students.

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Bynum and Marilyn Chapter President Reid presented the Eleanor Rollins and 2011 Kuumba Award May Week Arts & for outstanding contriLetters Chairs Phyllis bution in the arts to

Guest performers from Cuba Ballet Folklorico Cutumba Venetta Johnson, dance elegant precision and teacher for P.S. 399 style.

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DAILY CHALLENGE TUESDAY, MAY 24, 2011

AFRICAN SCENE

In free market, seeds of Africa’s food solution

By DONNA BRYSON Thousands of students demonstrate in Burkina Faso OUAGADOUGOU, Burkina Faso - Thousands of students took to the streets of Burkina Faso’s capital burning tires and chanting in support of teachers who are demanding better conditions.

Ministry spokesman Boubacar Sy said yesterday that angry students also entered the education ministry and turned everything “upside down.”

Firefighters rushed to the building after smoke was seen rising from it.

Some demonstrators seized buses and forced drivers to drive around gathering more students.

Students had demonstrated in the capital and across the country last week for the same cause.

These protests come more than a month after a mutiny had threatened President Blaise Compaore’s 24-year rule. The president dissolved the government and removed the country’s security chiefs but kept himself in power.

Moroccan youth stage more pro-democracy demonstrations RABAT - Moroccan police on Sunday used clubs to disperse young demonstrators calling for political reform in several cities.

Demonstrators who took to the streets in Rabat, Casablanca, Tangiers and Agadir were part of the February 20 Movement that has repeatedly called for King Mohammed VI’s powers to be curbed.

The group, inspired by the pro-democracy protests in the Arab world, takes its name from the date of its first demonstration and has faced tough resistance from the state security forces.

“We dispersed in three groups. The police followed us through the lanes of (the old quarter) of Rabat,” Najib Chawki said.

“At least three people were clubbed by police,” he added.

A protester told AFP that more than a thousand young people demonstrated in a popular section of Casablanca.

“Suddenly, the security forces came out and we were dispersed by force,” Ahmed Mediany said.

Sunday marked the fourth time leaders of the February 20 Movement called for peaceful demonstrations, which in March prompted the king to announce plans for constitutional reform.

An official commission is expected to present proposals for reform next month. The king has pledged to create a clearer separation of powers and to reenforce the prime minister’s authority.

Mandela resting in his South African home village JOHANNESBURG - South Africa says former President Nelson Mandela is resting in his home village on his first trip since being briefly hospitalized earlier this year.

In a statement yesterday, President Jacob Zuma says, “We are pleased that he is now well enough to travel.” Zuma says Mandela left Johannesburg Sunday for Qunu, in southern South Africa, accompanied by family and by medical and security personnel.

CATANDICA, Mozambique Peter Waziweyi is bouncing around the lush countryside of Mozambique in his 30-year-old truck, visiting his customers’ maize fields and relishing the sight of their rich, ripening crops.

In an East African country that tried and failed to run its economy on Marxist lines, it is now the turn of small-time businessmen like Waziweyi to step forward. Waziweyi is a seed salesman and part of a chain linking scientists and farmers that experts hope will help Mozambique and other African countries solve their chronic food crises.

Waziweyi has gone from aid worker to entrepreneur, producing high-yield, drought-resistant hybrid seeds and selling them through the company he and his wife founded last year, called “Nzara Yapera” - “an end to hunger.”

“That’s what we call positive results with immediate impact,” he says after meeting a farmer who has seen what hybrid maize seeds can do and wants to buy them.

Better seeds fueled the “green revolution” of higher, more reliable crop yields that transformed farming in many parts of the world.

But Africa has come late to the green revolution, and Mozambique later than most.

The former Portuguese colony is almost a laboratory specimen of the continent’s post-independence woes: 17 years of civil war, spells of flood and drought, oneparty rule tainted by corruption and antidemocratic tendencies.

Like several African countries last year, it suffered riots over high food prices.

Gradually, the government is relinquishing control of the

In this March 8, 2011 photo, Tomas Esmael greets a villager outside his shop in Nhampaza, Mozambique, where seeds and fertilizer vie for space with cookies, soap, candles and cooking oil. The Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa gave $1.5 million to train small merchants like Esmael to run better businesses, develop relationships with hybrid seed suppliers and learn tips to pass on to farmers. economy. A state-owned seed giant was broken up recently into an array of private producers, and Antonio Limbau, Mozambique’s deputy agriculture minister, said he wants the profit motive to spread.

Across Africa, experts say, only 20 percent of farmers are using state-of-the art seeds. In Mozambique, Limbau said, it is just 5 percent.

While genetically modified seeds raise objections here just as they do in some Western societies, hybrid seeds and other modern techniques go down well in Africa. Success stories cited by researchers include cocoa in Ghana, cotton and coffee in Uganda, flowers in East Africa and beans in Rwanda.

But the World Watch Institute, a Washington, D.C. think tank, cautions that better seeds are not enough: Farmers need ways to keep their soil nourished, reliable customers and roads to bring their produce to market.

While free-market approaches may have some effect in Mozambique and elsewhere, however, the drive for better seeds is led by charities and other nonprofit organizations, because Africa is too poor to be of interest to big international seed companies, says Joe DeVries, a Kenya-based seed expert. He works for the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa, or AGRA, set up in 2006 by The Rockefeller Foundation and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

AGRA is working to get governments to leave seed distribution to the private sector. In Mozambique, it gave $1.5 million to train small merchants to run better businesses, develop links with suppliers and learn tips to pass on to farmers. The three-year project is run for AGRA by the International Fertilizer Development Center, based in Muscle Shoals, Alabama, and financed by the U.S. and other governments.

UN chief visits Nigeria in wake of landmark vote ABUJA - UN chief Ban Kimoon arrived in Nigeria on Sunday for a two-day visit weeks after Africa’s most populous nation held elections viewed as the fairest in nearly two decades despite deadly rioting.

Ban arrived in Nigeria, his first trip here since taking office in 2007, from Ivory Coast where he attended the inauguration of President Alassane Ouattara Saturday. He will today travel on

to Addis Ababa.

The UN Secretary General decried an “unacceptable” rate of child and maternal mortality due to poor health systems globally.

“Unfortunately around the world, health systems are not working for women and children.

A thousand women die every day from complications, pregnancy and child birth,” he said on a visit to a UN-funded hospital in the capital Abuja.

“The crisis of complications can and should be dealt with in a hospital like this one. Twenty thousand children under five die everyday. This is a totally unacceptable situation especially because most of these deaths can be easily prevented.”

Ban is scheduled to visit the Dutse Makaranta public health care facilities on the outskirts of Abuja yesterday, also funded by the UN.

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Sudan’s Abyei ablaze after capture by north: UN

By PETER MARTELL JUBA, Sudan Sudan’s flashpoint town of Abyei was ablaze yesterday with gunmen looting properties after its capture by northern troops, the United Nations said after demanding Khartoum pull out its forces.

The UN Mission in Sudan, or UNMIS, warned Khartoum it was responsible for law and order amid reports thousands of civilians were fleeing southwards after northern Sudan Armed Forces troops and tanks overran the border town on Saturday.

“UNMIS strongly condemns the burning and looting currently being perpetrated by armed elements in Abyei town,” it said in a statement.

“The Sudan Armed Forces are responsible for maintaining law and order in the areas they control,” it added.

“UNMIS calls upon the government of Sudan to urgently ensure that the Sudan

Some 200 Sudanese in the southern capital Juba demonstrate against the northern military occupation of the contested Abyei region.

Armed Forces fulfill Council delegation headtheir responsibility and ed yesterday to Juba for intervene to stop these talks with southern President Salva Kiir, criminal acts.”

Soon-to-be independ- after saying they were ent south Sudan also “very, very concerned claims Abyei district, about the rapidly deteriwhich has a special sta- orating situation in tus under a 2005 peace Abyei” and calling on deal that ended 22 years Khartoum to pull out its of civil war, and has forces.

“The members of the called the occupation Security Council call “illegal”.

Abyei?s seizure, com- upon the government of ing in the run-up to Sudan to halt its miliinternational recogni- tary operation and to tion of southern inde- withdraw immediately pendence in July, has from Abyei town and its been condemned by the environs,” the French world powers as a threat ambassador to the to peace between north United Nations, Gerard and south Sudan.

Araud, told a joint news A UN Security conference in Khartoum

with his Russian and US counterparts on Sunday.

Senior US Senator John Kerry warned of the dangers of a return to conflict and told Khartoum it risked torpedoing a promised rapprochement with Washington.

“At this very moment, Sudan stands ominously close to the precipice of war,” said Kerry, who chairs the influential Foreign Relations Committee.

Angry Sudanese rallied in the southern capital, meanwhile, demanding northern forces end their “invasion” of Abyei.

“The north must leave, this cannot be allowed,” said demonstrator Choul Deng, who comes originally from the region on the northsouth border.

“The north are acting like they did during the days of the civil war, bombing and attacking our people.”

Waving banners and shouting slogans, more than 100 demonstrators marched through the streets of Juba, starting at the grave of the late rebel leader John

Garang, who led the south during the civil war with the north.

“People are suffering,” said Charles Deng, a student. “Their homes are being destroyed by the tanks of the north.”

Abyei was granted a special status under the 2005 Comprehensive Peace Agreement that ended the 22-year civil war, and requires both sides to keep their troops out until a vote to determine its future.

The fighting has soured the mood in the southern capital Juba.

“We fear that this can lead to something bigger, back to war,” said businesswoman Mary Okech.

However, southern officials have vowed it will not impact the south’s independence, due in less than two months.

“The independence day for the Republic of South Sudan will go ahead on the 9 July, 2011 — you cannot postpone the birth of a baby,” southern information minister Barnaba Marial Benjamin told reporters on Sunday.

“We assure our citi-

zens to be calm, and see what they can do in raising relief so that they can help their brothers and sisters in Abyei.”

Activists have warned of the severity of the situation.

“We always talk about proverbial forks in the road,” said John Prendergast, co-founder of the US-based Enough Project campaign group.

“This is a real one between war and peace between the north and south,” he told AFP. Prendergast, whose satellite project — backed by Hollywood star George Clooney — monitored a troop buildup in the Abyei area in the weeks before the fighting, warned any deal to resolve the conflict must put pressure on leaders rather than offer incentives.

“The longer the U.S. and UN Security Council continue to focus solely on incentives, and not deploy any consequences for violating agreements and attacking civilian targets, the greater the chances that this will escalate to fullscale national war,” he warned.

US calls for Kadhafi to leave Libya

By KARIM TALBI BENGHAZI, Libya - The United States yesterday called on Moamer Kadhafi to leave Libya as Washington’s most senior envoy to date held talks in the rebel capital in another boost to forces fighting to oust the veteran leader.

Washington’s call came a day after the European Union opened an office in the rebel bastion of Benghazi to show its “long term” support to the rebels who took their diplomatic offensive to NATO’s sole Muslim member Turkey.

“The United States

remains committed to protecting Libyan civilians and believes that Kadhafi must leave power and Libya,” said a statement released by the US representative’s office to the rebels’ National Transitional Council.

“The Libyan people, like people everywhere, have the right to determine their own future and the United States will continue to support them and to work with the NTC in this endeavour,” it said.

The statement came as the US Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs, Jeffery Feltman, was in Benghazi for talks with the rebel leadership in a three-day visit.

“Feltman’s visit is another signal of the US’s support for the NTC, a legitimate and credible interlocutor for the Libyan people,” said

the statement.

Britain, France, Gambia, Italy and Qatar have already recognised the rebel council as their sole interlocutor in Libya.

Washington’s latest move came a day after the European Union’s foreign policy chief, Catherine Ashton, opened an EU office in Benghazi.

The European bloc’s foreign ministers were meeting in Brussels yesterday to look at ways forward in Libya as divisions emerge over an exit strategy.

The ministers were expected to discuss how to get the rebels and Kadhafi loyalists to agree to a ceasefire that would include a pullback by regime forces in order to clear the way for a political dialogue.

“Member states currently are less united in

the belief that Kadhafi must go before a ceasefire or political talks can begin,” one diplomat said. “But the rebel leadership will not budge on this point.”

The EU also stepped up pressure against Kadhafi directly, widening sanctions on his regime.

An EU assets freeze and travel ban against Kadhafi loyalists and firms suspected of propping up the regime was extended to a member of the Libyan leader’s inner circle and a Libyan airline, an EU diplomat said, without immediately disclosing details of those targeted.

In Ankara, the head of the rebel council, Mustafa Abdul Jalil, met Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan yesterday to discuss the situation in Libya, a diplomat said.

Libyan women hold pictures of Libyan leader Moamer Kadhafi in Tripoli on Sunday as they rally outside the Rixos Hotel where foreign journalists are based.

“The parties should proceed to an exchange of views on the Libyan crisis and search for ways to deepen their relations,” the Turkish diplomat told AFP on condition of anonymity.

“Mr. Abdul Jalil will also discuss ways to improve coordination and cooperation with Turkey for humanitarian aid to his country,” the diplomat added.

Jalil was also to meet President Abdullah Gul and Foreign Minister

Ahmet Davutoglu during his two-day visit, the Turkish foreign ministry said.

The meetings mark the highest-level contact so far between Turkey and the rebels.

Ankara has toughened its tone in recent weeks after initially criticising the US-led air strikes on Libya launched on March 19 and insisting on a limited combat role for NATO once the alliance took over command.

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CARIBBEAN NEWS DAILY CHALLENGE TUESDAY, MAY 24, 2011

Rihanna’s Billboard Top Female Artist

Rihanna has won the family in Barbados, includBillboard Female Artist ing her mother, father and her brothers. of the Year.

She beat out favourites like Katy Perry, Kesha Taylor Swift and Lady Gaga.

When Rihanna collected her award she thanked her

Earlier, Rihanna won the Billboard’s Top Radio Artist award. When she picked up that award, she said “Barbados we got another one”.

No fuel shortage in Trinidad and Tobago, says minister PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad — Energy and Energy Affairs Minister, Carolyn Seepersad-Bachan, has assured that there is no fuel shortage in Trinidad and Tobago.

In a release issued Saturday evening, the minister assured citizens that the National Petroleum Marketing Company (NP) has continued its distribution, having recorded 80 loads leaving the company’s Sea Lots compound by 2:30 p.m. and with the assurance of a total of over 140 loads by midnight.

“Let me assure citizens of Trinidad and Tobago that there is no shortage of fuel being supplied to the nation’s service stations. Up to 2:30 p.m. today, over 80 loads of fuel left the NP compound at Sea Lots. These loads are being distributed nationally, she said.”

The Energy Minister added that NP activated its contingency plan to ensure full operations, saying, “NP’s contingency plan has been fully activated and by midnight tonight, the company would have distributed over 140 loads of fuel. In addition, UNIPET trucks have been and will continue to fill from the Bond at Pointe-a-Pierre.”

CARICOM heads meet at retreat in Guyana

President Bharrat Jagdeo and other CARICOM Heads of State take a group photo during the retreat.

The retreat is being held G E O R G E T O W N , evaluate and brainGuyana — Guyana’s storm the way forward under the theme “Re-energising CARICOM”, the objecPresident Bharrat for the community.

Prime Minister Golding tive of which is to focus Jagdeo and Prime seemed awed by the scenery exclusively on giving impeMinister of Jamaica the area that overlooks tus to the decisions that are Bruce Golding were of the Mazaruni River and, the needed for the region’s among the first islands beyond. advancement.

Questioned about the Caribbean Community Prime Ministers of (CARICOM) Heads of Dominica, Grenada, St. appointment of a secretary State to arrive for a two- Vincent and the Grenadines general to the Community days before the retreat, day retreat in Guyana and Antigua and Barbuda two Jagdeo said the topic may be subsequently arrived on the that is hoped to be a accompanied by CARI- up for discussion but will very productive scene COM Secretary General (act- not be the primary focus. engagement, as leaders ing) Lolita Applewaithe.

Several names have been proposed for the post.

Banana stakeholders meet in St. Vincent KINGSTOWN, St. Vincent — Stakeholders in the St. Vincent and the Grenadines banana industry met recently to chart a way forward and address challenges faced in the troubled industry. A number of banana farms suffered greatly following the passage of hurricane Tomas October 2010.

Chief Agriculture Officer Reuben Robertson said measures were put in place to assist farmers with replanting and to recommence exporting by June 2011. Robertson said now the time was close, there were some issues to be worked out.

Minister of Agriculture, Montgomery Daniel said banana was still a very important crop to the agriculture sector and it still contributes greatly to the Gross Domestic Product (GDP).

He said in the “glory days of banana” rural communities boomed. He then noted that last year bananas contributed EC$25 million dollars to the economy of the country.

He said after been deeply affected by the passage of Hurricane Tomas, local farmers responded to the challenges and are now prepared to harvest the crop, however, they were concerned about the status of an available market.

Caribbean students have opportunity to become ‘face’ of CXC BRIDGETOWN, Barbados — Students from across the Caribbean now have the opportunity to become the ‘face’ of the Caribbean Examinations Council (CXC).

CXC is offering Caribbean students the opportunity to post their photographs of various school and extra-curricular activities on its Facebook page. One photograph will be selected periodically and used as CXC’s Facebook profile image for that period.

The Council offers examinations in 19 Caribbean territories and the move is intended to showcase the rich cultural, religious and ethnic diversity of the student population served by CXC. Simone Pasmore, CXC’s webmaster explained that by having the students interacting with the social networking portal, CXC hopes to also keep them engaged in the examination process.

“We would receive their feedback and input, we would also be able to share examination tips - dos and don’ts, updated information and guide them to the various subject reports,” Pasmore said.

In the past, students had no direct interaction with CXC; all interactions were through their schools and ministries of education, but Pasmore noted that, with the social networking portals, this has caused a significant shift in how they interact with CXC.

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Kim Jong-il tours east China

By ROYSTON CHAN YA N G Z H O U , North China Korea’s secretive leader Kim Jong-il toured east China yesterday, continuing a visit that suggests he is taking fresh interest in the success of reforms in Asia’s biggest economy and his isolated country’s only major benefactor.

China’s leaders have repeatedly prodded Kim to open up North Korea’s impoverished and state-dominated economy, something analysts say he has been reluctant to do for fear it could undermine his family dynasty’s hold on power.

Premier Wen Jiabao told South Korean President Lee Myungbak in Tokyo that Kim was traveling through China to study “economic development,” Yonhap News quoted a presidential aide as saying.

Wen said Kim’s trip would “offer the oppor-

tunity to understand China’s development and utilize it for North Korea’s development,” according to Yonhap.

Cai Jian, a professor of Korean studies at Fudan University in Shanghai, said that though Chinese leaders hope Kim will learn from and emulate China’s economic reforms, the chances of him copying China’s model were scant.

“It’s not that they’re unwilling to learn, but they do face many difficulties. He would worry that if he carried out Chinese-style reform and opening up, then his regime and rule would be shaken — that would be his foremost worry,” Cai said.

Kim’s latest journey began Friday and has so far taken him through the China’s northeast to Yangzhou, a small, scenic city in the eastern province of Jiangsu, where his father, Kim Il-sung, met the then-president of China, Jiang Zemin, in 1991.

Jiangsu province has prospered thanks to an export-led industrial boom created by the landmark economic

reforms China began some three decades ago.

The English-language edition of the Global Times, a Beijing cited newspaper, unnamed sources as saying Kim was received at the local train station by officials Yangzhou when he arrived Sunday.

His visit was “an apparent move to seek economic cooperation between Beijing and Pyongyang,” the report said.

Security outside the state guest house in Yangzhou, where Kim and his entourage could be staying, was tight, with police cars sitting in front its main entrance.

Police also closed off the Slender West Lake, Yangzhou’s main tourist attraction, in the morning. It was unclear why.

While neither Beijing nor Pyongyang has officially confirmed Kim’s visit, the unscheduled movements and tight security of a distinctive North Korean train have echoed the past trips by 69-year-old Kim, who travels only by train

and visited twice last year to woo his powerful neighbor.

Kim’s latest visit overlapped with a weekend summit that together brought China, Japan and South K o r e a .

[ID:nL3E7GM015] Kim may have timed his visit to make a point to the region that his country still enjoys Beijing’s support.

Washington, Tokyo and Seoul have long urged China to apply more pressure on North Korea to give up its nuclear weapons ambitions and defuse tensions with its neighbors.

China, however, also sees North Korea as a strategic bulwark against the United States and its regional allies, and Kim’s string of visits since last year have underscored that bond.

In recent years, Beijing has sought to shore up ties with the North with more aid and trade and visits there by leaders.

Economic links to China have become increasingly important for North Korea’s survival, because of inter-

Spanish Socialists hammered in local elections

By JUDY MACINNES & FIONA ORTIZ MADRID - Spain’s ability to meet deficit reduction targets was thrown into doubt yesterday after voters angry over austerity and the EU’s highest unemployment rate gave the ruling Socialists a fierce drubbing in local elections.

A week of protests by youth fed up with the stagnant economy and a 21.3 percent jobless rate preceded the Sunday elections, which left the Socialists without a single important mayoralty and only a handful of Spain’s 17 regional legislatures.

Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero conceded the worse-than-anticipated defeat Sunday night but said he planned to stay on to the end of his term in March next year.

“No one can call elections to lose them. If they call one now

they will be crushed. The key right now is the parliament,” said Antonio Barroso, analyst with Euroasiagroup consulting firm. Small parties like the Basque Nationalist (PNV) have sided with the Socialists so far on the budget and other legislation.

Spaniards have suffered three years of economic trouble and their patience wore thin in the run-up to the elections when tens of thousands of mostly young protesters took to the streets and formed protest camps in city squares.

The discontent was reflected clearly in the polls. The centerright opposition Popular Party (PP) scored its best result in municipal elections since Spain returned to democracy in 1978 after decades of Franco dictatorship.

But PP leader Mariano Rajoy — now seen bound for victory in the next general elections — did not call for early elections at a victory rally Sunday.

His party does not have

enough seats in parliament to win a vote of no-confidence unless the PNV switched allegiances, which is unlikely although not unprecedented.

EURO ZONE CRISIS Sunday’s local voting took place against the backdrop of the euro zone debt crisis, which forced Zapatero to make steep spending cuts to fend off concerns Spain would follow Greece, Ireland and Portugal into budget problems and a bailout.

Spanish Central Bank Governor Miguel Angel Fernandez Ordonez warned yesterday that the government must redouble efforts to hit fiscal deficit targets because it cannot sustain its current debt financing costs for long.

Yesterday the premium investors demand for buying Spanish rather than German bonds rose to its highest since January amid concern over Greece’s efforts to deal with its debt crisis without restructuring.

North Korean leader Kim Jong-il (C) leaves a hotel in Mudanjiang in northeastern China, in this picture taken by Kyodo national sanctions and deteriorating ties with South Korea. In 2010, trade between China and North Korea was

worth $3.5 billion, up 29.6 percent from 2009, according to Chinese customs statistics.

Gunbattle in Yemen as transition deal collapses

By MOHAMED SUDAM & MOHAMMED GHOBARI SANAA - Yemeni loyalist forces fought a gunbattle yesterday with opponents of entrenched President Ali Abdullah Saleh one day after he backed out of a Gulf-brokered accord for him to step down.

The clashes in Sanaa cast renewed doubt on prospects for a political solution to a threemonth crisis in which youth-led demonstrators, inspired by protests that swept aside the leaders of Egypt and Tunisia, are demanding an end to Saleh’s nearly 33-year rule.

“There is heavy gunfire and violent clashing between government forces and Sheikh (Sadiq) al-Ahmar’s guards,” a witness said, referring to a powerful tribal leader who has sided with protesters. Ten people were reported wounded, one of them a journalist with the state news agency Saba.

The shooting, which shattered windows at Saba’s offices, followed the collapse of a transition deal that Saleh was to have signed on Sunday and would have given him immunity from prosecution, ensuring a dignified exit.

The government accused Ahmar’s men of firing on a school and the Saba building. Ahmar’s office said government forces opened fire when his guards prevented them from entering a school where Ahmar said loyalists were stockpiling weapons.

South of the capital, loyalist gunmen opened fire on the headquarters of the Islamist party Islah, the biggest member of Yemen’s opposition coalition, in the city of Ibb. Saleh has backed out of previous deals aimed at easing him out of power, but Sunday’s turnabout appeared to be among the most forceful, coming after loyalist gunmen trapped Western and Arab diplomats in the United Arab Emirates embassy for hours.

Inside were the head of the Gulf Cooperation Council, Abdullatif al-Zayani, who has spearheaded mediation efforts, and the U.S. and several European ambassadors. The mediators were effectively blocked from heading to the presidential palace where the now failed deal was to be signed.

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For the conclusions of these stories check out the May 19th - May 25th, 2011 issue of The New American, which hits newsstands every Thursday Brandy, Tatyana Ali, Bledsoe, Tempestt Danielle Fishel and more are going naked for the Style network’s Skin Cancer PSA titled “Naked.” In the 30-second spot, each woman poses nude on a rooftop proclaiming that they participated in everyday activities such as driving, shopping and walking the dog... naked. Though each girl appears in her birthday suit, they are actually likening nudity to a lack of sunscreen, not clothes.

“Don’t be one of 20 people who will die today from skin cancer,” the ad proclaims. “If you leave the house without sunscreen, you might as well be naked.”

M-Bone -- one the of the members of the rap group Cali Swag District -- died last night ...

TMZ has confirmed.

Earlier this morning, the group’s leader, Smoove -- posted a Tweet saying, “Ma life changed drastically in the. Blink of an eye rip mbone.” So far, it’s unclear how M-Bone died. Cali Swag District shot to stardom with their hit, “Teach Me How to Dougie.”

Da Brat and Jermaine Dupri ready a mixtape to release later this month, after Brat’s tumultuous few years in prison. After a few years in lockdown, Da Brat is back in the studio working with her mentor and longtime partner in music, Jermaine Dupri. The So So Def camp released a video blog this week, one that features the two working together.

In it, there is an announcement of a Brat mixtape that will be released later this month. The vlog features Dupri working on a beat for a few minutes, a silent, blackand-white look at the beatsmith in the studio.

There is also footage of Da Brat writing on a

notepad, scribbling her thoughts down. The video captures a brief conversation between the two where Dupri asks Brat to announce her mixtape’s release date. “Memorial Day weekend,” she says, before repping for the label. “So So Def in the building.” Dupri also let fans know of his work with Brat by sending a message out to the world via Twitter.

Is Laila Ali going to be a singer? We don’t know where this came from, but we’re hearing that Muhammad Ali’s daughter and super boxer is about to embark on a career as a singer. We wonder what sort of singer she will be should this be true? We think she should try for the soul market or something.

Kanye West debuted his new girlfriend at the Cannes Film Festival in France by publicly kissing the teenager on a hotel balcony. The Stronger hitmaker last year ended his high-profile relationship with model Amber Rose, who has since moved on with rising hip-hop star Wiz Khalifa. West was rumoured to be dating 18-year-old underwear model Kate Upton after they were spotted leaving a party together in Los Angeles last month. Now the rapper, 33, has seemingly made his new relationship public after pulling Upton in close for a passionate kiss on his hotel balcony in full view of passers-by and photographers.

Jennifer Lopez was heartbroken when her beloved fashion line failed, insisting it remains one of her biggest career disappointments. The pop star-turned “American Idol” judge was forced to retire her Sweetface brand in 2009 after

neglecting to connect with bargain hunting shoppers, and she now admits the failed business venture was devastating. She tells the New York Times, “That was sad for me. I just felt like I never got a fair chance to do it right. And on top of it, I felt like I was trapped in a situation I couldn’t get out of, and my name was stamped on things that I didn’t believe in... (I) didn’t understand the business well enough.” But the hitmaker is giving it another chance she’s teaming up with husband Marc Anthony to launch a lifestyle brand with Kohl’s department stores - and she’s determined to get it right this time.

Tommy Hilfiger, who worked with Lopez on the new partnership, says, “The difference this time around is Jennifer is fully engaged with a company that is professionally staffed to really develop anything she wants from towels to knee-high suede boots.”

Love is in the air and we have the “Jumping The Broom” film to credit. T.D. Jakes has tapped several R&B stars for the forthcoming second installment of his Sacred Love Songs series compilation album. Inspired by his newly produced film “Jumping The Broom,” Sacred Love Songs 2 will be instores May 31 and features romantic love songs that pair the best talent in gospel and R&B/Pop music-performing classic hits as well as new recordings.

‘Sacred Love Songs 2’ is lead by the Joe featured track “Closer.” The set also features songs from T.D. Jakes, Ledisi, Karen Clark Sheard and Kirk Whalum; El DeBarge, Bishop Paul Morton, Fred Hammond, Micah Stampley, Crystal Aikin and more.

Heather Victoria representing new Hip Hop Soul Many artists are lost before they start because they do not know what direction to take but Heather Victoria does not have that problem.

She plans on merging on the grit of Hip Hop production and the soul of R&B that was reminiscent in the early 90’s.

Heather Victoria signed with music producer 9th Wonder’s IWW Music Group; now they are working on capturing her Hip Hop Soul vision.

Working With Professor and Label Boss... “It is really helpful working with somebody who is not just a beat maker.

With 9th [Wonder] being the boss man and with him being somebody who is really educated, who will pop in, he is not just someone who thinks he knows what he is talking about all the like storytelling is definitely a part time. It is really helpful. He is of Hip Hop and when you tell stories always good with guidance. If there in your music you tend to grab the is anything I don’t understand he is listener a little bit more and get a litthere to lay it out and help me out a tle bit more personal with it. That is little bit.” where I am going for with my A Different Path... “Particularly, I music; to really reach out to the lisfeel that though people aren’t quite tener. I want people to really be able understanding the sound I am pro- to relate to what I am saying, I don’t ducing, it is capturing people want them to scan through the song because it is something that they are and say “she has a nice little voice.” not use to hearing. I am trying to I want them to say “Wow, she is realcreate my own lane. I am trying to ly talking about something.” set myself apart from what is Rapping Was Secondary... “I tried already out there.” to rap and it didn’t work out. I can Mary J. Blige A Role Model... “The write but I don’t think I have the whole album ‘What’s The 411?’ and voice for it. It’s just not me. I don’t “You Remind Me” all those songs want to be that. I’m scared I’ll do it that is what made me become a die and people like it and there going to hard Mary J. fan. Even when I was want more.” young, ever since then I kind of Top 5 Hip Hop MCs Right Now... latched to her and her sound.”

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Beyonce’s ‘Till The End Of Time’ hits the Internet

By JAMES DINH Days after the premiere of the postapocalyptic dance clip fans are now being treated to the recently leaked tune “Till the End of Time.” Rumored to be the next single off Beyoncé’s new album, 4, which hits stores on June 28, the uptempo track has the pop powerhouse professing her everlasting love.

“Till the End of Time” begins with spitfire drums as Bey’s muffled lyric line loops over and over again until a dramatic explosion. “Come take my hand/ I won’t let you go/ I’ll be your friend/ I will love you so deeply/ I will be the one to kiss you at night/ I

will love you till the end of time,” she sings atop an airy buildup.

Mrs. Carter continues her appeal, convincing her lover that she is the one who’ll be there at the end of every night and, as the song goes, “till the end of time.” The song, reminiscent of an older Destiny’s Child cut, has Beyoncé keeping the energy level high with marching band-esque drums.

Bey also belts over the bridge’s horn sequence.

No confirmation yet from Beyoncé’s camp as to whether the track will appear on the singer’s new LP. The recipient of Billboard’s Millennium Award recently revealed that she recorded “more than 60 songs” for the new project,

which includes the LP’s lead single, “Run the World (Girls).”

MTV News caught up with Bey’s longtime choreographer, Frank Gatson Jr., who gave us the scoop on her team’s inspiration for the Francis Lawrence-directed video for “Run the World.”

“We prepared a lot for it.

We had seen something on YouTube; we had seen these three guys from Africa, this Mozambique African dance troupe. ... We were like, ‘Wow, this is an amazing movement,’ “ he said. “And that movement has always been in the back of our heads for the last year. From there, we talked about a lot of concepts.”

Mike Tyson’s tattoo artist sues Warner Bros. over ‘Hangover II’ S. Victor Whitmill, the tattooist who gave boxer Mike Tyson his Maori-inspired facial tattoo, went through with his threat to file a lawsuit against Warner Bros. over a character who sports the same ink in “The Hangover Part II.” Whitmill is claiming copyright infringement and said in the lawsuit, as quoted by the New York Times, that he’s “never been asked for permission for, and has never consented to, the use, reproduction or creation of a derivative work based on his original tattoo.”

On Friday, Warner Bros. responded in court, saying that any delay in the film’s release would represent an enormous financial burden, and that Whitmill’s claim has no legal precedent. The studio

is also relying on the ‘”fair use” defense, claiming that their treatment of the famous tattoo is a form of parody.

But Whitmill’s case might be bolstered by a statement from Tyson, who appears in both “Hangover” films, agreeing that “all artwork, sketches and drawings related to

my tattoo and any photographs of my tattoo are property” of Whitmill.

Tyson, it turns out, was initially unaware of the film’s tattoo gag, Helms told EW at last week’s Hollywood premiere: “His reaction to the tattoo is in the movie because they did not prep him or me

beforehand. As his arrival on set was imminent, it became clear that no one had told him about the tattoo bit, and I was actually worried he’d be mad at me and the switch would flip, But he was so cool about it. He is misunderstood. He’s like the nicest man. He couldn’t be cooler so it was a little anti-climactic.”

Mike Tyson: ‘Hangover’ Sequel’s Lowest Paid Star?

The Smoking Gun has uncovered the amount Mike Tyson was paid for his role in the sequel to the blockbuster film The Hangover — and it’s less than you would think.

Tyson received $200,000 both for his small role as well as for recording a cover version of the song “One Night in Bangkok” (although he is entitled to royalties from the song, included on the movie’s

soundtrack album). For his cameo in the first film, Tyson was paid $100,000.

To put in context how much he was paid, stars Bradley Cooper, Zack Galiafinakis, and Ed Helms were paid $5,000,000 for the sequel, according to Deadline, a staggering jump from the reported $300,000 they made for the first Hangover film.

So Tyson’s increase in salary is comparably extremely paltry. As the Smoking Gun notes, “the former heavyweight champ is surely the lowest paid star featured in the sequel.” This strikes us a pretty brave move by Warner Bros. We can’t imagine Tyson is happy about this, and he’s not someone whose bad side we’d want to be on.

— Ujala Sehgal

Clinton’s Mothership preps for permanent landing at Smithsonian The Mothership — the iconic stage prop made famous by legendary funk collective ParliamentFunkadelic — has been acquired by the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture where it will help anchor a permanent music exhibition when the museum opens its doors in 2015.

“I’m about to cry!” Parliament-Funkadelic frontman Clinton tells the AP from his home in Tallahassee on Wednesday. “They’re taking the Mothership! They’re shipping it out! . . . But I’m

glad it’s going to have a nice home there.”

It isn’t the original Mothership. The Smithsonianbound 1,200-pound aluminum spacecraft was built in the mid-’90s — an indistinguishable replica, Clinton says, of the smoke-spewing stage prop he first introduced to funk fans in 1976.

But by 1982, ParliamentFunkadelic’s towering debts forced the group’s Washington-based management company to trash the Mothership in a Prince George’s County scrap yard. And what happened next has become the stuff of myth. Was it stolen?

Did it burn in a fire? Is it still floating around somewhere in the cosmos?

An April 2010 Washington Post story about the Mothership’s disappearance

sent the Smithsonian searching for it. Kevin Strait, project historian for the museum, didn’t get very far. “All signs pointed to the fact that we weren’t going to find the original,” Strait said. “So that’s when we essentially put our attentions toward the new one.”

Strait contacted Clinton’s management, and the bandleader eventually decided to donate the piece. The ship was reportedly picked up from Clinton’s Tallahassee recording studio and is said to have arrived at Smithsonian storage facility in suburban Maryland last week.

COMMUNITY AFFAIRS DAILY CHALLENGE TUESDAY, MAY 24, 2011

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Comrie, Council Celebrate Haitian Flag Day

PHO TO CRE DIT : B re n t De n o on The New York City Council hosted its annual Haitian Flag Day celebration at Sacred Heart of Jesus Roman Catholic School on Saturday, May 21. Deputy Majority Leader Leroy Comrie (4th left) was joined by P H OT O C R E DI T : B r e n t D en o o n Council Members James Sanders (3rd right), Ruben Wills (right) and Council Member Comrie (right) presents honoree David Duchatellier (2nd Matheiu Eugene (left) in paying tribute to the culture and contributions right), who is joined by his family. of Haitian Americans.

CAMBRIA HEIGHTS a full-service educational - The New York City and cultural institution Council hosted its annu- in Southeast Queens. al Haitian Flag Day cele•Russell Simplice bration at Sacred Heart currently works as an of Jesus Roman Catholic officer for the New York School on Saturday, May City Department of 21. Under the leadership Corrections, is a active of Speaker Christine member of the New Quinn, Deputy Majority York National Guard Leader Leroy Comrie and has also served as a was joined by Council New York Police Members James Department auxiliary PHO TO CRE DIT : Sanders, Ruben Wills officer. On Sunday, B re n t De n o on and Matheiu Eugene in April 3, 2011, Russell Dancers Barbara Beauvais and Sophia Baudin paying tribute to the cul- Simplice responded to an perform for the audience. ture and contributions of auto accident near his Haitian Americans.

Cambria Heights home has lent her talents to for 1199SEIU United P H O T O C R E D I T : Workers This year’s Haiti Flag and rescued the passen- support EMG Health Healthcare in East (UHWE), address- B r en t D en o o n Day honorees were: gers, including a two- Communications Heights, ing the concerns of his Opera singer and honoree Martina Bruno per•Monique Blanchard year toddler. He helped Cambria Queens to raise aware- fellow co-workers, keep- forms "Feuille Yo".

– is the founding mem- to free the passengers ber of the Association from the overturned ness about breast cancer. ing his members educat- dent has Community Inc.; •David Duchatellier – ed on politics, and camdes Anciens Scouts et vehicle and with the help Barbara dedicated his life to dancers Guides d’Haiti- the of his wife and neigh- resides in Elmont, New paigning for local and the spread of Haitian Beauvais and Sophia Association of Former bors, tended to their York and is currently an presidential candidates national and ethnic Baudin; and, singers Scouts and Guides of wounds until emergency senior engineer at the who shared the same ideals and principles, Sheimyrah Mighty and ITT Corporation. He is a values as his members. and has been a loyal and Martina Bruno. Music Haiti- also known as services arrived CASEGHA-USA. •Martina Bruno - passionate supporter of Devoted to his communi- steadfast representative was provided by DJ Founded in the auditori- acclaimed classical the cultural arts, lend- ty and homeland, Mr. of the Haitian diaspora.

Canal and DJ Marz. um of Sacred Heart singer known as "Angel ing his talent and Constant is a member of In presenting New Food was donated by Catholic Church on of New York", Bruno has expertise to direct and the Haitian- American York City proclamations P o r t - A u - P r i n c e numerous Coalition whose goal is to February 25, 1975, the enjoyed a successful produce these honorees, Restaurant, Saint Pierre Association has been musical career as a Haitian films, music to help the children of Council Member Comrie Restaurant, Friendly's devoted to countless member of the Music videos and cultural Haiti by sponsoring told the audience, “These Restaurant and Labadee philanthropic causes Under New York events through his CJC “Raise your hands up individuals are leaders Manoir. Donations were here and in their home- (MUNY) and Glory Productions. David is for Haiti” a program in the Southeast Queens also made by Bella Nails, land of Haiti. A 30-year Gospel Singers; She has considered a video/film which brings quality community and also Walgreens and C-Town resident of Cambria performed at Carnegie production pioneer in medical care to the chil- serve as inspirations to Supermarket. The masHeights, Ms. Blanchard Hall, City Hall, Lincoln the Haitian community. dren of Haiti. generations of Haitian- ter of ceremonies was •Georges Joseph Americans as successful Elsie St. Louis Accilien, has served as Center, Apollo Theatre, In response to the recent Association president the United Nations and earthquake in Haiti, he Jean-Charles - is a edu- symbols of excellence in executive director of the twice and today is the toured Europe. A multi- organized a relief effort cator founding member their professions. I am Cambria Heights-based Coordinator for faceted singer who can with his family, neigh- of Toussaint Louverture grateful for the opportu- Haitian Americans Community Service. She easily transition from bors and co-workers to Fondation, a literary nity to acknowledge United for Progress. The is also a founding mem- classical to cabaret, successfully ship over magazine dedicated to their contributions as invocation and benedicber of Haitian Martina has created sev- 130 barrels of clothing, the maintenance and well as acknowledge the tion were delivered by Americans United for eral musical produc- school supplies and food spread of Haitian ethnic overall contributions of Father Donaldson his travel identity to people every- Haitians to our City.”

Progress (HAUP), which tions, including Beauty through Thevenin and Father providing was founded in 1975 to Beyond Borders, a trib- agency, DUCH Travel where, The afternoon's festiv- Bryan Patterson of insights and details into ities featured entertain- Sacred Heart Roman promote the welfare of ute to women in world Productions.

•Robert Constantine- Haitian cultural life. The ment by the Haitian Catholic Church.

Haitian refugees and music. A native of immigrants and is today Jamaica, Queens, she is a political organizer Arverne, Queens resi- Difference Band of

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Report: U.S. rates of autism, ADHD continue to rise

By JENIFER GOODWIN One in six U.S. children now has a developmental disability such as autism, learning disorders or attentiondeficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), according to new research from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

That number appears to be on the rise. In 1997-1999, about 12.8 percent of kids were diagnosed with a developmental disability. That number rose to 15 percent in 2006-2008 — or an additional 1.8 million U.S. children.

Much of the bump up in cases seems driven by rising rates of autism and ADHD, experts say.

“The most important message here is raising awareness of the importance of this as a health problem and one we need to address,” said lead study author Coleen Boyle, director of the U.S. National Center on Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities. “Children are

our future, and many of these children can grow up to be very productive citizens, so we need to invest in programs to help facilitate their development.”

Researchers used data from the 1997-2008 National Health Interview Surveys, an annual, nationally representative survey of U.S. households. The surveys asked parents of children aged 3 to 17 if their children had been diagnosed with ADHD, intellectual disability, cerebral palsy, autism, seizures, stuttering or stammering, moderate to profound hearing loss, blindness, learning disorders and/or other developmental delays.

Nearly 10 million U.S. children had been diagnosed with one of those conditions in 2006-2008, according to parental reports.

Much of the increase is being driven by ADHD and autism diagnoses, Boyle said. About 7.6 percent of children were diagnosed with ADHD in 2006-2008, up from 5.7 percent in 19971999. About 0.74 percent of

kids had received in autism diagnosis in 2006-2008, up from 0.19 percent in 19971999.

The number of children slotted under “other developmental delays,” a catch-all category, also rose from 3.4 percent to 4.24 percent.

The study is published online May 23 and in the June print issue of Pediatrics.

So, are the number of children with developmental disabilities on the rise, or are parents and doctors getting better at detecting cases?

According to Dr. Nancy Murphy, chair of the American Academy of Pediatrics’ Council on Children with Disabilities, the increases in these conditions may signify a greater awareness on the part of parents, teachers and health care professionals to identify children with disabilities and get them help.

That could mean that kids that might have been dismissed as simply being “slow” or disobedient in the past may now be getting some extra help to realize

their potential, Murphy said.

“It speaks to providers and educators and parents being attentive to when kids are struggling, and that attentiveness is bringing them into systems that can generate diagnoses,” Murphy said.

“There is a greater willingness to say, ‘My kid is struggling — not because he’s a bad kid but he may need a different approach to learning or development or behavior than he or she is getting.’”

One unanswered question is whether greater awareness and efforts to diagnose kids is the only explanation, or if there actually are a greater percentage of kids who are being born with or developing disabilities such as autism and ADHD early in life.

Research has suggested that advanced maternal and paternal age, assisted reproductive technology and greater numbers of premature or late-preterm births, could all be factors in some developmental disabilities, Boyle said. However, those

are areas that need much more research, she added.

Improvements in medical technology also means that children born with very serious developmental disabilities, such as neuromuscular or chromosomal disorders, are now surviving conditions that would have killed them in the past. That could also explain some of the uptick in numbers, Murphy said.

In other findings, boys were more likely to have a developmental disability than girls. Hispanic children were the least likely to be diagnosed with a number of disabilities, compared with white and black children.

Children with public insurance, mainly Medicaid, were more likely to have disabilities than those on private insurance plans.

And although rates of autism and ADHD were up, other developmental conditions remained basically steady, including blindness and intellectual disability, while moderate to profound hearing loss showed a significant decline.

Blood pressure drug helps those with mild heart failure New Swedish research suggests that the drug Inspra reduces the threat of major cardiovascular complications among patients who have a mild form of heart failure.

This latest finding builds on earlier work that was published by the New England Journal of Medicine last fall.

That study suggested that Inspra (eplerenone), an aldosterone antagonist, helps control cardiovascular complications among patients with a history of serious chronic heart failure.

Since far more people suffer from mild heart failure, this new finding could mean the drug might benefit a far broader group of patients, the researchers added.

The Swedish analysis makes an even stronger case for the use of Inspra in patients with mild heart failure because, in addition to reducing mortality, it also reduces the incidence of the irregular heart beat condition known as atrial fibrillation, study co-author Karl Swedberg, from the University of Gothenburg in Sweden, said in a news release from the European Society of Cardiology.

Atrial fibrillation “is a condition which both increases

morbidity and complicates the care of patients with heart failure,” he explained.

Swedberg and his colleagues were slated to present the findings Sunday in Gothenburg at the Heart Failure Congress 2011, organized by the Heart Failure Association of the European Society of Cardiology.

The study team noted that Inspra is currently approved for the control of high blood pressure as well as for the treatment of heart attack patients who experience congestive heart failure. It is not yet approved for the treatment of patients who experience mild heart failure. It is available generically in the United States, according to the news release.

Experts estimate that almost 6 million people in the United States suffer from heart failure.

The current finding stems from a re-analysis of a larger study that involved more than 2,700 heart failure patients being cared for at 278 different health centers.

Focusing specifically on those participants who had experienced mild (class 2) heart failure, the authors found that just 2.7 percent of those patients who were placed on a regimen of

between 25 milligrams to 50 milligrams daily of Inspra for a little less than two years experienced atrial fibrillation.

This compared with 4.5 percent of those patients who were randomized to receive a sugar pill instead.

Dr. Byron K. Lee, director of the Electrophysiology Laboratories and Clinics within

the division of cardiology at the University of California, San Francisco, noted that exactly how Inspra seems to help heart patients is not well understood.

“It is unclear how eplerenone works to lower the risk of abnormal heart rhythms like atrial fibrillation and atrial flutter,” he said. “However, there are

many potential mechanisms.

One possibility is that eplerenone may help maintain potassium levels.

Patients with heart failure are often on high-dose diuretics that remove fluid at the expense of removing potassium. Thats why heart failure patients need to watch their potassium level vigilantly.”

Infants’ cries may predict later language development The level of complexity of infants’ cries may help to predict which babies are at risk for language delays, new research suggests.

German researchers compared the cries of three groups of 2-month-old babies: 11 with a cleft lip and palate, 10 with cleft palate only and a control group of 50 unaffected infants.

In infants, a “simple cry melody” consists of a single rising and then falling arc, according to researchers. As children age, their cries become more complex. The ability to intentionally segment melodies by brief pauses, for example, eventually

leads to syllable production.

By 2 months of age, healthy infants cries display complex melodies more than 50 percent of the time.

Those whose cries show less complexity are at a higher risk for poorer language development two years later.

Babies whose cries were complex less than 45 percent of the time were almost five times more likely to develop a language delay at age 2.

For infants above the 45 percent threshold, development of a language delay could be ruled out with an 89 percent probability.

Researchers found there was a significant difference

in the cries of infants with cleft lip or palate compared to babies without the birth defect.

Although a number of linguistic delays have been identified among children with orofacial clefts, researchers concluded the study’s results could provide a better understanding of the earliest vocal development and offer new ways to help further improve language outcome in infants with clefts.

DAILY CHALLENGE TUESDAY, MAY 24, 2011

Study: Driving skills do ebb with age

By ELLIN HOLOHAN Even healthy seniors with safe driving records and no history of dementia tend to make more potentially dangerous errors, such as forgetting to check a blind spot, according to a new study.

This suggests that driving performance declines with normal aging and more mistakes crop up, putting the elderly at risk of automobile crashes, said the Australian researchers, who suggested additional training in related cognitive skills for older drivers.

That suggestion, however, will likely be controversial.

“It’s really hard to re-train the brain,” said Renee Pekmezaris, vice president for community and health services in the Research Department of Population Health at North Shore Long Island Jewish Health System in New York.

Other studies show that cognitive re-training does not reduce older people’s driving crashes, said Pekmezaris.

“I’m not as hopeful as the study authors about that,” she said. “But there are other things we can do.”

The study appeared online May 16 in Neuropsychology, a journal of the American Psychological Association.

In the study, researchers examined the driving habits of 266 healthy drivers ranging in age from 70 to 88 who lived independently and drove at least once a week.

Besides completing questionnaires about their health and driving history, the elders took tests on various driving skills such as discrimination, reaction time and the ability to stay focused amid distractions or adapt to changing conditions.

During the 12-mile road test, a professional instructor with access to a brake rode in the car. An occupational therapist sat in the back seat

and scored the drivers for skills such as using signals and mirrors, checking the “blind spot” and problems that included veering, tailgating, inappropriate braking and accelerating.

Overall, 17 percent of the drivers made serious mistakes that required the instructor to grab the steering wheel or apply the brake.

The rate of critical mistakes among drivers aged 85 to 89 (who had an average of almost four critical mistakes) was also four times higher than among those 70 to 74 years old (who had an average of less than one).

The most common error was a failure to check the “blind spot” for other vehicles. Drivers reporting a previous crash on the questionnaire made more errors connected to observation, and scored lower on appropriate braking and acceleration, the study found.

Men and women performed equally well on the

tests.

“The results fit well with about 30 years of previous research,” said Harvey L. Sterns, a research professor of gerontology at Northeastern Ohio Medical University.

Driving ability, in general, declines with age, he said.

But Sterns cautioned that many elderly have no problems handling a car. Some drivers in the oldest age group studied made no errors, he said.

“There are greater differences within age groups than between age groups,” said Sterns, also a professor of psychology at the University of Akron in Ohio. “It’s hard to know whether [the study is] showing dramatic changes relative to an earlier time.”

In the United States, 33 million drivers aged 65 and older were on the roads in 2009, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. On average, 500 elderly adults are injured

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every day in car accidents, the agency reported.

As the population ages, the issue will increase in significance, said Sterns. Pinpointing cognitive functions that are linked to driving skills is “an important first step,” he said, noting some of these functions could be improved with training.

The authors said their findings are useful for those designing roads and signs, although they acknowledge their study has limitations.

One is that drivers’ vision wasn’t evaluated.

Pekmezaris said aging drivers might do well to modify their driving habits and take advantage of technological advances.

Older drivers may need to restrict their driving to daylight hours, and make use of anti-glare equipment and onboard anti-collision devices, she said.

“What we really need is to get physicians involved in this,” said Pekmezaris. Earlier research found that 89 percent of elderly drivers reported they would stop driving if their doctors recommended it, she said.

Are all those handshakes at graduation hazardous to your health?

One graduation ceremony may include thousands of handshakes, but new research shows this casual contact is not likely to increase your risk of exposure to harmful bacteria.

Maryland students who shook a total of 5,209 hands while graduating from schools across the state in 2008 had only a slight risk of acquiring disease-causing bacteria, according to research from scientists at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.

The study examined the risk of acquiring pathogenic bacteria such as Staphylococcus aureus and methicillinresistant Staphylococcus

aureus (MRSA) through shaking hands at graduation ceremonies ranging from elementary school to college.

Researchers swabbed participants’ hands before and immediately following graduation to identify any disease-causing (pathogenic) bacteria. They detected only three instances of Staphylococcus aureus out of the thousands of handshakes — a rate of 0.019 pathogens per handshake — and found that 93 percent of the bacteria were harmless.

The study is in the June issue of the Journal of School Nursing.

“A single handshake offers only a small risk of acquiring harmful bacteria,” said Dr.

David Bishai, a professor with the Bloomberg School’s department of population, family and reproductive health in a university news release. “Our study indicates when shaking hands, the rate of hand contamination among graduating students to be 100 times lower than the 17 percent rate observed among health workers caring for patients known to be colonized with MRSA.” Reasons for the lower rate of contamination at graduations include the “much briefer and less-extensive contact in a handshake” than contact with hospital patients, according to Bishai.

“Based on the evidence from this study, the probabil-

ity of acquiring bacterial pathogens during handshaking could be lower than is commonly perceived by the general public,” concluded Bishai. “With a lower bound estimate of one bacterial pathogen acquired in 5,209

handshakes, the study offers the politicians, preachers, principals, deans and even amateur hand shakers some reassurance that shaking hands with strangers is not as defiling as some might think.”

Cancer patients benefit from full access to medical records Cancer patients who are given full access to their medical records feel a greater sense of satisfaction about their treatment, a new study finds.

The French researchers also found that providing comprehensive and accurate medical information built trust between patient and doctor.

Published online May 23 in the journal Cancer, the study analyzed 295 patients recently diagnosed with lymphoma, breast or colon can-

cer. All were being treated with chemotherapy.

The patients received either “on request information” or an organized medical record (OMR) — a briefcase full of detailed information about their condition and treatment. That information included reports on everything from surgery to radiology and pathology results, along with nurse narratives and treatment observations. Along with the OMR, they were given guides on medical terms and

how to understand the material, as well as help from medical staff to decipher the various documents.

Ninety-eight percent of the patients who were offered an OMR chose to take it.

Patients who received onrequest information were only provided with information and medical records if they asked for them or their doctor offered them.

Similar anxiety levels and quality-of-life scores were reported in the two groups.

But, patients with OMRs were 1.68 times more likely to be satisfied with their medical information and were 1.86 times more likely to feel fully informed, the study authors noted.

And 70.4 percent of the patients who received an OMR said they would choose again to receive it, with 74.8 percent saying they did not regret their choice. Moreover, the majority of those patients reported that the OMR had not been the source of any anxiety.

“Information is crucial to make decisions regarding treatment options and, for the patient and his family, to better cope with the disease and its implications,” study author Dr. Gwenaelle Gravis, of the Paoli-Calmettes Institute in Marseille, said in a news release from the journal’s publisher. “Having full access to his own medical record with the possibility to consult it only if desired increases the patient’s trust in the physician and medical team.”

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Consumer inflation fears up? Not a worry, SF Fed says CHICAGO — Increasing consumer anxiety that prices are broadly on the rise should not trigger an inflation-fighting response from the U.S. Federal Reserve, according to research Monday from the San Francisco Fed. That’s because consumers are not particularly good at forecasting inflation, according to the research, published in the regional Fed bank’s latest Economic Letter. Households tend to make their worst guesses about future inflation when fuel and food prices spike, as they have in recent months.

Policy-makers watch inflation expectations closely, because when people expect prices to rise they often change their behavior in such a way as to make those expectations a self-fulfilling prophecy.

But the research suggest-

ed they are probably safe to ignore at least one widely followed survey’s gauge of household inflation fears. It compared inflation forecasts from the Thomson Reuters/University of Michigan’s consumer sentiment

survey against actual inflation over the last eight years.

Recent data from the survey shows households now expect inflation to average about 4.5 percent over the next 12 months, a big jump from last year’s expectation

of 3 percent.

The increase is likely due to the sharp rise in food and energy prices to which households are particularly sensitive, San Francisco Fed research advisor Bharat Trehan said.

Households in the survey over predicted inflation by an average of 1.1 percentage points in the last five years, when commodities prices have been particularly volatile, Trehan showed.

Consumer inflation expectations also rose in 2008, when energy prices similarly spiked, but actual inflation ended up falling, not rising.

“Households appear to be reacting to recent inflation data in a way that is not warranted by the actual dynamics of inflation,” Trehan said in the paper. “The poor forecasting performance argues against reacting strongly to the recent increases in

household inflation expectations.”

Data released a week and a half ago showed U.S. consumer prices rose to a 2-1/2year high of 3.2 percent in the 12 months to April.

The pace of food and fuel price rises slowed from the month before, however, suggesting inflation pressures may be peaking.

Most Fed officials expect commodities price rises to be short-lived, a view born out by a drop this month in oil prices. San Francisco Fed President John Williams earlier this month said he believes inflation will begin falling by mid-year, sinking back to well below the Fed’s unofficial 2 percent target by next year.

Primary dealers polled by Reuters last week see the consumer price index rising by 3 percent in the fourth quarter.

Panasonic sees tough year as quake aftermath hampers TOKYO — Japan’s Panasonic Corp. will have an extremely tough year, with the effects of the devastating March earthquake continuing to hamper sales through September, the head of the electronics giant said.

The company will also split the 17,000 job cuts it plans by March 2013 in roughly equal proportions between Japanese and foreign operations, President Fumio Ohtsubo told reporters.

He said there were uncertainties over the impact of power shortages in the peak summer months and that he did not see much additional

demand for the company resulting from rebuilding efforts in northern Japan.

“On April 28, we forecast the disaster would cut first quarter sales by several hundreds of billion yen,” Ohtsubo said.

“At this point we see it as less, possibly half or a third of what we thought. But the second quarter will not be much better, because of the lingering difficulties with the supply chain.”

Although Panasonic factories in northern Japan have been repaired, they are not necessarily operating at full capacity.

“Basically, I have the

strong sense that the 2011/2012 financial year will be extremely tough,” Ohtsubo said.

Last month Panasonic said its operating profit rose 60 percent for the year ended in March, but did not give a forecast for the current year because of a lack of clarity about the impact of last month’s devastating earthquake and tsunami, and the continuing nuclear crisis.

Ohtsubo said it was possible the company would offer a full-year forecast along with its first quarter results, which were last year announced at the end of July.

The market consensus is for an operating profit of 273.9 billion yen ($3.4 billion) for the year to March 2012, down about 10 percent on the previous year, according to an average of 21 analysts polled by Thomson Reuters I/B/E/S. Panasonic, which faces harsh competition from South Korea’s Samsung Electronics and LG in its loss-making flat-screen television business, is seeking to shift its focus to environmental and energy-related businesses such as rechargeable batteries.

As part of that strategy, it announced last year it would

pay $9.4 billion to make Panasonic Electric Works and Sanyo Electric Co wholly owned units, taking on tens of thousands of additional staff.

It announced in April that it planned to shed at least 17,000 jobs and might close up to 70 factories around the world by March 2013, to cut out overlapping areas, pare costs and keep up with Asian rivals.

Panasonic is keen to integrate businesses including home appliances, air conditioning, projectors and surveillance cameras, as well as head office and back office functions.

Toyota cars to be driver’s ‘friend’ in social network service TOKYO — Toyota Motor Corp and cloud computing company Salesforce.com Inc will build a social network service that will enable owners to become “friends” with their cars and get friendly, tweet-like reminders for maintenance checks and other notices.

The deal marks the second

tie-up between the world’s biggest automaker and a software company in as many months. Toyota and Microsoft Corp last month announced plans to bring Internet-connected services to Toyota’s cars across the world.

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human interaction and modes of communication,” Toyota President Akio Toyoda told a joint news conference with Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff in Tokyo on Monday.

“The automobile needs to evolve in step with that transformation,” Toyoda said.

Information technology and telematics are expected to play a key role in adding value to future cars, and become a marketing tool as consumers look for connectivity not just from their laptops and phones but also with their cars. Toyota has already developed its own telematics service to connect

it with drivers and dealers.

Under the new private social network, called “Toyota Friend,” owners will be able to “chat” with their Toyotas like they would with a friend on Twitter or Facebook.

The car would have its own “profile” and send a message to the driver’s phone, for instance, reminding him to recharge its depleted battery. The owner would be able to carry out a simple, two-way conversation with the car.

The service would be an extension of Toyota’s network to be based on Microsoft’s Azure cloud computing platform that would

give customers across the world access to Toyota’s digital services such as GPS and multimedia.

Customers will be able to extend the private “Toyota Friend” network to include their family and friends through public social networks such as Twitter and Facebook.

The service will be offered first in Japan with Toyota’s first battery electric vehicles and plug-in hybrid cars due next year, Toyota said.

Cloud-computing, one of the fastest-growing areas in the technology sector, refers to the use of remote data centres to deliver software, data and computing power.

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Sony to post $3.2 billion annual loss on tax write-offs

By ISABEL REYNOLDS TOKYO — Sony Corp. will post its third straight annual net loss for the year that ended in March after writing off tax credits in the wake of Japan’s earthquake and tsunami, the latest in a string of grim headlines on the consumer electronics giant.

The maker of PlayStation video games, Vaio computers and Bravia TVs has been battling to recover from the March 11 disaster, and more recently, a series of security breaches on its networks that affected more than 100 million user accounts.

The annual net loss would be Sony’s second-largest ever, underscoring the decline of a company once a symbol of Japan’s electronic and manufacturing excellence.

“I have been skeptical about Sony for a long time.

Sony has been overtaken by Apple and other companies,” said Yuuki Sakurai, CEO and

president of Fukoku Capital Management in Tokyo. “The management is not able to show shareholders the future of the company.”

Sony has found itself outmanoeuvred by Apple in portable music and Samsung Electronics in flat-screen TVs and is facing a tough fight in video games with Nintendo and Microsoft.

The firm, which previously forecast a net profit of 70 billion yen for 2010/11, surprised markets on Monday by declaring the need to update investors with revised estimates ahead of its official earnings report on Thursday.

Stock exchange rules in Tokyo require companies to notify investors if estimates for the business year are likely to be more than 30 percent higher or lower than their most recent forecast.

Sony said it now expected to post a net loss of 260 billion yen ($3.2 billion), due to a non-cash charge of around 360 billion yen related to

Japanese tax credits.

Companies are allowed to carry forward tax losses for up to seven years if they can show future taxable profits are likely. But three consecutive years of net losses is considered evidence under U.S. accounting rules, the global standard, that those credits may not be available to it.

Sony said it expected sales to rise this year and forecast a return to net profit, without elaborating.

It earlier forecast was issued before the March 11 earthquake, which has tipped Japan’s economy into recession and disrupted supply chains globally in a number of industries.

Although Sony revised its bottom line, it maintained that annual operating profit would still come in at 200 billion yen for 2010/11, which is broadly in line with consensus forecasts.

In its first estimate for the year to March 2012, Sony said its operating profit would also be around 200 bil-

Campbell profit beats, but soup sales fall

By MARTINNE GELLER Campbell Soup Co. reported a higher-than-expected quarterly profit on Monday and forecast full-year results at the top of its range after moving its focus from profitsapping promotions to advertisements.

Yet the company’s U.S. soup sales fell for the fourth straight quarter, a sign that it may take some time for Chief Operating Officer Denise Morrison to turn the company around after her expected promotion to CEO this summer.

“She definitely acknowledges that change is necessary at Campbell, and she appears up to the challenge in terms of exploring opportunities that could right the ship,” said Morningstar analyst Erin Lash. She also said Campbell would need to report several quarters of improved results to prove that a turnaround was sustainable.

Shares of Campbell, the world’s top soup maker, were down 1 percent at $34.89 in morning New York Stock Exchange trading.

The company has endured several winters of slow soup sales, hurt by intense competition. Its profit margins also suffered from deep discount-

ing — which did not spur sales as much as it had hoped — in the first half of the fiscal year.

Campbell has since shifted spending toward advertising, which it said should strengthen its prices and brand equity over time.

“We remain focused on our plans to stabilize and then profitably grow net sales, and we are stepping up our game across the company,” COO Morrison said in a statement.

Campbell has designated Morrison as the likely successor to CEO Douglas Conant when he steps down in July. She most recently ran the North American soup, sauce and beverage unit, which includes Prego pasta sauces and V8 juice drinks in addition to Campbell’s soup.

Standard & Poor’s equity analyst Tom Graves upgraded shares of Campbell to “hold” from “sell,” citing sales and profit increases in other areas besides soup.

“Also, we expect stronger soup pricing ahead,” Graves said in a research note.

Campbell reported net income of $187 million, or 57 cents per share, for the third quarter ended on May 1, up from $168 million, or 49 cents per share, a year earlier.

Analysts on average

expected 52 cents per share, according to Thomson Reuters I/B/E/S. The company cited lower marketing expenses and a boost from the weak U.S. dollar, which increases the value of overseas sales.

Sales rose slightly to $1.81 billion from $1.80 billion, with weak volume offsetting a boost of 2 percentage points from foreign exchange rates.

Quarterly sales fell 8 percent in the soup, sauces and beverage unit. U.S. soup sales fell 7 percent, hurt by declines of 15 percent in the ready-to-serve segment, 2 percent for broths and 2 percent for condensed. Beverage sales fell 9 percent.

In the company’s baking and snacking unit, which includes Pepperidge Farm cookies and crackers, sales rose 10 percent.

“While today’s bottom-line EPS results were good, the earnings quality was weak, and we look for signals of better top-line trends to more sustainably drive the shares,” said Stifel Nicolaus analyst Christopher Growe.

Campbell said it expected full-year results to come in at the high end of its forecast, which calls for earnings per share to fall between 1 percent and 3 percent on sales ranging from down 1 percent to up 1 percent.

lion yen.

Some investors saw the revisions as a way for Sony to put the slew of bad news behind it and start with something of a clean slate.

“Sony sharply revised down its net forecast to a big loss to show that the impact of the earthquake has been largely factored-in during the previous financial year, while the impact would be limited for the current year,” said Mitsushige Akino, chief fund manager at Ichiyoshi Investment Management.

“Probably the company is expecting the global economy to recover during the second half of the year. Maybe this perception could be a bit optimistic, but we still have to wait and see.”

Sony estimated the impact of the quake in the current year at 150 billion yen at the operating level.

Many of Sony’s rivals, including Panasonic Corp, have yet to issue forecasts for the current year due to uncertainty following the dis-

aster.

Sony last month disclosed that it had been a victim of one of the biggest cyberattacks in history.

It shut down its PlayStation Network across the globe in mid-April and has slowly started to restore access, starting in the United States.

The company is still working with Japanese government authorities to restore access in that country.

Sony said “known costs” for the hacking attacks were estimated at 14 billion yen.

Sony is targeting the end of May for fully restoring the affected networks.

Last week, Sony Chief Executive Howard Stringer fired back at critics who say the company was too slow to notify consumers once the attack was known.

Shares in Sony ended down 0.5 percent in a Tokyo market down 1.5 percent. It shares though have fallen 24 percent so far this year, compared with a 7 percent fall in the Nikkei average.

IBM overtakes Microsoft’s market cap

International Business Machines surged past old rival Microsoft Corp in market value for the first time since April 1996, marking the latest twist in the fluctuating fortunes of two of the world’s most important technology companies.

IBM ruled the computer industry for decades until it hired the tiny, unknown Microsoft to provide an operating system for its new range of personal computers in the early 1980s.

Bill Gates parlayed that breakthrough into industry dominance, proving his theory that software would be more valuable than hardware, so that by the end of 1999 Microsoft’s market value was three times that of IBM’s.

Throughout Microsoft’s rise, IBM was pilloried as an

old-fashioned, immobile Goliath that could not keep up with the computing revolution.

Since the Internet technology bubble burst in 2000, the tables have been reversed, and Microsoft’s stock has been stagnant, as investors doubt its ability to move beyond its Windows operating system and Office suite of software, while younger rivals such as Google Inc and Facebook steal the limelight.

Resurgent Apple Inc. moved past Microsoft in terms of market value last year, and is now by far the world’s biggest tech company.

According to Reuters data, Apple’s market value stood at $308.3 billion yesterday, IBM at $203.5 billion and Microsoft at $201.3 billion.

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Tiger Woods falls to No. 12 Tiger Woods’ prolonged winless drought has put the world’s most popular golfer in a place he hasn’t been since 1997 — outside golf’s top 10 rankings.

Woods, who last won 18 months ago in Australia, has fallen to No. 12 in the world rankings which were released Sunday evening.

The last time Woods was outside the top 10 was April 6, 1997 — the week before a then-21year-old Woods won the Masters for the first of his 14 major titles.

Woods began the season as the secondranked golfer in the world but has continued to fall down the charts as he has dealt

with prolonged health issues on top of poor results.

Woods was forced to withdraw from last week’s The Players Championship during

the first round as nagging leg injuries hampered his play.

The former No. 1’s game had been showing signs of improvement before this most

recent injury setback as he finished tied for fourth at this year’s Masters. Coincidentally it was at the Masters where Woods tweaked his surgically repaired left knee which led to problems with his Achilles.

Woods has spent a record 623 weeks of his career atop the world golf rankings including his run that lasted from June 2005 until current top-ranked player Lee Westwood knocked Woods off last November.

Woods said on his website last week that he hopes to be back in time for this year’s U.S. Open which runs June 16-19 at Congressional.

Aflac sponsors college football’s Heisman Trophy ATLANTA - The insurance firm Aflac is sponsoring the Heisman Trophy next season.

The company said Friday it will offer its key accounts and bro-

kerage partners access to Heisman-themed events. The vice president of sponsorships and emerging markets says the company is working with major universities to line up the events.

Vice president

Danny Fleishman says the company is honored to be partnered with the Heisman and he is excited about the future of the sponsorship. Fleishman says the Heisman Trophy Trust and Aflac have a mutual level of

respect.

The company has a multi-year deal, but the terms have not been released.

The Heisman is given each year to college football’s most outstanding player.

Lions say their workouts are best in the league

By LARRY LAGE BEVERLY HILLS, Mich. The locked-out Detroit Lions seem to be making the best of their situation.

About 30 players went through conditioning drills at Detroit Country Day School last

Wednesday morning for a third straight day. Then, several of them went through an additional strength-training workout later in the afternoon at Athletic Republic near the Pontiac Silverdome.

“This has probably been the best-organized and well-attended player-led workouts of anybody,”

Agent: Irving won’t participate in combine’s on-court drills CHICAGO — Duke point guard Kyrie Irving brushes off suggestions that he might be the Cleveland Cavaliers’ latest savior.

The consensus No. 1 prospect in next month’s NBA draft is aware of comparisons with LeBron James, whose controversial departure last year for the Miami Heat sent the Cavs into a tailspin.

“The comparisons will come regardless,’’ said Irving, who played 11 games as a Duke freshman and then declared for the 2011 draft.

“That’s something I’m prepared for. As for right now, I just want to contribute to whatever team I go to.’’

Cleveland, which had the NBA’s top record in 2010 and secondworst mark this year, gets the first shot at Irving in the June 23 draft after winning the No. 1 pick in Tuesday’s NBA lottery.

Ironically, it’s James who has served as Irving’s role model.

defensive end Kyle Vanden Bosch said between workouts.

Offensive guard Rob Sims agreed.

“You see what people are doing on SportsCenter, but we’re really working,” Sims said while wearing a sweat-drenched shirt in Auburn Hills after his second workout of the day. “It’s going to be good for us.”

NFL players can’t use team facilities during the lockout, but the locked-out Lions are getting some help.

Detroit Country Day School and Athletic Republic officials said they’re not charging the players to use their facilities.

“I’m not worried about making a few hundred bucks off these guys,” Athletic Republic trainer Michael Knight said after putting Vanden Bosch, safety Louis Delmas, Sims and several other players through a unique workout with ropes and kettlebells.

“This is a dream come true for me.”

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UConn to lose two scholarships due to APR

BY PAT EATON-ROBB HARTFORD, Conn. - The national champion Connecticut men’s basketball program will lose two scholarships for the upcoming season as a result of a poor Academic Performance Rating from the NCAA. The APR measures the classroom performance of every Division I student-athlete, composing a score for each team.

The national Academic Performance Rating is due out next week, but a link to an internal copy of the report ended up Friday on a UConn chat board. A university official with knowledge of the situation confirmed the numbers in the report, and said the school had been given the link to prepare for next week’s release.

The official spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity because the report is not scheduled to be made public until today.

The rating puts the basketball program’s fouryear rating at 893, below the NCAA minimum score of 925. The score for the 2009-10 academic year is 826.

Giants owner war ns of chaos

By BARRY WILNER NEW YORK - New York Giants co-owner John Mara is warning that the players’ strategy in the labor impasse, if successful, would lead to NFL chaos.

Mara wrote an essay that was posted Thursday on nfl.com and giants.com in which he pointed to no salary caps or minimums and perhaps no draft.

“The likely changes would be great for NFLPA lawyers, but not for players, teams, or, most importantly, fans,” Mara wrote. “For example, there could be no league-wide minimum player salaries, with many players making less than they do today, or no minimum team player costs, with many clubs cutting payrolls the way some teams do in other sports. Other bedrock components of the NFL’s competitiveness, such as the draft, would be called into question and assailed as antitrust violations.

“A steroid testing program is a must, so we would have to consider an independent administrator such as WADA. There could be varying player benefit plans from team to team, and limits on the ability to enforce other league-wide rules that benefit players, especially rank-and-file players that do not go to the Pro Bowl.”

A member of the NFL’s executive committee and one of the league’s more influential owners, Mara has been deeply involved in negotiations and mediation sessions.

While most of his comments echoed those made

by Commissioner Roger Goodell throughout the lockout that began on March 12 after the players dissolved their union, Mara also listed specific consequences should the players win in court.

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Bulls’ Gibson Mets owner Fred Wilpon takes embraces r ole swipe at value of team’s stars

By ANDREW SELIGMAN DEERFIELD, Ill. - The Chicago Bulls didn’t need to see Taj Gibson dunk on Dwyane Wade in the opener of the Eastern Conference finals or try to carry them late in Game 2.

They already understood his value. He’s just showing it on a bigger stage these days.

The Bulls are in the conference finals for the first time in 13 years, and challenging for their first championship since the Michael JordanScottie Pippen era.

For that, they can thank Derrick Rose’s emergence as the league’s youngest MVP and an offseason makeover that gave them one of the deepest rotations. A big part of that is Gibson, a starter as a rookie last season.

He didn’t complain when management went wooing a star big man over the summer even though that meant a reduced role for him.

Instead, he embraced the arrival of Carlos Boozer and did whatever was asked, whether that meant filling in or providing a spark off the bench.

“That’s one thing about being a pro - you have to learn and understand your job,” Gibson said.

“That’ll be the first step. They taught me how to do that. Whatever they needed from me, I was able to do that. They wanted me to come off the bench and provide a spark off the bench, I did that. They wanted me to start, I did it. It’s all about being a pro and understanding what you need to do to get more minutes and play in this league longer.”

That’s one reason Gibson is the sort of player teams love to have.

“Good guy, good character,” guard Ronnie Brewer said. “When you see the guy screaming and yelling and jumping around after he makes a dunk or after he makes a shot, that’s the type of guy he is in the locker room. He’s a funny guy, exciting guy. I wouldn’t say he’s goofy, but he’s really a good guy.”

A first-round pick out of Southern California in 2009, Gibson made 70 starts and averaged 9.0 points and 7.5 rebounds last season. He showed an uncanny knack on defense, averaging 1.3 blocks, and earned first-team, All-Rookie honors.

Then, he watched as the Bulls went shopping.

Along with LeBron James and Dwyane Wade, a top-tier big man was at the top of the list. They met with Chris Bosh, David Lee and wound up reeling in Boozer with a five-year, $75 million contract. While all that was going on, Gibson was spending his summer days with such fun-filled activities as ice baths and sound wave therapy to treat plantar fasciitis in both his feet while staring at a reduced role.

One thing he wasn’t doing was sulking.

“I’m a team player,” Gibson said. “I’m not a guy to point fingers, say ‘I’m better than him, give me this.’ I looked at the positive. ... The Bulls understood I was ready to do whatever to help the team win.”

Early on, that meant filling in as a starter. With Boozer recovering from a fractured fifth metacarpal bone in his right hand, Gibson started 14 of the Bulls’ first 15 games and averaged 11.3 points and 6.9 rebounds while shooting 51.1 percent.

NEW YORK - The embattled owner of the New York Mets has taken a swipe at the struggling team’s leading players, saying they are overpaid and underperforming and should not expect top money for their next contracts.

Fred Wilpon, whose ownership of the Mets is under pressure while he is being sued over profits he made in Bernard Madoff’s Ponzi scheme, questioned the market value of three top players, shortstop Jose Reyes, outfielder Carlos Beltran and injured third baseman David Wright.

Reyes and Wright have long been considered the cornerstones of the Mets and crowd favorites, but Wilpon indicated he may not be offering Reyes the kind of contract he is seeking when he becomes a free agent at

the end of the season.

The often injured Reyes has bounced back this contract-drive season, batting .310 with 17 stolen bases but Wilpon told The New Yorker magazine he was still overvalued.

“He (Reyes) thinks he’s going to get Carl Crawford money,” Wilpon, 74, was quoted as saying in reference to the sevenyear, $142 million deal the speedy outfielder signed this past off-season with the Boston Red Sox. “He’s had everything wrong with him. He won’t get it.”

At least not from Wilpon, who is being sued for $1 billion by the trustee for victims of the Madoff scheme.

Asked about Beltran, also in the last year of his contract, Wilpon blamed himself for overpaying another player who has since struggled with injuries.

Wilpon, who is trying to sell a

Ray Lewis discusses lockout issues One of the consequences of a lost NFL season will be an increase in crime, Baltimore Ravens linebacker Ray Lewis said in a wide-raging oneon-one interview with ESPN. “Do this research if we don’t have a season — watch how much evil, which we call crime, watch how much crime picks up, if you take away our game,” Lewis told ESPN’s Sal Paolantonio.

That’s because, Lewis said, the NFL lockout affects “way more than us” — the owners and the players.

“There’s too many people that live through us, people live through us,” he said. “Yeah, walk in the streets, the way I walk the streets, and I’m not talking about the people you see all the time.”

When asked why he thought crime would increase if the NFL doesn’t play games this year, Lewis said: “There’s nothing else to do Sal.” Sunday is Day 68 of the lockout, which is now the longest work stoppage in NFL history. Lewis said the current dispute boils down to a matter of ego.

“It’s simple, we really got to remove pride.

Seriously,” he said.

“There’s no other reason the issue is going on,” he said. “That’s why I don’t get into words and all that other stuff, because it takes away from life ... itself. There’s people who are really struggling for real. There’s real struggles out there.”

A 2-1 decision last week by the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals kept the lockout in place pending a full appeal. A hearing is scheduled for June 3 in St. Louis.

minority interest in the Mets to raise funds, said he overestimated Beltran coming off a brilliant 2004 postseason with the Houston Astros. “(We) paid him based on that one series. He’s sixty-five to seventy percent of what he was,” said Wilpon, who signed Beltran to a seven-year, $119 million deal.

Wilpon said Wright, sidelined with a back injury for the Mets, who have battled to a 22-24 record despite all their injuries, was good but not great.

“A really good kid. A very good player,” he told the magazine about the third baseman and face of the franchise who is pulling down $14 million this season. “Not a superstar.”

Asked about all the bad luck that seems to have befallen the franchise, Wilpon said: “We’re snakebitten, baby.”

Ron Ar test anticipates full season

By ARASH MARKAZI LOS ANGELES — Lakers forward Ron Artest doesn’t believe the NBA labor situation will result in an NFL-style lockout and expects to play an 82-game regular season beginning in October.

“I don’t think there’s going to be a long lockout,” Artest said Sunday night. “I don’t think we’re going to miss any games. I think there’s going to be some negotiations but I see us playing in October. I think [NBA commissioner] Mr. [David] Stern and [NBA Players Association director] Mr. [Billy] Hunter will resolve it. I think they’re going to learn from the NFL lockout.

America isn’t America without sports. You wouldn’t want to be the guy who messed up sports.”

If there is a lockout, however, Artest is working on a second career as a comedian. This summer, Artest will host the “Ron Artest Ultimate Comedy Tour,” which currently has four shows booked at the Improv in Hollywood July 8-9 and four more shows at Caroline’s on Broadway in New York July 15-16.

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Bookish Bosh let’s his points do the talking

By SIMON EVANS MIAMI - When the Chicago Bulls forward Carlos Boozer said his team would be up against two great players from Miami in the NBA playoffs few had any doubt about which one of the Heat’s ‘Big Three’ he was omitting.

On Sunday, the ‘Third Man’ Chris Bosh, so often overshadowed

by Dwyane Wade and LeBron James, offered a reminder to Boozer and anyone else who has taken digs at him this season - exactly why the Heat consider him to be part of a trio of key players.

Bosh made 34 points as the Heat ran out 96-

85 winners on Sunday to go 2-1 up in the bestof-seven series and said that Boozer’s comments had only assisted him.

“It does nothing but help. I think about it when I’m shooting (in practice). It helps me out. It helps me get some extra reps up, to go a little longer,” he told reporters.

Boozer though is by no means the only one to have slighted - intentionally or otherwise - the 27-year-old Texan.

The Heat have become the team that many love to hate this season and Bosh, who at times in the regular season didn’t deliver the numbers that many expected from him, became the target of a lot of criticism.

Bosh, a player who reads, thinks and speaks his mind, said he was well aware of

the commentary on his contribution.

“I’m human. I really don’t care for it and if it isn’t positive, I don’t listen to it. I know I am a good ball player. There is always going to be someone throwing rocks, no matter what you do,” he said.

VERY EDUCATED But Bosh, who left Toronto as a free agent prior to this season, is frank enough to concede he found the transition from being the ‘main man’ at the Raptors to becoming part of a trio of matchwinners at Miami, to be tough.

“It was extremely difficult. There was a point when I really didn’t know how I was going to be able to be effective.

But I still have to have that aggressiveness that I had.

“Of course, I am not going to get as many

play calls. I know that, with two other great players and a great team. But you just have to be aggressive and have the swagger and belief in myself,” he said.

Part of the process of coming to terms with his new position was, he says, learning how to handle his own ego.

“Nobody really tells you that, nobody says that is going to be something you have to worry about.

Everybody is going to go through it in a different way and ego is part of that.

“I didn’t know that I had that big of an ego.”

If Bosh has surprised himself, he has also given his team-mates the chance to be alongside a player who doesn’t fit many of the stereotypes of a NBA player.

“He is different. He’s

Chris Bosh, we understand that he is a guy who internalizes a lot of things,” said Wade after Sunday’s win.

“When he speaks out though, he is very educated, very smart. He thinks things out.

Before games a lot of

guys listen to music Chris though, he has (his) head in a book.

That calms him, gets him ready for the game.

“We can buy some more books for him. He can read all day - he’s Chris Bosh, he’s different, yes.”

NFL owners set to meet in midst of labor impasse

By BARRY WILNER INDIANAPOLIS Armed with a key victory in the courts, NFL owners gathered yesterday for their annual spring meetings.

Usually, it’s a time for discussing Super Bowl sites and rules changes.

This year, the 32 owners primarily will talk strategy for this summer as the labor impasse goes through court proceedings.

They might even gloat a bit after obtaining a permanent stay of an injunction blocking the lockout of the players that began March 12.

The labor situation remains something of a stalemate, locked in the courts until the league’s full appeal of that injunction is heard June 3. But the 2-1 ruling on the stay contained strong language indicating the NFL will win its appeal.

NFL spokesman Greg Aiello says owners will be filled in on “all aspects of the labor situation and various business reports.”

Basically, not much action is required by the league until the legality of the lockout is determined by the 8th U.S. District Court in St. Louis. While the lockout’s in force, teams can’t communicate with players - and NFL teams are dead in the water when it comes to training for the 2011 season.

That stagnation could threaten the start of training camps at the end of July - at the very least.

Commissioner Roger Goodell continually emphasizes the need for face-to-face discussions between the league and the players.

“The sooner we get back to the negotiating table the more we can address those issues in a timely fashion and get to what everybody wants,

which is football,” he said. “In the meantime, we’ve done everything to prepare for 2011.”

That includes several significant rules clarifications, one of which was tabled during the annual league meetings in March, but will be voted on this week.

It involves a clearer definition of a defenseless receiver, which also could apply to a player intercepting a pass. The

new rule, if adopted, would incorporate all defenseless players into one category and expand the protection for the defenseless receiver.

“It used to say he was somebody who had not completed the act of the catch,” explained competition committee cochairman Rich McKay, president of the Atlanta Falcons. “Now it will give a receiver protec-

tion until he becomes a runner and has the opportunity to defend himself.

“We saw too many helmet-to-helmet or shoulder-to-helmet hits where the receiver has just caught the ball and has two feet on the ground and has not had a chance to protect himself.”

The hope also is to lower the target area of the tackler against such

receivers.

In March, the owners made several changes to kicking rules. They moved kickoffs up 5 yards to the 35-yard line; kept touchbacks coming out to the 20 rather than the 25; allowed the number of players in a blocking wedge to remain at two; and limited kick coverage players to lining up 5 yards or fewer from the spot of the kickoff.

Tip was key in nabbing Giants fan assault suspect

By ANDREW DALTON LOS ANGELES - Police flooded Los Angeles with drawings and descriptions of the suspects in the Dodger Stadium beating of Bryan Stow, including new billboards put up just last week. They took in hundreds of tips.

But it was a lead from inside law enforcement that led them to

the man they say was the main aggressor in the grisly beating.

A tip from a parole officer late last week gave detectives the break they’d sought for seven weeks, and on Sunday they arrested 31-year-old Giovanni Ramirez, the key suspect in the attack on Stow, a San Francisco Giants fan brutalized in the parking lot after the rival teams’ season opener on March 31.

Ramirez was detained in an early morning raid by detectives and SWAT team members with a search warrant for an East

Hollywood apartment building in what Police Chief Charlie Beck called a “huge step” in the investigation.

The Los Angeles man was booked for assault with a deadly weapon and was being held on $1 million bail, police said in a statement.

Beck choked back tears as he described getting a call at 7 a.m.

Sunday from Assistant Chief Earl Paysinger, after putting 20 full-time detectives on the case who worked for more than 6,000 hours.

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