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CHAINS AND MICHELLE OBAMA TEAM ON ‘FOOD DESERT’ STORES

First Lady Michelle Obama announced a new commitment from nationwide grocery store chains and her “Lets Move!” program that will open and expand grocery stores into “food desert” areas, parts of the country where people lack access

to grocery stores and their fresh produce, during an event at the White House in Washington. Obama was joined by owners and employees of some of the chains participating in the program.

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DAILY CHALLENGE THURSDAY, JULY 21, 2011

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N EW S BR IE F S BROOKLYN NEIGHBORHOODS TO HAVE REDUCED STREET CLEANING After keeping their streets clean, some Brooklyn residents will have an easier time parking.

Local leaders and city lawmakers gathered on Tuesday to mark reductions in regular street cleaning in areas served by Community Board 7.

The number of days of street cleanings are cut in half.

This is all due to a recently-passed bill that allows for the revisions when a community achieves a certain level of cleanliness and agrees to the changes.

“You have to get to a level of cleanliness as measured by the scorecard and say the data shows it’s clean enough and the community board, this great grassroots democratic institution has to say we want it, and unless both those things happen, this isn’t going to happen around the city,” said Brooklyn Councilman Brad Lander.

“I think change is difficult for people but they will adjust, but I love the fact that if this doesn’t work, we can go back,” said Brooklyn Councilwoman Sara Gonzalez.

Community Board 7 covers parts of Sunset Park and Windsor Terrace.

ENGINEERING SCHOOLS ASKED TO SUBMIT BIDS FOR NYC CAMPUS Mayor Michael Bloomberg is offering big incentives to try to get a high-tech university in the city.

He is inviting universities to submit bids for a new engineering school on Governor’s Island, Roosevelt Island or at the Brooklyn Navy Yard.

The winning entry will get up to $100 million from the city and twomillion-square-feet of land.

“We’re lucky to have several top flight engineering schools, and I’m glad to report that they’re taking our offer seriously. But they’re not the only ones,” said the mayor. “Universities from around the country and some from around the world have expressed interest in our offer.”

The city hopes to pick a winner by the end of the year.

NEW YORK SENATORS CALL FOR UPGRADE TO EMERGENCY SYSTEM New York lawmakers are set to make a push for a nationwide communications network for first responders.

The legislation has been around since shortly after the September 11th attacks when emergency personnel had difficulty communicating across multiple agencies.

Senators Charles Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand have enlisted September 11th responder John Feal to help lobby for the bill.

Feal was instrumental in getting the September 11th health care bill passed.

The Public Safety Spectrum and Wireless Innovation Act would allow first responders to communicate across the local, state and federal level in the event of a catastrophe.

Holder open to meeting 9/11 families on hacking

By JEREMY PELOFSKY and DANIEL TROTTA WASHINGTON — Attorney General Eric Holder is willing to meet the families of people killed in the September 11 attacks who are concerned about reports that News Corp journalists may have tried to get victims’ phone records, his spokesman said.

The Federal Bureau of Investigation has been looking into a report

by Britain’s Daily Mirror newspaper that reporters with the rival News of the World offered to pay a New York police officer for private phone records of some victims of the al Qaeda attacks on the United States in 2001.

The Mirror report, citing an unidentified source, has yet to be independently verified but already has fueled U.S. emotions over the wider phone hacking scandal that has consumed Britain and rocked Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp media empire.

New York attorney Normal Siegel,

who represents September 11 family members in three legal cases, sent letters on Monday requesting meetings with Holder, FBI Director Robert Mueller and U.S. Representative John Conyers, the top Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee.

“The Attorney General has met with 9/11 family members on a number of occasions and would welcome the opportunity to meet with them to discuss any concerns they would like to bring to the department’s attention,” said spokesman Matthew Miller.

A U.S. law enforcement official told Reuters on Monday there was no basis so far for police in New York to open an investigation into the claims.

During an inquiry by members of Britain’s Parliament in London on Tuesday, Murdoch said there was nothing to suggest his reporters had hacked the phones of September 11 victims.

“We have no evidence of that at all,” he said.

His son James Murdoch, News Corp’s deputy chief operating officer,

told the inquiry it would be appalling if such actions took place.

“Those are incredibly serious allegations and they have come to light very recently,” he said. “We do not know the veracity of those allegations and are trying to understand precisely what they are and any investigations.”

Murdoch shut his top-selling Sunday newspaper, the 168-year-old tabloid News of the World, as a result of the hacking scandal. He also dropped a strategically important buyout bid for broadcaster BSkyB.

Rev. Al Sharpton may host talk show Rev. Al Sharpton, one of New York City’s most polarizing figures, could be in line to get his own MSNBC talk show.

The cable network was eyeing Sharpton to replace Cenk Uygur at 6:00pm in an effort to raise its profile, according to tvnewser.com, which first reported the story.

Sharpton is in his third week filling in for Uygur, and last week’s ratings showed a marked uptick in viewership among older viewers in a soughtafter demographic. A familiar figure on cable news — and a regular MSNBC fill-in host — Sharpton also increased the network’s numbers at 10:00pm when he filled in there late last month.

CNN tried much the same thing when it hired disgraced former New York governor Eliot Spitzer last fall — two years after he resigned from office amid a hooker scandal — to host its 8:00pm show with conservative columnist Kathleen Parker, who left shortly thereafter.

That experiment ultimately backfired when Spitzer — who, like Sharp-

ton, had no professional TV background — failed to find a steady audience.

“There have been no formal discussions, but he is having a lot of fun,” Sharpton’s spokeswoman told the newspaper. “He’s been doing talk radio for the past five years — with a daily show and several radio shows that he hosts during the weekend — so he has an audience. And the numbers show it.”

Sharpton’s previous regular TV gig was as the host of Spike’s “I Hate My Job.” He also hosted an episode of “Saturday Night Live,” made cameos on many series and even ran for president as a Democrat in 2004. MSNBC officials had no comment.

Nearly half of turnstile jumpers are kids, cost MTA millions Rogue subway riders are becoming an increasingly bigger problem for the MTA, though the turnstilejumping cheaters tend to be on the smaller side.

Children taller than 44 inches, which is the MTA’s height limit for free rides, comprise nearly 45 percent of fare beaters, according to an informal agency report obtained by the Daily News.

Most of these kids beat the system by ducking under the turnstiles.

Once on the other side, some of the kids even open the emergency exit gate so their mothers can enter for free, too.

The MTA says these fare-beaters, along with the individuals who ride for free by leaping over the turnstiles or pushing two people in with

one swipe, cost the agency millions a year. But plenty of parents don’t seem to mind skirting the system to get their kids in for free.

“We pay for every little thing, and the fare is too expensive to begin with,” Janet Carrion, a mother of two who lives in Harlem, told the News.

“I don’t feel guilty.”

Another mother told the paper the MTA doesn’t enforce the height limit for free rides, so she plans to keep taking advantage until they do.

Meanwhile, the MTA recognizes some straphangers may not be aware of the height regulations because the signs are posted in booths that patrons may no longer use, reports the News. The agency is considering posting the signs near turnstiles to make them more visible.

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Chains and Michelle Obama team on ‘food desert’ stores

By JESSICA WOHL CHICAGO — Some of the largest U.S. grocers said yesterday that they would join forces with First Lady Michelle Obama to bring healthy food to parts of the country, urban and rural, where access to fresh groceries is poor.

Walmart, the largest food retailer in the United States, took part in an announcement with the first lady at the White House yesterday afternoon. Supervalu Inc. and Walgreen Co. also participated.

All three chains announced plans to open stores in so-called “food desert” parts of the country, where people lack access to grocery stores and their fresh produce and meats.

According to data provided by Supervalu, there are more than 23 million people, including more than 6 million children, live in U.S. food deserts.

Walmart, the largest unit of WalMart Stores Inc., has repeatedly said that it wants to bring lower-priced fruit, vegetables and other healthy foods to food deserts. At a January event in Washington featuring Michelle Obama, Walmart said it would promote and cut prices on healthy food.

Such efforts could help Wal-Mart, the world’s largest retailer, to win favor with city councils and other leaders who object to its efforts to open stores in New York City and other parts of the country.

While yesterday’s announcement underscores Michelle Obama’s healthy food initiatives, many retail-

ers have already been opening stores and expanding food offerings in underserved areas.

Walmart said yesterday that it plans to open 275 to 300 stores serving designated “food desert” areas by 2016. It has already opened 218 stores in such areas since 2007.

“The first lady’s efforts in these areas have helped focus our real estate process, to take a particular look at these areas as we build out our real estate plans,” said Leslie Dach, executive vice president of corporate affairs at Walmart.

Supervalu already operates about 400 stores in areas some may consider food deserts, including five recent-

Police bust vice ring that catered to Wall Street clients

By BERND DEBUSMANN JR. Seventeen people were indicted yesterday on charges of running a high-end prostitution ring that catered to Wall Street clients who often spent more than $10,000 in a night, authorities said.

The ring pulled in more than $7 million over three years, Brooklyn District Attorney Charles Hynes said at a news conference.

“The business of high-end prostitution is enormously profitable,” he said.

The prostitution service, named High Class NY, was run 24 hours a day out of an office in Brooklyn and charged from $400 to $3,600 an hour for its services, according to the 144-count indictment. It also provided customers with cocaine and other narcotics, the indictment said.

Hynes said clients often spent in excess of $10,000 in a single night.

They were “all high-end customers coming from the financial markets. People with nothing but money,” he said.

Police said the business was extremely sophisticated, running

several escort websites and using dummy corporations with misleading names and codes during business-related phone calls.

High Class NY even had a law firm draw up employment contracts for its prostitutes, who described themselves as models and fraudulently agreed to refrain from sexual contact with clients, police said.

“They were on the high-end of sophistication,” said Vice Detective Joe Panico.

Indicted were High Class NY owner, Mikhail Yampolsky and his wife, Bronislava, who allegedly used the proceeds from their business to finance expensive trips to Atlantic City and luxury car purchases, Hynes said.

Also indicted were Yampolsky’s son Alexander, step-son Jonathan, 11 managers and supervisors and two investors, Efim Gorelik and Yakov Maystrovich, he said.

Each of the investors had put $700,000 into High Class NY and were being paid back with interest, he said.

Each of those indicted faces the possibility of 25 years in prison if convicted. Two prostitutes face separate indictments on prostitution and drug charges.

ly opened units on the Chicago’s South Side, Chief Executive Craig Herkert told Reuters.

“What’s new for us is committing very publicly with the Partnership for a Healthier America and the first lady to 250” new stores in food deserts, he said.

Walgreen Co, the nation’s largest drugstore chain, committed to convert or open at least 1,000 “food oasis” stores over the next five years stocked with fruits, vegetables and other healthy fare.

More than 45 percent of Walgreen’s existing stores are in areas that do not have easy access to fresh food, CEO Greg Wasson said in a statement.

Back in January, Walgreen said

that it would add more fresh food to about 300 to 500 stores in areas where access to produce and other food is scarce.

Supervalu said it would open 250 Save-A-Lot stores in or around such areas over the next five years, a move that should create more than 6,000 jobs.

Walmart said that its new “food desert” stores would lead to more than 40,000 jobs, including part-time and full-time positions.

None of the new Walmart supercenters or Walmart Market stores are planned for New York City, where Walmart has experienced a strong pushback from local officials worried that the behemoth will threaten the viability of small retailers.

White House open to short-term debt extension WASHINGTON — Federal deficitreduction proposals that would limit Medicare supplemental insurance plans could save money but raise costs for some elderly beneficiaries, a study indicated yesterday.

Requiring higher out-of-pocket costs and deductibles for private “Medigap” plans is contained in most deficit reduction proposals being weighed by Congress.

Medicare is a big-ticket item in the federal budget because its costs will balloon as baby boomers, those born between 1946 and 1964, hit retirement age and begin drawing on health benefits.

A study sponsored by the Kaiser Family Foundation showed restricting coverage of deductibles by Medigap plans could save anywhere from $1.5 billion to $4.6 billion a year, depending on how much out-ofpocket expenses elderly beneficiaries would be required to pay.

Higher deductibles and co-payments would reduce the demand for care and most likely lower supplemental insurance premiums because of reduced expenses for insurers, the study said.

“If premium reductions were fully proportionate to the drop in (insurer) expenses, the savings for the average beneficiary would be sufficient to more than offset his or her new direct outlays for Medicare cost sharing,” the study said.

But it also warned that the proposal could discourage people from seeking necessary care that can prevent more costly treatments.

Medigap plans are popular because they pay most or all expenses not covered by Medicare, which has high deductibles and no cap on out-of-pocket expenses. Budget hawks argue that limiting the amount of coverage by these supplemental insurance plans will discourage unnecessary trips to the doctor as well as elective care and some types of tests.

But about one in five Medigap enrollees would pay more, the study said.

“Medigap reforms would have a disproportionately negative impact on enrollees with modest incomes, in relatively poor health and those with any inpatient hospital utilization,” the study said.

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The ambiance of New York City is always a pleasure during long holiday weekends because a large segment of the people leave allowing the rest of us to enjoy the freed up space and peace of mind that comes with it.

You no longer have mindless people walking into you on the street or inside buildings. The obsessive email readers dwindle down to a slow trek from the usual robotic flood.

You can finally cross the street at crosswalks without having to say, “Excuse me,” to conversing couples blocking your passage. Your life is less endangered because fewer taxi cabs and motorists race up and down avenues and around corners at dangerous speeds.

The clamorous, clanging noise of construction workers is silent. Supermarkets are less full. You can sleep without being jarred by sanitation workers throwing garbage cans on sidewalks regardless of the morning hour. Yes, the city is more tolerable.

But when the multitude of mainly foreign-born workers return, an unpleasant culturally divisive attitude reappears which disregards how Ameri-

cans treat and speak to each other.

Just today a neighbor said, “Oh how she wants to get out of the hospital. (Weill Cornell).

Some people help you but the rest…You would not believe. They make your stay unpleasant. Do mindless, incompetent things that harm you. Heaven forbid you don’t have someone there with you.”

Unfortunately his comment and her experience are not unique.

Orthodox Jews make sure a shift of relatives and friends attend the patient around the clock for this reason.

An open-heart surgery patient had to report her bathroom not being cleaned to her nurse at the same hospital and the West Indian housekeeper responsible for this task said,” Why did you tell them your bathroom isn’t clean?”

She continued to argue with the patient in this medical state and then told every other West Indian on the team to compromise her care and they did.

A Presbyterian Hospital nursing director recently told me that she has to tell staff to speak English around patients because they speak Spanish and Tagalog in patient rooms and diagnostic centers.

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the eastside of Manhattan said, “Every time I leave here, I don’t hear any English in the street.” While another neighbor recuperating from a back ailment, spoke of a hospital employee coming into her room who performed a dance ritual around her bed.

Quality New York City hospitals that were maintained by American professionals whose conduct reflected the highest standard of health care services are now full of inferior, course individuals that come from countries which are the antithesis of American society.

They are loud, boisterous individuals that shout at each other in hallways. Play cards outside of patient rooms overnight and walk around in heels disturbing patients and staff alike. Reports of male technicians inappropriately speaking to and touching patients occurs more often than it should.

According to individual staff at private facilities, foreign workers particularly West Indians are discriminating against Americans…Black Americans by giving preferential care to other nationalities.

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Global salute to Nelson Mandela: Insight for President Barack Obama

By DR. BENJAMIN F. CHAVIS, JR. Literally millions of people on each continent throughout the world paused on July 18, 2011 to recognize and to celebrate the birthday of the living legend, Nelson Mandela. As an African American, I personally joined the ranks of the African National Congress (ANC) more than 40 years ago while I was a younger Black community activist and organizer for the Southern Christian Leadership Conference and the United Church of Christ Commission for Racial Justice. Today, at the wisdom age of 93, Nelson Mandela still stands tall as a living symbol of the triumph of the long protracted struggle of humanity for freedom, justice and equality.

We celebrate the birth and continuing leadership of one of the world’s greatest freedom fighters. Nelson Mandela is a father, grandfather and a serious family man. Even during his long unjust imprisonment for over 27 years, he never loss his sense of perspective about the importance of his family and the leadership of the ANC investing the spirit and ideology of the freedom struggle in the youth of South Africa. The youth of the ANC, who later would rise up in such an irrepressible unity and focus that caused even the rigid foundations of apartheid to collapse and fall. Mandela embodies what it means to be an African transformation visionary who not only fought hard and long to free South Africa from the ruthless apartheid regime,

but also who became the first Black President of South Africa with a universal sense of global dignity, integrity and respect.

I believe today that the first Black President of the United States of America, President Barack H. Obama can also learn from the legacy of Nelson Mandela. When Mandela became President of South Africa, it was not an easy task. It was difficult and trying on every issue because of the history of racial oppression and economic exploitation. But, Mandela rose to the occasion with a masterful astuteness that even brought his political opponents to see and value his inclusive vision for a “new” South Africa. Yes, there are vast differences between the United States and South Africa. My point, however, is that President Obama has a similar trial and tribulation that Mandela had: how to unite a divided nation in order to summon a common, inclusive, transformative and participatory agenda that takes the nation forward in the face of fierce “reactionary” head winds that are determined to take the nation backwards.

The current divisive debate in the United States on increasing the national debt limit to avoid economic default and catastrophe is yet another classic example of politicians putting their narrow political and economic views over the common good for the nation. But, some would join me in saying that this was exactly why the majority of people who voted in the United States elected President Barack Obama to rise to every occasion to help the nation move forward and not back-

Made to feel uncomfortable Continued from page 4 other areas of the industry. Fire Department Emergency Medical Staff carry dirty medical equipment bags with them to treat patients and look disheveled in appearance.

Non private Home Health Aid Attendants appear out of uniform, have minimal training and do not use hygienic best practices when on duty. A New Jersey woman caring for her husband said, “They are not coming into my home.”

In New York City, private clinics, health facilities, businesses and government offices have hired foreign nationals rather than Americans because of the large number of people from Asia, Africa, The Middle East, Eastern Europe, South America and the Caribbean who have come to the city in the last decade.

These individuals acquired open service sector jobs in all areas and in the process have transformed how business is done.

Too many of them do not understand or speak English well. They have not been properly trained and when corrected show resentment.

They speak rudely, show disdain towards Americans and do not do their work well. Too many have to be asked to redo jobs. Sloppy work is more the norm. Such incompetence was not tolerated years ago.

Anyone who failed to do his job properly was fired without recourse.

One journalist I met on Broadway said, “I feel like I am in foreign country.”

This radical population shift began 40 years ago and subsequent city administrations with union support have accelerated their presence.

Friends of mine living in Bayside, Queens left years ago for upstate New York because “all our neighbors were foreigners and we didn’t feel at home anymore.”

Flushing, Queens once part of a vibrant middle/working class Black American community had the public library as its hub.

This entire area is now completely Chinese and Korean with no vestiges of American influence.

In Manhattan you can drive through neighborhoods with foreign flags suspended in the middle

ward. President Obama, like President Mandela in the past, will have to transcend the retrenchment boundaries of partisan politics toward a “new” America that cares more about all its people without the stagnate lethargy of the status quo elite who have little or no concern for the downtrodden and marginalized masses of people who are crying out for a better way of life in America.

Neither South Africa or the United States is perfect, but both nations are still evolving and it will take strong leadership to lead both nations in the broader context of the global community to achieve greater progress for all of humanity. The global economy needs global leadership that views and values diversity, but bonds and binds the global community together with the best of governmental, as well as grass roots, leadership and empowerment for all.

In my last face to face private visit with Nelson Mandela and Russell Simmons in southern Africa, we discussed how important it was for the diamond industry and other extractive industries to invest in the empowerment of Africa. Shortly thereafter and taking the wisdom of Mandela seriously, Russell, I and others from the industry established the Diamond Empowerment Fund (DEF) to provide financial support for the higher education of young African leaders from diamond producing nations in Africa. Business leaders and government leaders can and should do so much more.

Africans can learn from us, but equally important, there is so much we can learn from Africans. We are of light polls overhanging streets.

This blatant disregard of American culture: its language, customs, standards and codes of conduct have visibly created a profound social rift which is intensifying and negatively affecting every strata of city life. The question is ‘how much

working now in South Africa and Botswana. Soon we will be in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). We are advocating concern about all the minerals and other extractive industries. But, like in every neighborhood in America and in Africa, the greatest resource is not the oil, diamonds, copper, gold, silver, platinum, uranium or other precious metals and minerals. The greatest resource is the human resource: that is the youth, families, communities, villages and neighborhoods where people want and deserve the best of life.

The elders in every society should always be consulted by the youth leaders in every community. God has blessed us with Nelson Mandela.

Let’s learn from our elder statesman.

We should learn from history, not repeat history. President Barack Obama can and should gain an invaluable insight from Nelson Mandela. The world is still changing and we should all desire to be change agents rather than change spectators. Lastly, in 1993, I was honored to present Nelson Mandela to the National Convention of the NAACP in Indianapolis, Indiana. He spoke about the historic bond between the ANC and the NAACP as two “freedom fighting” organizations. We have to overcome our “weary years and our silent tears.” Nelson Mandela continues to show us the way.

— Dr. Benjamin F. Chavis Jr. is Senior Advisor to the Black Alliance for Educational Options (BAEO) and President of Education Online Services Corporation. longer will it be tolerated before an American backlash occurs?’

— LaMarr Renee is President of LaMarr Renee Enterprises, Ltd. A financial advisory and media consultant firm based in New York City.

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Law enforcement to begin iPhone iris scans amid privacy concerns

By ZACH HOWARD CONWAY, Mass.

— Dozens of police departments nationwide are gearing up to use a tech company’s already controversial iris- and facialscanning device that slides over an iPhone and helps identify a person or track criminal suspects.

The so-called “biometric” technology, which seems to take a page from TV shows like “MI-5” or “CSI,” could improve speed and accuracy in some routine police work in the field. However, its use has set off alarms with some who are concerned about possible civil liberties and privacy issues.

The smartphone-based scanner, named Mobile Offender Recognition and Information System, or MORIS, is made by BI2 Technologies in Plymouth, Massachusetts, and can be deployed by officers out on the beat or back at the station.

An iris scan, which detects unique patterns in a person’s eyes, can reduce to seconds the time it takes to identify a suspect in custody.

This technique also is significantly more accurate than results from other fingerprinting technology long in use by police, BI2 says.

When attached to an iPhone, MORIS can photograph a person’s face and run the image through software that hunts for a match in a BI2-managed database of U.S. criminal records.

Each unit costs about $3,000.

Some experts fret police may be randomly scanning the population, using potentially intrusive techniques to search for criminals, sex offenders, and illegal aliens, but the manufacturer says that would be a difficult task for officers to carry out.

Sean Mullin, BI2’s CEO, says it is difficult, if not impossible, to covertly photograph someone and obtain a

clear, usable image without that person knowing about it, because the MORIS should be used close up.

“It requires a level of cooperation that makes it very overt — a person knows that you’re taking a picture for this purpose,” Mullin said.

But constitutional rights advocates are concerned, in part because the device can accurately scan an individual’s face from up to four feet away, potentially without a person’s being aware of it.

Experts also say that before police administer an iris scan, they should have probable cause a crime has been committed.

“What we don’t want is for them to become a general surveillance tool, where the police start using them routinely on the general public, collecting biometric information on innocent people,” said Jay Stanley, senior policy analyst with the national ACLU in Washington, D.C. Meanwhile, advocates see

the MORIS as a way to make tools already in use on police cruiser terminals more mobile for cops on the job.

“This is (the technology) stepping out of the cruiser and riding on the officer’s belt, along with his flashlight, his handcuffs, his sidearm or the other myriad tools,” said John Birtwell, spokesman for the Plymouth County Sheriff’s Department in southeastern Massachusetts, one of the first departments to use the devices.

The technology is also employed to maintain security at Plymouth’s 1,650 inmate jail, where it is used to prevent the wrong prisoner from being released.

“There, we have everybody in orange jumpsuits, so everyone looks the same. So, quite literally, the last thing we do before you leave our facility is we compare your iris to our database,” said Birtwell.

One of the technology’s earliest uses at BI2, starting

in 2005, was to help various agencies identify missing children or at-risk adults, like Alzheimer’s patients.

Since then, it has been used to combat identity fraud, and could potentially be used in traffic stops when a driver is without a license, or when people are stopped for questioning at U.S. borders.

Facial recognition technology is not without its problems, however. For example, some U.S. individuals mistakenly have had their driver’s license revoked as a potential fraud. The problem, it turns out, is that they look like another driver and so the technology mistakenly flags them as having fake identification.

Roughly 40 law enforcement units nationwide will soon be using the MORIS, including Arizona’s Pinal County Sheriff’s Office, as well as officers in Hampton City in Virginia and Calhoun County in Alabama.

Defense tries to shake FBI account of post-Katrina shooting

By KATHY FINN NEW ORLEANS — Lawyers for police officers on trial over a deadly 2005 shooting in the chaotic aftermath of Hurricane Katrina tried on Tuesday to knock down the government’s assertion that only police had fired their guns.

During a cross-examination of the lead FBI investigator, the defense also tried to portray Special Agent

William Bezak as an outsider unsympathetic to devastating conditions in New Orleans that day, when much of the city was still underwater.

“There were still people at that time trapped in their houses, but you don’t know that. You weren’t here, were you?” lawyer Paul Fleming asked Bezak, who lives in Philadelphia.

The shooting on September 4, 2005 killed two people — James Brissette, 17, and Ronald Madison, 40 — and

seriously wounded four others as officers responded to a report that police were in danger near the Danziger Bridge.

Officers Kenneth Bowen, Robert Gisevius, Robert Faulcon and Anthony Villavaso face federal civil rights charges in connection with the shooting. Along with homicide investigator Arthur “Archie” Kaufman, they also are accused of covering up crimes.

Five other officers have pleaded guilty to a role in the incident, and four of them have testified for the prosecution.

In the day-long cross-

examination, Fleming referred to Bezak’s earlier testimony that he thought a homicide detective should have spent more time investigating what happened on the bridge rather than assisting with ongoing police rescues of people trapped by flood waters.

“How many people do you feel it would be appropriate to be allowed to die” in order to investigate the incident, he continued, before prosecutors’ objections ended that line of questioning.

Witnesses, including police, have said that none of the civilians on the bridge

that day had guns, and that the police opened fire on the people after hearing a report that shooters somewhere near the Danziger Bridge had fired on police.

But defense lawyer Eric Hessler showed photos of damaged spots on the north side of the bridge that he said could have come from bullets fired by shooters standing on the ground just off the bridge.

Bezak said ballistics experts had determined that ricocheting bullets fired from the southeast, where the police had stood, had caused the marks.

ciousness” toward Obama in debt negotiations.

“Why is this president being treated so disrespectfully?” she asked. “I am par-

ticularly sensitive to the fact that only this president — only this one, only this one — has received the kind of attacks and disagreement and inability to work, only this one. Read between the lines.”

Rushing referred the fax to the House sergeant-atarms and Secret Service and FBI directors.

Secret Service spokesman Robert Novy said: “We are aware of the cartoon, and we are taking appropriate measures. Being a protective intelligence matter, the Secret Service has no further comment.”

U.S. Postal chief predicts three days of service a week Racist fax sent to Obama and Black lawmaker WASHINGTON — Saturday mail delivery has to go, and service may eventually drop to three days a week, U.S. Postmaster General Patrick Donahoe says.

The U.S. Postal Service is projected to lose $8.3 billion this year, and, “On Sept. 30, I won’t be able to pay my bills,” Donahoe told USA Today.

On that date, a $5.5 billion payment is due to cover future retirees’ health benefits.

Congress mandated sixday delivery in 1983, but Sens. Tom Carper, D-Del., and Susan Collins, RMaine, have introduced

legislation to allow the end of Saturday mail.

Donahoe estimates that step would save $3.1 billion annually and said it has “a much better chance today than a year ago. I don’t know if I’d say ‘likely’ yet.”

Looking ahead, he said, “At some point, we’ll have to move to three” days a week, maybe in 15 years.

Sen. Jon Tester, DMont., says Saturday delivery is vital to rural areas.

“It’s important to have delivery on Saturday in places like Montana to get things like medicine and things they need,” he said.

HOUSTON — The Secret Service and the FBI say they are investigating a racist lynching cartoon faxed to the White House and the office of a Black congresswoman.

Glenn Rushing, chief of staff to Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (right), D-Texas, told the Houston Chronicle the cartoon — depicting two Lshaped gallows with “Sheila Jackson Lee” written on one and “Hussein Obama” on the other — arrived at her Houston office Saturday.

On the House floor Friday, Lee accused Republicans of “maligning and mali-

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Educated and unemployed find support in North Carolina group

By NED BARNETT RALEIGH, North Carolina Charles Seeman said he wasn’t worried after getting laid off from a job he loved as chief financial officer for a Raleigh, Carolina-area North company.

But out of work for 14 months, Seeman now finds himself in good company among the mostly middle-aged people with college degrees and deep experience who gather weekly for a support group for the unemployed.

“I had always been able to get a job before because of my background,” said the 48year-old certified public accountant with an MBA and a master’s in accounting.

White Memorial Presbyterian Church in

Raleigh is a prosperous place in a growing city, but every Tuesday morning it becomes the center of an economic crisis for the middle class. A support group that began in 2008 with five members now draws at least 65 each week, with more than 340 on its rolls.

Two church members and retired executives who lead the group never expected to still be dealing with high unemployment nearly three years later. Many of the middle-class participants didn’t either.

“They get the idea, ‘Oh, I can get another job quickly.’ Then time starts clicking away, and next thing you know six months have passed and they don’t have work,” said Bob Gates, a former AT&T executive.

“They aren’t even close to a job. So they

need some kind of program like this in order to keep focused.”

Members of the White support Memorial group have learned firsthand a grim truth of the long economic downturn. who Americans should be in their prime earning years — funding their children’s college, paying off homes and planning for retirement — are instead exhausting their savings, losing their assets and struggling to keep pride in themselves and faith in the future. And there’s no sign of a let up.

At the start of the recession in December 2007, unemployment among those with college degrees was 2.1 percent. After peaking at 5.1 percent in late 2010, the number remains high at 4.4 percent, U.S. Department of

Labor statistics show.

More than two years after the Great Recession officially ended, overall U.S. unemployment ticked up to 9.2 percent in June, the highest level since December 2010.

On average, there are 4.7 applicants for every job opening.

Thomas W. Arndt, 60, a former CEO of several mid-sized manufacturing companies, thinks unemployment and underemployment are even more pervasive than the figures show.

Let go from a job as part of a restructuring, he has been looking for a senior management position for 10 months.

“I don’t believe any of the numbers I hear. I believe they are all suspect,” Arndt said. “The number is much bigger.”

NETWORKING IS KEY

With you when

Arndt attended a recent support group meeting where late arrivals were forced to stand after about 60 seats were filled. The featured speaker, Chapel Hill-based career coach Kristin Hiemstra, opened by asking for responses to certain words.

The first word was entitlement.

The answers came back: “You owe me.”

“I’ve got qualifications.”

“I’ve got more sense than the young folks.”

Then blame: “They don’t know what they lost.”

Then came pity and fear, as some worried they might lose homes, see their skills slip or never get another job.

Hiemstra urged the group to avoid sitting at home applying for jobs online. She said they needed to muster their self confidence, count

their blessings and go meet people.

“The computer will suck the very life out of you,” she said. “Seven out of 10 jobs are found through networking.”

Her concluding comment spoke to dejection as much as optimism.

“It is important for you to remember that you are deeply loved,” she said.

Gates and his coleader, former public relations executive Al Rankin, also bring in speakers who offer advice on resume writing, interviewing and setting up an online profile.

Those skills are crucial, but middle-aged job seekers still face inevitable obstacles trying to reenter corporate America — age discrimination and a hiring environment altered by technology and globalization.

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AFRICAN SCENE

UN: Parts of south Somalia suffering from famine

By KATHARINE HOURELD

f during violent Malawi riots 1 person killed BLANTYRE, Malawi - Police say one person has been killed and several others injured during nationwide demonstrations in the southern African country of Malawi.

Malawians say they are protesting against persistent fuel and foreign exchange reserve shortages, and bad governance.

Demonstrations yesterday in the commercial center of Blantyre, in the capital and other major towns turned violent as protesters also looted several shops belonging to ruling party officials and allies of President Bingu wa Mutharika.

Police fired tear gas and rubber bullets at demonstrators.

A north regional police spokeswoman, Norah Chimwala, said she could not confirm how the person died. She said several others, including police officers, had been injured.

Opposition politicians and journalists said they have also been assaulted by police.

Kenya torches 5 tons of ivory taken from poachers MANYANI, Kenya - Kenyan authorities have burned five tons of contraband elephant ivory in hopes of raising awareness about rising levels of poaching.

President Mwai Kibaki set fire to a six-foot-high pile of tusks at a wildlife service training center yesterday.

Save the Elephants founder Iain DouglasHamilton says poaching has increased dramatically in the last two years because of a rise in demand for ivory from China.

In addition to poaching, elephants are threatened by a growing human population encroaching on their habitat. Africa had 1.3 million elephants in the 1970s but today only 500,000 remain.

Kenya first burned an ivory stockpile in 1989 to focus attention on the alarming rate of poaching deaths.

Guinea arrests 37 soldiers over assassination bid Guinean security forces have arrested 37 soldiers in the wake of a rocket attack on President Alpha Conde’s home in Conakry, a military source told the press yesterday.

Most of those arrested are close allies of General Sekouba Konate, who led a transition government, and of former junta chief Moussa Dadis Camara who led the country between 2008 and 2009 after seizing power, the source said.

An influential colonel nicknamed “De Gaulle” who has ties to Konate is among those arrested, as well as Alpha Oumar Diallo, a commander and ally of former president Lansana Conte who died in 2008 after a 24-year rule.

All the suspects are being held at the national police headquarters in Conakry, the source added.

He said former army chief Nouhou Thiam, who was arrested on Tuesday, was still in custody and considered a suspect.

NAIROBI, Kenya - Parts of southern Somalia are suffering from famine, a U.N. official said yesterday, and tens of thousands of Somalis have already died in the worst hunger emergency in a generation.

The Horn of Africa is suffering a devastating drought compounded by war, neglect and spiraling prices. Some areas in the region have not had such a low rainfall in 60 years, aid group Oxfam said.

The U.N. needs $300 million in the next two months, said Mark Bowden, the U.N.’s top official in charge of humanitarian aid in Somalia. The last time conditions were this bad was in 1992, when hundreds of thousands of Somalis starved to death. That famine prompted intervention by an international peacekeeping force, but it eventually pulled out after two American Black Hawk helicopters were shot down in 1993.

The southern Somali regions of Bakool and Lower Shabelle regions are suffering from famine, Bowden said. Across East Africa, more than 11.3 million people need aid, the World Food Program said.

“Somalia is facing its worst food security crisis in the last 20 years,” Bowden said. “This desperate situation requires urgent action to save lives.”

Famine is officially defined as when two adults or four chil-

dren per 10,000 people die of hunger each day and a third of children are acutely malnourished. In some areas of Somalia, six people are dying a day and more than half of children are acutely malnourished, Bowden said. Prices of staple foods have increased 270 percent over the last year.

“If we don’t act now, famine will spread to all eight regions of southern Somalia within two months, due to poor harvests and infectious diseases,” Bowden said. “We still do not have all the resources for food, clean water, shelter and health services to save the lives of hundreds of thousands of Somalia.”

He said it was unlikely there would be any respite from the drought until the end of the year.

The drought has killed up to 90 percent of livestock in some regions, Oxfam said. But poor governance is also to blame.

Most of Somalia has been wracked by civil war since its last government collapsed in 1990. Islamist rebels currently hold most of southern Somalia.

They banned most aid agencies from working there two years ago but rescinded the ban earlier this month.

Somalia is the most dangerous country in the world to work in, according to the U.N.’s World Food Program, which lost 14 relief workers in the past few years. Looting and attacks on aid convoys occur frequently.

WFP head Josette Sheeran said the group is willing to return to southern Somalia if the insurgents guarantee safe

passage.

“We are absolutely fully committed to going where the hungry are,” she said. weak, U.N.-backed The Somali government regularly comes last in the world in the annual corruption rating by watchdog Transparency International, but Bowden said it had welcomed the U.N.’s efforts and was working closely with aid groups.

Neighboring Djibouti, Ethiopia and Kenya have also been badly affected, and Eritrea is also believed to be hard hit, though its repressive government does not release figures.

Oxfam says the drought has been exacerbated by poor governance and neglect, war in Somalia and land policies that restrict grazing land for nomadic communities.

Oxfam criticized those policies in a report released yesterday, but also said several rich European countries should do more to provide emergency aid.

The aid agency says there is a $800 million shortfall in funds.

They say $1 billion is needed to fund relief efforts through January.

Oxfam Regional Director Fran Equiza released a statement yesterday saying it was “morally indefensible” that countries have only pledged $200 million in addition to longrunning programs.

Yesterday, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said the U.S. will give another $28 million, on top of the $431 million in assistance it has given to the Horn of Africa this year.

ElBaradei tops Egypt president Facbook poll Former UN nuclear watchdog chief Mohamed ElBaradei is the most popular choice for next Egyptian president, according to an army survey conducted on Facebook, state media reported yesterday.

The survey, which was launched a month ago on Facebook, asked members to rate their favourite for the coun-

try’s top job, in an exercise criticised as unrepresentative.

ElBaradei got 25 percent of the votes of the 267,000 participants.

He was followed by Islamist thinker Mohamed Selim al-Awa with 17 percent, and Ayman Nur — who heads the liberal alGhad opposition party— with 13 percent.

The survey was conducted by the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF) — which took power when for-

mer president Hosni Mubarak was ousted by a popular uprising in February — without explicitly stating its purpose.

The military council has yet to set the date for presidential elections, but said polls for the country’s leader would be organised after legislative elections in autumn and the drafting of a new constitution.

Its online survey has been criticised for being limited to the Facebook community, which does

not reflect dynamics on the ground.

Critics also slammed the army’s choice of candidates, which included Mubarak’s former spy chief Omar Suleiman who was briefly vice president, and Ahmed Shafiq, a former air force commander who headed Mubarak’s last cabinet.

Suleiman came fourth in the online survey, although he has no plans to run for president, according to recent statements he made to the media.

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CARIBBEAN NEWS DAILY CHALLENGE THURSDAY, JULY 21, 2011

St Vincent public accounts committee to review irregularities at ministries

By KENTON X. CHANCE KINGSTOWN, St Vincent — St Vincent and the Grenadines (SVG) opposition leader Arnhim Eustace said on Monday that he will convene a meeting of the inactive Public Accounts Committee to discuss the outcome of probes into two government departments last year.

He said the meeting will discuss the “Kentucky Report” — a 10-point course of action the director of audit demanded be implemented at the Ministry of Health and the Environment after an audit in 2010 found that the ministry was plagued by misappropriation of funds, wastage, and lack of internal control.

The permanent secretary was to implement a system for the proper supervision and monitoring of all items imported under the ministry’s concession, account for items purchased locally but were not produced for inspec-

tion, and recover the monies spent on fast food.

The CIHP bought fast food under conditions not approved by the including Ministry, $370 spent on KFC during November and December 2009. An audit of the department said that a further $610 spent on KFC over a three-day period in August 2009 was “exorbitant”.

Eustace also said that the meeting of the Public Accounts Committee will seek information of the outcome of a probe at the Ministry of Agriculture, where a company belonging to the permanent secretary - a son of the Speaker of the House of Assembly was accused of importing and selling to the ministry exorbitantly priced items.

“I want information on what has happened with those matters in relations to the Ministry of Agriculture and I will be calling a meeting to deal with those,” Eustace said but did not say when the meeting would take place.

Eustace, in his capacity as opposition leader, is chairman of the Committee but said he

has not had a pleasant in that experience capacity and the accounts of the government are not up to date.

The former finance minister told journalists that the Committee is an “important institution” but said since the government has majority membership opposition proposals are often outvoted.

“My experience has not been a pleasant one in terms of what it can actually accomplish in the sense that although I am chairman, when you have to vote on any decision, you are out voted. The other problem I have is that for years the Public Accounts Committee, which is supposed to look at the accounts of the government, is many years in arrears,” Eustace said, noting that he had only recently received the document for 2008.

“But, I intend to call a meeting of the Public Accounts Committee to discuss that same report and some others,” he said.

Meanwhile, Member of Parliament for Central Kingstown St Claire Leacock said he believes that corruption has been “institution-

alised” in St Vincent and the Grenadines under the ruling Unity Labour Party (ULP).

Leacock, of the opposition New Democratic (NDP), on Party Monday decried what he described as an “extracabinet function” in SVG. “We just had an election [in December] and every single member of the ULP who lost a seat or who was unable to contest a seat is now better off having not contested, or lost his seat. ...

And these are people who have already got pension,” Leacock said at an NDP press conference.

“I find in the New Democratic Party we seem to have to work overtime to get public interest issues properly explained and at times we appear to come to these conferences on the defensive,” he said.

Leacock listed several members of the ULP who either lost the elections — which the ULP won 8 seats to the NDP’s 7 — or opted out of politics ahead of the polls and the positions they now hold within the current administration or state-owned companies.

“In essence, I am

making the point that the country is now running with two cabinets. ... They are all better off having lost or not contesting elections and their salaries, for the main part, are in excess of that of Cabinet ministers,” Leacock said.

“These are the questions an effective media will ask and present or represent on behalf of the people of St Vincent and the Grenadines.

You are not hearing that,” he added.

“The ULP, as an administration, campaigned and presented themselves to be more pious and holier-thanthou and that the NDP was the party of corruption. And what we are seeing in St Vincent and the Grenadines now is institutionalised corruption. That’s what it is!

That is what it is! And, each time it is presented, the prime minister ducks and says it’s not his Cabinet, it is not his government. ... He promotes those who are guilty in the various departments,” Leacock said.

Leacock spoke of the recent audits, which uncovered unsanctioned practices at the ministries of health and agriculture.

Chairman of the Public Accounts Committee, opposition leader Arnhim Eustace “You had so many matters! In fact, if you go through the audit reports, the auditor general has identified contracts of the government and their breaches as a cause of concern,” he said.

“This country is going down the hill.

There is an obligation to arrest the expense of running this country.

Because what we are witnessing is bigger government in St Vincent and the Grenadines. There is a simple saying: we ought to do more with less. We are establishing another record in St Vincent and the Grenadines. We are doing less with more,” Leacock said.

New CARICOM secretary general to be named later this week BASSETERRE, St Kitts (CUOPM) — The people of the Caribbean from Suriname and Guyana in the south to Jamaica, Haiti and The Bahamas in the north will know by the end of the week the name of the new secretary general of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM).

CARICOM chairman and St Kitts and Nevis prime minister, Dr Denzil Douglas, who was visiting Grenada on Sunday to address the annual Convention of the ruling National Democratic Congress

(NDC), said the CARICOM Bureau met in Barbados on Saturday to interview the five candidates for the position that became vacant following Sir Edwin Carrington’s decision to step down at the start of the year after 18 years on the job.

The three members of the Bureau Douglas, Suriname President Desi Bouterse and Grenada’s Prime Minister Tillman Thomas - were joined by host prime minister of Barbados, Freundel Stuart, to interview the candidates that includ-

ed the present assistant secretary general, trade and economic integration, Ambassador Irwin LaRocque and the St Vincent and the Grenadines diplomat Ellsworth John.

“The three leaders of the Bureau of the Conference of Heads, together with the prime minister of Barbados, completed the exercise of interviewing five Caribbean people for the distinguished post of secretary general of CARICOM,” Douglas told reporters just before the rally in Grenada.

Douglas said he will inform his other regional colleagues during this week, with the intent of completing the screening exercise and announcing the new CARICOM secretary general by the middle of this week.

“Over the next few days as I make contact with our Caribbean leaders, we would be able to complete the exercise and by midweek hopefully of this week, we would have identified the new secretary general of our C A R I C O M Community,” he said.

Caribbean Community chairman and St Kitts and Nevis prime minister, Dr Denzil Douglas, says the new CARICOM secretary general will be named this week The new secretary month noted “is the general is expected to first in a series of initialead the reform of the tives mandated by the Guyana-based CARI- Heads of Government COM Secretariat that towards improving govthe regional leaders at ernance arrangements their annual summit in within the St Kitts earlier this Community.”

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U.S.-Cuba ties in balance over jailed American’s appeal

By MARC FRANK HAVANA Future prospects for improving U.S.Cuba ties will be at stake when Cuba’s highest court hears an appeal on Friday from jailed U.S. aid contractor Alan Gross against his 15-year sentence for crimes against the state.

Gross, 62, was arrested in Havana in December 2009 while working on a secretive USAID-funded prodemocracy program that sought to establish an Internet platform in communist-ruled Cuba, where access to the Internet is tightly controlled.

His detention by Cuba, which accuses Washington of trying to subvert its socialist system by promoting new communications technologies on the island, put a brake on cautious moves by President Barack Obama to foster a better relationship with

Havana after decades of Cold War era enmity.

Gross’s sentencing in March by Cuban judges to 15 years in prison for crimes against the state dealt a further blow to chances of a significant rapprochement.

Washington condemned it as an “injustice” and U.S. officials have made clear further moves to improve ties would require his immediate release.

The aid contractor denies his work in Cuba was hostile to the government there, saying he was only trying to improve Internet connectivity for the island’s small Jewish community.

“Friday’s hearing affords Alan another opportunity to reiterate, through his Cuban counsel, that his actions on the island were never intended to be — and in fact never were — a threat to the Cuban government,” Gross’s lawyer, Peter J. Kahn, said in statement.

“The family remains hopeful that Cuba’s high court will render a decision that will allow Alan to be released

immediately, having already served nearly 20 months in a Cuban prison,” Kahn added.

Hopes for the American’s release have centered on his reported ill health — his wife Judy says he has lost 100 pounds (45 kg) in jail — and on the family’s direct appeal to Cuban President Raul Castro for a humanitarian pardon on the grounds that both his daughter and motherin-law have been battling cancer.

Kahn said wife Judy Gross would be unable to attend Friday’s hearing in Havana as she was herself recuperating from surgery for an undisclosed ailment.

Local Cuban lawyers, who spoke with Reuters on the condition they were not named, said the Cuban Supreme Court could throw out the lower court’s conviction of Gross and let him walk free. But they believed it was more likely to uphold the verdict and, possibly, to reduce the sentence.

Its ruling on the appeal was not expected to come immediately and could even take

weeks.

“PROHIBITED” TECHNOLOGY The U.S. government, whose diplomats in Havana will attend the hearing, said it would continue to use “all diplomatic channels” to press for Gross’s release.

“We again call on the Government of Cuba to immediately and unconditionally release Alan Gross,” State Department spokeswoman Heide Fulton told Reuters.

“He should be reunited with his family to bring an end to their long ordeal.”

A number of high profile U.S. political figures have lobbied the Cuban government for Gross’s release, among them former President Jimmy Carter who visited the contractor in jail during a March trip to Cuba soon after his sentencing.

Obama had initially eased U.S. travel restrictions to Cuba and allowed a free flow of remittances to the island as part of measures to increase contacts. But more significant moves to relax

Serbia arrests last major war crimes fugitive

By ADAM TANNER & ALEKSANDAR VASOVIC BELGRADE Serbia arrested the last major war crimes suspect from the 1990s Yugoslav conflicts yesterday, closing what its president called a “burdensome” page in the country’s history and boosting its hopes of joining the European Union.

Goran Hadzic, a Croatian Serb wartime leader indicted for crimes against humanity during the 1991-95 Croatian war, was seized by Serb forces in the Fruska Gora national park region about 65 km (40 miles)

north of Belgrade.

“We nabbed him while he was about to meet a helper. He had changed his appearance somewhat and had fake papers on him,” an operative familiar with the case told Reuters. “He did not resist arrest, but we were ready for all contingencies.”

The arrest of the 52year-old is key for the European union future of Serbia because it removes the shadow of war crimes that has plagued Belgrade’s bid for membership.

“I will be looking our European counterparts in the eye and seeing whether they make good on what they have promised,” Serbian President Boris Tadic told reporters.

A stolen painting said to be by Italian figurative artist Amedeo Modigliani gave prosecutors an essential clue

in finding Hadzic, Serbia’s war crimes prosecutor said.

“The breakthrough was information that he wanted to sell a stolen Modigliani painting as he was running out of money,” Vladimir Vukcevic told a news conference.

Hadzic, 52, was a key figure in the breakaway Krajina Serb republic in Croatia, and after the arrest of wartime Serb General Ratko Mladic earlier this year, he was the last suspect sought by the United Nations war crime tribunal in The Hague.

“We have closed a burdensome and gloomy page of our history,” said Tadic.

“We did this for the people of Serbia, for other nations, for the victims and for reconciliation.”

Croatian President Ivo Josipovic welcomed

the arrest.

“This is a contribution to justice and a contribution to better relations between the countries in the region,” he told Reuters. “And I think it is good for Serbia to go through a certain catharsis with regards to the developments in the past war.”

ARREST KEY TO EU PROGRESS The European Union, which hailed Belgrade for finding Mladic in May, had insisted on Hadzic’s arrest for Serbia to progress toward European Union membership.

“This is a further important step for Serbia in realizing its European perspective and equally crucially for international justice,” three top EU officials said in a joint statement welcoming the arrest.

long-running U.S. economic sanctions against the island are unlikely without movement in the Gross case.

Many ordinary Cubans seemed to know little about it.

“I do not have enough information to say he is guilty or not, but according to the government he was distributing satellite technology that is prohibited,” said Diego, a doorman at a Havana restaurant. He declined to give his last name.

Sources with knowledge of Gross’s secretive trial in Havana in March said his team of Cuban and American lawyers argued he should not be charged with “acts against the

independence or territorial integrity of the state,” a serious crime in Cuba.

His defenders said he did not understand he was working for a U.S. program aimed at promoting political change in Cuba. He admitted entering as a tourist several times to distribcommunications ute equipment to Jewish groups, the sources said.

Cuban authorities tightly control Internet access on the island and Cuba’s security services view new communications technology and social media as the latest battlefront in the long ideological war between the two nations.

France says Gaddafi could stay in Libya

By BRIAN LOVE PARIS - Muammar Gaddafi could stay in Libya if he gives up power, France said yesterday, signaling a new effort to find a diplomatic solution to a five-month-old war that has failed to oust the resilient leader.

The United States said Gaddafi must quit, but whether he remained in Libya after that would be up to the Libyan people.

“He needs to remove himself from power ... and then it’s up to the Libyan people to decide,” White House spokesman Jay Carney said when asked if Washington share France’s view.

However, Gaddafi’s foreign minister swiftly dismissed the French proposal, saying Gaddafi’s departure after 41 years in power was not a matter for discussion.

On the battlefield, rebels suffered heavy casualties in fighting for the eastern oil hub of Brega, a town they must capture if they are to advance toward the capital, Tripoli.

Eighteen rebel fighters were killed and up to 150 wounded in the latest clashes with forces loyal to Gaddafi for control of Brega, a doctor at a rebel-controlled hospital said.

“Yesterday, it was a disaster,” Dr Sarahat Atta-Alah told Reuters at Ajdabiya hospital in eastern Libya yesterday.

Rebels have said they have encircled Brega, but fighters said they were still coming under fire from pro-Gaddafi forces.

Rebels also reported heavy fighting near the western town of Misrata, an insurgent stronghold. Medical workers at the city’s Hikam hospital said seven rebel fighters had been killed and 35 wounded. Hospital officials earlier reported that one pro-Gaddafi soldier had been killed.

The head of NATO said opposition forces had made progress and that rebels in the east and west of Libya would join up.

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Clear Channel taps Nicki Minaj to headline ‘I HeartRadio’ music fest

One Thought - One Humanity

For the conclusions of these stories check out the July 14th - July 20th, 2011 issue of The New American, which hits newsstands every Thursday For the past several years Crystal Nicole has been working behind the scenes penning songs for Beyonce, Rihanna, Mariah Carey, Brandy, Monica and others. Now with a brand new record deal, the Atlanta native is following the same successful path as Ne-Yo and Keri Hilson transitioning from songwriter to artist. Eariler this year, Crystal Nicole won a Grammy Award for writing Rihanna’s “Only Girl (In the World)” featured on the ‘Loud’ album. After learning the business and working with award winning artists and producers, Crystal Nicole moves into the spotlight with the release of her first single “Pinch Me.” With the launch of her artist career she is using her voice to talk about the importance of having a “voice against domestic violence.”

The plot between Bow Wow and the mother of his child, video model Joie Chavis, thickens as more drama is revealed to the world. According to TMZ, Joie decided to exclude Bow Wow’s name from the birth certificate of their child, Shai, since he did not show up to the hospital during the birth of their daughter after Joie had to undergo an emergency c-section back in April. In fact, it is reported that Bow Wow didn’t show up until six days after the baby was born! Joie is also stating that Bow Wow is a fake, and is acting like he’s a devoted dad from the open letter he wrote to his fans earlier this week but was absent during their daughter’s birth.

Although she obvisouly seems to have ill feelings toward the rapper, it’s reported that Joie is willing to move on and let the courts name Bow Wow as baby Shai’s father,

legally, although that will be up to the discretion of the judge.

American Idol alum Jordin Sparks, who is currently touring with the Backstreet Boys and New Kids on the Block, says she feels “lucky” that she continues to find success in her career. The 21year-old tells Parade, “”I just feel lucky that five years later I’m still touring and people still want to talk to me. For me, I just keep going and say yes to things that I think are going to be really important.”

Sparks also says having a good foundation and picking the right songs has helped her longevity. “I don’t want to get bogged down saying yes to things just because I can,” she says. “I want it to mean something. Trying to keep your head on straight and having a good foundation and base back at home and around you is key.”

Five classic albums created by Tupac Shakur are being rereleased digitally for the first time ever, representatives for the late rapper’s family confirmed. Tupac’s first three solo albums are being made available digitally for sale on iTunes for the first time. The albums that are being re-released include 2Pacalypse Now, which produced the singles “Brenda’s Got A Baby” and “Trapped.” His second album, Strictly For My N.I.G.G.A.Z., will also be digitally rereleased. That album produced the singles “Holler If You Hear Me” and one of Tupac’s best-known songs, “I Get Around.” Other albums hitting the Internet for the first time include Thug Life - Volume 1, Me Against The World and R U Still Down?. In related news, Tupac’s Greatest Hits album has official-

ly been certified Diamond by the RIAA, having sold over 10 million copies since its original release on November 24, 1998.

Michelle Williams is making a musical comeback with her new song “Love Gun.” Much like her Destiny’s Child counterpart Kelly Rowland, Michelle has gone the techno-pop route on this tune. It’s been three years since her last solo album was released and “Love Gun” is quite different from it’s preceding material. With heavy synths and Casio keyboard-striking, the upbeat record is for the lucky in love. “My album will be ‘inspirational pop.’ Think of Katy Perry’s ‘Firework’ or Natasha Bedingfeld’s ‘Unwritten.’ I want to give people a message of hope while at the same time get them moving with dance inspired tracks.”

Andre 3000 was originally tapped to play Jimi Hendrix in a biopic last year, but it’s been silent on the news front since. But according to actress Hayley Atwell, the Outkast member is still slated to be in the flick. Speaking with Esquire, the Captain America star explained that Three Stacks is signed on to appear as Hendrix in the independent flick.

“Next up is possibly a Jimi Hendrix biopic — an independent film with Andre 3000 from OutKast playing Jimi Hendrix. But I don’t know, really.

The Atwell team is like, Let’s just wait and see,” she said. Andre previously appeared in the 2008 flick Semi-Pro, though has relatively quiet since then. He is supposedly working on a solo album to be released this year in anticipation of an Outkast LP to drop in 2012.

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to create their own listening experience.

“Building up to the festival, we will be presenting the biggest national promotion in radio history,” said John Hogan, President and CEO of Clear Channel Radio. “All 850 Clear Channel radio stations, spanning diverse music formats, introduced millions of listeners across the country to this historic music event. The majority of our stations will also feature exclusive radio and digital content including exclusive artist interviews and ticket giveaways. The announcement of the event alone has set new records.

It’s the first announcement ever to roadblock all Clear Channel Radio platforms and the teasers and the announcement have reached an estimated 100 million people.”

The IHeartRadio Festival will take place at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas from September 23rd-24th.

Rapper Nicki Minaj will be one of a number of celebrities who are slated to perform during Clear Channel Radio’s “IHeartRadio Music Festival.”

Hollywood A–Lister Ryan Seacrest is hosting the two-day festival, which also include performances by Bruno Mars, The Black Eyed Peas, Jennifer Lopez, Alicia Keys, Lady Gaga, Kelly Clarkson, Sublime, John Mayer, Usher and Sting.

The artists will appear on stage at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas this September, where the festival will also serve to launch clear channels IHeartRadio digital product.

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Health body backs free birth control for women

By ANDREW SEAMAN WASHINGTON — A U.S. medical advisory group recommended providing women free birth control and other preventive health services under the nation’s healthcare overhaul.

The Institute of Medicine report, commissioned by the Obama administration, recommended that all U.S.approved birth control methods — including the “morning after pill,” taken shortly after intercourse to forestall pregnancy — be added to the federal government’s list of preventive health services.

“The evidence supporting contraception is quite

straightforward. It works,” said Dr. Alfred Berg, a member of IOM’s Committee on Preventive Services for Women.

The IOM noted that women with unplanned pregnancies were more likely to put off or neglect prenatal care and to smoke, drink or experience depression.

The recommendation to add birth control is a big gain for organizations like the American Congress of Obstetricians and Gynecologists and Planned Parenthood, but is likely to stoke opposition from conservative and religious groups.

“I’m really taken and pleased with the concept of making contraceptive meth-

ods available to women in general,” said Dr. James Martin Jr., ACOG’s president. “It’s just a shame that so many pregnancies in this country are unplanned and unwanted.”

“Covering birth control without co-pays is one of the most important steps we can take to prevent unintended pregnancy and keep women and children healthy,” said Dr. Vanessa Cullins, vice president for medical affairs at Planned Parenthood Federation of America in a statement.

The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops has urged the Department of Health and Human Services to exclude birth control as a service, and strongly oppos-

es IOM’s recommendations.

“Without sufficient legal protection for rights of conscience, such a mandate would force all men, women and children to carry health coverage that violates the deeply-held moral and religious convictions of many,” said Cardinal Daniel DiNardo, chairman of the Committee on Pro-Life Activities of the bishops’ conference.

IOM also recommended free screening for gestational diabetes, testing for human papillomavirus (HPV) in women over 30, counseling for HIV and sexually transmitted infections, lactation counseling, screening for domestic violence and yearly wellness visits.

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Relaxation drinks see energetic growth in U.S.

By EUNJU LIE CHICAGO — People have been guzzling energy drinks for the last 10 years — maybe it’s time to relax.

Sales of “relaxation drinks” with names like Vacation in a Bottle, Dream Water and Just Chill, while small, are growing.

“There is clear potential for further growth in the coming years,” said Cecilia Martinez, market analyst at UK-based beverage research group Zenith International.

Relaxation drinks help the body chill out by relieving muscle tension and reducing levels of cortisone, the main stress hormone, according to a report that Martinez wrote about the drinks earlier this year.

The drinks, which evolved in Japan as far back as 2005, contain no alcohol but some have melatonin, a hormone that can cause drowsiness.

The biggest relaxation brands include Innovative Beverage Group’s Drank, Purple Stuff and Jones GABA. Another called Slow Cow is up and coming. Their names provide a marked contrast to engine-revving energy drinks such as Red Bull, Hansen Natural’s Monster and Dr Pepper Snapple Group’s Venom Energy.

Some 22.4 million cases, or 127 million liters (36 million gallons) of relaxation drinks were sold in 2010, double the amount sold in 2008. By 2014, U.S. volume sales will exceed 300 million liters (79 million gallons), Martinez said.

That is well below the 1.35 billion liters (357 million gallons) of energy drinks sold in 2009 alone, according to Zenith.

“Consumption trends of America show that Americans are always willing to try out new things — relaxation drinks might be one of those things,” said NPD Group Food & Beverage analyst Darren Seifer.

Carbonated soft drinks — or “sodas” to most people in the United States — far outsold the other drinks, with 9.36 billion cases moving in

2010.

Yet growing health consciousness has led many people to reach for drinks they consider healthier, like juices and waters. Many of these drinks claim to boost energy, metabolism and the ability to relax.

As a result, smaller niches are set to gain greater share over the next ten years, according to Seifer, especially as carbonated drink sales fall.

“Relaxation drinks could bring new life into beverages,” said Seifer.

The main ingredients are melatonin, a hormone that is intended to induce drowsiness; L-theanine, an amino acid primarily found in green tea; GABA, a chemical that calms the mind; B vitamins, and chamomile — a plant that often winds up as tea that people drink to help them unwind.

“It gives me a chance to relax from a hard day of work without using something that might land me in jail,” said relaxation drinks consumer Marcus Brook, a Facebook fan of the Drank

vices has the final say over what services will be offered.

Health Secretary Kathleen Sebelius called the IOM report “historic.”

The IOM is an independent, nonprofit organization that works outside of government to provide healthpolicy advice.

Research suggests the public would be supportive of birth control being added to the list of services.

A Thomson Reuters/NPR survey in May found 76.6 percent of respondents believed private insurance plans, without government assistance, should cover some or all costs associated with birth control pills, such as Yasmin, the popular birth control pill from Bayer. drink line.

For Denise Ivy, also on Facebook, the drinks helped her cope with the closing of two family businesses: “If it were not for Drank, we would have not gotten any sleep for several weeks.”

Nonetheless, the Zenith report says levels of ingredients in the drinks may be too small to be effective. To move beyond the next 10 years, companies that make the drinks must prove that they do what they say they do, according to Morningstar analyst Philip Gorham.

“If the consumer doesn’t feel the effect, then sales would drop off,” said Gorham.

Survey: Many fear Alzheimer’s, want to be tested

By JULIE STEENHUYSEN PARIS — Alzheimer’s is the second-most feared disease after cancer and many people say they would seek testing for themselves or a loved one even if they did not have symptoms, U.S. and European researchers said on Wednesday.

The findings, presented at the Alzheimer’s Association International Conference in Paris on Wednesday, reflect concern about the swelling ranks of people with the most common form of dementia.

Alzheimer’s now affects nearly 36 million people worldwide.

Recent studies suggest the disease starts developing at least a decade before symptoms appear and many scientists and patient advocates believe earlier testing will

play an important role in getting people treated and in preparing families for the burden ahead.

The telephone survey of 2,678 adults aged 18 and older in the United States, France, Germany, Spain and Poland was conducted by researchers at the Harvard School of Public Health and Alzheimer Europe, with funding by Bayer AG, which is developing an imaging test for early signs of the disease.

It found that more than 85 percent of respondents said they would see a doctor if they had symptoms of confusion and memory loss. And more than 94 percent said they would want the same for a family member.

When asked to identify the most feared disease out of a list of seven that included cancer, heart disease and stroke, nearly a quarter of respondents from four of the

five countries said they most fear getting Alzheimer’s.

Many in the survey said they know or have known someone with Alzheimer’s, including 72 percent of those in France, 73 percent in Germany, 77 percent in Spain, 73 percent in the United States and 54 percent in Poland.

And about three out of 10 people in the study said they have a family member who has had the disease.

Despite high levels of anxiety in the study, as many as 40 percent of people said they did not know Alzheimer’s is fatal and many said they thought there were effective treatments that could slow its progression.

Current drugs only treat Alzheimer’s symptoms, but none have been shown to delay the advance of the disease, which slowly robs its victims of the ability to think

and care for themselves.

Nearly half of the people in the study believe there is a reliable medical test that can determine whether a person suffering from confusion and memory loss is in the early stages of Alzheimer’s disease.

And even healthy people with no symptoms are interested in testing, with about two-thirds of respondents saying they would get tested to see if they were likely to develop the disease.

“A very significant number of people appear at this stage to want to know if they are at significant risk even without symptoms,” Blendon said in an interview.

While companies such as Eli Lilly and Co, General Electric Co and Bayer are getting close to developing imaging that can spot early signs of Alzheimer’s in the brain, as yet there are no reliable medical tests.

NEW JERSEY

DAILY CHALLENGE THURSDAY, JULY 21, 2011

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N.J. heat wave offers no relief - day or night

By JULIA TERRUSO & VICTORIA ST. MARTIN Sure, New Jersey is suffering through its worst heat wave of the year. But at least we can open up the windows and cool off a little at night, right?

Wrong.

For the rest of the week, even after the sun sets, temperatures will stay in the 80s until at least 11 p.m. in much of the state. That leaves few options for people looking to escape the oppressive heat.

“This is atypical,” said David Robinson, the state climatologist.

“Studies have shown that it’s not necessarily the daytime high temperatures that are the problem. The issue is if it doesn’t cool off at night - people who don’t have air conditioning don’t catch a break. It becomes relentless.”

Daytime temperatures will stay in the upper 90s this week before reaching 100 degrees in parts of the state on Friday, accord-

Jabre Beauvoir, 15, left, and Jaqueline Wiafe, 18,found the perfect place to spend a hot day at the grand opening of the Mickey Walker Spray Park in Elizabeth. ing to the National Weather Service. The humidity will make it feel more like 105 to 110 degrees.

At night, temperatures should dip into the mid-to-high 60s this time of year. But the heat wave is being driven by a large area of high pressure extending from the Great Plains to the western Atlantic, Robinson said.

That means New Jersey isn’t getting a

chance to cool down after dark, which is helping drive temperatures even higher the following day - with no relief from thunderstorms in sight until the weekend, said Lee Robertson, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Mount Holly.

“Once the sun goes down typically temperatures begin to cool.

But during these high periods they just can’t

cool fast enough,” Robertson said. “It’s an ongoing cycle.”

Charles Rigaud knows what it’s like to struggle to cool off at night. The Irvington resident doesn’t have air conditioning and relies on a fan propped inside his window to bring in cooler air after dark.

“I leave the door open, and then I drink iced tea or cold water,” said Rigaud, 36.

If that doesn’t work, he takes a late-night walk or resorts to unplugging his refrigerator to eliminate some of the heat coming from the appliance’s motor.

For those without air conditioning, late-night options are limited.

Cooling centers across the state offer air-conditioned shelters to those seeking a reprieve during the day. But most locations, which include senior centers, libraries, town halls and health centers, close at the end of the work day.

New Jersey’s Office of Emergency Management, which issued a heat advisory Tuesday morning, encouraged people to dial 211 if they need help or information about cooling off.

“They call heat the silent killer because of the lives it takes,” said Mary Goepfert,a spokeswoman for the OEM. “They don’t realize how hot it’s really going to be.”

For those lucky enough to have air conditioning, the late-night heat can also be costly. hothot.jpg

Maria Correia, 54, said her 5-year-old air conditioning unit keeps her bedroom chilled for a price.

“It’s terrible,” said Correia, of Newark. “I have to keep the air conditioning on all night.”

If your air conditioner breaks, you also may be out of luck. Many air repair conditioner firms say they are backed up through next week.

John Dublon, who Affordable owns Services HVAC in Jackson, said his crew is working overtime to accommodate all the requests.

“The phone won’t stop ringing,” said Dublon, 53, who was in his car on his way to fix a unit in Edison.

Ross Albert, coowner of Arctic Air in Old Bridge, said his company responded to 72 service calls Tuesday. That’s about twice the number the firm received any day last week.

“The worst was an AC installation in an attic,” Albert said. “The thermometer read 135 degrees.”

N.J. medical marijuana program will get rolling after 3-month delay TRENTON - Gov. Chris Christie Tuesday said he will order state officials to quickly implement New Jersey’s medical marijuana program, a move growers say could allow the drug to be sold to chronically ill patients by the end of the year.

Christie said the state health department should “move forward as expeditiously as possible,” lifting a threemonth hold he imposed while waiting for federal law enforcement officials to tell him whether state workers or private growers would be vulnerable to arrest.

“I believe that the need to provide compassionate pain relief to these citizens of our state outweighs the risk that we are taking in moving forward with the program as it is set up,” Christie said in a

Statehouse news conference.

The green light from the administration means the six nonprofit organizations authorized to sell the marijuana will be told to get to work opening a store and begin growing as soon as possible.

At some point although health officials have not said when patients recommended by their doctor to enroll in the program will be told to apply for an identification card and to place their name on a state patient registry.

Christie said he had been waiting since April for the Obama administration to clarify a concern raised by other governors that state employees affiliated with the program could run the risk of arrest by federal law enforcement officials. Possessing and

selling marijuana remains a federal crime, even though 16 states have enacted medical marijuan a laws.

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memo by U.S. Deputy Attorney General James Cole on June 30 did not specifically answer the questions about immunity for state or private employees, said Christie, a former U.S. attorney, but “gave us some hints” as to whether federal authorities would scrutinize legitimate medical marijuana employees.

He said he’s betting they

won’t.

Cole’s memo expressed concern about “an increase in scope of commercial cultivation, sale, distribution and use of marijuana for purported medical purposes” in s o m e unidentified s t a t e s .

Christie has insisted that New Jersey’s program be tightly regulated to make sure only chronically ill people can have access to the drug.

The governor’s announcement came as a relief to dispensary owners as well as patients, who were frustrated because they had been told he drug would be available this summer.

“We will work tire-

lessly to be operational as quickly as possible, hopefully within five or six months,” said Raj Mukherji, spokesman for Compassionate Care Centers of America Foundation, which is opening a dispensary in New Brunswick.

“Our best-case scenario is by right after Thanksgiving, we would be providing medicine to patients,” said Bill Thomas, president and CEO of Compassionate Care Foundation Inc. The center suspended its search for a dispensary site in Burlington County three months ago after the governor asked Attorney General Paula Dow to contact the Obama administration.

“I have nothing but feelings of gratitude toward him and his administration,” said Elise Segal, of Wenonah in Gloucester County,

who is diagnosed with multiple sclerosis. “I hope the program can get up and running now as soon as possible, so that people like me who are suffering will soon have relief.”

Christie acknowledged the legal exercise delayed the program’s start and said he would be disappointed if dispensaries did not begin operating by the end of the year. He also thanked two of the law’s Democratic sponsors, Assemblyman Reed Gusciora (D-Mercer) and Sen. Nicholas Scutari (DUnion) for their patience. “We wanted to do it in a way that would withstand legal scrutiny and provide the type of care and pain relief for those who really need it,” he said.

- Susan K. Livio

DAILY CHALLENGE THURSDAY, JULY 21, 2011

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Boyz II Men readies new celebratory album ‘Twenty’ Grammy winning R&B group Boyz II Men will commemorate their 20 years of hit making in the music businesswith the release of their brand new album Twenty. The forthcoming double CD set will contain 10 brand new songs and 10 newly recorded and revamped versions of the diamond and multi-platinum group’s classics, including “End Of The Road,” “I’ll Make Love To You,” and “Bended Knee.”

Boyz II Men, who will be releasing brand new material for the first time in 10 years, is currently in the studio with hit producers such as Babyface, Jimmy

Jam & Terry Lewis, Dallas Austin, Teddy Riley, Rob Knox (Justin Timberlake, Joe Jonas), Julian Bunetta (Leona Lewis, Natasha Bedingfield) and Tim/Bob (Jamie Foxx, Jennifer Lopez), amongst others.

“We started with a pure love for music, so to be here twenty years later still doing what we love has been a pure blessing” comments Wanya Morris of the trio. Shawn Stockman adds, “From day one our fans have been amazing, they’ve seen us grow from boys to men, so we owe all our success to their continued support” while Nathan Morris commented “ No matter how

many albums we have done through out the years, we always strive to put out the best sounding music possible. We are excited to be in the studio again with the guys who have been apart of some of our biggest hits to date, it’s a really good feeling.”

Boyz II Men has sold over 60 million albums worldwide and winning every award from Grammy’s to American Music Awards across the globe.

Twenty will be released as an exclusive only at Walmart, later this fall 2011 on the Boyz own label MSM Music, with partners Benchmark Entertainment.

Michelle Obama to appear Beyonce’s producer bashes Kelly on TV’s ‘Extreme Makeover’ Rowland’s ‘Motivation’ single

By ALEX DOBUZINSKIS LOS ANGELES — U.S. first lady Michelle Obama will appear on ABC show “Extreme Makeover: Home Edition” as part of her initiative to support military families, the network said on Tuesday.

Michelle Obama’s appearance on the show will be shot on Thursday in Fayetteville, North Carolina, and the episode will air in October, said Patrick Preblick, a spokesman for ABC. The first lady is making the appearance as part of her Joining Forces initiative for military families.

The episode will focus on

15-year U.S. Navy veteran Barbara Marshall and her family. Michelle Obama and the “Extreme Makeover” team will help Marshall’s mission of assisting homeless veterans by building a new house that will house several families, ABC said in a statement.

Michelle Obama last month filmed an appearance on the children’s TV show “iCarly” which was also tied to her Joining Forces initiative. In 2009, she was seen in an episode of “Sesame Street” to promote healthy eating.

The reality TV series “Extreme Makeover: Home Edition” performs speedy and drastic home renovations for families that have suffered misfortune.

While Beyonce and Kelly Rowland are like “sisters,” critics continue to find ways to bring forth rivalry between the former Destiny’s Child beauties. The latest comes from one of Beyonce’s producers, who voiced his dislike for Rowland’s No. 1 single “Motivation” on Twitter, calling the track “weak.”

“How can this kr song with the weakest beat and melody of all time be the #1 song on urban!? Oh yeah.

Wayne,” wrote Jeff Bhasker, who is credited for three tracks on Beyonce’s new album ‘4,’ including “Party” featuring Andre 3000.

After taking some heat from Rowland’s fans, Bhasker returned hours later, insisting he gave the record another try but it was still “horrid.”

“I just listened to Motivation again to see if I was to harsh in my critique. I wasn’t. The lyrics are horrid as well,” he writes.

It seems Bhasker has been hanging around Kanye West for too long. He has been at west’s side since ‘808s & Heartbreak’ in 2008 as well as his recent single “Runaway” off West’s follow up album, ‘My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy.’

Bhasker is also credited with writing and producer credits on a number of songs on Grammy-winner Alicia Keys’s 2009 album

‘The Element of Freedom,’ including hits singles “Try Sleeping with a Broken Heart” and “Wait Til You See My Smile.”

Rowland’s “Motivation”

featuring Lil Wayne was produced by Jim Jonsin and written by Rico Love. No comments has been made from either party or Rowland herself.

DAILY CHALLENGE THURSDAY, JULY 21, 2011

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Rapper DMX released from Arizona prison

By DAVID SCHWARTZ PHOENIX — Troubled rapper DMX was released from an Arizona prison on Tuesday after spending seven months behind bars for violating probation, his manager said.

The rapper, whose real name is Earl Simmons, walked out of jail in Yuma, in far western Arizona, and was met by a member of his

management team, a security guard and a driver, manager Nakai Walker told Reuters in a telephone interview.

“His first words to me were: ‘I’m home,’” said Walker, who added that Simmons called his wife upon his release and plans to see his two-month-old daughter on Monday.

“I can tell you one thing, he’s not going to be going back there (to prison) again,” she added.

Simmons, 40, was jailed in December after telling a judge that he broke the rules of his probation by drinking alcohol during a concert in Scottsdale, Arizona.

He had received probation for attempted aggravated assault and using a fake name to avoid paying a $7,500 hospital bill.

Simmons, whose albums include “It’s Dark and Hell is Hot” and “Flesh of My Flesh, Blood of My Blood,” has a

long history of legal problems in Arizona.

Simmons was cited six times for rules infractions during his stay in prison, including most recently failing to submit to a drug test that delayed his release by one week.

Walker said Simmons plans to return to an Arizona recording studio to finish work on a yet-to-be named new album, which will include a single with fellow rapper Busta Rhymes.

The new Foxy Brown: ‘I go to church every Sunday. I’m saved.’

Foxy Brown recently revealed her alter ego, Inga Marchand (the name she was born with by the way) are two different people and her true self is not a diva.

Not too long ago, she showed up three hours late to a photo shoot but with good excuses. She was pulled over by the cops for speeding, but sweet-talked her way out of the ticket.

Then she ran into Jay Z randomly and hung out with him for a while. Then she decided to get some food and do a little shopping.

But that’s Foxy y’all.

“The Foxy character and Inga Marchand are two different people,” she tells the NY Post. “My fiancé calls me Inga. No one around me calls me Foxy. I go to church every Sunday. I go to Bible study every Friday night.

I’m saved.”

Allure re-emerge with new album, reality TV show and tour The Allure trio of Alia Davis, Lalisha McClean and Akissa Mendez has reemerged with plans on releasing a new album, reality television show and tour.

The group started in 1997 on Mariah Carey’s Crave Records with their debut self-titled album featuring hit singles “All Cried Out,” “No Question” and “Head Over Heels.” Following their debut effort the group left Mariah Carey’s company and released three additional albums.

Now with plans of releasing a new LP, the group has already started to gain buzz,

recently providing music for Ice-T and Coco’s reality television show ‘Ice T Loves CoCo’ and NBC’s reality show ‘Great American Health Challenge.’

For their forthcoming effort, Allure has teamed with music producers Pete Rock, Kwame, and The Council to develop hits reminiscent to the Allure brand.

The set is lead by the first single “Proud To Be” produced by The Council.

In addition, Allure will kick off an Australian tour on July 26, 2011. During the tour Allure will tape a pilot for their upcoming reality

show entitled ‘Allure: Still Together.’ The show will focus of the group’s process of recording and promoting their fourth album.

It’s definitely hard to believe since her run-ins with the law have attracted some not so positive attention oh and don’t forget her explicit lyrical reputation.

But her slate is clean right now since the recent court case was dismissed.

“The mooning thing bothered me more than anything else in the past — because I’m a lady,” says Brown.

And that may well be very true, although during the trial it was revealed she wore

no panties under a tight fitted night dress.

“I’m cut from a different cloth,” she confessed. “I would never moon someone.

I was raised in a good family. All my friends were in the park smoking weed and getting pregnant,” she said.

“I didn’t want to be the young black girl having a baby, a baby’s father, being on welfare. That wasn’t going to be my story. I wanted to be a criminal-justice attorney.”

Trey Songz to make big screen Acting debut in ‘Texas Chainsaw Massacre 3D’

By ALLEN STARBURY Leatherface will have new person to go after in the upcoming 3D installment of the horror movie franchise.

His name is Trey Songz.

According to The Hollywood Reporter, the singer has signed to play one of the leads in “The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 3D,” the latest reimagining of Tobe Hooper’s 1974 horror classic about a group of teens who run into a family of cannibals in Texas.

Songz will play the male lead and the boyfriend of the previously-cast Alexandra Daddario in the upcoming film, set to be released on October 5, 2012 by Lionsgate.

The role will be the singer’s big screen acting debut, which will allow him to show a little range as well,

with physical, romantic and heroic elements to the role.

The horror movie will begin shooting later this month in Shreveport, Louisiana. Producers are hoping to not only reboot the franchise, but to also to break a group of fresh-faced actors.

John Luessenhop (“Takers”) is directing the pic, which was written by Adam Marcus and Debra Sullivan.

Kirsten Elms and Luessenhop did polish work on it.

DAILY CHALLENGE THURSDAY, JULY 21, 2011

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Samsung takes shot at iPad with new Galaxy Tab

By MIYOUNG KIM SEOUL — South Korea’s Samsung Electronics Co launched a thinner and lighter version of its Galaxy tablet in its lucrative home market, trying to chip into blockbuster sales of Apple Inc’s iPad. The Galaxy Tab 10.1 inch is an upgraded version of the 7-inch introduced in October. Priced from $500 onwards in the U.S. market, the same as the 9.7-inch iPad, it faces tough metoo competition from more than 100 devices, mostly running Google’s Android operating system.

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Apple’s market-beating June-quarter sales for iPad reported on Tuesday underscore the challenge for the South Korean company.

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Apple sold 14 million iPads in the first half of this year, compared with analysts’ sales estimates of about 7.5 million units for the Galaxy Tab over 2011.

“Apple’s quarterly results showed again it’s indeed the strongest rival to beat. Samsung will have a tough second half due to growing competition from Apple as it is set to introduce a new iPhone,” said James Song, an analyst at Daewoo Securities.

Both Apple and Android have nurtured what are now thriving ecosystems around their products, populated by energetic thirdparty developers churning out games and other applications by the thousand.

Samsung is Apple’s nearest rival in the booming mobile device industry as it leverages its cost competitiveness and access to chips and core tablet components.

It has sharply narrowed the gap with Apple in the smartphone market, but remains a distant second in the tablet market, which research firm Gartner forecasts will surge to 108 million devices next year from an estimated 70

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“As our smartphone business grew very fast within a very short period of time, I believe it’s just a matter of time for our tablet business to improve,” J.K. Shin, head of Samsung’s mobile division, told reporters.

Apple said on Tuesday that concern over iPad 2 supply constraints had eased and demand was still outstripping supply in some markets.

Apple’s overall tablet market share is expected to shrink to below half in 2015 from an estimated 69 percent this year, Gartner says.

Some analysts however said Samsung faced a tough battle.

“Samsung’s overall software is still far behind iPad, which makes me doubt if Samsung can succeed to catch up any time soon,” said Lee Min-hee, an analyst at Dongbu Securities.

“Its tablet sales were quite disappointing at around 2 million units in the first half and there’s a big question mark whether Sam-

sung can meet its target for this year.”

Nomura forecast Samsung’s tablet sales at 7.5 million units this year, far outpacing estimates of 2.4 million for Acer, 2 million units for Motorola and 1.4 million units for RIM. Non-iPad tablet shipments are set to jump 134 percent next year, outpacing the overall market growth rate of 80 percent, Nomura said in a 90 page global tablets report titled “Prepare for the next course.”

The sale of the Tab in Korea is Samsung’s fifth launch after its U.S. debut a month ago and its sales kickoff in Indonesia, where the company says it commands a 65 percent market share. It has also launched the device in Italy and Sweden.

The Galaxy Tab 10.1 runs on Google’s newest Android version and Nvidia’s dual core processor Tegra 2.

Samsung faces the challenge of moving beyond being a hardware company, clever at copying ideas, to becoming more creative and

better adept at software at a time when consumer gadgets are getting smarter.

The Galaxy Tab 10.1 has a bigger and brighter screen and weighs less than the iPad 2. However, it has access to only about half the applications Apple users do at more than 200,000 applications compared with over 425,000 applications from the Apple App store.

To cope with such shortcomings, Samsung equipped its Korean version with access to television and radio channels.

Samsung reiterated on Wednesday it aimed to boost tablet sales by more than five fold this year. It didn’t provide specific numbers but analysts expect the company to have sold about 1.5 million units last year.

In South Korea, the 16-gigabyte model with Wi-Fi will be sold for 671,000 won ($633), slightly more expensive than the compatible iPad, which is being sold at around 640,000 won.

Kodak shopping around tech patents

By LIANA B. BAKER Eastman Kodak is shopping around its patents for digital imaging, responding to investor complaints that the photography company has failed to capitalize on red-hot demand for tech patents.

Kodak said it has hired Lazard to advise on strategic options for its patents related to capturing and editing images, which represent about 10 percent of its U.S. patent portfolio, The entire portfolio could be worth up to $2 billion, according to Rafferty Capital Market analyst Mark Kaufman, noting that investors want Kodak to make better use of its lucrative portfolio of intellectual property.

Shares of Kodak rose more than 2 percent after the announcement, having plunged 35 per-

cent over the last month on doubts about plans for its intellectual property portfolio as well as its overall strategy.

Kodak’s decision to put its patents up for sale now, Kaufman said, likely results from its costly and drawn-out battle with Apple Inc and Research in Motion in front of the International Trade Commission.

Kaufman said the dispute is “taking longer than Kodak had hoped, and that being the case they are looking for other ways to monetize their assets.”

At least one institutional investor in the company was not satisfied with Kodak’s actions on Wednesday “The company needs to do something dramatic, and I’m not sure this enough,” said Gregg Abella of Investment Partners Asset Management, whose clients are shareholders and bond-

holders of Kodak.

The American icon, which coined the onceubiquitous “it’s a Kodak moment” catchphrase, has labored for years to convince Wall Street it can turn a profit as it shifts toward digital technology and away from its ailing film business.

Potential buyers for Kodak’s patents are more likely to be electronics companies that manufacture mobile devices such as tablets which contain cameras, analysts said.

Kaufman named Apple, LG, Samsung, HTC and Nokia among the companies that could make bids for the patent portfolio.

Another possibility would be a private equity buyer, particularly Kohlberg Kravis Roberts since it already has a $400 million investment in the company. KKR also has two Kodak board seats.

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AMR to buy 260 planes from Airbus, 200 from Boeing

By KYLE PETERSON CHICAGO — American Airlines on Wednesday split a giant order for 460 singleaisle jets worth up to $40 billion between Boeing Co and its European rival Airbus , which scrambled to win any of the narrowbody deal.

The record-large order placed by the AMR Corp unit gives Airbus a stronger foothold in U.S. markets. The deal also rapidly refreshes American Airlines’ aging fleet with more fuelefficient planes to better compete with U.S. rivals.

For Boeing, the order is a bittersweet victory, marking the end of an exclusivity deal with American Airlines. The U.S. plane maker salvaged its portion of the order by offering to put a new engine in its best-selling 737, retreating from a more ambitious plan to completely redesign the plane.

“My initial reaction is, ‘Wow, what a big deal!’” said Alex Hamilton, managing director of EarlyBirdCapital. “I think that speaks to the underlying robustness of the cycle, if you will, just because it’s the largest order in aircraft history.”

“I think it’s a marginal victory for Boe-

ing,” Hamilton said.

“From a marketing standpoint it’s a big deal for Airbus.”

The deal, which calls for American to buy 200 Boeing 737s and 260 Airbus A320s, comes after tense haggling as American Airlines played the world’s two largest plane makers off against each other to win concessions from each.

AMR shares were up 1.8 percent at $5.02 at midday on Wednesday, while Boeing shares were up 3.1 percent at $72.71. Shares of Airbus parent EADS held on to gains made in anticipation of the deal, trading 3.5 percent higher at 24.77 euros in Paris.

American Airlines will take delivery of 100 aircraft from Boeing’s current 737NG family starting in 2013,

including three 737800 options that had been exercised as of July 1.

American Airlines also intends to order 100 of Boeing’s expected new version of the 737NG, featuring CFM International’s Leap-X engine.

The Leap-X relies mostly on modern materials rather than structural changes to save fuel. CFM International is a joint venture between General Electric and Safran .

The carrier is willing to become the launch customer for the upgraded 737, which needs approval by Boeing’s directors.

The airline has options for another 100 Boeing 737s and 365 options and purchase rights for additional Airbus aircraft. American Airlines said it has

the flexibility to convert the new deliveries into variants within the 737 family, which features different seating capacities and ranges.

The carrier said it also has the option to convert its order into variants within the A320 family. The carrier said it would take delivery of 130 currentgeneration Airbus A320s beginning in 2013.

Starting in 2017, American will begin taking delivery of 130 aircraft from the A320neo, which will feature a new engine and provide 15 percent better fuel efficiency.

Boeing and Airbus compete for dominance in the narrowbody airplane market whose value is estimated at $2 trillion over the next 20 years. Last year, Airbus said it would beef up its

Airport body scanners to nix naked image WASHINGTON — New software for screening travelers at U.S. airports will do away with naked images, addressing a major public concern, the Transportation Security Administration said.

After complaints from travelers the TSA earlier this year began testing at four airports software for the fullbody scanners that instead uses a generic body outline and highlights the area where any anomaly is detected, eliminating the actual image of the passenger.

TSA has increasingly relied on the fullbody scanners after a Nigerian man allegedly tried to detonate a bomb hidden in his underwear aboard a transatlantic flight in December 2009. The bomb failed to fully explode but set off a rush to upgrade security to detect explosives underneath clothing.

Software upgrades to the 241-mm wave body-scanning machines made by L-3 Communications, will be deployed over the next several months in the 40 airports where they are used, the TSA

said.

“This software upgrade enables us to continue providing a high level of security through advanced imaging technology screening, while improving the passenger experience at checkpoints,” said TSA Administrator John Pistole.

The agency said it also plans to test similar software later this year for the 247 backscatter scanners that are in 38 airports and made by OSI Systems Inc’s Rapiscan Systems unit.

The agency has been

scrambling to address complaints about the scanners and physical patdowns of young children and elderly travelers while still meeting the security needs for aviation, a prime target of al Qaeda militants.

Later this year, TSA plans to roll out a pilot program that will allow some frequent fliers at four hub U.S. airports to go through expedited screening, an attempt to shift more toward assessing the risk of the individual flier rather than a onesize fits all security model.

A320 with a new, more fuel-efficient engine.

The plane known as the A320neo is scheduled to enter service in late 2015.

For more than a year, Boeing has debated whether to re-engine or redesign its competing 737. A redesigned plane could have been brought to market around 2020, but would provide greater fuel efficiency.

But delays in the decision left an opening for Airbus to win massive orders for its neo from customers who did not want to wait for Boeing to decide. Airbus dominated the Paris Air Show last month with orders for the A320neo.

To secure a chunk of the AMR order — and perhaps other upcoming U.S. airline orders — Boeing agreed to reengine the plane. AMR has not ordered Airbus planes since the late 1980s.

“Airbus is penetrating a pure Boeing client with a mix of A320 and A320neo, which addresses the risk of one aircraft cannibalizing demand for the other,” said Yann Derocles, aerospace analyst at Oddo Securities. “It has put so much pressure on Boeing that Boeing decided to reengine the 737.”

Boeing, however, still could build an allnew 737.

American Airlines, formerly the largest

U.S. airline, is now the third-largest U.S. carrier after United Continental Holdings and Delta Air Lines . It is struggling to bolster its position and believes new planes will help.

“There’s instantaneous financial benefits,” said Vasu Raja, managing director in charge of AMR’s fleet planning, noting savings on fuel costs by flying more modern aircraft.

“We’re able to derive a significant amount of income statement improvement through this,” Raja said.

He noted that 50 percent of the deal is financed through operating leases. American won about $13 billion in financing provided by the manufacturers through lease transactions.

“It will help them in terms of fuel, obviously,” said Steve Wilder, analyst at Capstone Investments. “These are newer planes and cleaner-running planes. But my guess is the lease expense is going to offset that.

AMR on Wednesday also reported a net loss of $286 million, or 85 cents per share, for the second quarter, compared with a year-ago loss of $11 million, or 3 cents per share. The results were weaker than Wall Street forecasts for a loss of 81 cents per share, according to Thomson Reuters I/B/E/S.

Contractors will be required to comply with EEO, D/M/WBE and other federal and state procurement laws, regulations and Executive Orders.

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SPORTS Big Apple Basketball triumphs over Dyckman in Nike Pro City

P ho to by L em P e te rk i n # 11 Marshon Brooks of Dyckman /NYAC dunks for two of his 48 points

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# 44 Yemi Ogunoye throws down a dunk

P ho to b y L em Pe ter k in Jamario Moon of Big Apple Basketball dunks in two of his 25 points.

P ho to by L em P e te rk i n # 21 Ron Yates of Big Apple Basketball takes a jumper

P ho to b y L em P et er ki n Smush Parker scores over X Men Guard Andre Deleon.

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DAILY CHALLENGE THURSDAY, JULY 21, 2011

SPORTS BRIEFS Kris Jenkins decides to retire

Former New York Jets nose tackle Kris Jenkins, who missed most of the last two seasons because of severe knee injuries, announced his retirement yesterday from the NFL. Jenkins, 31, in a message on his Facebook page, wrote that “it’s time for the torch to be passed to the younger players. I am going to hang up the cleats! The mind is always willing to play, but my body deserves the rest.”

Jenkins’ 6-foot-5, 360-pound body absorbed significant punishment over 10 seasons, the first seven with the Carolina Panthers. Jenkins underwent reconstructive surgery twice in less than 12 months to repair a torn anterior cruciate ligament in his left knee. The latter injury occurred in the 2010 opener, on the sixth play of the season.

Jenkins missed 25 of 32 games over the last two seasons. Early in his career, he missed nearly two full seasons because of knee and shoulder operations.

The charismatic lineman, a four-time Pro Bowl selection, talked about making another comeback even after the Jets released him in February. He worked out at a facility in New Jersey, seemingly intent on resuming his career. But some close to Jenkins never took the comeback talk seriously, noting that he almost retired after his 2009 knee surgery.

When healthy, Jenkins was a dominant interior lineman. In 2008, his first season in New York, he reported in terrific shape and was named to his fourth Pro Bowl.

The Jets traded for Jenkins before the 2008 season, sending third- and fifth-round picks to the Panthers. Jenkins had become disgruntled in Carolina and the Panthers, likewise, grew tired of him and his constant weight issues.

In New York, Jenkins felt rejuvenated — until the injuries started again. With Jenkins due to make $4.75 million in 2011, the Jets made the expected move by cutting him before the lockout.

When the Jets released Jenkins, there was speculation about a possible return, but that notion was squashed by draft day. The Jets chose Kenrick Ellis, a 6-5, 345-pound nose tackle, in the third round. He will back up starter Sione Pouha, who handled the job when Jenkins got hurt.

“He’s a big, powerful man that’s athletic,” Jets coach Rex Ryan once said of Jenkins. “There aren’t too many people walking the face of the earth that are like that.”

In his career, Jenkins played in 108 games and recorded 24 sacks.

Mike Slive proposes athletics reforms HOOVER, Ala. — Recent headlines show that college athletics “has lost the benefit of the doubt,” SEC commissioner Mike Slive said yesterday.

Slive said the negative perception of college athletics resulting from infractions cases at Ohio State, LSU and Auburn “casts a shadow over the extraordinary student-athletes across the country” and merits change.

Kicking off SEC media days yesterday, Slive used his speech to outline an agenda that includes a bid to strengthen academic requirements for incoming freshmen and junior college transfers and restore partial qualifiers.

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Shaq on Heat: ‘Big 2’ will keep leading Miami

By TIM REYNOLDS MIAMI Shaquille O’Neal’s debut as a fullfledged NBA analyst had him raving about LeBron James and Dwyane Wade.

As for Chris Bosh?

Apparently, Shaq’s not a big fan of his work.

During NBA TV’s show Tuesday to announce the league’s schedule for the 201112 season - one jeopardized by a lockout - O’Neal referred to the Heat as having a “Big 2.” Since Bosh, Wade and James teamed up in Miami, they’ve been called the “Big 3” in many circles.

“The Miami Heat, they’ve got a lot of great players, the ‘Big 2.’

They will be back,” O’Neal said from Louisiana during the broadcast, when discussing the NBA finals and how Dallas was able to beat Miami for the title.

“LeBron James is taking a lot of criticism, but I know LeBron very well. He hears everything that everyone is saying, so I think he’s going to come back and have an MVP year this year.”

After the discussion turned to O’Neal’s health and his decision to retire, the talk was steered back to his “Big 2” comment.

O’Neal laughed off the notion that a controversy was already getting started.

“Dwyane Wade, LeBron James, you know, they’re great players, they’re probably the

greatest backcourt ever assembled,” O’Neal said. “And you know, they’re going to get back.

They’re going to get back. They play well, they went through a lot, they put a lot of pressure on themselves. That’s how they like it. And they will be back.”

O’Neal was a teammate of James and Wade in the past.

Wade and O’Neal were starters for Miami’s 2006 NBA championship team.

He said he expects the Los Angeles Lakers, the Boston Celtics, Orlando Magic and the Heat to have strong seasons but suggested an “underdog” will emerge as the next NBA champion.

“There’s a lot of great teams out there,” O’Neal said.

Ivy League limiting full-contact practice NEWARK, N.J. — In an effort to reduce the number of concussions and subconcussive hits, Ivy League football teams will be allowed to have just two full-contact practices a week, three less than the NCAA allows.

The league announced yesterday that the presidents of its eight schools have accepted a series of recommendations made by a special committee that put the Ivy League in a leadership role in trying to limit concussive hits in football.

The recommendations, which will take effect this season, also limit contact workouts to one during preseason two-a-day workouts. The league also will put further emphasis on educating student-athletes on proper tackling technique, the signs and symptoms of concussion, and the potential short-and long-term ramifications of repetitive brain trauma.

The league also told players there will be more stringent post-game league review of helmet-to-helmet and targeted hits, including the suspension of players.

“The presidents formed the committee, because they were deeply concerned that concussions are a significant injury in football,” Ivy League executive director Robin Harris said, “and wanted the Ivy League to take

an active leadership role in developing steps and measures to limit concussions, first in football and then in other sports as appropriate.”

The committee was co-chaired

by Dartmouth president Jim Yong Kim and Cornell president David J. Skorton, both medical doctors. The committee also included various league football coaches, administrators, expert consultants, team physicians, and athletic trainers.

While the committee’s recommendations focus solely on football, the Ivy League will next conduct similar reviews of men’s and women’s ice hockey, men’s and women’s lacrosse, and men’s and women’s soccer.

Princeton football coach Bob Surace said the new rules would not cause him to change much, noting he usually had two fullcontact practices a week and didn’t have two contact sessions during two-a-days in the preseason.

“Whenever there are rule changes to benefit player safety, as coaches, you adjust and adapt,” Surace said in a telephone interview. “There will be a minimal change for us and I am kind of happy everybody is doing the same thing. It benefits player safety.”

The Ivy League also took away one full-contact practice

from spring workouts and reduced the number of days that pads can be worn during both sessions of preseason two-a-days to one.

The committee also found that research suggests that concussions not only have acute consequences, but also more longterm effects. The multiple hits sustained in football, as distinct from those causing concussion, may have a role in the development of chronic traumatic encephalopathy in some individuals.

“Given the lack of data regarding the number or type of hits that may cause long-term consequences in certain individuals, the committee concluded that it is important to minimize the likelihood and severity of hits to the head,” Kim said.

“Based on current and available data, we have taken appropriate steps to help ensure the safety of our football players, but as this remains an evolving area of study, future research must be monitored, and our recommendations could then be revisited and revised.”

Skorton said student-athletes need to recognize symptoms of concussion in themselves and their teammates, understand the severity of such injuries and the need to relay that information to medical personnel.

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NFL players review parts of new deal

By BARRY WILNER An end to the NFL lockout appears close, with both sides preparing to vote on a proposed deal once it is finalized.

When that might be remained uncertain as players gathered in Washington and league executives and owners headed for Atlanta.

The NFL Players Association’s executive committee reviewed only portions of a potential new collective bargaining agreement Tuesday, with not enough information to warrant a vote Tuesday, two people familiar with the league’s labor negotiations told The Associated Press.

A full agreement in principle wasn’t completed Tuesday night, as some had hoped it would be, and another person familiar with the talks said there was no guarantee a full document would be finished yesterday, either.

Still, player representatives from each of the 32 teams were scheduled to be at NFLPA headquarters yesterday, and could vote on a new contract

once it is ready.

The people spoke to the AP on condition of anonymity because the process is supposed to remain confidential.

Members of the league’s labor committee planned to meet in Atlanta yesterday, and also were in position to recommend a finalized proposal to the club owners as soon as the documents are completed. The owners would vote today, then team officials would be schooled in the guidelines of the CBA and how to apply them.

Clubs were told topics would include the 2011 NFL calendar, rookie salary system and guidelines for player transactions.

While lawyers from both sides worked Tuesday on contract language in New York with court-appointed mediator Judge Arthur Boylan for the second consecutive day, the NFLPA’s leadership met for about nine hours at the group’s headquarters in Washington.

“Every day the last two years has been a long day,” NFLPA head DeMaurice Smith said as he left, knowing each side faced another lengthy day of meet-

ings yesterday.

If the four-month lockout - the NFL’s first work stoppage since 1987 - is going to end this week, in time to keep the preseason completely intact, the owners and players almost certainly must ratify a new deal in the next two days. The St. Louis Rams and Chicago Bears, who open the preseason on Aug. 7 in the Hall of Fame game, are supposed to open their training camps this weekend.

The start of Chicago’s training camp will be delayed even if a new agreement is in place this week, because the team needs extra time to prepare, two people familiar with the situation told the AP on condition of anonymity.

One of the people who spoke to the AP said lawyers for owners and players planned to continue discussions yesterday via telephone, instead of the inperson talks that produced so much progress last week.

There still were unresolved issues Tuesday, including what it would take to get the 10 plaintiffs - including quarterbacks Tom Brady,

Peyton Manning and Drew Brees, Chargers receiver Vincent Jackson and Patriots guard Logan Mankins to sign off on a settlement to their antitrust lawsuit against the NFL that is pending in federal court in Minnesota.

Late Tuesday, Jackson tweeted: “I have made no demands, I wanna play ball like the rest of my peers!”

Another pending dispute has been the TV networks case, in which players accused owners of setting up $4 billion in “lockout insurance.”

After joining the talks in New York for about seven hours, Hall of Fame defensive end Carl Eller thought an agreement would be reached this week. He also said retired players won’t stand in the way.

After leaving negotiations, Eller headed to a meeting with NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell.

“They want to get these games going, and they want to have a season. That’s their focus,” Eller said. “Our issues are very, very critical very important - but they don’t really have much to do with whether the game goes on or not.”

He said “there’s still a lot more to be done” when it comes to benefits for former players, but that could be resolved after the main issues are settled.

A proposal under consideration would set up nearly $1 billion over the next 10 years in additional benefits for retired players. That would include $620 million in pension increases, long-term care insurance and disability programs.

Retired players complained to the court in Minnesota recently that they had been excluded from negotiations, making Eller’s presence Tuesday significant.

“We weren’t happy, and we hope it doesn’t go back to that. We hope we stay active in the talks and we hope we continue to have meaningful talks. This clearly lets us know there’s more work to be done,” Eller said. “It’s certainly something we want to keep going and continue the dialogue, continue to work until we have some kind of a solution.”

Lawyers for the NFL and the players suing the league submitted a joint filing to the court Tuesday, asking for an extra week to file writ-

ten arguments “to allow them to focus on the continuing mediation.”

The request, which was granted in the afternoon, noted that “the parties have also been meeting regularly since April 11, 2011, in an effort to resolve their disputes.”

The country’s most popular professional sports league has been in limbo since the old collective bargaining agreement expired March 11. The lockout began hours later.

The lockout has resulted in pay cuts for non-playing employees around the league, and economic hardship for cities, like Cortland, N.Y., that hosted training camps in the past but won’t this year. On Tuesday, the lowerlevel UFL - which had been hoping to start its season in the void created by a lack of NFL preseason games announced it is delaying its season start to mid-September, a blow for a league that has lost $100 million in only two years.

The NFL’s regularseason opener is scheduled for Sept. 8, when the Super Bowl champion Green Bay Packers are to host the New Orleans Saints.

Woods gets rid of Steve Williams as a caddie Frank Coonelly: Pirates will look to add

By DOUG FERGUSON JACKSONVILLE, Fla. - Tiger Woods fired caddie Steve Williams yesterday, ending a 12year relationship in which he won 72 times worldwide and 13 majors.

“I want to express my deepest gratitude to Stevie for all his help, but I think it’s time for a change,” Woods said on his website. “Stevie is an outstanding caddie and a friend and has been instrumental in many of my accomplishments.

I wish him great suc-

cess in the future.”

Woods did not say who would replace Williams, or when he would return to golf.

Williams, who previously worked for Raymond Floyd and Greg Norman, had worked the last three tournaments with Adam Scott.

That included the last two majors, which Woods skipped while trying to recover from injuries to his left leg.

When asked over the weekend at the British Open if he was still working for Woods, Williams grinned and said, “Why would you

ask a question like that?”

He never answered the question but gave no indication that he would not caddie for Woods when he did return.

Williams could not immediately be reached yesterday afternoon.

More than a caddie, Woods and Williams had been close friends.

Both got engaged while on safari after The Presidents Cup in South Africa, and they were in each other’s weddings.

Woods played the New Zealand Open and even took part in Williams’ other job as a race car driver.

The divisionleading Pittsburgh Pirates will consider adding players before and after the trade deadline, team president Frank Coonelly told ESPN The Magazine’s Buster Olney.

The surprising Pirates, who lead the NL Central by a halfgame over Milwaukee and 11/2 games over St. Louis entering yesterday’s games, also are enjoying improved results at the box office, as fans put off

by nearly two decades of futility are returning in droves.

Coonelly said that success at the gate will help the Pirates pursue reinforcements as they chase their first winning season, division title and playoff berth since 1992.

This is the latest in a season the Pirates have led their division since 1992, when they won the NL East in a twodivision league. This season also marks the first time since 1992 that Pittsburgh reached 50 wins in fewer than 100 games

played. Last season, the Pirates won 57 games.

“Our fans have been energized by this team.

The rebonding between the city and its team that (manager Clint Hurdle) talked about wanting to be a part of is happening,” Coonelly told Olney.

“Yes, the great response at the gate gives us greater capacity to add players as (general manager Neal Huntington) looks to make the team better at the (July 31 trade) deadline and into August.”

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